The Flagship: Lifetime Longhorn Kenneth Sims talks Texas, College Football Hall of Fame induction

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this week's interview episode of The Flagship Podcast, we talk to Texas' first Lombardi Award winner and member of the 2021 College Football Hall of Fame induction class - the one and only Kenneth Sims. Sims, who still holds the Texas career record for forced fumbles with 15, was a terror on the UT defensive line from 1978-81, winning the 1981 Lombardi Award, as the nation's top college down lineman, before going on to become the No. 1 overall selection in the 1982 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots. Sims was also the recipient of the NCAA's prestigious Top V Award (now the Top 10 Award), given to the top scholar-athletes in college athletics in all sports (along with Oliver Luck) in 1982. We talk to Sims about growing up in Kosse, Texas, and his high school football days playing for the Groesbeck Goats (which included the 6-foot-5, 271-pound Sims kicking field goals). Sims recounts the fascinating twist during the recruiting process that led to Sims landing at Texas instead of Rice. Sims served as the backup defensive tackle to Steve McMichael at Texas in 1978 and 1979 before dominating in 1980 and 1981. Sims discusses his friendship with McMichael, whom he faced in the Super Bowl in the 1985 season, when Sims' Patriots went up against McMichael's Chicago Bears. Sims talks about his former Texas coach Fred Akers, who passed away Dec. 7, 2020, just before Sims learned of his selection for the College Football Hall of Fame (along with 2021 inductees who include former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo). With Texas preparing to go to Arkansas on Sept. 14, Sims recounts his battles with then-perennial power Arkansas, including his first-ever start, which came in UT's season opener in 1980 against the Razorbacks. Sims also shares his thoughts on what it will take to return Texas to national prominence as well as the hire of new coach Steve Sarkisian. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Really, really excited to be joined today on the flagship podcast interview by Kenny Sims, Kenneth Sims, as he was listed in the program at Texas from
0:24.6	1978 to 1981, when he became a two-time All-American, the first Lombardi Award winner in the
0:33.9	history of Texas football.
0:35.9	He is still the leader in forced fumbles for a career with 15 and probably has the biggest
0:45.2	hands I have ever seen in my life, not to mention going on to become the number one
0:52.3	overall pick in the 1982 draft with the New England Patriots
0:56.8	helped the Patriots get to a Super Bowl in 1985 and is now going into the college football
1:07.6	Hall of Fame in its 2021 class, the one and only.
1:12.7	Kenneth Sims, we call him Big Slimy.
1:16.7	Kenny, how you doing?
1:18.7	Doing well, Chip, survived the freeze.
1:21.7	And so I consider this sunny day in the 70s and talking to you a blessing.
1:27.6	Well, I'm excited about this. And I texted you as soon as,
1:33.0	uh, the word came out that you were going in, uh, to the 2021 college football
1:38.8	Hall of Fame class. And you know, when, when awards like this happen, Kenny, you look back and you have so much to look back on.
1:51.5	I mean, I'm sitting here reading about how, you know, when you were, well, first of all, you grew up in Kasi, Texas.
2:00.4	And Kossi is so small, you had to go to high school in Grosbeck.
2:05.5	Is that right?
2:07.1	Yeah, we're consolidated.
2:08.4	So we took in Thornton, a little part of back towards Maheia, but my hair but mostly limestone county because i grew up
2:21.4	16 miles from marlin and 16 miles from groseback to sign says but you know the school districts
2:28.2	go by county so i'm in limestone county and so i'm a goat for life. I love it.
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