Okay. Hey, everybody, welcome into the flagship podcast. I am Chip Brown of Horns 247.com, joined by Eric Henry of Horns 247.com. He has just landed in San Jose, where the Texas Longhorns will take on the second-seeded Purdue boiler makers in the Sweet 16 in the SAP center.

Saps center. We'll get we'll get Eric's take on the Saps center here in a second.

And of course, we're joined by David Eckert, the latest, greatest addition to the Horns 24-7 staff.

He has hit the ground running.

He's been at football, pro-day baseball.

And we will touch on all of that, fellas.

Let's start off with a little football because we did have Steve Sarkesian and the gang

come back from spring break. And they held their fourth practice on Tuesday and then went

right off to Pro Day. And David, I'll start with you because you were there with me in talking to Steve

Sarkesian.

And you wrote about how Steve Sarkesian tested the fellas a little bit coming back from

spring break about their retention of everything they've learned.

Yeah, it felt a little bit like a literal test. Like you're sitting in one of those

elementary school desks with the, you know, the half, half chair, little half writing surface

in front of you. Essentially, you know, Texas had three spring practices two weeks ago.

They took a week off and they came back on Tuesday and, you know, that practice Sark kind

of told us was about, hey, what did you retain while you were away?

And I think they kind of used that to

decide what needs more reinforcement and where they're good, where they've kind of taken in the

info and were able to retain it. So I think that was especially kind of interesting for the defense, right,

where they're learning a new system and, and, you know, just a lot of volume,

a lot of new info coming in.

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