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This is High on the Ball with
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sixty. Hey, good afternoon, everybody.

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Welcome to your Eye on the Ball
here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

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I'm Steve Rivera in the house today. Jagan's allis I I'm aware, but

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I shouldn't be, Steve. It's
all your fault shouldn't be. You're healthy,

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you you're walking man. Yeah,
I'm death wormed over is what I

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am? Death wormed overhead. Haven't
heard that term since I was a kid.

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Yeah, well, Gee Willikers.
Every yeah was something that we used

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to use quite a bit, Gee
Willickers. It was a it was a

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very common way to be after a
night at the bumps gear or something like

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that. You know, Hey,
how you doing. I'm death wormed over.

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I'm just worned over. But I
gotta go to class today. I

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gotta go to class, I gotta
go to work or whatever. Yeah.

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Yeah, okay, Well, good
to see you. Was Thursday, you

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were out yesterday rooking remotely these last
twenty four hours. Man, Holy hell,

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a lot of things going on.
He's going on searching for coaches to

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the two arguably now I'm saying,
arguably the greatest coaches in the history of

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their sport. Nick Saban and now
Bill Belichick both retired. Well, Bill

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Belichick didn't retire, he got kicked
out the door next Saban retired, but

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both of them out of their jobs
where they made their bones, right,

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yeah, no questions. And then
the the A. There was a one,

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A, one B then two with
with Carol Carol Pete Carroll. Well,

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it's so funny to see people mentioned
Pete Carroll in the same breath as

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these two guys. You know,
I get it. He won a Super

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Bowl, he won a national championship
in football, but he was not a

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coach that either one of these were. No, he's you know, he's

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a he's a good next level coach, right, yeah, And it got

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very well liked, very popular.
I uh, you know, but he's

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not Nick Saban, and he's not
he's not in the Bill Belichick neighborhood.

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Who is who is in that neighborhood? John Wooden? Of course, guys

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like that. Okay, No,
I was just thinking college foote college football.

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You know what you're you're gonna probably
say guys like I mean, you're

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gonna have to go way back,
a guy like Bear Bryant. People mentioned

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Bud Wilkinson. You know, they
have still had the longest winding streak in

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football Oklahoma, Oklahoma. But you
know there's a whole bunch right just below

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that. You know, you you
can talk about like how about Pete Carroll

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college heat, but you know what, he's tainted, Yeah, he's tainted.

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You know, he was doing n
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do N I L and one and
won the national championship that way and arguably

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and people will say he should have
won another one, should it be Texas

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and that road and they didn't win
that one. So, you know,

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just a couple of this, but
there's a few. There's there's you know,

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I mean, we could you know, is Urban Meyer up there?

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Oh yeah, probably? You know, he's in the next level high at

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the top of the I think there's
only two or three coaches and you and

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you have to really spread it out
to other sports to come up with somebody,

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you know, kind of at that
level. You know, when you

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start talking about guys like, uh, let's say Phil Jackson in the NBA.

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You know Phil Jackson, John wouldn't
like you said, wouldn't in college

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basketball. You know, there's some
of the guys. You know, who's

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the old Celtics coach, the really
oh red ARBA you know, guys like

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that. You know that that's the
that's the neighborhood that that Nick Saban and

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Bill Belichieffer. Yeah. Well,
the one thing I just see now that

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the landing is going to stay at
Oregon yep, yep, which is good

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for Oregon. Well, you know, there there's a as you would expect,

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a lot of uh, you know, there's gambling on this, right

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Jackie, who was the number one
guy? Now? The last I saw

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with Kaylin de Boor is the uh
someone else has moved. I have to

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Mike Norbel. Okay, there's a
story that says Mike Norval emergers as the

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new favorite, except it's got him
from a gambling standpoint rated below Kalin de

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border. They got this is on
on a sports batting dime. Yeah,

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yeah, that's okay. Here,
You're right, Mike Norval, Nis Sarkisian.

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Still Dan Lanning was on that list. Lane Kiff and Dabbos Sweeney and

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then your friend and ours, Dion
Sanders. He's still on that list.

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Billy Napier, I mean er Myers
on that list. Billy Napier's on that

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list. Marcus Freeman's on that list. But you know it's not going below

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Dabbo Sweeney, you know de boor
Norvel Sarkisian Landing Kiff and Dabo Sweeney.

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It's one of those guys. And
uh and the guy making that higher our

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own, our old friend, Greg
Byrn. Yeah, I'm wondering if she's

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gonna use the same line he used
here when he got rich Trot. If

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anybody leak, yeah, what's going
on? He's gonna be tu. The

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funny thing is nothing ever leaked for
rich Trod because it was kind of one

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of the raiders. But U,
that's not a policy the media had.

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Needs two. Greg burd doesn't sign
your check, right. Yeah, you

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don't have to listen to Greg Burns. If you find if you hear from

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somebody, you're gonna you're gonna confirm
it, right because somebody may call it.

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Oh, I heard this, you
know, I heard, you know,

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I heard from a friend of mine
something about Kaylen Calen boar. I

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was just going to Alabama, he
said, But you know, I would

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never report that, he said,
Bob, I was having my mama bird.

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He about a house in the foothills. But uh, you know,

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but you know, a lot of
you call him, you know, almost

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like oh bits on these guys.
You know, I was on the way

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and I was listening to, uh
to my the podcast. I listened to

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the college football uh Inquire, uh
Pat forty and those guys talking, I

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mean, they were like it was
almost like you're talking about Nick Saban,

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like he died. He didn't die, but you know, Rhys Davis apparently

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interviewed him today. I saw that, and you know, and the uh

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uh saving said it was time and
time. Yeah, I'm tired of you

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don't know about the future. Blah
blah blah. Luke kind of had to

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go through this later in his years. You know, the demise was about

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his illness. But because he was
in his late sixties, how long are

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you going to be here? He
has an easy target to recruit where he's

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not going to be around for you. You know that he's going to be

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gone by the time you're a senior
or junior and blah blah blah, and

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I'm sure that gets into people's vines, but that was one of the reasons

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why I decided to get I wanted
to get Kendrea, but I got the

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second best guy, Coach Lopez,
and we talked about this with him before,

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so we'll kind of revisit some stuff. I think he retired at sixty

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three. He had been tired of
the flip flopping, flip flapping. He

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said, you know, I'm done, I don't need this. Yeah,

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yeah, but I think he was
over that. But yeah, but he

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was hard flipping people. These kids
won't want to do this. How much

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would he? And we talked about
this with the nil Let's talk to him

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more about this, and I'm sure
he could have had not all the way

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had more time. He had more
time, no question, no question.

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And now he's probably living if saying, you know what I think I'm gonna

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knit today, We're I'm going to
play backgammon or I'm gonna play pick a

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ball. You could do whatever the
hell you want, you know, so

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in the first hour, though,
we're gonna have your guy, John Weiller's

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gonna come on. We've been wanting
to get him on and you know,

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this was the end of the Pac
twelve conference in football, you know,

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the death of the pack fall.
I saw funny somebody made, you know,

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a graphic of a tombstone and put
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know, uh, that would be
nice for a little T shirt. Yeah,

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but you know, you don't know
who did this. No, okay,

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but you know it was actually a
photo and then somebody is super imposed.

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So packed off conference? Yeah yeah, but you know what does this

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mean? What's it going to be
like? You know, packed off conference

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and football is gone. What's gonna
look like next year? You got four,

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you got four Power comperence, you
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over hell on that. You got
two in the a CEC, you got

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four in the Big twelve, you
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you got two just puttering around on
the West coast trying to find trying to

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find a landing spot. You know, what's this going to look like as

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as the season starts to come around
next year? Right? Right? So

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it should be should be interesting moving
forward. Until then, we still have

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the Pac twelve involving in basketball,
baseball and all that stuff. For the

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last hurrah. H But I can't
wait for basketball. You saw what happened

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over the last three four days.
Yeah, Kansas gets beat, Kanas beat

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for du B, Houston beat used
to be and Oklahoma got beat. I

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think it's Yeah, guess why folks
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teams loose? Yeah, we day
lo with that. Today. I was

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gonna ask that question of Tommy today. Brian Peterson asked the question about you

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know, what's what's going on?
And it happens, and he's right,

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I mean, it happens all the
time. People just think, oh,

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that doesn't happen on paper, right
rus on paper? Arizona to win every

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packed love game. Yeah, I
guess what they're not going to the right,

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you know? And he said,
well, Stafford never should have beat

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him. Well, Stafford played out
of it, you know what that day,

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right, and they beat him.
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the reality of it. That game
could happen. March twenty seventh, March

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twenty second. You don't know.
You don't know because Florida as Atlantic or

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whomever, Creighton readers, Saint Peter
right and Beacher beat youer asked, because

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you think who'll be doing the first
round last year, uh Farley Dickinson,

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Berry Dickens, Bairley Dickinson. Yeah, and that's that's like the name of

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an old actress that we got a
dude, that's your neighbor. He's your

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neighbor. On Bairley Dickinson knocks out
Purdue, a number one seed in the

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first round tournament. If that happens
with Arizona, the Wildcat facebook pages will

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be busted. Yeah, the internal
little explode. Yeah. By the way,

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let's not get there. Let's enjoy
Spokane. As I joked again today

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at the the press comments, they're
headed there this weekend. You didn't You

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didn't listen to Tommy No yours yours
news. I did. Man, he

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was actually pretty good, you know, he he he. I would say

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he complains a little about showing up
for me today and night, and I

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joked with him. I says,
he loves it. It's fifteen minutes of

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hell the hell, and then you
don't get he loves he gets his you

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know, he gives in to this
philosophical stuff. You know, we get

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telling me the philosopher and we'll see
if I can During the break. It

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just came up on YouTube during the
break, Okay, we do it later.

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Let's later in the day later.
Yeah, you know, he wasn't

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up by the time I left the
left my office. He's good, he's

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not. I don't want to do
it. He's like you're trying to pull

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somebody out of a out of a
restaurant or bars. Come on, let's

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go. No, I I don't
want to go. But he goes and

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he has funs that you know what, it's a good part of the job.

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Yeah, it's you know, it
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I think he made out of money. It's very much a part of the

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job, very much a part of
the job. But as love over there

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today, you know, he was
crosy, he was great. Hontually,

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I'm gonna do a feature on him
tonight if I have time. I asked

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him, and I don't want to
give too much money. I asked him,

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what's your range? It's unlimited.
You have a problem. So then

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I tell me what's his range?
Just as well, everybody's fan with a

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limited range. But we don't want
that, you know, interesting story.

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Just he is the guy. He's
kind of the straw straw theirs this drink.

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But what if he goes down?
Yeah, he's got like what twenty

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twenty some points a game over the
last four or five game. I think

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he likes that. Yeah, he's
he's a but he's we talked about him.

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He's the word downhill a lot.
He's going downhill a lot. His

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percentages are fantastic because he's going downhill. Uh, he's he's the go to

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guy, right if you need it, if you need a scorer, well

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you needn't go to well. And
the thing is, Steve, it doesn't

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look forced, right, there are
guys who score like that, and it

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looks forced. It looks like I'm
taking my shot no matter what. Right,

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you know, it doesn't look forced. It looks to be doing it

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within the context of what they're doing. He talked about that in your eyes.

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Do you see that that he's taking
it within the context of this I

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don't. Some you don't so because
sometimes he's no matter he steps down the

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line, he comes down and write
and he and he throws one up.

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But I'm I did say, for
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most part, it looks like it's
within the context that you know, like

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people complained about that shot at the
end of the fart Atlantic game, right,

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But you know, he went to
the basket. It wasn't open.

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He stepped back out and he's throwing
the ball, and he shot the ball.

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That's all they had time for.
Remember, just minutes before, he's

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the one that got him hit,
right, he hit the same shot.

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Yeah, so but you're a hero
five minutes and five minutes or not exactly.

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But but you know, look,
I know Tommy's happy he's here.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the fans
are happy. And you're not the same

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player he wasn't care well, he's
certainly not showing that he's a complete player,

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certainly not showing the reputation that he
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like, yeah, God, Tommy
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does. Sure, he's come in
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for what they're doing, right,
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He can just kind of run the
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know, when he gets hot.
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a good guy to have. Makes
it makes sense. Okay, So will

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they're here in about ten minutes,
we'll have we'll have coach Lopez on the

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other side, a lone of the
crazy things. So so Belichick was gone

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today earlier in the day. You
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I think you will. I think you

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will one last hurrah. Maybe,
you know, maybe somebody would love to

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have him. I'm sure why.
I mean, why they're saying, you

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know, they're saying there again all
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saying it's the falcon he go down. He used the quarterback. He musically

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would need a quarterback down there because
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a nice running back in John Robinson, So he's got pieces. A lot

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of people felt that Atlanta be better
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know, they just weren't very good
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sure some things down there with us. Okay, I want you to play,

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get into some music with your kids. The one thing I like about

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whatever. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. So we'll be back.

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Breaking down all the exits at all. It's Steve Rivera and shakin it

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up. This is on the Bad
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back to you on the ball here
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Ververa.

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He's Jiggins Allis. We're hoping you
can hear us well on the app.

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We're on the national feed, so
we're not on on the ra pair.

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We are on on the radio.
Oh well, okay, I don't

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know. We're trying to figure Uh, we're trying to figure that out.

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They had a power out. It's
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things might have been not reset.
Okay, so we are only on we

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are only on the over the air
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on the app. So in that
situation when you get when you do the

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podcast, we will see on the
podcast. Abel, Yeah, I think

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I think you should have recorded.
Okay, Okay, well I'm sorry.

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Well, if you're on the app, you can hear us. Let's let's

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go and call call John right now. Okay, I'm calling. We're only

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gonna be able to get him for
about ten minutes because he's got it.

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He's got another colleague. So let
me go keep talking. Okay, let

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me go. Now, we'll find
I'll to this proble. We're going to

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call John Wilner from the San's a
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and then the second HOLF we're going
to have Andy Lopez to talk a lot

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about coaching one and two, coaching
as you get older and what it all

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means as you get older, when
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out I think at sixty two,
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when he had his press conference back
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sixty three. And my question to
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in a tank. Why now?
And he gave a pretty candid answer that

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he was tired of all the BS
transfer portal back in the day, or

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flip flopping when you got a commitment, and he had to deal with more

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of it because kids decided just to
go pro out of high school. So,

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you know, the trouble, the
difficulty. You're having a pretty good

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program means kids are going to do
a lot of different things. So as

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we try to reach John, as
we try to reach Strong, or Jay

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tries to reach dron Well, I'll
continue to talk again. The national feed

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is on, I guess through the
app. But if you're locally listening to

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us on the radio, we're here, thankfully, And I guess if you

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missed the part of the first part
of it, we'll have the podcast later

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on today. Yeah, got a
verification from somebody tonight, but he hears

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us in the truck, but not
on the phone. Okay, stay in

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your truck, Stay in your truck. That must be Gene. That's Gene,

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right, So I just couldn't dial
John John out the work. Yeah,

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we'll get a couple of minutes with
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I want, I want, I
want to ask him is this job load

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less boy thing? Yeah? Well
I want to ask him, you know,

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how is it going to change?
Right? Yeah? Okay, okay,

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Hey John, is that too?
Yeah? That's me. Hey,

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thanks for putting up with us.
Man. We're just having some technical issues.

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There was a power out. It's
you're at the station last night.

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We have you. Yeah, we
got you till three thirty, right,

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yeah, I mean would you rather
do it borrow? No, No,

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let's go. Let's go now,
because you know we none that we've got

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you, So let's just go a
few minutes. Really, John, what

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we want to talk about is the
death of the PAC twelve. You know,

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the PAC twelve, at least PAC
twelve football. It's dead. It's

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over. It breathes its last breath
on Monday night, all the way to

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the very end. But it's done. I mean, have you put any

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thought into what's this going to be
like next year with a with the PAC

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twelve team scattered all over the place? Well, I mean it isn't really

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the death of the PAC twelve.
Technically, there's still going to be a

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PAC twelve. Washington State, Oregon
State are going to compete for two years

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under the name PAC twelve, and
then I think by twenty twenty six there

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is a pretty good chance there'll be
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is called the PAC twelve. Uh
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I totally get why why everybody feels
that way. It's going to be

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totally different, and I think it's
going to take a little bit of get

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used to it. It's gonna be
weird. I think it's weird for the

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schools and the athletes, the coaches, It's going to be weird for the

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fans. It's gonna be weird for
everybody in the job that you do.

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What's next for you covering the individual
schools when they're dispersed. I mean,

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yeah, it's not going to be, you know, that much different from

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me. It's still going to be
covered college football and college basketball in the

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Big Ten and Big twelve and you
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ACC I mean it's still there's still
competition, and there is still a ton

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of off the field issues that are
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next couple of decades. And you
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the banner of the Back twelve or
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themselves, right. But you know, again, as you said, I

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mean, it's going to be completely
different, and yes, people have to

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get your started. They may call
it the Pac twelve, but it's going

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to be something different. But you, you and your position, you become

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more of a national writer because you've
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in your area. You know,
you're in the Bay Area, you're in

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San Jose, are off to the
a CC. So you're gonna have to

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do some of that, uh you
know, the Big Ten, the Big

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twelve. I mean, how then, I guess that's what I'm trying to

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get to for all the people who
cover all of these conferences. Now,

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you know it's they're all gonna be
different. You know, you've got Oregon

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and Washington, and I know you've
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Oregon. Uh not We're gonna say, or USC and UCLA over in the

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Big Ten. And I think a
couple of those teams are gonna be like

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also Rams but it's gonna be just
so much different when we start talking about

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football season next year and preseason predictions
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predictions and all that kind of stuff. It's just gonna look and feel different.

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right it doesn't you know, Arizona
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and Sana Arizona gets Oregus State.
But it's still it's still competition, h

406
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you know. And same with the
basketball right now. The other piece to

407
00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:18.759
this that is not getting enough attention
beyond the conference re alignment is the expansion

408
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:26.279
of the playoffs. Right that is
going to change college sports more than anything

409
00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:33.039
else in our lifetime. I think
it is gonna the playoff a twelve teen

410
00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.319
playoffs is going to totally change the
regular season. It's going to change how

411
00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.359
many meaningful games are, it's gonna
change how many teams are involved. It

412
00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:45.160
is going to be everything. And
I think that we're not people aren't quite

413
00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:49.440
grasping what it's going to do to
college football. So that's that's the other

414
00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:52.920
thing. It's not just conference real
alignment, it's the playoff expansion. Those

415
00:26:52.920 --> 00:27:02.519
things are both happening. Meanwhile,
you've got the ACE DC potentially falling apart

416
00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:06.079
in the next six months, right
the Florida State's legal challenge, the a

417
00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:08.759
SEC's plan of West contract. I
mean to me, that is toothpased,

418
00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:12.319
that cannot get put back in the
tube. And it's only a matter of

419
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:19.240
time before Florida State and other schools
leave the ACC, and that is going

420
00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:22.960
to set off a whole other round. Now. I don't know what will

421
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.799
happen to COLLN Stanford at that point, but you know, I think there's

422
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:30.079
a real good chance that in the
next I don't know, three four years,

423
00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:33.839
the ACC ceases to exist as we
know it. Let's go to the

424
00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:36.839
game real quick. We only have
a couple of minutes left with you.

425
00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.200
I like I thought, I thought
Argue was the best team. I think

426
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:44.559
you agree with me until until they
beat them again for the second time and

427
00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:47.519
then Washington shows up. I fell
in love with them after the first game,

428
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.640
and then they just showed their showed
their wares to me. The disappointing

429
00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:53.640
championship. I don't know how did
you feel about that. I thought Michigan

430
00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:56.799
was just better, right, I
mean, Washington. You could make a

431
00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:02.559
good case that Washington was one hundred
or the second best team out of one

432
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:07.000
hundred and thirty three in in division
in the FBS, But there was one

433
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:11.720
team that was better. And I
watched that game and it was clear to

434
00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:17.119
me pretty early, you know that
Washington was going to really start up with

435
00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:21.799
score and that it was this was
a different level of opponent for the Huskies.

436
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:25.359
And you know, nothing wrong with
that. They're the second best team,

437
00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:27.279
our best team. You know,
if you want to include Alabama or

438
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:33.599
Georgia, Michigan was better. Okay, clearly better. One minute, Nick

439
00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.680
Saban gone, what do you think, how does that change thing? Who's

440
00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:40.720
going there? Not even who's going
there? How is that going to change

441
00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:42.720
things? What's Alabama going to be? And yeah, and who do you

442
00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:47.000
think goes over there? Yeah,
it'll be interesting to see what they become.

443
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:48.839
I mean, he's the greatest coach
in the history of the sport.

444
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:53.440
It's crazy to be that Pete Carol, Bill Belichick and Nicksaban all out within

445
00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:57.880
twenty four hours, right, Artuately, the three best coaches football coaches of

446
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.160
the century. Maybe you can make
the case for Andy Reid, I guess,

447
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:06.720
but those guys are on the pantheon
and they're all out in twenty four

448
00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:10.240
hours span. I don't know who
Alabama's going to hire, but I do

449
00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:14.920
know that it's you know, it
could cause a ripple effect, right,

450
00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:17.799
I mean, it could affect a
ton of schools out west. Right,

451
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.720
what if they decide they're going to
hire Mike Dorvell at Florida State, all

452
00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.240
of a sudden, Florida State's got
a vacancy. Well, Deion Sanders might

453
00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:30.200
be pretty appealing, So it affects
Colorado. You know what if they hire

454
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:34.039
Kalind Bore, then it affects Washington, and then there's a trickle down effect.

455
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:38.279
Right. The higher the vacancy on
the food chain, the more impact

456
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:42.920
it has. Coaches will use it
for negotiating new contracts like jet fish.

457
00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:48.799
Some coaches will leave, partners will
leave. I think we're going to and

458
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.359
that doesn't even include if if Jim
Harball leaves Michigan as well, which I

459
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:55.480
think is going to happen. So
I think we're in for two or three

460
00:29:55.599 --> 00:30:00.880
weeks of wild spins of the coaching
carousel. We know you got to go,

461
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:03.319
so thank you for doing this.
Anyways, we appreciate it as always.

462
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.000
I know we'll get you again as
some of this stuff starts to develop.

463
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.519
Thank you, I Gotchay, thank
you. Yeah. Interesting, I

464
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:12.920
think all that we all knew Washington
State, Washington was what it was.

465
00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:17.359
Uh, the league, it's gonna
be real busy, but the trickle down

466
00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:19.960
is far down the stay. It's
going to go far. And you know,

467
00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:26.240
does ultimately does that ultimately affect Arizona? Right? And and people are

468
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.960
talking on the internet at least that
they need to get that contract signed,

469
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.559
the extension and the more money,
and maybe Jen doesn't want to maybe like,

470
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:37.799
yeah, things develop here if a
little more juicide is it's both for

471
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.599
me and my assistance. You're adding
drama to this. I am well because

472
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.400
it is dramatic. Look, Arizona
is in as good a position as it's

473
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:51.880
been in law wise in a long
yeah, a decade. You do it,

474
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.480
Coach du even probably even more so
now than it was then because coming

475
00:30:56.519 --> 00:30:57.759
out of twenty fourteen we thought they
were going to be really good. Then

476
00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:00.279
they were really bad. They were
really bad, but they you know,

477
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.799
they got to a bowl game that
year. Sure, but you know twenty

478
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.079
sixteen they went three and nine and
from that point on, yeah, they

479
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:10.200
got to another Bowl game, you
know, the year after, and then

480
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.079
they fired rich Rod and then we
had Kevin someone and you know, and

481
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:15.960
we are where we are. We're
going again like kind of like when John

482
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:18.839
mcavic left. It was ten years
before we were any good again, right,

483
00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:22.000
And so it's you know, it's, uh, let's see the Ghosts

484
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.599
Street show better this year. I
sure hope so, but you know,

485
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.640
well I hate to have happened.
It's just this trickle down effect to come

486
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:33.559
serve itself up here, you know, here at Arizona at a point where

487
00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:37.880
you know the fans are in,
you know, feel good about it.

488
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.880
I think they're gonna come out to
the games next year. You've got a

489
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:42.640
coach that you feel could be here
for a long time and can win some

490
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:47.359
games. You got some guys you
know again and more trickle Right. Let's

491
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:52.119
say Jed Fish leaves Eugene sooner,
take players with them sooner or later?

492
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:55.960
Soon? Sooner? Yeah, sooner? Okay, You're you're as we saw

493
00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:01.759
yesday when when when they said that
that sab and you know retired Alabama players

494
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:06.279
get a thirty day window in the
transfer portal. Yeah you know, you

495
00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:08.400
know, if Jedie happens to leave
for whatever reason, guys can go with

496
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:14.279
him. I'm not gonna give you
your ten win hypothesis right now, you're

497
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:15.680
eighty five percent, because I don't
think that's gonna happen. But in the

498
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:19.920
next year, if they do really
well, you're gonna say, okay,

499
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.160
now what now? What? Now? What you groom? The next guy

500
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.880
you have, does kid? He
already had the guy on the speed dial.

501
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.319
You know, what's what's next?
Yeah, you know, And obviously

502
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:32.880
these dudes are smart. That's why
they're smart and do their job. You

503
00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:36.559
already you already have the rollodecks ready. Yeah, and oh yeah, for

504
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.200
you kids, google rollodecks. Greg
Burn already had a five. Sure right,

505
00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:45.119
he already had Yeah. Uh,
here's a kind of what what Nick

506
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:49.200
David did. Everybody, Yes,
he dropped a bomb on me. Yeah,

507
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:52.000
certainly I dropped a bomb on Greg
Burn. So all right, so

508
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:53.720
looking back in the minutes, we'll
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about sixteen minutes to good to touch
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548
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time. Yeah, well, I
mean I everybody's saying the pact, well

549
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there will be apex well, which
makes perfect say. It's kind of cool

550
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:06.360
and things changed, right, you
know. I remember those of us who

551
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are old enough to remember when the
a f L and the NFL merged.

552
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:14.119
A couple of teams. Well,
but there were a couple of teams,

553
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.320
the Steelers and the Colts. Why
I remember this, I don't know.

554
00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:22.159
To make get put an even number
of teams? Uh, and the Browns,

555
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:27.039
uh in the in the both leagues. The Steelers, the Colts and

556
00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:32.079
the Browns all went to the American
Football Conference and and and it was weird

557
00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:37.960
for me to see the Colts,
you know, playing the playing the Jets

558
00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:40.599
and the Raiders and the you know
all that stuff, because the Colts to

559
00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:45.559
me were them, and the Packers
at that time were the National Football League.

560
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.719
And now and they moved the Colts
over to the American Football Conference,

561
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:53.840
and and to me, for a
while, I mean ultimately got used to

562
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:58.039
it. For a while, it
didn't feel like the NFL to me,

563
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.920
it felt like something different. Guy
Gubby, if you're listening to this,

564
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:07.400
if you need him to remember stuff, put it in text context of nineteen

565
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:12.119
sixty five sixty eight ish, say
could you bring me a pack of uh?

566
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:15.159
Now, could you bring me a
loaf of bread pretender to sixty eight

567
00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.920
packers and you needed to bring it
home. He'll remember that crowd if he

568
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:23.199
doesn't remember Tuesday. You can't be
making me laugh because it makes me cough

569
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:28.960
and it hurts to cough. Okay, but it's not the full rib muscle

570
00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:32.920
now from all the coffee and I've
been doing this week but true, you

571
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.400
know we have there's in fact,
we played this game on New Year's Eve.

572
00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:38.679
A funny game and it's and it's
something. It's the thing about what

573
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:43.880
you're trying to guess what a person
is going to say about themselves. That's

574
00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.400
the gist of the game. Is
it like a board game? Yeah?

575
00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:47.960
No, no, no, it
was no, it was a game.

576
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:51.760
It was like a game that you
buy the store. But you know,

577
00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:55.039
you make a statement and then you
try and guess what that what the person

578
00:37:55.079 --> 00:38:00.039
who read the statement is going to
say to that, and and what one

579
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:04.760
of the comments about that was exactly
that and saying if you want to if

580
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:07.519
you want him to remember something,
tell them, you know, no,

581
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:13.199
they said something like useless information you're
remember in the nineteen eighty two the score

582
00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:15.280
of the nineteen eighty two football game
when you can't remember that? Was that?

583
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.440
That makes total sense? Yeah,
okay, hey, if you want

584
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to call in, please do five
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585
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:25.599
zero. We there got our phones
figured out. Okay, good, we

586
00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:29.800
don't have to pretend. Yeah,
okay, great, great, well again,

587
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:30.840
we're going to talk to Andy Lopus
on the other side. A lot

588
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.079
of big stuff, man, you
know, Joe with Belichick gone, uh,

589
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:42.000
Nick Saban gone, Pete Carroll gone. Other other coaching change is taking

590
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.039
place. You know, it's kind
of like they threw everything up in the

591
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:46.519
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615
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have draftings, Yes, very much, so very much so. Again,

616
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if you like to call in,
do we need to kind of me we

617
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:30.800
talk about what we talked about.
We talked about the hirings and goings,

618
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:32.760
comings and goings in our first fifteen
minutes. If you missed it, Go

619
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:37.320
ahead and then then listen to the
podcast later tonight. Yeah, that's right.

620
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:38.320
We you know, we we were. We weren't on the app,

621
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:42.719
but we were in you know,
on the radio in the first fifteen minutes.

622
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:44.800
So if you did miss that in
one year we had to talk about

623
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:49.039
we'll talk about Nick Saban and were
and the Bill Bell checking all that stuff.

624
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.440
The podcast will go up tonight after
the show. We have a caller

625
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.880
Hight on the air and on the
ball. Hey, this is Don How

626
00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.280
are you guys doing. What's up? Not too much? I just I

627
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.639
didn't I didn't catch the early part
of the show. And uh I missed

628
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:09.039
it yesterday because I work. I
was down in Douglas. But so are

629
00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:17.360
we ANIX free radio now? Yeah, Well, a couple of people wanted

630
00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:22.960
him to not make an apology but
rescind his vote. You you brought him

631
00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:25.360
up. Okay, you brought him
up. I haven't talked about it today.

632
00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:32.079
Oh well I apologize. I apologize
then, no I did. That's

633
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:38.280
anyway. What do you think about
it? With saving and Belichick and all

634
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:45.519
that stuff. Was a saving thing
that one. I mean, he's had

635
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:49.920
a great run. He needs to
leave some time so he could be retired,

636
00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:55.800
and then all his guys that keep
beating him. Yeah, Dabble beat

637
00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:00.280
him, Kirby beat him. Yeah, uh, you know, I don't.

638
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:05.440
It's not that the game is passing
him by, because he's still been

639
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.320
in the thick of it. But
that's kind of surprising. I think that's

640
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:13.000
one of the two. And he
talked about it today with ESPN. How

641
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.960
you know you're at that age and
it says things become tiring. You talked

642
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:20.400
about it this earlier this week.
You're sixty four and you're tired. I'm

643
00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:22.039
tired. You're telling he's seventy two. You can't imagine doing that job with

644
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:25.039
it, you know, at seventy
two years old. Well, and then

645
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:30.440
and then the parameters that these guys
got to do this job, right,

646
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:37.719
You're you're you're recruiting kids and then
you're having to recruit them every week until

647
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:42.119
you're done with them. Yeah,
you know, you're you're you're having to

648
00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:46.360
do that. I can't. It's
like it's like with with college basketball.

649
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:50.960
It's been years since I've tried to
keep up with the rosters with all the

650
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:55.400
one and done and getting frustrated with
these kids that think they're one and done

651
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:00.960
and they get done and then you
never hear about them again, and everything

652
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:05.440
is just so frustrating. I couldn't
imagine that being my job, right,

653
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:07.159
right? Done? Are you a
sports fan? And if you are,

654
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:15.840
what level? To what level?
Like one out of ten? Did I

655
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:19.039
lose you done? Do it?
No? No, I'm trying to figure

656
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:22.760
it out. I'm trying to figure
it out because in certain things like in

657
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:27.800
the in the NFL, I think
about the business part of it a lot

658
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:31.800
more than I ever used to.
I think I'm about an eighth as far

659
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:35.679
as I'm a sports fan. Right, Okay, so you may or may

660
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.760
not do the fantasy stuff. I
know that Jay here does. I don't

661
00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:43.119
because if I back in the day, I used to draft my team and

662
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:46.159
I was loyal to the team to
default because I didn't want to see anybody

663
00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:50.840
move or leave, and then when
they played on a Sunday against my real

664
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:53.039
team, there was just too many, too many things. That's how people

665
00:43:53.079 --> 00:43:57.239
get add They just kind of have
this guy that guy don't score, yes,

666
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:00.400
score no enough. I just want
to watch a game. Yeah,

667
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:04.079
that's hard to do. And then
I'm a Raiders Sam and I used to.

668
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.480
I used to have Sunday ticket.
I had Sunday Ticket for years and

669
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:12.280
years, and I would watch one
game a weekend. I don't turn on

670
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.000
the TV and watch every you know, I don't. I don't like the

671
00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:20.039
Red Zone channel. It's like watching
TV with my dad. I really hard.

672
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.400
That's what I watch. I love
it that hard for me, and

673
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.519
my son loves that I do.
I do. I don't like it.

674
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:29.760
I like watching the game and sitting
and watching the ebbs and flows of that

675
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:34.800
game, and then I like watching
my team play. I like watching Arizona

676
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.119
Wildcats play. I don't watch.
I don't. I don't sit down and

677
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:42.199
watch college basketball like I did,
you know back in the eighties and early

678
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:44.639
nineties, where if there was a
game on, I was watching it.

679
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:51.239
It's hard to it's hard to get
invested with when you're trying to watch all

680
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:53.639
these guys because every time you watch
it, turn on the TV. It

681
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:59.079
doesn't matter if the same teams are
playing. It's different kids playing, right.

682
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:01.360
But no, I hear you,
I hear you, Okay, Don

683
00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:05.920
all right, Don hey man?
Thanks that as as always one thing real

684
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:07.920
quick. He let me. Last
night, I was listening to the sports

685
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:13.880
radio, and some guy on the
radio said Arizona was had the sixth best

686
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.360
chance to win a national championship next
year. I was in the car headed

687
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:20.719
somewhere. I don't I think it
was on twelve nineties. Yeah, it

688
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.639
was twelve ninety. But the guy
was a sassitude host yet I don't know

689
00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:27.000
who it was. He was a
national dude. He was a national dude

690
00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.280
for a different program. I saw
that. I heard that, and that's

691
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:32.639
pretty liberal, and that's pretty gracious
to you when you think that Arizona's never

692
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:37.000
been mentioned in that, in that
in that echelon ever ever. Yeah,

693
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.079
no, no, it's it's crazy. And I'm going we got a lot

694
00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:45.840
of things to hold together to make
that even a possibility. Well, posibility

695
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:49.000
done. And then when I was
listening to that, and then we do

696
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:51.840
our job, and whoever pays attention
to us, good luck, God help

697
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:57.639
you. It's one man's opinion,
right, one man's opinion, but it's

698
00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:01.000
it's nice too as an Arizona Look, I'll tell you what I don't mind

699
00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:06.400
if we never win a national championship. I'm I'm cool with in football,

700
00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:08.760
I'm cool with the league championship.
If we can get some of that and

701
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:15.000
some national notoriety and have have people
go, you don't want to play Arizona.

702
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:17.840
I love being like they were like
they were this year, Arizona got

703
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:22.280
to play their own style of ball
and they were successful with it, and

704
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:27.079
they they played their way and I
mean, heck, they beat Oklahoma with

705
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:30.519
it. I love being in the
conversation. That's the part that I like

706
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:35.519
more than anything. And that's that's
right. And we're in my Arizona stuff

707
00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:37.320
in Phoenix. There you go,
ahead, there you go. But don't

708
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.639
get any fights. Okay, don
appreciate it. Oh no, no,

709
00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:44.840
I don't have to. All right. All I got to do is say

710
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:47.760
scoreboard exactly, exactly, all right, don thank you. Appreciate the calls

711
00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:52.760
always. It's funny. Okay,
he's so good. So so what level

712
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:57.800
of fa are you? Oh?
I'm like ten out of ten, because

713
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:02.679
I mean, I've got other work
that I do, so that makes me

714
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:07.320
think about other things, like like
today, you know how you sit in

715
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:10.440
on a webinar, you know,
a forty five minute website. But that's

716
00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:14.800
worked, that's gonna work. But
what I'm saying, when I'm when I'm

717
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:19.760
not when I'm not working. I'm
going to say ninety five percent of what

718
00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:21.880
I think about the sports. So, like, what's the going been going

719
00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:23.480
on in the day? Yeah,
you know, you know, looking at

720
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.679
you know, looking at social media, watching games on TV, you know

721
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:30.960
all, you know, altern on
a nondescript game. I mean, like,

722
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:36.440
uh, last night I had Washington, Washington and USC on last Yeah,

723
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:39.159
I'm I'm not USC. Uh yeah
yeah, USC. Yeah, last

724
00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:43.639
night. You know, I'll watch
a women's basketball game. I've got I've

725
00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:45.840
got some games recorded on my DVR
and I'll turn those things on. So

726
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:50.119
so let me say this, everyone
that's gonna be up for a game in

727
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:54.000
Pilman this weekend. Yeah, how
far has well USC fallen? I'm not

728
00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:58.280
sure how good they are, not
good, but Washington State going into LA

729
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:01.159
to win that game is a big
deal. It's a huge deal. Uh.

730
00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:05.199
So they're gonna be at home,
there probably aren't gonna be very many

731
00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:07.599
fans and pullman, it's gonna be
a snowstorm. Blah blah blah. And

732
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:09.800
that's those are the worst conditions of
the worst that there is going to places.

733
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.599
I'll never forget Anthony Cooks. Anthony
Cooks quote the year after the eighty

734
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:20.239
nine his senior year, I was
no longer the beat writer. A guy

735
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.800
named Mike. Mike down to the
beat writer. And that was when you

736
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:25.599
would travel with the team. And
so Mike is in the airport with the

737
00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:29.679
team, and so he was having
to do you know. He did sort

738
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:31.679
of a notes on you know,
the guys hanging out in the airport.

739
00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:38.719
I'll just never forget Cooks quote saying, guys, aga, you're just sitting

740
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:43.159
there. You're doing nothing but aging. And that's what going to Pullman is

741
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.559
like. Hard we get especially this
time of the year, it's gonna be

742
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:50.440
a cold school. He talked about
it today in his press conference. He

743
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:52.880
says, as long as it does
the snow inside the building, Yeah,

744
00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:53.960
you know what I mean. I
remember, uh, you know, we

745
00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:59.039
had David Adams on the show once
we were talking about he said he hated

746
00:48:59.119 --> 00:49:02.679
going to Washington as you play there
being snow and the ground is hard,

747
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:07.960
often icy, and he said I
hated that more than anything. Well,

748
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.000
you know, the draft for us, you know, it's not always about

749
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:15.360
to driving fun when it's snowy.
Stories. Yeah, some people trying to

750
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:16.920
take a left of the Albuquerque you
can get into Idaho. Yeah, I

751
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:20.119
have to come back. I think
that's what I'd be greg one day right

752
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.039
with you guys took it, he
took it left and you went to Idaho

753
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.960
for a while. Exactly, yeah, exactly, so you know you just

754
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:29.760
so you know it's it's yeah,
No, it's it. And again for

755
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:31.360
people who think, well Arizona should
go up there and be Washington State,

756
00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:35.239
No, Washington. First of all, Washington State is good, not like

757
00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:38.760
fourteen and three years, I don't
remember. You got some you know,

758
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:42.280
they got a guy that's pretty good. They have a guy that's hurt.

759
00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:45.119
Theres one in the past. We'll
see. And who's going to be the

760
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:49.960
second team? Is Arizontha is the
pack? Hop's going to get three teams

761
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:53.559
in this tournament? Probably not U
c l A is coarse poop there there

762
00:49:53.760 --> 00:49:58.920
really USC look doesn't look good.
Cronin's on the hot seat all of a

763
00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:07.039
sudden after getting to the in the
league again to the point, so when

764
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:12.880
I'm flipping channels, I saw that
their ASU Colorado and Sam they played Saturday

765
00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:15.199
then, so I stopped at it, and those four minutes left in the

766
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:19.000
game, it was a close game
and I won. I didn't know you

767
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:21.639
had beat in Colorado Saturday. Oh
yeah, yeah, I hadn't. I

768
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:27.719
hadn't paid survived that game. So
a, she's four and oh they'll eventually

769
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.679
find out who they are. Well, the thing is maybe not because who's

770
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:32.480
the second best team in this conference? Maybe they're going to be the second

771
00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:37.880
best team by default because who else
is good? Right? But I'm trying

772
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:43.960
to look up Washington's. Washington's record
here, they're eleven and five. Uh,

773
00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:47.679
you know they they they've got lost
to Mississippi State. Uh, none

774
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.000
of their wins are very good.
They lost to Santa Clara, they lost

775
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:54.719
to up in the Mountains, Utah
and Colorado. But they've come back.

776
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:59.639
They beat Oregon State, lost a
close one to Oregon, and now they

777
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:01.440
beat you. I see at us. Yeah, you know, as we

778
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:04.800
look at it, it's gonna be
tough going on the road. Wherever you

779
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:07.239
go in the road, conditions,
circumstances, things like that. So we'll

780
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.280
see what I about, right,
Yeah, I mean, I just yeah,

781
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:15.719
it's it's hard to know who's gonna
emerge out of that because they're all

782
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:20.119
bad, Steve, except for Arizona, they're all bad, right, correct,

783
00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:22.960
God, they cleared the first hour
already I need a nap, Steve,

784
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:28.199
You'll be fine. You go home
and sleep for a day twenty four

785
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:30.280
hours and be back here tomorrow.
We have we have sid tomorrow's yeah,

786
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.880
okay, we have said tomorrow.
And we've got Andy Lopez coming up at

787
00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:37.880
about quarter after the hour twenty after
if you want to hang around for that,

788
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:39.360
we're gonna just talk to him about
you know, as you get you

789
00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:43.840
older, how hard is it to
be coaching, especially in these days and

790
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.360
times. And when is the right
time as the next dage? When's the

791
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:51.519
right pollo the day stick around?
We'll right back. We'll break you new