Steve and Jakin Soles. They have their Eye on the Ball on two Sons
Sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back, everybody.
I'm Steve Robera. He's a Jaca's owns. You know, we've got our
guys, James said, with the breaking news. This is Eye on the
Ball breaking news. Former Arizona guard Kirk Crisa withdrawals from the transfer portal.
And well we're turning to West Virginia. That was not a surprise to me.
No, what what I mean, that was the thing everybody wanted,
Um, you know, the assistant coach to at least get the interim top
for them to stick around. I mean, Kurt's got what this this is
last year right? Uh? Um, you could might have two because of
COVID year two. Yeah maybe yeah, but you know, I mean he
just yeah, I'm not yeah no, not not a shocker. Uh.
And it was probably done to help them keep their team together. I think
one guy still laft. Yeah, I think maybe another time. Another guy
might have left again today, but you're write two songs or something like that,
and there's another guy today. But but Kurt did the same thing here.
Yeah, Sean left, he declared, came back after Tommy, was
after Tommy. Right, Yeah, and that's fine. You know, people
lose their minds. Uh you know what somebody declares like that. It's like
they're just creating making sure all their options. Three star tight end Charlie Krowl
gives Arizona their seventeenth commitment for twenty twenty four. Yeah, they're still out
there getting guys. That's what I was talking about. I mean, seventeen,
They've got seventeen of their recruiting class already lined up and it's still just
what's having July yet it's cue, which is good, which is good.
We'll talk to him about just the quality of players that he has come in
because he was supposed to or it looked like he was stepping it up right.
No, we'll see if he's continued to do that. Right, Arizona
Men's golf sophomore, they'd be Zach Paulo has won the twenty twenty three California
Amateur at Lake Marquet. The California Amateur, he said, yeah, California
Amateur. Yeah, he's like a sophomores. Yeah, he's about to be
a sophomore. Yeah yeah, yeah, So congrats to him, have you
continue to see how good that Stanford women's player is on the tour? I
mean she was in contention and one of their majors, Um Rose Zang.
Oh yeah, she's really good. She was at Stanford at Stanford, Yeah
yeah, yeah yeah. On top of that, she's smart. The Sugar
Skulls defeated the Northern Arizona Wranglers Wranglers this past weekend and looked to a playoff
spot this upcoming on Saturday against the Vegas Nighthawks. This make the Sugar Skulls
are making zero sense to me. We'll have we'll have somebody from the Sugar
Skulls on this week. They are they're six and five or se give me
seven and five. Okay, they're two and four at home, five and
one on the road. That's strange. Yeah. Yeah. They lost two
games at home to San Diego, but beat San Diego at their place.
Um, they split with Bay Area. They beat Bay Area on the road
and lost to them year. Um they split with the Wranglers, lost to
them here and beat them over there. So they're in position. They're still
in position to host a playoff game. They're they're in third place, but
they're tied with Bay Area in the lost column Bay Areas eight and five or
sure, when would that happen? If that was the case, it would
be the playoff game would be uh July twenty seconds, Okay, that weekend,
Okay, so you might be busy with that, right, yeah,
Saturday. But the Sugar Scalls have three games left. They got the Vegas
Nighthawks this weekend at home against UH at six o'clock. This this is the
game where they'll not after this game, they'll have the same number of games
as Bay Areas, So they both have two games left and those are the
two that are fighting for second place over Northern Arizona. Was important because it
puts a little distance between the Sugar Skulls and in fourth place. You know,
you want to be in second or third. Because the Rattlers have gotten
their stuff together and they're in first place in the division, the fourth place
team is gonna have to play them in the first round of the playoffs.
Although the Sugar Skalls did beat them, So I don't know what the hell's
going on, but we'll h you know, uh, she'd be a good
and you know, another good game this weekend. They got Vegas coming into
town on Saturday. Okay, awesome National News Mercury the Meinix Mercury parways with
their head coach, Vanessa nine Guard and names Nicky Blue interim head coach for
their manager of the twenty twenty three season. I was surprised there are two
and ten. She's been there a couple of years, right. Uh.
Former Julie Brossi was one of the coaches there before before she had come on.
I think she tried to get the job. I could be wrong.
Uh. And they're too intend with with the grinder back and Torossi there too.
Yeah. Kind of strange, right, You think you think to be
better to give me decent Right, you can't be too intend and there,
and the season is not long enough for you to sure recover from that.
They got, they got, they had to do something now. Yeah.
Victor wen Biama is deciding to skip the Feeble World Cup to prepare for his
rookie NBA season. Saw that. But he wants to play in the Olympics,
right, But yeah, but he's gonna skip them. Now. Did
you see the other feeble news about uh Bank Carrol Um I briefly saw had
committed to play for Italy. He's an Italian citizen as well. He committed
to play for Italy and then today announced that he's gonna play for the US.
Yeah, and how Italy is pissed? How did he? How did
he did he win working the year? No? He did, Yeah he
did. He he was kind of not descripting what I heard. I didn't
even know that. Yeah he was. He was pretty good. I mean,
he's pretty good player. He just lost and where he's playing at right?
Yeah? Yeah, then you know, big supermark or anything. But
they have a bunch of good players. They had the Gonzaga kid that was
there and yeah, and Aaron Gordon had to leave there to get a title.
That was a lot of good young talents. Um, it's just you
know, no one's really like, no one's like coming out like the superstar
like you know, so they're young team kind of see where they're going to
go in the future. But yeah, I was, I was surprised by
that. I thought he was gonna play for Italy. I don't know what
you did you see what made him like? Yeah? I did? It
didn't it didn't stay said that he changed his mind. Okay, whatever reason,
Yeah, okay, what people change their mind? Go figure, right,
Um, the Hawks traded John Collins to the Jazz for Rudy Gay and
if you just look around pick m hmm um. So this trade was mostly
just for Atlanta to unload John Collins the country's massive contract. So that's all
they're trying to do. Kind of I didn't even know Rudy Gai was still
playing. Yeah me, neither honestly to us all this, So they're really
just trying to build flexibility and kind of just makes some more moves I think
to kind of, you know, improve Trey Youngs and do you john to
his chances of trying to do something in the East. Did you see the
Big Game? Boomer went on and named Atlanta the worst sports city in America.
Oh wow, No, I didn't know that. And then I'm like,
okay, why do you you know, why do you say that?
I mean, what, what's what's the um? What's the teria? And
he and he said something like, it's you know, because they they you
know, they have all the was your list or yeah there was a list,
um they And he said it's not you know, because they have you
know, super Bowls and you know the college football playoffs. They're like they
said, it's not because it's not the difficult support sports. It's that they
don't support their home teams. That that you know, they don't you know,
they don't support the Hawks or you know people go see Hawks games to
see the other team. Uh, well, they don't win. I mean
teams, teams will win, you know, fans show up something I see
a lot of like celebrities go out and support the Hawks. I mean I
don't know that, uh he said. Uh. He said. The list
is based on fans support. At Land is the best city to host big
games, you know, the college football playoff, the Final Four, the
Super Bowl, but excluding the Braves and atl United their soccer team, they
do not show support for their home teams. People go to Hawks games to
watch Stars play. People go to Falcons games to watch their favorite team,
and Georgia Tech fans are given up. Who's number two? Is there?
Two? Uh? Well? And oh later he said, he said,
after sleeping on this, I think Orlando might be worse than Atlanta. Yeah
I was, but he had he had. His original list was, uh,
Atlanta, Charlotte, San Diego, Orlando, Phoenix, Tampa Bay,
Baltimore, Miami, Los Angeles DC. Okay, I mean yeah, I'm
not I'm not too keen on all all of them. But San Diego,
he lost their NFL team, San Diego, the Clippers are no criteria,
right, you couldn't even keep your team. I don't even have a team.
Would they have the Padres? I guess? And and soccer I guess
right, Yeah, that's about it. But Orlando have to San Diego strike
for in the Indoor Football League, there's right, there's U and in Los
Angeles, right, the fan there's too much, you know, too much
going on there, right, there's just too many things to do. I
mean the Dodgers and the Lakers and that, and that's even the Rams.
I mean, you know, they got their new stadiums, but they got
their super And if you don't win, Jay, people don't show up.
That's I guarantee you. If the if the Sugar Sculls and I don't didn't
ask you about the attendance, but if they want and they were like und
if nine and one or whatever, the people would go, yeah, you
don't have two son is and and winning solves a lot of problems. Yeah,
Which is the best the best sports down well, he had, he
had a list of the best. Oh, here's the here's this list.
Boston, Boston, Austin's number three. Okay, Boston, uh, Dallas
number one, number one, number one, who did you take a shot?
Boston would have been mine. Not in New York. Yeah, he
has them in the top ten though. They're six. Miami, no sportsdowns.
Kansas City, Kansas City because of football city, probably mostly because of
the Chiefs, but you know the Royals. Yeah, okay, that's strange,
and then it's gonna be a hard one for you. But you better
think football rather than Cowboys. No, no, no, Dallas isn't even
on the list. Do that makes sense? Um? Not Houston, he
said, Not in New York because also not Boston. That's three. While
you're getting stop in Miami. Pittsburgh, Yeah, they have boiled people.
You know, they're hockey very much a big deal. I have relatives.
It makes sense. It's freason over there, but it makes sense. Here's
the here's his top ten list. Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago, New York, Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, Houston. That
makes sense. Okay, Yeah, in Chicago would be huge if they ever
won in football because they've been batters. He said. Kansas City and Pittsburgh
are one and two because they both strongly support college and professional supports. You
can't say that about the other big cities. Yeah, worsh Phoenix the one
of the worst, fifth worse. Yeah, that makes sense, that makes
sense. Okay, Yeah, all right, that's all that breaking I have.
Okay, I have one. I have one involved in former you a
basketball player? Um uh, I just love a guy who I thought I
jumped too soon, but he had no choice but to jump too soon?
Was it was? Um Johnson? Stanny Johnson. He's gonna be working out
with the sons. With the sons, Um, maybe there's a good chance
to land there. He was in twenty fifteen, twenty and fifteen to sixteen
and he did one and done. Guy. You hardly knew anything about him,
right, good player? Um, but he's been seven years, did
you? I heard today on NBA today that the lifespan on an NBA player,
give me a guess, lifespan like three or four years. It was
like four four and a half, three and out four years. Yeah,
hey, you gotta be four years and make your money better. And that's
why they're jumping, and everyone thinks you're gonna be there forever, right,
yeah, And it doesn't work that way. Everybody well, and because every
year a new crop up young dudes show up to take you to more athletic
and younger than you. And this guy was pretty good. He couldn't shoot,
he couldn't shoot, but he's lasted on and off for the different so
he's gonna be trying to make in Phoenix. Yeah, I saw that.
You know, he's he was a mystery to me because yeah, yeah,
he for a guy who was the one and done, he wasn't you know,
he wasn't a dominant player at all. No, No, he was
just never he walked on the court. Wait and see what's Stanley Johnson dinna
do today. I remember doing a story and Damon was an assistant coach then,
and obviously people know I'm closer to Damon. I pulled him aside his
how coues he gonna be? He says, if he stays, and if
he stays, he's gonna be the best player to ever come to through Arizona.
Of course we all knew he wasn't. He wasn't going to everything right
right, I was never the plan. Yeah, did you see changes?
Did you see the thing with with Derek Jeter on the on the game and
in Poppy gave him a Red Sox jersey which his name Jeter on the back.
He just threw it to the side. He won't be seeing me anymore.
He quit. That was very very cool, But that but it is.
I don't think Derek Jeter is uh thirty, thirty eight, thirty eight?
There he is thirty. You think he's thirty eight. I think he's
thirty. He's forty nine. Your I was just gonna say thirty eight.
Damn you don't. He played twenty years more more exactly. That's where I
screwed up. But more puss. Have you have you seen his um,
his his you know he played for the inks for but his playing field of
women, did he? Yes, I've seen that. Holy that's been the
payer in every position. Yes, that was holy. That was unbelievable.
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came out with their twenty twenty three UH records for the for football. They
have Arizona at five and seven, tied with Colorado, Happy Unhappy tied it
with Colorado Colorado. Are you that's not gonna keep you happy? No,
you don't think that's gonna keep fans happy. It's not gonna keep fans happy.
No, I think that's what's gonna happen five and seven. I'll agree
with them. Okay, you want to go over under five and a half?
Yeah, you know what? Okay, yeah, yeah, that'll works
well. Back okay, okay, well all right, we gotta take our
break. We'll be back. UM Troy Hutchinson. We'll talk to us about
the UM Section seven tournament up in Phoenix, as well as some football recruiting.
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On the phone, we have Troy Hutchinson from goascatch dot com. Troy,
how are you good? How about you guys? We're doing well. We
wanted to pick your brain about some recruiting, football and basketball. Our first
basketball how's your weekend following the Tommy loiterone, I'll tell you what it was
hot. It was one hundred and eleven up there in Glendale and the talent
was like that too. A lot of five star recruits out there. Obviously
Carter Bryant, Arizona newest commitment on the basketball trail. He got to go
up against Boozer Twins and that was a very interesting contest. And then you
have Isaiah Elam who is a four star guard six five, can shoot the
ball, kind of an underrated prospect. Pretty good there. And one of
my personal favorites Tanu Yazoo. He's a six five, wiry athletic guy that
really surprises you when you watch it. Is it just total chaos up there
at that thing. With all the games that were going on in that in
that facility, that just has to be madness And how do you get your
arms around who to go watch and all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
you know, Luckily I had some team out with me and today the last
couple of days with Mam Breno and Kelly, so she was able to come
out there too, and we were all over the place. They were attacking
one court, I was attacking the other. As Like you said, it's
madness. You have games going on at the same time and it's a huge
event. Not only do you have college coaches, but like I ran into
Kenny Smith who was just there to watch some hoops. I know, Larry
Fitzgerald's been there before and big games come to really watch that event, and
it's the best talent from across the country. Yeah, how did this count
to fruition given that Vegas was always the prime spot for summer basketball. Now
Phoenixes or Glendale is kind of not taken over, but is now big.
Yeah. I think there was a huge calling for it because as you look
across the state of Arizona, especially up in that Glendale and Phoenix area,
of the talent level with you know, academies and whatnot has risen since the
days of DeAndre Aden and Marvin Bagley. You've seen more and more talent go
to that area. So I think with the collection of talent and just the
willpower out there, they were able to put this together. And I remember
in its first few years, this used to be at eight different high schools
across Phoenix in Glendale, so you would have to travel to a certain spot
and hope the kid was there, hope you got the right spot. And
now they're able to put it in the Cardinals football stadium and it's just a
wonderful event. So you I mean, you mentioned a you guys that particularly,
you know, some guys that have already committed and stuff. So you
know, what's what's the purpose of a Carter Bryant going to play in something
like this if he's you know, if he's already lined up what school he's
going to go do? What are they getting out of this? You know?
I think one, it's recognition nationally. Not only you know, is
he a four start recruit that's committed to Arizona, But I'm sure he wants
to make a McDonald's All American team, A five B A five start recruit
at the end of the day. So it's kind of like a showcase.
And you know, it never hurts going up against elite level talent even though
you are committed to a school. That doesn't mean schools stop recruiting you.
And kids know that. And I mean, I think Arizon is still in
a great position with Carter Brian and he should sign come signing day. But
you know, you always want to keep your options open and you just don't
want to close off from the rest of the basketball world. I saw some
pictures with you, with Tommy and the whole staff all see all at one
one place. Were they kind of mingling with the places too or were they
kind of all impacts going to watch these kids. You know, that staff
is very interesting. They kind of pair off into twos and go to watch
different kids throughout the day. But the kid that they were watching at that
moment was Kop from Prairie and he's a five star power forward who's six eight
two fifteen, very athletic kid, more like a point forward, has the
ball in his hands. And you saw the Arizona coaching staff. All four
of their coaches were there, so he's high on their priority list. It's
a local kid who you know has Arizona UCLA. I think Kansas is on
the offer list as well. The kid has every offer in the book and
Arizona really wants to make him a priority. How much of a factor is
just the right look right? Like you said, all four coaches went to
watch this guy play as opposed to just one coach, right, do you
think the players should notice and pay attention to that kind of stuff to feel
like and do the coaches feel like they have to pay the right amount of
attention to somebody to make sure that they've they've got their attention I mean,
how much of a game says that play these types of things. Yeah,
you know, I think even when you have a commit like Carter Brian,
you want to make sure that the kid still feels loved, welcome and a
part of the Arizona family, a part of the team that you're trying to
recruit him too. So I think that plays a huge factor in it.
And then yeah, I think the kids do see the coaches there. I
mean, how can he not. They're right there on the sideline, but
they're so focused in on the game. You don't see them looking over at
the coaches or they're they're tuned in with their team and they're worried about that
moment and that Pete. They lost that game and he fouled out with three
minutes left in the game in a very close game. He was very unhappy.
The coach is very unhappy. He was still gracious enough to do the
interview after the fact, and you know, he he clearly noticed that Arizona
was on the sideline and other coaches as well. So I saw Tommy there
too. He did he did a impromptu press conference or some kind of press
conference or is that normal? Yeah, you know, last year, they
let everybody know ahead of time that they're going to have an inprom press conference
in the coaches room, so we were able to get out to that.
This one was kind of spur of the moment for the Phoenix media since he
already did the one with the Tucson media the day before, but we were
still able to get out there. But it's very much similar to how it
was in Tucson. Not a thirty minute press conference, but more of the
state of the program and what he gets and what the program gets out of
an event like this. Were other coaches privy to that too, you know
that were there or just him? You know, you know it was it
was just him. Their assistant coaches were not part of that. I'm talking
about national because it looks like he had a little advantage with that or Wash
Okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah, No, there were coaches
all across the country, Like Baylor's head coach was there, Tony Bennett was
there from Virginia. Those were some of the coaches that I noticed right away.
I've seen coach Um who was Sean Miller there in the past, even
with them being at Xavier. So there's coaches from all across the country east
coast, West coast that go there on you know, in Arizona that weekend.
Yeah no. My point with though, was he he had a press
conference. Did any of the other ones have a press conference? But it
was mostly for the Age for the Phoenix media, Yeah no, I didn't.
I don't know of any other press conferences. I'm sure Bobby Early had
some of the somewhat of a press conference since he was out there, but
as far as I know, it was only coach Lloyd's right, Well,
noybody else give a shout out to Jay uh so. So I'm sure that
the block A continues to be a visible thing for it still has that power,
right if you have the recruiting out there, Jay's there and jays Um
Tommy's there with his assistants. You know what I'm saying, it's still one
of the major programs. They're very much. I think they're right there with
if you see Kansas out there, if you see Duke out there, you
know Baylor as of late Virginia right now it's Tony Bennett. When you see
those coaches out there, you really take notice. Yeah there. Well,
I've never denied that part of it. Hey, this god of football.
Now, a lot of a lot of things going on with Jed. How's
it going on that side? You know, they've gotten a lot of commitments
over the last twelve thirteen days. I believe the numbers up to twelve commitments
over the last fourteen days or so. Right now on rivals they have seventeen
commitments, sitting at number thirty two in the country. They just added Charlie
Krowe from Oregon, a six five three stars tight end who's pretty athletic,
kind of sneaky athleticism, great hands, and recently also Keanu Wilhei from South
Playing, which I think is maybe one of the biggest guts of the recruiting
class so far for Jed. Fishing and staff, Well, that's a big
deal. We talked about that last week that you know, for Jed to
go pull a guy out of sal Point, which they haven't been able to
do. There've been some great players coming out of there and they've all gone
elsewhere to go get a at a south Point. You got to get that
foot in the door over there. How important you think that is to Jet's
program. I think it's huge because not only is a kid out of South
Point, but you also have Elijah rushing there their teammates that they're very close
to one another, So that gets your foot in the door there as well.
And getting your foot in the door at South Point right now is very
important because it's not only those two, but they do have underclass and software
and freshmen that are going to be important roles coming up. And you know,
I saw them on campus and some of these kids are as big as
Elijah, as big as Kanu, which is very impressive. So is the
quality of the seventeen up to par compared to other places or other places compared
to Arizona. So they really had a great recruiting class a couple of years.
How does this fit in compared to the last two? You know,
I think it's going to be somewhere in the middle between the two. I
don't know if they will be as low as last season, which I think
last seasons was under the rare. I do like a lot of those players
that they got on the defensive side of the football, But right now you're
looking at a lot of mixture between the two. They have ten offensive commits
and seven defensive commits, so it's a very good mixture. They have three
guys on the line of scrimmage on defense and then three or four guys on
offense. So it's really to me primarily about the line of scrimmage, building
the depth of your offensive line, and getting guys that could potentially be good
role pieces in their first couple of seasons and then see the field as full
time starters later down the line. Up front, you know, I mean,
the program got so bad and as Jed started recruiting, I mean,
he was getting guys that he needed to help him right now, what's how
is that now? I mean, there's no some of these recruits, there's
not a lot is there a lot of urgencies still define guys who can contribute
right away? Or as you said, are they building depth? I think
this one's more about building depth. But if you find the right pieces that
can help right away, you're definitely gonna take them. And I think one
of those pieces might be Elijah down the road, depending upon how his recruitment
goes. I know he's going to say he just took that trip to Tennessee
and he's going to make his announcement sometime in July, So that's coming up
soon. Um, personally, I think Arizona is right in the mix,
and that's the guy that can be a starter from day one at Arizona.
So pardon me if I didn't pay attention to this, but you tweeted somebody
today somebody is going after an Arizona commit already. Somebody is fine after him.
Oh no, no, they they lost out on a recruit who visited
Tucson, Washington landed Omar Khan from Texas, a defensive linement that committed today.
Well, I thought I thought there was somebody because they deleted their tweet
that someone Stanford was going to go after somebody from Arizona. Um, maybe
maybe i'm miss smissaud or something that there was got a commitment, but some
of the schools are still going after him. No, right, no,
it doesn't. It doesn't, Rainbow, Okay, we get a look confused,
delusional. We had a look confused over here. You know, we
think we read something and it was something we read two weeks ago or whatever.
So I mean overall, I mean, did I hear you say that
Arizona currently is ranked thirty second in the country in football recruiting. Yeah,
there's thirty thirty two, right, now on rivals dot Com. So I
mean when you're there, I mean, you gotta feel pretty good about yourself.
If you're Arizona. I mean, if you're Michigan, you're not happy
that you're thirty two. But if you're Arizona, you gotta be pretty happy
with that, don't you. Yeah, you know, I think anytime you
can finish in the top thirty five at Arizona or places like that, I
think you have to be pretty happy. You know. Jed was able to
land that twenty first ring recruiting class in the country a few years back,
and he talked about, you know, building it to top ten, top
fifteen. But even though you might not be able to accomplish that goal,
you still have to feel pretty happy about the number thirty two rinked recruiting class
in the country right now. Yes, there's going to be guys that two
schools and things will move around, and as you know, other schools spell
out their recruiting class. But if you can end up in that range,
that's great depth. You have potential starters there. You know, depending upon
how things work in the transfer portal and whatnot. You never know today,
but I think it's a great building box for Jetfish as he continues to build
up this program. Okay, so now I'm gonna pick your brain for ours.
We just gonna make a wager five and seven. Yeah, Jay Steve
says five and seven. I'm saying more than five. I'm going six and
six at least. I think right now, when you look at the schedule,
I think there are six wins for Arizona and one upset. I think
Arizona is gonna win seven games this year. Now, I'll wait till training
camp because I think that's gonna you know, you'll see exactly what you have
coming in. But I like what they did on the defensive side of the
ball. The offense is going to be really good. The offensive line I
think will be much better than last season. And I think another year in
the system, Arizona is going to be able to get to that seven wind
marker during the regular season. And that's mostly because you think that Arizona is
going to be better than last year. I do. I think the offense
is going to be top twenty five offense. They were kind of on the
border of that last season, but I think they're going to cut down on
the turnovers Jadeen Delora another year in the system is going to be huge.
And you look at that offensive line. Yeah, Jordan Morgan back, you
have you know, Jonah Sign of SIDNEYA. You have Will window Mo,
you have Josh Baker back as well. But you also have Raymond Polito,
who I think is going to be a huge factor in this Are they going
to line him up at guard his first season or play him at left at
right tackle? I don't know, but he's a massive human being, very
talented guy. Anytime you can get a guy away from Alabama to commit to
Arizona, it's a good thing. I think their offensive line is in the
best shape it's been really since the Rich Rod around. So you know,
I love you, Troy, but let me tell you, well, everyone
else is getting better. I mean, well, Arizone is getting better.
Guess what everyone else is doing. They're getting better, for sure, they're
getting better. I'm sorry to tell you, kid. I love you Troy
for sure, but but I'll say this, I do. I do think
Arizona's schedule sets up well. That they start PAC twelve player on the road
at Stanford and all the turmoil that they're going through right now in terms of
changing over the coaches and getting in their new system. And you still have
a su and Colorado in that division. So there, Troy, I love
you, but I love you, but thanks for coming on the show.
I have a good one. Guy, Stay busy this summer. We'll talk
to you again. Troy Hudson's I know, I saw a tweet that there
was something. Now it's been deleted. Okay, I'm not it's not one
hundred and ten and out there, but that somebody decommitted from Arizona. Some
of them know that he was committed here and somebody was chasing him. Still,
you know how that is. They but that was still you know,
you make a commitment and other people are saying you want to dance, you
want to dance. Yeah, sure it happens, but then but it's gone.
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with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen. Hey, welcome back
to the Bucking on Fox Sports fourteen. Good. I'm Steve. He's checking
off and forever, in my mind, Derek Jeters will be thirty eight years
old forever. Chris just like popped in to give me some crap about that.
I mean, he went out of his way to come over here.
That's light you up. He lives here here, he has else to do.
But he's right. I mean, how did I think there's thirty eight?
He because he looks pretty good. Wow. Yeah, he moisturizes.
I'm sure damn it doesn't have been. The Tucson heat makes your face look
like you'd leather. Okay, Hey, I wanted to say, um that
we didn't say for Breaking News was that Boswell and Philippe played very well.
And I didn't meant to say this last week when they you know, we're
talking to Tommy. We saw Philippe last year. Luckily in in practice,
I thought he was fantastic. Uh he just was playing behind some guys and
I'm thinking, who is this guy? And he didn't play obviously, but
I think he's going to be a big surprise that that's again, that's one
of the things about this the whole you know, Tommy, you know,
Tommy's lost it kind of things, you know, because how he mentioned Harry
had he said, exactly, he's really good, Exactly, he just didn't
get a chance to play. And come on, how many seven foot whatever
have he seven or seven two are able to kind of just right away just
show up and play. Yeah, it doesn't happen, doesn't happen. And
then all of a sudden he took this giant lead, he Philippe. And
I know I spoke to Henry, you know, for media day that one
day. I spent a lot of time when him thinking after the Red Blue
game, because he was looking very good a stretch a stretch center um that
he was going to have a better year than he did. But come on,
how many people show up right the way and exactly that doesn't happen.
And when you hear Tommy talked about how it took it took uh Kylin Boswell
in to January. He kind of figured things out and he knew that would
happen, and he knew that was gonna happen. The same, you know,
the same with Henry Henry Bassar. It's like, it's just gonna take
these guys some time to figure this stuff out. No. I agree.
If he didn't think Henry Vassar was a really good player, he's not recruiting
Henry Vassar right, right. And then the new kid to have right,
the tall kids stretch, another stretch, another another big talk kids. Yeah,
guys, just you know, let him get on the court. Let's
see what it looks like. And they're, you know what, they're gonna
have some games early. They are gonna tell the pot about their team.
Yeah, and this team has happened. This team is gonna be very special,
I think, especially in the PAC twelve point there's a lot of change,
Yeah, a lot of change. Yeah. So we got the Florida
LSU game on uh Florida hit the two run homer in the bottom of the
first up to nothing, but LSU has come back. He got the bases
loaded, one out and one run in the game, and they just got
another one. A guy got beaned with the bases loaded, so that one
was already tied. What somebody else one out? Okay, it's gonna be
another slug fest. Um the guy that got hit in the first inning too,
So who is a tank that tank guy? Yeah, because he's been
bombings. This one hurt dude. This one hit him like on the forearm.
At that can't feel good. Oh what about a ninety five? Oh
it hit him, It hit off his wrist, hit him in the wrist,
and recochet did and hit him in the chest. Okay, we have
about twelve minutes. If you guys want to call us, please do five
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Uh yeah, you know again obviously not talking to the right people right
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I know, I got a message from somebody who listens to us pretty
regularly. You know who it is. Jay. I won't say who it
is on the air, but he said he was on our call us.
He had something to say about being bitter, being it's a bitter beer.
Face. Going back to that, going back to our listeners though, it's
funny because you know, we can we can see where people listen to us.
Yeah, yeah, I mean they're all of the world. Yeah,
you know Bangladesh, right, there's somebody over there listening to us. Hello,
Bangladesh. You know they're the two countries. The two countries listed that
lists where we're listening to the most, where our podcast has been downloaded the
most, or Mexico, which makes sense. India, Well, you have
there's somebody in India listening to You have a relative in Mexico for sure.
Gonzalezes are brampant. Yeah, but they don't admit that we're relating. Hello
viet No. Hello, Good morning viet No. You're on there and on
the ball. I am bitter. Yeah, I knew we were gonna call
you. We're gonna call I'm rolling my bones and burning my incense right now.
So what are you better? Over everything? The way he left,
the way he didn't talk about, you know where, he never said anything.
He just disappeared in the middle of the night like the Baltimore Coats,
blinking away, you know, the Cleveland Browns. And I have no respect
for him. None. None, and you're a big follower too. Well,
yeah, that's why, you know. I couldn't even talk to Larry
Smith Untilary retired and move back to Tucson. I couldn't even think about him.
I'm sure I threw everything purple away in my house. I don't say
those USL letters in the right right sequence. If I have any friends named
Jay, I don't even talk to him last day, the last time I
talked to him. Wow, this is yeah, okay, okay, fine,
Yeah, I'm bitter, okay, textual, I love the bitterness.
Yeah, I text Jay about the Dodgers. He never answers me back until
they win a game or two. Still doesn't come. You know what,
I'm not texting. I'm not responding to anybody about the Dodgers right now because
it can only end bad for me, so I don't. So I'm ghosting
anybody who wants to talk to me about the Dodgers right now. That explains
every Yeah, they're in third place behind the Giants. I mean, I'm
just and as soon as they jump ahead of the Diamondbacks, then you'll start
answering your text. Yeah, then I'm back, and I'm back. I'm
a fair one. I'm the same I'm the same way. I'm as fair
weathers as they come. As far as stuff like that goes. I woke
up this morning in sarah Stota and I was I was all Florida when I
saw what they did yesterday. So let's let's go Gators. Yeah, well
they're up there. I think it's so. So let me ask you.
I know you listened to us friendly reached uh frequently. You also download a
lot right when you're I do because because I'm usually traveling. Yeah, yeah,
you're one of the many. Thank you very much. Yeah, thank
you guys. I appreciate you. Guys. Have a great day. We
appreciate you. Thank you Gators. I'll tell you who it was after you
know what it was. Yeah, okay, all right then I know,
yeah, all right. Just don't hear his voice often enough. But yeah,
he has been texting me and I have not been answering on purpose.
Well it was Dodges. I saw them lose last last night to the Astros.
Wow, they you know they um, well they should have been in
the game then they were, So now it's a was it a box?
Yeah? Well they know they won Saturday night on a box. That's what
I'm They boxed to tie the road was a buck. Yeah. Um,
they called it a bock Saturday it I don't know because I saw I didn't
they they they played it the next day was played. They kept playing very
slow. They said he twitched his right knee. I didn't see it,
and they said technically technically it's a box, but it's not about you call.
Yeah, I didn't see the twitch. I didn't see the twitch.
I just saw he can get off the rubber. Yeah, they're saying that
right before he lifted his foot to get off the rubber, that kind of
twitched his right knee, you know, and so that that that gets that
that's what happened. So okay, okay, right, So Florida's just changed
pitchers. They're they're down three two still with the bases loaded, one out
in the top. It's only the top of the second, you know.
And if I'm Florida, I'm not too worried. They put up twenty twenty
four and Alice, Yes, that was a brutal I was watching some of
that. It was brutal. That's those two innings were like, uh,
you know, Florida wishes they would have saved those for the football team.
Wow, somebody argue, I think I said twenty four three. One team
was playing football, one team was playing basic. Right, But uh,
but that that that that's just a crazy score. That stuff stuff happened.
How about the other ninety angels put up? They had they had they had
twenty four on up on Colorado, Colorado, Like in the fourth inning a
fifteen run Inny that don't happen to Tony went to one for seven. I
thought that they did that. They did that to Colorado and then they lost
two of the three games. Yeah, welcome to the world of sports.
Yeah, hey, you don't want let me suggest something. If you listen
to us and you have a suggestion to, uh, get us on get
somebody on the air as a guest. Yeah, send send the notes to
our Facebook page. Yeah, so that way that our Facebook page, or
you can message us on Twitter. We we take those messages as well.
Plus try to reach the iHeart email address is on both you can send I
get those emails. Um, it's kind of a weird email just because it's
under my my actual legal name of Yarra Gonzalez at iHeartMedia dot com. But
I get those you can eat, suggest some some love. Trying to track
him down. Saw Sean Elliott on Dan Patrick. We've been trying to get
Sean for a long time and he liked this. He does, he does,
but he let me tell you something, he's been curtical. He's hard
to find. I've texted him a lot. We had the press conference with
him about about a month ago when he got his degree. But let me
tell you funny thing about the book. So I had twenty five interviews right
try to fight chapters. He was the last one because he was the toughest
one. After a year of trying to reach these guys, he was the
last one and very different. He's a really good guy, you know,
but he's been visible with the with the draft because of what's going on with
San Antonio. He had well. I listened to his interview and he had
some interesting stuff to say. First of all, my victor, Bobby.
I'm just talking about how the guys legit and from the standpoint of they had
dinner with him. I don't know if you saw that. You saw that
picture on Facebook. He was there with UH with um um monag Nobly and
UH Duncan and Duncan and David Robinson Ellie and they said that he was talking
about the dinner and well, what did you guys talk about? And he
said he wanted to talk about what it's like to be in the NBA,
but from a stadpoint of travel and getting rest. And he said, he
said, guys, you know you're asked him that question. Let's say,
well, where's the best place to eat in New York and stuff like.
He said, no, he wanted to know the ins and outs of making
sure that you're ready to play every day. He said, it was really
impressed by that. Well, one of the things that hits me because I've
seen so many guys come and go and they're nineteen years old, baby baby
included, who's like nineteen twenty at the time. It's a it's an old
it's an older man's gun, and you have the kids who are leaving,
and how do you how do you deal it with it when you're nineteen years
old, eighteen years old and you can't go into clubs or you're not supposed
to and do these things that your colleagues everybody else having fun with. So
you have to have baby did He had an entourage team dime, and uh,
it ain't easy. It ain't easy because you make up all this money
and you have hangers on, you have group got to be careful and things
like that. There is the groupies. Yeah darn it. You know you
have a few year groups. No comment, no comment. I don't want
to say anything. They could be listening. I remember, I remember the
group. He's the year that I covered the tiece on Toros, No group
without question to come on, maybe Wade, Wait, who's the Boston guy,
Wade Marcia? What's Wade Lefty? Remember he was having the wait bugs.
Remember that story came out, came I was coming the team then too,
so I had to do it like a local story about stuff like that.
Oh, they were pissed. They were pissed because you know what happens.
Yeah, and they didn't want to talk about stuff like that. They
sit down there behind Doug out right right, and then the players would all
go And in that year, the place that the players would go to after
games was the bumps here. Yeah, right, go to the bumps here,
and all the all the women were sitting behind the dug out. Now
they're at the bumps here, and they weren't sitting with the wives. No,
they were that was part of the story. It was, It was
not. It was not a fun story, the right, I mean it
was it just almost like you saw him bolder. Yeah, you know,
just group he's sitting there waiting for the players and hanging out at the bar
and yeah, the up and coming players, up and coming right, guys
on the way, a prospect of leagues. Man, that guy's gonna make
a lot of money soon. Yeah, gotta get me one right out of
officer and a gentleman. Oh yeah, yeah, right, it was,
it was it was coming of age. I remember that very much. All
right. The LSU was now up five to two. Two second, how
potis people lug fast? Yeah? Well it also I have to remember the
LSU was number one for most of the year before wake Forest took over.
Yeah, make so make that six two oh man. And their picture is
fantastic. Have you been have you been following the thing? Uh the jello
shots? The bar? There's a bar in in Omaha that does jello shots
And every year they tracked the fans of the eight teams how many jello shots
that they do. And the last thing I saw LSU fans had done like
twenty nine thousand jello shots and the next highest team I believe with Florida,
had like eight thousand. And they're just sound about how yeah they come about
high LASU fans. They go to the College World Series even when they're not
in it. Yeah, well that's kind of crazy. All right. That
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