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Streaming live on the iHeart Radio Whip. This is I on the Ball with

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Steve Ribera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. Welcome back in the

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Bollingham Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm
your host, Jay Gonzalez. My partner

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Steve is out for one more day. I've got Adam Gonzalez, former sideat

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Arizona here, and we've got Devin
working the working the board for us.

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So we've got we had a good
conversation so far with Jodi Ayler talking about

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the Suns, a lot of other
stuff going on, and Devin's about to

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bring you some more with breaking news. All right, let's start with some

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Arizona softball news. As Arizona Softball, as we've been talking about, is

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starting the PAC twelfth Tournament against a
issue on Wednesday. But here's a cool

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stat I saw an Arizona Athletics tweet
out today that Eliska ex finished the season

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with no errors, a perfect building
percentage in one hundred and sixty two chances.

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Oh man, That's that's hard to
do. That's just hard to do.

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I mean, my goal for every
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entire life was to play one game
without an error, not you know,

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take get three chances and not making
air. So one hundred and how many?

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One hundred and sixty two, that's
pretty good. That's amazing. I

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mean, you've played a lot of
baseball. How much baseball you played,

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Devin, Not really, but Adam, I know, Adam did? I

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mean you get those streets hit.
That's pretty dark and good. So congratulations

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to Alie Skaggs. All right,
let's move on this with some Arizona women's

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golf seat off today at the NCAA
Regionals in North Carolina. As Arizona sits

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behind ASU, Florida State, and
North Carolina As they're in fourth place right

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there, in fourth place, but
they just got to finish in the top

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five to advance to to advance to
the national tournament. So um and they

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did that last year. I believe
they were in it last year, so,

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you know, trying to hang on
there and just play well, you

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know, get so obviously important to
get off to good starts, so good

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for them. A couple of players
in the top five. I'm not trying

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to say I don't I don't know, man, I'm sorry. If you're

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listening, you shot a seventy today
and you did really well. Her last

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name is very long. Okay,
all right. Arizona men's tennis advanced from

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the NCAA Tucson Regional and we'll be
playing Ohio State on Saturday in the ncable

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A Superregionals. Good for Clancy Shields. I know Clancy pretty well. I

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was kind of their sid, like
I oversaw the student that ran in.

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But Clancy is a good dude and
I'm really happy for him. And they

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put in so much work in this. But like the way he went about

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it, like culture wise, first
you got like the right guys to come

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play for him. They all love
to play for him. They all love

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each other. It's it's it's it's
cool to see his vision what you know,

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as a coach, when you talk
about you know, the culture and

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stuff, I mean, what is
he trying? What is he created over

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there or continuing to try to create
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I mean, do you have a
way putting? Does that care?

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Yeah? Like really care. They
really cares. It's a it's a big

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thing. They care about the program. Yeah. Because yeah, and you

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would imagine individual sport, Yeah,
it's for an individual sport. That might

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be harder to because I mean,
look, I'm also I'll say, and

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I've said it before. I thought
they've been some guys that came through the

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Arizona basketball program under Sean Miller who
didn't feel cared about the program. They

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just cared about getting theirs. Yeah, no, they are. It's a

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team. It's a legit team.
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They're all friends. That's it's it's
cool to see. Yeah, Clancy

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was awesome. I was. I
was there when he got hired. That

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was funny. I was on a
I was on a an interview committee or

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the job search committee was for for
for one of her, an assistant coach.

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He asked me to be on it. Oh wow, okay, okay,

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well go again and again. We've
had him on the show. He's

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always great. He appreciates being on
the show, which we love, and

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he comes on every time we asked
him to come on. And he's always

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had a lot of good stuff to
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details us that. I mean,
you know what he's trying to do,

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which is and the thing too is
he deserves you know, all the athletes

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he's getting in a lot of other
like Arizona is not known to be a

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good tennis program. He stuck it
out here. He could have right,

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probably somewhere else and probably still good
if he wants. But good and good

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for he's been. Hopefully they take
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I know the facility needs some work. The facility needs a lot of Yeah,

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I agree with that. Yeah,
but did you see that he had

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to play against his brother in the
first round? No, they played Boise

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State in the first round. Brother, his brothers the coach there. Wow,

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I didn't see that that. They
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them both. They went for zip
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But brothers at Boise State, all
right, Well, good for Clancy

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Shields all right at Ohio State on
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we'll keep an eye on that.
Let's go to some NCAA news with LSU

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and Yukon. Finally got their date
for when they're going to go to the

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White House. Yeah, both on
the same day. But sport ceremonies right

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May twenty six, Yeah, did
you see Um Reese? Um the Angel

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Angel Reese. She's now in the
swimsuit edition of Sports illustrated and I al

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ill exactly exactly. All right,
here's a big one that happened over the

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weekend. Bronnie James has committed to
USC. Did USC and you should like

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come to Tucson next year? I
don't know one of them. I don't

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know that we have the schedule yet, but we're still playing them, right,

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But I don't know. I remember
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schedule like, yeah, we didn't
always play UCLA and USC twice a year,

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right, I don't know what that
is next year. I would hope,

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so, I mean obviously we would
hope. So, um, but

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I don't know that. I don't
think that's out. Yeah, I don't

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think that's been determined yet. The
schedule exists. I can tell you that

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it exists, but I know it's
not public. I don't know that.

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You're the one who I don't know, but I can tell you that it

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exists. Okay, Well, you're
the one that should be telling us whether

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or not to playing each other or
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I hope, I hope. So. I mean i'd like to think that

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you know, you still get USC
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know playing I wonder home at home
next year. I wonder when the next

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time after this year, next time
Arizon. I don't think Arizon will go

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out of their way to schedule USC
because right it is, you know,

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everybody hopes, uh, you know
that that series can continue to continue,

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can can continue to be played like
that'd be fun to play at the summer

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game? Yeah against you sure,
and you know, and play at home

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at home. I still say,
play you know, twice a year,

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uh, every year. He can't
do that because they got to have their

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games. But they shouldn't they.
I really do hope that that they do

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continue that, and I know everybody, I don't think they will. Everybody

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wants it, but I don't know. I don't think they will in football

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because yeah, but but the USC
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Arizona necessarily, right, But basketball, I would like to think, Yeah,

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you'd like to think that that would
that would keep calling? All right,

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all right, let's get we didn't
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what are you thinking? Yeah,
I mean, have you seen him?

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He's a good player. He's not
He's not like a when you think of

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a top ten kid out of high
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think. He's not going out there
and scoring forty points on who mixtape.

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Right, he's a really really,
really good basketball Okay, smart, he's

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an amazing defender. UM passes the
ball. Well, he can't score,

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he can shoot it, So he's
he's he knows the game. Yeah,

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and I mean right yeah, well
yeah, I mean rightly. So,

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I mean his dad is teaching him
the game. You know when he's just

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a really good basketball. He's gonna
be good on any team you put him

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on, and he's gonna make any
team better probably. Yeah, he'll be

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one of you. He'll be a
good player for us. Have you seen

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him? Oh No, he's a
He's a fantastic three D wing. He's

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got a peer jump shot. His
former is impeccable. Um, his IQ

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is off the charts. He doesn't
have his dad's athleticism, obviously, but

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who does, right, He's only
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Yeah, his younger brother is eight
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his younger brother is really good.
All right, I'd I'd like to see

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him right now. We'll see him, whether we see him on TV or

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see him here. We'll see him
and that'll be kind of a spectacle moment.

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How do you think he'll handle that? Well, he's going to be

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a spectacle now, I mean he'll
he'll do well. He's been he's been

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in the spotlight since he was I
don't know, years old. Have you

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seen I don't know if you've you've
heard. We've talked about this a couple

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of times. That on three uh, that website that it has an nil

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value ranks all athletes seven million.
He's like the number one a valued athlete

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you know, high school, college
or whatever. His name is Lebron James.

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Yeah, like like he's Lebron James
Junior. Yeah, so seven,

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it's like seven point one. It's
cool and I'm really glad he's going to

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college because that was the thing entirely. You hadn't heard anything on like who

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are his top schools? Like who's
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idea, right, I kind of
I didn't really think about it. I

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was just kind of expecting, Oh, maybe he's gonna go play for um,

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going the g Leader or something and
then going to US. I thought

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that was really cool. It's very
cool. Probably his dad said, go

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get started, man. Yeah,
very good. Okay, good for us.

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All right. The NBA's all Rookie
teams were announced today, with Benedict

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Matherin being named on the first team, which is weird because he didn't get

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named a finalist for Rookie of the
Year. There's only three finalists. He

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was the fifth one. But he
so he got the fifth most votes to

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get Okay, so he just got
slided in there. Okay, Well,

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good for Ben mather How good did
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the NBA after during his sophomore ye
I said this is a potential star.

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Yeah, I was like, this
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of guy where I think he could
be that good. Okay, he's even

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bigger than Anthony Edwards. Maybe not
quite the athlete is Anthony Edwards, but

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on that kind of trajerk. Did
you see him play much this year?

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Every Now, what did his game
look like compared to what we saw here?

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What's doing here? Making shots?
A good player? Just good good

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athletes. Okay, he's got an
MV. And that was kind of the

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thing that Jody was going to talk
about with Arizona players didn't have a ton

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of end guys with an NBA NBA
game and he had an m game.

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Yeah, so all right, good
for Ben Mattherw all right, And after

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twenty seven years since Rayal and played
at Yukon, he finally received his blaster

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degree this weekend. There you go
and way to go. Guys have made

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a movie and he's got a degree, now, have you. I I

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like him. I don't know.
I mean I knew he was a really

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good player. I mean he just
one of those guys, but I never

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really saw him, you know,
speak or and he's he goes on Dan

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Patrick all the time and he's great
on there all the time. He talks

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about some cool stuff and very open, just talks about his you know,

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he was that guy who's kind of
he was in the gap between like the

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two eras of the NBA, right, Yeah, like he caught. He's

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at the end of like you know, the gross two thousands and whatever started

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at the beginning of the n Y
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I've really enjoyed watching him too.
Again, just talks about some inside stuff

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that you know, there's some guys
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they go talk shows or whatever,
and they don't. You can tell

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that they're holding a lot of stuff
back what you just say. He just

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very frank, very comfortable in his
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he saw and he did and stuff. So I really, I really enjoyed

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watching him, like you know who
I like about it, Like Reggie Miller.

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I I could not see. Do
you like Reggie Miller on TV?

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I do, a lot of people
don't like him. I think he's saw

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it. I think he's for him. A lot of people can't stand it,

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a lot of I like him a
lot, and I didn't like him,

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and I had reason. I mean, I had personal experience with Reggie

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millercovering Pac twelve basketball when he was
coming out of UCLA. The guy was

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a jerk and I couldn't stand him. And what I thought was that he

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took on the personality of Walt Hazard, his coach, who was one of

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the biggest dipwads ever to coach in
Pac twelve. Can I say dip wad?

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Sure, okay, And he took
on that personality. But over time,

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you know, and even early in
the NBA, you know, he

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did the choke thing and all that
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the village, right, someone's got
to be the village. Yeah, somebody,

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now, you know he's he's uh
you know. I like him.

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I like him on on NBA telecast. I like him when he does talk

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shows. You know, he stopped
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a at the regional in San Jose, um remember a few years ago.

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Now, he didn't remember him.
I told him who I was. Yeah,

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he was kind of like, oh
yeah, yeah, but he didn't

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you know, you know who I
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me, and you know, very
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of like, here's the perfect example. Chris Rodgers. Okay, a lot

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of guys when they're playing their sport, they can be like the worst person

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ever, yeah, just ever.
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the switch. Great guy. Yeah, maybe he's one of those guys.

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then the game's over and you guys
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Wow, you're kind of wired different
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a really good professional. All right, all right, let's go to the

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NFL with After rumors that the Commanders
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retirement, Coats Colts owner Jim Urzy
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limits, tweeting out yesterday and I
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contact Andrew Luck or any associate of
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would be a clear violation of the
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you ever followed the Captain Andrew Luck
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was playing. So Captain Andrew Luck
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three years. Are these are the
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stating on once again the topic of
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hope he received the basket of salted
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Well, you gotta love that.
Whoever writes that is awesome. Anyway.

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Sorry, I haven't tweeted in over
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Twitter feed and go back and read
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awesome. All right, let's take
a break. We're gonna have Kenzie Foller

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coming on talking about PAC twelve softball
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Steve Rivera has mentioned is out for
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I think probably on his way back
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pitcher from Arizona who also works for
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some of the games at the PACTALF
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who wanted to get around here talk
a bit about the tournament. Kenzie,

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Welcome to the show. Yeah,
thanks for having me. It's a softball

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season, so let's talk all the
softball, all softball, all day.

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So well, first of all,
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It's a it's a it's a first
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Appropriate lead Arizona struggling this year,
but you know they're still in it.

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But let's first, you know,
get into the tournament itself. What

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do you think about just the existence
of this tournament. Would you have liked

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to have had something like this when
you were playing? Who does it benefit

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and what? You know? Why? Why is it a good thing?

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Kind of putting myself in that position
because in the PAC twelve every team plays

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everyone in the regular season and you
don't see that, and maybe other conferences

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that are a little bit bigger,
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the ACC. So if you would
have told me as a player, you

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have to go face these teams again
for another weekend, I would have said,

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no, thanks, I'm good,
let's move on. But as a

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fan and as a broadcaster, I
love it. I'm so excited. I

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think it's been a way overdue.
There's so many reasons you can get into

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why it's been a much needed addition
for our conference, but I think the

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biggest one is to get the national
stage and to get some extra eyes and

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talk about our sport in a different
way, just like we are doing right

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now. Right So, I think
the PAC twelves need some visibility. I

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think they need a little bit more
respect. It's one of the best conferences,

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if not the best conference, every
single year, and I think a

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weekend like this weekend is going to
be a great way to celebrate the tradition,

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the success and highlight the best players
across the country. Is it Is

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it realistic to think that somebody who
might not otherwise be in the tournament,

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in the NCAA tournament. Good,
you know, can pull this off and

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you know, win and get a
bid and that type of thing. Or

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is it do you see this kind
of going chuck? Um? You know

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it's interesting because you think about playing
these teams and even like a team like

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Arizona who's been swept by a UCLA
or Washington or Stanford. Um, you

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know, we have to play a
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you just have to play a team
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everything is going to be completely different
because it's like that March madness type of

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field. Right is single elimination,
which I think is the best thing that

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you could do in this type of
scenario. Um. Not to not to

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throw down baseball too much, but
I don't. I don't agree with the

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format of their tournament where it's double
elimination and they don't include every team.

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I think that should be revisited.
I think that hurts the sport for them

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in my opinion. So I love
the fact that softball is every team is

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in a single elimination and let's fight. Let's go for it and see what

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kind of upsets can happen because it's
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happen. Why is Arizona the perfect
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In your opinion, I think it's
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a place to host the first one
where I'm sure there's going to be some

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things that you know, some kings
just it's gonna not nothing to say it's

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going to go wrong, but it's
not going to be perfect. It's the

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first one, right, But I
think it's so important that a place is

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accustomed to hosting tournaments, not only
postseason tournaments where we've seen Arizona host Supers

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and Regionals almost every year, but
regular season tournaments. Arizona is a place

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that just the event staff knows what
to do, the marketing team knows what

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to do. Um, the field
is durable that it's very used to having

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four or five different teams on the
field at a time. So I think

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it's it's very important to have a
place that knows what they're doing and knows

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how to run a tournament correctly.
The bonuses are the fan support. The

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bonuses are I think it's the best
stadium on the West Coast by far,

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and good weather. So you put
all those things together and it's a It's

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a no brainer. From your perspective, what's it kind of like being like

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close to the program in terms of
like, you know, you played there,

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you work as a video Can I
call you video producer? Sure?

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Yes, you can as a video
producer working the PacTel networks. I guess

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what's it kind of like being around
PacTel softball and airs On Softball. Just

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from your perspective, I love it. I love what I'm able to do.

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I love how I've been able to
stay around this sport. Softball has

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been passion of minds. I could
throw a ball around four or five years

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old. So I love being able
to be around this sport in different aspects,

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being around the athletes. I love
being able to call games. I

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wish I could do it full time. I wish our sport was full time,

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but um, you know, from
February to June, I stay very

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busy and then um working my full
time job here AARs on Athletics covering our

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Olympic sports. But I love any
aspect I can stay around the sport of

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sofwol, and especially in my alma
mater Intis. I did have to tell

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my dad when he was explaining kind
of to the listeners who you are,

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I said, and she's an unreal
video producer and helped me a ton of

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thank Yeah, Adam. Adam and
I have collabed in his former life a

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couple of times with some women's basketball
highlight videos. Well say, that's the

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thing, and I, you know, I I don't know why can see,

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but I thought you were like living
in southern California because and maybe because

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you're working with Pac twelve networks and
stuff. And he said, oh,

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she's here, And I'm like,
okay, great, so so awesome that

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you're you know that you're tied to
this. So let's talk a little bit

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about the tournament itself. You got
UCLA who's coming in. They're really really

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good. Uh, you know a
lot of good teams, as they're always

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are in the Pac twelve. But
first of all, you know how good

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is UCLA, and you know who's
got a shot at them? I on

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paper and watching them in person.
You know, in our sport, we're

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in a really interesting place because,
on one hand, I will tell you

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that I think the sport has seen
more parody across the board, across the

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country with different conferences mid majors,
you name it. I think the talent

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is it's way more balanced than we've
ever seen it. Yet. While that's

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all happening, we've had this team
called Oklahoma. I don't know if you've

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heard of them, but they just
have an absolute hold on our sport right

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now. And it's like Yukon women's
basketball in their heyday Alabama football, and

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we're just in that period where Oklahoma
softball is b team to beat and right

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now they just will not be denied. So I think UCLA is one of

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a handful of teams that on paper, seeing them in person, seeing the

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talent, they have the ability to
go punch for punch with Oklahoma. Can

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they beat them twice? I don't
know, but they can definitely to beat

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them once and that's for sure saying
something. So they've been the most dominant

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team in the Paxtwealth Conference by far. I think they will sweep up the

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awards whenever those are announced, probably
Wednesday morning. I'm guessing they're going to

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have the pitcher of the Year,
the Player of the Year, in the

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Freshman of the Year, maybe a
co Freshman of the Year on their team.

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And outside of UCLA, there are
some really other good teams that are

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taking games from UCLA. Washington has
taken a game from VCLA, CAW has

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taken a game from UCLA. Stanford's
played them tight. So talking about what

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we were talking about before anyone can
be anyone one not to say that Lee

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still isn't the best team, but
just one time you can do it.

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Would you be surprised if anybody but
UCLA wins this thing? Or you're saying

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what you just said that anybody can
lose once. I mean, what do

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you think? Oh, I think
it's very open not to say that I

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still think l is the best team. But we're talking striking while we're hot.

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I think a team like Washington,
I think they're playing some of their

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best softball all season long. Their
pitchers looked really sharp last weekend. Um.

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I think Utah Utah came up in
Eugene last weekend and swept Oregon,

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who had been playing some of their
best softball, threw a no hitter on

406
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Sunday. Um. And then you
can never counot Stanford. Stanford, in

407
00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.079
my opinion, as a as a
staff, have the best pitching staff,

408
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:27.039
the strongest arms one through four.
Well, you can see four different pictures

409
00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:32.279
and they're all very ace quality.
So those are some teams that you just

410
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:34.039
kind of keep your eye on,
and, um, you never know what

411
00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:37.319
can happen, but you know,
talent wise and resume wise, they're there.

412
00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:41.880
So unfortunately for Arizona, they're in
a position where they're hosting the tournament,

413
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but they've not had a very good
year. They're in the play in

414
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game. Uh, you know,
they couldn't. They could be gone after

415
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:51.799
one game or two games or whatever. But you know, it's been a

416
00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:55.839
tough year for Kaitlin Lowe and and
the group over at at Arizona. What

417
00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:59.359
have you seen? What what are
your thoughts on what's going on over there

418
00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:03.440
and why the struggles this year?
Um, I mean you could look at

419
00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:07.200
different things at different points in the
season, but I think just big picture

420
00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.480
wise, they're very young. I
was watching them this weekend play calin Sunday

421
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:15.759
and I looked down into the field
and their entire outfield was freshman. They

422
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:19.079
had a freshman DP, they had
a freshman shortstop, and a freshman in

423
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the circle. So, um,
they're incredibly young, and they've been hampered

424
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:26.640
by some injuries. Of course,
they lost call it Carley scooping forward the

425
00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:32.519
probably the biggest part of that Pack
twelve stretch with a broken wrist or form

426
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:37.359
I can't remember, um so that
that hurt. And losing Sofia Carroll in

427
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:41.160
the middle of the season, who
decided to just step away for the season.

428
00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:44.839
That's losing or starting shortstops. So
there, you know a couple of

429
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:51.000
adversity things to go through. And
then just looking at the stats and the

430
00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:55.640
numbers and the earra is going to
be inflated there from the pictures this season,

431
00:28:55.839 --> 00:29:00.000
you know they've had a hard time
at times shutting the Pack twelve hitters

432
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.519
down, and it's it's hard to
do because in my opinion as a as

433
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:07.039
an analyst, where I'm calling different
games in different conferences, so I get

434
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:11.039
to kind of see the scope of
everything. The past twelve by far has

435
00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:14.200
the best hitters. Yeah, I
think some other conferences might have some better

436
00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:18.440
pitching as a whole, but the
hitting right now is dominant in the Pac

437
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.759
twelve. So it's a hard conference
this season to be a pitcher. And

438
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.680
Arizona, unfortunately for them, they
were in so many ballgames where they just

439
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.880
weren't able to get one key hit
or or give up one less home run

440
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.920
where you can steal a game two
and not get swept and still get those

441
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:40.000
RPI points against those big time teams. If you're if you're encouraging fans to

442
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.480
come out to the tournament, you
know, what do you say to them

443
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.839
about, you know, coming out
and what they'll get to see in a

444
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:48.119
good reason to come out to the
tournament. Oh, I'm so glad you

445
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.160
asked me this because I've been thinking
about it earlier this week. Should I

446
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.720
tweet something like and I'll call the
Tucson and rally all the fans because it's

447
00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.920
a very big deal that Arizona and
Tucson and Hill and Brand is hosting the

448
00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.880
first packball tournament. This is something
that is unprecedented. It's never been done,

449
00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:07.400
and so it needs to be done
right. And I think it's a

450
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.359
great opportunity for our community, our
Tuson community, to come out and celebrate

451
00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:15.160
softball, whether that's you know,
of course cheering on Arizona. We want

452
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.480
them to do as good as they
can. But outside that, there's going

453
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.680
to be plenty of other games that
are going to be played. And I'm

454
00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:23.960
if you're if you're thinking about it, if you're hesitant about coming out,

455
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:30.960
please come out and support women's softball, support this sport and the conference as

456
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:34.880
a whole, and the softball I
can guarantee you is going to be It's

457
00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:38.920
going to be electric. The talent, the single elimination factor. I think

458
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:42.720
it's just going to be must watch. Um. If you can't come in

459
00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:47.319
person, of course, tune in
on TV. But I would just love

460
00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:49.680
to see the community show up and
kind of make a statement like, look,

461
00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:53.160
how look how much we love softball
in this city. And you know,

462
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:57.519
another aspect about that, if if
the community shows up and the fans

463
00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:02.119
are in full attendance, you think
that's going to help recruits that are watching

464
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.119
maybe on the fence about coming to
Arizona. Absolutely, So just a little

465
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.000
something to keep in man, keep
in mind for Arizona fans coming out and

466
00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:12.720
watching some softball. And here's the
thing. I think, at its roots,

467
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.079
Tucson is a bat and ball town, a baseball and softball town,

468
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.960
and so yeah, I can.
I think there's a real chance no matter

469
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:25.160
who's playing whatever game, there will
be good crowds. I mean all these

470
00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:29.200
I mean, you played youth softball, you're my wife played softball, you're

471
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:33.960
my sister, Like it's crazy,
yeah, yep, yeah. And it's

472
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.440
a great opportunity to see some different
players. Kind of take yourself out of

473
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.279
that Arizona fandom, if you will, and kind of just observe the other

474
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:45.599
players, because there are some huge
names you want to talk about. Maya

475
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.240
Brady, the niece of Tom Brady, probably going to be Packed twelve Player

476
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.480
of the Year. Bailey Klingler,
she's in her senior season. She was

477
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:55.240
last year's Pack twelve Player of the
Year. She'll probably be in the running

478
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:59.519
for USA Softball Player of the Year. Megan Framo's in her last season as

479
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:04.599
a Pact Twelves pitcher U the Utah
team. There's a couple of home homegrown

480
00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.279
talent on Utah's team. Alissa Bomstrom
is one of the best hitters in the

481
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:13.200
Pac twelve and she's from Toothon.
So there's so many opportunities that come out

482
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:19.079
and just watch some really talented ladies
and yeah, I think you're I think

483
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.240
you're right on. I think this
is a baton ball town and um and

484
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:24.640
I will say I will also shout
out the fans because I know there has

485
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:29.519
been the struggles for Arizona. I've
been really impressed with the fan support and

486
00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:34.880
the consistent attendant. So applaud everyone
that's continued to come out and support this

487
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.920
program and supports us. All right, Well, that's a Kensey Fowler talking

488
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.240
about the PAC twelve softball term and
it starts Wednesday with the play in game

489
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:46.119
Arizona against a SU at six o'clock
and then a full day of games on

490
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:51.440
Thursday, four games starting at ten
o'clock in the morning. If Arizona were

491
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:54.200
to win, they would play UCLA
at four o'clock in the afternoon. Which

492
00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:59.359
games? Which games do you have
coming up? I will have the morning

493
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:05.720
doubleheader on Thursday, so I will
have Oregon State versus Cal and A Washington

494
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:12.839
versus Oh gosh, it's Utah,
Cal, Washington, Oregon State. Yes,

495
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:16.880
yes, yes, so you take
Washington organ State. I got the

496
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:21.160
brackets, so you know, but
you were than like, it's those four

497
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:23.200
teams. I'm setting them out evenly. I'll figure out who's playing the next

498
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:25.279
day. There you go, there
you go. All right, Kensy,

499
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:30.440
appreciate you doing this kind of a
last minute interview, but I'm I'm glad

500
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:32.359
you were able to do it.
And uh I look forward to either watching

501
00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:35.880
you or seeing you out at the
out at the tournament. So thanks a

502
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:40.240
whole bunch awesome. Thanks guys.
All Right, those kensie fother form Arizona

503
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:45.440
picture. We'll be calling some games
for the PAC twelve networks this week.

504
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:47.960
I agree with her. You know, first of all, two Sunday is

505
00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:52.160
a softball town. It's a baseball
town as well. You know, she

506
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:53.880
mentioned that not only you know,
yeah you want to come out, you

507
00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:58.200
want to see Arizona plate, but
all of these teams have players from Tucson

508
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:01.640
all over the place. There's there's
so many players around the country. Yeah,

509
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:05.880
you'd hope that the fans would come
out, and even just because Arizona

510
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.679
maybe maybe they don't last till Thursday
or Friday or whenever, get out there

511
00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:16.920
and watch. Let's say the PAC
twelve tournament was ten fifteen years ago.

512
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:23.280
Are you taking Alana yeah to the
Oregon Oregon State game? Yeah, way

513
00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:28.679
not absolutely, Yeah, Yeah,
you want the you know, there's so

514
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:30.280
much softball here that it's such a
big deal that you do. You want

515
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:34.440
these girls to come out and see
how some of these girls compete and there

516
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:37.000
and they're I mean these teams are
really good. It's it's a level of

517
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.239
softball that that not everybody gets.
I mean, it's gonna be College World

518
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:44.840
Series, right. Okay, let's
take our last break. We'll take your

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if you want to go back to the

521
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Suns, if you want to talk
about some softball coming up, A lot

522
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things going on out there. So we'll

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Eye on the ball on Tucson Sports
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in the ballinga Fox Sports fourteen fifty
am, your host, Jay Gonzalez,

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and Steve is out for one more
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have Adam Gonzalez here, former SID
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women's basketball. He was on the
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over there. And then I've got
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his last day with us for the
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finishing up his finals and he goes
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be back. You will be back
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back, all right, So Devin
will be joining us back when school gets

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started again. But uh, we're
gonna say goodbye to Devin here. And

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then we've got Jason who'll be here
for I think three days out of the

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week during the summer. He lives
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And Noah, as we said goodbye
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here and he's from Phoenix, so's
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So it'd be a little different over
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know, we'll have some guys around
to help us make sure we don't screw

591
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up our show every single day.
So anyways, um, good conversation with

592
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:52.119
Kenzie Fowler talking about the upcoming tournament
pacton Pac twelve PAC twelve Softball tournament being

593
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.320
hosted by the while Arizona at Hill
and Brandon. It just should be a

594
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:59.360
lot of fun. Yeah, softball
tournaments are fun. I enjoyed every time

595
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.119
I wish and if yeah, and
I do it tent. They made a

596
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:05.000
good point because you know, when
you think about you get to this time

597
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.840
of the year, arms are tired, bodies are tired. You know.

598
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:14.079
The the men's tournament has a different
format where you're gonna play two games over

599
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:16.480
a three day period. It's a
it's a round robin thing within a unit.

600
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:22.599
And then you get into a brand
you're brought out. Yeah like softball.

601
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.559
Yeah, so fast paved, single
animation tournaments go out there, play

602
00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:30.840
a game, onto the next right
and so you're if you're if if you're

603
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.800
not in the playing tournament, you
win three games, you can't win the

604
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:37.639
twa for instance, if you if
you go to the College World Series and

605
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:42.000
you win the College World Series where
you play in the you're there for like

606
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:45.719
two weeks. Yeah, Like I
went on the last trip when you win

607
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:51.320
Arizona went and that twenty one and
I was like, I don't any I

608
00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:53.559
was just coming off the final form. I was there for nineteen days.

609
00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:59.760
I was like, I said yes
to this because I've always wanted to go

610
00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.800
to a one time. I don't
know if I'm to stay, yeah for

611
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:07.159
two weeks. Yeah, yeah,
it's become a it's become a such a

612
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.880
long tournament. Yeah. I mean
it was very cool. Any sort of

613
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:14.800
baseball fan I would recommend make an
appearance. Yeah, awesome stadium. It's

614
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:19.760
a really cool town. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, well that was the

615
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.280
one thing that one of the one
of the few. I don't know if

616
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:25.639
i'd call him regrets because it was
something I regretted because it was something that

617
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:29.880
I did. But I wanted to
cover a college World Series. I had

618
00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:34.199
I had covered a Final four,
I had covered a National championship football game

619
00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:37.639
up at the Fiesta Bowl. Um, you know, I wanted to cover

620
00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:42.840
a college World Series. And in
the eighty nine team um was you know

621
00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:45.840
one the one that the Scots team
that was a Scott Erikson team. Scott

622
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:52.079
Erkson, Lance Dixon JT. Snow
Uh, Trevor Hoffman, Alan Zinter,

623
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:57.719
I mean, just Kevin Long,
all guys who played, who played and

624
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.519
or coached in the major leagues.
I mean, it was just a huge

625
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:04.480
team, hands down favorite to win
the regional that Arizona was hosting. And

626
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:08.880
that was back you hosted a regional. There were eight regionals and the eight

627
00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:12.679
regional winners. It's like Super went
to the World Series. Yeah, but

628
00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:15.480
it was it was it was still
fourteen. It was a it was an

629
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:17.960
eight team double elimination tournament. No, it's a four team double nation turnam.

630
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:22.599
Yeah, four team double nation tournament, so only thirty two teams got

631
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:24.880
in the gut in the tournament,
four team double nation tournament. You win

632
00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:29.920
your regional, you're in the College
World Series. Arizona's hosting a regional,

633
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:34.760
hands down favorite. Scott Erickson was
eighteen and one or something like that going

634
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:38.000
into the tournament. Guy played pitch
for the Orioles and among other teams,

635
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:43.079
and they got beat. Long Beach
Steak came in here and won the regional

636
00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:45.119
and took off to the College World
Series. I mean, I thought,

637
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.320
if Arizona gets in the College World
Series, they're gonna win the College World

638
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:52.199
Series and then they didn't even get
there, and it was just it was

639
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:57.199
a terrible thing. And then they
were really bad the next year. The

640
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:04.440
news they made was the baseball team
this year broke the losing streak record that

641
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.840
that team had in nineteen ninety and
so that was that was not a fun

642
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.599
year in ninety. So, um, you know, highly unfortunate. So

643
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:15.239
I I really wanted to go to
a college World Series. Cool, it's

644
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:19.159
a very it's it's a cool deal. M The stadium is pretty unbelievable.

645
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:23.159
Yeah, it's a big league stum. Yeah, not not in this stands.

646
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:25.800
They're yeah, well it's not as
big a stadium, but it's no,

647
00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:30.239
it's huge, but it's not like
a but it's not like a Camden

648
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.119
Yard or something. But it's sure
it's twenty thousand or something like something like.

649
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:37.159
It doesn't have any many stands in
the field, right, but like

650
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:39.639
in terms of facility, oh,
it's so nice. Yeah, it's so

651
00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:42.800
nice. Yeah. No, So
that was one of those things that I

652
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.079
wish I had I had had a
chance to do it, and I thought

653
00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:46.800
I was gonna have a chance to
do and then did Now that that would

654
00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:50.880
have been in the old stadium,
which had its own charm. Right it

655
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:53.800
was on the old minor league ballparks. But people loved it. In fact,

656
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:57.760
when they talked about knocking it down
and building a new stadium, there's

657
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.519
some people saying, we love this
stadium. Why why would you do that?

658
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:04.599
Dude? Just you know the purest
right, the people who love the

659
00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:08.599
old stuff. This one is really
cool. Yeah, so well we'll see

660
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:12.320
um. But anyways, again,
just the thing that I missed, but

661
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.599
look, this is still an opportunity
for Arizonner to make a last stand in

662
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:20.960
the softball tournament. You win this
tournament, you you move on. It

663
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:25.880
happens all the time they did basketball, not right Princeton. Why I was

664
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:31.199
talking that, I was talking conference
championship. That gets hot, Infernament gets

665
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:34.880
hot and goes to the Well,
I'm just saying that, anybody, can

666
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:38.559
you know in Florida, Atlantic,
you know at was different. They were

667
00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:42.880
good, They were really good.
They were really good. They're right,

668
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.920
they're right there. There's a lot
of those early UH rankings for next year

669
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:50.400
have come out and have them still
in the top. Atlantic was ranked in

670
00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:52.400
the top twenty five entering the tournament. Yeah, so they're gonna there's a

671
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:55.519
lot of them have them in the
top ten going into next year, so

672
00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:00.719
I don't know. Um. Interesting
note Brian Peterson speaking of basketball. Brian

673
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:09.480
Peterson from as Desert swarm A listed
the number of with the men's basketball transfer

674
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:15.280
portal closing on Thursday as of today. You know, people think that all

675
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:20.320
these guys left Arizona, All these
guys left Arizona. Well, five players

676
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:23.639
left Arizona that includes walk ons,
so we know the one big, big

677
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:31.920
one was Kirk Crissa adamald Ball left
so five UCLA had zero, Oregon State,

678
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:36.519
Stanford USC had four, then Arizona
and Utah come along with five.

679
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:43.000
Cal had nine, ASU had eight, Colorado and Oregon had seven, Washington

680
00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:45.440
had nine. It's a lot of
guys leaving a program that rually only has

681
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:50.920
thirteen fourteen guys. So Colorado is
not gonna have an athletic department. So

682
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:54.320
did player trains for now? Yeah, I mean I'm kidding. Well,

683
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:58.199
I did see it. I did
see well. I did see a note

684
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:01.400
that that Dion sand and the back
and the football team is back up to

685
00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:07.159
fifty nine scholarship players in house,
but only I think twelve of those were

686
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:09.719
there last year. So he's just
gonnat and just flipped this whole thing over.

687
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:13.719
Um. You know. Another one
of the conversations I saw as it

688
00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:17.840
related to that was that this only
could have been done with somebody like Deon

689
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:23.159
Sanders. If it had been some
other obscure coach that nobody knows or whatever,

690
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:27.519
had he tried to do this,
people would have lost their minds.

691
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.280
But because it's Dion Sanders, he
sort of gets a pass. Yeah.

692
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:36.920
And I don't know, we'll see, like because when you look back at

693
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:40.360
it, like if you just take
out the name Deon Sanders, he coached

694
00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:45.960
uh jack the state, that's it. Yep, that's it, right,

695
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:50.840
that's it. You never he hasn't
coached fps right, I don't know.

696
00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:54.760
I have no idea. It's a
it's a whole different animal. Well.

697
00:46:54.800 --> 00:47:01.320
The the the the over under on
on Colorado's win, uh all of college

698
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:07.840
football came out last week, and
I think the over under on Colorado was

699
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:10.599
three, half three and a half
three. Let me look this up real

700
00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:20.800
quick. Um, Colorado came in
at three. I don't like that,

701
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:22.960
you know, I wouldn't. I
don't think they're I don't think they're gonna

702
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:27.320
get four, but three you don't
win. You you know, you push

703
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.719
the bet if it's if it's two
and a half, I might take it.

704
00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:32.639
If it's three. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Colorado is

705
00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:37.239
either gonna win two or three games. They're gonna go to or right.

706
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:40.480
And that's what I said on Friday. I said, they're either gonna win

707
00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:45.320
a bunch because they're gonna be good, or they're just gonna completely suck.

708
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:50.440
It's either gonna work spectacularly right one
that's one of them. The other that

709
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:52.679
they're not gonna be a middling team. That's how I think. That's what

710
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:55.760
I think too. I think they're
or you know, it's gonna take it's

711
00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:00.719
gonna take them to the end of
the season to kind of come together.

712
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:04.039
But by that time they like I
don't want and said, I don't I

713
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:09.079
don't see them having an Arizona season
that Arizona had this past year, Oh,

714
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:14.360
flipping from one and eleven to five. I don't see that. Yeah,

715
00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:15.760
Like they're either gonna be No,
there's gonna be like better than that,

716
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:22.599
like seven or eight wins games.
Well, there was I saw another

717
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:29.440
thing and said that the most eight
percent of the future's bets on the national

718
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:36.440
championship in Colorado. Colorado. Sure
there because they loved that, because there

719
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:39.599
are twenty five thousand to one odds. Sure the books love that they do

720
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:43.480
well, that's what they well.
Some one of the replies I started that

721
00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:46.719
when did you just set your money
on fire? It's all gonna depend on

722
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.559
I mean, I can't say I've
seen Dion's kid play quarterback. It's all

723
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:55.079
gonna depend on if he's played at
Jackson State. I'm saying, one season

724
00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:59.400
at Jackson State, how good is
he going to be? Right? Or

725
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:01.760
is it just he's a he's a
sophomore, is he not? I think?

726
00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:05.559
I think? I think you're right. Yeah, it's me a lot

727
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:10.079
different than playing against Utah's defensive line
Arizona's at five and a half. What

728
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:15.320
do you think over Over? I
think over too, Devin Over, I

729
00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:22.039
sure hope over They have some better
players, Yeah they're there. They keep

730
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.119
reloading on good players. Yeah,
yeah, and their defense has to be

731
00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:30.320
better, doesn't It doesn't thing have
to be. It doesn't have to be,

732
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:32.280
but probably will. There's there's better
players. Should it get worse?

733
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:40.239
In the words of Andy Lopez,
Hold on, hold on, hold on,

734
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:45.559
just trust me here, it gets
worse. It will get worse,

735
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:49.559
I promise you. So don't be
too sad about it, because it will

736
00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:52.079
get worse. No. I think
they'll be better because they have better I

737
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:57.559
mean having justin flow in there.
He's he's a good dude. I saw

738
00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.760
him and seeing him like without pads
on. Yeah, oh my god,

739
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:07.480
relax, No, no, oh
my god. I'm like, dude is

740
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:09.599
twenty twenty one years old, baby, and I'm like, how does a

741
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:15.360
hard does a guy get like that
in that short amount of time. No,

742
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:19.480
I I think they'll be better.
Um, another year in the system,

743
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:23.159
another year Jed, another year for
under Jed's belt. Yea, he's

744
00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:29.719
only gonna get better. Yep.
A s was at five under. Yeah

745
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:31.840
yeah, not just because it's a
just because you think, I mean,

746
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:35.880
it's it's it's it's like Arizona was
a couple years ago when they hired the

747
00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:38.719
jedist. I mean, I don't
know if Kenny Dilling him is a good

748
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:44.800
head coach. Yeah, call is
at four and a half. I can't

749
00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:49.360
I could not comment. I have
no idea. Okay, as a usc

750
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:53.159
over usc Oregon, usc over,
I don't care. What are all nine

751
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:59.679
and a half USC's going to college
football playoff? I think so yeah,

752
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:01.559
I'm mean Caleb Williams is unbelievable.
He would have been he would have been

753
00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:07.320
the number one pick this year.
Yeah, number one pick. He's so

754
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:15.480
good. What about Washington? I
almost think Michael Panics is better and Caleb

755
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:21.400
Williams can do more things? No? What, yep, you have a

756
00:51:21.480 --> 00:51:27.360
radio show, Come on, people
listen to you. People listen to you,

757
00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:32.440
and you threw that out there.
Take bad take No. I like

758
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:36.719
Michael Pennis. I do too,
IVERY think Caleb. I look, I

759
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:38.760
saw both of those games, and
I thought I thought Michael Panics is better.

760
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:44.480
Caleb Williams won the Heisman. I
know he won. I know he

761
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:50.960
won the Heisman. I'm more scared
of Michael Panics than I am of Caleb

762
00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:55.039
Williams. And Jay's eye test,
yeah my eye test. Okay, I

763
00:51:55.199 --> 00:52:01.800
on the ball. Yeah you go
all right, uh okay, all right,

764
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:06.880
well we'll see. I don't know, but look he's still really good.

765
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:09.719
Oh yeah, right, And they've
gotten all these transfers. People are

766
00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:14.519
coming to us. Top players are
coming more, top players are coming to

767
00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:16.119
USC. They're going to a big
ten. Yeah, the thing Caleb Williams

768
00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:21.159
and the Heisman. I think they're
gonna be really good, all right,

769
00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:23.519
which is fun usc being good as
fun it is it is, and then

770
00:52:23.559 --> 00:52:29.039
they're gonna leave jerks. All right, that's it. Uh, sorry,

771
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:32.679
um Adam, thanks for being here, appreciate it's always fun to be here.

772
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:36.239
Devin. Thanks for all the work
you've done for us this uh this

773
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.719
school year, and happy to have
you back in the fall. Thanks for

774
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:44.400
being here today, especially because we
were going solo and it was that's never

775
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.000
good. So thank you for all
that. I hope you've had fun and

776
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:50.079
you'll come back. And what would
you have said if you were just by

777
00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:52.000
yourself in here? What are you? What are you going to talk about?

778
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:57.039
I probably would have canceled the show, I said, I'm not doing

779
00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:00.559
that, though. It would have
been a spectacle either way. No,

780
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:02.199
I'm not. I'm known what I
would have done. It wouldn't have been

781
00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:05.880
fun though, and it wouldn't have
been pretty and it would have been hard.

782
00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:08.280
So but I didn't have to do
it all by myself. So all

783
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:10.800
right, Steve, we'll be back
tomorrow, so we'll have We'll be back

784
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:14.599
with some more great guests. We
got stuff to more stuff to talk about

785
00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:16.400
this week. Looking to drag get
John Wilner on later in the week to

786
00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:20.960
get some into some PAC twelve news. So be sure to come back and

787
00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:22.960
we will see you tomorrow