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Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.

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He's Jacobs Aus. You've got a
guy e in today? He right,

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Yeah, George, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeffy, Jeff, one

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of the kids. Uh, hey, welcome to Monday. I was out

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of town. Anything happened, Yeah, I got one. What happened?

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They stole my daughter's car Friday night. Man, you're over one day or

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she's over one all? Right?
Of all you know, of all the

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gin joints in all the world,
right, nobody in our family, extended

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family that I can think of,
outside of my cousins on the dark Side,

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have ever had a car. Store
could have been the cousins from the

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dark side that you could have been
one of them? Right, So,

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yeah, you got a car graduated
Thursday night. I got a car stolen

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on Friday night. It's called the
real world. She goes, she calls

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it was one of those dad,
was she and I knew it was one

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of those dad, I'm about to
tell you something bad kind of dads,

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and that I think somebody stole my
car, and you what like what she

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goes, Well, the car's gone
and it looks like the window is on

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the sidewalk. Oh, so that's
how that was left. That's what you're

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that's that's right. Of course I
take the car to leave the window.

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Well, there's that. And so
the car was and the car was gone,

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it got stolen. So what's the
process now, Well I went and

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met the cops there and they said, you know, it's a it's a

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it's it's a Hundai Sonata. So
the car that they said, it's very

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easy to steal. And they said, those cars, it's not going to

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a chop chop like you take a
Mercedes or Lexes or whatever. They said,

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if summer's probably got a joy riding
in it, and we'll find a

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park somewhere in a few days.
But it's been a few days and we

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haven't they haven't located. Let's take
a road trip to the guy. But

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they said it's very common that that, uh, these cars get taken somebody

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rides around them for a few days, they don't get caught. They park

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it somewhere and then they go get
another one from somewhere. And so they

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they said, we could expect to
find it, but it was Friday night

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and we're here it's Monday, and
and no sign of its apeb out for

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what color? So it's a it's
a red twenty twelve Hyundai Sonata. It's

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a sedan. The first three letters
of the license plate are five to five

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eight. I think she was pissed
that she didn't get a new car for

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graduation, So that's what she did. Know. She wouldn't gone through the

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trouble of taking the window up.
She just would have gone and parked it

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somewhere, true, right, she
would have gone and put it in Lakeside

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Lake or Kennedy Lake or something,
you know. And the whole psycho thing

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right where the car falls into that
was a lot of trouble to get that

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window out. Old, I don't
know what you used to do that.

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Yeah, no, these guys are
experts. They but they did. They

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get something that basically grabbed the window
and yanked it out. And then they

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said, once in a Hundai,
once you get in a hun day.

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It's very easy to TikTok that they're
able to put tape on the on the

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window and just slide it down and
you could get in the car. No,

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but it was the back window,
yeah, back of the of the

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well no, no, you're right. I mean, yeah, maybe they

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could. I don't know. But
anyway, it's gone. And we had

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that fun to deal with on a
on a Friday. You have a reward,

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let's go almost I'll go the whole
The whole process is funny because they

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come and ask the questions stuff.
Then you have to sign a thing.

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You don't have to signything. They
asked me if I would be willing to

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prosecute it found out who got and
I said sure. They said, okay,

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well you have to sign this thing. Basically had to sign a thing

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and said I did not make the
car disappear. You know, the car

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was actually stolen. I didn't.
You know, I didn't planet or do

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something to do something with it,
you know, for monetary reasons or whatever.

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I just swear under oath that I
did not. I'm not the one

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that got rid of the car,
So sir, I'm bad at picking and

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I'm not bad at Steely. My
car, yeah, good at Steel.

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Never had you never had those before, brand new experience. I can see

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it. I can see that.
Well. Okay, what also happened in

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the sports work? Well, there
was a little basketball game on Saturday.

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Yeah, I didn't watch it.
I monitored on the on the channel on

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the ESPN dot com thing u.
They were never really in it until maybe

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four four points down. They got
four points down in the second Well,

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they were in it. I mean, it was, it was, but

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it was twenty six or thirty thirty
two all I think or thirty all.

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I mean, it was a back
and forth game. It was, it

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was, it was. It was
a great game. And then they hit

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They went on a like an eleven
oh run, and then you know,

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Arizona kept it, you know,
within distance, but then it got away

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from them early in the second half. They got down by I think eighteen,

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and then you thought, okay,
you know this is this is getting

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ugly. And then all of a
sudden they come roaring back. Yeah,

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got it to four. So that
was good, you know that they that

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they that it wasn't you know,
and then they just couldn't they just couldn't

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get over the top. I mean
they were down, you know, down

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five or whatever, when you know
they get a nan one, you know

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as as a buzzer. You watched
you that's the whole thing. Actually watched

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with a with a bunch of bunch
of people and on Saturday, and it

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was it was it was a good
game. It was Look, it was

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very simple and and I think Tommy
Lloyd uh said this in his press conference.

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It was kind of a pick your
poison kind of game. They they

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were, they were, you know, sagging down on Zach Edy and these

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two guys went off. You know, I was reading Pat forty, you

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know, from Sports Illustrated, but
I guess he was at the game because

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they did. He did a game
story and he basically it was basically what

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what Fairley Dickinson did last year.
They sagged on Edie, didn't let him

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beat them, and the two guys
that killed Arizona couldn't make a shot,

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and that's how they lost to Fairly
Dickinson. Well, on this particular day

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against Arizona, they were they were
Sam Decker and and and Frank Kaminski and

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they made every and and that's and
that's stuff. Stuff happens, you know,

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if those guys don't, you know, I think I think one of

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them was a career high and one
was like point short of a career high

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or something like that. Those guys
don't shoot come back for fifty to three

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pctice. Those guys don't have career
days. It's a game, and Arizona

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possibly wins, but they did.
And that's, you know, that's what

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happens. You just kind of go
okay that you we weren't gonna let him

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beat us, and you guys beat
us. So there, and I've seen

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on all over Facebook and Twitter.
Well they want him again, they want

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him again. Be careful, be
careful what you wish for. This is

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a long season. You know,
you'll find your place, yeah, you

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know. And then the other thing
that appease that appease me. I guess

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something might be the word. And
you have said this on the show before,

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Jay, Well, they got this
one out of the way. It's

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good to lose now, then this
nome. This hasn't This has nothing to

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do with losing now or later.
You lost, Let's move on. This

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is not going to prevent another loss
down the road. It's just what happens.

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You know, don't let this hang
don't let you don't like to be

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a hangover. Go to Alabama,
go play Alabama on Wednesday and and and

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get back to business. And that's
how Tommy Lloyd will hand sure. Yeah,

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you know, he doesn't care about
the rankings and stuff. And you

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know, actually he said it before
the Wisconsin game. He said, if

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we lose to Wisconsin, we can
still have a spectacular year. He said,

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you know, Okay, So they
lost to They lost to Purdue in

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what was not a neutral site,
just like Alabama game up the up the

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road in Phoenix on Wednesday, just
a neutral site for Alabama, just like

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Vegas, probably right exactly. So
it was it was a good game.

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Look and and you know the national
media, you know, all said it

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was. It was a great game. It was worthy of two teams that

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looked like they're really good and you
know, we're gonna see them later.

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And these are two teams that can
make long runs in the NCAA tournament.

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Yeah, no, great, And
that's what you that's what you look for.

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And in November, December, January
and all that, you know enough

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to the was the sale do all? But you play these games to measure

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where you're at right to get it
corrected, and then not that it solved

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his problems because he had a lot
of first run losses too, But at

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least you know where you're at once
you need to improve on and the strategies

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you'll use. Right, they've played
them, so now if they have to

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play them again, you think,
you know, you rethink, you rethink

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how you do it. You recalibrate
and move on. And and what December

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was it? December seventh and fifteen
sixteenth, sixteen sixteenth, they were the

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better team. They were the better
team. I don't know if you noticed

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this. On Wisconsin two weeks on
the nineteenth, the guard getting thinks his

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name is car guard guard. He
said the same things on December eighth,

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Arizona was better than us. Yes, I found that striking because every day

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is to see every game is the
season, and who knows what's gonna happen

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tomorrow, right, you know,
and and look and for looks for the

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looks of it, of it.
What they didn't get blown out? You

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know, they looked like they were
gonna get blown out, and then they

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didn't. So people can't say,
well, you know, they blow them

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out, so they're really now you
know, it's two teams who went at

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it, and and sure you know, so it was it. Look they're

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they're two really good teams. That
these two guys went off and if you

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know, somebody plays Arizona and Caleb
Blood and kind of Boswell go off because

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they're trying to you know, Johnson
out of the battle or whatever. How

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did how did Bolo fair? He
did fine? He did okay, you

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know he got something, he got
some of his but he you know,

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he was under his averages on everything. But look what the funny part was

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when they went out for the jump
and they were standing next to each other,

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he looks, he looks small,
and I'm like, wait a minute,

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bollows seven feet. He looked more
than four four inches tip the ball

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is not seven foot or eat He's
like seven five or seven six. But

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he and bollow physically too, I'm
talking about the mask. He just looked

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a lot smaller than Eatie. But
you know, look he's got an automatic

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shot. He's got the little little
inside jump hook that he's gonna make every

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time because he's just throwing the ball
down into the basket. And he made

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a bunch of those. Well this
will this will gauge from Bolo's point how

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much he has to improve right and
the next level of their the playpole.

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If he does get to the next
level, I'm not saying he will or

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not are much better than the guy
that he just played. And and we'll

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wearballo. You know was uh was
good on Edie and against Edie was on

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running the floor. He you know, he had a couple a couple of

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fast break dunks on on you know, Lley oops on you know, cutting,

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uh, picking rolls and stuff like
that, you know, on things

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that required movement and footwork. You
know, uh, he did, he

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did very well. But once the
ball got downloaded Edie, he was pretty

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automatic and the Cats were trying to
keep that from happening. And because of

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that, that's why these two guards
went off. And that's my full blown

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evaluation of the game. It was
a good game. Both teams looked like

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top five teams and uh, okay, let's you know, maybe maybe we'll

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see you later. Well, I
was always driving back for my destination yesterday.

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I was great to see Tucson was
still around the world. Did not

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end in Tucson, it didn't,
And I went home and I'll still have

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to pay my mortgage next month.
It was you know, it was it

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was. It was a worthy game, I mean, as one versus you

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know, even when Arizona got got
way behind it, you stayed with.

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As soon as they got behind by
eighteen, they went on a quick run

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and uh and so it wasn't like
they were behind that much for a long

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time. And and the next thing
you knew, it was four points.

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Because you know why those guys missed
a bunch of shots. The two guys

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from all a sudden, they went
cold, and they were cold the rest

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of that, the rest of the
game. But Arizona just can't get over

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there. Yeah, couldn't make enough
shots down. We'll get over there.

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As we all know that the tournament
is all about matchups things like that,

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Let's realize also that Purdue was just
one of the many good teams out there.

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Houston, Kansas, all these teams
are gonna be good. They're going

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to provide different type of matchups for
Arizona there. And I think it makes

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the fans realize we're not as good
as we think we are. I don't

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and my thirty five years of government
team they never are. Look in ninety

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seven they won with a team that
no one ever thought, ever thought.

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They went on this run of the
ages and they won the year. A

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year later, when they were even
better, they get crushed. Right,

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You never know, you never know, right, right, Yeah, So

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I think, okay, and it
looks like the girls girls man, well

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man, yeah, well then I
turned that on and they were up thirty

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four. When I turned I forgot
they were playing. And I'm sitting there,

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I'm watching, I'm watching the Sunday
night game, and I see a

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tweet come across with a scorn.
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on over there? And I shut
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leave them on the sidelines, and
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all completely exactly that kind of happened. Actually, they were out of sight,

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out of mind. Right, I
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man, that was you know,
hell, it was showing good for them,

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no good for them, I mean, you know, maybe a sign

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of you know, Arizona's maybe better
than I've been saying that. I've been

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thinking, well, they get,
right, game they need to get,

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they get, but maybe a s
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Yeah, they haven't a coach in
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what's what's happening over there, you
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that you know, they're a thirty
thirty nine point win over as you that

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was well, good for them,
good for them. The NFL season well,

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well the weekend was fairly good for
the good We got beat on one

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game last night. What else?
What else is going on? I think

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that's it? Right. A signing
day is when Wednesday he has a press

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conference tomorrow or wednes or Wednesday.
Jed does have a Wednesday for the for

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the new class coming in. Yeah, and they're still about a week or

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so more than a week away from
the from the football game. That'll pick

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up any more now, right,
Yeah? Yep? And then the Arizona

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Bowl Game two comes here coming up
on thirtieth, thirtieth, which is Friday,

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next Friday, right, No,
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Yeah,

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Saturday. So that's cool and whatever
else, anybody, We're going to

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take our break. Now, we
let's say who we have. I think

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it's be a fun show, really
fun show erin Torres. Uh, he's

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got the tours on Arizona. But
he's a national college sports guy. Fox

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Sports he's a good friend of the
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he follows Arizona with his tours on
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And then Josh Passner who's now a
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him on the film ESPN Okay back
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now. But then he made a
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to Purdue. Not that that's a
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Arizona, Arizona. Yeah, no, so Josh, he'll uh, he'll

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on the ball on Tucson's sports stage. Chat Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey,

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welcome back to winning the bout here
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Steve RIVERA. He's Jacob Zewis down
the phone. We have Aaron Torres from

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torrezon Arizona. Aaron, how you
doing. Yeah, guys, I'm doing

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very well. How are you guys
doing. We're doing well. Thank you.

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It's been a minute since you've been
on. But a lot of things

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have happened at Arizona with the basketball
and football programs. Let's start with the

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football team. I'm sure you're not
surprised that Fish could you follow it pretty

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closely from your end, has done
a fantastic job and in still kind of

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riding the wave to the elibible.
I mean, I'm not surprised that the

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team was improved. I thought they
would be. But you know, if

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you had told me they would,
they'd be a nine win team. And

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what was it about six straight wins
to end the regular season something like that,

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Like I certainly couldn't have predicted that. I think it was one of

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the best stories in college football.
And I think, you know, listen,

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we're moving on to a twelve team
playoff era, but especially in this

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four team playoff era, I think
we get so focused on who's gonna win

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the national championship and all that that
we forget about great stories like Arizona team

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that I think the Vegas over under
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You know, I think most people
thought getting to a bowl game was

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kind of the ceiling of this season. Now you look at where we are,

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nine win team. I think they're
very well built as they head into

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the Big twelve next year. And
you know, I just I can't believe

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how impressed I am with that down
the Church, especially because by the way,

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you're beating quality opponents as you are, uh you know, uh go

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through that win streak. It's not
as though you're playing bad teams, whether

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it's uh, you know, in
Oregon State of whoever. You're beating good

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team after good team after good team. It was incredible to see and uh

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and so yeah and so yeah,
and excited Aaron this jagon Zaws being you

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know, being the you know,
the long time to son and that's watched

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this program, you know for decades. You know, we were kept waiting

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during the season for this to kind
of like crumble at some point, right

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they you know, they they had
that great game against the USC you thought

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maybe they could have won or now
here comes Washington State their rank. We

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just kept waiting for this thing to
kind of not collapse, but to kind

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of get back to reality, well
context, because it always happened, because

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that's what always happened Arizona. Well, you know, was there any you

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know, did you have that feeling
at all that at some point they're not

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going to keep beating these teams.
Then they just kept winning winning, They've

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got this winning streak now headed into
the head into the ball game. They

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beat a bunch of ranked teams,
they beat Oregon State, they beat UCLA,

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you beat the crap out of Utah. I mean, at some point

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I thought, okay, this has
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Yeah. No, so I agree
one hundred percent of you guys.

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And I don't have the history that
you guys do following the program, but

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you know, like you beat you
beat Washington State awesome, even the Oregon

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State game was great. And I
had a buddy at that point say I

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think we're winning out and he is
an Arizona fan. I said, okay,

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buddy, you know, like like
just enjoy you know, enjoy that.

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Obviously at that time, you were
what five and three then, yeah,

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five and three with the Oregon State
win because at the time UCLA was

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playing good football. At the time
Utah, you knew the quarterback was hurt,

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but there their Utah. They've been
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the last two or three years,
so that was kind of my thought too,

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was that at some point they have
to have a letdown and listen.

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I don't think the Colorado game was
the best effort that they have had,

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you know, in the Jetfish era, but you find a way to win

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to close. Like I said on
a six game winning streak that for of

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the teams you played were ranked time. It was just unbelievable. But the

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answer your guys question, I actually
agree one hundred percent is I was of

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the belief that at some point they'll
lose a game. They'll finish seven and

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five, maybe eight and more.
Good for them, I know they kept

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winning. And now obviously you're writing
some momentum into the the album be so

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I'm sure you followed it, you
know, close close enough to answer this

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question, who would you say would
be the team MVP to this point?

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I mean, is there an answer? Be side no fida, I mean,

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I mean serious question. I'll ask
you, Steve, is there an

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answer besides Noah Fafida, I think
if this if he's one A, which

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I won't argue. Uh, the
guy he throws the ball to a lot

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is one B. And that's yeah
team and both both have you know,

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with one there's not the other,
right. Uh. But on defense to

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you guys, yeah, Jacob Monu, Uh, you know with what the

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defense did because they you know,
they we thought the offense would be good

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after last year. You know,
you have to when you talk about overall,

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how did they get to where they
got to? If the defense doesn't

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make the leap that it made,
I don't know that we're talking about nine

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wins. That's and that's a great
point. And that's a great point,

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you know because even in the beginning. You know, so I host radio

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from seven to or eight to eleven
Pacific time, and I bring it up

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because a lot of those Arizona games
were on while I was on air,

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and you know the history of jet
fish at Arizona, and you remember back

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to last year when the offense was
really rolling, and it really wasn't until

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two or three, three games into
that stretch that I started to realizing by

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a second, now it isn't the
offense just putting up forty five points and

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they're winning every game forty five to
forty two. It was the defense that

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has been improved as well. And
so you know, I don't know and

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I know that they went very heavy
in the portal last year. I'm not

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a smart enough guy to know scheme
and what they did printly and all that,

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but that was something even as an
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Guys, as you sit there and
you know, you know about je Fish's

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background, you know how good the
offense was last year, by the way,

408
00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:14.200
but to actually see that defense improve, Listen, it was a complete

409
00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:15.599
football team by the end of the
year. I give them so much credit.

410
00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:21.119
And I agree is that it wasn't
just Feeda. It wasn't just the

411
00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:25.119
offense, but Fida obviously the team
took off when he took over. But

412
00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:30.079
I just bring it up because it
really was a complete team effort in getting

413
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:34.519
to that nine and three regular season. That's one more thing. So again,

414
00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:38.440
try not to get over the skis
too much here. You know,

415
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:45.000
I agree, You've got a lot
of long yeah, and I'll say this

416
00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:48.880
too really quick, guys, And
I know you want to switch gears and

417
00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.480
talk without talk to basketball. But
I bring it up because one thing I

418
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.839
will say, and I kind of
mentioned in passion, I think this team

419
00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:02.960
is very nicely built to have an
immediate success in the Big Twelve when they

420
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:04.680
go next year. Is that,
you know. And I was talking to

421
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:08.000
a Colorado fan about it because Colorado
is bringing in a lot of little guys

422
00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:11.640
and I think they have a chance
to be pretty good next year. Blah

423
00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:14.680
blah blah blah. But you look
at the Big Twelve. I mean,

424
00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:18.000
listen, Texas wins it. Oklahoma's
the only team to beat Texas, and

425
00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.680
so basically your two best teams are
leaving. I don't see a reason why

426
00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:26.960
Utah and Arizona aren't in that league
competing at the top of the league next

427
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:29.319
year. So I know it's about
this year. I know you want to

428
00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:30.480
close out in style. I know
you want to enjoy the moment. But

429
00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.759
I don't think this is a blash
in the pan, I guess, is

430
00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:36.039
what I'm trying to say. I
do think this is the sea. Well

431
00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:38.759
that's exactly where I was going.
And you spoke to our seeds, you

432
00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:42.839
spoke to our thieves because because to
me, Eric, you know, Arizona

433
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:45.960
is going to the Big Twelve.
There's no USC there's no Oregon, there's

434
00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:51.440
no Washington over there. And you
know, I mean, Arizona's been behind

435
00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:55.440
those guys historically and was always going
to be behind those guys. There isn't

436
00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:56.400
one of those. You know,
when I look at the Big Twelve,

437
00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:02.599
I see Utah and I see Oklahoma
State, and that's really all I see.

438
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:06.200
That's kind of what keep Arizona and
Arizone can compete with those guys.

439
00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:10.920
They just beat the living hell out
of Utah. So I'm in ic Arizona

440
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.480
having a better chance to compete in
the Big Twelve than they've had to compete

441
00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:17.519
in the packball. And that's kind
of where I'm having with those guys.

442
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:19.839
I agree with one thousand percent,
guys. And I'll say this too,

443
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.160
and I don't want to keep switching
gears on you guys, but you know,

444
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.839
as somebody who was hoping to get
out for a basketball game this winter,

445
00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:36.759
you know the basketball is just going
to be so improved too. And

446
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:38.559
so again, I don't want to
keep jumping all around here, but I

447
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:42.319
just bring it up because I totally
agree with where the football team is going

448
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:47.000
and I think it's only going to
help basketball so much because the bottom line

449
00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:51.440
is is that obviously you've had so
many marquee games to this point in basketball,

450
00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:56.079
but at the same time, but
at the same time, it's like

451
00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:59.759
once you get to January, okay, UCLA is kind of down, you

452
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.599
see. Is it quite where we
thought they were gonna be? And so

453
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:07.279
why I bring it up is because
is because, like I just think it's

454
00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.200
gonna I think it's gonna benefit football
for the opposite reason that it's gonna benefit

455
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.519
basketball. Basketball, that conference is
on the rise. Rising tide raises all

456
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:19.200
ships. But then football, the
conference is trying to figure itself out.

457
00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:22.720
And I think Utah and Arizona football
are going to help that league and you're

458
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.079
gonna be able to compete right away. But then I think it's gonna help

459
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:29.240
basketball too, just from an interest
standpoint and all that kod of stuff,

460
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:32.000
no question. And I think the
team the people that benefit the most are

461
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:34.039
the fans who get to see the
Kansas, the Bayers, the Houston's,

462
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:38.680
all you know that quality basketball on
a regular basis come in And same for

463
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:42.319
them because as huge as Arizona goes
to see on the road games. Okay,

464
00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:45.319
let's let's talk more basketball now.
Uh. I think it's a blip.

465
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:48.640
You know, Aaron, you know
I'm a journalist. I'm a fair

466
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.039
weather, not a fair weather.
I'm an even keel guy. The loss

467
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.920
is going to be fine, It's
not a big deal. But there are

468
00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:57.839
other teams across the country there They
are good, you know, Purdue,

469
00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:03.880
the Kansas is, the Houston's Arizona's. I hope people don't listen to me

470
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.359
in DUCSA, but they got to
get off the high horse. They're not

471
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.160
the best team in the country right
now. I think you could make the

472
00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.720
argument they are. You know what
I would say is I think a group

473
00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:21.519
is starting to form. They did
not play their best effort less on on

474
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:27.640
Saturday against Purdue. I think we
can all agree on that. But I

475
00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:30.559
don't see a team that Arizona at
its best camp eat. I say that

476
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:33.920
as a Yukon alone. I think
Yukon is very good this year. I've

477
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.720
seen Kansas in person this year.
I think they're very good this year.

478
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:41.839
But even the Purdue game, I
mean, it was close for what the

479
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.359
first eight nine minutes, and then
Arizona just started making uncharacteristic mistakes in what

480
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:52.200
was obviously a very hostile environment.
So I you know, is are they

481
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.400
the definitive number one? There's them
and a gap. No, I think

482
00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.440
it's about five teams. I think
Arizona's right there. I think for News

483
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.000
right there. I think Kansas is
right there. I think Marquette is actually

484
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:07.440
very good. Yukon maybe as well. But I think they're right there.

485
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:12.400
I think the focus has to be
continue to get better. And you know,

486
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:17.559
don't have a low in Pact twelve
play either, because I think that's

487
00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:19.920
part of it too, is you're
going to be facing inferior competition and it's

488
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.559
kind of on Arizona to kind of
keep keep that sword sharpened, if you

489
00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:26.400
will. So I don't know how
to how to best say it, but

490
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:32.119
I really do like this team.
I'm not that worried after Saturday, as

491
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:34.079
you said, even Steven, not
too high, not too low, even

492
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:37.240
keeled. You don't want to get
too low after that one. But I'm

493
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.319
not worried in the bigger picture at
all about this team. Yeah. No,

494
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.039
and you know, when the game
on Saturday, you know, because

495
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.440
we've been saying all lot, we
don't know what their flaws are. You

496
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:51.079
know, we know that they're going
to show and there are some and they're

497
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:55.799
going to show. Did you see
anything that you can consider flaws on this

498
00:31:55.920 --> 00:32:01.079
team on Saturday Arizona. No,
you know, listen, I think have

499
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:05.279
to answer your question. No,
I thought they were uncased. So the

500
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.359
thing that stood out to me,
honestly, guys, you know, it's

501
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.359
funny. We just talked about the
defense on the football side. Arizona's defense

502
00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:15.680
in basketball has been very good too. Like that's what I think goes underrated

503
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.599
is everybody knows Tommy Lloyd is the
offensive savant and the beautiful basketball that he

504
00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:24.359
brought from Gonzaga. This was a
top fifteen either ten or fifteen field goal

505
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:29.319
percentage defense coming into that Purdue game. And you can't sit there and say,

506
00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:30.440
well, it was just Zach Edie. We didn't have an answer for

507
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.319
the best player in college basketball.
No, it was the guards, and

508
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.279
I think it was Lawyer and Britain
Smith combined for nine three squinters. I

509
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:40.359
could be mistaken on that, but
I believe it was nine. And so

510
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:47.160
I just think when you look at
that whole situation, that to me was

511
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:51.799
the surprising part is I don't think
there's any glaring weakness. I think three

512
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:54.200
points shooting to me was the issue
coming in. It hasn't been an issue

513
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:59.160
so far, but I just thought
it was uncharacteristic. One from a turnover

514
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:04.480
standpoint, but two definitely from a
defensive standpoint as well, because that was

515
00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.599
just a situation where I felt like
with the Arizona Wildcat, I was going

516
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.039
to get a great defensive effort one
way or the other, and bluntly,

517
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:15.319
it just wasn't a great defensive effort
and that was as big of a reason

518
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:17.359
as any why they didn't went on
Saturday. So you've seen some teams and

519
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:20.599
you kind of mentioned this sort of
you've seen some teams to this point,

520
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.000
Kansas and some of the others.
Arizona's right right up there with them.

521
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.480
So you're saying five teams. I
agree with you. Five six teams.

522
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:31.799
Yeah, I think so. And
you know, the one thing, and

523
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:37.680
I've been very in on this for
a while, is that, you know,

524
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.200
when we get into February, I
think that, you know, the

525
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.799
national narrative always becomes well, this
year is as wide open as any other

526
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:51.000
one. If you look at it, it's either basically since two thousand and

527
00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:54.400
seven, there's only been so that's
you know whatever, fifteen tournaments. At

528
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:58.799
this point, eleven of the fifteen
tournaments have been won by a number one

529
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.640
seed. Iron three of them have
been one. The three of the four

530
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:05.400
that weren't won by a number one
seed was Yukon, where they had the

531
00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:08.559
best player pretty much in every single
tournament. Last year they were the best

532
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:12.519
team. They just struggled in the
middle of the year. They were eleven

533
00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.960
and zero non league play. And
so I bring it up because I think

534
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:21.079
every year we try to make it
into a thing about, oh, it's

535
00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:24.039
so wide open, and it's really
not. There's usually by the end of

536
00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:28.880
the year about four or five teams, maybe one or two less, maybe

537
00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:32.840
one or two more that can realistically
win the thing. And I think Arizona,

538
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:37.280
you know, barring something that I
either haven't seen yet or injuries,

539
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.159
which obviously nobody hopes for, I
think Arizona's going to be in that mix,

540
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:45.639
not only now, but also as
the season wears on into February into

541
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:47.079
March. And I think that's where
you want to be. Is Tommy Wood

542
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:52.159
said after the Predu game. They
were never going undefeated. There was never

543
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.360
a scenario where they were finishing this
regular season undefeated MISSUS college basketball. There's

544
00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:59.920
too many good teams, but you
want to be in that small group.

545
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.119
And I do a lot of these
radio interview guys over the course of a

546
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:05.679
week, and there's a lot of
fan bases that I don't think. I

547
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:07.559
think they know they're out in that
small group. I think Arizona is,

548
00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.920
and I think they will be going
forward. Totally agree with you, Totally

549
00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:15.000
agree with you. We've got to
disagree with what's up with that, But

550
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:19.400
that's good. We don't disagree.
But you're making so now you're just making

551
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.280
making your your listeners, mad I
don't want to make your listeners, man.

552
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:30.280
I agree. I appreciate you validating
over the skis thoughts on Arizona.

553
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:32.800
Thank you. Yeah, listen,
we're all fans. You got I mean,

554
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:36.920
listen, you gotta, you gotta
you know, you gotta go overboard

555
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.079
sometimes we all get we we all
we all have those moments. And and

556
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:44.480
by the way, I think just
Arizona fans have fun, man, like

557
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:49.079
you know, after everything the football
program has been through, you know,

558
00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:52.639
have some fun. And then also
I think it's the opposite to you know,

559
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:55.039
we can't let Steve get too low
after one loss in basketball, and

560
00:35:55.159 --> 00:36:00.519
it sounds like he's ready to just
become a Sun that will fan a team.

561
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:02.719
So you know, not too not
too long. You break it up

562
00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.920
to you break you break it up. We gotta leave you, gotta gona

563
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.920
go. Thanks man, We'll talk
to you soon. Thanks, all right,

564
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.079
I appreciate you. It's funny.
It's funny. I'm not I was

565
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:21.000
just being realistic, you know,
because that I think never good. It's

566
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.920
never good to lose or whatever,
but it's always gets you kind of recalibrated.

567
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:28.800
For the other thing, Aaron said, the Arizona fans have fun.

568
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:34.519
We don't have don't know how God
you still we're We're like the country music

569
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:36.840
song, right, We're men and
eggs all the time, very much.

570
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.079
I posted. If it's not the
internet, we gotta watch the game.

571
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:44.800
People are against the rep. You
know what, if you didn't have peacock

572
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.199
and couldn't watch a game, that's
on you. That's on you. Okay,

573
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:51.760
everybody can get peacock. That was
on you. So anyways, all

574
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:53.639
right, let's take let's take our
break real quick. We'll be right back.

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676
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got a guy eat in today.
You have twelve minutes if anybody wants to

677
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call, maybe talking about the basketball
game that you saw or didn't see on

678
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:25.280
Saturday. So no big deal,
Arison will be fine. Yeah, yeah,

679
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:30.559
you know, I mean we know
Arizona fans, right, they lose

680
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:34.519
their minds on, you know,
with any loss, regardless of who it

681
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:36.519
is. I mean, if they'd
a lost to Duke at Duke, people

682
00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:40.119
would be gone, what the hell? Right? As Aaron Troyer said,

683
00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:43.880
they're a good team, and they're
one of those teams, right, They're

684
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:46.039
one of those They're the tough they're
without questions, the tough five. They're

685
00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:49.440
one of those teams that's going to
be in the in the in the conversation,

686
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:53.280
assuming they don't you know, fall
apart during the conference season or whatever.

687
00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:57.719
They're one of those teams that all
season long, they're gonna be considered

688
00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:00.880
as a team that you have to
consider for the Okay, so so I

689
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:02.559
didn't see the game, as I
I said before, I was out watching

690
00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:06.880
some of the other some of the
games. Yeah, yeah, let's get

691
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.639
hi. You're on there and I
on the ball. How's it going today,

692
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:17.039
Bryant? How you doing? You
know, after meeting your sister yesterday

693
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:24.400
was terrible. She had that bad
limp still from that bb gunshot. I

694
00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:30.960
felt so sorry for Come on,
Brian, she didn't even limp that day.

695
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:36.880
She just cried alone. Yeah,
I just want I just want to

696
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:39.039
bring up about the basketball team.
You know, you know, win or

697
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:43.199
lose that game. You know,
we're eight and one. No one thought

698
00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:46.800
we'd be eight and one at this
time. Also, to what worries me

699
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:51.920
about the basketball team is not what
the next two games, it's what comes

700
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.440
afterwards in the conference. This conference
is not that good, right Yeah,

701
00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:59.920
And you know, and I just
worried, like what happens to Gonzaga about

702
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:04.199
they played this great pre conference schedule
and you turn around and you play your

703
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.519
conference and all of a sudden you
lose that edge. No, as you

704
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.119
were saying that, that's the first
thing that came into mind, was the

705
00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:15.079
Gonzaga team be where they have to
schedule like this because the conference isn't good

706
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:16.800
enough to get them where they need
to go. And we saw this.

707
00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:21.159
You know, people our age will
know this. The Vegas team of nineteen

708
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:24.039
ninety one or whatever it was ninety
when they won that when they didn't win

709
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:28.639
the tournament, they didn't have enough
teams to play against, and then when

710
00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:30.119
they did play against the teams,
they lost. You don't remember that.

711
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:35.440
So no, totally, I totally
agree with you. But so far,

712
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:37.639
so good. They're playing good teams. They'll be fine. The one thing

713
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:39.280
that I, like I said,
was where I was going with this.

714
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:43.400
I didn't watch the game, but
the bench apparently didn't show up or what

715
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.079
happened with the bench. It's just, you know, it's like we just

716
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:50.719
we just couldn't get over the hump
in that game. It's just one of

717
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:53.719
those things that happened. Those two
guys shot light out and that killed us.

718
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:58.000
But otherwise, you know, I
thought we played a good game.

719
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:01.159
You know, they are very good
team. You know we are a very

720
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:04.679
good team. But they just happened
to beat us. No, I thought

721
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.079
I didn't feel like the bench did
noticeably bad anything. I mean, in

722
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.320
fact, that during that run when
they got back in the game in the

723
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:14.840
second half. Coylin Boswell was on
the bench the whole time. I don't

724
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:19.440
think the bench did did did terribly. I thought Crevious was a little you

725
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:22.119
could tell he was a little overmatched. Look, Zach Edi is like twelve

726
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:29.159
years older than Thanks, so that
showlayer right, that show, but it

727
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:32.000
didn't show on Ballow. You know, I'm not say Babo fought him evenly,

728
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:35.559
because you know, Edi got his
points, Edie got his points and

729
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:42.440
stuff. But you know, Babow
wasn't overmatched, completely overmatched. So no,

730
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:45.039
I didn't know. It was just
they lost because those two guys,

731
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:51.920
those two guards couldn't miss. If
they shoot their average, the game win,

732
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.000
and they didn't. You know what, I'm looking forward to the game

733
00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:59.159
Wednesday night. It's gonna be a
it's gonna be a long night driving up

734
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:01.400
there. Are you going, Oh
yeah, yeah, No, it's gonna

735
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:05.400
You're gonna kill home at two or
three in the morning at least. Yeah,

736
00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:08.000
but I'm tired. I don't care. Well, can you can I

737
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:10.679
follow you? Dry you driving,
I'll be in the back seat writing my

738
00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:15.320
story. Yeah, that sounds fine, all right, Broy, Thanks a

739
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.960
bunch, right, Okay, man, it's gonna be fu Wednesday. It's

740
00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:22.599
gonna be a lot of fun.
So it's Saturday. Florida Atlantic is pretty

741
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:25.320
good. Right, makes a good
point, you know, you know the

742
00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:30.480
Pact will that's shaping up to be
a league. Yeah, actually bring Arizona

743
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:31.800
down. You know, they can
get to the end of that and really

744
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:36.280
not know much about themselves. Sure, you know, unless they beat the

745
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:39.599
hell out The one thing that Arizona
cannot afford to happen to them, it's

746
00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:44.559
the same thing that happened to him
in twenty fourteen, somebody crucial getting it's

747
00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:50.440
hurt. It's even if it's somebody
wherever, because they're all there are a

748
00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:53.679
whole of their parts, you know
there every part is important. Every piece

749
00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:58.840
well, well they have a lot
of parts, right, each part matter.

750
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:01.320
Sure, right, it's not like
you can lose this spoke would still

751
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:05.920
be as good as you were.
Yeah, they don't good, but yeah,

752
00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:07.360
they don't want to lose any of
those guys. So no, that

753
00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:10.000
that would be key, you know. And you have to think back to

754
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:14.000
the Brandon Ashley injury and what that
did to that team. So no,

755
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:16.079
those are the kinds of things.
But you know, you're just gonna play

756
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:19.440
the games. And you know,
Tommy's not gonna sit there and say,

757
00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:21.440
hey, our league sucks and we
got to you know, do this,

758
00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:28.159
this and this. But you know
their league might suck and and and and

759
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:31.840
you know, but you know what
Tommy's coming from, Gonzaga. Tommy's had

760
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:36.079
to deal with that in the past. Sure, So you know, look,

761
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:39.599
he's way smarter than any of us
on all this stuff, and he's

762
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:44.079
just gonna he's just gonna go about
it. Play the games, go one

763
00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:47.320
at a time, and try and
get them better every you know, every

764
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:51.719
single game. Let's take this call. Higher on the AAR and I on

765
00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:54.760
the ball. Yes, gentlemen,
how are you? I say that loosely

766
00:49:54.960 --> 00:50:07.159
but cautiously. Okay, go ahead. First of all, I think Arizona's

767
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:10.760
depth is going to be the Even
if God forbid something happened to some one

768
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.880
of the key players, they still
have a lot of young men that can

769
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:22.480
fill avoid and are anxious to play
in anxious to play teamvolved. This is

770
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:28.039
a long season. Teams get hurt, players get hurt. Things happen throughout

771
00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:31.440
the whole n C Double A.
And I think at the end of The

772
00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:37.360
people in Tucson are to be very
proud of these young men and very grateful

773
00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:43.119
that they have the opportunity to see
a class actor step on the court every

774
00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:47.159
time. I think we panic so
much and try to micro manage things that

775
00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:51.079
we have no control over. Yeah, no, I agree with you.

776
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:58.039
Is this the evil or good?
Rick? Because you're sensible today. I

777
00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:02.679
didn't. I didn't. I didn't
have my lunch. Yes, your sugar

778
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:06.480
levels. Hey, let me let
me ask you. Let me ask you

779
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:09.000
something. Because you and Jay have
been here forever. You're a little older

780
00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:15.239
than Jay. How good is this
team compared to others you've seen football wise?

781
00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:24.559
Football wise, I go back,
Wow, Larry Smith's teams in the

782
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:32.480
middle eighties. You had hang on
a second. Of course, Dick told

783
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:37.559
me had And I tell you I
really loved Dick because you know what,

784
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:40.960
He took men that, young men
that and he molded them not only to

785
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:45.519
good athletes, and he put a
lot of players in the NFL, but

786
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:50.199
he put on a pretty good show
for Arizona. A lot of people didn't

787
00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:52.719
like that. He didn't pass a
lot, but he put a lot of

788
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:58.119
good players out there. And I
think this town ows Dick told me a

789
00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:04.159
great sense of appreciate for all he
did. Yeah, yeah, no,

790
00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:06.519
I agree with you. I think
a lot of people would agree with you.

791
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:09.199
That's all. And then you go
back to Jim Young. Now,

792
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:13.559
now I'm going back in the early
seventies. But you had Jim Young,

793
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:17.840
and you know what, he had
some pretty decent The WHACK at the time

794
00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:22.159
was a pretty decent conference. It
wasn't anything that's going to win national championships,

795
00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:28.360
but they were a decent conference.
And so uh. And I think

796
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:32.119
the fan base was much more loyal
during the sixties, seventies and eighties than

797
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:37.199
the nineties than they have been in
the two thousands. I think we have

798
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:40.320
too many transplants that don't pay attention
to what's going on. Yeah, I

799
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:44.639
won't disagree that. Okay, Rick, have you have your lunch? Hey,

800
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:46.639
Hey, Merry Christmas. If I
don't talk to you, guys,

801
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:51.079
Merry Christmas. Huh, thank you? Thank you? All right, guys.

802
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:57.199
Bye? What were we talking about
before? Rick? The injuries blah

803
00:52:57.239 --> 00:53:00.920
blah blah, just you know,
just the ankst that that the Arizona fans

804
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:04.840
have, you know, and we're
talking to about how the league is that

805
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:07.320
you know, they've just got to
guard against, as he said, the

806
00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:09.119
league bringing him down so that you
know, when they when they get to

807
00:53:09.199 --> 00:53:13.880
term time. But you know,
to me, that's probably one of the

808
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:19.320
things that I think Tommy does better
than totally totally great. He manages the

809
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:23.159
environment around the totally what's in front
of him and kind of keeps them zeroed

810
00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:27.639
in, you know, on this
this piece of it. Sure, and

811
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.119
he doesn't look ahead. He's not
looking at head right here and saying,

812
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:31.440
damn, what are we gonna do
when we start going to the league playing

813
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:35.239
where you know, and and all
the teams sucks thinking that at all?

814
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:38.000
I think about, we got to
beat Alabama. If he's if he's if

815
00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:43.199
he's thinking about it, he should
not showing it. I honestly believe he's

816
00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:45.639
not even thinking about it, because
if because if he was real quick,

817
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:51.119
real quick, Yeah, let's take
this high around there and I on the

818
00:53:51.159 --> 00:53:54.760
ball. Yeah, this is uh, this is Jeff, Hey, Jeff,

819
00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:59.000
we've got about him. We got
about a minute. Okay, okay,

820
00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:02.440
what his name out here? All? Were you what you were talking

821
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:07.199
about? But why wasn't that Boso
didn't play a whole lot that game?

822
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:09.320
Well, he came out at a
portion of the of the game in the

823
00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:14.239
second half, and they went on
a run. So I think Tommy just

824
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:16.000
decided not to change the lineup.
He hadn't because they were doing so well.

825
00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:20.800
Oh he played a ton, but
he just during that run in the

826
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:22.599
second half, he was out of
the game. And then and they and

827
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:27.119
they did that. That's all.
It wasn't like he was anything happened or

828
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:30.920
anything like that. He just he'd
been substituted for and they went nuts and

829
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:35.480
they and Tommy just left the lineup
as it was. That's all, okay,

830
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:38.880
correct, okay, thanks, thanks, And he hadn't been having a

831
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:42.960
good game, right, he hadn't
shut the ball. Well, I didn't

832
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:46.400
think he was playing particularly Portland put
it that way when when they got behind

833
00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:50.480
in that stretches because they weren't you
know, they weren't scoring, they weren't

834
00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:52.239
playing defensive. You know, they
fell behind by you know, by a

835
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:59.559
bunch because they weren't playing very well. And I didn't There wasn't anybody that

836
00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:01.559
I thought that guy played like crap. And that's why they love so two

837
00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:07.079
names that I saw or you know, in the negative Twitter and Facebook was

838
00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:10.280
that was that Pella didn't have a
good game. He looked back. He

839
00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:14.000
had a bunch of he had he
had a bunch of key turning. Okay,

840
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:15.920
and then and then Boswell didn't shoot
the ball, palace struggle. But

841
00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:20.960
you know what were you saying?
Pella was really struggling compared to the game

842
00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:22.760
he had before. Sure, right, sure, but that's the problem with

843
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:24.880
that's the thing. He had this
game up here and think, okay,

844
00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:28.840
now play like that every game.
That's a problem. Yeah, no,

845
00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:30.679
that's the problem because you see that
game and they say, Okay, that's

846
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.159
how you should play. Yeah,
no, he doesn't play. It doesn't

847
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:37.239
work that way. He had he
had turnover. You know, even though

848
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:38.119
I have a bad show every now
again, there were two or three of

849
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:43.400
those lazy half half halst passes that
they made. But it turned into into

850
00:55:44.079 --> 00:55:45.079
yeah, it doesn't life doesn't work
that way. You can't do that.

851
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:46.760
Yeah, okay, all right,
let's take a break. Word to come

852
00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:52.000
back. Big news, big breaking
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