WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:07.599 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jakin Zalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:13.960 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services. Make sure your most prized possessions kat 3 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:18.559 z R two side in iHeart Radio Station. Yety Good afternoon, everybody. 4 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:21.120 Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve 5 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:27.000 Rivera, He's jakins Owes in together today Wednesday, getting an inch and pushed 6 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:30.039 into the game on Saturday. We are we're good weather, We're right. 7 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:35.039 There's the thing I saw said it could be as as low as ninety one. 8 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:40.159 Yeah, anyway, that's fantastic. Doesn't feel like nine hundred and ten 9 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:43.039 like it is probably today. Yeah, No, great, that's great. 10 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.479 Uh, it should be fun. Well, you'll be outside, I'll be 11 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.960 inside, so I'll enjoy it. Yep, yep, No, I'm looking 12 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.560 forward to it. You know, we're we're getting ready for our first hailgate. 13 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:55.439 You know, we'll get there about three three thirty or so. Uh, 14 00:00:55.799 --> 00:01:00.439 hopefully we'll be on the lawn by by Richard Jefferson Jim instead of across 15 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.200 the across the mall over by the tennis courts. But we're you know, 16 00:01:03.239 --> 00:01:06.480 we're gearing up. We're ready to go. Everybody's fired up. Yeah, 17 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:10.280 okay, we'll see what happens. I think it'll be a different showing this 18 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:14.480 year than it was two years ago. That's a that's a good analysis right 19 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:18.719 there. Right, that's what they paid us, the big bucks. Yeah, 20 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:23.319 we paid them to allow us to do this exactly, exactly. Okay, 21 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:26.120 a lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff going on. 22 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.879 Uh, well, we'll talk about it as we move on to the story 23 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:34.439 about fun show. They didn't write him on the board over there, Okay, 24 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.439 so we'll look back. But do you know we're talking to a high 25 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:42.840 school coach, right, first year coach sport right football, Uh sean a 26 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:49.120 lot of from from Marana. They won their first game last week right to 27 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.519 zero zero. That's what I saw in the scores in the scores on TV. 28 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.560 I guess he's also the women, the girls wrestling coach. So we'll 29 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:01.400 talk to him about that too. Got some experience coaching girls, which again, 30 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:07.120 it's it's different. We'll say that. I'll just say that I'm not 31 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.199 gonna take any bones about it. It is. It is different. You 32 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:15.080 say, don't question it is. It's different, and there's nothing wrong with 33 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:16.759 it being different. It's just different because you know, girls are different from 34 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:22.199 guys, especially in high school. But Sean Lotta, he's the he's a 35 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:24.639 flag football coach at Miranna. So he'll be on a three fifteen and then 36 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:29.439 we're gonna talk to NAU football with Eric Newman, the sports setter from the 37 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.199 airs on the Daily Sun. See what he's got to say about the uh, 38 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:36.680 the Lumberjacks and UH and what we can expect this week. I know 39 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:38.800 we talked to him a couple of years ago when you know, when they 40 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:43.719 played him, and I know he would I recall he wasn't expecting to come 41 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.719 down here and wind the neither was I. I didn't come on, Jay, 42 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:51.360 the only people I don't even think any you thought that that was gonna 43 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.960 happen. Yeah, come on, realistically, you're gonna play your butt off 44 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:58.520 and you're gonna work your butt off and try hard. But really yeah, 45 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.319 and then they pulled it off exactly exactly. So uh, you know, 46 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:08.159 I I don't again, don't expect that, but you know, we'll see 47 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:10.800 and you know they would find out a little bit about their team, sure, 48 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.599 sure. And the funny thing about it is okay, Arizona Winds. 49 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.919 Let's say they win big what are they supposed to do? Win big wig? 50 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:22.000 And what will we get from it? I don't know a lot. 51 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.520 We'll see because the week after is when we kind of start to get out 52 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.360 again. Only bad things can happen, right right? No, I mean 53 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:35.080 if I mean, if it's something unexpected, it's only bad. You know, 54 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:37.120 if there's a little blows them out, then they should blow them out. 55 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:38.680 It's like, sure enough late to your wedding, What the hell? 56 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:43.280 What are you doing enough for? It's only downhill from there? Yeah, 57 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:49.439 yeah, exactly, So you know, so I think that uh, you 58 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:51.400 know, we'll just find out what he's got to you know, what he's 59 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:55.319 got to say about what we can expect right full. If it's anything but 60 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.599 you know, kind of a blowout, I'm I'd be a little worried, 61 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.759 right really would Yeah? Okay, So, and then the week clearly obviously 62 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:09.199 the big game with Mississippi State right road, you know again, you know, 63 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:11.599 and I'm sure Jet Fish will you know what we're gonna have there's a 64 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:16.040 press conference tomorrows we'll have h an opportunity to uh to talk to him about 65 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.759 this but I'm sure he's you know, he's going to be more concerned about 66 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:25.439 what they what his team does, not what any of you is doing. 67 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.240 Sure, right, at the end of the day, he's gonna want to 68 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:31.959 know how did it go for us? And so you know that and and 69 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.639 and that. That's why they played these games because of that. You know, 70 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:40.720 they just give an opportunity to look at themselves. Uh. But when 71 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.120 you lose a game like that like they did two years ago, it if 72 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:46.920 it looks bad, it feels bad. And it was bad. Yeah, 73 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:50.839 okay, okay, yeah, we'll see ye all right. What else is 74 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:56.000 going on? Uh, there's just just a slew of things going on. 75 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.279 Well, well, it's just real just waiting for all this to start. 76 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.680 You know, we're starting to see some some you know, little things. 77 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:02.000 We've got some stuff, some breaking new stuff. Some of it's kind of 78 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.240 fun, some of it's kind of funny, some of it's not so fun. 79 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:09.160 You know, when you're talking about players who you know are gonna miss 80 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:14.759 you know, an opener, that kind of stuff, it's you know, 81 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:17.160 they're they're You're starting to get a lot of buzz for the games. You 82 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.000 know, it starts tomorrow. You know, you got the Florida Utah game 83 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:27.000 tomorrow, issue ASU plays tomorrow. You know again as is playing Southern Utah. 84 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:31.920 Most days you think they should win that game, right, But who 85 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:36.360 knows what their mindset is? Yeah, and we talked about over analyzing or 86 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:40.360 whatever. Either they're gonna play hard all year, which I think they will 87 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:45.439 anyway, or you know, start to yeah, well again, we'll find 88 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.839 out what the culture of the tea of the program is. If they're guys 89 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:53.040 who are they're upset because they're not gonna be able to be in a bowl 90 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.560 game and so they just kind of mail it in all year long. Well 91 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:01.160 then that's a problem. Well let me ask you when did it. Arizona 92 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:04.720 basketball announced that they were gonna sit out that in one year. It was 93 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:09.839 a two thousan twenty twenty. Remember when they set out it was it was 94 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:14.639 COVID, that COVID time that twenty the COVID year they could have gone to 95 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:16.199 the tournament. It was the next year, So that is okay, the 96 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.399 next year? Okay, who was the coach? Set Miller was the last 97 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:26.079 one? Was last year? Was it last year? Remember they twenty twenty 98 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:29.879 was COVID, right, Yes, So that wasn't the they were not gonna 99 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:31.600 go because remember there, I think that was the year when they said that 100 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:36.560 was it because they beat Washington. They beat Washington and in that first round 101 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:42.720 and then there was no more games because that was later in the year. 102 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:44.759 I think it was later in the year, not at the beginning of the 103 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:51.079 year. Man, you know all this run's yeah, uh no, because 104 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:56.160 I don't. I mean, what I recall is that there was a lot 105 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:59.360 of discussion that aff Arizona had beat Washington, that they were gonna be able 106 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:01.399 to get in that tournament. I have a hard time believing that because they 107 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:05.720 had just lost to Washington the week before at home. Well that well, 108 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:10.680 yeah, at home they were they were a marginal team at best to get 109 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:13.759 in that tournament. Uh In all honesty, watch, if you go back 110 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:15.759 to that year, they were marginally They lost the Washington at home, they 111 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.759 beat Washington at the pac Clow Tournament, and people were still giving them a 112 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:27.160 hope though. Okay, really I don't believe that. Let's see, you're 113 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.959 looking through the schedule, Yeah, I'm looking. I'm yeah, twenty twenty 114 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.079 one, the twenty twenty twenty twenty one season. Okay, that was the 115 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:39.560 self imposed What did they tell My point is, what did they tell them? 116 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:43.319 This they had before the season. Okay, so what how did they 117 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.720 do? They was seventeen to nine? Yeah, okay, So do you 118 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:53.120 think that affected them? I don't think so. I don't think so. 119 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:55.959 That as good as that team was going to be. Well, that was 120 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.040 the year. Wasn't that the year? That was the year he was fired? 121 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.199 Obviously? Right? That was your he got fired. Sold during that 122 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:03.199 year, we saw a lot of weird stuff. Well, first of all, 123 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.120 in my observations with Sean and I put this on my column at the 124 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:11.639 end, at the end, he had become less shan like and more more 125 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.160 embracing, whatever that means for him. But he was more palatable, if 126 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:20.240 that makes epesi uh, you know, kinder to people, kind of to 127 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.560 the media, more forgiving or whatever. But and then and then he got 128 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.720 fired, So they told him earlier. I think, well, let me 129 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:31.720 let me look up, but I believe I believe it was it was before 130 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.919 all of that, before the season, and that was that was our famous 131 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.480 they kicked our assest thing. That was that was the year. That was 132 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.200 the year that all this happened. Yes, yeah, well they got they 133 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:48.000 they got that they So it was announced. It looks like it was announced 134 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:56.360 in December of twenty twenty two. Yeah, of twenty twenty two. No, 135 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:58.960 it could have been that you just said twenty one twenty so that year 136 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.720 maybe a month into the season, December twenty nine, so right before the 137 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.480 conference season was going to start. I don't I don't recall anything that was 138 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.919 kind of like they're not gonna they're gonna give up or otherwise he just wasn't 139 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.720 a very good team. Yeah, Now, it's just that was his last 140 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.840 year, right, and there was some discussion that that team I probably wasn't 141 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.279 gonna go to the tournament anyway, right, right, remember that like the 142 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:24.679 situation, right, so why not do it now? And eventually there was 143 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:33.360 no really severe severe ramifications from the the whole right thing, right, You 144 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.279 don't know again, you know what I was saying, You know, it's 145 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:41.759 culture, right if face you if the culture is that guys are gonna give 146 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:43.960 it up, well then that's it. You don't want you know, that's 147 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.559 a culture you don't want to have. You know, it's Kenny Dillingham. 148 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.679 It's his first year, incredible disappointment because they you know, just just got 149 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:56.000 thrown on them a few days before they're opener. If Kenny Dillingham has already 150 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.200 created a culture where guys are gonna fight back, where every game is going 151 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:01.799 to be a bowl game to them, then that's what you want to see. 152 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.919 But even more so a reason to defend their coach. He's first year 153 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.240 guy. Yeah, you don't want to lay an egg for the guy because 154 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.960 he's gonna start his career. And again it's a matter I mean, you 155 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.559 know, uh, certainly they have to be pissed at the administration for doing 156 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:18.399 so. Let me ask you this. Let's compare apples to apples. If 157 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:22.960 it is the case a issues has their situation right now, Jed comes in 158 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.519 under his situation. Who has it worse? Who has it? Who has 159 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:31.480 it or had it worse? We don't know yet. We don't know yet. 160 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.759 You know why, because we don't know how bad a su is. 161 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.879 It looks like he's turned over the whole roster. I mean, I think 162 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:43.080 they've had the second most transfers and stuff to Colorado. Well, he turned 163 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:50.360 over the roster feeding Arizona had no roster wow to turn over. This is 164 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:54.320 true. I don't know that we know that. Let's say they go loose 165 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.720 to Southern Utah. Well, okay, now we say this is as bad 166 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.960 or worse than what Fish got. But you know, they go handle Southern 167 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.679 Utah, they win a couple of games. You know, they got to 168 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.039 go play Oklahoma State in the second week. You know, they get routed. 169 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.679 Then you think, okay, this is really bad. Well this is 170 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:13.320 not gonna be good. Yeah, because really bad, it's gonna be really 171 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.080 bad. You know what's gonna be He's he's he's like Fish. He came 172 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.960 in in a bad time. And I say that compared because someone left him 173 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.120 with nada. It was well, you know, all you had to look 174 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.399 at was the quarterback situation. Yeah, and you know and Jed winn and 175 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:35.919 got the uh Jordan McLeod from from South and Cruise, Yeah, and and 176 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.000 he got and gun and Cruise came in from Washington State. But they were 177 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.759 available because they weren't very good, right, they were because he were available. 178 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.639 Yeah. I still believe that if people leave and they're good, people 179 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:50.639 leave a place them they're good, that school doesn't want them to go right, 180 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.200 right, if you if you if you have somebody who's good and they 181 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.360 want to go. You're doing everything in your power to keep them right. 182 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.559 Yeah. So, uh so, I don't know, you may be seen. 183 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:05.519 It remains to be seen. What uh you know what we'll we'll find 184 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:07.399 out about you pretty early on. I mean, if you know, let's 185 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.279 say they handle uh they handle you tout s eate and win a you know, 186 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:16.720 thirty four to ten game or thirty four to twenty. You go, 187 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.360 okay, you know, I get it. They're disappointed. You know, 188 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:22.200 maybe they should have been by more. Maybe so then you touch pretty good. 189 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.360 But they if they go get waxed by Oklahoma State, you know, 190 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.639 you think they get fired up for Oklahoma State if if you think that, 191 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.679 if if the team is the type of team to fight back. We got 192 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.840 a call just just in time. Just say that. You know that they'll 193 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.519 fight back. Hey you're on You're on the R and I on the ball. 194 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.919 Hey, how's it going today? What's up? Brian? Well, 195 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.759 I just listening, like you said about a SU and you and I think 196 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:54.039 one thing is completely different. Besides us having no talent at all, at 197 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:58.480 least a SU has some talent coming back about one thing too, when when 198 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:03.679 Jed Fish got here, this is right at the beginning of the transport portal, 199 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:09.360 so nobody really knew what was going on, and not as many people 200 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:15.399 transferred then as they do now, And there wasn't all that great talent sitting 201 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:20.240 out there in a transport portal like there is now. Not saying it's easier 202 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:24.759 to build a program, but compared to what it was three years ago, 203 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.600 it is. Yeah, Yeah, you're right. The tax reportal was kind 204 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.320 of just sort of in its infancy, and the and the transfer portal wasn't 205 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.879 kind to get where the two guys Ance mentioned, right, Yeah, yeah, 206 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:37.679 you went and got a couple of guys that we're not to not be 207 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.600 very good. Well yeah, also too. I mean, like you said, 208 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:43.960 there wasn't a whole lot of talent in the transport portal at that time, 209 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.600 not until the next year when more things happened and people understood the nil 210 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:54.960 more so so, Brian, Sorry, go ahead, we got a minute. 211 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.919 We got a minute, and I know you called back at some other 212 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.559 times. What do you think they're gonna do? We record wise for the 213 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:09.200 season, six wins top are toping at six wins tops top six. I'm 214 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.159 but I think six wins. I'm right with you. I'm right with you. 215 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:18.480 Okay, you know, I mean they still have to prove that they 216 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.879 can be a consistent winner. And everybody says, well seven five and that 217 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:28.759 Jake Fisher said eight nine wins whatever he was on drugs that day. But 218 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.120 one thing, but one thing too, that people are gonna stand. We 219 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.919 don't know what this defense is gonna be. I mean, we got a 220 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.559 lot of new players, all because the offense I'm proved so greatly last year 221 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.279 doesn't mean the defense is going to do the same. Totally agree, totally 222 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.879 agree. I'm hoping it does. I'm hoping it does. You'll have to 223 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:48.759 wait and see. Okay, all right, Brian, Hey, thanks so 224 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.320 much. We appreciate the college always. We're gonna goes, Brian, go 225 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.759 to your own tickets or no. 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Thank you for having me. Yes, yes, great to 317 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:40.039 have you. How's this new venture you got going? One of two schools 318 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:45.400 in this area doing enough flag football. Honestly, I'm excited. It's it's 319 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:49.319 an awesome outlet for the girls too artake in football, and I'm excited that 320 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:55.240 our district in Moranna is allowed us to be a part of this, and 321 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:57.920 a lot of people have in Phoenix have been doing it. But I'm super 322 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:03.680 excited. So I mean there have to be you know, I mean basically 323 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:07.920 starting a new sport for these players. I just tell us about, you 324 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:11.160 know, how you get something like this started? Right? Where do you 325 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.119 get you know, how do you attract players to come and play this sport? 326 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:18.640 How do you get them obviously to understand the sport? Just how how 327 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:21.440 do you start building this thing from the ground up the way you had to 328 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.319 do it? You know? You just kind of trial by fire. We're 329 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:30.960 working on it daily realistically. I worked with Sean Roebuck, who is an 330 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.319 assistant coach of mine. His daughter, Malaysia, plays for our team, 331 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:38.640 and uh, between her and a handful of her friends who wanted to be 332 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:41.799 a part of this, a lot of my girls on the wrestling team wanted 333 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:45.839 to be a part of this, and so me and Sean kind of came 334 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:51.400 together and started working with our ad Rob d Nueva, and we're just trying 335 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:56.720 to get this going. Nice Nice, So what's the roster look like right 336 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:02.880 now? We're about twenty five and it's pretty strong, Like it's hard to 337 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:06.920 try to get twenty five girls to play, uh you know, even in 338 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:10.640 wrestling, I don't even have twenty five. So we're we're building. So 339 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.519 it explained to us a little bit about the game itself. How many players 340 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:17.920 on the field? Uh, you know, is it prim does it? 341 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:19.359 See? Is it primarily a passing game? I mean, you know, 342 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:25.400 my son played middle school flag football? Is it? You know? Similar? 343 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.759 AIA is kind of kind of made it its own thing with adding kickoff 344 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:34.839 and and punting and stuff like that, but realistically it's it's if you've ever 345 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:40.759 watched Boys Summer League seven on seven, it's very similar to that, except 346 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:45.319 for your center is able to go out for for passes, and the center 347 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:51.319 they can also blitz as many players as they want. Nice Nice, I 348 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:53.599 remember doing this back in the day. Turn left of the can the trash 349 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:56.079 can make the right you will hit you right there with them, all right, 350 00:23:56.119 --> 00:24:00.720 you know stuff like that. So how do you draw up so what's 351 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:03.279 what's good and what's not, I mean, what's legal and what's not. 352 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.440 Uh, well, relistically, any any kind of you can do a handoff, 353 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.720 you can pitch it, you can throw it. It's it's very similar 354 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.240 to football what the boys are doing when it comes to routes and handoffs and 355 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:21.279 stuff like that. But there's a strategy to it because as we learned last 356 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:25.279 night, it's it's different when they rush three people. You got to kind 357 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:29.880 of change plans, right right. So okay, so, uh what did 358 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:33.359 the first practice look like? And now you know how basic did you have 359 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:36.319 to get? You know, for these girls? Did some of them come 360 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:38.400 with knowledge? Any of them come with knowledge. A lot of them come 361 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:44.039 with skills and skills you know, I mean it's not easy to throw a 362 00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:48.559 football. These girls are coming from other sports. So most of them have 363 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:55.519 an athletic background, whether it's track, whether it's basketball. Handful of these 364 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:59.880 girls have been playing flat football on on club leagues and stuff like that. 365 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:02.720 One of them has been playing, two of them and been playing their whole 366 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:07.200 lives. So having that background helps. But first day of practice, definitely, 367 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:11.720 you got to start, you know, start start at the beginning, 368 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.400 right, right, well you did you do the same thing with the wrestling 369 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:18.519 program up there started? Yeah. Well, I've been working with Bruce Highly, 370 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.319 our boys head coach at Marana for almost ten years now, so I've 371 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:26.759 been an assistant to him until I became the girl's head coach about four or 372 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:32.359 five years ago. Was it already established? Was it already established? Wrestling 373 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:36.000 has been, Yes, the girls program was brand new for the AIA as 374 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:40.519 well. So it's very similar to what we're doing now. Is it's an 375 00:25:40.519 --> 00:25:42.799 emerging sport to a point? Yeah, That's why I asked if it was 376 00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:48.400 a similar startup, right, So yeah, and it's and it's changing and 377 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.000 wrestling just like I I can foresee how it's going to look for Flag as 378 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:56.200 well. So how's the you know, excitement around the h you know, 379 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:00.240 around the program? I mean, you know, was the school I did 380 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:03.079 to see a new sport like this? You said you got twenty five girls, 381 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.480 I mean that's a that's a pretty decent number, right, Yeah, 382 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.559 yeah, I think there's our school backs us and and and believes in us. 383 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:15.039 It's just right now, we're kind of in a tough spot because we 384 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.000 don't have a football field, right and uh and you know, it's it's 385 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:22.480 hard to have that school spirit when you don't have any home games right now, 386 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:27.359 that's coming though, yeah coming. Yeah, it's okay. Talk to 387 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:32.160 me about your quarterback, you know, just you know, the skill level, 388 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:37.119 what you're able to do, and the learning curve that that she's got 389 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.680 for sure. Yeah. So our quarterback right now is Roxy Singer. Hold 390 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.480 on one second, guys, I have somebody on my front door. I 391 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:51.480 apologize. Tell me you're on the radio. You're having a radio interview. 392 00:26:52.000 --> 00:27:00.279 Yeah, but this is good, a good radio. This is it is 393 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.799 really good. I mean I'm curious, right, yeah, I mean I'm 394 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:08.839 curious, and that's why I think. That's why I think. I recall 395 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:12.519 middle school was I think, yeah, so what the quarterbacks? The center? 396 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:17.720 It was three three line man. Okay, maybe he'll tell us, 397 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:21.880 he'll tell us go back quarterback. Yeah, I apologized about that. Our 398 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:26.559 quarterback is Roxy Singer. She she hasn't played softball or anything like that, 399 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.000 but she's an athlete. So how are you guys set up? Tell me 400 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.240 you have the center, quarterback, and then what's the rest of it? 401 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:37.359 Looked like, yeah, so you got you got a center, a quarterback 402 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:41.720 and then pretty much everybody is eligible to receive the ball. So, and 403 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:51.759 there's there's seven or eight players on the on the field. I'm sorry about 404 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:53.440 that. Guy's kind of broke in and out. Are there seven or eight 405 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:57.240 players on the field? There's seven, there's seven. Okay, so it's 406 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:03.400 a center, a quarterback, and then basically five receivers and everybody can go 407 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.160 out. Yeah, yeah, everybody can go out. Wow, Okay, 408 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:10.880 how the heck do you draw a place for that? It's tough, right, 409 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:14.759 and also it's even tougher to build a defense around it. Yeah, 410 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:18.920 sure, everybody covers somebody or what do you do? That will depends. 411 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:23.799 Right now we're working on zone and a man coverage, but realistically, yeah, 412 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:27.240 you gotta have everybody covers. Did you do you have a football background? 413 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.400 Yeah? So I played. I was born and raised in Northwest Arizona 414 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:41.680 or Tuson, Arizona, went to Maultview High School, played for all four 415 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:47.200 years after that. That was my football background. But I've been coaching for 416 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:49.640 the last eleven years. Yeah, okay, okay, let's let's talk. 417 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:52.759 We'll come back to this eventually. But so, how is wrestling. We've 418 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:56.799 had a couple of the big time wrestlers on from Sundayside. How is that 419 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:04.240 coaching them? It's great, Honestly, I love the pretty much. If 420 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:08.400 you look at any of my my wrestlers that have been playing flag like they 421 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:14.680 can they can jump in and contribute because they've wrestled. I feel like that's 422 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:18.680 really got a solid foundation for their sporting tell us a little bit about the 423 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:22.000 growth of that, because that's been something you've been been building up for the 424 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.599 last the last few years. Again, it takes a certain type of athlete 425 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.000 to be a wrestler, because much you know, in terms of when you 426 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.119 talk about a sport that's hard, right, hard to participate in, right, 427 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:36.839 I mean yeah, I mean tell us a little bit about you know, 428 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:41.480 your approach there and having having wrestlers understand, you know, the dedication 429 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:45.039 they've got to have to not only just be a good wrestler, but all 430 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.559 the work that comes with it, weightlifting and watching your weight and all those 431 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.920 things. You know, what's that been like to do this with take a 432 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:57.000 certain kind of person to wrestle, really, like when it comes to that 433 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:02.720 diet and working out every day, they have to be dedicated. But you 434 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:06.519 can also kind of see that in the classroom, right, I work in 435 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:11.079 the council office. And Marianna and and you can see that there's a translation 436 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:15.519 I swear between some of my girls that are wrestling and their GPA. Oh, 437 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:21.559 ask him your question. How about you coaching? You coaching? Well, 438 00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:26.240 well, we we talked about this a whole bunch, and and and 439 00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.079 you've coached guys as well, right, football or whatever? Yes, okay, 440 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.720 I you know, I coach baseball my son and at St. At 441 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:38.079 Saint Gregory finished coaching there when it did softball. Way different, all right, 442 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:41.720 way the athletes just just way different. I mean, what was what 443 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:48.119 you know? How does you did your approach have to change from when you 444 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:53.559 were coaching guys you're coaching girls. It's honestly, what's great about wrestling in 445 00:30:53.599 --> 00:31:00.839 itself, it's not much of a difference. Maybe the way you communicate with 446 00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.079 them might be different, but that's what It's the same with boys. You 447 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:08.720 know, I can't communicate with the same football players. Alignment as a quarterback, 448 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:11.960 as a wide receiver, all that stuff in a little bit different. 449 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:17.200 So I don't I don't see it as any difference when it comes to their 450 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:18.920 gender. Yeah, no, that's good. For you. Good for you. 451 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:22.759 I know you got to go to practice or something here. Pretty soon. 452 00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.359 You won your first game to zero. How do you score? Well, 453 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:30.200 Well, our defense scored. We gotta safety in the first quarter. 454 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.960 Well then nobody then nobody scored after that. No, no, no, 455 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.920 it was a defensive battle for sure. Interesting. Wow, interesting, I 456 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:41.640 mean, would would you expect there to be a lot of scoring or is 457 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.319 that you know, you know, is that the offense offense? They have 458 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.000 to learn the offense as a whole lot more before you you get that kind 459 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.119 of thing. Honestly, Yeah, it's it's first game, jitters. I 460 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.440 think both sides kind of uh, kind of just struggled getting that momentum going. 461 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.160 Once we started getting that momentum going, that clock ran out, so 462 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.240 we were pretty much living in the red zone but half of the game. 463 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:10.240 So yeah, okay, you have the same pell and Jed does red zone. 464 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:13.839 There you go, all right, coach, We'll let you go. 465 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:16.880 You gotta know you gotta go to practice to take care, be well appreciated. 466 00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:22.279 Rest a lot coach, A lot of from Marana because yeah, he's 467 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:23.440 how long you gonna have me out? I gotta I gotta do stuff. 468 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:32.640 But you know, look, this is cool. And again I'm not, 469 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:37.480 Yeah, I'm not. I'm a believer of play a sport, play all 470 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:40.480 the sports, agree to play them all. You know, my my older 471 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.119 my son and my oldest darter were both three sport athletes at Saint Gregory. 472 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:50.720 My my last starter was, you know, play two sports. Uh, 473 00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:55.359 you know, just play, just play. You create an opportunity like this, 474 00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:59.640 really good question. I firm believe this too. Uh. And you 475 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.599 see the commercials about NC DOUBLEA. You want to hire something, it's it's 476 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.160 wise or whatever. You want to hire an athlete because one, they know 477 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.559 about teamwork, if they're good teammates, they know the dedication, they care 478 00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.079 about winning, right. And you don't find that all the time, right, 479 00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:16.599 No, you don't. I mean there's there's a lot a lot of 480 00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:20.960 people who don't know how to be on the team right, right, selfish, 481 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:23.519 right, They just have a hard time with it. Yeah, and 482 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:27.000 you know who they are. And you know, I mean I've had you 483 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:29.000 know, I've happy, I've had you didn't play sports? Did you know? 484 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:30.359 I didn't? I can't tell. Ye, I didn't say it to 485 00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:35.039 them, but you can tell. But yeah, you definitely can tell you 486 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.240 can. Really, it's about sharing the ball all that stuff. Right, 487 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:38.599 Okay, hey, let's take off, we can we can come back and 488 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:42.640 spend more time. Yeah, some calls. Absolutely, let's take our let's 489 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.680 take our our next break. We're gonna we're gonna come back and we'll uh 490 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:46.920 well, yeah, we'll take your calls. Five two zero four, one 491 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:52.359 sixty. A lot to talk about. Man, we got football coming up. 492 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:54.880 It all starts tomorrow and the Wildcats a fart on Saturday. So stick 493 00:33:54.920 --> 00:34:08.239 around. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you'd know it's been successful 494 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:12.679 for newly forty years. Now. Take a look back at the Ludolson era 495 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.320 in my new book, Lessons from Loot. 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This is I on the Ball with Steve Rama and Jay Gonzalez 548 00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:19.159 on Box Sports fourteen fiftey. Hey, welcome back to IM about here on 549 00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:23.039 Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, you're ja. We have about sixteen 550 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:29.440 seventeen minutes, maybe about fourteen minute two minutes, okay, Ella, busy 551 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:31.000 reading and stuff. Steve, there's some interesting stuff has just come out, 552 00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:35.360 breaking news. We'll breaking news. I can't decide if I should David for 553 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:37.719 breaking news. If we should go, let's go with it, go with 554 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:44.360 it? Well, okay. So, A a state senator Arizona State Center 555 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:49.000 by the name of T. J. Schope who's from Coolidge, Republican from 556 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:55.000 Coolidge, has sent a letter to the Board of Regents at requesting an investigation 557 00:38:55.239 --> 00:39:01.719 of Ray Anderson at a s U four are a number of alleged improprieties, 558 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:08.119 but none disclosed. I'm just reading the story, so uh, I don't 559 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:15.639 know what specifically, uh the letter says, but okay, there's a photo 560 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:17.480 of a graphic of the letters I'm gonna have to read at the next break. 561 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:22.079 Maybe we'll talk about it more breaking news, but I mean literally, 562 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:27.920 this just it just came out. But uh, you know, look, 563 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:35.559 the thing what happened is to me, it's unforgivable. And I we're sitting 564 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:37.480 here talking about ac when we got to arizon a football game to talk about 565 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:43.199 it. Unforgivable. That's a pretty big goose thing. What Steve, they've 566 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:47.199 known, they've known that that you know they were gonna get punished for this? 567 00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:51.639 Well, yes, and no forever? Well you know, because who 568 00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.119 was Tennessee was in the same boat, right, you're you're you're Regardless of 569 00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:58.800 whether they knew they were going to get a postseason band, huh, they 570 00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.000 knew they were in big trouble. Sure, right, there's video photos. 571 00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:08.679 Okay, why they waited for the new coach to come in and all these 572 00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:14.639 new players to come in and then do this as opposed to doing it last 573 00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:21.280 year? All right, when when Herm Edwards was still here and put they're 574 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:25.320 making these kids. I almost feel sorry for him even though there they're making 575 00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:29.599 these kids pay for this. And again, regardless of whether we think they're 576 00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:30.679 going to go to a bowl game or not, or they're good enough to 577 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:35.400 go to a bowl game or not. They think they are some kids were 578 00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:37.079 gonna get paid for this. It's always the sins of the father. They 579 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.639 get it. It's always some some group of kids who were not part of 580 00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:44.719 this, we're gonna get But then you but then you throw in all of 581 00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:51.760 the implications of the fact that Ray Anderson herm Edwards was a client of Ray 582 00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:55.079 Anderson. Of course, all of that, all of that, it just 583 00:40:55.079 --> 00:41:00.320 says that Ray Anderson didn't give one crap about doing the right thing. He 584 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:06.719 didn't give one crap about the current athlete at a su All he cared about 585 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:10.159 was protecting his guy. We we had a hold on right said exactly that 586 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:15.760 that the nepotism or whatever the word is for this one. And it starts 587 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.119 the top two. Crow was kind of involved in this too. Well, 588 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.480 what's Anderson's trade? I know he used to be a sports agent sports is 589 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:28.440 he an attorney? Maybe a said an attorney issue. This gives me the 590 00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:30.480 right to say this. Now, just because you're a higher education doesn't make 591 00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:34.760 you a smart person. It just doesn't. Come on, we know a 592 00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.920 lot of people who work. It's okay, you're there at the college, 593 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.480 but did you go to school? Yeah? No, I well, he 594 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.400 was a vice president. I'm looking at his Wikipedia. He was a vice 595 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:52.960 president of the Atlanta Falcons who were there did good? Uh? God, 596 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:55.760 he doesn't have much of it. I think I got more of a Wikipedia 597 00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.119 than this guy. But you have a Wikipedia. No, that's the point. 598 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:06.199 I really don't. I really don't. That's all. It says that 599 00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:09.519 he was graduate. He's a Stanford graduate. He's a lawyer Harvard last. 600 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:14.960 That's see. There there's your problem. He should know. He should know, 601 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:17.440 right, you'd like to think you smart. Yeah. Yeah, they're 602 00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.880 the smartest people in the room, until you find out you're not. You 603 00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:23.920 find out you're not. You know. Man, Well that's a problem for 604 00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:27.239 them to have, obviously. You know. The one thing that the guy 605 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:30.960 that's gotten away with it is his herm. Here's the guy who fell back 606 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:34.800 on his feet is at espn uh and and how can I see this? 607 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.679 Before he took the job, and even during the job. He's a funny 608 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:42.599 dude. He's a very insightful quote da da, And he comes up with 609 00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:46.239 his speeches and but then he kind of misspeaks a lot of time, uh, 610 00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:50.239 in terms of being a hypocrite, I guess, Yet today there was 611 00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:52.400 a thing. People are upset that he's going on and ripping on other schools 612 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.400 who have gotten in trouble stuff like that, when with the mess that he 613 00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:59.800 left behind right right, and he fell on his and fell back on his 614 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:04.440 doing this, it's funny. And ESPN has no no problem with you were 615 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.760 cleaning. You're clean, You're clean with us, You're you're a good personality. 616 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:12.199 We like you, you know, uh, you know, all good, 617 00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:14.800 all good, Well, well you know, we'll forget about this stuff. 618 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:22.000 And I mean for you know, to even sit here and just to 619 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:24.199 ever put him in a position where he will talk or allow him to talk 620 00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:29.440 about other schools getting in trouble with the mess that he left behind. 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Yesterday Nanson revealed that flows it's 684 00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.239 not gonna start starting nobody he'll PLAYMP, you know. And it says one 685 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:36.639 or two things. One that you know, while he's a physical specimen, 686 00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:40.159 maybe he's not as good as we think, or yeah, or that maybe 687 00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:45.519 the other guy they have is pretty is really damn good, right right? 688 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:50.559 No? Or or something else, yeah, because he fish did say Monday, 689 00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:53.960 he was there, he talked about learning the third new offense. Uh, 690 00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:59.159 you know, catching on very very fast to the ball, does all 691 00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:02.400 these things, but but it doesn't fear that that he's completely grasping. But 692 00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:07.480 the defense Okay, but yeah, you know so again, but you know, 693 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.559 all those guys are gonna play, and that's what again, that's what 694 00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:14.000 these games are for. I think we'll see a lot of guys on Saturday. 695 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:16.480 I'm looking to forward to. There's a few things I'm looking forward to. 696 00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:20.039 But we spoke to this this week and I think I brought it up 697 00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:23.159 to you given what we saw. You see what that punt returning kicking of 698 00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:31.000 Zacharya something, Yeah, that batch batch something like that. That how they 699 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:37.159 let Speedy loose because he's gonna be fun to watch. But if we don't 700 00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:39.519 get to watch him, yeah, how much I'd like to think they'll use 701 00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:43.679 them like that, you know, kick returnsn't return him in space, you'll 702 00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:45.679 get him, you know, give him an opportunity to Yeah, but then 703 00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:49.760 again, you can be the fastest guy in or if you can't catch the 704 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:53.119 ball, if you can't catch the punt or a kickoff or hold on to 705 00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:57.039 it right, well, that's a big deal. It reminds me Ja. 706 00:48:57.159 --> 00:48:59.920 We talked about it in a little joke about it was you think the chunks 707 00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.679 from LSU quarterback forget his name now, and Rich Rodd what an arm? 708 00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:06.199 What an arm? Well, if you can't throw the ball to people who 709 00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:09.960 could catch it, exactly, what's the boy exactly exactly? No, you're 710 00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:16.159 right, you're right, Yeah, Jared Randall that yeah, that is Randall 711 00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:19.320 for sure. But he could throw Yeah he could throw the ball a mile. 712 00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:23.480 But yeah, you gonna throw it to the right person. We don't 713 00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:30.119 need a mile, we need fifteen yards exactly exactly. So I don't know, 714 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:35.280 you know again, what I don't know When you say question marks, 715 00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:39.320 that implies you know, you have questions about something. But there's just a 716 00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:44.840 lot of I'm interest intrigued to see what things are gonna look like. Who's 717 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:47.920 playing a lot? You know? Is it is the offensive line you know 718 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:51.800 going to be really good? Is the defensive line going to be really good? 719 00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:53.679 Because you know two years ago they were not, and that you know, 720 00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:58.840 you know you saw that you were you were actually stunned at how man 721 00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:02.239 handled Arizona's line get where against NAU two years ago. Well, and I 722 00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:07.400 think another thing is what kind of influence Akina has had on the DB's rack 723 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:13.559 and and how you know the motivation piece of that because He is that guy. 724 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.079 He gets guys to do things that they didn't know they could do. 725 00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:19.519 Oh yeah, I want so badly to write my story on him, and 726 00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:24.840 you keep piling on me. Hey, we should we tell people because there's 727 00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:30.320 gonna be a great piece coming out on Tommy Lloyd and Mysteries on magazine coming 728 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:31.760 up. You know, I'm an editor and writer. So he's a writer 729 00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:36.599 for his Tucson and we're doing We're doing a piece on Tommy Lloyd. Gave 730 00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:38.360 a s access to some stuff, so read it. It's it's a it's 731 00:50:38.360 --> 00:50:43.440 a great piece. It'll be coming out in early October, so we'll we'll 732 00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:46.480 tease it like that, really cool stuff different from what you see, you 733 00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:51.599 know, justin spear or with a Bruce Pascoe and these guys we take a 734 00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:53.519 different name. Yeah, and he was he was opened up to me. 735 00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:59.199 He was fun. He's just a normal dude. I hadn't been really spend 736 00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:00.960 just God's on the shoot. We have two minutes, so I spent a 737 00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:04.760 lot of time obviously in Lute's office because we have interviews thereon. And it 738 00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:07.159 was nice. It was nice. It was totally different than what it is 739 00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.000 now that it's smaller and he had his trophies there and kind of whatever. 740 00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:14.519 Sean. I went into his office maybe once, maybe once, We're like 741 00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:17.199 a cup of coffee. It was like hello, goodbye. And now I 742 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.360 spend some time with him in his locker in his office. It's like this 743 00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:24.599 groom. It's not opulent. He's got a couple of things, a couple 744 00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:28.800 of Jersey's just hung up, not in augh, just a simple dude, 745 00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:30.519 whatever call of colust right now. We can't take the call because we're at 746 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:35.639 the top of the hour. But whoever just called right now, please call 747 00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:37.559 us back after the after the time, even during breaking news. We'll take 748 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.119 your call. We're just too close to the top of the hour to take 749 00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:44.400 the call right now. So it was just a just a room with stuff. 750 00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:47.599 It was nothing that you think, you know, would be wow. 751 00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:50.679 Yeah, And he said, no, dude, I'm not that dude. 752 00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:52.960 I come here just to kind of, you know, chill out and then 753 00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:57.119 prepare for the day. And I think this is this is this is the 754 00:51:57.159 --> 00:51:59.320 dude. You want to go out with him to have a beer with yeah, 755 00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:02.800 and anything people do ye know, Tommy's out and about, you know, 756 00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:06.639 And that that was a part of you know, part of what you 757 00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:08.679 know, what you talked about that he's just he's just out and about, 758 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:12.840 hepping about and doing what he needs to do to make this team better. 759 00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:16.320 Shaking hands, kissing babies, things like that, exactly exactly, and it's 760 00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:19.119 not afraid to do it, and it's not afraid to do it, and 761 00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:22.599 it's comfortable doing very much, very comfortable. Okay, let's take our break. 762 00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:24.119 We're gonna come back. We'll have breaking news at the top of the 763 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:27.840 hour, a lot of stuff. Uh, you know, there's some football 764 00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:30.440 stuff, there's some other stuff, but you know, it's I'm excited. 765 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:34.920 I'm excited that we're here and uh and that there's a lot of football talk 766 00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:37.719 going on. So stick around for that breaking news top of the hour. 767 00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:37.400 We'll be right back