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Welcome to I on the Ball. You're a Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve Rivera. He's Jagon's ass Will see start the show on Thursday? Um?
Can we take tomorrow off? Just at half the week off? We
just got back? Who do we talk to? Who I know? Who's
my boss? Well, you're the boss. Oh then wait to think,
let me think about your call call? How about them nuggets? Well you
know what, you know who the boss is? The bosses. Those people
out there who were waiting for us to get back on. Yeah, yeah,
I'm tired of their complaining. Where you guys that you guys need to
be working where we're back? Yeah, and we have we are people coming
in today last minute. Yep, we're working the board though. Yeah,
it could be anything. So what do we got today? Just because we
didn't really say yeah, you know, um, just there was so much
going on that we had to talk about yesterday. We skipped a few things,
but one of those is that the Sugar Skulls won last Thursday, last
Saturday. I'm from behind when they were down big in the at halftime,
scored with about thirty seconds left and then well and then uh Vegas had a
chance to kick a field goal to win it and missed it, and so
the Sugar Skulls to win. So they're back in. They're back in the
playoff discussion. Another big game this week. They got Duke City coming in
where they lost to at home a few weeks ago. So, um,
we'll see what happens. So we're gonna have hurt us hurt his chin,
the head coach of the Sugar Skulls coming on at four o'clock during our normal
breaking news segment. But we wanted to get him and talk to him talk
a little bit about last week because again that was a huge win. Rashi
Hodge, You Obey defensive back made a made a very important interception. Cool
the the Nighthawks were going in for a game clinching score and you picked off
a pass in the end zone gave his Sugar Skulls a chance to go down
and get elite go ahead score. So um, Hurdis will come in and
talk about last weekend, the upcoming game on Saturday, the two Songs,
and then FC two Songs. We're talking to both, you know, the
two the two uh Pro franchises that are that are going right now here in
town. And uh Art Biagi, the first year coach FC two Songs,
come up and talk to us. It's interesting to have a chat with him
for one. Yeah, a lot of things going on over there doing well.
Okay, how about them Nuggets? How about them Nuggets? Man that
they didn't mess around. They just went out there and beat the hell out
of it. I think they just they just realized that didn't play well in
Game two and then they wanted to show. Yeah, so we'll see.
I think the pivotal game is this Friday. I think it's over five and
five, could be six. I don't know. I think the Nuggets win
tomorrow. I think the Nuggets win tomorrow and then oh then if if they
win tomorrow, yeah, then so look the we talked about yesterday, the
heat. They've had a nice run and then it's an incredible run. Barely
got into the into the you know, into the playoffs, and now they're
in the finals Um, you know, I'm sure they want to win it.
They're gonna feel bad if they don't. But on the other hand,
you know, who would have thought that we're gonna get as far as they
did. So if you're listen to this in Miami, don't turn us off.
Okay, Well you know no, I mean no, you know you
get that close, right, you want to win it? Oh? Yeah,
of course, you know, even if even if you were not supposed
to be there, you still feel like once you're there, you should win
the dang thing, right and uh, and because you feel like if you
got, if you got, you're good enough to get there, you're good
enough to think right, right. It reminds me of a little of this
back in ninety seven when Arizona uh beat the odds and blah blah blah,
beat beat Kansas and then beat Providence and then beat beat North Carolina taking the
Semis right, uh, and Loote tells everybody, well, I guess we're
gonna play on Monday. Yeah, what else do we have to do?
Right as right? And that's what they did and they did, you know,
and then you know, and then so many other teams you know,
you you know, I mean, you don't even get there, so you
know, good for the heat. Um, you know, maybe maybe something
to build on. Did you beat them because you were talking about it?
I didn't, you know, it just it just comes down to it.
I'm a big chicken. Um when I don't feel like I know enough to,
you know, to feel good about it, right, I mean,
you know, as bad as I am at some of the other stuff,
at least I feel like I know what the hell I'm doing. I didn't.
I don't. I I don't know, you know. And I'm sitting
here saying I think it's gonna be done in five, you know, meaning
that the Nuggets should win the next two. But you know, I'm not
willing. I don't think. Don't touch it, don't talk about it.
Okay, So how much how much of your winnings will you give me if
I don't touch it? No, you're not, you're not. But I'm
gonna go beat on the Nuggets the rest of the rest of the series.
You can't hold me host I can if I want, so. You can
bleed twice blee twice of you trouble so um, yeah, you know,
they just look so good, you know, Yeah, yeah, you know
again, and that's kind of a team they are though you know, they
don't they they're not flashy, they're not splashy. They're not you know,
they don't have the splash brothers. They don't have Lebron, they don't you
don't have the big dude, that big That dude just plays right. He
just makes He just makes shots, He scores, he gets rebounds and assists.
The reason why though I didn't, I didn't bet him because that I
bet him because of Murray. Uh, the last couple of years he had
been hurt. No one really thought about that or talked about that. And
I said, well, they're the best team in the in the league for
a reason. I want a lot of those games won the West for a
reason. And he's healthy if he doesn't get hurt. And I hate the
game. But he's been fantastic too, you know, and everybody else has
kind of fall into place. Yeah and yeah, and so you know,
it's just again, there's nothing exciting about the Nuggets, right, Nothing that
makes you not even Aaron Gordon, who are exciting, right, nothing that
makes you jump off the couch, right. But they're just dang good and
you can't deny that, and they're gonna be good for a walk. They're
gonna be good for a walk. You've got guys that are gonna be around
from Yeah, sometimes boring is good. It can be. Boarding is good
because you win. But you know, and then so often, you know,
and in so many cases, people get you know, they get bored
with success. You know, you wonder, how, let's say they have
a couple of good years like that, does the team break up? Well,
that's what we talked about with the with the Golden State Warriors. Right,
they win all these things and you say, well, the dynasty,
dynasty, and then things happen, they fight and they punch and blah blah
blah, and you're thinking, as well, this is the end of the
dynasty. Yeah, so we'll see. In fact, we're trying to get
ahold of Curve too, so maybe next week or so. So, you
know, it's it's just it's just it's not sexy to watch. But you
know, if you have an appreciation for really good team team basketball, right,
they're a star star two, they're fun to watch. Yeah. Yeah,
okay, oh, today we want some calls. If you want to
call, please do. The first hour is gonna be pretty much call call
available. No interview in the first hour. We have two in the second
hour with the guys you just mentioned, So if you guys want to give
us a call. Howard sent me a note jay he's on a three month
sabbatical from us, not listening to us. He's a self imposed he's still
listening. I think. I don't know. He could be. He might
be. I'm not sure he's not calling us. First few minutes. Yeah,
the fact that I might be a good thing for us. Well,
and again there's so you know, there's still a lot of buzz going on
about about the realignment stuff and yeah, yeah, the TV deal stuff.
I'll just ask you something about that. Okay, So I gotta text this
morning from somebody just kind of my my thoughts on it. And I'm not
bursting it well enough, but I'm thinking, don't you think or would you
believe this that? Okay, you hear all the rumors, you've heard him
for months now, right, wheel Nurse talked, Kenzano's talked. Do we
have a local guys who've talked throw this stuff out there? And I don't
really pay attention because just tell me where to go and I'll go um,
but that that, like doctor Robbins said, he didn't even know about these
stunt things. Do you think with Lyle without lying to the media, that
there's people out there that have to kind of shut down the leaks because the
leaks might be true, but you can't have the leaks come out. Right.
We've been in this business long enough to know that's a possibility, of
course. It is like like I've been thinking about Robin's comments and I kind
of went through him again and he it's kind of like he was saying,
we don't have a deal on paper, and they don't and they don't write
nobody says so he's saying, I, you know, I don't know if
you know, we don't have a done deal. Well he's probably he's right,
But nobody's saying the deal is done. Everybody's saying there's an agreement and
principle, all the all the issues are resolved. Now it's just navigating the
TV deal done because they're still reporting that. A Stuart Mandel, you know,
had an article this morning saying it's done, you know, not the
TV deal, but the grant of rights that allows them to get the TV
deal done and so you know, so that's kind of the next piece.
If something does happen, how soon do you think it will happen? Oh
you mean no, it's gotta it's gonna happen for twenty four because this is
it, this would be it. It's got to get done now, because
it's for next year. No, I'm talking about I'm talking about the Arizona
leaving and everything's moving. Won that won't be until some of these uh,
some of these deals expire again, like the so you you could be Big
twelve deal and the Big ten deal they're like for five years, So this
won't happen forever for a long time. The Arizona won't leave. It then
in Colorado or whomever. If Arizona, if Arizona gets stays in the PAC
twelve under a new deal here, okay, okay, they're not gonna leave
at least for the duration whatever. No, no, no, no,
okay, let's assume for second they're gonna leave, that they were gonna leave.
It would happen. It would be next It wouldn't be tomorrow, it
would be for next year the season, because yeah, July one or June
thirty, Okay, that's what I'm saying, so those schools are onlander contracts,
one last year in this league and then moving on if they were to
move if they were to move on, Yeah, okay, that's that's pretty
quick. I mean USC had two years, right, but they said,
let's get the heck out of jobs. Yeah, the same with Oklahoma Texas's
and that and the reason USC and UCLA are still in the league because the
current contract required them to stay in the league. Uh, you know,
we are paying a huge penalty and nobody nobody wanted on the scale of one
to ten, and we just keep an eye on the phones, um one
to ten. And I know you want you know, how how I care?
I kind of don't because just tell me to go to the game and
tell me who's gonna play. I'll be there. You've been anxious because you
just want to know. Right, But that said, how critical is the
news outside of you wanted to know? Did you care? Did you care?
Because I asked, well, I know this is a dumb question,
a weird question, but that's when how big is a story? Is this
to you? And he's been on top of it doing whatever, and he
says it's the biggest story because of the magnitude of the story. Right,
But at the end of the day, I don't agree with you. No,
no, no, no, Yes, I think it's question. I
think it's a huge deal because I think it's a huge deal, particularly you
know, because of what Arizona one, because you know, we've been in
this league for nearly fifty years. Right. Um. To me, I'm
a traditionalist. I'm a purist. I love the tradition of of of college
athletics, and I love the fact I love where Arizona has been all this
time, as hard as it's been. You know, we had the conversation
who had you know, who's had a better a better run in the in
the PAC twelve? From PAC ten, PAC twelve, Arizona as here.
I've enjoyed. It's it's really I mean, this is gonna sound kind of
stew but it maybe a little uh um, maybe I'm a loser about this,
but it's added a lot to my life to be following Arizona athletics in
the pack. That's maybe the question I was kind of asking you the impact
it will have on your life. Once it said okay, what what what
next? For you? I could see I could see myself losing some not
not interest, but not being as fanatic if they go to the Big twelve
because I don't care about those two. And that's kind of my point.
You lose a girlfriend and you find a new girlfriend, but she's not as
dynamic as a past girlfriend. I just don't feel like I'm gonna be all
that excited about That's my point. Turning on the TV. That's kind of
my point. But but it's important to me because it's gonna piss me off
if I'm not. If I'm turning on the TV to watch him play Texas
Tech instead of Oregon and US, well that's the option. You're gonna either
watch to play Washington Stay or Texas Teck. So why why be worked up
about it? That's kind of the fans stuff. I still want to play
Oregon. I still want to play Washingtons. I want to play San Diego
State. So you want, given the choice, given the dream or whatever,
you would stay and be fine with it. And if they go,
it's gonna be If they go, they go, it's it'll be cool for
basketball, but it's not gonna be cool for a football And that's what what
kind of impact it's gonna be football. It's gonna kind of be Yeah,
I mean it's gonna you know. I mean, look, we've played those
teams. You know, we've played UH Texas Tech and TCU. Do you're
gonna have a better chance I'm winning that league than they do in the Pac
twelve. No, in football, I know they do not. And that's
another reason I want them to stay in the Pac twelve. The road and
this is why I can't. This is one of the things that, uh
why I think USC in UCLA made a mistake. The road to a playoff
in football is a hundred times easier in the Pac twelve than it is in
the Big ten or the Big But while you're at it, while you're training
it, you're gonna get paid to try to do it. Yeah, you're
gonna get paid. Look, I don't if they go because the deal in
the Pac twelve isn't good enough. I don't blame them. I just would
rather than not. What do you mean if they go, they're going,
if they go to the Big twelve Arizona, Oh no, no, no,
I'm sorry. The two that we just talked about. Yeah, the
transition, you it. If Arizona were to go to the Big twelve.
I you know, I wouldn't like it. Yeah, I'd rather say you're
you're you're stuck in a hard place because they could very well leave. Oh
I know they can't, and I and I, you know what, and
I'll accept it. I probably won't like it as much. I'm not gonna
like going to you know, love Buck instead of Eugene, right or you
know, or you know, wake On instead of Seattle. I'm not gonna
like that. I'm probably not gonna go to those places anyways. Yeah,
okay, we gotta go. All right, let's no, we don't know,
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welcome back, Welcome back to I on the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Rivera's jakins hung up on it. We had a call.
Just whoever it was calling, please call us right back. I hit the
drop buttons. The whole button was back. I was gonna put you don't
remember those two dudes from two old dudes from the Muppets on the on the
balcony. We should use as on our posters. The dude girl. We
had a caller, and please call back. If you listen, I know
it was give us call yeah, Rick, give us a call. Um.
We'll talk more about whatever you want to talk about. Uh, well,
are we talking about just the I know Rick is gonna probably say some
of the things that you you want to talk about or you just talked about
about. You wanted to stay in the Pack twelve, you used to the
Pack twelve. I don't disagree that basketball should be a lot of fun,
right That would be a basketball should be a lot of fun, you know,
and and uh in Texas Tech Tech. Yeah, in Houston and all
those teams over here for home games. That should be a lot of fun.
Okay, here is Baylor. Yeah, hi on the air and I
on the ball. Yeah, it must have been something I said. No,
we will work, you say, now, we don't have the kid
in here working the buttons. It's me and so anything can happen. But
hold that thought, because if you say something stupid, we're gonna still hang.
Hey, I missed you tuesday. I missed you tuesday. Hey.
Hey, by the way, I sent you a text. I didn't get
it last week about an ad Oh no, I didn't get it. I
didn't get it, resended, I didn't get it. No, you didn't
know. You didn't read it. That's right. No, no, no,
you know I love you. Your your checks cash, Yes, I
know they do. It didn't take it. Didn't take you along either,
Right? What do you got, guy? What do you got? What?
What are you gonna give me a cab? Are you back on the
air? Yeah, you're on the air. Oh I thought I thought you
guys were off the air. No, no, I no, I answer
that you're on the air. And I really think that going to the Big
twelve would be great for Arizona football, and I'll tell you why. The
exposure will be a whole lot bigger um and it'll take him a year or
two to get acclimated, but it will improve the quality of football, and
it'll draw a lot more fans to Arizona football than currently with the PAC twelve.
Number one, because baseball and softball will also benefit, because again,
you're talking about an mindset of the Big twelve in sports that I don't get
comfortable with. With the PAC twelve. I've always thought as the PAC twelve
is more of a softer environment. I think the Big twelve, you know,
the Big ten, as he acc those are sports environments and I think
it would be a great coup for Arizona to go there. So why the
fans bis you think that? Why do you think more fans will come for?
That? Will be part of that, because it's it's just a mentality
of I've been in Texas, I've been to the Cotton Bowl several times,
I've been to Tech, I've been to Lubbock watching the football game. That
environment transitions, they travel, They travel far better than the Pact twelve will
travel and that will bring an enthusiasm and I guess a competition to the Arizona
fans that we really haven't had. I mean nothing against USC, UCLA and
all the other teams, but the Big twelve is a different world. And
I think it would be a big coup for Arizona and Arizona State to go
over there and be part of this environment because it will elevate the exposure,
it'll bring more talent, it'll bring big the fund raging and there to bring
a mindset in the mentality that we don't get out of the Pac twelve.
I will give you that because you're right. You know the Pac twelve.
You know their fan bases, aren't you know? Uh, they're not rabid.
They don't bleed with their teams. The way even the Big twelve does
is certainly not the way the ACC and the Big Fan. But I'll give
you this two just because Tucson is one of those. They didn't grow up
here. They're from somewhere else, right, And a lot of them are
from the Big twelve, Big ten countries where you know, I will brought
a lot of fans, and teams like that would bring a lot of fans.
Yeah, And So I agree with all of that because it will change
sort of change the dynamic of you know, football games. Their fans will
travel. You know, Texas Tech fans will come here. If Baylor,
if they're good, they'll come here. You know we've seen, uh,
you know some of those other schools. You know. It's so yes,
I agree with all that because you know, UCLA fans come to Tucson and
there's like eighty of them and they're nice. You know. Well, let
me you Rick, you said, Rick, you said that the transition may
take a couple of years. Arizona will have to get tougher. Duffer Jeffer,
Ye, how long do you think they will get tougher? Because they're
gonna be Tech, They're gonna be playing even in baseball and softball. The
mentality is a whole lot different in the South than when you look in the
Big twelve. I've been to Oklahoma. I mean, good heavens, those
people they eat, drinks, smoke, they do everything for Oklahoma sports.
Texas, all of them, Texas Tech. I mean, you look at
Texas Tech, you look at Texas A and M. You look at Baylor,
you look at Tech. Texas. I'm telling you Texas footballers. Those
ugly orange uniforms. Fans all wear them. Yeah, no, I hear
you, and I'm not you'll for instance, I know, I know I
was not in the Big twelve, they're in the Big ten. But I
just remember that I will get we had here in the studtures. I mean,
they were everywhere well, and they weren't the nuts. Look at the
Dakota State that there is. It's just people in those areas. Now Arizona
will have to it's fan base will have to get more more rabbits to get
up their too. Yeah, we'll have to up their game. And so
yes, I completely agree with you on that. I just still think that
from a football standpoint, if if Arizona wants to, Arizona will be able
to compete better. I guess is what I'm saying. In the Pac twelve
or in the Pac ten or whatever it is, there'll there'll be a bigger
dog, at least initially. I don't know for how long or if they
if it'll stay that way, or what will end up happening, you know,
a few years down the road. But you know, if, for
instance, if trying to get to the playoff is the goal, now in
football, they've got a better shot at in the staying in the Pac twelve
than going to the big twelve. That's how I feel. Yeah, and
I and I and I don't think that's the case either because frankly, they
haven't been successful in the pack twelve, back ten or whatever it is.
Right, and the reality is they since Dick told me was here, so
and and we just if you want to learn how to fight, you don't
you go to fight the big boys. You don't fight with the little guy.
Well, you're a little guy. So no, I'm talking about that.
No, I'm saying you'll have to learn how to be a big boy.
You will have because you're not. You're not a big boy. It
will change it. It maybe change it for the better. Maybe it does
become more fun. I'm still not looking forward going to love it. You
remember when Oklahoma was here and what nineteen it was. Yeah, it's like
nineteen eighty nine or nine when Oklahoma was here. Yeah, I mean the
fan base crawled out from the woodwork just to get seats to that game,
right, and it was a great game. We won six to three.
Ye I sat next to Barry Switzer. As a matter of fact, they
gave me seats in the red zone and it turned out to be the Oklahoma
base and there I am next and I'm literally sitting next to Barry Switzer and
what a gentleman, and the fans with first class. But I'm telling you,
the fans show up and A would be great for Arizona sports. I
always knew you were name dropper. Rick, Hey, thanks for going.
Thank you Send me that text, Send me that text. I didn't get
have a good days. Send me that text again, Rick said, I
mean said some smart things there. I do agree that you know Pac twelve
football versus Big twelve football in terms of you know, the way the fan
bases are and the important to the fans. Yes, it's a it's at
another level. Even in the big flow. If you're gonna rate the five
Power or five conferences on their fans, Pac twel is at the bottom.
You know, even if USC fan doesn't travel well, it's not that they're
in different there there's two fan base, two football fan bases that travel well.
Washington and Oregon. That's it. Everybody you know Stanford, you know,
you can't find anybody from Stanford here and call the same way the band
show up and about forty other people. Yeah, no, it's it's uh,
it's not good. It's just a different mindset here. Even the quality
of players. It's more soft than anybody that's go East. And they're they're
gonna have to recruit those type of guys that are gonna be wanting to come
here to play in that league. Well, you know, I mean the
big question becomes because you're playing again, we're this is just an assumption.
Anybody who's just turning on the radio and we're talking about Arizona being in the
Big Twelve, they're not. We're just talking about what if let's take this
call about ourselves. Yeah, we missed the call. Sorry, I get
us a call back. Well we'll pick it up. I got our eye
on the on the light now. Um, you know, let's assuming Arizona
does go to the Big twelve. Is it going to help him recruit Texas
and Oklahoma and those places yesterday? I don't know, they too will helped
up their game with those types about this, you know, and maybe they'll
get those because they're in the league. Here, go get all right higher
on the Aaron on the ball. Oh great, hey, yeah, First
off, your show is great. I love having a local talk radio show
about sports and that I um so okay, But we want to talk about
the fact that that Aaron Judge got hurt running through a fence at Dodger Stadium
and is that a coincidence or not? Is that what we're going You know,
first off, I love that he did that. Man, he's just
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Yankee? Well, really, I was just calling to tell you guys that
I love your show. Well, we appreciate that. What's your name?
My name is George, George, thank you. How long have you been
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You know what. You know? What we could add I think that
would be interesting is a poker strategy. So I know who George is.
George. I gotta tell you, George, I am lost on Texas hold
him. I am lost. I have no idea. I've tried to play
it like you know on an app, and I've tried to I am lost.
George. Well, so don't don't ask. Don't ask that guy sitting
next Well, I was gonna tell you, George. You can go ahead
and tell him what happened last night. So we played small We played a
small game, a small game. We're, we're, we're, we're,
We're in a game. And I get a really good hand and the guy
sitting cross from me apparently has a really good so it turns out he's raising
me, and I say, okay, I'll raise you, and we ended
up he actually had four eight, which is a pretty good hand. Yeah.
I ended up with four kings. Oh look at you. Yeah,
that's the first time that's happened, right out of the man it was.
I looked at him and I said, I knew you had that too,
because you wouldn't. You re raising me, you know? And I said,
oh god, I had to find his car and his tires and stuff
of you. I hate that. Hey, George, thanks for keep listening
absolutely, and thank you guys. All right, thanks much, George.
Yeah, you crushed me last night. You know, I had, I
had, I had that happened to me in high school once, uh you
know, just uh Texas. It was just seven cards and I had I
had a full house and it was like kings and something kind and beat me
on it and I'm throwing I threw up. I basically threw like all my
next week's lunch money and the week after that lunch money, and I lost
Dad, Dad, I need some more. I was. I was so
I remember, I remember like it was yesterday. I was so upset.
I left the party. Haven't played since slid. Yeah, I'm you know,
I've never been a serious I you know, I mean, we played
poker in high school, you know that kind of you know, Nichols dimes
quarters kind of thing. But um, I've only twice played poker in the
casino and had a bad experience both times. One time about an eighty five
year old lady just smoked, and then the other time, um, I
had I had, I was going. It was me and another guy and
I had three of a kind, and you know, we turned them.
I turned over my three of a kind and he goes, I have two
pair and these is two pairs of ten. Yeah, two pairs. When
he said two pair, I'm I'm already starting to reach for the money.
Then he said two pairs of tens and he flips them over. The dealer
looked at me like, those were the goods you want to kick through.
The dealer looked at me like I don't make me call security, okay,
because I will call security. You know. I just picked up my stuff
and left up. It was the only two times that I played in a
casine call in a show. Hi, you're on the R and I on
the ball. How's it going today? What's up, Brian? What's going
on? Well? Uh, there's soul back twelve thing. Um, you
know, I don't know what's going to happen. What do you what do
you let me? What do you want to happen? What do you want
to have? I have another question, Big twelve? You want to go
to the Big twelve? Why? Yes? I do? Why? Okay,
I'm not too excited about the quality a product we're going to have in
the back and twelve whoever hell it is? Yeah, Um, I mean
it's it's not so much okay that the team's travel sort of well. In
the fact, twelve not great, Arizona does travel pretty well. Um.
I also think that this whole thing, the contract people don't realize when we
get to the streaming service, everything is going to change. You just can't
pop on the tv. There are but that's gonna happen. But that's going
to happened anyway. And pretty soon ESPN is going to be a streaming service.
But that's going to happen whether no matter what happens with the coming with
the TV deals that are happening right now, the next round of TV deals,
there's gonna be so much streaming because that's where that's where television in general
is going. ESPN is doing it right, that's where television in general's going.
That's not going to be affected by We're just gonna have to get used
to it. That's how we're gonna watch television. Yeah, you know,
but I just can't see the quality of team that we're gonna bring and to
the conference to make up for losing UCLA and US brands. Right, you're
right, you know. And I mean you could take San Diego State great,
I mean, uh, that's special. Then we're taking that basically for
the southern California market and that's it. I don't know if their sports are
that great. So if you look at who else, who else are gonna
take and takes MU, you know, GCU, whatever, you know,
let me ask you another thank you. I think you're better off going to
the Big twelve where they Okay, we would not be hurt The basketball would
be very good in the Big twelve, no doubt about that. If you
take us a while to catch up in football, you know, taking us
a while to catch up in the Back twelve too. Let me ask you
one question, so too, the softball would be good. They have good
softball in the fact, I mean the Big twelve. Um, you know,
I just think the other sports would be good too, big name schools
and they you know, it'd be nice to have Baylor come out of here
and play football, or Texas Tech or I mean, of course you won't
have Texas and Oklahoma is they're leaving. But I think you better grab yourself
to a conference soon because as soon as that a SEC decide to expand again,
everything is going to change again. The Big Gun is going to change.
They're gonna go after Washington and Oregon. They have no choice. Yeah,
yeah, Bryan, let me ask you one quick question before we go.
Make it short though. Okay, So let's the super a second,
and this assumption Arizona goes issue stays upon further review. After the forty some
years, for the years together in the Pac twelve, who had it better
athletically overall? Yeah, across the board, Arizona. Why, I think
if you look at as smart, they had some good years in football in
the nineties. He has not been any kind of abortion football for the last
fifteen twenty years. Either has their basketball teams here hasn't. Their baseball team
hasn't been matched. The girls softball team on the national a couple of national
championships. Yeah, but otherwise there's their sports aren't any They're not any better
than ours. I mean, our football program hasn't been very good that our
basketball program has, our baseball program has. Our softball program besides the last
few years has been very good. It's a close call. I think it's
a close It's a relatively close call. But I still I agree with Brian.
I think it's I think Arizona has had a better go. Yeah,
okay, all right, Brian say wants to stay to be the big dog
and a mediocre gog And that's what That's exactly what we talked about. Absolutely.
Okay, thanks for Brian. We got to go to break. Thanks
so much, man. Okay, all right, we do have to go
to break. So you know what, and look, most of the people
down into Sony are gonna say that, yeah, you go up to temp.
They're gonna say they might went to two rose balls and you haven't been
to one, and they might have valid points that we don't see. Yeah,
yeah, they Like I said, I again, I think that outside
of football and basketball, it's kind of even. Yeah, right, so
I think again, basketball has been way better in Tucson. In football,
Ace who has been a little better than Arizona. So I know, all
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fourteen fifty French Steve, he's Jay. We're gonna spend some of the last
ten minutes here talking about bricking news. We have a little bit, right,
Yeah, we have our callers starting a four and then four fifteen issues.
Right, well, okay, so right, Artist channel comin at the
top of the hour, head coach of the Sugar Sculls at four o'clock,
and then Mark Biaggi, head coach of FC Tucson, coming on. Well,
probably we're like four to plenty, so we'll talk to both of those
guys. So m but interesting stuff. Today, the Big Ten announced its
football schedule for next year when USC and UCLA are in the league, not
in terms of dates, but who's playing who and where in the first year
under the league. So obviously those of us who are wishing the worst for
Ucla USC and hoping that their schedule sucks, here's here's what it looks like.
And look again, this is just way it's gonna be, you know,
forever and never. Right, they're gonna these are the road trips that
they're gonna have to play. But USC and his first year in the league,
will have five road games, with one of those being UCLA, so
it's across town. The four the other four road games for USC are Maryland,
Far Northwestern, Far, Penn State, Far Further, and Purdue,
So they got Maryland, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue, and UCLA.
Their home games are Illinois, Iowa, Michigan which will be a big deal,
right and Wisconsin. But you know that's the you know, that's their
uh, that's road. But then the teams that they'll play again the following
year, so they're called two play opponents, so you're playing back to back
and everybody else gets rotated. So they've got to play Penn State, UCLA
and Wisconsin in back to back years. They'll always play Ucla. Everybody's got
your protected um A protected rival. UCLA only has four home games, but
I'm only four road games. But they're at Indiana, at Iowa, Michigan,
and Rutgers, so they got to go all the way to New Jersey.
I guarantee you or I should say this is probably safe to say that
UILA is gonna struggle. Well you look at their home schedule. Okay,
they've got Minnesota, who's been good, but they've got on top, playing
Michigan on the road. They've got Ohio State at home, and they USC.
But I'm saying they'll struggle a lot for a long time. Yeah,
Yeah, they're gonna be. They're gonna be Missouri in the like Missouri in
the SEC. You know, they may get up and play and win eight
games here and there, but they're you know, they're, they're they're they
haven't been good in the Pack twelve. You know, they haven't been as
good as it should be, right right, you know, I mean Arizona
be them last year. It's all you need to say. But yeah,
and I just did. But you know, again, you look at the
but you look at the schedule. I mean, okay, you know that's
what you were. That's what we're gonna have to do. So now they've
got to play Rutgers back to back. They got to play Nebraska back to
back. If Nebraska gets good, you know, your CLA is way down
the list, you know, and they will be the Arizona of the pack.
You know what, that's a crap thing to say. True, that's
a real crap thing to say. It's true. I don't care if it's
true. It's still a crap thing to say. To bring in a perspective,
folks. You know, you on me. Just come around you you
know where there's a different looking these three foot again. It's right now we're
starting to find out. Okay, these are the travel plans. But really
again, when you think to me, the travel for football and even basketball,
not a big deal. They're gonna travel, they're gonna charter all that
stuff. It's when the volleyball team has to get on a commercial flight and
you know, having a three hour layover coming and going and all that stuff.
That's the stuff that's gonna be concerned for the students. Concerned for the
students. But I really am you know, look, dude, I you
know we used to have getting on a bus and go to OHO every year.
That's now that's crucial. Where are you going? We went to Valley
Union down there in uh in Alfrida. These are not the top those times.
Man had to go to Safford uh Pima then not Pima College. I'm
talking Pima over there by the Copper mind, which there isn't a fast way
to get there from here. You got to go into big circle, um,
and you walked to school and your bare feeble and you know, I
mean we would get our we would get our kids home at eleven o'clock at
ninth and they'd have to go to school the next morning. And tough times.
Yeah, that was just like recent too. Yeah that was not that
long ago. Actually was It's been a while, you know, but both
my kids are going on being out of school ten years. So anyways,
it's just you know, okay, the part that doesn't make sense, it's
not the football and basketball park, it's the rest. It's the rest of
it. It doesn't make it. Well, the other guys are bringing in
the money, so they'll have to deal with it, right. Um Jack
Swarbeck, the athlect director at at Notre Dame, he's stepping down. They
initially said retired. Then everybody's correct himself. He does not, he's stepping
down. Just kind of like what uh you know the USC guy did.
Yeah, I don't know if there's something wrong yeah, Um, you know,
well this wasn't one of those ones where they say, gonna spend more
time with his family. Yeah, so he's so he's gone, So that's
changing. Um, you know, I don't know, man, it's uh,
you know, that's at a time when again Notre Dame is in the
middle of TV negotiations and all kinds of stuff like that. So it's it's
gonna be. It's just so much happening, you know. I was again
listening to there's a lot of discussion of these everybody. For some reason,
everybody's on the Capitol Hill right now. All the you know, athletic directors,
head football coaches and U have a sas in a summit there. Uh
yesterday, what's the purpose? The purpose? I'm not really sure. We
need to ask Robbie Robinson. But why did you guys do that? Especially
whatever? I think they wanted one. They wanted to try and get in
front and kind to get their name out there. Somebody who's kind of yeah,
a school of influence, let's say, um in the in this whole
you know, N I l realignment, uh, landscape, but um,
you know, and I look, Robbie Robinson loves this stuff, right,
guy was he was a college junior college. He loves dabbling in the sports.
Sure, and so well, someone would say that he might be the
ad God. I hope Dave's not listening to that. No, it's not
like he hadn't heard that. No, but still not from us. No.
But you know what I'm saying, I do. I do Robins luck,
he's the hands he's a hands on president when it comes to athletics.
We all, we all do know that. Do you see he's there too,
He's probably there. Yeah. I think they're right. I think they're
all there. Yeah. Um, and you know they took some athletes with
them and they're just having some conversations what they're doing. An interesting thing that
I heard on the discussion was is all of this a waste of time?
Well, that's and that's kind of where something after getting exactly I think we'll
ask him if we get him next week. One of the other breaking news
that we had was that we didn't talk about your day. I don't think
it happened this day. Guyst wins his h his national title in the shot
put. Oh, guys, happened last night. That was cool. My
daughter Rachel, who was UM for a couple of years, she was the
sid for track and fields. She still follows, she's followed on her phone.
Yeah, and we're sitting, we're having dinner. She goes, she
jumps up. He won it, won it? He on his last throw
and he beat the guy at a s U who transferred from Arizona. I
think that's the name transferred from Arizona to a SU. That's the guy who
been a second. He beat him by I think like three quarters of an
inch or something like that. Well, and so good for Jordan. Guys,
you gotta get him back on the show. Have you been watching the
college oral series? Super No fantastic play. Obviously Oklahoma is just so so
good, so pure, holy crowd. I did watch a bunch of the
game, that Stanford game. Yeah, that was the extra inning game.
That was a great game they had. They should have won that. They
have had to beat him again, which would have been unlike but but it
would have stopped a lot of the streaks and all that stuff. I mean,
I I feel like it's a fore gun conclusion. Yeah, there's there.
They play again with thirty thirty today, so now I have not been
watching it. Uh, but interesting. What's gonna happen in baseball though?
You know, I want to tell you that it starts today. Uh.
I think the Super There may have been a Super Regional or two that started
today, but I think most of them start tomorrow. In fact, we'll
have Andy Lopepe tomorrow to talk about this stuff, you know, being in
the playoffs, uh and all that stuff. And I don't know if you
know this another lesson minute breaking news, Uh, the Belmont and I may
not be running. Why I saw that. Well, there were a couple
of baseball game and Major League Baseball game not even in the same place right,
One in New York, one in Chicago that got postponed because of the
heavy, heavy smoke coming from Canada wildfires. Yeah, and they uh,
they canceled racing at uh at Belmont today. The Belmont Stakes is on Saturday,
so it's clear enough. Let's see what happens. No, they have
to they have to test them to Yeah, do them because you know the
smoking. If they yeah, I mean if they if they race these horses
and then they start dropping because of the smoke, man, that'll be that'd
be disaster for the horses, for for for everybody. Yeah, I saw
that. Okay, cool, there's pretty other stuff that we missed, but
we got to get out of here. Yeah, we definitely do. It's
uh, we're gonna be back when we get hurt his chin right here at
the top of the hours. To stick around, we'll talk some sugar skills
football with him, and then we'll uh, we'll have Mark Biaggi to talk
FC two soon right after that. So if you stick around for a little
bit, you'll hear some stuff about our pro teams here and two sons.
So hang around the com