WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.839 Steve Raverera and Jacob Salis. They have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:13.560 Sports Stage shaft, Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to Eying 3 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:16.800 the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake Manlist 4 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:23.199 with breaking news. This Eye on the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen 5 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:27.280 fifty. All right, So to start us off, the women's final game 6 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:33.479 had eighteen point seven million viewers, peaked at twenty four million, which was 7 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:38.560 almost four million viewers more than the men's final. I watched it. Did 8 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.520 you watch it? Well? Were we were in the room? Yeah, 9 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:47.320 it was on at the arena. Yeah, but we we actually went to 10 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:53.039 a sports bar to watch the Friday night game the Iowa. Yeah, I 11 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:59.039 watched it somewhere. Can remember work Kai game. I've never gone to a 12 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:02.079 sports bar to watch it's basketball. There was a lot of people watching it. 13 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:03.760 Yeah, the place was jammed. It was so it was so full 14 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:08.120 of people that we're sitting there waiting for glasses of water. And finally we 15 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:11.200 asked the server to come over. She says, well, we're so crowded, 16 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.319 we don't have any clean glasses right now, You guys gonna have to 17 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.799 wait to walk. That's how many people were at this. Yeah, more 18 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.680 than any more viewers than any college basketball game since twenty nineteen in terms of 19 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.000 viewership. Yeah, that's crazy any men or women. Here's the thing though, 20 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.200 we were talking about this is whether they can sustain it, sustain that. 21 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.560 Yeah, yeah, last night I think it was Nancy Lieberman who's talking 22 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.519 about that. Well, we've come a long way. People are watching, 23 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.079 and I'm thinking it's the kid and Clark. Ye, what happens when she 24 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.959 leaves? Yeah, what's going to happen? Right? Although basketball has changed 25 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.120 for women because it's a change, she was such a catalyst. Yeah, 26 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:53.040 but you're amazing. People are watching, either pulling for her or not pulling 27 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.319 from and that helps the viewership. No questions, no question when you when 28 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.879 you yeah, I was of them, one of them because you want to 29 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:05.079 see her. Just see what she does. I think she's gonna elevate to 30 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.680 u w nbah she could totally. And just what all of these girls and 31 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:12.879 these women have done this year for just women's sports in general, it's amazing, 32 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:16.560 Like they've all been such catalysts for people turning into women's sports, Like 33 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.840 they're such amazing athletes. She did it on the national level. Every just 34 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.000 want to have a girl or woman who did the same thing. Here, 35 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:30.199 Harry McDonald's exactly. She created this what we see today because she was one 36 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.280 of those dynamic players who could just do so many things. And you say, 37 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.719 wow, yeah, well you know and and I mean, and here's 38 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:44.319 here's the difference. And again we've said this before, is that you know, 39 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:49.599 the women in the sport root for each other, right whereas the men 40 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.840 they're just bitter souls that just hate and hate. And I'm saying that because 41 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:59.840 of what Don Stately said after the game about Caitlyn Clark and how much she 42 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:05.879 has meant to the sport and how much she appreciated. But Caitlin Clark did 43 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.759 for the sport, and she's accurate and she's one hundred percent. But to 44 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:14.000 your point of the women doing that, I've read a number of things how 45 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.280 the w n b A is saying, come on in, come on in. 46 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:22.000 Well yeah, no, and it's and it's not that it's not a 47 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:23.960 positive thing, right, Well, yeah, that's the players who are saying, 48 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:28.879 how come I I didn't get mine? So we're gonna make sure that 49 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:30.919 you know, you know what the score is, and I get that, 50 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:36.240 But when was the last time you heard a coach say the things about a 51 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.960 male coach say the things about a male player that that Don Staley did. 52 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:43.599 Now, look, Matt Painter said, I mean, Dan Hurley said some 53 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:46.360 nice things about Zach Deedy, but he didn't say, Zach Edy you changed 54 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:49.240 the game, You're you know, yeah, I mean there's like a level 55 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.439 of you know, he didn't call him the goat like that. Don Staley. 56 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:54.360 Well, I'm just saying there's a level of respect with the men, 57 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:59.439 but they're not lifting each other up right the woman. Also, when was 58 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:03.759 the last time you saw outside of d that guy Lebron didn't come to college. 59 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:09.039 He didn't go to college. Michael Jordan's so many years ago, Kobe 60 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.400 was not a college guy. When did you hear that guy that was just 61 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:15.480 a the player of the year a couple of years was Iowa? Where's he 62 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:19.680 the big guy? The big guy in Iowa? What's I don't even know 63 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.680 his name. That's that's my point. You don't have one of these generational 64 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:27.079 players like that outside of d where you know what I'm saying, where you 65 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.040 can say, God, that guy was good and he changed the game? 66 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:33.600 Who was it? Who's who's it been? Yeah, you're right. I'm 67 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:36.720 just thinking about like the first round draft picks and previous years, like they 68 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.839 were good, they didn't change the game. Well, and people are even 69 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:46.199 saying Zach Edie is pretty much done. Yeah, to make two time National 70 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.399 Player of the Year and then he might not even get it, you know, 71 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.560 make it in the NBA. Yeah, Well the guy before him didn't. 72 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:54.480 I mean, he's in the de league I think, but whatever his 73 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:59.879 name is, forgot his name already. Anyway, That's very cool. I'm 74 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.439 very happy for the sport. You know, we've gotten the taste of it 75 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.879 here totally. It's become a big deal, and it's it's remained a big 76 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:10.120 deal. Right, They're still getting seven thousand a game, you know, 77 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.839 the women's games. So yeah, it's it's cool. You hope it, 78 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:18.079 you hope it lasts, but you never know. Women's basketball for sure here 79 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:21.680 is like part of the culture. Yeah, it has become it has become 80 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:27.399 that. Yeah, all right, Well, speaking of Arizona, some Arizona 81 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:33.439 baseball news. Arizona baseball is on an eight win streak eight game win streak, 82 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:39.839 right, now they beat Stanford four and oh on this road trip and 83 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:43.800 twelve to one in the last game. So they're now eighteen and thirteen. 84 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.839 They've won five on the on the road in a row, the longest road 85 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:51.079 winning streak since twenty nineteen. Yeah. I mean, they got off to 86 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:55.240 a terrible start in their in their non conference and I know they're playing some 87 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.319 good teams, but they you know, they're eighteen and thirteen. So when 88 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:01.240 you think about the fact that they won eight in a row, they were 89 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.439 ten and thirteen. Yeah, so they were not It was not going about 90 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.839 I can do that, mass I have. I have that club in my 91 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:14.439 bag. I didn't even consider doing the maths. But you know, they're 92 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.040 tied for first place in the conference. Yeah, you know. And I 93 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:24.079 think did Michael lev tweet out that Jay Johnson was never ten and five in 94 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:28.160 the league the whole time he was here. He never had that good record 95 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:33.199 after fifteen games. So there's that. I just won a national championship. 96 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:38.040 But there's that. And Cam Walty was named one of the Top Cats of 97 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:42.480 the Week as he worked seven scoreless innings, struck out eight players, and 98 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:46.480 earned the win in Arizona's first shutout of a PAC twelve opponent. Since did 99 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.399 you you know we wanted I told you we want to saw him play U 100 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:54.279 C l A. They've got some good players. Okay, they were impressive. 101 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.480 They looked good fundamentally, they were you know, they they did things. 102 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:00.879 But their catcher. Have you heard about their catcher who happens to be 103 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:08.720 a homie Something Guzman, Xavier Guzman. Look his name up, Something Guzman. 104 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.600 Nobody's stolen a base on him this year. He's like ten for ten 105 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:16.040 or he was going into like going over the weekend. At some point he 106 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:21.360 was ten for ten throwing guys out. Feel like a new Daniel Susac. 107 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:26.560 Well, dany I know Daniel Sussac never was ten for ten and throwing guys 108 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:30.120 out. So, uh, he's a he's a fire plug of a dude. 109 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.199 He's a very husky, big solid dude. And uh and he just 110 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:39.519 he's just throwing guys out left and right. Don't even try a Donna's Guzman 111 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.560 so mm hmm. Build like a big dude. Yeah, he is a 112 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.519 big dude. And he looks like he looks like if you're if you're coming 113 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:54.000 home, don't try, don't try and run him over. I know it's 114 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.759 against the rules anyways, but just just go the other direction, Just go 115 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:01.399 the other director. They're good to the diamond for the third time this season. 116 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.360 Reagan Shockley is the packed twelve Freshman of the Week for Arizona Softball and 117 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.240 Arizona Softball is twenty four and twelve and ranked twenty four. And she had 118 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:15.279 a grand slam right in the Was it her that hit the grand No, 119 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.920 it was as Alice Skaggs had a grand slam in the Utah game to win. 120 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:26.399 Yeah, oh yeah, and then Carrie's school scoop in Arizona to win 121 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:30.639 to win the Utah Series with the point four batting average, two home runs 122 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:37.159 and five RBI. Yep, Karl, Who's who was Bobby Garcia our first, 123 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.320 our first intern. He was, She was his heart throb. He 124 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:45.120 was in love with her, your first ever intern. Yeah, first ever? 125 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:50.080 Wait, that was before we screened him, Yeah, before you were 126 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.320 I've heard it. I brought him over. I brought him over with me 127 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.519 like a puppy from uh the from the Sugar Skulls where he was in one 128 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:01.440 of our internship He was good, very good. All right. Well, 129 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.360 that's all I have for breaking news. But Steve and I were just talking 130 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:09.720 about this men's college basketball way too early, top twenty five for next season. 131 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:16.879 All sorts of news outlets have been releasing their lists, and so this 132 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.440 is Sports Illustrated. Duke is number one on like most of them. Why 133 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.639 if Cooper Flag Cooper flag, five star recruit. They just lost the They 134 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:28.799 just lost the guy two years sophomore guy, five star guy. He just 135 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:35.440 declared too. Mitchell is Mitchell Mark Mitchell. He's leaving. Oh that's not 136 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.679 good. That's no good. That's not good for me. Okay, so 137 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:43.000 he's yeah, he's good. But I mean they're getting Cooper Flag and even 138 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:46.919 still like they have returning talent that I mean talent that they're going to stay. 139 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.200 I feel like I do. They stay a lot. They don't, 140 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:56.679 well except for Mitchell except guy, I don't know. I always State is 141 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:58.919 number two on this. This is a very strange one. This is a 142 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.799 ahead. Yeah. Then Kansas, then Gonzaga, Yeah, yukon five, 143 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.440 Wildcats are six. Yeah. So they range from six to twenty because on 144 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:16.159 the other list on USA Today Sports, I talked to Torres yesterday. I 145 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.840 think he was gonna put him at eight. So it's gonna be it, 146 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.519 it's gonna be Well. The thing is, it's April ninth. We don't 147 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:26.639 know what the rosters are gonna look like. I know, I know anybody. 148 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:33.120 I've been updated since exactly No, because they was they were doing it 149 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:37.240 all last night and the I'm thinking, okay, you have how many things 150 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.720 can happen a month? First? So I have one? I have what 151 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:45.320 are you done? Yeah? So I have one and this is gonna surprise 152 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.080 you. Uh. There's a report out of Japan. It looks like that 153 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:54.639 Reggie Geary is interested in going back to coach Al Reggie Yeah, which you 154 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.399 know, he was very good as a coach and he they made his mark 155 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:03.720 out there. And even the climate that Ubey who kind of makes sense Yeah 156 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:05.720 yeah, well yeah, a little concern maybe if he you know, things 157 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:09.080 are going over there, why not? So have you ever had that? 158 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:15.080 Just today this morning, I've just seen this. I think it was no 159 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:20.000 no, no, no, be in to Hong Kong, which is kind 160 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.960 of like, yeah, from different in terms of I know, but in 161 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:24.759 terms of what kind of what the city looks like, this this big tall 162 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:31.200 city with all these buildings, very cool. Yeah, so he was yeah, 163 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.759 so he looked like he wants to relaunch his pro coaching career. So 164 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.759 we'll see what happens. I'm looking to get back into coaching in Japan as 165 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:43.080 is, and that's my main priority. Wow, okay, right, all 166 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.440 right, right, well good luck, yeah, good luck, good luck. 167 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:48.960 You know, the time difference is going to make it hard for him 168 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:54.039 to be on our show. We have to finally, replacement is like sixteen 169 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.759 hours? Is that what it is? No, it's it's less than that. 170 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.840 Really, when I the times I went to Shanghai to China was fourteen 171 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:07.039 okay, so it's maybe fourteen or yeah. So one of one of my 172 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.240 guys, one of listeners, Luca Garza, Iowa remember him? Oh that 173 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.960 was him? Yeah, yeah, he says, I guess he's with Minnesota. 174 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.279 He could be on a roster and maybe with the D League unless I 175 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.679 heard he was in the D League. But Luca Garsa, I think he's 176 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:24.120 one of our guys too. One of your homeies is Garza, Yeah, 177 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.799 is a Hispanic name. Whether he's like legitimately homie. Right, well, 178 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:33.279 there's one in the wood. Some are back there right right. Thank you 179 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:37.440 the person who sent me this note, appreciate it and thanks for listening. 180 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:41.240 Yeah, we do appreciate you listening always always. Yeah, well we got 181 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.559 two minutes. Let's talk about the cattle party thing real quick, okay, 182 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.480 not surprise, no, no, it was a bad marriage. Eventually it 183 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.279 had come to an end, come to an ed both sides, and both 184 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.200 were sleeping in separate bedroom the whole bit. Both sides were saying, you 185 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:58.240 gotta go, Okay, I will, you don't go? Yeah, and 186 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:03.320 no thirty three the million dollar payout right, he'll make his tons of money 187 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:07.639 here. I just don't know. Jay. Well, he was his system 188 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:09.759 wasn't working. He's got well, I was just gonna go to that spot 189 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.399 right there. But guess what, it's a system that we have now he's 190 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.320 got well, no, this is but no, he was a different system. 191 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:18.519 He was still doing the one and done system. It's not working, 192 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.320 no, no, no, but it's now one and done now almost with 193 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:24.159 everybody. Oh why yeah, but he was going out to get trying to 194 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:26.080 do this with freshman yeah yeah, no, no, no, no, 195 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:31.000 everybody's got to have guys like Yukon had guys who've been around the block two 196 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.480 or three times. Sure, sure, and and can and and we'll go 197 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:41.759 in and and be willing enough to make it all fit together instead of saying 198 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:45.679 I gotta get mine. Well, guess what his his His system's not gonna 199 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.080 I don't think he's not gonna change the system. I think he's gonna continue. 200 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.879 He's seventy. I think he's seventy sixty something. He has to, 201 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:56.039 but I don't know if he will because why are players going to play for 202 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:00.679 him anyway? Because they're gonna be one and done and they want to go 203 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:05.200 to the league. Here's the question, Jay DeAndre Ayton, who was one 204 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:07.840 and done? Right? He went and done? Did he get better here? 205 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.679 Did did he by coming? By coming here? Did he become an 206 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:13.799 NBA? No? He was the same guy there at the years he was 207 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:18.200 he was gonna go no matter. Why didn't Sean Sean hadn't haend nothing to 208 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:20.440 do with it. Steve at the when they were in when they were in 209 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.879 the Bahamas, he talked to some kids and told him he was going to 210 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.039 the NBA at the end of the year. To my point, these one 211 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.240 and don's go there with the intentions of staying for nine months, collects some 212 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:33.960 mail, another, collected money, but they don't get better at the school. 213 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.320 Now they're already NBA players the time or any did any of those guys 214 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:46.480 Josh Green's ich Nagy uh uh Mannion, Nico mannon the other guys that the 215 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:54.799 guys that were on the on the team with with with Aighton were all the 216 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:56.399 same guys when they left. Sure, no, no question, everyone, 217 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:01.320 no question. They didn't get here and get better. They just they were 218 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.200 one and done. So yeah exactly. And the same thing at Kentucky. 219 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.799 They're just rent the room and didn't get out in nine months. Hell out 220 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.559 of town, Yeah exactly. There's not that colored party made it better. 221 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.120 Yeah, all right, we're out here for this segment that we're going to 222 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.440 come back. We've got Matt Mordeno. We'll get his take on some of 223 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.399 the you know, what's going on there recruiting wise and the portal and stuff, 224 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.960 some of his thoughts on these UFA guys who are leaving. So stick 225 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.399 around for Matt Modano from Goeyzycats dot com and right we'll be right back. 226 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.559 The Windows Depot is more than a windows store. The Window Depot is a 227 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:37.799 one stuff warehouse with everything you need for your complete Homer model shop. 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M Steve, He's Jake, and now we have our 295 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:29.039 guy, Matt Mordeno from Goasycats dot com. How you doing that? Doing 296 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:30.759 great, Steve, Thanks for having back guys. Sure, hey, I'm 297 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:37.720 sure all the comings and goings don't surprise you in the least, not at 298 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.279 all. I mean, I think it's our yearly tradition now right. Three, 299 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:42.599 If you get attached to any player, probably shouldn't do that. And 300 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:47.240 why is to kind of keep an open minder in the time of year because 301 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:49.839 rosters are changing and you know, maybe your favorite player is not going to 302 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:55.079 be part of your team the next season. So all pretty typical. I'm 303 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:57.519 probably only going to continue to get even more hectic as these weeks go on 304 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:02.960 and these days go on and kind of Norman in college sports these days. 305 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:08.880 So how difficult or or or how easy is it to find out stuff about? 306 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:12.720 You know, where are guys going, who's recruiting, who, who 307 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:18.160 needs who? Those kinds of things? Is it is information? I mean, 308 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:22.400 I think some guys like to put stuff out there. Other guys like 309 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.119 to keep it to themselves. I mean, uh, how do you how 310 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:26.880 do we you know, keep kind of how do we track all this stuff? 311 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:30.880 Yeah, by and large, it's on the transfer portal side. It's 312 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:34.279 much different than the recruiting side. Recruiting side with high school prospects, junior 313 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.960 college prospects, it's a lot more readily available, people willing to talk about 314 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.440 it, more kind of coming from the teams themselves. The transfer portal stuff 315 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:48.559 is very quiet. A lot of what you're hearing is very filtered and is 316 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:53.720 being put out sometimes in deliberate ways and for deliberate reasons. And then some 317 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:56.720 things you just never hear about, and then that player is now transferring you 318 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.960 know, and it's one of those things that the transfer portal aspect of it 319 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.119 all is very much under wraps, and it's kind of always been that way 320 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.039 since the portal was first kind of brought to everyone's mind and were brought into 321 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:14.039 existence. There just isn't a lot out there viable information about what teams they're 322 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:17.160 looking for, what they're doing, who's visiting where. It's very very quiet, 323 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.599 and teams are doing that on purpose because it's it's a quick process for 324 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:23.079 one, but they don't want other teams to know who they're looking at because 325 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:26.119 then they can go, you know, in this same age, make an 326 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:29.079 offer to a player, let's say, and then you know, pull that 327 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:33.720 player away from a from a different situation. So you have to kind of 328 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:36.440 take everything with the grain of salt. What you hear is not the entire 329 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.160 story in a lot of cases, and there's a lot going on behind the 330 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.319 scenes that a lot of people don't know about it and not are not in 331 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:45.519 tune with. Even at my level, even in the reporter level, it's 332 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.400 a lot is kept under wraps by teams in the transit portal situation. It 333 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.960 seems to me it's like the swap meet. You're going to the swap meet, 334 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.400 You're going to use cars. You know, I'll pick that car and 335 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:57.759 you know how many miles does it have on it? Did it go through 336 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:00.960 some crashes? I'll do that. So, Matt, because I'm in the 337 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:07.599 percentages. How much of it is legitimate transferred to go play to play somewhere, 338 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:11.279 or is it because of the money. It all depends. I mean, 339 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:15.359 it's it's very it varies between player and situation all that, But I 340 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:19.119 think you'd be hard pressed to ignore the fact that the money is part of 341 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.880 it. I'd say maybe sixty percent if you want a percentage just not accurate, 342 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.680 that's not you know, there's no numbers to back that up necessarily. 343 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:29.799 But yeah, I mean that's what it feels like, is that, you 344 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:32.839 know, probably forty percent of the guys are looking for a better situation, 345 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:34.799 a better opportunity. You probably hear about those guys a lot more. Yeah, 346 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:37.440 you know, Ivy League guys looking for an opportunity to play at a 347 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.720 high major program, or some guys that were, you know a little bit 348 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.200 further down on the depth chart at some schools trying to get into a more 349 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.720 prominent position, and maybe some younger players who didn't they didn't get to play 350 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:51.920 as much as they thought they were and so they're looking to, you know, 351 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.640 step on the floor somewhere else. And so you know, those guys 352 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:56.519 probably make up forty percent and then the other sixty percent are players who are 353 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:00.920 looking for an opportunity to make some money and capitalize on a really strong season. 354 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.519 And so you've seen a lot of those guys come up over the last 355 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.480 month or so. During the NT double A tournament, you know, Alabama 356 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.880 had one of those guys as a top transfer that you know, had options 357 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:14.759 to play anywhere in the country, and so you started to see that quite 358 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:15.640 a bit as well. But it is kind of like the saught me even 359 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.359 that, you know, sometimes you see that thing early early in the day, 360 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:21.839 it's swap me. They're like, I'm gonna keep my eye on that. 361 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:25.480 I don't necessarily love the price. I'm not in love with that object 362 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:26.920 or whatever you're trying to buy, but I might come back and circle back 363 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:29.480 around to it. And you see that a lot of times as well, 364 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:33.319 where maybe a team misses on somebody and you know, circles back and says, 365 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:34.200 you know what, now we do have you know, this type of 366 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:37.920 money to off and you're you are a priority for us now and so very 367 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:41.599 interesting and I do like that analogy just swaught me. A lot's been made 368 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:48.519 about how how Daniel Hurley built this team from I'm not gonna say scraps because 369 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:51.200 that implies, you know, pieces that weren't won and elsewhere. Yeah, 370 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:56.240 he went, he went out and got guys and rebuilt a team that you 371 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:00.319 know, had lost a bunch to the uh, well to various things. 372 00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:07.359 How much how much of of what coaches are doing now in terms of pulling 373 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:12.359 their teams back together is luck? How much of it is skill? How 374 00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:15.559 much do you think? I mean, obviously the ones who do their homework 375 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.519 the best are the ones that are going to you know, succeed. But 376 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:22.400 still you've got to be pretty lucky to get go out and get five new 377 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:26.160 guys and have them all to come together well enough to go win and after 378 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:30.559 championship. Well, absolutely, that's I mean you have to look at as 379 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:34.799 being part of the equation. I think evaluations are super super important for these 380 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:37.720 teams that are winning, and right now it's one team you know that's winning 381 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:42.079 the last couple of years. Evaluations are vital to this whole process, and 382 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:47.440 you have to you have to be right on those and it's difficult because in 383 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:51.039 a lot of instances you're not able to kind of do your due diligence like 384 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:53.119 you would in a normal kind of recruiting era, where you can have a 385 00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:59.680 year or two to really watch a player or a prospect you know, develop 386 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:03.000 and you get to know him in a lot of different ways. A lot 387 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:07.599 of these transfer situations and recruitments are playing out in a matter of days at 388 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:11.240 times, and so you just don't have a ton of time to learn every 389 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:14.839 aspect about these players, about their background, about what they you know, 390 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:17.920 what kind of makes them tick, and is what's going to make them eventually 391 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:21.160 will help you win a title. And so there is luck involved. I 392 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:25.839 think you know that you can't overlook that, and but I think you back 393 00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:27.519 that up and you have to build up the other aspects, which are the 394 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:32.920 evaluation and the development part of it, and the team cohesion and chemistry part 395 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:34.279 of it. Those are things you obviously can look at and try and do 396 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:37.319 your best at. But I think if you can kind of build those things 397 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:41.559 up as much as you can and learn about those players as much as you 398 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.000 can before you get them on the floor together. That luck kind of takes 399 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:48.359 care of itself. But you can't overlook that part of it. And sometimes 400 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:51.319 it is just, you know, everything kind of comes together in the right 401 00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:52.599 way. And you've seen now with you kind of the last couple of years. 402 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:57.440 So we know what Arizona is losing with the guys declaring, but they 403 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:00.319 have some very strong player is coming in. I think there are a number 404 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.759 were they what do they rank with you guys? And one specifically the one 405 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:07.160 that just committed but hasn't signed, who might declare early, you know, 406 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:12.240 might come here early. He's a player. Yeah. I mean they have 407 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:15.759 a very good recruiting class. I don't think people are talking enough about it. 408 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.119 I think when people are looking at Arizona next season, they are not 409 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.680 discussing the recruiting class that they're bringing in enough. I don't think in times 410 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:25.880 have change, and obviously kind of me and this industry have seen it change. 411 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:29.200 There was a lot more emphasis on high school recruiting when I first started 412 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:32.200 this, and a lot more wanting to a lot more people wanting to know 413 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:34.079 about every single move that is being made on the high school recruiting, and 414 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.279 that's become a little bit more of an afterthought now because of the transfers and 415 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.440 because of the immediate help you can get. And I understand that, but 416 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:45.480 I don't think you can overlook this recruiting class. You have to give them 417 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:48.440 their respect because there's a lot of talent. You know, Carter Brian is 418 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.079 a McDonald's All American somebody who I think has kind of played into a different 419 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:56.319 role over over his high school career and you know, how to play more 420 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:57.480 of a big man role just because of his size. But he's going to 421 00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:00.640 settle in as a small forward lay on the wing and I think that suits 422 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.400 his game a lot more. And I think he's going to only continue to 423 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.160 get better once he gets to Arizona. You know, Josnson on the New 424 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.440 the new recruit that you're mentioning is likely in your classes. Well, we've 425 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.559 already moved into the twenty twenty four rankings. It feels like a foreground conclusion 426 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.119 that he'll be ending up as a player that comes in this year. And 427 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.240 you know, I've only had a chance to see him on a couple occasions. 428 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:25.720 And one thing that you know about that you can you can tell you 429 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:27.039 about him is that he's a score. He's going to be able to fill 430 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:30.200 it up at kind of all three levels and is able to you know, 431 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.799 really score at a high level. And I think that's something that is only 432 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.279 going to add to this group. I really like kind of what they've done. 433 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.759 Emmanuel Steven, the big man that they got, uh kind of went 434 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:42.599 under the radar. He wasn't the highest he's not the highest rated prospect in 435 00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:47.400 his class, but it sounds like there's a lot of excitement internally from Arizona 436 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:51.039 about what he's going to bring to the table and you know, his his 437 00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:52.960 ceiling as a player, you know in the front court, which is going 438 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.599 to be needed now based on you know what Arizona's lost so farthest offseason, 439 00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:02.079 and I think that's where you're gonna continue to see them really kind of target 440 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:04.319 some players and really trying to figure out what they're going to do in the 441 00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:08.400 front court because they have some room there now after this week and so we'll 442 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.279 see how that all plays out. But yeah, the recruit class is really 443 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.720 really good and I think you can't overlook, you know, any of those 444 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.720 players that are incoming as a freshmen, But do we know enough right about 445 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.240 what Arizona is going to have next year? For some of these polls that 446 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:25.359 are coming out, one that we were just talking about that has Arizona eighth 447 00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:29.640 next year, we don't even know what they're going to look like. You 448 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:32.000 don't know who anybody's gonna look like. And so yeah, I mean I 449 00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:36.519 understand, I understand driving, you know, you know, the web traffic, 450 00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:38.759 the website traffic, and trying to get people to have eyes on your 451 00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:42.000 work, and I understand that as much as anybody. But yeah, I 452 00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:45.599 mean, I think it's just it's so early to determine what teams are going 453 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.799 to look like. That's something you have to revisit in June and maybe even 454 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.920 July when teams start to really kind of understand who they're going to have and 455 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.799 get players on campus and and all that. But yeah, I mean, 456 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.039 there's going to be so much that changes again in the coming days, in 457 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.720 the coming weeks with teams. There's going to be players that you're like, 458 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:06.519 oh, I didn't even realize that they were looking at potentially leaving or going, 459 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.160 you know, into the portal when war ball could be one of those 460 00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:11.000 examples. I don't know how many people thought that, you know, the 461 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:12.599 transfer portal is going to be the path that he ended up taking, and 462 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:17.079 so, you know, I think there's gonna be a lot of players like 463 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:19.039 that, and he's coming days and weeks as everything to kind of settle in 464 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.640 and the season is now efficiently over and everyone can kind of look ahead to 465 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:26.880 steer. I think you're gonna see a lot of teams that are that are 466 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:29.599 trying to figure out what they want to do. And so it's really difficult 467 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.480 right now at this point, you know, in April or whatever we are 468 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:34.680 now to you know, say that, yes, this is what the team's 469 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:37.880 gonna look like, because it's just they're all going to look very different. 470 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.400 And so I do think Arizona has a lot of nice building blocks, but 471 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:44.359 there's so much still to be determined for this team. And we still don't 472 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.759 know what Tommy's gonna find in the Alps for the Balkan Mountains, because he 473 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:52.680 pulls off stuff that we don't even know about. Yeah, absolutely, I 474 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.160 mean there's always the international aspect of it all, and you know, some 475 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.039 of those players have not arrived on campus until August, and so until a 476 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.160 right before school starts, so again a lot to be determined, you know, 477 00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.079 and you can't really make any true judgments about Arizona or any other team 478 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:08.759 right now at this point in time. Yeah, so we saw you in 479 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:12.680 They we saw you in l A A quick trip, right. They should 480 00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:17.319 have beaten Clebson. They didn't. Not a shock I think for both of 481 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:22.319 us and how Clemson played. Let me ask you a loaded question three years 482 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:27.759 removed three years here of Tommy Lloyd is uh, how do you like him 483 00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:33.119 as a coach? I thought I thought just in review of the game and 484 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:38.960 watching him coach that he he he didn't he didn't bench coach very well that 485 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.480 game. I think if there's one thing that you can point at and be 486 00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.200 critical of is that, and it's it's one of those things, the fine 487 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:49.480 line. It's really difficult to do. But one of the reasons that it's 488 00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:53.279 such an attractive place, I think for players and transfers and everybody is that 489 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.799 he allows his guys to freedom. And you know a lot of players just 490 00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:00.000 talk about that. Sean Miller, I know, you know, Steve and 491 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.759 I and Jay maybe too, but you know you hear that out showing me 492 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:07.119 like I don't know that you're watching the same kind of kind of angle, 493 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:09.480 same game that that I'm watching. I know that they get a lot of 494 00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:13.680 freedom, but with Tommy what there's a lot of freedom within this team and 495 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:15.240 with what they're allowed to do, and he let them, you know, 496 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:19.720 kind of shoot their way out of that game and it just didn't work out 497 00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:21.759 right. You know, a lot of coaches would have put the clamps on 498 00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:23.039 and said, like, you need to go to the basket in that game, 499 00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:27.680 because as everyone saw, that's what was working. And so I think 500 00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:30.640 sometimes that works against him a little bit because you can't you can't both can't 501 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:32.839 be both guys. It's difficult to do that. He can't be the guy 502 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:35.759 who says, hey, yeah, we're gonna play with a lot of freedom, 503 00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:37.640 and a lot of guys have played with a lot of freedom and kind 504 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:39.680 of shoot themselves out of situations, you know, during the regular season, 505 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:43.559 then once in punch time go oh no, now I'm somebody else. Well 506 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.799 it's so I think I was just gonna say that's his go to, solid 507 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:51.559 move right, go play yourself out of it. It's like he doesn't have 508 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.240 another go to. It's it's like Jay Bean and us being parents being by 509 00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:59.200 eleven o'clock and if you're not in by eleven o'clock, you're going to be 510 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:01.519 disciplined. And then to come in at twelve and we don't discipline them, 511 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:07.680 and that's kind of an extreme example. But he had no go to change. 512 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.240 I mean, you know what I'm saying, it's play it yourself out 513 00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:15.000 of it, go fast, and that didn't work. No, And I 514 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.200 think that's again I think if there's one thing that you can look at, 515 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:20.640 it could be you know, maybe hypercritical level with him and how he approaches, 516 00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:22.519 and it is that. But it is difficult to be you know, 517 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:28.200 kind of two guys in one situation there because you're selling players and other recruits 518 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:30.000 and other players are watching you. And that's a big selling point for this 519 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:34.319 program right now, is that they have freedom and their coach isn't going to 520 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:36.680 be you know, on their throat for every single thing that they do. 521 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.640 And so when your kind of program is built around that idea, it's difficult 522 00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:43.680 to then flip that. But it definitely has not helped them, I think 523 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.519 in moments on the court. I think that's happened a couple of times now 524 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:50.680 that these last few years and there have been moments, you know where that's 525 00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:52.119 worked, and that mess it has worked, and then they've been able to 526 00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.680 shoot themselves out of games and players haven't gone you know, down in the 527 00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:59.200 dumps because they had a bad game, because they're able to kind of, 528 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.920 you know, teenis shooting eventually get their way out of it. But man, 529 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:06.200 it would have been they needed kind of someone stirring there at that moment 530 00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:07.480 to just be like, hey, you need to go do this thing or 531 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:09.639 if not, I'm going to pull you from the game. And it just 532 00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:13.800 wasn't there. And so I think that was the biggest thing that I saw, 533 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:15.800 the biggest takeaway I had in that game. But we'll see kind of 534 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:20.599 what adjustments he makes and if there is kind of a divergence from that normal 535 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:22.360 kind of path that he goes, you know, if it comes down to 536 00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:29.280 that again next year. Yeah, it's just you know, we we Steve 537 00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:31.760 and I were talking about, you know, the fans and how they they're 538 00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:35.760 just still having trouble getting used to this whole idea about how things change, 539 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:38.119 you know, from season to season and and that kind of stuff. I 540 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.880 just feel like, I don't know, I mean, how are we going 541 00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:46.159 to get through these things without going on social media and seeing these people losing 542 00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:50.920 their minds over you know, the roster rebuilding, the transfers and stuff. 543 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:52.400 There's a guy who sees it more than us, and that's this guy, 544 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:58.519 because people in recruiting go crazy too. Yeah, I mean, it's it's 545 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:00.760 it's the normal. I mean, it's why have a job, to be 546 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.239 honest. I mean, people want to know what's going on with all these 547 00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:06.480 things, and then you have to kind of try and you know, we 548 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:08.440 through it all and try and make sense of kind of everything that's going on. 549 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:13.400 There's multiple layers to kind of every single recruitment, every single situation, 550 00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:17.480 and you know, sometimes there's misdirection being involved, and so there's a lot 551 00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:22.639 to take in. And so I think the advice I would have for fans 552 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:24.639 is just to kind of enjoy the ride as it goes along, because you 553 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:29.679 just know that things are going to change every year, at least for the 554 00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:31.480 foreseeable future. For now, it's not going to be any different, and 555 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:37.199 every year there's going to be a lot of roster turnover everywhere. Every program 556 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.519 is going to change. Your favorite player, like I said, could be 557 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.519 playing somewhere else next year, could be playing for your arrival next year. 558 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.719 And so it's one of those things where you just kind of have to get 559 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:49.159 used to it. You have to, you know, just kind of appreciate 560 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:52.239 things as they go and just understand that the college game is changing in so 561 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.599 many ways. Yeah, well, Matt, thanks a bunch. We appreciate 562 00:35:55.639 --> 00:36:00.199 your time. Yeah, absolutely, anytime. Guys, thank you. You 563 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.119 don't you know, another guy said this and we know this basketball is changing 564 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.760 and blah blah. Right, it's no different in football, no different football, 565 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:10.920 except that we're in the in the instant gratification here with Arizona lost a 566 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.559 guy to a s U. Yeah, no, I know, Steven, 567 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:21.519 it's but what what I guess what what gets me is that, you know, 568 00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:24.760 just figure it out, you know, figure out that this is how, 569 00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:29.639 this is how we're gonna at The people complained about the Yeah, they 570 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:31.559 need something to complain about it, they will. Yeah. No, I 571 00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:35.639 mean, Jay, don't tell me how to think they're gonna say. Let 572 00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:38.079 me let me think on my own, let me vent my all my want 573 00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:43.199 because it's frustrated. Let me say, I said, Anthony a note today, 574 00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:47.559 I'm making this public. This my job sucks and it's not my job. 575 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.920 It's not my because I love my job. It's just me. It's 576 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:53.360 just why your job has become Yeah, reading this stuff and I don't even 577 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:57.320 know why I do it because I don't have to. But we're talking about 578 00:36:57.320 --> 00:36:59.119 it. I know we're and we're sitting here, we're talking about it. 579 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:01.079 We have a show because yeah, right, right right, you know the 580 00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:05.360 people out there one here, Okay, you hear what those butt heads said 581 00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:08.519 on the radio, and then they go on and they blast us on you 582 00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:14.000 know, on on social media whatever Facebook or our Twitter and whatever it is. 583 00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:17.840 What do they say, all publicity is publicity? Yes, not always, 584 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:22.039 man, not always. 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A Team offers a fun and 627 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:20.920 exciting opportunity to work in the sports and entertainment industry, with flexible schedules that 628 00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.360 are perfect for those looking for a part time job or a second income. 629 00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:28.559 Come be a part of a winning team the A Team Apply online today at 630 00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:34.719 a Team security dot net, Streamy Live, I mean, iHeartRadio WAFF. 631 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:39.719 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacobzalez on Fox Sports fourteen 632 00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:44.119 fifteen. Hey, welcome back to you on the ball here on Fox Sports 633 00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:46.920 fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay and at least with us today we 634 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:50.559 have thirteen minutes. You guys, want to call. Here's a call right 635 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:53.559 now? Well look at that. Hi, you're on the air and I 636 00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:58.519 on the ball. Yeah, I had this question and want to make a 637 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.800 few points. Sure, what's your right? Right? What what do you 638 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:06.840 got on your mind? Right? So, so I wanted to coment on 639 00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:12.960 on the Clinton game, okay, and how Tommy Lloyd. Uh, it 640 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.039 doesn't make him a bad but he definitely should have made the decision to go 641 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:21.920 inside. I mean, I think we'll make it too complex and I want 642 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:23.920 to learn from that mistake because it definitely was a mistake. But that does 643 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:28.679 not make him a bad coach. And then I wanted to ask a question 644 00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:37.039 about Bolling. Uh what's the guy's name? Uh? Conswerring? Is there 645 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:40.159 a that they're just testing the water to steal what's out there? And you 646 00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:45.239 so you if they can match what he's getting and they returns because it's a 647 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:51.079 different environment that we're working and they're they're looking for money, Well, you 648 00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:54.000 know what a good question. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. 649 00:41:54.079 --> 00:42:00.360 But according to well, if you read a red Ballow's statement, is he's 650 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:06.480 gone? It was kind of almost definitely in fact, hasn't said anything Yeah, 651 00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:08.159 so we'll see with that. But that's a possibility. And that's a 652 00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:14.440 good question. They've done that before. Yep. Would Ballow see it was 653 00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:19.480 obvious that he needs another year, He definitely no matter where it is, 654 00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:23.079 okay, And with that relationship with Tommy Lloyd, I just I mean, 655 00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:27.599 he could have did it here or he could do it elsewhere. It's gonna 656 00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:30.400 benefit them by the way. Sure, well, the thing is to me 657 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.119 and this is just my impression that it's it was a mutual decision. Crevous 658 00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.639 crevas is moving up. Uh. Henry is a very good player, so 659 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:42.320 he has people to replace Ballow and maybe he just said, you know, 660 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.400 okay, you can you can go and spread your rings somewhere else. And 661 00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:49.119 that's the thing. That's the thing that we don't know is what was the 662 00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:53.199 conversation. Sure, you know, it sounds like based on these two you 663 00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:58.199 know guys, well five guys now that have entered the transfer portal, that 664 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.199 Thommy's kind of letting guys know, this is your role next year. Now 665 00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:05.159 if you want, if you can accept that role, you know, by 666 00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:08.000 all means stay, But if you want something else, then you know, 667 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:12.440 maybe it's a good time for you to go find an opportunity somewhere else. 668 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:16.039 And that's that's how I've envision what's going on right now in the program, 669 00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:20.760 and probably every coach does that. I don't know what coach that's going to 670 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.159 beg anybody to stay. Well, it's like the it's like, well, 671 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.599 I don't think you can say with this ray, so will you asked the 672 00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:30.159 question did you want them to stay? Oh? I would love to stay 673 00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:37.039 because you cannot replace what those other teams are been fitting from that experience. 674 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.840 And those of the teams have three four year player some five. Yeah, 675 00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:44.360 and if you want to with chemanship, you have to somehow get to that 676 00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.079 point. And also, I don't know if I agree with Creevius being able 677 00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:52.719 to he will not be able to duplicate what ballowed followed. Babo could have 678 00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:58.039 averaged a good fourteen fifteen points a game, but he couldn't shoot free throws. 679 00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:01.639 I mean he would have easily, yeah, but previous will not be 680 00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:06.079 able to duplicate that. In my opinion, he will not be able to 681 00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:08.239 duplicate that productivity. And he is not that hard. No, No, 682 00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:12.400 I agree with you, but I think that Tommy has a system or or 683 00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.960 has a has it you know, the guy next up could be Henry could 684 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.639 be the new guy coming in. Let me also ask you. You said 685 00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:21.679 that Bobo needs another year. He could have three or four years. He's 686 00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:24.800 just not going to play in the league. Well, you know, whether 687 00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:30.000 he plays international or he plays NBA. I think it could be a good 688 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:36.320 role player. He just needs to extend that push shot or to develop some 689 00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:39.920 sort of a shot away from the baskets and he will play definitely play international, 690 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:44.679 but he could be a solid role player in the NBA. Man, 691 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:47.440 I think he could. Well. I think that Coloco's better. In my 692 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:52.039 opinion, Coloco is better. And Coloco just even despite his illness or whatever 693 00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:55.519 he has, it is not in the league, if that makes any sense. 694 00:44:55.800 --> 00:45:00.320 Apples to apples, and there's so many, so many guess okay, 695 00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.840 I think, yeah, okay, Well, Ray, thanks for calling the 696 00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:08.000 first time you've called good stuff. Right. I appreciate the call. Thanks, 697 00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:12.440 Ques, appreciate it. No, I mean there's there's a million different 698 00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:16.039 ways to to look at it and look at this, to analyze it or 699 00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:21.199 whatever. You know. Why is Balo leaving? Is it because he knows 700 00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:25.559 that his opportunity isn't as what he wants it to be. As Tommy Lloyd 701 00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:29.079 said, Umar, you know, we've done as much as we can with 702 00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:34.480 you. We're moving on to did Tommy say, Look, we have X 703 00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:39.920 amount of money to offer this position and we think you know, Crevis has 704 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:43.559 a you know, the future is our future. We're going with him. 705 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:45.440 You know, it's a good this is a good time for you to go, 706 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:49.719 you know, go find your opportunity. So many things and we don't 707 00:45:49.719 --> 00:45:52.239 get to be in the room when those things. Sure, you're right, 708 00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:54.440 so many things could be the option. Yeah, we'll see. And Boswell, 709 00:45:54.599 --> 00:46:00.559 who knows. I just think and this is the honest truth, that 710 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:06.239 that they that they're they're finding their place somewhere else's best for them. If 711 00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:08.000 I'm Boswell, I don't want to hang around for the same reason Kirk Criesa 712 00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.840 didn't hang around. You know, he's in that he's in this position and 713 00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:21.360 it's a thankless position because unless you unless you you yourself. Colin Boswell lead 714 00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:25.599 this team into the final four wearing crap down your neck. Yeah right, 715 00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:31.480 right right. They did it to Kirk Crisa. They and you know, 716 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:35.360 look, Kirk Cesa, brit A lot of that stuff on himself, just 717 00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:38.320 like personality. But Colin Boswell didn't do that, no, no, but 718 00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:49.519 he let's say, hemmed yeah, and then he kind of fed himself into 719 00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.679 it. But Boswell did some things at the end that we saw, you 720 00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:55.679 know, visually, what are you doing? What are you doing? You 721 00:46:55.679 --> 00:47:00.360 don't go out late that night before a game and blah blah blah, and 722 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:04.119 that was on him. He shot himself in the foot. Yeah no, 723 00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.519 I I I hear you, even on the floor, like during the game. 724 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:14.679 Her just had such a bigger sure present well even for Kyle his president 725 00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:20.320 was kyl of his presidence was missing shots, even even easy shots. You 726 00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:22.360 could see that, oh he doesn't have it today. And you knew right 727 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:25.679 away that he didn't have it today. But I'm talking about like not even 728 00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.239 during the play. Like Her just had the biggest personality you know. Yeah 729 00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:34.519 he did try and like lead the team almost. Yeah. He wasn't that 730 00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:37.960 guy. He wasn't that guy when you're really good, you can but he 731 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:40.199 wasn't dead guy. And the and then the thing was that sometimes he showed 732 00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:45.320 like he was yeah then when he wasn't always that guy. Yeah people do 733 00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:52.199 yeah, yeah, there you got another call this high are on the air 734 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:58.079 and eye on the ball. Hey guys, he says the shrank and uh, 735 00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:02.679 I'm done with basketball. What is the first football games? I can 736 00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:07.679 tell you? Yeah? Yeah, you know me. See what are you 737 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:10.760 gonna do until then? Yeah, Frank, I don't know. I'll probably 738 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:17.760 gripe about the basketball season like everybody else getting in Yeah, well here's the 739 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:22.360 thing that uh maybe this is obviously to other people, but you know, 740 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.000 I'm not as smart as other people. So here we go. So I 741 00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:31.280 was really disappointed, obviously with everybody else when they lost to Princeton last year. 742 00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:39.000 So I didn't watch hardly any games except maybe Duke or something in November 743 00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:45.199 and December until the Pac twelve started because I try to stay away from that 744 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:49.320 because I mean it's crazy. I mean the first games, you know, 745 00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.079 like at first games, Jay Billison, he says, oh, this is 746 00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:57.159 the final four team, this is Final fourteen, and you know it's so 747 00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:01.159 crazy to start saying that, and then the and then the rankings come out 748 00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:05.840 and Arizona's number one pretty quickly in the year or so, I try to 749 00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:08.599 say it, but you know, sooner or later, you know, I'm 750 00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:13.400 kind of drawing in it looks like a team is jelly. They win the 751 00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:20.559 conference and then things fall apart. But so I was thinking back to the 752 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:25.159 football season. It was a good season. I ended up great, but 753 00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:30.320 I was very satisfied. We beat as U and we won the Alimi Bole. 754 00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:36.079 But in basketball it seems like if you don't make it to the final 755 00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:42.280 four, the season's a failure, very much. So. Yeah, So 756 00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:47.079 I think if Arizona had made it into the final four this year, which 757 00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:52.599 I thought they would, you know, I would have been I would have 758 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:57.199 been happy, not totally satisfied, because I think you're only satisfied when you 759 00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:00.159 win the whole thing. Of course, we saw that one time. Man, 760 00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.559 we want it back again. Yeah. You know. The one thing 761 00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:06.159 that I heard day, and I don't know because people know I cover the 762 00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:08.000 team and have for a long time, it says, how could they blow 763 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:12.280 it again? They had the perfect path? How could they blow it again? 764 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:15.960 They had the perfect path? There's no such thing. Well, they'll 765 00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:17.199 talk about the perfect thing, you know, but there's no such thing. 766 00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:22.039 Anybody along the line can beat you well, and Arizona's perfect path through La 767 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:27.000 is never a perfect path for that too. So Frank, thanks for calling 768 00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:31.480 uh one other thing. Uh yeah, so uh, I'm afraid that if 769 00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:36.840 Ballo stayed another year. I mean, I really like the guy and I 770 00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:39.119 think he's been good, but I'm afraid that, you know, the the 771 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:43.159 ships are down, he's going to miss those street throws. I mean, 772 00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:46.360 he's had plenty of time to learn how to shoot tree throws. So I'm 773 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:51.639 afraid if he stayed that would be faced for the same thing. You guys, 774 00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:53.719 totally agree with you, Totally agree with you, Thank you, thank 775 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:58.320 you, Frank. All Right, here, here's the thing with ball J 776 00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:04.000 and and at least he's probably been one of the more popular players in the 777 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:09.400 last fifteen years. TJ McCollough. The other guy was being the other guy. 778 00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:13.599 I think that's why some people are surprised, because they showed him a 779 00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:16.480 lot of love right and back. Yeah, you know, very affable, 780 00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:22.760 very friendly, very friendly always. Yeah. Yeah. Outside of that, 781 00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:31.239 well thanks for thanks, thanks for coming drive home safely. But again, 782 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:37.679 look, these guys are now basically professional, right, so they need to 783 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.480 they need to understand that piece of it too, that a coach has to 784 00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:45.559 win and the coach is going to go is going to create the environment and 785 00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:50.239 get the players that he thinks can help them win. And if he doesn't 786 00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:54.119 think that you get give him what's needed, then he's going to ask you 787 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:59.039 to go find another place to play. Now, he may help you and 788 00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:02.159 do everything he can and to you know, to recommend you to somebody and 789 00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:07.199 whatnot. But when a coach is making decisions saying, Okay, I got 790 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:10.320 to pay somebody X hundreds of thousands of dollars, well I'm gonna give that 791 00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:15.239 X hundreds of thousands of dollars to somebody who's gonna help me get to the 792 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:17.159 final four. And if you're not that guy anymore, then you're not that 793 00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:20.320 guy anymore. Well, we talked about this, I think it was Frank 794 00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:22.480 Bush or whatever. We've talked about it since that if you're gonna unionize it 795 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:25.880 and you're gonna be employee, you're gonna you're getting paid to work, and 796 00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:29.599 you're gonna have to deal with the things that come with that, right, 797 00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:31.719 and one of the things that comes with that is perform. You might not 798 00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:36.000 have a job because you did perform. Well yeah, yeah, yeah, 799 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:38.800 welcome to the real world. Yeah, Now it's now it's a little different 800 00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:43.920 than let's say our world, where you know there are some there are some 801 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.239 places you go that you have to be you have to kill somebody before they'll 802 00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:50.760 fire you. Yeah, this is not that. But on the other hand, 803 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:53.880 you know, a coach gets fired if he doesn't produce, and he's 804 00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:57.679 only going to produce if he's got the right people. Correct, he or 805 00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:00.480 she's got the right people in place. And if you're not the right person 806 00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:04.400 who your coach thinks is going to get you there, then your s os. 807 00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:07.119 It's a fine dance. Now you're you're recruiting. You're gonna help me 808 00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:10.440 win the title. A year later, you're not going to help me win 809 00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:15.679 a title. Okay, Hey, good show, Thank you, good stuff. 810 00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:20.119 Welcome back, Steve. Yeah, we should let people know Thursday and 811 00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:22.800 Friday Dame is running off again, so there probably will not be a show 812 00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:27.599 Thursday and Friday. Haven't made that decision yet, but it's looking like we 813 00:53:27.639 --> 00:53:30.840 may just be off again for two more days and then then we'll get in 814 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:36.280 here and make this happen. You need a vacation. I'm so tired. 815 00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:38.440 Your vacation was working all right, Thanks for being here. We'll be back tomorrow.