Streaming live on the iHeartRadio LAPP. This is I on the Ball with Steve
Ravera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen to fifteen. Hey, welcome back
to Whying the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Come Steve, He's
Jay, and now we have Sammy. We break the news on the ball,
breaking news, all right, So if we haven't seen it, Noah
Afida for the fifth time this season, Freshman of the Week in the Pac
twelve. Really no surprise there. He'll probably going to win Freshman of the
Year. Everyone would assume. I feel like at this point, right if
he doesn't, there's something wrong. Somebody stuff in the ballot box with somebody
else. No, I agree. And t Mac was Offensive Player of the
Week in the Pac twelve. Really no surprise in either of those two.
In the performance they put on against ASU, especially in the first half,
I think it was a real kind of They set the tone for what the
plan was in the game, and they executed it well. I mean,
the numbers, you know, are certainly worthy. But I'm a little I
am a little surprised in that there were two games with college football playoff implications
over the weekend you had Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State.
You know, both Oregon and Washington won. I'm a little surprised. I
mean, it tells you how good the performance was by Arizona's guys that somebody
from those games didn't get those arts. I mean, it could have been
bon Nicks. I mean, it looks as though hammerd Jayden Daniels will probably
win the Heisman, and again he put up Heisman like numbers. But I
don't know. I don't know if you guys watched that Washington Washington State game
either, but it was brutal and some of those play calls in the last
two minutes of the game. I don't know if you guys were actually like
seeing that. It was very you guys remember earlier in the season when Miami
fumbled and lost to Georgia Tech. It had a lot of that written on
it. It was literally first and first and ten in field goal range,
clocks moving and they're throwing in complete passes. Washington was I don't I don't
know if that was a stunt to maybe get Panics in the end zone or
something like that. I don't know what it was, but I was watching
the television like this, this can't be this can't be right, but that
it was an ugly game. Sadly Oregon won. So you's not in the
Pac Tweld Championship, but it is championship weekend and we got some good games.
I don't know if you guys, well, I haven't been I haven't
been right on a lot, but I was right on Oregon. I thought
all along that they were going to beat the crap out of Oregon State,
and they did. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you and everybody else.
I think though that there was a lot of state where and you corrals
all over the place. I think if you watch the game day they were
they were picking Oregon State. They've been wrong all year a month or so,
yeah, have been. It was a simple thing, a choice of
quarterbacks, and let's take this call. So so the one thing is I
still have a chance of making a bet with you even if Oregon wins this
week, because you had Washington, I have us C. But the winner
the bet was right. The bet was that you have to win the pact
to win the bet, right and all along, and I think you agree
with me. In maybe two three weeks ago, I thought Oregon, I
still think Oregon is the best team in there when when they got beat by
Washington. And I think Sammy will understand this given the horse guy that when
Washington beat them on our last the field goal blah blah blah, and at
home, this horse Oregon had a bad route. Bad route at that game
was an Oregon. It's a route, Yeah, exactly, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, I think that's it's funny you bring the horses into
I think Oregon might be one of the best teams in the country. Yeah,
and it did. It took a bad line to finish line Oregon.
This game is going to be in Vegas, neutral field. Granted, both
those teams they're fans, it's a long way to go. We'll see how
well they travel and whatnot. But I think Oregon Bo Nicks and Dan Lanning
and that team is is one of the best teams in the country. Don't
you come off this way with Dad Landing. I'm sorry if I have some
of the scratching. He's a he's a guy who wants to put it on
you do he does. But you know, I think just because of I
think Washington is going to feel disrespected, sure, which may put a little
juice into their pants a little bit. Maybe I should have said it like
that, but you know what you did. But yeah, but I did.
You know what I mean? But you know that Washington may go into
this game say wait a minute, what're the ones that are understraated. We're
the ones that already beat those guys and were nine point under. God show,
but you're taking those points. I think I am nine. Really,
I think I would give I think it'll get up to nine and a half.
Ten, and once you're in that double digit range and a conference championship,
I'll give you. Look, I've been on Washington all year long.
Yeah, well you get off of I mean the beginning of the year,
I thought they were better than us. I'll give you. You'll give me
the nine. Yeah, for twenty twenty. I'll give you the twenty and
you keep it. If I lose, you just give it back. I'll
you know what I'm saying. I don't want to have the fun't have to
track me down for the twenty. He wants Oregon, Okay, I'll take
the night. Okay for twenty Okay, I think that line is gonna move
some more. Yeah, that's why I'm gonna get it at night. I
wanted at night. That's fine, Well, the night, yeah, because
because I think you can get in your team at night. And I actually
think, I actually think Washington can win this game. I mean they're undefeated
and Michael Pennis is still Michael Pennix. You know, I get it all
the you know, Michael Penis in the in the odds has dropped to number
three in the in the U ra J Mix to Daniels Daniels, I'm like,
who, how I had this argument with my kid? All right?
He said, well, Jane Daniels has the best stats. They said who
had the best season? Right, so he's he's had four or five great
games. Who he's pound up a bunch of stats. Michael Penix's team is
undefeated. Bo Nix's team has got one loss to the undefeated team. Why
do you put Jake Daniels ahead of either of those guys? I'm hoping that
the people who vote for this are smart enough to realize that it pisses me
off. Steve. Why is Jade Daniels passed up Michael Pennix when his team
is still undefeated? It's it's but it's not a team award. It is
a team award. It's it's it's the Heisman, it's It's not just about
the numbers, though, no, I understand that right about. It's about
what you got your team to do and the thing better. His numbers are
phenomenal. If if they were better, his team would be better. They
have the worst, one of the worst defenses in the country. He's not
a defensive player, I think, I think, but he hasn't been good
enough to overcome other shortcums. No, I mean, realistically, I would
vote for bon Nicks. I think b Nick because his numbers are better than
Pennix, and not by as much as you think. Look, but they're
they're I think especial. Actually, if they win this weekend, If Oregon
wins this weekend, they're gonna be in the College Football Playoff. They're gonna
be one of the four best teams in the country. Okay, if Washington
wins this weekend, I don't think. I still think Jane Daniels because Jane
Daniels' team. If you swap I'll do this. If you swap Jane Daniels
and the kid from BAMA Milroe. BAM was one of the best teams in
the country and it's not even close. They're undefeated and they're probably gonna be
favorites at Georgia. But the game, but the thing isst three games.
I'm confused. So you right now you would vote for whom to I would.
I would vote for Bonnicks. Okay, so Jane Daniels is the second.
I think Jane Daniels. I honestly, I think it's a coin flip
between the two. I could see both arguments. Here's the problem that a
lot of the votes are gonna come from that side of the country. And
see, I wouldn't I wouldn't. I wouldn't complain if Jane Daniels won the
Heisman. He has the best overall stats by a long shot. And if
you're comparing those three quarterbacks, he leads. He leads them in passing yards,
overall touchdowns, rushing yards, and rushing touchdowns. And they LISU is
still not a terrible team. They're in the top. Who would you want
to take Oregon over l s U? Oregon for sure, Okay, it's
because the Organs a better team. Washington, I think it's closer. I
think I think both uls. You wouldn't be able to stop Washington at all.
I think Washington would win, but it would be really, really close,
and I don't think it would be at any fault of Jayden and Daniels.
And I'm and I'm sitting here saying I'm not the biggest Jayden Daniels fan.
I didn't think he was great at a s U and when he went
to l s U, I was like, what is what is this Jayden
and Daniels hype? But I can't personally and just the way I view the
game, I can't not look at the numbers he's put up this year.
Let's take this call. Hi, you're on the air and eye on the
ball. Hello, he might have hung up, might have hung up.
Set the kid here straight, please, Yeah, you're right because you would
vote for Nick's first. Sure you would. I get your points with the
with the stats and all this stuff, but it's kind of like I look,
It's kind of how I look at the NBA MVP. It's like Jokis
last year was had a better team in the Nuggets. Hi, you're on
the R and I on the ball. Hey, guys, hey just saw
from two four to seven Sports that Chip Kelly is staying at UCLA. Yeah,
we thought that that this afternoon when we were at the press conference,
we thought that that was gonna happen. Yeah. Yeah, because for the
reasons that Jay said that there's no money to no money, I mean,
okay, thank you. Yeah, well yeah, I'm sorry, anybody wanted
to say something I think. I sorry. I look at the Heisman very
much as I look at the NBA MVP. More often than not, the
NBA MVP goes to the best player with maybe the best year statistically, not
always on the best team, but you look at it. Last year,
Jokicic and the Nuggets they won the NBA Championship, was the best player on
that team, and they gave the award tod All Embid. Granted there's been
some years maybe embiids for the one when he didn't last year and beat statistically
him and Jokic were pretty fifty to fifty. They gave it to mb and
I zero problem with that. But it's it's kind of like when Lebron has
how I think it has five m vps. In his prime, Lebron could
have won m VP every single year because his teams were great and Lebron was
clearly the best player in the NBA. But that's just not how it works.
And with the Heisman, it's kind of like it's kind of the same
in my opinion. Yeah, okay, you'll be making the argument, but
you're still voting for Dix. If here's the thing. If if Knicks goes
out and if they don't beat they don't beat Washington, and Jane Daniels has
those numbers still, then I think I think that, Yeah, that's what
I don't get. How if if there's still a lot of football to be
played, Michael Pennix beats bow Knicks again and you think bo Nicks is the
best guy right now and he beats him for a second time, how you
let Daniels slip in there. I just don't get it. I just think
the second half of Michael Pennis this season has not been statistic. We're watching
it, okay, so we got recency biases what we've got, Okay too.
He was great in the first half. This is not not so good
in the second. Jayde has been great, not Jay and Daniels. He
was awfulistically in the season. These statistics in the last six games, I
still think, right, that's fine. Never going to agree on. I'm
I'm still believing you're gonna you would you would vote for Nicks as I would.
I think you would vote for nixt right, not necessarily, who would
you vote for I'm waiting for I'm waiting to see what happened to Friday today
today. Yeah, I'm probably voting for by Washington over over Pennis over and
then Daniels his third. Daniels is like eighth from Okay, so see,
there you go. And and and I want to make because I got accused.
I got to accused of this. It's not because he was an a
guy, right. You know. Look, I'm a Heisman voter. I
can't I can't tell you what my vote is before I put it in.
But what I'm telling you is is that and and different. It's just like
the Hall of Fame Baseball Hall of Fame voters can vote for a bunch of
different things. To me, what your team does matter, Okay, if
what your team does matters, I agree, And then I'll just say that
that's fine. But it is conference championship weekend this week. So yeah,
Washington, Oregon, Texas, and Oklahoma State I believe it is. And
then you have Georgia Okay, Hi, you're on the R and I on
the ball. Hey, gentlemen, would talk some college football with you to
here. I just noticed, is this the first year to pack twelve North
and South is basically merged into one. No, they went for twelve.
They did that last year too. Last year. Last year was the first
tiar have won the South. This year we have one too many losses in
the conference. No, Arizona would have won the South this year. Pointed
that He's pointed, He's pointed out last week, and he pointed out again
today that they that they essentially if the divisions were the same, Arizona would
be in the Pack twelve championship. Well a PAC twelve dodge the bullet because
one of one of now Lisa is going to go to the I would imagine
the final four Oregon for sure, like you said, maybe Washington. Well,
certainly the winner of the game on Friday goes you know, Okay,
Yeah, I agree? All right, Thanks all I wanted to ask you
guys. I appreciate it. Gentleen, Okay, thanks for thanks for listening.
You'd hope the winner this weekend goes Yeah, if it's Washington, Now
one of them is going yeah, to one of them, and that one
things that they do well again getting through the overall thing, it's more than
just what you did, the overall strength of the PAC twelve. The PACTBULF
champion has to be in the in the playoffs, regardless of whether it's Oregon
with one loss or Washington with no losses. Well, okay, yeah,
if Washington wins there, If Oregon loses and Florida State wins out, for
State's going to get in. They're undefeated three teams. And then if Texas
wins. You look at the better win. It'll be between Texas and Alabama
in Texas and because George is in, George's in. Yeah, George is
in. It'll be Georgia and Michigan Florida State if they went out and then
either or Texas because Texas is going to win their conference too. Okay,
say that again. So Georgia, Georgia beats Alabama, George is in,
Georgie's in, Michigan beats Iowa, Michigan's in. Florida State wins out there,
they're in, and then for that fourth spot, Texas plays Oklahoma State
for their conference champions. The winner of the Pack twelve two championship. I
don't think because because and we've been arguing this about because Oregon's loss would be
wash isn't better than Texas? And Texas lost, Texas lost to Kansas.
No, Texas lost to Oklahoma. Okay, well what either? Well either
you're right it was Oklahoma lost again, but Texas lost, and and the
PAC twelve is a tougher conference, way tougher. Winning the Pac twelve is
way more impressive than winning the Big One. Would you guys have any issue
in them leaving out and undefeated Florida State team that doesn't have any I would.
I would have an a. That's a tough one too. I would
because if they're still undefeated, they deserve to be in. I think it's
tough. We can talk about it later. We got some more stuff.
Yeah, yeah, I told you we weren't going to get through it all.
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We'll talk a little bit about their great season, first first championship in
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fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app just Surgeon I
on the Bar. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jaginsauce. Now on the
phone, we have Ryan McBriar, he head Sucke, so football coach.
That's Sabido. How are you right? I'm great, Steve. How are
you and doing today? We're doing well, but probably not as as you.
You must be excited. We had a We definitely had a good day
back at school. The guys were excited that we did a little parade.
So guys are really enjoyed celebrating and take it in. Everything got happened on
Saturday. Well, well, first let's talk about Friday night. Friday night
and just you know, the game, a lot of points on the board,
but you guys seemingly were kind of in control most of the game.
But just tell us how you know, how things felt at the start of
the game and then just how everything developed and you know where your mind was
throughout the game. You know, our guys came out and we challenged them
just to play their brand of football, be physical and you want to take
to go take a state championship. And we played a very very difficult schedule.
That state championship was the twelfth playoff team that we played in a row.
So our guys were very battle tested. We played the three A South,
where every single team made the playoffs, so our guys were used to
some very good competition. I think we've seen every type of offense, every
type of defense, and by the time the playoffs rolled around, our guys
were just rolling. I mean, we had the last game of the season
where we faced off against number one Mohave, who was undefeated, and our
guys came together and pulled that one out. And we just took that momentum
into the playoffs and decided we want to go. I want to go get
one and leave everything else at the table, and blessed to come out with
more points than they did. But our guys were fired up, and after
kickoff that first drive that we had, we picked them off and there wasn't
really any doubt, which is how our guys came out. When did you
guys realize Are you specifically realized you had something special here? You know we
weren't talking about it preseason. Tell you the truth that we had an opportunity
to go do something special. We believed in our guys. We had a
three year starting quarterback and Cameron Hackworth coming back. We had two thousand yard
receivers or right there next to it in the Barry HiPE Brothers, Savanna and
Chamar. We had a defense that was had a lot of experience with a
bunch of seniors hint coming back led by our two middle backers to Shawn Ingram
and Jack's Gaggs experienced secondary that's seen plenty of route combos going their way.
So we had the potential and we talked about that potential from the time we
got back in January. The previous year we lost a bit of a heartbreaker
to the eventual state championship in East Mark, who ended up going up to
four A and competing. I think they made it to either the semis or
quarterfinals in four A this year. But we knew when the way we competed
last year, we had an opportunity and we believed in it so much.
I mean we talking. We had t shirts made just with the number twenty
fifteen on it because that's the last year that Tucson, any any high school
in Tuson I want to state championship, and we wanted them to understand they
had the possibility to go change that narrative, and fourteen weeks into this season.
They did it by I win and one in twenty twenty three, so
we do it was always a possibility, but we took some lumps, We
had a couple losses. Nothing was perfect, and they worked their tails off
to go get one. So when you did one of the hard what is
it always considered one of the hard things? So you had to beat a
really good team two times and actually in a short period of time, you
beat Mojave at the end of as you mentioned, at the end of the
regular season, then you have to beat him again in the semi finals.
But what was your approach to that? And you know, how did you
do that? You know, we h We actually had lost on a walk
off field goal the week before, traveling all the way to Marenci in a
three A South game that they got the region championship with it, So we
were look at our wounds. We had the opportunity at the end of the
season, facing the number one team. We could either bow out and start
feeling sorry for ourselves, or we could come together and be a football team
that we always knew we could be and go challenge the number one team and
see where we were going into the playoffs. So our guys came out firing
that week ten against number one Mohabi, and really that win was huge for
us because it got us into the top four seeds to go in to the
playoffs, and we got a couple home games out of it and didn't have
to face Mojave again until the semi finals. And in the semi finals we
got the neutral site, didn't have to go up to Mohave, which is,
you know, a nice about seven hour drive before a playoff game,
which doesn't sound very good, but it just set us up schedule wise to
have a shot. And the big one was that playoff game where you have
to convince your guys that this is going to be a playoff game winner,
go home. Nothing matters that you beat them already. They're gonna come out
trying to earn their season and keep theirs going just as much as we are.
So we have to keep the same mentality and up the ante a little
bit just to make sure we continue to go on to the state championship.
And our guys played their butt up. That was an extremely tough thought athletes
on both sides of the field. There was some hitting all around. My
hobby's got a stud middle back and that's going to Army next year. And
our guys just rose to the challenge, and you know, it was a
beautiful, beautiful win, lots of excitement in our sides, but beating Mohabby
twice was a huge testament for what our he was capable of because that was
a really, really good football team. I'm assuming that the season, the
regular season and the practices were pretty good. You know, I'm sure there
were days when they were not good and they were tough. But because you
have their attention, you had their attention from the twenty fifteen beginning of the
year, their motivation, they had a goal. How was it Because I'm
sure there was a lot of hard work, absolutely, and I mean we
saw the direct relationship to how well we practice first, you know, how
well we perform on Fridays and Saturday nights. Because we had three losses during
this season, and we talked about it immediately postgame with those losses, some
of those places where we could get better just practicing on the football field,
how we're getting the classes in the hallways during the week, all the little
things that are gonna add up really quick, and the things that go beyond
just playing on a Friday at seven o'clock. So we saw those direct relationships
very very quickly. And after that MORENCI game, going into number one More
Hobby that week ten of the regular season, we had some near perfect practices
for five weeks straight and that led us to a state championship. That build
up, that preparation, guys were dialed in in the film room, getting
in their classwork, getting all that stuff taken care of, making sure everybody's
ready, and it was just firing on all cylinders. And I mean these
guys came out and you know, ran away with some stuff and made some
great plays and the highlight wheels all of the place, and that was all
the preparation that they had. So hats off to our guys for dialing in
and deciding they as a twenty twenty three football team wanted to go win a
state championship, and they did it. We're talking to Ryan mcbrie, head
coach of the Sabino High School three A state football champions Ryan, you know,
the state the playoffs, it's long grind. It's four games that you
got to win, you know, one after the other. You know,
obviously every one of them against a really good team. How how hard is
the grind of that? You know, you played a long season, now
you're going to the playoffs. He's took out four weeks that you got to
do it. Everybody's got to do it, So it's not nobody's an advantage
over anybody else, but you have how hard is it to keep zeroed in
on what you got to do in front of you in a to have a
four game run like that. I mean, we deal with the fifteen sixteen
seventeen year olds. We had two varsity guys that started every game for us
as freshmen. We have fourteen year olds that are contributing mightily, and Victor
al Kuntar and Romeo berryjo on the back end as a corner. When we
got young guys that are figuring out life, they got all the high school
distractions. So yeah, it's a long grind to keep them focused in every
little moment. But I mean our regular season really got us Prepps. Like
I said, I don't know if there was a tougher schedule seeing different teams
traveling on the road, but playing twelve playoff teams in a row really got
us to where we need to be. And that road started really with.
I mean, we went up to Mike Mountain, who is playing in the
final four and four A, and that taught us a lot of humbling lessons
that we need to get better. And we saw and weren't, you know,
the perfect team that everybody might have been talking about three seasons. So
our guys realized what it took to win. And all the credit to those
guys. They dialed in and did what took to make themselves better. And
they we had twenty four seniors that they wanted to meet on each other and
go get after one. So it is a it is a grind and Markovie
set ourselves up well by having a good regular season to play those two home
games because that was definitely a huge advantage going into it. And then you
get to the semi finals and the finals playing on neutral sites where everybody's got
to travel. But I mean it's a it's a long road. Waking up
Sunday morning, I mean, it was an exhaustion. But all the credit
to our kids, and I mean half off to my coaching staff because they
are some amazing human beings that are giving up a lot of their time just
to be with these guys from the beginning in January, where we're doing lifting
and getting out in the field and nobody's watching to go into summertime in one
hundred and ten degree heat in these seven on seven competitions, the big linem
and competitions, and we're going fourteen weeks in the regular season. So I
got to give a big shout out to my coaching staff who's I wouldn't trade
them for the world. We got my offensive coordinator, sly Lewis is a
year twenty, our defensive coordinator, first guy coming over who's the head coach
last year, and Mike Wells, our dv coach Jason Welsh, our line
coach Baja Perez, our d line coach John Joels, our quarterback coach Colin
nick Breer ore one of our assistants, Dylan opfelt in, our running backs
coach Burnt Cook. Because those guys have been with me for the past seven
years once I took this job, and we've just been grinding and trying to
build this thing, and I couldn't abass to do it with a better group
of guys. So does this establish something you guys saw what it takes to
become a champion. Do you have enough returning now that gives you hope for
maybe next year. I can not even give you a chance to breathe right
to tell you enjoy this. But you know, once you get the taste
of this and the success and all that stuff, how does it look down
the road? How do you do this again? You know, we've got
a lot of work. This has been I mean, we haven't won a
state championship. It's the first one for Sabino High School since nineteen ninety eight,
the first one in all of Tucsons since twenty fifteen. So we're excited.
We got this one done with a ton of exceptional human beings and a
ton of exceptional athletes. But we're not gonna just rest on winning this one.
We've got to work cut out for us. But I'll tell you what,
We're gonna enjoy this for a little bit. But we got some juniors
and a very talented sophomore and freshman class that I know they're chomping at the
bits to go put the pads on and get back to the weight room and
start building once again. But right now, this is all about the class
of twenty twenty four and the twenty twenty three is a magical season because they're
gonna remember this moment, hold that gold ball together, being on that field
for the rest of their lives. It's a very very special season. Yeah,
yeah, no question. Okay, Well, coach, congrats again,
enjoy this, enjoy it for a long time. Yeah, and coach,
I'm I'm gonna I'm an old Tomorrow high school guys, Steven, I'm gonna
say congratulations to you, so nice job for bringing one to Tucson. Absolutely,
Jay, Steve, thank you very much. And uh, hopefully all
Tuson's going to root on CDO next week as they battle one so we can
get two state championships back to Tucson in two weeks. Well, coach,
real quick before you go, I'm curious, did you get any texts or
calls from the local coaches saying, hey, you know, we broke through.
I mean, the support has been amazing. I think I got a
text or call or message on social media from pretty much every high school coach
in so they're incredibly supportive, and it's amazing. I mean, we spend
so much time rinding our guys. It's fun to sit back and talk to
some of these guys minus that one week that you get to play them and
compete against them. But we know what it's going through for for our own
team, and we know everybody's doing it. So it takes some special guys
to take on the responsibility to coach high school football. It's a lot of
grinding, a lot of long hours. So I really appreciated every single text
that that guy's got. But it's a special brotherhood of amongst coaches, and
we've got some really good people running football teams around this town. Well,
coach McBrier, well you've got to congratulations from Jay. That's that's that's a
victory in itself, So thanks you much. I know that that hurts for
Cougar to say it, but I really appreciate it. Thanks very much,
all right, coach you well, thank you. That does hurt. It's
stings, man, It's stings those rivalries, rivalries, right, you know,
sixty years later, man, fifty years later, it's not enough to
have a victory over the weekend. I know, you know what. It's
instep feeling good about stuff, Stevid exactly. All right, we'll be right
back and we'll wrap up the show. We've got some more stuff from Jed
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ball on Tucson Sports Stage yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Okay, welcome back
to you. I on the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve, he's Jay Got signing with us, working the board. No mistakes,
no mistakes, good time, clean. We got fourteenpe we didn't just
ja man, we don't do like we got fourteen minutes to go. Don't
be like those runners are on the plane and drop the ball before they get
into the end. Yeah happened like two weeks ago. No, it did.
That was a bad one too. I mean it was. I feel
like it wasn't even close the washing the game Washington. Do you want to
do maybe another clip or two of a Jed and then go to basketball.
We got fourteen minutes, yeah, real quick, because uh, let's let's
let's talk about the you know, the what Jeed's saying about the Bowl games?
All right, but you know what they're talking about stuff like that.
It's it's it's really uh, you know, it's there. And the question
is, you know, everybody's asking where are they going? So here's a
little bit of what he had to say about not only getting ready for the
balls, but then where he thinks they're gonna go. You know, there's
probably gonna be one, maybe two guys that don't play in the Bowl Game
due to either NFL circumstances or injury, whatever it might be. You know,
I think if you're a first rounder, I could see it. I
could see not playing in it. I think that other than that, I
think most guys will play in it. It's an opportunity to showcase your skill
one more time. I think you have to take a little cost benefit analysis.
I think some people take a step back on that. But we talked
a couple guys about it. Most guys I'm expecting to play, and that's
I think it's everybody's choice. But this is a big time game we're going
to. You know, I would assume we'll be playing in one of three
games, you know, probably one of two games. I guess if Oregon
and Washington both make the college football playoffs, then I would assume we'll probably
play in the Fiesta. If uh, maybe otherwise, I assume we'll be
in the Animal Bole or something to that effect. Is what it looks like.
And those are big time games, and uh, you got a chance
to be in a special game. And if that's the case, then I
would think most guys want to be in it. Yeah, he didn't mention
any names. He didn't mention, but you know, one of them is
obviously Jordan's working right, guys, added knee injury. He's a first round
draft pick pretty much across the board. I could see him saying, you
know, and I would completely understand that when you've had the injury. So
let's take this call higher on the air and I on the ball. Yeah,
this is Nico, man, what's up, Miko. Yeah, First
of all, Jane and Daniels should not win. The has been true.
I'm agreeing with you, Nico. His non conference schedule was sad as flow
to State was weak. They played for there Steve. That matters. I
agreed, I totally agreed. But hey, I want to ask you this
and I'll listen out there. How big was duynea Quina to this thing?
That's that's a question that you can't find the wrong answer to. I don't
think, but I think in your eyes, Jay, in my eyes,
huge, huge, And we've been told by others that it's huge. We've
been told by others that adding the Quina to the on field coaching staff was
huge, you know, for that defense right just by style alone, style,
a level of credibility, enthusiasm, all those things. Look Johnny Nansen,
he's proven to be, you know, pretty damn good defensive coordinator.
But you know, you're good because of the people that you surround yourself with
and for them to say, you know what, we know, Dwayne's been
around the block, you know, one hundred times. But he's a guy
that can help us. Let's get him on staff. And they did.
And I don't think. I don't think you can underestimate what effect you so
next time, reminded me, and I wanted to ask him before he hung
up, how did Kyler Murray game go yesterday? That was not good.
We're one step closer to Marvin Harrison. That was terrible. I'm okay with
a lot of discussion with Jed about a contract. Right, There's all these
jobs floating around out there, so obviously the contract question came up, and
uh, he had an interesting approach, which you know, if Jed's real
about these things, then you understand why he's got a great staff. Here's
what he had to say about getting a new an extension or a new contract
with U of A. Yeah, well, before I get my contract done,
we're going to make sure that all the coaches are taking care of her.
All the assistant coaches, we'll try to certainly compensate them accordingly. We
understand it's a very competitive atmosphere out there in the profession, and the most
important part of my contract is that our salary pool for our assistant coaches continues
to increase and that we're able to keep our staff in check. It's been
very, very important the consistency of our staff, which has enabled us to
win. So before I worry about myself, I want to make sure we
take care of them, which was a nice little statement there. Yeah,
well, and he is that that word consistency because remember when we asked him
about Kyle Whittingham and the Utah program. Yeah, consistency was a big part
of what he talked about about why they are where they are and why he
would want his program to emulate that, and the consistency keeping a staff and
stuff like that. But again, Arizona fan, just know that when you're
Arizona and your coach is doing a great job, people are gonna come looking
for him. As we had him breaking news, that word has gotten out
that Chip Kelly's not getting fired at UCLA, So that takes one off the
board that people were worried about. This is a question that's premature, and
I'll wait till after but I'm gonna throw this at you anyway. You've seen
success very few times, but there have been success. Right. One of
them was when they were ninety fourish I can't remember, and you thought,
Okay, they're gonna build from this, Right, didn't happen ninety eight ish?
You had that and didn't happen twenty fourteen? Had it? Didn't happen.
What's next? What's what's next? How can they build from this?
Because you have and I won't I hate to use this word because it don't
believe in it, momentum, but they've played well, they've had a good
run, and that's my momentum. Good run. How can they not screw
that up? Well? Think about go back to eighty six, right,
Larry Smith, you know had the you know had that they had that.
See they went nine to three beat an undefeated AS team that was going to
the Rose Bawl, and he was gone the next you know, he went
to USC and the program took a step back. Dick Tomy came in,
you know, I mean he got it back to a while. Ye bit
though they went four, four and three that first year under Dick, a
couple of a couple of seven and seven and four seasons right before they got
to that festival season. But you know, that's just what happens when you're
in Arizona and and uh, you know this is different from Tommy Lloyd.
Tommy Lloyd is you know, you're not going to come approach Tommy Lloyd.
Arizona's going to poach somebody below that, right, because they're Arizona and basketball.
That's a it's a different deal. I don't think you have to worry
about Duke or Michigan State or or Kansas somebody coming and getting Tommy Lloyd.
He's had a program that can win at their level and he's he's already you
know, headed in that direction. Two things, What if what if thinking
Zaga job opens up? Well, then you see I don't see him doing
that. Why would why would he go to from the Pac twelve to the
conference. But it's also quality of life. We don't know what that is,
but he loves it here. But the good question, because we're two
dudes in a room, three dudes in a room talking about somebody else's life,
exactly what do we know? It's also I think the Jedfish and Arizona
football, the change in conference and US and Utah being probable probable favorites to
win the conference next year. Will we'll keep a maybe a lot of players
in the program. And Jedfish knows he has a chance to go win a
conference. And so if you were to go to who knows where, it
would take more years for them to be in a position to win a car
and one of the things you can't discount in the NFL exactly. No.
Sure does he want to coach in the NFL? I don't know to show
that. Sure, I'm guessing he does at some point, at some point,
maybe not now, but at some point. I think ultimately do coaches
get Ultimately, if Arizona loses him, I could see it being more to
the NFL. Then let me ask you enough, this is the end all
be all, But do coaches in the NFL make more money than the college
coaches? Much more? They can't. I mean, unless you're Saban,
unless you're Urban Meyer or whoever. Well you're listening, you're making five let's
say five. Yeah, No, they're making nine million dollars. Okay,
So I'm where and those are just average if you're in North Carolina three year
with a bad team. Yeah. Like so then again you can be Frank
Ranch can get fired in less than one year. Yeah. So, but
how much does he get paid? It's still get seven Yeah, I mean
first year coach, it's probably like six seven. Bill Belichick's the highest NFL
coach and he's in twenty years. Put it this way, you make more
in the NFL than you're gonna make it Arizona. Okay, Yeah, well,
and we know that situation, all right. We got about five minutes,
so we gotta talk about this basketball game on Thursday. Yeah again,
Steve. To me, it was the toughness that they continue to show.
Yeah, and it was a lot like the game in the Duke. It
ended almost the same way. Guys are doing the right things at the right
time. I still have to qualify this because it's only November and they're playing
lights out number two team in the country. God bless them. I've seen
this movie a few times before because if something happens in March, what does
us all mean? But this, right now, it feels different because of
the way this team, this team is unlike. This team is unlike anything
that he's had here then maybe in the last seventies, unlike anything anybody's had
here in a while. Yeah. Well, the twenty fourteen fifteen Sean was
pretty good. I think up and Danny kind of started muddle. But yeah,
no, this has all the tools, has everything. And I think
because of love and because of Johnson, right and and j Lewis, Yes,
don't tell me there. Well, I mean you can go on and
on and on there are some of the parts. It's exactly it. I
mean, they're just you know, I mean Umar Ballow, you feel like
he's not had that greatest season because he hasn't stood out. You go look
at his numbers, yea, and you look at the impact he's had,
you know, he I mean, he was the guy in the game in
the second half, you know, instead of grievous, you know, because
because remember in the Duke game, Crevos really showed out right, but then
it was Balo who was in there, you know the time, and then
you didn't want him in there, and then you didn't want him in there
to when they you know, my ability as a free throw ability. But
he was having an impact in there. Michigan State had a tough time getting
the ball inside and that was due to to Creve, to to to Bellow
and do to uh Kashah Johnson. They were just tough in there, and
and Michigan just didn't know Michigan had one or two guys that was that was
having the impact. When Arizona had seven I think last year it was detailed
with us last year at this time, I think so right, because she
was a great current all that and we talked about this. I think they
have something that they didn't have last year. Obviously, toughness. That's very
easy. You don't you don't teach what they've got. You don't teach either
you got it or you don't. And that was the argument we had,
right, Well, they'll be tough. No, you know you were tougher.
You're not tough. Yeah, you either want the ball or you don't
like And and he has guys that want the ball. Yeah, exactly.
And you can really, really really see that with both Kylon Boswell and Ni
La Bluff when things get tight, you know as they did they fell behind.
You can see those guys are calling for the ball. I want the
ball. I want to take a shot. I know I can do this.
And when you have two and keishat Johnson, when you have all those
guys on the court and nobody's afraid to do that, that's how you win
those games. Even Bradley coming off the bench, shot clock winding down,
it's a huge shot shot that he normally he's not taking that. Let me
say this too, he tummy is animated and he's very you know, quotable
in a normal dude's way. He's used the word dogs a couple of times.
I love it because that's what he has. These are your bad wearing
uniforms. Who dudes just show up. I'll take you on. And this
is a white man can't jump. Those dudes play and they say come on,
you know, make sure they're software right, But these dudes are just
play you any time he said, it's like he said, we got dogs
and we have winners. And that's what Caleb Love and Johnson have been their
career. They're in their high school careers too. When they were eight,
over the last couple of years, they had winners. Yeah, they didn't
have dogs. They didn't have dogs. Yeah. I mean I loved a
Zulas, but he was not he was not a dog. I liked her,
he was not a dog. He was kind of We tried to make
him into it, but he was dog. You don't have it. You
don't know who you are. You know, he thinks it's just some guys
you know back you know even before that, you're right, no dogs,
you know, Ben Ben matherin a little bit of a dog. Yeah,
but in the offensive way, right, Yeah, Daalen Terry, as much
as we thought he was a dog. He was not. You know,
when you think comparing him to the dogs quote unquote dog they have, well,
we'll see. I think I think it's still kind of early. Oh
sure of course, but you come to shove like you trust those guys right
now, But you know, you can't change the name of the dog.
I mean, that's what they are. But like I'd always thought Ben and
Dalen were dogs and the rest of the team around him, there's a different
level of different doghouse. Those guys are in the league. Yeah, yeah,
but okay, I'll give you that, But they weren't the same type
of these days. Yeah, those these dudes are pit bulls, and the
other dudes were like okay, the Doberman pictures, I don't know, not
even Doverman. They were like colleagues. We'll see, we'll see, we'll
see, because it's simple size of six. Yeah, and I do think
the rest of the team around them means a lot. With Ben and Dalen,
it was like the rest of the team was like puppies, and with
this team, it's it's collect there's a bunch of them collect. Sure,
there's a whole bunch of them. All right, good show. That was
fun. We got more to talk about still, probably a lot more from
Jetfish. We'll try and play it all tomorrow, so stick come on back
tomorrow and have a great night. I guess right. We can start playing
Christmas music. Oh look at you right, this is my favorite Christmas song.
Eagles, please come home for Christmas to have the mob. There's I
have no fan. Wish well