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Uh, I have a little bit of stuff Steve. You may have to
you may have to jump in. So we did talk a little bit about
about recruiting and all that stuff. Arizona did get a three star cornerback out
of Long Beach, which is pretty much the area where Fefita and and t
Mac and all those guys came from. So they're still getting in there.
His name is he's got a really strange name, Quimari something or other.
I got darn it. I had it here a second ago. Kwamari.
M Well, so he's a three star guy. Committed Arizona six foot hundred
and seventy five pounds for seven Sports ranks him as the number one seventy five
cornerback in the twenty four, twenty twenty four recruiting class in the hundred sixty
seventh best prospect from California. But you know, six foot one seventy five
good size for a cornerback, good size for a quarterback. But as we
all know, I know you're that guy. He looks good off the in
the bus. He looked good on the bus, you know, didn't cruise
looked for all the bus in the airport. Yeah it look. You know,
they're still mining guys out out of southern California and that's a good thing.
Well there's that they have the kid from Colorado, right right, Uh
so they have they have a he's like rich Rot, a nice stocking quarterback.
Yeah, you know we I meant to talk about this yesterday and we
didn't. Baseball and softball going to be back in the Olympics. Oh yeah,
yea see that twenty twenty eight. Yeah, you know, right,
interesting and we'll see if from you know, Mike Hendrea you know, participates
in you know, influence on you know, some sort of whether he coaches
are on a consulting basis like that, probably at least involved in pulling all
that back together. But you know, again they got rid of baseball for
breakdancing? Is that what it was? Is that what was breakdown? Yeah?
For they took out baseball so they could do break dancing in the Olympics.
And then they saw the World Baseball Classic have incredible numbers on media this
summer and they were like, we maday huge, huge miss right, and
it's coming in twenty eight, twenty eight. It's gonna be in la isn't
it worse? Yeah, that's when it's Yeah, that's when coincident. Yeah,
Well, they've got the facilities for it, right, they'll be able
to have it at a bunch of great places. Speaking of Kirk kurb Street,
as we were in the in the last segment about the how we did
watch college college football, Kirk kurb Street his top performing coaches of Week seven,
Kaylin de Borr from Watching from Washington, Al Golden from Notre Dame,
Tyler Santucci from Duke and Jetfish Arizona. Well, yeah him, as he's
number four to performing coach. I still say that if Colorado was in Colorado
and the stuff that they did before and one a few games the Jet that
Arizona program would be We talked about for what they're doing or what they've done
last three years. And and I Will had something that was interesting on Twitter
Saturday because one of the announcers said that they that Colorado has knocked off some
big guys. Anyways, they haven't had not they haven't, they've wont they
beaten you move three and three very mediocre? Right, then they be Nebraska,
Nebraska, same thing, right, right? And then and then who
is the last one? Oh? Then they be Colorado State when they should
have lost that game over right, right, So it's it's the eyes are
lying to you. Yeah, the eyes are lying to you. But he's
a story. He's a story, and it continues to be a story,
right, continues to be a story, all right. Uh So sort of
this just came out sort of a I don't know, it's something that gets
talked about every year because you know, it's like when you're hiring a coach,
you know, the timing of it is, so it's so uh crazy
about it. So the NFL just uh, the NFL owner has just approved
a proposal to not allow in person head coaching interviews from other teams until after
the divisional round of the playoffs is completed. So between you know, so
before the conference championships, so you know, you gotta wait a little longer
to be able to go snatch somebody's coach and pull them in for interviews.
And so it'll be interesting to see how the NFL does that all that.
You know, when you're hiring college coaches, you know, you hire,
you fire a coach in mid season so you can be the first one out,
you know, hiring a new coach. So anyways, Jonathan Gannon the
coach of the your Arizona Cardinals. They're not Kevin's Cardinals anymore. According to
a the Central Sports is hinting strongly that Kyler Murray may be making enough progress
to get back on the field and sometimes soon. You know, during the
summer, didn't we think he was going to be playing by now? Yeah?
What are they saying? Like Game four and you know he'd come off
of off of it and then he was he was kind of ready to do
that, but they didn't do it. Yeah, they didn't do it.
They added some more time on the IR so he's but they're saying he might
still play, So we'll see. But you know, I don't know how
much better are they're gonna get with him. I really don't. It just
doesn't seem like they've got much going on over there. Just a real quick
note Arizona men's golf, they've won a tiger. Christensen won an award for
a Golfer of the Week in the PAC twelve. He was the medalist at
the Stevens Cup, which was a tournament, a very prominent tournament. He
was nineteen under during the tournament, which is a lot, so he was
named co Golfer of the Week. We got to get Jim Anderson on.
It looks like they're pretty good. They're pretty smart too, that team I
g p A. I'm pretty sure. Well, you gotta be I g
p A to be a good golfer. You think your way through the golf
course. That's true. I don't. I should should, but I don't.
Doesn't. I don't either. It's hard on the back. It's hard
on the back. No, I just don't hit the tenth strove to get
to the damn green to swim. Have you ever seen there's a hilarious,
hilarious uh skit that Robin Williams does about that's one of the funniest things.
One of the funniest thing been on the stage. He was doing it in
some big grenas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was during one of
his of his one of his concerts. Oh, the PAC twelve released UH
or set the women's schedule now, so all the all the games are set
up, game times, whatnot. They Arizona opens PAC twelve play on Sunday,
December seventeenth at five o'clock against Arizona State, and then they go uh
and then they finished the non conference schedule. Then back in conference games starting
on January fifth, UH and January seventh, and Tucson against Colorado and Utah.
You see that uc LA the national rank you see LA is like a
top five team and Stanford is like, well we saw pick third. I
think the win in the packed all but apparently really damn good. Yeah.
So the Utah it's kind of out it. I mean, just a few
years ago they weren't all that good. Yeah no, no, no,
they came on the scene pretty well pretty quickly here. No, I know,
we'll see what happens with Arizona. Yeah, well they do. Yeah,
so the conference schedule again starts with women's conference schedule starts again with ASU
mid December, and then they go all in January. FI. Did you
see that the pack the Big twelve commissioners gonna have the football schedule out sometime
soon. I saw that went out recently yesterday, that they're working on it
could come out anytime now. How they're going to do it. How they're
gonna do it, Yeah, right, so that'll be interesting to see.
Like you said, I think about they have Kansas State on the schedule next
year that it might have to change, you to change, Arizon might have
to go get it. But you tell more you have. So we didn't
talk about this, and we don't we talk about this to Kevin every now
and again. Actress passed away, this Susan that summer, Oh yeah,
China, when when Raquel Welch passed away? Some of our favorite turn Yeah
all these familiar okay, yeah, yeah, so good one of our or
Donna summer. That's a little tough. Intimately familiar with their work. I
feel like that's a lot to ask. But just knowing the name recognition,
Yeah, you got it. And then you look at the cast, they're
like in their seventies or eighties something have already passed the past. You know.
The big shocker with me because you know she'd been sick. You know
old, she was, no. Seventy six? How old? God,
you're old. I'm old. I thought she was. I feel like you
would have been older than that. Yeah, No, she was seventy six
is really not that much older than right, It's kind of like, you
know, you grew up watching these people. It's just kind of wow,
I'm still hurting for a living named John. Well, that's how we started
this thing. Yeah, yeah, that brings a tear to my I first
love. Yeah, I have a I have an I have an oen Jake
playlist on my on my Spotify. Yeah yeah, I can't help myself.
I listened her once in a while. Okay, get tears in my eyes.
Okay, what's that? What's the schedule? Like, we got about
a minute before we go out with yeah, because we got to get a
r Yeah, we got to get Ted Robinson on, and he's got he's
got to get off a little early. So we're going to talk to Ted
Robinson probably about four eighteen seventeen eighteen. Yeah, we're gonna go to break
here a little early, and so we'll get him on. I'd love to
get his perspective on overall. What's going on. You know, we're pack
twelve, right, so let me ask you did you put did you have
anything on today's game? I'm not I didn't do it. I'm not playing
baseball. So so any team is okay today? Yeah, both teams were
okay, except I mean unless you have plus one and a half, you
went, you went with something. Do you have the Diamondbacks plus one?
Now? No, I don't. I actually actually went with the Phillies.
I'm sorry and a half. No, I believe. Let me double dog
at home. They're talking home. They're getting no Phillies. You could have
You could have got them for for plus one and a half. I believe
last game or the game before last Phillies recently recently I got wow, wow,
might have been something because it was crazy. Okay, all right,
let's let's get the heck out of here. We're gonna bring in Ted Robinson,
packed networks, uh, play by play guy, and so we'll talk
to him about all the things and maybe kick even kick in the little basketball.
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Steve Rivera pez Jacobs also snow nuf on. We have Ted Robinson when we
packed twelve Networks. Ted, how you doing all right? Nice Steve,
Nice to be with you. And Uh, I've had a lot of time
watching the catch the last one. I was just gonna say, you've watched
them enough. What do you think? Well, right now they're playing terrific
football. God, you can't come to any other conclusion after last Saturday.
I mean, that was thoroughly impressive and the bullet points are there. The
defense has much improved defensive line play, in particular Jacob mon who's blossoming into
a very nice player. Jonah Coleman has embraced and he's the real deal.
I think as a as a running back. And the obvious, unavoidable point
is that the team has responded beautifully to Fafita to the point where I would
have a hard time seeing that he's not the quarterback going for exactly. Yeah,
well that's all the discussion here here in Tucson that you know, how
do you how do you sit him down? And you know, Jed Je's
playing close to the vest as you would expect, But I don't know how
you how you do how you do that? I mean, there's it just
shows. I mean, and then it was immediate starting with that fourth quarter
in the Stanford game. Yeah, and I do think Jed has Jed's in
a tough spot, There's no question. And I I've watched this before very
carefully in a very high profile NFL situation, and it's delicate, but ultimately,
ultimately the coach's job is to put his team in the best position to
win. And the only way that I would conceive that Jedfish could come to
a conclusion that it would not be fit for you, it would be if
he felt his locker room wanted to Laura back in. Right, if the
players and the team say we want the Laura. I mean, it's not
going to be every player obviously, but if that was his consensus, then
that he would be he would have to go with that because that's what the
team's going to respond to. I would have a hard time envisioning that's the
case. The other complexity here, guys, is that is that you're in
the middle of a season. You need to have a second quarterback. So
whatever goes on with the feeda, you need to keep the Laura here in
case Fafeede is the guy. Laura has to stay to finish the year as
your backup, and you need to keep them engaged. Yeah. No,
that's a weird dynamic, but accurate, very accurate. So you you've followed
Arizona for a number of years, Ted uh two and a half years now
with Jed uh is it? Is it a media or mediocre? A meteoric
gries to this point er, how would you evaluate Jed? Well, he's
been terrific. Look, there are very few situations where you could have a
meteoric rise, particularly from a program that was where Arizona's had been, not
just in the Sunland years, but even before that, it just hadn't been
good. And so what he's there. I actually had a brief conversation with
him about this the other night and Pullman and it's you know, he's at
that point where you are right there, and now it's time to take some
of those close almost most notably the USC game, and you have to start
flipping those into wins. You're not going to win everyone them, but you
need to start winning some of them. And the parallel for all of your
fans that I would use is where Oregon State was last year, and that's
what they did last year, and they started turning some of those near close
calls into wins. And here they are this year is a top twenty team.
That's to me where Jed has the Wildcat program right there. And I'm
sure everybody inside hopes that Pullman was the beginning of that, because that wasn't
just an almost that was a supreme whol thing that they dealt to Koogs.
Well, we're talking to Ted Robinson from pac twelve Networks said, you know,
that's been the question. Now, you know, was that a one
off? Is this or is this the beginning of something? You know,
there's a bunch of the media here, some of the media here said that
it felt different. It didn't feel like a one off. You feel like
this is who they're becoming. Yeah, I mean, I would say you
have a two week body of evidence to show that. I mean, you
played. I truly believe this that for most of the game in USC,
Arizona was the better team the year on the field, ended up winning the
game, and it was a game very much like Oregon Washington Saturday. I
thought Oregon was a better team in the second half watching it, but they
didn't make like two or three different times where if they made one play they
win the game, and they didn't make those. That's where Arizona was against
USC, so they completely turned around Washington State. There was no question they
made thirty forty plays that were the best of the game. And that's it's
hard to say that's a one off. I mean watching that, that was
the real deal on Saturday. Now, yes, your question, never one's
question is valid. Keep it going right well, Saturday, this pass.
There are no fluke about that, right, no question. I know we
only have about six minutes left with you. That's kind of a transition into
the PAC twelve. You mentioned Oregon. You know they played Washington. Just
how good the PAC twelve is and visibly I think other people are watching them.
Now what does that mean? You know, Colorado, we have the
Colorado effect where more eyes are on the PAC twelve. What does that all
mean for the conference? Well, I mean, hopefully it means that one
team in the CFP and it should be a playoff team without concern about what
happens in the champ game. And that's where the league got hurt last year
was USC was in the playoff played a championship game with no upside for USC.
They lost that game and the conference wound up losing a team in the
playoffs. They lost a lot of money. I'm hoping this year the league
is good enough that even if the regular season champ, let's say, doesn't
win the champ game, that that team is still right in the final four,
and then they shouldn't be. That's where it is. I mean,
look, we can go down all the road to the bigger picture stuff,
but what we have is a league that in its final season has returned to
its roots. It's always been an offensive based league. Quarterbacks, receivers,
brilliant offense. And the team that's swimming against the stream against the stream right
now is Utah. Utah's winning it with defense and their culture because their best
offensive players have been hurt. So it's always makes for a great contrast when
you have that, not everybody's playing the same fifty to forty kind of football?
Can you nay? And you don't have to do this if you don't
want, because we know that there's a whole bunch of But you know,
who do you think is the best quarterback in the league today right now?
Because there's so many good ones We saw that Washington. You know, it's
a toss up from the Washington Oregon game. You know Caleb william you know
he's done some stuff, but they had a bad game on Saturday. Is
there a top quarterback in the league? Winiam There's no question. I mean
he he's saying, you know, he won the game against Arizona. He
single handedly won the game. And this past Saturday, Yeah, I haven't
watched it yet, but I've seen enough highlights to know offensive line for USC
is struggling. It was against Arizona. It got beaten badly from everything I
saw by Notre Dame. So Williams has got people in it faced the whole
game, and yeah, he didn't have a good game. That's that's the
one off. You want to use that phrase, guys, that's the one
off. He has twenty outstanding games before that. So he's a player.
Panics has been brilliant, He's playing in a brilliant scheme, and that is
a combination that's been INCREDI good bow knicks. Unfortunately a couple of those crucial
plays that would have won the game for Oregon Saturday Boonnix didn't make one of
those plays. But he's still right there. Uh and those three have you
know? I think I haven't seen Sugar's Shadeur Sanders in person yet, so
I can't really speak at the same level. Cam Rising hasn't played this year.
To me, he is just a half a notch below the other three
guys I mentioned. Yeah, I wanted to get you your your thoughts on
t Mac. You've seen him enough. I think he probably had one of
those one handed crazy catches during your games. He's unbelievable in my eyes.
Oh god, phenomen I mean, and I'll tell you how good he is
and how good calling is. And what Jed has been able to do is
that Dorian Singer was a breakout star last year, right, do you think
you've missed him this year? Not at all? Say, I mean that
that's a great compliment from Jed through the quarterbacks to Cowing and Tea Mac And
I know Lamonious Craig hasn't been as hasn't been as prominent a figure yet,
but he's taken singer spot and been a guy they can go to as well.
So but yeah, McMillan is it's you're seeing it with Pennix and Roma
Dunza the same way. There are balls that announcers now get into the trap
of calling them fifty to fifty balls. And Ryan grubbed the offensive coordinator Washington
told us a great thing this year. He said, that's not a fifty
to fifty balls. He said, that's Michael Pennox putting the ball in the
place where we believe our receiver will make the play against the oppiteam the opposition's
defender. And if Pennix puts the ball in that place, we think a
Duneesa wins that battle. That's exactly what the Cats feel about. McMillan.
Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. So you know, with
those an incredible game, you know last weekend there's gonna be some more us.
He's got to play Washington, uh in Oregon. It just I mean,
we have a second half of the season that is building up to be
just unbelievable. You know, man, is there any way of predicting how
this thing is gonna come out? You know, the one thing that we
have is exactly what you guys reference. The heavyweights all play each other this
year. We didn't have that last year. If they all beat each other
up to a team like Oregon State or hey, the way the Cats have
played the last couple of weeks, if they get on a roll here,
could they put themselves into a tiebreaker kind of mix to get to Vegas.
I mean, none of this is out of the rebel possibility. That's what
I'm saying. I think to me watching them with my eyeballs, the two
best teams are Washington and Oregon today as we speak today. Well, you
know, people in Tucson loving what you just said about Vegas. So maybe
that'll happen. You wish it that happens. Ted, Will you appreciate your
time? Thanks about Ted? Guys. Well, I'm sure I'm gonna see
the Cats down the line here, so you again, all right, appreciate
it? Thank you? Yes, you already made resime. I saw you
on your phone reservation. I'm looking for flights, looking for flights already.
You know, if I can't find one, I'll drive give you a flight
to Vegas. That would be a stretch. But but who knows, I
mean, who knows. You know, the Cats have only lost one,
No, they've lost two games, so two conference. But you know,
if you get into a tiebreaker situation, you know, who knows? That's
that that's what it would have to be. But I'm not even said my
side. If they go to San Antonio, I mean, if they go
to al Paso, they go, I'd love one of the pre pre Christmas.
That's what this game did for people. They gave him huge hope,
right, which which says a lot. Yeah, No, absolutely, absolutely,
all right, we're gonna take our break, come back last seven.
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the exes at OHS, It's Steve Rivera and Jagins. This is I Am
the Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth. Hey, welcome back to I'm about here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Jagins. Also Kevin
in today to watch us and just got some sad news. Oh what happened?
Apparently at a press conference of some sort today, Brett Yormark, commissioner
of the Big Twelve, said that you're being serious serious They're working on signing
the deal to keep the basketball tournament in Kansas. City through twenty thirty one.
Oh yeah, that's yeah, that's not what I've heard. It's a
fantastic situation though. But I want to go to Vegas. Who does,
We'll collect, We'll talk, We'll collect to collect to what do you call
it? Go fund me ca Jay to Vegas? The tournament in Vegas.
Well, I think you don't even know yet. If I'm gonna get to
work the last that's probably out of the that's probably out of the picture.
But who goes? Who knows. I think you might have fun. You
might. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun in Kansas to Kansas
City. I don't know if I am either, but I'm to try.
I'm gonna try barbecue. Barbecue. I've had barbecue, but I'm not.
You know, no, he's he's a lover of the familiar. So so
let me ask you. Well, that's interesting, okay, yeah, well
it makes sense. So when was the last time you broke a body part
or hurt yourself in frustration after a loss. You saw what happened with the
South Carolina coach. Yeah, he broke heart. He heard his footage,
not broke in frustrated. What you didn't say you know that he didn't didn't
know to be hurt this much, but then he hurt it and broken.
I've never done that. See, I've never been that emotional about anything,
break stuff. I've never broken anything on my body or broken like you.
We've seen these guys who pushed the TV. Yeah, I've never been that
guy. That stuff blows my mind. It's like, how is there not
a split second of like this costs a lot of money to Yeah, I'll
punch the pillow. I mean, I've never done anything like that ever.
Ever. Ever, I don't lose it to that extent. Yeah, but
you but you know, you know what I TV? No, No,
I guess I'll just get pissed off at the end of a game or whatever
and a brute about it for you know, twenty four hours or so a
quarter like a good quarterback, any good quarterback on twenty four hours, and
then move on to the next game, Steve, Like I said, how
many teams do you have left on your schedule? Let you get picked though
this team has become dead to you. No, Well, I have a
short memory when it comes to doing You know, if I you know,
if I if I see a very if I see a nice line on somebody
who just hoes me a couple of weeks ago. I'll take it, you
know I will. I'm not that guy write that stuff down. I know.
Yes, I'm a bit of a grudge holder. I know that,
but not as bad as I used to be. I think of soft in
my old age a little bit. Have you or have you never been that
guy? Which guy? The guy who gets so pissed off at a at
a team or no, no game or something like no, no it just
upsets me. But no, no, he said no, because there's always
the next bus. There's always another bus. Yeah, okay, this bus
got a couple of text messages from you. Somebody was dead to you.
Not that just a couple of weeks ago. Oh it was rams. The
Rams were dead to you. Oh when they kicked the field goal that they
didn't need to kick, or that that that flipped the spread. Yeah,
yeah they still as you know. No, I took them. I took
them against the Cardinals this week. Did you really I remember that? Yeah?
It was easy. Yeah. No, no, I don't get like
that because it's another bus is coming, no way about it. I'm glad
having broken a finger and punched the wall. No, you know, I've
never done that. I really haven't. I've never even punched a wall or
anything. No, never been that guy. Okay, never been that.
So gotta gotta saw a tweet from Ben Balch who covers U C L A
or uh yeah, the Valley Times the Rose Bull is sold out for the
Colorado LA game. That's a rarity, right, they get fifteen thousand in
their game. Have you seen how empty? Yeah, I mean when it's
empty. Look, even when it's half empty, it looks bad. Could
you imagine the prices of the go to Colorado played at San Diego State or
whatever like for their like if Arizona played Colorado here, all the tickets would
go. Yeah, I mean, I just I mean, you know,
you know the the hashtag prime effect. You know that it's still going on,
and I don't think it's gonna stop though. I think I think as
long as he's coaching anywhere, that school is going to have eyeballs on it,
no matter what's going on in the school. No, I think it's
to your point, But wait, what if they go if they lose the
rest of game? Care do we care about them at the because then they're
losing the gaming. You're like, how long is Deon gonna stay? There's
always a reason to watch Dion, Well, he's on the side. To
your point, either you watch him because he's a car crash or or or
begun. You want him to lose, or you want him to succeed,
because that's kind of like either he's Hollywood with all that people who love him,
and then you say there's and you know these people, you might even
be one of these people who want to see him fail. I'm trying to
be one of those people, but I'm not being very good at it because
I'm I'm I'm kind of liking to see I'm liking what he's doing and what's
that just the way he's going about it. Just what he's going about You
know, when you see his his his speeches with his players and how he's
handling players, and you see him hug his kid and all these things,
you can't it's hard to dislike him authenticity, right, right, But you
weren't like this months ago. I know, I'm one of those guys who
doesn't like all the flash and dash of some of these athletes and stuff like
that, And that's who he's always been. I've never liked it. Okay,
as a as a as a player, even when he's with the forty
niners, I didn't like him all that much because I just thought he was
he was he was a great player, but he just called When did it
change the last two months or whatever in the last two months, because you
know, watching how he's doing, call nine one one, say someone's kidnapped,
Jay, describe me. He's like a five Eidish Hispanic guy. Okay,
look, I'm not gonna lie. When they blew that game on Friday
night against Stanford, I'm like, I'll give a little golf clap for that.
More though more though, because to see a comeback like that, I
would have I would have given a golf clap to anybody who came back from
a twenty nine to nothing deficit. Okay, So it wasn't. It wasn't
because of Dion that that I thought that that was a really cool outcome of
that game. But you know, I did say, you know, I
was rooting against him because I was rooting for Stanford to come back and win
that game from so far back. So let me ask you, was that
a coaching snap foo player sna Who's not that I want to put blame anywhere,
But what was the blame? I don't know. I see, I
didn't see enough of the game to know because we didn't see the first half.
We didn't, but we saw it well, I only listen. I
listened to it and then I saw the last of it about the last So
so who do you blame? Who do you approach that? That is everybody?
That is everybody, and then you fall apart in the second half.
You blame that on everybody. The coaches can't get away from being blamed for
it, for for what happened there, but neither can the players. You
know. I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop. I watched his his post
game speech to the player, you know, and I'm like, yeah,
that's what I would have said if like, you guys, we're all responsible
for this, but you guys got to own this, and you guys.
And then the last thing he says was we're practicing tomorrow. Anyone walks off,
walks out of it, walks out of the picture. You know,
It's exactly he did that, exactly the way I would have done it.
So and I see that, and it's like how can you dislike the guy
as a coach, you know, I mean it's hard to. It's hard
to, especially when his son is the quarterback and he's not. It doesn't
seem like the son is the quarterback because he's the son. He seems like
he's the genuine that just needs more help around him. Kids are good players.
They clearly got the They clearly got the jeans from the dad. There
could be football players, seriously, and I mean, you can he just
get that gets shader an offensive line? Please, Well, that's the thing.
I want to watch him in the end. In the end, the
flaws that they had from having, you know, been terrible for so many
years are showing their faces. And you can have some of the greatest players
that there are, but you need more than that in football, you know.
It's not like basketball. You have two good guys to be really good,
or even one good guy. Yeah, yeah, so you know,
I don't know it just it's it's surprising to me knowing U c l A
fan. I'll tell you what that game is gonna be all Colorado fans.
That's gonna be like a Colorado home game because UCLA fans don't care enough just
sell out. Yeah, unless Colorado fans have a lot of people there.
Well that well remembers like like Arizona. Remember, you know Colorado's big deal
was to recruit southern California. That's why they wanted to be in the in
the the the PAC twelve ten at the time, because they have a huge
base in well, southern California. It's like Arizona as as many people.
And you know this better than me. They travel, or say the word
is they travel, right, they don't travel. They have lums all over
the West coast San Francisco. They show up, they travel Vegas, they
travel. Yeah, but those aren't the those aren't the ticket holders. Those
are the that's party guys. You get a ticket to the game. No
party. You've seen them at two in the morning. There's a game.
There was a there was a remember, But that's part of the door.
That's the part of the charm of Arizona in Vegas. No, absolutely,
That's why I missed and Jim because they so that was just one big You'd
come out of the casino, out of that out of that food court and
you're at the bar, and that was the and everybody from everybody was there
yeah, everybody was there. You missed that, all right? Uh?
Bruce Feldman right, also right for the athletic too. I think wrote a
big piece about who's on the hot seat the college coaches and number one on
the hot tweet hot seat number one college right, Yeah, Miami. Nope,
no, tell bigger, bigger than Miami, not to Jimbo Fisher.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, even with the eighty four million how much
sixty seven and a half million dollars is buy out and Felman's sources said they'll
do it. They'll do it, get some weal well to pay for it.
Yeah, they'll do it. And he's got he's got three losses already
again again yeah, and probably headed towards five. So that's just not gonna
They'll fire him after this year and they'll give him sixty seven million dollars at
the road. Yeah, and then he'll learn somewhere else who else? Who's
who else? Who are a couple of others? Nobody in the PAC twelve.
Everybody's kind of new or we're doing so nobody they did him. They
actually did him by conference. I think the one in in the PAC twelve
would only be and he's not even Nazi is UCLA's guy. He was,
Yeah, so who who else would have they? Even he did it by
conference, but then they didn't have anybody from you from from twelve from the
package. That makes sense, that makes sense. Yeah, but Kelly,
Kelly is underachieved. Oh yeah, absolutely, it's underachieved totally. I mean,
but you know, he's he's he's done. Just he beat he beat
Alabama last year. You know a lot of times that's all you gotta do
is is uh, you know, win a game like that. I'm looking
for this article. So so I'm not sure who else shoot have under a
hot seat? Guys, I don't know. Like I said, the first
name that popped in my mind was Miami's Miami's coach. First of all,
I think his name is somebody, you know, somebody kind of hot.
It's kind of hot New Mexico guy, No Babers. Oh yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah. And he's done good. He was doing so well there
to a couple of years ago. Yeah, he's an Anthony's guy. Actually,
uh yeah, no, it's very a very bright guy. Yeah.
Yeah, uh you know, you know what I think the New Mexico guy
is is on there because he just you know, uh done nothing. He
hasn't done enough. He's the former issue kid. Uh and then he plays
our you and m guy. He's a graduate of at uh Dave Ronda from
Baylor even though they had a great year a couple of years ago. But
he's done a little bit. Uh. Yeah. Danny Gonzalez, New Mexico.
He lists his seat as daddy, you know, as hot Yeah,
hey hot. Yeah. The thing about is, and we talked to this
to the UTEB Coach show, it's in the demo that you go to those
places. You got to Utab State and you a place to get fired.
I mean, you get a job hold and you win. How much can
you win? And if you win, get the hell? If you don't
win, how hang on? I mean, what's the name that we had
on our show, the nod He was the Notre Dame coach Davies. Yeah,
Bob David. You know he was the Notre Dame coach and the end
of getting fired and your Mexican I didn't realize he lasted seven years. That
was like that's a lifetime. Yeah. So now the only SEC coach that
they had on the list of Jimbo Fisher, the guy Nevada is on the
YAH since so what's his name? The guy who went to Colorado State Neville.
Yeah, he was, he's a fantastic coach. Yeah, Novada's gone
to poop Danad Holgerson and Houston is listed as sort of hot. A couple
more losses and it could get sticky. It's a great it's a good article
that it goes into, you know, in depth on a couple of these
guys. The guy Boston College who followed up Steve Dazio who was the Pachwin
Richard and those guys went and played Boston College in a bowl game. But
he hasn't done that's a long time done great. I mean Boston College is
like it's kind of like a let me ask you, rich Rod's my age
fifty whatever it is brought. Do you think he's got one more less shot
at something? I think he wants one more less Oh yeah, no question.
But he's he's doing pretty well. Jackson's Jackson they played tonight, Oh
do they? Yeah, he's done well Western Kentucky tonight, he's done well.
I think he does have something in one last because they score, Actually
they don't. I took an over on those guys early in school they won
like seventeen to thirty. Oh, he must have been frustrated, like Crizzy.
But they yeah, they're doing pretty they're doing pretty good. Yeah.
Anyway, So sixty seven and a half million dollars, that's just why why
would you enter into that? And they have it, and they have it,
they have it, but why would you even enter into that? If
a guy If a guy comes and says, well, I'll take the job,
but I'll get a seventy million dollars by I'm like yourself. Here's here's
the answer. Okay, so they get rid of him, who they get?
Yeah, then where you're gonna go? Get right for? For millions
of dollars? Right right? A lot? You know. It could come
down to how they do against against uh Texas they play Texas. I remember,
I don't think they're not really do. I think they think they killed
the rivalry until they get back in the back in the sec. So who
do they get and how much do they throw at him? They get something?
Again? What were they think? Oh? Ow out, I can't
believe he said that. I said that tongue in cheek. Where's something he's
a coach? Maryland he's in thefensive co co co offense. Hose the hell
that's I don't know I do that. I don't know why I keep them.
Last week I had like three bets with those guys in the pool,
and then they played somebody beatable to Illinois. I think they were they were,
they were, they were playing really well. I don't grudges. I
don't know any grudges. I told you it's in my notes said attention,
grudges, No grudges. Gonzales. They were fourteen point favorite, and they
had played Ohio State pretty tough the week before. They I'll say this,
at least they had the decency used the game and not just not cover my
son. My son works at me in Maryland. I was going to text
them they're pretty good, and I canceled that text because they were doing really
well. Not anymore. I was that just wrecked my Saturday here. So
what are you gonna do now? Because there was one that has no game
on Saturday. I told you, I'm gonna I'm the floor at my son's
house. Your father, the oh, your your sons were Actually we're putting
in a wood lamited war in their living room. Good for you, we
were going to go golf. You get points, You get points golf.
You know, Tyle, your legs will be hurt by Yes, those things
hurt. I have done one and I never did another one. I've done
a few, and uh, we're gonna do this' that. Okay, you
see the story. I think that I saw a thing from Javier about old
houses situation last night. The game what happens is interesting how difficult it was
to or not difficult it was to coach. He said she was on the
other team, so he didn't have to worry about it. He just had
his team to worry about. So I'm sure it was a lot of fun
with the family coaching, you know, coaching against his kids. I don't
even know what that would be like. Uh, with your kid. On
the other side, if you have a favorite, if you have a favorite,
you're pulling for the favorite without telling anybody. You don't have oh my
kid, Oh you is a big lie. You have every parent's ranking them.
Yeah, I don't, you don't know. Okay, that's the absolute.
So the prime effect does have a stopping point. Yeah, stop,
I do not I do not have my take. What we won't tell them
no to god, I mean that's no, just that's just know. You
don't. I mean, you don't, you can't. It's hard. No,
who swore you helping them with this weekend? My son? Okay,
there's my choice, all right. The fun day, Kevin, Thanks for
being here. Thank you guys for having me. Appreciate it. I hope
you had fun. And we'll be back tomorrow with more stuff, more stuff.
It is an off week, so we'll yeah, yeah, you know,
I'm sure we'll talk some diving back tomorrow and then we got men's basketball
on Friday, so we'll be here for that. Thanks for being here, down