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Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez. They
have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson

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Sports Stage Shaft, Fox Sports fourteen
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warm. Hey, welcome back to
Eye on the Back here on Fox Sports

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fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera,
You're Jaken Zoss and I'm hoping you have

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some breaking news. I think I
do as Eye on the Ball breaking news

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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Okay, it's mentioned we had a full day

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of college football. It wasn't a
ton of games, but there were some

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fun games. I was. I
wouldn't say I was in front of the

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TV all day, but I had
football on all day. There was you

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know. I spent some time working
at my desk, did a little yard

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work, but I had games on
the whole day, starting with that Notre

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Dame Navy game in the morning.
Watched a lot of that Notre Dame kicked

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the you know what out of Navy, and well taught me more about that

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game. Wasn't that Notre Dame was
good, but just at how bad Navy

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was, you know, and after
they fired and can you neil last year

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who could have been the guy who
could have been Kevin Sumlin if it wasn't

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for Khalil Tate and uh, you
know, look I Army and Navy.

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You see those teams and they always
have fight, you know, regardless of

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whether they're really good or not,
they always seem to have a lot of

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fighting. I mean, you watch
those games and you go, you know,

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you have an appreciation for that.
This team had zero fight. There

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was there was there was nothing there. And I don't know if there's a

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transition issue or whatever, but they
were not good. They were really really

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bad. And I felt bad for
Navy and and how bad they how bad

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they looked. I mean Navy,
no, no to Dame doesn't look great.

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They looked pretty good, but Navy
looked really really bad. And that

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was that was hard to watch.
And then we saw Rich rod get Off

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and uh uh win his uh Jacksonville
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CS team, which was cool.
Seventeen to fourteen, not not the scoring

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fest that you expected to be.
Some of I saw some of it.

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I didn't. I kind of clicked
back and forth. He looks like it

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looks like Rich rode to the point
where it is. I don't know,

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I want the detail of this,
but to the point where their quarterback,

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in terms of his throwing motion and
his movement, looked just like Matt Scott.

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Just the way he just the way
he stepped into a throw, and

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and and some of his throws.
I'm like, that's Matt Scott. Uh,

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And it just looked a lot like
they did. They beat you tap

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seventeen to fourteen, which is again
a note for Arizona. Fat Arizona's got

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you tapped in in the third game? Is it dem so so rich rod

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Off? You know, after a
great start Don Brown uh his debut at

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Massachusetts, they win forty one to
thirty over New Mexico, over your Steve

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New Mexico State specifically, don't claim
him. They hurt you, didn't They

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just barely I got out of that
miss they I thought they'd be better,

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actually, but Don Brown has some
quality talent. They have eight guys from

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Arizona eight eight Division one or FBS, and all of them had an impact

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in the game. You know,
their talent level two has got grown grown.

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Yeah, we saw it. We
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score touchdown first one, first one, and so they know and they scored.

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They put it wasn't all defense,
right, No, it's good to

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see him. We don't really know
him. I know the Levs and the

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Petersons went out there to the game. Uh, and they know him because

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they were there every day. He's
how can I say this, He's easy

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to like, Yes, that's a
good way to even when you see him

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on the side and he got this
guy's a jerk, but he's not.

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He's not. He's coaching him up. And then when you talk to him,

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he's like, oh wow, that
dude's smart. Yeah. Yeah.

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So then we saw San Diego State
beat Ohio twenty third teen. That was

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that was the thirteen. It was
a two touchdown game. Pretty much.

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They okay, they look they want
they want. They had nobody in the

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stands. There was nobody there.
It was it was like, what the

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heck they have this new stadium.
Then again, when you're limited in paradise

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or so called paradise, do you
go to football game. You're hanging at

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the beach or you're hanging doing something
else, right, right, yeah,

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which begs that you know the question, you know, what would that have

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been like in the Pact twelve?
Right? You know, were they going

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to have twenty crowds of twenty some
thousand at San Diego State, and then

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there weren't twenty thousand there, No, no, They said that about sixteen

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in real, real body county,
and then uh, we saw USC beat

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San Jose State. But you know
what, I continue to not be impressed

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by USC. Defensively. They still
look like they've got all the same defensive

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issues that they had before San Jose
State put twenty twenty eight points on them.

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It was actually a close game at
the half. It was it was

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twenty one to fourteen. Uh.
USC uh, you know, pulled away

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in the second half. They got
a kid, a freshman, a true

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freshman. Zach array is something or
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He's gonna be a problem. What
did you play? He's he's a wide

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receiver and a kick returner. He's
the first true freshman and you like in

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USC history or something like that to
run a kickback for a touchdown and a

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score touchdown, scoring a touchdown pass
like in there in his first game in

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their history. What do you look
like? Who was a Reggie Bush kind

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of guy? Maybe not? He
not as built as Reggie Bush was.

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Later on but in terms of the
way the kickoff return was spectacular. Just

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you know, that's what that's who, that's who you thought of on the

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kickoffs Twitter, Yeah, now yeah, he's uh, he's gonna be a

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problem for teams. And he's he's
a freshman. Uh California, I believe.

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So really damn good and they really
really really uh really look good.

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He really really looked good us He
put fifty six points on the board.

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So obviously, you know, their
offense is what they you know, what

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they wanted to be. But again, I think they still got some issues

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defensively that that are going to be. Well, Jay, I'm okay with

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that because you have Washington. Have
you seen big game boomers predictions? No,

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you'll find out Google while you were
sitting there. Okay, all right,

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So that was kind of the college
football day. It was not no

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no big surprises. I mean,
you know, you you saw rich Rod

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wind you know that, you saw
Jacksonville State win, you saw you saw

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Navy look really bad. But you
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that. And it was fun.
It was It's a fun day of football.

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It felt like college football was back, and now it gets serious with

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a bunch of games on Thursday and
then Friday and uh Saturday, big tailgate

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for US on Saturday, had a
little tail preseason tailgate party at my house.

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Weighed a lot of bad food.
You didn't have to put a tent

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up and down right, no,
I didn't have no tents. Everybody's kind

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of in the house. We turned
the AC down so I wouldn't some people

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wouldn't overeat. We had had a
lot of bad fried chicken, a lot

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of pizza, a lot of just
a lot of bad food. It was

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a lot of funny. Hope everybody
had a good time. But it was

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great to have college football back,
all right. Some stuff going on today.

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There was supposed to be a meeting
of the ACC presidents today to talk

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about Stanford and cal but there was
a shooting on the University of North Carolina

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campus, an active shooter. The
I think the last thing I saw is

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that there was a faculty member dead, maybe another couple of people wounded.

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They canceled the meeting out of deference
to North Carolina, and so they haven't

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rescheduled it. So that's kind of
you know, put gets put on the

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back burger when you have something like
that. Happen, but I haven't seen

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the latest on the shooting. Oh
they did catch a suspect, They have

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somebody. Similarly, there's on Wednesday
from the ten FBS commissions FCS Commissioners of

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FBS Commissioners are supposed to meet to
talk about the format for the twelve team

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college football playoff that starts after the
twenty twenty fourth season, and one of

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the big pieces of discussion is going
to be do you go from six automatic

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berths and six at large to five
and seven with the PAC twelve pretty much

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dissolved, So that'll be one of
the big questions, and then talk about

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revenue distribution, all that kind of
stuff. So there'll be a meeting on

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Wednesday that we expect some stuff we'll
come out about about the playoff. Let's

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see, uh some quarterback some quarterback
news. There's a lot of discussion thinking

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that this true freshman Donte Moore would
be UCLA's quarterback, but he will not

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be. A guy named Ethan Garber's
uh is the is the is the starter

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for the for the UCLA season opener, and then uh uh Dante Moore and

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Colin Schlee are supposed to both play, but they're sort of battling for the

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backup both they're trying to place Dorian
Thompson Robinson, who was like an eight

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year starter at at UCLA and has
gone on to the NFL. But Kelly

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said all three of them deserved to
play. They've all played outstanding. It's

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been a really good battle. So
let's see what comes out of that.

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And then over at Texas where arch
manny is a true freshman and he was

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the all everything quarterback recruit, he's
not even assured the backup spot. Uh

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uh, Quinn yours they think his
name is is going to be the starter.

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And then Manning and Malik Murphy are
still unsettled for the number two spots,

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so arch Man could even be number
three when the when the season starts

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this week for for Texas. So
and then you know, just stuff going

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on. Now I'm gonna gonna do
this one. There was another another bad

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news one about Oh did you see
the Little World Series? It was fantastic

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game. I watched every minute of
it. Did you It was fantastic?

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I missed it. It was fantastic
because I watched it Saturday. And how

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they got to you know, the
championship game and then I wanted to make

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sure I saw saw them one Sunday. Fantastic game. These kids are fantastic.

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The guy who hit the home run
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good good good. You know,
just they're just kids. Kids,

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They're just kids. Are so grown
up. California was. It was loaded,

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loaded with people, and Curestyle kind
of hung with them with the grand

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Slam in the top of the sixth
for nothing game. Once you heard that

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ball come off the bat, it
was like, that's gone, that's gone,

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not even close. It was a
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I'm sure it wasn't for Cure Style, but it was. It was

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Wow. I mean you have that
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kids are just they're just gone,
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Yeah, yeah, I know,
a lot of fun. That's always good

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to watch them play. Yeah,
that was that was cool. I missed.

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I went golfing yesterday, Steve.
That was a really bad idea.

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So well, here's the thing.
It was. It was only one hundred

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and three. Okay, that's not
terrible. We golfed in much harder temperatures.

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The humidity factor on the golf I
almost didn't make it. It's what

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did you realize? Well, at
at the fifth hole, I thought I

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can't go eighteen. I got to
the I got to the we're at the

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end of the eighth hole, and
I told the guys, it's the guys.

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I think I'm I'm done after nine
and then the cart lady drove up.

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The cart lady drove up, the
cloud cover came over the top of

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the golf course. It was all
timing. I got a bunch of cups

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of ice I got, I filled
up my water bottle, got a couple

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of Gatorades. It cooled a little
bit because the sun was gone, and

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I played the back nine and I
finished my golf season. So you know,

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yeah, I'm very happy Shaw on
eighty six at I was very happy.

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I finished my golf season with back
to back sub ninety rounds. Yeah.

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So let me say, since we
have about three minutes, we can

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leave it anytime. So I'm i'm
I tweeted the Zechariah Branches and then seeing

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his highlights, wow wow. Yeah. But let me say this obviously very

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good, but I'm gonna try to
relate it to Tucson and Arizona. So

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everyone has this sky. I mean
we all know Speedy. Speedy. Look,

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if you have one of those dudes
who can play and and if he

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gets open and people can't catch him, don't you think that that's gotta come

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out. You gotta use him.
So even though, not even though,

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but if this is a problem with
them holding onto the ball and all that

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stuff. But if you have that
kind of weapon, well remember Speedy.

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Look he got hurt in the San
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you know, he had an ankle
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long. I'd be shocked, shocked, I tell you, if they don't

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do a whole lot more. Yeah, and we saw him whole lot We

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saw him two weeks ago whatever it
was, and he looked fantastic. Yeah,

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I mean he's a water bug.
You can get him to get out.

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I mean you don't. You can't
teach what he has. He just

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can't. He's got it. You
can't keep It's like this kid that I'm

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watching for you a scene. I
don't want to compare the two. But

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if you have a gift that God
is giving, yeah, I think you

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use it. It's like if you
have a seven foot two guy, who

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can you know who can run the
floor. You let the seven two guy

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run the floor because nobody else has
no question, no question. If I

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have sports car in the garage,
shame on me for run driving exactly.

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And that's the expectations. Even I
think, you know it's because Jed ran

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through you know, the receivers,
and he ran through the running backs and

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all that kind of stuff. You
feel like he's got guys that's said.

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Let's let's go to a question that
we'll probably ask left the Justin Flow.

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Did you put that up? Yeah? Okay, so I think that was

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because we've talked about him. We
got a minute here, Okay, Yeah.

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Here's what he's had to say about
Justin Flow, who really is the

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most intriguing guy on the roster,
right, So if you have this guy,

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you gotta have him. Here's what
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the linebacker who came in from Morgan. Well, what Justine's able.

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He's probably one of the most explosive
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most explosive player that we've had here. He is in an elite category in

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regards to his ability to run and
hit his ability to make plays on the

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ball, his ability to see a
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a guy. What Justine's learning is
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play within the system. And he's
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and he's continuing to now get another
system thrown out. I mean, what

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are the adjustments? And as a
linebacker, you're responsible for being the play

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caller so to speak, right,
so you're you're the one that has to

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make formation adjustments and make decisions on
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So he's working through that. But
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no question about his explosiveness and his
energy that he brings. Okay, no

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Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome
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Jiggle Sauce on the phone. We
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Michael hiding. Hey, guys,
how areight? We're doing well? Hey,

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let me just before we get into
the Arizona stuff. I read your

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Brown Coach Brown stuff very fun.
We found a very nice a piece on

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him, and I was telling Jay
that you probably not that you probably would

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have gone out there, but I
think one of the reasons you went out

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there was he's very likable, so
you you know, wanted to talk to

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him and some of the guys that
were here before. Yeah, there were

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a lot of reasons that it made
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and a big thanks to our friend
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But yes, coach Brown has a
huge personality if he's very well liked

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by both media and fans and players
fellow coaches. While he was here for

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one season, that Fish's first season
in twenty twenty one. Also, you

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know, eight Arizona players transferred to
you Mass in the offseason, the very

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unusual situation, and the best part
of it all, guys, was that

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they won. So everyone was super
happy after the game and you know,

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and happy to talk to us.
So it really couldn't have worked out much

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better. Yeah. Well, you
know, we had so much fun with

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him because you know, you'd see
him and he's the growling kind of coach

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on the sideline, but then you
get him. He's like very straightforward,

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kind of easy going, very conversational. Uh and in a way I think

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I like dealing with the media here
at least. Oh yeah, he's a

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natural. I mean, he's a
Northeast guy. He's got kind of from

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certain certain words have like a little
accent to them, and certain mannerisms and

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he's kind of old school a little
bit. But he's got a lot of

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one liners. And yeah, he
was in he was in mid season fourm

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to say the least. After that
game, it was a huge win for

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you masks, and you know,
as you guys, sure, you know,

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I mean, that's that's a really
difficult place to win. There's three

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and thirty seven over the previous uh
fourth seasons, so you know it's for

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them to be one and oh it's
one on the road, even SPS opponent

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in their opener. Those are all
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So it's really happy for Don Brown
and Jed Fish. You know, his

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former boss said the same during his
press conference today. So you talked about

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Brian Peterson. Wait till you get
the uber bill that's and then you can

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thank you. So let's talk about
the UA football team, the team you've

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covered. Let's before we before we
go into the like your predictions. You

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asked a few good questions and one
of them that we always talk about is

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justin flow. Here's this guy with
talent, guy who looks like Tarzan and

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can just looks fantastic about playing football. But we don't know how good he

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is because if he's going to have
may not start or whatever, what do

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you make of him? I don't
know what to make of him yet.

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Yeah, obviously has a very interesting
and big personality. He is an impressive

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athlete. He has credentials from his
days as a recruit. You know,

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he struggled with injuries a lot at
Oregon and college football is a big adjustment

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for him. You know he was
someone who could just overwhelm the opposition with

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his sheer physical presence in high school
and very few people can do that in

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college football. So he's you know, this has been a learning experience for

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him. I'm sure it's been a
humbling experience in a lot of ways.

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And I am very curious to see
what he looks like out on the field

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in situations where you know you can
actually tackle, where you don't know what

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plays the other you know the other
side is going to run, I think

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after a while, and in camp
the defense kind of knows most of what's

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coming from the offense, so that
gives them an advantage that they use if

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we don't have during games. So
I'll be really interested to see how he

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looks against Annu, especially against you
know, Mississippi State, which is obviously

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an SEC opponent, and just how
that battle goes between him and Daniel and

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Moolee and the other transfer coming in
from Washington. I would imagine both of

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them are going to play. They
also have that dollar package which just pay

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one seven and they can kind of
take whichever linebacker they want to play in

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there. So I think those two
and Jacob Mano are all gonna have a

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role with the defense this upcoming season, and just how good justin flow is.

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It's kind of one of the interesting
subplots having into the opener and the

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and the early stretch of the cism. Yeah, all right, so we're

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finally here, We've got we've got
an opener. On Saturday, there's a

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Daily Star had their annual college football
special section out on Saturday. I went

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straight to your predictions. I didn't
even read Hanson first. I went straight

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to your call on the on the
twelve games. You called every game as

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I mentally, I think, you
know, we kind of agreed, Uh,

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in both Steven, I agree on
these games basically the first six that

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they would come out of that three
and three with wins against nau U,

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TEP and Stanford, losses the Mississippi
State USC and in Washington. So we

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get to the back half of the
schedule in the end, you've got them

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going seven and five. So you've
got them going up to Washington State and

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winning. Uh, But what's your
thought on that one, because that's one

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of the to us obviously, that's
one of the key games that they got

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to win to you know, get
to a bowl game. Yeah, they

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have played like crap in Pullman,
right, I mean, to be frank,

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it is. It has not been
pretty. I covered two games up

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there, two separate games in which
they allowed sixty nine points against the Cougars,

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which is like an absolutely absurd total. So it's been rough. But

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I think there's a few things going
on here. Number one, you know,

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when you look at sort of the
flow of games, no pun intended.

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They've done what we were talking about
earlier. I don't see them necessarily

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losing three in a row. And
if they lost that game after losing to

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Washington US see that the three game
losing streak. I don't see that happening.

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I think that the weather won't be
that bad because they're going up a

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little bit earlier in the season.
You know, sometimes when they go up

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there and like wait November, maybe
the week before the Territorial Cup, you

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know, they're just not fully engaged. I think they will be fully engaged

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in this particular matchup. And I
also think that Dat and de laure will

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handle the situation better than he did
this last time going up against his former

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school. Now you do have the
added element of him being in Pullman with

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a potentially hostile crowd. I'm sure
they're not going to be super kind to

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him, but sometimes that can have
kind of a galvanizing effect for the team.

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So I think they're going to find
a way to win that game.

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Yeah, I think it's gonna be
well. I agree, there's gonna be

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very tough. Given this situation.
No one's really talking about it anymore.

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It's kind of maybe past that.
But at home or used to be.

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Uh, he had a struggle with
these guys down here. So that's one

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of the games you're gonna he's gonna
they're gonna steal. I guess that's if

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they win that game. That's kind
of a steal of a game, I

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think. And then you've got him
losing to at Oregon State, which I

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think a lot of people do.
I think Oregon State is being a little

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over overrated right now. Maybe maybe
they'll prove me wrong. I know they

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won ten games last year, but
I you know, press Clippians and all

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that kind of stuff. But you've
got them losing to Oregon State in a

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close one here the following week.
How did you get to that one?

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Yeah, I mean I think that
that's stretch of games at Washington State at

408
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home, versus Oregon State and versus
Ucla, They're all kind of toss up

409
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games in my mind, even though
one of those teams is ranked in the

410
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top twenty five or against day in. Ucla is kind of on the fringe

411
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of the top twenty five, and
Washington Date has been a regular Bowl team.

412
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I think it speaks to what Jed
Fish has been able to do with

413
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this program. He's been able to
raise the talent level and put them in

414
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a position where they can be competitive
against just about everyone. Like when I

415
00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.839
scanned the schedule, there weren't a
lot of games where I was like,

416
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there's no way they can win.
You know, maybe at USC, you

417
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know, maybe Washington, maybe Utah. That's just been a really tough match

418
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up to them. But you know, the question with me regarding Oregon State,

419
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I think they have a great coach. I think they have a great

420
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culture up there, they have good
infrastructure. I like the way that they

421
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play. I'm just I'm very curious
to see how Dj young Away does the

422
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:07.400
transfer quarterback from Clemson. I mean, he was really struggled the last couple

423
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of years at Clemson, and I'm
just I'm not sure he processes fast enough

424
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.640
to be an effective quarterback, Like
the physical traits are all there. You

425
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know, by that time in the
season, if he's still going to be

426
00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:27.240
Oregon State starter, and if he's
not, it's not a problem. So

427
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that to me is kind of the
big mystery of the Oregon State. I

428
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viewed that as kind of a coin
flip game, and I just gave a

429
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slight edge to the Beavers because you
know, they're kind of better in the

430
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line, and they're a little bit
ahead of Arizona in terms of where they

431
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are in their building. So I
didn't see it. But go ahead,

432
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can you go through the games just
real quickly? We got about four minutes

433
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that way, he said, seven
and five. Okay, So when when

434
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against NAU lost in Mississippi State,
don't beat the UTAP beat Stanford, loose

435
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to Washington, lose the USC beat
Washington States, the Oregon State. Then

436
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you get to UCLA home game,
you've got them beating UCLA, which to

437
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:17.480
me, the Washington State and the
UCLA games are the ones. The difference

438
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between you're going five and seven,
six and six or seven and five,

439
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Well, those three the Oregon State, the Washington State. So you got

440
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them beating Ucla again. I kind
of agree with you there, just because

441
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:34.519
it's here. You came to that
conclusion. Why, well, I boiled

442
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:40.519
it down to this. They beat
UCLA on the road last year when UCLA

443
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:45.359
had Dwyane Thompson, Robinson and Jack
Charbone, and they don't have either one

444
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:52.279
of those guys. Now the game
is here and Arizona is better than they

445
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.559
were. I'm not sure UCLA is
as good as they were last year.

446
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So that's kind of my that's kind
of my thumb nail on that one.

447
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:05.440
Yeah. I thought, Michael that
a lot of people are high on Arizona,

448
00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:07.480
at least high for six or seven
wins, is because they're better than

449
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:12.519
last year. And I contend,
and this is just me playing devil's advocate,

450
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that a lot of teams are better
than last year. So that's going

451
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:20.400
to be a difficult thing to overcome
as well. Don't you think that's the

452
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:24.960
case. Well, yeah, I
mean the Pact twelve, despite the fact

453
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:30.920
that it's not going to exist by
this time next year, is a really

454
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:35.319
good conference this season. I mean, UCLA is one of the few teams

455
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:40.759
that doesn't have a returning starting quarterback
with NFL aspiration. No, but they

456
00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:45.200
do have a five star freshman coming
in and Dante Moore. I know he

457
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.240
didn't get the starting gigs for a
week one, but he's supposed to be

458
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:51.799
phenomenal, and who knows he could
be starting by that point in the year.

459
00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:55.160
I mean the following week they're at
Colorado. I have been winning that

460
00:32:55.279 --> 00:33:00.400
game. But that's that's a total
mystery team. With what Deon Sanders has

461
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:06.440
done there, like completely overhauling the
roster, you know, like eighty ninety

462
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.799
percent new players. No one knows
what to make the best team. You

463
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:14.160
know, their their lack of depth
might show by that point, or they

464
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.960
might be they might gell and come
together and be really good. Along those

465
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.359
lines, Michael, what do you
make of them? I think that they're

466
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:24.200
going to be better than what people
think. But you know, what do

467
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:30.880
I know? I it's so hard
to say. I mean when like almost

468
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.039
everyone in your two deth is a
transfer and they've never played together before,

469
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.640
and a lot of them haven't played
on this level, you know, and

470
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oftentimes with transfers, you know,
they don't have production at their previous school.

471
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.160
I don't know. I think I
think there's a degree of sandbag and

472
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.640
that goes on with Deon, like, yeah, he sort of allows the

473
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:54.160
media to take rips at him,
so he can kind of use that as

474
00:33:54.240 --> 00:34:01.519
motivation, use that his advantage.
It's different. It's it's an experiment that's

475
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:08.079
never been seen before and it's you
know, maybe like the most fascinating storyline

476
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:12.199
heading into this Pactole season. All
right, So then you've got them,

477
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:14.880
like we most of us do,
have them losing to Utah, but you

478
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.519
have Bears on a clinching a bowl
game at Colorado. Let's say they're going

479
00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:27.280
into the SU game at at UH
six or five and five, yeah,

480
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:30.679
or at five and six, and
they need the a SU game to go

481
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:36.039
to a bowl game. How much
of what's happened yesterday with with the ASU

482
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:40.280
and the bull band comes into play
there and what can happen there? Yeah,

483
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Well, from a psychological standpoint,
that might actually favor ASU because they

484
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:52.519
will view that game as their bowl
game, right, you know, so

485
00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.920
they they will you know, obviously
it's a bad situation for them, their

486
00:34:55.960 --> 00:35:01.800
coaches, their players that the imposed
the bowl band this year and it's going

487
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:06.119
to be difficult for them to get
through the season and be up for every

488
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:09.599
week. But they'll be up to
that game for sure. I just think

489
00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:14.679
similar to Colorado, and they didn't
get as much publicity for it, but

490
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:17.320
they have turned over a ton of
their roster. There's a lot of new

491
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:23.639
at ASU from the coaches to the
players. I mean, it's difficult to

492
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:28.800
have that all come together for you
in year one. So that was Frond

493
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:34.599
the main reason that I feel like
US has the advantage of today heading into

494
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:37.920
that game. I mean, we
don't know what injuries are going to look

495
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:40.519
like over the course of the season. You know, getting Rashata, it

496
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:45.039
could be really good as a specially
quarterback and kind of change the outlook and

497
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:51.360
the fortunes of the Sun Doubles.
Hard to project on whatever today is August

498
00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:54.280
twenty eight, what's going to happen
in November twenty fifth. But I gave

499
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:59.119
I gave you of b the edge
and that one the good. They got

500
00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:01.880
a taste of what it's like to
have that territorial cup in their hands and

501
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:05.480
they won't want to let that go. Okay, so you've got them seven

502
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:09.599
and five. How good do you
feel about that? I'm like, okay,

503
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:14.559
I mean, it's it is.
It is the natural progression of things.

504
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.920
If you build your program the right
way, right, I mean you're

505
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:22.840
supposed to. What if you lose
big the first year, lose small,

506
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:25.599
the second year wins small, the
third year win big, the fourth years

507
00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:30.880
or they're in the they're in there
like the win the wins small stage.

508
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:34.679
And I would like to think they're
gonna, you know, win more of

509
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.840
those toss up tech games than they
lose because they'll have better depth, they'll

510
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:43.719
have more experience in the system,
all of those good things. So yeah,

511
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:45.280
I feel a lot right about it. I mean, check back with

512
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.840
me in a month or two,
and I'm sure I'll be wrong about most

513
00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:52.039
things. But that's how these things
go. Okay, you're playing your first

514
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:55.920
game as as the sports columnist.
Are you doing a column on the game?

515
00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:59.400
Are you're writing a feature? What
are you doing on the game this

516
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.039
week? Because your job is different
this year. Yeah, we have a

517
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:08.039
plan in mind and that will be
revealed over the weekend. We're doing a

518
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:14.079
many many of the same features and
things that we've done over the course of

519
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.639
a game week, but we are
squeaking things a little bit and have some

520
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:22.920
new things coming. So we'll find
out this weekend. Sturday morning. Let

521
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:24.679
me ask you a quick question because
it already over. But okay, so

522
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:30.199
this is your third year with Jed. I'm well aware that to coach coach

523
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:34.280
fish coach respects the heck out of
you. You've been with him a long

524
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:38.599
time, don't miss practice for anything. Has your impression of him changed at

525
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:44.039
all or how has it? Because
he uses fresh phase first year, we

526
00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:46.079
talked about it earlier, didn't have
much to play with Three years later,

527
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:52.719
what are your what are your impressions? I'm impressed with his I would say,

528
00:37:52.760 --> 00:38:01.280
like his consistency of his messaging.
He's never really wavered about how this

529
00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:09.159
was going to go. He hasn't
oversold anything. He's steadily and smartly built

530
00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:15.880
up the talent level. I think
he understands what it takes to compete at

531
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the highest levels, and he understands
talentford and recruiting is and he works really

532
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:24.239
hard at it and make sure that
his staff works really hard at it.

533
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:30.079
So I mean, i'd say,
you know, aids across the board so

534
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:34.960
far, this is kind of a
big year because you'd like to see them

535
00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:37.039
take that next step and get into
a Bowl game. And if they don't,

536
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:40.519
maybe there are some questions, but
I feel pretty good about their chances.

537
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:45.400
Yeah, I totally agree. Okay, thank you, Michael, appreciate

538
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it. Thank you guys. Yea
cool, cool Michael. Lift from to

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It's gone fast a lot to talk

610
00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:57.519
about. You know, we were
gone through the ASU stuff with a woe

611
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:01.360
you know, if there's somebody who
missed that but listening now, don't forget.

612
00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:06.320
We've got the podcast. Oh yea. And on Friday Friday we went

613
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:09.320
up on Spotify. So now you
can find us obviously on the iHeart website,

614
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:14.559
you can find us on Apple Podcasts, and now we are on Spotify.

615
00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:16.039
You were so busy, you were
excited on Friday. I was.

616
00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:19.480
I was, kiddo. While we're
in for the day and game to start,

617
00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:22.880
I figured out it only takes about
five minutes to get us on Spotify.

618
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.400
Because I wondered, why aren't we
on Spotify? And then I looked

619
00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:27.320
into I said, well, all
you gotta do is sign up. So

620
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.559
I did. So we are on
Spotify now, which is very cool.

621
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:34.719
Yeah. Okay, so now we
have some information from a guy, big

622
00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:38.000
game Boomer. Yeah. Whether you
want to believe him or not, I'm

623
00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:39.840
not sure. When I saw that, I said, out, you're gonna

624
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:43.239
like this, or then I said
maybe you will. It's cool. You

625
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.880
know, look, I I'm just
not a believer in Oregon State. I'm

626
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:51.320
just not And because again I think
I've said this a bunch of times that

627
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:53.960
I see Oregon State in terms of
its program a lot like Arizona. Just

628
00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:58.079
a program that's kind of good every
once in a while they get it.

629
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:00.039
Then whenever they get good, all
of a sudden, they take a he

630
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:04.519
died. Plus you're you're biased because
you you have that ingrained in right mind,

631
00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:07.960
right, you know, I mean
for years Arizona's Arizona's three best teams,

632
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:12.760
Uh, the ninety three team,
the ninety eight team, and the

633
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:17.400
twenty fourteen team the following year were
turds, all right. They just weren't

634
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.760
very good and it was unfun.
We had high expectations of all those teams

635
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:24.480
and they never materialized. Organ State
went ten and three last year. They're

636
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:27.760
all full of themselves. They think
that they're going to be really good.

637
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:30.159
Uh they you know, people are
talking about them winning the champion, winning

638
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:34.719
the Pac twelve, YadA, YadA, YadA, big game. We won't

639
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.280
picks them to win the league.
I'm just not a believer. I wouldn't

640
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.840
be surprised as they finished in the
second half of the league because teams they're

641
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:43.119
not sneaking up on anybody, right, It's the old thing. Sure,

642
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:45.239
Arizona sneaks up on the teams,
you beat them, and then you have

643
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:49.360
a great year. That's what they
did. Nobody thought twenty fourteen was gonna

644
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.480
be with twenty fourteen, was that
they're gonna play in the Packball Championship game.

645
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:54.360
Feel the same way. I love
This is one of the things that

646
00:45:54.360 --> 00:46:00.400
I think about you. You over
analyze, over analyze everything, use the

647
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:09.639
same. But hey, this is
not It's how I look your That's how

648
00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:15.639
I sometimes beat beat you on it
is. But but so who's who's second?

649
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:19.960
Okay, he's got Oregon State winning
the league with Washington second. Yeah,

650
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.360
and you love those two teams in
the chah you like the Washington pick,

651
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:24.719
and you still like the Washington pick
like I think off Washington State.

652
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:29.039
If Washington gets to the Pactball Championship, they're winning it, okay, because

653
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:31.159
they're gonna be the best team on
the fields. Is it regular season?

654
00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:36.760
It's whoever wins the league regular season? Right, okay? Right, so

655
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:38.559
one of the you know, and
if neither remember if neither team wins the

656
00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:42.400
league, there's no below. Okay, You've got the USC, I've got

657
00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:46.400
Washington and and I don't disagree with
you on your assessment of the USC on

658
00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:51.840
Saturday. They looked vulnerable or whatever. But that's the first game you're playing.

659
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:54.599
You're playing Satles, the state they're
playing you know, Yeah, but

660
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:58.559
you know, it's it's it's always
that. It's always like this, Yeah,

661
00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:01.760
Arizona playing, you think, you
show up, you play, and

662
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:06.840
you get by. You gotta be
you gotta beat Say State, no question,

663
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.639
You're quitting, no question. But
again it's it's it's egoes. It's

664
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:15.800
it's just showing up Arizona. Look
who plays USC better than Arizona all the

665
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:19.800
time. Yeah, and it's for
whatever crazy reason. They just show up

666
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:22.079
and play well, right, get
beat, but they play well they do

667
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:27.719
they do anyway, So it's got
He's he's got the Organ State in Washington,

668
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.000
the pack championship game with Organ State, Okay, okay, and then

669
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:35.840
then Utah, Yeah, Utah,
which you can never count out Utah,

670
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:38.400
right, Yeah, I mean,
I see. Utah's a team that they're

671
00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:42.559
underestimated because they've won the damn thing
two years in a row. And the

672
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:45.880
quarterback for both of those teams is
back. Is back. Utah's is not

673
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:51.679
fully back because although he may not
play the Thursday. He's definitely not playing

674
00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:55.880
against came right. Yeah, so
you can never discount them. And then

675
00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:00.800
USC. So many people are picking
USC to be in the layoff. He's

676
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:02.119
got him in fourth place. But
I will say that on game day,

677
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:08.960
you know, they went through all
the conferences. Desmond Howard took UH Washington

678
00:48:09.719 --> 00:48:15.719
to win the PAC twelve, Pat
McAfee took Utah, and Krik Kirksey took

679
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:19.079
Utah, so none of them.
It was kind of funny because RCE Davis

680
00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:22.239
says, you guys, do know
USC is still in the PAC twelve this

681
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:25.239
year. They don't go to the
big tent til next year. That was

682
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:28.559
a good chuckle out of that one. Yeah, no, it's it's it's

683
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:30.719
fair. It's gonna be a great
race. I still think that USC has

684
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:37.119
the talent obviously, that's no brainer. And then then he's got Oregon fifth.

685
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:39.800
Okay, those five teams, man, I mean I will say that,

686
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:44.280
those five team and that's why everybody's
talking about the PAC twelve. Yeah,

687
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:45.320
and you got five teams that you
can say you can win the league

688
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:49.280
in any order, right, can
win the league. And then next comes

689
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.519
Arizon. Yeah, I was surprised
about that. Well, big game.

690
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:55.239
He loves. I think he did
this on his drive to Cruisis over the

691
00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:59.559
weekend. Because he did. He
drove to Cruisis for the weekend. We

692
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:00.840
loved us, I think. I
think because we have him on the show

693
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:05.360
all time. He loves Arizona,
knows that we're gonna talk about this foolishness.

694
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:07.480
Six. That would be you've got
Arizona six, which would be a

695
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:10.400
bowl game, right and there in
sixth place, you've got you've got your

696
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:15.760
six or seven wins and you're in
a bowl game. So and then uh,

697
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:20.159
to round it up, seven is
Washington State. Okay, Then he's

698
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:23.119
got UCLA all the way down to
eight. Yeah, that's that's that seems

699
00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:28.159
low. It does seem low.
But you can say UCLA could fit anywhere

700
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:32.840
from six to eight, right,
you know, paying part it's gonna depend

701
00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:37.760
on their quarterback situation. And I
guess I guess you can see that.

702
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:43.000
What what do the what do the
seven teams ahead of them have in common?

703
00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:49.079
They've got a quarterback course started in
college quarter and oh young la over

704
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:52.320
at over at Oregon State. He
was a starter at Clemson, but he

705
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:55.320
was a starter at a you know, on a Great Team, Washington,

706
00:49:55.519 --> 00:50:01.079
Utah, USC Oregon, Arizona,
Washington State all have returning quarterbacks. Ucla

707
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:06.559
is the first team in the UH
in the in in his prediction that doesn't

708
00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:09.760
have a returning starting quarterback. Actually, the last five teams in the in

709
00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:15.840
there in his prediction don't have starting
quarterbacks coming back. So we've got UCLA

710
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:22.840
eight, Cal nine, Colorado ten, Stanford eleven, then as U and

711
00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:28.159
last play. Yeah, I think
that shoes is just because of what happened

712
00:50:28.199 --> 00:50:31.920
over the weekend. And that's fine. I mean, you don't know how

713
00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:35.360
they're gonna take it, right.
I think Mike Michael Left said that,

714
00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:37.000
sure you don't. Are they is
they are they gonna take that as a

715
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:40.239
okay, well we'll show you kind
of thing. Or are they gonna or

716
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:43.840
is it gonna, you know,
take the juice out of the wind out

717
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:46.599
of their sales and UH and they
they you know, they come out let's

718
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:51.119
say they come out of the come
out of the shoot kind of crappy,

719
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:53.480
don't have you don't get off to
good start. They've got Southern Utah,

720
00:50:53.559 --> 00:50:57.599
but then they got to play Wisconsin
and somebody else. So Jed, I

721
00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:00.480
love these shows and I love this
show. But you know, we're two

722
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.840
dudes behind a microphone and it's funny. How and this and this is every

723
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:07.880
show you must say, except if
you've played h Well, how we we

724
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:12.639
look at these teams and these players
athletes, right, Oh, they could

725
00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:15.519
either go this way or they could
go that way. They could do this

726
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:17.920
or they could do that. We're
two dudes on the couch who are overweight

727
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:22.320
talking about what people think overweighted.
Oh you know, what the hell do

728
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:25.000
we know? And how they're gonna
think? Does that make it? I

729
00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:27.679
hear you, Yeah, no,
I hear. But that's when we get

730
00:51:27.719 --> 00:51:30.280
to this state. We pay money, over pay good money to have these

731
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.400
microphones in front of it analyze.
And they don't play Wisconsin. They play

732
00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:38.840
Oklahoma State. So AC opens this
Thursday against Southern U tough, which they're

733
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:43.760
gonna win that game, right.
Then they got Oklahoma State and then they

734
00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:46.079
got Fresno State. Yeah, two
tough teams they if they if they're all

735
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:49.599
a sudden one and two, and
then they got to go play USC.

736
00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:52.639
It can go south real fast,
well, without questions, without questions,

737
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:58.400
injuries, psychological, psychologically, yeah, yeah, no question. I don't

738
00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.760
disagree with you, but it could
have it could have done that anyway anyway,

739
00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:06.920
Right, Yeah, do you think
you're playing you were you were thinking

740
00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:09.599
they were going to go to I
think Vegas has on the five five ver

741
00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:14.039
and I picked them less last.
If they hit the over, they're going

742
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:17.159
to a ball. Yeah, if
if you know what, there's a lot

743
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:22.719
of waiting maybe Americans, if you
had him going under five last week,

744
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:25.599
right, I think so. I
think that's one of the ones we agreed

745
00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:30.800
on AVERSA. And as you are
on the same level of picked by by

746
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:37.480
Vegas, how is that possible?
I don't know. It's not possible they

747
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:40.719
did it, given given that you
A is considerably better, at least on

748
00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:45.360
paper. Right, we think they
are right here. We got a quick

749
00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:51.679
call. We got it just a
second. Let's just higher on there on

750
00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:59.239
the ball kind of quick, like
the best selling all of radio. Even

751
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:02.159
like that. That's professional, y'alls
people, because that sounds like you guys

752
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:07.400
are paying for your air time WI
others are getting paid for it. They're

753
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:13.800
just full of hot Take sure,
man, We appreciate that a bunch.

754
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:17.719
Thank you so much. We're starting
to go fund me. Thanks, thanks,

755
00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:22.119
thank you for the car appreciate it. Appreciate a SU has dropped to

756
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:25.599
four and a half. Okay that
that big said dropping four and a half

757
00:53:27.159 --> 00:53:30.199
for us. See, that's still
a tough number. Now, no,

758
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:32.480
not but not five wins the bat
Yeah, no, five wins and it's

759
00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:36.440
the same team, right, it's
the same team. Wow, except they've

760
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:38.480
got this little thing hanging over them. That's that's what we need to get,

761
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:44.519
you know, Kevin Lehman, someone
who could psychologically figure know man,

762
00:53:44.599 --> 00:53:47.360
Kevin Lehman didn't play college football.
Well, that's he's got a document and

763
00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:51.039
thinking how people think we need to
ask them? You know who we need

764
00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:54.679
to ask who? Uh, somebody
like lamont Ricky Huntley? Okay, because

765
00:53:54.760 --> 00:54:00.679
Ricky Hunley was on that team that
was that that was we have I know,

766
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.039
I know, but but somebody who
was on the eighty on the eighty

767
00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:08.679
two or eighty three Arizona because they
but they got into they they were they

768
00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:10.920
were going into a season that they
thought they were going to be really good.

769
00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:14.480
A bowl game got taken away of
chickam and they didn't do what they

770
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:16.000
do. You're being told you can't
do something. What are you going to

771
00:54:16.079 --> 00:54:20.960
try to do? Prove those dudes
wrong. You're you're right. You're gonna

772
00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:22.519
play out of your ass to play
make make him wrong. Yeah. But

773
00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:27.679
but but when it when it goes
bad on you, how do you stay

774
00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:30.480
up there? I'm calling you to
frown. All right, thanks for being

775
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:31.559
here. We'll be back tomorrow