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Steve Rivera and Jacin Salles. They
have their eye on the ball on Tucson

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Sports Day yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to whining the

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ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay. Now

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we have Henry with breaking news.
This is I on the ball, breaking

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news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
All right, So the first story I'm

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gonna talk about is everyan's been talking
about Caitlin Clark's WNBA twenty points, but

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she had ten turnovers fever loss I
think around fifteen. Yeah. Not a

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good double double. No, no, not a good at the double double.

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You're looking fun, but I think
I think there was criticism that you

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would come in it would be totally
different, right, right. Were you

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nervous your first skate day here doing
this? Yes? Partly the second day

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two, Yes, it's just what
it is. I'm still nervous, Steve,

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because I never know what you're gonna
do. Good point good, But

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you know, Henry saved for you. Probably. Come on, who knocks

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out of the park day one?
Well, some people do, but I

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remember Elie de la Cruz did it
against the Dodger. Okay, there's that.

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There's that, but you know how
many times does this happen? And

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no, she'll fit in fine,
it should be fine. And you know

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she's a good player. She can
play the game, sure, you know,

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and and you know, and she's
gonna have a she's gonna have a

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worker off for because you know,
there's there's there's a target, right exactly,

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the perfect perfect way to put that. There's gonna be people out there

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who are gonna do their everything they
can to to try and make her look

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bad, not because they don't like
her or whatever, just saying, Okay,

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she's a challenge and I'm gonna I'm
gonna try and be better than her.

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An there's nothing wrong with don't they
pros trying to win the game.

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There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Now, if you're doing it in a

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way that's dirty or whatever, yeah, then I got a problem with it.

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But if you're out there saying I'm
competing with her and I'm gonna,

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you know, I want to do
my thing, that's what sports are supposed

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to be, no question, yeah, question, all right. Next breaking

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news, we got the Nixon Nuggets
both took three two series leads and Jokichen

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Brunson both at forty points. Did
you put your shovel away on the Denver

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team? Did you put them away? No, you can still have it

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because Denver three in a row.
Everyone had them for dead after doing on

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two Denver, Denver still Denver.
I mean they've gone and won the three

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games. And you know, I, I guess I didn't pay enough attention

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to it or care enough that.
You know, I thought, Okay,

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if Denver loses, then it's Minnesota
and fine. But you know when you,

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I mean you, when you lose
the first two games in the seven

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games series at your place, you
know that's stacked against you. But if

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you're really damn good, I mean
again, you think back to that time

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when the when the first round was
a five game series and the Sons were

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the number one seed and they lost
the first two games at their place,

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and they just said we're gonna win
the next three, and then they did,

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right, guarantee, you said,
we're gonna win the next one,

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and then we're gonna come back and
win the next one after that, and

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then we're gonna win the next one
after that. So that's what you do,

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all right. I know Jay will
like this as a Dodgers and Astros

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pitcher Ronel Blanco suspended ten games for
four and so on his hands. Shocking,

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shocking and Astro is cheating shit,
Steve, I'm shocked, I'm shocked,

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in appalled. Get get Romero Francisco
on the phone. I'm shocked.

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In a pall there? Did you
say? There was along the lines there

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was a video of Josel Twove striking
out on three pitches and he looked lost,

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just lost. It was like there
was a pitch, it was up

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and in, he swung at it. There's a pitch a foot outside.

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He swung at that and then he
his knees buckled on the curveball right down

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the middle of the plate. Yeah. And the comment of that was it's

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a little tougher when you don't know
what pitches are coming. Yeah. And

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that's always gonna be with him.
He always will be the kid, the

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kid rookie of you're not sure for
the Diamondbacks, Carol Corbyn Carroll. He's

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having a horrible year. He's always
I haven't paid attention man one. And

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he too looks a little kind of
flustered because he's not doing well. Yeah.

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Yeah, the the umpire said it
was the sickiest stuff he's alt on

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a glove since they started doing the
checks. How did you think he was

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gonna get away with that? But
it goes it goes to remember we were

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talking about that at University of Georgia
Pitcher who went into the corner of the

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bullpen, you know, away from
the camera, and he's doing something to

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do with glove, Like, dude, you're on video doing this, what

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are you doing? But I didn't
suspend him. Did I know that the

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other team protested it, but I
don't know if what the results were.

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And then Arizona named Ben Lores as
their swimming coach and he was then coach

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for the past eight years. Right, he was named the WAC swimming coach

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for the last four years. Yeah, for four consecutive years they've won the

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conference championship. He's coach of the
year four straight years. He was the

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women's coach of the year back in
twenty twenty one. The women's program has

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been They had fifteen all conference performers
this last season. So he's he's kind

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of the top of the line coach. Take the seams out on this part

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of the country and it looks like
desiree has reached into her past, yes

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to bring somebody right, right,
So so there, uh, there you

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go. He's uh coach Lures l
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see, you know, we'll see
what that looks like. You know,

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swimming is a big deal here,
always has been. Not they haven't been

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as good over the last several years
as that you know they've historically been,

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but you know it's important to this
university to have a good swimming program.

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So congratulations to Ben Lures. And
then last thing I got was Doug Gottlieb

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named the Green Bay head coach and
he said that he'll still be doing his

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radio Phil's Coach, which which that
was the weird thing because he followed he

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precedes us, right because right,
yeah before us. So you don't find

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that to be a conflict of interest
somehow or just somehow. There was a

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conversation about it. He was on
Dan Patrick show this okay, and they're

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saying he's like, aren't there some
some things that you can't talk about,

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like recruiting and stuff? He says, I never talked about recruiting, so

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it's nothing lost on my show.
I don't talk about specific players but yeah,

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I don't know, I don't know. It seems yeah, because what

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if he's having a crappy ear,
are you going to criticize you? Are

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you criticize yourself for you know,
what are you gonna do? I think

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that kind of ties into JJ Reddy
got the Lakers job because he obviously has

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a podcast, but he continued that
he's got probably not you think he wouldn't,

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but you wouldn't think that here.
Yeah, here's here's the thing.

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If if i'm if I'm a University
of Green Bay fan, and you know,

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I'm going, well, wait a
minute, do you want to coach

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his team or not? Okay,
when you're on the radio, shouldn't you

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be out recruiting or good point,
you know, doing some stuff to make

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yourself a better coach? What look
you and I don't put a lot of

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after could you tell me? Could
job by today's show? A lot of

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effort into preparing for today's show.
But when you're a national guy like him,

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you've got to know your stuff way
way more than we do. We

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just know the local stuff, and
that's fine. This is what we do.

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Yeah, that's why because we know
it and we're around it. But

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you're you're a national talk show host. You have to know things. You

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have to be paying attention to things
that are going on. They've got to

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be able to talk about the NBA
and the NHL in college football and college

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basketball. And how are you going
to be a college basketball coach and do

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that? I don't know how that's
gonna Here's the biggest issue I have with

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this. Okay, So, Henry, what's your degree? What are you

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getting a degree in journalism? Okay? Journalism? Just just journalism, right,

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Okay, so you're doing this now, how would you like for somebody

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who who uh a former athlete JJ
Reddick to come in who doesn't know journalism,

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he has been a probost and he
comes in and takes this job.

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Kenn does it. He's a podcast
because if he's famous, right, and

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he's got no journalism background, which
is a problem for today's journal right,

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they don't have any background journalism right? What to say, what not to

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say, what sources to use,
what not to use? No, it's

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these guys taking the jobs that you
want trained for, are being trained for.

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That's who I would be up.
Our guy at Channel four Channel four,

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Uh Matt uh uh Reynoldson. So
he's going to school, got his

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degree, he's twenty, young guy. He doesn't have a job now probably

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it's no fault of his own,
obviously, but now you have athletes taking

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people's jobs who have no no background
in it, you know, And then

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Doug that would be the problem.
And do something like Doug gop Lead who

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hasn't been a coach, And how
would you feel if you're a coach,

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right, if you're the if you're
one of the assistants at Green Bay?

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Right? And I said, wait
a minute, you're gonna get a radio

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talk show host because he's famous.
No, And you know basketball, and

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you see it all the time.
And it's not like he went to Wisconsin

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Green Bay. He went to Oklahoma
State. Well you see that in in

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uh in in broadcasts where this guy
is pretty knowledgeable, he speaks it.

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Well, whyn't you be our GM. It happens. It happens in football,

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it's happened in baseball, I think, yeah, basketball as well.

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So you know, George, it's
tough. That's the some guy who doesn't

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do this is taking my job,
who doesn't know how to do my job.

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Yeah, no, I hear you. I hear you. And then

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again, if you're you know,
if you're a guy who's been trying to

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get an NBA coaching job, and
JJ Reddick is you know, a serious

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candidate for the Lakers job, You're
like, what the hell? If you're

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Joseph Blair, right, what have
I been doing right to prepare for my

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head coaching job? I should have
been ahead of I should have had a

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podcast. Yeah, I mean he
should be in the line behind me in

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the fair world. In a fair
world would be one of my I did

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you have the issue guy? Oh? Yeah, I was gonna talk about

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the new ad D you got,
I give you the name. Yeah,

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I was just gonna talk about the
go ahead. Former Arizona State receiver Elijah

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Bacher gonna announce his commitment on Friday, and he's down to Arizona, Florida

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or Washington. Somebody, somebody fish? Did you have the dead fish triangle

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better than his? From you?
Exactly? You fish in that Park'd be

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interesting to see what he decides to
do. Okay, So issue su they're

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speaking of, you know, waiting
your turning line? Right, is expected

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to hire gram Rose Sceni. He's
the he's the former Uh Executive Senior Associate

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a d at a s U,
their chief business officer. He's expected to

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be the next a d at a
s U. So, Jay, you've

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been making cakes for the last nine
months, making pretty good cakes, uh,

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and doing well in the old kitchen. And they finally decided Jacob cook

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for what pretty good cook? And
they finally after all these months hire since

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November, since who was in your
backyard all this cooking and now you're where

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was it? I would say,
then, wonder like, did you just

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not find anybody better and so you
circled back to me or what or didn't

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give a crap? And I'll just
say, Okay, you got it.

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But I'm we're talking six months later. Well that kind of shows and I

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was talking to some people in Phoenix. He just doesn't what's his name,

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crow doesn't care, but it sure
appears way, I guess, you know,

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yeah, I mean, because he
certainly wasn't paying attention to what the

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hell is going on in the program
for a long time football program, at

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least for a long time. You
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his stuff. Well I don't know, but you're right, I mean,

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if you if the guy was there
all this time, Why didn't he get

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the job months ago? Make him
but make him the interim and see how

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he does and then give him the
job. Makes no sense, but it's

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not my issue. Uh. And
lastly, maybe not lastly, we have

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three minutes. Bob Bafford his horse, his main horse, Moth is no

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longer in the Preakness. Why and
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bolt to to to the race to
Kindness and now he's they're not gonna run

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him. So he still doesn't know
the horses. If he yeah, if

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he can, he should get better
by next week. But he's not going

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to run Saturday. So that was
my horse. That changes everything, changes

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everything. Yeah, So now is
the Dan, that guy the winner of

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the he's the favorite? Whatever?
Yeah, you don't even know the Derby

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favorite. That guy, that guy
is not the Favorite's listening to us right

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now. She's very disappointed. We
talked this morning and miss Dan, mister

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Dan, there we go, got
it. I pulled it. So what's

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the guys in the in the in
the Lieutenant Dan for Lieutenant Dan. I

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think I need to be too much
Doctor Pepper. Yeah, that guy,

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Mystic Dan. So he's a favorite. Now. But Baffert does have another

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horse which is going to be pretty
good, but he's not not a favorite.

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No, Okay, I'm glad you
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have been on the dang horse he
would have. Sorry, you can't bet

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on it. He doesn't exist this
for all. Right, Well that's interesting,

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okay, okay? Anything else?
That was it? Right? Anything

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of a softball left this morning?
Softball? Yeah, there, they open

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on Friday. I thought they were
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if we were trying to get Caitlin
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But I thought they were gonna leave
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about that. But I leave today. They play on Friday at three o'clock

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so another thing. Yeah, didn't
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Stephen, J. How are you
We're doing well? You busy? Uh

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the time? This time of year, probably get not so busy. But

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how are you today or this week? Yeah, still a little bit.

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I mean, certainly, you know, the the u of a season has

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so we do more community features and
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June because it's a slow time and
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weather we have it in June,
and so so yeah, different type of

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thing. Yeah, Okay, so
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You know, we've been talking over
the last week or so. You know,

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we're getting to the end of all
the seasons. Right Baseball is the

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last last sport for the or the
academic school of for Arizona. When they

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finish up, they're all done of. Softball is into the into the national

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tournament. Golf is playing in the
national tournament. Man's golf, women's golf

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has done so rating the rating all
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academic year on a scale of one
to ten. So tell us give us

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an idea where are you? Where
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tell you where Steve and I have
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landed in the same place. Okay, well, yeah, interesting to hear

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what you guys have to say.
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yet, I think I can go
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then how baseball and softball and maybe
track and field still going. How they

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do can maybe move the needle one
way or the other, but they think

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highlight the highlight certainly is the football
team. And you know you have a

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football going from the worst team in
the country to top ten and winning the

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ALIMA ball finishing with season eleventh.
I think that's the highlight. You know,

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basketball, Yeah, you know you
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them, guys, Stephen j.
You know that draw opened up for them

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to go to the final four.
So by going to the Sweet sixteen,

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it's great they got back there,
but you wanted to see them be Clemson

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in Alabama and get to the final
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like a seven or in eight,
And I want to see how how baseball,

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which could win the Pac twelve regular
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State this weekend, and how softball
do, and I think that'll meet will

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be one way or the other.
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we I first threw out like a
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point nine, and then like that's
where I was about. And then the

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following Monday, Arizona Tennis had won
the Pac twelve tournament for the first time,

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and ever, uh, you know, you could tell you your baseball

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was doing really well. Softball looked
like they were gonna get into the regions.

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So we kind of both bumped it
up to like eight point one,

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just a little over eight, you
know, and likes you said, wait,

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you know, let's see what happened
with baseball. Let's see what happens

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with men's golf was in the national
tournament. Now, wait, let's see

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what Let's see what softball does.
And you can maybe get to an eight

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and a half if one of them
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the two let's say baseball and softball
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right, maybe you go to like
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like that. And and I don't
know what mine was about eight eight point

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one, like you guys, But
Jason, how how many years have you

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been here. I'm my thirteenth year. Thirteenth year, okay, so in

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that time and I just want to
get a gage. Do you know,

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wouldn't you say that overall this is
one of the better years in your time

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here because because of football, because
because of football, right, and basketball

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went to the Elite eight twice,
But that was about it in fourte Well,

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in twelve they won a few months
after I got here, they won

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the College World Series. In fourteen
was the other ten win season. That

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football team was almost as good as
this past one. But also in fourteen,

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that was Sean Miller's best team.
That was the team that had TJ,

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Aaron Gordon, and Ron Day.
And that team, if Brandon Ashley

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hadn't gotten hurt, may have gone
to the Final four because remember they lost

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to the Elite eight. Nick Johnson
didn't get the shot off at the end

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of the game. So that was
an Elite eight basketball team that was twenty

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and ohero in the thirteen fourteen Uh. But you know what, it's also

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how you kind of put the seasons
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that basketball team maybe the thirteen fourteen
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So I guess that would be different
seasons. So you know, if you

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put it that way, you would
say, well, the twenty fourteen football

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team would be mixed in with the
twenty fourteen fifteen basketball season. That team

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also made it to the Elite eate
that they got spoked by Wisconsin when where

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nobody could guard Frank Covinski and Dester
under than Ronde, and Miller couldn't put

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Ronde on both players. So you
know that that that that you would rival.

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But I think you got a good
point, Stephen J. I think

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this one is definitely uh, this
one definitely could be could be up there.

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But you also don't have a national
championship, and right, you know,

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you do have women's golf win a
national championship I think at eighteen,

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yet baseball win one and twelve,
and so you do want to see a

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national championship to really cement it though
as the best right, I agree?

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Yeah, for football winning the Alema
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running through the pack twelve schedule with
seven wins at the end the season,

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that's up there. Yeah, And
a lot of times when you think

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about a season like that, you
know, in an academic year. You

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know, football sort of frames a
lot of it. If it's a bad

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football season, it's kind of clouds
the whole rest of the year, even

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if basketball is really good, because
you think, I mean, it was

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just dark here for those years that
Kevin someone was here and even into the

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end of jed Furt Fish it was
just darker. Right, there were clouds

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over us all the time. You
didn't know if you could ever get out

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of it, right, Well,
that was the thing was scary. How

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long was it going to take to
get out of that? Yeah, for

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sure. I mean you know they
what do they have a twenty game losing

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streak? Yeah, it going from
bad to worse. Yeah, and then

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you know it's always what do they
say, It's always darkest before dawn,

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and darkest was seventy to seven.
But I'll tell you what if they didn't

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if cal in twenty twenty one,
yeah, Cow didn't come here with half

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the team missing because of COVID,
it might have gone and listen to twenty

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twenty one too. Totally agree with
you. Yeah, but you also maybe

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factor in the controversy of the Heiky
situation, the money situation, the president,

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all that and the big twelve movement, right, it was just a

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great news year of well, there
are a lot of news for sure,

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all year long. I'm sure you
weren't bored. No, it was very

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eventful. You know, we've had
some other eventful situations, obviously the cloud

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that was hanging over the basketball team. Yeah, but definitely you know you

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have got a athletic director change,
in a football coaching change, and most

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of all a conference change. Right. Yeah. So so it's, uh,

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you know there's always something, always
something happens. Well, let's go

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to that because you know we're wrapping
up the again, wrapping up the academic

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year. Arizona's last PAC twelve baseball
series is this weekend and then that's gone.

407
00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:52.200
Yes, they have the pack off
tournament that's going to be up up

408
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:55.880
in Phoenix. But you know,
this is it. I mean this the

409
00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:02.079
PAC twelve is over in a couple
of weeks. Kind of where are you

410
00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:03.880
on that? Your thoughts on that? I mean, I who grew up

411
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.839
here and I was, you know, celebrated when I when I found out

412
00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.240
Arizona was going into the PAC ten
at the time and thinking we're going to

413
00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:17.680
get to a Rose Bull someday.
I'm really it's starting to sting again,

414
00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:19.240
right, I'd kind of forgotten about
it a little bit going through the basketball

415
00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:22.200
season and football stuff, But now
now that it's coming to an end,

416
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:26.279
it's kind of like at the forefront
again. I'm feeling kind of a little

417
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:29.559
nostalgic about the fact that it's going
to end here in a couple of weeks.

418
00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:33.599
I think it's okay if something doesn't
feel right. I think the last

419
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:40.160
Pack twelve game on Arizona's campus is
Saturday baseball against Morgan State. You know,

420
00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:42.599
let me know if I'm mistaken,
if a caller, if I'm not

421
00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:47.720
right, you're right, you're correct, last official Pac twelve sporting event here.

422
00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:51.480
But it's okay to feel nostalgic.
It's okay if it doesn't feel right.

423
00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:53.200
You know. My thought is,
I'm wondering if this doesn't get all

424
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:57.559
get shaken up again. Right.
You know, we haven't really felt the

425
00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:02.640
effects of the travel. Yeah,
you know, you think about UCLA and

426
00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:07.039
going to Rutgers in Maryland and and
and all that type of stuff. Yeah,

427
00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:10.440
I wouldn't be surprised if down the
road there isn't another West Coast conference.

428
00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:12.799
Yeah. I don't know how it's
gonna happen and what's going to take

429
00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:15.519
place, And obviously this is all
driven by you know what, and that's

430
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:21.960
money. But you know, I'm
glad Arizona doesn't have as big a travel

431
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.400
burden as as some of the other
schools might have, you know, with

432
00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:30.440
all this conference shake up. Yeah, I think you of ak is coming

433
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.319
out okay on this ye are It's
it's Oregon State and Washington State that have

434
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.279
a little bit more uncertainty. And
I think you have a's coming out okay

435
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.039
on this were a big twelve and
you know, some of the teams you're

436
00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:42.720
still going to be in the same
conference and others are in Texas and not

437
00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:45.799
that far away, no question,
and a better chance of winning a conference

438
00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:51.119
title than playing in the Pac twelve. Yeah, the leaders are going to

439
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:55.640
see the new rivalries, you know
with Kansas basketball and Iowa State had a

440
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:59.480
good year, and obviously Houston's been
just a monster in basketball, right,

441
00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:04.480
so you know we have some we
have some good basketball matchups and and football.

442
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:07.359
Yeah. You know, let me
throw you guys a question here,

443
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.599
how do you think football is going
to do this year? You last,

444
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.960
he doesn't mind last couple of times
that football has won ten games. The

445
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:19.200
last ten times they won ten games
of the year, they were five hundred.

446
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:26.720
Next year, trend us with the
number. Now, I believe me,

447
00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:29.599
Jason, you know, having been
here for all of those, right,

448
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.160
having been here for the ninety you
know, the ninety four season,

449
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.839
the ninety nine season, the twenty
fifteen season. It they they don't sustain

450
00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.400
it, and they had they never
have even the you know, the the

451
00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:45.680
eighty the eighty six season, Larry
Smith. Last year they went nine and

452
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:51.400
three, won you know, won
the Holiday Bowl, the Rulis Bowl at

453
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:56.319
the Rulis Bull but not the the
Alohabble, you know. Larry Smith left

454
00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.319
and then they went four, four
and three the next year. So that's

455
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:06.319
but in every one of those years, I thought there's another great year coming

456
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:07.880
up, right, everybody was back, They had all the guys back,

457
00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:12.960
and and so I don't know,
I'd like to think that, you know,

458
00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:17.160
that they can kind of keep this
ball rolling because they kept their players.

459
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:19.640
But no matter what anybody says,
it's a new coach, and when

460
00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:26.640
it comes to game day and it's
different from last year and different what these

461
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.200
guys have been used to. There's
some adjustments gonna take place. They're gonna

462
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:36.000
lose a game that they shouldn't lose. I feel that, and so I'd

463
00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:38.079
like to think that they can contend
for the Big twelve. But I don't

464
00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:42.359
think we know. I don't think
we know. Yeah, A little concerned

465
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:48.759
at seeing how much bandage is on
Ted roll of mcdillan's foot. I don't

466
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:51.559
know if we're all in the spring
game, but that looks like some type

467
00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:55.640
of serious foot injury. Now he's
supposed to be back for the season and

468
00:30:55.759 --> 00:31:00.400
they're being secretive, but I'll tell
you what. They did lose some players,

469
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.599
They've got a new coaching staff.
I think they're gonna win eight games.

470
00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:07.079
You know, let me readjust that
down the road. But I'm gonna

471
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.400
get I'm gonna throw this at you
guys. I think that Brent Brennan needs

472
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.359
to prove that he's a big time
football coach. He was twenty four and

473
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:19.599
thirty eight in San Jose State pretty
much only one good year. He was

474
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:23.640
zeroing three of the bowl games and
blowing halftime leads in those ball games.

475
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:27.559
Yeah, I think he is the
nicest guy in the world. I know

476
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:32.519
why everybody loves him. He's awesome
to be around. I can see why

477
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:36.759
the players love him. Brent Brennan
seems like just the greatest dude there is.

478
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:40.039
But I think he has to prove
he's a big time football coach.

479
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:42.319
No, I hear you, Well, let me tell you Jason full disclosion.

480
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.519
I think I can tell Jason because
he just went with that when I

481
00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:48.200
saw him at the hospital. You
remember this, Jason covering a news news

482
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:52.400
item. He said the same thing. He was a little concerned about his

483
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.559
background and that he did a good
job with the research. And I don't

484
00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:00.119
know, I don't disagree with his
with there now you can't, so so

485
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:01.759
we'll see. We'll see. I
think it's a legitimate concern. No,

486
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:07.359
it's certainly something that you know.
I mean, it's on my mind that

487
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:09.640
I mean, look Santele stays a
tough you know, a tough place to

488
00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:15.240
coach, So any amount of success
there is is pretty good. Use.

489
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:17.160
You've did the same thing about Arizona
though a few years ago. I mean,

490
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:20.599
right, you know you could have. You could say that about a

491
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:22.400
lot of schools. Yeah, coaches
turn them around. Yeah, so you

492
00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:24.920
give the guys the keys to the
car, you know, the bigger car,

493
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.920
the better car, and you see, okay, can you handle the

494
00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:31.160
car? And that that's how Yeah, you're you're one hundred percent correct.

495
00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.599
We don't know, and that's what
I'm saying. You know, the you

496
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:39.640
know, fall practice might start.
You get into a game, and how

497
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:43.200
do they run a game? You
know, do these guys get it?

498
00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:45.640
Is there confusion? Is there chaos
on the sidelines? You know, what

499
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:50.480
kinds of things are going on?
Or does he have a good system put

500
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:52.359
together with good coaches? Now,
I like the fact that I love his

501
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.799
coordinators, two guys who've been around
a long time and been you know,

502
00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:00.920
been around Arizona for a long time, in uh In Dino and duynea Quina.

503
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:05.880
So you know, I don't know. We'll we'll find out. I

504
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:07.440
think we're going to find out pretty
early when they go to play Kansas State

505
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:13.240
in that non conference game their game
of the season. Yeah, it's a

506
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.160
conference opponent at a non conference game
because the game was scheduled before this whole

507
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.039
situation. And also, just to
clarify, when you said you saw me

508
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:28.640
at the hospital, we're okay.
We were there for Arizona basketball in Arizona

509
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:32.920
Basketball event in which some of the
players were with kids who had cancer,

510
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:36.759
a really nice event by Arizona Basketball. Yeah, so I just want to

511
00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:39.240
make sure the viewers, no work, you weren't in the hospital yourself.

512
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:43.400
Good clarification, because no one ever
thinks I'm okay. Yeah, I understand

513
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:47.559
that. Lastly, because we have
a minute or so your program, you

514
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:52.599
guys do it differently at Channel nine. You're more about the story than the

515
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.079
news, which is good because I
can't remember the story you did a while

516
00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:58.359
back. I thought that was a
pretty good job because you're more of a

517
00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:02.440
storyteller. Now. Yeah, thanks
so much. I'm glad you noticed that.

518
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:06.359
That means a lot, so I
would appreciate that. You know,

519
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:10.800
basically our business the sports guy on
the news that has been disrupted, you

520
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:14.199
know, to get to get real, honest and frank with you. You

521
00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:19.760
know, twenty thirty years ago people
got their sports news from the guy on

522
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.119
the news, right, but do
you really need to anymore? We can

523
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.559
get something happens, we can hear
it with you guys on the radio,

524
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:29.199
we can get it off of Twitter, and we've got instant information everywhere.

525
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:31.760
So if I go up there at
six o'clock and I'm just regurgitating news that

526
00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:36.119
everybody knows already. You know,
I don't know how much value that I'm

527
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:39.840
providing anymore. So what the station
had me do is just you know about

528
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:42.960
you know, a couple of years
ago. I guess a year and a

529
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:49.119
half ago, was just shift towards
more storytelling and the stories behind the players

530
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.400
and do a human interest feature.
So today we'll have something on Jole Pisey.

531
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:57.480
She's a former University of Arizona woman's
goal when he was from CDO and

532
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:00.400
she's now playing for the Kansas City
Current and uh, their game is going

533
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.679
to be on television this weekend,
so we're doing doing a feature on her

534
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:07.159
today. And that's how we're just
kind of shifting. And you know,

535
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:10.199
as you guys know, it's it's
a it's an ever changing media landscape,

536
00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:14.000
and it's kind of tough, and
you know, kvu A was in the

537
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.880
news, had some layoffs and and
you know, so so we're all trying

538
00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:22.039
to figure out the future and trying
to stay relevant well and and that's what

539
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:23.480
you like, you said, you
got to you gotta find ways to do

540
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:28.719
that, and that's a there are
you guys really do some good stuff.

541
00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.440
The sports guys are really the only
ones I watch because of this, and

542
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:36.239
I feel like I get what.
I get ideas, I get news,

543
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.320
I get you know thing, you
know, trends and things that are going

544
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:40.679
on from from the work that you
guys do. So that's very cool.

545
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.960
So we do. Yeah, we
want to cheat the cheap the viewer.

546
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:45.039
I mean, if there's a giant
news story, you know, we're going

547
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.360
to put it on and and and
I'll show highlights Friday of the Amazona softball

548
00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:52.400
team in the NCAA tournament. But
it's a little bit less highlight driven and

549
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:57.480
a little bit more more feature driven. Is kind of how we're trying to

550
00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:00.679
trying to stay relevant here and and
try to, you know, offer something

551
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:05.159
you can't see anywhere else. That's
why we're a bunch of old, goofy

552
00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:07.199
dudes trying to be relevant. I
get it. We don't want to you

553
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.599
know what. You know, you
don't want to uh lose your core customer.

554
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.679
There are people just don't get their
sports dues from the from the guy

555
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:20.239
on the news. It's just it's
just not as many anymore. About if

556
00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:22.960
you're under the age of X.
No pun intended with Twitter. If you're

557
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.960
under the age of whatever, you
know you're getting your sports dues elsewhere.

558
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.440
You know you're yea And I think
with our listeners we probably lose a couple

559
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:39.079
every day. Obituary terrible, terrible, terrible, but true. Takes a

560
00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:42.639
bunch of a whole bunch. Jason, We appreciate you, great stuff.

561
00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:47.480
Let's all right. That may be
the first or second most funniest thing you've

562
00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:53.679
ever said, and clever because it's
probably true. Because sorry, anything,

563
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.280
what do you mean I say,
okay that I know that guy listened to

564
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:01.159
our show. You know when I
see the I check out the jo bits

565
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:05.599
every Sunday. Man, Hell,
we're on that list time, dude,

566
00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:07.599
I know, I know we're day
to day. Baby, all right,

567
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:08.639
bell, Hey, let's take our
last break. We're to come back.

568
00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.960
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net, Streamy Live, I mean, iHeartRadio. Wow. This is I

611
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on the Ball with Steve Rivera and
Jay Gonzalez Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey,

612
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:30.400
welcome back to Win the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm

613
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Steve, You're Jay Henry with US
DEADBUK twelve and a half and we got

614
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a call right away. Here you
do, I let's pick this call.

615
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:42.800
Hi, you're on the air and
hind the ball alight. What's up?

616
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.079
James Steves is George? Hey George, what's up? What's going on.

617
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:50.280
What's going on seas? How are
you? We're doing well, what's going

618
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.119
on? What's on your mind?
George? You told me in a text

619
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:57.960
you listen to Tommy and Jim Rome. Yeah, Tommy was on the Rown

620
00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:01.599
Show today. Yeah it was.
It was was awesome. What was yeh?

621
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:09.519
He touched on everything from recruiting to
Caleb Love with a USA basketball to

622
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:16.920
pickleball. Great, great interviews,
great interview. Rome was great. He

623
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:22.320
was giving her own some crap about
how he would beat him in pickleball,

624
00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:24.039
and uh, yeah, it was
a good time. I was here having

625
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:28.280
breakfast at the house with a freak
show friend of mine by the name of

626
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:32.679
Pie. We we listened to it
all. It was great. And then

627
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:43.079
minutes later some dude from tim Pe
called up running his mouth about what what

628
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:46.880
can they possibly run their mouth about? But they think they're going to be

629
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:52.400
good or what? I heard that
call me interview and I can't believe he

630
00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:57.320
disrespected you, Jim, And and
all Tommy says was, Jim, I

631
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:00.960
think you got slow heat and slow
hands. I think I could take you

632
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:05.360
and pickle you know. It was
all in fun, you know. And

633
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:10.480
this guy from tamp was like,
I can't believe he disrespected you and Tucson

634
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:17.679
Tommy has been irrelevant. They have
underachieved, and I gotta get props to

635
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:27.480
Bobby who has us on the rise. I mean, okay, what did

636
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:31.800
what did they have to say about
Caleb Love? You know Tommy He's gonna

637
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:37.039
support him either way, he says, if he's gonna test the NBA waters,

638
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:40.039
I'm gonna back them one percent.
If he wants to come back,

639
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:49.519
I'll welcome him back one Either way, I'm gonna support him. So yeah,

640
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:54.320
yeah, so Uh. I ended
up calling the Rome Show God on

641
00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:59.519
live and I bashed this guy,
right, that's what you say? What

642
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:02.159
did you say? Oh? I
just I went off on the guys,

643
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:06.199
said he's crazy, he doesn't know
what the hell he's talking about. And

644
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:10.840
Tommy's the man you saw him owns
you. We just won the Territorial Cup

645
00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:16.519
again. Uh, Bobby is a
major free show on the sidelines, coach.

646
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:21.719
I hope they hope they keep them
because they don't win with them,

647
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:27.880
unlike his brother. Okay, it
was it was great me and my Bobby

648
00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:30.400
Pie. We had it. We
had a good time with it. Okay,

649
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:36.360
Glori, George, thanks for the
call man listen to appreciated Thank you,

650
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.360
thanks, thanks for listening. Yeah, Georgia, George listens every now

651
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.440
and again. It's funny. This
is why Twitter is so popular. And

652
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:49.119
then whatever you know, social some
dude, some dude with with two pennies

653
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.920
in his pocket is criticizing the guy
with a diamond his pocket that that shouldn't

654
00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:57.599
happen. It shouldn't, but it
does, and we allow it and it

655
00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:01.039
happens. What are you gonna do? Tommy's under should you work? That's

656
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:05.760
your yard? First one? You
talk about Tommy and what do you achieve

657
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:09.320
before you tell people that they've underachieved? Right? Right? Because you know

658
00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:12.800
there there's a there's not a lot
of that going on, particularly there's a

659
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:15.079
state basketball No. In fact,
we just talked about their A D A

660
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:20.000
D. The guy who's been sitting
in the background for months. Yeah,

661
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.599
he's finally hired. You could have
done this a while back. Yeah they

662
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:24.559
could have, and but you know
you know what I mean, did they

663
00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:28.679
What are they behind on stuff up
there? Because of that? Right?

664
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:32.079
Is there things that weren't happening because
they'll be waiting for an eightd. Well.

665
00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:37.519
The funny thing is it's quality of
people. There's there's swim coach left

666
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:40.480
ye and left. Yeah. So
they're doing things like the day after winning

667
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:44.679
the next things. But you you
just don't see it. Hear about it

668
00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:46.199
right right now? Yeah, you
know, what are you gonna do?

669
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:50.800
And well, look fine, and
that's you know, that's the rivalry.

670
00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:53.360
You know, they're they're gonna poke
at each other. You know. An

671
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:58.559
a person sees Tommy Lloyd getting some
getting some love on on the gym Rome

672
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:00.519
show, he wants to go in
there and step on. Here's the problem

673
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:05.320
and issue and Bobby are and I'm
just speaking the truth in my mind,

674
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:08.079
they're not on the rise. Where
are they on the rise? They went

675
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:12.079
the other direction as far as I
know, right because they were in the

676
00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:15.079
weren't thing fancy a tournament two years
ago and then this year they were not.

677
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:17.599
So don't tell me that they're on
the rise. I don't think they

678
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:20.840
got any good recruits. Yeah,
and we got the one guy, they

679
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:22.400
got the one five star guy,
the best guy ever. Yeah. That

680
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:27.400
who knows why he did that.
That's that's a weird thing, mystery to

681
00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:30.800
everybody. But you know, n
I l he says he needs help with

682
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:34.800
the ni l to get and this
is and that's a great cat. I

683
00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.639
know you don't you haven't been there
since you were two, But I love

684
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.119
that campus. It's a lot to
do. No, they the whole area

685
00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:43.840
over there. They they've done a
nice job that little city. Yeah,

686
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:46.239
you know, and then when they
got the lake over there and all the

687
00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:49.639
stuff, you know, all that
stuff around around. I got you know,

688
00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.079
when we were up there for the
final four, we went into Tampede

689
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.400
twice for dinner and it just walked
around and it was a cool place to

690
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:57.719
be. And what was the last
time you were there before that? Yeah,

691
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:01.800
it's been a while, been a
long time, and you must have

692
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:06.000
been impressed or yeah, no,
no, sir, I absolutely was,

693
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.639
absolutely was, because you know,
they have done so much and we had

694
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:13.039
a great time. You don't find
a couple of great places to go get

695
00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:15.440
something to eat, a pizza place
and then a bar and grill. I'm

696
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.400
sure to watch games and stuff.
I'm sure Jean and Gene and you know

697
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.440
he reacts was like, wow,
yeah, no, we all did.

698
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.280
We all did. And yeah,
it had been a decade or more.

699
00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:28.960
I had been to Tempee and so
much has happened I'm sure you've been on

700
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:30.559
their campus. Yeah. I was
at the football game last year, and

701
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:34.159
what would you think it was?
Yeah? The stadium was really beautiful on

702
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:37.480
the mountains and just the area with
all the restaurants in the rooms flying in

703
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:42.800
the Phoenix, it looks like many
towns. Yeah, and they still can't

704
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:45.480
pull a winter. Yeah, which
makes it again, it's that I'm tired,

705
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:49.000
but I'm never going to use this
giant in the sleeping giant, because

706
00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.519
you know what, we've been talking
about it since I got here thirty seven

707
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:53.599
years. It's like a dead giants. It's it's right, a guy who

708
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:58.159
needs CPR Toto's giant. Right,
So what's the point? At some point

709
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:00.239
you might wake up? Who cares? Been so long? Well? Which

710
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:04.280
your courses? I was going to
tell you back. So you've you're sixty

711
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:09.440
four years old, You've won one
national title, one national basketball, baseball

712
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:15.400
obviously very very good, and it's
baseball town, baseball basketball town. You

713
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:19.519
think you have one more in you
somewhere football basketball? Yeah? I do.

714
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:29.400
Before I think Arizona wins the national
basketball championship sometime relatively soon, give

715
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:37.039
me the relatively before you're seventy,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, before the

716
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:40.000
Alabama game, before the Alabama football
game, which is twenty thirty two.

717
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:45.760
Twenty thirty two, okay, eight
years what the game was that? Okay,

718
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.679
okay, we've got Alabama on the
schedule like in twenty thirty two.

719
00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:52.400
If both of us are alive,
it's doing the Bad Eyes on the ball.

720
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.280
We've said an over under of that
game for my brother, Bad Eyes

721
00:47:55.320 --> 00:48:01.039
on the ball. Yeah. I'd
like to think that they will. I

722
00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:06.320
feel, in spite of what's happened, you know, an early exit the

723
00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:08.960
last two years, I think Tommy's
got the program going in a direction that

724
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:14.840
they'll they he'll win a national championship
here, if it's in five years or

725
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:16.960
ten years or whatever, I think
he'll win an as. I think.

726
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:23.239
I think he's had a shot.
He's had a national championship caliber team all

727
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:25.480
three years. They just haven't done
it. Let me take you back to

728
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:29.440
twenty eleven. Okay, So a
friend of mine both the guy we know,

729
00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:32.679
came up to me and said,
Steve, I just want to I'll

730
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:37.320
bet you a hundred bucks that Sean
Miller doesn't get to the final four and

731
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:39.039
win a title. And I'm thinking, you're you're crazy. Yeah, you're

732
00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:44.639
you're crazy. I'll take that bet. I'll take that bet. And guess

733
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:46.840
when when did you have to pay
it up? Well? I still had

734
00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:50.199
a chance. Uh. And I
can't cont tell you who it is on

735
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:52.320
the air, but I will tell
you out the air. Uh, it

736
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:54.599
didn't happen. It happen. It
didn't happen to be great shot. You

737
00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:59.119
think you think after seeing him play
against dude, you're thinking, oh,

738
00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.679
Arizona's going to be it could be
good. And they were for those two

739
00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:05.400
teams, those two those two back
to back the lead eights that he had,

740
00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:07.079
either one of those good you know, either one of those teams could

741
00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:09.840
have won the national championship and then
didn't get to the final four. Right,

742
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:14.280
And that's what I'm saying about Tommy. You know this team I thought

743
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:15.960
was good enough to get to the
final four last year. Yeah, they

744
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.079
had some you know, towards the
end of the season you could see the

745
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.280
big, big holes in in who
they were, and you know, and

746
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:25.880
so it wasn't shocking that they didn't
get to But you know, I mean

747
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.880
he's won thirty plus games three years
in a row. Yeah, and not

748
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:32.119
against easy competition, right, that's
the thing. And now you know,

749
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:37.440
I actually think that moving to the
Big twelve, playing a Big twelve schedule

750
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:43.039
against you know, the challenges that
they're going to have game in and game

751
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:46.440
out in the Big twelve won't make
them better prepared to go further in the

752
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:51.079
turn. And that's why I think
that that fans need to be more patient.

753
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:54.119
I don't think he's gonna find the
same success regular season, but you're

754
00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:58.280
right, they're going to develop Kells's
I'm not sure patient is the word.

755
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:05.920
I think more. The word more
is realistic, but realistic realistic with Look,

756
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:08.000
this is gonna be a very hard
league for Airs on a basketball a

757
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:13.079
hard league, but the one that's
gonna be been, it's gonna it's gonna

758
00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:15.559
help them down the road. I
mean, how many times did we go

759
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.480
into the into the NC Double A
Tournament saying they just haven't had it tough

760
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.519
enough in the Pac twelve. Yeah, they have not been challenged enough with

761
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:25.480
with Jason Barr pointed this out.
We talk about it all the time,

762
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:30.679
with good roads to get there right
to good with good yes, simple simple

763
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:36.480
twenty eighteen, whatever West do you
want to play in the West? You

764
00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:40.440
have these alleys in this year,
boom, you have the roadblock, sober

765
00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:45.920
you poop the bad yeah right and
again as a favorite. Yeah, so

766
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:52.960
I think I see I see an
NC double a championship in the in thommis.

767
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.320
You've had one in sixty four.
You have an eight year window.

768
00:50:55.440 --> 00:51:00.480
You know what before that one,
I didn't. I didn't couldn't even imagine

769
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:04.960
Arizona winning the National championship in basketball
because one of those things that I saw

770
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:07.559
on TV every year. It was
a big deal to me, and I

771
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:10.440
thought, Arizona doesn't win that,
they don't play in that, they don't

772
00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:14.840
get to do that. Well,
you mean before before like the eighty eight

773
00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:16.280
CS. Okay, so but the
eight you think great, then wait a

774
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:20.480
minute, they're in the final four. Sure, yeah, they can be

775
00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:22.679
there. And then eighty nine you
have the best team in the country.

776
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:29.199
And then they pooped the bed.
Okay ninety eight, Yeah, but they

777
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:31.000
were never going to win that again
with but they were very good. Yeah,

778
00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:36.480
but ninety eight poop the bed two
thousand and one, no fault the

779
00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:38.199
gout there they got there. Uh, they just had some bad you know,

780
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:43.320
Gilbert getting hurt, Luke getting hurt
and Duke was very good. Yeah,

781
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:46.480
so yeah, I mean yeah,
I'd like to think that that it's

782
00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:51.599
in Arizona's future. You got eight
years, baby, clock start the clock

783
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:58.480
in Alabama and then yeah, final
four, that's the title. I yeah,

784
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:01.960
you know, football. You know, I don't see a national championship

785
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:07.360
in football's future, but I do
see playoff. Actually, they could get

786
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.760
to the playoffs this year. You
know, I think they've I think they've

787
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:15.440
got the talent they get talking about
Final four? Who what happens first football

788
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:21.239
playoff? Yes, final four?
Yes, football players, twelve twelve twelve

789
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:25.119
teams. Yeah, because I think
they're in the league football wise, it

790
00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:30.960
gets them an opportunity. I think
they could be in it this year.

791
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.840
But you know what, Tommy could
win the national championship this year too,

792
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.840
So yeah, so yeah, I
guess I'm not so sure, but uh

793
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:45.320
yeah, I think the new the
new league in football lens more towards that

794
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:47.599
than than basketball. That's what's gonna
be tough, it's gonna be fun.

795
00:52:49.159 --> 00:52:51.159
All right, that's it. We
got to get out of here. We're

796
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:53.480
gonna be back tomorrow. Matt Moreno
will come come in talk about recruiting.

797
00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:57.559
We'll have tom Candatt to the former
major league pitcher, father of the Aarzon

798
00:52:57.639 --> 00:52:59.480
a pitcher, so be sure to
come back tomorrow