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

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He's Jay. Welcome to Friday.
Lot's going on late night game.

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We caught my surprise, we have
a show. Really, I just came

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to Pigure this time. I just
care to pick up my paycheck. You're

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gonna make me cough? Well,
it's Friday finally. Yeah, although it's

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been we were black for only the
week or four days. Late night last

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night it was I are didn't The
only thing the shockba was the amount of

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points over the difference in points because
there was no noo played like it used

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to. Well you know, you
you you expected and maybe for some Arizona

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fans the word is hoped that they
would come out the way they did,

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right, I thought they would,
uh and and and they did. You

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know, they can you know,
we talked to Reggie Gary yesterday about you

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know, did you ever play pissed
you? You know, we're ever mad.

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When you got onto a court,
it didn't look mad as much as

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it looked determined that we're not gonna
you know, we're not taking any chances.

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You know, we saw what we
did at Stanford, and we're gonna

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do the opposite. And and that's
what they did. They came out and

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just jumped on them. And so
that was that. So so I ran

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into your brother coming in and we
talked about that, you know, And

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it's always it's always this thing,
where how did they end up playing like

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that and then played like that on
Sunday? You know, those two very

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different teams. Uh, And we
all know it happens every now and again.

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My fear my thing is and I
don't fear it because you know,

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I have no dog here that you
oh, they're capable of the bad now

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before you didn't think that's and that's
yeah. And that's one of the things

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that I thought right after the Stanford
game is that they've gave They gave the

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rest of the league more hope than
they had. Right, Oh, hey

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we got a chance, yeah,
because they looked unbeatable. Yeah, I

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mean you're going into the Stanford gave
you thought there's anybody in the league who

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can beat them. And then not
only did Stanford beat they beat them bad.

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Now, I mean, you know, ASU who beat Stanford feels like

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they can be there as well.
Everybody feels like they can beat Arizona at

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Stanford. Well, I think that
this weekend coming in because Utah has a

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good record, Colorado has a good
record, you think. In fact,

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for people at the game asking me, are they gonna win tonight and said,

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oh, yeah, yeah, of
course. It means of course,

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right, it probably won't even be
close, not like this, but we

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want to be close. The thing
is now when they go on the road,

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no, then they don't know right, no, and that and that's

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it, and that's the that's to
me kind of the thing coming out of

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that Stanford game that really can hang
around. Did you show you how many

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when you worked at TP and you
were in boss for a while, how

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many people you had under you?
Just give me the six or seven.

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Okay, so you have six or
seven probably capable people, but there was

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one that you didn't want to give
him assignment too because you didn't know that

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they'd pull it off, right,
right, So what you do you didn't

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give him that task. And this
is now Arizona. Should I give him

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this task? You don't know.
More than likely they'll pull it off.

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But just in case he doesn't do
it, I better not do it.

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Yeah, it doesn't make sense,
makes sense, makes some sense. And

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you know, and I mean and
that that's the deal of Again, that's

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the NBA being consistent. Yeah,
you don't know what you're gonna get game

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to game, right, you know, right, and you know less when

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it's football because there's so many more
guys involved. But you know when basketball,

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you know, a guy can have
a shot and not have a shot.

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Colin Boswall played well less night.
He hasn't played well in a long

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term very well. Yeah, and
it's maybe just the comforts of home or

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whatever. But again, we have
we talked about this yesterday. We have

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about two hundred and fifty shows a
year. If we have a five or

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six ten plunkers, Well, it's
what it is gonna get. Yeah,

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that's what it is. It's hard
to play well every day. Did we

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bet three thirty three? We're doing
okay? Some of the you know,

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well, again, you think about, you know, the greatest hitters in

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Major League Baseball, don't get a
hit seven times out of ten. Yeah,

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yeah, right, yeah, and
that ill by the guys. This

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is kind of who they They're more
like this than not like this, right,

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so that's what you're more more to
see this more often than than what

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you saw it. Stand. Okay, so let's kind of we're gonna go

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through shot Tommy Lloyd's press conference from
last night. Right, it was very

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quick, so we're gonna do that. Uh, he is his parents.

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I think we're in town with his
wife, so that's what they were in

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the press room. So yeah,
he had a cab to catch It's it's

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about a five minute press conference.
We cut out a couple of kind of

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non relevant questions as far as we're
concerned. But so other than that,

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here's the whole thing. I'll hear
the questions and you'll hear him kind of

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short short Steve on the question.
Here's here's what he had to say.

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Well, I didn't expect that,
So happy for the guys. Happy the

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guys played well. But you know, I don't know what time we play

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on Saturday, but you know we
got to be ready. Attention perimeter defense

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tonight. K J. Simpson struggled
to get any type of open punk talk

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about the defense on that tonight.
Yeah, I mean, and we're we're

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a good defensive team. You know, you got to trust that, and

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you know you're gonna have tough nights
like we did, and you know,

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and and hey, and look at
look at some of the shots we made

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tonight, banking in three's and things
like that. That that that happens,

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you know. So we were on
the other side of that a few days

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ago, and luckily today we flipped
it. Specifically, till me up.

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Did the offense drive the defense from
the defense drive the offense? Well,

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I mean, I always want to
play complimentary basketball. I mean, I

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think your defense has to, you
know, compliment your offense, and your

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offense has to complement your defense.
So I mean, I I don't know.

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I mean, yeah, I mean
listen, anytime you're playing really good

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defense, that can help drive your
offense. There's no doubt about that.

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So you know, if you're playing
with great force on the defensive end,

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rebounding and getting in transition, that's
usually a good formula this game heading into

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the utah GA. I mean,
you know what, it doesn't matter.

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There's no plus minus in this deal. We want a conference game at home

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that we should win. So you
know, we got to come out in

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Saturday and we play a tough Utah
team that's really good, so you know,

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we gotta be on edge. You
see, Buzz will come out,

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come out play what he did.
Yeah, I mean I thought Kylin played

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well. I mean, guys,
Kylin's eighteen, you know, give give

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him, give him some have some
grace, you know, give him some

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space, give him some time,
let him develop. I mean that that's

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you know that, that's what we're
doing. And he played really well today,

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and you know, hopefully he can
continue to build on it. But

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you know, by no means is
he a finished product. I think Moe

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is fifteen to seventeen from the field. Of the last three games, are

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you seeing anything where he's starting to
make that next I thought today was his

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best game just of overall toughness,
effort, energy at both ends of the

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floor. I mean, you know, he's he's got to when you're when

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you're a seven foot in this program, you're a bad man, and you

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gotta play like it, you know, And and he's learning that. He's

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a really nice kid, really soft
spoken, and you know, he's got

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he's got to got a tough en
up a little bit, and he showed

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that tonight. Did you see that
on the defensive side as well. Yeah,

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I mean he played his best all
around game by far. Not even

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importance of having him play those quality
minutes. When you have lumar o percent,

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it helps us. I mean,
now you have forty minutes of really

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good five play, you know,
play at the five, and which is

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something I think if you find advantages
at that position, it's gonna it's gonna

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really help your team the important So
coming out the way you can punching them

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early, keep it. I mean, you know, hey, I mean

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I don't know, it's great when
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I also think you got to be
comfortable not doing it. And you know

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these you know, high level basketball
games are not going to be thirty point

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margins at half. We got to
get really comfortable playing in close ball games

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if it's twenty two twenty at that
third media timeout, we got to feel

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good. And you know that's something
we're working on. What can you say

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about Utah, And I don't know
how much you've looked at them to this

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point. I mean, for sure, I mean Utah is a really good

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program. You know, man,
Craig's done a good job, is you

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know, you know, you know
obviously last year they really took care of

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us at Utah when we got back
from Maui, and they played great that

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day and it was a little bit
like you know, our performance at Stanford,

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and so you tipped your hat to
him. And he had a good

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team last year. He's kind of
got a lot of guys back. He's

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added a piece or two. You
know, they're they're playing with really big,

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with a couple of seven footers.
Carlson is you know, he's become

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a really good player. I mean
he's sprinting and hitting threes in movement and

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he's hitting right hand jump hooks.
You make a mistake, he dunks it

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on you. I mean, he's
a good ballplayer. So they play him

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at the four, and you know, they had the levering kid that was

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that Colorado last year at the five. And then they know they have another

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five man Kate off the bench,
who's tough, so no, they present

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a lot of challenge. And then
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experience point guard, and you know, I think they're they're They're definitely an

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NCAA tournament team for sure, you
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close. They're really good. You
talked about the schedule and how you wouldn't

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change or you liked what you did
in December, But how much of this

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maybe it's just being back in the
kale. Do you feel like it made

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a difference. Well, yeah,
I mean I ran our team through a

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gauntlet, and I knew we were
gonna I mean, I would have been

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shocked if we would have got through
it unscathed, you know, I mean,

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obviously that's what we wanted to do, but it didn't happen. And

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then, you know, you and
then luck of the luck or unluck of

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the draw, your first two conference
games are on the road, and the

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next thing, you know, you
haven't played home in a month, and

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you know, I'm just I think
we maybe maybe we got a little bit

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worn down physically, emotionally, you
know, and it just it's it's hard

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to trend up all the time.
So you know, Stanford got our attention

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and and and our guys responded,
but you know, it don't mean a

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lot if we don't respond again on
Saturday, and there we go, right,

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yeah, to go back to my
question real quick. I thought my

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question bollowed with Boswell was a fair
question. It was simple to the point

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because he had been struggling right,
right, And I didn't ask you know,

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you know Boswell had been struggling.
I didn't even mention that. It's

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just it was good to see him
play, right, and boom, he

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sounded defensive. He sounded not not
overly but slightly like sure, like leave

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him alone alone there. Here's one
thing I want to ask you. So,

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so he's eighteen years old, we
go into that, I'm like crazy,

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but he's also played a lot of
games, right, and he's a

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veteran now, right, at some
point, at some point, Jay,

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what do you sa say? He's
no longer eighteen and he's a player now?

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I think right now, I do
totally agree he's got enough experience,

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right, because it's not you know, he's got a full year in.

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Remember he didn't he didn't start playing
till until halfway through last year, right,

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So he's got a full year in. So he's he's full on a

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sophomore. Now, there's a lot
of freshmen who play as true freshman and

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you have you know, they they're
they're able to do certain things. I

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get it. He's young age wise, but he's not young as a player.

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He played a luck this summer in
in a brick time American So I

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think I think that's going to be
overplayed. I know when I write these

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things now, I'm not going to
mention it because it's not it's not mentioned.

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Itvant exactly not really, it's not, but people will still mention it.

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But the thing about the thing about
Boswell is that one he doesn't look

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eighteen. Sure, okay, look, and he doesn't play like. He

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doesn't play like he's eighteen. He
doesn't have, you know, the physical

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his physical presence does not. He
doesn't look like an eighteen year old.

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He's got a full beard, and
you know, and he's a he's a

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stocky, physical kid. Sure you
know, he looks like a veteran and

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and and look he what what do
we know? You know? Is he

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gonna be in the NBA next year. So let me. You can't keep

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playing the card, so let me
look great, great point, So let

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me let's play this card or or
apples to apples that we can Crevis freshman.

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I don't know how old he is, right, but what did he

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say in this clip? He had
to toughen up and blah blah blah.

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But he doesn't say that about Boswell, and Boswell has experience never mentioned in

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age and stuff. Is there a
balance, Well, no, there's not.

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A part of it is because Boswell
is supposed to be or is in

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a position to be the leader of
this team. What the team doesn't matter,

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right, it's his team because he's
the point guard. He's you know,

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he's got the time in even more
so the Caleb Love who's got you

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know, a couple of years you
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some of these other guys, you
know, Palla Larson. But Boswell,

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you know, he's got the ball
in his hands. He's the he's the

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I can't think of the right word, but you know, you just consider

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him to be the leader of this
team. And maybe and maybe Tommy is

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trying to take some of that pressure
for expectation off of him. That's no

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question. Because he's eighteen years old, that's no question. But but that's

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that's not an excuse. But if
he was eighteen years old, okay,

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and playing as a true freshman.
So let's say let's say he you know

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this was his first year, right, you wouldn't be saying, well,

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he's only eighteen. You'd be saying
he's a freshman. You might be saying

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he's a freshman, but you'd be
But if you've put him, if you've

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put him in a position to be
your starting point guard on the team that

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you know was ranked number one in
the country, you can't say he's kind

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of young. We got to baby
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of what it sounds like he's doing. Yeah, and you can't do that

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because he's already got a lot of
experience. Right, he's one of the

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team leaders, like you said,
so all that's kind of like a double

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I'm not sure what he's doing with
it. He's protecting him. I know

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what he's protecting him because I think
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He doesn't need to And I don't
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weeks he's you know, heard the
noise. He tells us he doesn't listen

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to the noise, But how can
you not sure right that he's heard.

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You know, he's heard the criticisms
of Boswell, whether it's been in the

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national media or the local media or
wherever that he's not been playing well.

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You know he sees in front of
him because he's affected sometime Tommy right,

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Yeah, yeah, he's played poorly. I mean, that's just it.

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And let me throw this into you
because I saw this guy just mentioned.

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They're making money. They're they're they're
making now. They're kind of semi professionals,

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so got to earn the paper,
bingo, bingo. And we're not

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trying to get on him, We're
just laying down the circumstances. True.

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Look, I think I think I
like Colin Boswell a lot. I think

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he's fantastic. I like him a
lot. I think he's just what this

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team needs. But like any other
player, he's gonna have his ups and

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downs. And Okayleb Love hasn't played
great every game, Lumar Bello hasn't played

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every game, Kela Larson hasn't pay
every game, So why does he defend

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Colin Boswell when he doesn't play well
for a while? You know those guys,

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I mean, look again, we
you know, remember when we we

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had that talk with with Evan macau
about the importance of Larson again big game

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last night. Yeah, and he
was kind of invisible eighteen. Yeah he

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played, He played really well.
And you said he had eighteen yeah,

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yeah, yeah, No, all
these guys are the some of their parts.

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Boswell specifically had a fantastic game that
passed. He made. It was

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fantastic. Uh. And guess what
I've had about three weeks and stretch some

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points. Yeah, maybe, you
know, maybe Tommy was feeling a little

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guilty about calling out his guards after
the Stafford game. Hey, right,

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we didn't do that, And yeah
he did it, but he called him

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all out, didn't. You know? He didn't go by one. All

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right, we gotta take our break. We're gonna be back. We got

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Jake, and Jake Fisher's gonna come
in and probably gloat about his pick of

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uh, you know, Arizona going
eight or nine wins and they got ten,

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so even he didn't think they were
gonna get that. And then Eric

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Rohades from the Barstool Sports Arisonta Bowl
come in, David. They announce some

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pretty big TV numbers. So we'll
talk to you to Eric about things.

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here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
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on the phone, we have former
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of our great sponsors. Jake,
how are you? I'm going wonderful?

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Can you guys hear me? Okay, we're doing well. You can hear,

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we can hear you. Find Hey, how in the world did you

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screw up and picking Arizona not to
win enough games? I don't know.

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I feel terrible. You know,
I'm normally I'm the more optimistic one,

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but apparently I was a little bit
more pessimistic than you know this year.

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So next year you'd all make up
for and I'll go ahead and right now

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say we're gonna win double digit games. Well, we'll joke, of course,

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because you were the guy. And
I said this yesterday to Jay.

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You guys you had it pegged more
than anybody that I know, winning eight

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or nine I think it was uh
for the season. And and they win

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ten. Yeah, And there was
a there was a handful of games that

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we had to you know, split
in my opinion, to get that eight

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or nine wins, and apparently we
just went ahead and said, you know,

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screw it and win them all.
Yeah, Jake, you know,

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I asked Brian Jefferies this, and
I'll tell you his answer after I hear

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yours, you know again, being
the Arizona fan that I've been for you

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know, sixty years and watching teams, you know, do what they do,

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it probably took me until after the
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game that I thought, holy hell, this team is really good. They're

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not just you know, finding a
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When did you think, I mean, watching their games, when did you

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think this team is really well?
I'll tell you after that Mississippi State game,

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I thought, oh crap, we're
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you know, kind of a middle
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looked at it as saying, if
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whatever turnovers it was, we should
have gone on the road against an SEC

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team and won. I think that
I knew that we were real after the

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Washington and sc games, just because
obviously you see Washington's in the National Championship

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game. And at the time,
I think sc was a top five ish

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team, you know, with the
returning Hives and winner, and we went

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to their place, went into triple
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potentially you know, continuing that game. You know, I knew that we

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were right there. We didn't look
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and uh, you know, from
there, it was just we got to

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kind of get a couple of big
wins under our belt. You start believing,

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you start, you know, kind
of knowing that you belong. And

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I think that after that trouncing that
we we gave Washington State, I knew

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that we were good. But like
I said, I thought that we had

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to win one of those UCLA and
Oregon State games for us to continue to

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get to that eight or nine win
season, and we won both. So

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I think after we've destroyed Washington State, I think that's when I knew that

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we were legit. See that that
didn't even do it for me. I

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thought Washington State just you know,
crapped themselves, and I so I I

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it honestly, I mean, you
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then they beat UCLA and they had
that game against Colorado. I'm like

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it just I just couldn't get myself
to you know, get you know,

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to jump on that and believe they're
really this good. You been bit when

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missed. Yeah, I mean too
many times I've you know, I've gone

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into believing that and they've got my
face kicked in. So it was.

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It was when they went up twenty
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okay, all right, these guys
are just damn good. Well,

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and then if we didn't lose that
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I think we lose that Colorado game. You know, I think we

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had to kind of learn how to
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know, fortunately for us, we
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obviously we have a switching quarterback.
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uh you know that come back from
the season in which we only won five

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games. But I just think,
you know, it takes a little while

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for some of these guys who come
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then losing or winning one game winning
five to learn how to put away some

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of those pesky teams like a Colorado
so I mean, it just all comes

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with the territory and now it's on
to the next chapter and now it's we

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expect to win. Yeah, no
question. Okay, So one are the

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things that we've been asking since the
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over, how do you sustain it? Historically Arizona does really well, the

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next year they just pooped the pants
and can't keep it keep it going well.

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To be honest, I've seen it
a couple of times myself where you

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lose a couple of really good recruiters
on the staff and then you have people

408
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transfer out and you know, you
have a good eight to nine win season

409
00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:02.920
and and the next season it's like
the five or six win team. So

410
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I think the way that they're gonna
be able to sustain it is keeping their

411
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players. You know, around eighteen
and twenty two starters are coming back from

412
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this past year, and we're gonna
have a couple holes to plug. But

413
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that's what the transfer portals for.
I think if we can keep them best

414
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majority of our staffs here, which
you know, I see no reason why

415
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people would be leaving. Obviously,
you have a quarterback that's gonna be you

416
00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:26.400
know, only going into a second
year starting, and he's gonna have a

417
00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:30.920
year or two left after that.
So I mean we're built for the long

418
00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.839
term, and I think the most
important thing is continuing to develop these young

419
00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:40.000
guys. We have four or five
starters from offensive line coming back. Obviously

420
00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:42.319
it hurts to lose, you know, Wiley and DJ Williams, but you

421
00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:45.160
know, we have an awesome running
back that should rush for over a thousand

422
00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:48.680
yards coming back. You have a
great you know, I mean, shoot,

423
00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:52.359
we're gonna have a great receiver,
might be the best receiver in college

424
00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:55.599
football coming back. So as long
as you can just plug a couple holes

425
00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:59.000
with the transfer portal or you know, even from within a couple guys step

426
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up and become big time players in
their own right, we're built for the

427
00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:04.519
long haul. So it's not a
flash in the pan type thing. They

428
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built it from the ground up.
You know, they set a solid foundation

429
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and they've done everything they said they
were going to do. Yeah, you're

430
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probably about what how old were you
in nineteen ninety eight, like eight years

431
00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.799
old? I was eight, Okay, so you probably don't remember this,

432
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but you know I flashed back on
the when we talk about this to the

433
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ninety eighteen that you know, twelve
and one, the twelve and one team

434
00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:33.480
beat Nebraska. They can't, you
know, they just you know, they

435
00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.839
were top ten going into the next
year and the whole bit decided to play

436
00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.599
Penn State. But none going into
going into that next season, you know,

437
00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.480
all the you know, everybody was
back, you know, and you

438
00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:49.000
just thought this team can, should
be able to do this again, and

439
00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:52.720
it didn't. And going into the
season, I was told by somebody you

440
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:56.319
know, close to the program and
said, this team is missing a very

441
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big piece and it was one guy, Calvin Ethan. They don't have a

442
00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.920
Calviny fun a captain, a guy
who's you know, a locker room guy

443
00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:08.000
who's gonna that he's going to make
a huge difference, and that it doesn't

444
00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:12.640
have a leader. You know,
is there one guy like that, you

445
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:17.000
know on this team that is not
going to be here? You know?

446
00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:22.640
Is it Jordan Morgan, is it
Jacob Cowing? Is it Tanner McLaughlin that

447
00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.880
can is gonna have can have that
same kind of impact? Or was it

448
00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:30.119
spread out enough that there's enough guys
to make up for losing those guys?

449
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:33.480
And I'm gonna talk about the physical
skills, you know, having a good

450
00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:37.960
tight end or receiver. But I'm
talking about the things that those guys brought

451
00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:41.519
to the locker room is veteran players, you know what I think. I

452
00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:48.200
think the quarterback is the biggest role
to play in regards to the leadership.

453
00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:52.319
You know. I know it doesn't
seem like the raw raw type, but

454
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he's that calming effect. You know, he's going to make a play.

455
00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:57.119
You know, he's gonna set us
up for you know, success. So

456
00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:03.039
I think him coming back just a
year older is going to be more than

457
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.000
enough. Uh, you know,
losing a guy like Jordan Morgan. You

458
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:10.880
know, I don't know him personally. He doesn't seem like a raw rock

459
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:12.240
guy either. He seems like the
guy that just went out and, you

460
00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:15.359
know, beat the hell out of
you and went to the next play and

461
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:17.920
beat the hell out of you again. Right. So, I mean there

462
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:19.960
are some guys you got to remember. These guys are gonna leave an impression

463
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.279
on these guys too. And you
can tell there's not any kind of locker

464
00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:29.200
room deal because there's not a mass
exodus of people wanting to leave, you

465
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:32.839
know. I mean, and think
about the coaches too, like think about

466
00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:36.759
the atmosphere in the program where you
have you know, Noah and t Max,

467
00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:40.640
who reportedly both got offered over a
million dollars to leave and they said

468
00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:44.440
no. So, you know,
I think just the atmosphere, what the

469
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.799
coaches have done, having the quarterback
coming back, with the comments, the

470
00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:52.359
fact that I think everything's gonna be
fun and and I don't think they're gonna

471
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:55.720
have any you know, problems reeling
off double digit wins again because you're not

472
00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:00.599
going to be in a conference that's
got Oregon, SC Washington, but now

473
00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:03.119
in the Big twelve, you're not
even going to have Texas or Oklahoma,

474
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.200
So you're not going to have that
one or two team you know on the

475
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:08.319
schedule where you look at and you're
like, ah, damn, that's an

476
00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:14.960
l I'm not too sure if I
believe that million dollars purchase for both for

477
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.240
each of them. How you really
don't believe? You you do? Why

478
00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:22.920
do you believe that? Oh?
Because I either message boards on other different

479
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:26.680
uh you know, uh, colleges
that have that kind of money that you

480
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:32.119
know basically uh, you know,
like going to Nebraska, the damn quarterback

481
00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:36.680
going over there signed for like a
few millions so and he hasn't played a

482
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:41.799
snap. So imagine having a guy
at a quarterback position and having a potential

483
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.160
first round draft pick that is his
best friend. You're probably willing to throw

484
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.279
a little bit more money at them
because they're a package deal. How much

485
00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:52.039
time in the day do you have
to be listening to that gossip? I

486
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.680
stay up late, I have work, and then I get all the other

487
00:29:56.680 --> 00:29:59.839
fun stuff out of the way later. We got to do I show it

488
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:04.680
midnight one. Well, that's what
we'll play. Jay. Uh, did

489
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:08.160
what did you like the most about
this team? Uh? You know,

490
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:12.119
on the field, off the field
or whatever. What what What put a

491
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:17.640
smile on your face when you thought
about this team? Uh, to be

492
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:23.279
honest with you, it's putting a
whooping on Utah and then just completely dismantling

493
00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:29.000
as U in back to back weeks
and then proving that we belong even though

494
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:33.799
we didn't have our best game against
Oklahoma in the Alimable kind of getting back

495
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:36.759
at the other Oklahoma school that beat
the hell out of my team in the

496
00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:41.960
Alimable that that stretch of games was
awesome. Yeah, No, this was

497
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:45.799
a This was a fun, unexpected
year for everybody, I think, don't

498
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:52.079
you think it was not unsuspected for
me? Guys already, I thought they

499
00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.279
were going to be good. I
just thought that, you know, because

500
00:30:56.319 --> 00:30:59.519
you were going to go through five
or six straight top twenty five teams,

501
00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:03.039
that we would drop a couple of
them. And we didn't. So you

502
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:06.079
know, I'm the one that I
thought we were going to be decent,

503
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:10.160
But I didn't think we were gonna
be in an Alamo Bowl and dismantle,

504
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:14.039
uh not really dismantled. We didn't
play that great, but you still handedly

505
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:17.319
beat you know, an Oklahoma team
because your defense decided to show up.

506
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:22.000
So except wait, okay, for
millions, it was fun for Jake,

507
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:29.000
well, he knew, are you
were ready? I was ready. I

508
00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.759
was ready to It wasn't everyone said, we just got to get to a

509
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:34.759
bowl game. I thought we were
going to exceed that pretty pretty well,

510
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:38.240
and we did. We'll give you
that, Jake, because you did and

511
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:44.400
you were and you stood by it
too, because I know that that after

512
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:48.119
the Stanford game, even even though
they won the game, and I did

513
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.079
think normally, you know, an
Arizona team loses that game when they played

514
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:53.920
the way they did and the way
you know, Fafita came in and won

515
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:57.119
the game. I didn't feel great
about about the about this team, and

516
00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:01.079
I was a little scared of Washington
coming into town the next week. But

517
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:06.359
then when they played the way they
played against Washington, and then I mean

518
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:07.599
thought they should have beat us.
See that, Okay, you know you

519
00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:12.599
felt a whole lot better, but
you still didn't expect this stretch games that

520
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:15.200
that that they ended up with.
But you know, I didn't see this

521
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:17.720
coming. I didn't. I certainly
didn't see ten wins coming, and I

522
00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.759
admitted that. You know, when
Steve and I made the bet on over

523
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:27.200
under five wins, you know I
had I really did have trouble finding six

524
00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:30.680
wins. I thought, I thought
they had five good ones, but they

525
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:31.680
were gonna have to win some that
you didn't expect them to win. And

526
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:36.839
then they won a whole bunch,
and what really annoyed what really annoys me.

527
00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:38.400
And I know you have to give
the nod to the older guy who

528
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:44.000
was the returning starter who did nothing
to lose his job during camp. But

529
00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.640
if we have Noah the entire season, I don't think that it's I think

530
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:52.880
that we handedly beat SC I know
that we'd beat Mississippi State. So it's

531
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.720
like, damn, we might only
be like a one lost season and we're

532
00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.200
probably in a New Year six Bowl
or you know, even better, you

533
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:02.279
know, because the only team that
I said, you know after the game,

534
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.039
yeah they're better was Washington and it
was Noah's first start. Right,

535
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:10.680
Yeah, no, let's go quickly. We only have a couple of minutes.

536
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:15.920
Your thoughts on the basketball team.
Review the last two games. You

537
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:17.319
have one team that doug did what
it did and now you have another one

538
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:22.400
who did something last night. So
yeah, so my whole thing on the

539
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:27.440
basketball team, they're going to be
fine this year. Going basically to Purdue

540
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.640
even though it was at you know, in Indianapolis and losing and we almost

541
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.599
came back and we made a couple
of bonehead and mistakes and they pulled away

542
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:40.319
in the last few seconds. Obviously
losing to I forget the Florida team anyways,

543
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:45.039
losing too that team fau that there's
nothing wrong with that. They had

544
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:46.880
a guy that had the game of
their life and may he couldn't miss down

545
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:51.319
the stretch. And then you know
the Stanford one. Obviously, I don't

546
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:53.079
know what it is about the last
few years, but we always have a

547
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:57.279
random game that we go on the
road and we just let them shoot the

548
00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:59.799
lights down. It's kind of a
wake up call. So you know,

549
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:00.839
I still think we're going to win
the pack. I still think we're going

550
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:04.240
to get a number one seat as
long as we keep our you know,

551
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.000
crap together and we don't have any
injuries. Yeah. No, I totally

552
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:09.960
agree with you, because it always
does happen. He's right. There's a

553
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.639
game or two in there where you
have clunkers and you just shake your hand.

554
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.719
Normally it's at Colorado, but Colorado
is going to be decent this year,

555
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.719
so that might be an l But
I don't see anyone beating us at

556
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.039
all for the rest of the time
unless we show up and just you know,

557
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.599
have a bad game. Yeah,
okay, Jake, thanks a bunch

558
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566
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567
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thank you Jakes. Jake's forty seex
footy. Oh he did he did?

568
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:13.440
You? I mean, come on, he was the only dude that I

569
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:15.599
know that knew that. Yeah,
I mean, you know, yeah,

570
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:20.360
and he's optimistic obviously internally, Yeah, but he was a little bit beyond

571
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:22.079
that too. But plus also,
you know, he's got more knowledge than

572
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.840
most right, he played and you
know, yeah, he has a better

573
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:28.480
sense than than your IDs. Yeah, they're good on him. All right,

574
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.559
let's take our break. We're going
to come back. We'll take your

575
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576
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577
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578
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is I on the Ball with Steve
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623
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fifteen. Hey, welcome back to
my in the Balcao, Fox Sports fourteen

624
00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:00.679
fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake. You have about fourteen minutes or so

625
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left in the hour if you want
to call us five two oh four one,

626
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six seventy four forty, that'd be
great. Give us a quick call.

627
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.440
End of the week. We've had
some good calls this week. We

628
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.599
had some from Nico. Yeah,
Nicos shock, you're still shocked. Welcome

629
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:24.719
to the new year. The world
is ending soon. You make me laugh,

630
00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:29.360
you make me cough. Well,
Nico's getting married, you know,

631
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:35.159
the world is something's gone on something, You're right. Yeah, So a

632
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:38.360
good night tonight, another good big
game tomorrow right six o'clock the women play

633
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:44.800
today game tonight made the women have
a Colorado coming in Colorado. This Colorado

634
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.519
team is also ranked I think they're
like fifth or something like that. Isn't

635
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:52.519
that the return of a player?
And it's what's her name? She's none

636
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:53.519
of what's her name? She's pretty
dark, I think of her name.

637
00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:59.320
But they beat this is the team
that beat you l s u right right

638
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.079
right away out of the gate.
Yeah, they're coming in ranked fifth in

639
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:06.360
the country, but you know they're
still not the top ranked team from the

640
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:10.400
Pac twelve you got you got UCLA
at two, Colorado at five, Stanford

641
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:16.639
and eight us He at nine,
Utah at fifteen. Then, I mean,

642
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:20.360
this is a tough league. That's
a gunlet. Like he said last

643
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:22.320
night, you know, he talked
about that being a gunlet that he put

644
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:27.320
them through. But I think it's
for the best. Yeah, you go

645
00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:30.000
ten thirteen, ten and three,
No. Eleven and three from a tough

646
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.679
schedule when you didn't have a clue
how good you were going to be coming

647
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:37.639
in this year, right, right, So I think you're gonna take ten

648
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:40.280
and three, eleven and three.
Yeah, maybe not the circumstances, but

649
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:44.639
I think you'll take it undred percent. You know, Arizona women, they're

650
00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:47.280
nine and four coming off of they
beat the hell out of a Seattle team

651
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.960
the other night, but had a
couple of tough losses. You know,

652
00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.880
lost to a ranked at Texas team, so and they lost up at up

653
00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:59.280
in the Footprints Center against Gonzago,
another ranked team. So you know,

654
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.039
not a terrible record. Uh.
You know again, you know, we've

655
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.079
talked about what the expectations are dating
back to when they went to the final

656
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:12.119
four, you know, got to
the championship game. People still have that

657
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:15.679
expectation. But nine and four is
respectable, right, and especially now you're

658
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:20.159
going into this league. It's just
look, Colorado is coming in at five

659
00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:22.119
and Utah's coming in at twelve.
I mean, this is or at fifteen.

660
00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:24.639
This is hard. Yeah, this
is a hard weekend. You know,

661
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:29.559
far Zona wins either game, you
got to give them some prompts for

662
00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:31.800
that. Yeah, of course,
of course both are going to be very

663
00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:35.960
tough, even at home in front
of a crowd maybe about seven thousand.

664
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.440
You think, yeah, I think, I think they'll show up. It's

665
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:42.360
a it's a it's a six o'clock
game tonight. Last that crowd was pretty

666
00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.880
good. I thought they were pretty
It was decent. It was pretty I

667
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:49.199
thought they were vocal. They were
with the students gone too. Yeah.

668
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.800
Yeah, and that section you know, regular people, you know, those

669
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:53.960
tickets go, you know, get
gets sold to the public, and you

670
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:59.280
know, there's probably some tickets for
Saturday because those tickets are not part of

671
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:02.320
the take your packet. So if
you haven't been to a game Tuesday,

672
00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:06.360
Saturday is a good good time to
look up and say, you know,

673
00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:08.800
because it wasn't a full house and
all the attendance wasn't it wasn't a sellout,

674
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:13.239
but still it was late. It
started late to Bill Walton back in

675
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:17.519
the house, just a character,
obviously, I've spent him out of a

676
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:20.760
thousand times. And I go up
to him last night and says, he

677
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:22.960
says, yeah, I know who
you are. And then he doesn't remember

678
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:25.719
my name, which is fine,
but you know, it says, oh,

679
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:29.880
the book, your book. Luke
wrote the front to the he wrote

680
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:31.360
the forward for it, says,
yeah, have you ready yet? No,

681
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:35.840
I'm too busy. We got to
get him on the show. Yeah,

682
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:38.159
we do get him back here.
But you know, I well I

683
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:40.599
I saw him in the restroom,
but I didn't go up and try to

684
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:45.199
shake his hand. How you do
We just don't. Yeah, that's a

685
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:47.840
that's a that's a man car.
You don't try to take anybody's hand,

686
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.880
either in the bathroom or coming out
in the bathroom. Yeah, I just

687
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:58.039
kind of said hi, But everybody
does you know? Everybody know? Sure?

688
00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:01.800
But the Utah game tomorrow, Arizona
game, men's game is it's is

689
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:06.119
it six o'clock? With the early
evening, gaming'll go grab some dinner,

690
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:09.519
go to the game, get home
relatively early. Uh. And you know

691
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:15.000
again, since the student tickets are
are not those student tickets are available to

692
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:16.079
the public. If you haven't been
to a game or want to get to

693
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:20.159
a game, this is this is
when you should try and get to because

694
00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:23.159
the students get their tickets back for
the weekend of the seventeenth and the twentieth

695
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:28.119
when usc UCLA comes dead right.
Okay, a lot of things going on

696
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:31.119
obviously in high schools to coaches moving, going, leaving. We'll get that

697
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:36.480
settled down when it gets more settling. Yeah. You Jeff Skurn is retired

698
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.599
again. Your guy that said he
was leaving in one place, he's now

699
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:44.719
with Yeah, Pueblo coach left now
as it saw Rita, So yeah,

700
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:49.559
we've had him on the show.
The defensive coordinator at South Point got promoted

701
00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:53.840
to the head coaching position. So
there's just been some movement among among the

702
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:59.159
coaches in Tucson. We'll get we'll
get Hobvier onto you at some point to

703
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:01.760
kind of explain it all to us. Yeah, and then on Monday,

704
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:07.639
so let people on Monday, we're
gonna spend some time previewing the National Championship

705
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:10.400
game. Justin Spears, who's got
his own radio show in the mornings on

706
00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:15.119
ESPN Radio. He's gonna come in
studio. We haven't had any studio guests

707
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:15.920
in a long time. Yeah,
it's been a while. He's gonna come

708
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:21.199
in studio at three point fifteen on
Monday. He just wants to spy our

709
00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:23.519
procession. Yeah, he's gonna come
into our studios. Says that, guys,

710
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:27.679
you need to do better. They
got a nice studio. I know

711
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:31.239
they did in there. Yeah,
they've got a nice studio. Or like

712
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:35.000
my son when he walked in for
the first time, he said, this

713
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:38.400
is it not what I expected?
Of course, dude, we're too you

714
00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:42.280
know we got we're feeling to the
oscar. Yeah, we're just the potato

715
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.320
chip bags all over the pla like
a Waterburger cup, coffee cup, co

716
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:50.159
some throat laws and wrappers. In
fact, I was thinking about we got

717
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:52.960
to get a podcast, you know, video video to post, and I'm

718
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:57.519
thinking I don't know what to clean
the room. But then we got a

719
00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:01.000
shave and stuff. Oh no,
I didn't do it. Never. We're

720
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:06.559
better off just being on the radio. But Justin will be honest, We'll

721
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:08.360
He'll be on for a couple of
seconds, so I'll give plenty of time

722
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:12.719
to you know, recap his thoughts
on the season. And then again as

723
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:16.519
we've been with everybody else, what
next, Yeah, and then at at

724
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:21.800
four fifteen, Jack McGruder sports bettingdime
dot com or oh buddy, he's been.

725
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.679
He's been covering the the college football
playoff for Sports Betting Dime. I

726
00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:30.559
had to call him yesterday talking about, you know, different odds and stuff

727
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:31.480
like that. Did he make his
pick? Public? He did not make

728
00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:36.039
a pick, but we're gonna make
him. He's better off. We're gonna

729
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:37.480
make make a pick. But he
is going to come and gloat along with

730
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:43.519
me about Washington and Michael Pennix that
we both thought that that that that that

731
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:46.400
that guy and that team was really
I saw something yesterday, I don't know

732
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:52.360
if I saw on my MSN website
or whatever, saying that the Pennix was

733
00:45:52.360 --> 00:46:00.679
probably the most underrated or what overlooked
or whatever. I can't remember the word

734
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:07.519
runner up ever last right decades because
no one really knew who he was or

735
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:14.800
whatever reason. Steve Joe Burrow was
undefeated at l s U you know,

736
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:20.079
hands down national team, hands down
the Heisman Trophy win. You put this

737
00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:23.800
Washington team, call them l s
U with Michael Penick and Michael pennixs is

738
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:28.559
your hemand Trophy win? Why they
gave it to Jadie Daniels And it wasn't

739
00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:30.480
close. It wasn't a close close. Yeah, it's the numbers thing.

740
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:36.199
It's it's stupid. It's got setting
me off again totally, but it's stupid.

741
00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:39.719
I never won. You. If
you if you lifted Washington and put

742
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:44.760
them east of the Mississippi, He's
winning the Heisman Trophy. Yeah, no

743
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:49.360
question, no question. We'll talk
more about that Monday, but I totally

744
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.199
agree with you. My hope is
my hope is that you know, with

745
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:54.960
Arizona going into the Pac twelve now
because I mean the Big twelve, that

746
00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:58.960
that that bias tends to go away
because more of their game, not all

747
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:00.679
of their yeah, more of their
games are going to get in front of

748
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:06.760
national media that should see these guys. And I'm not saying no Offafied or

749
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:09.480
McMillan should be winning the Heisman trumph. But what I'm saying is that these

750
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:14.000
teams, you know, the Washington
and Oregon in the USC. You know,

751
00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:16.440
it's been hard for these guys to
get that national recognition. I mean,

752
00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:21.760
you know, when you think back
to Toby Gerhardt and and Christian McCaffrey

753
00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:24.400
and Andrew Luck, one of those
guys should have won a Heisman. I

754
00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:28.480
know Matt Lioner won a Heisman.
I know, I know Reggie Bush,

755
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:31.480
but they were at us C.
You always pay attention to USC. It's

756
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:36.000
the Oregons, the Washington's, the
u c l as, you know that

757
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:40.199
don't get the attention that these that
say a us C CA you know,

758
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:45.719
I mean, Marcus Mariota won it, but he should have been a unanimous

759
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:47.840
pick. You know, the guy
was by far the best playing in college

760
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:52.599
football that year. And it's you
know, just because of where they are,

761
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:55.159
they don't get that. I think
the move does help them with that.

762
00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:59.920
It'll be more eyes moriyes and the
price or whatever you want to say,

763
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:02.239
because the West Coast is going to
be less visible now for sure.

764
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:06.000
I mean I think back to the
first time I voted for the Heisman years

765
00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.079
ago, right in the eighties,
and Barry Sanders won that won the trophy,

766
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:14.039
Yeah at Oklahoma State. Yeah,
you know, eighty twish but eighty

767
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:21.960
Barry Sanders. Yeah, who's the
who's the guy Barry Sanders? Who's god?

768
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.559
I'm thinking of? Who am I
thinking of? Olahoma State? Oh?

769
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:29.199
What won the Heisman? And he
beat out and he beat out Rodney

770
00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:32.400
Pete? Right, you know Rodney
Pete? Who you know? Usc that

771
00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:37.719
year was in the running for the
national championship, but he was on the

772
00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:39.559
West coast. He didn't have a
chance. I'm going back to who am

773
00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:44.719
I thinking? Because I remember this
very well in ANTEENA Marcus Allen, No,

774
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:45.760
no, it was I thought it
was. I thought it was Barry

775
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:52.119
Sanders. Who else was there back
in Oklahoma? Oklahoma State and in those

776
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:55.719
groups? Oh? Oh, oh
oh, who did you say? You

777
00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:58.559
know what I'm talking. I know
I know who you're talking about. I

778
00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:00.360
know you're talking. We got a
call, Quie, I'll look, I'll

779
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:04.800
look it up. All right,
let's take why am I You're on?

780
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:07.719
Then one on the ball. Hey, guys, how's it going? Happy

781
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:12.079
New Year? This is done?
Hey, don how are you? Oh?

782
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:15.159
I'm doing okay, I was I'm
doing really good after that Ala mobile

783
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:22.159
and everything. But the reason I'm
calling today is Jay. Yeah, with

784
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:30.239
the Michael Panics. You you you
act like you can't you don't know how

785
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:39.000
to spell ESPN. That's that's that
is the that is the reason why there's

786
00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:45.599
an East Coast bias. And the
other thing is is when it goes on

787
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:52.039
when you look at history, who
was the last West Coast quarterback that had

788
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:59.360
a decent NFL career? Okay?
Now, now, Andrew luck didn't get

789
00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:01.599
to finish. Is so we wrote, we really don't know, but he

790
00:50:01.719 --> 00:50:07.280
was on the road to having a
good career. But before him, who

791
00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:12.519
was it? Now I hear you, I mean I told you it's Carson

792
00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:15.800
Palmer. Carson Palmer. And after
that, there hasn't been a single West

793
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:22.079
Coast quarterback that had a career in
the NFL. And I don't and I

794
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:25.199
don't think Panics is going to have
one either. But you but to your

795
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:30.840
point, to your point, I
agree with you on his stats and everything

796
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:35.599
else. But go ahead, let
me throw this out at you, donau

797
00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:38.119
because we're trying to figure out this
player that that that Steve was trying to

798
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:43.360
think of. But Bill, here
here's a rundown of quarterbacks and you know

799
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:47.079
from that that have won the Heisman. Almost none of them had great careers.

800
00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:51.679
You know, you can argue Doug
Flutie had the best, Vinny Testaverdi

801
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:57.679
andre Ware, Charlie Ward, Danny
Wirfel, these guys are all won the

802
00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:02.280
Heisman Trophy, so it shouldn't you
know how they did in the pros.

803
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:06.440
Sam Bradford won, you know,
won the damn Heisman Trophy, and that

804
00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:09.719
guy was a bust in the in
the NFL. So I'm just my point

805
00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:15.639
being that Michael Pennix was a great
quarterback on a great team, and instead

806
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:17.400
of giving him the Heisman Trophy,
they gave it to a guy who piled

807
00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:21.800
up stats on a crappy team that
they and then didn't even show up for

808
00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:23.000
his bull game. I mean,
it just bothers me. And he continues

809
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:28.159
to bother me. Oh no,
I know, I know it bothers you.

810
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:31.159
I just I fill on trust Washington. I just don't. Yeah,

811
00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:37.360
I understand. I mean I understand, you know, because they beat Arizona

812
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by six, and I don't know
if it's was Arizona that good or was

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Washington that bad. You know,
you come from the program, and I'm

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gonna probably say this wrong. I
don't want to join a join a club

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that allows me to be in it? Is that what it is? You

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know, I don't want to be
a you know what I'm saying. There's

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that sprain. No, but I've
said it before. The agains over the

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last several years have been West Coast
good, right, yeah, right,

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you know they haven't been good good
yeah. Yeah. And if Washington wins

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on Monday, well then they're great
good. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna

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have to eat that. But until
I see it, I'm not gonna believe

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it. Yeah, No, I
get it, all right, don We

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got to hit the road. We
got We're here at the top of the

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hour. So appreciate the call as
always, Thank you, Thank our guys.

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Yeah. So the guy I'm thinking
about, Billy Billy Sims, he

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wanted in seventy eight, seventy eight, I was thinking eighty two, eighty

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eight, Berry Sander. It was
Billy Simms. Uh, George Rogers in

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eighty, Marcus all In eighty one, herschel Walker eighty two, Mike Rogier

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eighty three. Okay, Billy Simms
in the late eighties, he wanted in

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seventy eight. No, no,
no, no, I'm talking about Barry

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Center. Nineteen eighty eight. God, I'm nineteen eighty eight. I've last

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six years somewhere. Yeah, all
right, Hey, we're gonna take our

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break. We'll be back breaking news
coming up. I think I've got some,

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so we'll see how it goes.
Stick around