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Steve Brabera and Jacin Salads. They
have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson

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Sports Day. Chef Fox Sports fourteen
fifty, Welcome back to High on the

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Bolling on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
We're getting a kick out of a bobble

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head that's come out with Dodgers star
show Hey Otani, who celebrated his dog's

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birthday today, his first birthday today, and now there's a bobble head out

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of a showy with his dog.
I don't know. That dog was like

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the highlight of the of the whenever
they announced he was Yeah, I don't

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even know what to say, but
I'm not gonna say anymore. All Right,

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we're at Ryan's here and he's got
breaking news. This is Eye on

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the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. All right, I'm gonna

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start with a little bit of University
of Arizona news. Former Arizona Wildcat start

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as Mary Martinez is going to the
euro League over in France. She was

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drafted by the New York Liberty this
past season. Unfortunately, she did not

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make the cut on the team.
She spent two years at U of A.

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She was named the All Pack twelve
and Pack twelve all defensive honorable mentioned

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by the coaches in twenty twenty four. All right, and she's got a

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pro gig in Europe, which is
where we thought both her, she and

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Helena player Woodland, and that's where
they both landed. Both got drafted.

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It was great that they got drafted. You know, that's something that you

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know that they'll always have. But
they both looked like you know, overseas

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players, and that's where they both
are. So good for them as Mary

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was really good. She had some
you know, foul issues she was following,

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you know, getting a lot,
filling out a lot and that stuff,

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but she was definitely a good player
and so good for her that she's

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got a contract to playing France.
I love seeing players like, you know,

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they're not making it one league,
but they're making go to another.

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Right, get the opportunity in the
showcase and you know what, all right,

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and there's a living to be made
there. You know, there's some

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there's some guys you know, uh
in two that come to mind, uh,

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Corey Williams, actually three Corey Williams, uh uh, Kyle Fogg,

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Joseph Blair, probably a couple of
others. Who made pretty good livings,

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you know, playing overseas. I
think cale Fog is still playing and now

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they come back there, you know
they're they're set financially. Joe Joseph Blair

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is a is an assistant coach in
the NBA. Corey Williams making a great

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living here living here in Tucson,
doing well. You know, Look,

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if you don't mind leaving your country
and going and playing basketball somewhere, uh,

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you know, making a bunch of
money and then kind of being set

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for life, that's not a bad
way to go. Absolutely not. So

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we've been talking about the NBA Finals
finally being over. Next week is the

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NBA Draft on June twenty sixth.
A little bit of news just it's it's

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been in the news for for a
while, you know, James, Bronnie

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James, this article that I'm reading
from today, I want to get your

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thoughts on this. Speculation continues for
those two to possibly come to the Suns

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come out. I don't see that. I don't see that happening. Honestly,

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I don't know. It's you.
Well, here's what I here's what

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I would hate to see. First
of all, lebron is what thirty nine

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forty. You know he's got how
many years left? Look his greatness,

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no question, right, he's still
great. He's still at his age.

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He's still one of the top players
in the league. But your skills don't

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get better. They did Tior.
So he's on the way, he's sliding

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the other direction. You know,
if you're a franchise that I don't want

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to use the word desperate, but
feels like that's the move for you to

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get him, so to get Bronni
James, so you can get Lebron and

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bring him in to play together and
sell some tickets. You got to think

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about what you're doing with your franchise. You know, are you really trying

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to win or you're just trying to
you know, put butts in seats because

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I can't look. Bronni maybe started
a handful of games last year for USC,

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a team that wasn't even all that
good. We saw him, he

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came here, we saw him here, saw him at the Pactoff Tournament.

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He was a decent college player,
not even a really good college player.

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Now he's going to be in the
NBA Draft. You're going to take him

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so that you can get Lebron to
again. If you do that, that

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reeks of that does reek of desperation
or a lack of direction, a lack

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of trying to put together a team
that can win a championship. I mean,

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to me, you're reading that headline
just it kind of tells me that

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they're just if they do that,
it's just like you said, to put

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butts in seats, button seats.
That's really, yes, what they would

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be doing. It's certainly not trying. You're certainly not thinking you're gonna win

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because you got those two guys,
right, come on, I don't know.

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It's seriously, it's something. There's
speculation that that the Sons are interested

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in doing that. It's I mean, it's a it's a it's a reach.

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But they're still they're saying, oh, there's possibility, can happen.

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Oh man, I don't think it's
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Okay, okay, are you buying
a ticket for that? If he if

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he's up in Phoenix, are you're
gonna go see him? I would have

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five years ago. Probably not.
You know, look, it'll be interesting,

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no doubt it'll be interesting. There's
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it. People talk about the Sons
a lot. Here's the father and son

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playing together, yeada, YadA,
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But is it going to translate into
winning basketball, which is what the

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Sons ought to be doing. When
you got guys like Devin Booker, you

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know Katie, you know Bradley Beal, you know, you got you've got

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a core like that, and all
of a sudden, you can say,

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well, we're gonna bring in this
side show of Lebron and his kid.

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If you're one of those three guys, you're going, what the hell are

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we doing? Right? It's gonna
it's going to overshadow what they're doing right

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exactly, and what they did wasn't
all that great last year, right,

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So I don't know, I think
it messes things up, you know,

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unless you're the Washington Wizards and needs
something like that. You know, one

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of those teams, the Sacramento Kings, Well the Kings are actually decent,

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right, but you know, I
would hate to see it. I'm if

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I'm a fan, I would hate
to see my team do that because I'm

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thinking, what am I paying for
it? To go to your game?

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To go see an old man and
his kid, or am I playing going

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to see a team that's trying to
win a championship? Which would I which

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to I prefer? Well? I
like Lebron, he was great. I'd

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like to see us win a championship. Right, all right, Well there

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that was my thoughts. We'll switch
over to a little bit of MLB news.

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Mike Trout, he's been on the
Angel list for a little while.

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I came out today that he's still
he's still trying to come back from that

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tourm meniscus, You're ack on April
twenty ninth, and he's saying that his

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progress is going slower than he's then
he anticipated. Yeah, you know,

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uh, I just feel so bad
for him. You know, such a

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great player, uh hasn't gotten you
know, not been in the playoffs.

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He just just talk about having a
great player who just their career just isn't

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in the end, is not going
to be what it can be or should

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have been. He has said that
he doesn't have an expected return date.

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They don't think it was going to
be season ending. But to this point

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and where what June eighteenth said,
he hasn't even started running. He's he's

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a ways off and then again,
when you're when you're that player, once

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you can start going full bore,
it still takes a while for you to

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get your feet under you right and
being you know, be able to get

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out and you know, in a
major league game and hit and the whole

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bit. So it sounds like he's
a long way off, even even if

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he comes back this year. I
mean, the Angels they're not having a

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good season. You know, he
comes back, he's probably not going to

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help them make a push to Yeah, he's not getting into the promised Land.

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So that's too bad. You just
feel bad for him sticking with MLB.

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Another injury related news, Anthony Rizzo. He had a collision the other

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day with pictures. Excuse me,
try that again. He had a collision

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with a Cleveland or a Boston pitcher, Brandon Bernardino, while he was running

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down to first base. They collided. Rizzo kind of tumbled a little bit,

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and he has a a fractured right
arm and he's going to be out

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at least eight weeks. He's my
first baseman. No, how come I

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didn't know this happened. I gotta
go straight to my go straight to my

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my fantasy. He's still in my
line up. Did you got to tell

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me these things before three days later? Ryan? Well, you know,

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he broke his arm. Oh man, what am I going to do?

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Now? Holy cow? It was
it was a pretty pretty bad collision.

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So, like I mentioned earlier,
it's just been a been an injury filled

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Well, I guess, oh man, what the heck? Okay, thank

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you for letting me know. I
gotta get him out of my lineup.

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That's what I'm here for. Yeah, I appreciate. Okay, there he's

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he's out. Put Justin Turner in
there. All right, Yeah, he's

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all right. But now I got
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta

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put him on the eye ol,
go get another player. So I've got

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somebody else on my bench who can
come in when I find out another one

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of my guys he's hurt. So
all right, And I wanted to ask

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you about this not really breaking news, but I was reading a little bit

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on possible trade deadline for the MLB. They're saying that Luis Robert could be

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a potential prospect for them to go
after from the Chicago White Sox for the

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Dodgers to go after. All right, Look, yeah, you kind of

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at some point, you got to
trust the team that they're gonna do.

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The Dodgers are trying to win,
They're trying to win a world championship,

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So if they make a move,
I'm gonna believe that it's a good move.

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I don't know. I don't know
him. I do know the White

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Sox suck and that you know that
that this guy would probably be happy to

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get out of there and go to
the Dodgers. Uh. You know,

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you like you like a guy who
all of a sudden gets that life.

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You know, during the course of
a season, you feel like they're gonna

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come out and they're gonna produce.
So yeah, I guess I would be

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good with the with a move like
that. Uh, they've got to do

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something at six to eight weeks without
Mookie Bets. They can't just patchwork that

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for six to eight weeks ago to
get a guy who's going to be reliable,

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who's gonna be good, he's going
to make an impact, and they

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need a shortstop. So I was
not ever that fond of Mookie playing shortstop

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anyways. He's I mean, he's
a look, he's a great all around

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player. He's not your typical he's
not that shortstop. Who's going to make

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the Derek Jeter play right, Who's
going to make the Aussie Smith play?

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Who's going to make that that the
the the incredible play that so many shortstop

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make. He's gonna He's made all
the routine plays. He doesn't have the

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arm, uh you know of a
shortstop. You know, he's certainly not

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Eli Elie de la Cruz, right, so you know he is an adequate

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shortstop. He was a great player, and he just said I'll fill this

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if you need me to. He
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working. But I'd rather he not
be playing shortstop. I'd rather be playing,

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you know, in the outfield where
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Yeah, I mean that's kind of
what I saw when they made that move,

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right, I was like, what
do you do? Why are you

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can remove him from right field where
he's such a good field. It was

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just a weird It made no sense. It didn't make a lot of sense

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to me. And again, every
ground ball that's hit to shortstop that I've

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seen, you know, I kind
of like, okay, let's see if

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he's got this one right. As
opposed to when you have a shortstop who

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you know is going to make the
play. You know, you don't have

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that. But unfortunately, the two
shortstop prospects that the Dodgers have are terribly

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hitters, so they can't put him
in the lineup every day. So yeah,

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if you know, if they can
go get an every day shortstop while

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Mooky's healing, and then maybe Mooky
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doing good enough job, so I'd
be okay with that kind of I guess

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to kind of help you kind of
picture Luis Robert. They say he's kind

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of similar to Andy PaaS okay a
little bit. Yeah, and has been

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a stud. You know, he
goes, he's he's been going up and

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down, but he's he's a he's
a really good player. Although he blew

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a fly ball the other day the
really hurt him in in the game against

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against the Royals, But I like
Andy Paie is so well, we'll see,

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all right, we'll keep an eye
on that one. Yeah. I

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think I think the reason they're going
after him because there's the other guys on

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the Dodgers that are struggling, like
you know, Gavin Lux, Maxim.

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Gavin Lux has been a huge disappointment
Maximunts. He is hurt. See that's

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the other thing. You know,
there's another there's a third baseman that's hurt,

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right, and I think James alban
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so you know, no, it's
it's uh, I don't know how

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well the Dodges are the first place
in the division because the rest of the

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division sucks. But you know,
you know, look, they're they're going

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to get to the playoffs. The
thing. Be ready for the playoffs,

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you know when your division, so
maybe you can skip a first round or

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whatever, but you know, get
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happen. Try and be healthy by
then and see what happens. That's it,

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okay, all right, So just
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you know, it's time to get
time to get to get fired up for

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Big twelve. So I'm looking forward
to that and we'll you know, you

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know, one of those things is
women's basketball. Right, let's see what

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you know, what the women are
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been you know, top to attendance
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basketball. Now they're going Baylor's over
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exactly. There's some teams over there. Uh, so we're going to see.

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But you know, the pack toll
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with Stanford and UCLA and so on, So it won't be anything new

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for them, but it's not going
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But we're gonna talk to PJ.
Brown, who covers women's basketball for

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the Arizon Daily Star, follow up
on Ada Barnes press conference last week talking

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about her roster for next season.
So we'll be right back with PJ.

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women's basketball for the morning Paper.
PJ. Welcome to the show. Thanks,

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Jay, appreciate you joining us.
Okay, so, last week,

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Adia Barnes held a press conference talking
about her team heading into the summer.

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Uh, kind of ran through all
the different players and new players, old

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play well, very few old players, right, so just a handful of

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players who are still around from last
year. Let's start with the Let's start

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with the players coming back, because
that's, as she said, the core

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of her team. You've got.
You've got Jada Williams, who became the

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starting point guard, had some really
nice games at the end of the year.

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Skyler Jones did a lot of good
stuff. And then you go inside

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with with Brea Cunningham and isis bay
that core you know, obviously it's important,

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but how effective can that core be
with all these other new newcomers around

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and what's there? How what's their
role going to be? How are they

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going to handle all of this?
Sure, the first thing we have to

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remember is Montea do finally gets this
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So she is considered part of that
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along with Jada and Breya and Skuyler. Okay, so they really have They

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all took big jumps last year,
and part of it was, you know,

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when they went down to sixth and
seven players, they had to play

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right, so they sort of learned
on the job and they got tremendous experience

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not only during the season but also
at the NCAA tournament. Those two games

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they played in and they did some
really incredible stuff. I mean, they

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beat Stanford right, and they finished
off that weekend beating cal So. They

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swept in the Bay Area, which
was a huge accomplishment. They beat Utah,

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They had some really a lot of
good games. They had a triple

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overtime game that they won. They
played sc pretty tight. They lost both

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of those games, but they up
until that time, they've played USC and

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Juju better than anybody else in the
league. So they were a part of

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all of this, and they've seen
that they have that experience and they've already

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they had spring training, so like
about a week or two after their season

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ended, they started spring training and
they were all in the gym. Then

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they got a break when school ended
and they went home. Dia said that

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Jada looks completely different. She transformed
their body. She's so much better.

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Brail looks better. All of them
sort of know the drill now, right.

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They understand what it's like to play
for a DA Barnes. They know

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what is expected of them and they
come ready so it's not like they're having

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to learn on the fly or anything
like that. So they're ready. They're

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ready for summer training, a lot
of development, and they're also when you

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look at them, like Jada's a
leader. She might not be fully what

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you would expect in a leader because
she's only going to be a sophomore,

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right, but she's someone that idea
is mentoring and guiding so that you know,

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in another year she will be the
team's leader. And the others just

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are one year older, right,
so they get it. So when they

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welcome in these new players, whether
they're the three freshmen or the transfers,

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they're sort of guiding everybody. It's
gonna flow naturally. Ideas brought in some

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really like not only talented players,
but good for the culture kids who will

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also be you know, not questioning
things and not doing things they shouldn't be

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doing, all of that stuff.
They will be cohesive, you know.

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It just will all take a time
obviously, like every team does to build

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that chemistry. A lot of that
will come this summer right when they're training

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together. So I don't think that
I think that this is just an unnatural

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time. And and all this time
together, right, they spend from like

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basically from June first all the way
all summer and then they start preseason training,

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so one of a lot of time. Yeah. And one of the

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things really, I mean, just
right at the top is numbers, right,

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because you said, yeah, they
were down to seven players and you

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know, even six a couple of
games, and you know, you thought,

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somebody gets in foul trouble and they're
going to be playing with four.

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But just having the numbers has got
to be a huge relief for Idea.

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She did a lot of work in
the portal. There's you know, a

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lot of turnovers. As she said, we got to get used to this

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because it's going to go like this
every year. So you know, we

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don't we don't know some of these
players. So who do we need to

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be paying attention to the most?
You think as the things get going here

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for this team. Sure, when
you look at the transfers, I think

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Sinaya Jah they call her Jaw is
probably one of the players to keep an

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eye on. She's a power,
she's a small forward. She'll play the

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three in the four, she'll trade
off with Montea do and they will be

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a strong combination. Idea said that
Jah is the is incredibly athletic. I

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don't know if she's seen someone that
athletic as a Wildcat in a while.

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I mean she mentioned that as Mary
obviously was athletics, but this is I

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think a different level in an efferent
style. So she's somebody definitely can to

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keep an eye on. There's also, you know, Idea brought in some

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shooters this year, whether they were
the transfers or the freshman. A lot

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of shooters and a little bit of
of height height for Arizona as opposed to

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I'm not talking about like a like
a louren Bets, who's what six seven

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or something like that. We're not
they don't have anybody like that, of

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course, but somebody who's just you
know, players who are really solid six

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three, six four, who can
kind of I guess like isis a little

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more like isis, but strong like
that, you know, because when you

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go and play in the Big twelve, it's a lot more physical attacts.

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Well, okay, that's gonna be
the first thing that everybody's gonna notice.

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They have reps who kind of look
the other way, and you know,

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there's a lot of stuff going on
that that we would be We're like,

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wait, what, Well, I
watched some of those games last year.

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I was like, that's interesting.
Well, and it's gonna it's gonna be

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it's like that, right, It's
gonna be like that for the men as

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well. You know, the games
are no matter how much they say,

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the games aren't ref differently. They're
ref differently if you watch you know,

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if you watched an Arizona game at
a Big twelve venue versus an Arizona game

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again it's a Big twelve team in
Tucson, they're different. The games are

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just different. And I you know, I challenge anybody to prove me wrong

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on that one. So it's interesting
that it's like that for the for the

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women's game as well. So you're
going to need some physical people. And

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you know, when you think about
it, as Mary and Isis came from

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the Big Twelve, and they had
problems with foul, right, they would

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get into foul trouble all the time. And why because they were able to

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play that way in the Big Twelve
but not in the Pact twelve. Yeah,

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actually going back to the Big twelve
might be good for Isis, But

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she didn't know she was going to
wind up back over there. So all

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right, so, uh, what
do we know about Montea Bay? You

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know, I mean, do we
know how good she's going to beat Montea?

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How do we know how? What
does she do? What? What

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do we what do we expect from
her? A lot? Not to put

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a lot on her. I don't
want to put a lot on her.

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That's a lot of pressure that heng
kid doesn't need. But she's a dynamic

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player. She you know, she's
got length, So on the defensive end,

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she's going to be getting tips and
steals and probably blocks and all of

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that. On the offensive end.
You know, she's been working on her

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dunk. She's going to be able
to dunk it. She can dunk.

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Yeah. I wrote a story about
it before she stepped on campus. You

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know, she came a semester early
and at that point she was she thought

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she was pretty colm to Donkey,
So she at some point here she will

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dunk. Wow. Wow. That
type of springs and all of that.

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And she's very smart. She's got
really high basketball IQ so that along with

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think about it, she's she was
injured all last year, but she's been

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practicing with the team for a year
and a half, so she knows Idia's

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system right very well, and she's
going to be able to plug in and

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I think, just go, it's
going to be a plug and go she

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and she's she really at the end
of the year, she was getting close

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and Ada was like, no,
I can't have you lose a year by

406
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:52.799
playing in three games, right,
So she's ready. She wants to get

407
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.319
out there and show what she can
do. We're talking to PJ Barnes,

408
00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:00.519
Arizona women's basketball beat writer for The
airson A Daily Star. PJ, how

409
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.480
how did a do you come out
of that last year with all that happened

410
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:08.119
during that season, a lot of
adversity for her, right, you know,

411
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:14.319
whatever the situation was, you know, with players leaving and whatnot,

412
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:18.119
and and especially with you know,
at the end of the year, with

413
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:22.119
what can I think of a Kaylin
Gilbert? Just how did she come out

414
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:22.839
of that? Do you think is
it kind of like, you know,

415
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:26.160
what, Okay, another year,
let's move on to the next one,

416
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.880
or you know, anything happened in
there that that might have either a hangover

417
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:36.599
or or you know, affect the
upcoming season or affected you know, how

418
00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:38.720
she handles players going forward. How
do you think she came out of that?

419
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:45.440
I think that she's in good shape. I think there's no hangover.

420
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:52.039
If you remember what happened. The
six players who were there came together and

421
00:30:52.079 --> 00:31:00.160
that's when they beat Stanford and Cal
and played incredible against Washington and SC and

422
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:08.000
everybody else. They you know,
sometimes you have some bad eggs, right

423
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:12.640
and the I mean this happens at
work too, when people leave when you

424
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:18.000
have somebody and nobody gets along with
them, right, and they do and

425
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:23.400
they leave and everybody's like, like
they take that deep breath and they can

426
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:30.720
play. The players were obviously happy
that it was the sixth of them.

427
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:34.000
They said to Adea and we got
your back, right. They were ready

428
00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:37.519
to go for her. They were
ready to play for her and for each

429
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.799
other. They came together as a
team at that point. That was very

430
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:49.079
important. Yes, And I also
think that you know, I know they

431
00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:52.920
didn't go like they didn't go to
the final four, right, of course,

432
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:56.440
they you know didn't, And it
wasn't a year like that. But

433
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:01.319
it was actually a really good year
because not only did they come together and

434
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:06.799
play as a team, but at
Dia Barnes you could argue that she had

435
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:14.839
one of her best coaching coaching performances
in her time here. Yeah, I

436
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:19.319
mean to take six players when they
were young, I mean you only had,

437
00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:24.200
you know, as Mary and Helena
really who had experience and who were

438
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:30.759
elite players, right, they're professionals. Now, you had really just had

439
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.640
two players like that. Everybody else
was a freshman, you know, I

440
00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:39.200
know, you had Isis and Courtney, but they were still new to the

441
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:44.799
program, right, and both of
them added a lot and they had experience.

442
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.680
That was important. But when you
think about what she did and how

443
00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:52.160
what she was able to accomplish.
I mean, boy, when we found

444
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:57.079
out she had six players and it
was a certain right, it was like

445
00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:02.799
the end of January. People are
probably thinking they're not making the nc tournament,

446
00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:07.759
right, And not only did they
make the ncl A tournament, but

447
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:10.519
they had really big wins yep,
yep, yep. So it was like

448
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:17.519
this incredible. It just changed everything. And I think that now going into

449
00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:24.200
this season, you have a big
core, that core coming back who experienced

450
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:29.839
that part of it too, and
I think that carries over into this year.

451
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:34.480
And those are the special kids that
Ada all along. She said,

452
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:38.440
boy, if I can keep those
kids when they're juniors, we're going to

453
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:44.759
do something really special, all right, PJ. Well, as they told

454
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:49.400
I've been telling the other media media
people that are covering Arizona, start boning

455
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.839
up on the Big twelve. Right, there's a lot of new stuff over

456
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:55.640
there. It's going to be interesting. I mean, again, i hate

457
00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:59.240
what happened to the Pac twelve,
but I'm looking forward to all the newness

458
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:01.720
of what we're going to get it
in the Big twelve. Yeah, and

459
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:06.920
there's some really great athletes to learn
about, a lot of great coaches.

460
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:12.320
I'm a I'm a I really like
Nikki Cohen at Baylor. You know,

461
00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:17.000
she has a little bit of an
Arizona connection. She drafted Aery McDonald to

462
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:23.199
the Atlanta Dream and really really wanted
to coach her. Yeah, yeah,

463
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:29.239
and so she got that Baylor job. You know. That's and she really

464
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.800
liked Ay. So that's you know
there, and she's a she's a good

465
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.920
coach and a good person. So
it will be nice to to you know,

466
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:43.559
cover them as well as get to
know some other coaches in the league.

467
00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:45.320
Ye all right, PJ. Well
take the rest of your week off.

468
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:50.599
We appreciate the time you're doing us
today on your you know, during

469
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:53.480
your vacation. Looking forward to your
coverage in the fall. So thanks a

470
00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:58.440
whole bunch, Sarah. Thanks to
as PJ. Brown from there is on

471
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.679
Daily Star talking Arizona Women's back.
If nothing else, Ryan, it's gonna

472
00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:06.679
be damn interesting, right with a
lot of new players. Ada Barnes is

473
00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:10.119
still you know, the coach had
got into the NCAA the championship game a

474
00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:15.320
few years ago. I think she's
going to be relieved just to have enough

475
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.920
bodies, right. I think that's
going to be an interesting thing for her

476
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:21.679
all right, So we're going to
take our last break. We'd love to

477
00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:23.199
take your calls on anything five two, zero, four, one, six,

478
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:27.039
seventy four, forty. We'll be
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fourteen fifth Camp, Jacobs Aalez, my

523
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co host usual co host Steve Vera
is out today. I got Ryan here

524
00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:52.639
working the board and joining in the
conversation, and I would love to take

525
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:54.719
your call. Five two zero four
one six seventy four to forty. A

526
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:59.199
lot of stuff going on, as
there always is. I'm sitting here lamenting

527
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:05.880
my fantasy base and after Ryan broke
the news to me that Anthony Rizzowyd busted

528
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:09.000
his arm on Sunday and he was
still in my lineup today. So my

529
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:14.400
first baseman has been persona non grata
on my team and as you would expect

530
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:22.599
him getting my ass kicked. I
appreciate you getting me that news, Ryan.

531
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:25.480
It helps, but you know,
I'm sitting here looking at my team

532
00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:29.119
and it kind of sucks, and
I'm in the last place in my league.

533
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:31.440
You know, we don't have any
we don't do any of these weird

534
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:37.239
things like you know, weird things
if you finished last, and like getting

535
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.159
a tattoo or having to go spend
twenty four hours in a waffle house.

536
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:45.039
I was listening to this podcast I
listened to and a guy who's on the

537
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:51.559
podcast lost his fantasy football and the
deal was he had to go spend twenty

538
00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:55.360
four hours at a McDonald's and did
you see that? But by eating stuff

539
00:39:55.800 --> 00:40:00.280
he could take time off of you
know, by eating certain things, certain

540
00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:05.000
based on calories and stuff, he
could reduce his time. He ended up

541
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:09.000
being in the McDonald's for eight hours, but what he had to eat to

542
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:14.480
cut it down to eight hours was
you go, I don't know if your

543
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.360
body will ever be the same,
you know. But there was that one

544
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:22.960
guy the waffle house and it was
it was you know, what do you

545
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.400
call it? You followed it on
Twitter. This was a couple of years

546
00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:29.760
ago. And but then you have
these other guys who have to get tattoos

547
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.800
in are like large, you know, like thy tattoos and stuff like that,

548
00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:37.159
for losing their for losing their their
fancy. We don't do that,

549
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:40.199
and I don't. I wouldn't be
in it if we did that, because

550
00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:45.840
I'm not. I don't pay enough
attention to this. But it's it's still

551
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:47.840
fun. I have fun. I
started doing what we used to call it

552
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:52.440
rotisseri back in the day I started. I remember the first year I did

553
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:58.360
it with nineteen eighty eight because I
was I was covering airs on a basketball.

554
00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:00.679
They were in Kansas City for the
Final Four and it was opening Day

555
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:06.679
while we were there, and then
we had drafted and that was the first

556
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:10.280
time I had done this, and
uh, myself, Greg Hanson and and

557
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:15.079
Mike Downs who were covering the U
of A at that On Monday of the

558
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:20.639
championship game, we went to the
opening day at the Royals. Saw the

559
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:28.000
Royals play the Blue Jays and I'm
playing playing against George Bell who was a

560
00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:30.320
great hitter for the Blue Jays at
the time. So I'm against him in

561
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:36.480
my first ever fantasy baseball team baseball
game. I'm at the game and he

562
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:38.559
hits three homers in that game,
of course, of course, so I

563
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:42.400
was smoked for the rest of the
week. So I watched this guy hit

564
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:45.840
three homers against me, and the
picture for the Blue Jays that day,

565
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:49.760
I was also going against that guy. So the Blue Jays just killed me

566
00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:53.199
that day in my in my debut
as a fantasy player. So but memory

567
00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:57.360
a lot of memories from that.
It was a lot of fun. I

568
00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:00.199
like a lot of people think that
it's kind of change how you watch baseball,

569
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:05.639
right, I mean I had I'm
still a big Dodger fan, but

570
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:07.440
for a long period of time,
I really you know, I just cared

571
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:13.039
about my fantasy team and and you
know you do You said you play football,

572
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.440
right, Yeah, I've done it. It's been six or seven years

573
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:20.480
since you did it. Oh you
don't do it anymore? Why not?

574
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:25.000
After that like twelve game losing?
That was that was enough? Yeah?

575
00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:29.079
I have fun. I do football
too, but the football one I do

576
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:30.320
is just for fun. We didn't
even put any money in it. Sure,

577
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:34.639
It's just we do it to give
each other crap during the you know,

578
00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:37.880
watching a game my team sucks or
this guy you know scored fifty points

579
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:39.079
for me, you know that kind
of thing. We just we do it

580
00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:42.119
for a lot of fun. My
baseball one, we do it for a

581
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:45.800
little bit of money, not much, but again it's it. It's more

582
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:49.519
to give you guys, your friends
some crap about their teams and stuff like

583
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:53.159
that. Yeah. The ones I've
done, like or did it was it

584
00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:55.880
was just like you know, if
you got first or second place you get

585
00:42:55.920 --> 00:43:00.639
a money price, right, It
wasn't either, Like, yeah, that's

586
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:04.119
how we do. That's how we
do. Everybody throw I think our I

587
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:07.599
think our baseball cost is twenty five
bucks, right, and it's winner take

588
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:10.360
all. Uh and and so you
know you got to win it to get

589
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:15.400
the money. It's it's more for
fun and more for the conversation. We

590
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:16.840
you know, we have a we
have a text thread that's attached to this

591
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:20.639
so you can go on there and
rip on your players or rip on the

592
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:23.360
other teams players or whatever. And
uh and we we just have a lot

593
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:25.280
of fun with him, just poke
at each other. And that's the fun

594
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:28.440
of it. Some of these teams, some of these guys who take this

595
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:31.840
thing so seriously, they put thousands
of dollars into it. That that's crazy

596
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:36.840
stuff. And like I said,
they get tattoos when they lose. That's

597
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:38.960
that's nutty stuff. So anyways,
hey would love to take your calls at

598
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:43.079
ninetything five two zero four one six
seventy four forty. I've had a couple

599
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:47.360
of good conversations today with Troy Hutchinson
from goeasycats dot com talking about Arizon,

600
00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:50.440
the recruiting and then got into it
a little bit with you know, his

601
00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:53.440
thoughts on on on Brent Brannon.
Kind of what you're hearing from the media

602
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:58.400
here that cover Brandon. He's just
kind of a downdoor. It's kind of

603
00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:02.440
a real guy. I keep hearing
the words car Sailorman when it comes when

604
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:05.639
it comes to Jed Fishing. Look, he was a promoter, right,

605
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:09.079
I called him a kind of a
circus guy, you know, just somebody

606
00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:13.320
who's you know, come on in. We're having a great time, you

607
00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:15.840
know, come and spend your money
here, you know, come to our

608
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:19.079
games. We love you coming to
our games. And you never felt like

609
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.840
he was in it for the long
haul here, and and that's turned out

610
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:25.239
to be true, right, it
turned out to be true. Justin Spears,

611
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:29.000
you know, talked about how he
thought all along, Jed was kind

612
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:31.079
of had, you know, one
foot out the door or just one eye

613
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:35.239
you know, on other places pretty
much the whole time he was here.

614
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:37.320
And he proved you know, he
proved us right when he you know,

615
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:42.239
took the first big job that came
his way and headed out of town.

616
00:44:42.559 --> 00:44:45.760
It'd be interesting to see how he
does up at Washington, Brennan, you

617
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:47.400
know, you kind of feel like
he may be here for the for a

618
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.960
while. You know, look,
it's been a Watson's We had a coach

619
00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:57.199
like that right since Dick told me, uh, you know, right right

620
00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.960
after they had John mcovic. After
that he came and messed the whole play,

621
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.239
and you just kind of thought,
why is even here? You didn't

622
00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:07.360
even feel like you wanted to coach. Mike Stoops comes to town. He

623
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:12.199
clearly loved the Big twelve. You
know, he never stopped talking about it.

624
00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:15.679
You kind of felt like if a
job opened up back in the Midwest

625
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:20.840
and he was doing well here,
he would take it an opportunity. Never

626
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.679
the timing of it. He had
a couple of good seasons. Uh,

627
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:27.519
the timing of it never led to
him leaving. He ultimately got fired.

628
00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:30.320
I think got tired of coaching here
is what I think, kind of started

629
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:35.320
to mail it in, particularly recruiting
wise. And then we got rich Trod

630
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:38.559
again. Like Jed, he was
this here to do well, to get

631
00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:43.000
himself, you know, get himself
back into where he was. I mean,

632
00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:47.039
people forget rich Trod turned down the
Alabama job once, right, so

633
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:51.360
and he and then you know,
he ended up going to Michigan didn't work

634
00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:53.960
out there. He wanted to get
and he still want He's a Jacksonville State

635
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:58.000
right now. He still wants to
get back up into that, no doubt.

636
00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:00.400
And he's young enough to be able
to do that. So he was

637
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:02.559
never really somebody you thought was going
to be here for long. Ale Kevin

638
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:07.199
Sumlin again, he was just here
for the chech. Nobody ever thought he

639
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:10.800
really was committed to Arizona and then
Jetfish. So it's been a while since

640
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:15.320
we have a guy who've had that
feeling maybe this guy might want to stay

641
00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:20.000
here for a while. Yeah,
I mean, especially going now that we're

642
00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:22.159
going into a new conference, right, you really need to have somebody that's

643
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.079
going to come in, settle down, be here for several years, right,

644
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:31.119
get this team established right right?
And you know, I look at

645
00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:35.719
Bretton and I don't go, Okay, what would be his next big job?

646
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.719
Right? I mean, there's not
there's not anything that jumps out of

647
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:42.280
you. Jetfish always thought if Florida
opens up, he's going to Florida,

648
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:45.239
Or if u CLA opens up,
he's going to UCLA. You know,

649
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:47.280
Washington, I didn't, you know. It just came along, right and

650
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:51.320
he was the hot guy, so
he got the Washington job. He thought

651
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:55.000
maybe if Michigan opened up, he'd
go to Michigan again if he, you

652
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:59.280
know, had a couple of great
years at Arizona as a as a Turnado

653
00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:02.559
only took one good year at Arizona
and and he was gone. You look

654
00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:07.440
at Brent Brendan, you go,
where's his next gig? Is there a

655
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:09.880
next gig for him? He?
Uh, you know, uh uh,

656
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:14.119
he's the Ucla alum. If you
see, I don't see him going to

657
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:16.360
Ucla now in the situation they're in
in the Big ten, why would you

658
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:20.079
go there? I mean you might
as well go to you know, to

659
00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:22.800
Vanderbilt, you know, you know, go to a team that just can't

660
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:25.840
win. Because you say he's going
to I think they're going to struggle in

661
00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:30.599
the in the in the big in
the Big ten. So you feel like

662
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:32.199
he may actually stay here for a
while, and it'd be great. I

663
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:36.679
think the fans would love to have
him here for a while, assuming he

664
00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:39.239
does well. In the end.
You got you got to do well and

665
00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:43.440
and uh, you know he set
up to do that, as he as

666
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:46.000
he said, uh, you know
on our show, I give ted Fish

667
00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:50.320
a lot of credit. There's a
lot of great players here. I'm happy

668
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:53.199
to be here. He's in a
situation, unlike a lot of situations,

669
00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:59.000
where he's coming into a program that's
in a good place that their coach went

670
00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:00.400
to a better place, as opposed
to come in to a place where it's

671
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:05.320
down because the coach got fired and
stuff like that. More often than not,

672
00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:07.400
first year coaches are here to fix
something. He doesn't have to fix

673
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:12.239
anything. He's got to take it
to a next step. I mean,

674
00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:16.599
just hearing about him and hearing about
his like who he is, his personality,

675
00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:21.440
I think he's gonna do well for
this Yeah, like you said that,

676
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:23.360
they're in a good place right now. Right in the end, he

677
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:27.199
does have to win. In the
end, he does have to win.

678
00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:30.599
And really the expectations are high for
this team, So he's got to win

679
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:36.000
this year. Right. If this
team goes six and six, people are

680
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:40.000
gonna go what the hell? Right? Right? I think I think eight

681
00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:44.760
wins is sort of a minimum for
people to say, Okay, we did

682
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:46.840
all right. You know, chalk
it up to a transition, guys getting

683
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:50.639
used to each other, getting used
to a new system. You've got a

684
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.760
new coordinators, YadA, YadA,
YadA. I think eight wins are sort

685
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:58.920
of a minimum that fans will will
accept and be okay with. If he

686
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:01.360
goes seven and five, I think
people going, well, you're kind of

687
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:06.119
messing this up, right, unless
it has to do with injuries and things

688
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:09.679
like that. If he goes ten
wins again, people go okay, you

689
00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:13.719
know, here we go, this
is this is what we expected from you.

690
00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:15.559
Nine or ten wins. I think
people will be happy with that.

691
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:20.679
You know, give being contention at
the end of the year to get into

692
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:23.079
the into the big twelve championship game. And I've said a number of times

693
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:28.159
because of the twelve team playoff,
all you got is get into the championship

694
00:49:28.199 --> 00:49:31.719
game and you're probably in the in
the in the in the playoffs, right,

695
00:49:32.039 --> 00:49:36.079
so you know, be in the
running for that, you know,

696
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:38.159
with a couple of games left,
and see what happens. And if they

697
00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:43.280
do that, people say, Okay, we're good. We're good with Brin

698
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.400
Brandon, thank you for being here. You know, let's keep this thing

699
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:49.000
going. So it'll be interesting to
see what happens there. Yeah. I

700
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:53.039
mean, I think you brought up
earlier that Arizona needs to be able to

701
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:58.960
put butts in the seats right,
and to do that, they're going to

702
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:01.480
have to put a good product right, right, So he's got a challenge

703
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:05.360
of doing that of you know,
out of the gate, right, being

704
00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:10.639
three non conference games to really show
the fans, hey, we're serious about

705
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:15.320
being a contender for the long haul, for the long haul, and we

706
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:20.000
want you to come out here support
us, not just you know at Arizona

707
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:22.559
Stadium, but when you go on
the road to these big top right,

708
00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:25.119
you know, we need to be
able to show out in Utah, and

709
00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:29.480
it's got to look good. Look, I think I think there's perfectly set

710
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:31.280
up to be able to play New
Mexico in the first game, as opposed

711
00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:36.880
to flipping it and playing NAU in
the first game. New Mexico not great,

712
00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:39.960
but good enough that you say,
this is a team that you know

713
00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:45.400
has players, right. I mean, Arizona's got their running backs. We'll

714
00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:51.880
see. But what I'm saying is
that you know, whatever it looks like

715
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:55.559
in terms of scheme wise and the
way they do things and where the offense

716
00:50:55.599 --> 00:50:59.400
looks good and the defense looks good
and stuff like that, if you do

717
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:02.559
that against New Mexico, you can
say, Okay, that looked good to

718
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:07.800
me. You know, go blow
out NAU and then see what happens with

719
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.920
Kansas State and go to Kansas State
looking like you can beat Kansas State.

720
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:15.360
That's all people are gonna want in
those first two games. If they do

721
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:17.679
something stupid and lose to New Mexico, people are gonna lose their minds,

722
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:22.360
right, right, But you know, I think that just talent wise,

723
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:25.199
it's gonna be hardfare Zone to lose
that game. I know, I get

724
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:29.719
it. It's only lost to NAU
and Jed's first year, I don't see

725
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.239
you know, anything like that happening. I think they take care of business

726
00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:35.960
against New Mexico and people will be
happy to see that. And what they

727
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.039
want to see is an is an
offense that looks something like what they had

728
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:44.519
last year. Maybe not scheme wise, but in terms of points, being

729
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:49.360
able to move the ball, looking
like they know what they're doing, right.

730
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:51.599
I think that's what people are going
to look for in that first game

731
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:58.039
and then the third game you know
that's on national TV, right, be

732
00:51:58.039 --> 00:52:00.679
able to show the country hey,
right, you know we're real, were

733
00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:04.480
real you want to be you know, in the Rose Bowl, right,

734
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:07.840
end of the year, right,
then the fans are gonna want see Arizona.

735
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:14.840
Look, Kansas State doesn't light up
anybody's isn't gonna make anybody think we

736
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:17.480
need to be scared of Kansas State
because it's Kansas State. Right, if

737
00:52:17.519 --> 00:52:21.760
it was Oklahoma State, maybe a
little more, because Oklahoma State has done

738
00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:23.480
some things. But people look at
Kansas State and they say, we should

739
00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:25.880
be able to beat Kansas State.
Well, Kansastate is pretty damn good,

740
00:52:27.199 --> 00:52:29.719
and they're gonna be considered They're one
of the people, you know teams can

741
00:52:29.760 --> 00:52:32.159
that's gonna be considered one of the
favorites in in the Big Twelve this year,

742
00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:36.800
Arizona's gonna have to show well,
if they don't beat them, they've

743
00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:38.360
at least got to be in position
to beat them at the end of the

744
00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:40.360
game. Right, And then you
say, well, chuck that up to

745
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:45.119
being on the road. But they
go win that game and now everybody loses

746
00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:47.440
their mind. And then they got
to play Utah to that and now it's

747
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:51.440
it's on. Right, we see
what happens. Then they got to go

748
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:54.559
to Utah for that game, and
I think is gonna be picked to win

749
00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:57.840
the league. And so that's gonna
be a tough game for Arizona to go

750
00:52:57.880 --> 00:53:00.480
play. But if you take care
of business again it's Kansas State. You

751
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:04.840
can take a loss to Utah.
At Utah, you're supposed to lose that

752
00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:07.519
game. Utah is gonna be favored
for that game, maybe favored by a

753
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:13.079
touchdown or more. Even with what
Arizona did to him last year. Down

754
00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:15.719
here, they didn't have cam Rising
last year. They're gonna have him this

755
00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:19.840
year, assuming he doesn't get hurt. So we'll see. But it's gonna

756
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.039
be an interesting start to the to
the year, a lot of newness.

757
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.119
That New Mexico game is really going
to kind of set a tone for stuff.

758
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:30.800
Yeah, Brock, I mean just
one thing that there's two ways that

759
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:35.599
could happen, is like do they
lose the game because they shot themselves in

760
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.480
the foot or did they just get
beat by a good by team that was

761
00:53:37.519 --> 00:53:40.239
better than in that day? All
right, Brian, thanks a whole bunch,

762
00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:44.920
nice job today. Thank you to
uh Troy Hutcheson and PJ. Brown

763
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:47.440
for joining us today. We'll be
back tomorrow and we hope you'll join us,

764
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:51.320
so stick around for more I on
the Baltimore. Thanks a lot