The Flagship: Surprises, concerns for Texas midway through spring football
Horns247 Podcasts: The Flagship Podcast
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4.8 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Texas football has surpassed the midway point of spring practice as the Longhorns make their way through Year 1 of the Steve Sarkisian era in Austin. The Longhorns are making their way towards the April 24 Orange-White spring game as some players are stepping up to prove themselves to the new regime, while others have a ways to go on the field.
On this week's episode of The Flagship Podcast, Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes weigh in on the current status of the football team midway through spring ball. The Flagship talks loads of football news, including the Longhorns who have made a name for themselves up to this point in spring practice and the players who have much to prove to the new coaching staff. One position group that has some work to do is at wide receiver, which Sarkisian pointed out following the ninth practice of spring football. Chip and Taylor discuss the somewhat surprising news that even veteran receivers are not taking that next step under Sarkisian and Co. while also pointing out some pleasant surprises at other positions, including Denzel Okafor and the middle linebacker rotation.
In addition to football talk, The Flagship weighs in on the latest news for UT basketball after first-year head coach Chris Beard took over for Shaka Smart and seeks to revamp the Longhorns' roster. Texas hoops received some positive news this week with both Jase Febres and Andrew Jones announcing their return to the Longhorns, and also give some names of players to watch who could enter the transfer portal to land on Beard's first roster at Texas.
After a quick break, The Flagship returns with the weekly 'Love it or Leave it' segment, with this week's topics focusing on the biggest surprises and biggest concerns for Texas football in spring practice, the importance of Beard getting some senior players to play one more year with the Longhorns and more!
Texas fans won't want to miss this loaded edition of The Flagship Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in everybody to another episode of the Flagship Podcast. I am Chip Brown, joined as always by our fearless leader, the managing editor of Horns 24-7, the one and only |
| 0:22.3 | Taylor Estes. Taylor, how are you doing? I'm doing well, Chip. How about you? Well, I got the |
| 0:29.1 | second dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine today. So far, so good. So I say we just roll onto this podcast until I just like suddenly keel over or pass out. |
| 0:43.8 | But Taylor, we're recording on Tuesday, April 13th. |
| 0:49.1 | And it's been a flurry of activity today. |
| 0:51.4 | We've we've talked to Steve Sarkesian about practice number nine |
| 0:55.6 | of 15 spring football practices. And they're still going to have the spring game on April 24th, |
| 1:02.3 | might have a couple of practices after that. But then we got news from, well, in the world of college |
| 1:10.8 | basketball that that Devin asked you, well, in the world of college basketball that Devin asked you, the point guard at Kentucky |
| 1:16.8 | this past year has committed to Texas with four years of eligibility. |
| 1:23.8 | And, of course, with the one-time transfer rule coming on, Devin Aske, you should be eligible immediately. |
| 1:30.1 | He was rated as one of the top point guards in the in the 2021 class. |
| 1:37.5 | And so, you know, here we are in the age of the transfer portal. |
| 1:42.4 | And I'm sitting there listening to Steve Sarkesian today, |
| 1:46.1 | talking about the transfer portal doesn't really give us a chance to teach kids how to overcome |
| 1:53.2 | adversity and be patient and work hard and earn your turn. But at the same time, you have to find the pros in the transfer portal. |
| 2:04.4 | And that is the ability to plug holes and turn them, turn weaknesses into strengths like |
| 2:11.9 | they did with Ray Thornton, the LSU graduate transfer, who's come in and immediately |
| 2:17.2 | become the first team outside |
| 2:20.1 | linebacker, the Jack, the edge position that Joseph Osai played last year. |
| 2:26.8 | So it's just fascinating to me as we, you know, get into today's podcast. |
| 2:32.8 | And we've got, you know, football topics we're going to |
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