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Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve
Rivera, He's Jaken Zalez. Got a guy sammy him today. A lot
of things going on today, breaking news and otherwise. Yeah, yeah,
you know, if you're following the NBA, certainly right. Yeah, but
I'm not a shock. We'll get to that eventually. I'm asking I asked
Jody Ailer, have he can call him for like two or three minutes.
He went on on one of his rants, and I wanted him to repeat
that. He didn't respond, So who does of will call it? He's
taken it on, so we won't tea. We'll tease that later. We'll
talk about it later. A lot of things were what three days away from
the big game? Yeah, big game, another big game. Look,
you know, I think that it's Arizona did what needed to do to get
here. They're three and one. Regardless of what you think of the game
last week, or you know, against Stanford, they're three and one.
Washington's coming here. It should be fun. It should be fun for how
long we'll see right from three? Seven? Yeah? Well look here here's
the thing again. You can you can always expect the unexpected. Right,
There's no reason for you to believe that Arizona is going to go out there
and and and and put it to Washington. But that's what makes it like
okay, because at least you think they can if certain things break their way.
It's not it's not hopeless to for them to be playing Washington this week
like it has been for the last few years, and when a team like
Washington comes in question, right, if you're gonna put it in those terms,
yes, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean,
you feel like Arizona's got the guys where if all everything falls into place,
they can win this game. I'm not sitting here thinking that they will.
I in fact, I'm thinking, you know, they could probably probably gonna
lose by two or three touchdowns. But I think that I'm gonna walk into
the stadium thinking, you know, let's see what happens. So I'll ask
you, what's the number one thing that has to happen for them to win
on Saturday has to happen. They got to get off to a good start.
Okay, I think Pennis has to finally come down to earth and have
his first bad game. Yeah, okay, mine was kind of well the
offense. The offense has to prove what it used to do is capable now
they could do it, now they can't. They can't come out with three
empty possessions at the start of the game, right, And he talked to
well, he was asked about it. Yeah, and it's concerning, but
he he says, I'm not looking at that, but yeah, he's probably
has to do. But they can't do that. They can't come you know,
they can't be scoreless at the end of the first quarter because you figured
that the Washington's gonna have at least fourteen points, could very easily here.
Yeah, so you know, you gotta come out scoring with Washington from the
get go. Can't have a Mississippi State type start. They do Mississippi State,
they'll get blown out by fifty. You can't do that. They gotta
have no turnovers. But I think more the biggest thing is that they've the
offense has to get off to a good start and feel like they can stay
in the game even right, they have to look and feel like they can
stay in the game even if if Washington is going off putting points on the
board, They're gonna put points in my Michael, I'm still you know,
I've been saying all summer. I think Michael Pennox is the better quarterback,
the best quarterback in the Pac twelve, and I think Washington's the best team
in the Pac twelve. And I still believe that. I'm not gonna argue
with you. Yeah, I'll argue at the end of the year because I
don't I don't know. They surely looked at it. They've looked apart for
sure, and not tell you what you know? Again, this is you
know, I don't know. Fans are gonna be pissed at me for saying
this, but I'm looking forward to seeing how good Washington is in person.
I want to see these guys play. I've seen bits of their games.
Uh, you know, during in these first few weeks, i haven't sat
down and watched a game, but I've seen, you know, portions of
games, And every time I see my Cael panics throw. I'm like,
he's the best round. And to be fair, they haven't really played anybody.
They have, not save Michigan State given their situation. They just lost
their coach, so he had been suspended at that time, so they were
kind of disarray. We'll see. They played a better schedule kind of maybe
than Arizona. But when you're that good, you really don't know how good
you are if you haven't played anybody, and you know, and they're gonna
be some people out the three because they you know, there's still a lot
of people who don't think Arizona is all that good. Say, even if
they beat Arizona, we still don't know. I totally agree, you know,
until they play a USC or an Oregon or a Utah or somebody like
that. But damn, they look good so far. I saw. I
saw a bunch of the game against Michigan State and they were just abusing them.
And let's understand, Michigan State is an eleven and a half point dog
to Iowa, which didn't score last week. He doesn't know how to score.
Yeah, well, that team is just I think Penn State is leg
they are legit. Somebody I saw it somebody you know posted there, you
know, their their ballot for AP and has them number one. I can't
rest first place, couldn't you? You could probably make a case for a
number of number ones. Yeah, I think you can make a case for
Washington number one. I think a couple of people have done. Yeah,
so you know Washington. You know, people are gonna it's Georgia obviously until
somebody beats them or something. They Georgia hasn't looked unbeatable the way they did
last year. You know, Alabama obviously is not there. Uh, you
know, Ohio State should have lost on Saturday, so they're not there.
So, you know, it's a little more open this year, I think
than it has been. Yeah, No, it should be fun and funny
weekend. Let's talk about our show real quick. We're gonna have some fun
again with Boomer. Yeah, big game Boomer. He's coming on. He's
uh, he's got what in his uh one of his posts. He's got
Washington on an upset, a serious upset alert, along with a couple of
other teams. You got, you got Texas, he's got Georgia, he's
got Clemson, a couple of others Tennessee at TCU, Texas and m So
we'll see why he thinks Washington is an upset alert. You know, probably
excuse me, probably just because Washington has to come here and they never play
well in Arizona. Well, that's that's a factor, and that's another factor.
That's what I thought. I was scared about Stanford last week because there
was never placed no matter how good they are, right and they and they
and they kind of laid an egg until they didn't. And once again I
submit that most years, in a lot of years with a lot of Arizona
teams would have lost that game. Yeah, right when everything was going wrong.
Guys were getting hurt, their quarterback was playing like crap, the other
team was playing out of it's you know what. Uh, those games often
add up to a loss for Arizona, and somehow they you know, I
did my homework. I went and watched the fourth quarter, Like you said,
I didn't. I didn't see anything noticing. Yes, they played better,
you know with the feed at quarterback. Yeah, they moved the ball,
they were crisper and stuff like that. I don't know if it was
because of more energy. I think it was more because feet to win in
there and got the ball out of his hands the way you would expect Jane
Delora to do, and he didn't. So they just you know, yes,
the offense looked a bit crisper, you know, in his hands.
Now could he do that against Washington? Uh? You know, could he
do that again? Was he able to do that because Stanford ran out of
gas, you know, with airs on his depth? I don't know,
or maybe more maybe that the play calls were so simple and quick that they
they gave it Okay, here's some simple stuff that we know you could do.
Let's get it done. And where Delora makes it things more complicated,
whether he likes it or not. Right? What what? What I watched
when on the PAC twelve and sixty, you know, where they just showed
the play quick and and just you know, I picked it up like it
was late second quarter, and you know, I just kept watching Dolora take
a snap, back up, back up, back up, scramble, thrown
away, and but it was like he would take the snap and he wasn't
finding anybody. It's not like he didn't have he had time. I think
I talked about this with you a couple of weeks, more than a couple
of weeks about six weeks ago, how the analogy would cur and uh and
Delora. We're kind of like you really liked them, but then you don't
when you get into these situations because you can't get freeze. And then sometimes
he does, you fall in love with him again, and then all of
a sudden he doesn't do it anymore. It's kind of like a love hate
relationship, frustrating to watch without frustrating to watch. And the thing is you
hold hope that he's going to show up right, and then he doesn't,
and then he doesn't does right, and then he doesn't and you lose the
Princeton or you lose to Washington State at home almost to Stanford or Mississippi State.
You have the same type of person where God, we wish or you
know, I'm talking about his fans and we wish that he would play well
and then you see glimpses and then no, it doesn't happen. You know,
because when you see what Mississippi State has done, Arizona should have won
that game. Arizona was the better team. As it turns out, I
think Arizona was the better team. They should be four and oh and because
of that crapass first quarter. They lost that game and they they now you
think about it, they should not have lost that game. No, you
know, if he doesn't do that, they don't lose. They win that
game and they're four and oh may be ranked and this is a great game.
Instead it's a seven o'clock game on pac pub Network, a great game.
That's the same game because nothing really tries right. It's just kind of
and visually it looks like better. What changes is as as as Sammy said,
you wonder if you know Delora can't do you know, can't do what
he did against Mississippi State. Do you think that's a possibility that he's been
coming to throw three picks in the first quarter, and you think that's a
reasonable possibility. Well, if he struggles early. If he struggles early,
there's there's gonna be some concern he'll have to get Yang, don't you think
No, I don't think so. If if you do Laura doesn't come out
and play well early, yeah, just because I mean you saw him not
play well early against Misissippi State and he was one of the reasons why they
were able to come back. I get that. But his resume to this
point game five, if he continues the same mistakes, just they gotta make
it. He's got to make a change. I think the only way do
Laura comes out of the game if he starts, if he comes out of
the game, is if Jed feels like the ankle is bothering him and causing
him to play poorly. And I don't I think if they're down early big
fourteen seventeen zero that eventually you have to make a change. But he won't
know until we know. But you just said it in comparing him to Kirk
Creasea. I mean, yeah, but Dommy Lloyd went to the map for
Yeah, well that was to his detriment, it was. And this it's
gonna be the you know, to Jed's if he does the same thing.
I'm not saying it's gonna happen. I'm saying if it does happen, there's
gonna be booze, and there's gonna be a lot of boots will be And
right now, you're already here, kind of let's get this change goal.
Yeah, even before the game started. Yeah, I mean, you got
people out there, so yeah, let's talk a little quickly about our second
guest. Second good Dave Hickey coming on at four fifteen. Un have we
had him on since it's been a while. It's the Big twelve name.
But you know, hey, here's the thing that we need to ask him,
right because we were talking about Arizona schedule next year, Kansas State is
one of the non conference games. Well, they're in the Big twelve.
Now, what are they gonna do with that game? Right? Are they
gonna play that and some call it a non conference game? Are they gonna
find somebody else? What are they gonna do that? I mean, that's
that's one of the things now that that's that's come up with the fact that
Arizona will be in the Big twelve next year. What do you do with
a non conference game that you have scheduled against a Big twelve team? Yeah,
so a lot of questions ask I think you should ask me your band
store. I'm gonna definitely ask him the band things that Dave, you need
to get the band going. I have one about this Weekends or this Friday's
sub Red Blue game. A lot of concerns about it not meaning TELEVI streamed.
What's up with that? You know? The fans? That's I didn't
want to say that on Facebook because I I don't want to get into a
fight. But they're already trying. They're already you know. I can't wait
to get to the Big twelve because the Pact twelve is cheated us badly.
Come on, whoa is me the past? You know what you should do?
You know what to do? Go to the damn game? Exactly.
If you don't want the court storm by take it and go to the damn
game. What's the simplest way to not have your court storm to Sammy,
don't lose the game. If you want to go watch you game, go
watch you game exactly. You don't want to listen to Bill wat turn it
down and wants to do exactly, But if some music Brian Jeffreys whatever you
want? Would you go to a basket? You want to go to a
football game? Do you? Will you listen to the radio, don't you?
I do simultaneously? Yeah, But but you don't have to write you
don't do a game to watch your game. I forgot my headphones at the
last one. I really, but you don't need all that color just to
watch the game. No, no, no, I love you know.
I put the I put my headphone in one ear so I can. I
got crowd noise on one side. I got Brian Jefferies and Lamont love it
on the other side, because you know, I just love to hear what
they're saying, Like when a big play happens, I really don't hear that
right because the crowd's going crazy. But then I love is it hearing the
commentary afterwards? Is it simultaneous? Yeah? For the radio, Yeah,
if you listen on twelve ninety all right on on one oh seven five on
the FM station, it's a little more delayed, not not seven seconds.
What's a few seconds more delayed? By the way, do you know about
our delay? No? I was wondering if you knew about our delay.
The dump button over there, the dump button. You hear somebody hit that
button. If somebody cusses, don't do it now, No, just leave
it that, just let it go. But we got dumped. Steve got
done. It's pretty bad anyway, anyway. Okay, cool, cool,
let's go, all right, let's take a break. John Whittaker, big
game boomer coming up. We'll see why he thinks. Uh, Michigan Washington
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Hey, welcome back to tying about here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve Rivera. He's Jakin Sauce. Another phone. We have one of our
favorite guys, John Whittaker from Big Game Boomer. How are you John?
Good? Good? How are you guys doing? We're doing fine. Are
you wearing your helmet? Because Jase James on his soapbox, so be prepared
finding the helmet. Well, we wanted to We wanted to talk to you,
John, because I saw that you put you put Washington on upset alert.
But then I'm flipping through your feed. I hadn't seen this one from
last week where you had Airs on a number twenty four among the twenty five
worst college football teams. Now I did see that it's all Power five teams,
right, it's not yeah, power five only, So like schools like
you Math, right, Ball State, they're not on there. Okay,
Well, first all you need to clarify that top twenty five worst and said
power five only subjects to change. Okay, So, but but that's not
what that's not what we want to join. We you know, it's a
big game for Arizona this week. So, uh, you got Washington on
serious we said serious upset alert. So after a week after putting Arizona is
one of the top twenty five worst teams, now you've got You've got them
an upset alert. What's the thought process there? Well, so, yeah,
I've got that top twenty five worst college football team with stuff. And
I had Arizona at twenty four. And the only reason I had them on
there was because I had to put Mississippi State somewhere in there after they had
just gotten annihilated by LSU. And so if I was gonna put Mississippi State
on the list, I can't. I can't. I had to put Arizona
because they lost the Mississippi State. Okay, So that's my thought process there.
You know, I think Arizona. Arizona has done everything that I thought
Arizona would do, except I thought they would beat Mississippi State in Starkville,
and they almost did. They almost overcame those turnovers and almost did so.
Washington coming into town. There's a history of Washington teams playing bad in Arizona.
I mean, go back to last year Arizona State beat Washington. Now
this this Washington team is scary. They're averaging about forty five points a game.
Michael Pennocks Junior is the front runner of the for the Heisman right now,
and I mean their offense is scary. And now Jayden Delora, I
mean, you guys know probably mean what's the status on him? Is he
gonna play? We don't know yet. We don't know yet. My guesses
that he will, but we don't know yet. Yeah, yeah, and
we don't know if we're gonna know to Mark tomorrow is is is jet fishes,
you know, pre pregame press conference, and so I don't know they're
even gonna sause anything tomorrow. Yeah, my guests would probably be a game
time decision just based on the injury. I mean to me, like,
I hope the Lord can play because this is the first time I think Washington
plays against an offense that can score. I mean they, I mean Michigan
State, cal Boise State, none of those teams can score on offense.
Arizona can do that. They've got some good guys on the outside, cowing
uh tight end McLaughlin. I mean, there's a bunch of different guys.
So that's why I have them on serious Upsettler because of the history of Washington
teams going down the Arizona. And also, I think Arizon's offense, if
the Laura is healthy, can score some points. Yeah, and I like
and I like his backup better than I do the Laura right now, because
the offense that you're referring to hasn't really been the offense we're used to.
They haven't really put up a lot of points to haven't played anybody test test
one two three, Test one two three, Hey, welcome back. I
guess we're on. We lost a lot of power here for about four or
five minutes. I guess I Can anybody hear Victor? Yeah, says he
can hear so, okay, cool, Cool. Let's try to get Boomer
back on because he just said, what's happened? Yeah, and well,
well he says no, Victor. Victor says we're not on. Maybe maybe
he'll say he's texting right now. I don't know. Can you hear me?
Yeah? Somebody? Yeah, Yeah, we're okay, we're in the
air. Okay, cool, Sorry about that. We lost a few minutes
on our interview with Boomer talking about what's what he's thinking. He's talking about
the offense. Okay, but if it's not there, it's not there.
You know, you're just hoping that it happens, and it doesn't happen.
Well again, and you know, the belief that it could or should be
there, you know, right right, you're well, you're you're betting that
it's going to show up and and it hasn't. Okay, Okay, just
kind of crazy. That's the first thing that's happened. Yeah, just everything
blipped out here. Let him call that. So if we hear his you
see his thing text right now. Yeah, but uh, you know,
I again trying to win this year. You know, just a belief that
you think that offense is going to show up. And if it does,
then Arizona has got a chance. But again, if it doesn't, and
again it hasn't been there. The offense hasn't been what we expected in the
first four games. If it doesn't show, they're not gonna win, right
right. And that's kind of what I was gonna tell them, Because you
talked about the offensive. I get that. I get that. I think
people who are not close to the situation don't know that don't realize that that
that it hasn't been what it what it's supposed to be. But you know,
I don't know. Uh, you just gotta think that it'll click at
some point, right, maybe not Well, if Dolora continues to do his
inconsistent right, it's not gonna click right, And it's going to depend on
what you know, what his uh what the injury, you know, if
the if the ankle's gonna bother him to the point that he can't play,
you know, do what he normally does, then it's gonna be a problem.
We were good, We were good, so we'll see. I think
the defense, no one talks about the defense is holding that team. I
don't know if think capable, I don't know who who's capable of? There
you go of you know, Iffen, if the offense doesn't, if the
offense doesn't have it, there you go. Okay, is this on the
air? HiT's all on the air. If the defense doesn't hold, which
of course is important, that's strike one, And if the offense doesn't move,
that's strike two. I don't know what strike three would be, but
it's not gonna be good. Well, again, the conversation we had yesterday
was it, Yeah, I don't know, give me his number, will
give me his number real quick. Well, you know what, let's do
this. Let's let's take a break. Yeah, all right, let's take
a break and we'll try and get him one for the next segment. So
let's take a break while we got our stuff together here. Sorry about that.
We had a blip and the power just went out in our studio for
a few seconds, and everything's trying to come back on. So let's stick
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Fox Sports fourteen fiftys. Hey, welcome back to win the Ballhio,
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, He's Jake. Back on the phone.
We have John Whittaker. Big Game, Boober. You're talking about the
offense and John, I understand you're very you're very optimistic about the offense.
But we've seen four games. Who are it just hasn't shown up. We
agree that if it shows up, everyone has a chance. Yes, the
potential, the potential is definitely there. I know they haven't lived up the
expectations so far through four games this year. But I mean, if Laura
is healthy, I mean, he's such a boom er bus kind of guy.
I mean you see some brilliant in him and then you see sometimes where
he's like, what was he thinking? Why did he throw to that guy?
Exactly? Yeah. Well, so I mean the thing that the thing
of it is is that Washington's gonna come in here and score some points.
So you just know that, yep. And so you know, I mean
I said yesterday that if Arizona can keep him under thirty, they have a
chance. But I don't. I don't know that Arizona can keep him under
thirty. I mean, those guys, as you said, they're scary good.
Yeah, I don't know if anyone in the country can keep them under
thirty. Right now, I mean, I think the two best teams in
college football right now on this day, or Washington and Penn State, those
are the two teams that are playing the best football in the country. So
it's gonna be tough for Arizona to get the W. But I mean,
I was high on this team in the off season for Arizona, and I
still believe that the offense can get going. So John, let me ask
you, what's it going to take you for you to come and visit us
in Tucsons. I say that you went to New Mexico State, my alma
mater. If you yeah, if if you can go to CUSS, you
can go. I'm gonna come out there for a basketball game. Oh yeah,
he wants he wants a Cavard. I got to check out McHale.
I've heard McHale is one of the best venues out there for basketball. So
I've been to a lot of places. That's one of the few places I
haven't been to. So I got to check out the Kale. You're gonna
pick a good to pick a good game, because there's plenty of them.
Yeah, there's a whole lot of them. You also talked about something on
your list about the student sections, and you play at Arizona as one of
the better louder student sections. Are you just talking about this possibility for this
weekend UH Student Section. So yeah, I do ranking Student Section rankings UH
for for the prior week, like I do that every Monday. But I
think the stadium is going to be pretty I do my PET projecting Loudest and
Quietest stadiing for the upcoming week, and I think that Arizona Stadium could be
pretty loud if if they can get a big crowd in there. I mean
it's a it's a big game number. What's Washington ranked seven? Yeah,
I mean they should be ranked much higher than that. So I think it'll
be a good crowd on on a Saturday night. Well, I think there's
a little bit of a I feel like there's a little bit of buzz around
town for the game because, you know, as we're saying, you know
before we got you on that, this is it's been a long time since
there's been a team like this. It's come to town where we actually thought
Arizona could play with them even a little bit, you know. I mean
it's been so it's been so hopeless for so many years that you feel like,
okay, we you know, you got somebody's coming in. I don't
think they're gonna win, but as certain things fall a certain way. You
know, maybe they're in it and and it's been a while since there's there's
been that chance. So so let me let you know, John, that
the students here are very fickle. It's a great place. It should be
about one hundred degrees ninety five degrees probably Saturday, and by halftime if half
of them are here, we're lucky. Because they don't stay. They don't
still. I can tell you, Like on on Saturdays, I get students
to send me pictures of student sections, like all across the country. So
if it is empty, someone will let me know, and you may end
up on the bad side of the list on on Monday. You know what,
I'll let you know. I'll let you know because I'm down on those
guys because I hate that. I hate it when they leave it. I
hate it when they leave it half time. I'm gonna know you guy,
And our student section does it all the time too. It ticks me off.
Well, if it's a good game, they'll stay, but if it's
a blowout one way or the other, they'll leave the Yeah they're going drink.
Yeah. Yeah. Plus I hate our band. Can you tell he's
an old man, John, He's just an old dude. Yeah, he's
just mad about everything. Stay off his lawn too. I joked about this
with you last time. Your wife must really love you because you come up
with these crazy lists. But are pretty fun to talk about because we talk
about them all the time. We have fun with them. Yeah, they're
fine. I mean, that's kind of why how I got started doing it.
I mean it's they're fun. They're conversation starters, and I mean it
it's fun. I think it brings college football fans together from all different fan
bases. By the way, I love you, man, but your Sooner's
pissed me off last week because they didn't cover by half a point. Sorry.
Sorry, Well they're they're not that good. They're pretty pretty. I
don't know. I mean Cincinnati, they played they played kind of subpargains Cincinnati
last week. We'll see they play Texas in two weeks, so we'll know.
We'll know. Then I'll give you the question of the year, what
about Colorado? What are your impressions? Well, I mean it seems like
everywhere you go everyone's talking about Colorado. I've lived right next to Boulder for
like three and a half years, and nobody cared about that school. Uh,
it's like two fourteen through two thousand and seventeen when they were terrible.
I mean, I like it because Dion Standers. Whether you love him or
hate him, he's bringing more eyeballs to watch college football games, and that's
all I care about. And so I like Deon Sanders. I think he's
you know, he's he's trying to change, be different, and I think
people don't like that, and sometimes, uh, you know, you gotta
just accept the criticism. It's always going to be there. So I think
what he's doing is great for college football. A lot of people don't agree
with that, but I think it's good. Yeah, No, it's It's
funny, you say, because I've been I kind of been up and down
on him, depending on what what was the last thing he said, you
know, and I liked it. This week, you know, he talked
about this one player, highly recruited guy who's obviously not out there performing,
and somebody asked him about him, yeah, and said what about him?
And he said, guy's got a show and he's not showing. Yeah,
now he's he's He'll tell you exactly what he's thinking. And that's what I
love about him. He doesn't hold anything back and just I mean it's it's
insane. I can I cannot imagine being a student at the University of Colorado
right now. But I mean you got little Wayne throughing a pregame concert like
the Rocks on the sideline. I mean it's just crazy. Yeah, Hollywood,
Hollywood, Baby, you gotta beat Hollywood and those exactly and those clicks.
So no, as we head into the kind of the tougher parts of
the back twelve, who do you think is the favorite to win it?
Jay and I have this bet from a while back. I picked you a
Sea from the start. He went with Washington. I'm not sure I liked
my pick anymore, but I have to stick with it. Yeah, I
mean, right now, you gotta go with Washington. I mean, they
look they're scary. Oregon obviously looked very good against Colorado. Oregon State.
I wouldn't count out. I'm actually going up to the Oregon State Utah game
this weekend, flying out there tomorrow. But you know, Utah is has
not been impressive without came rising. I mean their offense, they just can't
get it going. So I mean I would say Washington and Oregon right now
are the two best teams in the conference. USC, I just yes,
Caleb Williams, Yes, that offense is great, but the defense, I
mean there there was a one score game against Arizona State in the third quarter
last week. I mean, A State's terrible. I think, h I'm
not sold on USC and they're they're back into the schedules ridiculous. Yeah,
they're my right now, They're my fourth place team in the league. I've
got Washington Oregon, I've got I like Utah because they're four no without Cam
Rice. They're going to get him back at some point. And then I've
got USC after that. And again for the same reason you did. You
ASU is awful and a SU hung with him for a good part of the
game last week. Yeah, I mean completely. I mean Fresno State smoked
Arizona State the week before, so there's definitely problems on that defense. And
I think they're gonna lose a couple of games, either in the Pac twelve
or two other dame. Uh, you know, before the end of the
season. How do you make your decisions on where to go? If you're
going to go see the Oregon State UTAG game this weekend? Why that one?
I have a lot of Oregon State followers surprisingly, and I just I've
always wanted I've never been to I've been to Corvallis before, but never for
an actual game. And they just got that stadium renovated. I want to
come back up there and check that out. You bien, wait, you
will get you get What are the requisites of going to Corvellis is cow tipping?
So bring your boots? You know you know that right? Well?
No, I went out. I actually went with the with the you know,
family trips to go see, uh go to Cannon Beach. I don't
know if you guys have been out there on the coast, and we also
went, you know, kind of drove around the state, checked out Oregon
State, Oregon. So well, Corvellis is not way to go for a
game. Corvelis is not on the beach sun. It's just not. I
love finding places like Morvallis, Oregon to enjoy watching a football game. I
went there twenty three straight years and the best dining place was a walk you
all right, Well, I'm there for a couple of days, so I'll
have to challenge you on that and be some good spots. Boomer Woodstock Pizza
is pretty good. Well, your invitation down here is open. We'll see
you for basketball. Let snow way meet up with you guys in basketball.
Let snow win. So we ken have you on the show in preview here?
Do you actually work it or you come to observe what what's the task
you have? I mean, I'm just a content creator. So everywhere I
go, I mean I kind of do whatever I post or you know,
people I mean they follow me. They want to see where I'm at those
pictures and videos throughout the game. I mean that's kind of what I do.
It's it's fun, all right. Cool? Yeah, well no,
Well we'll get you down here and we'll we'll find you a place to eat
and then we'll yeah, we'll see you know, we'll buy you dinner.
Yeah, we'll do let's do it. We'll be fine. Absolutely, Thank
you, John, John, We appreciate it. Man, thanks for the
patience on this. It was a mess. Be well then, thank you,
Thank you? All right, John, what a fun time. His
lists are kind of bizarre sometimes. Well do he went to New Mexico State?
I know he went there from Mexico States down the road from US.
We don't go to New Mexico State take a lift and Albucate, Well take
it right out of Albucate. You come here. Yeah, that's pretty good.
He's been a great sport too, So I'd love to get him here
and you know, let him see what McHale is. And you know,
if you're gonna come to Tucson for a sporting event, you want to go
see when I'm acale. But look, I'm you know, as the day,
as the week has gone on, I'm getting a little more excited about
this, this Washington game. Not because I'm thinking more along the line that
they're gonna win. I just think it's gonna be a fun game and and
you know, good atmosphere. See and I don't see it. I don't
see it what you're seeing, Jay, I just don't because you're a big
poop head. No, because you're no, and you're and you're look,
you're there's only one time you get optimistic, and that's for Fay football.
And for whatever reason, it's like you take some kind of pill before you
come about this, and you're gonna talk about football and you get happy and
then you leave and you say okay, okay, or shows up because you
have if you I'm being honest with you, you don't. We talk about
this on the show. If you use the same CRITI here you do for
like Oregon State that you you would use for Arizona. Oregan State would be
gangbusters. But you see this, you see things differently with those eyes of
years. You know you do. I you know, Steve, You're you're
right, because you know what I'm I'm a fan. In the end,
I'm a fan and I'm looking for the best. You know that there is
okay. Whereas I see Oregon State, I'm like, they sack exactly exactly,
and they're pretty darn good. They are good. They're pretty good,
but they're not as good as everybody thinks. Okay this week weekend, it's
that it's at Oregon. It's that it's in Oregon. So if Camera Rising
plays, I think they will. But I don't know that he's gonna play.
I haven't. But if you think, okay, I just don't think
Oregon is that good, Steve, No, they I saw them struggle with
San Diego State. Sure, because you you well, I know there's a
reason for you. You know what I'm gonna you know, here's what I'm
gonna do. I'm gonna pick or Oregon State. Okay, you try to
put the kiss of death on them? Well, that's what you do.
Well, you do that well. I don't even know what the line is
for that game three and a half organ State minus three and a half.
Wow, I'm taking Oregon State. I think it's because they don't know Utah,
because Utah's Utah. You just sit there, the fourth best team in
the league, the third best team. Yeah, even I think they're better
than USC. So how do you what's your logic? Their toughness? Yeah,
but you're gonna take Oregon State to put the kiss of death though?
Geez, Okay, because Steve, I'm like four out of winning or something
like that. So when you were telling Big Game Boomer, you had all
these things, this this big game. His numbers are not good. They're
not good. His resume is not that good. I'm six, I'm six
wins and fourteen losses. Steve, I'm well aware. I'm so I'm taking
Oregon State all right, thinking that I you know, I the Utah should
win, Utah should cover. But I'm taking Oregon State because I've been wrong
season. It's a favorite. You say yes, yeah. I think it's
just because the uncertainty with Cam Rising. If Rising plays, it's probably an
even line, maybe Utah one or two. They're not that bad with the
guy they have, Nate Johnson. He's been playing well and they're defenses.
I think I think they're gonna make a mess. I just don't He's he
does not take You're gonna take a take the short You're taking the opposite of
what I think you know exact when last second feel. But it won't matter
if you're taking anything that Jay says you're doing. I maybe I may do
that thing. I may go five five games, pick who I think is
going to cover those games, and then take the opposite. I'm at that
point already, and we're four weeks into the season. Five weeks now,
this is the fifth week. I'm I'm terrible strange first hour, But at
the first hour, we're gonna have breaking news, right, I think we're
gonna get a call from someone we haven't heard from in a while, the
breaking news, and then we're gonna have hekey a lot of questions the band.
We're gonna ask him about the Kansas State game next year, Blue Game,
Red Blue Game, just about scheduling, scheduling, just you know how
life now all right, stick around. Breaking news coming up,