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He's Jay Gonzalaz. We will talk about who we have in the studio
with us a little bit. But how about them Wildcats? Wow, Steve,
I mean, how good are these guys that we keep saying that to
each other? How good are they? That's the whole thing. I think
that people are gonna overreact by that, although they have every reason to be
overreacted to it. But but I'm gonna sorry, I'm gonna sound a little.
They pay per due. We don't know what's gonna happen. It's on
the road pretty much on a neutral, semi neutral court. Then the next
few games, but everyone's gonna start. I saw today people are they gonna
go and defeated YadA YadA, okay, okay already and they get these high
hopes and then March comes. It's different. It is it's just different it
is. And and also remember in the in the Pac ten era, from
Pac ten to Pack twelve, nobody's ever gotten undefeated in conference play, no
matter how bad or good you've been, without question, nobody's ever gotten undefeated.
So yeah, on that guy, I knew that people are gonna start
saying, God, they seem could go and defeated. Right, Relax,
yeah, relax, enjoy it, Enjoy it because it's gonna be a fun,
very fun ride. Uh, there's a few holes, but there are
probably holes, and who knows what they are. And I turned to Shear
at some point it says, what are the couple of things? And I
said my piece and he got he knew exactly where I was gonna go,
right, And so there's a few things that I have. I have,
But what's not to like about this team? I mean, how good are
they? Even? And we just keep I know I just said a minute
ago, but we just keep repeating that. We look at these guys and
you know, it was a you know, they were it looked like they
were going to be in a dogfight all day. The game was twenty three
all and the next thing you know, they're up eighteen points, right,
right, No, and the coach guard, I think in his guard says
exactly what a couple of other people have said. They're deep, they're fast,
and they're deep well, and they're and they're tall, they're they're gonna
deep, they're and they're physical and now they're physically so what don't what do
they lack? And we won't know what happens? Yeah, right, and
we're not gonna find out until it shows itself. Right, it hasn't showed
itself right, Uh, my whole thing. And I didn't ask the question
because he already talked about it a couple of times. How good are they
when the guy that isn't as consistent as he probably should be? When Pele
has the game he acting right because he hadn't done that, right, he
hadn't done that, and so how good are they when he does that?
Well, that's how Bad's how good, that's how good they can be.
And that's how good they were on Saturday, right when you know, when
else we were making fun of him though, guy was six for six,
you know with the four three pointers and he was like four for nine from
the freezom right, like what are you doing? Right? It's like your
ballo to you. But he's pretty good for the breathing, like, oh,
you can't shoot him, Oh he should shoot the jumper from the gus
the jumper. But uh, you know, you know, I think a
lot of people looked at this game because, look, it's turned out Duke
maybe isn't as good as you know, people thought, you know, when
Arizona went in there beat him, same thing with same thing with Michigan State.
Maybe they're not you know, they're not so good. But everybody thought,
Okay, Wisconsin's really good. They're on winning streak. They beat Marquette,
they beat Michigan State on the road. Here they come, they're physical.
Everybody hates them because of what they did ten years ago here and Aarzonas
still handled them just the way they've handled everybody else. I mean, they
didn't look any different to me than they did than Duke did, than Michigan
State did, then Colgate did, and anybody else. They just they just
whooped up on him really bad. Yeah. Yeah, So so here we
are. Now we have another few days to wait for Purdue, and who
knows what gonna happen there, but I think there'll be another test obviously to
Bollow and to Creebus. Look, you make no bones about it. This
is not this is not a road game or a neutral court came for Purdue.
This is in Indianapolis, which is just you know, right around the
corner from where West Lafayette for Purdue is. You know, their their crowd
is going to be there. I don't know how many Arizona fans will travel
to that, but you know they're going to be outnumbered. But it's a
it's a great test. I was reading a uh. Uh, Tommy Lloyd
talked to Seth Davis and uh he had to call him the thing. Talked
to him yesterday because he had to call him this morning and talked about how
you know, Tommy took this game without knowing before he knew what his roster
was going to look like, for which can come when coming out the Purdue
game. You know, he took the Purdue game and he hadn't he hadn't
yet signed you know, really the three guys were making the huge difference.
He hadn't signed Keisha Johnson, he had signed Jade Bradley, and he hadn't
signed of Caleb Love and but he went ahead and took the game anyways,
just because he said we need to play these games from sure sure who we
are? Sure no? Which is great for him. And now he has
a pretty pretty good team, this team, this team, and not that
the national people don't fall in love with Arizona at some point. Now they're
going to be jumping on the scene and and you know, talking them up,
which they do all the time. They've been doing it for thirty years.
Well, sixty three of sixty four first place votes in the apple of
the day, I thought it was sixty two sixty three, but whatever it
was, but one one, one person voted for Houston. It had to
be somebody in Texas. No, it just came up. Tell me somebody
from Purdue. Somebody do they who's who got? Oh it's Houston got the
other one used to go the other vote? Oh really? But if somebody
who covers Purdue, that's funny, Yeah, very funny. That's very funny.
You think if you're voting, you know, you're like, okay,
is going to play them? You know, voters on the number what would
you do with just number one? Right? And and you know what,
why did you vote for him? Yeah? Don't it doesn't. It doesn't
matter, It doesn't matter. I'm sitting here. You know who that who
that is? You get you get to vote for whoever you want, because
I know most of those guys. Let's see, I just kind of said
a second ago, we were getting ready to go on. It was on
Twitter somebody place, somebody put it up on Twitter, and and it said
that that was that was the one. The one vote for for Houston came
from a reporter who covers for Dude. Yeah, no, that's fine.
I mean, come on, we all have our opinions and and pick who
we think is the best. Yeah. You know, I you know,
I voted for the Heisman Trophy and yeah I didn't. I didn't vote for
the winner. Yeah, we'll get to that. We'll get to that.
Yeah, but Arizona is what it is. It's not doesn't need all sixty
three votes obviously. Uh. But but they're good. I mean they're good.
Yeah. I'm gonna reserve judgment on how overall good they are because of
the four or five teams I've covered over the thirty some years i've covered.
They're the top four, the top five or six right now. Yeah,
but but you're not measured by going no, right, You're not measured by
going twenty you know, right, yeah, you're measured by you could go
thirty three, you know, and you won't be measured by thirty three.
And though do people at Kentucky three go ahead, do people at Kentucky talk
about that thirty team that went undefeated before the lots in Wisconsin? Exactly?
Think about it, Steve, To this day, we still think there's about
five or six Arizona teams on the court who could beat the national championship team.
Oh yeah, right, right. They weren't the best team. It
might not even be top ten. And now you don't even talk about ninety
eight, which was better than all of them. Right, they might not
it might not be one of the top one of Blue's top ten teams,
right, but they won the national team, right, and they're beloved.
Their people are wearing their uniforms again, step some people are still wearing the
still still wearing enough. So you know, we'll get to that point at
some point, you know when as we get closer, but it should be
another week. That first half on Saturday, it was fun. It was
loud. It was loud. Oh yeah, well, you and I were
texting or the group was texting. Then it had that feel again. Had
the field had the feeling into the students were there. It was to the
roof. It was fun. It was loud, people were early, you
know, people were walked into you know, I park park up by Gettings
Long up on the by the tennis. Okay, so how was it then
when you just get well, I couldn't park there, it was it was
full. So they said, I got. They sent me to the Makaleon.
Oh really nice because I was the last guy to parked there because I
DK got in there and then I could. I drove around and then I
finally found one up on the hill right there. It was one and so
you must have gone right I got there, must have been right after you.
Okay, I got. I ended up getting there about forty five minutes.
Okay, I got to get there an hour. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, after about forty five was packed. It was jammed. They went
and they said, you know, go to the makalon I went to park
so you got close park yeah right? So no, no, it was
packed. A lot of people, you know, walking in you could feel
it. There were just a lot of people you know, on the walkways
headed towards towards the entrances and stuff, and then you know, you know
the way we come in, you go down the ramp and the court opens
up to you, and it just you felt it like like I was hoping
you you would feel it right the way you like to feel it on games
like that. Right, right, I was a little I wondered if it
was going to have that because it is Wisconsin. It's not Duke, it's
not North Carolina, it's not Michigan. But people were they were ready for
for Wisconsin, right, and then remember that they're not gonna be here for
a while because they go to Purdue. They go to Phoenix and then Vegas
and then then yeah for me a while. Yeah, but enjoy it,
man, enjoy it. It's funny because I watched I watch Who's the Coach?
Timmy comes out, you know, the dude, the dude you can
tell you's young, and he's having fun with it and he says, I'm
glad we're doing this. But you know, it comes out raised his hands.
They scream for him, YadA YadA, but he's he's eating this up
too, as you should. I mean, Sean kind of was a reluctant
guy who just kind of, you know, went about his business. He
walked on the court and it was like vision. He's looking around, he's
checking things out. He still comes by every game. It's a knuckle he
doesn't you know, he doesn't miss it. And you know, you can
tell there was a little extra bounce in his step. He came by just
a little faster than Yeah, yeah, yeah, I noticed that he was
coming. He hugged the other coach, and you can tell there's a lot
of respect for him after being It's like it would be like Ross becoming a
head coach. You're this long time guy, uh and you make Paige your
dues long overdue probably, and people like him because he's likable. And then
the game, I mean, and then he's not likable after the getaway because
he beats the crap. But but but the game, I mean, you
know, just what Arizona did you know? And again, you're looking for
holes, you're looking for something, and there hasn't been. There weren't any
there was nothing that walked away from that game Saturday and said, okay,
but they didn't do this, yeah yeah, yeah, no, right,
yeah, no, you'll guess what you'll you'll see it. Once they lose,
it'll happen. You'll see it, and it may happen this Saturday.
Purdue. Yeah, I love, I love his quotes with you. And
then you didn't have anything up. But it didn't matter how he talks about
just go kick their asses, you know, blah blah blah. You don't
hear that. You don't hear that. No, I'm glad you're hearing that
exactly. You know. It's funny too, because as when it's press conference
ended, you guys, you guys stayed there because yeah, well, as
I'm walking out, the Wisconsin coaches walking in and they stopped and they talked
to each other. Yeah, and then I just heard told me, well,
well, yeah, but we've got we've got Purdue, Alabama and FAU
coming up. Yeah. It's kind of like you tell the coaches. I'm
like, man, you guys are really damn good, and you kind of
said, yeah, but we got this is that He basically said, let's
see what that looks like. Sure, sure, but in order to be
the top team and to get all the boats, guess what you have to
do. You got to play those games. If you don't, I bet
that they do, because the Alabama game is going to be not a neutral
place, right, FA usually be a neutral place in Vegas. But I
don't know how good the FAU. Maybe they go on one of those final
four things. You know, I'm going to be interested to see how those
guys saying handle handle Zechy. I mean, he's so damn good. But
you know, maybe you know, Arizona's got a bunch of guys they can
do it. And I'm sure you think this too. Barbos played very well,
but Crevis looked you could see little straw, little steps, so baby
steps up improved it. He's just all that, all that experience, he's
getting this fantastic more physical, he's getting better, is getting getting his shot
inside. He's guarding really well. I mean, a couple of guys tried
to take some stuff inside, and it was like everybody wanted a piece of
something, right, And then that happened a whole bunch as well too.
I mean, you know, the Wisconsin leading score didn't you know, didn't
score very much because he you know, he kept trying to challenge those guys
inside, and there was always somebody in there, right, there's always a
rim protector in there. It's not like you're gonna you know, one of
those guys is out in the in the rim is wide open. It's not.
And that's it again, that's what Arizona has been doing. So it
was you know, it was a fun weekend to see. You know,
you see that game. You kind of at the end you just kind of
shook your head and said, damn. Yeah. Well yeah, you're damning
a good way. You're doing a good way. Okay, so cool.
So football is gonna be pretty quiet with that today because it's you know,
like it's still the ways away, but obviously everyone's you have breaking news.
Yeah, okay, so I won't talk about football for now. And the
Cowboys played ball yesterday. You know how it is, how it feels to
be Jake, It sucks. It sucks. Feel my pain, dude,
feel my pain. Said you know, when I posted the picks, I
said, it's either a bad thing for Steve or a good thing for me
that we had three of the same picks. Bad thing even pretty from the
jump. From the jump, all my teams were started losing right away.
Oh god, this is gonna be a bad that's my weekend every weekend.
But I I hit the Army game and I almost and you almost didn't.
Yeah, and then I hit it. I didn't hit another game time.
We hit the Cowboys last night, so that's my only game and then I
had one tonight with Miami and that's so many points. I don't know.
I just need another win. Yeah, No, Jacob, it's it sucks
being you. How do I know? Because I was you this weekend,
you yesterday only everything else. If your mama says she love you, check
it out. I don't have to check that out. My mom's dad.
But it's no. But I just my base. You say, I gotta
check it out. Hold of gaba. She loves me too. But uh
no, it it's it's it has been. It has been tough being me
picking games this uh this year, and it continues to be bad at it.
You got a feel part? All right, let's take a break.
We're gonna be back. Bruce Pascal from there, don't Daily Star is going
to join us. We'll talk a little bit more about that Wisconsin game yesterday
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your free evaluation today streaming live, I mean iheartradiolap. This is I on
the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey,
welcome back to I'm About here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve
Rivera. You're Jaginzeliz nowter the fun. We have Bruce Pasco from the Arizona
Daily Star. Bruce, How you doing good? Thanks for having me guy?
Yes? Hey, So, I think in your career you've covered a
few number one teams in the country. I was with the with you for
a number of those. Uh does this one feel different? Wow? You
know, I don't know, Steve. I mean, you're probably a better
authority on that than me, but I don't I think maybe a little bit
and sense that you didn't really expect them to get into this spot. I
thought it was possible based on the fact that that Tommy Lloyd's teams have come
out of the gate so strong the first two years, and now he had
some talent, but we all weren't sure how it was going to come together,
and obviously it has as good as anybody could have expected. So it's
a little bit a little bit surprising, I guess is the main thing,
and then maybe maybe somewhat and that they're so balance and diverse, but that
was also, as you know, you know, a key trade of a
lot of Ludelson's great teams too, So that isn't that And I think maybe
the only other thing that strikes me is it's still, you know, December
eleventh, and adversity hasn't hit this team yet, so you know, is
it going to be number one? Really? After that happens? And inevitably
every team runs into something at some point during the season. You know,
Bruce, Steve and I were talking that, you know, we a weakness
hasn't showed itself. We know there's something there somewhere, but so far,
yeah, in all a games, it's like there's nothing that you could pick
at that says that's you know, that's a team weakness. And again not
to say that they don't have one. They've got to have one somewhere because
everybody does. But it hasn't showed itself, and it will at some point
any thoughts, any guesses on what that might be. You know, it's
funny because I think I think Greg Guardy kind of hinted at it a little
bit when he said, you know, when Larson hits those threes, that
really changes what you can do defensively because and they're not. They're still I'm
looking here now, there's still a thirty nine point one percent three point shooting
relatively. I guess you could say that's a weakness, but like it's still
pretty darn't good. And but I think that that uh, you know,
a lot of that courses Kylin Boswell, but they're they're they're not they don't
rely on the three as much, and so it hasn't been that big of
an issue. But I think, you know, and they had some times
where maybe they haven't gotten that much support from the three point mine, but
obviously they've been okay because they can do and many other things. And I
think I think maybe that that little piece there or something, and you know,
maybe there's some other things, you know, maybe I mean, the
defense. It's really hard to point to any weakness there. But I mean,
you know, again, when they had something like they had the other
night or the other day when Marsion hits those three, then all of a
sudden, you know, they don't know what to do and they have to
have to go out on the perimeter more and that gets do more baller,
more space and creevous and even Keisha Johnson. I mean, it's just that,
Yeah, they're they're they're tough that way. So I don't know,
that's a great question, Jay. I think maybe something will develop we'll see
more of, but so far it's it's hard to point to really any one
thing. So listen to both of you. Let me tell you a scenario
in ninety seven ninety eight when they had Bybe Dickerson and jt uh and those
three guards in addition to just time am I and Miles. How can I
forget about Moscow? Yeah, so four guys and you're thinking, okay,
it's like a three card, right. If one guy does not on the
next goal, step up, if the next guy doesn't step up, the
next gu step up, it's hard to see all three or all four going
boom. Well, guess what happened in that one game with book right,
all right, And not to say that that could happen here, but like
to your point of the three pointers. The percentage is pretty good right now,
but it's not good with their main three point shooter, right that.
That's probably thing he's certainly individually you can say that. But yeah, you
know, you look at a guy like you know, like like Caleb Love,
and he's the guy you think, he's certainly the most prolific shooter,
and he's the only hit and run about thirty percent right now. That's not
good. But he's doing so many other things that nobody really expected. And
he's been pretty selfless and pretty pretty good assist guy and a and a really
good defender, and so overall, like you know, if you're Arizona,
what you you know, you'd like to see him hit more. But he
also seems like you know, and Johnson two both clutch kind of guys that
seem like they they like they lift those big moments. So you know,
maybe statistically they're they're better than they look statistically, I guess, is what
I'm saying. And you know, but there are some things like that.
I certainly did like to have a you know, a knockdown three point guy,
and you know, maybe they don't really have that. Bos Will certainly
been a very high percentage shooter, but he's careful of the ones he's taken.
Yeah, and that's he's got other things. Yeah, you still don't
see, you know, the saline Stodmyer kind of shooter. Not not not
that said, but you know what I'm saying, the guy who's he's a
three point shooter. You don't see that in any of those guys. They
all can and they make them, you know, at a good percentage,
but none of them is the guy. So that that that's probably because there's
some point you're gonna need somebody to make for you at a critical time,
and who do you go to? Uh, you know, and maybe that's
a good thing, and that nobody knows who to cover. I don't know,
but so you know, yeah, no, I agree with you to
I mean, I think maybe that guy, you know, but Boswell,
he could be that guy with the ball of hands already. And then you
know, and then I think if Ariz, I mean, maybe you're hopeing
Love efficiency he proves a little bit there because he certainly has a mentality to
be that guy. There's a lot of discussions about how Caleb Love is really
and we talked about this some last week. Has really developed into you know,
more of an all around players. I didn't think anybody expected him to
be. When Tommy signed it, everybody thought, oh, guy, here
comes the guy who's gonna want the ball. We've been saying that all season.
Maybe he keeps doing all these things. A couple of key steals,
a couple of key passes, he fed Ballow on that dunk. I mean,
he's just done so much. And I don't know, I mean how
unexpected that was. Yeah, you know, I mean I think, you
know, it's funny because I remember talking to Chris georch is a respected basketball
writer in Tennessee who runs the Blue Ribbon year Book, and he was like
the man, you know, he just got He just was like he was
he just took the fall for like North Carolina having such a disappointing season,
and he was the top scorer, not an efficient top score and the team
totally underachieved. And so I think, you know this, people heaped on
him, and he came here, you know, needing a new reputation,
and you know, I think it's a combination. And maybe he wasn't you
know, maybe he was a better player than he showed. Because of that
that situation. But also he's definitely grown and I think, you know,
to what you said, Jay, he needs, you know, if he
wants to be in the NBA, and he's got the skills to be that,
you know, a big time prospect that way, but he needed to
round his out and get more efficient and round his game out. And that's
that's exactly what he's doing. So it shows kind of a maturity that he
knows I don't need just you know, I don't I don't need X amount
of points, but I can do this and this and this and and uh
and help myself that way. And you know, he's definitely he definitely is
helping himself. So it's for Arizona. It's the perfect combination where a guy
is helping his own resume but also really helping the team. And and you
know, if you're Arizona, you just hope that continues because that that can
always be you know, that can always be a dice equation when guys are
trying to get to the pros and you know, how does that intersect with
what the team wants, et cetera. No question, I thought that this
weekend too when I was seeing the play. But I think that Tommy has
some some of that some of that reasoning too, because I think he's the
one that saying you got to go rebound, You've got to be the more
complete player. There's some assists, go after the rebounds and things like that.
Here's a silly question for you. So you've been covering this team a
long time obviously, Uh, this is probably you're covering the number one team,
a boring team in as much as this is not a shoan team,
like every week you wonder what the heck's going on here? It's pretty smooth.
Oh you mean yeah? You mean, just like as far as this
happening and then guys getting in trouble or whatever, no, no drama,
no drama. Yeah, I mean that that's the thing as a writer,
like as a as a beat, Right, that's what I look at.
I mean, not what I look at, but like that's what I feel
like. Like this is the first season, I think since twenty fifteen that
it's literally been just about basketball for the most part. There's been a little
little tiny stuff here and there, things with rumors or whatever. But you
know, he had you know, Alonzo Trier and that whole deal. They
wouldn't say what he was doing, and you know, blah blah blah,
why was he sitting out? Nobody would say, Elliot Pitt's same deal,
you know, and then you have in the FBI thing and and all kinds
of avalanche after that, and you know how it is, you guys,
I mean, you'd have to go to the games early, like super early,
to see who was there and who was warming up in case anybody was
suspended or something happened. And this year it's been yeah, I mean ninety
eight percent of times, just pure basketball we're talking about, and so it's
it's different that way. I mean that that's kind of what more strikes me
than the fact that you know they're really good, because you know they're always
they're always gonna be pretty good and just a really good and off the court,
it seems like it's pretty smooth. Yeah, yeah, okay, so
what do you what do you think about? Now? You got Purdue coming
up? Zach Eedy. I mean, he's really damn good, but there's
one's got some guys to throw at him. That's gonna be the matchup that
everybody's gonna be talking about this week. Yeah, I mean absolutely, I
think it's gonna be just you know, and and also produce pretty veteran.
They've got a lot of a lot of guys who've been through it, a
lot of high profile games. I was a little surprised to see the way
they kind of broke down against Northwestern and threw the ball away frankly sometimes,
and they seem like they're not a team that usually does that kind of stuff.
So so it'll be, you know, it'd be interesting to see.
It is obviously gonna be a it's pretty much a home court environment for them,
you know, if they if they can produce and in Arizona's I mean,
obviously this is the biggest test as they could ask for. And you
know, but either way, it's gonna be it's gonna be good for him
to to learn from from what they can do, no question about that.
And and uh, you know, for Ballow, it's a chance to you
know, if Ballo wants to be if you're talking about individual Zumarbala, if
you will you know, if he you know, there's been some kind of
concerns. I sense that he hasn't been the player he was early last year
or a lot of last year, and certainly this is his chance to really
really put him stilf on the stage and show that he's a guy as well.
And if he's not, Crevous has done fairly well, showed himself pretty
well so far, So we'll see what happens with that. Yeah, you
know, and in Crevious, this is a little known saying that he actually
played against me. He was a young guy in that Lithuania New nineteen team,
but he actually played against Zach Edie in Canada in twenty twenty one.
And there's a picture in the Feeble website where Crevious is actually I don't know
if he blocked it. It wasn't clear, but he had his hand up
on the shot as he was about five feet from the basket and it was
just pretty cool to see that. And so he's I'm sure he's looking forward
to that matchup as well, so he games into It's not a big litmus
test. But we had a little poll over we talked about it on the
Area or less Bright I think it was, and then Javier put a little
poll after hearing us talk about it about m vps to this point and not
a big deal, just kind of curiosity. Uh, he used three people,
we use three people is it going to be Caleb Love, is it?
Uh? Uh? Of Johnson or Boswell? In other words, who's
been their best players so far? Yeah? Boy, I mean you can
slip a coin there. I mean, you know the first couple. I
mean, I probably would say Johnson just because he's come through those two,
those two big games, those two clutch games, Michigan State and Duke.
He really came through and just and in a lot of intangible ways. And
but Love too, you got to give him credit. He also came through
in the clutch in both of those games as well. You e didn't even
have a good game at Duke, and he's still when when they needed stuff
to get done, he got it done. And then Boswell has just been,
uh, you know, he's been just like super fishing the game and
his growth has been, you know, predictably astronomical. You know that he's
he's you know, he was projected to be that kind of guy. But
man, if you had to pick one, you know, it's a toss
up. I mean, maybe I'd give it to Johnson a little bit of
edge, but it could be any one of those three guys and the season
goes on or others. I mean, you know, we talked about Larson
the way he broke out. I mean, he does a lot of stuff
that doesn't even go on the box score, and you know, and then
Ballow if he becomes the player that he has shown at times, and he
did the other day he had another good game. I mean, you know
any one of those five guys really, yeah, no question, Okay,
I can remember. We know you're busy. Thanks so much for joining us.
Yeah, thanks for having traveling. Thanks Bruce Pascal from The Daily Star.
Thanks cool cool. I'm trying to find that post. So much stuff
I'm scrolling down. I had pizza yesterday. These Twotler people. I hate
these two people. I drove across the street. Okay, I just got
to your picture of the of this at the start of the game, so
they're gaining on it. There it is final results. How many votes?
One hundred and fifteen votes, okay, t Shad Johnson forty one point seven
percent. So yeah, Kylin Bobs about thirty two point two on Caleb Love
twenty three. Wow, because it was it was thirty. It was thirty
three. It was very even, very evil the last we checked. But
I don't have any problem with that. I don't have any problem with that.
And again any one of those three. Yeah, fine, but and
Keishot Really when you think about the overall impact, the more physical play,
and that's an attitude you're a you attribute that to Johnson. Yeah, that's
why I think people are saying that he's sure. He's been so good.
All right, Thank you, Bruce, appreciate appreciate you. Coming on,
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I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball.
You know, Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're jingos Aus.
We have a potent we intern here with us today. Yeah, he
Leon Eleon. Let's your last name again? Yes, okay, we'll just
call you, and we might even just call you. Some of my friends
call me Ian or Eli uh in whatever roles, or my grandparents actually call
me by my middle name, which is well Steve and I we forget thinks,
so we might even call you Jeff. We had a Delina we just
called D. Yeah, D, so you might be E. Yeah.
We'll get to the about the alphabet at some point throughout this whole thing.
Yeah. Yeah, we haven't had an E before, so my work.
Welcome. I hope you're enjoying watching how this thing works. Yeah, yeah,
do you have so many tears? I EN's out of Pueblo High School
right now, Yes, the journalist apartment. Yes. I graduated Pueblo from
the class of twenty twenty and then I graduated Pima in twenty twenty two and
right now. I'm hoping to graduate the Yomi in twenty twenty four. You
have an interest in radio, interest in radio and in general everything that's journalism,
but mostly mostly radio. Maybe far in love with it? All right?
Man? Cool, Well don't don't. We hope you don't fall out
of love. We'll try not to ruin that for it. All right,
we have a collar. Hi. You're in the air and I on the
ball. Hey you guys, Hey, gab Gabriel. How are you guys
doing? We're good? How are you? You must be doing good?
Right yeah, yeah, yeah, so far, so good. Just taking
names and kicking asss so personal, So Gabe going good? So Gabriel quick.
So I'm out with some people on yesterday or Saturdays. This Gabriel kid,
how old are you? Because they love you as a caller. Don't
get your head, you know, to twisted, but they love you.
They love music. That game kid who said that one of my buddies because
they listened to the show and they said, get Gabriel. It's pretty cool.
How old are you? I'm about twenty eight years old, and I
am in my career wise, I am trying to pursue a career in a
reptile conservation. Well, okay, I thought you were like twenty two twenty
three because he said you saunded older and I said, no, I think
you're a student at UVA. Uh yeah, yeah. Well, so next
year I'm going to go to u of A. I'm just finishing finishing my
general education at Feesle City College and I'm just getting everything in line for me
to transfer. So okay, So by I've been to Tuson this year for
two of the Arizona's football games Oregon Oregon State and UCLA, and I really
want to go to one of the men's basketball games at McHale, so that's
on my bucket list. So anyway, obviously I watched the game on Saturday
and Arizona basically kicked the crap out with Scanton. And let me ask you
this question. In the past twelve, I mean, in the last year
of the past twelve, which teams scare you? None so far? Yeah,
yeah, exactly exactly. USC is just basically trash. The son of
Lebron James is basically overrated. U c l A is straight up pathetic in
regards to the team North Bobby Curley always drinks, always drinks a cups of
coffee and acting like a de arranged lunatic arguing is if so, So they're
inconsistent to be honest with you. And no, no, no teams in
the patch twelve. Once Arizona plays in the Raguar Conference, none of them
scare me. But the important thing is they need to dominate in conference and
they should not take any team lightly. They need to just basically kick their
crab out everyone and win this conference because it's the last year of this pathetic
conference for Tramford. Wow, Gay, that's a little bit of a rant.
So that was good though, But no, you know, I mean
the pack Paul is shaping up to just not be very good, right,
you know u LA and USC. He both got beat by what you would
think are lesser teams over the weekend, and even though USC had a Brownie
James, So I don't know, you know, it's kind of like Arizona
and then everybody else is like way down the street right now. But we'll
see, we'll see how it developed over the course of the season. Tells
the Fish and uh Arizona doing, I mean, before they played Oklahoma Health
just in general house, how's everything going? Well, they were recruiting all
week right, Steve, Right, and you know about the kid who's transferring,
he's not gonna he's not gonna see you to sit out Morgan, Jordan
Morgan. So they lost something there, but I like their chances. The
line's gone from one and a half to three I think now right its three
and a half of I think, so yeah, and uh and Dylan Gabriel
actually signed with Oregon, so I'm guessing he's not playing, so yeah,
yeah, well yeah, why would Dylan Gabriel play for Oklahoma? Why would
they let him if it's gonna be a cracker right right, So anyway,
so you know, look, I think they really I think they start practicing,
maybe even today, to start getting ready today or tomorrow because they were
doing some recruiting over the weekend. And so we'll see, okay, all
right, anyways, thank you for answering my questions. You guys are take
it easy and be safe, all right. Thank you Gabriel, thanks for
calling. Thank you. It's fun. He cracks me up, man,
he cracks me up. He's always always got you know. He's certainly a
fan, that's for sure, for sure. But now there's there were you
know, there was, but there was a bunch of a bunch of movement.
We saw that Dylan Gabriel did did announces he's going to Oregon, so
the Oregon will have another you know, step in guy to step in and
be quarterback. I was listening to a conversation about how all that's really affecting
recruiting, that how it's becomes you know where you know, the pot of
gold, you know, for for high school, for recruiters, at college
recruiters recruiting high school was to get that five star quarterback. Yeah, that's
become so devalue with all these quarterbacks moving around. Very true, because you
can even get a great quarterback, very true. Sure, sure, and
then the five star quarterback that old say assume Oregon or or or USC had
that was sitting in the wings. Now transfers go somewhere else. Right,
So it's a big domino effect because you already wont an established quarterback. Right,
So Oklahoma's movie too there. I mean, the three quarterbacks for Heisman
finalists over the weekend, we're all transfers transfer right Dayden Daniels from ASU,
Panics from from Indiana, and Bonnicks from Auburn. They all transferred from somewhere
else. Now, they all played a couple of years, so they didn't
come in for just that one year like some of these guys are doing.
But even go back Kyler Murray was a transfer. What's the name Baker Mayfield
was a transfer? Yeah, yeah, you know all those guys, you
know, Jalen Hurts was a trans All those guys are transferring, and and
that's where that's where you know coaches are going to get their quarterbacks. Of
course they're paying them big price for them. Who was it? It was
a Matt Rule at Nebraska said a really good quarterback in the transfer portals a
million and a half to two million. He said that. He said that.
I didn't see that. He said it. He said, a good
quarterback, a top line quarterback coming out of the transfer portal is a million
and a half to do. I'm sure that the n C double a and
there and they're thinking, didn't think about that. And if it's not paid
for play, I don't know what is. Of course, it's paid for
play. Exactly what it is. You can call it what you want to
call it, but that's why it's called which which which you know makes you
as an Arizona fan, you go, you just hope the NORF of FDA
is the exception to the rule, right, I mean, yes, he's
gonna have to get his his n I L you know, to scare.
But you know, here's a freshman. You know that they hope to be
able to develop and that they hope he able to keep for the duration or
at least until he becomes an NFL draft prospect, which is that two years?
Is it three more years? Is it one more year? You know,
who knows what it's going to be if at all considering his size,
But but I know that it was. It was really interesting discussion just about
the fact that you know, you don't have to you know, which means
that if you're gonna go in high school players, you can go get alignment,
sure, or a linebacker, or you can focus on other positions and
you can go get your quarterback from the portal. Because there's been some really
successful teams sure with quarterbacks have come out of the portal. Well, sure,
look at look at the quarterback to Washington State, right, he shows
up, he's a senior. Well, so Jayden left the grant. So
Jayden left because of him right now, the guy's gone. Now the guy's
gone, and Jayden's probably about to lead because well his situation and now someone's
gonna move into there, and he's going somewhere else. I mean, it's
just some musical chairs of quarterbacks. Well you know U C l A,
you know d Day Moore, Dodaymore. He's going, He's going somewhere else.
So and even Washington's backup, Michael Pennix is leaving, and Washington's current
backup is also leaving. Yeah, because he must know they've got somebody that
they're about ready to bring in that he's not gonna be able to play it.
Right, that's what these guys are looking for, paying right, you
know, quarterback, you gotta you gotta get on the field. Sure,
sure, No, it's just the way it is. It's it's unbelievable,
right, And why did Jade Delora leave Washington State because they had a new
offensive coordinator who is coming with a quarterback camp Ward, Washington State isn't everybody
happy anymore? What's happy anymore? It's kind of like you know, you
got a nice car, but there's always a nice one on the street.
I use that in an analogy, you're going to say something from something I
know, I know where you're. I didn't want to. I didn't want
to do that. I didn't want to do that. I know where you're
That's what I won't say here. Okay, my mom likes my analogy,
like Steve. It's just it's just it's just making for for some really interesting
stuff. I mean, like Arizona's got you know, another quarterback after you
know, if of sure a top of the line quarterback, the kid from
Colorado, you know, are they getting another one for you know, in
this class and you need back You need backups, backups, right, look
at there was one who needed a backup this year? Yep. I mean
what would it season have been if for three games your quarterback wasn't that ankle
healed faster? Right? And then if Jaden's the quarterback rest of the game.
You know, are you talking five and seven? Are you talking six
and six? Or you're still talking nine? Sure? Sure, Destiny,
baby, Destiny, it all figures out, It all comes up anyways.
How big of a how big of a I saw today? I don't know
who said it? A big prestigious bowl. I can't remember the word.
How big is the bowl game in relative terms, it's it's a it's the
middle of the Road bowl. Okay, well I heard prestigious that it's the
middle of the Road Bowl. So that's why that. The New York six
Balls are the other prestigious. Those are ones you get into. Those are
the blue bloods. Right now, you're somebody right Arizona playing in both of
years ago, more than a few years ago. But you get into those
at night. You know, your your promode on, you know, every
day on ESPN or sure whatever network is covering your game. But you know,
the Alimble Bowl, it's a good bowl. It's the best of the
next bowls after the New Year's six bowls. Okay, yeah, for the
Pac twelve, it's the top non New year six Pack twelve bowl. But
as a bowl game, you go, oh wow, we're in the alim
This is like you know, man, No, you know, part of
it depends on who you're playing. It's a great bowl because they're playing on
right so it will get a lot of attention. You know, Tommy and
Tommy Jed Fish and his boys, we'll get a lot of attention because they're
playing Oklahoma. Sure, they're on a roll. You know Ifafita has gotten
a lot of national attention as well, mention team are in a minute.
Sure he's getting some attention. So yeah, and then we continue, Are
you gonna have some transfer issues on your transfer? You're bricking news yet because
they continue to be people decommitting or yea or leaving. Yeah, and that's
not exclusive to Arizona. No, it's everywhere. It's everywhere. It's all
to the place. There will be some stuff I've been gathering, but there's
a lot of other stuff going on. Okay, okay, cool, I
guess I should turn on the volume. There we go with the first hour.
All right, that's our first hour. Eleon is here hanging with us,
so we'll see. Uh we have a little more chat with him a
little later, but we'll be back breaking news coming up top of the hour.
Stick around better, chick around. H