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to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,
you're jagan ZAUS got our guy Henry and today welcome to Wednesday Show.
Hope to have a good one. Hope to have a lot of calls today.
Yeah, we could use them, could use them. No guests in
the first hour, at least, not right now. We've been It's June,
right, it is June, and it's just part of the end of
June. Yeah, end of June. So we're kind of treating we're already
hitting the dog days. People are on vacation or people hard to find.
Yeah, you know, and they are. I mean, you know,
this breakfast club that I go to on Tuesday mornings, usually we've got,
you know, fifty sixty people at the meetings O're forty. Yeah, you
know, people are just you know, they're taking a vacation. You've been
out side. You get the hell out of dood dogs. Yeah, but
yeah, exactly exactly, and so yeah, no, it's it's that time
of the year. So yeah, okay, yeah, great. If you
want to call calls at any time, we won't have anybody at least right
now in the first first hour of five two oh four, one, six
seventy four, four seventy four forty you can give us a call, fill
us in whatever's going on your thoughts. I've got a lot of not a
few texts on how excited it's not the right word optimistic they are because the
recruiting that's going on. Yeah, a lot of those, you know,
my Wednesday lunch was a lot of that discussion. Everybody's you know, feels
like he and it. It's like everybody agrees, we don't know how good
players are, you know, for a while. But you know, when
you see that they're beating teams like you know, Oregon, Oklahoma, Washington,
you know whatever that those as opposed to you know, all corn State
or whatever, you know, there's a good feeling that that Arizona might be
getting some good players right right and if what you can spin it this way
too, if they're not uh, the four or five star guys which of
course it's hard to do here. Uh what's the what's the other phrase.
Well, they're gonna coach them up. They're gonna coach them up. Uh,
you know, they're what they call them okay g's okay gez. Yeah,
you know, And I think that that's sort of you know, where
Arizona is and where they're going to be, And there's nothing wrong with that.
I think that, Uh, you know, Arizona's not that place.
It's gonna get you know, all the five stars. So they got to
get guys, they got to develop them, they got to coach them,
and they got to keep them in you know, they got to keep them
here for a period of time. Right, Yeah, no questions, Well,
let's go. I'm gonna you know how I am. I kind of
round about questions to you and to everybody who's listening. Uh So, Caitlin
Clark's going to be playing in Phoenix, I think next week, if I
if I yeah, Henry, you can perming me with your head nod.
Hey, yeah, I guess some of the tickets, if some of the
big tickets are like three hundred bucks each, you're paying that sheet. No,
she feels she feels the arena, wherever she goes. And that's that's
the amazing thing about it. You know, they're not just coming to her
home games. You know, they're they're everywhere. They're they're everywhere everywhere she
goes. They're you know, they're fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen thousand
people at these games. Then great, you know, rather than say well,
it's because of this or it's because of that, you say, guess
what, that's cool for the WNBA. And and you know, we we
had that conversation this afternoon as well. Is that you know, I get,
I get the the the mentality of existing WNBA players who you know,
want to say, look, we're going to make her work hard for this.
We're gonna you know, we're gonna make it hard on her coming in.
And they do that for a lot of rookies, which is fine,
But the resentment that they have towards the attention that she's getting, you need
to get over that and embrace it. You know, we've said that a
bunch of times, and embrace it and take advantage of it by you know,
being a person that Okay, if she's gonna get all this attention,
well I'm you know, I want to get my attention to and it's gonna
do me some good. But in the right way. Not by going up
and knocking her down when she's standing there, you know, but more along
the lines of, you know, playing hard against her, you know,
when she comes to town, you know, throw a little extra into it
and look good doing it, rather than you know, trying to you know,
come across as a thug that's just pissed off that somebody else is getting
attention that you're not. Yeah. So well, the first question was you
pay for it? No, three hundred bucks, I'm not paid. I
might pay fifty bucks. It might pay I don't know. Look, I'm
not I'm not a huge fan of the w NBA. I'll watch it occasionally.
I've watched, You've watched more than you ever had, right because I've
wanted to see. Okay, what's what's all the excitement about? For free?
But I'm not for sure. Yeah. Look, I go to one
or two Diamondbacks games a year, so you know, I haven't been.
I've been to two Sons games ever. So I mean, you know,
it's not It's not a sport that interests me to to spend my money on
and you go to diving back my primarily see the do you see the Dodgers
exactly? So you know, look, it's it's stated. We've had this
conversation a million times. It's kind of expensive to go to a sporting event.
And so if I'm going to go to a sporting event, you know,
it's gonna be one that I really really want to go to. You
know, I'm we're working out a plan to go to a Dodger game this
summer. But it's like one game, right. I bought some tickets for
a Dodger game at a silent auction the other day, so I'm going to
use those, But it means I got to you know, got to either
hop in the car, catch a flight to go catch a game at Dodger
Stadium. But that you know, it's it's you know, I mean,
you know, if I put my money into you know, going to U
of A games here in town, and so that's that's where it goes.
And if I had more money to spend on on games, I think the
w n b A is pretty far back in the Yeah, and that makes
sense, of course. Uh and and just recently it's come come aboard.
Let me ask you. We talk a lot about Arizona Athletix, uh,
all the sports. Obviously when you're not doing this here, you're out and
about and so am I. Do you hear feedback from what we talk about?
Like some people that would be a fact, not not just listeners,
but I'm talking about from people in the building kind of like, uh,
you know, hey, you guys missed on that or hit on that or
blah blah blah or they're not going to admit it. I'm going so okay,
you're you're out about you see someone who works in Michale or tied to
Michale. I heard you. The guys. You guys are spot on or
not spot on, or they don't say anything. They mostly don't say anything,
you know, Like I said told you, I mean early on when
when when Desiree refriends. While I got here, you're hearing rumors about things
changes that she was making kind of petty kind of stuff, you know,
from the people. From the people. Well, none of that's coming to
Fruition. So you know, the rumor mail got going about her, and
none of it's happened, So you know, it's it's it's been kind of
interesting as far as that goes, Hi, you're on the air and I
on the All yeah, hey, guys, A quick question, what have
happened to you? What happened to you? Have a ticket price and the
relative the last year. That's good question. The football tickets went up a
bit. I my ticket went from I believe where I sit went from four
hundred and thirty five to four hundred and eighty five. I think went up
fifty bucks or something like that. Maybe if or twenty it might have even
gotten a twenty five bucks. I get two tickets, so I paid an
extra fifty I'd have to look it up, but not not enough for me
to say I'm not doing that for sure. We got we got to I
get we got a tailgate pass, you know for the Michaelon It went from
four hundred to four to twenty five. Okay, sounds great. All right,
thank you guys. Okay, you're very welcome. So you're looking at
maybe ten percent ten percent. I'll look it up to to see exactly what
it was, but I think I think I went up fifty bucks a ticket
where I sent in section twenty three, which is about the ten yard line
on the north west side. NORTHESTI okay, and so I think that you
know, it didn't go up tremendously, and you know, I knew it
was going up, so I didn't, you know, do you think?
And I think I maybe brought this up. Either had to be earlier this
week because I was out last week that two songs not a rich place,
right, that they could in the need of money getting money, they could
price out some people. And we talked to Ray yesterday about the demographics and
the maybe grabbing some more Hispanic audience not just here but in the south of
the border where they could price people out even though they want to get them.
They have to be careful. They have to be careful about that because
you know, Arizona support. Look, basketball for a long time has been
out of people's price with right and they and they fill it up and they
know, you know, so they've got the demand so they can they can
charge what they charge. Football has been a different thing, you know,
going back to you know, the five dollars you know, not whole ticket
and and those kinds of things they're having, you know, ten dollars uh
tickets. They've got to be careful about pricing people out there. Are people
out here who can pay good money to go right. They get the fifty
yard line seats and and the or the you know, the load seats or
whatever. But you know, I think I'm a pretty average fan. You
know, I I want to I don't want to sit in the end zone.
You know, I don't want to pay the by the cheapest ticket.
But I'm not you know, I'm not a fifty yard line person either,
I said, you know, we're a I'm a ten ten yard line sit
high enough where I still got a good view of close everything. They're good
seats for us. Plus we've got other people to think about, uh,
you know, who can They want to sit with us, but they don't
want to spend any more than what we're spending. So you know, I
mean really we you know, just only a few years ago that we were
set in one section further north, one section towards the end zone. But
uh got a little rowdy over there, so we decided to move in one
and we just thought, you know, let's move let's move in and see
because so it's it's not they just have to be careful and because you know,
okay, so you're gonna sell more higher price. You're gonna sell higher
price tickets, but you're not gonna sell more of them, right, some
people are gonna leave when it gets to a certain point. Right, So
I and I Steve, I'm not smart enough to know what that problem you
do that the price line is. I am not smart enough to know how
you do that. Yeah. The one thing that's and I'm sure you go
shopping more than You're not more than your wife, but you're you know,
in addition to your wife. I go because I go because everything's higher.
Oh, going to the grocery store and you kidding me and everything, I
mean it could be whatever. Go order a big mac meal at McDonald's.
It's thirteen dollars. Yeah, yeah, you get out of there, and
it's give fifteen sixteen bucks there, Yeah for you, just for you.
You get you get, you get a burger, a fry, and a
coke and it's fifteen bucks at McDonald's. It used to be fifteen bucks to
go to, you know, a nice burger joint where you sit down and
they feed you. Yeah, no, no, I get it. That's
and that's kind of my point. Everything's up probably never going to come back
down. And now you have a place of people that need to go to
people who need you guys to go to the games. And how is that
gonna happen when if the dollar is stretched? It's a very dicey place for
them to be, right now, It really is, because I think that
you know, they need the money, no doubt they need the money,
but you know you charge more, do you wind up with less? Right?
Yeah? Right? Which makes it a wash kind of right, makes
the wash. Instead of having forty thousand people, you have thirty eight thousand
people. So they given of the same mount and ready a brought another thing.
And we talked about this a number of times as people who go to
the games but don't go to the games, they go and parties your place
right, places like yours, right, and then after they go home,
then they go home. Right. Yeah, there's a lot of those,
you know, I mean so many of those that they had to make a
rule what you couldn't stay. You can't stay you if you're tailgating, if
you're in the tailgate area, you have to be either in the stadium or
gone from the tailgate area I think fifteen minutes after kickoff something like this.
So they police that, Yeah, police yeah, yeah they do. You
know, there were so many people who would go tailgate, bring a TV,
stay there party during the game, and then be there after the game.
By that time they're drunk and then the fights breakout. Yeah, but
they don't let you do that anymore. They cleared the tailgate area. They're
fifteen or thirty minutes after kickoff. Okay, imagine all that revenue that could
be going inside to to have some fun or at least watching him. No,
and I know people who do that. You know who I think are
are pretty decent fans, But I know there are people who do that,
and who you know who don't you know who don't go to the In my
humble opinion, I think the one thing to solve that is to obviously win,
yeah, win some games, win some games, and for people to
feel like it's worth their money to you know, to spend to go to
a game and know you're gonna have a good time because maybe there's a chance
that they're gonna win, right, right, and it should be a fun
season this year. Like you say, basketball sales itself, Football just needs
to continue to have that trajectory of moving up, moving up. Okay,
Okay, let's say we're gonna have no guests here in the first half,
although I didn't have one for tomorrow at the same time, I'll tell you
on the break, and then in the second hour, we're gonna have Scott
Thompson. I ran into him a couple of weeks ago. He's been on
the show with the media a couple of times. I love talking to him.
He's been everywhere. He's now back in town. You know, he
had cancers beat that, He's worked for a lot of cancer societies. We'll
see what he's up to and just get him his take on what's going on
today. You know he was he was there when you were there, Yeah,
covering the team. Yeah, the first year I covered the team was
his last year at Arizona. He took that job at Rice, which,
as I recall, Luke didn't want him to take it. He thought he
could get a better Really, I didn't know that. Could you bring that
up to him and to see what he says, Oh, I see what
he says. Yeah, he was a little upset of me because I include
him in my book. But there's only twenty five people I could talk to
everybody, so I apologize, Okay, before we go out there. Just
to answer your question, my tickets did go up fifty bucks a ticket.
They went from three forty per ticket to three ninety per ticket, three fifty
bucks. That's about a little more than fifteen percent fifteen percent, thirteen fifteen
percent. And then as I mentioned the uh, the tail, they passed
one up twenty five bucks and uh, that's yeah, that's what I have.
Yeah, and that's kind of they said ten to forty percent into so
I'm sure it's a gradual to forty exactly. And I had again as I
said, I had no problem with it. Yeah, I was expecting it.
Well, and that's your entertainment right right. You know, football season
is a big deal to us. I mean our our whole fall result revolves
around the football season. I mean weddings, babies, debts. Would you
say, don't don't dine, don't be born on the day of a home
football right, Okay, here we go. We got to go all right,
let's take a break. We'll be back with Oh, we'll take your
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the bar. Hey, welcome back to I the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. I'm Steve. He's Jay got handing me with us for the next
a couple of hours. If you want to call, we'd like you to
call. We have no guest this hour five two oh four one, six
seventy four forty. I'm just looking at some predictions for Pig twelve. Well,
I was gonna say people, there's probably people out there saying that we're
a couple of losers because we swent through a whole first segment and didn't even
mention the fact that the NBA Draft is tonight, but tomorrow it starts tonight.
Oh, just tonight it starts. That's even worse. No, no,
no, In fact, because it's always thought on Thursday, I know
that's funny. But because because they they two days, it's two days now.
Yeah, that's funny. Because I've been trying to reach out to scouts
and to people to have them. I was waiting for you to say,
oh, in the NBA Draft, No, no, because I was ready
for tomorrow. So it's one change. Because it's two days, I didn't
know what's on Wednesday. The first round is tonight. Okay, I spent
fifteen minutes boning up on it today because I was trying to reach out to
some people that and they didn't Well, you know, look I mentioned a
million times I'm not a huge NBA fan. I do pay attention to the
draft, largely because because there's usually Arizona guys in it, right, I
can't. I've had so little interest in this draft because I've never even heard
of the guy who's going to be the number one. Bad draft. It's
a bad draft. Yeah, quality of draft is number good, should be
good. I mean I go down the list, and okay, I've heard
of Reed Shepherd at from coming out of Kentucky, the two the two Yukon
guys that are supposed to be in the top five or top six. And
then and then I go down a little further and I wonder, why did
Colorado suck when they've got two guys who are supposed to drafted in the top
fifteen or sixty two guys sposed to go Cody Williams, who to this,
I still say, you know, I saw him play three times, you
know, three times against Arizona, just once on TV once here, and
well I saw more than once I saw him, you know, all their
games that at the PAC twelve tournament, and they kept saying he's a he's
a high number one picking up hig first round picking. I'm like, why,
yeah, Henry, do you have an opinion on that? I feel
like every time Arizona played them, all the broadcasts would talk about was just
how his potential? Yeah, I remember because he was a skinny guy,
right, yeah, guy? But did theydn't even look any good? It's
all about potential, yeah, I mean I argued that he I don't know
that he would even start at Arizona. Yeah, it's all about potential.
Let me give you this bet. Apparently I made. It happened in January.
I guess, well, I'll get to that. So which way would
you go with this twenty bucks? Who would be drafted higher? Johnson or
pell U from Arizona? I would have I would have taken Keisha Johnson.
Okay, so apparently I took a pele? Okay, why you don't know?
Bryan Peterson Byan Peterson sent me a note about a month ago after I
just Johnson had a good combat, right, and he says, okay,
you want to pay me now or payment. I'm thinking, what are you
talking about? This is well, we made that bet that says we did
this is what. I have a third party that's uh, that witnessed it.
I said, okay, and so I guess Johnson had a good Yeah.
But then a week later Pelly had a good timeline. So I'm thinking,
I like my bet, so whatever. But truthfully, I told them
I don't remember the bet because I don't think either of them are going to
get drafted. They might be drafted, but I'm not sure they will.
I think at this point both of them are going to get drafted in the
second round. I don't know. With with key shot going high in the
second round, we'll like like in the thirties. Yeah, we'll see that.
I'm down twenty. I have a number four. That happens, number
four? What's next? No, that's that's this is this is just a
friendly your bet. You're betting, you're betting, and then don't even remember
betting. That's that's the gambling problem, right, And usually you remember stuff
like that because because well, first, like I said, I didn't think
either of them were going to be drafted. In fact, it probably would
be best if they didn't so they can go to the team that wants them.
Honestly, look always Having said all that, I don't even know how
much attention I will pay to the draft as a as a talk show person.
Here we have to talk and we need to talk about it. But
again, I don't know who these guys are. Yeah, a lot of
international again, yeah, but international guys, Henry, you know, I
don't know. Yeah, So I we'll see. But it starts five o'clock.
By the way, Steve our time. Okay, I'm going to rush
and race home and catch and catch the whole draft. I don't think so.
And then the second round is tomorrow. That's where I think, you
know, we'll hear about the U of a guys. Although at one point
did I not see a box draft where key Shot was actually late first round?
The highest I saw him was like thirty five, So maybe there was
one who was it? Draft Kings, Draft, net, Draft, NBA
draft I used to do all the time, and I got I used to
do that all the time. Aftually covered the team and some dude, uh
realistic he sent some me know you're you're using your sources as a as this
with a bunch of kids who are doing the mocks us as well. If
you have a better one, you can let me. And it's turned into
a butterfly business. It's a business, definitely business, and it's not exact
science because they say this and say that it works and something. Well,
the one I've been looking at has been on the NBA website. They somebody
there pulled together all the all the mock drafts and did like a like a
like an eight people, you know, accumulated all the you know, all
the votes, and they've got they got this kid from from France going first,
Zachary Researcher something like that, going to the Hawks, a six y
nine guy, and then a dude from Australia, Alexander Sar going second,
and then Read Shepherd to the Kentucky point Wow. Which is a surprise to
me that he would go third of this Kentucky point guard because he he jumped
man man. Okay, we'll see. But so you you take the Johnson
pick, I would take the Pelli pick. I would take neither pick.
But I will say, I think back then, when when did you make
that bad? Yes, January, I might have taken Palette, I don't
know, you know, it had been a tough gut. Somebody would ask
me to bet that. I don't know that I would have even bet it
because I'm, you know, so uncertain. I might have done it for
giggles. If I might have said, Okay, you pick one and I'll
take the other. Yeah, well I could have done it too. I
don't remember. But we'll see what happens. Good luck to each of them,
you know, each of one, because we we we'll see what happens.
Now, if you ask me who I think has got the best shot
of making the team, I think it's Keisha Johnson hands down. You know
he's got he's got more of the physical uh skills. By that, I
mean he's a more physical player, athletic, you know, athletic than then
then then Pala Palas. You know, a better shooter if you can make
yourself and even in better shooter, you know, he would have a chance.
He's a good defensive player. But you know, neither of those guys
are are a height that with the skills that match with the skills they have,
as they would need and they either need to be a little taller,
you know, or with the skills that they have or shoot, they would
need to be a little quicker to play on the other side, to be
as tall as they are and play, you know'll be a two or three
and need to shoot be better shooters. So they're kind of in between.
They have big man skills, but they're not really big man as it relates
to the NBA Big Man. We'll see right after the show begins, right
shows it begins after the show in Okay, we'll keep We'll see what happens
throughout tomorrow too, because tomorrow will be the day when it starts five tomorrow
to okay, probably eight o'clock Eastern time. Okay, we'll see that.
We're going back to regular schedule, regular schedule program. I tell you you're
bringing up what I want to bring this up, and blah blah blah.
Maybe someone can call us because I totally forgot. Oh, the Big twelve,
the Big twelve. They had some Big twelve and they went to the
Big twelve over unders. Blah blah blah. This came out about two hours
ago, about three hours ago. Yeah, Big twelve. It says win
totals, odds picks predictions for every team. Utah Kansas make a case for
contention. Arizona went over under eight wins? What are they doing over on
eight wins? Wins that in New Mexico or against New Mexico, NAU,
Texas Tech. That't three at b y U four, Colorado five, West
Virginia six, Houston seventh, Arizona State eight, lost us to Kansas State,
UTAH UCF and at TCU. Wow. Okay, that's kind of legit,
isn't it. Yeah? I mean yeah, I mean that that.
You know, that's a all of those are reasonable, right? You know
whenning at BYU, that sounds that sounds tough. That's a tough one.
That that I that that's gonna be that Washington State game from last year,
right where we said, okay, if they be Washington State, now things
start to happen and that and that's what happened. I think that the B
why B why boy is gonna be hard every year and I hate that about
that. You could really so where where did you see this? It's it's
on ms N. It's MSN real quick, But realistically, I think that's
that's about right because everyone's gonna be good to well, not everyone. A
lot of the teams are gonna be good, you know, the again and
the for Arizona fans, you've got to realize, Okay, you know from
where we've sat in the in the big bad PAC twelve. You know,
teams like Central Florida, Kansas State, Kansas even to a degree, Texas
Tech. I think there's some kind of Arizona fans think those programs aren't as
good if they are right, they don't realize how good those programs are.
And you know, you know, we're gonna have to get used to the
fact that Arizone is gonna lose some games to some teams that you think they
shouldn't lose games to. This is you can't. You don't always win games
on paper, and you just by perception perception you think, oh no,
not necessarily Because I bring this point up like two years ago for the Final
four and the Florida team Florida International, Yeah, who do you right?
Who you about them at all? And then they finally played in front of
you. He says, oh these good They were pretty damn And then you
think, where did these guys come from? Well, they've been there.
You just didn't notice them, We didn't You didn't see him right, And
you know, and I know I know Arizona fans thumb their nose that by
you, because you know what, we went to the PAC twelve and by
you didn't, right, And so I think that you know, fans are
gonna have to get you know, kind of readjust their thinking about, uh,
some of these programs that they've kind of looked at from a distance and
not realized that while you know, we were playing USC and u C l
A and those teams, those are the programs were getting pretty good. I
mean Central Florida had an undefeated season a few years ago and remember and they
claimed that they were, you know, national champions. So did you get
it? Get it? So talking about Kansas having eight wins, uh,
Kansas State nine and a half, Pogloma State eight, that that Kansas State
game is a is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Arizona fan
just thinks Kansas State can't be that good. Sure, that's a loss right
now. If you're if you're would you say ten points nine if you're penciling
in you know, if you're looking at Arizona scheduled penciling in wins and losses,
and you penciled that in as a WU his reputation, Yeah, you're
you're you're you know, you're, you're, you're, you're you're not thinking
right, So I think that it's a it's a uh, you know,
there's gonna be some time for Arizona and it's gonna have to get used to,
you know, who's good and who's not. You know, and Arizona
could be could lose two in a row, going to going to Kansas State
and then going to Utah the week after that, and all of a sudden,
you're two and two and you're going, wait a minute, I thought
we were going to be good. You're well, they can still be good.
Yeah, but those are those are two of their hardest games of the
year. Yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah, give us a quick call
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Sports torteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake. Have Henry with us today.
We have sixteen minutes. If we want to call, can call back.
I know you missed the We missed you, so call back five two
oh four, one sixty then we'll get right back with you. So as
we as we were going out, we were talking about win totals in Arizona's
win total, and I'm looking at the schedule and looking at the games that
they pick, and the the this is from MSN dot com. They've got
Arizona losing four road games. You look at the four road games and you
go, okay, yeah, I can't I can't argue with those at Kansas
State, at Utah, at Central Florida and at TCU. That Central Florida
game. I think they're going across the country. It's gonna be in November.
Uh, you know, depending on what time that game is. That's
a tough that's a tough place for Arizona to go at that time. Uh,
you know, to go play a game you know, three times essentially
three time zones away because we're actually in the Pacific times though, but no,
by that time we were back on their back off daylight saving times.
It's a two hour difference. But nonetheless, you know, going to the
East Coast for a game is going to be hard every year that they have
to do it. So now West Virginia they have to come here, so
you know that it's gonna be hard on them. But you know, the
only road game they've got Arizona winning is at BYU, and that's gonna be
a hard game to win. It just is, and it's gonna be a
hard game for for Arizona to win, you know. Ever, so I
don't know. Yeah, well we'll see what happens as when you get closer
to the to the games. I do think that there's a lot of optimism
with the guys he's getting. Yeah, the guys he has, it's gonna
be a great, a very good offense. Okay, let's take this.
Okay, Hi, you're on the air and eye on the ball. Hey
it's Richard. How you guys are doing today? What's up? Richard?
How's it going? Hey? That did I hear you correct to say that
Arizona was a nine point dog versus Kansas State? Yes, they are.
Well, I'm definitely getting ready to put some money on Arizona in that game.
I think Arizona's gonna win that game. You think, so okay,
you know, oh yeah, come on, now, Kansas State has got
a new quarterback and they're gonna be real jacked up around the guy. He's
real good. But it doesn't matter. Arizona's got the best quarterback and a
veteran offensive line, veteran defense. They've just come off the Oklahoma win.
Arizona's coming in under the radar right now, So I think this is a
really good bet. All right, Well, look, I think Jay just
will get on King. No, I'm just I'm just I saw that.
I saw that. I saw that line. Uh you mentioned there was a
there was a there was a column about like the top twenty under the radar
games that people aren't really talking about, with that one being with that with
the Kansas State Arizona game being one of them, and and it had the
line at the Kansas State minus nine. So I'm looking to see if that,
in fact is the number. I'm looking on DraftKings to see if you
can actually bet that right now, that's ridiculous, and come on, Arizona
is going to be all fired up and focused on the road. Those four
Kansas State fans are going to be in for a little surprise, I think.
Well, I also, you know, I do. Yeah, it's
a long way to go. Guys. Why in the world is Mom Soon
doing here in June? Okay, I see it and I found it now
on DraftKings. It's on DraftKings. Remember it's a Friday night game. Uh
and they've got it at uh Kansas State minus seven and a half. Okay,
drafting quickly, Yeah, so many DraftKings heard the show and the light
just drive Well anyway, I don't think Arizona can win that game. What
do you think? What do you think about the eight wins? The eight
wins over under for Arizona? I'd say over yeah, okay, oh yeah
sure Richard. All this time I thought you're this pragmatic guy that said all
the time, No, actually I agree with you. I agree with you.
It's going to be eight or over eight or over right now? What
do you think about the Sooners down in the SEC? How many games do
you think they don't win? Do you think they can make the playoffs?
Playoffs? The bad mood moved for Oklahoma to go to the SEC. Well,
I thought I thought it was a bad move for Oklahoma. I kind
of put them similar to to U. C. L A. They got
dragged to the SEC by Texas, and so, you know, I don't
think they I don't think they're Well, it's gonna be interesting to see if
their heart is really in it, because you know, I imagine they would
have rather have stayed, you know, in the Big Twelve where they were.
I mean, it was stupid, I think, but we'll see.
I mean, I'm not excited about joining the SEC. I can go.
I'm not excited. Are you guys excited about joining the Big twelve? Yeah?
I am only in the only only only in the context to me,
Richard, only in the context of if the PAC twelve was gonna die,
which it did, then I'm happy with where they ended up. I'd rather
the PAC twelve didn't die. Richard, Richard, I never get excited.
Let me get excited, Richard. You don't, you know, don't more
than the Mexico blood. You're not excited. You're very skeptical about don't.
Don't rain on my parade, man, I really like it. Thank you,
Thank you, know, I think we have to qualify about, you
know, the whole idea of being excited about Arizona being in the PAC twelve.
I'd rather they not be there the big pub. I'd rather they not
be there. I'd rather they be in the Packed one. Sure, given
the choice, but given given the choice of you know, once the PAC
twelve was killed, Yeah, I'm excited about where we are. And again
I've you know, said before, because I think Arizona can be very competitive
in this league, more competitive than on a regular basis than they were in
the Packed once. The newness and the new newness is part of the charm
because we don't know what to expect. It's gonna be cool, a lot
of fun. And then once they get established that you're gonna say, hey,
you know what, it may have turned out okay, especially in football
in basketball, it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be competitive. Itzone was
gonna get their butts knocked around in basketball, but it's gonna make them tougher
and they could be better when it matters. Don't you agree? I agree?
I agree, Steve. I think I think baseball, I don't know.
The other sports, I don't know softball baseball I think is kind of
a wash. Basically softball, same softball, same Yeah. But I think
that, you know, and a lot of a lot of this has to
do with the fact that you know, Oklahoma and Texas are gone. They're
they're not in that league anymore. So if the league kind of becomes wide
open, I mean, I think I believe Utah is going to be the
favorite to win the league, you know, to win the Big Twelve and
football, whether Arizona, I think Arizona will probably be the third or fourth
pick to win. In basketball. I think part of that is going to
be some bias on the part of the Big Twelve media who they're going to
kind of go with what's familiar to that, right, you know, part
of it's gonna be the schedule too, you know, who plays who?
Because right, with more teams, there's fewer teams that you play twice.
Yeah, so you know, is there Zone gonna play Kansas twice or not?
Is there zonly gonna play Baylor twice or not? Is There Zone gonna
play Texas Tech and Houston twice or not? Those things are gonna matter in
terms of you know, where you you're actually gonna have to look at the
schedule to decide what place where you're gonna predict teams to finish. Because let's
say Kansas doesn't have to play Arizona two times, doesn't have to play Baylor
two times, doesn't have to play Houston two times. Well, then if
they're you know who they have to play two times and can they lose those
games? So all that all that's gonna matter when it comes to basketball.
It's gonna be fun, I think if you don't have tickets to try again.
Yeah, but uh, yeah, it's I'm mad at myself, Steve,
because remember while back we talked about the over under total on Arizona.
It was seven and a half and I didn't bet it. Yeah, it's
a push of at set eight, right, it's a push, Yeah,
I think I would go over just say you say, yeah, well,
everyone has to stay healthy of course, of course. Yeah, and right
now Mac is not right and the no one needs to stay healthy for sure.
Uh, and then we'll see what happens. You know. Health of
the team obviously needs yeah, to be fun and that that goes with anybody,
any team. I like. I like that. I'm looking at the
DraftKings page in Washington is right above Arizona on the list, and they're over
under six and a half. I like that. Yeah, go under.
There's a bet you can make on DraftKings. I think who's gonna have more
wins Arizona or Washington something like that, or it's probably Arizona's probably like probably
minus one and a half or something like that. I would go with Arizona.
Woul't you? Oh, here we go match ups? Okay, look,
I'll look that up. There might be some interesting ones here. You're
on Draft Kings senor Henry not really, not really, that's a good Okay,
here it is Arizona is minus two forty five to have more wins than
that's not a good number. I don't like that number. Yeah, they're
minus or their plus one oh five to have more wins than Kansas. So
that's an interesting that's yeah, that's I think they're picked to finished both of
with eight but two forty five minus two forty five Washington, So Washington,
that's not a good number. So you have to be that's not a good
number. Let's see there's another one. No, those are the only two
that you can bet those matchups I I wish you could buy I wish you
could buy that. You know that spread a little bit right where you can
say, okay, Arizona minus one and a half to get to more of
an even even odds. That's a kind of thing that that would be more
fun. Okay, here here, okay, here's one on the exact wins.
Let's see if if Arizona's on this page the exact number of wins.
I don't see that. Okay, well you're doing that. I'm gonna look
something that I took a photo of today, just that thought it was interesting
on your Twitter thing. Uh, and this is the best college programs developing
NBA players given today's draft. Saw that best college and what did you think?
Well, I saw I just saw that Arizona was like fifth or something
like that. They're not on my list. This was John Canton. The
best college programs are developing NBA players, according to Fox Sports and research in
Arizona's not on the list. No, let me give you this list,
us LA, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Gonzaga, Villanova, USC,
Michigan, Arkansas makes no sense because Arizona's got like as as like third or
fourth in number of NBA players no sense. You know a number of players
in the league, aren't they I don't know about those numbers, but it
does doesn't talk about developing. Developing is exactly the key. Kentucky Calipari.
He he didn't develop them, He didn't develop them. They just came in
and left. They came in, they had somewhere, they needed somewhere to
go to spend on the year and then go. They were already NBA ready
if they were good enough. This this thing, I'm thinking, I gotta
take this because it makes no sense. U c l A who they had
your your guy and that was about it. Well, how far back are
they going? Well, apparently a long time, because it's it's not right
if they go back a really long time. Arizona deserves to be on that
list because Arizona, if anything was under Loot was a factory for NBA because
they we even talked to Uh was it Sean? I can't remember that.
If there's one thing about Arizona and Loot, he got him ready for the
NBA. Look Tobert Is Tolbert Judd Buschler. These guys ready for the were
they NBA guys? He got him ready for the NBA. Come on,
Channing Fry, Yeah he was he developed into an NBA. Yeah, I
mean he wasn't even a great college exactly right, so he knew what to
do and he started here. They weren't They just didn't show up here,
play and then leave. They got better here. You know. It wasn't
like and doesn't it and doesn't Arizona have like the third or fourth most players
with a championship and stuff like that? Let me thank Steve Kerry. Well,
yeah, but it's nonetheless. Yeah, I don't know, I don't
know the number that, but it sounds right. It sounds right. But
this list to me, I said, holy crap, this makes no sense.
And who put that list out? I had it just now hold on,
it was according to to Fox Sports research John Fantom put it. What
do you guess he was just retweeting this? What do you guys think?
And I think it's a bunch of crap. Gonzagat really maybe in the last
few years, but not over time. Yeah, it'd be interesting to know
what that criteria is because it doesn't sound to it doesn't sound sound this is
this is exactly what we talk about when we get these lists who's doing it
and what what basement are doing it? From right and right? And you
know it's obviously things like that are pretty subjective, so so who knows.
But I if you say, all he's at the top of that list.
I mean again, my question becomes, how far back are you going?
Are you going back to the Van Holland days when you know, when Kevin
Love and uh and uh the dude, yeah, the guard uh Werook Westbrog,
Yeah, Russell Westbrook and those guys were coming out of the coming into
the league. In fact, his photos on that on that this thing,
this Twitter thing. Yeah, but that's twenty almost twenty years ago now,
twenty years ago now, but still Arizona in that in that twenty years,
it had to be one of the top top program. Yeah. Well during
Gordon, there's some other ones, you know, including the ones that we
didn't think even should be drafted. Who get who got drafted and played?
I still do. I still can't believe Josh Green is in the league.
I really can't. And again and he didn't develop here Mark right Marek credit
to him that he has developed and he's a solid player, you know with
the Mavericks, you know, Zeke Naji. I mean those guys, I
mean they were good, but they didn't look like NBA guys to me while
they were here. So but again we didn't see him for very long.
And and then because you know what he played in the style that that's not
what they play, right Sean did there there is that and Nico could have
very well been one of those guys, but he was stifled in my opinion,
Yeah, yeah, no, yeah no, So yeah, it's a
it's it's weird. But I mean there have been some guys that have gone
that you thought, there's no way that that kid's gonna stick. And he
Aaron Gordon, right, I mean, guy couldn't make a free throw.
Uh, you know, he could jump out of the building, grab a
lot of rebounds, you know, and look at him. Now, well
you just described Johnson Keisha, Yeah you got jump out of the building,
can hit some shots, not that great of a shooter, but his athletic
as all heck, and can play. Yeah Johnson, you see a guy
like you go, okay, I can do that. So we'll see,
we'll see. The whole thing is TJ McConnell. Come on, who would
have thought that? And he's getting contract. Man, I want to take
this ball, or yeah, let's do it real quick and real quick,
real quick. Hi, you're on the air and on the ball. You've
only had about thirty seconds. That figures it's jim. Oh, hey,
Jim, you got to make it quick or later? Do we still have
number twenty running the football? Number twenty? What do you mean? Uh?
I don't know who that is? Who that was running back for Arizona.
Yeah, Coleman was that. No, Coleman was was he? He
was in twenty he was like three. Yeah, he's gone to Washington.
We talked about it. He's gone to Washington. He got huge, he
was huge. Yeah, you got speedy. Look back and then a bunch
of you guys. Okay, So I think the football team is going to
do better than we think. And I think the basketball team is going to
get knocked around, all right, that's fair. Yeah, and I do
well. The basketball team is gonna get knocked rout because they're in a better
league for sure. Now now I think they're going to get I think they're
gonna get there. Butts handed to him a few times. It's based on
physicality, yeah, but in the end it's gonna matter. What's gonna matter
is how do they do in the n C Double A Tournament. And maybe
this league gets them more ready for the n C Double A Tournament. Who
knows. Yeah, all right, Jim, we gotta gotta hit the road.
Appreciate it. Yeah, No, Arizona is. Yeah, fans better
get ready to see Arizona get blooded more often than than they have in the
past. All right, let's take our break. When we come back,
Uh, Henry, Henry's gonna be hear the breaking news. Then we're gonna
have Scott Thompson, former coach at Arizona, under Ludles and stick around