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Eye on the Ball, Breaking News
on Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. All

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right, we're gonna start off this
breaking news by obviously we know as the

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show started yesterday the men's basketball one. But as we were going off air,

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the women's team was starting and and
they they won, They got the

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win, and they won the first
four and now they're officially in the term.

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They're in the field of sixty four, which is very cool. You

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know, to me, it's house
money right right right now. They got

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one. They got in the tournament
when you know there's a lot of data

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whether they should even get in.
They got in, They got in the

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first four. Now they're in the
actual sixty four team bracket. I mean

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it's like whatever happens from here on
out is gravy, is the way I

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see it. What do you think
same? I mean, we have a

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tough opponents more I think it's Syracuse
and then after that against really probably one

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win would be phenomenal. Right,
Yeah, and they're playing well. I

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think I saw that where they I'm
pretty sure they let all games something like

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that. So yeah, no,
they were in charge the whole game.

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Got you know, they got close
a couple of times, I think five

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or whatever, but you know,
they just played, they played hard,

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they played well. They were in
foul trouble again. They had two players

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for most of the a good chunk
of the second half of four files and

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they hung in there and uh and
uh you know won the game. So

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good good on a da Barnes for
having a chance to you know, day

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in there and the game they play. Okay, the man play at nine

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two, so on time tomorrow the
women play at twelve thirty. So it's

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kind of a double headed for Arizona
fans. Yeah. Yeah, moving into

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uh, the other games that that
we didn't get to discuss yesterday was h

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the Oakland three point I think,
uh three point fest they had there and

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then the Sanford Well, I just
want to know you guys thoughts on specifically

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that Stanford because because there's a lot
of talk now on social media about how

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why isn't there they use so many
reviews, right, why aren't they able

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to go to the monitor for something
like that? Because that because those are

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the rules, right, and uh, you know Tommy got asked about that

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a little bit today too. You
know, would you like to see there

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be there, you know, more
reviews like reviews for that. You know

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they do it in the NBA in
the last two minutes. You can review

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everything in the NBA in the last
twins, so they could have reviewed that

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found scene that that was not a
foul. So many people on people on

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social media, they've is it the
worst call of the year or the worst

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call in the history of sports?
So it's been a little of both.

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But you know, that was so
unfortunate. Now, look, Sanford was

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still going to be behind. You
know, you don't know if they would

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have won the game, but certainly
would have had a chance had a chance

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to win the game, and and
it's you know, you just want to

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see what I'm sitting here watching Auburn
lose to Yale. They went to the

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line seventy eight seventy six. Guy
had I think it was a one and

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one or he maybe had one more
shot, but he missed it. Auburn

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got the rebound, had two shots
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didn't hit it, and Auburn wins
the game. I mean, Yale win

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beats Auburn, four seed over at
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six, big upset. Anyways,
going back to that, yes, look,

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you know, if you're going to
have reviews like the review every time

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the all goes out of right right
right, if you're going to do that,

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then you cover everything. It's like, just get it right. And

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that's that's kind of everybody's argument.
Yeah, so I agree if after this

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year they adjust anything. But I
want to stay on the topic of last

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night. There was a lot of
comments about kla Parti's post game and kind

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of it seems like in a way
he was he was throwing his freshman under

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the bus, not you know,
he basically explained it as you know,

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we're nineteen years old. You know
these we're playing against men, you know,

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stuff like that, comments like that, and I don't know, it's

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just after so many exits, it's
just becoming well, there's there's two sides

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to that. Yes it is.
I mean I think the kid or not

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the kid that the man was twenty
six years old, right, But how

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are you you're a better coacher than
that. How are you going to let

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someone throw up twenty three pointers?
Right? And he made half of them?

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Yeah, and well the two points
there. He wasn't complaining about his

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guys being freshman when that freshman class
got him to the final fourth. Anthony

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Davis and all those guys, those
guys were all freshmen, right, and

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they got you. They got to
the uh, they got to the final

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four. He's same ages, So
what the hell is the difference there?

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You know? And then you know, to to your point on uh,

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I forget you're at the point go
oh yeah, attempting twenty three points and

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they knew it's only all seasons.
People. People are joking on social media

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about that guy. Somebody made the
comments say that someday down the road when

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there's Goky is. He is teaching
social high school social studies. He's going

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to tell his class how he dropped
thirty on Kentucky in the NCAA tournament,

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and nobody in his class is going
to believe him because you've got better players

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than that guy, and you let
him beat you, right, almost single

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handedly beat you. What the hell? Take the loss and take what comes

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with it, which people are saying, how do you keep him? They've

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got one tournament when in in the
last four years and you're Kentucky. You

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know, I think Arizona fans should
should kind of learn from this because we

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few Arizona right as a powerhouse.
And although last year they had an early

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exit, there's there's other teams that
deal with with much worse that are are

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that's here as well. Yeah,
oh yeah, I mean you know,

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look, Bill self is getting in
a pass because of the injuries, right,

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I mean, Kansas should have lost
less, right, so they're getting

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you know, but he's getting in
the pass this year because of the injuries.

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He's won a couple of national championships
and everything's honkey dooy frohim. Tommy

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as is just older than dirt,
so you know, his you know,

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Michigan State isn't what Michigan State's been. Duke has flipped over their their coaching

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job, you know, but those
fans are all they're okay. Kentucky fan

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is a different breed and they're gonna
they're unhappy there. You know, getting

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to the n c DOUAA tournament isn't
good enough when you're Kentucky. You gotta

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you gotta win some and he's not. And but I think is I think

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his buyout is something like thirty million
dollars thirty or thirty three million dollars something

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like that. But you know,
do they have that kind of money in

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in Lexington, Kentucky. I don't
know. Yeah, So yeah, whenever

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things like this happen, I think
each year we typically have a blue blood

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go down early. There's just coaches
on the hot seat everything. This is

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why, this is why the tournament
is what it is, right yep.

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And you know Bruce pearl Over at
Auburn, you know, he was in

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the final four just a few years
ago. So there, you know,

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Auburn fan isn't going to lose their
minds over this. But you know,

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I mean it happens to teams,
you know, it happened in Arizona last

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year. You know, we'll see
Produce still got to play today, so

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I don't you'll have to wait on
that exactly. And on the other side,

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you see you know, powerhouses taking
care of business like Yukon. Yukon.

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Yeah, Yukon today they look like
that was that was me playing against

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my five year old son in the
driveway office. Those guys. We have

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some other news that I want to
touch on that that might also impact college

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basketball down the line. So the
NBA G League Ignite which kind of became

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a pathway for for high school basketball
players that that didn't want to play in

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college but wanted to get pro experienced
before entering the draft. So that is

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now actually going to be shutting down. So I think the trend we might

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see now is those top picks either
going to Europe or we'll stay here in

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the States and play college basketball.
Because so many of the top picks recently,

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we haven't even played college basketball.
They just joined the league. Interesting.

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Also the Elite League, yeah,
the Elite One, Yeah, yep.

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So do you know the reason why
it's shutting down. I'm not sure

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the particular reason they I did.
I was reading up on how there's a

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ton of draft eligible guys that right
now don't know what to do. So

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some of them may go on to
Europe and play, but I think we'll

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start to see a trend of seeing
them playing college again, just because a

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lot of the most recent guys have
been committed college. The dude that just

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committed to Arizona a few days ago, he had the G League in his

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top five and he ended up committing
to Arizona, so maybe he saw something.

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I'm just surprised that the team folded
like that because usually they produce at

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least two players in the time they
do. They do interesting interest. Yeah,

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I'm sure you guys have the merch
for for all those right now,

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we have the cards, don't How
has that business changed for you for you

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guys, Well, everything's changed with
the nail deals in general, so now

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we see cards with Kylin Boswell,
Caleb Love and all that. So it's

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nice. It's great. These kids
should have had cards and and got paid

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all along, so it definitely it's
it's nice. Sorry about that. And

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then moving into the Phoenix Suns.
Last night, a guy that you actually

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mentioned on the show, Devin Booker, he had a thirty last night in

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a win. How have you seen
as far as the Suns fan base,

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because you know, Jay, I
don't know if you realize this as well,

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but it seemed like the Suns didn't
really have a fan base for for

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that stretch and then that finals run
with Yeah, Devin Booker. Now it's

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kind of ignited everything, right,
They all of a sudden found a bunch

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of fans for sure. Oh yeah, even I watched some some Son's game.

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It paid a little bit of I
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went to the first Uh, the
Phoenix Suns came down here in their first

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season, played an exhibition game at
Catalena High School. Oh wow, Dave,

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Dick van Arsdale, Connie Hawkins I
think was on that team. Dave

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Byng was playing for the Piston.
I've only been to one other Phoenix Suns

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really since then. And you know
up there, I went to a game

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up there once and that's it.
You know, I just don't down here,

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They've just never had an impact.
They've got their following up there,

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But I don't know about you know, it's it's I don't think it's a

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widespread all over the state. I
don't know what what you know, you

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see it more trending intitutes on more. You know, like you said,

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to have these star players. They
don't like Kevin Durant, but Devin Booker

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is their own. So yes there
is and we do some a lot about

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Phoenix Suns. Surprisingly, but yeah, you do see a lot more.

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Obviously it's a Phoenix team and may
always be a Phoenix team, but you

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do see more fans out here in
Tucson, that's for sure. Yeah.

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I had one more topic here I
wanted to bring up to you guys,

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and it involves Coach Prime in Colorado
and their unusual recruiting style. I wasn't

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aware of this until the story came
out. And Coach Prime, actually they

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don't do in home business. He
does not do in home visits. I

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saw a little bit about that that
I didn't do. Well. You know,

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his explanation made sense, but it's
just not what the college coaches do,

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which was right. He doesn't go
to him home business. He says,

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they want to see how I live. They don't need to. They

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don't need me to see how they
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come here, they don't need me
to come to them. You know,

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when you think about so many coaches
made a living off of getting into somebody's

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house, getting with their parents,
and the you know, Loot was one

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of those guys, you know,
the the great college coaches who they you

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know who they were the closers,
right, the Nick Saban Nick Sabing comes

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to your house, you're going to
Alabama, right, and he's taking the

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opposite things, and he's basically saying, you know, I'm the I'm the

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big cheese. People want to see
me in my environment. I don't need

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to go see them, and only
you know that's a bit rog Yeah.

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There again, it's very arrogant,
right, But on the one hand,

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it kind of makes sense, right, and I think part of it is

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the n I l as far as
the student athletes. Now, maybe the

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mentality for for recruit is okay,
what are you what are you giving me?

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Rather than the opposite, right,
what do I get if I come

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there? And unfortunately that is true. There is dollar signs on that,

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you know, and there has to
be a number which is you know,

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and it's getting worse. But yeah, so yeah, I mean I it

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sort of makes sense. Again,
It's not the way things have done.

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And Dion's not doing things the way
they've always been done. And well,

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yes, is it or isn't it, George? They went to what four

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and eight last year from a one
in twelve, so a little yeah,

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you're right, yeah, but they
didn't they didn't go they didn't they didn't

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go eight and four that you know, he didn't flip the whole thing over

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in one year. But they sold
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you know, right, the attention
that came with Deon Sanders being the coach.

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Absolutely sold out that you know,
there were people at their games,

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but they still didn't win a bunch
of games, you know, So we'll

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see this year, we'll tell us
more because look, Jed Fish did that,

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right, he went one and eleven
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and then then this last year,
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they you know, they won,
they won four games, and they

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created that hoop loot at the start
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know if they didn't go to the
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know, what he does. But
you know, I mean, people are

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running out because of the tension the
Dion's getting. People are not there saying

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that Shador Sanders is a better quarterback
than north f Afita. You know they're

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talking about you know, you know, who are the top quarterbacks in the

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Big twelve and everybody keeps putting I'm
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his place. So you know who's
the better quarterback? Right? I mean

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head to head the way I say, our duo is number one in the

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country for sure. Oh absolutely,
yeah, So you know, it's it'll

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be interesting to see. I'm what's
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it works out in the long run. But and you know, and and

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the immediate response when somebody starts doing
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can't work because that's not how we've
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work, It can work, all
right, Okay, we're at a good

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have Justin Spears coming in Joyce. We'll

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we also talks in basketball with him from

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We've got Justin Spears getting ready to
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practice is starting next week. How
you doing, Justin? Thanks for joining

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us. What's up, guys,
how's it going We're good. You know,

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all's good in Tucson because there's only
still in the tournament, right,

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Yeah, that's great. The sun
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restaurants are busy, people are hanging
out, and everybody's happy as we watch

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the SEC go down in flames in
the Pac twelve dominate this tournament. Jay,

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the most important part, and that
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but it's not at the point where
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not touching our thermostat exactly, just
keeping it off right now. It's hands

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off until I don't know about another
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is like, this is the best
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Buddy, golf weather. So justin
you know, we're going to talk

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to spring football with you here in
a second because that that gets started next

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week. But you know you're a
fan, right uh n Cuba tournament?

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Man? Uh what what? What
do you? What? If? What

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are you thinking about? What's going
on? We're getting the upsets like we

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always get, except it's not Arizona
this time. God, you know,

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it's just been fun so far this
last couple of days. Yeah, and

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honestly, It's just a microcosm of
the entire college basketball season. There's been

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so much parody in college hoops this
year. I mean, you really don't

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know what you're gonna get. You
know, Arizona has been the best team

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in the Pac twelve all year long, but man, you look at some

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of their slipuffs that they've had this
season, including you know, Oregon State

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and others. So there's just a
lot of parody in college basketball. I

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love seeing, you know, schools
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tournam I mean, we're talking about
Dukane. The only thing I knew about

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Dukane was TJ McConnell played there before
he came to Arizona, and I knew

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that it was. But they haven't
been to the NCAA Tournament since nineteen seventy

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seven. And they're over here pulling
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You know, people think Oakland,
they're like, oh, the Bay

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Area, they're Rochester, Michigan,
and David Hasselhoff briefly attended the university and

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that's proclaimed the fame. And they're
over here beating Kentucky in the first round

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of the NCAA tournament, a team
that has a bunch of five star prospects

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and guys who are going to be
household names in the NBA, and they're

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getting cooked from three point range by
a guy named Jack Golkie who looks like

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a future enterprise rental car man.
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guys. Was so great about college
basketball is that a team with NBA players

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which is getting torched by a guy
who we may never heard of, never

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hear from ever again besides this,
beyond this season. So I've been very

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impressed of the n c doua A
tournament and and it was also good to

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see Arizona get off to a fast
start and you know, overcome Long Beach

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State getting back into the game and
pulling out a twenty point win. Yeah,

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that was fine. You know,
somebody made the comment on the I

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don't eve want to keep trying to
pronounce the name of the Oakland guy,

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but somebody said that, yeah,
yeah, that that someday, someday he's

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gonna be telling his h he's gonna
be a high school social studies teacher and

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he's going to tell his class that
you dropped thirty on Kentucky in the NCAA

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tournament, and they're just all going
to go, no way, no way,

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no way, you did that.
But that's pretty cool. So all

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right, so let's talk. Let's
talk about the spring football starts next week.

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You know, practice gets going.
You know, Brent Brandon kind of

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held down the fort, but you
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of the team. You might say, I mean lost a couple of guys,

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but you know, when you think
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you think of two guys, no
fa Fida and and Tetroy McMillan. What

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what are you most curious about about
what you're going to see in starting next

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week? There's going to be a
lot of things that I'm looking forward to,

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But you know who's going to be
the other pieces in the offense that's

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going to compliment Titto Roe McMillan.
To know Fafida, I mean, you

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already know what that passing tandem is
going to do this upcoming season. It's

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one of the best quarterback receiver duos
in the country end of the country.

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But who's going to replace Jacob Kwing
at that slot receiver who's been very productive

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in that position the last two years
are is it going to be Malachi Riley?

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Is going to be Kevin Green junior
who they're very high on. And

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I think Kevin Green would definitely get
some looks at the ones in springball at

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the slot receiver position. And then
Montana Lamonious Craig. You know, one

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year at Arizona. You know,
how is he going to build on top

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of that of his one year with
the Wildcats? And is he going to

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be a guy that remains in the
starting rotation. So the the pass catchers

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besides t Mac those are the guys
that I'm looking forward to. And then

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of course he at the tight ends
with Keyan Burnett, with Berto Miranda who's

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originally from Germany, and we have
we in the media have nicknamed him Dos

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Grunk. He's a very experienced guy
who's been here for a lot of years.

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I think that he's entering his fifth
or sixth year if I'm not mistake.

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I can't remember off the top of
my head. But you know,

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he's a guy that's very great at
pat run blocking. How how is he

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going to be implemented into the offense. So there's still some question marks on

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the offense I think their their strength
besides no Fafita and T Mac is their

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offensive line and bringing back four out
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And of course you know that missing
piece is a first round option in

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the NFL draft in Jordan Morgan.
But you have to feel really good about

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yourselves with the guys that you have
that that could play tackle. I mean,

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Jonas Savinea, I think at I
tackle is is great for him.

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I mean, I'm I see big
Jonah Moore as like a guard at the

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next level. But I mean,
hey, getting reps at both guard and

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tackle, that's going to get a
lot of eyes on you. And I

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think big Jonah when it's all said
and done and when it comes to this

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time next year, will be an
NFL draft pick and be a first rounder

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along with T Max. And that's
pretty cool, like right, Like Arizona's

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going into this upcoming season and they
have a couple of first round picks potentially

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on their on their offense. Ye, so offensive line would be good.

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I mean on the other side of
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probably say middle linebacker alongside Jacob Manu. Danny Gonzalez, the former New Mexico

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head coach. He's now the linebackers
coach and also the special teams coordinator.

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He's going to have to determine and
not this spring, but at some point

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who's going to be Arizona's next linebacker
alongside Jacobnu Is it going to be Justin

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Flow? Who is going to be
at another with an year another year with

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the Wildcats? But it's also you
know, is it how different is it

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going to be than working with Johnny
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essentially ground zero for a guy like
Justin Flow? But Justin Flow is the

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most explosive tackler they have. I
mean when he is dialed in and stopping

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the run in just a physical freak
all over the field making plays. He

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is a very dynamic linebacker and you
can see why he was a five star

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prospect and the number one linebacker in
the twenty and twenty recruiting class. So

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middle linebacker is huge. I mean, besides Justin Flow, they also have

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Camoela Kaivu, the second year player
or soon to be second year player from

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Hawaii, Tay Brown as well from
Chandler Hamilton High School. They've also signed

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some guys as well, So I'm
curious to see how linebacker goes and who's

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going to be the other cornerback besides
Tacario Davis. Takaro Davis decided he's going

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to stick it out at Arizona and
be Arizona's top cornerback. But the Wildcats

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also lost Ephesians Price Sock in the
transfer portal. Who's at now Washington,

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Who's going to start at that cornerback
spot? So a lot of question marks.

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We'll definitely see how the roster and
the depth chart kind of shapes up

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over here over the next few weeks. You know, I think you'll agree

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that, you know, we we
expected justin Flower to kind of knock our

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socks off, especially when when you
walked in the room in a half shirt

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that one time and you said,
how can that guy be you know,

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that agent look like that? But
did last year? It's sort of in

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my mind, we didn't see what
we kind of expected to see. How

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much of that was adjustment, how
much of that was what was it that

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he didn't kind of set our you
know, set the room on fire?

420
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Well? He was so effective in
games where teams ran the ball a lot,

421
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Like Mississippi State, they completely changed
up their offense, They went from

422
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Mike Leach air raid, we're going
to pass it fifty times a game,

423
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to hey, we're going to actually
run the ball a lot more than we

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do pass and justin flow in that
game against Mississippi State, was all over

425
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the place making plays. And then
you know, other games throughout the season,

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you could see him against running teams
and honestly, having a player like

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that is a good weapon to have
when you face those those tough, hard

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nosed teams that always run the ball. But you know, we also saw

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him against you know, Colorado,
We've also seen him against other you know

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teams where you know, they were
throwing the ball a lot, and he

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kind of got lost in coverage a
little bit and wasn't really effective in the

432
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passing game. And then that's when
Arizona would have to deploy the dollar package

433
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and have Jacob Emanu as the ring
leader middle linebacker or as we saw later

434
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on in the season, Wildcats moved
to Martel Irby from back of nickel back

435
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the guy who's been playing defensive back
in their entire life, to now playing

436
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middle linebacker. Because a player that
that versatile and who could cover passes and

437
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cover receivers and the guy who also
is really good at tackling. You want

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a player like that out on the
field. So I think that Justin Flow,

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00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:22.240
I mean, if he can he
can really dial in, and I

440
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mean he's already been a part of
the culture. He feels really welcomed here,

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like he's you know, really a
part of Arizona. I really feel

442
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like if Justin Flow, if he
can focus up, if he could really

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be effective as middle linebackers this year. Interesting we're talking to Justin Spears football

444
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be writer Arizona football, being writer
for the arizon A Daily Star. I

445
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.640
think it's funny that I'm looking at
the at the coaching staff. Brent Brannan,

446
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:51.000
who basically was a child when Duayn
Aquina and Dino Babers were we're here

447
00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:52.880
at Arizona, uh, you know, in their spots, and now he

448
00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:59.559
got the band back together and they're
in their back How How how do you

449
00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:03.799
how do you think that whole I
know, relationship is not the right word,

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00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.960
but just the you know, the
the connections that they've longtime connections they've

451
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had, are going to play because
while while Brent Brennan is you know,

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kind of a young guy Dwayne Keenan, Dino Babers have some miles on them,

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and you know, and I think
I'm being nice by saying that,

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but you know, how how was
that whole relationship going to work? That

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00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.960
these guys are here working for Brent
Brennan. But at the same time,

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I think Brannan probably feels good enough
in his skin to not have a problem

457
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with these guys who you know,
are much older than him and much more

458
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.839
experienced. Sure, and they've seen
Brent Brennan, like you said, when

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he was a baby, when he
was his work, you know, starting

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00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.119
out as a coach. But Brent
Brennan's also had He's had a lot of

461
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:51.119
coaching miles on him too, and
has always remained connected with the Dick Tommy

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disciples. And you know, I
spoke with Dino Babers, the Arizona offenseive

463
00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.039
coordinator, and he said, this
was the only job I've would have taken.

464
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You know, I was probably gonna
take the year off, but then

465
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as soon as Brent called me,
I was I was all in. And

466
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a part of it is one the
respect that Brent Brennan has gotten from these

467
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.319
guys, but also, uh,
these guys kind of feel like they owe

468
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it a little bit to Dick Tomy
to come back and give back to the

469
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school where they had so much success
at. Dwayne mckina, I mean,

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he loves Tucson Arizona. Dino Babers
hasn't been a Tucson in a while,

471
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but he really loves this place and
appreciated his time as one of the go

472
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to guys or the right hand man
for Dick Tony. So I think,

473
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you know, having that part of
it is so important to a lot of

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these guys. And you know,
just because they got they have some savvy

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00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:52.160
veterans, doesn't mean that they don't
have some young blood on the roster on

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00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:57.920
their coaching staff. Chip Viney,
who their their quarterbacks coach he played at

477
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:02.839
U c l A, is a
the guy who's worked under Dwayne Walker who

478
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.119
used to be the quarterbacks coach at
Arizona when Jet Fish first got here,

479
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:12.960
and he got a recommendation from Dwayne
Walker. Plus Chip has been working under

480
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Brent Brennan. So he's a young
cornerbacks coach who, hey, you got

481
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:21.119
to give him a ton of credit. You know, he kind of you

482
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.759
know, talked about Takaro Davis or
talked to to Cario to keep him in

483
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Tucson. And also, I think
a big part of Takaro Davis coming back

484
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:32.240
too, and this is so big
is going up against t MAC every single

485
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:35.920
day in practice, that one on
one matchup. If you want to get

486
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ready for the NFL. That's as
good as it gets right there. But

487
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:42.039
going back to what we were talking
about regarding the coaches, and then there's

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00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.680
the big one. Well, speaking
of t MAC, how about Bobby Wade

489
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:49.839
Bob as the coach, a guy
who's still very young and one of the

490
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:54.480
best receivers in program history. I
think him mentoring t MAC and grooming him

491
00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:58.880
getting ready for the NFL, I
think is a great scenario for Arizona.

492
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:04.599
Don't be disciples. I like that. Speaking of Team Mac, and you

493
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.079
talked about this earlier. He's going
to be a first rounder obviously, could

494
00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:10.800
be an early first rounder if he
goes. I mean, could he be

495
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.159
one of the great Arizona pros like
Ronk and Foles and Bruce Ski? Is

496
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:19.400
he going to be one of those
type of guys in the pros? Oh?

497
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:23.800
Sure, I mean he's a He's
already one of the most productive receivers

498
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:28.280
in program history, and he's on
pace to break Bobby weights record for sure.

499
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:31.559
So I mean I'll ask Jay,
you know, I think Team Mac

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00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:37.239
if he breaks all of Bobby Way's
records and he's statistically the best receiver in

501
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:43.719
program history, where do you put
him on the hierarchy of all time Arizona

502
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:45.480
football players? Because I know you
got to put up you know, Ricky

503
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.880
Huntley, Chuck cy Sold, Teddy
Bruski. I mean you got to put

504
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:52.480
it in the College Football Hall of
Famers. But I'm wondering from your perspective,

505
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:57.159
like where would you put t Max
if he was able to double down

506
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:00.559
on last season. Well, part
of it's going to part of it's going

507
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.320
to depend on on if this becomes
a memorable team, right. You know,

508
00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:07.320
Bruce Ki played on that ninety three
team that stands out as one of

509
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:14.320
the top teams ever, even Ricky
Huntley while he was on a great team

510
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.039
that was saddled with the probation,
and people always felt that that eighty three

511
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:21.760
team could have been the best team
Arizona ever had, but they got probation,

512
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.079
then they lost the game and it
just kind of fell apart for them.

513
00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:28.719
Uh. You know, Cecil was
just you know it was Chuck Cecil.

514
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:34.760
But you know, part of it
will depend on how memorable these teams

515
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:37.440
are. You know, does this
team win a Big Troof championship or does

516
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:42.880
it get into the College Football Playoff? Does he win a Player of the

517
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:46.400
Year, those kinds of things.
You know, if he does, where

518
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:51.360
would you put then you put him
up there because I'll tell you. Let

519
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.320
me tell you justin you know,
I know Bobby Wade holds all or he's

520
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:58.480
you know, he's got the receiving
record. I don't know that he's even

521
00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:02.039
in my top five of Arizona receis
in terms of how good the receivers were,

522
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:07.559
because now you're got now you're talking
about uh uh uh uh. I'll

523
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.840
go all the way back to t
Bell, I'll go, I'll go Dennis

524
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:16.159
Northcott, right, I'll go to
God. And I'm trying to blank on

525
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:21.599
all these guys. But you know, guys like that who you know,

526
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.800
were great, great players, you
know, in in their own right was

527
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:29.679
time was Bobby Wade one of the
best, Yeah, of course, but

528
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:34.000
he also played at a time where
they weren't that good, right, And

529
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.800
so you know, even though he's
got all the records of Jason Johnson all

530
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:43.360
right, set the year he played, set the set the passing record for

531
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:46.239
Arizona. I like Jason Johnson,
He's been on the show, but I

532
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:50.559
don't consider him one of the great
quarterbacks at Arizona, even though he held

533
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:54.360
the passing record for for a while. So part of it is going to

534
00:36:54.400 --> 00:37:00.159
depend on how good the teams are, that that that the team a and

535
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.159
if this is his last one,
what this team does, and what you

536
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.719
know, and obviously would know if
Fafiita does. You know, Gronk was

537
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:12.480
great, but Gronk people forget Gronk
really played one full season for Arizona,

538
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:17.039
and and you know he's he's been. He's become a great Wildcat because of

539
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:21.599
what he did in the NFL,
not so much because of what he did

540
00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:24.519
here. So it's gonna there's a
lot of other factors that go into whether

541
00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:30.440
teamac will be considered the best receiver. Ever. It would help if he

542
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:35.039
owns the records, but I think
it will help if this team this year

543
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:40.320
is really good. There I've got
I think the expectations he had coming into

544
00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:45.400
in terms of the modern recruiting era, I always make sure I put in

545
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:51.199
modern recruiting era comes to the website
because when people say, like, oh,

546
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:52.920
he's the highest rate of recruit in
program history, it's like that,

547
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:58.679
But there were so many great all
American type players that were coming in and

548
00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:00.719
out of you know, the college
ranks in the nineties. Yeah, but

549
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:06.400
in terms of you know, the
last couple decades, team AC is the

550
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:08.800
highest rate to recruit that Arizona's ever
brought in. Yes, and he moved

551
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:14.559
up to every single expectation and it
has turned into, i mean, really

552
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:16.760
one of the best wide receivers,
if not the best wide receiver that Arizona's

553
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:20.800
ever had. Yeah, and he's
going to be a first round pick.

554
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:23.599
He might be the first wide receiver
taking off the board. Yeah, and

555
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:25.960
you know, it's been a while
since Arizona's had a first round pick.

556
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:30.920
But man, a guy where I
mean, he's a bona fide top fifteen

557
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:35.639
pick. Yes, that's what we're
talking about when it comes to t Mac.

558
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:37.360
Yeah, you definitely have to start
putting him in the conversation with the

559
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:40.199
grons, right, and Arizona has
only had a couple of a couple of

560
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:45.599
guys you know who've been taking that
high ever, So yeah, absolutely.

561
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:50.239
I just thought of another one.
Derek Hill again. Guy was he was

562
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:55.000
a beast of a receiver. He
got saddled his senior year. Dick tolm

563
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.320
Me came in, they started running
the option, and he already saw the

564
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:00.039
ball. So you know, there's
a whole lot of factors that go into

565
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:04.039
into all of that, but uh, it's certainly already. Yes. Is

566
00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:07.760
he one of the best ever?
Yes? Is he the best ever?

567
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:12.079
Again? More factors to come.
Hey, justin thanks a bunch, man,

568
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:15.440
appreciate it. Uh, I know
you're gonna start getting busy. My

569
00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:17.199
wife is going to tell you make
sure you get that sunscreen on when you

570
00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:21.559
start heading practice. You know,
we don't want to see any pictures of

571
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:24.320
you out there and all red faced
to the whole bit. I'll send her

572
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:29.320
over and she'll be really upset with
you. Oh well yeah, And ever

573
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:34.280
since that day that I got cooked
out there and you and your wife freaking

574
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:37.679
save me by putting screen on me, ever since that day, I've always

575
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:42.639
brought in at least two bottles on
friend. There you go, dude,

576
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:44.880
All right, man, well,
get ready to get busy. Thanks for

577
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:46.920
joining us today. We do appreciate
it. And Uh, we'll keep an

578
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:50.679
eye on your stuff in the airs
on the Daily Star. Hey, thank

579
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.559
you guys, be well, thanks, all right. Justin Spear is always

580
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.840
a great guy to have on good
stuff, you know, he's Uh,

581
00:39:55.400 --> 00:40:00.239
it's funny sitting here. I'm excited
now, I'm spring football. I want

582
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.400
to see what Brent Brandon's gonna bring. You know, what's the offense gonna

583
00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:05.920
look like? Right, all those
things, It's gonna be fun. All

584
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:07.079
right, let's take our last break. Would love to take your calls.

585
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:09.639
Five two zero, four, one, six, seventy four, forty.

586
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We've got one more segment to go. His show's going really fast. A

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lot of stuff happening, a lot
of things going on in the in the

588
00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:21.719
NCAA tournament, and we're we're gonna
rag on the sec when we get back.

589
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:23.960
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wapp. Welcoming back to walking on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I want to

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thank Justin Spears for joining us from
the Arizona Daily Star, David Jablonski from

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the Dayton Daily News, little earlier, Steve for calling in during his busy

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Egga covering the Cats up in Salt
Lake City and George for being here showtime,

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Showtime cards and said, man,
a whole bunch of guys, it's

639
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been a it's been a fun day. We're talking. It's been a fast

640
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:12.599
day this especially this time here.
There's so much to talk about that everything

641
00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.760
goes by. Yeah. Yeah,
we're just talking about our Joe Montana jersey

642
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:20.440
up here to George gave us an
estimate of about five hundred dollars for it.

643
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:24.639
But you know, if that if
that jersey were to not get back

644
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:29.400
to my sister, I think it
would be more than five hundred dollars damage

645
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to so. But uh, now
we've got this Joe Montana signed jersey and

646
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here so but the studio overall has
got issues, but we are who we

647
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:44.360
are. Hey, been a crazy
day. We've seen another couple of huge

648
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:51.000
upsets in uh college basketball. Auburn
goes down to Yale, Florida goes down

649
00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:58.480
to Colorado. SEC teams are taking
it in the shorts. There're one in

650
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:04.280
five. All five of those losses
were losses as higher seeds. The Pac

651
00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:07.639
twelve, on the other hand,
which most of the season was a two

652
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.320
bid league. Everybody's saying in Arizona
and Washington State were the only ones that

653
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:14.760
didn't get in. Colorado snuck into
a first four game. Oregon got in

654
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:17.679
because they won the PAC twelve tournament. Actually they're five and oh if you

655
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:23.360
count Colorado's win in the in the
first four, So the PAC twelve is

656
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:30.320
five and oh in the tournament SEC
one and five. But the people are

657
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:35.239
already joking yet. Greg Sankie,
the the commissioner of the of the of

658
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:39.440
the SEC, he's going to start
demanding that the SEC get automatic bids into

659
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:45.400
the sweet sixteen because they're trying to
do something similar in college football. But

660
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:49.679
it's been fun to watch, Yes, it's been fun to watch. So,

661
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:53.800
uh, you know a lot of
good points made in the last couple

662
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:58.119
of days on Arizona. Uh,
you know, people were worried that they

663
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:01.239
were, you know, because of
what happened last year. They've won their

664
00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:05.840
first game. They've got a game
against the seventh seed tomorrow. It's obviously

665
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:10.360
going to be a hard game,
but yeah. In his press conference today,

666
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:15.679
Tommy Lloyd talked about three guys who
are key to yesterday, the first

667
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:19.559
being Kylin Boswell. He you know, he had a huge game, one

668
00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:22.880
of the best games he's played in
quite a while. The question is,

669
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.880
you know, can he put together
another game? But Tommy and his press

670
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:32.559
conference day talked about Kylin's game yesterday. Coach and silly Arizona BBS, you

671
00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:37.159
guys are nineteen and one. When
Kylon Bosball scores ten or more points in

672
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a game. From your perspective as
head coach, how have you seen his

673
00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:46.000
offensive game progress from last year to
now? You know, Kylin is a

674
00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:49.280
growing player. I mean I think
we still forget. I mean, you

675
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.239
know, he's young. He should
be a true freshman this year. I

676
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:55.400
mean he's he doesn't turn eight,
he doesn't turn nineteen for another couple of

677
00:46:55.400 --> 00:47:00.360
weeks, so you know, he's
still young. And so know, maybe

678
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:05.280
there's been some inconsistencies there, and
that's probably due to just his lack of

679
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.320
experience. But but I see him
growing, and I see him growing by

680
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the day, and and we all
know when he plays well, I mean,

681
00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:15.039
there's a good opportunity that we play
well. And so I was proud

682
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:16.760
of how he approached that game yesterday. Though those aren't easy games, I

683
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:21.159
mean, those are big moments for
for any player, but especially a young

684
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:23.400
player on that stage. And and
he did a good job of just playing

685
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:27.880
basketball, you know, not making
it more than it is. It's it's

686
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.519
literally the same game we've been playing
all year. And and I think if

687
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:34.920
you can approach it like that and
and play your normal game, which his

688
00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:38.039
normal games aggressive and physical, you
know, he's gonna have a chance to

689
00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:42.119
be successful. So we just needed
him to stay in that lane and that

690
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:45.039
gives us obviously gives us a better
chance to do well. Yeah, you

691
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:50.360
know he uh, we know he
can do that, right, He's just

692
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:52.079
got to do it again, right, right, And the numbers show you

693
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:55.840
know that's well when they when he
does it, and when he's not good,

694
00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:59.800
we lose. So he's the factor. And even with Caleb, but

695
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:01.760
Caleb love having the bad shooting day
that he had yesterday, but he did

696
00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:06.719
a whole bunch of other things.
But even with the way Caleb played yesterday,

697
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.440
you know, they blew this team
out because Colin Boswell was so good,

698
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:13.800
right, and he's not going to
do it. He's going to come

699
00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:15.559
on shoot well, right, a
shooter is gonna shoot. He's going to

700
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:19.320
keep shooting, and at some point
he's gonna start making him. You know,

701
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:21.920
Steve and I have talked to a
number of times and we we we

702
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:24.639
check out the analytics of this on
Evan Makawa's a website. It's Evan MYA

703
00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:29.480
E v A N M I y
A dot com puts a lot of stuff

704
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:34.320
together. It's funny because at one
point Paela Larks was, with his analytics,

705
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:37.679
was considered the most important player on
the team, a high straighted player

706
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:39.559
on the team. Now it's Jaden
Bradley, but Pela is still up there,

707
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:45.119
and pel is important, you know, And he's kind of an understated

708
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:47.760
guy, does a lot of things, so he never he's never the best

709
00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.199
at something in a given game,
but he does so many things defensively,

710
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:54.360
hustle. I mean, how many
times he beat up all year long.

711
00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:00.199
And if Pela has a good game, Arizona generally has a good game here.

712
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:04.880
And Tommy talked about that as well, about Pella Larson and the importance

713
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:08.440
of him to this team. Yeah, Tommy, Steve Rovert allsports toos dot

714
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:13.719
com. Can you talk about the
importance of having Pella played very well given

715
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:17.440
I guess some analytics say that he's
probably the most impactful player you have per

716
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:22.599
minute because he does so much.
Yeah, I mean, he Pella is

717
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.159
really good. And I don't need
analytics to tell me how much he impacts

718
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:30.559
us. He impacts every possession at
both ends of the floor. And he's

719
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:34.159
a guy that gives you everything he's
got. He's get a guy that has

720
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:38.920
great attention to detail, plays with
amazing effort and energy. And then offensively,

721
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:42.960
you know, he's smart. I
mean, he knows what we're trying

722
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.639
to do and how to execute it. And and you know, if we

723
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:47.119
get knocked off our path a little
bit, he knows how to get us

724
00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:52.239
back on it. So we really
value Pella and everything he brings to our

725
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:57.159
program. You know. And again
this is the perfect example of this.

726
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:00.039
In that Oregon game in the pac
Cluff tournament they lost. He had four

727
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.960
turnovers in the first half. Those
things showed up later, you know,

728
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:07.760
that helped Oregon stay in the game. He doesn't make those four turnovers,

729
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:12.039
maybe it's a different result, but
that's the kind of that's the kind of

730
00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:15.599
presence that he has, and that
if he's not doing those things, if

731
00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:19.719
he's not turning the ball over,
you know, he missed some he missed

732
00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:24.039
some some layups yesterday, but he
kept doing things. He made some key

733
00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:28.639
three pointers, he kept playing defense, diving for balls, he does all

734
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:32.559
that stuff. Again, that's another
guy that's bringing a lot of different pieces

735
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:36.480
to the table. Absolutely, and
even coach said, you know, his

736
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:39.440
basketball IQ was really high. He
understands he's kind of a leader, like

737
00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:43.880
unspoken leader on the team. So
he's gonna get out there and do his

738
00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:46.280
thing tomorrow, right, And all
these guys have to after the last piece

739
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:50.519
of this real quick, you know, because we're about to go is Keishad

740
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:54.440
Johnson. And you know, he
held things together for them with his three

741
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:59.599
point shooting. He made some key
three pointers that you know, when when

742
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:02.679
when Long Beach State was kind of
giving him a run, held things together

743
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:07.639
for Arizona. That was something that
Tommy said they have specifically worked on nice.

744
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.719
Well, it's something he and I
talked about in recruiting, you know.

745
00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:15.280
And then obviously we watched a little
film on his shooting technique and it

746
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:19.280
looked fine, and you know,
so we talked and I told him maybe

747
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:21.920
that's one thing that we would like
to add, is maybe a little more

748
00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:25.039
shooting from our four position, and
he's done a great job. He gets

749
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:28.840
all the credit. I mean,
he's really worked hard at his shooting and

750
00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:31.440
gotten to the point where I'm really
comfortable, Like every three point shot he

751
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:35.199
lines up, I feel like is
going in. And you know, I

752
00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:37.719
don't have the stats in front of
me know exactly what he's shooting, but

753
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:42.320
I know it's made a really positive
impact on our offense. Overall. It's

754
00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:45.880
his ability to step out and shoot
threes, especially in those corners. You

755
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:49.039
know. I had one of my
friends, one of my fan friends right

756
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.559
tell me that he closes his eyes
when Keithshon linees up to shoot a three

757
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:54.320
point. I'm like, Tommy feels
pretty good about him. So now it's

758
00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:59.400
different. Now we're confident and hey, we'll take those exactly. Every time

759
00:51:59.920 --> 00:52:05.360
your four guys out there hitting threes. That again, that changes, That

760
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:08.000
changes what a defense has to do. And I think this also speaks not

761
00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:12.320
only to tell me about the staff
and what they can do right, because

762
00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.400
for a little while there, when
Arizona had for the early exents, people

763
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:21.840
were beginning to question Tommy and the
staff and the coaching development. Yeah,

764
00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:25.119
and this proves that that they can
bring in a transfer guy a veteran guy

765
00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:30.000
and improve right, and he's a
he's a key and you know, and

766
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:35.000
when he's in there rebounding and he's
aggressive and he's physical, and then if

767
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:37.880
he's out there making shots, you
can't ask for anything more from a guy

768
00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:42.920
in this type of tournament. Every
game, as we gel and get better,

769
00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:45.800
you make a run and who knows
where we can You never know?

770
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:49.320
All right, Gay, great show, guys, no nice job. Appreciate

771
00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:52.119
you guys being here. Thank you
again to Justin Spears, David Jablonski,

772
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:57.159
Steve Rivera. Be sure to read
his stuff on All Sports, Tucson Arizona

773
00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:00.639
nine Tucson Time. Tomorrow morning sets
you along arms, get your tradiso and

774
00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:04.880
eggs, your bacon and eggs out, and then the women play at twelve

775
00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:08.360
thirty. They've got Syracuse. They're
up in Connecticut their first round game.

776
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:14.159
So it's just great Saturday, a
great weekend. We'll be back on Monday

777
00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:15.639
to break it all down, so
be sure to come back listen to the

778
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:20.400
podcast. It'll be up tonight so
you can hear what went on today.

779
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:22.480
So thanks for being here all week. Thanks for everybody who's here. We'll

780
00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:23.320
talk to you on Monday,