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Breaking down all the xs and os. It's Steve Lameira and Jaden Summits.

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This is I on the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen. Different Hey, welcome

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back to on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen. Cookie, I'm Steve

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us Jake. Now we have Sammon
were breaking news. Well, this is

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I on the Ball breaking news on
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. All right,

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guys, so we talked a lot
about football and what you have is gonna

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do against Washington, But the NBA
world is fully back right and if you

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thought that it could go silent for
more than a couple of weeks, you

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were wrong. Damian Lillard has been
traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. So let

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me break it down. Milwaukee gets
Dame. The Blazers the third team with

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the Phoenix Suns in this get Drew
Holiday, DeAndre Ayton, Tamani Kamara Milwaukee

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twenty twenty nine unprotected pick and two
picks swaps in twenty twenty eight and twenty

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thirty, and the Phoenix Suns get
Joseph Nurkics, Grayson Allen, Na Seer

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Little, and Keenan Johnson. And
now Devin Booker is the only player left

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on the Phoenix Suns roster from that
twenty twenty one Finals team. Wow.

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So obviously the connection here is just
DeAndre. Right, it's not a surprise

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that he's gone, because remember we
said last year it would be about a

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year or so before they leave.
And I think we know the act do

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this? Want to ask you anyway, Jay, And I don't know if

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you followed DeAndre here? Yeah?
What makes him so polarizing? And I

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think that's accurate, right, Yeah, I think it is. I think

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what it is is that he's such
an immense talent, Okay, an immense

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physical talent. He looks like a
guy and feels like a guy who should

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be a dominating player in the NBA, and he's just not because of his

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dang head, his attitude or whatever
it, his approach and his attitude between

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the ears. It's just not where
you feel like a guy with that kind

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of talent should be. God,
we saw we saw that here, right,

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nothing's really changed. No. I
think being here with Sean Miller and

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he was the guy in Arizona and
he wasn't he had to realize that he

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wasn't going to be the guy in
the NBA. He might have that chance

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now in Portland to maybe show if
he can be the guy, but he

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wasn't going to be. And I
think he might have struggled with that,

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and it just never was the same
in terms of his attitude and his mindset.

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If you're gonna be the guy,
you need to be the guy.

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Yes, not kind of every time. I'm going to be the guy every

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day. Right. It's like the
stuff when they if you're gonna be a

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talker like we see now in college
football, you better back it up.

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But but not to put him in
this class. But that was the thing

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that was a thing about Michael Jordan. Whether it was a practice or a

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game or around a golf Okay,
he was giving it everything he had and

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and all that's all you ask of
Dian or anybody like him, and he

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just never has done that, right, as you said, even we talked

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about that when you first, before
even before you got here, because when

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you're that size and you're playing against
your kids, your own age, you

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kind of don't have to go right. Your motor always well, I'm better

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than all you guys. I'm just
gonna do what I need to do.

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And he kind of adopted that theory
all his career. Not that he's he's

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making millions of millions of dollars.
He's doing okay, but you just see,

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God, this guy could be this
guy and it's like he doesn't want

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to be this guy. And what
sucked is that you would see flashes of

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that. Yeah, you can see
his potential and yeah, the skills that

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you have come to fruition, but
it just wasn't consistent. So yeah,

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the DeAndre Ayton era and Phoenix is
uh coming gone and now Damian Lillard joins

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Jannis onto the Kumbo Who who talked
a little bit about and are they now

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the finals winner? Odds on favorite? Do you think? You know?

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I mean yeah who Milwaukee? Yeah? Yeah who? They are in a

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three and a half to one.
I think it is. Would I put

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money on him? I don't know. I still like Denver. Okay,

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it's all chemistry too. You don't
who knows how they're gonna fit in,

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but they're gonna be pretty good.
They're gonna be pretty dang good. Your

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team from Phoenix Suns, well you
have how old are you? You've had

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a tough life, tough life in
Arizona sports, but hopefully, hopefully it's

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turning around in the next couple of
years. But you know, it's not

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program isn't turning around, or maybe
it is, depending on how you look

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at it. Is the Michigan State
football team, melt Tucker is fired for

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quote unquote breeding bringing ridicule to the
program. That's what they said, Yes,

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that's what they said. Yeah,
yeah, I knew that he had

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been officially fired, right, I
didn't know that they used that word though.

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That's a good one. So we'll
see who the next coach is there.

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We'll see if there's a settlement there, and how much money he is.

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It's eighty million. That he's old, he's not gonna get eighty million.

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But if he gets ten million,
he's done. Well. Sure right.

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You'll be interesting to see if what
comes up there, and Michigan State

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may put their foot down and say
we're not giving you squat. You mess

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this up. Dan Walkin, our
buddy that we've had on, wrote a

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column today just said dude, you
were you were stupid. Uh just ripped

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him, that's that, Yeah,
basically saying he did this to himself.

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Yeah, you know, And now
to the golf audience. The Ryder Cup

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is a day away. It starts
Friday, early in Rome and Brooks,

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Kepka Rory McElroy, obviously two of
the faces of golf, had some things

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to say this morning. Rory sounding
off about the players not making the Ryder

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Cup team that are playing on Live
and that that should sting for them and

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if they the choices that they made
are now being reflected in some of these

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decisions, and Kepca kind of maybe
had his back of saying that these guys

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just needed to play better. It
was simple as that and so interesting.

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It's obviously Bryson Deshambo, one of
the guys playing on the Live tour,

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was not extremely happy to that he
didn't receive a phone call to play.

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And so I think it's it is
at the end of the day, if

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you if you play better, you're
gonna be on the team. He's not

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been that good, right, He's
he hasn't been the Bryson we've been used

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to seeing the last couple of years. He has won a couple of times

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on Live, and he has competed, but it's you look at the USA

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team in your though, where does
he finish? Who's coming off? And

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and the fact of the matter is
is that do these guys like playing with

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him, because at the end of
the day, you have to have the

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guys that are quote unquote good locker. It's a team. It's a team.

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This is a team. So the
United States haven't won in Europe since

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nineteen ninety three, and I don't
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I think it'll be. I think
it'll be an all time Ryder Cup.

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As a golf fanatic that I am. There's world class talent going on there.

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And the last couple of things,
actually last thing, So Arizona is

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a seventeen and a half point underdog
at home and there's an anticipated fifty thousand

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crowd to come out on Saturday.
Do we think the number will get that

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high? They'll announce that number,
but it won't be it won't be that

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number they'll have. They'll be forty
eight thousand people there. Mm hmm.

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That's a good day, Steve.
I feel like I feel like fans have

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been waiting for a game like this
to play because it's been tell me what'll

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go. So they got Washington,
they got USC next week, right right,

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they go to USC a week off, Okay, go to Washington State,

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Okay, then come home for Oregon
State and UCLA and then and that's

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and then one. Well then if
they'll have after that, they'll have a

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Colorado at Colorado. You taught home. If the fans want to see this

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team against a good team, this
this is the one to go to.

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Yea. And again they're three and
one. They're not ranked or anything like

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that. In fact, Big Game
Boomers got them twenty fourth words team in

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the in the country, but among
Power five. But like I said,

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there's a sense that Arizona has a
chance, even though it's not a very

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good chance. Let me say this
to both you guess then Okay, so

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you have this gauntlet of a schedule, right, I think that's the right

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word. Maybe okay, And you
still see six wins, right, Jay?

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Yeah, so what do you see
and it's more likely to get six

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wins or go three and three?
Ish, I think, well, because

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you have three wins already, so
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think you they can go to Colorado
and win that game. Okay, I

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know there's by that time in Colorado
season, I think the wheels will have

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fallen off in terms of the hype
bandwagon and so it'll be a less anticipated

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game in Colorado still may not be
as good as Okay, what about the

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wheels on this bus? I think
Arizona's got more wheels. I agree their

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death the death the driver of the
buses. Well, by that time it'll

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be figured out either either Jade Delores
playing really well or he's not the quarterback

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anymore. Okay, so okay,
there's one I think you. I think

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I still think Colorado Ucla and asked
yours three wins? I think, yeah,

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I think that's three wins. The
question is do they get another one

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by beating say Oregon State State at
home? Yeah, and that's homecoming,

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right, and UCLA is at home? Okay, that doesn't really and I

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think I think I think their defense
will be good enough to keep Colorado's offense

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in check enough for them to win
the game. You have to win.

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I still think. I don't.
I don't know. I don't think Colorado

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is that great. I think they
showed a lot of those first three games,

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a lot of offense. But if
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pretty good defense, you can stuff
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they almost they almost very good.
They almost got shut out. Well,

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the things I like, my bet
with you more more now than I did

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before. Because that's fine. I
bet it because you know I know him.

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But and I said, I said
five, and I said, okay,

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maybe six, and I would have
bet six. Yeah. But as

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you said, Arizon has not been
impressive yet. They have not been.

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They have been and they can't.
They've gotta step something up here. They've

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got, even even in a loss
to Washington, to give you, guys,

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you some hope. You already have
hope, but you need more hope.

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Well, me and me and my
my group position. As a fan,

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I feel like Arizona will get there's
stuff to get, there's stuff together

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in time to win three more games. Okay. Now, as a Nun

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fan and be a journalist, it's
gonna be hard. You're gonna have to

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You're gonna have to upset a team. Whether it's oh yeah, we talked

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about that, it's the Oregon States, the UCLA's, the Colorado's because they

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go to Colorado. You know they're
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be like four and a half dog. No, But I think it depends.

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It depends if because you have UCLA
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if you win one of those games, you've shown you're you're an established I

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don't want to say quote unquote legit
football team, but you can win a

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tough game. And going to Colorado, who we've talked about maybe isn't as

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great as we've all thought, you
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you kind of got disilutioned by the
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They had an agenda because no one
talked about Oregon all week, you

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talked about Colorado. It says,
well, Colorado get off me. Well,

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but yeah, exactly, we're going
to know more with this USC game,

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right because if if if USC puts
it on him as well, yeah,

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and because we saw USC didn't look
great last week, but if USC

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puts it on them and where they
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then Colorado is not the Colorado that
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coming into the season. But they're
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Sure, And maybe one of those
things where last game of the season at

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ASU you need to win get into
a bowl, and that that's already fuel

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to the fire. That could very
well be the case, because it's always

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one of those cases. Always one
of those things where it feels like either

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ASU needs a win to save something
bowl game or something like that. But

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it also could be the case where
you look back this season and you go,

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of you have a wins that overtime
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only need to win two PAC twelve
games. Yeah, so that's the breaking

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news. Okay, all right,
a couple of there's a couple of other

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little things. Uh god, what
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oh, the College Football Playoff Committee
mett these last couple of days and ended

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up doing nothing, and so they're
trying to a lot of discussion about whether

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they you know, right now,
they've got six automatic bids plus six at

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large bids. They're trying to get
off of that to go five and seven

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with the PAC twelve being gone.
You've got the American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mikelresco,

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who is who is uh saying,
you know, they want to hold

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on to the sixth because that gets
that gets the group of five two spots.

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They need an unanimous vote to change
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and seven, and he's holding,
he's holding. Let's take this just okay,

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let's take it all right. We
got a call. He hight you're

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on the air and I on the
ball. Hey, Jake, it's Howard.

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Hey Howard, Howard. We haven't
heard from you. You got a

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minute, how We got a minute, Howard, and we got to go

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to break. Okay, wasn't it
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seventeen. I'm going I'm going all
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maybe not twenty one. And of
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great. We got you sick a
guy that's six to eleven or tough,

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tough European guy, and so I'm
pretty happy. Do you feel better about

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your chances now than you just?
Oh? Oh yeah? But everyone it

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was confusing, but like she hit
it on the head, Steve. We

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know what DeAndre is and he's gonna
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Hey, welcome back to I on
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teen Filkie. I'm Steve Rivera,
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We have Dave Hike, the VP, and director of athletics at you of

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a you know who he is,
Dave. How are you? I'm good,

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gentlemen, how are you today?
We're doing great. Do we have

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some important questions, but great to
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since we've seen well, we've missed
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much going on, but so much
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it was a good summer. But
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and furious start and looking forward to
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here, basketball, men's and women's
basing, a lot of things going on.

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How busy are you internally? Well, we are busy. I mean

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there's a lot happening when you talk
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you're still celebrating this final year in
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way, honoring our student athletes and
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we do. We have golf going, we have baseball, softball, football,

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soccer going all right now. I
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with Washington top ten. Uh.
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kicking around. You know, at
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got a chance to you know,
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things fall into place. But you
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a sellout. What are we looking
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we're pushing that fifty number right now, so we're really close to a full

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capacity of full night. I fully
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still wants a ticket, there's still
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scarce. And as I've always said, this is time we got it.

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the football program's ready, and you
know, special things happen on evenings like

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this and special nights, and the
fan base can make a difference. And

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it's a big opponent coming in.
They are very good. You've been here

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five years, I think now this
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if I know it goes quickly,
but I'm sorry about that. I'm doing

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all We're just throwing away years that
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years when COVID was here. We
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is gonna be. We talk about
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teams, but from your end your
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this team. Everybody's good. Everybody's
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you know, off air. You
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were looking at future schedules for some
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Kansas State is on the schedule as
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don't know how far you know,
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of how it's gonna do. It's
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you guys do with that game?
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it. We have several games as
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opponents going forward. We look,
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year, So next year with that
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could not be done. It sits
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Big twelve kind of speak to it
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I know it's been talked about as
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official, but that is one of
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are able to find different You know, you've got to find an opponent for

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us to play and for Kansas State
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We both need home games. That's
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windows and meet everyone's needs. And
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we know that stuff like this takes
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that kind of stuff. But how
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how it's going to schedule whatever sport? Right, with all with all these

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things going on, sixteen teams in
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YadA, how far along or when
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gonna look like for football, basketball
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I don't think it's the best answer
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answer. We don't really know,
and we're working very hard though. Even

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with that answer, we're working really
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but also with all of the Big
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know, there's urgency to the football
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place. There's urgency for basketball to
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competitor side but from the economic side
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So we have individual groups working on
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I think, you know, you'll
see something in the next few months,

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but it's going to take some time
to get to where we need to be.

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Well, we do know, Dave, and I'm about a tear to

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my eye. Is this basketball schedule
that you have going in Kamy Lloyd is

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not afraid to attack. What a
fantastic schedule. I think the fans are

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gonna love it and have been missing
it for a long time. Well,

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it's a heck of a schedule.
Tommy never walks back and it loves this

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kind of a schedule. The opportunities
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in McHale have set up home and
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but to go to great neutral site
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get great exposure at great times on
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with the Gonzaga experience. How you
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you're a basketball person, and I
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our tickets certainly are high right now
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forward. Well another reason why,
and I don't know how you feel,

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people are well when people are sitting
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community. I love the fact you're
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and Jay's talking about the football program
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the big guys playing here, and
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Tommy's first year and we ran into
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the conference is going to be,
does that change the attitude and the approach

405
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in non conference scheduling do you try
and ease up a little bit or do

406
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you continue to do what you know
Tommy's done for this schedule. You know,

407
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once you know you've got Kansas and
Houston and Texas Tech and Baylor and

408
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all those teams ahead of you in
the league, well, hey, I'm

409
00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:15.440
gonna let Tommy, you know,
do that because that's what he does so

410
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great and his knowledge and how he
wants to test his team or challenge them

411
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:22.519
or build them up, all the
things that are you need to consider when

412
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you're building a schedule, and he'll
do a great job of that. I

413
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know that he likes to play big
games and that will continue to be kind

414
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of one of his calling cards,
There's no doubt about that. But it's

415
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going to be a great schedule.
And I think that conference schedule, no

416
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matter who you're playing and what night
it is, boy, it's going to

417
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be a battle in the conference.
Okay, So you know these coaching hires

418
00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.640
from a few years ago. You've
got Jetfish, Tommy Lloyd, Kitlin Lowe,

419
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.480
Chip Hail all in their third year
sort of a year where you say,

420
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okay, this is your team.
Now you know you're not. You

421
00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:03.880
know you've gone through recruits that we're
here waiting for you and whatnot. You're

422
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just sort of the feeling on all
of that with with the with these coaches

423
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and you know what do you kind
of keep an eye on as you're watching

424
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their programs develop, you know,
with their leadership over the last few years.

425
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:17.519
Well, I love our coaches and
I love their leadership. And I

426
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think the six that we brought in
that are now in that third year.

427
00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:26.319
You know, when you include soccer
with Becca and you include Lagat, you

428
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.559
know we in our cross country program, Bernard. I mean, so anyways,

429
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:33.519
great leadership. Now all of those
programs will be careful. All those

430
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.359
programs were at different you know places
in the spectrum, how how solid they

431
00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.599
were, how how developed they were, what needed to happen. I'm really

432
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.839
confident in how each of those coaches
have been handling that Now they're they're different

433
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:48.359
though, you know, I think
basketball's pretty seasoned. Were in a really

434
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good, good zone. Uh.
I do think there's other programs that are

435
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.319
still building and still getting to where
they need to be. But but I

436
00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:02.039
like it, and I think we're
solid and we've got really good people as

437
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:06.440
our head coaches who have great head
you know, assistant coaches and that's important.

438
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:08.559
Just have really good people. So
one of the questions I got today

439
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:11.880
to ask you is the Red Blue
Game is Friday. Obviously it's going to

440
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.720
be a lot of excitement, probably
sold out to got Richard and Channing here,

441
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:21.240
Why is it not on TV or
being streamed? A good question,

442
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:22.480
and we should have a great night. You know, we probably will sell

443
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.599
out. We only had we had
less than a two thousand tickets left for

444
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.799
that game for Friday nights, so
we'll probably sell that out like we do

445
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:34.160
most years and then have to sold
out football game. One of the things

446
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.599
traditionally the PAC twelve network has come
in. You know, for all the

447
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.400
bad things that we say and people
say about the PAC twelve network, it

448
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.200
was an incredible asset. It had
all the pieces. It came in and

449
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.960
televised these types of events, had
the equipment, the crew, It was

450
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.400
built into the contract to do that. You know, we don't really have

451
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.480
it this year because of some other
commitments. They have some of the leanness

452
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.599
that they have right now too,
but they have multiple sports. They've got

453
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.319
some commitments on the football side that
they can't you know, kind of pull

454
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.160
away from the on the Friday night, so we weren't able to do that

455
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:10.960
now, Again, not trying to
make up any excuses, and we are

456
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.799
not in a position ourselves on a
weekend like this to pull staff all in

457
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.680
and to stream it completely. We're
going to have a lot of content that

458
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.759
will shoot out during the game and
then certainly post game so people can see

459
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.480
it. But unfortunately we're not in
that mode where we can stream it and

460
00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:30.319
do the quality job that it deserves
right now, or else I might have

461
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:33.839
a bunch of staff that will walk
out, and I'm sensitive to that.

462
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.720
I think going forward, we're going
to have to find out ways to do

463
00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:38.119
that. You know, that'll be
That's a nuance and a newness to the

464
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.799
Big twelve. We need to produce
all these events ourselves. Now those were

465
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.880
all done by the Pac twelve network. We now have to do that ourselves.

466
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.960
Besides our football, men's basketball,
and a few select women's games.

467
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.119
Everything else we've got to produce internally. It's gonna be a big lift for

468
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:56.839
us. Okay, you know,
I wasn't going to ask you that question,

469
00:31:56.880 --> 00:32:00.279
but now you know when you say
you're produce internally, so you'll be

470
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:04.079
able to put it on a network
somewhere or is it or you're going to

471
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:07.039
have a streaming channel that people can
go to, you know, see a

472
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:10.319
softball game or a women's basketball game
that's not on ESPN or ESPN Plus.

473
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:14.920
How is that going to work?
Well, that will be our streaming service,

474
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:17.839
will be ESPN Plus. Okay.
We will produce that internally at a

475
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.880
very high level with the you know, the right technical aspects, right kind

476
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of cameras, a full broadcast team, and then we will deliver it through

477
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the direct to consumer ESPN Plus.
Okay, yeah, yeah, this you've

478
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:36.759
I know you're a baseball player.
You must have hit curveballs. Well,

479
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:39.039
because you're getting this. We had
Jim leaving Gudan. I don't know if

480
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:42.440
you've heard it two weeks ago,
and and he's really happy. He's no

481
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:45.720
longer than I'm sure you were.
You're aware of that. But you know

482
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:49.839
what, it's a changing world.
And it's not just yesterday, it's today,

483
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.359
tomorrow, and third, you know
every day. Well, I used

484
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.599
to be able to go the other
way with a curveball and try to get

485
00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:00.680
myself on base. Now it seems
like sometimes it's a knuckle all the time.

486
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:04.240
And you're just trying to put the
ball in play and make contact sometimes

487
00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.640
and that's what you gotta do.
Hey, it's a changing world, changing

488
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.200
landscape, but we just try to
break things down, simplify it a little

489
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:15.559
bit, moved to the next step, keep getting better each day. There's

490
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:19.440
just so much that is converged here
in the last few years. We've talked

491
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.680
about this before, guys, It's
all happened at the same time, and

492
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.440
it was so much pressure on our
industry, on our staff, on our

493
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:29.400
coaches, and I'm convinced on the
kids. All the things that we've done

494
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:31.960
and say are for our students,
isn't always the best thing for them.

495
00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:36.039
Yeah, yeah, all right.
So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna talk

496
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:39.000
about the nachos today, but I
do have something just one of those little

497
00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:44.359
things that as a fan, I'd
like to see or see something happen.

498
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:52.240
Excuse me, the band. I
did talk to James Francis about this quite

499
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.880
a while back. But the band
needs an entrance. You know, you've

500
00:33:54.920 --> 00:34:00.200
seen it at Ohio State, Wisconsin, even cal where the band comes in

501
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.200
and creates an atmosphere, create some
excitement, and you know, Arizona band,

502
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:06.359
they walk out onto the field and
then they started playing. They do

503
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:10.280
the thing. How do we get
a band inference? Well, I appreciate

504
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:14.440
that, and I appreciate you know, those are usually the big questions I

505
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.079
have. You know, how clean
are the bathrooms, how hot is the

506
00:34:16.119 --> 00:34:19.719
popcorn? Are the hot dogs and
nachos good? And now we got the

507
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.679
band, so now well it's a
great, great question, Steve. I

508
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.280
mean, I know our group does
such a wonderful job Pride of Arizona,

509
00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:30.360
and we we we're limited a little
bit. We don't have a huge tunnel

510
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:34.800
where our band can can march right
through in those traditional styles like in the

511
00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:37.400
Big Ten they come right out of
these large tunnels. So it's a little

512
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:42.320
challenging for us. But you know, point taking, we'll put that on

513
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:45.199
the staff agenda and and when we
liaison again with the schooling Music, we

514
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:50.280
share that that relationship with the band. It is not a program that we

515
00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:53.760
run here in athletics. We we
do share some of the expenses. We

516
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:58.599
provide them an abundance of funding,
but that's a school of music thing.

517
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.079
We'll we'll have that conversa with them. Just so you know, my my

518
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:05.519
family, if they're listening. They're
shaking their heads right now that I brought

519
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:07.880
this up. Well, so you
know, let me just tell you,

520
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.360
I think it's I think that might
be easier than getting our nachos, right,

521
00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:13.880
I don't know, So let me
be clear. That was a that

522
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:17.119
was a Jay question. That don't
put that one on me. I don't

523
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:21.159
care about the band. I just
want to see a good game. I

524
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:24.079
care about the band. It's all
part of the great game day festivities.

525
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:27.679
You know. They're all important,
they all have their roles and and you're

526
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.280
right, we want that atmosphere to
be great. We want those kids to

527
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:31.960
be able to perform in the band. They're a big part of the experience

528
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:35.440
on the day, and the more
we can get our fans excited, the

529
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:37.280
better. Well, and again you
talked about wanting to get the because of

530
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:42.119
the crowd. You want the fans
in early this week, right, And

531
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.159
I feel like if you create something
like that, there'll be a more of

532
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:49.280
a tendency to fan for fans to
show ups. Don't disagree at all.

533
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:52.360
Well, we'll keep kicking that one
around and put it in the old U

534
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.119
the washing machine and see what kicks
out, all right, I love,

535
00:35:55.480 --> 00:36:01.199
thanks as always appreciated. Day.
I love the guys that can't wait for

536
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:06.159
the hard question next time, anytime. It's always good to be it.

537
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:08.760
I hope everybody comes out really enjoys
the weekend and there's a big night for

538
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:14.239
our football program and something exciting could
really happen, and I hope everybody's there

539
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.000
to enjoy it. Down got thank
you, Thank you, Dave, Hekey,

540
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:20.920
of course, a lot of fun
with you. My daughter Rachel is

541
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just going, oh mind, you
know what are you asking question? He

542
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.719
did it. He said he was
going to do it, and he did.

543
00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:29.679
All right, Dave, thanks so
much for being for being a good

544
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Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Subscribe now to the podcast on the

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iHeart Radio Whap Just Surgery. I
am they welcome back to Win on the

619
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Ball here on Fox Sports sporteen fifty. I'm Steve Brown. You know Jakin's

620
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O. We got Simmy and we
got about ten minutes short short segment here.

621
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If you want a call, please
do five two o four one seventy

622
00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:17.400
four forty Did you like what he
said? Not what he said? I

623
00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:22.960
already have somebody did I I already
somebody somebody say that what the red blue

624
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.400
game? It's lame and they're gonna
have to get used to it next year.

625
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:29.320
Well okay, but they're not ready
for it, right yeah, yeah,

626
00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:30.960
Again, there's so much stuff going
on. And look at blame it

627
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:34.840
on the weekend that it is,
right, right, If it was next

628
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:37.159
weekend and there wasn't a home game, maybe they could do it. Yeah,

629
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.639
right, But there's so much going
on. And look again, we're

630
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:44.360
in that transition period where you got
all the fall sports are playing and all

631
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:49.360
the winter sports are starting, and
then you've got spring sports like softball and

632
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.159
baseball that have got their you know, their their fall seasons. But there's

633
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:54.000
so much going Let me go here, and and I hope people don't turn

634
00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:57.239
off the show because they know I'm
not the fan. You're the fan of

635
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.440
the room. You're a fan of
the room, and you know the fans

636
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:04.559
and you have you know these people
are they are they a bunch of whiners?

637
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:09.159
Yes, okay, that was simple. I mean, come out of

638
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:13.280
the simplest things. I mean,
I don't understand it. I loved what

639
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:16.719
you know what Ali Farhang said.
You know where you know Mike Lucas said

640
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:21.039
that, you know those games not
being streamed, and Lilly said, go

641
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.840
get a ticket. That's what I
step up your game, right, And

642
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:27.679
that's it, you know, it's
it's like when we've become the same,

643
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.280
we've got to have these things handed
to us. It wasn't until you know,

644
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.719
the last few years that the air
Zone that the Red Blue game was

645
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:37.760
even televised, you know, and
people so many people would go to this

646
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.719
game who couldn't get tickets during the
season. Normal people. Well, you

647
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:45.880
know those people go to the damn
game and and and and enjoy and it's

648
00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:49.280
not even a game, Steve,
I mean, it's yeah, let me

649
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.559
put it this way. If I'm
a fan, Okay, I'm not the

650
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:54.400
stat guy. If I'm a fan, I wonder if go ahead, and

651
00:43:54.480 --> 00:44:00.400
it's on TV, I'm not watching
watching You're right, We'll let me tell

652
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.800
you. It's not I don't want
to poo poo on it. It's it's

653
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.880
you gotta be there. You gotta
be there too to write that's how that's

654
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:09.239
how you enjoyed by being there to
see the dunk contest, to see you

655
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:13.000
know, all the things that they
do. And then you know, but

656
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:17.199
as a game that you want to
watch, it's you know, it's it's

657
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:22.320
it's not going to grab my attention. I'm not you know, I know

658
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:23.559
you gotta be there to enjoy it. You've been to a few of yeah,

659
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:29.239
I've been the last three years,
and I once the inner squad stuff

660
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:31.480
happens, I'm like, okay,
this isn't how we're gonna look, we're

661
00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:37.320
not gonna play exactly. You're not
gonna find out anything about the guys exactly.

662
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:40.360
No, that's exactly it. In
fact, you're there because you have

663
00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:43.880
to be right. I'm there because
I have to be and I have no

664
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:49.000
qualms about being there. But it's
not it's not a game. And you're

665
00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.960
thinking, okay, it's kind of
made for TV or whatever. It's it's

666
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:57.159
made to be in there, mean
right, right, yeah, you know

667
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:00.800
again, I I just look,
our fans in general are bunch of weenies.

668
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:05.440
I'm glad you said someone's gotten out
of me. Said I call a

669
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:08.920
bunch of winners. And your weenies
is fine too, because again, you

670
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:14.119
know, it's like football. Oh
it's too hot. Oh it's too late.

671
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:17.360
Oh it's too cold, Oh it's
too early. It's Goldilocks. There's

672
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:23.960
never there's never a time for a
game that fans are happy with. You

673
00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:30.440
know, ever, Oh, don't
play home games in September. What right,

674
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:36.280
eight o'clock is too late? Well, one o'clock is too early.

675
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:44.480
When's when's it just right? Exactly? There's never there's not a sweet spot

676
00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:50.199
for our fans because they don't have
one. You know. The Zona Zoo.

677
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.880
Well, I'm leaving at half time
even though the game is tied,

678
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:58.840
right because because I'm I'm losing Bronman, it's over at dirt Bag. We

679
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:02.159
you, we have all the evidence
we need. Just show it to them

680
00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:06.559
and they say, oh, you're
right, but they're not gonna believe you.

681
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:08.519
They're not gonna believe there was There
was a game of several years ago.

682
00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:10.639
I mean it was when I think
when they were good. I think

683
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:14.679
it would have been in the twenty
fourteen season, and you know, and

684
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:16.679
they were talking about Arizona was you
know, the Zona Zoo was this Zone

685
00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:20.199
Zoo was that? And I'm there, a game is about to start and

686
00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:22.480
I took a picture you nobody in
the Zoo and I posted, I said,

687
00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:25.480
where the hell are you? Right? Uh, you know, don't

688
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:30.280
tell me you're the best student section
in the country when this is who showed

689
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:34.599
up today. You know, remember
that that that the twenty thirteen Oregon game.

690
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.519
There was nobody there. It was
cold, it was rainy, There

691
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:39.400
was nobody there. Then they started
winning and they all came out of the

692
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:42.559
library and went to the game.
No, I remember that. It was

693
00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:45.119
It was a dark and gloomy day. It was a cold day, and

694
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:46.480
then the sun came out and they
all came out. Sure, well,

695
00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:50.519
okay, if you're a fan and
if you're the best student section in the

696
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:53.599
country, you're gonna be there no
matter what it's like. But it's got

697
00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:59.920
to be perfect conditions for so many
of our fans or there's football, basketball,

698
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:04.239
baseball, softball, whatever, to
show up. Simmy, you're your

699
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.199
people. Let me know what do
you think about your people? I was

700
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:15.000
gonna say coming on the library as
a bold statement that you know, I

701
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:17.960
think. I don't know. I
think with football it's hard because you have

702
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.639
has never been a quote unquote football
school. So it's you have the you

703
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:25.440
have the tailgates. You have Saturday
during the day, people go out,

704
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.880
they have fun, but they never
it's never surrounded by oh I'm doing all

705
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:32.639
this to then go to the game. Right now, I will say,

706
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:38.960
in fact, this year, this
year, if it has been but they're

707
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:43.159
leaving it a halftimes. Yeah.
Still, of course the games have been

708
00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.719
unappealing. But let me say this
to you, because you see the people

709
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:52.760
in the in the tailgating area.
Of those, how many stay and go

710
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:54.320
to the game and go to the
game? Oh you have to you can't,

711
00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:58.440
you can't stay. What do you
mean you can't stay in the tailgate

712
00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:00.199
area? No? No, okay, But do they just go home?

713
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:05.480
There's some people who go. There's
I know, some people can come to

714
00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:07.320
tailgates and then they then they leave. They don't stay for the gun.

715
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:12.280
Yeah, yeah, because that's a
good but but but but I'm gonna say

716
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.000
the tailgate crowd is really good.
There's some people who are still I mean,

717
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:17.280
we used to be very very serious
about our tailgate you know, in

718
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:21.719
terms of what we would set up. We don't do as much anymore because

719
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:24.440
we're just too damn old and a
lot of our people just aren't around anymore.

720
00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:29.079
But there's there's still a lot of
serious tailgaters with you know, with

721
00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:34.320
their with their custom built trailers and
you know, we I mean we you

722
00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:37.199
know, we were next to a
group that brought like, you know,

723
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.599
nightclub speakers to the dang to the
dang thing when they were blasting everybody.

724
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:45.960
But you know they're they're there are
a lot of very serious, serious tailgaters,

725
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:49.320
and most of them I think go
to the game, especially because the

726
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:54.519
fact that you can't stay in the
tailgate area once the games, well you

727
00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:58.440
can't be you just can't physically be
there. But you can pack up and

728
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:00.159
you can pack up your stuff and
leave it and then go to the game,

729
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:02.639
which is what we do. We
pack up our tail game in the

730
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:07.920
in the car and then we go
into the game. But you physically can't

731
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:14.159
be in the tailgate area. They
come and they throw you the hell out,

732
00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:19.320
you know. So your people,
ye, your people tell me about

733
00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:22.639
them. They're not in the libraries, not that they have to be at

734
00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:25.880
the game. But are they fair
weather, are they enthusiastic? What are

735
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.199
they? That's a good question.
I think when it comes to football,

736
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:34.360
there are a lot more or less
critical because there's less expectation. I think

737
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:38.239
with basketball, if we have this
great first non conference schedule, right,

738
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:44.440
if we go out and Tommy Lloyd
and his team takes a little bit to

739
00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:49.280
get used to the new guys,
and we start out two in three.

740
00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:52.360
Some of those people, some of
my my people are going to be very

741
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:59.719
hypercritical because it's you of a basketball. This is sometimes why they come to

742
00:49:59.800 --> 00:50:01.800
this school. And so it's they
can be a little fair weather, but

743
00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:07.360
they're passionate at least in terms of
the basketball. The football side is like,

744
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:09.320
oh, we're good, it's a
bonus. Yeah. So so let

745
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:12.719
me tell you this. You were
on the call I think with Richard and

746
00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:15.400
chanting today, right, you were
not on the zoom. So they're you

747
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:19.480
know, they're doing their little spill
and having fun. And and and Richard

748
00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:23.599
said they haven't been to the final
four in twenty some years, you know,

749
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:28.639
twenty onever. And then I'm thinking, we see he gets it.

750
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:31.119
He does project taught me to get
there in the next three or four,

751
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:36.840
which is, you know, a
good news. But even the guys say,

752
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:38.920
it's been way too long. It's
been way too long. And you

753
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:43.639
talk about Arizona basketball, and and
and Richard brought this up. Okay,

754
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:45.639
Sean had some good want a lot, right, want a lot. I

755
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:49.920
guess where he didn't go, ye
didn't go to the final four, And

756
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.440
how are you measured by going to
the final four? By going to the

757
00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:55.679
final at least when you're a right
And he talked about that and he says,

758
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:59.639
we haven't done this or that,
and and Channi says, well,

759
00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:01.159
we got to the lead eight.
We're the last team. How many years

760
00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:10.199
was at twenty fifteen to the two
thousand and five, Sean I'm talking about

761
00:51:10.199 --> 00:51:13.639
I'm talking about Channing? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, So it's been a

762
00:51:13.679 --> 00:51:15.559
long time. Yeah, it's been
a long time. Yeah. Channing was

763
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:20.920
part of that, the debacle.
Chicago should be ashamed of himself. So

764
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:22.840
so, but you know, that's
how you're married. That's how you're married.

765
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:27.320
You're measured, measured, measured,
not married. You said married,

766
00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:30.199
Yeah, I said married, And
and see that was a disaster. That's

767
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:34.000
where I was gonna go with it. So you know, come on,

768
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.519
you're that's you talk about everyone with
basketball, Okay, but you're not You're

769
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.639
not that yet. You're not that
anymore. And I think ahead, but

770
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.880
I think there's I think I wasn't
alive to see this, but Loot set

771
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:51.519
that expectation terry early. He won
the national championship, and he had a

772
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:53.760
sense of culture at the U of
A that we had hoped to see and

773
00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:58.079
hope we're gonna see in the next
couple of years of Tommy to where it

774
00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:01.480
does feel like when you step into
mc kale, Oh this is this is

775
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:06.880
amazing, right not to say when
you step into the football it. McHale

776
00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:09.480
lost a lot of juice, particularly
in the Sean Miller, you know,

777
00:52:09.559 --> 00:52:13.599
and and the tail end of the
years very much so. Well, you

778
00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:15.800
looked up and there there were some
seat up in the round twelve. We

779
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:20.400
talked about this Sean. It was
twelve thousand, and people don't want to

780
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:22.920
believe that, but it was true. He lost a lot of games consecutively

781
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:29.320
that never happened in Arizona basketball.
Yeah, okay, thanks say for coming

782
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:31.599
in today. I'll see you.
I'm not here tomorrow. I'm here Friday.

783
00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:34.880
That's right, I've got I'll bring
it be bringing in a guest house

784
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:37.159
and and working on a couple of
guests. We talk about this game coming

785
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:39.480
up, so we'll see what we
come up with tomorrow. We hope you'll

786
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:42.760
be around. Okay, all right, thank you being here. We'll be

787
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.519
back. We'll be back Friday Fab
Five Friday Picks on Friday, so's have

788
00:52:45.599 --> 00:53:01.440
a great day off. Steve,
do you remember my love is changing