WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:07.120 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jag and Sala sound Fox 2 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:13.560 Sports fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services. I'm sure your most prized possessions 3 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:18.239 kt z R two SA at iHeartRadio Station, gooy, Good afternoon, everybody. 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.320 Welcome to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm 5 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:26.760 Steve Rivera. He's jagan'saus got our guy Juan in today Friday. Didn't think 6 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:30.559 you'd get here Friday. Thank you for being here. One two more hours 7 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:33.840 and a week called a week a week. You can tell it's summer, 8 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.560 reaching the end of the June here. We posted our guests an hour ago, 9 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.960 not even yeah, love me about an hour ago. Actually one guest 10 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.920 and then we got another one. Yeah yeah, So we'll be it will 11 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:50.079 be okay today. In fact, we'll continue Jay will continue to rant, 12 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:55.079 and I'll continue to ask the question. I was ranting already, but this 13 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.560 was a private matter, so we're not gonna We're not gonna talk. Yeah, 14 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:00.960 okay, so we'll talk about whatever you guys want to call it for. 15 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.959 That's fine. FUT two four one forty h should be a good show. 16 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:08.519 We have one here and we have a couple of quick guests. How 17 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:14.200 will you pronounce his name? I'm gonna I'm gonna go Shreya Lata, Shreya 18 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:15.519 Lata. Okay, I'll write that. We'll ask him thougheah. When do 19 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.239 you get him on the phone. He's from the Kansas City Paper. We're 20 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:23.719 gonna talk a lot about what the hell? Maybe I want you to talk. 21 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.519 We know here at the PAC twelve they suck. They suck at the 22 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.200 Big Big twelve. Well here's the thing. Well there's that, and here's 23 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:34.239 the thing I was thinking about. You know, to to here here in 24 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.879 Arizona, it's a really big deal to play Kansas because so many of the 25 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.959 conference games in the PAC twelve are bad games. You're dying for, you 26 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:49.040 know, for good exciting environment and good exciting games, and you go to 27 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.319 the Big twelve and all the games are like that. So when you miss 28 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:55.000 out on a chance to have a team like Kansas come to town, you're 29 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.519 you're like, what the hell to them? You know, And I'm gonna 30 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:00.280 predict that he's gonna say, it's not as big a deal to us as 31 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.640 it is to you, because you know what, we play Baylor, we 32 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:07.120 play Iowa State. We play Kansas State. They have all these great games 33 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:09.840 that they get. Arizona is just another one of those, right right. 34 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:14.879 But for us, you know, playing Kansas is like getting Duke, you 35 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:17.319 know, and when when we think we should get him and we don't, 36 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.120 we're pissed. And that's what happened when the schedule came out yesterday. So 37 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.199 and we'll see what they say on that side. This is all okay, 38 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.599 well, yeah, yeah, well you know we'll play you guys, fine, 39 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.479 then no big deal. I'd just be interested to see what he thinks. 40 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:32.680 And if he thinks that the Big twelve office was as stupid as we 41 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:38.400 as we think they were, okay, well ask the US that stupid question. 42 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:40.759 Stupid question, Okay, no cool. And then at the other hour, 43 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:45.919 we're gonna get a regular guy, George Modes yep from Showtime Cards. 44 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.840 Well, the the Brownie James Jersey got released today. He's number nine. 45 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:54.960 And so you know my carrier curiosity. You know, you're I'm already saying, 46 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:59.479 you know, i'm a i'm a I'm a I've got an account with 47 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:05.280 Fanatic and some other you know sports, uh not memorabili, but you know 48 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:10.719 sports uh uh Gear websites, and so his jersey is all over my Facebook 49 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:15.800 and Twitter feeds and stuff like that. I'm curious, you know, is 50 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.120 there any value or you know, do you get one now to keep it 51 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.800 for later or are you wasting your money if you get any briannye James Gear. 52 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.360 I've seen some things. I saw one said that it's a it's a 53 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.759 nothing burger. But you know, George, you know, I thought, 54 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.639 maybe George can tell us a little bit about what Kate, what he can 55 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:38.479 expect from from that market. And I thought i'd be fun, fun conversation 56 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.159 for a Friday afternoon, you know, Okay, simple get out, in 57 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:46.199 and out with it. Yeah great, okay, what else anything else? 58 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:47.840 I know, it's just kind of crazy here. And as we get to 59 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:51.960 the holiday weekend, we'll let them know we're not gonna be here on the 60 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:53.840 right, we should remind everybody. Or the fifth. Yeah, we're gonna 61 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:59.159 we're gonna be off obviously off on the fourth, and then Steve's just gonna 62 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:01.159 be a slacker for the new day and for the year. So he talked 63 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.360 me into taking off the fifth. It was he had to really really twist 64 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:10.360 my arm to do that said, so you want to, and I said, 65 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.759 yeah, So we're gonna take off the fourth and the fifth, so 66 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:16.199 Steve can maybe get out of town and I'll be here. But you know, 67 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:19.319 we do our Mount Lemon thing on fourth of July, which always a 68 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:21.879 ton of fun, and so you know, it'll be nice to get a 69 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:25.560 couple of days off. Okay, yeah, we'll do that, and Juan 70 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.040 will not have to come in here. He told me he wasn't coming in 71 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:33.399 anyway. Scott, what, yeah, first time? Yes, I'm very 72 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:38.839 excited. What can I do to talk you? Wait? Wait wait wait 73 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:42.879 wait, I'm sure a girl convinced you to do this? No? Oh, 74 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.639 so pretty well? So wh who you're doing with? Somebody with my 75 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.240 dad? Okay, a couple of family members okay, in San Diego too? 76 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:54.480 Oh okay, I mean if I go worst comes to where you know, 77 00:04:54.519 --> 00:05:01.800 I'm going out with the good view which comes and your family they're they're 78 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.600 doing it too, or just you just me and my dad? And is 79 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:11.240 this a bucket list or whatever word you want to use, summer thing? 80 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.759 What? Okay? What what are you looking to get out of this? 81 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:17.079 You know? What? What? What? Why do you want to do 82 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.040 this? Just a little bit of excitement in life. You know, summer 83 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:26.160 has been kind of dull, it's been a second Did this goes to your 84 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:29.120 point that I said, what the hell you thinking? When at least tickets 85 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:30.720 say you got drafted? Now you can say at least I jumped out of 86 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:35.560 a plane. Exactly, good for you. Now you have to jump attached 87 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:41.399 to somebody. There's no way going yeah solo. Yeah, yeah, man, 88 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.439 there's just like four hundred bucks. I got one of one of those 89 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:48.240 two for one. Yeah. The family packed or something? Oh yeah, 90 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:51.199 yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, they study. It's not cheap where 91 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:56.759 like like where in San Diego? I mean like is it near the beach 92 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.800 or just over the city somewhere or outside the sey just a little bit outside 93 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:05.800 the city. Cool? Cool? Good luck do you have? I know 94 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.199 a few people have done it, they survived, so they're good. Do 95 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:12.920 you have some more potential Friday interns? Yeah, we got we got enough. 96 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:15.720 We've got more covered if you know we got well, good luck with 97 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:17.000 that, man. I hope you have fine. I hope it's everything you 98 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:23.680 want it to be. What are you looking most forward to? So it's 99 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.720 very specific, but two years ago my dad did it for the first time 100 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.120 with a couple of family members. My cousin he sat right at the door 101 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.839 and he scared off I. He was sort of livers the entire time. 102 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:35.800 So that's what I want to know. Where I'm going to be placed in 103 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:39.639 the planks. If I feel like, if I'm at that door, it's 104 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:41.639 gonna be better for me, I'm just like, right, it's right there, 105 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.759 Okay, all right, man. I hope, I hope it's like 106 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:48.240 I said, I hope it's everything you want it to be. That is 107 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:53.399 one thing, one thing that's never entered my mind about doing. Remember where 108 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.680 you were you remember why? It was Anthony Jimino, John Wilner, I 109 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:01.839 think have maybe Holi but Tom Aliba all went up to Moran and did it 110 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.680 together. You remember that. No, I thought there, Well, you 111 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.920 would have been here because Wilner was here. He was one of the guys 112 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:10.720 that did it. I thought you were going to tell you all these guys 113 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.399 finally got a date. Well maybe it was their way of getting a date, 114 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:15.800 right, they'll jump out of the plane with you if you'll go out 115 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.199 with me or something. But they all did. They all did it. 116 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.800 Yeah, I think did it well? It was that was that group? 117 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:26.399 It was it was, but I know it was Anthony and I think maybe 118 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:31.839 like Miles Standish stargut Star. Yeah, they went instead. There were five 119 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.279 or six of them and they all went and did it. Have If you're 120 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:39.600 listening and you were in that group, give us a call because we want 121 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:43.319 to talk to you about this. This is a crazy unexpected topic. But 122 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.240 maybe you can. You can talk to one all about it. But yeah, 123 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:49.120 there was those are like five or six of those guys all went and 124 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:53.680 did it. I didn't hear that one. I'm okay with not hearing that 125 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:58.680 one. Well all right, man, all right, that's cool. Well 126 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:01.759 see if I don't chake it out, that's the real question. But your 127 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:03.680 dad's done it. He's not gonna let you check it paid for. Oh 128 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:07.319 y, your dad's not gonna let you check it out because he's done it. 129 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:11.639 Okay, good luck, you don't you'll be fun. Do you know 130 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:13.879 how high you'll be jumping from? Have they told you? I don't want 131 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:18.519 to You don't want to know. I get up there and you'll have you 132 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:22.120 ever watched one of those videos of like the you like the Navy Seals or 133 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:26.839 the Navy guys that you know parachute into a stadium. Have you ever seen 134 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:30.759 one of those? And you go, you from where they jumped, the 135 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.159 stadium looks like a posted stamp, and then you just watch them and they 136 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:35.559 make that. I'm like, how they hit that? I'll never know. 137 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:41.840 They remember there was one practice I think there was an Arizona Bowl where the 138 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:43.759 parachuters missed the stadium. Oh, I don't remember that. It was either 139 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:50.320 an Arizona Bowl or a U of a game. I don't somebody missed the 140 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.480 stay outside the stadium. I don't remember that. I remember I remember seeing 141 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.159 they've done it a few times. Yeah, where they've made it insign. 142 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.360 Yeah, well I didn't know that. Yeah, just just missed it. 143 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:05.039 Okay, I know if you know, miscalculated the wind or what we just 144 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:09.480 missed the stadium. Yeah, person was okay, but just he just ended 145 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.120 up a bomb. Dubs had to gather up his parachute and you know when 146 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:18.600 the cars out there getting the ball, the ball, he's over there to 147 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:24.039 the practice field. All right, okay, all right, Well, well 148 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.720 I guess we'll see you in two weeks. If you don't show up, 149 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.600 well, you know, I know not now I'm motivated to make sure that 150 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.360 I just stay on my couch on Friday, not take any chance. Yeah, 151 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.120 I'm not gonna take any chance. Okay, well, good luck. 152 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.919 What else is going on? We have about five minutes again our number five, 153 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.639 two, four, one, six, seventy four forty. I'd like 154 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.279 to hear from you. A lot of things going on. Did the guys 155 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.039 showed up in Miami? I think to uh to talk to the Miami prep. 156 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.679 I try to reach their guy too. Maybe we do that next week 157 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:01.840 and see what what to expect the chance actually getting ninety on that team. 158 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:03.960 I guess they'll be in Vegas for the summer league. Well, and the 159 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:09.519 thing is, I mean the two guys Pali Larson and in Kisha Johnson, 160 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:13.240 they played different positions. You know, they're not really playing for the same 161 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:18.039 position. But you know, there's only so many RUSSIH spots roster spots available, 162 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.360 so you know they're gonna have to beat out different guys to make the 163 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:24.759 team. But you know, look, one one second round draft choice. 164 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.919 Making the team is hard too, is obviously, well even harder, like 165 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.919 I say many times, when these guys get drafted or and don't make it. 166 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.919 I still wish I had their potential because guess they're gonna make it somewhere 167 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.000 to make your upper right, they'll make a ton of money back home. 168 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:45.879 You know, whatever, did you read a story on Johnson his background, 169 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.240 his family background. Well, I saw there was a story story. I 170 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:50.960 haven't read it, and I keep meaning to read it. But also I 171 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.799 haven't read the Kim moll Key story, So yeah, what the hell you 172 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:58.919 doing something? I'm busy doing what. I'm a busy guy. I just 173 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:05.039 I'm writing them working. I've worked for people, and I do things. 174 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.759 Okay, I'm not gonna I don't lie. I slacked a lot today, 175 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.840 but the whole thing of getting guests for today took up a lot, you 176 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:13.759 know, the angst of it took up a lot of my a lot of 177 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:18.159 my effort today. Honestly, didn't do a lot today, didn't get much. 178 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:20.360 Well, you're gonna have to do some work eventually. Yeah, because 179 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:26.039 he's got a great story about background and his brother being shot. And this 180 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:28.080 is when someone send me that story before, I think, before the draft 181 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:33.360 last week, I'm thinking, these are the stories that we we here at 182 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.159 the universities need to tell. That's what we're here for had we been able 183 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.600 to kind of talk to these guys one on one or whatever, that story 184 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.440 would have come out months ago, not now when he's gone. When he's 185 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.639 gone, right and he finally got to sit down with somebody for an extended 186 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.039 period. We just don't get that time. And if we do, we 187 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:54.039 get three questions at the podium. Yeah, and how can you get into 188 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.080 a story like that? I mean, you know, I mean we you 189 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.679 know, we've got guys you know on our show during the season, but 190 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.960 it's just it's hard. You know, you have to ask ahead of time, 191 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.679 and you know, and you know, most of the time the ability 192 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.159 you don't get the information and stuff, so you know, it is it's 193 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.879 difficult. So and they're fine with it, you know, the people that 194 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.320 were the powers that be, you ay, this is this is one of 195 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.759 the only problems I have. And then that's it access and and then this 196 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.200 is how and we are We were times where we have the show and they're 197 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.679 doing their practice and we can go or do the interviews, right, uh, 198 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.559 And that's on us and that's on them. But but this is my 199 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:33.360 philosophy. If they don't care enough to make them available, why should we 200 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:35.279 or why should I why should you care enough to write about it? Right? 201 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.360 I hear you, you know, And and look, I mean we 202 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.039 you know, we go through this, Steve, and we you know, 203 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:43.519 we did today. We were trying to reach people that, you know, 204 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.559 to just see if we can get somebody on the show, and not even 205 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.879 a response. And that's that's what that's what's difficult for me, is that 206 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:56.320 we're trying to help people, right, like you know, the guests that 207 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:00.360 we were trying to get yesterday, Like we're trying to help and never even 208 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.639 got a response, right. And and you know, I don't know if 209 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:05.639 people think, well, you know, if I go on this radio show, 210 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:09.159 they're gonna ask me some hard questions. If you listen to our radio 211 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.360 show, we don't ask hard questions, no, no, but from time 212 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:16.679 to time we have asked interesting questions. Yeah, and it's topical and people 213 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.559 put people want to know, right, you know, right, but you're 214 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:22.919 not coming on our show to you know, right well, you know, 215 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.360 we're not dateline, we're not forty eight hours. We're not coming on to 216 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:31.519 kind of you know, do that stuff. And it's uh, it's frustrating 217 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.039 sometimes when all you want to do is tell the stories, and you can't 218 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.879 get people to let you tell their story. That's hard. And then that 219 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.159 and as as journalists from a time when that was what we did that that 220 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.279 I mean, yes we covered the games, but that was just a piece 221 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.679 of what we did. We wrote the stories about the people, right, 222 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:52.879 and that you can't really can't do that anymore, right, and especially the 223 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.000 games. You see the games, you know the games. When was the 224 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:00.960 last time you sat down and had an interview with the player? And how 225 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:05.919 long was it? That's a good question, that's a good question. Well, 226 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.240 well, it's the only time we get to do is postseason in the 227 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.519 n CUAA tournaments. And so this last tournament, I went to Utah, 228 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.799 I went to Vegas, I went to La So you had some extra time. 229 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.600 So that that was it. But I'm talking about you call somebody and 230 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.360 you say, can I get this player for half an hour or an hour? 231 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:26.679 It hasn't been It's been a long time. It's been probably when I 232 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:28.799 was with Fox, maybe ten years ago, but that was like, yeah, 233 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:31.960 not really. And you get to the coach and we've talked to Tommy 234 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.879 a few times, talked to his dad. Had that in story but no, 235 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.399 you're right, and it's been a long time. They do, they 236 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.279 do, and yeah, and then you and me. That's that's what moved 237 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:45.440 on to the next thing. And that's what we do it for. We 238 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.360 do it the fans so they get to know these guys, especially in this 239 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:52.080 in il time, they would get to know the players and maybe hey, 240 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.639 I can help, I can help. Hey, we got to go. 241 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:56.960 All right, we do have to know your bitch. You started it. 242 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.720 Let's take our break. Shreya, I believe it's Shreya Lata, the beat 243 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:07.240 rider covering the Kansas Jayhawks for the Kansas City Star, will join us and 244 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.279 we'll ask about what he thinks about the schedule that came out yesterday. Stick 245 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:13.679 around the window depot has everything you need to create the kitchen or bathroom of 246 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:20.279 your dreams. 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This is I on the Park on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty. 318 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:32.200 Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball Hero Fox Sports fourteenth. 319 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:34.200 I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jiggins Austin on the phone. We have trail a 320 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:40.119 lota from the Kansas City Star Trail. How are you here? Are you 321 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:42.359 guys? We're doing well, Thank you. We hoping to jump on this 322 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:49.079 Kansas team thing yesterday that two days ago. The schedule came out and we 323 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:52.559 were a little peeved. You don't get to see Kansas twice in the year. 324 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:57.599 Yeah, I think it's gonna be a fun one. I think the 325 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:03.000 fact that they had put it together where they have all these different teams playing 326 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:06.720 each other once or twice, and you know, they have some interesting matchups. 327 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:10.720 I think it's going to be a great anicipation. And then you look 328 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:14.799 at the Big Twelve. But you know, he look here in Arizona being 329 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:17.920 in the Pac twelve conference, there's a lot of conference games that aren't good 330 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:22.400 games, so you know, we're always yearning for great games. Everybody was 331 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:26.119 hoping we were going to see Kansas in Tucson and on the road. The 332 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:30.440 Big Twelve didn't do that. Was it any big deal over there because it's 333 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:34.599 a big deal here. I don't think so. I think it's kind of 334 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.440 business as usual over here. You know, I think there's some excitement that, 335 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:41.000 you know, new teams come in the conference, huge opportunities for fans 336 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.880 to travel, check out some sites, check out some new places. But 337 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:48.599 you know, it's it's kind of like a you know, expected outcome of 338 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:53.279 basketball season. Everyone's excited for Kansas basketball season. No matter how good or 339 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:56.799 bad they are supposed to be. Because even the bad years what last year 340 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:02.279 was, and they were still top, they receive what can I think that 341 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:06.440 most of the basketball fans here are pretty savvy. They followed Arizona forever. 342 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:12.640 I think the world of Arizona and maybe to some degree of painfulness. What 343 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:18.559 can Arizona fans in that league expect. I think it's going to be a 344 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:22.559 fun league. It's a very competitive league, the best league in the country. 345 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.279 I think it's a league where every game matters. You know, Kansas 346 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:30.440 saw it last year that there are teams that they took for granted, I 347 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:33.920 think a little bit, and they lost us wasn't great last year. They 348 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:37.880 lost them at home, start on the road in zer Florida. They lost 349 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:42.319 some games that should have lost. I think we gets Opahoma as well on 350 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:47.839 the road. Like there's no such thing as an easy win in the conference, 351 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:49.839 right, and that's the thing that we're looking forward to. I think, 352 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:52.680 you know, because you know here, if you lose to one of 353 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:56.400 the you know, one of the quote you know kind of bad teams, 354 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.839 people lose their minds and think the whole season is over. And I I 355 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.440 you know, looking at the looking at the schedule that came out, and 356 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:06.839 in terms of just who the opponents are, I'm like, there are no 357 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:11.720 gimmes in the in the Big Twelve, not not one, which is something 358 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.519 that Arizona fans are going to have to get used to from a Kansas standpoint, 359 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:18.319 you know, do they feel that way or are There's some teams that 360 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:22.319 they, as you said, take for granted. Sometimes I think, you 361 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:26.279 know, you can't, like it's hard to get your get up for like 362 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:29.640 the Oklahoma State when they were last year, right, they were really bad, 363 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:33.200 or some other teams that are pretty bad, but they on talent alone 364 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:40.079 should win nearly a lot of their games. And Kansas knows that how important 365 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:44.519 Big Twelve play is for not only league aspirations title aspirations, but you know, 366 00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:47.640 seeding wise. You know, two years ago they're the number one seed 367 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:52.720 because they won the Big Twelve and the conference is so so stat and last 368 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.480 year it was even better, and they weren't even top two, you know, 369 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:00.559 they were number three or number four. Obviously they had some raw seriushues, 370 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:04.799 et cetera. But like everything that the Big Twelve does, it's great 371 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:08.000 operation for the answer every tournament. Yeah, no question. I think that's 372 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:11.079 the one thing that we think about Arizona. They're going to face different type 373 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:15.200 of teams, tougher type of teams, so that should help their perception of 374 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:22.200 being soft at least we think that. No, absolutely, I think the 375 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.640 all the different types of teams, the different ways they play are great preparation 376 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:32.119 for whatever solid basketball a random and of the team's going to be. And 377 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:34.920 you know, there's a decent shot that you might see them three, maybe 378 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.400 even four times a year if you make a deep run. Okay, So 379 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:42.279 Arizona it's been you know, they haven't gotten very often, but they've had 380 00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:45.920 some success at fog Allen. But we know, you know, when the 381 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:49.119 hardest place is to play in the country, some say the hardest place to 382 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.440 play in the country. Take us around the league in terms of what Arizona 383 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:56.680 fans can expect at some of the other venues and where you think you guys 384 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.559 have no idea how hard it is to play at f What are some of 385 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:07.400 those Some of those places, Hilton Coliseum at Iowa State is, Oh my 386 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:12.079 goodness, it is its next level. It's loud, the fans are crazy, 387 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:18.440 the students go crazy. It is one of the best college basketball experiences 388 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:22.720 as a fan you can get. I think ev you know, they are 389 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:26.759 really tough to play at at Hilton, you know, and usually you're playing 390 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.960 them in the cold, so you got to make that trip down to Iowa, 391 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:34.240 and it's just it's a tough all round trip for Kansas usually. I 392 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.319 can't imagine how Telton's gonna be for the new covers of the conference. You 393 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.880 get used to playing in Hilton. Another big one is Bramble's Coliseum. You 394 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:47.200 know, they get up for Kansas games. Case States a tremendous job of 395 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:51.119 being loud. It seems like they've had Kansas is number at home the last 396 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:56.440 few years. They've beaten Kansas at home both times. So there's no gimme 397 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:00.440 there. Even if how good or a bad Kansas State is in the state 398 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.359 seves to be a kind of middle conference, a little better a team. 399 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:08.279 Another big one is probably, you know, Oklahoma State. They have a 400 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:11.839 pretty good it's a smaller arena, but they tend to pack it up, 401 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:15.839 which is nice. I know there's a lot of excitement around the team because 402 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:22.359 of a new coach, a new roster. A little bit those three are 403 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:27.079 huge. Houston is phenomenal, Like Houston was my first time experiencing it last 404 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:32.519 year, and my goodness, they are allowed. That stadium is built so 405 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:37.480 they can be very loud, even if it's a little smaller. They always 406 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.759 have tough teams and there's no such thing as walking to Houston without a couple 407 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:47.680 of battles fars wear loss right, tough dudes, Tough dudes. How was 408 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:52.079 this year for you? Covering Kansas and build self? Because a very good 409 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:56.640 team at least that they thought going in and then things happened, things happening 410 00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.319 with the team. And then he says, you know, he kind of 411 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:00.960 not he didn't say this directly, but he kind of inverted that he had 412 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:04.039 checked out later in the year because he was already looking forward to next year. 413 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:08.319 I mean, I think I felt it from a lot of like I 414 00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:11.880 felt it from the playing players standpoint, and I felt it from the coaching 415 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.279 staffand point. And I think it definitely infected even the reporters a little bit, 416 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:18.519 like there was just a lot of exhaustion and kind of tiredness. I 417 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:21.759 mean, we all knew what this team is going to be by the anti 418 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:23.079 of the turn of time. They weren't going to make a deep run. 419 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:26.960 They had too many injuries. They just weren't built basically. Tournament not just 420 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:33.720 with the injuries, was standing. But their style of basketball was not conduced 421 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:36.920 to modern basketball. They took the least amount of threes in the build Self 422 00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:41.079 era by it quite a percentage they made. They only had three or four 423 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.240 conference games where they made more than three or four or three pointers. Then 424 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:51.000 most they had one conference game where they made one more than more than their 425 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.240 opponent three points. Like, you can't win basketball games that way. And 426 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:56.359 no matter what Bill did, you know, no matter what levers he tried 427 00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:02.880 to pull, nothing was continuous. Nothing is quite working. And I don't 428 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:06.839 like, you know, I'm not really surprised by him saying that. I'm 429 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:08.960 not surprised that he did say that. It's it's one of those things that 430 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:12.359 if you are around that locker room, you could feel like everyone was just 431 00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:15.599 waiting for next year. And out of curiosity, I was in Utah Salt 432 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:22.160 Lake for that game. Was it a block or a goaltend? That's that's 433 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.640 a great question. I mean, you know, I think it's it's I 434 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.599 think it was a gold end. But you know, like, you gotta 435 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.799 trust what the rest are saying. Under Dickens would say, you know, 436 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.519 if they call it a block, might as well call it a block. 437 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.240 Right. It was the best game but I saw all year. It was 438 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:45.039 fantastic that team South Alabama, which Alabama or whatever, it was, fantastic 439 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.720 team. It was fun to watch. It was a great game. Uh. 440 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:51.960 You know, they did a great job of to keep it in close 441 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:53.720 to Kansas. You know, as a as a writer, there's always her 442 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.319 palat patience when everything you were in just goes out the window in the last 443 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:02.160 ten minutes. So let's uh, let's let's move on to football a little 444 00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:03.200 bit, because you you do you cover to the football team as well, 445 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.160 right, yes, okay, so you know Arizona and you know coming in 446 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.599 there, so the same kind of the same question. You know what, 447 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.839 you know, what can Arizona fans expect on the road again, the tougher 448 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.119 places to play, like okay, OKLAHOAM and Texas are gone. So now 449 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.960 the conference as we see it is kind of wide open, uh for everybody. 450 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:26.720 Do you see it that way? And then you know who do you 451 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:29.720 look to and when when you're going on the road, where's the toughest place 452 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:33.480 to go. You know, I definitely see it that way. I mean, 453 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:36.799 I think there's a couple of different teams that can really contend. I 454 00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:40.799 mean, this is not a candas team level where they're rolling over and you 455 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:44.039 know, maybe lucky to win pre games. There's an expectation around this team 456 00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:48.000 and this group that they want to win a victual championship. They felt like 457 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:51.599 they had a shamp last year, you know, like I think that was 458 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:56.640 the big thing, was like they felt that they let the opportunity slip in 459 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.440 between their hands. And uh, you know, I think the the Big 460 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:02.839 Twelve, like as a whole, the conference, like you said, it 461 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:04.920 is wide open. I think there's a lot of teams in the country that 462 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:10.160 feel like they can be are in this conference, they can win the conference. 463 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:14.759 And you know, I think tough place to play, that's a great 464 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:21.279 question. Cincinnati was not bad. It's pretty loud down there. I'm sure 465 00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:26.599 to think where else conference wise, Iowa State another big, great conference game 466 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.240 aims. Those guys just do a great job of getting fans to come out. 467 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:37.640 It's chaotic, it's a lot. Oklahoma State another great venue. I 468 00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:41.119 think those are kind of just the ones that can pop off in my head 469 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:44.480 right now. And Kansas has come on the scene as a pretty good football 470 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:48.960 program after all the years of not being a good football program. Yeah no, 471 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:53.920 Lance Lippoles and this coaching staff have done tremendous job of building a healthy 472 00:30:53.920 --> 00:31:00.480 amount of respect for this Kansas football team. It's shown in the recruiting data 473 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.880 base, has shown in just the transfers that they picked up. And you 474 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.440 know, like they won nine last year. The year before that, they 475 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:11.000 were in a bowl game. Last year they won their first bowl game since 476 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:15.119 I think two thousand and eight or so. H there is an expectation that 477 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:18.640 they can contend for a big fellattle and they've won a playoffers and you know, 478 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.599 I don't think that's I don't of the realm possibility that the schedule. 479 00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.279 Yeah, that's how and that's how Arizona fans are looking at it too. 480 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.119 You know, they went ten and three last year beat Oklahoma. So you 481 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:32.640 know, look, Arizona's it's been crapped for a while, and you know, 482 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:33.920 Jed Fish did a good job. But we're looking forward to this. 483 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:37.880 So let me ask you from a news media standpoint, with these four teams 484 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.400 coming in you've heard of all of them, but I don't know how much 485 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:47.519 you all really know about the four teams. Maybe Colorado a bit because you 486 00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:52.680 know, uh, there's some history there. But what's been the general impression, 487 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.920 I guess of how these four teams are going to impact the league, 488 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:01.839 maybe individually or even as as a whole. I think there's a lot of 489 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:06.559 excitement. You know, the two Arizona schools, there's a lot of excitement 490 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.880 from media standpoint of traveling there. But also just on top of that, 491 00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:13.799 I think what they're going to add the conference both FASTBA and football, Like 492 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.640 you know, they're both very strong, I think in that sense of adding 493 00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:22.000 something in both those big sports. And you know, obviously Colorado, no 494 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.039 matter how good and bad they are, they're always in the media because Dion 495 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:30.000 has away with words, right. So I think there's a lot of excitement 496 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:34.640 that the four schools that they've added are going to make the conference better, 497 00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:37.680 more competitive, and in a way to keep up with the ASC in a 498 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:39.440 Big ten. Yeah, yeah, it sounds like fun. Have you ever 499 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:44.119 been at a game with Bobby Hurley on the bench. I have not. 500 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:49.319 I covered Yukhon for a year, so I've got to know. Dan Hurley 501 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:52.480 has brothered pretty well, and you know, he's one of my favorite coaches 502 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.119 in the country. Great guy, and I can only imagine how much how 503 00:32:55.240 --> 00:33:01.279 alike they are brother to brother before we go, we don't let Daniel Burke 504 00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:08.559 push you around exactly. Yeah, we appreciate it. I think care we'll 505 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:13.680 see you soon at the game near near one of us. Thank you absolutely 506 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:17.519 sounds great, CHERYLT thank you from the Chemis City. Start appreciate good stuff. 507 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:21.559 Interesting. I like what he said about you know, the media is 508 00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:23.519 kind of excited about this and having, you know, having these teams come 509 00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:29.759 in because but I don't what you don't want is for them to be seen 510 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:34.000 as outsiders by both the media and you know, the fans in the Big 511 00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.279 Twelve. I mean, you know, they're all legitimate programs. It's not 512 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:39.519 like they're it's not like they're bringing in the scrubs of the league. You 513 00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:44.000 know, in any of the sports. You know, I think that you 514 00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:46.240 know, all of them are immediately in the middle of the pack or even 515 00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:52.839 a little higher in Arizona's case in basketball when it comes to how competitive they're 516 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.000 going to be, particularly in the major sports. And I'm sure the media 517 00:33:55.079 --> 00:34:00.720 that comes down here in December or or November appreciate it. Or January or 518 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:04.720 February. They're gonna go, wow, yeah his goal. Can we stay 519 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:07.639 like no, get your stuff and go. I remember when Michigan and some 520 00:34:07.679 --> 00:34:13.079 of those teams from the Middlewest and North come came down here in December for 521 00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:16.280 the Brother Festival, right like, holy crap, you have this place like 522 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:20.199 this December it was like seventy five degrees. You can take him out. 523 00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:24.159 They goes out of it Atna Canyon or or whatever. They see the guy. 524 00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:29.519 People were golfing right out the window, right, Yeah, crazy, 525 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:31.719 that's great. That was fun. Shrey and Latta from the Kansas City Star. 526 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:34.880 If you want to look him up, see what he's saying about the 527 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.320 Big twelve. He covers the Jayhawks. So hey, we're gonna be right 528 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:40.280 back. We'll take your cause five to zero, four one six, seventy 529 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:43.480 four to forty. So be sure to come back. If you're naars on 530 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:45.760 a man's basketball fan, you know it's been successful for nearly forty years. 531 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:49.840 Now. Take a look back at the Ludolsen era in my new book, 532 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.599 Lessons from Loot. 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This is I on the Ball with Steve 559 00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:55.559 Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty. Hey, welcome back to 560 00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:59.960 I'm the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve p'sj we have whole 561 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:02.519 one with us today. We have fifteen minutes. If you want to call 562 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:06.039 five, two, O four, one, six, seventy four or forty. 563 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:07.239 Uh, maybe give us a call. Well, what are you looking 564 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:12.280 forward to this football and basketball season? Being in the Big twelve? You 565 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:15.119 know, it's a lot of anticipation, right, a lot of unknown So 566 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:19.159 it's gonna be new and we we just don't know. And but you know 567 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.320 what we do know, as as we expected to hear from from Srey a 568 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:28.119 lot up from Kent City Star, is that no game's on the road right 569 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.920 right, Every venue you go to is gonna be nuts. And we know 570 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:35.760 that. And I think that's that's kind of the fun part of it, 571 00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:38.000 you know. I mean, remember we talked to Jake Fisher last week. 572 00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:42.480 You know, it's more fun to be in a in an environment that's nuts 573 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.920 and crazy, you know and stuff than going over there and you can hear 574 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:47.760 the basketball boat. Well, that's that's why you go to play or come 575 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:51.599 to places like this, right. You know you want to get a challenged. 576 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.000 Yeah, you're playing against good guys, tough food guys. You get 577 00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:57.719 better that way. Yeah, you know, I I was listening to a 578 00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:01.320 podcast on the way home yesterday, and I guess EA Sports put out the 579 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:07.880 thing on the toughest according to them, right for their game, the toughest 580 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:13.599 football venues, and they were debating which ones are really the hardest, because 581 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:16.920 I think LSU was number three, and they unanimously agreed that lic He's the 582 00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:22.480 hardest place to play. You know that you can't you know, far none, 583 00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:25.280 but you know, all of those places are places where you go and 584 00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:29.079 you know it's going to be nuts, whether you're any good or they're any 585 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:30.639 good or not. You know, Texas A and M, even when they 586 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:35.960 suck, they fill up the place and and and they're crazy. I think 587 00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.679 Texas A and M has listed number one on that Yeah, yeah, you 588 00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:44.280 know who's two? Alabama too, Okay, in addition to being tough teams, 589 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:45.039 well see, and that's what they were saying. They were saying, 590 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:49.880 Okay, Alabama's a great venue and it's loud, but it's tough because of 591 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.480 the teams, well, not because of the venue. Arizona's the same way 592 00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:57.840 Arizona throughout the years. And in the book with Mia Montgomery, he says, 593 00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:00.480 you know what was the difficult thing about Arizona in my Kale since Steve 594 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:06.000 mccale's wasn't that bad. It was the players in Yeah, you know exactly. 595 00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:07.119 Yeah, that's the point. And that was the point they were making 596 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:12.239 about Alabama. Say Alabama's not any good, he said, Ryan Tanney Stadium 597 00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:14.280 is a fun stadium, and it's big and there's a lot of people. 598 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:17.800 He said, but if you're talking about just the venue, regardless of who's 599 00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:22.360 on the field, that LSU was hands down the toughest place to go, 600 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:27.119 and then probably Ohio State is next. In Ohio State was even further down 601 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.000 the list, right, I think I think so yeah, so you know, 602 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.599 I think they were ten. Yeah, so uh and that's kind of 603 00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:37.320 what you would expect. And then they said Michigan is like twentieth even though 604 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:39.440 there's like one hundred and five thousand people at those games, because you know, 605 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:44.000 it's just kind of a And Notre Dame they said, another one that 606 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:46.719 you think, you know of the history and stuff like that, but in 607 00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:51.800 terms of a hard place to play, it's only hard if Notre Dame was 608 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:53.679 good. Look at the look at the west, what would be the hardest 609 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:58.239 Maybe Oregon, Oregon, that's the one that that was in the top ten. 610 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:02.599 There aren't There isn't one. Right Washington used to be, but Washington 611 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:06.800 now has gotten to the point where if they're not any good, you know, 612 00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:09.559 there's twenty thousand empty seats, whereas you know, even you go to 613 00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:14.280 Nebraska now and the place is full. You went to Washington time or two. 614 00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.320 I just want I went once or twice, and the only thing I 615 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:20.760 can remember is the rain coming side with that. We were in a sideways 616 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:22.960 rain. That was in eighty nine. Yeah, so you know, the 617 00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:28.159 game was good, I guess I can't remember now. And again that was 618 00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:30.800 another point they were making about Washington said, Washington is a hard place to 619 00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:35.000 play because usually you know, it's raining, it's cold, sometimes the rain 620 00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.960 is coming in sideways. But they don't have seventy thousand people in every game 621 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:43.519 anymore. Like one of the best looking stadiums in terms of the views. 622 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.639 Oh yeah, because the water's right there right And I loved it, though 623 00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:51.639 I was a little scared that that overhanging press box. It hangs from the 624 00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:55.599 from the from the top to the top from the overhang, I mean that 625 00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:00.480 was scary. Just that little cat walk you walked across and I'm like you're 626 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.199 looking down and it's straight down, and if you fall, you got a 627 00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:06.039 long way to go. If you lose a screw or whatever up there. 628 00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:09.280 I mean I was nervous about that the whole time. Okay, but but 629 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:13.960 he's going on skydiving. Come on, what's up wrong with you? Yeah, 630 00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:16.119 we didn't have parachutes, Steve. We didn't have parachutes up there, 631 00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:22.639 as I recall. But now again, you know, I think, you 632 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.199 know, we saw the Oklahoma State game from you know, from several years 633 00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:29.920 ago, and there's like, you know, from the sideline to the seat, 634 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.960 it's like fifteen fifteen feet. It's not very big, and I exaggerate, 635 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.239 but it's not very far. It's maybe what eight yards maybe ten yards 636 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:40.519 at the most. Yeah, a space on those sidelines. They are really 637 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:45.639 on top of you. Jake Fisher talked about that as well. Okay, 638 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.639 anybody want to call, please do five to two four one, six seventy 639 00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.920 four forty. We have about ten minutes. It'd be feel free to give 640 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.880 us a quick call. What else is going on? Guys? That was 641 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:58.679 good. I think we're going to continue to try to find people in the 642 00:41:58.679 --> 00:42:02.519 big Big twelve beat writers beat writers administrators, administrators and stuff like that. 643 00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:06.760 It's Look, it's a big change. It's a it's a huge change. 644 00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:09.199 I mean, they're they might not ever have to do this again. Maybe 645 00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:14.199 we hope they do. We hope everybody comes back to you know, but 646 00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:16.480 you may you may not be careful what you wish for because if this is 647 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:20.559 a pretty cool thing, I don't know if you want to come back, 648 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:22.840 because because the league is going to be fun, it's gonna be comp be 649 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.679 fun. What are they going to come back to the same old, same 650 00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:30.360 old. You don't want that? Well again, I mean, but there's 651 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:32.519 always you know, there's always this. There's this talk of you know, 652 00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.239 regionalizing the league, and that would be the case, and they only do 653 00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:40.639 that is if the money is right for everybody, right, you know, 654 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:44.960 the SEC isn't going to give up any of the money they're getting. Neither 655 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:46.840 is the Big Ten. So it may be that it stays like this, 656 00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:50.480 which would be you know, again, if this is the worst thing we 657 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.920 get, I think we're fine. Yeah, right, I think we're fine. 658 00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:55.199 You don't have to get used to it. Well, even if they 659 00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:59.000 go west, and who are they going to include in the West, in 660 00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:01.639 the West, you know from where to where it's gonna be a water down 661 00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:05.440 league compare to what you're gonna be in. Well, well, yeah, 662 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:07.639 because it's not gonna be the it's not gonna be the South, right, 663 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:09.039 it's not gonna be the Big ten, so you know, to be back 664 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:12.559 to where it was and what kind you know. But again, if it's 665 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:17.599 some sort of a you know, a you know, an NFL type organization 666 00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:22.360 where there's fifty teams in it, and then okay, we're gonna put you 667 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:23.719 know, twelve of them here, twelve of them there, twelve of them 668 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:27.920 there, twelve them there and whatever whatever the numbers are, thirteen and you 669 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.360 say, okay, you got a west West, you know, midwest or 670 00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:36.400 south in an eastern while you know like that you got then okay, but 671 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:38.320 it's that's gonna have to be a thing where everybody agrees, okay, we'll 672 00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:43.119 do that, and everybody shares the money and we'll be fine. And the 673 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:49.639 idea of getting people to agree to share money doesn't seem very likely right right, 674 00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.079 because you still have teams trying to get to the ECC right, trying 675 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.159 to get more shares of what they what they think they deserve, Yeah. 676 00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:58.920 Yeah, so we're we're a long way from that. Look, we've gotta 677 00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:01.280 try this out. I think we just got to try this out. I 678 00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:05.119 do expect to have fun. I'm gonna have one watching the games. Not 679 00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:07.800 going to any of the road games, but you know, it'll be fun 680 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:12.800 to see us play, you know, see Arizona play some of these teams 681 00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.320 that they never got to play. I mean, yes, we've seen Texas 682 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:19.000 and Houston in recent years, even Oklahoma State in recent years, but you 683 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:23.559 know, Kansas, Kansas State, you know TCU. Last time Arizona played 684 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:27.519 TCU, John mckovic was the head coach. That was the last game he 685 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:31.159 coached and then he got fired. So that was what two thousand and three, 686 00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:36.599 two three, Yes, two thousand and three, I think that was. 687 00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:42.639 That was the first game that came after that. That when the players 688 00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:45.960 revolted. Yeah, that was the big meeting they had. Yeah, and 689 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:49.559 he eventually, yeah, came out when they all went to the UFA Administration 690 00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:52.920 building and we wanted to talk to you. You know, I wonder maybe 691 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:57.000 in a book down the road, I wonder how many times that's happened without 692 00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:00.440 us knowing where, you know, players went to the ad minute Christians. 693 00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:04.159 And you know, I'm not sure this is gonna work. I don't know 694 00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:07.440 that there's been a coach that they wanted to do that. Well, I'm 695 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:10.719 sure there's been players that have not liked their coach. I'm uh and kind 696 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:15.599 of maybe not rallied to that extent, but uh, you know, you 697 00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:20.559 know kids are you know we were one once. But I will see I 698 00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:22.880 never tried to sit in off my teachers. Though you didn't go to this 699 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:32.320 class. That's a lie. College. Yeah, you you get the tapes 700 00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:40.880 we had the proof. I mean I missed a few classes, designate a 701 00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:45.400 few. I have a degree. What do you call the guy who for 702 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:51.920 this is second lass in med school? Doctor? I have a degree, 703 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:54.760 and I have a legit degree. I mean, you know I got I 704 00:45:54.760 --> 00:46:00.719 had better than a two point zho something. Describe for me. I want 705 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:07.320 to do a little better, please, I did all right. Look, 706 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:14.840 I grew up during college. I rallied from my early college fun. I 707 00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:17.800 won't even call it fun, just you know, I just was immature about 708 00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.639 about school my first couple of years, you know, and then my dad 709 00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.840 threatened my life when he found out I was on academic probation and I took 710 00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:29.920 care of business. And I don't think I got to a three ye oh, 711 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:32.199 but it was it was close. It's close to it. And I 712 00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:37.360 got my degree. And you guess what, I had a job the day 713 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:40.199 I graduated from college. I had a full time job there. That's all 714 00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:45.760 it was about me. We're very proud at all. It was about That's 715 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:50.039 all My parents wanted to know. Do you have it? Do you have 716 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.199 a job. Do you have a job, And yes, I do, 717 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:57.079 I have a job. I'm getting a paycheck and I'm off the payroll. 718 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:00.440 I'm off your payroll. So that's all. I'm mad. I saw that 719 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:08.239 made left at my observation. We're very proud of you. You know, 720 00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:13.840 I didn't get called me he though much after I was about in the fourth 721 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:19.320 grade. After that, it was just my my actual first name and sometimes 722 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:22.320 my first and last name when my mom called me. So, you know, 723 00:47:23.119 --> 00:47:25.480 I just stayed out of the way, Steve. I just grew up 724 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:29.199 in steate. That was my job, stay out of the way. My 725 00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:31.519 sister still gives me crap about that. She goes, you were never around 726 00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:36.199 because she's seven years hanger than me. She goes, we never saw you. 727 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:38.639 I said. There was a reason for that. There was a really 728 00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:42.679 good reason for that. I just knew if I stayed out of the way, 729 00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.639 the chances of me getting and you know, having crap for my parents 730 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:50.840 was was slim. I just stayed out of the way. And that's how 731 00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.840 I grew up, you know, in my formative years, which I would 732 00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:59.079 call middle school through you know, even through college, because I lived at 733 00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:02.840 home most of my college years. So that's how you do business man, 734 00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:07.360 at least that's how I did it back then. Don't don't make him your 735 00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:10.920 idol. How long? Come on, you know I can, I can 736 00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:15.440 fill you in on some things. And well, you're but what do you 737 00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:20.079 junior? Yeah, you know you know the ropes? Ye, right, 738 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:23.280 yeah, pretty well. For me, it was I'm close to my family. 739 00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:29.000 I didn't leave, but you stayed quiet, quiet. That is that 740 00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:31.760 the best best strategy. You wake up close school, so you did a 741 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.519 good job, go to sleep, stay out of the way, right, 742 00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:39.199 come from a big family, pretty big family. Yeah, don't get caught 743 00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:44.519 doing things. That's where my mom preach, She said, I don't care 744 00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:49.840 what you do. Don't get caught exactly. Yeah, And that was that 745 00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:52.960 was my thing. My my parents make you said, if the cops ever 746 00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:58.079 bring you home, your life is over. You better be dead. Yeah, 747 00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:00.920 your life is over. And you know what, they never they never 748 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:06.039 took me home, ever left the other quarter. You walk home. Son. 749 00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:08.760 Now, I'm not going to say that I didn't have encounters with the 750 00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:14.159 police, but they never. They never had to take me home. There's 751 00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:19.280 a the time she was missing class again. I went to enough classes to 752 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:25.159 graduate. It's all I know. Okay, anybody called me and save me 753 00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:29.159 for this history. Listen, come on, come on, Steve. What 754 00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:30.519 were your college years like? As far as all that I worked? I 755 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:34.480 worked for most of them. I work. I worked too, Yeah, 756 00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:37.840 but I was get a game. Let's step back the girls. Your high 757 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:39.400 school years. Your high schools, Oh, those are fun. You were 758 00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:44.519 you were sports. I played sports. I played almost every sports everywhere. 759 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:47.760 I had very cute girlfriends, a couple of them. Yeah. Yeah, 760 00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:52.920 yeah, Okay, you're party and doing stuff. No no, no, 761 00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:54.639 not really. Maybe my senior year little, but not not much. No, 762 00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:59.159 it's too much stuff to do. And not because you say stuff to 763 00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:00.719 do, what does that mean? To play? You had to play? 764 00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:04.239 I mean I played football and I played baseball and then I played basketball, 765 00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:07.760 but track, and so I was busy for a year round just kind of 766 00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:14.239 playing ball games, playing ball. Yeah, you had post games. Yeah. 767 00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:16.639 No, we go to a pizza place and have pizza and then go 768 00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:20.199 home. I mean it was it was. Yeah, it was just like 769 00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:23.079 that, just like booney parties or things like No, maybe one or two 770 00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:25.599 much senior year, but nothing. I didn't drink, so it didn't smoke. 771 00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:30.760 So well there's the problem. Yeah, I'm not paying for it. 772 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:37.840 I'm okay with that. You didn't drink and smoke. You didn't. You're 773 00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:43.519 going to my mom's service. I'm telling the story tomorrow. You'll understand. 774 00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:46.159 And it wasn't because my parents are streak. They just you know, I 775 00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:52.599 just wasn't interested. It's still kind of not interested. Okay. Just the 776 00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:54.760 way I've built, man, Just the way I'm built. I'm telling you 777 00:50:54.840 --> 00:51:01.920 too much infermation, in fact, make me pheeler comfortable to get some stuff 778 00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:10.440 out of you here. That's the next question. He really is, you 779 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:14.800 know, But it's I wonder about guys like that. Really, it's true, 780 00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:16.360 they were doing stuff and in fact, in fact, one of these 781 00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:19.400 days when you seen some of my friends coming to ask him, was he 782 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:22.880 like that like my like my kids, right, we were unaware of anything 783 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:28.119 that they were doing. It's starting to come out, right, stuff is 784 00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.559 starting to come out with my kids, sure, right, and I'm proud 785 00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:37.719 of them that they didn't do things that they did that they did do things 786 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:38.559 that we didn't know about it. I'm like, way to go, man, 787 00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:43.599 way to go again. Again, none of them got brought home by 788 00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:46.440 the cops. They're all you know, they're all out of college and nobody's 789 00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:51.079 got a criminal record. Nobody spent the night in jail. We succeeded, 790 00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:54.599 right, they succeeded. And again things are starting to come out about stuff 791 00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:58.960 that they used to do, stuff that they said about us to each other, 792 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:01.960 which is like cool, crazy stuff. But I'm like, that's who 793 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:05.719 I was, you know. Now, they didn't do a lot, you 794 00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:07.360 know, as much of the stuff as we did, but they did stop 795 00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:12.360 that you know of well, so far that we we haven't found out that 796 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:15.000 we haven't found out. All right, let's take our break. We're gonna 797 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:17.239 come back up. All of this is your life, I know, Wand's 798 00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:20.760 loaded up with breaking news, and then we're gonna have George Midas, We're 799 00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:23.400 gonna talk to some collectible stuff coming out of the NBA drafts. Let's stick around.