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Steve Bravera and Jay Gonzalez. They
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Wam Hey, welcome back to on
the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

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I'm Steve, He's Jay. Now
we have at least with breaking news.

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Maybe it's working. It's not working. I don't know why. Okay,

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oh, you don't have it on
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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Now you
got it. They have their eye on

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the just a cause you didn't know
where you were. Yeah, you might

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want to hit that other that will
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So we're gonna start with Jay's on
the water right, Yes, the

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Siguaro Cougar war it's this one doesn't
our Soarrow doesn't have a G in it.

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It's an age worrow. The Swarow
in Phoenix has a G. I

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don't We always had to deal with
that. You don't want to confuse that.

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The Swaw Cougars basketball are in the
state championships against Deer Valley and it's

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on in two days, right,
Phoenix, the State four A championship did

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you find out. I know it's
been a while, they've won a few.

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You know, they won a few
state championships. Dick McConnell, the

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will time winningst uh high school basketball
coach in Arizona State history, was the

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Swar coach for a thousand years.
He was also a driver's head coach,

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driver's head teacher. He was one
of those guys that would you know,

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you'd see those those gory movies and
h'd scare the hell out of you.

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But but uh, they're in my
my cougars, my mighty Cougars, and

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soccer just won their four state championship
in a row. That's the point that

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was some point went fourth state championship
row. But I'll go back to the

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Cougars. I want to make a
point. I was thinking of this.

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The Swara High School fight song is
the same as Ohio State, so is

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it. I remember being in high
school and I knew the sware a fight

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song. Right then I watched an
Ohio State game and I see the band,

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I'm like, they stole our fight
song? What the hell is going

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on? So they haven't won the
last one in two thousand and two thousand

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and one, twenty four and four
this year. Yep, and he won

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four state titles. Has yeah,
I'll buy deck McConnell all one. But

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yeah, and they beat they beat
a LA North North Gilbert. But they

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were the number one seed s four
seats, so it was that was a

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huge upset. That was like the
upset you know the Arizona when they were

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a four seed beat the one seed
to get to the So just for some

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context there. But yeah, my
cougar's in the state championship, looking forward

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to it. Yeah, we might
have him on the show if they pulled

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off. We'll see, and then
somebody we do gotta get on the show

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at the South Point Boys coach wolf
Gang Weber state championship. He is the

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godfather of soccer in southern Arizona,
probably in the state waitingess he coached my

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kids and fantastic band from Germany.
Wow, a lot of titles. It's

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a fantastic coach. Are you gonna
call Kelly Pierson tell her she can't come

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on? No, I was gonna
wanna text her, though, I'm gonna

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text her ship. I said,
good, we don't have to talk to

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those little dudes. But you know, because all she does is win that's

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all she does the first time she
hasn't won in four or five years.

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Yeah. Yeah, so yeah,
no, it's uh Italy. Yeah,

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I'm I'm looking forward to, uh
hopefully getting the Sowar couter's coach on.

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And of course, yeah, that's
awesome. And then, like you said,

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the soccer was lost in that stagey, but that's what the high school

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is doing good out here. Well
yeah, it's they're known for those at

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least soccer basketball first time in a
long time. Yeah. And and again

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we for for our listeners out there
wondering why we haven't gotten the Sunnyside wrestling

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coach on. We're working on it. Yeah, they were out. I

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guess I was told that Audrey Mann
has finished third in I got a bronze

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medal in that competition. She was
down in Mexico, in Mexico and not

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Poco. Yeah, so she's working
working her way towards the qualifying for the

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Olympics. And that's where they were
last week. Yeah. And then Reagan

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Shockley is packed twelve Freshman of the
Week. I think it was the second

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week in a row. Yeah,
yeah, back to back. She's a

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center fielder. If they you know, remember all those great teams that Arizona

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had always had a great up the
middle. They were very strong middle,

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you know, really strong, uh
Caitlin Lowe, right, Uh, a

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whole bunch of them, Yeah,
just one after the other. Sure.

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They all look the same too.
If I recall just Fast could hit,

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could hit, Yeah, just you
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just man right messed up the other
teams badly. Sure, and they're having

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a strong season so far, sixteen
and one, sixteen and one, sixteen

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to one. Let's temper that by
realizing it's not the Pact. Well,

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yeah, but I mean still sixteen
of course could beat alternative, right,

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yeah, it does beat the alternative. And baseball yesterday rallied from six to

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zero against San Diego in in the
from the first inning they were down sixty

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zero, and they beat San Diego
ten to nine. Yeah, to avoid

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a sweep. I think it was. Yeah, so we've had come back.

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Yeah, you know, again,
they've got stuff, but they're both

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of the conference seasons for both of
those teams start really quickly. They don't

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get a bunch of yeah, a
bunch of bunch of games in the tournaments

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and stuff. And softball you can
play like two and three games in the

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day, but their conference seasons get
started pretty soon. Guess what, it's

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March at the end of the month, the end of the week. We're

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busy. It's it's and it's it's
Mark, and then it's March April,

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and then you're pretty much done with
school. Let's go to the show at

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High Corbett. I could do that. That would be cool. I'll set

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up a table up in the seats
up there and you know, loaded up

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on the Yeah, hang out,
maybe call the game a little bit.

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That'll work. I mean I'm in
for that, all right. Hit the

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ball game. Yeah we haven't done
that. All right, man, let's

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get on that. We've never done
that, so we already know. He

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accepted the award, but no went
and got the Football Writers twenty twenty three

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Offensive Freshman Player of the Year award
yesterday. I think for him, I

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think, uh, is the criteria
different in football than it is for basketball

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for retiring jerseys, because that came
up last week in terms of Facebook and

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Twitter and blah blah blah. Why
there's a difference. I think if you're

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a player of the year, so
you get what you get, the ring

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of Honor. Yeah, that's no
doubt, no doubt. But uh so

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the ones like Ricky who has there's
only a handful of retired jersey. Okay,

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so that's a different that's different,
right, and I don't know what

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that's That's what I was asking there. That's it. Yeah, that's a

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different deal. But no, but
wait, basketball is totally different. Yeah,

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you have to have player of the
Year like this, uh in national

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at the nash no level, or
did something significant like Steve Kerr was the

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comeback Player of the Year or honorable
he knows, Steve Kerr won the most

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courageous that one, something like that, So that was it. So you

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have to be something like that national
Player of the Year. So Noah might.

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I don't know what the criteria is
for that, but he will be

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on the on the the Ring of
Honor for that, because Christian CaCO just

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got the Ring of Honor, right, ring of Honor, right, Yeah,

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he's not as not as yeah,
because he was he was a defensive

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Player of the Year in the Pac
twelve, which they've kind of watered it

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down. There's a lot of people
on that ring of one the Pack twelve

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though. Yeah, yeah, Okay, yeah, that well that yeah,

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we without a doubt that you know, he's in the Ring of Honor.

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Now it says I'm looking at the
criteria for Ring of Honor for football Conference

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Player of the Air, Freshman of
the Year, and Defensive Player of the

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Year. Uh and for football only
packed uh packed a major national player of

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distinction. Uh for example, Heisman
National Championship most Valuable not the same player.

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Yeah, so he's but if he's
got if Conference Freshman of the Year

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gets you in the Ring of Honor, then National Freshman of the Year gets

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you in the Ring of honor?
What else? Uh? That's it except

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for you got You guys were wondering
the four Arizona players in the combine.

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So there's Yeah, it is only
four of them. It's Jacob Cowing,

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Jordan Morgan, Taylor McLaughlin, and
Michael Wiley. Okay, so more than

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they've had in a long time.
So give me the name slowly because I

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don't pay attention. Jacob Cowen,
Jordan Morgan, Tanner McLachlan and Michael Wiley.

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Who's going to go first to the
draft Morgan first round? And then

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give me the order. Give me
the order. I think of the of

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the remaining three. Michael Wiley's got
the best chance to be a really good

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NFL player, But because he's a
running back, you'll get drafted later.

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I think Tanne mcglockall get drafted.
I love the way tight ends are hard

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to come by. He's a Don't
you think he was an unsung guy this

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year? How valuable he was?
I don't think he was unsung. He

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got a lot of I think you
media guys gave him a lot of attention.

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I thought, I don't know,
certainly in the in the uh you

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know, the games, you know, he got like he got a lot

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of play. I thought, see, and I didn't because of Tim mac

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and some of the others, because
just because of that. But he had

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a fantastic year, uh in a
in a at a program where tight ends

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were relatively ignored for years. Yeah, I know, But but tight ends

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now becomes such a big part of
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you know, Travis Kelcey, uh, George Kittle, guys that came before

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them, what's his name, the
homie from cal he's in the Hall of

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Fame, played with the Conzults.
Yeah, Downy Gonzales can think of his

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name. He has your last name. He spells it with a Z.

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He doesn't really have my life,
is that? Yeah? You Hispanics,

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he always did, are always criticizing
names and stuff. Okay, here are

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the requirements for jersey retirements college football. Receive a National Player of the Year

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award, does that? You know, foot Freshman of the Year. Receive

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a major National Athlete of the Year
honor, have been inducted in the National

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Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame. So, and then be most outstanding

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player in you know, in the
in the sport. Okay, so there

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you go. And he's still got
some time. So yeah. And so

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the jersey the numbers that are retired
jerseys not numbers, right, because there's

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a difference, because you can't you
can't not have numbers. Art Lapino,

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Ricky Hunley, Chuck c. Sildaryll
Lewis, Rob Waldrip, Steve McLoughlin,

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Teddy Bruskie, Chris McCallister, Antoine
Cason. That's a good list, and

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I can't I can even give you
why that's a good list. You know,

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three of those guys, uh,
Hall of Fame. Uh, four

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of those guys College Hall of Fame, Right, Honley, Cecil Waldrop Bruski,

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Darryl Lewis, and Antoine Cason for
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the Mostly to Two Special Teams Award, UH Steve McLoughlin for lou Grose.

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A Placekicker award. Maybe a Freshman
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got to be like the best player. Well this is national I know,

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I know. But does it have
anything to do with what you do after

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you leave? No? No,
not not for jersey retirement. Ring of

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Honor does if you're in if you're
in a major league Like Kenny Lofton got

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his basketball jersey retired because he played
ten years in Major League Baseball. Yeah,

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and who's about and list guys,
BJ BG, t J McConnell.

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He's going to get his jersey retired
once he gets not his jersey retired.

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His he'sn't getting the Ring of Honor
because he's been in. He's gonna have

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been in the league ten years,
right, And that's how a lot of

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them have gotten in LUTs times.
Yeah, they've been there fronto. Okay,

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they seem ten years for t jerready, I know, seems like five

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kissing the court doesn't seem that long. Well, okay, look at look

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at basketball. Okay, they got
I guess a different criteria. But Steve

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Kurz is because he got the Crery
Just Athlete of America, Sean Freshman Player

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of the Year for Bibby and Jason
Gardner, Miles Simon for final Foremost Outstanding

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Jason Cherry, and Shawn Elliot Financial
Player of the Year. So Steve Curz

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doesn't have anything to do with his
nine championships all about Arizona that he would

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have been in because of the NBA. But he's Yeah, but his jersey's

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retired. That's a step above ring. Yeah, all right, but he

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let wear twenty five personally. Well, again, the jerseys are retired,

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right, but not the number number
on the back. Just look, the

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U of A has got two numbers
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Elliott's thirty two in Curage twenty five. Yeah, I think I think Baby's

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ten. They'll let somebody wear that
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has twenty two, that's probably been
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Miles Simons thirty four. I think
all those numbers are are in play,

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but I think thirty two and twenty
five they're probably You're probably not going to

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see anybody wearing those numbers. That
Hey, let's take the break. It's

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four thirteen right now. Fourth thirteen
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Ish. I told them to call
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we got a minute. Let's let's
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that we don't we're not taking because
we also got to make because they're gonna

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be We're gonna have two people on
this on this call, which we've never

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done before. We might go a
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else on your on your list it
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spot? I know to tell them
what can't be help you here? The

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blank spot at the top of the
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I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jacobsauce. Now

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on the phone. We have Idea
the fashionista Barnes and Jada the banker Williams.

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Thanks right, Yeah, that's a
good one. You know, she

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playing those banks. She's been working
on the hall week she's been calling the

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shot way. Well, it certainly
was last Friday night. Let's start there,

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do you, because you know,
I mean, come on, you

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guys, go up and beat Stanford
seven players. They will keep talking about

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that, but they just kind of
going into that what the hell happened that

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night? Well, I don't know, I think just well, so it's

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funny we went there. We knew
it's gonna be a really tough weekend,

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Like no one wins that Stamford.
We just knew, but there was zero

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pressure for us. You know,
they have the pressure. They're trying to

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win the conference. A little fis
very tight race, so they had pressure,

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and I think we just played and
put ourselves in a good situation.

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Made they made some huge plays down
the stress, and then Data decided to

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go off, but she said,
decided to wait the fourth quarter to make

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it interesting, and then things just
fell our way. But you know,

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honestly a lot of people are like, oh, Cama Bring didn't play.

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But to me, it's worse than
a great player doesn't play. The reason

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why is because when you have such
a deep team, people really step up.

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Players are in different situations. Someone
gets to start that hasn't been starting,

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and people rally and that people want
to prove they can win without a

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great player. So sometimes I think
it's more dangerous, no question. I

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think you hit on a great point. No pressure. When you have that

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with you, you can play free
wheeling and you play more relaxed. We

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see it on the men's side.
How do you use that to your advantage?

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Well, you can play free and
I think we started off the game

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pretty well. We just made some
plays and usually Stanford the type they really

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hit shots and pull away. Hannah
jump was hitting stopped in the first half,

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and I think that we made some
adjustments and overplayed some situations and she

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didn't give them any shots, and
we did a good job on the boards.

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I just think we just found a
way, and I think that's what

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this team is all about, finding
a way, playing together, just playing

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hard for forty plus minutes, and
that's what they did and it helps us

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on the game. So, Jada, you know, tell us about that

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fourth quarter. You know it was
it was nuts. Uh, you know,

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you guys were trailing the whole game
pretty much, But tell us what

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you know what kicked in uh,
you know, going towards the end of

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that game. Honestly, I just
think we all walked in there believing we

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wanted to win. So when it
came to crunch time, it wasn't just

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me, Like everyone was denying pass
we were getting stills, we're getting deflections.

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I think everyone just really stepped up
in those big moments. So I

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think it kind of gave us a
lot of confidence and it kind of showed

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us what we can where we can
be in the posted. Yeah, that's

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the word I wanted to use.
You guys must have felt confidence. But

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for you, had you been in
a zone like that at any point in

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your career or maybe so, I
mean when you play the big teams,

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you step up, you feel a
different type of I don't know confidence that

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I just feel like you just feel
more prepared and stuff. I think when

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you played the ranked teams and the
rank players, it just I don't know,

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you kind of go into a differ. So I would say I've been

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there before, but I just think
I was prepared and my teammates were prepared.

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So for mere side Jada, and
let's let's get into this just a

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little bit because it has been such
a big issue. You look down the

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bench. There aren't a lot of
players over there. How are the players

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deal staff and players? The bench
there's like two players and there's like seven

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stats. But you don't have any
more eligib I know you wouldn't want to

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well, and you can't throw Salvo
out there, so we know that too.

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No, I can't, he can't
play. I can just sell them

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for tickets. But you know,
you guys, look down the bench.

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You know somebody, you know somebody
in the middle of the game, you

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know, turns an ankle or whatever. What's going through the player's minds with

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all of that stuff going on,
and and what how do you guys take

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that and how are you dealing with
all that on a you know, game

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by game basis. Honestly, I
think we take it personal when somebody gets

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hurt. Like for instance, when
we played cal we had like three people

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get hurt in the first half.
So I think everyone just stepped up big

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and I think we took it personal
to win game for that person. But

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I think we have small numbers,
so we know we have to be careful

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to be smart. But at the
same time, we're all united, and

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I think that just goes a long
way. So did how do you condition

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them? Or it's already to the
point where they're already conditioned because you can't

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overwork them in practice and you can't
you got to putty monitor your minutes during

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the game. Yeah, well,
okay, I can't monitor monitor during the

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games because we can't win if people
don't play a lot of minutes. So

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that's like out the door. But
what we have to do, like today,

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I'll give you an example. Today, we need to work on some

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stuff. You know, it's a
Tuesday we play on Thursday. I guess

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so many people we had live for
practice today five two to what you do

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people, it was like, well, we can't practice today. So honestly,

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we've been doing a good job of
resting. If you look at us,

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we look like a fresh the fresh
are team in a lot of these

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games. So credit to Chris Allen
and Bar for keeping us healthy, Chris

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for giving us a good shape,
and we don't look worn out in games.

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I mean, we are tired,
but I think they have such a

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tough mentality and there their troopers,
their dogs, so you know, like

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ocal warriors. I think that they
just have a will. And what's funny

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is when we were kind of dropping
like flies against Cal they were like rallying

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more like as Mary got elbowed.
The game was one of the most physical

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games I've ever been a part of. It was it was good, it

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was fun, but like someone got
elbowed in the face, someone got elbowed

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off the ball, like there were
intentional fouls, and like they rallied more.

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They're like, all right, you
want to play like this, let's

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go. So I love to see
that because that's how I am. And

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that was fun. They were like
they they bucked up. They womaned up,

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not man when things were hard.
I love to see that. So

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I mean, in your lifetime as
a player, either as a player or

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a coach, have you been a
part of anything like this, you know,

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where you know everybody's just got to
hang on and and you know we

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don't have you know, just start
the number of players that you need for

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something like this. Yeah, I've
never been a part of something like this

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as a player or a coach,
But I think that's what makes it challenge

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me. I think you have to
love the hard stuff, and it's a

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challenge, it's festal, and I
think it's an amazing story. And like

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when I look back, I talked
about this at this event I did today,

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Like hindsight's always twenty twenty. I
thought we'd be a little bit deeper

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this year. Remember we started the
season with twelve players, right, and

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but someone quit and then someone got
removed, and someone got hurt, you

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know whatever, So just various factors. Then now we have seven and eight

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in the walk on she's no our
sets and stuff, but she can't really

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play it, so it's really seven. But like I didn't anticipate this,

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so I scheduled a really hard non
conference. Looking back, I wouldn't have

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done that, but I didn't know
the situation would be like this. I

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scheduled way too hard because if we
would have won the three or four or

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more games in a non conference,
going to the tournament wouldn't even be a

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question and we'd be a top ten
team the whole year. So, like,

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that's kind of an unfortunate thing for
this year, right right. You're

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you were great on social media two
days ago. You posted something with the

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celebration after cal You said something that
struck me. They fight, they love

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each other, and they had my
back when I had to make tough decisions

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in the best interest of the team. Can you elaborate, Yeah, well,

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00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:18.519
anything any big infidense to have that
we know about internally that obviously the

406
00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:22.359
public doesn't know about. They've always
rallied and a lot of stuff. They

407
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.400
really wanted this, Like they wanted
me to make these decisions, and they

408
00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:30.279
rally behind them, and like,
and it's hard making a decision to the

409
00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.720
part ways of someone during the year. That's a very hard decision for a

410
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:38.400
lot multiple reasons. And they've always
believed in it and they backed me on

411
00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:42.640
those tough decisions and I respect that
a lot, and people don't and what

412
00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:45.680
do they say, like you know, you're moving over twelve inches? Is

413
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.519
really hard being a head coach.
It's very easy to say I'll get rid

414
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:52.519
of this person, do this,
do that part ways, but like you

415
00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.279
have to explain to parents, there's
so many layers of stuff. But they

416
00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:59.359
supported all that and they said,
hey, whatever you decide, we're going

417
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:00.920
to we go for and we have
your back. And I think that's just

418
00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:04.240
a true team and a team you
want to coach in go to war with.

419
00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:07.160
So do we absolutely have to ask
you and you can answer as much

420
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.240
this as you want. But Kaylen
Gilbert, she was here, she wasn't.

421
00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:14.119
She was here, she wasn't.
How much can you tell us about

422
00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:17.440
about the situation with her and how
it came to, you know, a

423
00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:21.759
final realization that you said yesterday on
a radio search show that she's not coming

424
00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:23.680
back. What what can you tell
us? Well, I think there's just

425
00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:29.839
a lot of there's various things that
happened throughout the year, and there's decisions

426
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:32.319
you have to make as a coach
whatever is the best interest of your team,

427
00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:34.839
and those are hard decisions to make
that they're necessary, and that's what

428
00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:38.720
that's leadership, and that's why leaders
Leadership is hard. And I think that

429
00:28:40.119 --> 00:28:42.839
when you have a team, you
have to you have to simulate to a

430
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:48.319
team, and you have to sometimes, you know, you have to sacrifice

431
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.839
yourself sometimes. So I think that
this team is a true team, is

432
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.119
the cohesive unit of seven. They
were moving in the right direction and you're

433
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.559
either on the bus or you're off. And if you're off the bus,

434
00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:02.599
I'm way into you from the backland
though, And if you're one of us,

435
00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:04.880
we're going together doing the right thing. So I wanted certain people on

436
00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:08.599
the bus, and I have the
right people and the right culture and a

437
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:12.599
great team and a great group of
people that love each other and want to

438
00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.960
do the right thing. So that's
what I'm rolling with. So I don't

439
00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:21.119
know if you knew know this,
but we had Candre on last week and

440
00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.119
you know, he had his time
as an intro a d and he says

441
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:27.319
to us I wanted to say.
He says, Adia, I think this

442
00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:30.920
is the best coaching job she's done
there, and I looked at Jane.

443
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:34.960
I think that's a pretty strong statement
given what's going on and then you pull

444
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:37.799
off the win, and I'm thinking, Okay, I agree. How would

445
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:44.319
you how would you respond to his
assessment of you this year? Well,

446
00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:47.440
I think that so before I made
some decisions, like he was one of

447
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:51.000
the people I talked to yesterday and
who I because he's been through so many

448
00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.559
situations are similar. But sometimes it's
good to get input, you know.

449
00:29:53.720 --> 00:30:00.680
But I think that you always wrong, Like culture is everything any business,

450
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:02.759
any team. If you don't have
the right culture, you're not going to

451
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:06.480
win. So I think that you
have to do what's right sometimes in it's

452
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:08.720
hard, and I think coaching has
been harder this year because we don't have

453
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:14.160
depth like we're good at, like
developing through the year and making adjustments and

454
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.880
getting better throughout the year. That's
been a challenge because we can't practice the

455
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.279
way I want to. Whether it's
because no practice players, there is a

456
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:23.480
ten people to go, so there's
been so many times we haven't been able

457
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:27.119
to practice stuff, and we're better
when we do that. So I get

458
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:32.400
credit to the players being able to
apply stuff from watching it, being able

459
00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:37.359
to focus mentally. And remember three
starters are freshmen, right, so freshmen

460
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.480
are freshmen. Freshmen don't have the
experience. They've never played this, they

461
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.279
don't know these pressure games in college, so like it's not easy. So

462
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.880
I give credit to them that just
going out and not being afraid of anybody,

463
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.519
not being afraid of making mistakes,
and going out and putting their hearts

464
00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.759
into it and like stepping up when
we're down. Think about it, losing

465
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:03.000
five players this year and losing half
of our scoring. If you look at

466
00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.400
the players leaving Maya Solly and you
look at Kalen, that is half of

467
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:11.720
our sevenths, like we were average
almost seventy fours. Yeah, that's half

468
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.880
of our scores. That means other
people have to step up in typical situations

469
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.160
and I don't think that's easy for
a freshman. So this is really going

470
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.039
to pay dividends in the next couple
of years. So you have something well

471
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:26.119
real quick, Jada, So you
know you're in here as a freshman,

472
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:30.319
what were your expectations in terms of
how much you were going to be asked

473
00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.640
to do right? And how much
of that is you know, are you

474
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.839
comfortable with right? Because you're playing
a huge role. We're talking about you

475
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.440
because you you know, you had
that game you had against Stanford. You've

476
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.920
won a couple of awards because of
that, but what were your expectations?

477
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.960
And then as the season developed,
how are you taking all the things that

478
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:51.440
were going on? If I could
ask you that real quick, everybody,

479
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:53.640
including freshman want to come in and
play right right play now, you guys

480
00:31:53.680 --> 00:32:00.599
are playing, not just a little, a lot. Honestly, I feel

481
00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:06.200
like I've been on many different teams
where my role was different, So I

482
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:09.640
feel like my expectation to come to
college was to work as hard as I

483
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:14.160
can and to earn whatever. I
didn't want anything given to me or nothing,

484
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:16.480
but I knew that I wanted to
come in and definitely take the leadership

485
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:20.559
role because I knew that's just who
I am, and so being that leader

486
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.839
regardless if they needed me to score
or be a leader, or have assist

487
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:27.240
or play defense, whatever it was, I knew I was going to do

488
00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.880
it because that's the type of person
I am and I'm competitive. So throughout

489
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:34.279
the season at the beginning, people
say I struggled, but it wasn't about

490
00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:36.640
scoring for me. It was about
what can I do to help my team

491
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:38.720
win? So honestly, I would
just say I step up to the plate

492
00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:42.400
in whatever role I needed to take
on. I'm going to do that for

493
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:45.119
my teammates. So the DA said
the word culture a couple of times.

494
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.759
You know, as as we were
talking about this, and you know,

495
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.119
you've got seven players. Now you
know who you are. I know you

496
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.680
brought in another. You've got a
high school a player who's coming into it

497
00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:57.920
to help you remember the player.
The player that came in played with Data

498
00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.279
in the eighth grade. Oh you
know, they played high school backball.

499
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.839
She just happened to be attending Arizona
as like a four point zero student,

500
00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:07.559
and we just secruited her, like, hey, you haven't played a couple

501
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:10.079
years, you want to come out. They're just familiarity there. Well he's

502
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:14.119
only he's not but she's actually good
and she's not in basketball. Stay,

503
00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:16.000
but I think he's a player that
will play here. Okay, well we

504
00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:19.839
want to get back to that in
a second, but let's talk about the

505
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:23.119
culture Jada, that that the coach
is talking about in terms of the players

506
00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:28.400
you've got left. You know,
Idea said, they're together, everybody's on

507
00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:31.799
you know, everybody's on the same
page. Which do you kind of feel

508
00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:36.000
like the air has cleared a little
bit for you guys now with with you

509
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.000
know, as we head into the
last stages of the season, then okay,

510
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:44.319
let's just play some basketball. Yeah. I think we're at the point

511
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:46.920
in the season where we can't have
any distractions because that does affect the game

512
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:52.640
and THEFX how we play with each
other and how we interact with each other.

513
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:54.279
So we're at to the point of
the season where we would just rather

514
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:59.079
play with less people and play with
people that want to play together and that

515
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:01.160
want to win and all have the
same end goal, which is to make

516
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:06.640
it as far as you can.
So, Coach, dumb question. I

517
00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:08.280
don't know if you remember this,
but maybe three or four years ago you

518
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:12.400
were on the show we talked about
and I stupidly said, oh, you

519
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:14.920
ve you're right now, how does
it feeling? You laughed at me,

520
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:16.320
and he said, what a dumb
question, which which, of course it

521
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:21.920
was right before you went to the
championship game. How difficult is it?

522
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:24.519
And I've said this before, it's
tough to get there to the top,

523
00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:30.199
but it's even tougher to stay there. How has that been? Oh,

524
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.159
I think it's really hard. I
think just nowadays with the climate of women's

525
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:38.039
basketball and basketball in general, with
so many transfers and different various factors.

526
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:44.039
I think it's just hard to sustain
success and keep your core just because of

527
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:47.480
money and just different things. But
I think that there's no doubt in my

528
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:51.480
mind that we'll get back there.
And I said, we're gonna win it.

529
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:53.440
I don't know when, but it'll
happen. I think that. But

530
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:59.360
it starts from having a core group
that staying together longer and building off that.

531
00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:01.599
So I think this is the start
of something special and it's really going

532
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:05.519
to pay off down the thrust.
And you know, we're playing in the

533
00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:09.239
toughest conference in the country starting three
freshmen, which no one else is doing,

534
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:14.079
and I think that's overlooked a lot. But I think it's really going

535
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:16.039
to pay off next year in the
year after. I mean, look at

536
00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:20.840
UCLA a great example. They took
some lumps and took some punches last year.

537
00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:24.000
But now those freshmen that are sophomores
now they play like seniors, and

538
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:28.360
so I think we're going to see
the same thing and I'm excited for the

539
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:31.159
future. Now I just have to
get some great pieces, not to replace

540
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:36.639
them, to like compliment them and
just help our strengths, and we have

541
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:39.320
a good group of young kids that
are great kids that other people are going

542
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.199
to want to play with, and
I think are just the foundation for a

543
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:47.760
great culture and a winning plow and
a winning team. Yeah, all right,

544
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:52.360
So you got some games coming up
this week, big ones, and

545
00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:54.760
after you're going, I mean again
in your situation right now, you're going

546
00:35:54.800 --> 00:36:00.119
Thursday Saturday instead of Friday Sunday.
But tell us a little bit about your

547
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:02.039
expectations this week and what you're trying. Obviously trying to win, but you

548
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:05.960
know, how are you going to
win? Well, we've won the last

549
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:08.880
six Satay were I think we're hot
right now, and we've slept the last

550
00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:14.320
two weekends, so I really feel
like that we have a chance to win

551
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.320
at home. And I think this
is we play very good at home.

552
00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:21.159
We're very confident at home, and
I think that we can upset some teams

553
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:22.920
at home this weekend. I think
that we would have a chance to have

554
00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:28.840
success this weekend, and I think
that having success this weekend will solidify our

555
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.320
face in the tournament. No doubt. They're two top ten teams that are

556
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:35.760
really good, but we're also playing
really good and we're not scared of it.

557
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:37.360
Here right now, we have momentum, and at this time of the

558
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:40.360
year, the most important thing is
you have a momentum, a little bit

559
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:44.119
of luck, you're playing at home, you win games, and then you

560
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:47.440
continue your momentum to the packs off
tournament NCAA tournament, And I think we're

561
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:52.960
at that spot right now. Go
well, okay, okay, see I'm

562
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:54.599
a guy who doesn't believe in momentum. Well, to me, I'm not

563
00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:58.960
guarantee at sweep, but we have
a good chance to win some games.

564
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:00.039
I know we're almost at the end
of this. Let me ask you something,

565
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:05.000
another dumb question for me, coach, Coach, I see Juju plays

566
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:07.760
for USC and she's a very good
player. But let me tell you something.

567
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:12.199
To me, you you she plays
like you. I don't know if

568
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.440
you see the same similarities. But
it's very methodical, very good, smart

569
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.239
decisions. Do you see some of
you and her? Well, I would

570
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:23.559
side and I would say that you
haven't seen my highlight video have been that

571
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:28.480
good? But no, I think
you're saying she plays like our team style.

572
00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:31.239
No, no, no, you
you personally? Yeah, I was

573
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:34.880
okay, that's a compliment. No, I was not near that good,

574
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:39.719
but no, she's she's just she's
a really good player with good size as

575
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:45.079
a perimeter player and a fearless score. So reminds me of some of a

576
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.760
keelthy plument. Sounds like high volume, but can make suce you know,

577
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:52.760
so hard to guard because she's always
on that tack mode. But I think

578
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.880
that there's pros and cons, Like
just think about us a couple of years

579
00:37:55.880 --> 00:38:00.960
ago. We were very air eycentric, right, so if you can like

580
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:04.239
slow her down a little bit,
like the other players aren't used to having

581
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.639
thirty fours, so I think you
can like win and you can lose games

582
00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:09.360
by that, and that's kind of
how we were. So to me,

583
00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:15.239
that more dangerous teams are the teams
like Stanford where it's like four people average

584
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:17.960
fifteen and like, you know,
I think it's but I think she's young

585
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.039
and still get to that. I
think still learn is to get older,

586
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:24.840
to involve her teammates a little bit
more because it'll help her win, Like

587
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:29.199
she'll win a championship that way.
But I think right now it's like she

588
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:31.079
tries to do it a lot herself, which she's really good and she's making

589
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:36.000
them win. But I think that
I think her game will evolve because she's

590
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:38.800
a really good player and she's special. Okay, well then we're going to

591
00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:42.559
see you here this week. So
coach, thank you, Jada, thank

592
00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:45.800
you so much for coming on the
National Player of the Year to play National

593
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.000
Player of the Week. That's regrets
that, Yeah, we should have been

594
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.519
Okay, you need you need to
talk about this. There is no way

595
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.559
we should not have been the ESPN
team in the league. But do you

596
00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:58.840
look at all that we were the
game the win of the league. There's

597
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:00.280
no way we should have been a
team of week for sleep in thaty welee

598
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.440
lept against two really good teams,
one number three in the country. That

599
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.000
was kind of be us. Now. The other thing is we want to

600
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:10.320
pass the house Thursday and Sunday.
It's a doubleheader. We want ten thousand

601
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:14.599
plus people. We need, we
need help. We know Tucson has the

602
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:17.039
best sixth man in the country,
the right people to show up and show

603
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:20.840
out there you go, they'll listen
to you, they'll be will they will

604
00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:25.599
Okay, I'm happ to get on
Twitter has more followers than be Safe.

605
00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:30.039
When you're on Twitter, Twitter is
I just got to start out to talk

606
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:35.000
crap because everybody's talking crap about my
roster. All right, thanks again to

607
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.480
the both of you. Good luck
this week, I thank you, thank

608
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:42.440
you. She's right, she's gotta
be careful with that Twitter thing. I

609
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know, I know. All right, we got to get out of here

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down all the excess at alls.
It's Steve Rivera and Agan Salves. This

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is an Eye on the ball on
Fox Sports fourteenth. Hey, welcome back

656
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to whying the ball here on Fox
Sports torteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's

657
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Jay at the least with us,
got ten minutes. I you guys want

658
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to call, you can yell at
us for the interview or Mike's for the

659
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:20.519
interview with the deal, got a
text saying that they agree with saying to

660
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.039
agree with and Andrea that this is
the best coaching job she's done. And

661
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:27.199
it's got to be the most difficult, certainly has to be the most challenging.

662
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.000
Yeah, because of you know all
the things. But you know what

663
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:34.199
somebody like like a d and we
all know that Ada lacks no confidence,

664
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.400
right. I Mean she's got all
the confidence, but you know the things

665
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:39.159
that she's accomplished and those kinds of
things, and she's assured of herself and

666
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:44.199
she she's making the decisions as she
said that she thinks are best for the

667
00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:46.239
team in the program, and you
know, and that's the way they are

668
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:49.880
and those decisions have led to where
they are. But she's willing to,

669
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.719
you know, to go with it, right, And it's in spite of

670
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:58.000
what's it's at the detriment of the
team as a whole. She got rid

671
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:02.239
of well, I don't know the
phrases, Gilbert no longer there. Whether

672
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.559
it's mutual or or whatever. It's
obviously you're thinking, well, she's pretty

673
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:10.800
a good player. Yeah, it's
gonna hurt think about how often? And

674
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:14.320
that was that was the question I
was asking, you know, when you

675
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:16.719
clear all of that out and now
it's just okay. Now it's you know,

676
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:21.119
more like their road ahead. So
Hi, you're on the air and

677
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:24.119
eye on the ball. Hey Jay, Hey Steve, how's it going good?

678
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:32.000
Done? Done right? Yeah?
So's I could here, I could

679
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:37.760
hear I could hear the steam coming
out of Steve though after the four times

680
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:43.320
Ida said, you talked about that
they're on a good run. They don't

681
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:46.679
have Mom they're on a good run. No, they're on a good run

682
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:52.039
and they make good adjustments. It's
not like they're steam rolling or they're doing

683
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:58.639
the same thing over and over right, exactly because go ahead, Because well

684
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:02.639
Sunday they had to deal with the
injuries. Elena turned an ankle, and

685
00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:08.639
then and then as Mary got smacked
in the mouth, and they just kept

686
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:13.079
coming and they were up by twenty
ath a half. You know, I

687
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:15.440
think something that I noticed too,
and I think it either a Deer or

688
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:19.960
Jada mentioned it that you watch them
at the end of the game, they

689
00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.000
don't look tired. They don't look
like they're out of gas. You know,

690
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:24.440
you think they have to be,
but they don't. They certainly don't

691
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:28.159
look it. You know, you
don't see anybody dragging, you know what.

692
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:32.599
They seem to still be playing hard. They're playing hard, and they're

693
00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:37.960
playing hard during the game too.
It's not like they're saving it for the

694
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.760
end of the game. It seems
like there's a lot of fight in this

695
00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:45.079
team. Yeah, you have to
like that, And I think that's why

696
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:51.840
it looks this is probably Ida's best
job at coaching job is because of that.

697
00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:57.360
I mean, these there's there's no
letdown. Have you seen them play?

698
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:00.400
How often have you seen them play? I I try to catch them

699
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:04.800
on the on the on the PEC
twelve network. I haven't seen them live

700
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:12.400
this year. And I was hoping
I could score some tickets for Thursday.

701
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.800
Well you better, you better get
them back. They're hoping for ten thousand

702
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:22.400
on Thursday. Oh man, that
that thing is going to be jumping.

703
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.679
And hey, how eloquent is the
freshman Jada Williams. Yeah, I noticed

704
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:32.559
that very good, very very well. I mean they interviewed her after the

705
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:37.280
game, after the Stanford game,
and I was like, holy moly,

706
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:42.039
this little girl's talking like a machine
gun, because he was. I could

707
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:45.519
hardly hear her, she was talking
so fast. But she said she said

708
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:49.280
a lot of words in a short
amount of time, and it seemed like

709
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.079
they were all very well thought out. And I was like, wow,

710
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:57.360
this, you know, No wonder
she's playing so well is that she's she's

711
00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:02.199
got that, she's got the intelligence
behind that, and she's very impressive.

712
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:07.480
Well done, Thanks for the momentum
and the call. Get some tickets done,

713
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:12.360
and and and and show up on
on Thursday. It's not it's not

714
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.199
Thursday. Then on the weekend.
All right, man, thanks for colling,

715
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:17.719
Thank you. Yeah, got about
five minutes for you can take another

716
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:25.880
call or two, that'd be great. Down said it four times. I'm

717
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:32.039
gonna tweet, you know, tweet
Now, who's the coach who's not right?

718
00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:36.400
Just because you said it doesn't mean
it's true. She said, that's

719
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:42.320
all they need right now. Okay, you don't buy it if they're on

720
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:44.360
a good run, which is great, I'm not. It's not a criticism.

721
00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:46.119
I just don't believe in the word. It's just this is what it

722
00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:50.880
is. Every when it was a
nice run before they played Washington, nice

723
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:52.480
run and momentum right, what what
the hell did that mean? Not a

724
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:58.400
damn thing. Well, I didn't. Nobody ever said momentum guarantees that you're

725
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:01.559
gonna win the next game. No
one ever said that, right. Nobody's

726
00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:07.039
ever said that all you're seeing is
that you have. It's not you're on

727
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:09.159
this role, you feel good about
yourself, you're on this roll. Another

728
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:14.840
word, and that is that is
momentum. And sometimes momentum always has to

729
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:21.119
end. Right, Nobody's not.
Yes, it is. Even those undefeated

730
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:23.079
U c l A teams of the
seventies, they didn't have. They didn't

731
00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:25.880
have momentum through the whole year.
There were some games that they probably didn't

732
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:30.920
play so well. But you can
have. Momentum is a thing. It's

733
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:34.599
like a flame for a little bit
and it eventually will die. But if

734
00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:38.840
you have it at the right time. You see, you've probably never gotten

735
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:44.960
like on a on a heater.
No, no, like on the golf

736
00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:47.320
course. No no, I played
poker. You go on heaters or not

737
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:52.079
on heaters, no difference. But
that's that's the luck of the cards.

738
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:55.679
But when you're doing something physical like
playing golf, I understand what you're saying.

739
00:48:55.719 --> 00:48:58.679
You know, I just want to
go on a roll. You you

740
00:48:58.679 --> 00:49:01.440
could use your momentum word all you
want. Whoever you believe in ghosts.

741
00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:07.519
What's the difference between going on a
roll and moments? That's my word,

742
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:09.239
my road. You're going on a
roll. You can use momentum because it

743
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:15.400
doesn't exist. Google the word and
see what it means. It's Google the

744
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:19.920
word and tell me what's the definition. It's more about inertia than it is

745
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:23.840
about But people don't know what other
word to use besides roll or moving forward.

746
00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:29.920
No, but not, it's it's
a word that people use just because

747
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:31.679
they use it. They have no
other word to use. They're on a

748
00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:36.079
nice roll, everybody. I was
on a nice role, golf, same

749
00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:39.639
poker, same when you you go
on a heater. Perfect word. I

750
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:52.119
don't like this word definition exactly.
That's not what I mean exactly. You

751
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.119
kind of understand what I'm saying.
No, well, this it's more about

752
00:49:55.119 --> 00:50:00.840
it's physics. Like correct, that's
what it's correct. I mean, I

753
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:06.159
guess it's physics. So now you
understand a little bit more what I'm talking

754
00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:08.400
about. Well, no, okay, Well, momentum in the sense that

755
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:15.320
we're talking about it isn't a physical
physical no, get inertia. Momentum is

756
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:20.199
a feeling. Yeah, I don't
disagree with what you're saying because you believe

757
00:50:20.199 --> 00:50:22.519
in that. It's like believing in
ghosts. Either you do or you don't.

758
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.039
I believe in ghosts, and this
is not a ghost. You use

759
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:28.760
the word. I get it.
I understand why people use it. I

760
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:32.280
like it. I just don't believe
it because you like it. I No,

761
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:36.480
I like the word role. They're
on a nice role. They have

762
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:39.320
some nice momentium. I've seen Arizona
basketball who had a great momentum and then

763
00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:44.400
they lose in the first round,
so their momentum wasn't real. It wasn't

764
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:47.360
real. I like this what they
said. And an object or a thing

765
00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:52.000
with momentum is going to be hard
to stop exactly. And guess what happens.

766
00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:57.039
It stops sometimes sometimes sometimes it does
sometimes there's something more powerful to stop.

767
00:50:57.119 --> 00:50:59.719
It can't be kind of pregnant,
either you were or you aren't.

768
00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:04.960
But you can't kind of have momentum. Yeah, that's true. You can

769
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:09.119
either you do or you don't.
That's that's my argument. I hope I

770
00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:14.199
get that. But you understand by
the definition of the word, by the

771
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.920
definition of the word like in physics, but that there's a lot of words

772
00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:23.320
that we say that we don't use
the dictionary definition of it. That's my

773
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:27.960
point. People use this word because
there's no other word for it except for

774
00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:31.079
role. They're on a nice run, the nice run heater in a different

775
00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:37.039
Sportum is almost like you can't describe
it likes just so they use the word

776
00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:45.360
momentum exactly. Okay, I don't
know, people, shut up. You

777
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:47.320
know, I'm just happy that you're
on my side on this one, because

778
00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:53.480
yeah, because you know, what
you know why it's the right. We've

779
00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:58.639
been on our side, so you
know that doesn't do it anyway. If

780
00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:00.239
I convinced her she could use the
word role, we're on a nice role

781
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.519
right now, but we didn't have
time to do that. Maybe at the

782
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:15.760
next Right now, she's on Twitter
now, Hey, good job. This

783
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:20.480
was fun, and thank you Adia
Barnes for joining us today. Hey,

784
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:23.039
Gregorian talking about the a D.
I can't wait for it to get here.

785
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:25.719
Get her on the show. I
don't know what we think and we'll

786
00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:28.599
have a lot of fun with that. So great. All right, thank

787
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:30.480
you everybody for being here. We'll
be back tomorrow. Patrick Finley joining us

788
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:37.719
talk about Caleb Williams and uh uh
and the NFL and Hold Rabino getting ready

789
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:43.119
for the game, so we'll be
sure to be here. Thanks for thanks

790
00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:44.360
for being here, and talk to
you tomorrow.