WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:08.279 Streaming live I the iHeartRadio WAP. This is Eye on the Ball with Steve 2 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:13.919 Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. Hey, welcome back 3 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:17.039 toy the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay. 4 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:21.920 Now we have sid with breaking news. Eye on the Ball, Breaking News, 5 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.199 all right, So we're gonna obviously start off talking about some of the 6 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:33.039 college football news that's going on right now. With the transfers. We've already 7 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:40.439 seen Alabama's lead receiver Isaiah Bond he's transferring. And then with Washington, they're 8 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:44.359 running back has declared. Obviously o'dunzee has declared. We'll see how many of 9 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:47.600 those guys leave as well. But I expect there to be some big names 10 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.479 in the portal, just like coaches. I mean, it's club, Like 11 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.399 we said, college football right now, it's a business, guys. We're 12 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:58.200 going to try to find opportunities that they're they're all conference. Cornerback Jabar Mohammad 13 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:03.079 jumped in the jumped in the transfer port as as as the Jeff Skirts said 14 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:07.560 within the hour, I mean it just started happening fast. Uh So, 15 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:11.239 yeah, they're they're losing guys in Alabama's losing guys. Because again to remind 16 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:15.040 folks, the transfer portal window had closed. But if your coach leaves the 17 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.400 n C DOUA a policy is that your your team gets a thirty day window 18 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:25.120 to decide whether or not you're gonna transfer. Could we see a local kid 19 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.519 I wanted to come back? Well that was I saw a funny thing. 20 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.480 Uh, somebody posted a thing of a meme of somebody going, you know, 21 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.519 come back, come back, say Elijah Rushing come back? Well he 22 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.719 was the other kid, I mean will Hi Will, No, But Elijah 23 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:47.599 Rushing I think did he go to Oregon? Did he follow his brother? 24 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:53.200 I think Elijah Rushing went to not like the other kid, the cruise cruise 25 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:59.719 Rushing. Oh he went somewhere. I think he went to Washington. Yeah, 26 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.319 he transferred somewhere. He's yeah, but yeah, but no, Elijah's 27 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.599 that You're right, Elijah's at Oregon. But it was you're right, it 28 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.120 was Keon Will had I confused. But then also though Elijah Rushing talk was 29 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:15.479 happening because the damn lanning right. So yeah, there's gonna be bodies moving, 30 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:21.439 bodies moving. Yeah, it's always been a business, but now it's 31 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:25.240 kind of escalated into a business because the kids are getting button bade and everybody's 32 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.159 getting paid. Stick. Sticking with that business talk from Wesley Steinberg, he 33 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:36.479 reported that Caleb william wants assurance that the Bears are going to trade the first 34 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.759 pick before he declares they're not. Have we ever seen anything like this? 35 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:44.759 Yeah, it's just when when Eli Manning got drafted, he said, I'm 36 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:49.840 not playing for the Giants and when and when? Uh no, no, 37 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:55.360 no, John Elway he got he got drafted by who drafted him, but 38 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:59.960 he said, I'm not playing for them either. Was it the Colts? 39 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:01.719 It might have yes, the Colts, and he said, I'm not you 40 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:05.319 know, I'm not playing for With Eli Manning, it was the Colts that 41 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.479 drafted him. He said, I'm not playing for the Colts because the end 42 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:09.960 went went to the Giants and then Elway, I can't remember. He said, 43 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:13.719 I'm not playing for them, and they traded the pick to the Broncos 44 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:16.199 that they picked them, and then they traded it. But no, it's 45 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:20.240 yes, this happens. And uh, you know what, Caleb Williams, 46 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.240 you weren't that good this year to be making those kinds of demands as far 47 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.800 as I'm considered, right, it's insane because now there's there's talk about him 48 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.479 somehow coming back again, and now I feel like, if he comes back, 49 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:35.639 how is he going to perceive be perceived in the locker room with dudes 50 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:42.080 that aren't doing what he's doing, that are there to play for USC. 51 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:46.000 So this we'll see if there's more athletes down the line, college athletes that 52 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.840 go through the same thing that Caleb Williams is going through, just because of 53 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.439 the amount of attention that they bring to themselves when when they're on those campuses. 54 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:00.599 I mean, Caleb Williams that I guess he's basically a celebrity USC at 55 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:02.560 this point, right, Yeah, I mean I think it's gonna you know, 56 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.680 normal. But you know, these guys have money too. You know, 57 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.360 they're getting their money already, So if they don't want to they don't 58 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.560 like the situation, then they don't like the situation. But I just hate 59 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.800 that. You know, Look, you know, you're you're, you're you're 60 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:18.600 fortunate to be in a position to play in the National Football League, and 61 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.040 you're gonna start saying, well, I don't want to play for you, 62 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:23.879 I don't want to play for you. I don't play for you. It's 63 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.720 like, you know what, then don't play go go you know, go 64 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.199 go go work at Chick fil a or something. I don't care to get. 65 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.839 Sunday's off right, exactly exactly exactly. Then you can watch all the 66 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:41.240 NFL games you want tickets. Speaking of an opposite situation, quarterback Casey Thompson 67 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:44.879 is going to play his seventh college season this year. He's playing. He 68 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.279 just transferred to Oklahoma. That's like the second dude that's gonna get seven years. 69 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:53.079 Because I was telling you you because you're in school for a little while, 70 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.560 and I was in school, I would take seven years and say, 71 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.000 because the real world sucks, I'm stay in school for seven years. I 72 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:00.639 can well, if I could get to be in the school for seven years, 73 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:04.120 I wouldn't mind doing grants, baby grants. I needed I needed money, 74 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:08.279 man, I needed money. I was tired of working at Spencer's. 75 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.319 Moving it to some u of a sir. Here's the Heather Thomas poster. 76 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:20.879 I'm sure you liked it. The candy pants is blessing. Anyways, you 77 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:27.879 have a football news here. Tane o'clock and uh accepts his Senior Bowl invite. 78 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.720 I feel like for most of the season he was he was kind of 79 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.560 an unsung hero for us. At times he was he was key the tight 80 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:39.399 end for you of a has kind of hasn't been there since Grockett. I 81 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:44.079 just wanted to touch on him here and and let know that he was a 82 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:46.240 big part of me. He was a huge part of it. He was 83 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:51.439 huge, kind of like the third or fourth guy mentioned that high because I 84 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:56.279 really because when they needed him, he made some he made came, he 85 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:00.600 had just tough hit, took something. Yeah, but he's in the Senior 86 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.959 Bowl with Jordan Morgan and Jacob Cowing, so they got Arizona's got three guys 87 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:05.800 in there. When I was a little kid, I loved watching those All 88 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.360 Star games. I did as I sit there and look for the for the 89 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.839 helmets. Yep, right, the helmets of the Arizona guy because they all 90 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.079 wear the same uniform. Then they bring their own helmet, and I thought 91 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.680 it was cool as hell to see an Arizona guy playing in those games. 92 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.920 And I'd look for their look for their helmets. Yeah, so good, 93 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:24.839 good for him. He had a great year. He had a great make 94 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.480 some money. He's gonna make some money. You'll you'll go somewhere you will 95 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:33.040 find it. Moving into some college basketball talk, I'm sure most of you 96 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:41.759 guys have seen them as they lost ninety to forty four last night, Steve. 97 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.759 That was like I couldn't I couldn't take my eyes off it. It 98 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:48.199 was like what it is like watching a car wreck. I turned it on 99 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:50.959 and I couldn't stop watching it. I was getting texts. I wasn't watching 100 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.000 it, but I was getting text on people. So how bad is you 101 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.519 say it? Well, they're bad. Look, Yeah, it's hard to 102 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.560 feel sorry for a guy like that. Truthfully, he was pretty. He 103 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.759 was pretty even killed when he talked to Ben Boltch after the game. But 104 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.319 then I saw the the quick ad I want to talk to the A D 105 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:10.920 and blah blah blah. Yeah, who's going to be back and who's not? 106 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:14.240 Yeah, you know, I'll tell you. Look, I have seen 107 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:17.680 him firsthand with my eyes do bad things to his play. Oh, I'm 108 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.639 sure, because you're right on sidee. Well, not only there, but 109 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.519 at the PAC twelve tournament. I've just seen him say some things to his 110 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.680 players that you go, why would you play for him? Why would you 111 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.240 ever play for now? You've seeing it and now you're seeing what's happening. 112 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:31.879 What one, guys aren't going to play for him because he does He's got 113 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:36.920 no guys. He's having to recruit international players who don't know who he is. 114 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:41.040 So, okay, let me say that. Say that because you've seen 115 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:43.240 a lot of things, and we've talked about a lot of things. You 116 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.480 know, my guy, George Ratlings has probably said a few things some other 117 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.920 guys, you know, other coaches. You're on the opposite side of Sean. 118 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:54.879 Where at any point, maybe at the PAC twelve tournament, were you 119 00:07:54.920 --> 00:08:00.480 on his side to se Sean, Yeah, and did you see or here 120 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:05.120 he I didn't see him do and say those things. I've heard him yell, 121 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.560 and I've heard him cuss and get pissed, but I didn't. I 122 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:13.879 didn't see him be rate players the way Mick Cronan does. Never did, 123 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:18.240 not with my own eyes, okay, not with my own eyes. He 124 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:22.199 seemed he's he to me. He always seems so zeroed in on the game 125 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.319 and what was the next player to call and what was the next thing to 126 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:30.360 do. Now I know he had that thing with Caleb Tarzuski, but that's 127 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.279 the only thing that sticks out to me remembering that. I mean, yeah, 128 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:39.200 is there that one video where he's where you see his uh mouthing the 129 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.120 words catch the effing ball? You know he he was yelling that at a 130 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.000 player. Yes, but you know, uh, you know, I've I've 131 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.480 seen Mitt Cronin tell a player that he's the worst basketball player he's ever seen. 132 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:56.679 Well, now, you know, honestly you could if you're gonna do 133 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.320 this to me, I'll show you. In fact, I texted that's to 134 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:01.679 somebody. I'll show you. You want to hit it to right field, 135 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.240 I want to strike out hell with you. And he's doing that, you 136 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.200 know, at the Pactroff Tournament in front of fifteen twenty people. Right, 137 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.840 what's it like at a practice? Yeah, no, no, no, 138 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:16.679 I get it with the lights where the cameras aren't onne, Right, what's 139 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.720 it like at a practice? Well, we saw. And again, if 140 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:22.200 I hadn't seen this for myself, I would be saying, well, you 141 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.320 know, they say he's a bad guy, but you know, I don't. 142 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:26.679 I know he's a bad guy. I've seen him be a bad guy, 143 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.120 and I don't know how that flies. And and you know, if 144 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.240 that's the case, how does he get another job when they know they're in 145 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:37.399 the last place, Steve, Yeah, Well, come on, we've seen 146 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.600 we've seen bad dudes get some good coaching jobs. Dave Bliss, for for 147 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:46.159 God's sake, got a new job after he was at Baylor in the high 148 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:48.279 school level. And they killed a guy over there, right, I mean, 149 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.080 there's hey for for what it's worth, I think the world of Kildon 150 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.639 Sampson. Uh. And he was here and here and got in trouble both 151 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:58.919 places. Now he's got Houston in the right direction, right, I'm doing 152 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:03.679 the country. Yeah, yeah, No, forty six points man, forty 153 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.960 six, forty seven, it's the second worst, ninety four, second worst. 154 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.919 I'm I'm a little upset that that. I know, at one point 155 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.000 they were down by fifteen. I'm a little upset that didn't finish down by 156 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.759 got hit a three pointer at the Yeah, kind of, I was a 157 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:18.559 little upset by that. I was rooting for that. It has a ninety 158 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:24.799 point putting ninety points on someone in the college game, now, is right? 159 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.559 Right? That was that was That was ugly. But you know, 160 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:30.039 somebody texted me and said, are you are you watching UCLA game? And 161 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:31.679 I'm like, okay, and I turned it on like I got finished watching 162 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.679 this. It was crazy. I watched it from twelve minutes on, just 163 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.919 to see if they lost fifty, just to watch bad basketball, just to 164 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.399 watch to see the train wreck. Yeah, no, no, that it 165 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.279 was I could I couldn't pull my eyes away. I watched I know you 166 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.559 probably have a lot stuff, but I watched the party sneak of breaking news 167 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.879 on this for you. I watched the Clara Yeah. And do you have 168 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.840 that domb ball? Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, Dowmbo ball hit the 169 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:03.480 gaming shot yesterday to beat Gonzaga. So this was the Damba ball was here 170 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:05.279 when you were here obviously, because yeah, yeah, and I'm thinking Adamo 171 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:09.519 Ball because he was already playing. And I saw Adamo Ball. He's like 172 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:11.919 thirty years old. It didn't it seem like he was here a long time 173 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:13.240 ago. Yes, yeah, but he's only he's only gone a couple of 174 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:18.039 years. And you know what, and that what that tells me is that 175 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:24.519 Mark Few asked, uh, Tommy Lloyd, you know, is the damaballa 176 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:26.720 guy that you know can help me, and that Tommy Lloyd probably put in 177 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.480 a good word for him. Well, Dambo ball is not with Gonzega. 178 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:33.519 Oh it's at Clara. You're right, Okay, I got I got myself 179 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:37.000 confused, okay, then said, disregard what I just said. He was 180 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.679 a good he was a good dude here. But but you know he was 181 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.200 he was good good friends with uh Philip. I believe they both came in 182 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:48.840 around the same time. Yep. Uh. But he Sean, He Sean 183 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.960 and him never worked out. And there was the other guy that was really 184 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.639 thin, guy that was pretty good, and then he had to get kicked 185 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.120 off and he moved somewhere else and got kicked off. I have to come 186 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.240 up with a name. Somebody will probably text me. Sean knew how to 187 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.120 how to recruit, there's no question about that. Yeah. Just they couldn't 188 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.879 play for him either. Well, there's certain you know, that's the beauty 189 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:09.519 of the transferport. That's the good side. Find a place that you can't 190 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:15.639 play. Who's the guy who's like on his fifth school the guard for who 191 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.080 he Well, he was at Arizona. Couple, he was at Arizona three 192 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.200 schools. There's a couple. There's one he's an Albuquerque. Yeah, that 193 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.039 guy he went to Prisnol State. Yeah, it was an Albuquerque. The 194 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:31.879 shooter could shoot it. Yeah that guy uh uh uh Jared, Yeah, 195 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:35.960 bigger Baker Baker, Right, he was a big school Baker. He went 196 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.200 to Prisonel State and then he went to the Mexico. I haven't heard his 197 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.559 name in New Mexico very much, but I'll check. Yeah. When when 198 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.279 I heard that he was still playing, I was shocked. I did not 199 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:50.200 and I know he was still playing. He was still around. What else 200 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.519 you got, kid? Uh? I just got some NBA stuff that's super 201 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:58.240 interesting. So there was an NBA report that show that there's no link between 202 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:03.240 load management and having a less injuries. Oh, somebody did a study. 203 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:11.039 Yeah there's yeah, all right, Jamal Baker, jam Baker there he is 204 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:15.679 a regine seven points a game? How many minutes? Ten twenty one? 205 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.559 Yeah, he's playing. That means he's playing a bunch. He was here. 206 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.480 Was he here during that COVID year? Right? Yeah? I think 207 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:24.360 so. I think that was the year Kim and Hazard and all those guys. 208 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:30.639 I think you know, yes, yes, yeah. Finishing up with 209 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:37.320 some NFL injury news, Devonte Smith was a full participant in practice. Is 210 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:39.919 what about what about the Baker Beefield Is he gonna play. He do you 211 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.240 want to like it? Looks like he looks like he will play. Sam 212 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:48.639 Laporter for the Lions was another guy that was dealing with a lot of injuries 213 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:54.000 with his knee and looks like he said he's gonna play whether he has to 214 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.039 wear a brace or not, so we might see him with the brace on. 215 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:01.759 A j. Brown was one of the Eagles that didn't practice, and 216 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:07.720 obviously Jillen Hurts is continuing to recover with his finger. We'll see how that 217 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.919 goes. But yeah, NFOs, this is when you need to be healthy. 218 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.080 So we'll see, we'll see. All right, Okay, let's hit 219 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.519 it. We're gonna have Greg Hanson come on and we'll just kick around some 220 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.799 of all this stuff that's been going on all week. 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Subscribe now to the 291 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:23.680 podcast on the iHeartRadio app Just Surgery. I on the Bar. Hey, 292 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:26.599 welcome back to joining the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve 293 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:30.000 Rivera. He's Jacobs. Ask Now on the phone, we have Greg Canson 294 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.839 from the Arizona Daily Star. Greg, how you doing. Hey, good 295 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.599 to talk to you guys. Some of the best times to cover a team 296 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.440 as a beat guy, and probably as it comes are are when teams are 297 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:45.319 on the rise or when they're on the fall, right because you have the 298 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.359 best stories to talk about or to write about. I know you're not writing 299 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:55.680 as often, but are you missing something internally as a professional, given what's 300 00:19:55.720 --> 00:20:00.599 going on now at the University. I was thinking about that early today that 301 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:06.319 I'm sure glad that I'm not on the Jed Fish Watch because you know how 302 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:10.079 they were, you fin sure, sure, Yeah, no doubt. Well, 303 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:14.039 it's been a crazy week, and you know, because of what Fish 304 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:15.920 has done, you know, his name's in the middle of this. But 305 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.240 first, you know, just your thoughts on on Saban, your thoughts on 306 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.440 on Bellichick, you know, even Pete Carroll to a degree, and then 307 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:30.000 just the massive change that we're going to see next football season almost unprecedented. 308 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:34.200 Don't you think I couldn't think of anything to match it. But during this 309 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:38.720 whole week, I've been going back to Dick Tomy because and you guys probably 310 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:44.680 remember this, they went ten and two, they were the best defensive team 311 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:48.400 in the country. Oklahoma had an opening and you knew they were coming after 312 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:53.240 Tomy And when they finally called him, he said, why don't you talk 313 00:20:53.279 --> 00:21:00.799 to my defensive coordinator Larry McDuff. Wow, So how many guys like out 314 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.440 there? We'll see that. And that's the thing, Greg, and we're 315 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:04.440 you know, we were talking about this at the at the start of the 316 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.079 show. You know, people are losing their minds over. Oh they're gonna 317 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:10.079 come and get jet Fish. You're gonna come and get jet Fish. Well, 318 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:12.799 you know what, there's nothing Arizona can do about that. If Washington 319 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:17.519 wants to, Washington's gonna come and get him, no matter if the contract, 320 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:21.359 his contract is done or not, So stop worrying about it. And 321 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:23.119 if he leaves, he leaves. And you know, and the people are 322 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.119 saying, well, why wouldn't he stay? Look, Lut and Dick were 323 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:32.480 the outliers, right, yes, the name other coaches that wouldn't leave for 324 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:34.680 you know, in a heartbeat, Larry Smith. Everybody thought Larry Smith was 325 00:21:34.759 --> 00:21:38.240 here, and in a heartbeat, he was gone to USC. That's the 326 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.640 exception, not the rule. Ask you something, how big of a shock 327 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.400 was it for Larry to leave under the conditions? I think it was a 328 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.640 huge shock. As I recall, Greg, what do you remember, Yeah, 329 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.519 we'd just fallen back from the Aloha Bow in Honolulu. That night plane 330 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.759 stopped in Los Angeles and Larry and his wife got off, went right to 331 00:21:55.880 --> 00:22:03.799 USC and the night before we've been in and hospitality suite in Honolulu with Cheryl 332 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:08.559 walked in and we all started doing the Trojan two fingers thing and just laughed 333 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:15.200 and laughed about it. And she got real serious and said, Arizona cannot 334 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:18.880 pay, cannot offer Larry a multi year contract, and USC can offer him 335 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.799 four years. So what do you think is going to happen? She told 336 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:25.200 us before it, I was just gonna happen, So you kind of had 337 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:29.200 a hint of it. Yeah, and he, you know, he cried 338 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:33.160 about it. He didn't He actually didn't want to leave, and I don't 339 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.440 think he wanted to live in Los Angeles, but the money was so different 340 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:40.319 then. I mean, that's forty years ago. Yeah, and that was 341 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.279 just silly, isn't it. It is silly, but you know, from 342 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:47.079 a fan standpoint, yeah, I was stunned. I'm like, I like, 343 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:48.680 why would you want to leave? And then I was like, well, 344 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.160 it's USC. You know. Okay, I'm driving a Camry, but 345 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:56.160 somebody's going to drive up in a Corvette. I'm taking the Corvette, right. 346 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.319 Oh And Larry, who could never get a corps back, goes to 347 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:04.839 USC and gets Rodney Pete, who he couldn't get get the three Rose bowls. 348 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.440 Yeah, okay, Greg, to me, that would be the that 349 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:11.000 would be the allure more than the money as the players you can get. 350 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.759 Yeah, okay, let's speculate, since that's what everybody's doing, speculating. 351 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:19.920 What would it in your mind, based on what you know and whatever we 352 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:23.920 all know about Jed Fish, what would it take for him for somebody to 353 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:26.920 be able to lure him out of here? You know, right now, 354 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:30.880 let's say next week? But what what? What would have to happen? 355 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:37.240 This may come off as sounding too simple, but I think it would be 356 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:42.119 if Washington had a stacked roster like they had coming into this year and he 357 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:45.799 knew he could win right away. Because if you go to Washington, now 358 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:49.160 what they lost their whole offense. Yeah, you're probably going to go seven 359 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:53.319 or five in the Big ten next year, and it's you're not going to 360 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:56.720 be that popular even though you make ten million dollars. I think that's a 361 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:03.559 huge component. And would you trade that for Arizona looking like they could go 362 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:06.279 ten and two next year? No? No, I brought that point up 363 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:11.480 Greg with Loot. Loot left when he left Iowa in eighty or eighty two, 364 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.720 whatever was eighty two. For eighty three, they had players and they 365 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:18.079 had a new arena going on, and he left, which was a huge 366 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:25.039 shock, and he came to dust bowl no talent Arizona. Yeah, I 367 00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:27.160 know you don't like that term, but used to it. Yeah, you 368 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.640 don't have to get personal with the dust ball stuff. Okay, that's all 369 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:33.039 I'll say. It's no longer dust ball. It's just a little bit a 370 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:37.079 little dusty, but you know what I'm saying. That was another outlier where 371 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:38.880 he came to somewhere and he built it, and he was comfortable with the 372 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:45.279 build. Yeah, I mean he was old school though. I think jud 373 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:49.519 Fish have some Loot Jeans in him and Tommy Jeans in him. Where he 374 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:55.960 likes the build. He likes the ceiling of accomplishing something. He might prove 375 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.200 me wrong in twenty four hours, but yeah, like a genuine person. 376 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.680 But he also has that stacked line that plays eighteen of twenty twe twelve. 377 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:08.480 That's it because you know the other thing, the other factor you mentioned is, 378 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:11.920 let's you know, Washington, there's no way they can be as good 379 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:15.319 last year as they were this year, and now they're going over to the 380 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:19.839 Big ten and what's that? What that's going to look like? I don't 381 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:23.440 see him. He could take a job. He you know, he could 382 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:26.400 take a pro job or whatever. I don't see him going to Washington. 383 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:30.359 Everybody's throwing his name out there on that one, and it's you, well, 384 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:33.319 we've all done it right. We come up with our own guests. 385 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.480 We say those are those guys are candidates, And nobody ever really told us 386 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.119 that those guys were candidates. We just think that they're logical, and it's 387 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.799 logical to throw him in the mix. You. I think the PAC twelve 388 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:52.039 is a good good education on this kind of job situations because you look back 389 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:56.680 at two of the most successful coaches impact twelve football. Rich Brooks built Oregon 390 00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:03.359 from nothing from nothing to Rose Bowl. He jumps to the Saint Louis Cardinals 391 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:07.759 and gets fired in two years. Yeah. And then how about Tyrone Willingham. 392 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:14.200 He takes a bad Stanford program to the Rose Bowl, jumps to Notre 393 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.119 Dame the next year, and gets fired in three years. Yeah. So 394 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:23.079 the expectations, expectations are mountainous. Well, let's give you this scenario because 395 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:26.880 every year Domino's fall right depends how big the job is and how far it 396 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:32.279 trickles down. So so Jed stays he does well. Again, these are 397 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:37.480 all assumptions and the Florida job tanks next year. Yeah, oh yeah, 398 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.759 that's the one. That's the one. To me, that would be the 399 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.720 one. Yeah, that's not even no brainer. And if you're an Arizona 400 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:48.319 fan, how coy you be pissed it? No? Right, no, 401 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:51.279 I mean Arizona fan will be pissed at it, but how can you That's 402 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:53.519 why all the mood talk today right now is probably moved, but we won't 403 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:57.559 know until it happens or not doesn't happen. And look, if he if 404 00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:02.039 he goes to the Big Twelve, wins the Big Twelve, they get bracketed 405 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:03.359 to playing the Rose Bowl, and they're playing the Rose Bowl, and then 406 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:07.880 he leaves, you'll be happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy. 407 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:12.799 You know one thing, I don't know if you guys have done much 408 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:18.079 research on the Big Twelve next year, but they've got like seven teams that 409 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.519 are going to open the year in the top twenty five Iriwish State, Kansas, 410 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.000 West Virginia. Yeah, that's gonna be really tough. But guests, 411 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.359 who's at the top of that heap Utah, Utah and Arizona, right, 412 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:34.240 Greg. None of those teams scare me, really, They don't you know, 413 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:37.680 I'm a good way to put it. Even with you know, the 414 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:42.000 years that USC was bad and then you even UCLA as bad as they were, 415 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:45.720 you always thought they had better players in Arizona, Oregon and Washington. 416 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:49.480 With those four guys all gone and out of the way, there isn't anybody 417 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:56.200 in the Big twelve that you know that draws fear into me Utah at the 418 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:59.160 most, right, and then look what Look what Arizona did the Utah this 419 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:04.279 last season. So I'm I'm very optimistic that what these guys can do going 420 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:07.039 into the Big five, and not just next year. I'm talking long haul. 421 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:11.480 There isn't a Washington or in Oregon that they've got to recruit against over 422 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.680 there. Yeah, that's you know, And they've got so much of the 423 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:22.960 southern California recruiting market to themselves now, right, you know. I looked, 424 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.240 I looked at you know, how they have They've taken so much advantage 425 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:30.720 of the Polynesian recruiting market. I looked at all the Big Twelve coaching staffs 426 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:36.640 this week. There are only two Polynesian assistant coaches in the entire league, 427 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:38.640 and they're probably so they're not recruiting those guys. Yeah, they're probably at 428 00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:45.480 Utah and by uh oh wait BYU has four, b YU has four right, 429 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:48.759 but still in Kansas State has won. Yeah, So I mean yeah, 430 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:55.799 I mean I from from a competitive standpoint, I like Arizona's position in 431 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:59.279 the Big twelve better than I've ever liked it in the Pact twelve because those 432 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:03.160 four schools always seemed to be in the way. And then Stanford came along 433 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:06.559 and was good for a whole bunch of years. You know, ASU was 434 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:10.960 good for a few years. It's like Oregon State got good for a few 435 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:12.440 years. You know, they went to a Fiesta Bowl and stuff, it's 436 00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:17.359 like, and yet it was always hopeless against you know, those those four 437 00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:19.880 who are now gone off to the Big Dead. And so I feel better 438 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:25.160 about where Arizona is from a football standpoint, going not just like you said 439 00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:26.920 next year, but for the long haul. Now, I'm not looking forward 440 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:32.599 to road trips to Waco and Lubbuck and still Water in those places, and 441 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:36.519 I'm probably not can even go to those places. But you know, you 442 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:38.799 just don't, I mean, don't you feel that Arizona's in a better competitive 443 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:45.079 position over there? Oh one? You know what Arizona's conference record was in 444 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:55.880 the in it's forty five years in the Pac twelve even maybe well so little 445 00:29:55.920 --> 00:30:00.000 listen even Yeah, yeah, I know you would think, wouldn't you say, 446 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.799 think they go to the Big twelve, they can get it up to 447 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:04.960 sixty percent? Yeah, yeah, I would think. Let's talk about basketball 448 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:10.400 where I can't wait. It's can't come soon enough. Just this week you 449 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:15.319 saw all the upsets in the league. Kansas, Houston. All these teams 450 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.240 are gonna be BI State neck and Nick, Nick and Nick every and that's 451 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:25.160 every week you're gonna wonder can they survive this weekend I watched part of that 452 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:30.400 Iowa stayed upset over Houston. Yeah, that that look like that. That 453 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:37.000 is tougher than any Pack twelve arena other than McHale winning Hilton call us him. 454 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:41.599 Come on, come on it, poly Pavilion, Greg, come on, 455 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:47.839 they're losing by fifty over there. Yeah, go there next week when 456 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:51.319 there's about eleven hundred people. Yeah, but no, you're right. I 457 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:55.440 mean the basketball thing is that that's you know, Arizona fan is gonna have 458 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:57.839 to have a different mindset about that as well, because they're gonna have to 459 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:03.160 get used to losing. Confer its game, jepardy your enthusiasm quickly, Yeah, 460 00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.160 because you're not in the Pac twelve anymore. Well, Kansas went to 461 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:12.279 Central Florida and got beat. Yeah. Yeah, per year they have to 462 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:17.400 go to Central Florida. Wow, right, right, it's gonna be fun. 463 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:19.039 And well let's talk about this year and then three and a Elvins we 464 00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:22.079 have left. What do you see? It's no surprise though. I don't 465 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:27.839 think people know enough to say that winning on the road at any point is 466 00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:32.279 a safe thing, because you know, Greg, you were on the road 467 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:36.319 a lot together the Washington State when there's no people in the stands, that's 468 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:38.880 when everysons struggled the most. It wasn't the Organs when it was crazy. 469 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:45.720 It was the Washington States that that famous game one hundred and fourteen to one 470 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.640 hundred and eleven. I think Washington State went three and fifteen in the league 471 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:55.599 that year and there was nobody there, remember yep, yep, and then 472 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:59.519 Oregon State. You know, but this weekend, Washington State's better than what 473 00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:02.720 we don't think because we think Washington State, but they'd be USC on the 474 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:07.759 road, so who knows. Yeah, I was watching the Utah game last 475 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.720 night, and and the TV announcers Corey Williams is one of them. They 476 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.680 were trying to make a case for Utah being the second best time I heard 477 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:22.039 that is not true. Okay, wait wait who is? Who is exactly? 478 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:27.400 It's kind of like, you know, you got to be Yeah, 479 00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.640 I saw a projection that I haven't seen them play. This did be the 480 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:32.279 third team and not even who the second team in the in the tournament would 481 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:36.839 be? How many teams in the tournament? There was an organ Yeah? 482 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:44.400 Who else? You tuckets? If Colorado can get it back together? They 483 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.599 lost the A s U come on, and then they went and lost to 484 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:54.599 cow. It's a strange time, strange time. Yep, yep. So 485 00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:57.680 when are we going to see you again? Man, we catch you, 486 00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:59.839 Michale. He was at a game last week. You were at a game 487 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:02.319 this week. Greg, Oh, yeah, we set up in the corner. 488 00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:07.319 Now we don't. Bobby Robbins took our seats, remember I do I 489 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:10.640 do know that. I do know that. And he always brings a different 490 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:14.519 guest with him. He's he's sitting over there with Francona too. Francona's got 491 00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:16.640 one of those seats right there in the front row. He's gotta sell those 492 00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:22.839 seats for twenty four Yeah, twenty four million, ty million for those ten 493 00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:29.720 times are good, you know, I mean, you know, we we're 494 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.319 hearing all this stuff. And Dave Pegey came out this week and said, 495 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:37.640 we're not losing any sports and stuff. But Arizona has had troubles financially in 496 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.680 the past, but this one seems worse than ever. What do you think. 497 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:46.480 I'm wondering if men's men's and women's swimming and men's and women's track make 498 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:51.440 it five years from now, think so, because if you look at the 499 00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.559 Big twelve, there are almost no track teams in the Big twelve. Oh 500 00:33:53.599 --> 00:34:00.200 really okay? And no swimming teams. Oh okay to death march now, 501 00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:07.920 Greg with the analysis, man with the research. Yeah, I mean track 502 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:14.960 and swimming or pack twelfth centric. Big twelve is football centric. Baseball will 503 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:21.960 be fun though, right boy. They got some good programs there. Yeah, 504 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:24.400 and softball, and especially with Oklahoma going to the SEC, we don't 505 00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:27.960 have to deal with them. Yeah, that's true. That'll be nice. 506 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.760 It'll be nice. Hey, Greg, thanks about it for jumping in on 507 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.639 short notice. We do appreciate it. You can. I hope we didn't 508 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.559 pull you off the golf course to do this. You can finish the eighteenth 509 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.039 right now. It's a little cold to be golf. Have you played. 510 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:45.960 Have you played this week? It's been freezing. I played Tuesday morning it 511 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:49.840 was freezing. Yeah. Yeah, okay, all right, mister dedication. 512 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:52.280 Hey, thanks again. Man. We'll see you around. I hope you're 513 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:57.559 feeling better, Jae, thanks man. Okay, cool, all right, 514 00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:00.639 let's take the break, take our last break, do another read. Don't 515 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:02.599 know one oday? Right now, we're good one. We're good on that. 516 00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:06.880 So stick around. Last segment of the week. Something you found something, 517 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:08.679 I found something. Yeah, We've got some stuff that we've been coming 518 00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:20.000 across on social media that'll find conversations coming up. So stick around. If 519 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.440 you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you know it's been successful for nearly forty 520 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.719 years. Now. Take a look back at the Ludolsen era in my new 521 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:29.320 book, Lessons from Loot. It was a labor of love through the eyes 522 00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:32.000 of twenty five former players, coaches, and friends to give insight to the 523 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:36.480 coach and the man who led them, competed against them, and inspired them 524 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:40.159 twenty five chapters for his twenty five years as Arizona's beloved coach. 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So if you want to give us a call. 567 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.320 We have that much time? What do you have? Uh? Kind of 568 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:59.719 a funny thing at We've been talking about how people who are putting the putting 569 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:06.159 st uf at the base of the Nick Saban statue outside their stadium like he's 570 00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:09.360 dead. Right, He's not dead. But Joel Klatt sort of did a 571 00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:13.920 bit of an of an inventory as best as he could tell from the from 572 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:19.559 the photo. He sent this out a couple hours ago, but he said, 573 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.480 as best he could he saw thirteen bottles of coke, seven boxes of 574 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:28.920 Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies, which I guess was a favorite of the coach, 575 00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:32.760 two bottles of wine, one of them empty, two cores lights, 576 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:37.800 a bag of ice, a Mallard duck, a get Well Soon balloon which 577 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:44.559 makes no sense, a slice of pizza, a jar of pickles, a 578 00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:50.960 World's Best Bought Boss mug, one bottle of Smirnoff ice, a one dollar 579 00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:54.840 bill and then and a four local gold which I have no idea is if 580 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:59.800 that's a cigarette or what. But it's just funny. It's like, guys, 581 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:05.320 he didn't die last I checked. Here's expensive. I'm I have to 582 00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:10.039 make my way over over there. And a goat sign the big goat sign, 583 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:15.000 so crazy stuff. But the Partridge I thought that was I just it 584 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:21.320 just struck me as funny that how the how fans are so bought into or 585 00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:23.880 dug into. Is there a go fund me yet? All this stuffy like 586 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:28.480 go fund me for what he should be funding? The go fund me what 587 00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:32.639 he should be doing. But I'll be interested to see where he goes Steve 588 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:37.199 uh, you know, obviously saying he'll do some TV work. He'll just 589 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:39.719 do some TV. Yeah. Do where do good coaches go to die? 590 00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:44.440 They go to die? He doesn't. He doesn't seem to have the personality. 591 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:45.519 Oh I think he does. You know who does? You know? 592 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:51.360 Who does Belichick? Because he's finally talking normal, like a normal human being. 593 00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:55.079 I'm sure that the Beat writers there were having a rejoiceful party because now 594 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:58.960 they don't have to quote a guy saying we'll wait till next week, we'll 595 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:01.159 play next week. Come on, Really, he did that just to be 596 00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:07.440 petulant, Yeah, purposely you felt that? Could you imagine like that? 597 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.719 Well, if you ever saw him do other interviews right where he was fine, 598 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:14.039 he comforted with somebody, he was you know, yeah, he was 599 00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:15.440 fine. Well, you can't have a job where you're not like that. 600 00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:20.840 You can't be you can't. You can't be in that job if you don't 601 00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:22.360 have some sort of person you have to you have to. And I think, 602 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.559 like we talked about with Tommy yesterday and he was joking about dealing with 603 00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:30.360 the media, I think it's part of the contract. Not so much maybe 604 00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.960 in house radio, but dealing with the media. Guess what, how are 605 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:37.199 you gonna sell tickets outside of winning? Uh now, we'll see you saw 606 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:42.719 some of the the stipulations on the uh hekey, hekey, how they're gonna 607 00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:45.440 sell tickets and how they gotta come up with money. You know, you 608 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:47.880 don't do you pay for your tickets? Maybe someone you guess what, You're 609 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:52.000 gonna have to dig a little. You're gonna have to to help that. 610 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:58.519 I'm happy to do it. You're the one. You're the guy, the 611 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:00.079 only one. You You know that there's gonna be a lot of I mean, 612 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:02.920 of course, I do not want it going up twenty five percent, 613 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:06.719 which is what they're you know what Robinson said, It's going to go up, 614 00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:10.519 but I expect to pay more. But if if I pay more and 615 00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:14.360 we get a better product, then well you're going to get that, then 616 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:15.920 I'm okay, you're going to get that, then I'm okay with you. 617 00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:20.440 I think that you're going to get that. Wow, you hope to get 618 00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:23.360 that. It looks like it. Yeah, you know some And look, 619 00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:28.000 even if Fish doesn't stay, what she's going to he's Fish will be the 620 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.599 coach next year. He will be the coach here next year. Beyond that, 621 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:34.320 I make no guarant think he would have he would have already been gone. 622 00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:37.679 I think if if he were to have left for this next season, 623 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.159 right, yeah, I don't think he's going anywhere in this uh, in 624 00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:45.800 this coaching cycle. But I do think that I don't know that he's you 625 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:50.239 know, he'll stay forever, you know. And if if that comes and 626 00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.360 Arizona is still a good program at the time, you would think that there 627 00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:58.320 would be a spot or another attractive coach might want to come to. Right 628 00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:04.800 and look, and and he he is provided a blueprint, right you know. 629 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.559 He I mean because of how he's doing this. He he seemed it 630 00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:12.679 seemed like he was the perfect guy for this job at this time. If 631 00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.679 the next I can come in and sustain all of that, then fine. 632 00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:19.280 And you didn't know that three years ago. We did not know that when 633 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.480 he got here without what the hell are they doing? You know, this 634 00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:24.880 guy who's never played football and he cut lighting in a bottle, He did 635 00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:29.639 the right way. Two years in you you had some hope, and this 636 00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:31.360 year you had a lot of hope. Yeah. But you know again, 637 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:36.199 we're so starred for this that you know that the thought of losing it after 638 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:39.920 such a short time is what got people losing their minds. Here you go 639 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:45.639 a get Sean Miller's leaving a hole. Who are gonna possibly No? And 640 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:46.920 that's what I'm saying, if fans are losing their minds. So it's saying 641 00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:51.599 if if, if, if Fish leaves, there's not gonna be anybody like 642 00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:54.679 him. Well, it's like nowadays, I lost my girlfriend, I lost 643 00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:59.119 my wife. No one's gonna ever love me again, guaranteed, Justiny. 644 00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:01.280 It's like the high schoo high school sweethearts, when the when the when they 645 00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:06.960 go to different colleges, she's done coming back killed. No, you know, 646 00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:09.559 you know there's gonna be somebody. There's always somebody has to be. 647 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.199 You to drive a bus, yeah, you ever get on a bus to 648 00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:15.840 get But again, Steve, the thing of it is if you're seniors, 649 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:21.079 an Arizona fan and you're thinking of job hires, you think of John mckavic 650 00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:24.719 and Kevin something, the people that you hope the lessons are learned. You 651 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:29.320 hope the people in charge don't screw it up. But you've been on a 652 00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:30.639 bus before. He guess what you missed that bus. Guess what around the 653 00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:36.280 corner, there's another, there's another one. I know, I know, 654 00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:38.159 No, I know. Look, I'm I'm not. I'm not losing my 655 00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:40.840 mind about whether or not Jed's gonna leave. Okay, I'm not. I 656 00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:44.760 mean, I just lectured the fans at the beginning of the the beginning of 657 00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:47.079 the show, forget, just forget it. Just let let this thing play 658 00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:50.480 out. If he stays, he stays. If he goes, he goes, 659 00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:53.159 you know, as a as a what's his name, uh Ivan Drago 660 00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:57.719 said, if he goes, he goes, he dies. That voice right 661 00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:00.920 because of my bronc. If he goes, he goes, because it goes 662 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:05.519 or dies, he says dies. If he does, I'm not saying dies, 663 00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:07.719 though, because if he goes, he goes, so he can go. 664 00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:14.239 But you know, I think Jed likes it here for now. But 665 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:16.679 you know, well, and he's got all the free you know, and 666 00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:21.400 he rightfully has the freedom to do whatever you wants. Sure, sure, 667 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:23.000 Well when he first got here, you see his resume, He's jumped and 668 00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:28.880 jumped and jumped. He's gonna jump. Yeah, it's the win, it's 669 00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:31.440 win. There's a win in circumstances. I still think that the Florida jobs, 670 00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:35.920 like we said, would be the jump time. And billion Apier is 671 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:37.599 not doing very well over there. You know, this could be his last 672 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:43.280 year coming out their scheduled next season. Oh my good good luck, good 673 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:46.719 luck? Really yeah, yeah, I mean he was, he's he's on 674 00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:51.199 he's on the hot seat. So we'll see what happens. And if you 675 00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:53.599 know what, if Jed says, I'm going to Florida, Jed, you 676 00:45:53.639 --> 00:45:57.920 know what, thanks for being here. Uh you know, here are some 677 00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:02.559 partying gifts. We appreciate what you And then that I mean not only the 678 00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:07.760 wins, but as far as Arizona getting talent into the NFL also, right, 679 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:13.719 here's the bottom line. I want at least one more year here with 680 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:19.480 the talent that he brought here with with with Afida and McMillan, and and 681 00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:24.000 and and Jonah Coleman and all these guys. I want to see them all 682 00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:28.440 together at least one more year. So so all after the Oklahoma game, 683 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:32.119 maybe even during the Oklahoma game, you saw these these knuckleheads with the internet 684 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:37.159 going, well, Noah can get a million, team that can get a 685 00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:40.079 million, YadA YadA, And guess what they're staying. Whether they grew offered 686 00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:43.800 a million or not. I don't believe it, but that's for another day. 687 00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:45.840 Now you have the coach. Uh, so I think there's gonna be 688 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:50.119 some loyalty or test that royalty. Uh, you know, what you say 689 00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:52.199 on Tuesday doesn't really necessarily mean what you said. What you mean on Wednesday. 690 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:55.480 He was on Rome last week saying this is the place right. Yeah, 691 00:46:55.480 --> 00:47:00.000 I'm staying. Things change, and Babe and I don't know how much 692 00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:04.079 we know about him because we get him, you know, thirty minutes a 693 00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:06.400 week during the season, and we don't get him at all in the off 694 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:10.880 season. But based on what he sounds like and what others say about him, 695 00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:15.360 I think a big pool will be that he brought these guys here and 696 00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:21.320 he doesn't want to leave leave him behind. Well that's the whole thing right 697 00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:22.920 now, could they go with him if they want if he left, yes, 698 00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:27.079 they could, but you know he brought him here. You know, 699 00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:31.159 does does missus Faffieda who's very vocal and very visible and mister Faffieda, who 700 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:37.199 are very visible on social media? Are they gonna want to go to you 701 00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.519 know, all the way up to Seattle else? It's just more than your 702 00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:45.519 decision, right, And you have kids who trust you and want to be 703 00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:51.000 here with you may want to be with you somewhere else, right. And 704 00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:54.159 I mean, like we talked about earlier, if a coach is gonna get 705 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:59.159 paid from another school to go, he decides whether he's gonna go or not. 706 00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:01.880 Say with the players, players are whether or not they're getting off for 707 00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:07.480 this money. I mean, they we can't control that. It's their loyalty 708 00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.760 to that program or that coach that's going to determine where where they're gonna be 709 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:16.159 at. And that's that's the determining factor. Okay, we got a couple 710 00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:20.760 more minutes left here. I had I had something on I saw something on 711 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:24.800 social media Twitter, Twitter bo from Oklahoma State my college fan based tier list, 712 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:28.079 and I didn't I thought it was more like a big game Bloomer, 713 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:32.800 but it's not the elite BYU Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Wyoming, and 714 00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.000 it looks like North Carolina State. It was the thing that caught my eye 715 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:42.039 eye was Arizona was in the great area, Kansas State, Arizona, Mississippi 716 00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:45.000 State, Texas Tech, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia football. And I'm 717 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:49.960 thinking, this is just another dude who has this thing, but he's got 718 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.800 a bias because he's an Oklahoma State guy because at the bottom of the list, 719 00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:58.239 and it's it's sent sent from hell to to test my patience or my 720 00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.199 faith. Oklahoma and Ardia Tech at the bottom. So this is all personal 721 00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:07.280 because it's like big gag Boomer. When we talked to him last it was 722 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:10.440 a Tucson hotter than Phoenix because it was more self people who don't know, 723 00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:15.480 people who don't know. Yeah, well we'll see, we'll see you'd you'd 724 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:20.679 bet jay. I think that next year the ticket base is going to increase. 725 00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:22.159 What's maybe twenty two, twenty three year, I think they get I 726 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:25.360 think it' sell twenty two to twenty three season, So next year it could 727 00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:30.880 be twenty five, maybe twenty twenty eight. Yeah, except for your twenty 728 00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:34.159 five percent. Add Yeah, I don't know how that's going to play a 729 00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:37.360 factor because Tucson is more the game week, game day, game hour. 730 00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:42.440 Yeah, the walk up there there, Yeah, Tucson is a a quote 731 00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:45.559 unquote walk up crowd. But I still think they'll get that because the people 732 00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:53.280 who buy season tickets. There may be a few, some small percentage who 733 00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:58.599 worry about the cost of it, but most people who buy see the tickets. 734 00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:00.679 They buy see the tickets because they're allowing Arizona football and they wanted to 735 00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:06.320 go to Arizone football games. And Steve, honestly, year to year, 736 00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:09.119 the only thing that I know how much it costs is my t is our 737 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:13.920 tailgate pass because and the only reason I know that is because I have, 738 00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:16.639 you know, everybody chips in for I could not tell you what my season 739 00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:20.440 tickets cost me last year. I don't off the top of my head, 740 00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:22.119 I do not know what my season because your wife pays for it. No, 741 00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.280 I pay for him. But how would you not know then, because 742 00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:29.039 I just you just do it. I just go in there, and I 743 00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:30.920 mean I go in there in my account and I and I hit pay now, 744 00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:34.880 and I pay for him, and then I see it come across. 745 00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:37.119 But are they two hundred and thirty bucks? Are they two hundred and sixty 746 00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:40.280 bucks? The two hundred and fifty bucks apiece? I don't, honestly don't 747 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:44.400 know. Yeah, well, I guess good for you, because I'm told 748 00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:45.679 to you, I'm just going to be a season ticket holder, no matter 749 00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:50.079 what. It's important to you. Yeah, you know, But I do 750 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:53.000 know that my tailgate pass costs me four hundred bucks a year. And how 751 00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:58.000 much was it ten years ago? It's gone up from like two hundred to 752 00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:00.480 fifty you know, right, No, it's four hundred bucks a year. 753 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:02.400 And I know that because I have there's eight people counting me which have been 754 00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:07.000 fifty bucks a piece for it. Deal. It's a good deal. It's 755 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:08.639 a huge deal. Yeah, So you know, but that I do know 756 00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:12.639 how much that is. But the rest of my season tickets, I really 757 00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:19.000 don't know per ticket how much is it? So yeah? I mean again, 758 00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.639 a small percentage will complain, but the vast majority will still get their 759 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.920 tickets even if they go a little bit. All Right, it's a crazy 760 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:29.800 week. I think we handled it pretty well, didn't we. Yeah? 761 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:31.440 I think so we were fair fair, right, I'm gonna hope to be 762 00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:36.239 coming back on Monday without uh, without this yeah coughing and snorting that I've 763 00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:38.159 been doing all week. So we'll see Monday. Yeah, we'll see Monday 764 00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:43.079 Day. So Steve and I are coming in on the holiday, but we 765 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.280 hope you'll be here. So thanks for being here this week.