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Station. Hey, good afternoon, everybody.

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Welcome to I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm

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Steve Rovera, he's Jakin's as.
We're by ourselves today. Hope to get

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some calls. We've been away for
a while. Yeah, I took a

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couple of days off. Did you
do anything with your life yesterday? What

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to see? Fireworks on the East
Side? It was cool, it was

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cool. It was hot, but
it was cool with it. The country

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club fireworks all right. But if
we were out of my neck of the

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woods man, yeah, it was
right there. It a lot of fun,

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a lot of get to know how
the rich people live. Yeah we

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can. We can see those from
our house, so you know we're not

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We don't live in very nice from
it. We didn't actually go out and

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watch them last night. We heard
of them, didn't watch Yeah, they

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were nice. I don't know.
Fifteen minutes I can it was. It's

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a good show. It's a regular
thing that when when our kids were little,

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would go set out chairs out at
this by the We live right near

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the tank. Already, washould go
sit out there and you'd be able to

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see him clear as day. Right. Yeah, it's very nice, very

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nice. So that was it was
hot outside, but it was really hot

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once the sun goes down. It's
not that beast. I did a really

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bad thing, oh dolfed Monday afternoon. It was bad. It was hot

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because it was hot. There was
nobody out there. So the good thing,

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the good news of that was it
only takes three hours to play because

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you ran to your Yeah. The
bad news was almost didn't make it at

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the at the turn, I was
feeling a little woozy. Just we stopped

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and got a bunch of water and
gatorade and stuff, and I pounded that

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down and I felt better by the
end of actually played better at the end.

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But at the tenth hole, I
thought this was not a good thing.

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For what time We started at one
fifteen, Oh, there's only twenty

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four dollars. They go out and
nicke it and phrady. I haven't seen

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that show and they have like a
PSR. I don't know what the the

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numbers and they come up with five
five, and they get better if they's

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you started at a low pip because
you're very bright. There was only twenty

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four bucks. We couldn't pass up
the deal. It was ten bucks.

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But then we did go. We
did go up to Mount Lemon yesterday.

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It's the thing that we do.
We do every year. We go out

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for the little parade photo. That
was fun. I had the whole clan

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up there, including my grand does
that parade last real quick? We're upset

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that the that the bagpipes didn't shop
there. There's a smart bagpipe there are

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there every year. Bunch old dudes
necessarily I mean some older guy, but

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you know, a good mix.
They're there every year, and they weren't

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and they're they're the one thing that
I look forward to in the parade and

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they weren't there, So I was
a little upset. They were golf.

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You know, it was very nice
up there. It was it was hot

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up there, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a different

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it's a different hut if you don't
um because we you know, we couldn't

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get we couldn't get into summer Haven
with the car because they were set up

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to parade, so I had to
park outside of it and then walk in.

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So my son and I went and
got the cars to come back and

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pick up. The rest of the
family stayed in the shape and the walk

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back to the car was ruling.
It was top up in the hills.

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It's a different heat because you're closer
to the fund. It's a nice tradition

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that we had, so very cool. Well, a lot of things going

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on. Well that's a lie.
Nothing's going on. Well, you know

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things, things are starting to happen. You know, we're starting to you

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know, continue to wait for this
the Pac twelfth thing. I was listening

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to John Wilner's podcast and Louis of
getting him on as a guest just to

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see where where his head is at. Um, he predicts something will happen

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sometime next week, said the week
of the eleventh. Um. They he

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and John Kenzano pinned each other down, said, okay, what do you

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think is going to happen? All
right? And Wilners thinks um. Wilner

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said that, um is he zero
for what to this point? Well,

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every about zero for everything? Right, they're throwing the pac pass, thrown

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a no hitter on this one,
but he thinks that they're gonna get it

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done the week next week, the
week of the eleven, right, he

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thinks he thinks ESPN will be in
on the deal in spite of all the

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layoffs and stuff like that, that
they'll be in on the deal because but

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the Pac twelves value is in its
uh Saturday night time slot for games and

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stuff like that. That yes,
and he's just gonna want that, and

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ESPN really wants that. Um that
he's predicting a combination of ESPN and Apple

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TV, and that Apple TV will
primarily be for the other sports. They'll

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probably get some basketball, may get
a football game, you know, few

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football game, but that it's it's
that that's he thinks that's the deal.

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He thinks it'll be within ten percent
plus or minus of the thirty one million

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dollars. That's that's the Big twelve
deal. That's his prediction. Canzano was

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basically on the same boat. He's
said. He's hearing that Fox is still

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in the picture, that Fox wants
some Thursday and Friday night Pac twelve stuff.

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So that's what he's what he called
a little spring clean of of of

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Fox in the TV deal. So
though that's what those two guys who you

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know, some people say their shills
for the PAC twelve. Other people say

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they know more about the PAC twelve
than anybody else does, uh to me

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knowing John, those guys just have
contacts and they're talking to people who are

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telling them these things. Okay,
they're not they're not shilling, they're not

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anything. They're John in particular,
I don't know John Kenzano. I do

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know John Wilder. I've known him
for a lot of years. I trust

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John in terms of what he's what
he's reporting. He's not reporting anything as

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a favorite of the PAC twelve.
He's reporting what he's hearing. So when

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he says that, I'm like,
okay. Now. They also both of

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them said we completely wrong, you
know, said they It could still be

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completely wrong, They could be shocked
by what it ends up being. But

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though that's what they both that's what
they predicted. Sometime next week, Well

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eventually, you know, it's been
eighty four years since we've had this.

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Yeah, And they both said if
they if this runs into PAC twelve Media

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Day, which is on the twenty
first, then it's a disaster. The

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whole thing's ass because of because the
rack PAC twelve media. That'll be the

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conversation. The conversation won't be good
put quarterbacks and the players and the good

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past. The conversation is going to
be about PAC twelve, the PAC twelve

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TV deal. They both also said
that it's only gonna be like a five

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year deal. That then we're gonna
want this deal through twenty twenty nine or

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so because they want to be ahead
of the next round of deals. The

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Big Tens deal is goes and I
think the Big Twelves deal both go through

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twenty thirty one, so they're gonna
want to kind of be ahead of the

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next one. They don't want to
lock themselves in just something that freezes them

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for the next round to deal.
So it's not gonna be a twelve your

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deal like the last one they signed. That kind of stuff makes sense,

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so so until the animal will figure
it out. But just keep um well,

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wait, did you see the list
of some guy in sports CBA Sports

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ranked the Pack twelve coaches. Fo
Yeah, he had a fish like eight

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ninth. Uh the dion seventh um
seventh. That cracks me up, all

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right, that cracks me up because
the guy has to coach the game in

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the PAC twelve. Right, yeah, did you go out and get some

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players? Yeah, but you know
he's driving the new car, and everybody

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wants to get the new coach is
gonna be noticed til this year, right,

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yeah, and they are gonna get
notice, they're gonna get some you

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know, they're gonna get some attention
that they haven't gotten in the past.

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Sure, I think it's funny that
he hasn't coached the game. And yeah,

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well the reputation, reputation. Who's
number one? It's obvious? Oh

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you mean in the this yes,
here the guy who link Riley, Yeah,

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link, And I think number two
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Oregon guy watching guy Utah, Oh
yeah, yeah, he's you know,

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I still think of your time being
in the Mountain West. Don't respect for

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they've only got back to back back
champion. He's really good, Steve,

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you're not lying man? Still?
Oh yeah, hey, you ever had

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he eat stroke before? It sucks
beheaded? Okay, So let's go Utah,

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Ucla, Chip Kelly, I drop
him lower. Yeah, it's it's

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tough. He he had a good
last year, maybe this first good year

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back Washington, Washington, Jonason Smith, Oregon State after a pretty good Oregon,

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Dan Lanning, that's six Colorado,
seven, Dion Washington, States,

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Jacob Dicker at eight, eight,
at eight nine California, just Justin Wilcox,

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then Jed, then Kenny and Dillingham
and then Stanford coach. I think

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once you get to eight, you
can put every guy, every guy in

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a tie for eight after from eight
forward for what we know about Muslim right,

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Kenny Dellenham as a coach, Jetfish, the hole was so deep.

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I don't think we still know how
good a coaching which I know we have

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two three weeks when dud do we
know when the first practice is? When

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does this football start? I haven't
haven't lived, I haven't seen what's your

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first question? But I do know
is that today we're fifty nine days.

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First, well, what's your first
question, Jed? If you had if

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you have a first question and nobody
takes it from you, if I have

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the first question, um, something
along the lines of, uh, you

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know what, what aspect of your
game, of your team or whatever has

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to make the most improvement for you
guys to you know, take the next

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step, which which I would define
the next step as at least breaking even

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and go into a bowl game.
What's He's probably gonna say, our defense

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has to get better, right,
but he might say our offense, we've

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got to do this. You can't
turn the ball over YadA, but you

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know, or he may say something
like we gotta work harder or whatever.

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But I would say, you know, in order to get to the in

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order to take the next step,
what's the biggest thing, the most important

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thing you gotta do? And I
think defense defense will be the thing mine

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is. In the third year,
this is kind of you have to break

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through. Does he what does that
mean to him? And does he believe

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that? Because the first year was
kind of like, you know, you

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have nothing yet you're suck. We
know you're gonna suck ground zero Grands Mights

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one, although we didn't think you're
gonna lose ten au but okay, then

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they did. Then the second year
they did better than expected. Now the

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third year you're even talking playoffs.
A lot of the people we have on

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the show talking playoffs. What will
that take or what does breakthrough mean to

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you? Yeah? And does he
believe that? Question? Like that,

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he's gonna say something like we're gonna
win a pack golf champions Oh, that

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ain't gonna happen. Well, of
course not, but that's what that's what

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Jed Fish would say. Yeah,
nothing, sort of a championships a breakthrough

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for us, let's see. Yeah, and that'll be And then does it

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call him that I'm saying, that's
you and I know that that's not the

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reality, right, you know,
maybe you know, you know when he's

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sitting at home, you know,
with a glass of wine or a beer,

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he's thinking, we just got to
get to a bowl game this year,

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But publicly that's not He's not gonna
settle for that being good enough.

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That's my that's my opinion of who
who I think? Yeah, I think,

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um, I think the realistic cancer
is just to improve on last year.

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Like what you gotta talk about?
Would you guys talk about about me?

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Seven eight wins? Right? And
then you'll be kind of going into

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the neighborhood of okay, that's Arizona
football. Right. If you improve on

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last year, you're in a bowl
your record. If you improve your record

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by one game, you're in a
bowl game? What is it improved?

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But the record doesn't show it.
That's gonna be hard, that's gonna be

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a hard sell. But somebody like
you or me. Right, we'll see,

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we'll see, we'll see that.
We'll say, man, they just

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had a tough other teams got really
good. Like you say all the time,

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everybody else is getting better too,
all right, you know, you

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and I might see it. But
Joe fan out there, who's paying,

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you know, for a season ticket, is gonna be pissed. If he's

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not gonna reckon, he's gonna say, well, maybe you're better, but

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it shouldn't short on the field.
So I don't feel like you were better.

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Yeah, yeah, okay, I
think that's how again, that's how

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fans will take. We'll see what
happens. We'll see what happens in the

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coming weeks. We have a good
show today, Yeah we do. Uh,

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coming up in just a few minutes. Brett Fara the new sports editor

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at the Arizona Daily Star. UM
just taking over the reins for Ryan Finley,

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who left a few months ago.
Michael lev sat in his interim sports

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editor for a while, decided to
go be a columnist and and do some

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continue to do some writing. So
Brett Farah, somebody I've known for a

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while. Uh, played a little
softball with him on Hope team out of

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sports Parks. Just the guy who's
been around, uh, been tied to

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sports for a long time. He's
a new sports editor there. This will

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be our first chance to talk to
him about the job. Okay. And

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then the second hour, I was
watching the craziness of the hot dog getting

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contest. We had her on last
year, Uh, let's go, let's

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she finished third this year. I
can't remember what she finished the second last

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second last year, she second last
year and first the year and she was

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close again. You know, she
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her that. Yeah, no,
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not winning. Okay, so she'll
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She's gonna give us like twelve minutes
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two sons. Um. Why in
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talking about, we're talking about Bravo
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saw the stats, the finished sheet. The champ was. You know,

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she killed her thirty nine dogs second
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tomorrow, and you're up a store
exactly. Okay, all right, let's

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go take our break. We're gonna
come back. We're gonna have bred Farah

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from there's on the Daily Star.
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We have Brett Fara from the Arizona Day

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Start, the new sports editor of
the Arizona Day Star. Brett, how

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are you? Hey, guys?
What's going on? Well? Not much?

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How are you doing? I'm too
mean and I think you can correct

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me if I'm wrong. Uh that
this is kind of like a dream job

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for you. It's it's pretty close, you know. I mean, I've

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I've been a news reporter, a
sports reporter, managed newsrooms. I worked

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on campus at You have A for
a decade working with students at the student

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media arms there that ran the Daily
Wildcat, et cetera. But twenty some

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years ago coming up through here and
and following you around you. I I

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joke with Bruce Pasco about this all
the time, all the times to you

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that I used to follow the two
of you around, whether you noticed it

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or not, and try and pick
up, you know, how to be

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a better a better sports reporter.
And this this was always the one that

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I thought, you know, ten, fifteen, twenty years from now,

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that's the job I won. I
love Tucson and don't want to go anywhere,

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and somehow magically it came to fruition
this last month. So so I'm

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a pretty happy guy right now.
My apologies for giving you the impression.

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You know, Brett, if you
if you'd have called me okay, I

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just said you need to up the
game just a little bit, not a

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lot. Well, Greg Hamson,
was you know, a little out of

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reach? Yeah? Anywhere quirky every
so often, here's some some fascinating stories

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about life. But but yeah,
no. I will say this though,

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as a kid twenty years ago,
and I say that very definitively. I

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don't like to be pejorative about college
students, but I was a kid.

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I didn't know what I was doing. I had the best teachers, in

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the game, from you guys to
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at you a game, from Rich
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you know, I mean the people
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it was a it was a murderous
row there, and so I feel very

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lucky to still be in this town
and and have a lot of them you

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guys still around, because it's it's
obvious why why people take sports in this

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city so passionately is because the people
covering it and involved in in the middle

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of it have have more knowledge than
than we could all imagine as a community.

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So well that first of all,
congratulations, because that's very cool that

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that you're able to, you know, fulfill this. So now tell us

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first impressions of the job you've been
in one of just like a month or

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a few weeks, Um, what
are your first impressions? First impressions I

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mentioned I mentioned a murderers grow you
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but really here as a star.
I mean, part of the reason why

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this job was so appealing to me, Um, when the opportunity presented itself

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is if you look at from from
Bruce Pasco to Michael left too. We

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still have Greg Anthon in the fold. It's a different elements these days,

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but Greg is still just as important
as he's ever been to our coverage and

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end to this city. UM to
PJ. Brown and Justin Spears, I

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mean, there is no lack of
experience, lack of knowledge. No,

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you know, again, not trying
to be pejorative, but it's not a

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twenty two year a group of twenty
two year olds straight out of school that

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we're trying to figure out how to
cover things. These are These are the

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experts on sports in this city,
along with you guys and so many others.

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I mean, from a standpoint of
being able to do this, my

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job here is to look big picture
of long term while maximizing the strength of

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what they do. So from that
standpoint, I feel incredibly lucky that,

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um, this is an incredible group
that they're they're teaching me things every day

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rather than the other way around.
So that's how it should be. I

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think you come on, oh,
you know a lot about sports, obviously

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local and the passion you spoke of
that it comes at a tough time bread

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and I'm not blowing smoke because you
know this better than me. Um,

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it's a summer. You know how
summers are in Tucson. It's like,

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oh, what's the story, You're
gonna go find it. But because it's

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the summer, ad soon everyone leaves
and then, um, the newspaper business

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has changed so much since you were
a kid, as you said to now,

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how is that going? How well? What do you think's going to

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happen from here on out? I
mean, if I knew that answer,

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I wouldn't just be, you know, in the job, the dream job

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I want. I'd be I'd be
king of this industry. I don't think

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anybody knows exactly how this is all
going to play out. And I don't

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say that loosely. I mean I
joke about it, because sometimes you have

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to joke about the things. It's
a difficult time. But at the same

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time, I think, I think
what I can say about the Star and

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bringing me on board. Um,
you know, we lost Ryan Siddley to

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an incredible opportunity for him. Everybody
knows Ryan in this city and to have

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him leave is a big blow.
But but to bring me on and keep

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the rest of the staff intact and
invest in what we're doing and making sure

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that you know, this is still
taken seriously. It's yes, news is

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vital, the breaking news of the
day is vital. But this is a

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community that rallies around things like the
Wildcats and sports, in particular high school

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sports. You know tomorrow you mentioned
the summer, Jay, I mean Steve

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Tomorrow, We got Elijah Rushing probably
making his commitment, and and you know,

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who knows how the lid is going
to blow off this city if he

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if he decides one way versus another. Yet multiple you of a women's golf

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alumni, including Anico Storan stam probably
the best women's golfer of all times at

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Pebble Beach starting tomorrow. So there's
news going on and stuff going on.

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But to answer your question big picture, um, summer is not easy,

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and it's getting creative and coming up
with new things to not only engage our

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staff with the community, but the
other way around. I think one of

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the things I really hope to implement
and to have Bruce and Michael and PJ

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and Justin on board with this is
very comforting to me that they're they're up

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for this is we want to make
sure that their expertise is out there in

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the community. They're not just behind
a screen typing of stories that we allow

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the folks who want to know and
connect just like you guys do on your

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shows, just like all the other
outlets in town have found success in.

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We don't want to be behind the
eight ball on that, and so one

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of the big things coming forward is
going to be making sure that the four

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of them and me are accessible,
are able to be conduits for the public

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to the teams and the sports that
they want to see. I know that

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sounds so vague and kind of pie
in the sky, but I mean literally

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like putting ourselves out there and creating
communications and conversations with the fans. It's

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not just going to be stories,
Okay, move onto the next one.

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We're we're seeing what's what's moving the
needle, and it's it's yes, we're

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going to always write the really good
coverage, but it's more than that,

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as you guys know, and to
have a group that's on board with that,

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I think is very exciting. Here. Have you been able to kind

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of get your arms around how you
cover things here in town because you know,

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Steve and I who've been you know, here for a hundred years,

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and you know, back when you
know, sports staffs and all newspaper staffs

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were you know, we're being pretty
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limitations. Now you've got to deal
within that, you know, And how

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do you approach that? And how
do you get stuff covered that one needs

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to be covered versus maybe should be
covered, right because some stuff that should

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be covered maybe you just can't.
How do you? How do you?

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I mean, I think high schools
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mean I think to me, to
me, there's a piece of this.

406
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You know, we're in a competitive
industry, but I think we also have

407
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to recognize that there are numerous outlets
in this town. Um from radio units

408
00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:00.200
like you guys, to all sports
too on which I know see sincs to

409
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to to a lot of the fans
psyche type elements in town, to TV

410
00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:10.799
stations. There are so many resources
to cover things like high schools and U

411
00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:12.440
of a sports set. Well,
we want to be the pre eminent one.

412
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We're also not saying that with any
kind of negativity toward our peers in

413
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this industry. And to me,
I think being a resource is more important

414
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than being the only person with a
story. And so what I hope to

415
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really accomplish is figuring out if there
is a way that we can help get

416
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the right news in front of people. If it's an email newsletter and we're

417
00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:40.240
putting links to other folks in town
who are doing stories, even if those

418
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page views aren't coming to us,
that's still being a resource to our audience.

419
00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:47.839
If we are on social media and
sharing what another competitor, for lack

420
00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:49.200
of their word, quote unquote,
is doing, I don't have a problem

421
00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:52.960
with that. To me, the
goal is creating trust amongst the audience and

422
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:56.440
making sure they know that the truth
is we don't have a thirty large sports

423
00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.799
staff and at the same time,
we know there's things that are being covered.

424
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:03.759
You know, if Annie Morales and
Jabbia Morales are covering high schools to

425
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the degree we wish we were,
well, then I want to amplify what

426
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:10.279
they're doing. You know, that
doesn't hurt us. That helps us because

427
00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:12.480
it gains trust amongst the audience we're
working with. So to your point,

428
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we're not going to be able to
cover everything, but we're going to make

429
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.880
sure that we're picking up the right
thing. Last thing we're gonna for rambling.

430
00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:21.720
That's also the benefit of where Michael
Lesley roll. I know, you

431
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.279
guys know Michael Rowell. He's been
on the UFA football beat for about the

432
00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:29.519
last eight years. He's shifting into
a feature senior writer column this type role

433
00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:32.960
where his job is to be covering
the biggest thing happening. That could be

434
00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.119
high schools. That could be a
local golf that could be Little League,

435
00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:38.799
that could be U of A,
that could be all literally everything in terms

436
00:28:38.839 --> 00:28:42.039
of the needs and wants. That's
where Michael's role is going to come into

437
00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:45.039
play too. So it may not
be covering everything, but what we do

438
00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:49.039
cover, we're going to absolutely be
great at it, and that's because of

439
00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:52.279
the staff we have. So I
know that's a very roundabout way to answer

440
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.200
the question, but it's a very
good question, and it's the one I'm

441
00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:59.599
going to spend my entire time working
here for you, however long it lasts,

442
00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:02.559
I hope really long time, continuing
to work toward and try and figure

443
00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:06.319
out that, you know, getting
as close to that infinite zero as I

444
00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:08.960
can on what the answer is to
that. That's a very noble approach because

445
00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:12.680
it's nothing that we would have done
thirty years ago. In fact, we

446
00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:18.400
didn't talk to each other thirty years
ago I hated. Now you're sharing stories.

447
00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:23.559
Now you're sharing stories and almost applauding
the competition just because you see that

448
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:27.400
there's worth in the story. Well, I think that. I think I

449
00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:32.079
think you're totally right. I mean, I think that the best thing I

450
00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:36.440
can say about this city, even
amongst the competitive nature of covering sports,

451
00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:41.279
is that there's a lot of really
really good, talented and experienced people doing

452
00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:42.400
this. And I'm not going to
lie to you. Guys know there's people

453
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:45.440
with way more talent experits than I
have. So the best thing I can

454
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:49.319
do, sort of being the you
know, conductor for lack of a better

455
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:55.359
word, in this particular office,
is making sure I'm amplifying or helping our

456
00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:59.480
staff amplify ourselves. But also if
there are other folks doing things that that

457
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:03.319
supp or the mission of covering sports
in the right way in this city,

458
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:06.119
We're not going to steal their work. That's not the point at all.

459
00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:07.240
It's to make sure that, you
know what, if we have a reader

460
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:10.519
that says, hey, why don't
you cover this? I might give them

461
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:11.440
an honest answer and say, you
know what, we weren't able to,

462
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:14.960
but hey, I'm glad you trust
us for that, let me show you

463
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:17.720
who it is. And I think
that there's some value in that, in

464
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:21.319
gaining the confidence from an audience that, you know, we're not going to

465
00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:23.119
get to every one point one million
people in this town, but if we

466
00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.839
can hit the ones that trust us
that need it, I'm going to make

467
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:30.559
sure we do. Yeah, it
makes sense and a great point. Great

468
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:33.559
point. Now, I think that's
you know, it's sort of a new

469
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:36.559
I'm I'm gonna say to use this
work because I'm not even trying to know

470
00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:38.839
exactly what it means, but a
new paradigm in in uh, you know,

471
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:41.680
in journalism right to say, we
know we can't do it all,

472
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:47.359
so if we all kind of you
know, ban this together, it does

473
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.920
all get done because you're right,
you know, the Morales Brothers cover so

474
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:53.839
much stuff and even they get crap
that they're not covering enough. So,

475
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.680
you know, I think I think
it's really interesting. I think it's also

476
00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:02.359
we recognize that the audiences are different. Our audience for our print newspaper,

477
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:06.440
which is still strong, is completely
different than the audience that we're seeing online

478
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:10.039
from just that use our website,
and the audience that refers to us for

479
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:15.559
things from email newsletters which are robust
or other methods. So it's instead of

480
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.720
trying to be everything to everyone,
it's making sure that we're maximizing those areas.

481
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.720
We're not going to be able to
use other sources. Stuff in print

482
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.880
that's a different animals, but linking
to something in a digital format is helping

483
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.039
all parties involved in the sense that
you know, and it's a simple thing

484
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.880
that we need to do more of. And I think that news outlets lately

485
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.119
have been doing better at that,
making sure that we're supporting each other and

486
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.640
putting who's breaking a story, and
not just locally in Tucson, but we've

487
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:44.240
seen that in sports coverage across the
board. If something's broken by a local

488
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:47.680
news source and ESPN goes to run
if they're citing, for the most part,

489
00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:49.759
other than certain times, they're citing
who broke that story, And I

490
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:52.880
think that's important that we do that
as an industry. Okay, So now,

491
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:56.799
having said all that, what's going
through your brain right now as all

492
00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.920
hell gets ready to break loose here
and let's say late August and September,

493
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:05.799
when high schools are going you have
a football is on all the other all

494
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.680
yo a sports you know, are
you are you going home and night going

495
00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:12.960
what the hell am I doing in
this job? Or how you how are

496
00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:16.319
you thinking about all of this?
Right? No, I I'm excited for

497
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:20.559
it. I know that's that's the
canned answer, but I'm really excited for

498
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:22.680
it. I think. I think, to me, the best part of

499
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:24.880
this is going to come when we
have too much stuff. Like you guys

500
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:29.799
said, I would rather have the
decision we have to make of what's going

501
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.039
on and what do we cover then, you know, I'm not trying to

502
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:35.920
pull too much behind the curtains and
trying to make sure, shoot, I

503
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:37.599
got another page in a print newspaper
tomorrow. I got to figure out what's

504
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:40.319
going in there. You know.
I would rather have too much stuff going

505
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:45.720
on and be able to to make
sure that we're maximizing our resources to the

506
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:46.759
best way we can. So,
No, I'm excited for August. I

507
00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:50.920
think. I think getting to that
point is going to be amazing. There's

508
00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.799
a lot of really interesting stuff going
on even before between now and then,

509
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.519
you know, from this man's basketball
trip to the Middle East to um,

510
00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:00.240
you know, getting to tomorrow,
like we said, with a love of

511
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.160
rushing at South Point to getting to
text World media days and the first time

512
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:07.960
we're gonna, you know, have
an opportunity to have people you know,

513
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.759
talk to the Jet Fish and anyone
tied to you with a football program since

514
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:15.640
spring ball. And there's been news
that's happened since spring ball with Jay Nlaura

515
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:16.759
and other things. I mean,
there's a bod going on in the short

516
00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:20.799
term that to me is just a
build up for the most fun time of

517
00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:23.480
the year, which is when we
hit that September, October, November element

518
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:25.920
of getting to you know, even
in November, you know, talk about

519
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:30.279
Arizona playing at Duke. I mean, there's so many amazing things going on

520
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.240
in the first four or five months
of the of the academic calendar that I

521
00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:37.279
can't wait till August gets here.
Yeah, yeah, No. And then

522
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.480
leading a group of good guys that
who love what they do probably helps a

523
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:45.599
lot. It does, And I
feel really blessed that there was a decision

524
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:51.039
made by Ryan and his leadership to
also expand, you know, to include

525
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:53.960
someone like PJ. You know,
Pja is you know, covering beats that

526
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:59.640
traditionally news outlets on this part of
the country haven't covered. Um, I

527
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:01.920
feel very proud to be part of
an organization that puts pride into that and

528
00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:07.079
PJ being the pre eminent firston covering
you a women's basketball which obviously has had

529
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:09.559
an amazing five or six years under
a Da Barn so um so yeah,

530
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:14.159
it's it's it's a really amazing group
and that's probably the best part of this

531
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:17.000
job altogether. Well, we like
you will will be using the hell out

532
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:21.679
of you guys, because we do
anyway, right with the with the Bruce

533
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.480
during basketball and Leve during football,
and and Justin even though he's a competitor,

534
00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:29.719
he was on the show last last
week, and you'll be on as

535
00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:31.280
often as we can have you if
that's possible. But you're not a competitor

536
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:36.320
anymore because he changed time spot.
He decided the afternoon with the sought for

537
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:38.639
him. Yeah, exactly needed he
needed to. You know, you got

538
00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:42.719
you got David Kelly now going head
to head a little bit. But but

539
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:44.760
Justine said, now, I don't
I don't want that. After dude,

540
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:49.920
I'm going to get away from these
guys. I like how you're thinking we're

541
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.880
gonna take it just like you use
that. We're going to use that clip

542
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:58.280
in fact, for no, you're
gonna get me in trouble with my guy.

543
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:00.360
Thanks a bunch, hey, Bratt, thanks a whole bunch, and

544
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:02.960
good good luck on the job,
and I know we'll be in touch,

545
00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:10.800
all right. Take care from the
Arizona Daily Star. New project's new role.

546
00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:15.760
Obviously, we'll see how that goes
and go very well. Yeah,

547
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:19.679
hard job man. It is this
it's not this is not our grandfather's.

548
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:22.679
Well when we were, when we
were sports writers thirty some years ago,

549
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:27.440
it was different, right, it
was different, and it just slowly you

550
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.119
had to beat. You covered what
you need to cover, and you let

551
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.000
everybody else worry about all the other
stuff. Now you got these guys who

552
00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:36.920
I'm going across different you know,
all the different sports. So your Michael

553
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:38.239
Laft sounds like he's got to do
a little bit of everything. Right.

554
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.719
That's it. Just games stopped.
It just came away that they gotta figure

555
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.440
it out. So all right,
we'll be back then we'll take your calls

556
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haven't heard from you in a while. We've been out, Yeah, we

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608
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:28.960
All right? Everybody? You know, I mean, I know there were

609
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:31.639
some places where they weren't fighting people, but it's like, how do you

610
00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:34.719
you know, what do you do? What do you get done in that

611
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:39.039
day? You know? I tried
to work in that day and I just

612
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:42.480
couldn't get my mind. Yeah,
there's you know, there's some things I

613
00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:45.920
wanted to get done that I just
couldn't get it done. There's you know,

614
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:49.599
it just four day weekend. No, Yeah, of course, yeah.

615
00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:52.840
I might take fightay off, just
so you know, I'm serious.

616
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:54.199
I might go back home. I
wanted to go home, back home last

617
00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:58.199
weekend, trying to get well.
I got. I got up today.

618
00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:00.440
I was a little pissed off because
I turned to go to turn on Dan

619
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:02.719
Patrick. Right, those guys are
taking the whole week, take the whole

620
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:07.280
thing. Dan Patrick is their body. He leaves, they all get better

621
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:12.480
bosses. But so I was a
little disappointed. So instead I had to

622
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.199
watching Daylight this morning. Okay,
I have I watched a few of the

623
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:20.880
idol so I wasn't reading an interesting
article. And um, we've talked about

624
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.840
this a number of times. Um
as it relates to recruiting and recruiting the

625
00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:29.320
local kids. Um when when um
the kid that we had on the other

626
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:32.880
day. Um, oh yeah,
yeah, point kid that we had on

627
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:37.199
the day that Nie of us can
remember his name now. Um, But

628
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:44.480
you know a big deal of how
little the Kevin summer, A little effort

629
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:49.079
that Kevin summ administration put into recruiting
South Point at a time, there was

630
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:53.280
some great Division one players coming out
of there, certainly guys that Arizona probably

631
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:58.480
wasn't gonna get anyways, but they
didn't even try. So Ari Wasserman,

632
00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:01.519
who we gotta get on the show. He's the he covers um the air

633
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:05.599
Zona region for the athletic And if
you don't get the athletic, I'm gonna

634
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:08.519
tell you it's it's too I got
a subscription to this A couple of years

635
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:13.280
ago, and I don't read everything
in it, but there's some all some

636
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:17.400
interesting stuff that I do go read. And they did a long piece about

637
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:23.360
Arizona and and the fact that how
much effort it's putting into recruiting at South

638
00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:28.719
Point these days. And it leads
with the with a with a comment about

639
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:32.159
the fact that on January thirteen,
which is the first days, the first

640
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:37.719
day that college coaches could go to
high schools to make in person visits,

641
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:45.880
the entire football staff went to South
Point at six o'clock in the morning to

642
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:50.159
go to their offseason workout. Now
again, South Point has always got got

643
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:54.039
players that are are you know,
they've got a bunch of Division one guys.

644
00:41:54.079 --> 00:42:00.519
As kid um Elijah Rushing is going
to make his decision tomorrow. He's

645
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:06.199
a forced four or five star kid, depending on on on which UM service

646
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:10.639
you look at. He's an edge
rusher, defensive van big kid. He's

647
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:15.800
probably the number one kid coming out
of Arizona. And oh he is the

648
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:19.599
number one that I think he is. If he's not, he's certain way

649
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:23.679
up there. You know. They
made the point that regardless of whether Arizona

650
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:30.960
gets him going into tomorrow, it's
between Arizona and Oregon. They fought off

651
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:36.519
everybody else. There's a there's a
website that's saying there's more more of a

652
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:40.559
chance he's going to Arizona than Oregon. It's that website has made it so

653
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:45.880
believable that Oregon fans are already on
there ripping the kid and he hasn't even

654
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.480
made his decision right to the world, right, Yeah, and the kid's

655
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:54.119
name is Keona, right, Um, so you know, so Arizona's in

656
00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:58.719
on this kid, and and so
that in and of itself is a big

657
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:01.679
deal. But this whole article,
and it's the only the only person quoted

658
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:05.800
in there is Eric Rodgers, they
head coach at South Point, and he's

659
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:10.840
just talking about what a difference there
is now in Arizona, the connection between

660
00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.320
Arizona and South Point. Uh.
And it's you know, whether it's South

661
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:21.639
Point or Cdo or Sienaga or whoever's
putting out Division one kid. If they're

662
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:24.239
doing this at South Point, they're
doing this with the other schools, they

663
00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:28.440
got to be made. He made
he made a very big note of it

664
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:32.599
that high schools in Tucson and in
the state are going to be a priority,

665
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:36.960
right And it's he's doing what he's
saying. It sounds like he's you

666
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.199
know, to listen to here,
uh at Eric Rodgers saying, I mean

667
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:43.760
the number of quotes in that you
just go. You know, if you're

668
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:45.800
an Arizona fan who's been wanting to
see them do this, this has got

669
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:50.440
to give you goose bumps as to
you know, what's going on over there.

670
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:52.360
But you know, Eric Rodgers said
that there was he goes said,

671
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.960
this is a quote. There wasn't
one coach who wasn't there. They wanted

672
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.039
to be with our guys and support. That was special, man, and

673
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:01.760
it was unique. It was different, and it meant a lot to our

674
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:07.360
team. And now you've got you
know, uh, you know Elijah Rushing,

675
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:10.079
you know, considering Arizona and a
lot of people saying he's going to

676
00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:15.320
Arizona, which would be the he
would be the first five star guy since

677
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.559
they've been doing start right. We
know they got preayed all Americans, whatever

678
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:21.360
the ranks we're back in the day. You know, would Michael Bates have

679
00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:23.079
been a five star guy? Would
Mike Chaska been a five star guy?

680
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:27.679
But you know, since they've been
doing you know, the highest rated recruiting

681
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:32.000
Arizona ever got with j team at
last year and he was a four star

682
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:35.559
guy. He was a high four
star guy. This would be the first

683
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:38.039
five star guy that Arizona Arizona gets
if they were to get it. But

684
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:43.639
it's it's if you got a chance, um, you know, go read

685
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:47.400
this article. It'll it'll make you
feel really good about so so how he

686
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:51.960
said it was a long story.
What else besides what you just said?

687
00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:58.199
Says that over and over and over
again. It goes into how how bad

688
00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:01.239
it was, into the history of
it, goes into how bad it was.

689
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:06.599
His first got us to the point
for you know, you know,

690
00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:08.000
Rogers talked about the pitch that they
made, which was, you know,

691
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:10.920
you know, be the you know, be the guy, be at home,

692
00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:15.440
be the guy. You'll be on
every billboard in town. Everybody know

693
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:20.280
you true, there'll be nil in
place for you, all kinds of you

694
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.519
know, all that stuff. He
said, you know, you know,

695
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.679
there's every reason to just stay here. Yeah, you know, and and

696
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:29.400
there is. If it's all that's
true, and I'm sure it is.

697
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:31.679
With the nil stuff, Yeah,
it's too it's too far for us.

698
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:36.400
Because we talked about this a couple
of places of the nil, how much

699
00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:42.360
they're getting and who are they're giving
it too? Before in someone's last year,

700
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:47.960
someone's last recruiting class, they signed
one top one thousand player one thousand.

701
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.719
He signed one guy in the top
one thousand according to two for seven

702
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:55.199
supports, which is just terrible.
You know, you got to get guy

703
00:45:55.679 --> 00:46:01.079
um Fish got five top five hundred
play Let me let me because we're on

704
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:05.079
this topic now, this is a
dumb question because you're not the guy that

705
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:10.639
should be answering this, and don't
give me um He didn't care. Why

706
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:16.360
do you think that someone didn't care? It's like he was obvious. What

707
00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:21.280
what was the reasoning he came here
for the check? Steve? And that's

708
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:22.719
the answer. No, that's the
answer. That's the answer I would have

709
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:27.119
given. He got a job that
was gonna pay millions of dollars and he

710
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:30.360
knew that they didn't have to do
much and still paid a million dollars without

711
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:32.760
having to work, and he didn't
have to. He just he didn't he

712
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:38.639
there was there was zero, zero
commitment to Arizona from you saw it at

713
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:43.840
Prescot. Ye saw that I watched
this presc the first one. Yeah,

714
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:50.199
the first one. When you know
that guy does not I mean, he's

715
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:53.639
gonna take this job. And unless
he's got a lot of pride in himself

716
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:58.400
to just do a good job for
the sake of doing a good job,

717
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:00.360
he's not gonna do a good job. And he did it. And you

718
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:05.599
can see it. You could see
it by his his um. Uh,

719
00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:10.880
just watching him on the sideline at
the first spring game. He looked uninterested.

720
00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:15.480
But there's no question. Uh.
And then I was saying that after

721
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:17.800
the fact, I thought that that
day. No, no, no,

722
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:20.599
I get it, I get it. I was there as well, and

723
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:22.920
I was in the room and and
it was no excitement, no nothing,

724
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:28.880
um yeah. And then they would
Denhill from there. Yeah. Yeah.

725
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:34.159
Here's a here's a paragraph from from
what from what Washerman Rhody said. The

726
00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:37.840
truth is someone and his staff didn't
try. In the twenty twenty recruiting class,

727
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:42.440
there were three Power five prospects on
South Point's roster, Arizona Whift on

728
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.760
all three. Then it mentioned,
you know, Bijean Robinson, Lathan,

729
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:49.880
Ran Bruno, you know Bruno Fino, who was you know, a legacy,

730
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:52.360
said maybe there was nothing Arizona could
have done to get Robinson or Ransom

731
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:57.119
because Texas and how the state were
involved. But someone and his staff approached

732
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.039
you with a why bother attitude.
It felt as though there was no point.

733
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:02.559
Yeah, no, no, no, there's nothing that we haven't already

734
00:48:02.599 --> 00:48:07.920
said. The point has to be
we're still gonna try so that that school

735
00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:12.920
knows that we made we've made a
commitment without their program. We watched their

736
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.679
guys. We've had coaches on the
show locally. I don't think we had

737
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:21.760
any in Phoenix saying that the difference
with this coaching staff and the last coaching

738
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:23.800
staff or night and day, Yeah, night and day, because they are

739
00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:29.239
making an effort to make it known
that they're here right here. Here's another

740
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:34.639
just another talent statement that why this
is washerman, this is not he's going

741
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:37.159
to the coaches didn't bother to make
that same two point two mile trip to

742
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:42.119
South Point. Someone took no for
an answer, which is an unforgivable sin

743
00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:45.800
for a coach. Or the base
salary of almost fifteen million dollars over five

744
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:47.480
year period, and that's what you
were just and that's and that's it.

745
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:52.599
Yeah, you're getting that kind of
money do the job. Of course,

746
00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:54.039
of course, don't mail it in. Yeah, and he and he mailed

747
00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:58.440
it in from them for the minute
he got on camp right, right.

748
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:01.400
So so anyway they look again,
if they don't get him, they don't

749
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:05.639
get him, right. And you
know what, but who who's gonna blame

750
00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:07.960
him for going to Oregon? He
decided to go to Oregon. Sure,

751
00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:14.599
but you know what Arizona has to
sell is it has to be you know,

752
00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:17.440
if you're a Tucson kid, you
become the guy, and you can

753
00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:21.239
become that guy for a long people, for sure, the rest of your

754
00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:27.320
life. Sean Elliott, Steve Kerr, Corey william Uh, you know all

755
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.320
these guys who are still around,
you know who come to Tucson and still

756
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:37.480
have uh what's it called, uh, you know a profile in this town

757
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:42.280
because they played a sport here.
Elliot, Seanie, I can come to

758
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:44.519
if you want to start doing business. You know, I know the guy's

759
00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:46.400
life in San Antonio. But if
you wanted to come to town and start

760
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:51.320
opening businesses, people would fall all
over themselves to do business. Right,

761
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:53.840
Same with Steve Kerr. You know
all these guys, you know, Corey

762
00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:57.840
Williams, like I said, you
know, just a guy who Cory Williams

763
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.519
wasn't Steve Kurr or Sean Ellie.
Yet here he is is, all these

764
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:04.280
years later, doing doing business in
Tucson, doing great stuff, making a

765
00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:08.280
great living that you know has worked
out for him. You can be that

766
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:12.360
guy in Tucson, Aribody, go
to you know, you can go to

767
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:14.800
Oregon, but you can be that
guy in Oregon. But if you want

768
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:15.880
to do it in your hometown,
you gotta do it here. You got

769
00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:22.320
to stay here. And that's what
Arizona has to sell. That's what they

770
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:28.039
had by tomorrow all time, I
don't know by tomorrow. Sometime tomorrow we'll

771
00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:30.559
know if that works or didn't work. What happened to the kid that went

772
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:36.639
to Oregon from here? Miller or
something like that who went to Oregon left

773
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:38.679
but I don't know where he wanted. But he didn't land anywhere unless he

774
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:44.079
just said I don't need football anymore. I don't I don't know. I

775
00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:47.159
should come maybe text somebody, because
he was one of those guys that left,

776
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:51.760
didn't like it or for whatever reason, and came back for here for

777
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:53.440
for a little while. You know, they've been and there've been some other

778
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:57.079
guys who have done that. You
just gotta text this. It's at two

779
00:50:57.159 --> 00:51:02.119
o'clock tomorrow. Okay. So you
know, look, I think Arizona fans

780
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:07.159
would love it if you came Q
went to a Jay Thank you Hugger jac

781
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:10.760
in California. That's yeah, okay, okay cool. So you know,

782
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:15.199
if if Elijah Russian decides to go
to go to uh Oregon, you know,

783
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:20.920
best luck works out for you worked
hard for that, you deserve it.

784
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:24.079
But but if you go to Arizona, there's you know, there's a

785
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:29.000
lot of play for you here at
Arizona and you can't you can't ignore what

786
00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:31.840
comes with that, other than the
visibility of playing for four years at a

787
00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:36.360
place like Oregon. So uh,
you know, hope, we'll see what

788
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:37.679
happens, but this it would be
a big day for Arizona in the model.

789
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:39.719
All right, well, we're gonna
be back. We've got breaking news

790
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:43.320
and then we'll take you, oh, breaking news. And then we've got

791
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:46.800
to Michelle Lesko, who finished third
in the women's division of the Hot Dog

792
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:50.800
Eating Contest yesterday. We'll talk to
her all about that. We'll be right back