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good afternoon, everybody, welcome to I'm

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About Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jacin Zalaz.

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Got our guy. Who's you want? Your name? There? Today?

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Ryan? Ryan? Right, he's
still Ryan. Two kids. He was

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Ryan last Thursday and he's Ryan to
too many kids in this house. You

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know when you tell Hey, Kim
Ryan, Kevin, Jimmy Twan, Yeah,

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that guy. Welcome everybody. Good
to be indoors. It sucks outside.

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God, it's hot, it is
so hot. How how long is

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your drive to get here? Fifteen
sixteen minutes? Okay, but let me

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tell you something. I'm old now, like everybody else except for Ryan here.

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Last year was the first time I
said what the hell am I doing

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here? And I guess I'm gonna
say the same thing this year because for

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the first time in my life,
it hurt last year and it's gonna hurt

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again this year. It makes no
sense, But you know you've been I've

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been here for thirty some years now, and I'm you, I was used

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to it, and I take this
over ten degrees. But see, here's

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the thing. I you know,
I grew up, you know, I

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grew I grew up in that in
that time where in the summertime, your

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parents you well, you you went
outside, you left that you went outside

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in the morning on a summer morning, and you didn't come back until it

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got dark, not because your parents, maybe because you didn't want to be

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home with your parents, Okay,
And I just don't remember feeling all that

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hot playing. You know, we'd
go out and play baseball, football,

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basketball, whatever in the middle of
the day in the sun, and it

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didn't feel hot like it feels now. I don't know if it was.

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I mean, yes, it's hotter, but you know, a few degrees

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hotter, not like, yeah,
twenty degrees hot. But even if it's

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one hundred and five hundred six back
then, because it was I mean,

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we'd go you know, we'd go
play. You used to be able to

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golf if you were if you were
under sixteen, you used to be able

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to go play golf eighteen holes at
at the city courses. So we'd go

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to Randolph because it was on the
bus line for fifty cents, and we'd

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go. We'd go, pay her
fifty cents. We'd go early in the

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morning. My dad would give us
a ride because he worked downtown. So

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we'd throw all our clubs in the
back of his truck, jump in the

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back and give us a ride.
Drop us off at Alvernon and Broadway,

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and we'd walk to Randolph and we'd
play thirty six would pay, We'd pay

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her fifty cents, then would sneak
on because we didn't have another fifty cents

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to pay for the second eight and
we'll played thirty six holes and my dad

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would pick us up on his way
home. Oh nice, But in the

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in the middle of the summer.
Yeah. Now, and now it's like

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I think, as we get older, you just gotta say, what the

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hell are you doing here? We
do that two three times a week.

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Global warming indeed, holy craft,
and it you know hot to you.

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Yeah, I mean I work I
work out it. Yeah yeah. Yeah.

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Because you're young, Like he's talking
about what we were, you're talking

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young teens. I'm talking you know, te thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years

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old. Yeah, when you're that
young, you don't pick. Did you

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just happy to be outside? Did
you work sunscreen as a kid? Oh?

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God, no, no, no, I probably have. I probably

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have been dead. I went out
to work in the yard for like two

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hours on Sunday. My wife wouldn't
let me out the house without putting on

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sunscreen. She watch you forever.
But it's not sure why you got a

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good bronze color. I did.
I got my color in Rocky Point like

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that. No, it's funny.
It's funny because back in the day,

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we didn't do anything like you know. No, we just kind of like

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you better do this or not.
Just get getting out of the door and

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walking to the car. Yeah,
you break into a sweat. No,

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it sucks. It sucks, but
it's uh, we're here, so yeah,

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we're here. We show up.
We still show up every day.

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Yeah, and there's eight c in
the building. Yes, it's it's actually

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cold in your right. No,
that's good, it's good. Well,

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welcome everybody. Sorry for a gibberish, but it is hot out there.

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You guys know that a lot of
things going on. Great show today.

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I think potentially we'd like to think
we can put one together with these guys.

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Although I thought yesterday show was very
good. People commented on of course

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it wasn't because of us, It
was because they were just tough to talk

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about, right, And and we'll
see we get with that with coach Brennan,

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yep, because you know, the
last time we had him on,

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you know, we got we got
a ten minute interview with him as part

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of a media day thing. To
today we actually get him on and there's

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nobody else around to you know,
steal our questions and stuff. So we'll

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talk to uh Bran Brennan. But
a lot of stuff to talk about,

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uh, you know, getting ready
for I mean getting ready for the season,

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Steve, you know, media days
coming up and what maybe a little

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over a month, a big twelve
media day. You know, he's had

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some days to the first game.
He's got all these camps going on the

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transfer portal is you know, he's
filled up his team you know, out

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of the transfer portal and you know, and then he's been on this tour

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around uh, you know, around
the state to gay people don't get to

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know them. So we'll talk about
all the busy stuff he's been doing.

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Right to write to get a meeting, those shaking hands, kissing babies whatever

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it is. Yeah, that these
guys do because Tommy and the a D

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and all these guys are kind of
trying to sell tickets. Yep, they

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are trying to set and you got
us some guy in there and after some

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guy. He shouldn't be golfing right
now. Well, I'm guessing if Don

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Pooley is out golfing, he's doing
it early in the morning. But uh,

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we like to talk, you know
when we you know, one or

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two of the majors each year we
want we want to talk to Don Pooley.

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He's a he's a senior US Open
champ, but played in the US

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Open a number of times. That's
coming up this week at Pinehurst in uh

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in North Carolina. Just get some
of his thoughts on you know, on

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the on the tournament, them and
the tournament now, you know, and

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the thing's going on here. There's
a guy, Scotty Scheffler. They're starting

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to use the T word with Scotti
Scheffler, the Tiger Woods thing, you

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know, that saying he's dominating,
not as much as Tiger Woods did back

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in the day, but he's there
saying he's getting there because he's hard to

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beat, you know, he's he's
won five times this year already. He's

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he's got he won the Masters,
he won the Memorial. Uh, you

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know, he's uh, he won
the Players Championships. So he's won three

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big tournaments. And now the US
Open is coming up and he's the you

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know, he's the odds on favorite
to win that. Mm hmm. So

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that'd be good. We have him
every time, right, and once at

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least once a year, Yeah,
at least once at least at one of

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the one or two of the majors. Uh. We had him on once

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we getting ready to play the Masters
because he had played in that. Uh.

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You know, we'll ask him about, you know, playing in the

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US Open. And the course is
the way they set up for the US

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Open because they're you know, they're
hard courses already and they make them as

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hard as they possibly can. You
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I played uh Tory Pines about a
month after the US Open had been played

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there, and you know, they
had they had eased it up, but

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it was a hard course and I
was imagining, you hit a ball,

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you're not on the fairway at that
golf course, and it's it's you could

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see kind of trouble. It could
be. So we'll talk about Pinehurst.

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I see if he's played at Pinehurst. Yeah, okay, cool, so

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it should be fun. Ye,
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guests. So we'll hope we won't
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or two. We'll try not to. Yeah, uh, anything else going

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on UA is pretty much shut the
door. Right, We're done with the

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U of A Athletics. Right for
the year, we'll see. I don't

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know, do do points come out
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Yeah, I haven't called. I
haven't seen that. We can look

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that up. We'll look that up
and see what they're because back in the

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day they used to be pretty good
in Arizona was good at it. But

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you know, the non revenue sports
have not you know, particularly swimming they

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were good at. Every year tennis
has come up. Golf is still doing

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well, but you know they did
betteran gymnastics, but you know, I

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don't know, you know, I
don't know where they say, Well,

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we'll have to look that up.
We got our interns. That's when you

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show up interns, whatever your name
is. Yeah, looked at a director's

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coup. I don't know what it's
called something you go serious on what's called?

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Uh? They changed the name so
often? Okay with that, and

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then what else is going on locally? Still still a lot of fallout from

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uh discussion from Dan Hurley not taking
the job with the Lakers. Now it's

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about, okay, what's what's wrong
with the franchise? Why doesn't why does

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it? Why did Dan Hurley not
take that job? You know you saw

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it. I don't know if you
saw Lebron that tweeted out? Is it

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me right? You know? And
and maybe it is right, you know,

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maybe you know Hurley goes over there
and said, and they told him,

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well, you've got Lebron. He's
gonna be forty, he's aging,

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but we're not gonna let him go, and you got to take his kid.

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If I'm Don Hareley, I'd say
you can keep your seventy million dollars.

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Yes, because you in time,
it could happen. It's funny though

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everyone cycle analyzes things when when things
go wrong or great. I guess they

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should. But maybe it was just
in the right fit and maybe it was

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up not to be now and it
might be and maybe it was just like

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in the end, it wasn't him. Although then the other thing that that

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that I've heard today is is people
saying, okay, you you low balled

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him. You know, why didn't
you just give him one hundred million you

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know the six years Oh yeah,
one hundred million dollars that would have been

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hard for him to turn down.
And the saying, you know, it's

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a typical Lakers thing, trying to
you know, trying to get by who

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knows what the finances are of the
Lakers and stuff like that. There's still

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a lot of people saying, you
know, one hundred million dollars like magic

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number that you say, Okay,
I cannot turn down one hundred million dollars.

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Yeah, it's funny. I just
think that we in the world of

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media, I said this, yes, straight overthink things. Uh, yeah,

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we do because we have to create
a story. You know, your

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editors on usays, uh, give
me a story for the next day,

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and then then the next day and
the next day, and try to figure

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out you know, give me a
call him in fact, right, give

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me your analysis and it could be
totally wrong, but maybe he just didn't

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want to go in this right,
And it may yeah, it may be

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as simple as maybe as simple as
his wife said, if you're going,

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you're going without me? Sure,
you know, I mean, and that's

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that's not out of the realm of
possibility. And he's and of course he's

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got a good gig. He's got
a nice gig. They want him back.

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You know, he's back. He's
he's gonna you know, he's gonna

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be a favorite to win a third
straight NCAA championship. Yeah. Well,

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let me say this to you.
We got five minutes this week, can

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kind of be us here and give
you a hypotheticals. Okay, so that's

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a bad question for you. But
uh uh, serious calls, serious calls.

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We're gonna give you X amount of
money one hundred thousand dollars to go

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to, uh San Antonio. You
gotta go to San Antonio. You gotta

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live, but you gotta you're gonna
work for serious but you're gonna work on

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San Antonio and you gotta go.
You gotta go in the next three weeks

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to take the job. You can
take the job, not fo one hundred

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thousand dollars, Okay, okay,
Okay, what there's the number? But

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I don't know what it is.
Okay, So what's the second reason that

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I'm not gonna go. Yeah,
well I don't want to live in Texas.

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Two. Okay, there's a third
reason because this is my home right

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here. You have your family here, right, Okay, So not because

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the money is said, let's say
two hundred thousand dollars still not enough exactly

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exactly. So it's sometimes not about
the money, and it's all relative,

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right, it's circumstances. It's all
relative. Okay. Now they say,

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they say four hundred thousand dollars,
I'm probably going Okay, So there's a

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number. So there's a number to
take you in from your family, right,

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it's got to be enough for me
to fly back for football games.

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So no, you know, I
mean no, it's steven and for me

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because my entire family is here.
There was you know, after I was

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asked to leave TEP, I got
a call from San Diego. I had,

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unfortunately, had just accepted a new
job and so I just couldn't.

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And but I really thought, hmm, would I take a job in San

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Diego and leave all this stuff here? And it would have taken a lot

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for me to go anywhere out of
town. There came a time, I

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mean early before we had kids,
you know, like like all of the

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newspaper people, you know, my
wife and I looked at jobs outside of

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Tucson, but we never left.
And and and then there there came a

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point where we're just dug in.
We're not going anywhere. Sure, and

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that could be the case too,
the same for me. I have my

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family here, Why would I leave? I love Tucsons. Of course there's

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a number. But still, you
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to get get some, right,
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when you're making five million, what
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know, you know what it was
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in his first year coaching at USC, he drove to work and and he

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those things into account when you when
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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to my I Naval Gerol

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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve
Rivera. He's Jaginsaus. Now on the

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phone, we have Arizona football coach, coach Brennan. How are you,

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coach? I'm doing great. How
you guys doing. We're trying to survive

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this one hundred thousand degree data.
We're okay. Uh, you've been busy.

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You've been a busy man the last
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this in this town of yours?
Now? Well? Cool? Great,

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having a great time coaching a great
group of young men, and love the

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coaching staff and the people we've assembled
to do it. So every day it's

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coming to work is a lot of
fun. You know. So I was

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looking back and you know, how
has this been different from when you took

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the Santase State job. You've come
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a bit familiar with, but you
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took the Santa's State job and so
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a first time head coach. Now
you've been a head coach and you come

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to Arizona, what's been you know, what's been kind of the same and

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what's been very different for you?
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portal and all that stuff. Yeah, you know, I think the thing

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that has been the same is it
At the end of the day, it's

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about you know, developing young men
on off the field, and the game

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of football is a great tool to
do that. And so that doesn't that

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doesn't change. The stuff that's been
different is the obvious stuff, right nil,

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transfer, portal, those things weren't
part of it when I took the

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job at San Jose State. So
right now or not right now, but

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the last five months there's been such
a bigger emphasis on retaining the team and

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keeping the team together versus when we
went to Santase State, right there was

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a penalty for transferring, like all
those old archaic rules that were in place,

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you know, eight years ago.
So it's a much different challenge when

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you took over this program because we
inherited a program that had success here.

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Success here, so there was good
players and there was good culture, and

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so trying to do everything good to
keep that thing together was much different than

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the San Jose thing. You know, coach, I've run into about five

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or six seven people who've met you
at these events they go to and you'll

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be going to some in your future, you know. They said Steve.

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He's a normal dude. He's just
a normal dude, which is refreshing.

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And I said, yeah, that's
how he comes off. And we talked

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about this with Rich told me two
three weeks ago, you're the closest to

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Dick Tolmy, who's just a normal
dude who loves the coach football. Yeah.

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I think you know, the fastest
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this game is trying to be someone
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that's a big thing for me.
I enjoy people. I like I like

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meeting people. I like meeting the
fans. I love the fact that people

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are so passionate about Arizona football and
want to talk to me about it.

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I've taken ten thousand pictures with random
people all over the state of Arizona,

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you know, and I'm like,
you know, my seventeen year old son

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is like, Dad, what the
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fun. I love the fact that
people care so much. That's exciting to

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me. So, you know,
people want to share their excitement for Arizona

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football with me, and I get
to share my excitement for Arizona football with

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them. It's a win win.
Would have been some of the I don't

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know, more interesting things that people
have said to you about the kind of

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coach they want you to be,
or the kind of players they want you

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to get, or you know,
you know, advice they've given you about

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living in too something. What been? What are some of the things that

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stick out to you that fans have
said to your asked you as you've gone

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around it, You've been on this
welcome tour and all that type of stuff.

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What are you getting from fans?
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are just really excited. They're excited. There's a lot of enthusiasm for the

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program. There's incredibly high expectations,
the new conference, the new athletics director,

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just a lot of change, their
new head coach. So like that

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part has been all positive. The
funny stuff that people have talked about,

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Number one, Like everyone here,
everyone lives here, complains about the heat

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all the time, which is just
funny to me because I'm like, you

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live here exactly, This is not
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sudden one hundred degrees in June.
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funny. But like I don't like,

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I like the heat and I love
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about that on Facebook. Everyone complains it's

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Hunter ten like it was supposed to
be right with that Christmascember twenty fifth,

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to be aware, Why are we
surprised? Yeah, yeah, Well one

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of the things is you have to
get these fan base to get them to

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buy tickets, right, we're hoping
that that happens here after last year's success.

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What do you see with that happening. Well, I think we're off

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to a great start, and I
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the administration, our new athletic director
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thoughts on how we can kind of
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also something that I've consistently kind of
challenged our fan base with because I promise

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you this, every single game we
play this year on the road in the

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Big twelve will be sold out right
right, every opponent, right, Because

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we are going into an area of
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and so that's something that we are
going to have to counter. We

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need Arizona Stadium to be a hard
place to play, right. We need

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the fans getting after that opposing team. You know, we need we need

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a routy bunch in here, and
we need to pack it so that this

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place can be one of those places
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our new opponents in the Big twelve
are like, shoot, I don't want

408
00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:07.319
to go to Arizona right Well,
you know, I know I'm talking about

409
00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:11.480
Big ten schools when I mentioned this, but you know, I remember the

410
00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:15.720
uh An Iowa game, uh with
Mike Stoops as the coach, and then

411
00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:19.599
there was an Ohio Ohio State fans
the year that they came here, I

412
00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:22.759
think it was I think it was
Dix last year, I think it was

413
00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:26.319
two thousand Ohio State fans bought Arizona
season tickets to make sure they had to

414
00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:30.000
gain a ticket to that game,
and then they sold. I mean,

415
00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:33.279
they were you know, it was
crazy. But that's what That's what it's

416
00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:37.920
like over there, you know.
So you know, I've been saying that

417
00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:41.599
since Arizona was going to Big pubits
guess, get ready for a whole different

418
00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:45.839
deal, whether it's football, basketball, or anything else. I mean,

419
00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:48.680
how much how hard is it going
to be to get Arizona fans to understand

420
00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:53.880
that even BYU fans bring more people
than than you know, most teams.

421
00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:57.559
No, absolutely, and I think
that's that's one of those things. Number

422
00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:00.720
One, they got to feel great
about the product from the field. I

423
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.279
got to feel good about the players
and the coaches that are that are involved

424
00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:07.480
in the program. I think that's
a really important component of it. But

425
00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.680
also they want to see good football. And you know, that's the best

426
00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.279
thing you can do to give people
in the stands is to win games.

427
00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:17.680
And obviously the previous coaching staff did
a great job of that last year,

428
00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:22.200
and there was a lot of excitement
about the program and and really the home

429
00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:29.039
crowd has such an ability to impact
the outcome of the game. And that's

430
00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.279
what that's what we need from our
our faculty, our students, our lums,

431
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.480
our fans, the city. We
need them to show up and show

432
00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:40.839
out every weekend. We both of
us were at your introduction when you came

433
00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:42.720
on board, but we weren't able
to get to the spring because you're doing

434
00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:45.839
it. You're doing practice, doing
our show. What did you make of

435
00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:52.240
your spring practice? How did the
kids take to you? They were great,

436
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:56.240
This group of young men like they
like to work hard, they enjoy

437
00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.440
competing, they enjoy you know,
they're coachable, they want to be and

438
00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.640
I think that's an awesome place to
start. And like I said before,

439
00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.440
I give the previous coach it's got
a ton of credit, but also give

440
00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:08.319
these players a ton of credit.
Like these players have chosen this path.

441
00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:12.960
They've chosen the hard way, hard
work, staying together, being unselfish,

442
00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:17.599
and that gives you a chance to
play good football. Okay, So we

443
00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:22.359
were talking with when the baseball season
ended last week or a couple weeks ago,

444
00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.279
we said, Okay, Arizona is
now in the Big twelve. All

445
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:29.400
sports have to start thinking about Okay, now we're in the Big twelve.

446
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:32.640
You've probably been thinking about it longer
than the others because your football season ended

447
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:37.039
a while ago and you're preparing.
But how different is it preparing for a

448
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:40.240
league that maybe you don't know many
of these teams that do you think the

449
00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:44.480
other teams have an advantage by having
the history that you don't have with the

450
00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:48.359
Kansas States, Iowa States, all
these teams that they play every year and

451
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.680
that maybe you haven't ever seen on
the field. I think, you know,

452
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.319
I think that I think it cuts
both ways, because they don't know

453
00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:57.519
us either. Okay, you know, we might not know them, but

454
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:00.799
they don't know us either. And
I think there's you know, and a

455
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:03.759
lot of those teams haven't come and
played in Arizona Stadium. They don't know

456
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.279
what this environment feels like. They
don't know what the Zona Zoo feels like.

457
00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:10.079
When that thing is on your button, it's late in the fourth quarter,

458
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:11.880
you know, And so you know, I think in some ways it's

459
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.160
an advantage for us, and in
some ways it's a disadvantage. Right,

460
00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:17.720
we're going in the stadiums. We
don't know what it's like. We don't

461
00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:19.480
know which way the wind blows,
or we don't know, uh, you

462
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:22.680
know what it's like to play there
at night, or you know what the

463
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.559
crowds will be like. So that's
that's part of it. But that's all,

464
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:29.559
you know, that's part of going
on the road anywhere, And going

465
00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:32.160
on the road anywhere is always an
incredible challenge for your team, and it's

466
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.039
an exciting challenge. And this year
is going to be new people and new

467
00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:38.599
opponents and new venues not to be
excited about exactly, right, Well,

468
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:41.119
I think we are right. I
mean, you know, I look,

469
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:45.960
I hate what happened to the Pac
twelve, but I'm kind of excited about

470
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.440
all these new teams that we're going
to see that we've never seen before,

471
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.160
right, So absolutely, I mean
I think a lot of people are so.

472
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.799
And uh, you know, how
are you going to handle the You're

473
00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.440
going to be picked to finish third
or fourth in the league, which is

474
00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:03.880
pretty pretty lofty early after last year's
success. How do you handle that or

475
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.839
what do you tell the kids?
I tell the kid that nothing matters less

476
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:12.200
than preseason, right, And you're
right, You're right, yeah, like

477
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.279
it means nothing. You know,
we were picked to come and last in

478
00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:19.359
the Mountain West, and we won
the conference. So I just don't you

479
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.519
know, I've just I've seen that
not matter too many times. Right,

480
00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:27.160
all right, So you've you know, you mentioned about you know, the

481
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:30.039
portal and all that stuff. So
this, uh, you know, as

482
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:34.000
as you took the job, dealing
with the transfer portal, dealing with n

483
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:37.079
I L having to fill some holes
in the roster, are you just kind

484
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.000
of you kind of set? Now, where are you still looking at players?

485
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:44.000
Where are you as far as all
of that goes, and maybe who

486
00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:45.400
are some of the guys that you're
really happy to see here. Sorry,

487
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:48.680
I think we're in a great place
with that. You know, I really

488
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.960
give a lot of credit to our
coaching staff and the players here. You

489
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.119
know, our players here were actively
involved with recruiting the portal players that chose

490
00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:00.200
to come. We're excited about it, you know. And really the majority

491
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.920
of the players are here now training
and they're getting ready for the football season.

492
00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.359
You know, they're in summer school
or they're working summer jobs, but

493
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:11.680
they're training with coach Carroll and his
staff every day and it's been intense and

494
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.039
it's been really good. We're fired
up about that part of our program right

495
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.559
now, and a lot of our
focus as a coaching staff has now shifted

496
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.279
to class of twenty five. So
we have we have big official visit weekends

497
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.240
coming this weekend and next weekend,
and that's going to be kind of the

498
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.559
space we're in for the next you
know, three weeks. It's just heavy,

499
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:34.079
heavily recruiting this next class that will
graduate a year from now. Okay,

500
00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:37.160
So I just want to let you
know that you're dealing with a with

501
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.000
an Arizona fan who's had his heart
broken a million times uh, after great

502
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.160
seasons or during great seasons or whatever. And so I'm gonna I'm gonna preface

503
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.400
this question with that. But after
the ninety I believe it was the ninety

504
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:53.880
eight season when you know, team
went twelve and one. Uh. I

505
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:56.160
don't know, if you know,
I played baseball with Dick and that City

506
00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:02.000
League baseball team nineties ninety nine was
a bad year, especially with the expectation

507
00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:04.480
they had from ninety eight. I
said, asked, what the hell happened?

508
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:07.720
Why did it go so bad?
And he basically said to me,

509
00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:14.480
we lost that season. During the
summer, you know, your team,

510
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:17.839
your guys are coming off a great
season, you know, but every ten

511
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:22.519
win season for Arizona has followed with
a not so great season. What are

512
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:25.039
you saying to your guys this summer? And then how do you keep them

513
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:29.279
focused to not think about what they
did last year and just think about what's

514
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:33.000
ahead? You know that, I
would say that's the challenge. And really,

515
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.440
because as they walk around town here, everyone's telling them how good they

516
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.640
are and all that stuff, and
like you know, people have people have

517
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.839
a hard time handling praise, really, you know what I mean? And

518
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:49.000
so our biggest thing is like focusing
on what we can control. And we

519
00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:53.319
can't control what the you know,
what the fans do, or what the

520
00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:57.240
you know, what the talking heads
say about us on TV. But we

521
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:00.400
can control how we how we train, and we can control our process,

522
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:04.279
and so we just really dive into
that. You know what. I think

523
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:08.519
the best teams are processed, you
know, player process driven teams, and

524
00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:12.440
you know, as long as the
players are carrying it, it gives us

525
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.880
a chance. That was j by
the way, that question. He's the

526
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.759
fan in the room, So coach, I don't want to go into fair

527
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.000
questions, right, yeah, well
yeah he was. He was on the

528
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:25.599
Yeah, yeah, you know what, I want to have a talk with

529
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:29.200
that guy. That was a little
upset of what they did in right,

530
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:31.640
So right, yeah, coach,
I don't know if you believe in certain

531
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:35.200
dipity. But it's been twenty years. You were here last. I mean,

532
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.400
come on this, this this whirlwind
that you got. You came,

533
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.559
you left, you have the chance
to come now you're here. What a

534
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.759
life, What a nice life you
have. I'm very fortunate, man,

535
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:49.160
I'm incredibly fortunate to be here at
the universey Arizona. I love this place.

536
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.079
I'm excited to be here. I
want to be here. It's pretty

537
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.680
It's a really special thing for me. And every day I walk up to

538
00:32:54.759 --> 00:33:00.759
this, the Lowell Stevens facility,
and I literally smile look out. I'm

539
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:02.720
like, Wow, this is awesome. It's gonna be a great day.

540
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:07.079
So we had Andy Lopez on yesterday
and I asked him one question before he

541
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.200
left, what makes a good coach
today? He said, Steve, we

542
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:15.680
don't have enough time, but what
what what would you think? What would

543
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:17.799
you think because of all the all
the stuff going on, nil money,

544
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:23.000
YadA, YadA, what makes a
good coach today? That is a great

545
00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:28.519
question. You know, I think
any coach that's going about it, they

546
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:34.519
need to be authentically themselves. And
you know nobody players can smell bs faster

547
00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:37.559
and everybody else in the world.
Yeah, and and so if you're if

548
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:40.559
you're not being sincere, if you're
not being real, they're gonna eat you

549
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:44.559
live. And so, you know, I don't know. I think we're

550
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:46.359
all trying to find the best formula
for how this is going to work right

551
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:52.079
now in the constantly changing nature of
college football is making that challenging. But

552
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.079
at the end of the day,
I really believe. Yeah, I know

553
00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:58.599
I need to win games. I
know this is big boy football. I

554
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:00.400
get all that, you know,
But at the end of the day,

555
00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:04.000
my job as a coach is to
help prepare these men for life. Do

556
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.240
it through the game of football,
love them, coach them, push them

557
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.320
and help them chase their dreams and
achieve them perfect Well yeah, I mean

558
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:14.400
yeah, I mean in the end, that's that's the bottom line, right

559
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:17.280
That's that's the base thing. With
all the other noise that's out there,

560
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.800
it's still still that is what's the
most important thing in football or any of

561
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.679
the sports right now. Yes,
I mean we're still working with you know,

562
00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:31.000
eighteen to twenty three year old young
people, right and it's like an

563
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:36.840
extremely developmental part of their lives as
human beings, and so it's important that

564
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.119
we do the best we can to
be good people for them, you know,

565
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:43.199
good mentors, good leaders, you
know, good coaches and teachers.

566
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:46.159
And that's where you know, I
think if we start with helping them,

567
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:50.400
you know, build a good life
and have a good plan and all that,

568
00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:52.599
I think the football takes care of
itself, I really do. Well.

569
00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:53.960
We encourage the fans to go see
you this so this fault. Well,

570
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:57.559
and you said eighteen to twenty three, there's some there's some coaches that

571
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:01.159
have like twenty seven year olds and
stuff like that. Coach, thanks for

572
00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:06.880
joining us, Thanks for having me. We do appreciate to look forward to

573
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.519
catching up with you as the season
gets gets Closereah, good luck sounds good.

574
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:15.880
Thanks, coach. I appreciate it. Brettan Brennan good good. Yeah,

575
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.960
Yeah, you know again, Steve, you know you said he just

576
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.519
seems kind of like a regular,
regular guy. Yeah, who you know,

577
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:23.159
he was happy, who's very happy
to be here. Look, we'll

578
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:25.719
talk about this on their side,
but I think Arizona has a lot of

579
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:30.199
these people now right where it wasn't
the case before. Right, No,

580
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:34.119
I agree with you. There were
some guys who thought they were a little

581
00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:36.920
above that. They walked on water. Oh they thought they did. Yeah,

582
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:38.199
yeah, they thought they did.
Instead, they took us into the

583
00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:42.400
ditch. All right, we'll be
a right back. If you're an Arizona

584
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.039
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Plumbing, Streaming Live I the iHeartRadio
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613
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:54.679
with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome

614
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:58.400
back to on the Ball, you
know Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve,

615
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:00.800
You're Jay, and we got with
us if you have about thirteen minutes.

616
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.280
If you don't want to call,
please do five to two h four

617
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.559
one six seventy four forty. We
appreciate it. Uh, go back to

618
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:10.519
the good dude kind of guy.
I think, you know, just kind

619
00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:15.239
of in my history of coaches.
Uh, these you got, you got

620
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:20.400
Brendan, Now you have Tommy,
right, you have uh Clancy Shields,

621
00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:23.800
Clancy Shields, and you have Chip
Chip. Yeah, you probably Brandon was

622
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:28.920
the idea of coaches. Yeah,
idea. Uh, just kind of people

623
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:31.760
who like to coach but are approachable. Yep, you know. Back you

624
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:35.119
know, I don't know if Jed
was to tell you truth, but he

625
00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:37.119
was kind of still kind of he
retower. I'm gonna say he was not

626
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.360
Okay, I'm just gonna I'm just
gonna say I don't feel that he was

627
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:44.719
approachable. It seemed like anytime we
even wanted to talk to him, it

628
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:45.679
was like, yeah, you had
to jump through hoops to do true.

629
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:49.840
That's true, Sean for sure.
No, Yeah, yeah, Sean for

630
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.239
sure. No, you know another
one, Kendre. Of course, yes,

631
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:58.440
he even to a degree he became
a he became a big shot in

632
00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:04.519
Puisson And understand you know, it
was tough to get to him, right,

633
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:07.039
right, he was great in the
community, but if if the media

634
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:09.639
needed more, luckily I had a
relationship so I can get to it.

635
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:13.679
But yeah, he was still kind
of kind of tough, kind of well

636
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:16.719
but plus he was pretty quickly on
and even you know, I just remember,

637
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:21.079
you know, the first year I
covered the team and they hadn't even

638
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:23.760
done much yet, right, They
had won to Packed twelve Packed in Championship.

639
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:27.480
They hadn't gone to the final four
anything. But you know, I

640
00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:30.039
was a young guy and I'm like, okay, I'm you know, I'm

641
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:32.679
gonna go meet Loot. And I
felt a little I'm not gonna say intimidated,

642
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:37.679
but he was a big of course
for the first time you're reading it,

643
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:39.480
he was a big presence to me, right, and he was throughout

644
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:43.480
his career. I felt the same
way when we met him. Bobby was

645
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:45.960
in the room and he had well, he had this regal and towering presence

646
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:50.239
that's always and he always did.
He always did, even to the end.

647
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:53.159
It's just because and he was Loot. Yeah, you know, who

648
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:57.000
didn't know who didn't know Loot in
the state or the city, right,

649
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.400
And then then then again, you
know, the complete opposite was was told

650
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:02.679
me. I have told the story
of you know, we were on a

651
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:07.480
on a trip. It was in
fact his second is last year. We

652
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.199
were on the Booster trip to to
Oregon State. We ran into him in

653
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:16.079
the lobby of the hotel in Eugene. And when he had put on when

654
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:22.639
he packed his shoes, he packed
two left shoes uh, and he was

655
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:27.159
wearing them. So he had to
two uh sneakers and they were the left

656
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.360
for the left foot and he was
wearing both of them. It was like,

657
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.760
you know, it's just like that, and that was him. He

658
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:34.679
was like, I have to go
I have to go to the mall and

659
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:37.239
get another pair. Well, let
me let me say this. I think

660
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:39.000
you can say this will being in
trouble because this is a note I just

661
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:43.559
got. And we've kind of heard
the same thing. Uh. People hated

662
00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:46.440
working with Jen. I think I'm
okay with saying that. I think I

663
00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:51.639
say that I can defense is my
the jruth is my defense, right Uh.

664
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:54.880
And some people just didn't. He
rubbed the people the wrong way there

665
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:00.920
right right, and and and I've
heard all this same things, and there

666
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:07.760
was sort of the he had the
sort of the car salesman, uh persona.

667
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:13.199
And and look again, as as
as Brent Brennan said it, and

668
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:15.679
as as you know, and I'll
say it too, we all appreciate how

669
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:20.320
he turned this program around what he
should. The fact that he was able

670
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:23.599
to do so well that he got
the Washington job, you have to applaud

671
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:28.400
him for that, and we do. But in but also you know,

672
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:31.000
there are there are you know,
there's certain ways that people do things that

673
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:37.239
rub people the wrong way. And
and and it's not Tucson. Does that

674
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.760
make sense, It's not Tucson to
do that, right, because it kind

675
00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:45.719
of Tucson's a normal person place.
Tucson expects average people to be in important

676
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:52.039
positions. And and and by average
I mean right, just kind of regular

677
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:54.079
people who are good at what they
do. Right. You know, you

678
00:41:54.199 --> 00:42:00.360
want your you want your mayor and
your your your leaders to be somebody that

679
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.440
you'd like to sit down and have
a beer with or stuff like that.

680
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:06.159
They don't want them to be all, for lack of a better word,

681
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:08.000
hoity toity. Well, let me
throw this at you because this is one

682
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:12.199
of those questions that I threw it
to you last call when the San Antonio

683
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.239
thing, coach. You know she
left, right, she was one of

684
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:19.480
those people, a normal person who
loved this place. She was a grad

685
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.840
right, She's had a national title
here or two and she left. She

686
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:28.280
must have been pained paid to leave
this place, right, But she's going

687
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:30.559
to a place that. How can
you not say you say no to that?

688
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:34.320
No? I agree, you know, how how could you say?

689
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.320
How could jet Fish say no to
Washington? Exactly? In fact, we

690
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:39.280
heard him, he was on Rome
today and and it was it's kind of

691
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:43.559
old news, you know, how
he left or whatever. But how could

692
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:45.679
you not? Of course, you're
going to succeed. Guess what you do.

693
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:47.280
You get a rewarded forget, you
get to be rewarded, yea.

694
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:52.360
You know, you'd like to think
that if Brent Brandan is very successful here,

695
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:54.280
that he'd want to keep being successful
here. But also if you know,

696
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:58.880
he gets so successful that you know, the Florida job comes up,

697
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:02.199
or you know, State or something
like that, you know comes up that

698
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:06.000
that you know he would be tempted
to. And you've been here long enough,

699
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:08.440
and I've been here long enough to
know that Tucson and ve A is

700
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:14.679
what's Who's next? Place because they're
gonna lea it's it's still a stepping stone

701
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:16.639
place, unless, of course,
you're where you made it a home and

702
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:22.280
you want you could show that.
Well, Arizona basketball is a destination,

703
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:28.360
right, but I can't think of
any other sport here. And maybe maybe

704
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:31.639
baseball although Jay Johnson, you know, high tailed it for for the secure,

705
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:37.280
but you know, baseball could be
considered sort of that foreig national championships,

706
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:39.880
you know, a long history a
softball as well. There'd be only

707
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:45.599
a few other places that take you
away from baseball, right, that pool

708
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:51.800
gets much smaller than it does for
you know, particularly football, softball too,

709
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:54.599
Yeah, softball too. If you
if you run that thing right or

710
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:59.280
well right, you can be best
in the country. Right. No,

711
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:04.760
that's a saying. Baseball, softball
and probably basketball are three sports at Arizona

712
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:09.239
that you can see is destinations.
Maybe Clancy Shields is making Arizona destination a

713
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:12.800
place for tennis, who knows,
But guess what, But guess what if

714
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.480
if if somebody from Texas or you
know, somebody in the SEC comes calling,

715
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:22.280
you know, don't be surprised and
and and we don't blame them,

716
00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:27.920
right, we as Arizona fans have
to respect that, right, you know,

717
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:30.000
thank you for your your time,
thank you for your success. If

718
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:34.039
if ESPN calls you, you're going
to ESPN. Yes, yeah, right,

719
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:37.960
yeah. I love Tucson. But
to see gotta go. Yeah.

720
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:42.880
By the way, I don't have
any family to hear I gotta go yeah

721
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:49.880
in April? No, yeah.
And and and the hard part for Arizona

722
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:52.840
fans, And you saw this the
most when Larry Smith left for USC.

723
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.840
Yeah, right, that's what that's
what was it a gut punch, a

724
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.719
total gut punch, because you know, and the thing is that Larry had

725
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:06.320
only been here six years, seven
years. If he did seven years here,

726
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:08.519
it's not like he was a twenty
year coach here. He got here

727
00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:12.960
in nineteen eighty and he was here, he was here for seven years.

728
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:15.440
So let me ask you this,
because he was successful here, he did

729
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:17.800
his job. And I don't know
this, and I should know this,

730
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:23.559
and maybe I'd just forgotten. Did
he regret taking the job? He probably

731
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:28.679
didn't because he was I mean he
was then he left, right, he

732
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:30.400
left, he left, well,
he got fired at USC. That's my

733
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:34.280
point. Do you think at some
point and maybe Cheryl would know where.

734
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:37.159
Well, he wasn't regretting it when
he played him back to back Rose Bulls,

735
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.360
That's for sure. And that's where
you go right right. Uh you

736
00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:44.920
know, did he I mean did
he prefer living in Tucson over over La?

737
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:46.400
Of course he did because he kept
his home here, right, But

738
00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:52.159
did he did he regret being the
head coach of USC? If he did,

739
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:54.719
I'd be I'd be really surprised.
Right. Well, and we have

740
00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:59.000
another guy too, and I still
think that you think the world. I

741
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:00.199
don't know if you think the world, but you think he's a heck of

742
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:04.559
a good coach, rich Rod.
Rich Rod did a good job here.

743
00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:07.639
He got him to a nice level, went to the did something that we

744
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.719
didn't think think you'd do, come
to the championship game with the BAC twelve,

745
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:14.880
played in the festival, and we
but he was also a guy that

746
00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:19.159
we knew once something came, Oh, he was out the door. There

747
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:21.400
was no doubt, you know.
I mean, I mean, you got

748
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:23.400
a call, we got Okay,
let's take this car Requick. Hi,

749
00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:27.000
you're on the air and nine of
the ball. That's Richard. Sure,

750
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:31.239
I'm glad we're talking football, Thank
goodness, And it's you know, do

751
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:35.039
alow with anything goes. But you
know, the one thing, one of

752
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:37.280
the big important things I think as
you guys go to the Big Twelve,

753
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:40.920
one of the assets they have in
the Big Twelve, one of the really

754
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:45.000
good things is you can get a
great breakfast back there. You know,

755
00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:50.119
hey, a lot of CAFs and
uh, you know, you'll get your

756
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:54.840
big old plate of eggs and maybe
some cheese grits and uh, you know,

757
00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:59.519
the hash browns and biscuits and gravy, and of course it comes with

758
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:05.480
the later. So Richard, was
was it a gut punch when Riley left?

759
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:10.000
Yeah? It was, No,
certainly it was a gut punched a

760
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:13.840
certain degree, you know, but
we filled it pretty quickly, and I

761
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.559
think we did a good job.
See there's always there's always another one,

762
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:20.880
next up, next up, and
there's it's well yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

763
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:24.039
But but anyway, I'm really excited
about this coaching staff. I think

764
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:30.119
Brennan's great. I'm really excited about
all this assistance. Dino Baber's dynamic personality,

765
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:35.679
great offensive coordinator, and of course
they got from New Mexico Gonzalez I

766
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:37.840
leave and just all of them,
I think it's going to be a really

767
00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:40.920
really hot season and I can't wait. Richard, do you go to games?

768
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:45.079
I don't know, I have it
in many years. Yeah, No,

769
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:46.119
I don't know how there we go? And so let me ask you,

770
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:50.239
let me ask you this. Around
the Big twelve. The team's left

771
00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:54.039
in the Big twelve. Uh,
outside of how good the teams are,

772
00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:59.199
just the fan bases and the the
venues and and the way fans are,

773
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:02.360
where is Arizona gonna? Where's it
going to be the toughest place for Arizona

774
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.400
to play in football? I'm looking
at that schedule and you know, uh,

775
00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:12.079
you know, it's it's just tough. I mean there's just every game.

776
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.480
Yeah, it's going to be a
tough game. And I don't like

777
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:17.559
the way the schedule ends. I
think it's at UCF, isn't it.

778
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.159
Yes, they go to Florida,
Central Florida. That's a long way away.

779
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:24.119
That is a long way. I
mean, I just very a lot

780
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:30.679
of athletes, really athletic. I
think it was it was Mike Stoop's first

781
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:35.559
year, maybe first or second year. Well it was no. Towards the

782
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:39.039
end of my six they went to
Oklahoma State and I remember watching that game

783
00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:43.360
and they just got obliterated there,
and I just remember thinking, you know,

784
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:46.840
that has to be just a really
hard place to go to. It

785
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:51.280
is. It's very tough. It's
the old stadium they built. They kept

786
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:53.679
the old stadium and built a new
stadium around it. They're right on top

787
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:59.480
of you. It's extremely loud,
and of course they're fanatical. Yeah,

788
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:04.199
so you know we throw in fanaticism, it becomes a whole new ball game.

789
00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:06.320
Well, Richard, I'm a sixty
year old man. I'm a man,

790
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:12.400
do you I tell you, Hey, they were chilling out. So

791
00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:15.480
I was watching highlights last night at
Mike Gaddis and he's the great running back

792
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.000
at Arizona Fate in nineteen eighty nine
here in Tucson. Yeah, and hell

793
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:22.119
they kept him contained, but what
a great running back he was. He

794
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:24.280
got injured, didn't get to play
in the NFL. But I'm sorry to

795
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:28.440
get sidetracked, but you know,
it is hot out. Well, the

796
00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:31.639
Life and Crimes of Oklahoma Football,
I remember, Well, that's fiction.

797
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:37.880
All sold a lot of books,
a lot of books. But really,

798
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.480
what they're gonna do is they're gonna
give Switzer. We're going to have the

799
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:45.440
nil Award is going to be called
the Oklahoma Award ahead of their time,

800
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:50.039
right, Well, that's right.
So we were, we were, We

801
00:49:50.079 --> 00:49:52.320
did the right thing. And even
Jake quoted Barry Switzer the other day.

802
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.559
Jay said, if if a kid
needs to go to a movie or a

803
00:49:55.639 --> 00:50:00.639
date or have a jacket and need
some help, and Jake gons All quoted

804
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:06.679
Barry, give it to him exactly
exactly. Hey, thanks, Richard appreciated.

805
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:12.280
Yeah, I mean again, ahead
of their time, right. What

806
00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:15.480
you know, people say John Wooden
was ahead of its time, right for

807
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.679
even all the way back in this
in the sixties and seventies. So anyways,

808
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:21.960
you know, he didn't know it's
gonna be interesting. You know,

809
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:25.000
I think about that Oklahoma State game. You know they're gonna you know,

810
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:29.079
again, as as Brenton, as
Brent Brennan said, every place they go

811
00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:31.199
to, Iowa State, they packed
the place, Pansas State, they packed

812
00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:34.760
the place. We have a minute, I don't think we can get a

813
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.079
game, right, I mean it's
we couldn't get in the car and go

814
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:44.480
somewhere. No closest is Denver,
Denver. Did you go see uh Colorado?

815
00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:46.519
Yeah, no, that's not that's
not the same you're not. No,

816
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.519
And that nice place. It's a
cool place to go to a game.

817
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:53.280
I know that I've been there for
for one of those. But I

818
00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:59.840
mean going to Baylor, Lubbock,
Yeah, Houston, I don't know,

819
00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:02.000
I don't. We have to go
see my guys place in n Abilene.

820
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:07.920
God, I want to do that, I think. So, It's honest.

821
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:09.800
I think it's like ten it's like
ten hours or eleven hours to like

822
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:13.639
Denver. In the car with Jay. Yeah, I'm not I'm not.

823
00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:15.280
No, I'm not driving to Denver, that's for sure. All Right,

824
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:17.519
let's take our break. We're gonna
come back. Ryan's gonna be back here

825
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:19.679
with breaking and stick around.