WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:07.839 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jaken Zalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:14.599 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions kat z 3 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:19.399 R Tucsa at iHeartRadio STATIONIA. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to 4 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:22.679 I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roberta, 5 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:27.280 He's Jagin Sauce, got it, Doug Henry and today to for this off 6 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:29.760 Wednesday, right, we're starting Wednesday? Yeah, yeah, middle of the 7 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.520 week. Man. A lot of stuff going on, especially in Vegas for 8 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:36.880 the Big twelve. Yeah, how many times you do your Pack twelve too? 9 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:42.960 Well? Our old friend Dave Hirsch who works for the Las Vegas Ball 10 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:47.799 so for some reason they got him to moderate Big Top Media Day and at 11 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.920 the end he thanked everybody for coming to packbub Media Day. So you're telling 12 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.119 me he blew his chance to get a job with a Big twelve. He 13 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.439 caught himself, but I gave him some crap over a text message and he 14 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.119 was he was funny. You know, hey, what are you gonna do? 15 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:03.000 Right? I you know, maybe thanks to you? Right, I 16 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:06.040 don't know if you would have you if you would want to do this, 17 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:10.120 or if we would have fun with it. A jar, a jar every 18 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:14.000 time we screw up and say pack twelve instead of big twelve. Okay, 19 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:17.319 like a buck okay, okay, a buck each time? Yeah, and 20 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:21.959 then you know, maybe maybe in December we'll take ourselves to Christmas lunch. 21 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.319 Okay, that's cool, all right, all right, so I'll bring in 22 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:26.200 it. I'll bring some kind of container, but that has to be in 23 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.560 context. Obviously you wouldn't say, you know, the former pack twelve, 24 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:32.400 and it has to be right. No, but if you if you mean, 25 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:34.000 if you mean to say big twelve and you say pack twelve, you, 26 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.480 oh, sounds good. We'll bring a little thing here somewhere, Yeah, 27 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:41.680 kitty, you know if it's safe in here? Do you think it's 28 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:45.840 safe in here? Leaving in here? I don't know. Maybe we're gonna 29 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:49.840 be leaving here sometimes, so okay, okay, we'll do that. We'll 30 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.920 do that, Okay, I know I did it yesterday. Anything to be 31 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:56.760 at a cockroach walking up a running up a wall, we'll do it. 32 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.400 Okay, that'd be cool. Cool. A lot of things going on to 33 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:04.760 all the rest of the pack. Pooh, there's one I didn't say packed 34 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.319 twelve. I said, yeah, that's one that count. That's fifty. 35 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:12.479 That's a dollar, fifty, that's a dollar. That's a dollar. That 36 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.000 just did we just say you were gonna say big twelve, and you said 37 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:20.199 pack twelve. So that's the fun Okay, Mark, what one and only? 38 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:23.240 Uh? The the big twelve? Uh. Went with the rest of 39 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.400 the coaches today included in Brennan, Right, Brennan is gonna do that? 40 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:29.680 He was last again, he was last. I listened to some of Deon 41 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:35.360 Sanders this morning and he was dion. It didn't really it kind of mixed 42 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.560 up. You know, it's hard to follow. He's hard to follow. 43 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:39.960 Sure, he starts talking about the time. I couldn't really tell you even 44 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.840 what he said. Uh. And but then you know, I got busy 45 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:46.520 doing stuff, but I did. Uh. I did listen to Brent Brennan 46 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:52.000 recorded it, so we're gonna play it here. Uh. And then in 47 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.159 the next segment he has he had some interesting things. They had some interesting 48 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:00.680 things to say. Uh. Afterwards, there was a side media said with 49 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:02.599 him as well. There were two things that I caught in there that that 50 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:08.120 he said that we're we're particularly interesting, but Uh. You know, it's 51 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:12.479 funny to hear the questions that the other media is asking, right that that 52 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:15.919 that the Big twelve media is asking, trying to get to know him like 53 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.439 that, how you know, how did you keep how did you keep you 54 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.919 know, no a fulfieda. Uh, you know, things like that like 55 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.280 that. We've all we've asked him, but you know, getting answers, 56 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.680 and you know there's some different stuff. You know, he was asked. 57 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:32.840 He was asked a bit about the you know, the connection of the Polynesian 58 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.280 community and husband. You know, he's been able to keep that. He 59 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:43.560 wore a lay that uh, I guess Tam Mac's mom brought lays for Brennan 60 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:46.680 and and the four players that were all there for me. It was Gunner, 61 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.919 Maldonado, Jacob Manu, t Mac and noh Afeeda. So all the 62 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:54.840 guys were wearing lace. You know what that's something like you don't you know, 63 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:57.919 you don't see that in the Big twelve, right, you got a 64 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.400 West Coast guy, he's there. You know that the connection of the Polynesian 65 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.599 community. I know you Tom b Y, you have that connection, but 66 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:09.759 you go east of that and they really don't. And so that was an 67 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:14.639 opportunity for I think for Brennan to show how important this is to his program. 68 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.839 Right right shows a family unity, shows up togetherness, which is important 69 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:23.040 here. You know, they everyone and I think that Noah said this today. 70 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:27.720 Everyone talks about it. Everyone, it's it's cliches. Family. They 71 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.040 treated my family. I felt like home blah blah blah. But it really 72 00:04:30.079 --> 00:04:32.560 works when it works. When it works, yeah, and you can tell 73 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:39.160 it worked here again. I give Lamar a grief when when Noah came on 74 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.040 the scene and they played harder for him. I mean, yeah, you 75 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.279 know, and and and this is gonna be interesting because I think that what 76 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.680 Brennan said, and this was in the side conversation about the Polynesian community and 77 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:57.240 what what characterized he said? He said family, loyalty, and hard work. 78 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:59.720 And there were a couple of other things, but those were the things 79 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.000 that And and you wonder, and I don't mean, I don't want this 80 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:06.720 to be taken in any kind of a of a of a racial or cultural 81 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:13.279 context or you know, in a bad way, but you have to wonder 82 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:18.920 if the quarterback in this case, if the quarterback and the best and the 83 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:26.800 best players that Jed left behind were not Polynesian, Would they have stayed or 84 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:30.800 not? Would they would they have held the team together the way they did 85 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:34.000 or what that? Would it not have been part of their thinking, part 86 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:40.120 of their culture? And might they have followed jed or scattered? You know 87 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.519 that's a hypothetical. You probably won't get an answer. No, you won't 88 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:46.399 have the three things to tell me. Are you talking about their family, 89 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:50.319 their culture, their their loyalty and and their hard work? Well, Jay, 90 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:54.240 at the end of the day, whether you're politician, you're Hispanic, 91 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:58.040 you're whatever, don't you want those four You want those four things no matter 92 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:02.319 what. But Steve can say that those things are not embedded in certain cultures. 93 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:05.439 No, No, of course not right. Well it's no. You 94 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:10.199 like to think that they are, but they're not. They're not there. 95 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.920 When you think of a certain culture, you don't think of those things. 96 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.079 Think of some other things. And those might be in there somewhere in the 97 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:20.759 mix, but that's not what you know. Certain cultures are all about, 98 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:25.319 which it seems like that's what the Polynesian culture is all about. Sure, 99 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.439 sure, I'm not getting out of out of sorts on that, but that's 100 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.560 kind of what he said no, you're not. And you almost wonder if 101 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.920 you know, if no Fefita and team again, the leaders on this team 102 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:39.759 had not all been you know, Polynesian players who were going to stick together 103 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:44.480 no matter what that had they not been what, they have all scattered to 104 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.439 parts unknown, some to Washington, some to Florida wherever, all the places 105 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:50.199 they got offered because we heard that, you know, we heard the team 106 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:55.399 act that Alabama was the one that wanted team act more than anybody. Remember 107 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.319 that, so you know, you wonder what that would have been like. 108 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.680 So there was a lot of a lot of that. Uh and and again 109 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:05.279 the constant reminder of Brandon wearing this lay, you know, and his press 110 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:12.360 conference and his TV appearance and then the post press conference media session. Right. 111 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.199 No, there's a lot to all that, and we'll see what happens 112 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.720 with the success of it, because there was a lot of success. I 113 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.480 know he used the word momentum a time or two, and you're gonna give 114 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:25.439 me whether you use the word or now. But they have something that you 115 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:29.560 said it yesterday seven straight wins, the second longest streak in the in the 116 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.920 country. There's something to that. We'll see if they can continue, It's 117 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.439 gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. We also you heard Justin who 118 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:41.279 we try to get on this on the on the show today, I talked 119 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:46.800 to Desiree, right princiois right, talked about the possibility or the influx of 120 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:54.000 tickets. Wow that she she said that there's a they've had a fort increase 121 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:58.839 in new season tickets. So tell me what what in your mind? Well, 122 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:01.839 that means that I'm not of that count. That means, you know, 123 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:05.680 when you're talking new season tickets last year versus new season tickets that they 124 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:11.439 sold this year increased year year. Okay, right, that they've already sold 125 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:16.360 forty have a forty percent increase in the number of new season tickets that they 126 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.360 sold. So that should be good though, right if you keep attendants, 127 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:22.560 should be more than forty forty five, Right, if you keep everybody that 128 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.879 had season tickets or most everybody that had season tickets, and then you're getting 129 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:31.639 a bunch an influx of new ones. Yeah, you know, they you 130 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.399 know, there's hope that there's that they're that they're going to have a you 131 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.639 know, uh, good attendance this year, right, which of course is 132 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:39.279 just and how do you do that. You gotta win. You gotta win, 133 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.600 you gotta win, you know, and and and you know both Brennan, 134 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.600 Uh, well, all the all the pack tuff coaches moving over there, 135 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.360 they all made comments about under understanding that you know, we're going to 136 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.200 places now right, there's not gonna be any empty stadiums. You know, 137 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:58.639 there's a passion for football that that didn't they should not exist among the fans 138 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.440 in in and then the PAC twel and that's what it's gonna make it special. 139 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:07.720 Well again, let's remember all the PAC twelve teams short of Tucson and 140 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:15.440 uh outside you and and then the and then Corvallis and Eugene and Pullman. 141 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.159 So eight of the pack, eight of the PAC twelve schools. We're in 142 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.559 big cities Phoenix, l A, you know, San Francisco, you know, 143 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:28.360 the Bay Area, Seattle, Salt Lake City, you know where you 144 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:31.519 know there's pro sports and stuff, so that the passion for those sports doesn't 145 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:37.720 exist like like it exists in Waco and still Water where that's all they've got. 146 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.120 You know, we're you know, we're like Tucson. Uh, you 147 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.399 know, college sports are king right, and we're and those are all the 148 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:48.600 places that that that Arizona is going to now and they're not going to go 149 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:52.279 go to an you know, three quarters empty Rose Bowl anymore because all those 150 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.639 fans of other stuff. Sure, sure, no, it's gonna be crazy. 151 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:58.600 And at the end of the day, if you're a competitor, you 152 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.240 want to play in those conditions. You know, more eyes on you, 153 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.320 the more attention you get it, right, yeah, no, you go. 154 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:07.960 It's like when Arizona went to Notre Dame back in the day, right 155 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:13.159 Oiowa State and they gave him good games, right, yeah, you you 156 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.000 remember those days, the full crowds, the loud noise, everything. You 157 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.159 know that you know that while it's hard to play in those places because you 158 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.879 know the the noise and you know everybody's against you and all that makes it 159 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.799 hard, but you got to get juiced up for that if you're if you're 160 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:28.559 a competitor, right, you gotta love to play in those things. I 161 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:33.200 mean, you know, you walking into as you said, Notre Dame Stadium 162 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.039 and the place is full and the band is there, yeah, the fight 163 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.879 song and all those things that's got juice you up and nobody giving you a 164 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:43.120 chance, yeah you know, and then you then you get a chance. 165 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:46.440 I mean you you went to that Oklahoma game at Oklahoma, right, remember 166 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.879 that? I mean, well, I don't. I was there. We 167 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:52.600 talked about that, but I remember going there thinking this is big time. 168 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.440 Yeah, this is cool, this is big time football. But they didn't 169 00:10:56.440 --> 00:11:01.240 embarrass themselves. No, yeah, but you know, you thought, Okay, 170 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.559 this is Oklahoma. This is what we see on TV. We see 171 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.600 Oklahoma, Texas, we see Oklahoma, you know, and and all these 172 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.559 schools, and this is this is where we are. And I thought about 173 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:11.879 that when I got the night. I did think the stadium's kind of rinky 174 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:15.480 dink for being there was Oklahoma. But you still, once the game got 175 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.600 going and the place was full and you saw how great the crowd was, 176 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.399 you realize this was a different, different beast than going to even Sun Devil 177 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.679 Stadium or you know, Oregon State or all those other places. And that's 178 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:30.879 the funny thing about it, you know, you and I covered it at 179 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.159 the same time. I don't remember much about the stadium except for the Crown. 180 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:37.039 The Crown, And it was rainy and cold, right, rain and 181 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.519 cold, and and that wasn't the most impressive stadium I went to. In 182 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:45.639 fact, the Coliseum, of course was that. I'll say that Washington, 183 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.279 it was crazy, great view. Yeah, but I didn't cover football for 184 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.519 that long three years, you see, like even the couple of UCLA games 185 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:54.240 that I covered at the Rose Bowl. Yeah, there were fifty thousand people 186 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.000 there in the ninety thousand seats stadium, right, it was watered down a 187 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:03.000 little yeah, yeah, yeah, no question. Okay, so we'll have 188 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:05.240 that. We're gonna have We're gonna have Brennan, you said in the fresh 189 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.120 Brennon coming up after the break. In fact, we should we should bail 190 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.679 out a little early because it's about a sixteen minute clip, which is a 191 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.759 little longer than our segment is. But then we're gonna have your morales. 192 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:20.559 Who's there? Yeah, uh, this time, we got a guy there 193 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.279 and we'll talk to him about just again what the scene was, what the 194 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.360 scene was the wide you know, I saw sort of a long shot of 195 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.440 the setup, you know, in the stadium, and that didn't look anything 196 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:37.039 like Pack twelve media day. There's a lot of people there. Okay, 197 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.039 let's let's do that. Yeah, let's go and take our break. We're 198 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:41.879 gonna come back, and when we get back, Brent Brennan's press conference from 199 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:50.759 Packed. Yes a big twelve media day in full, So stick around. 200 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:54.240 The Window Depot has everything you need to create the kitchen or bathroom of your 201 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.840 dreams. 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This is I Am a Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth. 258 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.119 Hey, welcome back to join the vault, you know Fox Sports Fortune fifty. 259 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.480 I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jagan's us and now we're going to go to 260 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:18.759 today's pres cows with coach Brennan. After here's the press car at the Big 261 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:25.839 Talk Todays. Think that will take questions? All right, Hello, Really 262 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:29.079 excited to be here. What an incredible day this has been. I'm not 263 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:32.680 sure it's an advantage or a disadvantage being last, but I've I've been talking 264 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:34.839 a lot today, so I might need to hydrate here as we're going, 265 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:40.440 But could not be more excited to be at the University of Arizona. It's 266 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.480 an incredible opportunity, that something that I've thought about for a very very long 267 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:48.880 time, and I'm excited about everything that's happening there right now. We've got 268 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:55.759 great new leadership in our athletics department with Desiree read Francois. There is all 269 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:59.279 kinds of excitement about the football team we had a year ago, and so 270 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:03.039 there's a tremendous momentum and a lot of those players chose to stay together and 271 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.599 move forward together, which I think is rare and one of the best stories 272 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.480 in college football this season, which I think needs to be told more often. 273 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.079 And ticket sales and excitement for joining the Big Twelve conference is extremely high. 274 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:18.759 So we're fired up, can't wait to get this thing going. Bear 275 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:21.440 down. All right, we'll start with questions. We'll go to the left 276 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:25.559 side. About the fifth rowback. Yeah, brit you mentioned Barry Trammel from 277 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:29.880 the Tulsa World. You mentioned the guys who chose to stay and stick together. 278 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:36.119 Keeping Noah seemed really key, pretty common today. Guy who loses his 279 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.279 coach goes to a good school, he just goes with him. How were 280 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:42.079 you able to keep Noah and how key was that to keeping everybody together? 281 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.640 I would say t mac and Jacob Manu and Jonas Haavanea had more to do, 282 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:53.000 Gunner Maldonado more to do with keeping Noah Fafita there than I did. 283 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:56.519 The truth is these players really loved each other. Coach Fish and that staff 284 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:02.680 recruited a bunch of quality young men that were incredibly committed and connected, and 285 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:07.920 I think that's what contributed to them wanting to stay. Keith Burry Touchdowns and 286 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:11.559 Tangents coach. Last year a Mountain West media day, I talked to you 287 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:17.039 about just the walk on culture that you helped produce at San Jose State. 288 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:22.960 How are you planning on kind of carrying that over here at Arizona? And 289 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:30.640 secondly, how has just the process been transitioning to Arizona, especially with all 290 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.400 connects you have in the Bay area. All Right, those are two big 291 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:38.240 questions. I'll try and answer them both. The first one I would say 292 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:44.640 is that the walk on program is a critical part of college football. Frequently, 293 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:47.480 those guys are the heart and soul of your football team. They're the 294 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:52.559 scout teamers. They're the players that don't get the reward of either a scholarship 295 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.400 or playing on game day. Now sometimes they do, but you know, 296 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.759 I think they are just an absolute key component. And I was a walk 297 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:03.759 on, so those guys have a special place in my heart. And then 298 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.799 it's always one of the most rewarding things you get to do as a coach 299 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:08.759 when you get to put one of those players on scholarship, which we were 300 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.400 able to do a lot at San Jose and we've actually even done already at 301 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.720 Arizona. So that's a The walk on program is going to be a critical 302 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:19.240 part of how we build our roster every year. Uh. The second part 303 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:22.680 is hous a transition. Ben. It's been great. It's been fast and 304 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.759 furious, but it's been wonderful to be out of place that I thought highly 305 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:32.119 of and that I love and appreciate in the University of Arizona in Tucson, 306 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:37.240 Arizona. And so, you know, we're just trying to build a football 307 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.440 team and you know, keep moving forward every day. And it's been you 308 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.640 know, buying a house and getting acclimated and all that stuff. So, 309 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:48.680 uh, we're not quite done yet, but we're you know, we're kind 310 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:52.759 of getting focused on football now, so that's more important. Justin Spears for 311 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.440 the Arizon Daily Star, coach Noah said, you know when you first when 312 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.799 you were first hired, he got about twenty five guys to come talk to 313 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.880 you. What were those conversations? Like, what did you ask those guys? 314 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:10.680 I didn't ask them anything. I let them ask me. I thought 315 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:12.480 it was important. I gave them an opportunity to get to know me, 316 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:17.000 who I was, what I was going to be about, and it was 317 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:19.519 a it was a speed dating, you know, like it was. They 318 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:25.680 asked me a thousand questions in a two hour span, and at the end 319 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:27.279 of it, some of them were silly and fun and we were laughing and 320 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:30.599 smiling and joking, and some of them were serious. And it was a 321 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.519 really great kind of icebreaker for all of us to get to know each other. 322 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.960 And I think, you know, Noah spearheading, it was a huge 323 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:41.079 part of that. But then at the end of the conversation, I asked 324 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:44.200 the players if they wanted to do it again the next day, and they 325 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.599 all agreed, and so the next day, you know, the same group 326 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.880 plus or minus a few got together and we had another two hour conversation just 327 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.400 about my philosophy, how I coach, what I believe in, what my 328 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.440 family's like, what color cleats were gonna wear, you know, just all 329 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:03.359 it was all over the map. But it was a really great opportunity for 330 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:07.000 us to get to know each other and for them to have an understanding that 331 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.200 as a head coach, like they're gonna have a lot of input, Like 332 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:11.720 I'm the kind of coach that I want them to have input in what we're 333 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:15.960 doing right now. At the end of the day, I know those decisions, 334 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:18.279 you know, sit with me, but I want them to have input 335 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.039 into what kind of program, what kind of culture we're gonna build at the 336 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:27.359 of a they coach Brandon Alex Blackburn College Football Dogs. How have your roots 337 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:33.920 that you of a with your brother playing there inspired confidence, motivation, and 338 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:38.119 just overall excitement in your first year as head coach. Well, that part's 339 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:41.839 been really special. My wife also went to school there. Just there's a 340 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:48.039 lot of carryover for me. My mentor Dick Tomy, you know, was 341 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:51.519 there for a really long time, and so it's very very special for me 342 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:55.680 to come back there. It's also given me a really cool connection to kind 343 00:22:55.680 --> 00:23:00.680 of that nineties generation that was either in school the same time I was, 344 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.359 you know, at EUCLA, or right after me when my brother was at 345 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.240 University of Arizona. So it's very special for me to be back there. 346 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:14.799 And I will say it's an incredible responsibility because of how much I know everyone 347 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:19.480 cares about Arizona football. Coach Jason Sheer wild Koint authority. I know there 348 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:23.000 is a lot to do when you were first hired. But are you able 349 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:26.839 to kind of take a dive into the big twelve? Do you look at 350 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:29.839 styles of play or anything like that or is it a kind of a week 351 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:33.440 to week basis as you're planning for teams. Okay, so I've gotten asked 352 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.799 this question a couple of times. I do think it's interesting. Right, 353 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:40.240 Obviously, we've already done preliminary scouting reports and all that kind of stuff. 354 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:42.240 But the truth of the matter is is that by the time we get into 355 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:47.079 big twelve play, we're going to have some film on everyone, right, 356 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:51.519 And so that part of it is I'm going to be when we get to 357 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:52.880 that point, I'm probably going to be a little bit more concerned with this 358 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:57.359 year than you know, twenty twenty four than I am from film from twenty 359 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:02.359 twenty three, especially in the Answer Portal era where rosters change so much, 360 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:06.599 you know, good players come and go that kind of thing. So by 361 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:07.880 the time we get into big twelve play, I'll be I'll be more focused 362 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:11.039 on what's you know, what have they been doing the few you know, 363 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:17.559 the two, three, four, five weeks before we play them? Hey, 364 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:22.279 coach Ryan Meyer's son Devil digests. Obviously, going now into a new 365 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.000 conference with a bunch of new teams as well, with Arizona State, Colorado 366 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:29.920 and Utah, is there any comfort in going to a new conference with a 367 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:33.200 bunch of schools that you were very familiar with in the past. I think 368 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.759 that helps. I think that helps, obviously, And maybe the simplest way 369 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.640 it helps is just that those venues are all places that I've coached games in 370 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:45.480 and and so that part of it. I think that's the unknown part for 371 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:49.119 you know, for us joining the Big Twelve, is the new venues that 372 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:52.480 we haven't played in yet that our players haven't felt the crowd. It's it's 373 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:56.839 some of these places and or you know what that feels like on game day, 374 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:00.000 because I think, you know, having a great home crowd can impat 375 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.759 the team. I'm also excited for all these teams to come to Arizona Stadium 376 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:07.640 and feel the Zona Zoo and feel our our crowd and our fans in the 377 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:11.599 city of Tucson and how they rally for the U of a time to talk 378 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.519 to us Chats Messman k y m a t V coach, how have you 379 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:21.759 tried to find balance between making changes and putting your own footprint on the program, 380 00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:25.440 but also trying to continue a lot of the things that made the team 381 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:30.680 so successful down the stretch last season. You know, I would say the 382 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.599 easiest part of that is it just when we get when we like offensively, 383 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.920 when we started putting that scheme together, uh, you know, we let 384 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:42.160 the current players you know, noa FAFIDA team ac those those guys have a 385 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:45.160 lot of input in terms of keeping a lot of the verbiage the same. 386 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:49.799 So how we call plays. I put the onus on the on the coaches 387 00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:55.960 to learn you know, what they tag plays or how they communicated that a 388 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:59.599 year ago. So then make that part of us which is that that way, 389 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:03.640 you know, only ten guys have to learn it and not seventy. 390 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:07.119 So that was the way we did that. Schematically and defensively. We're able 391 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:11.880 to retain Duyna Kina and Brett Rci and some other pieces there that they can 392 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:17.799 you know, the scheme will be the same or similar. And so I 393 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:22.000 would say that part of it. You always want to lean into the talent 394 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:26.160 you have. That That's just where I come from, and I think part 395 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.240 of that is making sure those players are comfortable in the in the schemes and 396 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:34.519 situations you put them in on game day. Justine Spears Air is a daily 397 00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:38.839 Star coach. You know, tam Ac a great player, obviously, you 398 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:42.559 know, one of the top receivers in college football. What separates him from 399 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:48.559 some of the others, both as a player and person, Team Ac is 400 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:56.359 one of those rare people that is actually fiercely competitive, but like is having 401 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:02.839 fun during the competition, like almost the way Steph Curry plays basketball like he's 402 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:06.359 having so much he looks like he's having so much more fun than everybody else. 403 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:08.880 And then as a talent or as a receiver, I'm an old receiver 404 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:12.200 guy myself, not nearly as good as any of the guys that I'm coaching 405 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:17.480 right now. But team as body control, his ability to finish fifty to 406 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:21.400 fifty balls. I think so many games in college where the NFL come down 407 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:25.720 to a fifty to fifty throw on a short yardage play where you can't run 408 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:27.640 it because they have too many people in the box. And his ability to 409 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:33.079 finish those throws is to finish those catches and no's ability to throw them, 410 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:38.839 you know, makes Team AC extremely rare. Hey coach Chris Brown from Azy 411 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:47.000 bancat Sports, Arizona had five all Big Twelve selections. Curious does that give 412 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:49.400 the team a chip on their shoulder? Is that external motivation? Right? 413 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:55.880 Being second most of the conference behind Oklahoma State there, I would guess that 414 00:27:55.960 --> 00:28:00.720 those players don't even know that happened, you know, like the and I 415 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:04.319 don't know who they are either, because I've been in this thing long enough 416 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:08.079 to know that those the only accolades that matter are the ones that come after 417 00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:12.720 the season, and that's what we're striving for. And so however those things 418 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:18.680 are you know, stated now, like, Okay, that's kind of I 419 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:22.440 don't think that's where our focus should be. Our focus needs to be on 420 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:25.599 the process and the work we need to do this summer to play good football 421 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:30.559 in the fall. HI coach Javi or moreles all Sports Tucson. You talked 422 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:34.119 about the nineties generation. You have Duayne aquinas your defensive coordinator, Dino Babers 423 00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.920 as your offensive coordinator. Can you talk about that dynamic of kind of bringing 424 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:42.319 that old school Arizona together. Well, I thought it was just important that 425 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:45.920 I had people on the staff that they love and care about the University of 426 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:51.119 Arizona and that's you know not. We also added Bobby Wade, who is 427 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:55.000 a great player there in the late nineties, early two thousands. You know, 428 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.680 I think that you know, Brandon Sanders is you know in the building, 429 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:03.599 Chuck Cecil's in the building. You know, Ricky Huntley's in the building, 430 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.920 right. So it's so important for me that that there's there's players that 431 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:15.480 played in the uniform that care deeply about the u of a touching our team 432 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:19.000 involved with our team. I really want that to be a part of it, 433 00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.920 you know. I think that's that's one of those things that it's it's 434 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.519 hard to It's hard to have if you haven't lived it, and those guys 435 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:29.519 have lived it at such a high level, and I want to I want 436 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:33.599 our players to have that around them and to experience it. Kevin Turner, 437 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:37.240 Sun Devil Radio Network coach, you guys have had a great deal of success 438 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:44.240 as of late in Southern California, specifically in the Trinity League. And now 439 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:48.240 that you're a West Coast guy and coming to Arizona into a new conference, 440 00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:52.799 will you expand that recruiting footprint? Are you going to stay true to the 441 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:57.119 roots and stay West Coast centric? No? I think that's one of the 442 00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:00.200 really cool things about joining the Big twelve. Gives us a chance to get 443 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:04.240 into some new markets where we're going to play, you know, multiple games 444 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:07.880 a year, and because of our location, I think it does give us 445 00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:12.880 unique access to California as as an Arizona school. But it also you know, 446 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:15.359 now there's we're you know, this year, we're playing two games in 447 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:22.440 Utah, and we're you know, we've got four opponents in Texas and Florida, 448 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.640 and you know, so I think that part of it is exciting, 449 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:27.599 you know, because it does open some new markets for you because you are 450 00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:32.160 going to play games, and all the players want to know can their families 451 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:34.400 watch them play? You know, that's such a big question in the recruiting 452 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:38.039 process. So I think it's exciting for us. But I also think, 453 00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:41.039 you know, the state of California has always been good at the University of 454 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:45.480 Arizona, and I think with our track record there and our coaching staffs relationships, 455 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:52.440 it will continue to be ken Berry touchdown as the Tangents coach. Obviously, 456 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:57.720 Jet coach Fish said before that Arizona is a California based recruiting school. 457 00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.240 They have ton of talent so when you have guys coming in, you had 458 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.839 justin Flow come in, you know, previously, what does a guy like 459 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.680 that do, especially somebody who was like a five star recruit? How has 460 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.200 he developed? How is he kind of gelling and froinding his place in the 461 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.559 defense? And did you get a chance to bring any walk ons from San 462 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:25.799 Jose State with you? So Flows doing great, He had a great spring. 463 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:27.079 You know, I think it's going to be a lot of fun to 464 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.480 watch him to continue to develop and grow, like like all of our players, 465 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:34.519 you know, because obviously we have an incredible player at that position at 466 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:38.920 one of those inside linebacker spots in Jacob Manu, right, And so it's 467 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:41.799 gonna be a lot of fun to watch that, you know, battle out 468 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:47.240 during the fall, right because Jacob is what I would consider one of the 469 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.799 unquestioned leaders of our football team, let alone our defense. And he was 470 00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:52.799 also an All Conference player a year ago, And so there's gonna be a 471 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.519 lot of fun at that linebacker position. Coach Gonzalez is obviously a VET and 472 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.000 one of the better coaches in the country. So I'm excited for him to 473 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.440 be able to coach those guys and and you know, continue to develop that 474 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:07.279 group, and then we had some players from San Jose State join us. 475 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.960 We had you know, we had a couple of guys transfer over who we 476 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:14.000 think who I think will be great additions to our program this year. Uh 477 00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:20.880 coach Jack Bartlett Cronkite News Jetfish last season did a really strong job of implementing 478 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:25.200 Polynesian heritage within the culture and the program. And I'm just curious how you 479 00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:30.240 will continue to implement that part into such a that has become so integral to 480 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:38.200 the culture of the program. So I think for for me, my experience 481 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:45.160 with that culture goes back to when I played in high school and college, 482 00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:50.720 you know, so that that that runway has given me great insight into that 483 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.720 and uh, that will always be part of us, you know, Like 484 00:32:54.240 --> 00:33:00.599 I think the beauty of the Polynesian culture is the family opponent, the component 485 00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:06.160 of respect, the hard work like all those things, and then just the 486 00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:09.079 natural talent that I think, you know, maybe the world is just starting 487 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:14.119 to see now, but that that talent has been obvious on the West Coast 488 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:19.839 and it and at the University of Arizona for years and so in San Jose 489 00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:22.200 State, my last job, that was a huge part of who we were, 490 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:24.400 and that's going to continue to be a huge part of who we are 491 00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:28.319 at the U of A. Okay, that'll do it, coach, thank 492 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:35.039 you for your time today. Bare down, what'd you get from the It's 493 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.759 gonna be funny and you're gonna you're probably gonna laugh about this. But you 494 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:44.720 know, I when did fish got here? And and even yeah, you 495 00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:46.279 always had to consider where he was coming from. You know, he wasn't 496 00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:50.480 a head coach. He was kind of a bagabond kind of guy, and 497 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.920 he never until he left, I just never felt like he was a natural 498 00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.000 head football coach, right. It was kind of forced. Was a you 499 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:02.440 know, he didn't even look like one. He didn't look like when. 500 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.720 He was a kind of a car salesman kind of guy, a circus you 501 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:09.880 know, kind of a circus kind of guy, a circus promoter, you 502 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:13.320 know, that kind of guy, and that I always had. That's what 503 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:17.719 was always my feel about him. Brent Brannan looks and sounds like a football 504 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:22.880 coach. Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, he's not a very 505 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.559 good quote, but he's good at what he's doing, right, and but 506 00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:32.000 he's you know, he's kind of thoughtful in what he says, he's yes, 507 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:37.559 straightforward is a good word, and he thinks about things that you think 508 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:42.320 head coaches should think about. Yeah, yeah, no, I agree with 509 00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:44.880 that. I agree with that. The thing I think you might think this 510 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:49.360 is funny outside of the very travel and Javier, I don't think anybody over 511 00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:55.920 thirty asked the question. They were all young. This is from beaver Town. 512 00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:00.239 This is from what got Doug come? Yeah, what the hell? 513 00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:02.920 You know? And you know, in a press conference like that, maybe 514 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.199 got into try to get into some weeds a little bit that you know, 515 00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.880 right in that Yeah, in that in that kind of a forum, you 516 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:15.280 want to ask sort of broader questions, right, you could ask those questions 517 00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.440 on the side, right, And then he did ask questions. So a 518 00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.440 couple of points that, well, you know what, let's go to break 519 00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.519 and then we can break this down some more because there's some stuff that I 520 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:28.079 want to cover from his from his post press conference media session. So let's 521 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.119 take a break. We'll be back and we'll talk some more about Brent Brennan's 522 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.960 Big twelve media press conference. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, you 523 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:37.599 know it's been successful for nearly forty years now, take a look back at 524 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.440 the Loudolsen era in my new book, Lessons from Loot. 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I'm 551 00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:52.119 Steve Pie's Shake and we have Henry with us. Today fifteen minutes. What 552 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:55.119 were you gonna say? But well, there were a couple of things that 553 00:37:55.239 --> 00:38:00.119 caught my eye, caught my ear, not my eye that brand Brandon said 554 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:05.840 in afterwards. There was a media session afterwards, then they had another breakout, 555 00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:08.239 says, there's some stuff coming into that, but one of them was 556 00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:13.039 that somebody asked him, what's the character of your team? You know, 557 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:15.639 who are you guys? And we've tried, you know, we asked that 558 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:17.519 all the time, right of coaches, you know, when when they've had 559 00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:22.440 a great season or are looking at and right, what's your identity? And 560 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:24.159 he said, I don't know, he said, he said, remains to 561 00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:27.840 be seen, he said, and that's a fair answer. I thought it 562 00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:30.480 was a very fair answer because he said, we're going to find out. 563 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:34.000 He said, I couldn't tell you what it is today. You know, 564 00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:36.199 I can tell you what I hope it is, but you know, I 565 00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:37.960 don't know what it is today. We're not going to know that. Do 566 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:40.679 we start playing games, no question, I think that we see this all 567 00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:45.679 the time all the time. You know, you have a new boss coming 568 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:49.119 in. Whether you like to play for him or her is a question. 569 00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:52.880 Do you play as hard as you can with for him or her? Do 570 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.159 you like being there for him or her? And we'll see, right, 571 00:38:55.199 --> 00:39:00.400 because it was very apparent after the first two years and and and Fish going 572 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:05.679 through what he went through, that the guys eventually cut on and started playing 573 00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:07.800 hard for him. Not nothing, the didn't play hard before, but they 574 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:13.440 found their groove. Well, there was there was some sort of symmetry, 575 00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:19.239 symmetry that's a that's a perfect word, that it all just kind of gelled 576 00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:22.480 together. And I really feel like, and I think I think we asked 577 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:27.000 Jed, this didn't have mine when we asked him when he thought that that 578 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:29.199 happened, and he said it was the USC game, right, I asked 579 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:31.480 him because I asked the same questions as we watched watch him on the sidelines. 580 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.880 There was a point when I looked at you, Jed, and you 581 00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:38.679 looked like a guy who liked what he saw and knew he had something. 582 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:42.679 And he said, yeah, it was there was that game, right, 583 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.079 even though in the loss, they found something. Right, there's something that 584 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:51.880 night came together and that the team sort of responded to it and said, 585 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:54.440 Okay, this is who we are, right and and and that that's who 586 00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:58.320 they were the rest of the way out. Yeah, no question. They 587 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.599 only lost to Washington after that, and but played well throughout the whole season. 588 00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:05.719 I mean they were beating people up right, and you're thinking, this 589 00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:09.880 is not you know, we've come to grow and love's the when's the wagon 590 00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:14.599 gonna lose the wheel? You're right? And they didn't. Then it never 591 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:16.960 did, even even in that Alamo Bowl when you thought it was over and 592 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:20.920 they're getting their butts get let me ask you this in hindsight, because that's 593 00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.440 been what five six months removed already. Well, and we talk about this 594 00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:27.719 game all the time, the Miami University of Arizona Miami game back in ninety 595 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.920 three, ninety four. Miami didn't want to be there. Miami didn't care 596 00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:32.440 to be there, and then they showed it. Oklahoma want to be there. 597 00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:37.800 That's why I thought Arizona would win going in right, But then you 598 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:40.239 know, they fell behind early, remember Arizona to the lead, and then 599 00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:44.960 they came back on them and I thought somebody flipped a switch or something on 600 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.280 the on the Oklahoma sideline and they realized, wait a minute, we can't 601 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:51.079 we can't lose to these guys. This is Arizona you know, this is 602 00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:53.440 not you know, Nebraska or Texas or whoever you know, any want of 603 00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:57.719 their rives. This is freaking Arizona. Why are we losing to these guys? 604 00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:00.639 And I felt like somebody flipped the switch. Now, I'll say also 605 00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:04.599 that from the start of the game through the whole game, their defense was 606 00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:07.679 dominating. There the Arizona's offensive line. Then they made remember they made a 607 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:13.280 switch and stuff, and then but you just felt like you just felt like 608 00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:15.480 I did feel early on that Oklahoma like, Okay, they don't want to 609 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:20.360 be here. But somewhere along the line in the game they decided they wanted 610 00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:22.360 to win the game. And then and they were winning the game and they 611 00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.679 were gonna win the game until the interception return the destiny. I thought that 612 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:32.800 destiny came in for Arizona exactly. So yeah, you know, when I 613 00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:36.800 you know, because because I'm really good at betting games, right, you 614 00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:38.239 know, when I see the Bowl games, I look and see who wants 615 00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:40.679 to be there and who doesn't, right, because there's a lot of those, 616 00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:45.079 and this is one of those games where I thought, Oklahoma doesn't want 617 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:50.519 to be in the automobile, right, and Arizona's happy as hell. I 618 00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:52.679 think he had declared right, right, right? They had to play with 619 00:41:53.320 --> 00:42:00.360 a freshman, right, Drew freshman? If I if I'm because yeah, 620 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:01.960 I was just thinking, but that happens, you know, but but you 621 00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:05.679 know, but the point being that, you know, he's right. He 622 00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:08.400 doesn't know what he's got. He has a good idea, he knows what 623 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:12.320 the players he's got. He's got to put him on the field to have 624 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.360 a good sense of what the what this team, and he won't know for 625 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.440 the first through two three weeks. We might not know till they get to 626 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:23.280 Kansas State. After Kansas State, right, and we'll see. There's a 627 00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:25.639 lot to like about this team, though, both sides of the ball. 628 00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:30.440 That that Kansas State game is getting bigger and bigger every day, you know, 629 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:32.440 really bigger and bigger. I was, you know, driving in and 630 00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:37.639 going through the season already and thinking, you know, if they win that 631 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:40.880 Kansas State game, and they could and they could, then that Utah game 632 00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:45.360 becomes huge. Let's say they go up there and do something stupid and beat 633 00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:49.360 Utah. Who's going to beat him after that? Right, they'll do They'll 634 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:51.639 lose a game. I'm not saying they're gon go and defeated, but you 635 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:54.639 can you look at the rest of the schedule after Utah, they should be 636 00:42:54.679 --> 00:43:00.039 favored in every one of those games. Got to stay healthy, to be 637 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.119 healthy. That's some of the stuff coming out of the breakout sessions that he's 638 00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:07.400 he's saying he's fine, Brent Brennan saying they're not going to take any chances, 639 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.679 uh, those kinds of things. The other thing that I got from 640 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:15.239 his thing this whole thing about the helmet stuff. So you know with the 641 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.000 with the new helmet, Brent Brennan said, he's a fan. Yeah, 642 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:23.760 I saw that multiple options for uniforms and stuff like that. So I know 643 00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:28.280 Jed brought back the Navy blue uniform, but they did some different stuff, 644 00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:30.920 right, They had an all red game and all that kind of stuff, 645 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:36.360 so they didn't just go strictly to that. But it looks like we're going 646 00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:40.360 to see some more uniform stuff. He didn't want to go up to surprise, 647 00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:44.159 right. Well, I saw some more stuff on on that thread with 648 00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:49.360 your brother, Ricky. Ricky Lamont talked about the old school stuff. I 649 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.280 feel the same way. I talked to my boss at El Tour. He's 650 00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:53.719 a merchandise guy. He liked it. I was a little shocked to be 651 00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:58.280 liked this as well. He's a merchandise, a chance to sell some stuff, 652 00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:00.360 and it looked cool. And he says, it's not about us, 653 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.719 it's about the kids who liked playing it. And I get that. I 654 00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:08.159 totally get that. So I'm kind of neither here nor there. I'm on 655 00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:10.679 it because you know how I feel about it. I'm neither here nor there. 656 00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:15.679 But what's the big deal. It's a beautiful it's a helmet, you 657 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:21.000 know what I'm saying. I'm indifferent, except if I think it can be 658 00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:25.960 an identity. It's an identity for Oregon, right, USC's uniform, that's 659 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.760 their identity, right the Oregon having multi multiple uniforms, that's their identity. 660 00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:35.840 We do this. USC's identity is we have this uniform and that's it. 661 00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:39.360 Penn State, remember when do you remember this? When Larry Smith went over 662 00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:45.400 there, they changed the helmet logo, right because it had the little trojan 663 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:49.199 head that for the longest time, and he made it bigger and it was 664 00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:52.039 a different look, and they lost their minds and that didn't like it. 665 00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.800 They didn't like it. And then actually when they fired him, that was 666 00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.400 one of the reasons they said they've wanted him fired is because he changed us, 667 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:05.760 he tradition and their helmet, you know. So so if he would 668 00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:07.880 have wanted more, they wouldn't have, you know. And look, I 669 00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:10.039 had I had lunch with the old my old guy's Wednesday lunch today. Right, 670 00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:14.760 they're losing their minds about the helm. They don't they don't like it, 671 00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:17.840 of course. Well my oldest brother Rick said he hated it all right. 672 00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:21.039 My brother Bean said, well, as long as they don't use it 673 00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:22.719 all the time, I'm okay with it. For the most part. They're 674 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.639 you know, they weren't. They're not happy with the helmet. I keep 675 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:30.039 explaining, you guys, it's not about us, right, No, it's 676 00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:34.800 not one. It's not only it's not about us. It's it's not about 677 00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:37.599 us at all. But we're not the fan that they're trying to, you 678 00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:42.599 know, get interested in this. And then Brent Brannan said, it's fun 679 00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.920 for the player, he said. They like having this stuff, he said, 680 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:46.800 And then he said, and he said, and it's fun for the 681 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:50.920 fans too, because you have some fans who hate it and some fans who 682 00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:52.880 love it. And guess what they're talking about it. That's so what do 683 00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:54.400 you think about it? When I heard that comment, I'm saying, he 684 00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:59.639 knows exactly what he's hearing from both sides, right right, and he's going 685 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:01.360 and he right in the middle. Yeah, I get it. It's for 686 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:05.199 the kids, and the fans will like it. I get it. Yeah, 687 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:08.400 you know, he's I think the politician. But we all agreed that 688 00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:15.800 the that that those those uniforms from the rich Rod days where the big the 689 00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:19.519 big dark letters, and you couldn't be the numbers from anywhere horrible. We 690 00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:22.960 hated them, horrible. Those are awful on whatever the blue number on the 691 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.000 red jersey or the red number on the blue jersey. You can see the 692 00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:31.079 number, Yeah from that made the play. Yeah yeah, but uh but 693 00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:35.039 yeah, so that that's gonna keep that's gonna keep going. So we'll see 694 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:37.480 what happens. Yeah, we'll see. And I'm sure you get the trends. 695 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:40.960 Oh there are two and one with the rhythm and just when the damn 696 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:45.199 game, just when the okay, fans love that stuff. They really do 697 00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:49.599 in the end, in the end, you know, on Thursday or Friday 698 00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:51.960 or whenever they do, you know, they'll put out on social media, 699 00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:53.039 this is what we're wearing this week, you know, and the fans going, 700 00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:55.199 oh, that's cool, you know, or that's not cool or whatever. 701 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:59.559 You know. Okay, I'm sure, I'm sure it's gonna be a 702 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:04.280 sale. And then you know there's they needed they need to sell things, 703 00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:09.480 right right, I'm speaking of that. Uh. The thing that Desiree read 704 00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:15.000 Francois said, uh is that they're they're they're actively trying to sell the naming 705 00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:22.000 rights to the stadium and the field. According to UH Brian Peterson who's there. 706 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:24.440 He tweeted out that that it's an ongoing thing, but they don't expect 707 00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:29.840 anything to happen probably for a year or so. That it's the slow process 708 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:34.199 to sell those sponsorships. Oh sure, and who's going to big money? 709 00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:37.440 Yeah, of course, yeah, but that's that's a help. That's Oh, 710 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:44.280 and that that money will go directly into paying the players, paying the 711 00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:49.239 athletes. That goes they will go directly into the pool of revenue that they 712 00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:53.400 have to pay that they got to raise. So what port of the money 713 00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:58.159 goes to the poor? The paying people back or whoever they need to be 714 00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.599 back because they're debt. So you have a twenty two million dollar pool that 715 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:04.119 you have to you have to come up with, right because you have to 716 00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:07.119 be the But you also have this thirty five million dollars debt. You've got 717 00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:10.320 it right that I don't know. I'm a bad person to ask that. 718 00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:15.079 No, But honestly, it's like it's like my house. It's a money 719 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:17.199 pit. I gotta pay my water. You gotta pay with this, But 720 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:20.559 I have a leak in the roof. For what the hell am I going 721 00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:24.159 to do? I don't know, and I can't sell it exactly, exactly 722 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:28.840 exactly now. I'm in the same spot as you. You know. Oh, 723 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:30.920 man, I understand their problems. Yeah, I understand. No, 724 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:35.800 but but that that that's going on and they have to I mean that there's 725 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:37.639 no there's no getting around now, man. But you don't think about it. 726 00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:40.960 If misery loves company, there's a lot of misery and company to go 727 00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:45.000 all over the place. Yeah, all over the place, you know, 728 00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:47.400 because yeah, I mean, because you still got to pay everybody. You 729 00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:51.960 know, coaches salaries aren't aren't going to drop their in fact, continuing to 730 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:53.679 go up, go up, in spite of all the issues, with all 731 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:57.119 the complaints that they don't have any money. You know, there's still not 732 00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:01.360 and that means admins aren't getting baid lightly either. Yeah, you know the 733 00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:07.280 desert. He's getting paid a million. Coaches coaches, Idea Barnes pain a 734 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:12.400 million, you know. Yeah, where's my fiddle? Where's my little violin? 735 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.440 A little violin? And get my violin out exactly exactly. You know, 736 00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:17.719 it's hard to it's hard to feel sorry for a bunch of people who 737 00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:22.599 make a lot of money and have this dilemma because it's it's there. Yeah, 738 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:24.920 it's gonna be there for a while. It's gonna be there for months 739 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:31.519 for for we hold this radio. We gotta get him on one last time 740 00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.360 to say goodbye. He'll come on, come on, come on this many 741 00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:42.159 regrets doctor, Yeah, yeah, quarterback. Well, you know, and 742 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:46.039 then there's a phrase right in the doctor them, uh, the the the 743 00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:51.960 patient died, but the surgery was successful whatever, something like that. I'm 744 00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:54.199 sure somebody could call it, you know what, the surgery was successful, 745 00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:58.400 but the patients still die. Yeah, it still die. There's nothing you 746 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:00.599 can do but that. Yeah, and again I'm curious how long he'll be 747 00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:04.280 around, you know, are they actively looking for the president? Do you 748 00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:06.360 think he's going to make it to the end of the year. I don't 749 00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:09.239 know, because because that was a big deal. I want to move move 750 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:14.239 along. I've not heard one word about whether or looking for a president, 751 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:17.039 or they've hired a search firm or or anything like that. You know, 752 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:20.760 I guess somebody needs to ask. Back in the old days, there would 753 00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:22.960 be a reporter who would be all, it's right. It is the summer 754 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.639 though too. Yeah, only one hundred and fifteen. Yes, I don't 755 00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:30.880 know, but yeah, So anyways, it's been interesting. Here's what here's 756 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:32.960 the thing, you know, kind of a what takeaway from from Big twelve 757 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.639 media day. You got a sense that there were way more eyes on it 758 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:42.440 than the PAC club media right right. They were on ESPN, you know, 759 00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:45.360 the National They had a show on ESPNU. All the you know, 760 00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:50.880 all the press conferences are being streamed on the ESPN website. So you know, 761 00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:54.199 we're in a relationship with ESPN now and not ridiculing the PAC twelve, 762 00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:59.719 the PAC twelve networks. You know, you feel like anybody who wants to 763 00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.159 see this can see it, and you got to think that there's some people 764 00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:05.920 out there who are interested to see what. Okay, these were the first 765 00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:08.480 this was these were the first media days of the four major conferences, right, 766 00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:13.480 so kind of like people are probably checking this out to see, Okay, 767 00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:15.480 what's going on over there? And Arizona's in, you know, a 768 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.920 prominent piece of this as one of the favorites in the league, and Brent 769 00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:22.840 Brennan as a new coach of people trying to find out about him. So 770 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:27.400 I feel like there were a lot of eyes on Arizona that probably wouldn't have 771 00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:30.280 been on Arizona if this was still the package. Yeah, no question, 772 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.880 no question, more visibility, more eyes, like you say on the price, 773 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:37.760 I mean the setup. There were more seats at the at the setup. 774 00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:42.679 You know, if you if you saw the setup in the stadium there, 775 00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:45.880 you know they were accommodating more. There was more media there, yeah, 776 00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:51.079 right right, national and otherwise well media too from the dot commerce, 777 00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.519 the NW dot com. I got a question. Yeah, and I'm giving 778 00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:59.400 them grief because I worked for one too. But but that's what the world 779 00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:02.440 is. And you know how many people did you wreckton justin who you know? 780 00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:06.239 And you can't do your ears? Who's not a kid, but he's 781 00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:09.519 us very fimill from the Oklude Telsa World News. I mean that was the 782 00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:14.880 only guy. Stewart Mandel was there. Yeah, but he didn't ask him 783 00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:16.400 the questions that we listened to right at the Arizona. He didn't ask any 784 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:21.559 questions in the Arizona press conference. But there's some guys and then, like 785 00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.000 I said, our friend Dave Hershoe, Butcher put him on the list. 786 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:29.320 I already told him that because of him, we've got a we've got a 787 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:31.440 jar in the office. Now we're in the studio, Okay, all right, 788 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:34.360 we're on top of the hour. We're gonna take our break right now. 789 00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:36.239 We're gonna come back, and Henry's gonna have breaking news.