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This is I on the Ball with
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at iHeartRadio Station than goodenough, Tonoon, everybody, Welcome to Eye on the

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Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera here. Jenkins also

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got our guy Kevin with us today. I have a question for you,

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Jay, Okay, who's gonna start? You were me? Are we tendative?

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We we did today. I think
we're both players to be named later.

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We are the bitch. But it's
no shock to you. I'm sure

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whatever you know who we are.
I got it. I got exactly what

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we do. We're gray shirts,
gray shirts. Yeah, great, sir,

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don't hit me, don't hit me. We don't know, and he's

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not gonna tell us. In fact, he said that today in the press

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conference, he was funny. Uh, let's see, let's let's well,

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first of all, let's say who've
got guests, and then let's just jump

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right into the press conference. Of
course, something he talked about sign stealing.

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He talked about quarterbacks. I got
the first question in of the press

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conference and asked him about DJ and
so he just wanted to say that name.

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No, I really don't ever want
to say it actually, but real

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quick, Kevin Mccabeuh, he covers
a lot of high school sports up in

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Phoenix, sort of a seen as
a sort of a statewide high school sports

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uh. Guru. So we'll talk
to him, old friend from Channel thirteen

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when he was the sports director down
here years ago. So we'll talk to

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him, and then Les Garrett,
who is the sports editor of the Corvallis

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uh uh Corvellis something Times Review.
He's going to join us and talk to

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us about Oregon State, uh and
what we can expect to see Saturday.

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But jumping right into it, uh, you know your question, who's the

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starting quarterback? Uh? Oh,
I'm sorry we didn't tell you what we

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were doing here. Clip number three
up there. He looks like, yeah,

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like okay, okay, turn on
our volume here and then just play.

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But anyways, he was asked,
who's you know? Are you keeping

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the quarterbacks you know, under wraps
until Saturday? Yeah, I'm gonna keep

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that till game time. Right now, I think I think they're both ready

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to play. Though. I think
they're both ready to play, and we'll

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have to see you know how it's
all gonna end up. But right now

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they're both gonna be dressed, both
gonna be participating in warm ups, and

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both prepared regardless of who goes in. How much cash you over your pocket?

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Zero? Never mind, Kevin,
I mean I don't carry cash on

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me. Okay, you guys are
okay, never mind, I don't.

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I don't care any give you a
I'm a millennial as far as that goes,

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carry no cash. So so if
you had cash, how much would

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you bet that it's gonna be fa
fita? I bet everything it's it's it's

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okay. I bet a credit card
doesn't have money on it. Yeah,

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I got something, man something Okay. I bet my draft Kings account,

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which is which is? Is that
more or less than the credit card?

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Take the credit card? But I
you know, but okay. But he

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was asked, I didn't play his
club because it was very short. He

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was asked, you know, would
you consider because he was asked because Oregon

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State has a quarterback that comes in
and plays. You know, he's more

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of a who's that guy? Who's
that guy? For the Saints? Oh

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yeah, Travis King is a King
some of the Yeah, that Tayson Hill,

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that guy, he's got a guy
like that. And and so he

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was asked, you know, would
you think about doing something like that?

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He said, have you thought?
He asked him if you thought about or

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talked about doing that, and he
said, we've thought about it and talked

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about it. And then that's all
he said. So that's it. But

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uh, you know it's a sort
of you know, we'll find out when

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we find out. And he you
know, there's no reason for him to

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tell us. No, no,
no, not surprising. Yeah, So

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that that's the news of today.
It pobably came out right now. I'm

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curious about how did the how did
this the sign stealing thing? Well?

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He you know because uh sports illustrator
wrote an article that the guy, uh

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Connor Stallion's was on the staff here
at Arizona with under who on Fish under

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Fish that you know, Fish knew
he was at Michigan. He was involved

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with Michigan when Fish was at Michigan. So Fish knows it. And he

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said he knew him, but he
said he's he's never been a paid staff

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member, he's never been affiliated with
our staff. He's I know him,

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he's come here a couple of times. I saw him at the spring game

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a couple of years ago. But
he's never been a part of the football

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organization. So what was he doing
here? Probably trying to get a job,

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yeah, he said. Jed said
that he was looking for a job.

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Yeah, he came in. He
was trying to volunteer. So so

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he made it clear, he made
it clear he's not been you know,

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he's not been a part of us, and we have nothing to do with

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what going on. That question,
that's an interesting question. Justin he apologized

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for asking it, said, justin, you need to apologize. That's the

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question. You have to ask the
question question. That's a you know,

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that's an experience. I never would
have known that. I never would have

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known that. The news and been
in s I Sports Illustrated said that he'd

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been here. Yeah, and then
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my son who was on the on
his first on Jed Fish's first year,

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said I never you know, I
don't know who he is. I've never

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seen him. So, you know, so Jed knows who he is.

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He knows enough about him to know
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I he said, he's never been
part of the staff. But the whole

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science stealing issue, you know,
came up and he had an interesting comment

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similar to what what Dion Sanders said. Uh, I hope it's the way

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I feel too. I hope it
would be. I think it will be.

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It's because it's something that's we talked
about. You'll hear what he said.

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Yeah, the size stealing thing is
very interesting. Uh. You know,

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I kind of agree with coach Prime. You got to stop people even

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if you know what's coming. And
I think he made the comment like it

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doesn't matter if a sweep's coming,
you got to stop the sweep. Uh.

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I think that when I look at
it. In my my experience is

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I've never I don't know how to
do it. I wouldn't know how to

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process getting getting a call, being
told what happened. Hey, you're going

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to get this coverage and getting a
play in fast enough to communicate it.

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Without these communicators and without the stuff
that you have. We signal, we

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use wristbands, we go fast,
we use tempo, it would be very

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difficult. So I don't really get
it. I don't understand the huge value

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in it. I think we should
just play football. But on top of

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it. You know, we could
get rid of it by just giving coach

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to quarterback communicators in our helmets and
not say things like, well, we

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don't know if it's safe. When
we know that the NFL does it,

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and we know the XFL did it, and we know the USFL did it.

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I think we're the only group that
doesn't do it. So if we

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just did that, we wouldn't be
having any of these conversations. We wouldn't

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have to see four hundred different big
cards and sheets and all the things that

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people hold up, and we wouldn't
have to be having forty people's signal and

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eighty two different color outfits. We
could just press a button, call a

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play, and run a play,
kind of what we do in the NFL.

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I like Jack Fish even more now, I really do, because I

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I when I heard the Primes talk
about it, I said, yeah,

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come on, it's me against you
and you can stop be well, more

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power to you, Yeah, even
if you know I'm gonna come that way

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exactly, and and and again.
How quick can you possibly see their sick

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when they when they're when they're doing
their signals, the play is just about

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ready to go. Well, you're
not going to have time to then change

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your play because exactly will you have
the personnel available for you to stop that

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play at that time? No,
no, exactly, it's too quick because

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oh no, they have this play
coming, we're not ready for it.

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Well it's too bad, yeah,
exactly exactly in your defense against my offense

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or vice versa. Let's go play. I mean, that's like I mentioned

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the stoops thing on the guy in
the corner trying to look okay, so

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you know that we're gonna come with
something right, right, Yeah, exactly,

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and and that and that and that's
true, and that's that is true.

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That's the unfortunate part of it,
which tells me why if it's that

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hard to do, unless unless Michigan
has put together a system that addresses that,

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right that says, okay, it's
how quick we can change our play.

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I don't know how where they say
okay, we saw this signal,

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they put up ten fingers and they
move into that. You know, but

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it would I think it would still
be limited right as to how much you

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can do with the other team's signed. Sure, of course, even if

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even if you knew what was going
okay, so on so so or so,

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let's say, you see what defense
are, and so you know,

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or you're let's say you're let's say
you're on defense and you find out,

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you know what the play is.
If you start moving your guys around and

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the play starts, everybody might be
out of position. There's so many things.

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That's why, And that's actually what
what what what? Dione Sanders was

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saying, I don't know that we
could process the information fast enough to do

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anything. Sure No. Then then
he he did go into a thing about

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the the what when he's called said
the connectors communicators, he's talking about the

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things in the headsets and the helmets, and he was saying that that would

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fix everything if we could just do
that. And and the issue has been

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apparently that the helmet companies are saying, if you're going to start modifying the

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helmets and putting these things in there, we're not going to warranty the helmets.

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And said, what the hell are
you talking about? And he bakesally

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said the NFL has been and everybody
else does it. Why can't we do

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it in college? And that was
said, this billion dollar industry can't afford

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to do that, right exactly,
Well, the colleges should be able to

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afford to do it, but the
helmet companies okay, well, okay,

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we'll go get a helmet company that
will do that. Hell, they're giving

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nil deals. One of the kids
can pay for it. Savan was on

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ESPN today and he described it almost
to like a taxis system. He thinks

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that because some schools simply can't afford
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that we should almost have a system
where you know, it's almost he's

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he brought up a different rule set
for differently funded schools and I don't I

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don't know about that, but he
did bring up, like if there should

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be support system from the nc double
A for these schools that cannot afford the

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communication to fix don't you think that
in the next five years, that's where

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it's gonna go. It's baseball.
Baseball's moved that way. I mean,

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come on, you usually have a
little ticker on your thing, and you

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know they go to their ears and
say tell me what I want to everything's

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going to that eventually gonna happen.
Yeah, they gotta do it, They've

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got to do it. But but
anyway, so that that and you know,

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it was an inter part of the
conversation, and being that Arizona got

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in that conversation because of that SI
article, it was a time we to

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the questions got asked. So let
me ask you. They asked about the

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quarterbacks. I'm still curious about Wiley. They mentioned his name about today running

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back didn't come out ran out of
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that that the bringing back now is
he's not one of the m v P

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s. I don't know who is, because he's been valuable at all.

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Hell right, So you kind of
don't worry about it, you know,

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when nobody's asking, because it's not
it's not felt like it's something that's gonna

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make or break. What's gonna happen
and which which is he's a fantastic runner

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all of a sudden, you don't
even talk about it. Fortunate Arizona that

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that it's not an issue. I
did ask about because I've been harping on

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DJ all summer long. I don't
know it. Yeah, and and do

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you like that? I love it? So I I did ask him.

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He didn't really answer my question,
but he did talk about him. But

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here's here's what he had to say
about about DJ. I didn't say I

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don't think DJs any good to you. I didn't say it like that.

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Let's see what you did you ask
Did you put your question on there?

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Yeah? Yeah, Here here's I
asked. Here's what I asked him.

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You've played three of the what we're
considered the top quarterbacks in the league in

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the last three league games. Where
does DJ fit in there? Okay,

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okay, here's what he said,
League of quarterbacks. DJ has come in

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and really gave a great spark to
their passing game. I think they're they're

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up maybe thirty or forty yards a
game. They're they're playing at they're making

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explosive plays down the field. They're
they're hitting on you know, those deep

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crossing routes and big plays down the
field that have really enabled them to take

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their offense one step further. And
he's also making good decisions in the red

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zone. They're the number one red
zone team in the country. They're twenty

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five out of twenty five down there. And so I would say that he's

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another great quarterback that we're going against. You know, I've known of him

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or you know, throughout his time
when he was recruited to go to Clemson,

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and then certainly know, you know
watching him play. Now that it's

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another good quarterback. We're gonna play
and we've got good quarterbacks and they got

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good quarterback and it'll be a good
game. So, Jay, I'm gonna

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ask you a question, just to
being a fan. Doesn't Oregon States scare

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you? Yes, not to the
degree of the last few opponents, but

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they should I think not to the
degree of Washington. Now, remember I

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thought I thought Arizona would play well. I I again, I'm going into

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this game thinking Arizona can get blown
out, or they can or they can

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win the game. Oregon State's good. I'm gonna I'm gonna give up and

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say they're they're good? There?
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yeah, yeah, there's six and
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and they're in front of in front
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pretty good. I'm still not believing
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teams in the league. Yeah,
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still ahead of Arizona. I feel
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then you've got Oregon State. They're
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c l A doesn't scare me at
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and then after that it's Colorado,
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feel like if Arizona can win this
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level, right below the top four
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they're still down there with say Washington
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so no, don't do themselves a
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you If they can win this game, now you start talking about Arizona being

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in the top half of the league. Yeah, yeah, very possibly,

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right, which is good, which
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darkness we've been in. All right, let's take our break. We're gonna

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come back. Kevin mckab will talk
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on Box Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball

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here Fox Sports fourteen fifty from Steve
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the phone, we have Kevin McKay
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in Phoenix. Are you doing,
old buddy o'pal? Well? I see,

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I did not know this. I
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Rivera and jacins alas. I.
Did they let you guys both out of

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What? No, we can't.
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two Mexicans on the radio at one
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boys. You know, you guys
taught me many years ago as a young,

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skinny sportscaster how to do it right. And it's great that I'm able

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to get back in touch with you
guys. Wait, wait, wait,

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wait, I don't get it.
We're not that much older than you.

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You got it. You gotta what
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What you guys were were the beloved
scribes who were true journalists, and

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you taught this this TV guy who
put makeup on that. You know,

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hey, there's more to it than
getting the twelve second sound bite. So

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no, I know, mad respect
for all you guys, the newspaper guys

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who showed me the right way,
and I was able to trans from that

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and fool a lot of people.
Now forty four years I've been fooling them,

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So it's great. Four years,
so I appreciate that. How long

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has it been since you left Tucson
at one and two? How much do

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you miss it? You know,
that's a great question, Stevie is.

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I left in nineteen ninety and came
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was at Channel thirteen, and yeah, I'm one of the few people in

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the valley who does. I really
do miss Tucson. I love the mountains,

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I love the people down there.
I hate I hate your traffic and

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I fight that. I think your
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All right, wow, now,
no, No, we have freeways and

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they're always jammed up. But we
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east to west in the Old Pueblo, man, that's that's brutal, brutal.

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But I do love it. I
love Tucson. That is cool.

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So so you're you know, I've
seen a bunch of things that they think

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you're. People think you're like the
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way Way Way Way. They dubbed
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your own nickname, you know,
you do, you know, they called

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me the dean of high school.
The dean. So what did that mean,

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Kevin? What does that mean?
My transcripts? God, what does

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that mean? He's been in forty
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that's you know. They I started
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at NAU and moved to Tucson and
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Vernon Freedley and Howard Bryant and you
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High School, Sean Elliott and you
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I fell in love with high school
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too, guys everybody did high school
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why do we stop? Right?
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girls volleyball and his daughter was a
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and uh. It just so I
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now. I wouldn't trade it for
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I don't know if i'd ever cover
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if they get even if they asked
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a long time know exactly what you're
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you know what I'm saying. Because
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you know, and listen, we
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let's go a little hockey man,
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they control who's the access. So
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you were going to do a job. And I do miss all that.

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as that as the dean of high school

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sports up in Phoenix, you know, we're obviously you know down here too,

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particular when it comes to football down
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you know, the little brother South
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of the elite of down here went
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a couple of weeks ago. But
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know, Tucson teams to come up
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dent up there in any of the
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watch what they've done and and and
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the wolves up here, even if
they don't have the student body, they

406
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.039
get and that's and that's Chandler Wolves, that's all the teams. So it's

407
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.759
no but I I because I'd love
to see those kids who enjoy their high

408
00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.599
school career. I'd love to see
them finish with a state championship because they'll

409
00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:22.799
never forget that. And I know
that sounds like give everybody a riven.

410
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:25.880
No it doesn't, it doesn't.
It just means if you go eight and

411
00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:29.880
oh, you go ten and oher
your first round playoff opponent, you shouldn't

412
00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:32.799
get beat forty nine to six,
and that's you know, you should you

413
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:36.160
should play for a title. So
maybe we should do away with the Open

414
00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:38.200
or just have the Open be the
elite of Phoenix and let's move on.

415
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:41.599
Yeah, no, good point.
Let me ask you the reason why did

416
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:44.759
you go to Liberty and sub Point? Did you have an inkling to look

417
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:49.240
at the sub Point two power guys? Absolutely? And I hadn't seen them

418
00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:55.119
and fell in love with both of
them, will Height and and you the

419
00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:59.920
one kid who decommitted from the u
A and saw his pops there and I

420
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.359
wanted to see them, you know, because I'm like I can and and

421
00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.240
they played well, but again,
they're two great stars, and Liberty just

422
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.880
goes so deep. Liberty passes the
airport tests and then they bring it on

423
00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:15.319
the field. Every one of their
linemen are six five and two eighty five,

424
00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:21.319
and so it's a it's it's a
difference of that, Kevin, I

425
00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:26.240
passed the airport test. It's just
in petticoat junctions past the airport test,

426
00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.079
when you're stopping off at Chick fil
A at the airport. That's what it

427
00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:33.200
is. Kevin. That's one of
my favorite phrases to use. And Steve,

428
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.279
Steve bounces it off my head all
the time. You know, when

429
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:38.720
when a good when a good team
that you know, look that looks,

430
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:41.599
you know, it looks good in
the airport gets its butt kicked, it's

431
00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.400
that I get my butt kicked on
that by all the time. So oh

432
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.640
yeah, it looks looks like Tarzan
and plays like Jane. That's what I

433
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:52.359
you know, I always see that. But no, I you know,

434
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.160
I have great love for two sound
and that's at all levels. And you

435
00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:57.880
know, maybe if you know sold
Point, but but sold Point would steam

436
00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:02.000
roll all the three eighteen they play
in four it. I'd love to see

437
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:03.680
them play for a four A state
championship. They think they have a good

438
00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:07.200
chance of winning that and they can
compete with teams like Arkadie up here,

439
00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:11.119
and but that's where they belong to
Hope. They did as much as it's

440
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:15.519
sexy and it's we want to be
one of the top eight teams. No,

441
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.319
that's not how Coronadal soul, coronadill
soul. That was where my kids

442
00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.000
were playing. They went, they
went ten and o and they were,

443
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:23.680
guys, we want chandler. I
said, no, you don't know,

444
00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:27.440
and they did. They they lost
fifty two to three. And that's how

445
00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:30.319
you end your high school career after
going ten and oh. No, no,

446
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.319
you know, go to the semis, go to the finals and lose

447
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.640
there. When you're ten and o, it sounds like you're you're well,

448
00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:40.880
that sounds I know, you're having
fun because you're not chasing the you know,

449
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:45.480
the Fitzgerald's and the Barkleys anymore,
or the Bookers and all that stuff.

450
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:48.440
No, and you found your not
found your niche because you already had

451
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:52.480
your niche. You know, when
when I left television, you know,

452
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:56.240
they started hiring pretty young people to
do it, and I'm none of those,

453
00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.680
as you guys can relate, I'm
not pretty or young. And Jeremy

454
00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:04.400
Hathcock, who coaches at Blue played
at Blue Ridge and coaches up there and

455
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:08.279
they won state championships with Paul Morrow. He said, you are Arizona High

456
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:11.359
School. You know you've covered him
for so many years. So I kind

457
00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:18.839
of reinvented myself now. I took
a job in mainstream employment with Honor Health

458
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Foundation here, so they allow me
Monday through Friday to do what I do

459
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:26.799
with healthcare, raising funds for our
six hospitals. But during the weekends,

460
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:30.319
this is my drug. This is
what dare I say. It gets me

461
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.720
high is seeing all these great coaches
and kids and the families. And I

462
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.079
guess the greatest story was is a
couple of years ago, I'm covering Saint

463
00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:41.079
Mary's High School basketball and there's a
kid named Rodney John's Plan And I said,

464
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.000
was that your dad that played for
Grand Canyon in the national championship for

465
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.160
Paul Westfall in eighty eight? And
he said, no, how's my grandpa.

466
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:55.359
So that I'm seeing some grandkids play, I'm seeing I'm seeing Larry Fitzgerald's

467
00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.720
kid as a wide receiver with Brophy. That's kind of fun to see Larry

468
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:02.359
as a parent. I guys,
I just love it. I love the

469
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:06.519
genuine genuineness. You know. I
still keep in touch with Verne Freeley's his

470
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:08.920
widow and and you know, see
a lot of my people from Tucson when

471
00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:12.720
they come up. And so I
just love high school sports. All right,

472
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:18.880
we're talking to Kevin McKay, former
Channel thirteen Okay k Weld sports director

473
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.599
but now working up in Venus covering
preps. Tell us what what is Azy

474
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:29.440
Preps Live and what how do people
from Tucson access that? And what will

475
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:33.079
they hear that they come to your
show? Well, Saturday mornings from nine

476
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:38.000
to eleven, we do two hours
on Arizona Sports ninety eight seven. So

477
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.640
you can go to Arizonasports dot com
and you can pick us up on the

478
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.839
old fashioned internet. There's also an
Arizona Sports app now which I found.

479
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.279
It's you know a lot of people
using that for diamondback games and this little

480
00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:53.200
World Series thing they're in. But
I'm on for two hours and I really

481
00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:59.039
try, guys, and I'm stealing
all your stuff. Is back in the

482
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.279
day when we went back in the
day, young kids, when we were

483
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:05.440
growing up, there was a Saturday
morning newspaper and you got that or Saturday

484
00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:08.359
after and you looked at the box
scores and and oh, who you know,

485
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:13.680
who is this babbyc Heavery and who
is you know the you know the

486
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:15.519
the you know the great teams from
down south? You know who are Who's

487
00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:20.480
this kid? Who's Sean Elliott?
And I tried. It's not really a

488
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:23.119
scores and highlights driven show, but
more of a storylines that we can mix

489
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:28.079
in and and share some people,
because all that is, guys, It's

490
00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:31.559
Phoenix is you know massive, almost
six million people, but it's a bunch

491
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:37.519
of small towns all come together.
So people from Foothills, from from Fountain

492
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.960
Hills, from the West Side,
from Avondale, they can relate to Chandler

493
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:44.160
and they got kids going to high
school. And so that's what you'll hear.

494
00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:49.079
Two hours of stories that that hopefully
you can relate to and and and

495
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.279
make you feel good on a Saturday
morning while you're while you're driving the home

496
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.480
depot to get your your your stuff
for your house, or you're headed to

497
00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:59.200
the gym. Headed to the gym. Well, well I'm sorry, not

498
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.079
you two, because Jim, what
the hell is that? Jim move?

499
00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:07.119
Yeah? Money? Hey, so
Kevin, let me ask you, let

500
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.720
me bet this. So you've been
in this business a long time, forty

501
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:15.960
four years. I'm still gonna bet
five bucks that there's no better high school

502
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:19.559
basketball player than Sean Elliott in your
lifetime that you've seen, unless I'm wrong.

503
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:23.920
Yeah, you know what, I've
got Sean third and and I actually

504
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:28.480
that's it's based on. You know. Number one is Mike Bibby. Bibby

505
00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:30.720
has the title belt from his four
years in high school. He was so

506
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:34.440
dominant and unbelievable, and then he
goes down to two son wins in national

507
00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:38.319
championship as a freshman. Bibby's got
the title belt. Marvin Bagley hasn't an

508
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:43.240
asterisk next to his name. He
would have been. He was like Lebron

509
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.839
in high school up here, but
then he went to the prep schools and

510
00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:49.079
then I got Sean Elliott. I've
got Sean fat Levers. In that conversation,

511
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.279
Jared Bayle is, I don't have
Richard Jeffer. I mean I have

512
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.079
Richard Jefferson. I don't have Channing
Fry because Channing wasn't a very good high

513
00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:59.519
school player. Project he blossomed under
Loud Olson and what they were doing down

514
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:04.160
there in two. But Sean Sean
is still one of my favorites of all

515
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.000
time. He taught me how to
you know, his mom let me into

516
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:09.559
their house to do interviews, and
that's you know, those are the stories

517
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:15.639
that you love to do. Go
into Ricky Huntley's apartment with shag carpeting when

518
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.719
he was drafted with the Cincinnati Bengals
and waiting at six in the morning because

519
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.440
we didn't have ESPN back then.
We were waiting for the call from the

520
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:28.079
Bengals. So those are lifetime I
ran into a Chris Singleton last night up

521
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:31.079
here. His daughter's playing volleyball at
Desert Vista, and to see those to

522
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:35.599
see those wildcats, see those guys
that I've built relationships and friends. You

523
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:37.320
guys, man. When I say
you guys, when I see you,

524
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:39.159
you know, there's a look that
we look at each other and go,

525
00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:42.920
yeah, yeah, it was pretty
good, boys, it was We had

526
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:45.119
a pretty good run. So you
know that they can never take Cochi's.

527
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.880
I tell the story of coaches that
we were down there on a Monday night

528
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:57.760
and we went into Douglas, you
know, all to have some dinner and

529
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:02.920
maybe have a drink. And they
were having either a kinsinta party or I

530
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:08.639
think a you know, a bachelorette
party, and we're dancing in Douglas,

531
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:13.480
Me and Dave Silver and Edsret.
We're dancing in Douglas, Arizona. So

532
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:16.320
the Bulldogs were, you know,
then they went back to stay Cookie.

533
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:21.320
No, I love Tucson. I
missed you and miss those people down there.

534
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:23.280
I just I do. I genuinely
do. And I think people down

535
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.719
there know that. And I still
see a lot of them up here.

536
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:32.079
And it's been thirty three years.
I left in ninety and I still I

537
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:36.400
still love it. I love watching
what's happened, you know, what's happening

538
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.159
with the with although I'll tell you
this, Jedfish has been banned from my

539
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:44.559
show, Jetfish. I'll go ahead
and out. This is good. I'm

540
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:47.760
gonna because when he came to town, he did all everybody's show. He's

541
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:51.559
doing podcasts and we tried to get
him. We couldn't get him. I

542
00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:53.679
said, wait a minute, the
dean, I mean I married a whilecat

543
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:58.360
you Steve Curze, my guy,
he wouldn't come on the show. And

544
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.440
you know Ricky only Chuck, See
those are my guys. Brandon Sanders has

545
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:06.239
come on. They're always so.
Jed Fish has been banned. He's let

546
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.920
you know, if he called me, we can probably work right now,

547
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:15.320
it sounds like he banned you.
No, don't, don't turn the narrative

548
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.960
on me. Now, come on, if we want to thank you for

549
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.280
joining us, we also want to
say we've got to take another trip to

550
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:24.440
Douglas where you, me and Jay
will all be tens again. Yeah.

551
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:28.679
I love it, boys, catch
thank you so much for letting me share

552
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:30.440
some memories and some stories. Love
you guys, appreciate it. Kevin thanks

553
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:35.559
him, Thanks the whole bunch.
Always good. I can again, Dougie,

554
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:42.559
Oh God, every time I think
of Kevin, I think of Kansas

555
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:46.320
City in eighty eight, and he
and his photographer had a station wagon and

556
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:52.400
all the reporters piled into the station
wagon went bar hopping with you, and

557
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:54.159
it was I mean, Dave Silver
was in the car, Bob Young from

558
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:58.920
the Republic was in there, Greg
Hanson, we were all in one view.

559
00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:01.320
They're about nine one vo. Hope
to do that in March with no

560
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:06.239
station wag exactly. All right,
that was fun. We'll be right back

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just surgery I on the Ball.
Hey, welcome back to Anne about here

619
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:23.400
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve, He's Jake, got Kevin in

620
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:27.920
today with us. We have ten
and a half minutes for this final segment.

621
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:30.480
What are you doing tomorrow. I
think we're hanging out at a place

622
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:35.760
called Showtime Cards a couple hours.
Our first remote in a while, yeah,

623
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:37.360
you know it is. It is
our first remote and in quite a

624
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:42.440
while. We're gonna be out there
with George Moidis, who's been a guest

625
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.400
of the show, and we're just
gonna get you know, get out there

626
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:47.400
and uh, you know, try
and have some funnas. Maybe well maybe

627
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:51.599
I'll let us open a pack or
something that'd be cool and maybe come up

628
00:41:51.639 --> 00:42:00.000
with some webbin Yama card retire but
Showtime Card fifty eight oh one e Speedway.

629
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:02.119
We'll be out there from three to
five. Uh. Jason Terry is

630
00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:06.119
supposed to be out there tomorrow as
well. Yeah, he's here signing.

631
00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:09.199
She's signing Saturday. I think he'll
be We're not sure. I thought I

632
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:13.920
thought that was on Friday. No, he's signing tomorrow, Saturday. Tomorrow

633
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:15.280
is Friday, Saturday. I'm signing
Saturday. Okay, my bad. So

634
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:17.920
well he might almost if we have
to stop by, but if not,

635
00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:22.199
we're gonna be out there doing our
show with George at the Showtime Cards fifty

636
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.719
eight to one, talking to the
Sweetway, talking to whoever's there, if

637
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:29.280
you want to come by, it's
got some stuff to say about football,

638
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.039
basketball, anything. Would love to
I would love to have you out there.

639
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:35.159
It's gonna be a bunch of geeks
on Friday. Yeah, card show,

640
00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:38.239
George and I gotta go find my
kids Pokemon cards and get them over

641
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:40.440
there with them, get a appraisal. Yeah, I don't know where they

642
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.800
are. They're in there. There's
somewhere. I know. I didn't throw

643
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:46.639
them away for this reason that you
know. They're in a box somewhere.

644
00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:50.679
So we'll see what I see.
We got anything, man, but no,

645
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:52.519
it'll be It should be fun.
We haven't done it, Like I

646
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.000
said, haven't done a remote in
in a while. Our boy, our

647
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:58.760
boys said better come through. I
know he's got to. He's got to

648
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:01.440
run the board right. Yeah.
Pressure is gonna be on, pressures gonna

649
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:04.599
be on Kevin to come in in
hell. Yeah, so got we got

650
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:07.719
a couple of clips to play from
the from the Jet Fish press conference.

651
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:10.000
He uh, we hold that thought. Oh we got a caller, got

652
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:15.599
a collar not anymore. Well,
if you're calling, give us, give

653
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:16.719
us a call back. We'll keep
an eye on the light like a little

654
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:21.320
light now yeah, I believe Yeah, there there he is. Okay,

655
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:27.199
you're on the air and I on
the ball. Yeah that was me calling.

656
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:32.079
I know he's called it the bad
time. Hey, I had I

657
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:35.719
had a good view of JA last
night, believe it or not. My

658
00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:40.760
first exhibition game. Yeah, the
women and you were like a woman who

659
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:45.199
was on each shot of you.
We were sitting right across from you.

660
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.960
You say there, my wife won
a raffle. She goes, I try

661
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.760
to pick the ones with the least
tickets. But that was the reason why,

662
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:57.280
because it was an exhibition game.
Yeah, we got we were a

663
00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:01.079
little we're a little uh, we're
differently for women's basketball. Both of those

664
00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:04.960
are one of them happens to be
my daughter, but both of them are

665
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.079
are student interns who help with stats
as opposed to the old, grumpy old

666
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:14.119
guys were there for for men's basketball
because you're not always in that location either

667
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:17.079
or your body no where where.
That's where we're in that spot. That

668
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:21.800
seems spot every time every time.
But we're good. It's fun. But

669
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:23.039
okay, what do you think of
the ladies? What do you think of

670
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:28.840
the ladies? The Sons are going
to be without Bradley beal and right of

671
00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:31.599
way. When we beat his team, Golden State, even though I know

672
00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:35.239
he doesn't have a team, but
he likes them. He said, oh,

673
00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:38.440
didn't have Draymond. Draymond is washed
up, just like Klay Thompson.

674
00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:45.719
Okay, yike, but but no, but I didn't say this. Other

675
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:49.960
guy said Clay Thompson. I'm just
going by what other people are saying.

676
00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:51.679
But I agree with that. Yeah, I know, I hear you.

677
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:52.760
I hear you. I think they're
still gonna be in the top four or

678
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:55.559
five teams in the West. Yeah, we'll see you know for sure,

679
00:44:55.639 --> 00:45:00.159
there's no question there. Do you
like your son? How do you like

680
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:04.199
your sons? Now? Without Ayton? Oh god, did you see his

681
00:45:04.280 --> 00:45:07.639
debut? And of course he's already
saying, oh it was in fall trouble.

682
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:10.360
Oh he's terrible. Well, he's
terrible in general. Do you see

683
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:14.960
what his line was? He had
the worst. He only had four points

684
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:17.480
on his debut. He had ten
rebounds, but he had four points.

685
00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:24.280
Yeah, well you're pretty glad you
saw him leave everybody. Yeah, anyway,

686
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:29.079
I'll have to say I'm not going
to be rooting for the Diamondbacks.

687
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:32.079
I'm gonna say I'm gonna root for
the Rangers because it's bad for baseball that

688
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:37.679
the Phillies aren't in there. I
don't know. I know that it matters,

689
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:42.119
sure does. There's no main name
recognition which you want to say,

690
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.840
Corey seeger for on the Rangers,
which you did? You know? It

691
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:53.920
just isn't. Everybody's saying that.
Yeah, okay, Howard, all right,

692
00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:58.440
Howard, you used to see us. Maybe you'll see this tomorrow strong

693
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:00.960
coming in strong, right, Yeah. Wow, That's how we're always done.

694
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.320
That's how as long as you come
up with bad words. Were good?

695
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:05.960
Okay, run out of time here
at the top of the r I

696
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.639
do want to play a couple of
clips, So let's play the Yeah that

697
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:14.280
one, Uh, just jetfish thing. You know, expecting a very very

698
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:19.320
very tough, physical game on Sunday
on Saturday. It's gonna be a heavyweight

699
00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:22.239
fight. It's gonna be a heavyweight
fight, There's no question about it.

700
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.840
Uh, these guys are physical.
Everybody's healthy, you know. I know

701
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:30.760
they're centers back and the running backs
are really good. And our defensive line

702
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.719
is healthy and ready to go.
Our offensive line for the most part.

703
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:40.719
I I don't think Polito will be
ready to play. But he did practice

704
00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:46.480
a little bit yesterday. He did, he will practice today, and he

705
00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:51.599
will probably be available to us in
an emergency situation. So you take that

706
00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:53.800
out of the equation. Everybody's good. I think it's going to be a

707
00:46:53.840 --> 00:47:00.280
big, a big time brawl inside, and our guys are excited about that

708
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.840
challenge, and I know that that's
the type of game they like to play.

709
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:08.440
So Jay, when I heard that
quote, that's gonna be a heavyweight

710
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:12.360
fight, so on Twitter, I'm
saying, well, I don't know about

711
00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:15.280
that. That's Washington, that's Oregon. This is more of a wealth to

712
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:19.239
weight fight, kind of like a
wealthy well fight with weight class middleweight middleweight

713
00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.679
middleway. Marvin Haglin, Okay,
it could be, could be, but

714
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:27.400
it's not. When you think heavyweight
fight, you think you know Georgia Alabama,

715
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:30.119
Yeah, you know Georgia, Ohiowa
State, Alabama, Michigan. Right.

716
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:32.760
No, it's gonna be a good
game. It's it's a good game

717
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:37.519
between two pretty good teams. I'm
not gonna say they're evenly matched because Oregon

718
00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:39.960
State is six and one. You
don't know, but I'm gonna say there,

719
00:47:40.039 --> 00:47:45.360
you know, it's a closer matchup
for Arizona than certainly Washington was.

720
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:50.280
It's maybe a little tougher matchup than
Washington State, but it is at home

721
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:52.880
and then that hopefully that makes a
big difference. Although he's saying that they're

722
00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:57.119
probably expecting about forty two forty three
thousand people out there. Really he's very

723
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.280
you can tell he's very disappointed in
that. Why is that that's really that's

724
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:04.800
strange. Yeah, it's just what
the ticket sales are. It's Oregon State,

725
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:08.119
it's another late game. Homecoming is
next week, right right, it's

726
00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:12.320
Ucla next week with homecoming. People
going, if I'm gonna go to one

727
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:14.639
of these two games, I'm gonna
go to the UCLA game. Yeah.

728
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:19.400
That's that's that's our fans, welcome
to That's that's the Arizona fans. See,

729
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:21.840
the Arizona fan is not the Arizon
fansays I'm going to a game no

730
00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:24.559
matter what he did say, you
know, he did come to the game.

731
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:29.440
You know like that, it's like, go to the game no matter

732
00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:31.719
who's playing, because they do that
for basketball, right Yeah, no,

733
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:35.920
I know it's only twelve, thirteen
to fifteen, whatever, but always ask

734
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:39.719
come to the game because it's Arizona, not because it's Arizona versus Oregon State

735
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:44.039
or Arizona versus UCLA, or Arizona
versus Washington. Well, I think,

736
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:47.000
and that's been that's historically a zone. And here's the problem. They have

737
00:48:47.239 --> 00:48:52.880
too many of Kevin's and not enough
of yous. And I say that because

738
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.480
Kevin's a transplant for a little time
and they're from somewhere else. They have

739
00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:59.800
no royalty. You have a loyalty, right, And there's not enough of

740
00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:02.920
you guys. There are enough,
Steve, They just they just they don't

741
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.639
go Money. Money a factor,
No wallet, Nope, are you sure?

742
00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:12.199
No? I think the biggest factor
is TV. I think I'd rather

743
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:15.800
watch on my on my h D
t V. I mean, I know

744
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.920
people who would rather go to a
bar and watch on one of their TVs

745
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:24.000
than then come to the game and
and like that atmosphere. I get you,

746
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.400
you know, I think I think
it has to do more with that

747
00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:30.239
that that you know, I'm gonna
set on my couch, I'm gonna sit

748
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:32.079
somewhere where I can just sit at
a bar and drink some beers and stuff

749
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.800
like that, you know, and
then they're they're I mean you remember the

750
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:40.360
one one intern we had what was
the name of the blonde kid skatered idea.

751
00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:43.519
You know, he said, what
do you do on a Saturday show

752
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:47.159
when there's a game justin Oh,
we play video games? Right, I

753
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:50.639
mean, he's in here. He's
interested in sports. I'm not I'm not

754
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:53.000
trying to rip on Justine, but
he's interested in sports. He wants to

755
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:57.320
be involved in sports. If you
go, he likes sports. But you

756
00:49:57.360 --> 00:49:58.719
know, we asked him, what
are you doing this? You're going to

757
00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:00.480
the game Saturday. Now we're gonna
hang on play video games. Those are

758
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.719
the guys I'm talking about. Yeah, I don't know. There's there's a

759
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:08.199
lot of people and the like you
there's people at the tailgate that don't actually

760
00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:10.719
go to the game, right,
there's a lot of those two, a

761
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:15.000
lot of those two. Now,
it's it's it's a it's a combination of

762
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.079
of a bunch of things, you
know. I mean, I mean,

763
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:19.840
like, let you know, I'll
take my brother Rick, who just is

764
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:23.800
a devout a fan as anybody right
physically because he's got some health issues right

765
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:27.559
now, he can't go he can't
go to the games. We said,

766
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.159
I'm just as happy going over to
Union and watching the game there with some

767
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:35.400
friends sitting at the bar, big
TV in front of me. My car

768
00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:37.760
is right outside the you know,
right outside the door. You know that

769
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:40.960
I'm having a great time doing that. And then yeah, could you go

770
00:50:42.079 --> 00:50:43.840
and go back to the games,
to go back to the you go to

771
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:46.920
the establishments, and you see guys
having fun at those places watching the He's

772
00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:51.599
having fun still watching U of a
games by going to a bar. And

773
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:54.679
then that's what that's what it is. If I had the chance to do

774
00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:58.480
that too, with a good group
of people, and I'd watch the game

775
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:00.039
that and not go to the game
in and being the press box and that

776
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.360
and that's and that's kind of how
it is. So I mean, I'm

777
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:05.760
gonna go. I'm gonna go no
matter what I'm you know, I am

778
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.000
gonna go. But I can see
where somebody who just says, you know

779
00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:12.719
what, that's such a hassle park
that. You know, the food is

780
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:16.159
expensive, the drinks are expensive,
it's hot. Sometimes I'm gonna go send

781
00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:21.000
a nice cool bar, you know, and have my favorite drink and watch

782
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:23.679
a game with a couple of buddies
at my side and listen to the announcer

783
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:27.719
of the whole Well, this show
is it is perfect for that because that's

784
00:51:27.719 --> 00:51:30.960
what you're doing, you bes with
your buddies watching the game and just saying,

785
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:32.360
you know, that guy sucks her, well exactly. All right,

786
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:36.800
Let's take a break. What's what's
the guy's name? Quarterback name? We're

787
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:40.199
going see DJ. Let's you be
saying that all after all, right,

788
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:43.199
let's take a break. When you
come back, and Kevin's got a whole

789
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:47.119
bunch of breaking news for us to
st