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the good afternoon. Everybody. Welcome to

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Iye on the Ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,

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He's jagan ZAUS got our guy Kevin
in today. Welcome to the show.

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Welcome to super Bowl Monday. Any
hangovers financial or otherwise, Well, I

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mean, you know, I was
just telling you about our our groups a

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day in the in the with our
super Bowl props, and the overtime killed

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us. But you know, I
woke up this morning for some reason incredibly

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stressed, like I had had a
stressful night of sleep, and I'm not

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even sure why. Because this thing
that we do, we do it it's

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fun. I didn't I personally didn't
lose a whole bunch of money. I

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lost like ten buds because it's a
large group of people that puts a large

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amount you know, everybody puts a
little bit of money in this thing.

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We put a large amount of money. Get you know, we had over

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seventeen hundred dollars in in bets,
and we had a whole bunch of propits.

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So we just have fun watching the
game. And so I you know,

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I lost maybe ten dollars because I
just have a very small share of

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it. But the fun of it
is watching the game and watching all these

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things happened on I'm telling you we
got hose by going into overtime. That

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stupid blocked extra point that caused the
overta screwed us and and uh and so

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we uh and for the same and
for the second time. And I think

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when whenever Brady won the one,
I think when he won the Super Bowl.

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I believe with the uh with Tampa
Bay, we twice. Now we've

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lost an over under on the quarterback's
rushing yards by taking a knee, which

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they lose one yard, so it
flipped it over. So we had had

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that happened to us again last night
when Rock Pardy took that knee at the

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end of regulation. We had a
lot of fun. Steve, it's a

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very cool that was an entertaining game
of the very entertaining the first time.

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Yeah, you know, my well, my brother we had he was over

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watching. We had a group of
a small group of people watching it.

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He was, this is an awful
game. I'm like, it's not a

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bad game. You're just losing all
your bets. That's why he's a bad

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It was very It was very mundane
because the first half, certainly the first

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half, but it really got going
in the second half. And I mean

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there were thirteen points at halftime and
it ended up forty seven. So yeah,

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holds it over under total, Well, there were fifty. I had

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it at forty seven and a half. So was the number. I didn't

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know the number. What was it? It was forty seven and a half

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that that was the number and they
ended at forty seven. Yeah. Again

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the missed extra point, Yeah,
damn scripted NFL. Well, you know

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what they showed the replay. That
was a terrible kick. He might have

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even missed it. It was it
was it was low, low and inside

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or low into the left, and
that's why the guy was able to block

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it. H That was a terrible
kick on an extra point. You know

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from the angle that they showed up
the replay of the block, it was

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going left anyways. But you can't
miss an extra point in the Super Bowl.

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You can't or anywhere you kicked like
your life is depending on Yeah,

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yeah, okay, No, it's
a good game though. It is a

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good game. It was fine with
about what whatever minutes I can I can't

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remember the game. You're thinking that
Mahomes has the ball. Yeah, the

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last minute. You know who's gonna
win? You know, it was that

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stretch for the Niners in the third
quarter went they a three consecutive three and

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outs. You're thinking this, this
is this is where, this is where

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you let Mahomes back in the game, because they had a ten point lead

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going into the I mean the seven
point seven point seven point lead going in.

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They're leading by ten and and how
do you you know, all you

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got to do is get another touchdown
and stretch the lead a little bit and

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you might be able to hold him
off. And they and they just couldn't,

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you know. I mean, George
Kettle had two catches for four yards,

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But he's your guy. Did he
not go into Shanahan's face and say

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he wanted to play more? No? That? No? He no.

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Now with Kelsey, yeah he did. He nearly knocked him out, didn't

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he. He Kelsey knocked Andy read
over? Yeah? You know what do

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you think about that, you know, you almost have to give excuse it

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a little bit because you're in the
Super Bowl, right, and everybody's emotions

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are incredibly high. Kelsey wasn't getting
the ball, and it was after a

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play where he was completely wide open, and and Holmes he wasn't in the

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play during the right and Mahomes threw
a ball to a guy who was covered,

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but the guy caught the ball,
so he almost can't complain. But

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Kelsey was wide open on that play. So I don't know, you know,

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I don't I don't know that there's
ever an okay time to go bump

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your coach and yell in his ear, But you almost say, I can

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see how that could happen in a
Super Bowl. So did you see the

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story? And I read about the
story about Kelsey the pregame in the pre

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game. I guess they had a
show on him and how much he's improved

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in terms of his temper, how
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evolved into this player, and he
quoting the coach and obviously read saying,

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oh he's come a long way,
he's more mature, YadA, YadA.

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And then but you know what,
I think competitors compete. Yeah, and

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he was just in the moment of
this. You know, he probably went

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about it. Probably he did go
about it different. But but if you

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want to make a point, he
made a point and he was abused more

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efficiently the next next round. So
you were rooting really hard for the Chiefs.

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How did you take the game?
I just watched it. I just

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watched it. I was out in
Phoenix doing things and watched it. I'm

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glad they wont because I made some
money from it. But it was a

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good game. And then wait,
it ended with but you had going on

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with were you like, no on
pins and Neils on edge? No?

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No, no, just no,
because no, no, I don't do

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that anymore. Jake. Well,
you know the last time I did damn

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what's his name with the Jets now, yeah, I got at twenty five

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to one to get to the super
Bowl and he and he didn't run for

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that kid. Yeah. See that's
us too. We had fun. You

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know, we had all these we
had all these bets going and all these

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things, and we're keeping you on
checking the Yeah, well we're tracking.

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I'm you know, you know,
I'm sitting at the food table and I've

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got my computer in front of me
and I'm checking the yards. Doesn't that

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take away from the game? Oh
no, not for me. It makes

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a game more fun. It's kind
of like a bingo card. It is

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like a bingo card. You said, Well, it's like, okay,

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you know, okay, the Niners
have possession. This is what we need

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to have, and we love rooting
for that, right. How you know

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we got to uh uh uh the
Chief's last possession of regulation. Okay,

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we needed we needed I take it
back, I take it back. It

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was the forty nine No, no, yeah, the Chief's last possession of

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regulation. We needed pat Patrick Mahomes
to get forty three yards passing to hit

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the over So that's what we were
keeping. And you're thinking that's very possible,

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right because they're gonna throw. Yeah, they need to throw the ball

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there, you know it. Yeah
he did because he ran for some But

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the problem was on that same on
that same two Lake parlay, on the

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same ticket, we had rock parties
under passing yards okay, and and he

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we had like I think we had
thirty yards to play with. Well,

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they got into overtime and he got
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here, so you know it.
So we have fun with that because we

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you know, we as a group, we're all in on this thing.

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So we track. Okay, here's
what we need on this drive. The

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only thing I did something like that
was, you know, when you get

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the squares, you buy the squares. I was kept, you know,

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after every score, I was kind
of okay, yeah, but you know,

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here's one that we had fun with
the whole night, all right,

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and it was frustrating we didn't hit
it. Nick Bosa had his hands on

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Patrick Mahons all night long. He
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two five. He needed a half
sack. Okay, there was him personally,

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Yeah, him personally. There was
a sack where Chase Young got there

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first, but Bosa helped on the
tackle and they gave the whole thing to

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Chase Young and Bosa didn't get the
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And then there were two other times
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he had his hands on him in
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the one of the last plays of
the game, right he was chasing them

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down, chasing them down because I
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Was it total sacks the team?
Yeah, maybe he got three,

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he got they got him three times, but we needed a half a sack

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from Nick Bosa and he had Mahomes
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many times. Well, we'll talk
about this on the other side. No.

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Four o'clock hour, right, George
Modis is coming into town, coming

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on the show. He has a
big show coming up next week. We'll

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talk more about that later. But
he was in Vegas not for the game.

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He didn't go to the game.
The ticket he'll he'll explain the ticket

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price. But he went for a
show and to have fun. And we're

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gonna see how Vegas was. Yeah, I want to ask, well,

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just you know, you were just
seeing videos of like massive amounts of people

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standing in lines for something and not
at the game. I'm talking like Friday

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and Saturday, you know, at
events and at locations where lines for everything

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were just massive. Final Four is
there? Next year? When's the Final

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Four there? It's in a couple
of years, two three years, that's

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coming on. It's going to be
crazy for that too, not to this

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extent, but it's going to be
fun. But you know, you knew

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it was going to be not so
for Super Bowl, right, I mean

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remember when they had the All Star
weekend NBA All Star Weekend there and then

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people were getting shot and stuff.
I mean, well it's like a Tyson

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next year. Okay, cool,
but in San Antonio, Indianapolis, Vegas.

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So but yeah, I was really
expected. And yeah I love to

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hear from Georgia. But what Vegas
was? It was like on Super Bowl

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because I can't imagine Vegas. Who
was your first ever been like this?

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What was your first time in Vegas? In Vegas? Yeah, first time

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I looked to Vegas. Yeah,
that's for a reason. I was like

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six six. We played in New
Craps. My parents, my parents,

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I remember this was like my parents
were were you know, we were We

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were on our way home from a
Disneyland trip and my parents, my parents

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decided they wanted to go to Vegas
and we went and we stayed at the

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Horseshoe downtown and we just overnight and
so we got to the hotel here.

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Well I just stayed in the show. So as an adult, As an

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adult, I was underage. I
was working in Bullhead City. Yeah,

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yeah, I was. I was
nineteen years old. I was working in

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Bullhead City. Actually I was.
Yeah, I was nineteen years old,

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working in Bullhead City on the newspaper
there on the summer, on a summer

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internships. I went to Vegas a
couple of times. I've got to play

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a little bit, you know.
I didn't look. I didn't look twenty

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one, but a couple of places
I went to didn't care. So that

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was the first time I went,
the first time I was legal. I

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was. I'm sure I was just
twenty one, because you know, you

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would go a lot. Oh,
do you remember much about it? All

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the city looked Yeah, I mean, I'm thinking back when I remember going

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back to the desert in the star
Dust year the seven year number, well,

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seventy nine was when I was in
Bullhead City, so you know,

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it would it would have been nineteen, you know, nineteen eighty eighty one

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that I would have gone as old
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It was not it's obviously not what
it's not what it is now, but

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it was cool. It was the
old It was the old strip right seeing

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the Dean Martin movies right with I
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end, the Sahara, the Riviera, the Frontier, the Dunes. You

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know, we stayed at We stayed
at the Tropic Cannon, golfed at the

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dunes one year. You know the
Caesar's Palace before it was the massive place

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is now the Barbary Coast right across
right across the street, the corner which

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is not there anymore, you know, pre Valley's, pre Mandola, pre

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all all of those places, right, I was just remember all those.

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My point was how different it is
now. My time was eighty seven.

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I think the MGM had just got
up or was going up. Yeah,

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in that corner area where were you. The MBM grand went up in early

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nineties because I remember that because we
were in Vegas and we took my son

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Adam, who's now is not going
to turn thirty one in a couple of

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months. He was probably two years
old. They just finished it because they're

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starting when I was right, they
had just finished it, uh and uh,

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and we went to it and we
thought it would be a coolace for

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him to go because there might be
all this Wizard of Oz stuff and there

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wasn't. So it was no.
Eventually, eventually they had so many eventually,

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No, it's it's changed so much. Obviously obviously for the good and

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the bad. More prices. You
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But okay, okay, So we'll
get to George Montison in the next hour

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at three fifteen, three seventeen,
we have eron Torres Tours on Arizona.

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He's uh, yeah, he's got
a you know, a Twitter account that's

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run locally. He's a national guy
Fox Sports. He has a national podcast.

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Uh we uh you know, we
get him occasionally. Yeah too.

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He follows Arizona quite a bit.
He has an interesting comment today or maybe

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over the weekend about that when he
yeah by saying that, you know,

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Arizona's back in you know, back
in the top five where they should be,

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uh, the first place in the
PAC twelve you know, yeah there.

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So, so we had been trying
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weeks. He's been too busy or
whatever. So I was driving home from

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Phoenix last night that's where I was
watching the game, and I heard him

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on the show. I heard him
on his show, I guess on Fox

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up there, and I said,
well, maybe he'll say yesterday, And

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so I called him this morning and
he said, yes, Uh, I

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guess he's in Arizona. For a
couple of days. Okay, so that's

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why I guess he has time to
do it, all right, So so

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good, go get him on.
We'll talk about you know, the people

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who have jumped on, jumped off, jump back on, and jump back

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off and jump back on. Did
you see what my post on Facebook today?

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Let me if I click it up
during the break? Okay, you

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know it's sure it is Steve and
me all of a sudden, everybody,

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Yeah, well, you know they're
really good. We knew they were good.

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Stop it. We thought they were
going to lose both games in the

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Mountain, well, we thought they
spent. But here's here's my quick It

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was one of those now number five
in the a P pole and yes,

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number one in your hearts unless your
post on face, unless you post on

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Facebook that they suck and they missed
a shot and then you ate them because

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it's true. Come on, it's
totally true. Look, and I you

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know, I mean I said I
didn't think that they were going to win

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both games. We didn't, and
especially after they after the slog that they

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had against and I didn't realize that
they had hadn't been Coloradison's to that I

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had no idea. How tough it
was. I had no idea. But

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they played well this weekend. Yeah, yeah, they didn't. Was fantastic.

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They looked every bit, every bit, every bit the top five teams.

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So well, we'll talk about So
we're back on. I'm back gone.

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Yeah man, Yeah, they're number
one in my heart. We're going

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to the final four. All right, let's take a break. Word.

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Breaking down all the exes and Oh, it's Steve Rivera and jaygen Salviz.

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This is I on the bar on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey,

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welcome back to I'm the ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve.

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He's Jay Now on the phone.
We have Aeron Torres from Torizon,

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Arizona. Aeron. How you doing
that? I'm really good. How you

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guys doing well? I know what
you're doing because because it was a great

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weekend for the Wildcats. But I'm
I'm well, I know you got to

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do. But everything else stood besides
the basketball team went back to that game.

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We are fine. We are fine. By the way, we're here

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to I'm filling out my bracket.
Should I put Arizona to win it all

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after the weekend? Yeah, I
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I'll say this is that once you
get past that top two, it's

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a pretty wide open field. And
I was thinking about it watching the call

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Colorado game. Is I do think
you know you put Arizona on a neutral

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court against pretty much anybody, they're
going to have a size advantage of talent

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advantage and that moticism advantage. Now, I don't want to get everybody riles

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up and excited on February twelfth or
whatever today is and guarantee anything, but

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listen, I think you could make
a lot worse sick than taking Arizona to

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go far when the tournament bracket eventually
does come out here in a few weeks.

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So you know Arizona fan, and
I don't know how well you know

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the Arizona fan, but you know
this team is as you said, it's

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in that bunch right after Purdue and
Yukon that everybody's got five or six losses.

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But when Arizona loses a game to
a Washington State or whoever, fan

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here loses their mind and and they
think that those other teams who have five

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losses, they don't care who they
lost to. They think it shouldn't happen

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here. It's really weird that I
think Arizona fan this year thinks less of

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this team than say people I'm from
the out side. Arizona fan is wondering

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why are they top five right now. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm a

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little confused. What just a question? Are you guy? It seems like

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the national media thinks a whole lot
more of this team than the Arizona fan

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does right now because of who Arizona
got. No. I totally get that,

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and I think there's something to that. Now, listen, First of

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all, you know, we all
know fanas short for fanatic and and people.

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Every fan base has people that are
going to overreact. But what I

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would also say is, listen,
this team isn't perfect. And I think

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when you're a fan of a specific
team and we all are listen, I'm

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a ukun alum. I think you
guys know that. And I watch that

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team and I think, you know, I probably watch it with a keener

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eye than a lot of other people. Now, the last couple of games,

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they've been awesome, But like there
have been games where I sit there

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and say, well, if this
doesn't change, there's no way that you

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know they'll win this game, But
they can't win that game and they go

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on to win. So I actually
get where Arizona fans are coming from,

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and I think what I would also
say, it comes from a good places.

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We've seen what this team's potential is
going to Douke and getting to win.

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We've seen what this team's potential is
beating what was a good Wisconsin team

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really until the last week or two
in the manner of which they beat them.

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So I think what the fans are
sitting there saying is is like,

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I've seen this team at its best. Let's get back to that, and

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now it's up to the team to
kind of do that, but more importantly,

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do it consistently parent along those lines, go here, you've seen their

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potential, and you've seen their potential
on the other side, you just have

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that's the scary part. Well,
it is, and you know, I

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think the thing that kind of would
frustrate me is that it's been really games

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to game like like like again,
I just used the example Wisconsin. They're

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in a fuck they've lost four straight, but they also had a stretch of

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about, you know, eight nine
games to start league playing where they were

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awesome and so Arizona was great in
November December, but since PAC twelve play

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has started, it's been up and
down, up and down, up and

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down. You know, you lose
to Stanford, then you know you crush

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cal then you lose to Stanford,
you crush uh whatever. Then you lose

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their you know, you lose to
Oregon State, then you beat a good

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Oregon team. And so I will
say I think this past weekend maybe the

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first sign of Okay, we can
do this consistently. Although I say that,

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but you obviously easy give the lost
to Arizona Free easily gonna lost to

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Utah excuse me a triple overtime.
But I thought that Colorado win it really

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did show me something because you're on
the road, you played a tough game

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two nights before, you're at altitude, which I think does matter. You

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have coaches in the league, and
Steve, I know you know this,

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but you have coaches in the league
about how hard it is to do that

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road trip because of the altitude.
And so for Arizona to win those those

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back to back games, especially the
second one, I thought was important.

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But against your guys point, you
got to do it consistently. You gotta

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do it more than just one weekend. You gotta do it for the next

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four weekends heading into the Backwell tournament. So on this team, it's like

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people kind of you don't say it, well, it's all Caleb Love and

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it's lately Umar Ballo, but you
know he just got a pack twell player

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of the Pelly Larson to us to
Steve and I, and we've had this

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conversation with uh. I think,
you know Evan Mikawa who does that those

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analytics. Pellet Larson clearly is the
most important guy on this team because Caleb

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Love has had bad games and they've
won. Umar Bella's had had bad games

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than they won. But if Pellet
Larson plays like crap, it seems they

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lose every time. That's really interesting. I hadn't thought about that. I

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mean, I have thought about like
the Caleb Love perspective. I thought about

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why can't you get consistency out of
Umar follow And you know, I've noticed

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even a guy like Keisha Johnson,
who I really like, has obviously struggled,

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you know, at times impact twelve
play. I hadn't really thought about

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that, but but I do think
that's pretty interesting. And I think the

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thing with Pella is like very versatile
player on both ends of the court,

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right, you could be a very
good offensive player, can be very good

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defensive player. But he kind of
creates mismatches because of his size and athleticism

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on both ends. I'm not saying
that he's an elite wing defender, but

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he at least has the size and
the athleticism and the measurables to make things

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tough on people. So that's really
interesting. I had not thought about that.

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Evan does really good work. I
don't know him personally, but I've

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been an admirer from a distance for
a while, and if he has the

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stats to back that up, I
would not be surprised because it feels like,

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it feels like he is a very
important piece. I just, you

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know, I hadn't really thought of
it from that perspective, but I'm not

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surprised to hear that at all.
Okay, so we've got to kill other

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the way. Now, let's let
me ask you about love Caleb. What's

409
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your impression of him? He came
in with this reputation right of being who

410
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he was, and he came here
and has kind of done very well and

411
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then not so well, but very
well. And you know what I'm saying,

412
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And he's taking shots from the elbow, he's taking shots from from from

413
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Austin. What's your impression of him
right today? February twelve. Well,

414
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I think you know, this is
this is who he was at North Carrett

415
00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:06.319
Well, who he was at North
Carolina was a guy who took way too

416
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many low percentage you know, high
volume, low percentage shot and it didn't

417
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work. And they, you know, they they can say whatever they want

418
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to say. But I don't know
if they forced him out, but I

419
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think everybody was happy to kind of
go their own directions. That includes calob

420
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but I think it also includes the
coaching staff and some of his ex teammates

421
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as well. So I think,
listen, he was sold the right thing

422
00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:33.440
on coming to Arizona. Hey,
you know, we think you're an important

423
00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:37.359
piece, but you have to be
willing to buy in. And I do

424
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think even if you just watch them
game to game, there's even just even

425
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the games where he plays, well, there's just a possession or too where

426
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:45.680
you just say, oh, you
could kind of see he catches the ball.

427
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.559
You're like, well, he's not
giving this up. And then he

428
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goes and he takes a bad shot, he drives into traffic, he does

429
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:55.480
whatever. And so I just think
it's on the coaching staff and I think

430
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it's obviously on the teammates to kind
of keep them in line. And when

431
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I think keep them in line,
it doesn't mean he's a kid, a

432
00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.000
bad person about this, about that, just that like, hey, this

433
00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:06.640
is a team game. We got
five guys on the floor that can all

434
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do things. And I think that's
the important part with this Arizona team specifically,

435
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:15.759
is it's not like there aren't other
guys capable, whether it is whoever,

436
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.160
we know who the talent is on
that that roster, and I think

437
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that's the important part making sure to
keep some of those other guys established at

438
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.119
this time because there is a lot
of talent and it can't just be him

439
00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:30.640
taking games over. That doesn't benefit
anybody, right, I totally agree,

440
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.119
totally agree. Does aar Zona have
a guy that, let's say, can

441
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.880
carry this team, you know,
through the tournament or something like that.

442
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:41.920
Is it Caleb Love? Would it
have to be Umar Bella? Would have

443
00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:44.960
to be Keisha Johnson? Right,
we have a repeller, you know who?

444
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.680
Okay, you get to you get
to the tournament. Now you need

445
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:49.440
somebody to be the guy. Wait, wait, wait, and before that,

446
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:53.880
we haven't even mentioned Kyle. Yeah. Is there a guy like that

447
00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:57.880
or are they gonna need a guy
like that? Do you think, well,

448
00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:03.240
I think Caleb is that guy where
you know, if it's a one

449
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.079
possession game, you know, it's
not just that he probably should have the

450
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:11.920
ball. He wants the ball,
and I do think that's important and he

451
00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:18.240
will probably be that guy, but
I also don't think I also don't think

452
00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:21.839
other guys are incapable of that,
and so again it comes down to making

453
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:23.480
sure to kind of keep him in
check. Is that, Hey, five

454
00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:26.079
guys on the court, and all
of these guys can score. I mean,

455
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:29.799
that's what makes Arizona so unique,
is you know, you look,

456
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:32.559
you watch some of these other teams, and let's just be honest, there's

457
00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:37.200
there's definitely dead spots on other teams
and you know, limited offensive guys and

458
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this and that, and so I
do think listen the tournament and at some

459
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.200
point, even if you win it, there's gonna be a close game,

460
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:47.680
a one possession game, and you
need somebody to go make a play.

461
00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.319
And he's probably that guy. But
it also can't be that guy all forty

462
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.000
minutes every single game. This isn't
you know, Jim or for Dead or

463
00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:59.440
whoever at BYU. This is a
team that has other guys that are capable,

464
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:03.200
and it on them to uh to
you know again, to keep them

465
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.559
in line and being able to do
what they need to do. Yeah.

466
00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:10.759
Yeah, So let's go to some
of this national stuff. Because I was

467
00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:14.119
listening to your pocket you spent had
some interesting comments on the super Bowl.

468
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:15.839
But let's tell you. Let's talk
about this thing that you you brought up

469
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:21.880
with Kentucky and because Steve and I
talked about Calipari and John Calipari and how

470
00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:25.960
many national championships you should have won
versus I mean he has and and you

471
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.000
talked to spend a lot of time
talking about it's not going so well from

472
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:30.000
over there. I think you said
they I think they've lost three in a

473
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:34.640
row, three including three at home
for the first time in forever. What

474
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:40.640
do you think is happening over there? Well, it's it's first of all,

475
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.279
first time we're Marina opened in nineteen
seventy six. This is the first

476
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:49.039
time they have ever lost three straight
at home. Now, I will say,

477
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:55.400
like, you know, all three
like Gonzaga, and there are variant

478
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.519
bearing factors. They were without a
big guy on Saturday. Gonzaga had sixty

479
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:02.039
six base points from their big guy. I mean, you know, so

480
00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:03.519
there are reasons. But at the
end of the day, Kentucky is like

481
00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:07.799
Arizona. You have to compete at
the highest level. It's not you know,

482
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:10.519
you get paid a lot of money. It's not just hey, let's

483
00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:12.000
make the tournament and a wall go
home happy and we'll get ready for next

484
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.759
year. It's it's a week we
expect to win and win big. And

485
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.359
so when they lost, I thought
it was kind of a turning point for

486
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.960
the fan base where you could sense
a lot of real frustration because it's not

487
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:27.319
like you lost to Kansas or to
Arizona or whatever. I mean, Gonzaga

488
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:32.000
is probably on the wrong side of
the bubble even after winning that game.

489
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.640
And so what I did was on
Saturday, I just went on social media

490
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:38.079
and I said, who would you
want Kentucky fans as your next step coach

491
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:41.200
if if somehow Calipari left, And
again, he's got a huge contract,

492
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.119
so it won't be easy. And
they gave some some interesting answers, and

493
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:48.279
so I just kind of spend some
of the time on my show today kind

494
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:53.039
of going through who are realistic candidates
and who are not? Who could who

495
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:56.720
you know is the money right?
Is? Would they leave their current job?

496
00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:59.400
Blah blah blah blah blah, this
and that, and so I thought

497
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:01.640
it was an interesting segment, and
it was really kind of generated frankly by

498
00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:06.039
the listeners. So yeah, it
was a Kentucky heavy show today. We'll

499
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.240
get back to some national college hoops
later this week, but kind of a

500
00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:12.599
quiet week in college hoops. And
and that was really the story. Losing

501
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:16.079
a third straight game at home,
that fan base is clearly frustrated. And

502
00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:19.720
it's really, by the way,
it's worth noting it's really been a four

503
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:23.480
year down term basically since the twenty
twenty the tournament was canceled. They missed

504
00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:27.440
the tournament. It's twenty one,
twenty twenty two, they lost to a

505
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.720
fifteen seed, twenty thirteen or twenty
twenty three, they didn't get out of

506
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.240
the first weekend. So this has
really been a three to four year trend

507
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.400
that I think has now culminated with, as I said, a three game

508
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:39.359
home losing streak that has that fan
base frustrated. Yeah, yeah, no

509
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:44.359
question, it's good to see other
Wildcat fans go ballistic. Yeah yeah,

510
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.599
well Villanova too. Don't forget about
Villanova now, they were in the Final

511
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:50.480
four two years ago. And I
don't even think they're gonna make the tournament

512
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:52.200
this year for a second straight year. So it's, you know, unless

513
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.920
you're in Arizona Wildcat, it's a
tough time to be a Wildcat. Yeah,

514
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:59.160
you talked about that second level of
teams, A bunch of teams with

515
00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:04.119
five and six losses. Arizona's in
there, you know, a whole bunch

516
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.960
of teams. Again, we always
talk get to this time. You say,

517
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:09.880
oh, it's wide open? Is
it wide open? Uh? Is

518
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:15.240
Yukon just too damn good? Is
Purdue gonna you know, is Purdue gonna

519
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.920
you know, fame out the way
they do? I mean, uh,

520
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.640
what are your thoughts right now?
If you're if you were to take a

521
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:28.599
look at the NC DOUBLEA Tournament,
I think those two are Listen. I

522
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:34.200
mean, in a year where teams
like pretty much everybody is losing at least

523
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.400
it feels like everybody's losing like once
a week, and that's not really true.

524
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.240
Obviously Arizona swept last week. There's
other teams, et cetera, et

525
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:44.839
cetera. It does feel like it
goes two and everybody else. And I

526
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.480
give both credit, but I don't
think either is beautible listen. Perdue has

527
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:52.400
the Demons. Everybody knows what they
are, and I still do think are

528
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:57.440
you going to get enough against elite
teams from people other than Zach Edie consistently?

529
00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:00.519
Now you can a little different.
Utah shoot really good guys and that's

530
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:05.359
that's not you know, everybody knows
that, but you know, really,

531
00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:07.559
all five guys can score, they
defend, they rebound, and I think

532
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:12.679
the thing watching them night in a
night out, they're They're maybe the most

533
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:15.480
talented team in the country, and
they also play the hardest in the country.

534
00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:19.159
I mean, they played at Saint
John's at Madison Square Garden a few

535
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.719
weeks ago and it was basically tied
with like probably eleven minutes to go.

536
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:29.039
And Saint John's's coached by Rick Patino. Nobody plays harder than Rick Patino's teams,

537
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.039
and they just hit a gear yukon
where they just got to every loose

538
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:36.400
ball, every offensive rebound, every
this, every that, and all of

539
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:40.079
a sudden, a one possession game
was like eleven point lead in the span

540
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:43.920
of like eight minutes. And so
to beat them, I don't think they're

541
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:47.000
unbeatable, and I will say too, they still do largely. Yukon has

542
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:51.880
the toughest part of their schedule left
two games against Marquette. Marquette just got

543
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:54.519
back into the top five today.
They still have to play at Creighton,

544
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:58.199
which is a top ten team,
so there's still a lot of tough games

545
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.480
left on that schedule. I don't
think they're unbeatable by any stretch. Okay,

546
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:05.880
we got about a few seconds.
Tell us how we can listen to

547
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:10.280
your stuff over the internet or otherwise. No, I appreciate that, guys.

548
00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:15.320
Aaron Aeron Torres podcast a lot of
college troops to sire year that's available

549
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.119
on Apple, Spotify, also on
YouTube as well, so make sure to

550
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.760
check it out. You follow me
on Aaron Underscore Tours if you're on Twitter,

551
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.639
and then we have the tours on
Arizona count which is all Arizona coverage

552
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:29.440
all the time. Okay, Aeron
as usual, thank you very much.

553
00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:34.079
We'll play touch base with you right
before the tournament starts. Looking forward to

554
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:36.199
it, fellas, have a great
day, be well, Thank you,

555
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.679
Thank you. Aeron Torres always good
with kind of tracks of what we think.

556
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:44.239
Yeah, pretty much pretty much and
again I mean I mean it,

557
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:49.199
you know, it's it's and the
seasons always be the case. Arizona fan

558
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:53.400
when it comes to basketball, is
more critical of its team than the national

559
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:57.199
people. Sure. You know,
if you go ask the average Arizona fan

560
00:35:57.239 --> 00:36:00.679
because of who they've lost to,
Washington State Stanford, and you say,

561
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.599
are their top five team, and
they're gonna say, no, I don't

562
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:06.559
think they are. Depends Yeah,
it depends on the loyalty of the person

563
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:08.480
you have, even the person who
loves them to let's go with this,

564
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:10.840
go to break with this question,
and we'll come back on the side talk

565
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.440
about it. Maybe get the costs, anything less than a what is gonna

566
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:17.679
be disappointing, don't answer, but
we'll come back on the other side.

567
00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:22.199
Maybe get some calls, get your
thoughts, or anything less than whatever.

568
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I'm Steve, He's Jay. We've
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news. But we're going to discuss
anything less than a final four, Sweet

605
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sixteen, first round. What do
you got? What do you want to

606
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call? Police? Two? In
fact? Two? Well, four,

607
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one, seventy four, forty let
us know this. I think because of

608
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how Arizona started this season, the
teams they've beaten, the attention they've had

609
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all season long, I think I
do believe Arizona fan will be disappointed if

610
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.760
they don't get to the final four. Of course it's the first two,

611
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:37.679
would be the first time in twenty
three years. I mean, they'll lose

612
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:42.559
their minds if they if they're out
at the sweet sixteen, if they get

613
00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.719
to the Elite eight, they'll go, Okay, this is great, but

614
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:49.119
we have to get to a final
four. And then if they don't get

615
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:51.880
to the final four, they're gonna
say then what was all that other stuff

616
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:54.320
about? Yeah? I think that, and I've said this, I've written

617
00:39:54.320 --> 00:40:00.960
this that the first first month kind
of created this false cent right of whatever

618
00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:06.719
and how good they are, Uh, they're not as bad as losing to

619
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:13.320
Oregon State. They're not as good
as beating Duke Wisconsin. It's just it's

620
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:16.519
just there's somewhere in between, more
to the good part than the bad part.

621
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:20.559
And they're good enough, sure,
right, they're good enough, you

622
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:27.159
know, but they go into places
that you don't know how right. I

623
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.119
mean, what happened, for instance, what happened in the in the second

624
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:34.039
half of regulation at Utah Utah?
Right right? You know, they're killing

625
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:36.920
them. All of a sudden here
comes Utah and then then they got it.

626
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:38.599
They still won the game, but
it took three times do it?

627
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:42.159
They're scrambling, I know, and
you're thinking just defend. Well, it's

628
00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:45.639
not that easy because the other team
is. And then then guess what happens.

629
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:52.559
Utah loses the issue the next game. I didn't know that. Yeah,

630
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:54.239
that's just that's what it is.
Well, it's over for Utah in

631
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:58.920
terms of getting to the turnament.
Well that's how emotional games are. You

632
00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:00.440
get up for one, that's so, what's the other. So so that

633
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:06.840
lost her Utah more than the win
heard Arizona up in the mountain. Wow.

634
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:12.239
Wow, But I Steve, I
think I think because you know,

635
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.159
Arizona has been a one seed in
a two seed and now is headed towards

636
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:21.280
a one seed again under Tommy.
You know, I mean, if you're

637
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:24.480
a one seed, you're seeded into
the final four, You're you're supposed to

638
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:29.360
be in the final four. That's
what they have you. I know that.

639
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:31.800
You know last year they were a
two and you're like, okay,

640
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:36.360
you know they were seated into the
lead eight. Then they you know,

641
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:38.519
obviously flamed out. But if you're
a number one seed, you're supposed to

642
00:41:38.519 --> 00:41:40.880
be in the in the in the
final, you're good enough to get there.

643
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:46.159
Here I'm looking for calls there was
something else, But I do you

644
00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:49.840
think you do you agree with me? Do you think? And it'll be

645
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.960
disappointed, But do you think if
they get to the lead eight, don't

646
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:54.360
get there? If people go,
there's still a great season. Depends what

647
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:57.079
they play in how they play.
Right here, we got a call.

648
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:01.239
Hi are on the air and I
on the ball. Hey you guys game,

649
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:06.039
how's everything going, Gabe? We're
alive. We're doing okay. How

650
00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:10.360
are you? I'm doing pretty good. I'm happy that Arizona got roast sweep

651
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:16.960
and stacking wins on top of each
other. This week is hate week against

652
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:22.639
the dumbasses in Tempe, So that's
gonna be good. Gay. Let me

653
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:25.960
ask you something because we we know
Gabe on the radio show and how you

654
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:29.800
can be critical of a lot of
things. When you watch a game,

655
00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:35.239
let's say Thursday night against Utah,
do you get to the point of craziness

656
00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:39.599
of mat or how do you get
I was a little I was a little

657
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:47.719
bit worried because the letting Utah come
back, but thankfully they found a way

658
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:53.119
to win. So but yeah,
but are you angry? Are you angry

659
00:42:53.159 --> 00:43:00.000
when they do that? Not as
much as I were losing to Stanford or

660
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:04.199
Oregon State. Okay, it's not
where a point where you're gonna go.

661
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:06.880
You wanna take a take a whack
at that big street. Yeah, you're

662
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:10.519
not throwing a folding chair through a
TV like we saw a forty nine Ers

663
00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:19.519
fan on No. I won't,
I won't, I will not. Okay,

664
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.239
Yeah, some more thing I want
to get to you. Jason Shere

665
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:31.199
basically reported that Jetfish that basically had
an interview with the u C A Lake

666
00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:36.639
with the u C A Lake job, and I'm just saying, well,

667
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:42.679
that's definitely him that's definitely, that's
definitely what Jeff Fish did would have done.

668
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:50.039
And two things can be true.
He did help Arizona to put Arizona

669
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.760
back on the map. But the
other thing he did he really did burn

670
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:59.039
a lot of bridges in Tucson.
And I think, hey, Washington fans,

671
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:04.400
he's gonna leave to go to Florida
or to NFL job. So have

672
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:09.639
at a hospt Hey real quick answer
the question if Arizona gets to what would

673
00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:14.800
be the most uh phrase? What
would disappoint you if they didn't get to

674
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:17.280
the final four, they got to
the sweet sixteen? Latey, what where

675
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:22.880
would you be? What's your disappointment
level? They need to get to the

676
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:27.440
final four or not get beat by
a bunch of nerds. Let me part

677
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.239
of it that way. Okay,
okay, So no Princeton on the schedule.

678
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:35.360
Well, here's another thing they need
to beat. They need to beat

679
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:38.039
the teams that they are supposed to
be, just like they need to beat

680
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:44.360
the teams in the in they need
to beat the teams now that that need

681
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:47.039
to be bet in the past twelve
that's the that's the bottom line. So

682
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:53.000
they need to take care of business. Just focus on who's who's coming up

683
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:57.960
in the schedule, in their schedule, and not not be slaped it.

684
00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:00.880
Okay, thank you Ge. It
was usual for Colin. Appreciate you.

685
00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:06.199
Okay, down Arizona GOCAT, thank
you. Hey. So, okay,

686
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:08.559
get to the Elite eight and they
lose to Houston, they lose to a

687
00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:13.519
Yukon, or they lose to a
Kansas, Right, are you disappointed?

688
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.519
No? What if they get it's
a one shot, two shot game.

689
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:22.000
What if it's a twenty point game? Yeah? Yeah, if you get

690
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.119
blown out in the Elite eight,
yeah, yeah, you can't let that

691
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:30.199
happen. So quality, quality of
quality, yeah yeah, the quality of

692
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:36.760
the game. You know, to
me, you know, when you look

693
00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:44.320
at the bigger picture, to expect, not hope, but expect Tommy Lloyd

694
00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:45.840
to take this team into the Final
four in his third year at Arizona.

695
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:52.360
Like what the hell? Right,
I don't care what I mean. The

696
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:58.239
program wasn't in great shape when when
Sean Miller left it no question Charlett's off.

697
00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:00.400
You want to say, well he's
he's take and he's taken. Uh

698
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:04.079
Sean Miller's players, Well he really
hasn't. He went and got a bunch

699
00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:07.079
of new guys. Yeah, you
know, Umar Baala wasn't Sean Miller's player.

700
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:09.880
Haitla Bloves not Sean Miller's player.
Kishad Johnson is not Sean Miller's player.

701
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:13.800
Even some of the guys from last
year aren't aren't Shawan Miller's players.

702
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.400
And and when you think about the
magnitude of what that would mean for him

703
00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:23.880
to get his guys to the final
four in year three under the circumstance,

704
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:29.159
you go, why would you be
unhappy if he was one step short of

705
00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:30.920
that? Right? Well? Miller
I took third year, I think it

706
00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.599
was third year, and he had
Duke by the Yeah, that was a

707
00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:40.320
shocker. Yeah, oh Clo whoever
just called police call back? Yeah,

708
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:44.639
but that that was completely unexpected.
It was one off. And the way

709
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:47.679
they beat Duke that that day.
Yeah. Yeah. Higher on the air

710
00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:52.199
and I on the ball. Hey
guys, how you doing, Howard?

711
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:58.039
Yeah, I think they should curb
their enthusiasm. I think they need to

712
00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:01.079
get to the Grade eight. Yeah. I think that's Yeah, depends what

713
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:04.880
they play and how they play in
that lead eight game. I know here

714
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:07.199
we already have them in the Elite
eight, right, But I agree with

715
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:09.639
you, Howard, I agree with
you. Yeah, and then of course

716
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.800
they're playing with how's money and you
know, and like you know me,

717
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:21.800
I'm the biggest person on on getting
to to get some more bench play,

718
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:24.559
like you know, here just here
to push plug a guy in and hopefully

719
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:29.880
do something. Did the fact that
he went to eight and nine, ten

720
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:31.599
deep and he did kind of a
little bit, nothing did that make you

721
00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:37.480
happy? Yeah? Even for a
little while. And it's like just on

722
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.280
that Utah game, I thought they
were losing and they'm gonna win. It

723
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:45.079
was. I was surprised because I
went to bed it was too late,

724
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:49.320
but I saw a triple overtime.
I go, wow, that's pretty crazy.

725
00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:52.280
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll
see how much Philippe and and the

726
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:58.280
other guy whore rich you what's his
name? You got twenty four twenty three?

727
00:47:58.079 --> 00:48:05.880
The international guy that I can his
name I forgive not no, no

728
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:10.000
Morascus mos I'll remember. So you
know, those those are your nine and

729
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:15.599
ten guys. So yeah, but
that's for lip I call him him.

730
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:24.840
Yeah, So I I like him. He's gonna well we talked about I

731
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.039
talked aboutim this year that he'd be
an impact player. How wrong was I?

732
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:34.760
How wrong was I thank you,
Howard. All right, yeah,

733
00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:38.199
you know, I bringing that up
the deep. He went into his bench.

734
00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:44.880
It's kind of like, I don't
know if he planned it, but

735
00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:46.360
it's kind of like, Okay,
we're gonna need help. It was luxury

736
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:52.079
that he had had good he had
a good sized lead he got he got

737
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:54.960
uh Martinez Martinez in there, you
know, with some with some real minutes,

738
00:48:55.440 --> 00:49:00.960
right, And so I thought it
was interesting that he did that and

739
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:07.800
maybe confirmations right where that he's going
to need that going down forward. Cool,

740
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:09.719
Hi, you're on there and eye
on the ball. Hey, gentlemen,

741
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:13.280
Happy Monday. Here. I'm getting
way in on this u of a

742
00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:16.679
thing. I'm kind of opposite guy. Maybe not, but as far as

743
00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:22.039
expectations, and you know, a
couple of years now, we've won,

744
00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:27.360
won the regular season PAC twelve PAC
twelve tournament and then we flame out.

745
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:31.039
I would almost rather finish like fourth
regular season, maybe fourth in the tournament.

746
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:36.559
In other words, in other words, final four banners to me look

747
00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:39.119
a little more impressive than the regular
season. You know. And I talk

748
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:42.239
to my friends at work for about
half and a half on that, but

749
00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:45.800
I you know, I get tired
of kicking button, you know, the

750
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:49.119
first two and then the last one
just flaming out. Totally, I totally

751
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:52.159
hear you. I think you're you're
not any different than most fans because they've

752
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:57.159
done so well and then they show
up in Buffalo. Look, you had

753
00:49:57.199 --> 00:50:01.159
them winning to go far and then
they lose then first round. I hear

754
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:06.000
you. I hear you, especially
the first weekend with all that build up,

755
00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:07.360
you know, and I just I
don't want to just say Lloyd Miller's

756
00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:09.519
done it. Hell, even Loot's
done it. Now. Luke's got his

757
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:13.639
final force more than a lot of
other guys. But still, I mean,

758
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:15.960
you know, in my opinion,
final force kind of the ultimate because

759
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:17.199
once you get in there, it's
luck. Anyways, what we're rolling the

760
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:20.760
dice the last two and Miller never
got there. You know, he had

761
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:23.079
a couple of shots at the E
eight three times and it didn't working.

762
00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:29.599
Wisconsin, correct, Do you have
why why I got you? Somebody I

763
00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:32.280
thought this was made up? Did
Chip Kelly really leave U C L a

764
00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:37.199
head coach to go somewhere as an
offensive coordinator that this isn't made up?

765
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:39.519
He deftly happened. He not only
did he leave U C. L A

766
00:50:39.679 --> 00:50:44.639
to go be an offensive coordinator.
He went to be an offensive coordinator in

767
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:47.840
the same conference. He's at Ohio
State. That's right next year. That's

768
00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:52.119
crazy. Well, I'm going to
start the hot rumor. I guess UCLA's

769
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.079
looking for uh jet fish. I
think that's what I'm gonna start throwing out

770
00:50:55.119 --> 00:50:58.960
there. Well know that they got
their guy already. We'll we'll have it

771
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.480
in breaking news here and if few
minutes they've already got their guy. Okay,

772
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:09.280
appreciate the thank you, the rumors
that already happened, the rumors already.

773
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:13.880
Yeah, you know, it's amazing
to me, and well, way

774
00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:20.280
for breaking news. But the short
amount of time that they're hiring these really

775
00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:24.880
really really important positions, they're taking
less time than it takes you to hire

776
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:30.159
somebody. McDonald's, well, they
really are. I don't know about that.

777
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:34.719
I've never worked there, but they
went, they went and got the

778
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.400
guy they thought they were going to
get originally, because that doesn't happen you

779
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.960
you have the jobs that you've gotten, they already pegged you to get the

780
00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:44.119
job. Steve I hired. I
hired some people at my TP job.

781
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:47.880
Okay, every one of them had
to go two three weeks to hire them,

782
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.000
to make sure you got the right
person. They're doing this in two

783
00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:54.679
days. Let me ask you,
well, let me ask you. You're

784
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:58.960
sixty four. I think great,
what were you doing when you were forty

785
00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:04.119
one? You doing your forty one? Uh? Thank having kids? Man,

786
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.440
having kids. Okay, that's the
last time Everzone went to the final

787
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:12.239
four. Oh, Steve, come
on, you know you're saying this on

788
00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:15.400
my daughter's twenty third birthday. And
that's how long it's been. Okay,

789
00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:19.159
okay, all right, we got
to hit the road. We'll get coffee

790
00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:21.199
hours so we'll be right back with
breaking news.