WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.639 This is Eye on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jagan zale Sound Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:14.080 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions, Kati 3 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:18.399 z R Two SAD and iHeartRadio Station. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. 4 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.879 Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.960 Rivera, He's Jagan Zalaz and today we have one and today Survival of the 6 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:31.160 plane. Right plane jump. He jumped out of a plane, Steve, 7 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.039 Uh, for fun, for fun. Yeah, he didn't have to, 8 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.880 he didn't get he didn't get thrown out like that guy in scarface or anything. 9 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.079 I mean, he just jumped from a plank. He paid someone to 10 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.280 do that. Yeah, it was great, and you got down. I 11 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:46.079 was gonna strive into the studio today. Yeah, well we didn't know you 12 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:50.320 were coming in today. Well we're starting. We're at about eight minutes. 13 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:56.000 Tell him like, I think I killed and nobody told us mister survived. 14 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:00.399 Yeah, be good today, Good for you, Good for you. Uh 15 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.480 super and maybe you'll do it again soon. And now we'll just skydive our 16 00:01:03.519 --> 00:01:06.959 way into Friday. We have a pretty good show. I don't know if 17 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:07.920 you knew that. But we have pretty good shot. Three good guests. 18 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.519 Yes, our usual guy, Jake Fisher. Early in the first hour, 19 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.159 he's excited. We haven't had him on in a couple of weeks, and 20 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.480 the big twelve is first thing. His name was mentioned yesterday. I'm gonna 21 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.319 tell him why. Uh. And then in the the second second guy is 22 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:27.280 gonna be your a d asue a d No. The second guy is Brian 23 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.280 Howe. No, no, no, that's right. Oh I put the 24 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.519 wrong time in our in our social media. He's at three forty five, 25 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:38.000 not bad, so, so we have a issue. Fix that right now. 26 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.120 We have a issue a d uh Graham Rosini. Uh, he's not 27 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.560 even been there two months, maybe a couple of months. Yeah, yeah, 28 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.519 yeah, So we'll break down his situation, invite him to come and 29 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.920 visit us anytime and Tuesday tuson when he has a chance. Oh, but 30 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:56.200 sure, he'll be for a basketball game or two. And then the third 31 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.120 hour we have Brian Howe from the Colorado newspaper that covers uh dion, So 32 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:02.879 we'll have him on to see how the year has been for him, and 33 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.879 then how he's kind of handled or how they've handled each other. Yes, 34 00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:09.960 uh, because there's still a lot of stuff going on now with Dion. 35 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:14.360 Yeah, yeah, you know. Yeah, look, there's always gonna be 36 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:19.120 stuff going on with Dion, right, so, uh, you know it's 37 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.919 it's got to be I don't know if you call it as it's just got 38 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.319 to be interesting to be covering him, whether it's fun or not. You 39 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:29.280 know, it might not be fun, it might be something else. It 40 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:32.199 might be a lot of work, it might be challenging, it might be 41 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:38.240 a lot of things, but it's probably for sure interesting. Yeah, right, 42 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.199 and then and then you know, as a reporter, that's kind of 43 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.520 what you know, you're always hoping for. You know, you want your 44 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:49.360 teams to win because they're more interesting. You want your h you know, 45 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.919 you want your coaches to you know, not be dry because it makes them 46 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:58.599 more interesting. So probably you know, probably good. Yeah, okay, 47 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:00.319 no, cool. So this should be a nice way to the week. 48 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.800 It's been a pretty good week. Yesterday show is very fun and uh, 49 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:07.680 and we'll wrap it up now. Did JB send you some stuff? Yes, 50 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.400 I'm pointing it up as we speak because I completely forgot about it. 51 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:14.360 Okay, so we'll do that. He did send it to me and we'll 52 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.400 help him out. I know he's trying to get some publicity through the papers 53 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:21.080 and locals for his basketball camp. If you have any questions just about the 54 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.360 camp, just send us to send it to us, yeah, or we'll 55 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.800 we'll pass it up. We're gonna put this stuff up up on Facebook and 56 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.599 Twitter right now because I completely forgot to do that, and we promised him 57 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.960 we would and I'm just a big giant turn for not doing it. But 58 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.360 here we go. I'm getting it up there. Okay, Okay, it 59 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:42.039 sounds like you're the one that jumped off the plane. Dude. You know 60 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.400 what, I don't know what it is. It's been about these last twenty 61 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:47.080 four hours, but you know, I'm staying. You know, I'm going. 62 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:50.759 I'm going to a meeting and beyond Brad, I've got a guy with 63 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:53.199 me that I'm meeting with, and I'm on the phone with somebody else. 64 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.080 It's like, it's just the nuts. It's just been crazy. So here 65 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.840 I am. But I'm here. I'm here, Okay, and so is 66 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:03.639 and so is. Uh. It was one because we were concerned about whether 67 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:08.639 or not he would be I appreciate that we at all points but yeah, 68 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:12.639 we were so concerned. He was ready to do the the the breaking news, 69 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.240 that's all he was concerned about that. Yeah, I thought he's not 70 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.519 coming. I got to go up breaking news and find that word of his 71 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:23.120 parents. Yeah, I was. Yeah. My first worry was not where 72 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:25.839 are they going to put him? My first worry was, oh, no, 73 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.199 I got breaking news to do well. And the first even that not 74 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.279 where he landed, not where we're gonna put him. It's not where he 75 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.160 landed. We didn't care about that, right, and not where they're gonna 76 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:38.000 put you. Well, it's too late for that, and now breaking news, 77 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:41.959 so you're like third string, third stow, third string. No, 78 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.519 we're happy to have you. I'm taking that starting spot. Thank you very 79 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.000 much. Well, good to have you again again. Today is Friday, 80 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:54.439 big show. Obviously not a whole lot after the big twelve press conference, 81 00:04:54.519 --> 00:05:00.399 right, yeah, stuff, I think things have quieted down. Uh you 82 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:06.199 know, it's it's we're kind of going into this time now where everybody's kind 83 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:14.439 of gathering themselves, getting ready for fall practices to start, maybe taking some 84 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.720 vacations that kind of stuff to get ready because then now you know, once 85 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.360 it gets busy, it gets busy, and it's days busy, you know, 86 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.959 for till May. Right, Oh yeah, yeah, we we right. 87 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.959 It starts in mid August, doesn't until like mid April unless the teams 88 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.720 go deep into the tournament right in in May. Yeah, so so it's 89 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:33.160 going to be busy for a while. So I think, you know, 90 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:39.000 people kind of kind of gather themselves, you know, right now as we 91 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.000 need to. I kind of need to gather myself right now too, but 92 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:45.199 you know, you know, so, yeah, so it kind of like 93 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.160 everything now. There's gonna be some more media days next week, right, 94 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.199 yeah, You've got I think, well, who's left the SEC, the 95 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:55.519 Big ten and the a CEC. I don't know who. I think I'm 96 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:03.120 gonna say that SEC is next week, followed by the ACC and the Big 97 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.639 Ten the week after. So, you know, I thought that I thought 98 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:12.600 the Big twelve was very smart on what they did in going first. Everybody 99 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.040 talked about them all this week. You know, there were a lot of 100 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.560 stories that came out of there, the Mike Goudney story for better for worse 101 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.879 in the national media. The national media was there break your mark talking about 102 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:27.360 we're still open for business, you know, the four Pac twelve schools were 103 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.639 now in the Big ten, got a lot of got a lot of play. 104 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.319 You know, there was the media poll. It was just a lot 105 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:36.920 of stuff that came out about the Big twelve, and it was, you 106 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:41.759 know, all all the college football talk was about the Big twelve because the 107 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.639 SEC and the other schools were not doing their media day. So I thought 108 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:46.519 it was very smart of them to do that. Again, probably another thing 109 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:53.319 that was just what your mark is creating over there, guys, we need 110 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.399 to be out of front on sure, very he's very impressive. I know. 111 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.120 I think you hit it on the head the way you described her yesterday. 112 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:05.399 Uh, cocky, a little arrogant, very very fourth rightI ish uh 113 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:10.959 And it came off a little whatever. But now he's your whatever and you 114 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:14.199 like it right right. We thought he was a kind of an arrogant jerk 115 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.639 when when he was when he was battling the Pack twelve, and now that 116 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.519 he's not battling the Pac twelve, we're one of him where you know, 117 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:23.319 he's our arrogant. You want that guy, Yeah, we want that guy. 118 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.920 It's like we haven't had that guy. It's like you have there. 119 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.720 You hiring an attorney and I'll say, a divorce attorney you have and your 120 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:32.759 ex has that attorney. Yeah, he says, how come I didn't get 121 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:34.720 her, right, or I didn't get him, and now you have him 122 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.959 and you think there's go after that, you know. I mean, look, 123 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.639 look, I know Larry Scott wasn't from California, but he was very 124 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:46.519 California like, laid back, you know, l a kind of guy, 125 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.199 la San Francisco kind of guy, just throwing money all over the place, 126 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:55.680 arrogant from the standpoint of things like having an entourage, spending you know, 127 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:00.759 three thousand dollars a night for his hotel rooms, those kind things. Where 128 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.199 he was he just he just tried to have an aura about him without really 129 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:11.439 doing anything. And then George laugh didn't have the aura, but also very 130 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:16.279 low key and passive and all that got the packed. The funny thing about 131 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.959 with the playoff, Cough is very low key passive. Yet I guess behind 132 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.639 the scenes when he was getting offered this money and he was saying, no, 133 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:30.199 we could do better, getting screwed by himself because he was over stating 134 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:35.360 himself or overstayed in the product. Well, everybody, yeah, the whole, 135 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:37.320 the whole, the whole pack twelve was doing that. And and you 136 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:41.519 know, whether it was the the the President's residents or whoever, they were 137 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:46.240 all doing that. Yeah. Okay, so we'll get to some of that 138 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:50.159 with the A s U A d uh later this this hour. Right in 139 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.320 a few few minutes, get to Jake and talk about what's going on. 140 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.360 I mentioned his name was thrown out there yesterday. I'm curious what his thoughts 141 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:03.720 are anything else. Soccer starts here pretty soon, right about a month the 142 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:05.960 season starts. Yeah, less than a month weeks away. Yeah, you 143 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.440 got to get her cab. I'm sorry. And I actually looked this up 144 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:11.000 and said, I'm gonna ask you. Have you looked up when you have 145 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.799 a football practice start. No, no, I'm assuming it's like the twenty 146 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:18.759 sixth or something like that, or even before that. Okay, No, 147 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.279 I haven't. I haven't received it anything. I don't think. Well, 148 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:24.440 first off, they got practice and this is damn high. Now was that 149 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:28.799 the okay you we went home at the same time. Was that the hardest 150 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.440 rain last night that you've ever driven in? No? No, there's been 151 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.600 worse. I think, uh ten years ago if I can remember correctly. 152 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:37.679 But but it wasn't as bad as you probably had it because I was going 153 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.919 into it a lighter rain. You went up northwest, right northwest. Yeah, 154 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.120 but it did hit me as hard as I think I saw back where 155 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.120 you're I go home. It was dark. I go home by way of 156 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:54.360 Fort loll Swan River Road over Topino Canyon Road down. So I'm going up 157 00:09:54.440 --> 00:10:00.480 Swan and I can't see. I literally there's a car in front of me, 158 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.279 okay, you know, And I could see his lights also in that 159 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.519 car was gone and I was still there, but I couldn't see it anymore. 160 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.279 You No, I didn't get and I was gonna I thought, are 161 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.799 you supposed to pull over here or not? If I pull over, nobody's 162 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:13.360 gonna see me. So I just kind of kept going. I slowed down. 163 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.360 I was probably going fifteen miles an hour going up Swan. Yeah, 164 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.759 I could not see. And then I turned on the river road. I 165 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:22.840 thought, wait a minute, why are you going on this road in this 166 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:24.720 storm? But you know what, it's a pretty good shape as far as 167 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:30.000 drainage goes. There weren't any big big I could not the river. I 168 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.799 couldn't see the river. I was seriously That's when That's when I could. 169 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.519 As I was coming up to the bridge to go over the river, that's 170 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.159 when I couldn't see. So I couldn't see the river. Yeah, I 171 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:41.480 was going away from I was going away from it. So Steve, I've 172 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.840 been here, Okay, I've been driving fifty years in this town close to 173 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:52.679 it, and I've never ever in this town driven in rain like that as 174 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:58.200 I did yesterday in that stretch from Fort Lowe, from Fort Lowell to River 175 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:03.480 Road on Swam, I could not purposely or were you in nineteen eighty four, 176 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:07.120 We'll see that that was a hard rain, but it wasn't blowing, 177 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.320 and it wasn't so hard that you couldn't see. It just rained a long, 178 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.519 long, long time. In four eighty three, eighty three fled I 179 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:18.919 covered a lot of that. I was working cops at that time, so 180 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.519 I covered a lot of that and I was out in it because I was 181 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.039 working for the newspaper. And that was different than that was different. That 182 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:28.879 was a different rain. That was just like a hard winter rain, but 183 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.600 not not where you get out of the car and you drench. I mean, 184 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:35.559 it just rained for a long time, is what it'd been. And 185 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:41.120 it rained steady for a long time without stopping. That's why we fled. 186 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:45.120 The thing that hit me was the last week when the and you saw this 187 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:50.120 probably on the news, the down power lines on Aina. It was like 188 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.919 a big thunder boom and it just knocked like the house and knocked off its 189 00:11:52.919 --> 00:12:00.480 foundation. But all the wiring on Aina was knocked down. The so like 190 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.000 a few poles. They closed down the streets. Yeaha yahda And I hadn't. 191 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:07.480 I hadn't been through that in my time here where it was just crazy. 192 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.039 They were just kind of like the sticks, little small sticks. So 193 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.759 you know it's not the world is changing, yeah yeah this none, this 194 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:22.360 none, Yeah, global work is effectiveness. Okay, before we go political 195 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.440 exactly, but you know it was. It was crazy. I've never been 196 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:31.159 anything like it. But where this is? That's I mean. I was 197 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.360 happy, right, I got to turn off my sprinklers again. Dame in 198 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:41.879 the and so needs water? Yeah so drenching. Yeah, okay again if 199 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.360 you want to call, we have no time right now. But before we 200 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:48.720 get to to Jake, but five to four forty we had a good show, 201 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:52.960 I thought yesterday with the with the rafts. Some conversations after with other 202 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:56.720 people that I spoke to a good call or two about it. So you 203 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.759 know that was a good off topic, off off our usual topics. Yes, 204 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:03.919 yeah, uh, you know, I think people appreciate again that we 205 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:09.320 do that. You know, it's good for the community, good for uh 206 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:15.080 local stuff and and and you know people kind of need to know what's going 207 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:16.960 on. You know that call. You know, we've got a caller who 208 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.120 had never called before, right right and comment. He was really good about 209 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.039 you know, situation with that, and so you know it's good to it 210 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:26.360 was good to uh to get into that. And you know, if you're 211 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.960 out there and you you can be a ref. You have time to be 212 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:31.799 a ref. And it's just something that you want to do. You gotta 213 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:35.200 do it, you gotta do it right. Okay, Hey, let's just 214 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.759 go to a breakdow because we're down a steam here. Get a hold of 215 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.559 Jake and then we can because we're gonna be really with a lot of guests 216 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:43.879 and not a lot of calls with people. Yeah, all right, stick 217 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:48.360 around, we'll be back with Jake Fisher. The window Depot has everything you 218 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:52.960 need to create the kitchener bathroom of your dreams. 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Let Arizona Pest Control get rid of your bad 272 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.880 bugs, termites, bees, or rodents serving Tucson and Southern Arizona since nineteen 273 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.319 forty seven. Go to azypest dot com to schedule your free evaluation today. 274 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:56.880 Steve Rivera and Jagen Saliz they have their eye on the ball on Tucson's sport 275 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:03.480 stage. Yet Fox Sports fourteen Dreamy Live, I mean iHeartRadio. At Hey, 276 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.599 welcome back to the ball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, 277 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:08.559 Diez Jacobs Sauce. Now on the phone, we have Jake Fisher for 278 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:14.160 were you a football player? How you doing, Jake? No, fantastic, 279 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:15.359 It's Friday. How are you guys? We're doing well. Glad that 280 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.640 you're not in the mountains or wherever you go because there's no phone service. 281 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:25.240 Seriously, I bet you wish you were, though, don't you. Yeah, 282 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.119 it's one hundred and thirteen up here right now. We'll get used to 283 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:33.000 it. Get used to it. Hey, So, I'm sure you kept 284 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:36.920 abreast of what was going on in the Big Twelve and you read everything on 285 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:44.759 your Twitter thing. Any surprises some of the first second team, you know, 286 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.559 the all Big twelve teams, you know, I'm surprised, Actually, 287 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.119 I'm not surprised. They have Dura as the number one quarterback. I knew 288 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:55.680 they were going to do that. I don't know what it is with their 289 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:00.200 fascination with Colorado and Dion and all those guys, but I definitely thought that 290 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.000 Noah deserved to get the nod to get number one. At least the publication 291 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.279 I read they had Shader's number one, and then you know the EA Sports 292 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:11.319 stuff, the fact that you have Travis Hunter as the number one rated receiver 293 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.000 in the conference as a joke. I mean, there's so much stuff. 294 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:18.000 And the fact is, you know a lot of these guys they don't you 295 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:22.200 know, they might favor one conference over the other. You know, they 296 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:25.920 did their homework on one and they didn't really look into another guy. But 297 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:27.079 I mean, if you're going to be doing these ratings, you got to 298 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:30.720 do them fair. And that might just be you know, hometown biased. 299 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:34.039 But the fact that you don't have Tmac is the number one receiver, that 300 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:37.359 just blows my mind. Yeah, no, I think you know, and 301 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:42.839 I've been saying from eleventh, yeah exactly. You know, they've got these 302 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:47.640 two first run NFL Draft picks, but you think they're they're the two best 303 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:49.440 players. But yeah, you're picking them to finish eleventh in the league. 304 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:53.960 So what are you doing? And yeah, who picked them eleven? The 305 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.160 media? The media, Well, the media doesn't know what the hell they're 306 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:02.559 talking about now, you guys. But I was talking about the media poll 307 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:07.039 had had Colorado in eleventh and Arizona in fifth, and I'm like, Okay, 308 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:11.279 so how good of a coach are you or do they think you are? 309 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:17.279 If you've got a first round NFL quarterback and a first round NFL wide 310 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:22.279 receiver or cornerback and you're still picking him to finish, you know, they 311 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.240 still think you're the eleventh place team in the league. I don't know. 312 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:29.839 I just know they're going to finish above ASU everyone else. It doesn't really 313 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:33.119 matter to me. I know Arizona's going to be higher than five. I 314 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.519 know that Colorado and ASU are going to be towards the bottom, you know, 315 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:42.200 in order for you to have two potential first rounders. And like on 316 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.920 Twitter, I see a bunch of stuff saying like, hey guys, it's 317 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.039 time for you to start tanking because Shadur is coming and all this other stuff. 318 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.559 It's like, and your pick to be eleventh in the league, and 319 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:55.200 the league is like, you know, it's not top heavy, but it's 320 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.039 not like you know, you don't have a bunch of bottom feeters, but 321 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:00.160 still you shouldn't be picked eleven if you got the much talent on your roster. 322 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:04.400 Yeah, and especially if beyond's this like you know this this heralded coach 323 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:08.680 and you know you're supposed to have like a top two class in terms of 324 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.680 you know, transfers and whatnot. The fact that you get chosen eleven, 325 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:15.599 that's just a joke. And you know you have all these ratings and you 326 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.960 have the first teamers and all this stuff. It just blows my mind. 327 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:22.880 Yah, what did you make of the event Gandhi or the the Gundhi stuff 328 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:27.799 with Oklahoma State and they're running back? Well, I think it was stupid 329 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:30.240 what he said. I mean, keep that crap to yourself. You don't 330 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:34.200 want people thinking that it's okay to drink and drive and do all that crap. 331 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:37.119 I mean, you know, you have a ton of these coaches who 332 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:41.920 literally work tirelessly and it's like every now and then they like to grab a 333 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:44.480 beer. But don't say it's what you guys do. You know, don't 334 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.079 the fact that you literally just basically gave the kid a pass. You know, 335 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:52.079 I understand having a couple of beers, But the one thing is what 336 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:53.839 you got to remember is there's no easier way to get home. Now. 337 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.359 You got you know, you got uber, you got Lyft, you got 338 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:00.200 all this stuff. So don't send a dumb mess message like that. I 339 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:02.880 mean that was just stupid for him to utter. Well, and you think 340 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:07.039 about this. You know Andy Reid's kid, right, the Kansas City coach. 341 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:10.079 You killed a kid or not. I didn't almost killed a kid. 342 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:14.400 You aimed a kid because he was drunk going home from work. Not even 343 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:15.640 just out, you know, at a bar. He was going home from 344 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:19.400 work, hammered. And so you have that happening in football. And yet 345 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:22.160 you you come out of your mic gun and you say that, I mean, 346 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:26.599 I just thought, man, and I'll tell you what he's really being 347 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:29.640 ripped. But the point I was making, Yes says he doesn't give a 348 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:33.519 crap what anybody thinks about that. Oh no, you can tell he doesn't. 349 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:36.720 And he's got such good job security. I mean, he probably just 350 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:38.880 says crap like that all the time and he gets away with it. He's 351 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.880 a hell of a coach. But I mean, you got to set an 352 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:44.880 example for these guys. And you know, a lot of the times when 353 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:47.559 you're recruiting some of these folks, they don't come from the best homes. 354 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:49.759 They don't come from you know, families that you know they have the whole 355 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:52.519 nucleus there. And you know, some of these guys, it doesn't matter 356 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.960 where they're from. They might not have a father figure. And when you 357 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.720 do that he was the head coach or he was a position coach. You 358 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.240 come out and you say something stupid like that, it's not going to reflect 359 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:04.240 well on you. Yeah. Yeah, so let me ask you to tell 360 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:08.079 you this. We had some guys who referee football games here in town, 361 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:11.839 have been doing it for a long time, and I asked him, do 362 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.559 you guys you know, you guys are human. Do you guys watch the 363 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:18.279 plays in addition to cover the plays in terms of what they're what they have 364 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:19.599 to do as a job. He says, yeah, yeah, yeah, 365 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:25.920 you know, how could you not watch a lot of Falcon's South Point? 366 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:30.079 Guy? Uh? And then then you mentioned Jake Fisher. I think Jake 367 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:34.720 Fisher's in the sentence with yea with Roberts, I'm thinking you were a stunt. 368 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:40.920 There is no way in hell I should be mentioned that kid. That 369 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:45.160 kid is freaking all world. I made it to college just by working hard 370 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.400 with that dude. He worked his tail off. He's got all the guy 371 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:52.240 given talent, and I mean he's as a first rounder and then he looked 372 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:53.599 that good as a rookie even though he was hurt most of the year. 373 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:56.599 But oh, man, I mean, keep my name out of your mouth. 374 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:02.200 Ja. No, man, you need to ride that one for as 375 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.200 long as you possibly can. He literally said, you know, I guess 376 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:08.039 that's fraulent. I can't do that. You might be related to you. 377 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:11.200 But let me say this. I said, because we know you were good, 378 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:15.480 how many how many Division one teams were coming after you one and and 379 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:18.079 this is another point I made, you could be You could be Jake Fisher 380 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:22.920 and be overlooked by so many and have all this time. You know it's 381 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.559 the two star Scoobs and all that stuff. Yeah, I mean two star 382 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.680 Scoob. That was a that was a whole different animal. I mean the 383 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:33.240 fact that that dude reached the heights that he did. And I think Arizona 384 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:37.839 was his only major Division on offer. No. I had all the schools 385 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:40.559 coming after me at the beginning, and then a lot of schools ended up 386 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:44.079 visiting. It was at the same time that Adam Hall was getting recruited, 387 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:47.640 and every single time after they left my school, they said I was too 388 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:49.519 small to be, you know, a linebacker Division one. So I only 389 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:55.599 ended up getting offers like legit offers in terms of like Power five schools by 390 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:00.119 Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. And then I had all those you know, 391 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.319 other you know, smaller Mountain West schools and stuff like that, kind 392 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.359 of waiting to see if those guys were not going to allow me to commit, 393 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:10.000 you know, if the offers were not committable anymore. So, you 394 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:12.920 know, I had all those schools. You know, I got everyone that 395 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:17.640 is a Division one player gets random mail. That doesn't you know, it 396 00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:21.240 doesn't really mean anything, right, I learned that, but I mean, 397 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:23.319 yeah, those three schools were the only Power of five schools. And then 398 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:30.480 at the last second, Utah called my coach and said that my offer is 399 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:36.480 uncommittable because they filled up their linebacker class essentially when they offered me. It 400 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:38.079 was kind of like, hey, you're either committing now or we're going to 401 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:42.400 you know, drop your scholarship. So really it came down Arizona Colorado guys. 402 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:48.480 Well, okay, well I'm still proud of you. Go on, 403 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.039 Jake, I'm you know what I let you know, we thought cool, 404 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.079 he mentioned a guest on our show with b John Robinson. That's how we 405 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:57.799 took that. So we were you know we're we're happy to hear your name 406 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:00.799 in there. Well, you know what your guys show is going to make 407 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:04.440 it if you guys can get bees on on. We tried, tried, 408 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:10.400 We have tried to believe it or not. Hey. So you know one 409 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:12.680 of the things that that you know, we talked about and that I talked 410 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:18.240 about we've been talked about again today is you know when when we were kind 411 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.079 of when PAC twelve was going through its stuff and the Big twelve was stepping 412 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:26.240 on the PAC twelve's neck and the Big everybody and then and we thought what 413 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.920 a jerk Brent Brett Yormark is. And then now that he's our commissioner, 414 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.400 we're like, Okay, he's our jerk, and we're happy to have him 415 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:37.079 because I feel like we've got a commissioner that's fighting for the conference and trying 416 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:41.240 to do things as opposed to what we've had before. How do you feel 417 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.799 about that? I like it. I like it. The media day, 418 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:51.519 he said Arizona was the top priority of the four corner schools because you know, 419 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:55.000 it's a college town, which damn near every single Big twelve school is 420 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.200 a college town. You don't have professional sports there. You got to you 421 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:02.000 know, a community that's proud of the university. Obviously, it's the best 422 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:06.440 basketball league in the entire country bar none. There's literally no competition when it 423 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:08.200 comes to that. And the fact that we had a hell of a football 424 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:11.640 team last year, so you know, I know that he I know that 425 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.680 football drives in most of the revenue, but you know, it says something 426 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:19.000 to have the best basketball league. And then the fact that he's being aggressive 427 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:22.359 going out and trying to get even bigger brands to bring into the Big twelve 428 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.799 family. You know, he's a businessman, he's not you know, he's 429 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:30.880 basically not taking any days off. You know. Obviously the last to Pack 430 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:36.119 twelve commissioners basically it was almost like they were just you know, part of 431 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:38.519 a you know, part of the country club and they didn't want to go 432 00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:41.680 out, get dirty and work and this dude. You know, it's nice 433 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.480 feeling wanted, right, especially when stuff like this happens. For us to 434 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:49.519 be in a position to be one of the top dogs to get you know, 435 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:53.880 basically to move over into a new conference. You know, it just 436 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:57.559 goes to show that we set ourselves up to you know, because there's going 437 00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:00.359 to be more expansion. There's going to be you know, the acc is 438 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.279 plug gonna end up blowing up. I'm just happy that we're set for that 439 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:10.079 next round of movement because we're gonna be you know, we're gonna get more 440 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:14.559 money. You know, we're still going to be attractive to players in the 441 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:18.720 state of Texas, probably even further east now. And basketball is going to 442 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:21.880 continue doing what it does. And you know, I think coach Brennan and 443 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.759 those guys are set up to take a football program into kind of a you 444 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:30.119 know, a new level, completely off the wall. I just thought of 445 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:33.400 this. It just came to me. I get ideas like this all the 446 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:36.440 time. Would you like to see Nebraska get back into the Big twelve. 447 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:42.920 I would like to see Nebraska just have a freaking winning season at this point. 448 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:47.160 I know Matt Rules a hell of a coach. If they had a 449 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:49.279 decent quarterback last year, they probably would have won seven or eight games. 450 00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:52.799 Like that's how insane it was. Like, I think they were second in 451 00:28:53.000 --> 00:29:00.759 entire country in terms of turnovers and their quarterbacks were absolutely awful. You know, 452 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.559 every now and then they'd get a deep ball because the defense would get 453 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:06.480 sucked up because they didn't think we could throw it, and then our receiver 454 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:08.599 was just fast enough to run under it and catch it. But you know, 455 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.440 the fact of the matters, I'd like to see them get to a 456 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:14.200 couple of bowl games because, I mean, they're set up for the future 457 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:17.640 really nice. They got a couple of really good recruiting classes going, They 458 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:19.079 have a lot of good players. They've been able to attract a lot of 459 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:22.720 really good transfers, and I think, not ruling those guys are going to 460 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:25.880 turn it around. But I'd just like to see them have a couple of 461 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.839 winning seasons. Obviously them being in the Big twelve. Getting to see my 462 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.000 school and then obviously the school that my entire family roots for play against each 463 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.759 other, that would be pretty cool, though, Yeah, no question. 464 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:38.200 I I don't know, I felt I needed to ask you that, but 465 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:41.400 I just, you know, it's just it hasn't gone well for Nebraska since 466 00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.319 they went to the Big Ten. You know, we talked about, you 467 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.720 know, getting a little too big for good. The first few years were 468 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.960 good, and then they'd win ten games and then Nebraska fans would be like, 469 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:56.519 well, this isn't Nebraska football. We're supposed to be competing for Natties 470 00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.799 and then the next two coaches they brought in kind of just ran it into 471 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.880 the Yeah. Yeah, so we've talked about this. I think maybe a 472 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:08.440 time or two with you before. Fifth place in the Big twelve probably better 473 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:12.599 than that, don't you think. Yeah. I think we're you know, 474 00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:15.799 at least top three, and I think we're one of the only two or 475 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:23.440 three that actually have a legit chance to win the league because because you've got 476 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:26.640 the quarterback that's been there, you've got the offensive line that's been there, 477 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.240 with the exception of obviously one of those starting five, you've got a really 478 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.599 solid running back room. Other than Temac. The receivers, you know, 479 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.000 they got to step up. But I think the I think this new coaching 480 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.319 staff is going to find a way to do it. And then look on 481 00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:42.480 the defensive side of the ball, as long as that defensive line you know, 482 00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:45.480 can rush the passer, which, by the way, Dwaynea Keina is 483 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:48.000 one of those guys that knows how to use the safeties to you know, 484 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:52.880 throw in the blitz packages and get to the quarterback. But you got probably 485 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.880 the best linebacker in the entire conference. I think the best secondary in the 486 00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.200 conference. You know, aside from maybe Kansas by if we can fill that 487 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:04.880 one corner slot and we can put a composite linebacker there next to Jacob Manu, 488 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:07.839 you know, I don't see a reason why we couldn't have just as 489 00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.079 good of a defense, and then I think our offense is going to be 490 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.200 the exact same. Yeah, I mean why not. Yeah, we're talking 491 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.799 to Arizona line former Arizona linebacker Jake Fisher. What did you think of Jacob 492 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.559 Manu by the end of the year, right, I mean he just came 493 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.839 on. I mean by the end of the year he was like a great 494 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.599 linebacker, not just a really good linebacker. Yeah, I said it. 495 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:33.839 There's been three, you know, a couple of different tiers, but there's 496 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:41.200 been three linebackers since my senior year in college that I've seen that can walk 497 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.359 in as a freshman and play right away. Obviously Scooby, who I ended 498 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.720 up playing with, and then the next year he just kind of took off 499 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.559 of the life of his own. It was just ridiculous how crazy he went. 500 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:53.720 Then you had Colin Schooler, and then you have Jacob Manu. I 501 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:59.359 think Manu and Scooby are kind of in a tier by themselves. You know, 502 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:04.039 I think Schooler basically didn't have the defensive line to keep him, you 503 00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:07.240 know, clean. But I mean those two are unbelievable. I mean, 504 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:12.039 he scrapes off of off of, you know, the line really well. 505 00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:14.839 He knows how to get off blocks. He can do better, which he 506 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.559 said in his interview, But you know, he sticks you. He's very 507 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:22.119 instinctual. He just kind of is always around the ball. And you know, 508 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:23.880 as an inside linebacker kind of the leader of that defense, if you 509 00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:27.759 don't see him around the ball, there's something wrong. Yeah, So the 510 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.920 fact that he's always there, he hits you, and you know he kind 511 00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:35.039 of knows what he's doing. And the fact is, you know, towards 512 00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:37.440 the end of the year and some of those blitz packages, i mean, 513 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:40.039 he looked awesome. So I'm excited to see him and we might have two 514 00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:45.119 more years of him, So you know, that's awesome. Do you zero 515 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:50.200 in on him? Do you watch him when you're watching the game, Yeah, 516 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.960 of course, I mean you know that. I mean imagine just going 517 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.880 through five years of doing nothing but watching you know yourself on film and watching 518 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:01.160 whoever the hell you're back BI is or whoever's in front of you. I 519 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.880 mean that's kind of you know where you gravitate towards. I mean, you 520 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:08.039 talk to anybody else. I'm that played and you know, played a lot 521 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:12.079 at the college level. That's probably the first thing they look at. You 522 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.200 know, you watch a game and it's like, all right, well what 523 00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:16.200 is he doing? And then if you watch a replay, then you watch 524 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:21.200 other things. But yeah, ike and on the linebackers. Okay, so 525 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.640 we were ending our time with you. 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So you can either check for hot flashes than duck 570 00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:29.519 or call picture Rocks, Cooling, eating and plumbing. It's not hot flashes. 571 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:34.000 We're calling picture rocks, cooling, eating and plumbing right now at five 572 00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:39.480 two zero four, nine, two zero seven or eight Chicksucks, pulling and 573 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:46.280 plumbing. Dreamy Live, I mean, iHeartRadio WAF. This is I on 574 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:52.519 the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, 575 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:54.760 welcome back to One in the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 576 00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:59.159 I'm Steve, He's Jay. We have one with us. We have sixteen 577 00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:01.840 minutes. We actually have might maybe four. We're expecting a call from the 578 00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:06.280 A D. Right from the A C A D. Graham Rosini's supposed to 579 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:09.400 call in here in the next five minutes. Or so, you know, 580 00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:12.960 they're going through a lot of the stuff that is going through. They're going 581 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:16.639 through the transition going to the Big twelve. They've got their own financial challenges 582 00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:21.159 going on, a lot of things. You know. Look, you know 583 00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:23.639 it's very similar to what what we're going through down here. So be interesting 584 00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:27.920 to see new a d right. I mean there's two new athletic directors. 585 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:30.920 That's the two at the at the these two Arizona schools, right right, 586 00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:36.039 Well, we'll see kind of what his message is and hoping to move forward 587 00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:37.719 as the boss. Yeah, Now he's a guy who's been in the department 588 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:43.000 for a while, right, He's he's you know, hired from within. 589 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:45.920 So but you know what, what are the challenges he's facing. I guess 590 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:49.199 what, you know, what we're able to talk about. We're only gonna 591 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:51.639 have about ten minutes with him, so it's kind of going to kind of 592 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:55.400 go fast. But we'll see what what we can we can get from from 593 00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:59.880 that. You know, I'm most interested in kind of the logistics of what 594 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:02.599 are going through. You know, all these schools are going through to move 595 00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:06.519 to the Big twelve, right, they got to do everything. I gotta 596 00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:08.800 put new logos on everything, logos, on the fields, logos, on 597 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:12.920 the courts, logos, on the letterhead. You know, I mean just 598 00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:19.599 the massive amount of stuff that's got to be done to make this transition. 599 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.199 Yeah, you know that that's a I mean, there's a lot of work 600 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:27.440 that takes place, and it's just for survival, right, just to stay 601 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:30.000 where you are, right, just to stay where you are. Yeah. 602 00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:32.840 No, it's tough. You know, it's like a middle class family who's 603 00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:37.079 trying to get by but save a little money. Yeah, good luck with 604 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:38.800 that, because you're just trying to survive day to day exactly, and you're 605 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:43.199 buying new houses all the time, right, right, right, I mean 606 00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:45.599 they're having to put into you know, everybody's having to put stuff into facilities. 607 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:50.719 They just redid their stadium. There's just a lot of stuff. And 608 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:54.320 I don't know these jobs, Steve, you know, these ad jobs aren't 609 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:57.880 what they used to do. No, of course, you're not what you 610 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.079 signed up, right, You're not just managing the sport now, You're you're 611 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:06.000 managing you know, the facility of war. You're managing you know, situation 612 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:08.519 where you've got to start paying players. You gotta set you gotta set money 613 00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:13.239 aside to do that, and that means you got to go raise more money. 614 00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:16.159 And and you know they talk about how you know, head coaches, 615 00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:21.400 particularly head football coaches and basketball coaches, you know, they spend as much 616 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:23.079 time you know, on the outside stuff as they do, you know, 617 00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:25.760 on the court. Yeah, you know, yeah, no, no, 618 00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:30.760 it's they get paid pretty handsomely to do this job, right, But it 619 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.719 ain't a fun job. It's not easy. That's job it used to be. 620 00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:36.039 Maybe I don't even know. I don't think it was ever easy, 621 00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:38.440 you know, but it's just different. But there's just more to so much 622 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:43.079 more to it anymore. And I don't know, we'll see, I guess, 623 00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.159 you know, if you're a new if you're a new a d like 624 00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:49.920 he is, Yeah, this is what you signed up for. But you 625 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:52.159 know, if you were alive and good, right and had been in the 626 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.920 business for you know, so many years, and all of a sudden it 627 00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:59.239 becomes this, that's not what you signed up for, right, And we'll 628 00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.400 talk about that too, hopefully you have some time, you know, ten 629 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:06.480 minutes. Yeah, So you know, it's a I don't know, man, 630 00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:08.880 it's it's it's such a whole different world. And for us too, 631 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:12.760 Steven more than here talking about study. What the hell do we know about 632 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.800 the finances of athletic department? Right right? No, I remember back in 633 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.400 the day, you know, they had this budget of what twenty five million 634 00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.199 through that basketball only, But now it's it's all these sports that you have 635 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:29.159 to survive. They just added triathlon right US ago, and now we wonder 636 00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:32.599 how long is that going to be, right and other sports along with it, 637 00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:36.719 because how are you going to come up with paying these these these moneys 638 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:40.119 and maybe scholarship reductions in football because now you don't have to worry about title 639 00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:44.119 nine or you know what I'm saying this the the back and forth or the 640 00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:47.480 or the the waging weighing of events. You've got to be really smart to 641 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:52.039 be in one of these jobs. Uh and uh you know, I mean, 642 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:55.760 you know grammar scene, he's got a you know, business degree, 643 00:40:55.880 --> 00:41:01.079 he's got an MBA. You know, I mean you you can't just go 644 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:06.199 in there and wing these jobs anymore, because there's one there's a lot at 645 00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:08.079 stake. Let's see if the bone's ringing? U see if that's him? 646 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:12.360 Hi? This is iron? The ball? Is this Graham? Yes, 647 00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:14.519 it is Hi? Graham. How are you doing? This is Jay Gonzales. 648 00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:15.800 I got my partner Steve Rivera here. Thank you for calling me in. 649 00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:20.840 We appreciate it. Oh my pleasure. Thanks for having me. Just 650 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:23.840 one quick question. How is it being in the Big twelve like everybody else? 651 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:29.559 Yeah, we're excited. It was it felt real this week when we're 652 00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:31.840 up in Vegas and you kind of saw these logos around us that we're we're 653 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:35.360 right around the corner. So it'll be it'll be fun. I know that 654 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:37.719 the ad from here Desiree, and we haven't been spoken to her a bunch 655 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.559 of this since she arrived. Were you busy giving the rounds and giving the 656 00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:45.079 interviews, the kind of explaining your process or what you're going to be dealing 657 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:49.679 with. Yeah, it was great to just be, you know, right 658 00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.079 alongside our head coach and the four football players we had there. Got a 659 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:55.400 chance to interact with a lot of media and just for me to meet a 660 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:59.199 lot of the national coverage. Yeah, and you know, put faces with 661 00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:01.760 names and go those relationships. Was wonderful. And then yeah, I get 662 00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:06.119 a chance to talk a lot about the exciting things happening all of our issue. 663 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:08.480 So we got to squeeze in a lot here because we know we've got 664 00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:10.480 to get off the air at the top here in about ten minutes. But 665 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:14.519 the first thing I want to ask you was, you know you're new in 666 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:16.360 this job. I know you've been in the department for a long time at 667 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:22.039 a high level, but stepping into the number one position, what was the 668 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:27.239 first thing you felt you needed to do or needed to accomplish to really kind 669 00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:30.239 of get the ball rolling on everything else that's coming your way now. It 670 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.880 was really important, you know, right after the announcement, we had a 671 00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:37.119 chance to get a decent amount of our team together, you know, summertime 672 00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:39.800 and so not everybody was in the building, but we had a already scheduled 673 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:44.880 departmental outing and just got to get the group together and talk about doing this 674 00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:47.679 together. It's not about for the adeas, It's about how do we use 675 00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:52.199 our collective talents as an athletics department to go really energize our fan base, 676 00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:57.360 fire up our community, and go represent a issue in a fine fashion. 677 00:42:57.400 --> 00:43:00.960 And so, you know, we had a six or seven months going through 678 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:05.239 the interim period and wanted to get everybody back together and focused on where we 679 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:08.519 go next and I'm just a big believer that it's not anyone person's responsibility. 680 00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:13.000 It's our entire collective effort that's going to help this thing turn around and continue 681 00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:15.280 to improve. How much does it help that you were inside the building to 682 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:19.840 start with? I think it helps a lot. You know, I've came 683 00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:22.639 out to ASU when I was eighteen, and I've never left the market, 684 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.039 So you know, it was a two time Alumita issue. Was a member 685 00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:29.760 of our baseball program. Was gone for thirteen years while I was with the 686 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:35.639 Diamondbacks, but I was still in the community building relationships that are maintained today. 687 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.719 And you know, much like Tucson, Phoenix is a close knit business 688 00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:43.119 community and people can be Assu fans and Sun fans and Dbacks fans, and 689 00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:45.920 so having twenty five years of history not only an a issue, but also 690 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.360 in the valley, in this incredible metro market, I think all that's a 691 00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:53.000 huge advantage. Okay, so you're going to the Big twelve. There's all 692 00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:57.519 these things, you know, flying around, You've got nil to deal with, 693 00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:00.920 You've got you know, your your teams have transfer portal deal with and 694 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:02.880 all the issues that come with that. You're going to have to start paying 695 00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:08.440 players very soon and setting revenue aside. And then and then at the same 696 00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:13.599 you got this transition to a whole new league that comes with a whole bunch 697 00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:16.440 of logistical stuff. How was you're going to make him resign from his posession 698 00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:22.280 with all that play? You know what comes first? Right? I mean, 699 00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.119 it's really I mean, how how how does all this come together? 700 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:29.000 How do you not lose your mind trying to get your arms around all of 701 00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:31.199 it? You know, in some ways, I think ignorance is bliss and 702 00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:34.480 and this is the version of college sports that I know, you know, 703 00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:37.039 I was. I've been away from it for thirteen years and coming back in 704 00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:40.880 at the beginning of the transfer portal era and nil and just you know, 705 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:45.159 being a part of this constant state of change. And then certainly over the 706 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:51.519 last year, as we were navigating conference realignment going into we've joined a new 707 00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:52.920 hockey conference as well. So we're not only going in the Big twelve, 708 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:59.400 but we're going into a brand new conference for exciting hockey program and leadership changes 709 00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:02.639 and and class action settlements. I mean, we're navigating change all around us. 710 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:06.719 And where it's a benefit, in my opinion, is that we've been 711 00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.079 under the hood on all of it. We haven't had to be episodic or 712 00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:13.360 one change after another, or one year it's the move in the Big twelve, 713 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:15.519 and the next year it's the leadership transition. We're able to really look 714 00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:17.880 at it across the board and say, how do we make the best decision 715 00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:22.239 that puts us in the best position for success across all the change around us, 716 00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:27.079 and just embrace it. It's evolving. I don't see as challenges. 717 00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:30.440 I do think that there's new new doors opening as a result of all this 718 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:32.679 change, and we just want to be able to maximize the moment. I 719 00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:37.199 remember back in the day when we covered the news sports in the newspapers were 720 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:40.039 talking to Jim Livgod. I think some of the worries the AD's had back 721 00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.519 Daniel was worrying about the kids, the five hundred and some student athletes not 722 00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:47.880 getting into trouble doing some crazy things. That's just a side thing. Now 723 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.400 you have money issues. I'm sure you're a dad. You know, sorry, 724 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:53.760 son, I can buy this because we don't have it. It's almost 725 00:45:53.840 --> 00:46:00.039 like that's the case every day in athletics today. Yeah, i'd said the 726 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.400 environment of the business of college sports. Its certainly changed, but the focus 727 00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:06.760 is still our student athletes, and that's got to be the driving force and 728 00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.679 everything that we're doing, where despite how the environment around them is changing, 729 00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:15.320 we're still here to resource our head coaches, to put our young people who 730 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:17.920 they're with every single day and the best position for success, not only for 731 00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:22.519 the sport, but also as a young person in the world, finding their 732 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.920 way through young adulthood, academically, pursuing their passions, their hobbies, et 733 00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.039 cetera. You know, Commissioner your Mark has said this a lot lately, 734 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.199 that there's no better time to be a student athlete. I tend to agree. 735 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:36.800 I just think that they've got new doors open to them that we didn't 736 00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:38.559 have when I was in this environment, and so we need to be mindful 737 00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:43.119 of how do we help them utilize the tools that are available to them. 738 00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:46.159 And that is a you know, certainly a huge departmental focus that they issue 739 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:51.480 is making sure that we don't lose sight of their students before their student athletes. 740 00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:54.639 And they're also young people that are navigating a very complicated world around them, 741 00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:58.079 and that's got to be the north star and everything that we put in 742 00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:00.679 front of them. Yes, how we how we get to Saturday may change, 743 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:05.400 but Saturday is still Saturday. And there's nothing more special than college athletics 744 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:07.079 and the dollars that we raise and the dollars that we put into it are 745 00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:10.519 benefiting young people. And I just feel like there's not a better time in 746 00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:14.960 the world to be putting more productive young people out into society. So with 747 00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:17.480 so much stuff, so much of this stuff, you know, so up 748 00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:22.320 in the air, particularly this whole issue of the revenue sharing piece, how 749 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.000 hard is it to kind of figure out what directions you got to be going 750 00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:29.760 on some stuff? Right, You're going to have to at some point. 751 00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:32.599 The numbers are something like twenty million dollars you're gonna have to be sharing with 752 00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:37.440 athletes and that kind of stuff. How can you look ahead and how can 753 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.079 you plan for the future when you've got something like that looming in front of 754 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:45.360 you, Well, it's ironically helpful to know what it's going to look like 755 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:46.920 moving forward, and you can really start to build a plan on how we're 756 00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:50.320 going to get there. And we're prepared to compete. We're prepared to be 757 00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.480 in every conversation with what we can provide for our student athletes to enrich their 758 00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:58.440 experience, and even as compensation enters the conversation, we're going to be prepared 759 00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:00.760 to meet that moment. And you know, we've got the luxury of time, 760 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:02.679 but it's not a lot of time, and so there's a lot of 761 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:07.119 planful decisions that we need to make. It may make the budgeting process and 762 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.639 how we financially forecast look a little differently, and we really need to challenge 763 00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:15.639 ourselves across every decision we make of how is this dollar spent benefiting a young 764 00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:19.920 person in their journey through sport, How does this allow us to showcase what's 765 00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:24.119 happening at ASU, and just redirect how we're spending dollars to be in alignment 766 00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:27.880 with the goals and objectives of what we're here to do. And so, 767 00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:30.960 yes, it may cost more money, but you know that's where I feel 768 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:35.639 like being in a major research university in a major metropolitan market is a really 769 00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:39.159 really important advantage as we move forward, and it's all about resource generation and 770 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:43.719 we're lucky to be an incredible market as a part of an incredible state. 771 00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:46.559 We have people move into Arizona and ways that most other parts of the country 772 00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:50.760 aren't enjoying, and that's just a chance for us to connect, build more 773 00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:54.119 fans, sell more tickets, energize our fan base, and reinvest all those 774 00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:57.760 dollars into what college sports is going to look like moving forward. So, 775 00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:00.719 Grem I've been here thirty some years, covered a little issue, but a 776 00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:04.159 lot of Arizona. Jay has been here for all his life. And the 777 00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:07.920 phrase we use, and we've used probably too much, is a issue is 778 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:10.599 a sleeping giant. We've said that for years and years. Do you still 779 00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:15.599 feel that and is it maybe overused? And you guys use a different term. 780 00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:17.840 Well, I mean, if that's the case, we want to be 781 00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:22.320 the group that wakes up a sleeping giant. I'm very bullish on the opportunity 782 00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.639 in front of us. I think we're part of an incredible community of a 783 00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:31.719 issue fans and again, having that combination of enormous university that's contributing in all 784 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:37.800 levels of society, that's in the backdrop of a growing, incredible metropolitan market 785 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.440 like we have in Phoenix. That's a really important advantage for a issue and 786 00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:44.880 we'd be foolish if we don't lean into that. And you know, Michael 787 00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:47.000 Crow, our president, has made the full strength of the issue behind what 788 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:51.760 we're doing in athletics. It's a really important investment into the work that we're 789 00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.719 doing. And you know, I'm excited about everything that's coming at us and 790 00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:59.920 how do we just fully utilize the strength of the issue in the athletic space 791 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:02.679 we're moving forward and so yeah, I think there's tremendous opportunity and there's tremendous 792 00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:07.239 upside. We've got a great trend line from many of our sports having a 793 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.880 lot of success, and many of them already and certainly getting football, mental, 794 00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:14.320 women's basketball, baseball on track and not looking back is a huge focus 795 00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:15.039 of ours right now. Well, let me follo up a little bit on 796 00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:20.119 that. We're talking to Graham Rosini, athletic director at Arizona State. Graham, 797 00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:23.760 what's got you most fired up about moving this first season in the Big 798 00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:28.480 twelve for all your teams? And then what's got you sort of maybe a 799 00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:31.360 little worried, I'm say worried, but just you know something that you feel 800 00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:35.280 like, Okay, we've really got to pay attention to this. Yeah, 801 00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:37.880 we just really need to embrace the change and this is the direction that we're 802 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:42.320 moving. We're fully embracing it as we get ready for Haugust second and entering 803 00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:45.639 the Big twelve. I do think it's really important that we're maintaining the rivalry 804 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:49.679 with University of Arizona. I just could never imagine a world where the two 805 00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:52.440 of us weren't together. There's just too much history. This rivalry is really 806 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.840 important, as obviously your listeners know, and you know, I grew up 807 00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.559 in the southeast around Alabama Auburn. That's a well documented, famous rivalry. 808 00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:04.840 I really put the asu U of a rivalry right alongside it. I just 809 00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:08.400 think that there's an intensity and a passion across each fan base that's really unique. 810 00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:12.199 It's a lot of fun, it gets emotional at times, as it 811 00:51:12.199 --> 00:51:15.880 should, but it's a really meaningful rivalry. And the fact that we maintain 812 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.639 the part that is most important as we move forward is intact and that's a 813 00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.400 really good benefit. And then you know, we get the benefit of going 814 00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:25.679 into the Big twelve alongside U of A and Colorado and Utah and having that 815 00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:30.239 connection with those universities. That's been a really unique and valuable part of our 816 00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.639 Pact twelve experience. And then understanding that there's twelve universities that are willing to 817 00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:38.079 welcome us with open arms, and it'll be different. Admittedly, it'll be 818 00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:43.119 different ways that we can't get no until we experience the first cycle of it. 819 00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:45.360 But I'm really excited for these campuses that will visit. We've we've been 820 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:50.039 lucky. You know, Desiree has been in a lot of the meetings alongside 821 00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:53.079 us, and to a person, the Big twelve room has been very welcoming. 822 00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:57.440 They're excited about what ASU and U of A bring into this conference. 823 00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:01.599 You know, certainly athletically, but academically and our society impact. All those 824 00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:06.880 things are positive attributes. But there's some great universities that will compete against and 825 00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:09.079 we'll build new traditions and new rivalries, and we'll experience new parts of the 826 00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:13.639 country as a result of it. And uh and again, we're just excited 827 00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:16.360 to get any other eye into the transition and start life in the Big twelve. 828 00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:20.119 We only got about fifteen seconds. G I please tell me you were 829 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.679 a short stop or second basement, because you were a smart man. I 830 00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:27.000 was a catcher, but I'm sick five, so I should have been a 831 00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.960 picture that would have been maybe the better long term decision but yeah, I 832 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:34.039 was so good I ended up behind the desk. That's all you need to 833 00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:37.840 Thanks you, thanks for joining us. N we appreciated best, best eluct 834 00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:39.320 this season. Thank you, Thank you. Look forward to seeing you. 835 00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:44.440 Great, great, great timing, awesome good stuff. All right, we'll 836 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.039 be right back. We'll be here at the top of the hour with breaking 837 00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:47.119 news with one stick around