WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:07.519 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez sound Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:14.240 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions kat z 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:21.640 R two sag at iHeartRadio Station. Yeah. Maybe if you turn on your 4 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:27.879 volumes, we can hear you. Hey, welcome everybody. I don't know. 5 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.120 I there's somebody was messing with my stuff here? Would you satage me? 6 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:34.159 I wouldn't, you know. Let's see, I do not go to 7 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.719 your side of the studio. Okay, I see what's over there? Food 8 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.719 over here? I know. Yeah, there's food like from four months ago 9 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:44.399 over there. Still good. Hey, welcome everybody. I'm Steve, He's 10 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:49.079 Jay, got Sammy in you sabotagers. Hey welcome. Hey, it's a 11 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:53.960 big day today, another big day forty seven minutes with Brennan and Dave, 12 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:59.200 Heikey and all the other fat the media guys like us. Yeah, good 13 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:00.719 day. I was I was impressed. We kind of knew who he was. 14 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:06.599 He didn't disappoint he didn't you know, they always talk about winning the 15 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:08.079 press conference and all that stuff. I thought he did a really good job. 16 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.519 You know. I've I've gotten feedback from from the peeps that I talked 17 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:17.000 to, they they like they like him, they like what they heard, 18 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:22.480 right, but it sounded like right, he didn't and he didn't sound corporate. 19 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.239 He did not know he could hang out in this room and and shoot 20 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.200 the breeze and not and not to beat the dead horse, but Jetfish read 21 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:36.159 a statement in his press conference. He read the thing. It was a 22 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:41.319 well scripted just saying that Brent Brandon just got up there and talk, you 23 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:44.439 know, a couple of times. It was clear to coming from the heart. 24 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:47.439 I mean he he almost started, he almost cheered up, like in 25 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:51.040 the first three minutes of the press conference. Right, That's what that's what 26 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:55.719 makes this so genuine and so good for Tucson because guess what, that's Tucson 27 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.799 tuson Right. They want to be friends with you. They want to be 28 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:05.560 yeah, and you have to be accessible to be friends with you, and 29 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.639 they want to feel like you're their friend or he's your friend. Right, 30 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:13.120 And and you know, when you think back to coaches who haven't done that 31 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.319 in this town, it hasn't ended well for those coaches. Yeah, I'm 32 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.319 trying to figure out how to do some of my story. But because I 33 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:20.319 think you know, when you think about what you're gonna write and then you 34 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:22.479 sit there and it doesn't come up. It doesn't yet, it doesn't come 35 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:23.479 up. It happens all the time. But he's one of the dudes that 36 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:27.759 just a normal dude. Uh he is. He has kind of talked Tommy 37 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:30.319 Lloyd. Right, just a guy who's just you know, trying to win 38 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.080 game. Right. I really thought that when you know, when he got 39 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:36.439 up there. First of all, he's fifty years old. He looks like 40 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:38.520 he's about thirty eight. Yeah, he's that's my first thing. But it 41 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.599 isn't that a little Steve curR and' a little opie you know. Yeah, 42 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:46.080 he said dude about eight times, which I thought was was was good, 43 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:52.439 was good. Uh, he made me feel he made me feel old because 44 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:57.759 he's fifty and he seems so young to be right, and and uh, 45 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.680 you know, I just like what he said. Right. He again, 46 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:05.120 he didn't really he didn't take anything up there to read for no, And 47 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:07.800 he sat there for forty five minutes and answered questions, told good stories, 48 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.840 told a couple of good stories. I think I think the thing and this 49 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.520 is kind of maybe too trite, but you always see it the coaches from 50 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.560 the entire university was there. I don't know if Tommy was there because he 51 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.000 has a game tonight, but it was it had a feeling of family. 52 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:24.319 You know, it's trite because he even said that it's feeling of family, 53 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:28.120 but it felt like, you're and I said this on a radio for somebody 54 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:32.479 else, how a nice, a well respected family member comes back from a 55 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:38.599 trip and he's gonna stay and you feel God, all the world in the 56 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:39.719 family is good again. Well there, Yeah, there were a bunch of 57 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:44.199 people in there who were here when he was here as a gradus right right, 58 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:47.000 you know, Mike cam Dre was there. You know, Chip Hale 59 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:51.199 was there. There were a lot of people that have been a part of 60 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:53.080 the U of A program for decades and they all showed up for that, 61 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:57.919 including you know, some of the newer folks. And I thought that was 62 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:03.800 that that said a lot about you know, how he's gonna really fit into 63 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:08.719 this athletic I'm wondering. I know this question was not asked, at least 64 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:11.800 it was not asked on the podium for Dave he Key and we sat there 65 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:16.279 aside and listened a little. How much he's inside his mind saying I knew 66 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:20.199 he should have been the guy in the first place. Yeah, but yeah, 67 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.720 and we'll play this clip in a little bit because if we can get 68 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.920 to it. But you know, for Brent Brennan, maybe it's better than 69 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.399 he's here now three years ago circumstances, right, right, well, we 70 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.800 never we can never, right, we can't go back and see he would 71 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.560 have done this or we would have done that. But he's it's it's it's 72 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:40.519 a better place for him to get going here. No, no, he's 73 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:45.920 yeah, thankfully because Jeff Jed left it in a spot he did and all 74 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:47.800 good congrats to Jef. Unless he starts ripping all those players out here, 75 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.839 well then then we'll go pee on him at the general bands. That was 76 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.600 so, I saw that. I saw that was. Well, let let's 77 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.279 let's get to it. Let's because we've got a lot of clips, get 78 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:00.480 from as many as we can. Who's coming in today, right, So 79 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:02.879 we got uh, you know, a lot of a lot of Dick Tomy 80 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:08.600 conversation in the press conference today. Yeah, his son Rich is going to 81 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.360 join us here about three fifteen. Uh, you know, as with you 82 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.480 know, player Brent Brendan is part of the family Nancy Tody Dick so widow 83 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.319 was here. Uh, and he'll refer to her in this first clip that 84 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:23.079 that that we play so rich, I'm sure we'll be able to tell us, 85 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:25.000 you know, quite a bit about him. And then Jason Johnson, 86 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:30.639 who was a quarterback during the time while while Brennan was here, will join 87 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.519 us. He Jason Johnson finished up in the Dick Tomy era and then he 88 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.800 was here for the Macovic stuff. But he'll join us in the second hour. 89 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.360 But let's let's play this first clip because right out of the box, 90 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.439 he really did get a little emotional. Uh, and he'll he'll he'll refer 91 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.759 to Nancy here and then he chokes up. And so just listen to this. 92 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:53.399 Yeah, when he was asked, uh, when when he was asked 93 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.199 a question about you know, it was sort of his first his first it 94 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.639 was his opening remarks. He wasn't asked a question. This was his opening 95 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.480 remark. I think people make the place special, and I'm absolutely all about 96 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:08.480 people. And that's what has been really cool. It's just the outpouring of 97 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.800 love and affection that I felt for, you know, from everybody here in 98 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:16.160 town, the community, everywhere, social media, whatever, it's the outpouring 99 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:20.639 of of uh, you know, well wishes and and and you know, 100 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:25.399 people excited about us being here. You know, Nancy, I can't I 101 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:30.079 can't even look at you right now. But the the impact that that I 102 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.360 know that Dick and Nancy had on this university, but really on my path, 103 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:41.920 it's embarrassing a little bit. I don't think very often in your life, 104 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:46.439 you when you work, you you think about somebody every day, like 105 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.399 somebody. But that's what coach Tomey has been for me. Uh, He's 106 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:54.480 been the guy that that every single day I think about what would coach T 107 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.480 do here? Coach T would kill you for what just happened in this game, 108 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.399 you know that kind of stuff. Just that we just love you and 109 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:06.879 we miss him. And again people make the place and uh, you know, 110 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:11.639 Dick and Nancy made this place home for a long time and obviously did 111 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:15.439 a lot of incredible things with the football program. True, yeah, very 112 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:20.439 true. That was you know my fans. I came out right there. 113 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:25.199 It's kind of like that Jerry mcguireson you had me yet hello, right, 114 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.720 I mean he choked up talking about Dick Tom that Okay, you know, 115 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.399 if you're an Arizona fan who's an Arizona fan, not just you know, 116 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:38.279 somebody likes to step in and out. Yeah, you had to love the 117 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:41.199 emotion of that. So I've been here thirty five years, you've been You've 118 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.439 seen it a lot in yours, in your one hundred years or sixty four 119 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.279 years, but you can kind of gauge from your sixties right on. And 120 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.839 I don't know anything before Dick Tomy. I didn't know Larry Smith. So 121 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:56.600 to me, it's back to normalcy for Arizona football given that. Okay, 122 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:59.839 whatever happened to Dick in two thousand and how that ended, Okay, that's 123 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.160 it. Some people bitching that he couldn't win enough, some people that he 124 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.600 did. Okay, you know whatever. Then we went to what Nakovic, 125 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.639 a disaster guy who then we went to Stoops, who's good but had, 126 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:18.360 you know, very a very impersonal administration and true never connected to the fan 127 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:22.040 based in the community and disconnected yeah okay. And then from him we went 128 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.360 to rich Rod, who had some of that and they still think, you 129 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.480 know, looking looking the side of eye to something. Uh. And then 130 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.320 we go to someone who didn't give a crap. Uh. And then we 131 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:35.799 went to Jed, who gave a crap because he was interested in going somewhere, 132 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:37.840 right, and now we're kind of normal again. Well, you feel 133 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.559 like you've got somebody who cares about themselves. True, true, And for 134 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.840 fans like you, you need you need that. That's why, because we 135 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.440 don't have anything else, Steve, No, No, I'm not. You 136 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.559 know, I'm not. Arizona doesn't have the history and tradition of a you 137 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:54.279 know some of the some of the schools that are out there. Michigan's got 138 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:56.919 to get its Michigan man. And you know they ran Rich right out of 139 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.000 there because he wasn't a Michigan many uh and and those kinds of things. 140 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.879 I need to see how Kaylyn de Boor does at Alabama. But what you 141 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.639 want is you want to feel like there's some sort of a connection there. 142 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.840 Uh. You know, a guy who really wants to be here. Oh 143 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:16.200 yeah, and sounds like you wants from here. Sounds like this is a 144 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.240 place where he's been aspiring to where Jed he was aspiring to be a head 145 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.600 coach, Yeah, somewhere and just gave him that avenue, right, and 146 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.679 so he got it here. Uh, Brent Brandan sounds like he wanted to 147 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:30.799 be a head coach here. Here's what he had to say about getting this 148 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:35.200 job. When I look at the opportunity here, all I can say is 149 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.960 that I am incredibly honored to be the head coach at the University of Arizona. 150 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:43.440 This is just an amazing moment for me. And I'm trying to get 151 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:48.159 to know the team. You know, I absolutely believe we can build a 152 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.240 consistent winner here. You have everything, We have everything you need to do 153 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.600 that. And as I'm getting to know the kids, and I'm been you 154 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.840 know, in the weight room, in the locker room, and in the 155 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:05.799 hall and in the indoor making sure I got all the right facilities there. 156 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.279 These these players love this place and they're really committed to each other, and 157 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:15.200 so I have to be ultimately committed to them, but also putting a great 158 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.159 staff around them, which I'm in the process of doing. That's one of 159 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.360 the more complicated things of taking a job. But I promise that we're gonna 160 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.519 have great leaders, mentors and developers of talent in this you know, in 161 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.639 the building to help them get where they want to go and elevate our program 162 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:35.080 as high as we possibly can. Well, are you just used it in 163 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:39.080 my story. He's honored to be here. Uh And let me ask you, 164 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.759 do you think the other coaches before him felt that way honored? Not 165 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.639 really, I mean they were happy to be here. Yeah, great, 166 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.039 happy to be happy that they got right happy they got the head coaching job 167 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.120 with millions of dollars. Ye. Yeah. You know, he seems like 168 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:56.559 he's like, this is a place that he really wanted to be. He 169 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.960 said that a couple of This is the girl that said, you've had a 170 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.679 crush on for a long time, and you you you asked her out one 171 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:05.919 hundred times please, and she finally said yes, And you think, God, 172 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.679 life is complete, Well, life is complete. I hope she's good 173 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:13.039 to be see how the date goes? Right? Really? No, but 174 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.039 at least you gotta you have a chance, you say, do you have 175 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.840 a chance? You book to the movie? You have your seats, please 176 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.399 don't call it. Yeah, exactly right. So so we're gonna get to 177 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.240 Rich here at Rich tell me here in a minute. But a couple of 178 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.960 key a couple of the key clips went to play. You know, obviously 179 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.080 you're right out of the box. You want to ask about how to go 180 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.279 with the players yesterday. Yeah, because you met with them yesterday. Uh 181 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.120 and uh, here's here's what he said, Uh, how it went yesterday. 182 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.679 I was just I was just really honest with them. But that's that's 183 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.279 how I operate, you know, And so I just I get it like 184 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.279 they're they're a little bit hurt, right, Like it's tricky like that. 185 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:48.399 And the reason I can say that is because I just did that to a 186 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:52.080 team yesterday, right like yesterday morning, before I got on the plane to 187 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.320 come down here, I had to meet with the team at San Jose State. 188 00:11:54.960 --> 00:12:00.679 It was really really hard, really really emotional. And and you know, 189 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.600 if you do build it right and if your team is connected on a 190 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.480 level that gives you a chance to be successful on Saturdays in the fall, 191 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.840 they are going to be super connected. So when a piece of it leaves, 192 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:13.639 there's going to be some fallout, right, And so I was just 193 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.799 honest with them. I just asked them to give me a chance to earn 194 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:18.720 their trust, to treat each other with respect, and then trust will be 195 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:22.559 earned over time. And then I promise some much surround them with the great 196 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.720 coaching staff and and people that care about their development and who they are as 197 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:28.080 men. Yeah, yeah, that's part of my story too. It's it's 198 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:33.159 it's truthful and he's funny. It's because if people don't care, they just 199 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.200 don't care. It's like the something thing good good, he was here, 200 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:41.080 goodbye, take care and partly fish they cared because they won and they were 201 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.879 betrayed, right and and now here's he is. He can kind of dive 202 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.200 into his commitment, right, you know. And it's interesting. And look, 203 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.399 I know a couple of guys who jumped into the into the portal, 204 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:52.360 you know, Jona Coleman, Ephesians, priced Socket, a couple of those 205 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.639 guys. But there's only been a couple, you know, when when when 206 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.080 Nick Saban uh you know, announced there were a dozen people in the portal 207 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.159 immediately, Yeah, a dozen players in the portal immediately. The fact that 208 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:07.960 it tells me that these guys are waiting around to see uh and maybe they 209 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:11.720 are, maybe they aren't, you know me, they're they're checking things out, 210 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:16.440 But it seems to me they're gonna give them a chance if they haven't 211 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.679 already jumped in. Remember Kerk Chris had jumped in immediately when yeah, sure, 212 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:22.240 when Sean Miller got fired, and they're sticking around. I know some 213 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:26.039 people were happy about that, but you know the fact that there hasn't been 214 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:31.080 a flood of guys jumping in or Braiden Dormant. But he Braiden Dorman, 215 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:35.679 the quarterback, the Redchard freshman. You know, he tweeted something out. 216 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.639 They gave you an indication. Okay, that guy's coming back. So I 217 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:41.399 think it's I think it's gonna be interesting to see the one thing, the 218 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.960 one thing that you witnessed. This are witness that yesterday. We've seen we 219 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:50.480 saw witnessed here thirty minutes ago in our own building. What's his knock? 220 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.919 His record? Yeah? His record? How are you gonna win at San 221 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.720 Jose State consistently? It's not It's not Washington, is not Alabama. Right, 222 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:03.159 you're gonna have a bad record because it's not a football school. But 223 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.519 over the last three years, and I'm not giving it an alibi, he's 224 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:09.039 done very well. Okay, he went three and twenty two in his first 225 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:15.240 two years a program that was just awful. Since then, five seven seven 226 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:20.200 to one conference championship five seven seven, five and six and two or seven 227 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.240 and six. Uh, you know, he's he's won he won two conference 228 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.759 championships. What do you think, Well, he hasn't won a bowl game. 229 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.200 San Jose State. Rights San Jose State. You go win a bowl 230 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:35.720 game at San Jose State. They're looking they're looking at the resume in terms 231 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.519 of numbers, but there's more to a resume than numbers exactly. And we 232 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:43.919 heard a couple of media guys. I I'm like, what are you doing. 233 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.720 I can't explain you that You've got to be smarter than that to look 234 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.720 beyond that first couple of years. Because again, as we said, what's 235 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:52.919 Jedfish? 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Nown't if 317 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:52.680 I only have Rich tell me? How are you Rich doing? Doing great? 318 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.039 How are you guys doing? We're doing it well. Let me say 319 00:20:56.039 --> 00:21:00.480 this, I think somewhere in heaven your father is looking down from a plush 320 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.680 football stadium and saying, Hey, it got it right. They finally got 321 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:08.759 it right. Yeah, they finally got it right. I know for sure 322 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:15.119 he is. This was something he always talked about how amazing he loved Brent 323 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.359 regardless. I mean, he coached with him for years, so this was 324 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:23.400 always a place he envisioned Bret Brent going. And you know, I actually 325 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:27.079 think it's just a great set and I'm super excited for him and his family. 326 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.000 Well, so you grew up here, and one of the things we've 327 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:36.240 been talking about is how fans in this community really want to feel like they 328 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:41.759 have some sort of a connection to their coaches. And maybe that got established, 329 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:45.519 you know, with Loot and Larry Smith at the time, because they 330 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:48.680 both were kind of you know, community guys. They were out there and 331 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.240 stuff like that, and it seems like, you know, your dad continued 332 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.440 that, but then it kind of got lost since then pretty much with at 333 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.720 least all the basketball and football coaches. How you know, how important do 334 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.359 you think that is and how important is it to Brent Brannan do you think? 335 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:07.119 Oh? I think it's huge, And I know Brent is a huge 336 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.319 believer in that. I mean, you saw what he did at San Jose 337 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.039 State. I mean we've all I spent time up there when my dad was 338 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:18.039 coaching. It was a very challenging place to play, but he got those 339 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:22.400 guys to buy in. He did not want to leave, you know, 340 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:25.640 for anything, And I think it took something like this to get him to 341 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:29.599 leave. I liking it to when my dad was here and he got offered 342 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:33.559 other jobs and he didn't want to leave because he believed so much in the 343 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:37.319 players and the community and just loved to live here. So I think that 344 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:41.880 is a big part of it. And I see this as a destination for 345 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:45.920 Brent, not a stepping stone. So I think they definitely have someone that's 346 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.480 in it for the long haul. I also saw, you know, because 347 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.440 I covered Dick. We both did for a two or three years each of 348 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:55.839 us. He was just and this is a compliment and to you and to 349 00:22:55.960 --> 00:23:00.160 him, he was just a normal dude. Football coaches aren't usually normal dudes, 350 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.640 and Brent comes off like a normal dude. I'm sure that's some of 351 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:10.000 that rubbed off and that's what, like I say, a compliment. Yeah, 352 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:14.279 oh for sure. I mean, good story is Brent, my daughter 353 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:18.640 Taylor's, was on some recruiting trips this year and we're swimming in San Jose. 354 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:21.200 State was one of the school's recruiting ers. So we went up there 355 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:25.319 for a visit and Brent met us out. We were walking around the campus 356 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:29.319 with all like probably ten different swimmers and the swim coach, and he ended 357 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:32.880 up just walking around with us the whole tour and just you know, telling 358 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.160 stories and laughing and girls, you know, and guys on the swim team 359 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:38.240 were joking around. But it's just like, you know, it takes guys 360 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:44.119 that don't care about who you are or what the you know, like people 361 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:47.599 probably said with my dad, he was best friends with the women's basketball coach. 362 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:51.160 He spend more time with talking to people in the ticket office. He 363 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.960 just and that's the kind of guy Brent is, and I see that as 364 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:59.759 just a huge plus for him as he comes in to keep this thing going, 365 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:02.319 you know, back when you know, back in the day, right 366 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:06.559 he was a grad assistant here. I mean, did could you see right 367 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:08.880 away the coaching was in his uh you know, it was in his DNA 368 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:12.319 and that this would this would you know kind of he would wind up in 369 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:18.039 a place like this at some point. Yeah, I mean, I didn't 370 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.920 know how far he would go. Obviously he started as a GA and then 371 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:26.880 he was an assistant for my dad when he was up at San Jose State. 372 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.759 And but you could definitely see the fire in Brent and he coached in 373 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:33.559 some great places. So just to as soon as he got that San Jase 374 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.160 State headjob. You know, his dad went to San Jose State, and 375 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:42.240 he's just been in some places where he has some roots. And I feel 376 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:47.480 like, you know, whether it was at Hawaii, his cousin was was 377 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:49.920 Cult Brennan, and you know, it's just like everywhere he's gone, I 378 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:53.720 feel like he's had a connection and this is no different. So I think 379 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:57.240 this is just it makes all the sense in the world. So I'm not 380 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:00.119 gonna I don't know where I want to go with this question, but but 381 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.880 bear with me. So you're you told us the age earlier. I think 382 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.599 you came to Tucson when you must have been sixteen seventeen, maybe a little 383 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.640 yn Yeah, okay, so so you probably heard stuff and before you came 384 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:12.920 on the air, we were talking about this. There are people, some 385 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:19.000 people that we think are clueless who look at Brent's record and it's not glowing, 386 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.680 but we know how difficult it is to win there. Over the last 387 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:26.599 three years, he's done very well, and Dick has admitted he was not 388 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:29.079 the first choice. In fact, he may have been the fifth choice. 389 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:32.759 Right, but you were you were listening to this stuff and part of people 390 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:36.279 hearing people, well, he why him, He's coming from a smaller conference, 391 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:38.359 he didn't win whatever. Did you get the sense of that back in 392 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:45.000 the day when my dad was coming in, when your dad was coming in. 393 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:48.920 Here's some some of some of the similar stuff, because Brent hasn't won 394 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:52.599 won, but he's won lately, right, totally. Yeah. I mean, 395 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.880 my dad was not the first choice in there learning he was like the 396 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:00.119 fourth choice, I think, and you know, I think that's okay, 397 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:03.240 And and my dad would be the first one to tell you he was the 398 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:07.960 fourth choice. But I think it's all about what you do when you get 399 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.519 in people have no idea, you know, how special of a guy Brent 400 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:18.000 is. Just I just view him as a mini me of my dad, 401 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:22.480 honestly, And I think he's gonna he's sort of the newer, younger version, 402 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.319 I guess you could say. And he's he's got some some cachet to 403 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:30.559 him and some cool factor and uh, he's gonna be a fun guy for 404 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:33.920 these guys to play for. So I'm super excited to see him and what 405 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:38.000 he can do with a little bit more resources than when he first started. 406 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:42.759 I remember that awful weight room that you you work with. Oh my gosh, 407 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:45.200 well, you know, but get getting to that though, to a 408 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.759 little more of that, because I you know, there number of times one 409 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.519 that Brent was asked about your dad and then your and then Brent just brought 410 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.519 him up on his own right right at the beginning. He you know, 411 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:59.000 he pointed out I don't know if you saw the press combs, he pointed 412 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.880 out Nancy, and you know, God got all choked up because of that. 413 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.039 But you know, when when you talk about he's got a little something 414 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:10.079 of your dad, how much of that does do you think he has? 415 00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:12.720 Uh? You know, how much did your dad shape him and are we 416 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.480 gonna is it gonna show? Are we going to see that as he as 417 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:21.559 he goes about this job? Oh? I think so. I think it's 418 00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:26.480 you know, for sure, from outside of the football field, you know, 419 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:30.319 out in the community and the way he deals with people around the university, 420 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.559 and I think you're going to see someone that's completely one percent down to 421 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:41.440 earth, you know. I mean it's just like uh my dad not wearing 422 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:45.559 socks, you know, doing interviews with his leg cross and you see his 423 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:49.039 leg and you know it's like he didn't care about all the all the bells 424 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:53.200 and whistles. He just really love people. And uh again, I think 425 00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:57.759 Brent is the same mold and he's he's gonna be genuine. And I think 426 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:02.119 as soon as people get a chance to talk to him and meet him, 427 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:03.920 they're going to see that right away. You can just learn something about when 428 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:10.359 you first meet people. I'm when I first met many people, you get 429 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:14.559 you get an idea of who they are. And I think Brent is completely 430 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:18.920 genuine and people are gonna love that. Yeah, no question. So you 431 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.119 were you were I'm not I'm not even saying you know this is loosely you 432 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:26.400 were an actual athlete. You were a baseball player on the of a baseball 433 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.200 team, right, what as a player, what did you want from your 434 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.759 coach in terms of outside of the ability to coach you you know, how 435 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:37.200 to pitch and how to hit and all that kind of stuff. What were 436 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.640 what were traits you looked for in a coach? And I think you were 437 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:45.359 you were with with h were you with Stive Kindle? I was with coach 438 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.759 Kindle in his last couple of years there coaching, and the coach STI was 439 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:55.400 there and coach Wing. You know, I've played for some great coaches. 440 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.079 My my favorite, not my favorite. I mean, I love coach Kindle, 441 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:03.079 but my high school coach was Kent Winslow, who played a coach at 442 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.920 U of A as well, and just somebody that got the most out of 443 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:15.359 me and had away to just make practice fun and he he just brought out 444 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:17.960 the best in me. I don't know what it was, but in high 445 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.039 school, he just knew which buttons to push and it just helped kind of 446 00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:26.680 catapult me with an opportunity to play in college. So that was something that 447 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:32.319 really I will never forget. And then in college, you know, I 448 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:34.839 wasn't a star by any means. But I got a chance to play, 449 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:40.279 and just the opportunity to be on a team and compete and contribute was just 450 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:44.400 But to play with someone like coach Kendall was amazing because obviously he has such 451 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:49.319 an amazing track record and just fun to be around that high level of baseball. 452 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:52.680 Yeah, yeah, no question, We'll see what We'll see what happens. 453 00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.240 I'll go ahead. Yeah, well, you know again, you know 454 00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:59.160 me, You know me, right, I mean, you know your dad 455 00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:02.279 and I were ends and for for a long time, and you know, 456 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:03.799 I'm one of those guys who's been, you know, hanging on to those 457 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.599 hanging on to those years, you know, as a fan, waiting for 458 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.359 another guy like that to come along. Can't you know, can that? 459 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:17.440 Can that put too much on on on Brent Brandan though you know that people 460 00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:19.200 have some expectation of that. I mean, how do how do we as 461 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:25.200 fans avoid doing that to him? Right? Well? I heard Brent say 462 00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:29.920 today. I think it was a quote of of the I think he was 463 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:34.720 sorry of the team talking about the level of responsibility feels, you know, 464 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:41.160 heavy weighted responsibility because he is he's standing in the halls of a place that 465 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:45.319 of his mentor and the guy that shaped him as a coach, and he's 466 00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:48.960 kind of handed him the keys from heaven. So it's like, I think 467 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:55.039 Brent's gonna feel an extreme sense of I got to get this thing right, 468 00:30:55.240 --> 00:31:00.359 you know, So I doubt. I have no doubt he's gonna do that. 469 00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.200 I think it's just gonna, you know, obviously, when everything shakes 470 00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.880 out with the roster and the transfers and what he's left with. I think 471 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:12.359 hopefully we're we got a good, good team that doesn't look too much different 472 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:17.319 than it did last year. So but again, it's, uh, I 473 00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:19.160 think you're gonna everybody's gonna have fun. He's gonna bring an exciting brand of 474 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.640 football, and he's uh, he's gonna be a fun guy to have around 475 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:26.039 press conferences. So no, I know when you're still a fan f down 476 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.440 here every now and again. Uh. And we had Ortis on yesterday. 477 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.839 Uh, did you watch this past year? Did you watch the games? 478 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.880 I did? Okay, So hold that hold that thought, Uh, I 479 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.480 asked, he's joking? League? Does I know that Jay was liked this 480 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:48.480 question? Who was better ninety eight or last year? Oh? I I 481 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.319 honestly think that ninety eight team. I don't know. I think if there 482 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:57.960 was the same format as this as I think that team was a national championship 483 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:01.960 team, I really do. I mean that defense, he just can't. 484 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:07.039 There's just no way that that defense is and that that offense. I mean, 485 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:12.000 it was just a complete team. But again, you would love to 486 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.319 see that matchup for sure. Yeah, that'd be fun. It'd be fun. 487 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:16.599 What would what if you would your dad have thought of this year? 488 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:22.039 You know, it's because this is possible. It's possible to do well here 489 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.960 the problem with Arizona football and it just hasn't sustained it, right, Yeah, 490 00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:30.519 he would have been so happy. I mean, honestly, I am 491 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:34.359 so proud of of what Jed pulled together in a very short time. He's 492 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:37.000 still he did a great job. I don't I don't begrudge him at all 493 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:42.680 for for taking the opportunity. I think he he saw this and it is 494 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:45.279 an opportunity. His track record shows he does stuff like this, So that's 495 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:50.440 fine. But I I congratulate him and I wish him well, and I 496 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.240 had a chance to get to know him a little bit. But uh, 497 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:57.200 I really think, hey, we're in a good spot. And uh, 498 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.319 we got the right guy in the door. So this is gonna be great. 499 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:06.000 So does uh we didn't even introduce you correctly and saying that you're you're 500 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.440 with the Positive Coaching Alliance up and up in Phoenix, so you you see 501 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:13.880 coaches and you deal with coaches and whatnot. Is it is it gonna be 502 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.680 nice to have Brent a little closer to your to where you're at. Oh 503 00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:21.720 yeah, Brent, I'm so excited. I mean I I spent a lot 504 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.319 of time with Brent over the years. We've talked, and uh, just 505 00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:28.960 just gonna be tremendous. Feels like family. I mean, Brent always says 506 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:34.079 my dad was like his football dad, you know, basically kind of folded 507 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:37.880 him. And so Brent still calls me a lot and we talk and you 508 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.200 know, like he said, he thinks about him every day, and so 509 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:45.519 I have no doubt we'll just uh we'll have a I'll be down in Tucson 510 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:47.079 a lot more. I think that's great, all right, no question? 511 00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:50.680 All right? Rich? All right, thanks Rich, thanks a much, 512 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:54.200 man, Guys, I really appreciate it. Say hated the family. I 513 00:33:54.240 --> 00:34:01.680 can't believe how old they got. So anyways, I will again, I 514 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:07.119 will thanks Chris. No good stuff, good stuff? You know again, 515 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.480 I don't know, I mean it. And would we find somebody out there 516 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:17.360 who says Brent Brennan's is not a great guy. Where would you find somebody 517 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:20.519 like, well, that's so funny. Think about it in life. Let's 518 00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:22.920 assume you let's assume I'm dead, You're dead, wil Mesard, and you 519 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:27.719 have someone speak. I think how many people can live their lives and say 520 00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:30.719 not have somebody say he was just a bad dude, you know when they're 521 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.360 doing Not very many, not very many, not very many, and you 522 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:37.639 won't at the end of the day. Don't you want that? I think 523 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:40.199 my line would be relatively long that would say, you know, yeah, 524 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:45.920 yeah, he was a pain pain, he was right. Sorry, we 525 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:52.599 run out of time. We got the point. We'll get into that later. 526 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:54.280 Ready to talk to Jay exactly. If you had to cut call and 527 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:57.639 say what a turd I am good? Feel free to do that. All 528 00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.000 right, Hey, we'll take your calls five two zero four once say, 529 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.800 seventy four forty got some more clips to play from the from the press conference. 530 00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:07.800 By the way, I got a Texas morning very early, and I 531 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:13.159 think I know who influenced you. Oh well you you didn't get the text 532 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.800 off? Had you got your text from your your brother from the long thing? 533 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:20.559 Yeah, he's in the hospital. He just had back surgery, so 534 00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:23.519 he's got nothing going on. He's got nothing going on, and he doesn't 535 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:28.960 have all the channel all the TV channels, so he's writing very very long 536 00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:31.480 text messages. Yes, yes, but he's back on board. He says, 537 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:35.480 okay, okay, good, yeah, all right, we'll be right 538 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:57.559 back. If you're an Arizona Man's basketball fan, you know it's been successful 539 00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:00.000 for nearly forty years. 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In the 579 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:54.519 meantime, Wait for your hoss. We're going to go over his contract. 580 00:38:54.599 --> 00:39:00.519 Yeah, So the general terms of Brent Brandan's contract we're handed out. He's 581 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:04.880 starting out with a with a base salary of two point two million a year, 582 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.039 escalating by two hundred thousand dollars a year over five years. So the 583 00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:13.199 average over the five years is two point six. But he also gets a 584 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.400 five hundred thousand dollars annually for you know, fundraising events and activities, and 585 00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:22.400 got yadayada two hundred thousand dollars with a radio agreement and a two hundred thousand 586 00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:25.400 dollars a Nike agreement. Really on average, a three and a half million 587 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:30.239 dollar contract, which is about, you know, more than more than not 588 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:32.840 as much as Jet was going to get. We'll go there. Take let's 589 00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:37.400 take this call. Hire on the ar and on the ball. Hey Jay, 590 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:40.280 Hey primo, this is done. How you do it done? How 591 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:46.599 are you doing? Say hello to the family. Oh dude, I'm doing 592 00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:59.079 all right. I heard. I heard the press conference actually speaking. You're 593 00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:05.440 breaking your biggest thing that go ahead? I heard? Am I hold on, 594 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:08.880 I don't know why I'm doing that, right? No, no, 595 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:12.519 no, no, stay with us, go ahead, just go ahead, 596 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:17.199 Okay. Well, the biggest thing that I heard was a guy that wants 597 00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:22.599 to be here. Yeah, right, yeah, And I think what Tucson 598 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:30.559 wants is a guy that will be here, be successful, and be here 599 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:35.119 for a long time. We we don't want to we don't want to be 600 00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:37.559 a truck stop school of truck stop football school. We don't want to be 601 00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:43.639 a stepping stone for these guys because then it's, you know, we're rebuilding 602 00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:46.519 every four or five years, and that's not that's not good. I've said 603 00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:52.159 it before. I've told you guys before. I would be good with seven 604 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.840 and eight win seasons and every once in a while jump up and grab that 605 00:40:54.920 --> 00:41:00.599 ten win season. What about you, would you? Yeah? You know, 606 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:02.760 if you look. I was happy with what Dick had done here, 607 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.320 you know, because they were they were decent every year. You know, 608 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:09.559 they had pretty much all winning seasons. Remember he didn't have a losing season 609 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:14.559 until his fourth or fifth year, a couple of ten win seasons had a 610 00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:16.159 chance to you know, okay, didn't get to the Rose Bull, but 611 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:22.880 you know, had chances. That's that's almost what Ducsson should expect at the 612 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.440 at best. At some point though, you're not going to stream together ten 613 00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:29.119 ten wins. At some point though, Jay, if you're going to go 614 00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:31.400 there, people get tired of that. Well, he's got to win a 615 00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:36.719 championship. If Dick had won a championship. Don don't you think if Dick 616 00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:39.480 had won a championship gone to a Rose Bowl, it wouldn't have ended the 617 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:44.440 way it ended. No, that's that's true. If he if he would 618 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.920 have got a conference championship outright and we would have gone to the Rose Bowl, 619 00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.840 he'd have been golden, right, That's the only and then the thing 620 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:55.719 is is Drem could start out with that. If he keeps most of this 621 00:41:55.840 --> 00:42:02.280 team together, he could start that way. Yeah, and then as long 622 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:08.400 as he keeps it going, he's going to be Okay. See tell me 623 00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:12.880 what you think to me a number at Arizona that you say, Okay, 624 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:16.400 if you can get to this every year, you're happy, eight eight wins, 625 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:20.480 you can win eight games, you go eight for in the regular season, 626 00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:23.239 and like you said, don you know now and again get you know, 627 00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:29.480 playing a conference championship game or something like that. You know, people 628 00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:32.280 will be happy here. People be happy here. And every once in a 629 00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:37.519 while, if you go to the Las Vegas Bowl or if you go to 630 00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:43.199 the Holiday Bowl and every once and you tickle the playoffs every once in a 631 00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:46.480 while, if they keep it at twelve twelve teams for a bunch of years, 632 00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:53.159 that's gonna be fine. Yeah, because I don't think any anybody, 633 00:42:53.159 --> 00:43:00.280 anybody that's in Tucson that thinks that Arizona can come out and start competing with 634 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:06.239 even the Oklahomas and Texas is that haven't been that great for a long long 635 00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:10.800 time. You know, forget the Alabamas and the Clemsons and Georgia's forget that. 636 00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:15.360 I mean, if we if we were to jump up there and do 637 00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:17.440 that, you know, on a on a one year thing, awesome, 638 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:22.280 that'd be like ninety seven with the So let's let me go there. But 639 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:25.840 let me go there with both of you guys. Okay, let's switch switch 640 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:31.400 the script on go basketball. If they do what consistently, if they do 641 00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:37.679 what, get to the final four, it's final four. It's final four. 642 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:42.039 You delusional. You guys are delusional. That's why I asked the question. 643 00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:45.280 I think if you're Arizona, the expectation is you get to the final 644 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:52.639 four every few years long. The thing is, the thing is, the 645 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:57.360 thing is is what what? That? What games? The final four being 646 00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:06.000 the target means you're getting to the regional final every couple of years. You're 647 00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:09.960 in the round of thirty two in a competitive game against a really good team, 648 00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:14.719 that they get to the final four, that we don't lose to the 649 00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:19.119 guy that loses in the next round. That's that's the thing is Arizona, 650 00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:23.199 most most people in Tucson are are are smart enough to realize if we lose 651 00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:27.880 to the champion, well, you know, and we play and we played 652 00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:34.119 toomy Ball like they didn't want to play us again, that's gonna be good 653 00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:37.239 enough. We're gonna go. Dude. We took them to the fourth quarter, 654 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.360 we took them to the last possession. You put back to football. 655 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:43.920 Yeah, no, I get it. I get it. I still think 656 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:50.480 that the Arizona fan is unrealistic and they want more. Yes, everybody wants 657 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:55.320 more. Who doesn't want more? Fishes at Washington. I'm saying you guys 658 00:44:55.320 --> 00:45:00.960 are unrealistic. All right, No, no, I'm not. I'm not 659 00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:05.480 unrealistic. I'm telling you I'm settled for a win seasons there and every once 660 00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.000 in a while you jump up into the double digits. I'm cool with that. 661 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:12.599 I think a lot of people are you just you know, if you're 662 00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:17.280 competitive. Everything, okay, done. One thing, one thing I'm very 663 00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:24.159 not cool with is Tommy Lloyd congratulating Jetfish on making a decision for him and 664 00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:29.760 his family and that he's great. That's that's mallargy. That was bad. 665 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:34.079 That was bad on first round Tommy, first round. Tommy's got to cut 666 00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:38.039 that out. He needs to apologize for that. Guys a bunch of bit 667 00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:45.119 all right, don appreciate what did he tell what you first round time? 668 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:52.639 Tommy? Well he's only been twice. Let's go back to this. So 669 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:57.800 here's the con So really it's with with the with the what they call peripheral 670 00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:00.360 compensation, it's an average of three and a half million, which it seems 671 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.119 about right for a guy. It's kind of moving up. It's kind of 672 00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.320 a very inexpensive. We got but guests, and I was I posted the 673 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.360 contract on the Facebook and a couple of weeks. Wow, look at that. 674 00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:14.880 Look at that. But in relation to the Big twelve, it doesn't. 675 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:19.400 It's low on the tote exactly. He's got He's got some other some 676 00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.559 other incentives from getting know, getting me the playoff, winning a conference championship, 677 00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:30.639 other postseason participation, a coach of the Year, final top ten rankings, 678 00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:32.760 a number of things, plus grades and things like that. He can 679 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:37.119 that, he can make some more money. Let's take this call. Hi 680 00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.559 are on the air and I on the ball. Hey guys, how you 681 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:44.639 doing the powerward? What do you think? More? Yeah, more than 682 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:51.280 anything, I'm glad for Jed. I am because he's going to a school 683 00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:58.679 that doesn't have the overhead of US where we're a basketball school period and Washington, 684 00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:02.559 in my opinion, arguably the least basketball school in Bay twelve, I 685 00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:06.719 mean, the Pack twelve. Do you think that bothered him or why do 686 00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:09.199 you bring that up? Do you think that was a problem? Well no, 687 00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:15.000 but but I'm just saying, and let's put let's put it in Arizon 688 00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:20.840 terms, because I know a lot of people that had both uh season tickets 689 00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:24.920 for basketball football. It's what they got rid of. First football football, 690 00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:30.079 and then Joe sixpacket and they didn't have good seats on one. And then 691 00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:34.760 of course I knew more wealthy people that have both. But but this is, 692 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:37.440 this is this is a basketball if you want to face you know and 693 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:40.880 me just me talking about you know me, I'm gonna go to a basketball 694 00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:46.320 game twenty times before I go to one football game. Yeah. No, 695 00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:50.199 I hear you, I hear you. No, you're you're You're about right. 696 00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.599 I mean it. I mean, I hate it when people call Arison 697 00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:57.159 a basketball school. But I understand why they say that because I because I 698 00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:01.199 do think when if football is rolling, you know, it's it's different because 699 00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:05.599 they're like, I mean, we rolled this year and it still wasn't. 700 00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:08.280 Well it wasn't And that was the thing, you know that that people are 701 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:13.719 still waiting to see. Sure, right, sure, you never know if 702 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:19.039 he would be doing good in the in the Big Ten and then us doing 703 00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:25.199 But I think Tommy's got a brighter future than Jed does in his new league 704 00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:30.079 period, and I think Tommy's Tommy's the one that we have. I would 705 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:35.960 I would flicking be like Tom Arnold when uh, when loude Olsen left Iowa 706 00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:39.239 Tom Arnold, the actor. He freaked out because he oh, I remember 707 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:44.199 that, but I don't. I don't remember that. But he well he's 708 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:50.199 he he he. Basically Tom Arnold's a little older than Jay even because I 709 00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:55.480 remember him talking about it. This is years ago. Again, he was 710 00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.960 probably in one of those college guys in twenty four years old. He was 711 00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:04.039 there. He freaked out, and and and and the legend of Loot didn't 712 00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:07.960 even really get made until he was at the U of A. Okay, 713 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:09.880 all right, Howard hey Man, thanks a bunch, appreciate it. Yep. 714 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:19.280 You know, look, Arizona is who they are financially. This is 715 00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:21.800 a step up for Brent Brandan. And I don't know what his contract was 716 00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:25.239 at San Jose, but you know he's accepted this contract and you know he's 717 00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:29.000 good to go. And you know, as as you said when we first 718 00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:30.679 when we first talked about this off air, you know, if he does 719 00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:35.880 well, it'll get it'll get bumped up and bumped around, just like just 720 00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:38.360 like a dead Jeds was. That's the thing that people forget. The Jed 721 00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:43.440 got a contract extension after last year. Yeah, a contract extension and a 722 00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:47.559 raise another one. You know, people saying, oh, well, you 723 00:49:47.559 --> 00:49:51.000 know they didn't do it fast enough. Well, yes they did. It 724 00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:53.360 was done. He just didn't sign the damn thing, so what the hell? 725 00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:58.159 Oh another key, another key piece of this though, is the the 726 00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:04.239 assistant coaches, uh poor salary four points Like it's like a million dollars more 727 00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:08.440 than what what Jed was getting four point two five million dollars per year over 728 00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:14.280 five years. Interesting how that's negotiated into a coach's contract. Mm hmmm. 729 00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:19.800 Well they're saving money. They're saving money with the Jed stuff giving some of 730 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:22.400 that to the assistant coach, right, and then that might have been party. 731 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:23.320 He said, look, I'll take this, but you got to give 732 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:28.960 me some more for my coaches. And uh, well we'll we'll play this 733 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.239 clip after the after the top of the Arkans right out of time. But 734 00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:36.480 he did say that Dwayne Keen's coach. He talked a little bit about his 735 00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:38.880 coaching staff. In that same clip, he talked a little bit more about 736 00:50:39.679 --> 00:50:43.760 about about uh, you know what, they're trying to put his coaching staff 737 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:45.159 together. But he had talked a little bit more about you know what, 738 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:50.280 who was the gun he was he was talking to the guns assistant he brought 739 00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:52.360 Ben or something. I can't remember. He was, Yeah, but he's 740 00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.480 he's you know, it's it takes a little time to get these guys coming. 741 00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.760 We're gonna have some announcements on the breaking news right about taking some of 742 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:04.480 the guys already on three or four of the guys, and we'll have breaking 743 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.920 news from my guy here on the other side. So strike up the music, 744 00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:10.360 bed man, let's go, let's get out of here, all right, 745 00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:14.920 all right, all right, there we'll be back breaking news from a 746 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:20.079 excuse me from Sammy, and then we'll have Jason Johnson, quarterback from the 747 00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:22.920 late nineties early eighties who was here when Brent Brandon. Jerson'll stick around for all that