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Welcome to I on the Ball here
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Steve Rivera. You're jagon Zalis.
Another day closer to the opening day,

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A couple of three weeks. We're
inside of three weeks. Side of three

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weeks. We went went to the
the scrimage on Saturday. U saw what

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I saw. I don't know what
I saw. I was hot. Well,

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we'll talk to Jed Fish about what
he saw. Yes, yes,

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we have some clips, right,
we have some clips. I did notice

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one thing, and I wrote about
it on Saturday, was that this team

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looks much better than it has been
the last few years. And of course

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during the summering years we saw what
we saw and we didn't know until we

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saw it U, and then the
last two years have been improved. From

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someone's time, right, they're better. This team is different than all that

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because you're so athletic, and it's
very noticeable, very it's noticeable very noticeable.

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It's hard to come from practice right, right, because you're playing against

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each other. They're doing these things. But but the things are doing to

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each other, it's very good.
What does that mean. Well, they're

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they're scoring on each other, they're
defending well against each other. It's not

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just you know, one dominating the
other. It's it's equal good. Yeah,

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that makes an you sense, it
does, and you know, and

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that's one of the things about you
know camp, right, is that there

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are you know, if the defense
looks bad, if the offense makes the

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defense look bad, you worry about
the defense. Right, the defense makes

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the offense look bad, you worry
about the offense. So they're both gonna

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have their days. And I didn't
get I couldn't go to the scrimmage.

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I had a memorial service I had
to go to. So that's my excuse.

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I'm sticking to it. And you're
fine, you're fielding for you exactly.

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She wasn't. She complained about these. It was it was really bad,

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but you know so and that you
know, so it's good and bad

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when you when you have that thing
going on which you kind of like to

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see, is that they're kind of
kind of even but you know, by

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all accounts, both sides look good, is what I hear? Yeah,

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no, no, no, And
they have good spots. Delora looks sharp,

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it looks very good. The wide
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look good. Of the running backs, Wiley looked fantastic, Speedy, Speedy

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Luke good at times. He needs
to handle the ball better, but you

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know he's gonna make an impact.
Finally, you know, a couple of

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years in, right, so they
have people again again. Hey, you

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have to convince me, right,
Mikey doesn't like it. Mikey's kind of

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starting to like it. Yeah.
You know. One of the things that

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to me is it kind of sticks
out to me in terms of how to

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think about all this is that,
you know, last year, you know,

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we felt, okay, they've got
all these players, They've got t

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act they've got Jane Delora, they've
got Speedy Luke, you know, all

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these guys, and it kind of
like they weren't. They were good,

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but maybe not as good as you
hope. They weren't good weekend and week

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out. It's like, guys,
this was the first time they were all

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playing, and now Delora had played, but not with these guys, right,

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and they were young and and and
so it was kind of hard to

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you know, you you expected more
from them, right, You expect a

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team act to be breaking touchdowns and
and and he did a lot of great

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things and some of those things,
you know, but he had a lot

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of you know, he was he
was he was right out of high school.

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Now, you you know, when
when you watch them this year,

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you realize these guys got a year
under their belt. And it shows.

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Yeah, right, it shows when
you see them a little stronger, a

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little bigger, a little more confident
and knowing more about what they're supposed to

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be doing. I was gonna ask
you if you can go to Draft Kings,

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one of our big sponsors. Uh, it's just still at four or

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four and a half five whatever it
was five five, So it went down.

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It went from five and a half
down, So the numbers are are

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not giving them favors. Right,
If that's the case, I still like

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over five. I still like it, even though I bet against it with

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you. Uh, but even the
Fins wins, I can't remember they only

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have like two and a half on
that in at least I saw something,

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Yeah, I'll look, which is
kind of strange because if they've gotten much

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better than you've already you some people
last week we're talking eight, right,

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seven, eight? Well, Jake
Fisher said eight, and then we got

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a call right after that saying seven
or eight, seven or eight. And

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I don't know if it's the kool
aid or the Tucson fans talking and calling,

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but I don't see it that good. But six seems very reasonable,

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very reasonable. They're they're still at
five five over five is plus one hundred,

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under five is minus one twin.
Yeah, so they're favoring under five

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yeah, which which which you know? So the basically the odds are saying

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four or less. Yeah, So
I think the locals over are taking the

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over. The Nationals are taking the
end, taking the under because of reputation,

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reputation. It's all about what have
you done? Later? You know,

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you've you're you got five wins last
you're great, But you're in the

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league. That's a lot tougher.
Tell me what does Colorado? Can?

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You see what Colorado has? I
can because everybody Nationals are favoring them,

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right. I don't know what their
locals are, but some people are saying

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two three there, and it'd be
an improvement. Colorado was at UH three

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and a half three and a half. The under three and a half is

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minus one thirty five, so it's
leaning towards towards under under, but it's

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it's three and a half and one. You know, Jay, You know

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Jay, because we talked about this, They're not gonna mirror Arizona in the

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second year. Jed did because they
did let well, yeah, they went

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one eleven and flipped their roster completely
over right, But but does that go

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to bad right? Right? In
Arizona went from what they went they won

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one and eleven to five to five. So I'm thinking Colorado could do that.

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We don't know that. We don't
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do it with what they had,
there's a chance Colorado could do it.

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Which was it? I had thought
at some point I might throw something on

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Colorado under under three and a half. Yeah, because I just think this

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is gonna be harder than anybody at
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his kid, the quarterback, this
is gonna be harder, harder than it

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is. But I wouldn't, you
know, Dean Sanders is as extractor.

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He don't know you don't know what
what you know, what he's gonna bring

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and what they're gonna do this whole
year is gonna be fun to watch.

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And I say that not surprisingly because
of all the good teams, right and

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everybody's gonna be after each other,
this beating the last year. Right now,

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it starts early for DN. They
open up with TCCU. So you

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know, if TCU goes out and
beat some forty one to seven, you

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know, you think, okay,
you know, but if they don't,

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But what if they don't. But
if they don't and and you know,

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they hang in there, let's say
it's a you know, a thirty eight

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twenty eight game or something like that, you know you're gonna go, okay,

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they've got something. If you put
twenty eight points up on the team

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it was in the National Championship last
year, then you might, you know,

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you might have a shot at something
after winning one game, one game,

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and I don't winning looking bad,
only winning one game. I mean

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sure they didn't look as bad as
their Zonta looked. And it's you know,

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but they look you know, they
didn't lose to an NAU, but

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they looked they they were in Arizona
handle them really well three and a half.

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I have to look at their schedule. I really liked that. I

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really like that. We'll see what
happens. But I just bringing the IM

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up because of the compare and contrast
them being one eleven and Arizona doing really

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well. I do like what Arizona's
doing. It's without question. Uh they

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look they look better well again,
you know, and you you with if

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you with some continuity, you'd like
to think that they will be better by

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having guys in positions that played those
positions last year. So with that,

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let's go to my question to Jed
about the team looking noticeably better the talent

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different talent difference. Okay, you
what exactly was the question? It was

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over the last three years you've been
here, blah blah blah, You've gone

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from this to this this and uh
you and I'm asking the question right,

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so it's very noticeable. What do
you think? And then you kind of

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gave me a long answer to that
question. Okay, Well, yeah,

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I mean I think what we tried
to do, and we talked about this

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each year right from you know,
we really called year one year zero.

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We were not able to really bring
in any players from the outside. Most

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of the players that we had than
a few random transfers there at the end,

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were players that were here and we
had to try to develop them in

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a short period of time to play
the type of football we wanted to play.

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The next year, we really tried
to do a great job of recruiting.

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That was t Max class and Feature
Price Socks class and Speedies class and

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Jonah's class, and both Jonahs and
that class really came in and made a

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difference. And then obviously then we
had the transfers come in with Jaiden and

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company and then Cowing and etc.
So the talent has continued to build.

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But I'll tell you what else has
been the development of the players that either

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we're here or that got here.
The way they look, the way they

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really are work in the weight room, the way they are taking care of

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their bodies in the training room.
I mean, I'll get a picture from

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the training room and there'll be thirty
guys in there getting treatment, taking care

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of their body, getting ready for
practice. And when you have that mentality,

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that's when you start really seeing a
difference. So I think each year

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we hope to have better talent every
year we're here. That's the ultimate goal.

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So it was a long question,
a lot of answer to my question.

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So I used the back half of
that for the weight room and they're

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they're working hard to get better.
I didn't need the front part of it.

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You know, we know who's here. But that's very apparent. I

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think the previous years, you know, and that interview that we had with

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the guy a washerman and when he
brought up the one in one thousand,

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I think that's always gonna stick with
me because they had nothing there. Right.

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If that doesn't translate to nothing,
I don't know what does wow that.

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Yet it showed how little effort and
care was put into forty just getting

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players, not just one year,
right, not just two years from a

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bunch of years, for a bunch
of years, including the last including Ritron's

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last couple of years. You can
argue, I know he had Khalil Tate,

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but you know, it seemed like
the recruiting, you know, kind

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of you know, fell off a
little bit in his last couple of years,

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and so you know with the whole
thing where he had coaches who weren't

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recruiting and stuff like that. So
I think that it's, yeah, there's

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a huge difference. You can see
the effort. I guess what you say.

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He can see the fruits of the
effort to go out and get guys

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and have guys and keep bringing in
guys to challenge the guys ahead of them.

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You know, if Jayden Delora goes
out and plays like Craft the first

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couple of games, there's a quarterback
behind him who he'll be happy to take

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his job. And he looks good
too, looks very good. You know,

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he talks about, well, let's
let's run this click because he talked

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about he played basically three receivers last
year, Dorian Singer of T mac and

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Jacob Cowing. And somebody asks about, you know, now singers back.

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I mean Cowing is back. T
Mack is back. I've gone and got

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Montana long last name from Colorado.
But he talks about other guys and what

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might be happening at the receiver position. Yeah, I think we're getting better

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there. Kevin gray and just had
a little bit of a nick on his

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shoulder, so we didn't play him
very much. He's done a nice had

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a nice camp. Malachi needs to
keep growing and learning, but as a

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lot of ability, Carlos showed up
today. He looks like he's got something

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there. You know, those guys
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there's a really you know, there's
a lot of places for these guys to

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improve and make an impact. But
I and AJ showed up today. AJ

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had probably his best day. So
yeah, I mean, I think guys

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will play more, will substitute more. You know, our our goal is

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to develop, developed, developed,
get them ready, and then when they're

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ready, we play him. And
we don't really worry about how many reps

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a guy has. We're going to
play the three best and then when the

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fourth best is ready to go in, then the number three guys gonna be

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able to take a break. So
it's on the one, two, and

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three to pressure four, five and
six to keep getting better so they don't

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have to play every snap. I
don't know if you saw the Twitter tears

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that they hadn't it was it was
football? Did where was it? Noween

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was the second tier and and t
MAC was the fifth tier, But basically

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it was the top like twenty five
receivers in the country, right right,

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So two guys very respectful for a
unit that's uh that lost one of its

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best players. USC was was he
was, but but it says a law

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you wouldn't have seen this a few
years ago, was then against if you

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go to I know that, I
know, you know there's a lot of

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guys in all these groups, but
all these awards that players are unwatched the

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true score, you know, and
you didn't There's a whole bunch of them

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and you didn't see any of that. You saw none of that for for

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for a lot of years. So
that means not only are they getting better

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players, but you know, people
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the Macavic years and Mike Stoops was, you know, struggled, got got

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a little bitter, got a little
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that they were in the conversation.
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on college football game day, they
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of their games coming up. Then
they then they had a game, they

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hosted a game. They hear against
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people think about oh, you know, AP polls and stuff like that,

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if they're not talking about you,
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a bowl game or to have guys
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the conversation has always been very important
to me to have people talk about Arizona

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in a good way and not a
bad way because they get did get talked

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about how bad they were for a
long period of time, and it's so

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infrequent that that happens. You know, maybe he could run a little longer

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streak of that, right because it
gets choppy choppy in the past, you

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know, But but they are in
the conversation. You know, there was

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a you know, the podcast that
I listened to with with Dan Wetzel and

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Pat Forty. You know, they
spent they spend a bunch of time,

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you're during the recruiting, you know, during all the recruiting stuff. I

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mean, they zeroed in and talked
for about five minutes or so about Arizona

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and the guys that they were getting, and so it's it's it's just very

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cool to be in that position.
Okay, we gotta take a break here,

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get have your morales, get a
cull in. We're gonna talk a

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lot about high school season and things
like that as they start their season in

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a few days. Now, we're
gonna talk about today's a scrimmage with you

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of a in Israel, right,
I'm sure you saw watch the game on

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the other half. And then we'll
also have Troy Hutchinson to talk about.

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He was at the scrimmage, so
we'll get a to watch the game.

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Yeah, well we'll get another view
of you know what he's seen what he

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saw at the scrimmage on Saturday.
So stick around for all that, but

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you, breaking down all the excess
and os. It's Steve Rivera and Jaden

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Zommits. This is I on the
Ball on Fox Sports fourteen. They Hey,

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welcome back to why on the Ball
here Fox Sports Fortune Foim Steve,

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He's Jay. Tell me you have
haf the guy who never sleeps well.

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I have to I sadly have to
agree with you. Vampire. Yeah,

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So what's what's got you busy these
days? Uh? I co football it's

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coming up pretty fast, too fast. Actually, it starts this Friday,

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for one, are eight teams in
southern Arizona. And then the following Friday,

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the twenty fifth, is when all
those schools are playing. So it's

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coming up really fast. Let's go. Let's go to some of the small

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schools, because there's a few of
them, you know, in and around

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the Tucson area. And I shouldn't
even call him small anymore because like schools

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like Sabino and like that are in
are in three A. So tell us

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a little bit about about those guys
getting started this weekend. Sabino plays at

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Coolidge and Sabino has Cameron Hackworth,
who's a three year starter at quarterback.

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I get looked at by some colleges, you know. And you have the

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Barry Hill brothers, Savan and Samar
Schamar has been offered a scholarship by the

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view of a he's a junior.
He's got great size. He actually plays

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wide receiver and linebacker, which is
uncommon jesually wide receiver, cornerbacker, safety,

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but he's played linebackers. How strong
guy how big is he if he's

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a line if he's playing linebackers,
he's got good size. He's about six

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six one two hundred around there.
Yeah, I mean he can get around.

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He's like the edge like he called
it, the mic linebacker. I

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don't know all those terminologies, but
he he covers a lot of ground.

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So a lot of good talent.
Even at the smaller school level. Huh

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oh yeah, yeah, even if
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to be like small school, you
know, because it's not forty five or

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sixty. But the schools like Sabino
and Push Ridge are annually very tough teams,

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and they play against fourty teams and
they beat them. I mean,

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they were very competitive Sawaro. I
think Sabino's beat Sawaro the last couple of

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years. That's a big rivalry up
there. I know Jay knows all about

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that. Point that out. Unfortunately, I had just gotten out of high

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school when Sabino all of a sudden
got good and they started beating the crap

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out of Sawaro. So right,
you know, because that didn't happen while

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I was a well, I that's
all I know. That's all I know.

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But that was that was also nineteen
seventy seven. I don't ask you

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how many tackles? Yeah, exactly
exactly did you play football? Jay?

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I didn't. I played freshman in
JV and then that was that was all

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I had, and I got tired
of I got tired of getting killed.

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I'm just saying you couldn't find a
helmet big enough. Well, the helmet

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was big, but the pants were
long. Okay, so you gonna be

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busy. Which games are you gonna
highlight this week? And if not all

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of them, well, there's there's
not a lot in Tucson. Actually,

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the Semino Coolidge game is at Coolidge
push Ridge doesn't start until twenty fifth or

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a three eight team, but they
don't start to twenty fifth. A lot

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of two eight teams are playing on
the road. So even though it starts

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this week, there's not a lot
going on in Tucson. Uh So the

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next week is when it really gets
hot and heavy with like you guys to

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point out before like sell Miranna plays
cell point huge game. I mean that

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that's a huge game for for you
know, power points and all. That's

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that's what they still call him,
you know down the road because look,

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you've got two really really good teams
and somebody's got to win the game,

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right. Yeah, it's gonna be
interesting because Cell Point, you know,

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they have that defensive line with rushing
and Will high and on the ends,

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and they have Cordova and then nose
tackles. So that's that's gonna be one

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of the best defensive line ever in
two sons high school history just because of

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their they're projected. All of them
are projective play at a Power fives or

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Division one school at least. You
know, Arizona's got Will hide and rushing

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already on board as commitments, and
Cordova has been recruited by you know,

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he's been in the past, has
been recruited by the UA and Order Dame

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and some other schools, so he's
still on the board. But uh,

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it's gonna be interesting to see those
guys going against Miranda's fast paced, uh

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quick read offense. I think Miranda's
gonna use set to their advantage because they

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don't want to have the quarterback sit
back there and just let those guys key

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on them. So they're going to
test cell Points linebackers in secondary. I'm

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gonna take rushing in Wahai, Will
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But well, that's that's part of
the fun thing of watching it unfold.

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And that's at sell Point next Friday, the only time sell Points playing

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another Tucson team in town or Southern
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is all Phoenix teams. Oh Man, mostly yeah, well yeah wow.

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So so you've been doing this a
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You've seen a lot of games.
You've seen a lot of people come through.

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Have you talked about this being the
best one of the best ever,

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if not the best ever? Defensively
on the line? Has has Tucson?

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Uh well, how far has Tusan
come with that? In terms of athletic

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abilities? Things like that school's going
to three kids going to bigger school and

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stuff like that. Uh well,
I mean school has developed like a niche

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and along the way sometimes you know, like stell Point's built up a reputation,

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have been running back strong. Uh
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ones that have come through in recent
years, like Bettis and Goodman last year.

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Just just the string of really good
quarterbacks. Will Height not related to

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uh, do the Will Height that's
going to Arizona but Anthony will Height was

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a really easy plus a thousand yard
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in a running back school. Miranda's
starting to be like a quarterback school because

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they're turning out quarterbacks that are that
throw for over twenty five hundred yards.

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Sabino went from aj Skaggs, who
through for at close to three thousand yards

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on. They have Cameron Hackworth who
that he's gonna throw full four thousand this

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year, which is unheard of.
That's going to be a record. He's

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gonna shoot for that with forty touchdowns. So, I mean, there's certain

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schools that have developed, uh you
know that you know that identity, uh

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you know, and it's it's been
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the past. They've had the lineman
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of the other guys that played there. It's it's every every generation seems like

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there's there's a top of the line
players playing at different schools in certain positions.

406
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:12.319
Who besides those two, who are
some who are some of the schools

407
00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:17.240
around here, you know at the
upper levels that might be competing you don't

408
00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:22.799
have a shot at maybe making some
run in in the at state. Well,

409
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.920
cdo. And we all know that
what happened at CDEO last year with

410
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:33.799
the unfortunate off the field, uh
situation that reduced that resulted in I think

411
00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:38.279
it was seven or eight players,
most of them seniors, were basically checked

412
00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:42.759
off the team for that year.
You know, some of them are back

413
00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:48.079
or at least one of them is
back this year reinstated, and it's that

414
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.359
team has more than twenty seniors on
his team and there and most of them

415
00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:56.720
are good, like Skylie Woodard,
another guy that you have a has been

416
00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:02.720
looking at. He's alignman. Uh. You know, Tristan McClellan is a

417
00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:04.440
great quarterback. He had a good
year. He got thrown into the mix

418
00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:10.279
last year. They're they're gonna be
a team that should win the for a

419
00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:15.960
championship or be right there because they
got a lot of people back and they

420
00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:19.920
went to the semi finals, became
an overtime away from making the championship game

421
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:23.000
last year. So they're they're one
of the favorites to go all the way

422
00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:26.599
this year. Well, that's that's
very good and very interesting. Well,

423
00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.480
they're losing all those guys, you're
still get in as far as they did.

424
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:33.839
How how did they do that?
Because you can't lose guys like they

425
00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.000
lost? Right, Yeah, you
guys have talked to dust In peace before,

426
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:42.000
right. I mean, he's he's
like a he's the ultimate players coach.

427
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:45.240
Those guys think of him as the
father figure. And I think he

428
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:49.799
used that as a situation where like, Okay, they're gonna do this to

429
00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:52.960
us, Well, we're gonna we're
gonna bond together. We're gonna show them

430
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:57.480
what we can do despite this,
you know, terrible situation. I mean

431
00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:02.720
he was in tears when I interviewed
him about it, about the players,

432
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:07.160
because he was thinking more about them
and their futures than anything else. And

433
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.839
I think the players just rallied around
him the way he made them bond together.

434
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.160
Yeah, no, No, I
agree that he's just a good guy,

435
00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.519
A good guy who avided his time
as an assistant coach and now he's

436
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.279
here. He's been a head coach
for a while now, right, he's

437
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.839
I think it is the fifteenth year
he was under new Gent right forever.

438
00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:33.319
Yeah, he actually played at following
Walls, I think when Nugent was there,

439
00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:37.440
maybe at an assistant coach, and
then then he coached under him at

440
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.319
cdo Yeah, anything else besides football
going on. We gotta keep prior out.

441
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:47.000
Yeah, well there's all the fall
sports. There's volleyball, golf,

442
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.400
you know, swimming, cross country. A lot of kids come out to

443
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:56.200
those, Andy and I and I
think Down four was their Saturday at the

444
00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:59.599
USD Media Day that which is a
great event. That's got some of the

445
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.200
the players out there, the athletes
of all the schools and different sports.

446
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.720
I mean, something that's never really
happened before, and it would be nice

447
00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.240
if they continue that. All the
districts or schools put something like that together.

448
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.400
That was something Dedy Wheeler must have
engineered. Yeah, it generated with

449
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:18.599
to USD and then it's the two
Sun High. Ad said that she would

450
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.200
take it on to put it on
Stephanie Miller at the at their jam.

451
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.720
You know, I think I think
next time probably they'll they'll get more notification

452
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:36.119
out and get some more media out
there, because those those kids eat it

453
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.799
up to see the camera in front
of them not they're not used to that.

454
00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.680
And a lot of them I asked, have you ever been interviewed for

455
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.920
and they said no, Maybe like
of those athletes and the parent the parents

456
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.599
loved that stuff too. They love
seeing their kids getting that stuff. And

457
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.799
you know, like when we get
a coach on the radio, that's one

458
00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:53.440
of the things that generates, you
know, a lot of interest. And

459
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:56.839
we know, we know, you
know they're on the they're on the radio

460
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:00.400
and they were listening the school is
everybody's listening. But you know, it's

461
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.000
it's that's a lot of fun.
And they always well, you guys,

462
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.519
you guys do that all. I
mean, I heard that the Sam Mills

463
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.519
interview at the Morana Softball I mean, that's you probably had the whole Miranda

464
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.079
community they're listening to him speaking.
It's it's that's huge. I mean,

465
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.200
that doesn't happen. By the way, thanks thanks for that, because he

466
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.640
was really good. He was great. I heard the interview. He's yeah,

467
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.920
he was very informative and emotional and
I think we both had tears in

468
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:33.200
our eyes at the point. Well, you guys have had have had kids

469
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:36.799
play sports, you sports that some
of the stuff he was talking about it

470
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:40.079
very important. So I don't know
if you want to make a prediction or

471
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:42.079
not, because I can't remember if
all sports twos on dot com does this

472
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:47.119
a player of the year. Who
would be your leaders in the clubhouse right

473
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:52.960
now for football football? Yeah,
Ilie, you're rushing defensive end at sell

474
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:59.039
Point. Uh, let's see.
There's there's a different players that are going

475
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:02.839
to step up. The Kylie Woodard
had CDO I think is gonna be huge.

476
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.000
He's got any of you looking at
him more and more, and Arizona

477
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:12.720
has been out and on him going
down the line. You got some of

478
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:15.960
the CD a lot of the CDO. Caden Luke is going to be a

479
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.799
big time player. He's a fullback. Uh, he's like a Michael Stott

480
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:24.240
type player. He'll he'll get some
looks. You know, there's a lot

481
00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:29.079
there's there's above a Mustay in the
quarterback at push Ridge. You passed for

482
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:32.960
over to twenty six hundred yards.
His brother, Tyler Mustang was a walk

483
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.720
on at the of A. He's
gonna I would guess that he's gonna earn

484
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:42.759
a scholarship by by next year or
the way his physical abilities. Cameron Hackworth,

485
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:46.920
he says he's gonna throw for four
thousand yards and have forty touchdown passes.

486
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:50.680
I don't I don't doubt him with
the amount of talent he has around

487
00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:52.839
with the Berry Hills and a lot
of the receivers he has there, what

488
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:58.680
are his uh what are his uh
specs? You know, you know,

489
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:02.039
hight weight. That's that's where the
question marks come in with him because he's

490
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:07.799
like five nine, one hundred and
eighty around there. He doesn't have a

491
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:09.640
lot of heights. But I mean, you look at Kyler Murray. He's

492
00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:14.720
not the tallist guy. Of course
he's he's had his moments at with the

493
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:17.279
Cardinals over your questioned, but but
he won a Heisman, So I you

494
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:22.319
know, I think a size in
this today's age of offenses is not as

495
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:28.599
big for the quarterback because a lot
of them run have mobile quarterbacks who quick

496
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:32.480
reads and run out of the pocket
to mix defenses us. So I think

497
00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:36.480
he could have a future. I
know he's played defensive back also to give

498
00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:40.359
himself himself more of an opportunity to
get noticed. But he definitely has a

499
00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:45.799
strong arm. He's got a great
football I que, and he's got tremendous

500
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.279
accuracy, so he's got he's got
the tools. Yeah, I was gonna

501
00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:52.279
say, you want to make a
prediction and say who has the best chance

502
00:33:52.319 --> 00:34:00.240
to win a state title? I
think cdo studio and then the self point,

503
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.559
as I would their defense might be
one of the best and not the

504
00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:07.599
best in the state. At the
six are not defense. You have a

505
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:10.599
chance to win a championship obviously,
So they're not open division this year.

506
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:15.280
They're six A. There's six A. If they get if they're ranked one

507
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:19.320
of the top eight by the end
of the the regular season, they'll be

508
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.360
in the Open Division playoffs. Oh
gosh, that could very well happen.

509
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:24.159
Yeah, that could happen. Yeah, so they might have to go up

510
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:28.639
against some of the top tier teams
in Phoenix, but I think, you

511
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:31.920
know, with that defense, they
can probably manage that. Yeah, how

512
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:35.280
was we haven't had on the show
in a while? Uh, Scarring,

513
00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:37.840
How's how are they doing downe there? He's still trying to develop. I

514
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:42.239
mean I think that was the first
year last year and then they I think

515
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.480
they only had one winning season in
their whole existence. So that's that's the

516
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:49.840
struggle down there. You have to
compete with no gallas and it does not

517
00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:53.119
too far away. Walden Grove,
that's a that's a tough area because those

518
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:59.360
are all good, especially Walden Groves. That's a good area where the students

519
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.480
and generally don't go to Rio Rico, so he's still trying. He got

520
00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:06.119
almost a new staff this year because
a lot of the other guys went on

521
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:09.719
to different schools, so he's still
he's still in the building process there.

522
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:14.599
Okay, okay, well thanks a
munch. What's high? They got a

523
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:19.320
new coach too, right, Zach
Nevleff. He's a self point running back

524
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:21.679
coach. And I've mentioned the running
backs at self point in recent years,

525
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:23.920
so he's behind a lot of that. So he's he's very young guy.

526
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:28.360
He relates with the players very well, and they got Adam paul as A

527
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:35.280
as a assistant coach. Cam Gaddis, who's the young guy he relates with

528
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:40.559
players, so he's uh, he's
got some some youthful exuberance going on there.

529
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:44.639
Let's see. It's gonna be tough
for him to win right away because

530
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:49.239
the way the program was last year
with an interim coach and things very much

531
00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:51.519
in transition. But I think a
couple of years from now, two three

532
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:57.079
years or training things around. Well, have your thanks for your youthful exuberance

533
00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:00.400
today? Is that what you call
it? That's what you call it.

534
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:04.880
I'm using it on you. Now
taking out are you you're probably working?

535
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:07.440
Yeah, taking out? No,
I'm go ahead to do the CDIO amount

536
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:12.159
of the scrimmage right now. Sleep
took it up and a half time.

537
00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:20.119
Thanks a much, Thanks a much. Never sleeps, he doesn't. Yeah,

538
00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.360
he doesn't. But you know what, he's the guy, right you

539
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:23.960
go, you want some information on
high school, you go to him and

540
00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:28.239
Andy and you get they know everything. They know all the players, they

541
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:30.480
know the coaches, they know what's
going on. So that's why that's why

542
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:32.599
we get him on here, so
so that we don't have to go do

543
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:37.320
all that. Right, I'm looking
forward to I really do want to go

544
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.760
to that Mirana. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what is that fifth

545
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:44.480
R five? Yeah? Okay,
yeah, I really want to go check

546
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:45.760
that out and see what these do
you guys from south would look like.

547
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:49.840
And you know how good is Mirana? Right, We've had their their coach

548
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:52.719
on a few times, so I
love to see how that works. Okay,

549
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:54.079
so let's take a break. Okay, let's take our break. We'll

550
00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:58.599
be back and uh we'll maybe do
some more jet fish stuff from practice.

551
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:01.960
Yeah, talk about the best gamestball
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you go to the scrimmage on Saturday? That be good to hear see what

607
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:10.719
you thought. I think there weren't
very many people. It was too dull.

608
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:14.000
Heart Yeah, I think I think
the next one, which will be

609
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:19.239
at at night Saturday, be the
last last chance to get a good look

610
00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:23.599
at him. Probably a little further
along right practice wise, and we might

611
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:28.239
see more. Looking forward to going
too now Yeah, no, okay,

612
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:30.199
if you want to give us call, please do two O four one six

613
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:37.199
seventy four forty. Thanks Saber for
coming on board. We all we talk

614
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:40.119
about Jeff Jets one more time.
Basket basketball basketball basketball. I saw,

615
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:44.880
I saw probably three quarters of it. Yeah, I kind of stopped paying

616
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:46.239
attention to it when it got out
of hand. Yeah, it was.

617
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:52.480
I thought I thought Israel Israel would
be a better team. They weren't well,

618
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.360
and you know, and I wasn't
looking at the score so much.

619
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:58.400
I mean, of course, if
i'd have been looking at the score if

620
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.280
a zone was losing, right,
But they took him in pretty early on.

621
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:04.880
What I was watching for was what
does it look like right, and

622
00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.639
what the different guys looked. Sure, it looked the same. Let me

623
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.840
say this, except for one Ballow
is big, like a big big.

624
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:16.599
I noticed that when he went to
the press conference like two weeks ago.

625
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:21.840
Yeah, I'm thinking what happened to
follow He like ballooned yea, and not

626
00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.639
in a good way. Yeah.
I would assume that that wait is easy

627
00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:28.639
to come. If he needs to
come off if he does, let me

628
00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:30.320
know because I need that way to
come up with me. But he's big.

629
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.199
Did you notice. I guess I
didn't pay attention so much, so

630
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.079
I big. But maybe he needs
to be big. I don't know,

631
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:42.239
but he was big. Same ballow
though, you know, kind of but

632
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.679
he eversone was gonna be very good
on the inside. Wow. Okay.

633
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:47.719
That and that's one of the first
things that I that was I kind of

634
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:52.559
noted was the rim protector that they
have. There's a whole bunch of them,

635
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:55.480
right, if you produce their names
right, you could not you know,

636
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:59.440
guys could not go in the in
the lane on Arizona. And no

637
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:01.679
matter who in there, they're gonna
be And we didn't see Henry Henry today

638
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:06.000
because he was out. He was
out with flu or sickness. Uh,

639
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:09.880
they're gonna be This team has a
lot of I said, this not a

640
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:13.639
death blah blah blah, whether he
uses it or not, but they're gonna

641
00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:15.400
be very good. Yeah. Well, and then another one was was you

642
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:19.199
know Borrow Eaton and the guy that
we talked about, you know all summer

643
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:21.079
long with it, you know,
when he was you know, playing in

644
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:24.760
the international competition he just looked and
it's not being Philip Philip. Yeah,

645
00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:29.159
I think I told you that.
Yeah, it's not that he was scoring,

646
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:32.599
it's his presence on the court.
Yes, right, he's confident,

647
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:37.639
he looks like he knows where he
needs to be. He's you know,

648
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:39.519
how did you notice this? I'm
just I was just watching him play so

649
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:44.360
so I I think I said this
before before all this, uh, last

650
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:46.559
year, we had a chance to
see him in the summer and he stuck

651
00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:50.000
out. He stood out to me, and I'm thinking, who's this kid.

652
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.760
I didn't know these kids, Philip, and I'm looking at him.

653
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:54.360
Oh, he's gonna be very good. And then he didn't play, right,

654
00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:59.360
I'm thinking if he's storing him,
like stored him purposely because he didn't

655
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:00.559
need to play him. I said, this dude's gonna be good. Like

656
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:04.480
he's got a presence. Is at
the word to use? Yeah, he's

657
00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:07.679
got a presence. Yeah, and
it's it's it's just a weird good vibe.

658
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:12.320
Well, and here's the thing again, it's not about the competition that

659
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.639
he was going up again, just
watching him on the floor and the thing

660
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:21.320
that the thing that the description I
have for him is he's a better version

661
00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:25.639
of Pelly Larson right, smoother,
smoother, more more confident with the ball,

662
00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:30.519
more confident defensively. And again we
don't know. I mean this was

663
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:35.360
you know, who knows what the
competition level was, But just the way

664
00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:37.599
he was moving around the court,
he looked a whole have a lot more

665
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:44.199
uh, in control of himself like
he knew or he was supposed to be.

666
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:46.760
Wasn't afraid to take the ball,
wasn't afraid to take a shot.

667
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:51.000
And if that's the guy that he's
gonna be, he's gonna help him.

668
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:52.719
Yeah, no question. In fact, I saw him, like I said,

669
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.519
more than a year ago we had
the contemp and we were invited to

670
00:44:55.559 --> 00:44:59.079
go watching him and say who's this
guy? And then I watched him a

671
00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:00.719
lot and he didn't get to play
very much. Uh. And then you

672
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:05.119
saw him in the open in the
camp this year where everyone was doing and

673
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.480
the internet, and then I saw
him today and then I'm thinking he wears

674
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.840
number one, and I you know, didn't put the bullet. It takes

675
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:15.199
a lot of guts to where and
there's a reason for that, because you

676
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:19.000
think you're number one, right,
Does that make sense? I think he's

677
00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:22.079
going to be a great surprise for
this team. Yeah. I again,

678
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:25.800
at the very least, you feel
like there's a guy there that, you

679
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:30.239
know, whether or not he's a
starter, is a guy that's going to

680
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:32.519
contribute. Yeah. Right, He's
a guy that looks he looks like he's

681
00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:36.239
done the work. Yeah, and
he looks the part in a weird way

682
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:38.760
to contribute. He's like, he's
what a six seven? Yeah, he

683
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:45.400
wing guy. You know, he's
not Sean Elliott with the first step,

684
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:47.960
but he's you know, he just
looks very as I said, confident and

685
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:52.760
aware of what he's out there to
do. Yeah, you know what,

686
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:53.800
that's a good guy. I wouldn't
even know who to compare him to.

687
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:57.199
I probably need to see him a
little bit more. He's not Judd,

688
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:07.519
he's not Sean. Maybe he's not
Michael Dickerson. Check a Slovakian guy shooter,

689
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:15.599
no, kind of a little quick
kind I thought, yeah, yeah,

690
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.599
okay, I just need to see
more of them. Yeah, we

691
00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:22.199
do. And again, okay,
I'll give you that I was making I

692
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:23.960
was making fun of some people.
I was watching the game. My wife

693
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:27.320
was, you know, was in
the house that Jesus works at home I

694
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:32.280
said, I'm having a great time
on social media watching people make predictions about

695
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:37.960
the season off the first quarter of
the game. How did you know?

696
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:40.039
I was just watching people, just
not so on Twitter, watching people on

697
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:45.679
I wasn't watching the life, but
just watching people on social media already making

698
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.440
predictions about And then what got into
it was we were having some fun with

699
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:52.960
some guys, you know, some
of the guys that I that I chat

700
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:58.880
with, and I guess we're going
undefeated those cruise there's always those us.

701
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:00.519
And we were laughing. I mean, it was a joke. We were

702
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:06.199
we were laughing about that. But
you know, they again. But what

703
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.199
it looked like is it looked like
what Tommy has been doing since he got

704
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:13.679
here, running up and down the
floor, playing some defense, trying to

705
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:15.920
block some shots. Yeah, trying
to steal the ball. Uh does?

706
00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:21.280
And it looked it looked familiar.
Yeah, it looked familiar, great very

707
00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:29.320
good players. And again that to
me, that's not what I'm looking at.

708
00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:31.559
What I'm looking at is what did
that look like? Sure, sure

709
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:35.760
Boss will look bigger too. He
doesn't look like a point guard, does

710
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:38.360
he does. He looks like a
running back a bit. Yeah, But

711
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:42.920
they're gonna be solid in a lot
of good places. Of course, again,

712
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.559
everybody else is getting better too,
got good players. Let's see how

713
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:49.559
Tommy handles them. But again,
we've said this a thousand times. I've

714
00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:52.960
said it since I started covering him
in ninety one. You can go thirty

715
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:58.800
four and old and March hits.
If you're March comes and you don't go

716
00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:01.239
to your seat or whatever. Yeah, you had a bad season, but

717
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:04.679
you know, I was looking at
you know, I was looking at the

718
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:07.159
stats, and he played a lot
of he played sixteen guys. Yeah,

719
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:13.239
he said what he said he was
gonna do. Uh. Keisha Johnson scored

720
00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:16.840
twenty four points. The thing the
thing about that is eleven or fourteen shooting.

721
00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:22.000
He was making bass, he was
ducking, and he looks very good.

722
00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:27.239
This team is gonna be athletic.
It's probably gonna be maybe more physical

723
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.159
because of a couple of guys that
transferred in. It's gonna be a lot

724
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:34.719
to like, a lot to like. It's funny though I didn't wasn't paying

725
00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:38.960
attention to your feed, but I
saw some people on Facebook. I'm glad,

726
00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:43.960
I'm thank thankful to God that Tomry
Lloyd is our coach, and I

727
00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:46.360
think four or five months ago people
wanted him to get the hell out of

728
00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:50.840
town because he lost to Prince and
then they couldn't get recruits. Yeah,

729
00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:53.039
oh yeah, then they couldn't recruit. Yeah, yeah, no, you

730
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:57.559
know, I know, well,
like you said, relax, relaxed to

731
00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:00.639
your guys and even relaxed about what
you saw today. You know, just

732
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:05.480
again it's it's more of you know, just just what do they look like

733
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:07.639
on the court. What are they
doing on the court, doing the same

734
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:12.159
thing they've done, but you've got
you're seeing guys do that right, new

735
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.239
guys right into the system of of
you know, running up and out.

736
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:17.400
You know, they were a little
sloppy with the ball a few times,

737
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:22.719
got some turnovers and some bad passes
stuff, but they were always hustling.

738
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:25.280
They were hustling up and down the
court. And when you have a lot

739
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:29.360
of people you can play, that'll
happen. I think Bobby Robbins got more

740
00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:31.880
of the TV, get a lot
of TV time, all the fun games

741
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:37.239
and the firing there. But uh, you know, they were fun to

742
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.519
watch again as as they have been
all along. Sure, and I think

743
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:43.920
that uh, you know, I
if this is a sign of what it's

744
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:46.840
gonna look like going for Yeah,
you know, then then you know,

745
00:49:47.079 --> 00:49:50.559
play the games and see how that
works. You know, once you get

746
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:53.559
there, once you get into the
games, it certainly looked familiar, and

747
00:49:53.760 --> 00:49:58.599
there were new guys doing stuff that
the old guys sure have been. You

748
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:00.880
know, we're doing so that part
of it, that part of it.

749
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:06.440
What did they say, but it
was someone basketball doesn't stop, It's continue

750
00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:07.880
to look this way I'm home.
Was the last time, honestly, this

751
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:10.719
is honest question. When was the
last time you say everyone was going to

752
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.519
be very good? Honestly? Never? Yeah, never, never. You

753
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:17.079
always say that, yeah, because
they're always gonna be pretty good. Yeah,

754
00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:20.519
yeah, they may. I'll be
to some people's like they're gonna be

755
00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:22.400
the one the top, in the
top two or three in the conference.

756
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.639
They're gonna probably be ranked most of
the year, top four seed. You

757
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:29.239
know, they might get into the
top ten. You know, they spent

758
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:30.719
some time, you know, in
the top five, you know in the

759
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:35.599
last few years. You know,
that's just that's what you expect anymore.

760
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:38.480
And now you know, Tommy Lloyd
certainly hasn't done anything to change that.

761
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:44.679
As they head into a season.
So h it's uh again. It was

762
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:47.519
fun to watch. I just wanted
to see what they look like. They

763
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:52.960
got guys. We'll see you know
when when games get going. But uh,

764
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:55.559
you can tell that Tommy's just trying
to get guys some work and let

765
00:50:55.639 --> 00:51:00.079
everybody you know, do some stuff
and see, uh, get some films.

766
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:01.239
They say, you know, get
some film on these guys. And

767
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:05.440
that's that's what he's doing. Played
sixteen guys. I know, they took

768
00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:07.800
sixteen guys play. Oh then two
more didn't they have and there's two more.

769
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:12.920
There's two more that didn't play.
Yeah, so like they gets uh

770
00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:15.960
you know, and this was more
of a bonding trip. It was more

771
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:20.840
of a let's get to know each
other. Enjoy the ride. Enjoy the

772
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:24.000
ride because it's gonna get to be
work again soon. Uh. Some fans.

773
00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:27.800
Bruce has already posted his first you
know, his game story. So

774
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.239
if you go to the airs on
a daily start I Wonder dot com,

775
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:32.920
you can you can see it,
just you know, different quotes, you

776
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.880
know, yeada. Yeah, it's
funny because and he and time, he

777
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:43.119
was very serious about this. Don't
read too much into what we were doing

778
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.960
and starting line up stuff like that. That's starting line up flashed up at

779
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:49.360
the beginning of the game. I'm
like, whoa, what wasn't I didn't

780
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:51.760
know what it was. Oh it
was it was a bar of each and

781
00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:58.320
end. Well. Uh god,
I've seen it. Uh Boswell, Dylan

782
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:05.079
Anderson started, Boswell did not start, Bradley started, Uh Jade Bradley was

783
00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:09.400
the starting guard. Uh. Palli
Larson started, Dylan Anderson started, more

784
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:14.519
Eachan and started what Ballo didn't start. I can't I can't think who the

785
00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:19.159
who the fourth? The fourth start? And it'll change next and it'll change.

786
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:22.719
So he'll he'll do, you know, he'll do a bit different guys

787
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:25.880
throughout the I just temper temper everything
because it is what it is. It's

788
00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:30.760
it's an exhibition traveling exactly. But
but they did look good. They look

789
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:35.079
talented, well, they look talented, and they looked like they know what

790
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:37.199
they're doing, you know, Yeah, I mean it did look a little

791
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:40.320
again, it's a little rough around
the edges a few times, but it

792
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:45.719
looked like what Tommy Tommy's teams have
done the last few years. And you

793
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:47.360
know, it's like the system is
in right, but now you just come

794
00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:51.440
in and find a way to fit
into that. Just let's take our break.

795
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:52.519
We'll be right back, and uh, we'll have breaking news.