Hey, hey, hey, we're pleased to be joined by Joe Cook from Inside Texas, part of on three network and Joe's been a while since we've seen you too long really saw you have SEC media days and

Brise a smile to my face to see you're a fellow mustache brother. Yeah, I'm trying off season's time for experiments right but

I was in I was in your neck of the woods went to Atlanta I'm excited to hopefully

you'll make it to Dallas and check out that Omni and everything the

Metroplex provides and really looking forward to it.

It should be fun to see Sark talking with coaches like Lane and even Kalin de Boer, you know Brian Kelly.

I'm excited and it's just part of the building excitement for Texas first year in the SEC.

Right, and obviously it's been a long time coming, Joe.

I mean, again, we saw you at SEC Media Days, even though Texas was still in the Big 12,

so I can only imagine, and we were just talking off air just the

excitement within the fan base what do you think is something that that maybe

Texas fans are most excited about coming into the SEC for the first time playing at that

full SEC slate. Instead of teams like Kansas State and BYU coming to town

Florida and Georgia are coming to town. I think it just starts with

that and hey Kansas State's been a good team in the big 12 for a while they won the

big 12 I think in 2022 so it's not like they're a slouch of a program, but they're not the name brands that Georgia and Florida are and you know going to playing Oklahoma and Dallas with SEC logos on the field,

getting that Texas A&M rivalry back.

I think it's just the, a lot of it

is the helmets on the field that are gonna be showing up

and the programs attached to them.

That's going to be part of the excitement for the Longhorns and not having to, you know, maybe face a team like

Iowa State or a team like, you know, even Oklahoma State who in the week leading up there is an

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