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Breaking down the hall, the ex's
and alls. It's Steve Rivera and Jagen

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Salmons. This is I on the
Ball on Fox Sports fourteen. Hey,

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welcome back to I'm the Ball,
your own Fox Sports fourteen to fifteen.

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I'm Steve, He's Jake. That's
Sammy with breaking news. But first,

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what are you too degenerate? Stuck? Then we do have some breaking That

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was my breaking Go ahead, Okay, go ahead, go ahead there on

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the ball breaking news. Yeah,
turn out, there we go, so

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breaking news. At the break,
Jay and I have updated our bet.

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We're doing two separate bets, one
on the total of the game under one

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the over. You have the under
one fifty five and then ten bucks ten

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bucks, and then we decided to
go you have a under seventy two points.

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Uh. Jay's on the over,
I'm on the under. I'm not

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saying you've a can't win or won't
win, but I think seventy two points

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at Cameron in Door for the first
time in a long time is a lot

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points. Okay, and I'm confident
that they're going to get to eighty,

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but I'll go seventy two over.
That's fair, all right? Tell me.

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I always like to do with those. Yep, we love it.

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We will keep it posted and maybe
I'll be using that money this weekend and

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then I and then I will I
will put out my put out my bet

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on the over under because I'm gonna
I'm taking I'm taking the over fifty two

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and a half. When I go
to Vegas, I'll show my ticket to

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you, guys. Good. I
love it even more. But the college

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football playoff rankings came out last night. Nothing changed in the top four,

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but they did have Arizona two spots
ahead of the AP at twenty one.

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So I found that a little interesting
in it. It kind of is food

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for thought of if we do get
to ten wins, or if we do

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win out and get to nine wins
before a bowl game. In this theoretical

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world of Oh, next year's the
twelve team playoff. If you have a

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does win out, could they find
themselves in the twelve or higher to end

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the year? Well, yes,
we'll go ahead. Yes, no,

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the simple word yes, because we've
talked about the competition in the Big twelve,

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right, Arizona will be, you
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the league right when they get in. Plus, they're gonna be good right,

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plus are gonna be good if all
things turn out to be okay,

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you know return. I mean,
it's funny because you look at it right

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now and you go, you know, when Arizona goes over there next year,

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you're thinking Oklahoma States having a great
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okay, went in the tank for
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They beat Oklahoma last week. But
when you think about who who are you

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gonna look at the schedule and go, hmmm, I don't know that,

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you know, that's gonna be a
tough, you know, tough team or

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some You think of Oklahoma State and
Utah and that's it. Kansas State,

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I think, yeah, but yeah, but you know, Kansas State,

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Kansas State and Kansas are Arizona in
that regard. They can have a good

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year, none of those they don't
sustain it. You know, they can

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have a good season, but the
program doesn't ever sustain, just like Arizona

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never has. You know, they've
been good a couple of years. Yeah,

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you know, but I'm gonna say
it this way, Kansas State and

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Kansas don't scare me. Yeah that's
fair. I think Oklahoma State is the

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team Gundhy's had that program really really
good for a while. Yeah. And

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the team that's been bad recently but
has had historically been okay, it's Texas

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Tech. So we'll see if the
we'll see yeah exactly, and it's exciting.

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But I do think if U of
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Utah, top twelve is definitely on
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right, and that'd be a shame. That'd be fun to time.

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It would theoretically who would be playing
the prayoff? But YOUUVE is also one

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of the only three teams to be
ranked in basketball in football currently. The

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other two were Alabama and Texas,
which I found pretty interesting. So U

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of a sports, especially football basketballer, who I didn't see the number ste

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Who's the number twenty on that list? Do you have the list twenty?

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I can pull because I saw I
was twenty two when I'm taking leads.

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That's that's my point. I mean, if you're twenty one and I was

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twenty two, how good is that
list at twenty? Well, that's Tulayane's

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twenty three. I think they don't
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twenty two. Notre Dame is twenty
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Yeah, when when you get into
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got Louisville, Oregon State still at
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yeah, I know that seems high. Tennessee, Missouri at fourteen, Oklahoma

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State fifteen, Kansas sixteen. Oklahoma's
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nineteen, Notre Dame twenty, Arizona
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Lane, North Carolina, and Kansas
State. Yeah, that's the neighborhood that

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Arizona belongs in. Yeah, yeah, no, truly, it is the

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neighborhood that Arizon to be long.
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doesn't seem like like but they do. Yeh. I'm saying they should be

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higher than that. Well, it's
surprising to hear that they're in there,

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right, come on, who thought
this was coming? What's today? November,

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October, September, August? Come
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did in August, they're gonna win
five? I was thinking we're just saying,

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how are they going to get to
six wins? Right? I mean,

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you had to be a real optimist, Jake, Jake me to think

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that they were going to get to
six wins. You know, on the

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surface, it didn't look like there
were six wins in there. Something surprising

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had to happen. And then Colorado. Colorado plays out of its mind,

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you thinking they're not going to get
to, say, get six, and

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then they win the games that we
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go after the USC and Washington.
Their record was what we thought it was

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going to be. They were going
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and that's what we expected. And
the three the three wins and the

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three losses were the three wins and
three losses that we predicted. Well,

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nobody expected was three ranked teams in
front of them. They were going to

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beat them all and convincingly. Yeah, the difference was our record was our

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record, but the play on the
field, especially against USC and even that

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you hung around against Washington, you
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four weeks, you just gotta oh
we got a car. Yeah, let's

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take this. Hi, you're on
the air and I on the ball.

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Hey, you know, I just
wanted to talk about pretty crazy that the

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accomplishments were making a football right now
are with a bunch of red shirt freshmen

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freshmen and sophomores. Right, you
know, when you look at the next

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couple of years, barring Jetfish potentially
leaving and or the transfer portal fighting plucking

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McMillan, let's say maybe Moni is
something like that. And a big part

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of this is Moni's staying healthy because
he really is the engine that makes the

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defense wrong. From my perspective,
that is true. And Jet asked asked

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that question, lat because that recruiting
class has been fantastic. Yeah, Well,

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he's talked about the twenty twenty two
recruiting class. One because they came

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here when there was nothing to hang
their hat on. They were being recruited

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during the one and eleven season,
and then two that they all came and

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actually turned out to be what they
hoped they were going to be. Well,

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you look at and you look at
all of it. You know the

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model is Utah, Right. I
look at Arizona, when I look at

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Oregon State, they look a lot
like a you to framework of how to

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play football. Uh. Special teams
are solid, uh strongest because I mean

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we're pushing dudes off the ball on
both sides of the ball, and we're

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getting pressure with former and our offensive
line is a problem. I mean,

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it's when was the last time that
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any level about Arizona football A long
time ago. A long time ago.

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I mean we're talking you know,
even in Stoops era. Stoops era would

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be you know, last time I
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even still, I mean, it's
a product of being welcome, developing count

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and you know me, I'll put
it this way. We're playing Duke on

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Friday, and a lot of us
are still on football right now exactly,

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And that's what's crazy to me.
So which is the game? Which game

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is bigger this weekend? A well
proceeding purposes? This is his game at

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Yeah, dude, you win that. That helps you become a one or

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two seats. So from that perspective, it's a bigger game. From the

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standpoint of the Vapian, it's still
going to Duke. I'm going to do

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it. You're winning a Duke.
That's that's not just you any of a

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fan and and really you want to
be Duke, you do so. But

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with that said, you know,
the football program borring anything crazy acting with

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the transfer portal, it's they're building
it the right way. They've got good

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coaching. They're spending money on the
infrastructure on it to make sure that it's

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run right, that they can pay
the coaches. Right. It's been awful

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fun to watch. I didn't think
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I really do not think we're going
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And we are dominating teams right now. It's we're dominating teams. Yes,

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yes, that that. The game
last week was an ask kicking.

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It wasn't It wasn't a fluke.
It was in Arizona got lucky. Arizona

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was just better and they beat the
hell out And the week before they played

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so sound and structured. You know, it was just so you know,

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Washington State. That's when I started
to believe. And that was a pretty

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impressive game, right the second game
was even more impressive, and then last

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week was even more impressive. Yeah, every week, but you've got you've

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got a quarterback Day does basically he
executes the whole vision of the program,

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which is all control on offense with
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control the crock a little bit,
rester defense, rotate a lot of players.

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Next year, defense is rested and
strong, I mean when he's executing,

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he's for forty four for fifty six
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mean that's a crazy statistic, crazy
numbers, lots of the exciting for and

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let's go on to dude can get
a victory? Boys, sounds good man.

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Could be a big week Yeah,
big weekend. Hey, thanks for

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the colle You appreciate good stuff,
all right? Makes that good come?

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Yeah? Really could be yeah all
time. Well, there's no you know

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what, there's no wrong answer to
that question. Ste right to the Duke.

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You know, Colorado game question.
Neither one's wrong answer because again,

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it is Arizona Duke. No if
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Tech or something like that. Okay, okay, yeah that's a big game.

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But it's Duke. And you're right
if somebody said, you know,

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if somebody says, you know,
Duke's the big, bigger deal, you

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really can't argue that either. It's
a it's a matter of you know,

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which is more important to you as
to me. I think the Colorado game

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is a bigger deal because it keeps
the ball rolling on what's been a great

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season already. And I think the
majority of Tucson would say the Colorado game,

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given that if they lose this game, it feels like the train is

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kind of stopped right as opposed to, Okay, this is the second game

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of the basketball sea you're at Duke. You lose that game, so what

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it's going to the next one.
If you win, it's a oh we

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beat Duke. But if you have
a football loseres to a what's now pretty

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disappointing Colorado team, it goes,
oh, were the what were those three

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games? And then you and then
you host Utah and it's like, are

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we going to get crushed? Like
so that it should be interesting. But

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speaking of the Utah game, we
talked about it before the show. It's

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probably not gonna happen. But if
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be a top twelve team. If
you have a wins, maybe they move

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up a couple of rankings. Maybe
TWU songs hosting College Game Day next Saturday.

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Wow you heard fifteen? You heard
that somewhere and I, you know,

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don't do that to me. I
know, but like it could you

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know it could? Well, it's
not hot and it's more a product of

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it's not a great football schedule.
It's not a great college schedule. Next

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Saturday, a week from Saturday.
All the you know, all the great

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games are the following week, right, what we call rivalry weekend with well

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House Day, Michigan, Auburn,
Alabama. You know, all those games

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on Thanksgiving weekend. So who knows, man, maybe maybe you know what,

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let's throw it out there. You
heard it, and I on the

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ball, and we're starting the rumor
that game day could be here next week

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if all things falling, let's do
that. Yeah, let's do it.

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Rumors. Yeah, but like we
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wouldn't want college game day here.
I'm sleeping through that in the morning,

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big weenie. I've been to both
of them. I haven't been to the

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football ones. We got our sign
taken away at the at the Oregon one

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that had a great sign. That's
something I need. It said. It

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said, no ducking way, what
right? You know it's kinda today.

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They wouldn't and the and the A
and way was the was the it was?

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I mean it was a professionally done
something. Well I professionally did it.

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You were well, we had we
had it made. Oh wow,

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we actually had it made. And
we got we got it on a couple

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of times, but then they saw
it and they took it away from us.

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Dang, all right, well that's
enough college football. College basketball talks.

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Enough about Arizona Duke Michigan's date lost. I'm sure you guys talked about

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it yesterday. James Madison will make
the rest of this quick. Kyler Murray

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will start. According to the Cardinals, Will Levis has taking over Ryan Tannehill's

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job, which is I think fair. I think if you're the Titan,

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you want to know who's wrong with
Ryan Tannehill. I can take what went

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wrong with Ryan Tannehill. I got
him on my fancy and then and then

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and then lastly, Carson Wentz is
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He's probably better than Stafford. Is
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if he's going to start. Ripen
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now ripping, and they got crushed
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good. And then two things on
the NBA, the NBA two minute last

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two minute report. I don't know
if you guys pay attention to that.

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The refs go and they analyzed their
last two minutes of reffing. They came

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out and said they missed a bunch
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with Lebron. I just don't think
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want to do that. Yeah,
no, one, we don't have that.

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Last we don't need to know it. Go aheadry dood, but don't

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tell us. And then Bradley Beal
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Bulls. Could be good, it
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and then I know what, we
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forty seconds, but it wasn't national
signing. Yeah, there's a bunch of

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stuff. Well we'll get to that. Arizona Baseball on Softball announce theirs their

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plans. So all right, let's
take our next break. A fun guest

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today, somebody we've never had.
Hope Heisey, the fifth year goalie at

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Arizona, set a record for career
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get her. And she's a local, went to CDO and uh so we'll

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on the iHeartRadio WAPP This is I
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Gonzalez on What Sports fourteen fifty.
Hey, welcome back to one in about

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Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve, He's Jay, got Sammy with

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us. Now we got Hope Heisei
from the University of Arizona soccer team.

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Hope. How are you? I'm
good, How are you fine? Thank

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you? What a fantastic career you
had, saving goals, kissing babies,

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shaking hands. How was it for
you? Thank you? Yeah, it

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was the best experience of my life
being able to play for you, BA,

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like it was the dream come true. And I feel really at peace

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of how everything turned out. It
was a great experience, and I'm really

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proud of what's happened along the way. So, so you grew up here,

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went to CEO. As I mentioned
off air, I remember you running

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around thank Gregory Jim when your mom
was working over there. So you've got

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a history here in town. As
you said, you know, dream come

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true to play for Arizona. First
of all, tell us you know when

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did soccer become the sport? Right? Because you know your dad's a baseball

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coach, you know, you know
us. You know, small minded people

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think, well, then you're going
to be a softball player. But at

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some point soccer became your sport.
How did that happen at a young age.

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Yeah, I played a lot of
different sports growing up. I played

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softball, basketball, volleyball, even
a bit of like flag football and stuff.

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Just I didn't actually diversify into soccer
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school. I always played club soccer. That was the one club sport that

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I've played, And as far as
college recruiting goes, this is very heavily

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reliant on club sports. So that
was kind of what propelled me to choose

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it to play in college. But
I still played basketball and volleyball going into

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high school, and yeah, I
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what I played as much as possible, making sure that you know, I

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didn't get burnt out right, you
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It's funny because we have this discussion
every now and again, Jay and I,

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where you have kids who are doing
one sport all year round and how

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good they become or whatever. But
you're an example of doing a lot of

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different things, probably becoming a better
overall athlete, and then your playing goalie.

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So I guess there's a debate for
both ways. Yeah, there's definitely

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a debate, but I would argue
that, like I see it with my

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friends, who I think probably specialized
a bit too early, they get burnt

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out a lot sooner than say,
you know, people who play multiple sports

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later on into their high school careers. I think it's also, like you

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said, it's great cross training,
and it just gives you a different perspective

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because you're on multiple different teams with
different types of personalities. And I think

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that it's really beneficial for kids his
parents to continue to play as many sports

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as they can for as long as
they want to. So at some point

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you're playing club soccer. Now you're
starting to get recruited. When did Arizona

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enter the picture? And once they
did, was that kind of it or

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where else did you think about going? My recruiting process started very early.

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I was a freshman in high school. It was before the rule change,

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so you could recruit like people were
getting recruited in eighth grade pretty much.

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But I was a freshman in high
school and Paul Magee, who was the

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former University of Arizona goalkeeper coach and
current director of goalkeeping net stts On Youth

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Now he you know, approached me
and started recruiting me and I went on

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a visit to campus, and like, the goal was to play college at

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as high a level as I could
and have a real shot at being able

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to play and make an impact on
a program. And I felt like Arizona

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gave me the best chance to do
that, and so I made a pretty

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big decision when I was fifteen years
old. I hadn't gone on any other

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visits, but it just felt like
the right thing in the right place to

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be. So that's kind of how
it all transpires. You and you played

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right away. I mean you you
started right away, right, didn't you?

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Your freshman year and I had a
great, great accomplishments. I mean,

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were you surprised even but you know, did you spray yourself even at

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the beginning when you were starting right
away? Like I said, I wanted

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to go to a program where that
was a good opportunity for me. So

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I knew that if I put in
the hard work and I extaally did what

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I needed to do, that I
would have the potential to be the starter

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my freshman year. So that was
something that was a big goal for me

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freshman year, was to become the
starter. And I was able to achieve

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that. So yeah, that basically
that was a goal of mine my freshman

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year coming in, and I knew
it was very real possibility, and it's

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one of the reasons I chose to
come there. So let's talk about your

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time in Arizona and being a goalie. You know, you're you're you're the

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last line of defense. You know, you don't have to run around as

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much, but certainly there's you know, all kinds of pressure on you because

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you're you're it. What's that like? You know, as you know,

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really at a young age, but
in a situation like playing it at the

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University of Arizona, I mean,
how nerve wracking is it? Yeah?

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I would say like on a game
day, it's probably the least physically taxing

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position, but it's the most mentally
taxing eruction. I think there's there is

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a lot of pressure that comes with
it because the best way I can describe

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it is that usually you're able to
diffuse responsibility between people, but when it

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feels like it's only you there,
like you're the only person able to use

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your hands, you're the last person
that the ball has to get passed,

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you can put a lot of pressure
on you, and especially when I was

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younger, I eat that pressure,
you know, was a lot to deal

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with and it was something that I've
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older I've got. But I think, you know, you find a community

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within goalkeeping and that's where the goalkeeper
coach comes into play and helps you so

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those stresses and that's at the end
of the day why I believe it's the

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most rewarding position as well, because
you go through all of that, you

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know, mental strife now within your
own head and then for other people too,

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and when you're able to be successful
because of all the work that you

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put in that maybe people don't really
see or know. Right So hope my

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son was was a goalie too.
He played the next level. What he

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ran up against was concussions and the
collisions and all that. Did you survive

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being hit hard or those crashes at
the goal? Yes, I think a

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lot of that. You know,
obviously you have to be brave to play

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the position and with that comes you
know, putting your body on the line.

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And that's again why I think that
the position is so unique and so

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I think rewarding in a sense because
you do make that sacrifice. But Luckily

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for me, through my entire five
year career, I never had to miss

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a game due to injuries. So
you know, it's definitely taking pride in

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like taking care of my body,
and then also you got to have a

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bit of luck along the way,
but you also want to make sure you're

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being brave and making sure that you're
trying to do your best for the team.

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This is gonna be kind of a
weird question, but I'm just curious

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about this. So you know,
as you said, you know, you're

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you know, you don't have to
run all over the field, you know

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for every match and those kinds of
things. You've got a different kind of

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position. But what's the training like
as it compares to other players in terms

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of conditioning and you know, any
weight training you do or whatever, do

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you train differently from the other players
or you just kind of one of them

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when it comes to you know,
practice and conditioning and off season and all

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that kind of stuff. Yeah,
we do have a different training regimen than

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the field players because like the best
way people describe it is it's like a

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different sport within a sport is goalkeeping. So you know, our lifting schedule

409
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is going to be different it's going
to be more based on you know,

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fast explosive movements, more like aerobic
movements than anaerobic. So making sure that

411
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like the quick, fast, like
twitchy muscles sort of all firing and training

412
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is you know, your hardest days
as a goalkeeper physically are actually the days

413
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of training, not the games.
And that's a lot of just up,

414
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you know, up and down,
getting up short skirts that's really tiring,

415
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and then long periods where you're not
doing much, which is uh kind of

416
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what it's like in the game where
you could be asked to do something really

417
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physically taxing for about thirty seconds and
then you have like twenty minutes where maybe

418
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you're not doing as much. So
it's definitely working different like body systems,

419
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and so we try to replicate that
in the weight room and on you know,

420
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the training field, so that your
body's in best position to succeed on

421
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the game day. Interesting stuff,
yeah, no question, really interesting.

422
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She didn't even talk about the dives
back and forth, the leaps and all

423
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that. But I think that in
having a son who did this position,

424
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I think they're the smart, very
smart too, because they know angles and

425
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the balls coming in, they know
angles where the ball's gonna come and where

426
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it can't come from. True.
Uh, yeah, it's very masmatical in

427
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the sense of that. And you
know, it's it's a lot of different

428
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positioning techniques and even like my dad
didn't know much about soccer before I started

429
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playing it, but even he was, you know, really intrigued by all

430
00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:59.160
the different angles and stuff and he
was able to help me with that too.

431
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But yeah, it is very much
about being in an optimal position to

432
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try and make the safe. You're
not always going to make it, but

433
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you just want to make sure you're
in an optimal position to do stuff.

434
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So you had this great career.
I think you played for the women's summer

435
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.400
team right here FC two soon.
I think I could be wrong. So

436
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:21.440
what's next? What's next for you? Well, the next step would be

437
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to enter the end OFFL draft,
which there's still not a date for it

438
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:30.400
yet, but that would be the
next step. And see, you know

439
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:34.240
how that process goes, and if
I get picked up by a professional team

440
00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:40.119
or you know, going overseas or
something like that. But I definitely want

441
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:45.680
to continue and like my playing career
at the next level. Well interesting,

442
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.000
Well, and then Steve said again
a few minutes ago, Mansion. You

443
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:51.039
know, you got to be smart
to play the position you were in.

444
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:55.680
You just were named twenty twenty three
PAC twelve Women's Soccer Scholar Athlete of the

445
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Year. So not only are you
athletic, you're pretty darn smart. And

446
00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:00.640
I was looking at your bio and
like, you got a degree. You

447
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.440
got an undergraduate degree with a four
point oh, a graduate degree with a

448
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:08.240
four point oh. I mean what
you know, we know your dad was

449
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:14.599
he that he wasn't this smart?
Was he? Jason? Jason, Jason.

450
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You know, my mom and dad
are very intelligent people, so they

451
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definitely helped pass those genes go along. Obviously, you know, they passed

452
00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:30.960
along all the work ethics things right, you know, doing things the right

453
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:34.359
way as well, and I think
that's contributed. And like you said,

454
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like the goalkeeping position is very mentally
taxing, so I think that you know,

455
00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:44.440
being able to execute in the classroom
definitely translate on the field. So

456
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:47.559
getting that ward, though, how
much did that mean to you? You

457
00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:51.920
know again, you know, the
season didn't go like you wanted obviously,

458
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:53.960
you know you're not in the SUA
A tournament, but still getting an award

459
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.319
like that has to really be you
know, satisfying for you to finish out

460
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:05.480
the season. Yeah, I think
that, you know, coool is why

461
00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:09.079
I went to college in the first
place, you know, like my you

462
00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:13.000
know, my whole goal was to
be able to use soccer to pay for

463
00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.640
my education. And now that I've
you know, developed and have the opportunity

464
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.759
to play after college, I know
that my career claim is not going to

465
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be forever. And your brain is
something you're always going to have and always

466
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:29.759
going to have to use in the
real working world. So the most important

467
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.799
thing for me was to make sure
that I utilized my education to the best

468
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:37.160
of my ability. And like I
know, you know, my grandma,

469
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:42.279
uh, one of hers, she
texted me and she was just she was

470
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:46.880
so proud of the award because she
thinks oftentimes in college athletics the school part

471
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:53.160
gets overlooked. But it was very
proud and you know, thought that that

472
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was the coolest award to have,
And I agree because it shows, you

473
00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.599
know, the true reason why I'm
here in the first place. So we

474
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:05.640
we've talked to a lot of the
people of the non basketball football athletes geist

475
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:12.559
in track obviously delaying dish still in
in in diving and diving you and soccer.

476
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.519
Has the NI L been able to
help you at all? So are

477
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:22.079
we buying you lunch or you buying
us lunch? Honestly, I haven't.

478
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:30.119
I didn't utilize that much of NIL. I didn't find any opportunities that I

479
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:34.839
personally wanted to use, but I
know that it is. It's great for

480
00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.799
all athletes regardless, you know,
like you said, and even non revenue

481
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:42.839
sports being able to you knowize their
name, image and likeness like I'm seeing,

482
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.960
you know, softball girls be able
to hold camps and do stuff like

483
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.799
that. So I've done a little
bit of the NIL as far as uh

484
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:54.559
like coaching and little clinics and stuff
like that, but I haven't done as

485
00:33:54.599 --> 00:34:00.440
far as stuff as much. It
just wasn't really that interesting to me.

486
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:06.279
But I'm glad that that opportunity.
Yeah, makes sense. Well, congratulations

487
00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:09.719
on your career and all these awards. I'm sure you do well. Yeah,

488
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:12.920
thank you very much for having me
on. Well appreciate it. And

489
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.360
don't don't tell your dad I said
you he wasn't as smart as you.

490
00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:23.719
Okay, Joe got the Phone's gonna
ring the phone, Jason. Sorry,

491
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:30.480
man, Thanks Hope, appreciate,
best of luck to you. You know

492
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:34.400
sometimes I open my mouth and well
things come out. Here's the funny thing.

493
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:36.440
So I got into it. We
just do with them, right.

494
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:38.639
I hope I could outrun him.
I'm not sure you could outrun Jason.

495
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:43.320
No, No, you're there.
Plus got just pick up a baseball.

496
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:45.679
He could hit me from you,
you know, from three hundred feet.

497
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.159
So you know that's all all right. Okay, that was fun. Hope.

498
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:51.719
Uh, best of luck to you
that that was great. And you

499
00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:53.840
know again, congratulations on a great
career. All Right, we're gonna take

500
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our break. We're gonna be back. We'll take your calls. This is

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your last segment. Has gone fast
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Surgery I on the Ball. Hey, welcome back to IE on the Ball

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here on Fox Sports fourteen coifteen.
I'm Steve, You're Jay got sending with

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us fourteen minutes. If you guys
want to give us a quick call,

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what's the bigger game break question of
the day or more important? We can

564
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phrase it however you want. Which
game matters most, which one's more important

565
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to you? Arizona versus Duke and
Basketball. On Friday, Orse Steve will

566
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be there, Johnny on the Spot
for Eye on the Ball and All Sports

567
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tas on. So we were both
there. We weren't there in Albuquerque.

568
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So the anniversary just came through,
I think the Florida game here and then

569
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the New Mexico in December, December, December of that day, and everyone

570
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said, oh, what a great
day, all time best day. No,

571
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no, but it was a great
day. It wasn't the all time

572
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best. It was a great day. It was a great fun sports.

573
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Yeah. You know got I remember
watching that New Mexico Bowl and they got

574
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so far behind it. We're pissed
off, rich Rod. What are you

575
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doing? You suck? How are
you losing like this to Nevada. You're

576
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making Arizona look bad? Why do
you even go to a bowl game?

577
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:16.119
All those things were said while we
were watching the game. And then and

578
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then they won the game. You
don't suck, rich you don't suck.

579
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Ritch. Nice job, way to
go. You had it all the way

580
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and it was a huge victory.
And then they came back and beating Florida

581
00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:30.039
at Florida game. Uh with the
guard what's his name, Mark Lyons.

582
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You know, we were talking about
that today and my brother Jean, who's

583
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:37.880
my sidekick at the stat table.
He'd gone to the New Mexico Bowl.

584
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So we had a sub and it
was my my, my god son,

585
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:44.239
Sean Collins. You know, it
was in sports and he was so he

586
00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:47.280
was the guy next to me.
He's literally up to my ear yelling in

587
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:52.400
my ear and I can barely hear. It was so loud. Oh yeah,

588
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.960
yeah, it was so loud.
I could barely hear him calling,

589
00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:59.079
you know, making the calls to
me doing the stats. Right. No,

590
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.800
it was a fun time one time
enough to say that this this weekend

591
00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:05.880
if they win both. Yeah,
yeah, it's it's two separate days,

592
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but it could be it could be
a weekend to remember if Arizona, you

593
00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:15.280
know, does does both of these
things. Look, Arizona fan, Okay,

594
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:20.079
if you're expecting Arizona to win this
game, shake yourself. They're not

595
00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:23.800
supposed to win this gamestball the basketball
game. They probably shouldn't win this game.

596
00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:28.079
But they can't. We don't know. I mean, obviously we don't

597
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:30.079
know because we don't know how to
duke is. But what from what we

598
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:32.840
know now, if you're thinking,
oh, we're going to go in there

599
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:37.519
and we're going to kick their butt
and stop. No. And I don't

600
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.719
know enough about Tommy at this stage
in his career to know, but if

601
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Luke was coaching them, I would
say they could very well win this catter

602
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:49.119
shot, yeah, because they just
remember all the time. But tom Tommy

603
00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:52.880
has been been doing. He's unshakable
on this stuff. He doesn't he doesn't

604
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:57.920
take himself or any of this so
seriously that he's sitting there thinking, oh

605
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.039
God, I'm going to do on
the road, this is gonna be a

606
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:02.400
hard win. No, he's going
like, we got another game to play.

607
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:06.599
It's on a court the same size
of the court at Arizona. In

608
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:09.199
fact, he was saying something that
Monday night that I thought was very fantastic

609
00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.000
in how he speaks, because he
he says, you know a lot,

610
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:15.119
and he's kind of you know,
but he said, if they win,

611
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:20.519
figure out what we need to improve
on. If we lose, I'll figure

612
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:23.239
out what we need to improve on. Because it's it's second game, end

613
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:25.679
right, and it is what it
is. And I don't I think the

614
00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:30.639
color beforeces seeding maybe maybe, but
it's your help. It's the second game

615
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:32.800
of the year. But down the
road, it helps, you know,

616
00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:37.199
if that's on your look, would
you like to win on your resume?

617
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:39.519
Would you like to win on your
resume? Absolutely not. But you don't

618
00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:43.400
get killed if you don't. Yeah, if you don't know exactly, and

619
00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:45.679
if you're if it's a last second
shot, that's almost like a victory.

620
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:50.760
Yeah, So you know, it's, uh, this is fun. These

621
00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:52.840
things are fun, and that's that's
why you've always hoped that they would play

622
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:55.679
these games, because it's so much
fun. We're talking about it here and

623
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:59.239
it's a big deal and it's good. You know, We've got a group

624
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:02.079
of there's like twenty of us going
together to Vegas and we're going to a

625
00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:05.960
place and we're all gonna sit there
and watch this game in the same place,

626
00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:07.559
and we're gonna have a blast.
We're you know the way, are

627
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:12.840
you going to be flying and do
the same thing for Saturday. Yeah,

628
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.079
and then on Saturday, Yeah,
the same group of people is going to

629
00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:17.360
be at the West Gate altogether,
you know, watching this game on you

630
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.400
know, on whatever screen we get. But yeah, all the you know,

631
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:22.559
that's what we're going up there for. It is to do all this

632
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:27.360
stuff. So yeah, you know, it's it's like a two watch parties

633
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:30.519
back to back, but in Vegas, Yeah, I think I think it's

634
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:34.800
hilarious. You get the football schedule
however early and then oh, You've is

635
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:38.199
playing duke and you look, oh
Colorado you have a football Oh that same

636
00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:43.199
weekend Arizona Duke basketball? Who really
cares about that football game? Right now

637
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.719
we're having like yeah, oh,
this football game means way more. Yeah,

638
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.840
which one's bigger? I mean,
yeah, yeah, but which is

639
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.079
cool? I also brought this up
this week maybe on the show too.

640
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:58.400
If the roles were reversed football wise, Uh, the Arizona story would be

641
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:02.320
huge, right because Dion the Don
factor was huge, right, and it's

642
00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:06.000
not as much anymore, but they're
still quoting him like crazy, you know

643
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:08.559
what you eat today? And Don
eight Spanish food or whatever? Ye Dan

644
00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:12.840
Patrick yesterday? And what do you
bring to the table now? Not what

645
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.239
do you did three and sixteen?
Exactly exactly. Jedis for apples and apples

646
00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:20.920
and you put the resume on.
If you didn't have this, the coaches

647
00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:23.960
names and you put the names on
their own teams, Jed would be the

648
00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:28.800
guy being lauded. Right. Well, that's the thing, that's what people

649
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:30.079
are saying, you know, there
was a tweet to that effect that,

650
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:32.519
you know, earlier this week.
You know, one of the national guys

651
00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:37.280
said, you know, who would
have thought it might have been I don't

652
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.280
know if it was a good man
or or one of the football guys.

653
00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:44.079
It might have been Eron Torres.
One of those guys said, you know

654
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:50.280
who would have thought, you know, at this in this week that Colorado

655
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:52.320
would be the team that you're really
not talking about that much anymore. And

656
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.280
Arizona is, yeah, you know, and there were nine and a half

657
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:59.440
point favorite, or it was at
least two days ago. It's a lot

658
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.320
of points, Yeah, it is. But they've been so good too.

659
00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:05.760
But this is the first time he
even favored some Stanfords seven and seven and

660
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:08.159
one seven one against spread. Yeah, yeah, the one was against Stanford's.

661
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:12.960
So we barely yeah, crossed our
team, crossed our fingers and let

662
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:16.079
me let me throw a stupid question
that I'm pining with that though, would

663
00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:20.880
they be in the situation of DeLaura
was the quarterback? We don't know.

664
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:23.559
I don't know that. Oh you
guys doing speculator, No, you're gonna

665
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:30.480
okay, personally, I don't know
if six wins were on the table or

666
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.719
currently with the Laura, I do
think the team would still have progressed.

667
00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:37.639
I think Fita is being able to
take care of the football and really game

668
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:44.239
managers. The way that he has
been able to has made this team made

669
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:51.360
this team's strengths really come out.
It changed, it changed things. I

670
00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:52.320
don't you know. I don't know
if you can say one way or the

671
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:57.320
other. I'm gonna say probably not. I'm gonna say that under de Laura

672
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.800
they would have lost one of these
last three games. You don't probably most

673
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:06.159
most likely or don't say a word, or stay I do not say a

674
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:12.159
word, Sammy, do you did
your sense? Since the since Fafida has

675
00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:15.000
been back, even in the staff
prea game that this team has played harder

676
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:22.800
for him, I don't think so. I know. I think I think

677
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:27.199
this this team's always played hard.
I think Jed and his coaching staff has

678
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:31.360
really progressed this team. I think
when you look at what they looked like

679
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:37.159
against Stanford and now what they look
like this team night and day, it's

680
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:40.679
I mean the defense too, especially
like that things are actually starting to click.

681
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.239
And maybe that's just they have more
practices. They've gotten to know each

682
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:46.800
other. They've actually become more of
a team. But I don't think you

683
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:51.639
can say DeLaura faa when the team
plays harder for one or either. See.

684
00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:53.400
I don't believe. I don't believe
in momentum, as I've said a

685
00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:58.480
thousand times, but I do believe
in confidence and and and you can see

686
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:00.800
that defense with so much they're just
like I said yesterday, a bunch of

687
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:07.719
dogs, underrated dogs. And you
give those dudes announce of confidence and they've

688
00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:13.400
taken a bunch of it. They've
turned into this craziness, right. And

689
00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:15.800
I can't see where you're coming from, Steve, I really can. I

690
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:19.679
don't one hundred percent agree with you. I'm sort of more on Lamont Onnley

691
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.079
side that we talked about yesterday,
that you know, guys are gonna play

692
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:27.079
for guys no matter what right we
are. They playing hard for delare he

693
00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:30.960
thinks they were. Were they playing
harder for forefeed. I don't know if

694
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:34.960
they're playing harder, but maybe with
more confidence, harder nothing, with more

695
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.119
of a belief. Harder's not the
right word, with more of a belief

696
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:40.880
that you know, Fafita comes in
the game and he's doing these things like,

697
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:44.960
Okay, now we have much more
confidence in our offense to be doing

698
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:47.280
its part well so that if we
do our part, we're gonna win these

699
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:51.320
games. Let me and you guys, you played Sammy, so you've seen

700
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:54.519
this a thousand times. You you
have a star, get hurt or leave

701
00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:01.519
or whatever audition By substraction, we
say that for a reason. Brandon Dawkins,

702
00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:04.880
Khalil Tate, come on, I
mean, come on, you see

703
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:08.000
it for whatever reason, right happens. I mean with Coli Tate, it

704
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:13.320
was just because he was a freak
athlete that caught everybody by surprise, and

705
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:16.079
the Pac twelve coaches couldn't. It
took him about five games to figure him

706
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:20.920
out. But there are times,
you know, you think, uh uh

707
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:25.280
uh, what's his name? Drew
Bledsoe gets hurt? Tom Brady comes in

708
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:30.280
and what happens? Right, so
it can happen seven it doesn't. And

709
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:35.960
and again it might be more along
the lines of confidence as opposed to harder

710
00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:38.599
playing harder. And that may not
be the right word. But but you

711
00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:42.519
guys knew what I was talking about. Yeah, no, I get it.

712
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:45.039
It has looked different since Fafita gotten
the game at the end of the

713
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:49.880
Stanford game. It's just looked different, no doubt. But we can't we

714
00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:52.239
don't. We don't know if it
would have looked like this if okay,

715
00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.440
next time you speculate I'm gonna score. Hey, we could be sitting here.

716
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.920
Here we go. How you're on
the air and nine the ball.

717
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:06.159
I had a call, This is
Vick. You guys, what's up?

718
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:10.760
Steve? You're one thousand percent right? Man? Wow? You I mean,

719
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:15.239
I'll give you a quick example.
Look at that raider thing that went

720
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:19.239
on last week. Those guys that
we're walking on it with us, with

721
00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:23.199
Josh McDaniels, and they changed coaches
perfect and I know that they're probably not

722
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.199
going to sustain it, but those
guys said they'd run to a wall for

723
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:30.840
the new guy, for Antonio.
And do you see that happened a lot

724
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:35.360
too. It does. Yeah,
I'll tell you. When my kids were

725
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:38.519
playing high schootball, the starting pitcher
went up to the coach and said,

726
00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:44.719
I need Jamie, who is my
daughter, at third base, and don't

727
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:46.880
change. Don't make a change there
again, the starting pitcher went up to

728
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:52.440
the head coach and told her that. And it's just certain people bring out

729
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:57.559
the best, and I can guarantee
you they talk. You don't think Walls

730
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:00.760
went to his dad and said,
Jesus Christ, we need to change Jayden.

731
00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:04.719
You know, if you're a fly
on the wall, you don't think

732
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:10.199
that happened in between clothes quarters.
Totally yeah, totally agree. And well

733
00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:13.960
you're right, Steve, and I
still got you a stag dinner coming your

734
00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:16.400
brothers. No, right, did
you hear that? Take care? Guys?

735
00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:21.199
How's your trip? How was your
trip? It was beautiful, beautiful.

736
00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:25.639
My cousin won. They beat Laurela
Merrymount, who Arizona plays, so

737
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:30.079
we we had a blast. I
got to go to a high school football

738
00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:35.239
game and and that was so weird, Steve. My daughters graduated in twenty

739
00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:38.519
twelve, and the same people sit
in the same seats and yelling the same

740
00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:45.360
crap as a coach twelve years later. So that always is. That's why,

741
00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:46.679
that's why when Jay goes to the
bar, he sits in the same

742
00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:52.119
seat. You be back in nineteen
seventy you were al Bundy. You see

743
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.960
the touchdown back to the day.
Thanks Vic, thanks for the call.

744
00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.079
Okay, you guys take care all
right? Well, yeah, you know

745
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:05.880
again it can't happen, Steve,
I think that you know, this is

746
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:07.599
a different a little different case from
you know, changing a coach. I

747
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:10.559
mean that happened here in Arizona,
right, you know, Mike Sweeps got

748
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:14.639
fired in the very next week under
Tim Cash, you know, Arizona to

749
00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:17.119
beat the hell out of UCLA.
And I'm talking about that moment, you

750
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:20.400
know what I'm saying, right,
just for that moment, it happens.

751
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:22.679
It happens. I've seen it happen. You know, guys get a little

752
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.599
bit more bouncing their step or something. And I get what Hanley's saying.

753
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:30.039
I totally get it. I just
believe, I believe in as a player,

754
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.320
he's saying, I would never do
that. Sure, I would never

755
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.639
play harder for the next And I
don't want to argue that because he's right

756
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:40.079
and he'll be yours. But but
yeah, but you know I'll be beating

757
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:45.079
on the floor and say I'm still
right anymore anymore. Well, also,

758
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:52.360
winning sure, and winning that game
was a big deal. That the season

759
00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:55.519
was on the brink right there.
You know, they had one possession and

760
00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:59.440
they scored on that possession. Yeah, yeah, it was on the break,

761
00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:01.639
and they lose to Stanford. It's
a whole different field for this season,

762
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:06.320
no question, and they did no
questions and they did not So yeah,

763
00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:10.960
it's uh, you know, it's
uh. It look that that put

764
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.960
everything in place that that's happening.
Even though they lost the next few games,

765
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:16.480
you know, to top five teams, but they you know, they

766
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:21.400
they established a level of respect that
that they were hoping to establish. And

767
00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:24.280
then what that's led to his winning
those next three against against ranked teams.

768
00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:28.880
So all right, God, that's
it for today. That was really fast,

769
00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:31.760
Steve. So okay, to remind
everybody, I'm here tomorrow. Steve's

770
00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:35.440
not here tomorrow. He's on He's
gonna be flying on his way to Douke.

771
00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:38.239
It's gonna take him all day to
get there. Yeah, and then

772
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:44.719
so I'll be here tomorrow with with
with Kevin, so we'll just kind of

773
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:49.360
keep the chatter going. We've lined
up Brian Howell, the beat writer for

774
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.960
who covers Colorado from the Boulder Daily
Camera. We're trying to line up another

775
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:58.199
beat rider for the other guests,
and then we're both gone on Friday,

776
00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:02.480
so there's no show, no show
on Friday, and we'll be back on

777
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.239
Monday to talk about all that stuff. So Steve save travels real quick,

778
00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:12.119
give me a call on both games, real quick, Duke. They lose

779
00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:15.079
but played really well, and they
win committing leg against Colorado. All right,

780
00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:20.039
okay, guys, is it ever
too early for Christmas music? Oh?

781
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:28.000
Okay, all right, we'll be
back tomorrow, so be sure to

782
00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:34.559
come back and give us a shout. Thank you. Make my own whist.