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Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,

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he's Jagan Zawas. Got our guy
Kevin in today working the boards, so

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no mistakes will happen. Save our
butts. Hey, good, Good Monday.

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Busy, busy weekend. Holy cow, busy week busy weekend on all

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fronts. You know, women basketball, men's basketball. Football is still football

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school. It looks like it's gonna
continue to be a school football. You

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know some of you guys who were
up up in the press row at the

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basketball game there, and I'm like, okay, guys, what are you

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gonna cover? You're gonna cover the
football thing? You cover the basketball game?

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You know what? It was crazy, man, It was that had

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to be nuts. It was a
crazy guy. Let me ask you,

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because you've been to every game that
I can remember there from you thirty some

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years, I've missed about two games
over there. The introduction at halftime and

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and recency bias, right, things
go on and we'll say, oh,

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that was the best play ever and
it wasn't. But that loud. How

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it got loud on halftime or when
the kids came out, it was pretty

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damn loud. It was loud,
Steve, You know when when the when

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the players came out, and and
just just the entire game, the whole

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second half of the game. Yeah, you know, someone texted me and

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then even after the game, someone
as they said to me, someone's mentioned

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that there was no energy in the
McHale Center, and I says, what,

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what the hell are you talking about. It's another dude just on the

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computer texting there's no energy here.
I don't know what game he was at,

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but that's that was loud as that
compared to as loud as any game

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that I can recall, sure,
any game winner, any Mark Lands last

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second shot. You know, we
were good, you know we're look,

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we set shoulder to shoulder at at
at the stat table. We were doing

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hand signals. So so we'll talk
about all that. But I just so

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loud see this because you get the
front row seat to a bunch of crazy

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crap. This was crazy crap with
cronin. I was gonna mention that I

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was like the found his face found
his way into a video. He was

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right. We talked about this,
the colorful coaches that walked by, and

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so either say a lot of stuff
or don't say anything. The dude.

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The dude talks a lot of crap. He does. He does now because

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he's talking away from us and with
the crowd noise, we rarely hear.

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We really only hear him is if
he says something when it's quiet, you

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know, relatively quiet. So I
didn't hear any when he got teed up.

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I heard, I saw that he
was yelling, but I didn't hear

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what he was saying and he got
teed up, So we just assumed he

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said the magic words. He did. You see the lips. Yeah,

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he'said a bunch of magic words.
I don't think it was just a magic

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where he said the magic words.
But you know, we're also wondering,

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well, if you know, if
he got teed up there, why don't

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you get teed up these other times? Because he was on it, you

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know, the whole time. Yeah, and he's always on it. Yeah,

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And they talk about that in the
NBA a lot where with guys like

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Draymond Green, who are always really
demonished and aggressive towards referees, the referees

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almost give them a longer leash because
they expect it out of them, But

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the choieter guys are like, whoa, yeah, you usually don't act like

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this, What is up with you? All right? Well that was a

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fantastic Uh well, let me see
this. I could be totally wrong.

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When people turn off the radio,
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didn't, they didn't and and and
you know, there's about eight different ways

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to look at what happened Saturday,
right One, man, they're still not

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playing very well and they were lucky
to get out of there very much.

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Or two, they were playing like
crap and somehow flipped on a switch and

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one came back and won a game
that they probably shouldn't have won well or

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usually lost. Or three U c
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that, to have done what they
were doing, playing as well as they

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were playing and then still lost the
game. There's probably some other things in

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there, and there's some different a
million different ways to look at that,

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and and I don't know which one
is the right one. They might all

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be right. It could all be
true because you say they had them on

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the ropes, could have easily put
them away. They were kicking their asses,

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Steve, Yeah, yeah, they
could. They're not as physical.

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Arizona got him to foul trouble.
Yeah, And that was Croden's beef.

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Twenty three shots in the second half. And then our guy, our guy,

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I wanted to say, our guy
bollow who I questioned two days before,

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and Tommy when we used to ask
he looked directly at me when someone

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asked him about technique, and I
was like, I'm not asking that question

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because I had asked the day before. Are you concerned? Let me say

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this, Joe Jay, he was
seven and eight okay, Just because Gab

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tells you to bring your bread home
seven times out of eight times and you

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do it, there's always that one
time you mess up. Yeah, you

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know. And we don't know if
this is going to be the thing for

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him the rest of the season.
We don't know if he's figured it out

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right. I will say his shot
looks different, and he was the difference

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in the victory. Come on,
if he goes two before, he's shot

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poorly. But he was he was. He went seventeen and thirteen, seventeen

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point thirteen rebounds, seven of eight. You know, free throws. His

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shot looks different, so he's done
something. Not like he kept shooting the

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same shot and was making it his
shots different. So there's that. You

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know, there's so many things.
Uh, you know, Pella Larson again,

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we keep saying that Pellet plays great, Arizona wins, Pelly plays that

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crap, Arizona loses in spite of
what other no matter what the other guys

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do, right, but the one
guy that has to come back and play

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some better best well is Boswell.
Yeah, there's something going on with him

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in his head, not on the
court. Yeah, there has to be.

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You know, there's not a one
off. It's not a two off.

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It's like a too, it's an
off off. It's a way off.

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It's just about to be a month. It's about to be a month.

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It's just sustained. So you know
that's unexplainable. Only he would know,

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and maybe Tommy. But it's not
good. But you know you're gonna

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think this is stupid too, because
you know, because remember I told you

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early on in the Washington game,
like the first five minutes Washington State game.

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This feels like loss already. Okay, for some reason, even when

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they were down nineteen points, I
didn't think they were gonna lose. I

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just didn't. I just thought.
I just thought, at some point U

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c l A Is going to figure
out that there's still u c l A,

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that there's still that team that's been
really bad all year long. They're

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gonna stop making three pointers, they're
gonna stop running their offense, and and

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and they're gonna start playing like a
bad basketball team, which is exactly what

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they did. What was the key? What was the key to them win?

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They they they went away from what
they were doing. No, no,

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no, no for Arizona winning First, Arizona got physical with them,

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right, you know, at least
became you know, you know, uh

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uh, what's his name? The
coach, You know, he can bitch

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and bitch and bitch and bitch all
he wants about how they kept finally kept

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fund they kept following. What do
we hear coaches always say, let him

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play, let him play, let
him play, you know, let's let

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the kids decide the game. Well
that's what the refs did. And look

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for years, Steve for years and
years and years I sat there and watched

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visiting coaches complain, complain to no, no, that was that was my

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complain to refs about uneven numbers of
fouls. Okay, uneven numbers of files.

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Yes, is there one or two
files of the game that you go,

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dude, that was not a foul. Yes, there was one year

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there was one to get that they
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that he was going to follow him. He didn't follow him, but he

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called the foul files or fouls.
You know, I don't care what people

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anybody says. You're getting called for
a foul because you committed a foul,

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you know there. And so he's
bitching about all these files. Well,

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you know what, stop filing,
and the game never really truly comes down

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to one foul. Stop filling.
Your guys were folling, you know them.

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Bona was complaining about every foul and
every file was a legitimate foul.

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Who was ne were getting physical and
it is him. That was a great

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conversation because Creepus couldn't handle him.
Yeah, creas that's why he didn't play

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it very much. There was one
foul where both both Balow and Bona ended

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up on the floor right and they
called the foul on Bona, all right,

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and he bitched and and and and
and and and Mick Cronin was bitching.

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Then they showed the replay Bona grabbed
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ground. That's a foul. Yeah, I saw that. The sequence was.

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I think it was him who missed
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yeah, fourteen easy, and then
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three point point. The game was
over right there. That's when it ended

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for me. Usually could have taken
the taken the game over right there.

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Yeah, and he missed that bunny
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You know what, you guys blew
a nineteen point lead, and it had

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nothing to do with the rest.
That's the zero to do with the rest,

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that's you blew a nineteen point lead. Seventeen of that in the second

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half, you lost the game because, as you said yourself, well we

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turned into our one guy just driving
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doing what you did in the first
half. Yeah, it's funny though for

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the first half they looked really good. Number ten, the guard, yeah,

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the guard. Yeah, he was
he he had like four three pointers

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in the first hand, he couldn't
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Well, why was that because Arizona's
defense got better or because your guy played

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like crap or a little bit of
both. It's gonna be different on the

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road this team. You know,
Jay, guys, we were here five

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six weeks ago, right when you
talk about the month, right, we're

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talking about what's flawed by Arizona.
We didn't have any idea they were playing

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so well of passing the ball,
doing all that. I think that's one

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of the problems. They're not doing
that. But now we're seeing a lot

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of things that we see and the
road is gonna be very treacherous the next

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month and a half, right,
because they're not playing well on the road.

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And and Steve, you know again
goes back to what you know,

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what I brought up last week is
that God, maybe maybe the league is

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better than anybody thinks. Okay,
there's nobody in the rankings. They're not

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gonna get in the rankings because that
because you know, the voters think they

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know what the PAC twelve is.
A su is the type for first place?

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Now have they did? They suck
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Yes, but they're tied for first
place and they're beating some teams. You

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know, Oregon is all of a
sudden, you know, you know,

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Arizona goes on the road this week
and could come back in second place again

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because they got to go play Oregon
at Oregon. To both of your points,

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Oregon's undefeated at home, I believe
as well, Yeah, we're struggling

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on the road and now we're going
to go to can Sells at home.

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People are not going to give the
Pac twelve any credit for being any good,

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so they say, any loss Arizona
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I'm not so sure about that anymore, right, well, at least

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from our eyes, from what we
see, because we see this so and

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and look, I mean, remember, everybody's thinking, who's there some good

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good? We said, I think
I said, maybe we both said.

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I know, I said, who's
theres going to lose to in the Pac

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twelve. I don't know. I
don't see anybody that can beat them.

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Well, there's a a bunch of
teams that can beat right now. That

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changes if look, if Arizona goes
on the road, they're going to Oregon,

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State and Oregon. A road split
would be pretty damn good for Arizona

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considering where where they are as a
team, but you know where the other

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teams are as well. Oregon is
not an easy an easy game to play,

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especially at Oregon, so it's gonna
be a tough road. We're talking

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a lot about basketball right now to
begin the show, because we're going to

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talk a lot about football here in
the priming segment. We have Barrett Baker.

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Barrett Baker coming back. He's the
captain of the ninety eighteen special teams.

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We've had him on before. He's
been very vocal, very very busy

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on social media. He you know, he knew or knows Brett Brandt.

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I think I think in one of
his chiefs he say still good friends with

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him. So well, we'll talk
to We'll talk to Barrett about about that.

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Yeah, and then we we we
missed on Yogi Roth on last Friday,

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so he agreed to come back to
us today at four fifteen. So

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now that this has happened with the
football team, he'll have more to have

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more to talk about with him.
And look, and an interesting guest for

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tomorrow. I want to bring this
up because you know, he's been very

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visible. Humberto Lopez, the boot, the booster, who had a lot

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to say last week. Obviously it
sounds like he's very involved with uh.

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The program from an NIL standpoint,
has been and has been for a while.

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You know, we we don't look
as as I've said to Javier Morale

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as you know on social media,
let's put let's put jetfish in the rearview

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mirror. We're not going to talk
to him Berica about the things he said

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about and he said he doesn't want
he said plenty. But what we do

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want to talk to him about is
the role of people like him going forward

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in athletics. Yeah, money wise, interest wise, support wise, uh

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and all of those things. And
so it's I think it'll be an interesting

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conversation with her Lopez and he's been
doing it a long time. Now he's

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visible because he's done some interviews and
talked about it and now it's kind of

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like the sung hero over the euro
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You know, did Jed want some
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hearing, We're hearing not so much. We're hearing different things. You know,

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we get you go into Michale on
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and you hear a lot of stuff. How much of it is true?

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How much of a speculation. There's
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more to the stories. And uh, you know, Jed's gotten a couple

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of guys. You know that they
decided to go up there and that that's

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fine, that's that's gonna happen.
You know, we decide there's a running

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back at San Jose State who's now
jumped into the portal. You know,

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obviously his speculation is that he's gonna
come here. So these things happened.

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The key for Arizona was what happened
Saturday. But the core of the team,

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you're never going to keep them all
when the coach leaves. Even even

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if a coach doesn't leave, guys
leave. But the core of the team

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has come out and said there's State. That's a big deal for it,

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no, no, no questions.
It helps with the sustained thing that we

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talk about all the time. He
just needs some good luck and some you

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know, being some consistency in what's
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he's gonna be fine. We talked
to him on Friday. We had the

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interview on Friday. If you missed
the show right, you can still go

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download the podcast and here are ten
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was the first part of the first
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We put it on on our Facebook
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to our conversation with Brent Brennan on
on Friday. So all that going on.

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See, man, it was a
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maybe another busy week, but that's
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Yeah. Yeah, and we'll have
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because we've got some good, good
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who's listening to us and how many
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doing great. So Kevin, take
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Sports fourteen. Hey, welcome back
to Winning the Ball here at Fox Sports

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fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.
He's Jackensaux's founophone. We have Baker from

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the University of Arizona football team back
in the late nineties and superhero right now

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as a as a fire chief,
as a what's your what's your title?

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Oh? I guess if we're gonna
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chief of operations. But I just
say lucky guy. How about that?

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That sounds good too, too?
And you guys are all lucky guys at

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the University X guys, current guys
with a football program. Uh yeah again.

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To go from an Arizona football team
that you know, gold driven and

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working around fun people every day and
then get to be a part of an

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organization with fire department that pretty much
gets to do the same thing and tries

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to make somebody's bad day a little
bit better. It's been a good,

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a lucky run for me. So
I'm very blessed in that really so bad.

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You've been clearly excited and visible on
social media talking about the hiring of

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Brent Brannan I guess you were here
when you were playing here, when he

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was here, he played with his
brother Brad. Just well, you know,

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what can you you know, we're
just trying to find out for maybe

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what can you tell us about what
you know about Brent Brannan the coach.

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Well, I think first and foremost, our job is alumni is honestly to

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support the University of Arizona football program, the coaches that make up the staff,

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and the players. Ultimately, they
put on the uniform every day and

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if the city of Tucson does that
on the whole, then we have a

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much better chance of having a successful
program. And so you know, I

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think I've been out of the player
ranks and now an alum for twenty five

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years. I've tried to support the
program over the course of twenty five years.

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But you connect with certain coaches a
little bit more than others. And

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I think with coach Brennan, you
know, working at the U of A,

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and he talked about that in two
thousand as a GA and then Brad

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with his brother a teammate of mine, wearing the red and blue from ninety

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seven, ninety eight, ninety nine, two thousand. It's a little bit

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more. It means a little bit
more to them, and I think you

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see that with how he talks about
it. I think he has fond memories.

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He grew up in a great coaching
tree with coach Tomy, coach Donahuett

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from UCLA. He knows winning football, he knows he's been a part of

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it before. And I think as
an alum, we're just really excited because

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we think that we've got a guy
that is going to give back so much

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to the players, the program,
the community. And I think we nailed

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it on this one. Not that
I want to rehash, but we don't

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have to rehash. So Jed announces
he's leaving. What's your first emotion and

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are you one of those guys?
Oh man, who are you going to

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get now? Or how do you
react? I think there was a lot

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of disappointment there because obviously we were
on the cusp of really taking it to

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the next level. I mean,
he talked about that eighteen and twenty two

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guys coming back at key positions at
that and again I think coach Fish I

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did not like the exit. That
obviously was not handled very well from a

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lot of different standpoints, but he
did a great job in his three years

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getting the program back. So I
can't just turn my thumb at him or

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turns my nose at him and say, you know good, you know,

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he did a great job for us. He's turned the program over to somebody

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that wants to be here. But
that extreme disappointment for the first you know,

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forty eight hours, But you can't
wallow in that because at that point

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there is somebody out there that does
want to be the head coach of the

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University of Arizona, that does want
to lead those kids to championships. I

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think Coach Brennan is that guy.
I know he was chomping at the bid,

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and life is kind of funny that
regard that as a finalist three years

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prior to that, the roster is
in a much better spot today than it

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was three years ago. So it's
again the way life works out and timing.

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I think he's got a much better
chance to be successful with the team

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that is here today than what it
would have been three years ago, you

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know. And he was asked about
that, how disappointed were you that,

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you know you didn't get it last
time? And you know, Steve knows

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I'm a grudge holder. I probably
would have been pissed off and not ever

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wanted to come back to the U
of A. He didn't seem at all

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like that. He was like,
you know what, I didn't get it

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last time, but I'm happy to
be here now. What. I really

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liked his answer in that regard because
when that was asked, he also said,

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how do I get better at San
Jose State? Right? It wasn't

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how do I make myself a better
candidate? It's what do I do better

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as a coach to make my program
better? That was powerful to me because

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you know, coaching is the most
transient job in the world. It's one

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year here, it's three years here, it's two years here. Get fired,

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you get hired, you get promoted, you get demoted, all of

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that stuff, and you never really
know what it's going to happen. And

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so for him to get the opportunity
three years later to come back when the

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stage is set for great things for
our program. The facilities are great.

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I think the fans support is there. We've got some great parents when it

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comes to obviously the jew the Jews
County squad. There's just a lot of

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excitement about the program. And I
think that he's going to take that get

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the right mix of coaches in here
as well, and I really believe that

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he'll connect with the players because the
Brennan family they're just good people. I've

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been able to speak to Brad a
few times as well over the last week,

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and you know, you'd be so
proud of your brother, but he

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also knows he's a heck of a
football coach, and there's a difference between

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the two. Let's go back to
a conversation we had before you came on

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earlier, and as you were talking
about how it would be for the young

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kids, the eighteen year olds going
through this, what were you going to

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elaborate with? Well, I think
you just you know, social media,

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you see the best of it and
you see the worst of it. And

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if you go to social media when
all of that stuff is going down and

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you see anger, you see almost
hatred, Well that's from coming from adults

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that are supposed to be mature.
And I mean I felt a lot of

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those things myself, just the disappointment, the sadness and thinking that you were

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going to have something and then all
of a sudden, you know, the

408
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rug is really pulled out from under
you. So when you're eighteen, nineteen,

409
00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.839
twenty years old and you had been
told all of these things from a

410
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coaching staff. And I don't think
you can understate this. The coach has

411
00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.759
become the father figures for the players. When you're in college, your positional

412
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coach, you develop a very very
deep bond with that person, and so

413
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for that person to be gone,
within many cases, they might not even

414
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have been able to say goodbye.
You know, that's I guess I would

415
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use the word traumatic. And so
for Coach Brennan to be able to get

416
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in there within three days and have
a meeting with them and say this is

417
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who I am, and you know
that's what I'm going to tell you who

418
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I am. But talk to other
people and they'll tell you who I am

419
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as well, And you've got to
kind of build that relationship, and it's

420
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really got to be fast forwarded.
And so it's certainly going to take some

421
00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:15.240
time for Coach Brennan for them to
truly understand who he is. But you

422
00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:18.839
know, first impressions are powerful,
and I think he did a great job

423
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with making that connection. And as
we can see now, the number of

424
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players that have already taken their names
out of the portal and and recommitted to

425
00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.240
the team, recommitted to their teammates, and recommitted to coach Brennan. That

426
00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:34.000
speaks volumes. So looking at it
from from a player standpoint, now you

427
00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:37.119
got this new coaching staff, You're
going to have a new position coach most

428
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:41.279
likely, you know, whatever position
you play at Arizona with with the staff

429
00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.519
coming in, you know what what
what's on your mind as a player in

430
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.160
terms of you know what you have
to do, how you have to approach

431
00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:51.559
this? You know, do you
try and go, you know, buddy

432
00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:53.720
up to the coach and let them
know who you are? Uh? You

433
00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:56.599
know how you know who? Who? How do you do that? How

434
00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:02.000
do you get the coach's eye?
That's a great question. But there's twenty

435
00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:06.480
two guys on a team that are
happy and there's about eighty that aren't.

436
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:10.359
And I say that tongue in cheek, but every backup wants to be a

437
00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:12.759
starter. And so if you're one
of those eighty guys that's been a backup,

438
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you're excited because you have now a
new position coach that you have the

439
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:21.079
ability to make a great impression on
that person. Let them know that you're

440
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going to work your tail off and
do anything that you can to be one

441
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of those lucky twenty two. If
you're one of the twenty two, you

442
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:32.440
don't get to rest on your laurels
because you've got to now prove yourself again

443
00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:36.960
to a new position coach. So
when it comes to competition, it is

444
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.359
actually a very positive thing because now
you've got eighty guys that are trying to

445
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:45.480
battle for twenty two spots. Now, the coaches aren't dumb, and they

446
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.400
obviously are going to be very very
familiar with our roster, and they're going

447
00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:55.319
to think and forecast as to where
the strong points are, where the places

448
00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:57.640
that they feel like they need to
shore up a little bit. And thankfully

449
00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:02.799
we have Spring Brawl that'll kick off
here in a couple of months and that

450
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:06.960
will help them really identify those things
even more. But again, just from

451
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:10.759
a competition standpoint, there's blood in
the water for one hundred guys now,

452
00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:12.480
and who's going to be the twenty
two that that are able to lock down

453
00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:15.200
those starting positions. Yeah, no, that's a good, good way to

454
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:21.160
put it. I'm assuming you know, Jed Jed did something that no other

455
00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:26.359
coach after Dick had left was bringing
the X guys right, which was how

456
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:29.720
simple is that U with the with
the connection to you go to you old

457
00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:34.799
guys, Sorry to call you old. That's why guys. Yeah so so,

458
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:40.039
And somebody asked me this on Phoenix
Radio. Of course it's going to

459
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.799
happen. I think it's going to
happen even more now given that you have

460
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:48.000
an insider play coaching you guys,
and that comes with responsibility on our end

461
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.759
as well, because you know,
we can't abuse that he is the head

462
00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:56.519
coach of Arizona football and yes he
has been here before, but you know

463
00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.920
that doesn't give us free reign to
just go anywhere, anytime whenever. So

464
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:04.240
we really have to understand what his
request is of us when it comes to

465
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:11.039
attending practices, attending functions and do
our part of being good alum. Now,

466
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:14.400
the flip side of that is that
he will have people that support him

467
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:18.240
as much as possible and in all
ways, whether it's social media, seven

468
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:23.000
tickets, you know, going to
events that owners falls on us, and

469
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.920
I think that we just have to
get a little bit of an understanding and

470
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:32.279
that will be obviously you know,
moving forward through spring football. That's a

471
00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:38.200
really good opportunity. Oftentimes we have
our football alumni weekend that's usually in March

472
00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:42.039
or April, and so we get
a good group of guys that come back.

473
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.480
I'm sure that will happen again and
we'll get to put some faces to

474
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:49.200
the names. But to your point, Steve, you know, it's a

475
00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:53.279
relationship and Coach Fish was very good
about opening those doors and making guys feel

476
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.720
welcome. I obviously think that Coach
Brennan is going to do that in a

477
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.799
little bit more, but I would
say again just on our end as a

478
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:07.400
lums, we can't abuse that.
And so I'm looking forward to it because

479
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:11.359
I love being part of the program. I love wearing the uniform. But

480
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.240
the second job now after the university
gave to us, is that we have

481
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:19.599
to give back to the university in
those ways of support and because again it

482
00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:23.079
takes a village, and when we've
got all of the ex players doing that

483
00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:29.400
and convincing friends and family and Tucson
to get to the stadium on Saturdays,

484
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.000
it has a big impact. Well, and that you know, and you

485
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:33.839
know, kind of following up on
that, I mean, that is becoming

486
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.400
a bigger and bigger, bigger deal, you know, all the time with

487
00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:40.400
you know, Steve, and I
said, you know, okay, so

488
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.759
you know you've got all these boosters
that support the program. Now there's more

489
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:47.119
money that needs to come in for
nil. You know, you know,

490
00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:52.200
guys like you, you know,
whether you're a lums or professional football players

491
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:55.680
or whatever, that has to kind
of double, you know, if you

492
00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:57.279
want to if you want to stay
competitive, and what can you as a

493
00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:05.319
former player do to a well And
it's just a different ballgame, you know

494
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.000
than it was five years ago.
It's every year is getting a little bit

495
00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:13.680
can I use the word worse when
it comes to this level of free agency.

496
00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:16.440
But again, I mean I love
taking my family to the games on

497
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:22.519
Saturday. We've had season tickets for
I think over seventeen years or something like

498
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:27.039
that now, so I want to
make sure that those players know that I'm

499
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:32.119
there cheering them on on Saturday.
You know, the alumni functions that we

500
00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:36.799
have and trying to connect with as
many people, bring back as many teammates

501
00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:40.640
as possible. The Desert Takeover that
is the name Image Likeness program that the

502
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:45.720
university is set up, and we've
talked about that with our alumni meetings.

503
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:47.799
You know, if you can just
give ten bucks a month, that's one

504
00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:51.640
hundred and twenty bucks a year.
But if you do that times the number

505
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.759
of players that have come through the
program, then it gives you an opportunity

506
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:04.200
to put some solid footing down.
And then obviously the mega downers they obviously

507
00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:07.799
have a role as well. And
when you put all that stuff together again,

508
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:10.559
Arizona football it's in a good spot
right now. And I think we've

509
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:15.400
got the guy to lead this program
because when you hear him behind the mic

510
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:21.839
and you see him smiling and happy
and realizing where he's at and why he's

511
00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:24.039
here, then I just I've said
it before, but I think people are

512
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:28.359
going to fall in love with them. They're going to want to support him

513
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:30.440
and the kids that make up the
team. So I'm going to ask you

514
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.720
to become a journalist real quick.
We have m Berto Lopus tomorrow. What

515
00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:38.160
would you if you had a chance
to ask a question about what's going on

516
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:42.839
today with sports? What would you
ask him? And it's not your place,

517
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:46.000
but what would you ask him?
If you get a chance. I'd

518
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:53.240
probably just ask him, where do
you draw the line in this new age

519
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:58.359
of sort of a free agency?
And do you expect help from the NC

520
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:01.680
Double A and try to rain this
in, because how do you put the

521
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:07.720
genie back in the bottle here to
where it's not just who has the biggest

522
00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:12.639
boosters and who's throwing the most money
at the players, Because when you're nineteen

523
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:15.840
or twenty years old and someone's I
mean again, these are all hy hypothetical

524
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:20.480
things. But if someone says here's
one hundred thousand dollars, and someone else

525
00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.719
says here's two hundred thousand dollars for
your commitments over the next three years to

526
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:28.599
do X, Y and Z,
how do you go with the team that

527
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:30.480
says one hundred thousand dollars. I
mean, that's just the reality of it.

528
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.280
So I think I'd be interested in
asking the boosters, you know,

529
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.000
where do they see this going and
how do they stop this, you know,

530
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:40.719
avalanche from continuing on and they'll say, well, my pockets are only

531
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.360
so deep exactly, Yeah, yep, yeah, Okay, Well, thanks

532
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:50.480
a bunch, appreciate your time.
As always, Bear down, Steven Jay,

533
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:52.920
hope you guys have a great rest
of the week, and let's keep

534
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.320
supporting those cats, all right,
man, than you take care of guys.

535
00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.519
Good to talk to bar it again. Good insights. Yeah, you

536
00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:02.079
know, I mean yeah, and
I like what he said that. You

537
00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:06.159
know that the alarms have a responsibility
to It's not always about what is the

538
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:07.719
you know, how is the going
to reach out to me and pull me

539
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:10.039
in? Well, you know you
got to go out there and be a

540
00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:12.960
part of it too. You know. We talk about that, especially with

541
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:17.679
Nil because remember we we had Adam
Czaris with his group there and people are

542
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.719
saying, well, okay, but
where's the money going to? No,

543
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:24.000
if you're gonna tak a lot of
crap and say, well, the boosters,

544
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:29.079
the general public, people who are
cheering and doing a lot of complaining

545
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:31.159
on Twitter, and well, well, don't worry about it. Just do

546
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:36.480
it right. Let them handle it
exactly exactly. All right, let's take

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our next break. We're to come
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zero four one six seventy four forty
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talking about football and what's what's happened
and what that means to Arizona. It's

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uh look a little better than it
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down all the exes and ohs.
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Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back

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to I'm the man here in Fox
Sports fourteen fifty on Steve, He's Jay.

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We have Kevin with us. We
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if come and join us on the
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The line is open. It is open

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so just give us a quick call. We'll talk about whatever the game

594
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over the weekend football. Okay,
So did you know this thing was coming?

595
00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.800
The team getting on the floor and
the anounce, Yeah, Hey have

596
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.039
you heard that? Yeah? Because
I didn't. Yeah, I didn't know

597
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.079
what was gonna happen. I thought
you was just gonna honor them and the

598
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.360
right, right, that's right,
that's right. I heard. What I

599
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.119
heard was that they were gonna bring
the almal Boll Trophy on the floor and

600
00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.320
you know, honor the It makes
perfect sense, which was great because they

601
00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:37.679
felt the presence of or at least
felt the fandom. Yeah, there is.

602
00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:38.920
Well, you know, you know
where I was sitting, you know,

603
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:42.519
because I sit under the scoreboards.
It's hard for me to actually see

604
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.639
the scoreboard. But when you know, they started playing the thing the video,

605
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:50.480
then the players started coming out under
the floor. Yeah. I'm like,

606
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:52.119
I'm looking to see you know,
who's coming out on the floor.

607
00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:59.360
So I miss that In the video
we're Fefita and and and and McMillan,

608
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:01.239
yes, saying we're running it back. I missed that. No, no,

609
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:05.119
no, you're not the only one. Because as that was happening,

610
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:08.280
tasked to do too many things.
I was hackey away at the computer.

611
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:12.920
What a great experience taking photos to
the city. And I said, did

612
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:15.039
they just say that they had to
ask choice? You said, yeah,

613
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:17.880
I said, what the hell?
Haven't changed? Because I too, I

614
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.719
too was not paying attention, you
know, so you know, so you

615
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:23.719
know so then so then it looked
up and it was, you know,

616
00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:27.320
all the play stuff and they're showing
you know, all the guys and I'm

617
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.119
like, and then I see,
I see you know, uh uh.

618
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:32.800
Fafita comes right in front of me, right and he's doing the Wildcats sign

619
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:37.440
up into the seats. I'm like, is he saying that he's staying or

620
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:39.559
they or they are they just saying, you know, we won the album?

621
00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.360
Did you do something? Hit you
in the ribs and say dad to

622
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:45.559
pay attention? And yeah, you
know, you know, because that's kind

623
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:49.440
of I said, I missed that? What the hell miss Yeah? So

624
00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:52.719
it wasn't until I got home and
I saw the video on social media and

625
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.639
I'm like, is that the exact
same video that they played up there,

626
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:00.119
because this one has t mac and
and and Fafa Yeah, with a little

627
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.559
caption in the boy running it back. I'm like, I missed that at

628
00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:10.800
the at the game, how many
assists and turnovers do you miss? Dude?

629
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:15.119
We were money on Saturday. Well, the thing about it is because

630
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:17.039
you saw these guys. If you
watch you game, you see him on

631
00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:21.079
the satelline because Cronin was pacing back
and forth, and you know, the

632
00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:23.960
whole Gonzales klan right there on the
sidelines. I gotta throw some props to

633
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:29.760
the guys behind us, the fans
who sit behind us. They they're really

634
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:35.199
good at at a right and at
ragging on on on the particularly the opposing

635
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:38.000
coach. And the funny thing is
that they're very creative. And I really

636
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:42.000
don't want to say what they said, but I'm just going to say that

637
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:46.679
they had their game on on Saturday. They were relentless on Mick Cronin.

638
00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:52.599
They were just and and I got
to give Mick cronan credit. Not one

639
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:55.000
time did he look over, did
he look over and engage because some coaches

640
00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:59.239
due I remember the LSU coach I
thought was gonna go into the seat years

641
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:04.840
ago. This was the guy that
came after the famous guy you're talking about,

642
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.639
the guy from Stanford. No,
no, no, no, ls

643
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:13.000
you guy guy, But he's the
guy who followed, Yeah, who was

644
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:15.159
the who is the Yeah, he's
a he's a handsome guy because he was

645
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:17.000
a Utah anymore. Anyway, I
thought he was going to come over the

646
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:20.440
table on this one time when they
just said one thing to the guy and

647
00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:22.440
he tried to get the rest to
time to shut up, and I'm like,

648
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.760
what are you doing? Yeah,
what's the damn game? Yeah,

649
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:30.280
but Mickkron, they were they were
awful to it. Let's go there,

650
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:37.239
because I thought the fans were again
obnoxious and painting in the ass all the

651
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:38.840
stuff that happened by that by the
time, because I was there, I

652
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:43.719
watched it. Yeah, and there
was one specifically, uh that was just

653
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:45.519
a pain And that's the guy that
they were talking about who was right on

654
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:49.239
the rail take, you know,
with his camera in front of the fans

655
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:52.960
and being obnoxious. And I'm thinking, this is what has come to Were

656
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:54.960
you there on Saturday? I wasn't. It was I had stuff to do

657
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:58.519
on Saturday. Come on. And
then you had a guy, you had

658
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:02.280
a guy about fifty feet from us. Sheer me and I'm sitting there and

659
00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:07.480
yelling bottles or what's his name,
Bona Bona's name. Well, you guys,

660
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.199
just well, Arizona was shooting free
throws. It's like, shut the

661
00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:13.679
hell up. Don't you know when
to scream at the opponent, not at

662
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:15.920
the free throw line. It was
kind of almost uncomfortable. Well, it

663
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:20.480
is and you know, and and
it I hope it doesn't get to the

664
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.280
point where, you know, Arizona
wants to keep this rivalry going, right,

665
00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:27.639
they do, And I hope it
doesn't get to say, good point,

666
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.000
we're not coming to your place because
your fans, let's go there.

667
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:37.440
Even more because our colleague you saw
the clip with with Justin right, yes,

668
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:40.719
Justin asking about asking about that incident, asking about the fans, and

669
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:44.360
he didn't want to go there and
talking about that, well there was trouble,

670
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:47.239
No, there wasn't. And he
says, i'd expect that, expect

671
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:51.159
nothing. What did Justin do to
you? Yeah, yeah, that was

672
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:53.000
just probably just something he said.
I was gonna actually ask when Jay was

673
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:55.639
talking about the fans behind him,
if you if you guys thought that maybe

674
00:43:55.719 --> 00:44:00.519
mccrona was conflating, you know,
Arizona media would just Arizona fans in general

675
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.480
just hey, when I come here, this is how I get treated.

676
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:07.320
He hates it. Here's he has
them won here, he's treated poorly.

677
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.599
People. Look, and he's got
he's got a reputation of being a bad

678
00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:15.320
guy. Yeah, well, well
deserved reputation because I've seen it in person.

679
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:19.320
I've seen it firsthand. You know, well deserved reputation of being a

680
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:24.159
bad guy in terms of how he
conduct conducts himself during the game and and

681
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:28.119
so you know, and and the
fans know that, they sense that and

682
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.639
they get on it and they do
it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't

683
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:32.559
get are you how big of a
fan a scale one to ten? How

684
00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:37.199
big of a fan are you of
You's basketball? Just yeah, just sports

685
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.840
like that ten being you know,
every box score and everything like that.

686
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:45.440
I would say, I'm like a
seven. Okay, obnoxious are you?

687
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:49.400
Oh? I've I've matured in my
time. I would say, like as

688
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:52.199
a freshman, I was pretty obnoxial. You would would you do something like

689
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:54.280
that? As I saw the video, I wasn't there. I saw the

690
00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:58.920
video. He was just leaning over
like detail end of it. They didn't

691
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:00.559
show the actual time. Yeah,
what what happened? He had the phone

692
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.079
like right in the guy's face.
That for a number of guys, he

693
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:07.880
was all because you seculated on social
media. I was like, that's kind

694
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:10.079
of that. Well, that didn't
happen. That that vide happens every game.

695
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:14.840
That video that got shot came after
what they were saying, why they

696
00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:17.119
called the cops so so to you
the same thing. You're a big fan.

697
00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:21.639
Would you ever even think I was
doing that? I was never like

698
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:23.000
that. I did. Did I
yell at games? Of course they did.

699
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:32.320
Did I taunt opposing teams and stuff
like that? Once it was an

700
00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:37.960
ACU was an a It was after
an ACU football seventies. It was specifically

701
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.039
nineteen eighty five. Okay, okay, no, that's fine. That was

702
00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:44.840
you were still young in Goosey.
I was what twenty six years old?

703
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.079
Okay? So physical though, I
don't understand your physical I don't understand the

704
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:52.519
fans today, even Arizona fans were
there. What joy do you get from

705
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:57.440
being a jerk? They did get
exactly what they're getting, Okay. On

706
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.679
social media, yes, they're on
tension. They're on social media. We're

707
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:02.480
talking about him on the radio,
although we're not putting we don't know names,

708
00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:05.840
we don't mean, we're just saying, this is an incident that happened.

709
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:07.559
You know, they get on YouTube, they get on their tiktoks,

710
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.199
and yes, that's what that's what
it is, Steve. Yes, it's

711
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:15.199
five minutes of fame, fame for
for nothing. I mean, it doesn't

712
00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:19.119
pay you, doesn't do it in
Steve. It doesn't. It's like social

713
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:22.000
currency a little bit. You know, it's not I'm not justifying it,

714
00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:24.079
but I'm just saying anywhere. Look, I don't know. I'm just saying,

715
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:30.079
is that he you know, his
his video of him taunting coaches at

716
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:31.960
u c l A Is gonna go
viral on barstool and his buddies are gonna

717
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:36.199
DM him. Hey man, do
it on barstool? Isn't that so crazy?

718
00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:38.519
I have no idea how many text
messages and or comments I got because

719
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:45.880
of Jeff Goodman tweeted the video of
of yelling at the rest because and I'm

720
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:50.519
right behind them, and and and
you know, on the photo or the

721
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:53.719
still that comes out on the tweet, I'm right there, you know.

722
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:59.400
Yeah, And you know what,
I thought it was cool? Well,

723
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:01.960
you know, the good thing is
he wasn't telling you that he was.

724
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:06.920
I wish, I really wish I
could have heard because he when, like

725
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:07.880
I said, when he got there, I'm like, wow, they teat

726
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:12.239
him up, and like I didn't
really know what he had said until later.

727
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:15.679
But you know, we've heard some
things over there. We've heard some

728
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:21.159
things that have gone of course gone
past the refs. My thought was,

729
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:27.440
My thought was because Mick Cronan,
Okay, there was a foul where an

730
00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:30.079
Arizona guy it was on it was
it was in the in the first half,

731
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:32.639
so U s LA was on the
other end of the court, and

732
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:37.599
an Arizona guy ran through a screen, okay, and they called a file

733
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:38.599
on the Arizona guy as they should. He ran through the screen, you

734
00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:43.679
know, he basically ran over the
screener. And Mitt Cronan is calling for

735
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:47.760
an intentional foul. He's in intentional
that he's yelling at the ref that it's

736
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:52.880
an intentional foul. Dude, there
was a foul like every other foul.

737
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:58.599
Do you think you think that at
a point a ref has to get sick

738
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:01.360
of it? Of course? Yeah, yeah. And do you think that

739
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:06.079
that bleeds into the team. We
were talking earlier about how certain players on

740
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:09.239
U c l A may have you
know, fouled someone, knowingly fouled someone

741
00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:13.480
and then complained about the call afterwards. Do you think that the attitude of

742
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:15.000
the coach kind of bleeds into the
team and he's going to complain about every

743
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:20.440
call and so up and down emotionally. His team is also probably going to

744
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:24.320
be up and down emotional because if
the ref, if if the coach is

745
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.199
complained about every foul, than the
guys and that's what that's what they were

746
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:30.639
doing. They were getting they were
committee files and they were clearly fouls and

747
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:36.559
then complaining about the call. Just
who happened to be in the building at

748
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:39.639
the time. The guy who complained
mostly about every foul everyone who touched him,

749
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:44.679
Benedict Matherin, because he was you
know, he was always complained,

750
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:47.880
as complained about he touched me,
shot you know, not you know,

751
00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.079
not to throw out names, throwing
Sean Elliott went through period his sophomore year.

752
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.519
Sophomore year, he was complaining about
every fight. Well he thought he

753
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.559
should get everything, and then he
was told and he was told, knock

754
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:01.159
it off. You know, if
you get fouled, you get fouled.

755
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:07.320
Or if somebody's gonna complain, let
coach Olson complain. Kevin Kevin who told

756
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:09.920
him that I think you said,
you know, it was Steve Condon.

757
00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:15.320
The trainer told him. The trainer
told me, which you basically you look

758
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:20.239
like a starts with a word.
Yeah, you know, because I didn't

759
00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:23.159
remember that because you saw him.
But Benedict did that lot, you know,

760
00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:27.119
just play, just play. But
you know, but to the fans,

761
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:29.840
that was my thing. It's just
uncomfortable. It's always for U.

762
00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:32.440
C. L A. The guy
two years ago who spit that was that

763
00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:37.199
was exceptionally crazy to me that that
happened, because I had never seen anything

764
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.519
like that. Yeah, getting getting
back to the technical fault to me,

765
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:43.760
since I didn't hear what he said. You know, how many as you

766
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:45.880
said, how many of the magic
words? I think he cast a whole

767
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:49.039
spell. Yeah, I think you
know. A bunch of my thought was

768
00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:52.039
they finally got tired of it.
Yeah, they finally got tired of it

769
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:55.320
and said, that's it. You're
you're you know, you've used all your

770
00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:59.480
mulligans. This is a technical So
so I'm sure you guys have all watched

771
00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:04.119
the movie past. To me,
that's what you what? You a movie

772
00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:07.079
guy has never seen You've got to
rent that. Have you seen Patton?

773
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.920
No? Holy who are you guys? Get the hell out of this room.

774
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:15.719
I know you guys have seen it. It's like you know who Donald

775
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:20.039
Summer is. Yeah, you got
I've never seen that, never watched it.

776
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:22.159
Never interested me. Oh you got
to rent it one of these days.

777
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:27.280
When you're by yourself and you want
in your short desk watch Rented.

778
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.760
It's it's a great movie. And
that's who Croda reminds me of. It's

779
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:32.440
a war movie, right, it's
a war movie. The general you know,

780
00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:38.159
you know who? He reminds me
of the cow mascots with his hand

781
00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:45.559
behind his back and walking up and
down there. What the hell I've burned

782
00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:50.440
somebody today. I'm sorry. Have
you seen the Godfather? I've seen the

783
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:55.360
god Yeah, but he's had a
bunch of look Mick has Mick. I

784
00:50:55.480 --> 00:51:00.360
haven't seen it. I haven't seen
a fan base and airs the Arizona fan

785
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:08.760
base dislike a coach this much since
Walt Hazard. Yeah, oh no,

786
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:15.880
computer. Steve just opened up a
physy soda and it blew up on his

787
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:20.519
computer. So we got that going
on. That's good RATINGO. No technical,

788
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:22.920
I don't plug it right now.
If I were, you going to

789
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:27.400
turn it off. But you know, I think Walt Hazard was the last,

790
00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:37.920
the last UH coach of any team
that that fancy. I mean,

791
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:42.320
Bobby Hurley gets it. Bobby Hurley
gets it pretty bad. Yeah, how

792
00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:45.360
different would it be because Hardy gets
it horribly? That okay, you know

793
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:49.199
what I should say, non a
s U coach. Okay, because they

794
00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:52.199
hated every They've hated every a SU
except for Bill Frieder. They thought Bill

795
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:55.840
Frieder was cute like a coach.
They have no reason other than right,

796
00:51:55.960 --> 00:51:59.559
yeah, you're you're right. It
could be, but I mean, I

797
00:51:59.639 --> 00:52:01.639
I I maybe it's because I'm thinking
of U C l A coaches because Walt

798
00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:07.679
Hazzard was a guy that fan base
just absolutely hate. But Walt Hazard also

799
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:09.760
brought it on himself because he was
you know, he was he was a

800
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:15.079
jerk to fans and he was a
jerk to everybody. This one at home,

801
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:19.519
right, Uh, UCLA's gonna be
different. It is there because l

802
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:22.599
is gonna walk onto that four thinking
they should win that game that they can

803
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:25.360
and they they should have. They
should have won Saturday and they didn't.

804
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:30.199
So that one's gonna sting for a
while because they they they had every they

805
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:34.519
they were winning the game, and
they just in my mind of what it

806
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:37.639
looked like to me is they went
away from everything that they were doing to

807
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:42.800
get to where they got to.
They just stopped doing it. And I

808
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:44.880
don't know how much of that had
to do with Arizona, but they did

809
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:46.159
all right, let's get out here. We're gonna take our next break.

810
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:49.480
We're back. Lots of breaking news
at the top of the order, so

811
00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:52.360
we'll we'll get to Kevin on that. Then a lot of cool stuff going

812
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:53.239
on, so stick around.