The Flagship: Texas proceeds with plans to limit football stadium capacity to 50 percent

Horns247 Podcasts: Longhorn Blitz, The Flagship and State of Recruiting

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode of The Flagship Podcast. After taking a week hiatus for vacation, The Flagship returns with a loaded show Wednesday as Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes dive in to some of the hot topics to make headlines over the last week. One of the most significant headlines that appeared this week came from the University of Texas athletic department when Texas AD Chris Del Conte submitted a letter to season ticket holders detailing the current plan to limit fan attendance to 50 percent for home games at Darrell K Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium this season in accordance with state guidelines. But how will this work for the Longhorns if other teams are not doing the same? Chip and Taylor also turn their focus to the Big 12 Media Preseason Poll, which had Texas picked No. 3 in the conference by the league's media members. The show then turns its focus to news that went down over the weekend when redshirt junior cornerback Kobe Boyce announced his intention to step away from football for mental health reasons. Boyce's departure adds another blow to the secondary after junior cornerback Anthony Cook entered his name into the NCAA Transfer Portal earlier this month, but what long-term impact could this have for the position and first-year cornerbacks coach Jay Valai? The Flagship returns our weekly segment, Love it or Leave it, with this week's topics centered around Texas fans level of concern following the Longhorns losing out on legacy recruits Tommy and James Brockermeyer — whose dad played at Texas and brother is a current member on the Longhorns' roster — after the Top247 prospects committed to Alabama over Texas, changes Texas has brought to the football program in the renaming of the field to Campbell-Williams field and erecting a statue of Julius Whittier, if the Big 12 media got the Longhorns' preseason ranking right and more. The Flagship Podcast — featuring co-hosts Chip Brown and Taylor Estes with Horns247 publisher Bobby Burton as a frequent contributor — hits the airwaves each Monday and Wednesday, and centers around all the latest happenings surrounding the University of Texas and college athletics, with big-name guests joining the show on a weekly basis. The Monday episode features an exclusive one-on-one interview with various high-profile guests, while the Wednesday show is Texas-specific pertaining to the latest news surrounding the University of Texas athletics, the Big 12 conference and college football as a whole. BONUS: While The Flagship is available on a multitude of audio platforms — including iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts — it's also available as a video podcast! Head over to 247Sports YouTube for the latest video episodes of The Flagship Podcast! And as always, make sure to subscribe to the Horns247 podcast channel on all platforms to have the latest episodes available to you at all times, and head on over to iTunes and give our Horns247 family of podcasts a five-star rating! 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	Welcome in everybody to the flagship video podcast.
0:10.1	I mean, I guess we'll call it the video podcast since we have the interview podcast on Mondays.
0:14.2	But the video podcast, of course, if we're doing the video podcast, we've got to have Taylor Estes,
0:20.1	the Horns 24-7 managing editor,
0:23.3	back from vacation.
0:25.3	We'll get to that a little bit later in the show.
0:29.7	But Taylor, how you doing?
0:31.6	You rested and energized and feeling good about everything after some vacation?
0:37.0	Yeah, I definitely am.
0:39.2	I mean, it's a good thing I didn't miss anything, right, while I was gone.
0:43.0	Exactly.
0:44.6	So, no, it was really good to get away and see my family.
0:48.5	It had been, goodness, like seven months, I think, since I'd seen them.
0:53.0	So that was really nice and had a nice
0:56.3	relaxing vacation for the most part. There was some hiccups, but for the most part, it was good.
1:01.0	Well, it involved an RV and it involved some camping, right?
1:04.8	Yes, and I've never really done either. So it was an adventure in itself. Plus, we saw a bear, like right outside the
1:13.4	camper. And I don't think I have run as fast as I did since I played soccer. When I saw that bear,
1:20.0	I grabbed like any child near me and just bolted for the interior. But it was a big bear. Did you ever
1:25.6	seen the movie Backcountry? I don't think so this couple
1:29.6	they're engaged he goes out into the woods to propose to her and he kind of gets lost
1:35.7	and then all of a sudden they're being stalked by this grizzly bear oh geez I won't give it
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