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This is I on the Ball with
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everybody. Welcome to R on the
Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

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I'm Steve Rivera, You're Jaken Zalez, and I've got a guy sit in

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today, said, back in with
some cross country this week. But yeah,

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happy to excited for tonight and the
weekend, so we'll see. You're

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going to both, going to both. Yep, you know, you're probably

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one of the bigger sports fans we've
had in this building. And who who

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was it? The the never went
to any justin just Oh that's right,

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Yeah was that name? Okay,
one of the first Yeah, yeah,

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maybe I'll go, Well, what
do you do if you know what?

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We're playing video games? You know, Man of War or not Man?

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What's your favorite food? No?
What is it? What's the the war

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video game that everybody plays? Is
it the one of the Call of Duty?

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Call of Duty that we play?
Call of Duty? All right,

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all right, Steve, I have
a question for you. Oh, go

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ahead. Well, I'm sitting here, uh, you know, as we

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all, as I always do.
You know, I'm flipping through Twitter and

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looking at stuff. And Brian how
our buddy up at Colorado covering for the

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Buffs for the Boulder Daily Camera.
He's in a tweet storm right now,

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just one after another after another after
another. Okay, because obviously all the

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attention that's gone on Colorado. Uh, you know, he's just having to

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push out content. Would you let's
say you're not as old as you are,

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not let's say ten years ago,
but it's it's today's environment, but

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you're ten years young. Would you
want to be covering Colorado football right now

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under the circumstances, everything's just the
way it is. Well, you're just

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ten years I think so. I
think so. Oh that's tough. That's

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a good question. I think so. But I would be reluctant, you

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know, having to social media dealing
with the stuff. There's so many stories.

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The national media is all over the
place, you know, every game

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is you know, would you want
to be doing that? Uh? No,

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no, is it my job?
Yes? Yes, yeah, I

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guess I guess. How about seventy
five percent? Yes, twenty five percent

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what the hell am I doing?
And that's you know in TV. Now

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you see this kids today because there
are very few older people, they have

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to carry their own equipments, their
own show. They don't, they don't

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have a photographer anymore. They're doing
this is kind of like that version.

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Oh you know, someone pooped,
I gotta right, I gotta tweet that.

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You know, really does people do
people carry? You've probably got limited

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access, right, you get the
same thing everybody else gets, right in

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terms of interviews and press conference and
stuff like that. So you have to

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write, You've got you've got to
comp with stuff that other guys aren't coming

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up with, but with the same
material. Sure, yeah, I mean

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would you want to do that?
Not really? I'm glad I don't have

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to know. Yeah, I don't
have to know. And but you don't

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think it's everyone like you said,
it has the same information. It's how

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you present it, right, And
and we've seen this for the last five

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six years, the kids that we
go to the press conferences with tweet about

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whatever everything. I don't think it's
all newsworthy. Yeah, do you know

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you know it's not well yes,
and no, okay, we don't think

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it's newsworthy. But stuff that you
and I think is news isn't newsworthy?

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Is newsworthy these days? I don't. I don't know about that. I

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don't know about that. I couldn't
give you an example from yesterday or the

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day before. But okay, for
example, okay, yesterday, a big

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deal was made of the fact that
that Travis Hunter and the dude who ripped

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his kidney out or his liver out
got together went bowling. You know,

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there's photos and there's video and all
this stuff. Now you got to do

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a story on that, right,
Yeah, Okay, that's at or at

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the or a minimum. You've got
to do some social media on it.

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That's news. That's news. I'll
give you another one. Okay. So

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this this week, uh, Tommy
went and you were there at the press

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coming. We had his president on
Monday, and he went to the south

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side right right. I did anything
that they did, I did too.

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I was there everywhere, and Bruce
was doing the same thing. Why because

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I knew Bruce was gonna be there. Why is Bruce there because he knew

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I was gonna be there. And
if I didn't have it and you didn't

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have it or whatever, we'd be
told what the yah? Yeah, you

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were in trouble if somebody had something
you didn't. Right, Absolutely right.

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But it's changed so much. Well, there's no question. I don't know

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about these tweets. I don't fall
I don't care what they had for lunch.

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I don't care. Who gives a
crapit? Now we both said,

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all right, it's always more fun
to cover a winner than a loser.

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Right, So is Brian? How
is he having more fun with this or

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did he have more fun last year
when they absolutely stocked? No, he

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was not having fun. How could
you? I mean, it's a miserable

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coming on losing team. You know
that, it just is our bits.

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A miserable part was the coaching search. But no, I think this is

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fun if he has some access,
and then I think that his his opinion

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because he's in the house of kind
of people want and other people want to

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know. And what do you think? We had him on the show a

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couple of times because we want to
know for that reason, what's going on?

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How's life? Even how was life? Because you must be having a

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hard time or difficult time. Yeah, but no, I think I think

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it would be fun. I don't
think it would get old though, I

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think he would get old. Yeah, well it this week may kind of

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take the edge off of it,
or whatever you want to call it.

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They get rolled by USC. Now
there are three and few football teams.

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They've gotten their butts kicked twice.
You know, they've got to I think

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their scheduled that they think they've got
as U and Stanford coming out, it

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kind of takes the the luster spotlight
off of it. Uh, this may

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be the last week we hear from
them to this extent in a while.

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But then again, if they go
off and win, then it just continues.

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Sure, So, so yes or
no to your questions. I thought

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you can ask yesterday civil questions.
Actually, Danny Martinez did a great job.

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So really didn't miss you much.
We mentioned you, we talked about

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you. Not bad, but yeah, we missed you a little bit.

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Yeah sometimes you know so anyway,
but I you know, I just was

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thinking about that because I'm sitting here
and and you know, Brian's got he's

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got a tweet going out about every
thirty seconds. He's doing all rolling out

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all these stats and all this stuff, and I'm like, you know,

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it used to be you know,
you go get your story, you're right,

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your game story, go home and
have some dinner and go cover the

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game, or your advanced you go
home and cover the game the next day.

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I have analytics gone into h journalism, right, You've got to have

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that information because if you don't,
again, as Steve said, somebody else

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is gonna have it. And where
when Steve and I were working, you

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know, it was two newspapers against
each other. But now you know,

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Bruce Pasco has got to make sure
that about ten different guys who are way

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younger and probably more energetic than him
don't have anything that he doesn't have.

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He's got to do that as well. So it's kind of I don't know,

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man, it's just it's it's it's
not easy. I I don't even

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know the answer to my own question, So I don't know. I don't

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know. So, I mean I
assume the energy to start the years was

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probably fun for them. But I
mean, we'll see if it if it

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lasts. But I mean Foxes,
you know their their pregame show is that

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is in Colorado again tomorrow? You
know, yeah, you know, and

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and then it's the big game.
It's a noon It's a ten am game

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Colorado time, which seems kind of
nuts. Who that's in California, right

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in Colorado. No, it's cold, it's up in Colorado. Remember the

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the uh, the athletic director had
to send out a uh oh you didn't

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see this, you weren't here,
Yes, they call the Colorado Athletic Director.

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Rick George had to send out a
message over social media telling people to

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behave themselves tomorrow. It's a really
long statement saying you no valter language you

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you know, be basically said,
act like you know, nice human beans

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and don't rush the field. Oh
if they win or win, yeah,

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if they win, there's I'm gonna
stop it. Yeah, they're gonna rush

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the field. I mean they rushed
the field against Colorado State, so they're

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gonna rush the field if they beat
USC. I don't want to know what

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they're gonna do if they beat Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, all right,

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Hey, we got a great show. Yogi Roth will be coming up in

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about ten minutes. Uh, he's
in town to cover the he's he's doing

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the Arizona Washington game for uh PAC
twelve Networks. And then Kevin Singleton.

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Steve got Kevin Singleton to join us
because he and his brother Chris were pretty

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good football players here at Arizona late
eighties. Chris was the number seven pick,

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Steve. That's yeah, yeah,
because Anthony Smith was either right before

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him, right after him. Uh, those are one of those great years.

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Yeah, well, top top twelve
for sure. Yeah. So Kevin

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will join us at at about three
thirty five, three forty, and then

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our usual analysts were gonna pick his
brain on some stuff. Jake Fisher will

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be on at four fifteen. But
good stuff today. Yeah, Okay,

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so did you miss me? I
did miss you, Steve. How was

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it? I didn't know. Danny
did a great job. I got Danny

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Martinez in here. He's the director
of officer for softball. So I think

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it was funny because I kept saying, Okay, Dan, we're gonna talk

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about softball, and then we talked
about sometimes finally got to it in the

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last segment, just talked about his
job, you know, how things are

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going, you know, kind of
like you know the thing that I tried

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to ask Dave Hicky about. Okay, you got all these coaches in their

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third year, right, the program
is there, you know, and he

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kind of agreed with me on that
one. So it was it was a

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good conversation, right, okay,
But we had had a couple of good

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guests. We had Jack McGruder came
on at three fifteen, which Bady kind

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of told the line, you know, Danny being a athletic department employee,

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really had to not involvement in the
gambling conversations that go on and on our

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show. Yeah, probably rolled his
eye few times. No, not Danny.

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He's not gonna roll his eyes about
that stuff. And then they we

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had Bruce Pasco came on and we
kind of preview the Red Blue Game.

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A good conversation with him as well. So okay, cool, cool cool.

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What else is going on? A
lot of things going on? College

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football starts a big game tonight,
right yea, Utah, I'm taking it,

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Steve. I'm still I'm still on
it. I'm still gonna take Oregon

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State. Remember on Wednesday I said
I was gonna try. I was gonna

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put the kiss of death on him
and take them put the deals and you

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know they're they're gonna you know what
they're gonna cover. They're gonna beat Utah

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is three and a half, Oregon
State by three and a half. I

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don't think they're gonna cover. But
that's not me. You know, I'm

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not touching that game. Cam Rising. Thing is it's have have we heard?

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Have they said? Is he not
starting? It's up in the air.

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But it looks like Nate Johnson's gonna
play. But I don't know how

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they're saying that he's gonna start if
last week they said cam Rising was probably

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gonna start, right, so something
I don't know what changed. But but

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organ State is a giving three and
a half. I'm gonna go and take

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go ahead and take the Beavers tonight. I'm not even gonna get to watch

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a game because, like I do
the Red and Blue game. But I

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think, uh, I actually think
Oregon State, we'll do it because it's

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at Organ State. Really, more
than anything, this this will if if

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they find a way to win,
I think this will be Uh. This

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is one of those program changing wins
where the momentum starts to shift a bit

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for them. I know they've been
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of the PAC twelve and whatnot,
but they got to get it done in

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order to it to really be in
that conversation. Yeah. So anyways,

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but uh, you know there's some
of the good stuff again, as we

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said a Colorado in usc tomorrow.
That game starts, that actually starts at

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nine o'clock our time. It's a
long day of sports, a long day

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of things going on. Oh and
then I'm giving I'm giving away my picks

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because they were if you listen to
the show yesterday, you heard these.

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But you didn't listen to the show. But mcgreerder gave us his uh he

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doesn't upset special every week on sports
betting time dot com. He's taking Arkansas,

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so so I told him he I
told him I was gonna take Arkansas.

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Who do they play? They they're
getting six in a neutral syche game

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against Texas. A Now m sore. There's two of my picks, Arkansas

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and Organ States. Okay, I
won't touch you either. There were a

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plan to see he doesn't pick his
old other people to pick up for him.

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He's not doing well either way.
I'm terrible. How MC doing.

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Yeah, I didn't check he's done
doing alright. I'm not to ask the

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guy that held held you hushes at
the front saying you following me, like

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asking anybody. All right, Hey, let's we should take a breaker a

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little early so that we can get, we can get Kettle Singleton in here.

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Little we've got We've got Yogi Roth
coming up right now, right,

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we gotta give him a call.
But then, okay, we'll get Kevin

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in here. Okay, cool,
all right, stick around for Yogi Roth.

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Peter Jenkins Alas. Now on the
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the Pac twelve Networks. How are
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Good to be in town and you
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Yeah, we set up the basketball
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you know, we told Tommy Lloyd, Hey, Yogi is gonna be in

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town on Friday. Can you do
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He said, Okay, so just
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while you're you're here to do the
Washington game. A lot of talk about

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it this week, you know,
Steve and I being the old guys in

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the room and spend a lot of
time talking about, you know, the

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big upset at ninety two. There's
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with Washington along the way. Washington, we keep hearing, I keep hearing

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the word scary. Good. Uh, well, what do you know,

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what what have you seen so far? Yeah, that's very legit there to

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me. I vote him number one
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team in the country. I think
they've been the most consistent team in the

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country in really every phase. And
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they have to begin to develop.
This killer instinct is the edge of

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them, and I think you do
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an incredible, incredible job with the
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players, recruiting new ones, recruiting
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They're not perfect. You know,
their defense isn't Georgia of two years

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ago, but this is This is
a loaded team, and I think Arizona

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is going to have everything they can
handle. But I think Arizon will be

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able to move the ball. I
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and for Jet Fish's team, they're
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I think strong like, it can't
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can't be what Cal did last weekend
against Washington. You've got to survive the

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first quarter to have a chance in
this game. So let me talk to

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your analysts inside you. They haven't
done that. I mean, that's one

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of the problem is they haven't come
out at all in the first quarter and

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their offense hasn't been the offense that
we thought it would be. So so

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what kind of gives you that thought
that it could happen. Well, I

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think that you've got to look at
each situation in the games they're they're a

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little different in terms of like how
this team has started. You know,

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whether it's one play here, or
whether it was a unique penalty there,

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or just the way the game flows. So I'm not worried about Arizona not

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being able to move the ball,
especially when you look at the environment they're

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gonna be in, the playmakers they
have, how the game went last year,

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and the confidence that game I think
afforded this team. So I think

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we make too much of that sometimes
because you can do this, say anthing

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about you have. You know,
they didn't score against Boys in the first

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game in the first quarter, Oh
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offense in the country. Nothing,
it was just kind of how the game

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went. And then they end up
scoring thirty something before half. So I'm

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not worried. These are two quick
strike offenses that I think I'll move the

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ball on each other. So preseason
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Steners probably every day that I picked
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think Michael Pennocks is a better Heisman
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Caleb, you know, one the
thing last year he's the best quarterback in

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the league. He's certainly not shown
that I'm wrong, But what time you've

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seen him, how good is he? Well? I think I think there's

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a lot of really talented players at
the talk. You know, we get

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into dialogue all the time. Think
about the draft last year and cdj's draft

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versus Bryce Young, and you gotta
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you go pack twelve, Era Andrew
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the elk of I don't think you. I don't think you have to.

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And I think there's premier players.
I put Bonix and Camera award in that

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discussion, two of the four best
quarterbacks performing at this point of the season

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head end the week five. I
think it's been those four guys most consistent,

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most explosive, most challenge to prepare
for, and they're all in seated.

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You know, not a shocker there
when you look at the commonality among

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them and gam and they get they've
all done it differently. And it's for

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Caleb, he hadn't He's like to
play one game four quarters. Pennick doesn't

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really had to play any game through
four quarters. Cam more type to win

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every game in the fourth quarter,
you know, like I think there's differences

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bo Nix, uh, you know, he doesn't really had to play late

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in the game other than Texas Tech
game, but he let him on the

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road to the game when he drive
so I think they've all played at a

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premium level. They're all and they're
all different, right yet, Pennox is

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a is a pure passer. But
I've been around Caleb and Mike call in

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the same field at the Only eleven
the summer, and they're both dropping dimes

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at the same rate. So I
don't know. It's hard for me to

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pick. But you are going to
get elite quarterback play as an Arizona Wildcasts

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fan the next two weekends against the
two teams that were just referenced, and

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SE and of course Washington. You
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think Jay's gunn right there? Exactly
nothing so far so far. So obviously

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we know that you're close to Jed. How do you think he's done so

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far? And let me see this, there's no doubt that this team has

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improved over the last couple of years, without question. The problem with this

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team is everybody else has improved too. Yeah, I think he's done an

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incredible job. You look at the
dramatic rebuilt and I'm just leaving his office

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and he's really proud of of where
this team is at and where they could

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go. I think you got him
right to the place where like, can

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they get over the humph? And
that is a year, three year,

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fourth thing. When you look at
traditional rebuilds, right, this is an

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sc from last year or even Washington, let alone Colorado's roster rebuild from from

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this year. It's just different.
You know. That's just the reality of

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the timing of when Judge Fish took
it, but also the ideology that he

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had, which is to win in
recruiting high school players. Look at the

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best players on this team. You
can make an argument or you know,

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guys that he got out of high
school. Right when you look at Jacobanoo

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McMillan, if you were going to
pick a guy on both sides of the

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ball, that's who I would choose. And they look came from the sun

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of California, both came from the
same high school, and both of them

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their second year in the program and
thriving right now. So I think it's

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been an incredible rebuild. I think
that they're in position to now get over

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the hub. And the reality is
since here one, I mean yere one,

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we'd be on this call with you
and we kind of smile and joke

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about it a little bit and say, Jed Lasso is the nickname that I

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know I gave Jed because he got
the team motivated every week. I mean,

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they had eight games where they were
in the fourth quarter heading into the

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fourth quarter and then the score or
less and they only won one game,

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right, we know the game that
they did. And then he looked at

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last year little I think five games
that were close, but they won two

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or three of them. And now
this year, you know, they had

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one obviously obviously type one on the
road and they should be staying in every

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chance to win it. Now when
you're in conference play, they do it

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on the road in the first time, I think it's three or four years.

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A road conference game Arizona was shavored
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just think there those are the progressions that

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he's taken this program. Now,
can you get a signature one at home?

407
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And we got the one on the
road against US last year, But

408
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can you beat you know one of
the powerhouses in college football, the Oregan's,

409
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Washington USC's you know those teams at
the top, the Utah's at the

410
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top of this league. Whether it's
brand wise or performance wise. That's gonna

411
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be the next step for his team
possibly to take this year. And I

412
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think organ State has been in the
same same vein they haven't had that signature

413
00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.680
win. I think that Jed is
looking for that at home and tomorrow night's

414
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an opportunity. Well, this is
a week where you know, what what

415
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what's coming to be known as you
know, the PAC twelve cannibalizing itself.

416
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This is where it kind of can
start, right. You got Washington coming

417
00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:45.519
to Arizona. Well, I don't
think everyone's I don't think everyone's gonna win.

418
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.640
I think they have a chance to
win. Washington can lose the game.

419
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.400
USC's got Colorado. Uh, you
know, Utah's got to go up

420
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and play Oregon State. You know, this is where these teams now,

421
00:27:55.960 --> 00:28:00.200
the competition in the PAC twelve starts
to you know, get a footholding and

422
00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.359
teams have to be on the alert. You know, we've talked a long

423
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.119
time. We can guess and what
we want about is there is somebody going

424
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to come out of this good enough
to get in the playoff. But this

425
00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:15.640
is a tough league for these guys, and weekend and week out right,

426
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.960
I mean it's just it usually is, but it really is this year.

427
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Yeah, no, this is this
is going to be challenged for for this

428
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league all year. I mean,
Coach Frish, I were just talking about

429
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that of how low of the league
is and look at how Saturday is the

430
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league gonna, you know, obviously
change shape dramatically over the course of the

431
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of the next year. And and
it's a bummer because I think nil is

432
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what swung it back. You know, guys want to play on the West

433
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coast, they want to build the
brands on the West coast, and now,

434
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uh, you know, it's just
going to be different. And I'm

435
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with you. I don't anticipate anybody
going undefeated in the league play. You

436
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.599
look at just the top four teams, they all play each other. Last

437
00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:00.000
time George and Alabama played each other
in the regular season outside of twenty twenty,

438
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.480
it's over a decade ago. Like
it's a joke what goes on in

439
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:06.359
other leagues or what doesn't go on
in other leagues. So I think this

440
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:08.559
league will do that to each other
again. But I do think it where

441
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:12.000
we sit now, when need to
start talking about the Pac twelve having two

442
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teams in the playoffs versus are they
going to slide a team into the fourth

443
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spot, because I think that's been
the most lazy BS narrative of all time

444
00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:23.640
over the course of the last two
years, of will they get a team

445
00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:26.920
in at four? Well, here
we sit today with four teams in the

446
00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:30.759
top ten. How about two teams
into the playoffs? And I think that's

447
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.039
how those of us that have a
microphone should be talking about this league where

448
00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:37.599
we sit today, and then let
it, let it adjust, let it

449
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.000
adjust, and course correct in November
when the top four play each other,

450
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or an Arizona knocks off one of
them, or an organ state you know,

451
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.279
knocks off, maybe you tak tonight. That's the fun part of the

452
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:51.440
league. But I do think that
the teams at the top right now are

453
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dramatically worthy of a higher ranking than
where they are today because I think I

454
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don't think they're being respected based on
how they've played, who they've played,

455
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and what they've done. When Oregon
beat a team on the road and they

456
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destroyed Colorado, who is a darling. You look at Utah and what they've

457
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:10.319
done about their starting quarterback, and
Washington has played the most consistent among anybody

458
00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.480
who ranked higher than that, and
I get they don't have the quality of

459
00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:17.200
win on the road like Texas has
or the winds that Florida State has,

460
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.359
but they didn't almost lose the Boston
College, you know. So I'm just

461
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:22.759
kind of curious to what the CFT
would do if they were in that room

462
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.039
today and having to make a decision. Right well, maybe the last one

463
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.960
for me, Yogi. No one's
really talked about the defense, and at

464
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.039
least right now, so let's talk
about the defense. Everyone who's defense has

465
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.400
been kind of like the beacon for
this team. Yeah, you know what

466
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:41.079
they have. I think that it's
a little skewed based on who they've played,

467
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.400
you know, I do agree,
like you know, they're probably not

468
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.960
getting enough love, like I think
right now, and I'm not saying you

469
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:52.720
guys aren't doing this. I think
nationally it's like it's four no utab against

470
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.720
like one in three Arizona. That's
what the narrative feels like versus I think

471
00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.720
Arizona's plan like a top twenty five
team, right though, a play away

472
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.079
from beating miss to be stayed on
the road and being undefeated and is truly

473
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.319
being a top twenty five Matt Joe, uh, but you know whatever,

474
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.880
So that's kind of how it how
it lays out with where we sit today.

475
00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.359
But we've got a great one on
our hands. I cannot wait to

476
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.200
watch to see how it shakes out. I love how the crowd is going

477
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:19.640
to be here in the sands and
the families and all the things. That

478
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:23.240
is always too silent on family weekend, so it should be. It should

479
00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:27.039
be another electric weekend here, let
alone in week five in college football.

480
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:30.680
All right, Yogy, we know
you gotta run, so we do appreciate

481
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:32.920
you taking a little bit of time
with us, and uh, you know,

482
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.359
have a good game tomorrow. Cannot
wait up to see it there,

483
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:41.680
all right, see, yes,
no good insight. I think it's kind

484
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.880
of all goes along with what we've
been talking about, right right. This

485
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.400
is gonna be a huge test,
and it's well we think we know this

486
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:52.960
is. This game is a mystery. I'm looking at Washington schedule. Yeah,

487
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.720
they beat the hell out of people, but you know what you stay

488
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.319
is probably the best win, right
right right? No, I did the

489
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:04.599
Michigan States. We don't know,
we don't know. It should be fun.

490
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:07.319
I mean it should be fun.
Well, it should be fun.

491
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:09.720
Whether it is or not, we'll
see, No Steve, you know I

492
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:15.799
think here, here's the thing.
If if Arizona doesn't go out and you

493
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:20.920
know, lay an egg in the
first quarter, right down twenty one to

494
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:23.200
nothing or something like that, if
it's a if it's a one or even

495
00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:27.559
a two touchdown game, at the
end of the first quarter, Averzone's put

496
00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:30.640
some points on the board, they
move the ball, they look like they're

497
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:32.640
going to compete. That's all I'm
asking for in this, you know,

498
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:37.279
in the game. I don't want
the game to be over in the first

499
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:42.000
quarter. I fully expect Washington score
probably three out of the first four times

500
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:45.200
they get the ball, really I
do. But if Arizona can score a

501
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:49.200
couple of those times as well,
so give me, give me a score

502
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:52.599
we have a couple of minutes.
Give me a score that's not good,

503
00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:57.279
and give me a score that's good
and a really good score. Well,

504
00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.440
if they're down twenty one zip in
the first quarter, okay, that's bad.

505
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.240
It's bad, okay, so'll give
me a funnel. Give me a

506
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:07.599
forty five they if they lose,
you know, forty nine to twenty,

507
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:09.799
Okay, that's not okay. So
give me a score that you like.

508
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:15.039
If they lose, you know,
thirty eight, thirty one, forty two

509
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:20.319
to thirty one, forty two to
thirty five, where everyone is maybe within

510
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.559
a score or two in the fourth
instances in the fourth and of course if

511
00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:28.599
they wouldn't, you'll be over.
Yeah. But I think what what you

512
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:31.880
don't want, you don't want is
for Washington to get away early, all

513
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:35.519
right, because then the number of
things happen one it's kind of like it

514
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:38.319
just sucks. The game's terrible.
The fans will leave at halftime, right,

515
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:42.759
I'm surely the students. Sure.
It's got to be close at the

516
00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:46.960
half, and people gotta want to
stay to make it an exciting game in

517
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:50.839
the second half. That's all I'm
looking for you. If you tell you,

518
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:52.079
if you give me a score,
like if you're okay, would you

519
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.839
be okay with twenty eight twenty one
and at halftime? Absolutely, I'll sign

520
00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:59.759
up for that right now. You
know, I'll sign up for that right

521
00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:01.599
now. But what I don't want
it to be as thirty five to seven.

522
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:07.680
Then it's then like everybody's gonna lose
interest. The balloon has been popped

523
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:10.840
in stay right right? Yeah,
Well it could be any of those would

524
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:14.519
be any of those things, And
that's and that's why I thinks this game

525
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:17.719
is going to be fun, because
it could be any of those. Any

526
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.880
scenario could happen tomorrow, all the
way up to Arizona coming out and going

527
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:25.719
off like they haven't gone off all
years, and the defense, the defense

528
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:30.480
stopping Washington because and that's supposibility.
We've seen stranger things, right, I

529
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.440
mean, I think you can argue
that this is the best defense that Washington

530
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.719
will have played up to now.
Right, Yeah, you'd assume that you'd

531
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.079
assumed that, right, I mean, it's not Boisey State, it's not

532
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:45.000
Michigan State. You know, they're
at home, right, So, you

533
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.599
know, just something that keeps people
interested halftimes when they stick around, that's

534
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.360
all I'm That's all I'm looking for. Okay, there's your hope. All

535
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.199
right, Well, let's let's take
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Right, Hey, welcome back to
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602
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fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. You're
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have we have Kevin Singleton, former
you of a football player. Kevin,

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how are you? I'm doing great, man, great, big, great

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to be on. Great to have
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on big weekend for you and your
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week Yes it is. Yeah,
Okay, how how did this come about?

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I'm losing you. How did this
come about? How did it come

609
00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:44.039
about? How did you become the
captains of the team this weekend? You

610
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:45.559
know, I don't know. I
just got a call from Brandon Standards.

611
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:49.079
He said, hey, we're gonna
how you and your brothers are honorary captains.

612
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:52.480
We're definitely were static about it,
and I talking to my brother.

613
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:53.679
I have to got to phone and
he's he had already talked to Brandon,

614
00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:57.199
So we kind of calling you at
the same time. It's kind of cool.

615
00:40:57.280 --> 00:41:00.199
We're excited. So so where where's
Chris these days? I know you're

616
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:04.840
up in Phoenix, right you're coaching
football up there. Where's Chris? It

617
00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:07.519
was down the street with me.
Man, he's still doing a pharmaceutical business

618
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.800
right now, okay, And uh
yeah, he's going to his daughter's volleyball.

619
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:15.639
He's a club volleyball now she doest
and now she's a freshman who doesn't

620
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:19.840
this, So he's he's really connected
with that right now, doing volleyball stuff.

621
00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:22.519
And good, this is like nineteen
eighty nine all over again. You

622
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:27.320
guys are always together, Yes,
sir, absolutely, That's what I call

623
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:32.840
it twins. So okay, so
first, hows what have they told you

624
00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:37.639
you're gonna be doing tomorrow? What
does an honorary co captain do? You

625
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:39.199
know what? I got to Schaledu
and I looked over kind of brief over,

626
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:42.679
and I know we're gonna do the
walk walk something to walk about,

627
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:45.320
and we're gonna do with some other
stuff game ball stuff. And then uh,

628
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:49.199
I think we'll be been down in
the sideline and I think I'm going

629
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:51.280
to do a tour at eight o'clock
in the morning, but I don't know

630
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.320
if that's gonna happen eight o'clock in
I know you guys, I know you

631
00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:57.920
guys have been back and forth a
time or two. When was the last

632
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:02.440
time you've been here? And have
you been here for Jed? I've been.

633
00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:05.159
I've been a couple of games.
Was the last year up in?

634
00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:07.199
About a few games. Actually,
I was just at the first game of

635
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:10.679
the season. I came down for
the any You game and I had a

636
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:14.119
good time to during that. Well, we talked to him not quite a

637
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:16.440
bit. It's my brother who doesn't
get down as much dealing because he does

638
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:21.039
have his daughter a lot doing volleyball. So this Gus was pretty tight.

639
00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:25.119
What is your report? Are your
impressions so far with under Jed? I

640
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:27.840
think he's doing all right. He's
in the right direction, you know.

641
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:30.920
I think it's really just getting getting
the fun, the fun back into the

642
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:32.599
game and helping me get these kids
compete, employment, reposition to win.

643
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.360
I think he's exactly doing what are
he's doing is doing a great job,

644
00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.800
all right. So we talked to
We talked to George Malaulu earlier this week.

645
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:47.280
We were reminiscent. We're reminiscing about
the you know, the ninety two

646
00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:51.440
game. Obviously, you know when
they when they beat the number one Washington

647
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:54.000
down here. You were gone by
that time. But he also remembered the

648
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:59.199
beating that the beatings that they took, you know, the two years before

649
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:01.039
that, and I think one that
you were a part of fifty four to

650
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:04.880
ten. Yeah, I was part
of that when I was get up pretty

651
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:07.159
good time when I do that was
up there, I think too in the

652
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:13.280
range. What what do you remember
about what Washington was in those days?

653
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:16.159
You know, in terms of what
they were as a program. I tell

654
00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:20.159
you, man, the Washington was
always was always a dominant team as far

655
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.800
as when I played in my in
my ear we actually were fortunate enough to

656
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:24.960
beat him in and beat him in. Washington has to say them. I

657
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.440
think that's the first thing they lost
at home. Uh in the third team.

658
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:35.119
But they've always been a very uh
program and wall structured program. You

659
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.400
know. I think it was Pat
was a Pat James James. It was

660
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:43.000
a coach when I was there,
James Don James James Don James, I

661
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:45.559
was playing great coach at that time. You know, after that, I

662
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:49.400
probably fold who was the coach.
But they've always had a productive program,

663
00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:52.760
uh, And I was in my
Huskies right as you look back. You

664
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:58.000
had one of those great careers and
then unfortunately get you got sick. How

665
00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:01.480
do you kind of remember this about
your about your time at Arizona, Bigan?

666
00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:06.360
How do you reminisce about your time
at Arizona given it all your circumstances.

667
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:09.119
I'll tell you I reminisce about a
lot of a lot of aspects of

668
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:13.239
being being part of the university,
in the program. It's just it was

669
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:15.239
a great experience. Now, I
don't think I would ever change it.

670
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:17.840
I'd do it over again. Probably
wouldn't change the thing, just to comaradity

671
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:22.119
with my teammates, the student population, the environment, uh, coaching Scotts

672
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:27.280
Dick told me Larry Smith my players. Again, I probably talked about that

673
00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:30.679
already, but I just had a
really good, uh experience, and it

674
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:32.719
definitely deal with your twin brother is
always a plus too. Yeah. Do

675
00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:36.760
you do you talk to those guys
up there about how the fact that you

676
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:39.679
know you were at you know,
Arizona all this time, never lost to

677
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:44.039
him? Or yeah, you never
lost to him? Soever? The sun

678
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:47.320
devils And how often do you get
to remind those guys. I have to

679
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.639
let him every time. When they
started talking to Micky, I gotta let

680
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:52.320
him know. You know, I've
never lost the team. You know so,

681
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:55.559
and I have a different perspective and
that you may have probably just a

682
00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:58.840
fan from outside. I was in
the grid. I was in the grid,

683
00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:00.599
arm and bleeding and sweating on those
fields, and I never lost.

684
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:05.320
No, No, that must have
been great too, I know. You

685
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.000
know I talked about this with Kevin
and Chris all the time. You have

686
00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:12.960
those glasses. There were this big
dudes walking on campus. Antipid dominator,

687
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:17.400
antimidating, but you love, They're
bunch of softy's. It's a rock.

688
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.320
I'm just watching terminators just now.
When I left that, we had just

689
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:22.880
had our team meal. We got
a game tonight, and I wanted to

690
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.400
sit and watch TV in a terminator. Was that's funny you said that?

691
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:29.679
It's true though, Man, you
guys look tough. He has a bunch

692
00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:32.519
of soft Yeah we are. We
do big teddy bears. We walked around

693
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:35.480
campus. We had to put that
image on. Man, you know how

694
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:37.119
it is. You're right, I
knew I knew that. Well, Well,

695
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.559
tell us about your coach and Kevin, because you know you've stayed in

696
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:43.280
the game. You're you're a high
school you're a high school football coach.

697
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.599
What what is what has made you
stay in this and and keep doing this?

698
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.039
It's the kid, man, the
young man. You know, our

699
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.320
coach girl football too. It's just
it's just the athlete and the and the

700
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:59.119
ability to teeth, life skills and
mentorities and people they needed. Man,

701
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:02.360
we gotta we gotta see disperity for
us. These kids understanding respect, discipline

702
00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:07.000
and in time management and a loyalty
and believe believing in the program. So

703
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:10.440
I really enjoy conveying that message.
I had a great like I said,

704
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:14.920
has some great mentors and my data
there are those same values to me.

705
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:17.039
So I'm kind of in a great
position. I think I can convey the

706
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:22.320
message pretty good to these young people
having first time experience as a college athlete,

707
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:23.880
kind of just share my experience with
them. But I love it,

708
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:27.760
man, it's it's it's the life
saver of my day. I do all

709
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:30.280
this stuff during the day, but
once I get to practice. I mean,

710
00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.920
I'm excited. Do you have any
of those Tomy isms Tony isms?

711
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:38.960
I probably do, but I don't
know if I would pervade them active warriors,

712
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:43.000
but if I word, I'm probably
using most troops. You might get

713
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:47.159
a cover in friends and you don't
want to say it's a team the team

714
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:51.800
that I don't want to say too
much right now, But think about that.

715
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:53.840
Though you're you're obviously you know you're
you're in coaching. You had,

716
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:58.840
you know, a relationship with with
coach Tommy. What's what are the kinds

717
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.039
of things though that you did get
from him and from other the other coaches

718
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:05.280
that you had, or whether they
were the you know, your your defensive

719
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.360
coaches or whatever. What kind of
things do you feel are really at the

720
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:13.760
top of what you do as a
coach. You know, when I look

721
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:15.559
at it that way that I expect
he was always he was always a player's

722
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.519
coach, of people's coach, of
a parent's coach. He's always want to

723
00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:22.000
be involved with with with everybody.
He's always he had to take this thing

724
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.480
to me. Always everybody's first name, and it doesn't matter who it was.

725
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:28.360
He would come up to you Hey, hey Johnny, how are you

726
00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:30.440
doing? How do you know his
name? But he just really hands on,

727
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:35.880
open door policy, just really believe
in his in his in his players,

728
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:37.119
and wandering him all about his players. And I think that was made

729
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:40.280
to keep for his successes, really
finding out what's going on with these young

730
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:44.239
people and how they how to really
coach him and get them to see them

731
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:46.480
the best ability. And that's what
I try to I try to find try

732
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:51.119
to find what how my kids take
and how they think. And I think

733
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:53.159
that's that's how you need to involved
as a coach. As before you didn't

734
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:55.800
really have to get that that deep, but its kids are all of different

735
00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:00.519
learning styles. We have to pretty
much tap into that. And I think

736
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:04.159
I've learned that belot from close to
me because he was beyond his years,

737
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:07.079
before his years, I think with
that type of because that's that's definitely wasn't

738
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:10.639
a deal back then a lot of
coaches, So he was definitely one of

739
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:15.119
those coaches that was hands on,
and I think that's really I enjoyedable.

740
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:16.480
I was great fortu u to get
him as a second coach because it could

741
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:21.880
have been a whole other way forgot
a different coach. Yeah, how do

742
00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:23.280
you as a coach now and you've
been doing it for a while now,

743
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:30.239
how do you try to impact the
kids? Uh? Like I said,

744
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:32.800
I just kind of yet, you
know, MAKEE feel makeel feel good about

745
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:36.960
him, so you know, I
encourage him, I say positively. I

746
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:39.719
think that these kids really really really
absorbed that when you really are positive with

747
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:44.840
him, but still with constructors sick
Christen, but teaching at the same time.

748
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:46.280
I think when we want to coach
and yell and screen, but at

749
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:50.639
the same time, you got to
build a build a confidence and encourage him

750
00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:52.280
to do things. And I don't
think I don't want to think say we

751
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:55.800
lost. I don't consider lost,
consider a setback, failures a setback.

752
00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:00.360
They're building blocks to be successful.
And that's why I kind of teach keeps

753
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:02.559
my young people and just let them
know that just because it didn't work this

754
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:06.760
time, it may work the next
time. They still have Do you feel

755
00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:12.079
at high school athletes today are a
lot different from the way you were in

756
00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:14.880
high school? Or they are there
a lot of similarities. I mean,

757
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:19.079
how do you compare those? You
know, that's that's a tough question,

758
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:21.159
you know, I you know,
I don't think I can't. I don't

759
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:25.119
like to prepare myself to anybody.
But Chris now would differ, said right

760
00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:29.360
now, So just to let you
know that. But these kids are definitely

761
00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:32.639
different from my childhood and my peers
that I grew up with. I think

762
00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:37.920
the tanables that the instant gratification factor
is definitely a problem within all all the

763
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:43.559
programs across. These kids don't want
to don't have the work ethic. They

764
00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:45.840
just want to get the prize,
and no way you want to work through

765
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:49.480
the work. Unfortunately, that's a
setback for him. Kevin. Well,

766
00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:52.000
we look forward to talking to you
or seeing you tomorrow. You and your

767
00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:57.039
brother enjoy the time out there and
and if you if if you feel like

768
00:49:57.079 --> 00:49:59.880
they need a little help on defense, just jump out there and do that.

769
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:07.639
I might feel Okay. You guys
are awesome. I appreciate you having

770
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.079
me. I always enjoyed it.
Beyont uh and I look forward to you

771
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:14.639
guys down the Thanks the great guys, one of the great guys. I

772
00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:16.280
think the world of Kevin. You
know, when you think about what he

773
00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:19.599
had to go through, well,
let me tell you you know this because

774
00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:22.719
you were kind of in the spending
this, uh what he went through back

775
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:24.800
then, you know how remember how
secretive it was and how we covered it.

776
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:29.920
Nowadays, it's like it'd be bonkers, right right, he'd be bunkers

777
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:32.000
with all the health you know,
you know, you know he just you

778
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:35.280
know, he got through it.
You go through it, you got through

779
00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:37.119
it. I mean you want to
talk about you know, he'd probably hate

780
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:39.239
it if we called him a hero. But he's a hero. Well,

781
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:42.239
he's got to be a hero to
a lot of people. One of the

782
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:45.760
most inspirational football players back in the
day, right at the time, right,

783
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:47.199
yeah, I was just you know, looking at a at a piece

784
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:51.559
that I'm not sure who did it, but you know when he when they

785
00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:53.559
played the USC in ninety and Larry
Smith came up and gave him a big

786
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:58.360
hug, and you know, just
like like you said, inspirational to not

787
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:01.000
just yeah something like you and me, a high school kid or whatever,

788
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:05.800
to anybody you know, to have
fought that fight and and to have won

789
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:07.039
the fight. So and thirty years
later, here we are, and here

790
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.239
we are. All right, let's
take our break, We're gonna come back.

791
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:14.159
Sid's gonna be right fired up for
breaking news, right, sit right,

792
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:15.480
sit all right, and yeah,
all good, okay man. So

793
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:19.159
we're gonna take a break, we'll
be back and then we've got Jake Fisher

794
00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:22.880
coming on next hour, so stick
around, right, So we put our

795
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:28.719
hands up like the ceiling can holder, like the ceiling