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This is I on the Ball with Steve

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Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. Heay, welcome back to

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Ie the Ball here on Fox Sports
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Now we have chemical breaking news.
This is Eye on the Ball breaking

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news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
All right, so we do have some

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You have a ton of breaking news
on this Monday, gentlemen. So obviously

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we touched on earlier. Noah Flafida
and t Maac are back for next year.

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They announced Saturday during the Arizona men's
basketball game. I thought it was

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pretty interesting. We saw some speculation
on social media about how they were getting

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attention from big schools like Alabama,
just some dark horse candidates that we all

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obviously assumed at first when they were
unsure whether or not they're going to come

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back. Where they were going,
we assumed they might be Washington, but

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no, they were getting interest from
other schools. We also have other players

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returning, such as our tight ends
uh Kean Burnett and Dorian Thomas. We

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also have some lineman returning as well
as Jopah Jonah Savonea wendel Mo running back

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Rayshawn Luke and Jacob Manu, the
linebacker, are also returning for next year.

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Again, Jay, to your point, core guys, right, core

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guys that don't kind of transition into
a good spot. And then one guy

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who is not coming back is Jonah
Coleman, who officially committed to Washington.

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He's gonna follow running backs coach as
well as head coach Jed Fish and the

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quarterback. You have the quarterback there
too, Yes, four star quarterback Demon

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Williams and our transfer from Indiana corner
Jordan Shaw are heading to Washington. So

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you texted me Saturday, Well you
know what you had heard too. I

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had heard the quarterback. He really
wanted the quarterback to go with him.

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The Williams. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, okay, actually that he preferred

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him over Noah. Yeah, with
future right, the future. But you

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know, and and I can't remember
who made it, who made a point

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of this talking about you know,
oh it was Michael le f Michael V's

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call him about how Jed really really, I mean, even though he was

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starting for FEEDA, he really really
never single amount and said this is my

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quarterback. He was hanging on to
Jade and DeLaura because I remember towards the

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end of the year, maybe it
was maybe it was the when they released

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the Alimoble depth chart and it listed
Fafita and DeLaura as as cole really starters.

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Really yeah, if we have one
around here, I'll try and find

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him. I'll look for it.
But Noel Fafieda was never listed as number

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one on the depth chart by himself. He was never and Jed never said

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he's my starting quarterback. He's just
said, you know, and and it

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was kind of like he never really
put Noah out there as his guy,

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so to speak. Gut I never
really noticed that, Well guess what his

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guy got him seven point seven million
dollars. Well and exactly, and and

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and that's the thing that people are
saying, like, Jed, you know,

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it was purely by accident that that
you got this job. Because if

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de Lord doesn't get hurt, you're
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Uh. I listened to Wilner and
Canzano, you know, last week on

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their pod and and you know they
were breaking down, you know, the

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the trickle down of what happened,
you know, which and then and then

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and and wilnerm came out, and
so he said, let's not forget Jed.

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Fish would not be at Washington if
Jaden Delaurd doesn't get hurt. We

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talked about that, and and so
and why he never gave no FAFE to

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credit because and and you saw that, you saw the you know, the

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several quotes that Mike lev put,
you know, in his story, just

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saying how he just never acknowledged how
good he was, how good he was

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doing what he was doing for you
know, for the seasons I had an

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undying relationship or undying relationship or as
we say, he's got you know,

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or we used to say, he's
got some pictures of Jed doing some things

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that probably not very complimentary. Well, they they loved him, even when

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he was going on I don't want
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Jay said that, FCC or whoever
complains that, I just say no,

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I'm not going to say it.
Did I say it? I'm no,

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don't I want to say it.
Don't see you've already said enough on

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this show. If you have to
ask, if you should say it twice,

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maybe take one more beat. I
don't know, Kevin Ken, go

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ahead and say it off air.
All right, we'll have to wait for

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that, insiders only. We do
have some more breaking news. We mentioned

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it earlier. Benedict Mathrine and the
Pacers were in the building on Saturday as

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Mathron got inducted into their So let
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with all apologies to you, that
was kind of quick and kind of simple.

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They traveled all this way to get
and that shaved my legs for that.

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Wow. But but also too,
I made the point that you know,

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if you're Ben Mather and you're going
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you come dressed in something other than
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both both. Yeah, both.
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like all that important to either side, because remember Jason Terry came in and

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we had the whole family and he
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was a big That's what I'm saying. Didn't the game like a jersey frame?

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Yeah, Ben looked like he just
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seem to me though, that it
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happens to fall on Christmas. You
know what, I mean, he came

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in on a night to be honored, where also the football team just announced

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that it was staying and that was
the big news of the day. But

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he didn't know that going in and
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too, that you didn't have a
maybe they did give him to a ball.

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I thought the game of jersey and
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a he's already got a frame jersey
from Oh he didn't. Oh he didn't

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have a senior night? Did he
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maybe I'm wrong, but that's just
what I thought in terms of shears something

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that says that's all it was.
I do. I do like the trend

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I'm seeing of NBA teams traveling with
their teammate and that yeah, okay,

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T should have run out on the
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you know, heartfelt thing. Nine
years already in the NBA. Does it

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seem like nine years? I thought
maybe six or seven, but it's nine

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years. And who would have ever
thought nine years from t J McConnell,

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and he's one of the better players. We didn't even think one year for

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TJ McConnell. When when when Sean
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league. People are like, what
are you thinking? You think nine years

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removed and very wealthy man, had
a good dude, had a good dude,

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a guy you want to say,
Wow, good for you. He's

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the one that he's the one that
deserves to be up there and see it.

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Tell me I'm wrong, Jay,
And just my end, isn't he

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the most personable personal guy for sewn
on Seawn's time? But the guy you

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actually feel that you know, yeah, of any of one guy, of

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any of them, right, absolutely
percent, Because we don't know any of

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Sean's We don't. We don't,
We didn't get to know any of them.

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But yeah, no, I agree, we do have some well,

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we don't really live in the world
of the mock. As Tommy Lloyd said

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earlier this year, I really love
that I've been I've been repeating that often.

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But Arizona has been up and down. But they're back to nine in

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this week's In this week's eight people
for I give the update there. We

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don't have to do too much on
that. Arizona women's basketball drop both games

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this weekend, won by another single
possession, almost another heartbreaker. Situation.

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Uh, And the one on Sunday
was a lot less. I got blamed

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for that one. We were watching
the football game and went to halftime,

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so we put the we put the
The women's came on, and they were

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down two. By the time we
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they were down eighteen. That's tough. I won't tell you who I

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bet this weekend, but I did
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either play those games or you must
have played the games the opposite of me,

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because you're thank you, thank you, so you gave me the wins.

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I'm okay with that. I had
the Bills money line. Nope,

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that's one game I didn't touch.
You didn't touch it. I didn't like

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any either way. I didn't want
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two. I had two of the
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Niners and I had the who played
yesterday morning Detroit. I had to try,

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but then I had. I had
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and I needed the Bills to close
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It was right there. Didn't cover
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a word the field goals all like
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then it took it. It just
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Buffalo gods. Just how many times
have those birds that they just said about,

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oh I just need Buffalo money line
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what I think? I said this, Steve before the playoff started, I

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said, watch out for Buffalo.
I really thought, I really thought this

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was that, this was it.
They were not just you know, advanced,

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but I just really thought they were
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going to win the Super Bowl one. Because I don't believe in Lamar Jackson.

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I do now because I had Houston. I took the points with Houston.

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I took the ten with Houston.
It was ten ten at the half.

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I'm like, I felt good about
that. Take you again, all

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right. So we were touching on
the NFL. We do have some more

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NFL news. Arizona alum Antonio Pierce
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Las Vegas Raiders. So one of
the luckiest guys. All falling forward,

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big time, forward, yep,
falling forward, big time. And then

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we have some other coordinator news.
The Bears are hiring Seattle's offensive coordinator Shane

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Waldron to run their offense, hoping
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different next year, maybe with a
different quarterback, well a different quarterback.

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And that's sort of the follow up
to we were hearing last week that that

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Cliff Kingsbury was a candidate for that
job, and you you, you rolled

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your eyes and another fall forward guy. I wish I was better looking.

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I'd fall forward far instead. Hey, you want to wash the dishes today?

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And then we have we have two
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we're surprising would be a better word. Uh. Coordinator options being sent

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out there. Ron Rivera is interviewing
for the Eagles defensive coordinator job after a

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lot of people would assume he would
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the most incestuous league there is.
And then I say that because they all

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eat them, they'll always go from
place to place. You know you're not

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good here? Come here? Yeah, that is true. That's true.

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One man's trash, another man's treasure. And then and then Jay brought up

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in between breaks that Chip Kelly,
it's just rumors that he's, as they

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said, drawing interest from the NFL
teams as an offensive coordinator. Man,

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what time would be? What timing
that would be. You know though,

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if you're Jed and you're saying Jed
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gotta take Washington. ULA is not
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dollars. But no, buddy,
and they're not any good. Well there's

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well, yeah, no, I
I what do you think that UL would

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pay him six and a half six? Maybe going back to U C l

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haven't being UCLA in the Big ten versus

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being Washington in the Big ten.
I think he's got a like where he's

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at much better if it's between him
on the phone, the one that the

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one. Well, okay, here's
the Let me just say this. Let

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me just say this, because you
know, there's a lot of information gets

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better around and I think this is
this is also pretty pretty reliable. Washington

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was not the only job that Jedfish
interviewed for. I didn't hear this.

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I did. You're gonna say,
huh, you're gonna say the team.

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No, but no, because it's
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the team, but it's strong enough
that I'm willing to say that told you

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this. Yeah, Okay, he
hold it. He did interview for at

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least one more job, A good
one. Yes. I'll have to do

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is go back and see what jobs
were open, and you've given Steve a

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mission from middle tonight. I'll say
it this way, another big ten job.

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Okay, I'll get it. We're
a potential one. No, it

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was a big ten. It was
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so it couldn't be a mission all
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But we do have some more free
agency stuff. The Lions are signing

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veteran tight end Zach Ertz to try
to fill some injury holes they've had over

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the past couple of weeks. But
something more important in my opinion, Tara

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Vanderveer Oh yeah, has now officially
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history. All of college basketball,
college basketball and women and everybody in between.

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All of it runs the whole good
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see her quote? No, she
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something like, uh, you know
something along the lines of I don't know

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why you're continuing this basketball thing.
It's never going to do anything for you.

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And she said, I send them. I send them cards from every

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country that I go to It's pretty
I'll look up the quote, and then

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while Jay looks that up, I
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our last one. DePaul has made
the first men's basketball coaching change with the

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entire season, firing their head coach
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three and fifteen start, and she
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his two plus seasons. It's amazing
that here where I'm talking from Tucson,

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Arizona in Southwest, that DePaul has
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there. You know, back when
we were kids, you know, DuPaul

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was the stuff. Now not so
much. That hasn't been forever. Yeah,

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and they're a pretty good spot for
recruiting, as you mentioned, so

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you think that would be a maybe
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but no. And then to round
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out of the golfing world that I
know Jay wanted to mention a little bit.

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Alabama golfer Nick Dunlap has become the
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do something. Jay what did?
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so twenty years old, and he
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the I forget what it's called,
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Lakinta at PGA West being a good
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playing in the same group with Justin
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in the tour, he does not
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prize that goes to the second place
guy. And he's obviously being asked,

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so, are you just going to
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I've got to think about it,
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by one, and he hit it
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tears and the whole bit. It's
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Yogi, how you doing. I'm
doing well. How are you guys?

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We're doing well. A long season, huh. And you took it to

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the last game. How was the
last game for you? Oh? It

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was awesome. I mean it was
what a what a gift to follow a

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team like Washington all year and you
know it as you're around these teams for

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twenty years. I've been around the
plague now, oh, you guys have

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been around it for longer. You
know the talent, and then when you

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just get to see a team earn
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it's celebratory. It's a bomber in
terms of they played their worst game

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of the season and the biggest game. I don't but you know, at

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the end of the day, uh, it it kind of feels like that

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was like a year ago, to
be honest with you, with all the

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changes in college football, but it
was. It was a gift. I'm

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glad my colleagues and I you know, we carried the flag as long as

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we could right until the very end, and we committed to doing that to

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start the season, even though there
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it I think I'm really proud of
the job that we did. Well,

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you guys as always you guys,
did you know, did a great job

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keeping everybody you know, up to
speed on everything. And it was great

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for the you know, great for
the PAC twelve, do you know,

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push it all the way to the
very end and you know, being the

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last game, you know. But
then as you as you said right after

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that, man, all hell broke
loose, you know, starting with the

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Nick Saban retirement, and then the
trickle down that went has actually gone all

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the way down to San Jose State. And that's just the way things are

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now. You know, when something
like that happens, it's a there's a

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lot of effects to it. What's
what's been your reaction to all of that?

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Well, I think we have to
just accept reality now, Like within

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this sport is that you know,
there was always chaos and things you couldn't

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predict, like coaching changes or players
departing. Right. It used to be

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like players out there onda Bowl games
is the biggest surprise, right, and

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now it's you know, Pete Carroll
and Bill Belichick no longer coach in the

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NFL, or an excabit or retiring
and you know, I just think we

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saw a domino effect that I don't
know if we'll see anything like that moving

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forward with Giants and Titans in the
industry, But I do think the aftermath

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of all of that we should get
used to. You know, whenever there's

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a coaching change, there's going to
be influx on a roster that we've never

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seen before, just based on the
rules and the way that the portal works

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in NIL. So it's been It's
been a lot. I think everybody at

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every institution impacted, right in Alabama
to Washington to Arizona to San Jose State.

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I mean, it's just whoa what
is going on? Like so much

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has happened so quickly, everybody's trying
to wrap their heads around it. But

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I think when the dust settles,
like all the schools that have a change

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head coaches based on save it or
retiring at least on the West coach and

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I find themselves I think in a
really healthy position. Right right off here,

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you're talking about you knowing Brennan.
What do you know of him and

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what do you like about him?
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Brennan for man. I want to
say fifteen years or so twenty years.

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I mean, if you follow Let's
Goos football, you knew about him as

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a young coach when he was a
you know, either Arizona the GA or

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at Cal Poly coach in wideouts.
And then of course Oregon State is really

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where he made his mark. If
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they went I want to say eight
straight years something like that with the first

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team All conference wide out. It's
not a second team All league. So

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from Marcus Wheaton to Brennan Cooks,
I mean, he just was coach in

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that position at a really high level. I always felt like he had the

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stuff to be a head coach.
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go for jogs around Corvallis Fridays after
we finished with our head coach and coordinator

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production meeting. Then we just talk
about life. Guys. You know who

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he is as a five and a
husband. He's awesome. And then the

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more and more a relationship developed,
you learn about you know, what makes

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him chink and as philosophical approach.
And when he got the job with San

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Jose State, I visited him a
bunch of times up there. He'd let

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me come in and be around the
team and the program and sitting on meetings,

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and I just think as a culture
builder, Brent Brennan like that's his

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superpower. You know, football document
is as good as you'd imagine for somebody

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who spent their life in the sport, But in terms of a building team

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and connecting with players, that's where
he drives. And a mid chaos,

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right, that's what's needed. Right, It's needed in Seattle at you dove,

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it's needed in Alabama and Tuscaloosa,
needed in Tucson, can be needed

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in San Jose and Brit awesome at
that. And I love getting to know

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him, and I also know that
this has been a dream job for him.

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I mean, this is a guy
who you know, he's he was

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up for a lot of head jobs. Every idea I've ever talked to in

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the last couple of years who's asked
to put a head coach, they've always

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asked about Brent Brennan at every single
stop. And I just think that,

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you know, will some of those
jobs he didn't get necessarily, but God

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should he land in the perfect position
in the most unique circumstances in terms of

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how it happened. But I know
he and his wife and his kids are

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just thrilled, thrilled to be in
Tucsons. Well, let me ask you

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that, because you know, as
you say, he's in a better position

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with the job he's getting now here
in Arizona than had he gotten it three

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years ago. But you know,
like a lot of us, I mean,

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did you think Arizona made a mistake
last time? And look, we

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all know how Jed Fish turned out. It was great, he turned the

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program around. People are happy about
that piece of it. Did you think

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Arizona had made a huge mistake when
they didn't hire Brendan last time around?

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No, not at all. No. I mean I think this thing is

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like it's kind of like when we
were talking about quarterbacks in the draft,

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like who would you take one or
two? CJ. Strat or Bryce Young?

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when we were talking about Jedfish,

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I knew Jed as well as anybody, right. I went on your show

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the day he was hired and talked
about how much I loved and respected him

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and knew the vision he would bring
it to the program. Every single thing

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I've said, And I think it's
the dust settles a little bit. I

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think Arizona. Fish should be really
proud of what he did there, and

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I imagine they are. I saw
something and I think no Fafidas, someone

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in his family put out on social
media of like, let's ne forget who

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got him there? Right? Who
is the only Power five offer? And

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I was identified by Jed Fish.
So I'm not in the world of lighting

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a guy up when he leaves.
Nobody's happy when the coach leaves, and

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in any instance, that's just what
reality is. And the timing was brutal

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for everybody involved, including the players
in Seattle at Washington. But no,

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I think that they they would have
been great either way, both of those

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guys who we have built it up
and Jed did it extremely efficiently with the

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pro model. They got people in
Tucson that probably had never been to Tucson,

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you know, like Sean McVay and
Zach Taylor, Bill Belichick, Pete

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Carroll, like people come into town
to see Jed and Arizona not coming to

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town because they're coaching a team.
So I think fans in that community,

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I get it they're angry at teams, but I'd be really proud of you

407
00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:04.359
got the place to a extremely healthy
position. I think you're a favorite to

408
00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:10.440
win the Big Twelve next year.
And the best players on the team recognized

409
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:12.839
that it was Tucson that they fell
in love with. They came because of

410
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:17.960
jet Let's not forget that he came
to Arizona because of Jet Fish. But

411
00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.599
he's staying because of what Arizona stands
for and what he fell in love with.

412
00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:23.039
And I think that's kind of getting
lost in all this, and it's

413
00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:30.400
become Jed versus Brent Brandan, And
that's to me just that that is not

414
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.480
the way that I would think about
this thing. And I know it may

415
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:41.200
not be the popular to be happy. You're too you're too uh pragmatic,

416
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:47.160
you're not emotional like the rest of
us over here. That's that's a great

417
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:49.039
way to say, you're right,
you're spout off. And for Fetus,

418
00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:55.440
Dad's who I read that very he's
very poignant, very good. I was

419
00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:57.039
wondering when you were a player,
did you have to deal with something like

420
00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:02.079
this? No, we never lost
a coach. For our coach, Wald

421
00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:04.720
Harris is always up for other jobs. He turned out Ohio State to stay

422
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:10.920
at TIT, which kind of would
have been like je turned out Washington but

423
00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:12.160
I think when you're a player.
Back then, when I was playing,

424
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:15.720
you didn't really know the magnitude of
jobs, Like I didn't know how big

425
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.400
Ohio state of a job that was. I thought Pitt was the biggest thing

426
00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:22.599
in the world when I was there. I think it's different now. You

427
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:26.200
know, in terms of players and
the CFP and the players in this era,

428
00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.000
you know more about media rights than
probably any player in the history of

429
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.880
football ever will. So no,
I never had to deal with that,

430
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:37.720
thankfully, I guess. Yeah.
So getting back to back to Brent Brennan

431
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.880
and said, you know you you
jogged with him, so you must know

432
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:42.960
something about him. What do you
think the fans in Tucson are going to

433
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:51.359
like about him the most? Well, that's a great question. I think

434
00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:52.720
at the end of the day,
they want to win. So they got

435
00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:56.200
a winner, a guy who knows
how to win. He's gonna have an

436
00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:00.640
aggressive mentality. He's not gonna lay
low in terms of tight games. He's

437
00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.119
going to go for it. In
recruiting, he's going to go for it.

438
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.000
I think though, honestly, the
thing that they will love the most,

439
00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.440
and in ten years when we're talking
about you know, he might still

440
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:12.839
be there in ten years. But
if he's not ten to fifteen years,

441
00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:17.640
where you're talking about how he poured
it into the community, they're going to

442
00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:19.720
everybody's gonna get to know him.
You know, he's so accessible as a

443
00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:25.559
personality. I think he's a He's
an extrovert. He loves being around people.

444
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.000
He loves selling a vision that he
believes in his core, similar to

445
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:34.200
Jed. Like I think that Jed
really laid a nice foundation and now Brett's

446
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.359
gonna take it in his own direction. But it's going to be a similar

447
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:40.599
vibe of like the communities get involved. I mean you go back to San

448
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:45.200
Jose State and before he got there, football players did not go to softball

449
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.359
games or volleyball games, and in
San Jose State they're about everything. I'd

450
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:52.640
say the same thing in Tucson,
right, I mean remember when the women's

451
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.559
basketball team made a run for it
and Jed and his team that they can't

452
00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:57.680
fill practice to watch the game and
cheer on the team. It's gonna be

453
00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:00.880
very similar. So yeah, and
answer the question, I think players are

454
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gonna or fans are gonna love getting
to know BRT Brennan. He'll pour into

455
00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:11.000
that community as you guys know,
his wife went there. It's really a

456
00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.119
place that is special in his heart, and I think he wouldn't mind me

457
00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:18.799
sharing that among all the places that
he's been coveted by, or the jobs

458
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:21.880
that he's been up for, this
has always been the one he's wanted.

459
00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:26.440
And I think it's so rare in
this profession that you actually get an opportunity

460
00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:29.799
to have a shot at that job
and then actually get it. I mean,

461
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.839
it's less than one percent in terms
of the job. When you're a

462
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:34.400
young coach and you circle on the
whiteboard, because I did it, you'd

463
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.839
write in the whiteboard like what are
your top five jobs? You could be

464
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:40.680
a head coach somewhere, And for
Brent, number one has always been this

465
00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:44.720
institution that he's at now, and
I think that's what makes this so special.

466
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:47.880
And it kind of feels like he's
been there for a while. I

467
00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:49.160
gain it tendn't even been a week. But for me, I'm like,

468
00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.160
of course, Brent Brennan is the
head coach Arizona. I thought it was

469
00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:56.880
always gonna happen at some point,
you just didn't know when, and none

470
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:02.519
of us could have predicted the timeliness
that this happened, and so so I

471
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.039
think people in Tucson to go back
to this. The sky was following a

472
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:11.119
week ago today, but it's it's
recovered. It got a group of players,

473
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.079
ex players or current players now that
are coming back. What was your

474
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.799
thought on that or is your thought
on that because they have some talent coming

475
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.319
back? Yeah, well I think
this. I think number one, you

476
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.279
take the emotion out and you say
what is best for everybody. Right for

477
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.240
Jonah Coleman, it's different than for
no Facita, true McMillan, and I

478
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:33.799
got a ton of respect for that. So that's number one for me.

479
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:36.599
Is like each guy has to make
their decisions. But I will say this,

480
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:40.119
and I said this many times and
instead of years ago when Jordan Addison

481
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:42.920
became the first real portal guy who
left my Ala Mater pit to go to

482
00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:48.599
USC with only six months left in
his playing career, and I've always felt

483
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.119
that, you know, one point
six percent of college athletes make it to

484
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.279
the NFL on average, and as
the Wall Street Journal staff from an arc

485
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:57.839
I read recently, So with that
said, everybody thinks they're going, but

486
00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:00.359
the reality is you're not. And
the reality is that when it's all over.

487
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:05.119
You're going to lean on an alumni
base. So what alumni base are

488
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:07.640
you going to call yours? And
what alumni base are is it going to

489
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:10.519
call you a part of them?
And I think that's the part that gets

490
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:15.640
forgotten in all this. So I
love that those individuals who chose to come

491
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:20.119
on back to Tucson decided that,
and I hope they played for fifteen years

492
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.680
a piece, but the likelihood is
that's not going to happen, right,

493
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:28.640
And now I think that they have
a community and supporters and alumni. Of

494
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.240
course they're going to buy them a
beer or a burger every time they come

495
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.680
back to town for the rest of
their lives. But more importantly, when

496
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:36.839
they need a job, when they're
looking for a sponsor for their company,

497
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:40.039
when they're looking for a partner in
a business, that network's going to be

498
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:43.599
there. And I think if you
leave to go to a school for just

499
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:46.079
six months, I think you lose
a lot of that. And that might

500
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:50.240
just be where we are. But
for somebody who talks to a lot of

501
00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:52.720
locker rooms, I always say the
same thing I asked them all. I

502
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:54.720
say, who's building a logo for
your personal brand? Right? Now,

503
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.000
and a lot of hands go up, and I said, I'd urge you

504
00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:01.440
to stop pause and leverage the logo
that you're wearing on your helmet or on

505
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:05.599
your jersey or on your hoodie right
now, because it's going to be much

506
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:08.119
stronger than the one you create on
your website. And the example is Tom

507
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:12.640
Brady. He's not bigger than the
Michigan logo, but he can leverage that

508
00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:15.079
thing forever. So I love the
players that chose to stay. I hope

509
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:19.200
they get to leverage it. The
ones that left, I hope they pour

510
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.039
into their new place outside of just
the football and the exus and os and

511
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.880
playing, because they've got a strong
alumni database there as well. And what

512
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.319
I'm fearful of, honestly, is
that in this portal era, not only

513
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:34.559
going to lose the academic side of
it, but it's really the connection side

514
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:38.480
of it to alumni, and I
worry about that and players just becoming a

515
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:43.319
jersey number and a helmet versus becoming
a young man who's growing into a real

516
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.839
one. You know, it's funny
because of all the people we've interviewed about

517
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:50.720
this type of thing, nobody's ever
said that I thought it was really yeah,

518
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:52.039
you know, I mean I've thought
that a lot. I'm from here,

519
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:55.319
right, and I see the guys
like Ricky Huntley and Lamont Hunley and

520
00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:00.000
Chuck Cecil and you know, Corey
Williams and all these guys who have stuck

521
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:06.160
around Tucson from other places, some
of them very far. How they have

522
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:09.280
leveraged that, and you know,
you think about that when guys do lead,

523
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:13.039
you know, and you think even
Steve Kerr, you know, he's

524
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:16.440
you know, he continues to be
connected to this community. So that's a

525
00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:22.280
great insight on that, Yogi,
because nobody's ever said that on the other

526
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:24.159
side, on the other side of
this call, even though, like I

527
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:27.760
said, I've thought about it all
the time, and that's a really important

528
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.880
thing that guys need to think about. Well, you know, it's interesting

529
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:34.800
you say that, Like, I
just got an interviewed by the Pittsburgh Post

530
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:37.480
Gazette because they're doing a story on
former players and what they're up to.

531
00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:44.280
And my stat line is nowhere near
you know, dozens and dozens of players

532
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:47.079
that have played a pit in the
last twenty years and I haven't been back

533
00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:51.320
more than once, maybe twice,
since I played for twenty years, I've

534
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:53.920
been back to Pittsford maybe twice.
Because of my job right I'm working in

535
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:57.840
college football, So every weekend I've
got something going on, or is going

536
00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.079
to the homecoming game or the spring
game. But point is that because when

537
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.440
I was there, I tried to
get three business cards every Tuesday and Wednesday,

538
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:08.239
and I built a community in a
network that still cares about you twenty

539
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:12.719
years later to write a feature about
you, to ask you, hey,

540
00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.559
to come back and zoom with a
couple of players, and I can call

541
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:19.840
anybody in the pit alumni database now
and I'm connected with them. And I

542
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.239
was a walk on or we're in
a scholarship, and caught fifteen passes in

543
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.760
his career. So I just say
that for the guys like no On TMAC

544
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.320
lean into that, and then for
even some of the lesser known players and

545
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:32.320
the guys that maybe are just going
to play in college, it's a great

546
00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:38.519
opportunity to leverage this school that loves
you and can get to know you beyond

547
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:45.320
just being a student athlete, but
being a three hundred and sixty degree human

548
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:49.119
being. No good stuff, really
good stuff you'll get, by the way,

549
00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:52.199
tell the Pittsburgh Post to get is
that that Shaun Miller's that Xavier?

550
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:59.239
You got it? I appreciate it, thanks, Yoge appreciating good stuff,

551
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:02.880
A very good stuff. That was
great. The A that's you know what,

552
00:36:04.039 --> 00:36:07.960
I'm gonna use that because you have
to use that, Yeah, because

553
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:09.840
it does sell better. Right.
You know you spent this time here,

554
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:14.199
right, do you invest in this
time here? Why not make the most

555
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:15.880
of that investment. Yeah? No, See, that's great. That was

556
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:19.119
awesome. That was very awesome.
Okay, Hey, thanks, Yogi,

557
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.679
appreciate it. We'll hopefully we'll see
you around soon. All right. That'

558
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:24.000
said, we're gonna take our last
break. We're gonna come back. Take

559
00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:28.480
your calls on anything that's happened over
the weekend. A couple of things going

560
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:30.840
on, right, Dave, Yeah, So give us a call. Five

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Steve Rivera. You or Jigins also came

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in with us today. We've got
about twelve minutes. If you'd like to

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reach out to us, please do
five to zero four one four forty.

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Good to talk to Yogi. He
was great. I loved I loved what

612
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he had to say about about You
know, you come here, you're here

613
00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:22.039
for our however many years you're here. It's an investment, you know,

614
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in your time, your career.
But you know, make the most of

615
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that investment because there's something there for
you. Yeah, and you're talking about

616
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all these guys from other places who
have stuck around here, right, And

617
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it's about networking, right, The
right people know people, I think,

618
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:38.800
and we're gonna have them worked here
here tomorrow. That's gonna be a lot

619
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of our conversation. A guy like
him get to know the right people are

620
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right people, the Corey Williams with
the Cody's Cody Ritchie's of the world,

621
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the Jim Clicks, and there's people
here to help you, you know,

622
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:55.000
Bert kinnerk, Jim Klick, all
these guys who help you know, enjoy

623
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:59.000
the relationships with these athletes and they'll
help you down the road. Well,

624
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back in the day, our was
uh then you saw one in one rate.

625
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:05.000
It's the uh and we would have
found it a long time ago.

626
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Where you you have a job to
cut the grass and it's or turn on

627
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.480
the sprinklers and it's all automatic.
And those shine shakes that we do.

628
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:14.800
No, you get paid. You
can do that. Do that. You

629
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know you can go see you know
our uh uh. You know Humberto Lopez

630
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and he's you know he's retired now, but you know his businesses. You

631
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:24.239
know, he's a real estate developer
and that's why he made his bones here

632
00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:29.360
in Tucson. He's got connections.
You know, he'll he'll he'll help you

633
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:35.039
and you can make you can stay
here and have a lucrative career doing things

634
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.719
here in Tucson, Arizona. And
that's that's the cool thing about what I

635
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think. Guys like you know what, No, if a FIDA has done

636
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.079
team yeah, yeah, maybe they'll
go off and play professional football. Even

637
00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:46.159
if they do, they can come
back here after that. And as he

638
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:49.840
said, never have to buy their
own burger or their own beer. So

639
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uh, those things are those things
are important. All right. Hey,

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Draft Kings Backloce. Yes, yeah, you got any ideas what you're gonna

665
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do this weekend? Steve's I know
it's only Monday. Well my ticket,

666
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:39.159
my tickets. I only have two
tickets left that are supplying. It's uh,

667
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:44.480
it's the Ravens from I've got them
in August, the Ravens and the

668
00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:47.559
Chiefs. Okay, well, you're
gonna have a team in the super Bowl.

669
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:51.559
That's fine. I have an eleven
to one team and a four to

670
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one team. I think it was
final one. The Ravens eleven to one.

671
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Yeah, I kind of like that
one better. I like the I

672
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mean Lamar Jackson, Man, I've
been, I've been Lamar Jackson, Dowter.

673
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:04.880
I'm like, he's only so far
he can take you. But dang,

674
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he's doing really well. Yeah,
so I'm hoping I'm going to be

675
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.880
pulling for the Baltimore. Yeah.
But then again, man Mahomes and his

676
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:15.719
voice, they just keep finding a
way, right, they just keep finding

677
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:17.960
a way. Mahomes was so good
he even got MBS to catch a couple.

678
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Yeah. Yeah, oh yeah.
Here's the fun with some of my

679
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:24.519
son, who you know, is
a huge Raiders fan or forty nine Ers

680
00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:30.000
fan, and my godson, Danny
Martinez. The two of them are basically

681
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:35.000
best friends. They've known each other
since they were bored. Danny's a huge

682
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:37.760
Lions fan, Adam a huge forty
nine Ers fan. So this is going

683
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:42.920
to be a very interesting to watch
it together. No, Adam's not even

684
00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:45.480
gonna come and watch it at my
house, he said. He said,

685
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Dad, I'm not because we usually
do, you know, Sunday dinner at

686
00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:51.239
our house. He said, I'm
not coming Sunday. And this is why

687
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:53.480
this is funny. He came over
to our house to watch the Packers game,

688
00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:59.199
and he left. When he left
or the Packers, and when he

689
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:00.800
left, the forty nine Ers were
losing. Because he had to go home

690
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.039
and he had go take get his
son down for a nap. Then the

691
00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:06.000
forty nine Ers came in. When
he said, Dad, I said,

692
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:07.239
Adam, you came here and you
watched it and they won. He said,

693
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:14.880
when I left, they were losing. He's still believing in the death,

694
00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:16.400
so he's not coming up. I
think that's gonna be a great game,

695
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:20.199
outstanding games. I think even the
Lions could put up a better fight

696
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:22.000
than a lot of people. Yeah, I'm not I'm not going to be

697
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:25.920
disappointed in either whoever wins that game, because you know, I want the

698
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:29.000
Niners to win. I want my
son to be happy. They call him

699
00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:34.639
Sadam when they lose. You know, see these fans, I don't get

700
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:37.159
it. I used to be that
a long time ago, now anymore.

701
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.559
But I enjoyed the game. But
you know the Lions in the Super Bowl,

702
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:43.159
that's never happened. Well, you
had a stat who was the stat

703
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:45.360
with the Cowboys in the in the
other one. Oh, there's only two

704
00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:49.000
teams that haven't made two teams in
the n FC that have not been NFC

705
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:54.440
Championship game this century. It is
the Washington Commanders and the Dallas Cowboys.

706
00:45:54.719 --> 00:46:01.239
So so if we're talking blue bloods, Dallas is blue. Is not as

707
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:04.840
blue as it used to be.
Yeah, it's just not. It's just

708
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:07.239
not. And we'll talking about there
was one and we won't go there,

709
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:10.719
but it's enough. This year's are
this this year? How many this year's?

710
00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:14.519
I mean this this year seemed to
be the collapse, you know center.

711
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:16.400
I thought that's not very long.
It's twenty three years. Man,

712
00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:22.599
they haven't been since thirty five,
ninety six one one. Yeah, not

713
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:28.000
that I want to rag on Cowboy
Fence and Miguel I'm sorry, like fat

714
00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:31.519
mic Yeah yep, but no,
I you know, it's uh but I

715
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:35.519
like them. I like the matchups
this weekend. I think they're both gonna

716
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:38.480
be fun games. And I mean, you know, the Ravens just look

717
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:43.800
they look unbeatable, don't they they
really? I thought the Texans were gonna

718
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:45.159
cover they were getting ten. I
thought they were going to cover that,

719
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:47.280
and it was ten ten. I
was about to say it looked good to

720
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:50.400
start too. It was tied at
the half, and I'm like, okay,

721
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.800
I got this. It was it
was going on during the during the

722
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:54.760
UFA basketball game. The game ends, I'm like, it's thirty one to

723
00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:58.039
ten. What the hell happened?
Yeah, So I made a bet.

724
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:00.480
I picked them to win. Spread
was like nine, I think it was.

725
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:04.719
So I said, I went on
and got my X amount of money

726
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.760
on there and I said I saw
some of the show and the kind of

727
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:09.800
commitment to go six and a half
at halftime and they had a ten to

728
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:13.559
three league and think, okay,
good. So then I went to go

729
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:17.880
cash and I never pulled the trigger
on the halftime. It was great because

730
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.000
I said, I thought I hit
the punch bart I didn't, so it

731
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:25.519
was good. I only bet the
Ravens, So yeah, now this would

732
00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:29.960
be fun. I think that I
think Sunday will be the Chiefs Ravens is

733
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.079
the early game, one o'clock our
time, and then you got the lines

734
00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:36.440
in forty nine ers at four thirty
Chiefs Chiefs Ravens being the early game is

735
00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:38.800
a crime. You have to end
the night on that on that game.

736
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:42.239
No, you can't play that game
at night in Baltimore, man, No

737
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:45.079
way, that's true. That's true. You know the forty nine ers at

738
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:49.119
night didn't in San Francisco. I
think, you know, I could hate.

739
00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:52.199
I hate when the weather is at
such a such a huge impact on

740
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:55.840
the game. So I'd rather that
be just clean daytime, get some sun

741
00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.679
and play the game and made the
best man win. So I'm looking forward

742
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:02.039
to that. Should be a lot
of fun. Should be a lot of

743
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:05.400
fun. A fan of when everything
is equal, all things equal, you

744
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:08.400
want you just want to clean.
Yeah, the best team wins, team

745
00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:14.079
wins. Okay, do you still
think that? I still think this.

746
00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:16.000
That's why I'm gonna bring it up. There's still a lot of mistaque in

747
00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:20.039
the case. Whoa whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa,

748
00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:24.559
whoa whoa. University of Arizona President
Robert C. Robbins announced today a transition

749
00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:29.119
in the leadership of the Department of
Athletics, with Vice President and Director of

750
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:34.559
Athletics Steve he concluding his nearly seven
year tenure on February second. Robbins is

751
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:39.039
appointed legendary Wildcat's former head coach Mike
Andrea as the interim director, penning approval

752
00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:45.880
by the Arizona Border Regents. WHOA
what did you get? Tell? It's

753
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:50.639
un newsually sent out by the U
of A news. It's not, it's

754
00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:52.920
not it's not a sports Uh,
it's out of the University of Arizona.

755
00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:00.000
University of Arizona President Robert C.
Robbins announced today a transition in the leadership

756
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.440
of the Department of Athletics, with
Vice President and Director of Athletics Dave Heickey

757
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:09.639
concluding his nearly seven year tenure on
February second, which is two weeks from

758
00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:16.199
today. Yeah, Robbins has appointed
legendary Wildcat's former head softball coach Mike Candrea

759
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:22.719
as the interim director, pending approval
by the Arizona Board of Reaching. Huge

760
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:24.800
huge news. Holy hell, let
me see this. Let me say this.

761
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:29.599
Hickey was at the at the press
conference on Wednesday, right when he

762
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:32.400
had he announced that doctor Robbins was
sick. Yes, right, he has

763
00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:36.800
not been involved in any of these
hiring He was has you been around the

764
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:39.000
last time today? The apparently he
was sick that we've taken for his word

765
00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:42.199
and what do we say? What
do we say to each other? And

766
00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:45.760
I said this to Greg Dave looked
tired, tired. He didn't. He

767
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:50.199
looked tired at that press conference.
I even told Greg that I think there's

768
00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:53.639
something going on with Heikey's family that
happened. I won't say what it was

769
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:59.400
because I don't know, but that
this this this sits on the shock of

770
00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:02.280
maybe a one or two. I
mean in uh, it's it's shocking.

771
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:06.920
Yeah, but not all We ten, okay, to to make sure the

772
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:10.639
point is h with Candre it's intern
Yeah, okay, yeah. Uh.

773
00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:15.559
Robins goes on to say, I'm
confident Mike and Dave will ensure a smooth

774
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:20.000
transition as we immediately begin a national
search for new director of athletics. With

775
00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:22.000
our transition to the Big twelve,
success in our high profile programs, the

776
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:25.159
passion fan base, an institutional alignment, I'm confident that we'll be able to

777
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:30.000
attract the tremendous new leader or athletics. This is huge, it's mecca.

778
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.079
Yeah, it's and it's mega for
Brent Brennan, right, you just got

779
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:37.519
hired and now he's gonna have a
new boss. People hate they hate that,

780
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:39.280
well, of course they hate that. Now for Brett, you know,

781
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:42.239
maybe Brandon be fine with it.
You know, he'll be okay,

782
00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:46.960
you know, win and you're all
right right right, but jang, wow,

783
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.199
Well, there's not a lot of
good things going out of that that

784
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.960
you eith Dr Robbins, Well,
Doctor Robins, he got a he got

785
00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:01.440
a vote of no confidence from the
from the fact Union saying that they they

786
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:07.159
recommend that he be Yeah, so
this came out of this came out of

787
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:10.440
not out of the out of the
athletic Department, out of out of the

788
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.760
u A News, the news.
Still, I'm glad I saw that before

789
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:20.880
we hit the road man breaking,
I mean literally breaking nine minutes. We'll

790
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:22.480
find out more about this tomorrow.
We have a big show tomorrow. In

791
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:27.679
fact, we have we have a
Humberto Lopez going to join us talk about

792
00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:30.960
well we'll ask him this too.
Okay, what do you think about you

793
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:34.760
having a U A D. But
Bert Lope is a philanthropist, you have

794
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:39.239
a athletics uh supporter and uh,
you know, just all around you know,

795
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:43.280
pretty good guy work from Frank Bush. He will be on the show

796
00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:45.880
as well, a lot of things
going on with him with Ni all right,

797
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:47.280
should be an interesting show tomorrow,
So be sure to come back tomorrow.