WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:06.960 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez. Sound Fox 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:13.439 Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services. May sure your most prized possessions. 3 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:18.760 Kt z R two SA at iHeartRadio Station. Yet So good afternoon, 4 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.839 everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here at Fox Sports fourteen fifty. 5 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:26.600 I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jagansaus got our guy, Kevin Today. Welcome to 6 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:30.160 the grind on Tuesday. It is a grind. It's a tough job. 7 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is my long, long day I've got. 8 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:36.799 You know. I get up at five point thirty for this breakfast club 9 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.079 that I work with, and I do all my stuff during it, and 10 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:43.560 then I got a basketball game tonight. Oh you do have a basketball game 11 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.759 with a woman? Play six. I have no sympathy for you this week 12 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:50.600 because I'm doing the same thing with other things. I can't wait to be 13 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:53.759 sixty years old, no, seventy, but I have nothing to do. 14 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:58.079 But that'd be another time for another discussion. Kevin, you're just starting off. 15 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.479 Good luck to you. Still's hired though, Yeah, I'm just tired. 16 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:04.359 Uh Hey, a big game on Saturday. I hope the weather holds. 17 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:07.879 It should be a little rainy, a little raining, not a lot 18 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.120 raddy really yeah, twenty five chants it was. It was before it was 19 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:15.319 like forty percent chests. That was twenty five. So we'll see what happens. 20 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.040 And what's up with the football program? What are they doing to get 21 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.159 people in the building. Well, I just saw this on Twitter. I 22 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:29.959 haven't received any email or or anything. Maybe if I go into my season 23 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.959 ticket account, but every season ticket holder at you know, parars on a 24 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:40.280 football is being offered two free tickets to the game to bring somebody to be 25 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:42.400 so get another location. Probably, yeah, I'm sure they're not. Probably 26 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:47.400 sure they're not. You can't sit next to me though, Yeah, but 27 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:51.280 you know what we see We bring people in all the time. We have 28 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.120 tickets elsewhere in the stadium and they come and sit with us. Okay, 29 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.680 pintint no cool? I guess who that's gonna work. They gotta get the 30 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:01.799 tay. I can't remember a bigger game in a while. Yeah, well, 31 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.040 you know again, they're you know, they're going after their eighth win. 32 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:08.360 Who would have thought that we'd get to that all. Got a text 33 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.680 from listener Bill who said he got his last week. So I don't even 34 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.039 know when they did that, but apparently they did. I saw a friend 35 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:16.840 who did that today said I got two tickets. So I'm thinking, really, 36 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.240 you're not gonna do the game. And now it explains why they're not 37 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.479 going to They're going to the game plus two tickets. You know, I 38 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:28.400 wonder if I just killed the email. Well for a school not flush with 39 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:31.840 money, they're giving away tickets. Well, look, you know they look 40 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.520 they got to get people. They got to get people coming to the gates, 41 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.599 right, So if if the way to get them to the games is 42 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.800 to give them a couple of tickets to come to the game, then you 43 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.680 then you take a shot at that. But yeah, I don't know. 44 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:51.560 I on the one hand, it looks I don't want to say desperate, 45 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:53.039 but it looks like we can't sell these tickets, we're going to give them 46 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:57.000 away. On the other hand, it makes a lot of sense to to 47 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.360 say, you know, come to a game, see what it's like, 48 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:01.520 and then you'll come and you'll come again. So it's hard to play. 49 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:06.000 I'm asking you and your buddies, those guys that you eat blunch with and 50 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:10.360 huh and and are giddy, uh so, uh the games at twelve thirty, 51 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.680 and someone sent me a text, I will say, who, what 52 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.719 would have been the perfect time for this game in Tucson, Arizona for you 53 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:23.159 Wildcat fans? How can we make you happy? I think twelve thirty is 54 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:27.599 perfect. I prefer a four to thirty game, or yeah, probably, 55 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:31.080 I think the time slot now you know, it's not three thirty because three 56 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:36.159 thirty during daylight savings time, which we're not on. So the four thirty 57 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:38.120 game, that would have been a really good time. I like the one. 58 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.120 I like the twelve thirty and one o'clock games. Yes, they're you 59 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.759 know you have to you have to uh tailgate early in the morning if you 60 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:51.759 want a tailgate, but I'm not unhappy doing that. I like the twelve 61 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.680 thirty game. You know, yes, you get you get yourself out of 62 00:03:54.719 --> 00:04:00.199 the sack and and go tailgate and all that stuff. But then you know 63 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:03.680 the game's over at four o'clock. You go have some dinner on the way 64 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:08.400 home or whatever. You go. You know, you hit the sack at 65 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:12.840 eight o'clock because you're wiped out and it's been a good day. I love 66 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:16.360 the twelve thirty games, especially any day game in November. Any time of 67 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:21.480 the day in November is a great time to have a game. I think 68 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:26.279 I think one thirty is better than twelve thirty because then on the front on 69 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.240 the on the front end, you don't have to get there at seven thirty 70 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:32.920 in the morning for your tailgate. But you know, when they announce twelve 71 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:35.360 thirty, I'm like, okay, cool, I'd rather have that than eight 72 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:41.759 o'clock at night, right, you know, you know with us with our 73 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:46.639 tailgate, you know we'll have you know, sort of a breakfast a breakfast 74 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.360 menu we're gonna do, you know, chariso and eggs and menulo and you 75 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:57.040 know, breakfast pastries, Mimosa's bloody, Mary's Delicious. What work does you 76 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.800 want? Yeah, out a Saturday, Yeah exactly. Get there early, 77 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.079 Yeah, get there early. But we'll be cooking. You know, we 78 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.759 never cook. We're bringing stuff that's already made. But on a for one 79 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.120 like this, you know, we'll cook. We'll have a fun with it. 80 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.319 So I'm looking forward to it. It's it's I think it's I think 81 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.160 it's a really good time And if somebody doesn't like it, well then get 82 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.439 the hell out of it. Well, you know, Steve I mean, 83 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:25.040 it's funny. I had one of those Facebook memories pop up, maybe it 84 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:30.600 was last week or so where it was a season where it might have been 85 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.120 during the sumbling years, but it's a season where people were bitching and bitching 86 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:38.920 and bitching because Arizona had to run the Lake games, right, you were 87 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:42.839 all they like games, and then they get a one o'clock game. It 88 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.800 was like three years ago, and don't write and nobody showed up, and 89 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.120 I'm like, okay, as I'm gonna set it. Okay, you're fine. 90 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:54.120 What the hell are you? Right? You've been bitching about the Lake 91 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:57.839 starts. So we got a day game and you're still not here? What 92 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.279 the hell? Because that's not you. Let's talk about this. So you 93 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:02.600 know we can't talk. Hey, smart, move with the phone line. 94 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:08.040 We can see the you've been here forever. Yeah, and Arizonta fans and 95 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.079 I've written this story of a thousand times. I've said this. There are 96 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.560 a bunch of fickle fans. If your win, they'll come. And that's 97 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.680 pretty much every base, but but here it's and they're not from here unless 98 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.000 you are from here, like you Right, you're a rarity. Right, 99 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:24.360 You're a rarety guess because people who own or who own tickets like you aren't 100 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.360 natives. There are even people from out of town. I mean they're not. 101 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:30.680 What's the fan base? You got fifty thousand people that can go in 102 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:34.800 that stadium. The fan base is about twenty two the season ticket fan base, 103 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:40.240 Yeah, the twenty two twenty two? How How is sad the right 104 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:44.519 word? Yeah? It sucks, but it's always been there, that's my 105 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:46.680 that's my point. You're trying to chase. Never more than that, you're 106 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.600 you try to chase something that's always been that way. Ye. That ain't 107 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:53.920 gonna happen if you continue to show up late to your wedding. Guess what 108 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.360 you're gonna do. You're gonna show up late to your wedding. That's just 109 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.800 what you do. No, it's and that and that's that's unfortunately where you 110 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:03.160 know where it's been so No, I I you know it. It Uh, 111 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:11.319 it's just it makes me mad because our fans, our fans always have 112 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:15.600 to find something to bitch about it. Come on, it's funny last night 113 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.600 on Facebook? Uh, some guy. And this is what we've come to 114 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:23.199 with Facebook and Twitter. If I didn't have to be I would be disappeared. 115 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.160 But some guy was was complaining. I was complaining. I was used 116 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.439 to b word that the team will looked tired. They looked team last night, 117 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.800 looked they were grabbing their knees and they were tired. Then one thirty. 118 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.680 That's a lie. Shut up. Yeah, I think it's a misinterpretation 119 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:42.800 of what they were want like not you. I think they're mister looking at 120 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.560 I think they weren't tired. I think they were mentally drunk from a dragon 121 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:51.480 beating. I didn't even think that they were pretty sloppy to start. Southern 122 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:57.040 University came out and played really well. You know in the first half. 123 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.240 Yea, Arizona tried to impose its will and do that until the second half. 124 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:03.519 They won by thirty some point. You weren't here yesterday, but that 125 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.560 went on Friday. May have been a curse because now everything's supposed to be 126 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:11.879 perfect. It doesn't work that way, especially you played ball right, well, 127 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:13.959 you didn't play ball was so so. You see this all the time. 128 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:18.360 You get up for huge games, especially dudes like this dude, these 129 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.600 guys, and I've seen it thirty some years, and then you play somebody 130 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:26.040 that's not you played down. I think for the first like I think it 131 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.120 was. Actually I noted it. It was until the first media time out. 132 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.960 Arizona was playing kind of its kind of going to the emotions. And 133 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:37.399 that's what you were talking about, Jay when you said Southern played really hard. 134 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.360 They're gonna play really hard because they're playing Arizona, so like it's it's 135 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:43.559 not to us to come out and whoop them by thirty like we did. 136 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:48.399 My whole point maybe in this is is some dude, some dude in a 137 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:54.600 count somewhere is complaining about the team grabbing their knees and then tired, what 138 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.840 it's something that dude saying that guy should have a be on a diet. 139 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:03.320 I answer, I shot, you know what, well, that guy must 140 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.320 have had Arizona minus thirty one. Well he got ripped, he got ripped. 141 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:09.639 No, no, he got ripped. He got ripped by some of 142 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.879 the guys. I know. Because oh, it's always if it's not the 143 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:13.879 refs, it's something else. If it's not this, it's something else. 144 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.320 I was gonna say. I've been talking to my friends a lot this year 145 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.399 about how fans of any sport, of any team in big are gonna find 146 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:24.639 things to complain about within that area. I mean, look at the NBA. 147 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:26.759 The NBA is trying to do in season, tournament, they're trying to 148 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.360 do playing, they're trying to fix problems with the fans have been complaining about. 149 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.399 But as soon as they announced that, what other fans do complain this 150 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.600 is stupid. I don't want it. I know a guy and I'm just 151 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:41.720 gonna say, I know a guy who thought Loud Olson was incredibly overrated and 152 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:45.679 not the legend that everybody made him out to be because he only won one 153 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:48.600 necessarily, I ran into that's the same not the same guy, but the 154 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.679 same scenario. And you can explain what he meant. Some guy about six 155 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.639 seven months ago said and he's just just a normal fan. He says, 156 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.320 Steve, I have some friends and he's a he's an international guy, foreign 157 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.840 guy. And he he says, I have some friends because I was selling 158 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:03.759 my book right and they bought some books. And he says, I some 159 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.559 of my friends said that he should have had a few more titles. That 160 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.000 I'm thinking, what do you do for living? And he told me, 161 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.559 what are you good at what you do? And if you play it against 162 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:16.519 other people, don't you think you're gonna get beat every now and again because 163 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.919 other teams have pretty good teams at the same time. Right, Calipari, 164 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.360 what about him? What about coach k They all everyone should have titles, 165 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:28.799 have more, right, So when do they win more if you're all playing 166 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:31.480 against the same teams. No, it makes no sense. It makes no 167 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:33.840 sense to me. You and golf. If I play you in golf, 168 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.600 shouldn't you kick my ass every time? Every time? Exactly? Right? 169 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.240 Then? What it doesn't make any sense. These people who kind of make 170 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:46.080 observations don't have any don't have all the resources to think about what they're thinking 171 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:48.639 about. I mean, they're also not going to seek out those resources. 172 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.639 I think if you're if you're watching, you already have your idea. Exactly 173 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:54.879 if you're watching Arizona basketball, but you're only watching Arizona Verse. Duke only 174 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:58.799 watching Arizona Verse the top teams, and then he tuned in after we beat 175 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.480 the You're like, Oh, Arizona's got it this year. You just playing 176 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.600 against Southern in the first five minutes, and you're like, but they haven't 177 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.960 seen Kansas, Yeah, exactly seen. They're not gonna They're not gonna go 178 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.919 I'm saying they're not gonna go out and equip themselves with the natural tools sure 179 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.000 to make the decision. Who would have ever thought last year that the Florida 180 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.039 team would have been their team. No one thinks because you never saw them 181 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.159 right, right, and and here we have all these people should win it. 182 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:22.960 No, not always, not always. And I'm not trying to defend 183 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.639 the Arizona. You could put me in Kansas or you could put me in 184 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:30.679 Texas. It's the same thing. People don't. People are blinded. They 185 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.279 were blinders and they say, oh, we're the best team in the country. 186 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:35.399 Okay, sure, just wants your team. Yeah. And if you 187 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.559 if you ask any if if you get a sellout arena at you know, 188 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:41.360 let's not do you it, Let's do Kansas right, sell out arena at 189 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:46.759 Kansas. If you went and interviewed fifty percent of the people there, varying 190 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.039 levels of knowledge is what you're gonna find. Like the high level of I'll 191 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.919 say in depth, level of familiarity with the team, it's gonna be pretty 192 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.120 rare. Yeah, you know, so I feel like, yeah, you're 193 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.519 gonna hear it. Yeah, anything your team is good. There's gonna be 194 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:03.600 a lot of noise. You don't think people in Kansas are some people in 195 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:09.759 Kansas should should have said we should have more titles every year. I'm sure 196 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:11.240 they're looking around like, wait, we didn't win it last year. What 197 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.759 what? We're not defending this? What happened? Yeah, what happened. 198 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.759 It's it's just the way. It's just the way life is. It's never 199 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.720 you're never gonna make a lot of people happy. People are unhappy. You're 200 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.799 probably doing something something right. Maybe maybe well I kind of ran into somebody's 201 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.360 Saturday and I came back from Dukin talking about the game and something. Oh 202 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.320 he's he's overrated, And I'm thinking he's been here two years, he's been 203 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.840 here two years. He can't dance. Oh he's what he danced twice? 204 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:46.440 What he Oh my god. It's the way that we live in the world 205 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.159 we live it definitely the results based thing, right, But everybody, I'm 206 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.600 entitled to my opinion. Go aheadhead, have it a good leg with that. 207 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.919 All right, talk about the show. We got Bruce Pascal coming up. 208 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.279 We're gonna pick his brain on what the hell he thinks he saw at 209 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.919 Duke last week other than and he and he asked a couple of quick, 210 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:09.840 good questions. You know, Bruce. I loved Bruce because we started to 211 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.919 get her back in the nineties or you know, he showed up later and 212 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:18.879 he's kind of like the antagonist with his questions and and coach knows this who 213 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.320 he needed him, He needled him and do him last night. But but 214 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:26.279 the questions he asked kind of need to be asked. His approach might be 215 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.360 bad, but he but he asked the questions last night. He had a 216 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:33.320 good one, the final question. And I'll have him ask you that because 217 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.000 you probably didn't listen to it, did you? No? Okay, so 218 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.279 it was interesting. Well I did see somebody say why doesn't why doesn't Tommy 219 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:46.960 Lloyd like Bruce? Well, because it's just poke. It's it back and 220 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:50.519 forth, right, Okay, that's funny, all right, all right? 221 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:52.399 So Bruce did gonn join us here in a couple of minutes, and then 222 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.360 we were trying to get some get Javier Morales. They talked to us about 223 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:00.720 high school sports, but he's busy coaching his elementary school basketball team, so 224 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.360 we're not gonna be able to get him. But lots of stuff to talk 225 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:05.960 about. We'll use that segment to going deeper into some issues that have come 226 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.600 up over the last week or so. We'll do that after breaking news, 227 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.799 and so we'll get lots of cover, so we'll go through all that, 228 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:35.279 but Bruce Pascal coming up right after the break. Stick around. 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Because some people think the basketball team was 313 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:38.759 tired? Oh, well me, I'm tired because it was a six o'clock 314 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.279 game. So that's all I can Yeah, I mean I thought it was 315 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.119 great. Yeah, I was a sleep by midnight. So you made this 316 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:48.319 great observation. We sat together for a little bit, a little bit and 317 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:53.240 I didn't even think it's think of this, but how it how the game 318 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:59.440 was important to be played here and not on the road explained Yeah. Yeah, 319 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:02.880 And I didn't to downplay the other thing because they did have this huge 320 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:04.759 game. Then they had a late night flight. I wasn't on that flight. 321 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:07.519 You were, either Steve and they they were up all night and then 322 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:11.279 they have people telling them how great they are all weekend. That's tough to 323 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:15.960 deal with. And so yeah, no, I thought it was worth bringing 324 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:21.359 back the point that this game was originally scheduled to play Saturday Sunday afternoon in 325 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:25.119 Baton Rouge, and it was part of that PAC twelve legacy series with the 326 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:27.920 Swax Schools, and they were trying to promote this was sort of a COVID 327 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:33.440 year idea they came up where they were trying to promote HBCU and awareness and 328 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:38.839 this and that and anti racism, all this kind of stuff, and Arizona 329 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:42.319 got in a bind when they decided they wanted to play Florida Atlantic, and 330 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.119 Fox was trying to get them to play it up in Las Vegas, and 331 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:49.720 Arizona didn't have a home gate available or they needed a home game to finish 332 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:55.039 out because they have to have eighteen here for that's their their rule for season 333 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:57.359 ticket packages, and so they can plan their budgets because obviously they make a 334 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:00.720 lot of money on home games here. So the only way, you know, 335 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.960 Arizona could do it is either cancel one of their big neutral games, 336 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.240 which they weren't going to do, or you know, throw a bunch of 337 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:10.559 money at Southern and get them to come out here. And that's basically what 338 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:12.799 happened. You know, I don't know yet how much they paid them. 339 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:17.200 I've put into public records re quest on September twenty sixth. Still I haven't 340 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:19.240 got it back yet, so I have no idea, but I'm sure it's 341 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.319 north of the one hundred thousand dollars to get them to come out here instead 342 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:26.079 of playing the game in Baton Rouge, which made a huge difference because you 343 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:29.039 can imagine you guys, I mean, Steve and I we were talking about. 344 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:32.400 I was like, if Arizona had to go straight to Baton Rouge on 345 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:34.759 Sunday. Not only did they be tired, but they'd also be hearing about 346 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:38.400 how great they were and the arena was going to be sold out. It's 347 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:44.960 a little like smaller arena there seventy five hundred students and it's not a bad 348 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:47.440 team. As we saw in the first half. They got some you know, 349 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:52.279 they got some aggressiveness and some athletes there. You know, there might 350 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:53.559 have been a lot of trouble. So it made a big difference in the 351 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:57.119 game about here last night because it allowed Arizona to sort of, you know, 352 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:02.559 refocus and recover it half time and sort of you know, come out 353 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:04.720 and play the way they played. And then they had the support of the 354 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:08.759 crowd, which has you guys also though intends to be the loudest at Machaale 355 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:11.680 when the team's in trouble, and they were in trouble last night for almost 356 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:14.920 twenty minutes for half. Well, yeah, well, you know, you 357 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.079 know how the Arizona fans are, right, so you beat Duke and now 358 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:22.559 everything. They got to blow everybody out by forty and if you're playing in 359 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.359 a close game, there's something wrong as opposed to yeah, maybe the other 360 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.440 team's playing really well and Arizona's got to figure out how to, you know, 361 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:32.880 how to defend them and how to score against them. They beat them 362 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.440 by thirty plus, and it's like somehow that still wasn't good enough for a 363 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:40.160 lot of fans. Yeah, I mean, this is it was exactly what 364 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:42.680 I thought would happen. I mean, I just thought because of Southern style, 365 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:45.160 and they Southern crost them a little bit of trouble last year. Granted 366 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:49.960 it was a different team, largely under a different coach, but but Arizona 367 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:55.079 struggle with them for the first half last year, you know, and if 368 00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:57.640 you combine that with coming off the Duke Whin, it was an automatic hangover 369 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:03.160 struggles situation where they just you knew they weren't going to just run out of 370 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:06.799 the gate. At least I felt anyway they wouldn't. But but I thought 371 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:10.680 they'd ultimately get it together. They have enough depths. We saw the you 372 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:15.200 know, Lloyd played for the eleventh final eleven minutes only reserve players and they 373 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:18.279 still out sports Southern. So they got the depths to where where teams out 374 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:23.119 and that's what happened. But but definitely the first half was a concern, 375 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:26.759 but also, you know, it's it's human nature. I mean, you 376 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:29.519 know that. I don't. I don't think it's a big surprise at all. 377 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:33.440 I mean, Tommy Lloyd didn't agree when I asked him if it was 378 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:36.440 mental or physical, and he he went straight to the physical, saying, 379 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:38.960 hey, this team was good. I you know, maybe who knows that. 380 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:41.160 I don't know. I kind of thought it looked to me like part 381 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:45.440 of it was just you know, them them adjusting to having to play the 382 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:48.400 game. Those one of the things. Because you asked that question. Uh, 383 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:51.799 it was a fair question, and he's not going to go with an 384 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:55.640 He's not gonna go with a mental you know that. But but you had 385 00:24:55.640 --> 00:24:59.640 to ask the question anymore. No coach wants to No coach wants to admit 386 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:03.880 their t wasn't ready. But I didn't think it was really a mark on 387 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.599 Lloyd not having a team rate as much as just human nature. Like you 388 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:10.039 can only do so much. You can tell these guys you've got to be 389 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:12.240 ready, blah blah blah, they just be donlv you know, forget about 390 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:17.880 Duke. They're nineteen twenty year old guys. I mean it's tough, right, 391 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:22.960 right, and then you that question and then your final question. You 392 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:26.519 Jay hadn't heard it. We talked about it going up the ramp. Your 393 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:32.440 thoughts on your final question, Oh, you know, well, I mean 394 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:34.079 the whole, the whole budget thing. That's why I'm kind of trying to 395 00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:37.240 do some more on this per day. And just you know, I thought, 396 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:41.599 I just asked him, do you think that the current crisis will affect 397 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:47.079 your program? Because obviously cutting men's basketball is not an option. I mean, 398 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:48.160 maybe they could cut the salaries, but if they do too much, 399 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.200 it's market based salaries and that could affect the program, and then the program 400 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:56.240 potentially doesn't win. Then you then you don't get as much revenue. I 401 00:25:56.279 --> 00:25:59.000 mean, you got to spend money to make money, so, you know, 402 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:02.799 but I just asked him because I thought maybe they were racing for some 403 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:06.799 kind of across the board cut in the athletic department. Nobody in the athletic 404 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:10.720 department is talking about it. I've tried to get Dave. He can't talk 405 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:15.079 to him. You know, I've been watching. I had like literally spent 406 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:19.039 today rewatching that faculty Senate meeting where Robbins was blaming a lot of this problem 407 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:22.480 on the Big Twelve of all things, and how you know, he was 408 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:26.799 saying that if the big gifts the Pac twelve had taken Texas and Oklahoma and 409 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:30.839 beefed up to twenty teams, that would have got a big contract and they 410 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.720 didn't get that, and now they go in the other direction and maybe gone 411 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:37.720 a little more. And he said, it's not a Panaceea, you know, 412 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:40.079 we're in trouble. So, I mean, he was trying to justify 413 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:45.119 to the faculty Senate and they and also to the regents that that part of 414 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:48.680 the problem was they gave him this loan thinking that they would do that in 415 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:53.839 the context of they had additional revenues coming down the road with bigger media contracts. 416 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:59.119 For now those media contracts are not going to happen. They're not going 417 00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:02.559 to be bigger anyway, so they they're in a bind. And and so 418 00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:04.440 so I just asked Lloyd if he's saying because literally, I mean, part 419 00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:08.559 of the problem here is that Jetfish and Tommy Lloyd are the only people that 420 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:14.079 media can even ask about this issue, like everybody else is behind closed doors, 421 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.319 so we have to ask them. And Fish said something the effect of, 422 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:21.880 you know, we're focused on winning, and and Tommy Lloyd said he 423 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:23.480 didn't come here to be part of the budget crisis. He doesn't. He 424 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:26.960 hopes it doesn't affect him, but he didn't. And then when to ask 425 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:29.599 him, have you heard anything? What have they told you? He said 426 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:32.480 nothing I want to share with you. So that's that's where they're at. 427 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:34.480 But you know, it's all doing that context of yeah, we have to 428 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.759 ask them because they're there, but also they make money for this program. 429 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:44.480 They're probably thinking, you know, like they're both winning, probably more than 430 00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:48.519 than anybody saw it in each case, and they're generating money from the university, 431 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.240 and the university havn'ts problems, so you could see how they might be 432 00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:53.480 saying, hey, it's not my problem, you know, like and that's 433 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:57.359 kind of the ye by God anyway. Well, part of the thing I 434 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:02.799 reason I ask is because I saw another post which is stupid. I stupid. 435 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:06.279 Watch his posts. Someone said the tone, the tone that he was 436 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:08.200 because he's usually happy, right, yeah, he's usual and he had a 437 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:11.559 little nasty tone to it. Or I didn't come here to be part of 438 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.960 a budget crunch, right, I didn't get that. I didn't feel that 439 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:18.680 tone because he's kind of like Bubby every time. But that was a good 440 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:23.200 question to a to a good question, and the response was what what it 441 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:27.240 was? It's just a straightforward response. Yeah, I don't know. I 442 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:30.599 don't know what to think of that, Steve. I think you know, 443 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:36.920 it's possible that again, if you're him, I'm yeah, you might think 444 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:38.920 you know, Yeah, me and my staff are making money, but we're 445 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:44.599 also making ten twelve million dollars for the university. So why are you even 446 00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:48.039 asking me that question? You know? But I don't think he's necessarily like 447 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:52.279 that, but he was a little bit, yeah, a little bit if 448 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.920 the error in general, And but maybe that's because everybody at U of A 449 00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:00.720 has been told don't talk about anything, you know, and that's usually their 450 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:04.400 mo o when there's anything kind of controversial out there. Who knows that said, 451 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.599 and Jay, you were there for you. You hung on for a 452 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.119 little while. He couldn't show up till later. And the president was not 453 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:11.960 in the building. It was not in the in the press conference because he 454 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:17.039 usually is. Yeah, he was at the game, but he left. 455 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:19.519 I watched him leave. I was filing my buzzer story and he left right 456 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:23.279 under us, and and I went down to try and find him and Boone, 457 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:27.240 he was gone, yeah, okay, let's talk about basketball. Yeah, 458 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:32.119 let's talk about the game. So okay, top two or three impressions 459 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.279 that you have of this team or you know what you feel you know about 460 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:41.559 this team already? Well, you know, I mean it's kind of in 461 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:47.640 a way. I think the main impression is they're they're you know, like 462 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:51.720 like the previous two Tommulay teams, they're really playing well together. And there's 463 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:52.920 a lot of guys who can do it. I think, you know, 464 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:56.960 maybe you know, two years ago you had Ben Matherne, who was you 465 00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:00.440 knew you would be the guy or whatever, and and Collocal was your your 466 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.920 defensive guy around the basket and that was But this is a team with just 467 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:08.920 you know, a bunch of guys who can, uh you know, can 468 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:12.960 can really rely on each other depending on what's available out there. And that's 469 00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:15.839 that's the way they're doing it. And I think that's kind of a best 470 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:18.759 case scenario for them. I don't know whether this will keep up, but 471 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.400 that it seems like a pretty good formula to have so many different ways of 472 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.000 beating you and guys who don't seem to care too much if they're not. 473 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.279 I mean, even Caleb Love has been somewhat restrained. You know, there 474 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.759 was the big questions about him, and you know, among other things he 475 00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:36.880 saw at Duke he didn't shoot well, but he did make some clutch plays. 476 00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:38.039 And then when he went in when he got the ball in the basket 477 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.720 towards the end there, instead of forcing something up, he dished the ball 478 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.720 to to Keishaw Johnson, and Johnson gets an an one and and that makes 479 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:49.039 you know, that goes ahead and ends up winning the game. So you 480 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:52.440 know, there's just a lot of I think that's that's the main thing is 481 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.160 sort of that that overall picture that they they're playing together and they're they're obviously 482 00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.359 better, uh defensively and and probably you know, so far at least a 483 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.480 little bit tougher, which is something they've been trying to do for you know, 484 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.599 ever since that Houston lost. Well, you know, Bruce, we 485 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.400 talk about this yesterday A lot. I really impressed with Johnson because they haven't 486 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.880 had him or type of guy like him in a while. Yeah, I 487 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:19.920 thought I actually thought, you know, we all wrote about Cale Love and 488 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.079 he was certainly the player of the game at Duke for the reason because he 489 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:29.279 hit click sputshots in front of that crowd which is riding him. I mean, 490 00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:33.599 the former tar heel. You saw the crowd around love blah blah blah 491 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:34.839 after the game. It was incredible. I mean, it's so much interest 492 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:38.759 in this guy. But arguably the player of the game, well besides Colin 493 00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:44.079 Boswill had the best numbers. But but Keishaw Johnson just that energy guy and 494 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.519 a guy who's kind of fearless, goes in there, doesn't care. He's 495 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:51.039 been there before, He's been on the highest stage, you know, he 496 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:53.799 has no fear. And I think last night too, arguably the player of 497 00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:56.599 the game, not only because he was the leading scorer, but just because 498 00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:00.720 he he had that energy and he was the one guy who really jumped out 499 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.200 at you like, Okay, this may be a tough adjustment to come home 500 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.920 and play a different, you know game and blah blah blah. But he 501 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:12.720 was the same guy. And that's that both pretty well. If you have 502 00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:15.519 that kind of you know, a guy and they seem to like him, 503 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:20.000 he seems to be kind of infectious like that too, So so that's that's 504 00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:22.640 a good time for them. The other thing we've been talking about is, 505 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.359 you know, the four guards and what that's going to be like, you 506 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.839 know, all year long that you just got four interchangeable guards who are all 507 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:37.519 physical, can shoot, can score, can drive and do all these things 508 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.759 and you take one out and you bring another one in and he looks exactly 509 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:43.319 the same, and that that's going to be a thing that's going to be 510 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:47.440 tough on other teams. Yeah, yeah, and and and and I think 511 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:54.000 probably better also potentially better defensively too, you know. I mean kJ Lewis 512 00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:59.279 really brings something in there, and he's he's pretty fearless. And and you 513 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.119 know, Jaydon Bradley's really been interesting to me too, because he seems to 514 00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:07.720 be even more so than kayleb Love, really just just doing what needs to 515 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.240 be done, not forcing anything. He's smart player, just kind of and 516 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:14.559 he seems to be okay with that role, you know, and which which 517 00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:17.079 I thought was also something to watch out for because it was like a five 518 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:20.880 star player. You know, a lot of times those guys sophomore year five 519 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:23.559 stars, they're not they're not happy if they're not starting and being the guy, 520 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:27.440 and he's not. But he seems to be okay with that. Yeah, 521 00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.599 no, it's it's really fun to watch those guys. And you mentioned 522 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:32.559 kJ Lewis, you know, I mean that guy comes in and he's he 523 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:37.359 immediately, you know, starts having an impact. You know, you see 524 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:40.319 the defensive how hard he plays defensively. I was noticing that because he was 525 00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:45.599 in that group that played in the last eleven minutes of the game. So 526 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.400 he's in there with you know, with with the second level guys and still 527 00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.000 playing as hard as he was playing when he was in there earlier in the 528 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:57.839 game, right, and they're up by thirty thirty seven, And in fact, 529 00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:00.000 that's that's the thing. I mean, the Reserve did outscore them over 530 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:04.160 the least eleven minutes, but I think Lewis was uh, you know, 531 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.279 sixty percent of the reason why they did. He was he was pretty good 532 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:09.400 down that stretch and didn't let up, didn't you know. I mean that 533 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:13.079 could have been an easy spot for him to just kind of coast a little 534 00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.800 bit or whatever. Yeah, okay, anything else. I just maybe the 535 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:21.480 atmosphere at Duke Uh, he was he had his headphones on all games. 536 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:24.719 He was listening to I had to my I already have heard hearing damage. 537 00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:29.920 Not about or Jay. I mean like for all these years I've covered the 538 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.679 I mean like literally and then and then the first I think I kept them 539 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.159 off and through the first media time out, but my ears were hurting. 540 00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:38.519 I'm like, I'm not gonna sorry, I'm just I'm gonna have to listen 541 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:43.639 live, miss out on the experience or whatever. But there because the students 542 00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:47.239 are literally one and a half feet behind my ear. That's not it's not 543 00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:52.039 good. And you know that that was good, but I mean you definitely 544 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.679 could you definitely could feel it. I thought you were listening to Neil Diamonds 545 00:34:55.719 --> 00:35:01.880 or something. Nothing. No, And that's something you can't even put noise 546 00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:07.280 canceling on. That's like it's just like a little bit of a barrier to 547 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:12.760 keep it from absolutely damaging your ear to being uncomfortable. You've been doing it 548 00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.360 again, You've been doing it so long, Bruce, I'm not surprised to 549 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:17.719 hear. Thank you, Bruce. Thanks a buch Man. Appreciate it, 550 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.960 all right, thanks, thanks, appreciate it. All right. All right, 551 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:23.239 let's take our break. We're going to come back. We'll take your 552 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:27.960 cast five to two zero four one six seventy four forty talk about anything you 553 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.119 want to talk about. Big game coming up for Arizona football. 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I probably it 602 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:10.039 was probably in your delivery. My picks sucked last week and you're the one 603 00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:15.440 that gave them. Look, I have no control over what happens on the 604 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.719 field, court or ice. If you make these picks, it's you, 605 00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:22.320 whatever mental process you went through before. That was my worst showing, and 606 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.639 you guys did the delivery. It's not it's not me. It's the fact 607 00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:27.599 that you had to do it for remote. It could have been me. 608 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:31.079 It could have been you know, it doesn't matter. They clean of English. 609 00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:35.679 Anybody. Well, I would have blamed her too, and that's fine. 610 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:40.480 I felt like Jay this weekend could big crap? I had one game 611 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:44.480 and I still lost my two. Oh it was horrible. Did any of 612 00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:45.920 them burn more than the others or was it just oh yeah, there was 613 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:50.320 a couple of bad beats, a couple of pushes. You know those stupid 614 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:53.880 you know the Chargers. The Detroit had the Chargers all game, all game, 615 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:58.079 played with her food and they tied. You know, they eventually pushed 616 00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.159 other field Gough last night, who the the build? The Bills are going 617 00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:06.280 to lose to the Denver Bronco. I had had the Broncos. How did 618 00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:09.639 you imagine them imploding? Because I think this year I'm taking the approach of 619 00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:13.920 like, once I'm out or in on a team, that's what it is. 620 00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:16.760 And I'm right in that. Financially, Basketball's from the Thunder. I'm 621 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:21.159 all in on the Thunder. I'm betting the Thunder as long as they're tonight 622 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:27.519 they do big, big center matchup. But I'm out on the Bills all 623 00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:29.559 the way out. I'm in a different zip code. I've sent him a 624 00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:32.440 postcard at this point like it's over, and I don't know. I don't 625 00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:37.199 think Josh Allen is He's he's been chucked out to be I've been saying that 626 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:39.320 for a couple of years. But yeah, so that's that's the only reason 627 00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:43.920 why I had the Broncos. Is I just like them in that that specific 628 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.639 spot against that specific team that I also don't like, so, I was 629 00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:52.440 just giving Kevin some grief. He gave the He's gave my picks publicly yesterday 630 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:59.760 over the last weekend, and they went bad. You know, you know 631 00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:02.519 you're bad when you tie me. I told him, I said, I 632 00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:08.280 felt like Jay. I had a guy, somebody you know who does this 633 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:12.079 with us. And I'm sitting at the table. You say, you're getting 634 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.480 ready for the game to start, and he comes he comes up behind me. 635 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:20.320 We got a call. Let's take this call. You're on the air 636 00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:22.440 and on the ball. Hey, gentlemen, I just wanted to get your 637 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:24.840 opinion on how Saturday is going to play out here now. A lot of 638 00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:28.519 the U of A fans have been begging for a day game. Yeah, 639 00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:30.320 so I get the news. It's twelve thirty. It sounds good, Like, 640 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:34.559 wait a minute, isn't that tour dy Tucson also Saturday? And I've 641 00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.199 come to find out a lot of the old season ticket holders are also a 642 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.360 tour rider. So something's got to give that day. As my guest here, 643 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:44.440 Oh well, yeah, there's what we're expecting about nine thousand cyclists. 644 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:49.000 I think the Sudent tickets maybe affect five hundred riders that's a good point. 645 00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:51.719 I never didn't notice that. Yeah, but the traffic is going to be 646 00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.920 south of a Broadway, you know, pretty much south of Broadway going into 647 00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:58.800 Green Valley, so it's not going to affect the northern part of it. 648 00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:01.559 So that's good. I don't I don't know though, that's the point because 649 00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:05.360 are you know a lot of people whether they're riding or just they got friends 650 00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:08.119 riding or there. It will be interesting to see how that does play out. 651 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:12.800 But you know, it really wasn't a choice that Arizona had. That 652 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:16.280 was something that that was the TV guys did that. So like you guys 653 00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:19.199 that rode the road and the race before. I mean, the race will 654 00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:22.280 be over by then, but you're you're not ready to roll afternoon, You're 655 00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:23.679 ready for nap and you're not going to go sit through a football game. 656 00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:28.239 I guess I wasn't you know when I wrote it a couple of years ago, 657 00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:32.840 I didn't recover from that till Tuesday. Okay, Yeah, well then 658 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:36.920 the wild card. We haven't got rain forever. Guess what, maybe rain 659 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:39.159 I want to say it on the air, and that storm Saturday. It's 660 00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:43.239 will be interesting to say all this stuff plays out, what's your name? 661 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:46.480 What's your name? Real quick? Gary, you're coming up with some bad 662 00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:52.440 scenario, but that they are what they are, what they definitely are what 663 00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:54.039 they thought. You want to talk about the game? Yeah, well you 664 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:57.960 said I was gonna play. I'm like, what got a chance to win? 665 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:00.320 We're talking about. Well, the good news, fellas, they're they're 666 00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:02.079 in a Vegas. They're in the second Cheer Bowl. I think, no 667 00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:05.719 matter what, right, I mean, he got that they issues Bowl game. 668 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:07.159 But I see you if they win at least one more game and that'll 669 00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:09.599 they're not. I don't think they're gonna win the conference, but they're gonna 670 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:14.679 get what is a San Diego Bowl? Las Vegas? Uh, something like 671 00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:17.920 that, l A. Maybe still seeing everything from the Sun Bowl on up. 672 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:24.360 So the Sun Bowl, the Vegas, the Holiday possibly the no, 673 00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:29.880 I can't go to any of the between Christmas and New Year's games, Vegas 674 00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:37.320 Vegas maybe special Vegas Christmas. Yeah, exactly, you fellas want to get 675 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:39.320 your opinion on it? Will say what plays out Saturday. All right. 676 00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:43.079 I appreciate the call. Thank you. He sounds too smart to be on 677 00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:46.119 the show. He did, I know, like, yeah, I mean 678 00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:52.239 he yeah, sounded like a radio He sounded like a radio guy. This 679 00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:59.039 is the FCC, you can't be But yeah, there's a lot of things 680 00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:01.000 in play for Saturday. So you were talking about your friend. So he 681 00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:05.400 comes up to me and says, how'd you do Saturday? How did you 682 00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:07.679 do this week? I'm like, I got another zero? He goes, 683 00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:12.119 are you trying to be bad? I said, no, we're not trying. 684 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:15.800 Are you trying to give a guy an awful just having an awful year? 685 00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.119 I don't know what to say other than that it's terrible. Let's talk 686 00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:22.159 real quick, and we have nine minutes. But the girls game, the 687 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:24.760 women's game playing game. Did you did they play their second game here last 688 00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:28.960 week? Yeah? Yeah, they played. They played Friday. No, 689 00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:32.000 you know, I, you know, I try to kind of catch up 690 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:36.880 a little bit on how they're doing. But you know, you've got and 691 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:39.119 again the you know, they've got a bunch of names that I just am 692 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:45.400 afraid to try to pronounce on this team, but you know, they they've 693 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:50.000 got they they've got an inside player. Let me let me let me look 694 00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:52.920 this up because I don't want to be a jerk about this. Who is 695 00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:58.400 shooting ninety five? Percent from the field, she's near the basket and yeah, 696 00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:04.119 in in in three games, and it's I think it's I don't even 697 00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:12.079 want to try and say it Sali Matu Koroma or something like, she's she 698 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:22.119 came in here from transferred in from looks like Arkansas Little Rock a big center 699 00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:24.840 or was she yeah, yeah, she's sitting around yeah she well, no, 700 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:30.519 she's she's five eleven, but she's she's she's scoring in you know, 701 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:38.320 in inside and not scoring a lot, but incredibly efficient, incredibly efficient, 702 00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:43.599 and uh, you know, you just you just you know, I don't 703 00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:45.920 know. I mean, it's it's it's I mean, to the point of 704 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:49.599 going to this is ridiculous that she's that she's shooting. I'm trying to look 705 00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.760 up the stat right now. She's shooting ninety five percent. How many times 706 00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:55.119 she she shot, Well, I'm looking that up right now because it's it's 707 00:45:55.239 --> 00:46:02.440 it's it's a crazy number. Where she Uh no, I take it back, 708 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:07.760 I'm sorry. It's bray A Cunningham. She's she's shooting eighty eighty eight 709 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:13.960 percent from the field, so she's fifteen of seventeen. Bray Is I think 710 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:17.960 she is a tall a taller player. But uh, she you know, 711 00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:22.920 she's fifteen to seventeen from the field. She had she's only had a couple 712 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.639 of free throws, but you know, six and a half she's she started 713 00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:31.480 probably I think she does. She only shot seventeen times. Well that's two 714 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:36.079 games, right, Yeah, and she started one game. She's played in 715 00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:39.519 both games she started one. You know, I think might have that same 716 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:44.280 type of game, not eighty five percent, but maybe rival JB. Because 717 00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:46.320 JB, I think hads the record for a season sixty three percent from the 718 00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:50.719 floor. It is Johnson, you know why he's around the basket. Yeah, 719 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:52.480 and he's not shooting. He's shooting maybe one or team. He's making 720 00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.679 some he's shooting some threesough, but but he's he's and he's hit some, 721 00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:00.719 but he's mostly garbage basket stuff. Yeah, picking up trash. Yeah, 722 00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:05.320 he's not trying to lay the ball up either. He's up, he's going 723 00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:07.960 in the air. He's trying to slam that thing home. Yeah, that's 724 00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:10.119 right. It's it's bray of Cunningham. Who's let me see, she's uh, 725 00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:15.199 she's six four plays inside, she's a four. She's a four spot 726 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.599 because of Mayang's the five. So but she's the one who's making eighty eight 727 00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:23.320 percent of her basket now, going back, going back again, you know, 728 00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:29.039 Kaylen Gilbert has had I think three double doubles. You know, the 729 00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:31.480 point guard. She's averaging. She's averaging nine and a half rebounds a game. 730 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:35.519 So the in the in the time that you've seen the team from the 731 00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:37.159 second game, because we know they're limited, right, well, I've only 732 00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:40.480 seen him. I've only seen him in their exhibition games because I didn't do 733 00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:45.320 either. They played Friday and Sunday, so I was out for both. 734 00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:49.239 This is my first time seeing him in in a regular season game. But 735 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:57.960 but you know, Kaylen Gilbert is is uh is averaging sixteen points and nine 736 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.519 and a half rebounds. And she's a point guard or not a point she's 737 00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:02.639 the guard. She's not the point. Jada Williams is the point. But 738 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:07.360 you know, also shooting very well fifty from the field. She's four or 739 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:13.280 six from three again, grabbing a whole bunch of rebounds. So uh, 740 00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:15.880 she's got a bunch of turnovers, but she's also got some steals. Oah. 741 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:19.239 You know, I'm not sure to see what this looks like. You 742 00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:22.199 know, they've got there's only one, two, three, four. There's 743 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.639 nine players who have recorded stats on this team, because I think one of 744 00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:30.840 their ten is out for the season. So you know, if it's gonna 745 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:32.079 work, it's gonna work. They just gotta make sure that they stay healthy. 746 00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:37.079 It's gonna work. Depends how they finished too. Yeah, yeah, 747 00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:39.719 yeah, we'll see what happens. Yeah, so I don't know what, 748 00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:43.559 you know, what we can expect as the as the season goes on, 749 00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:46.079 right, because you know it is you know you, death becomes an issue. 750 00:48:46.119 --> 00:48:50.239 So they're playing San Diego tonight, then they go off to this tournament 751 00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:54.159 in the the Battle for Atlanta's the one that Arizona men went and lost three 752 00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:58.159 in a row. Yeah, which was unbelievable to go. I'm still mad 753 00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:01.360 about that. Two. It's so mad about that because I was in Vegas 754 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:05.679 seventeen and I bet on them the first game. They lost that, Okay, 755 00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:07.079 they're not gonna lose again. Bet on the second game and they lost 756 00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:10.119 it. Okay, now they're really not Gonnah. Then they lost and that 757 00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:15.079 was they were number three in the country or top five, going to you 758 00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:16.679 think, what the heck? And then they come back and play great down 759 00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:22.159 the road, win the Pack twelve Championship tournament, Championship playing looked like world 760 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:25.519 beaters, and then and then Buffalo. Okay, yeah, yeah, So 761 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:30.440 who knows what's gonna happen, But we're trying to see if there's any way 762 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:32.920 we can get a Da Barnes on the show before they head out for uh 763 00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:37.159 for the Bahamas. But they just got to ask on the show she likes 764 00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:39.480 them. Well, I know I've asked, but it's you know, she's 765 00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:43.679 got a schedule, dude, he's busier than you and me. Oh, 766 00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:46.039 I don't know about that. Not this week. You got off tour going 767 00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:51.079 on. Yeah, and you got your games. Okay. I'm looking forward 768 00:49:51.079 --> 00:49:53.639 to seeing what they look like tonight. Okay, yeah, what else going 769 00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:58.400 on? Well, oh, we on got three minutes. There's a there's 770 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:00.719 a couple of topics I want to dig in really deep here. One of 771 00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:06.639 them is the Michigan stuff. You know what's going on? Did he talked 772 00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:10.039 yesterday? He said he was gonna talk. Yeah, he went in to 773 00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:14.519 think he's talk themselves, America's team and all this other crap. You know, 774 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:16.679 he said, this team must be America's team. You have to Yeah, 775 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:20.000 yeah, and then uh, and then the TEXTAS and M thing, 776 00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:23.760 the text A and M job because you know, I means Jaz's name is 777 00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:27.559 not getting mentioned in there. But you know, you got to ask a 778 00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:30.360 question, how great is that job? That's a good question. That's a 779 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:32.920 good question. They're paying the heck out of it. I don't know, 780 00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:36.400 I don't know, you know, and i'd like to you know, we'll 781 00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:38.519 have that conversation since we don't have a guest at for oh, okay, 782 00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:42.559 okay, well they we'll go before we can delve into a couple of things 783 00:50:42.599 --> 00:50:45.280 there. But there was a couple of national things going on, but they're 784 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:46.559 part of the conversation that's going on out there right now. You know, 785 00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:51.039 there's a lot of discussion of those two issues. I mean, you turn 786 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:54.519 on you turn on a podcast, a national podcast, and those those are 787 00:50:54.559 --> 00:51:00.320 the two topics coaches being fired, the A and M job, and and 788 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:04.039 just coaches in general. And then then the stuff going on at Michigan. 789 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:07.800 You know, Uh, there's a preliminary Uh. The hearing on the preliminary 790 00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:14.440 injunction is on Friday, so we should know Friday, if if, if 791 00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:19.159 Jim Harbor can be on the sidelines the next two games. As of now 792 00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:22.480 he can't. Let's say he can't and the season plays out and they played 793 00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:27.480 in the National Channel or they get to the Final four. Uh, it's 794 00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.679 hard for me to imagine that he'd be back. I'm not by his own 795 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.920 He'll just say I got money go, I'm gonna again. And that's another 796 00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:38.159 conversation. Yeah, that's another part of that. There's a there's a lot 797 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:43.199 of tentacles to the conversation. Uh, and so we can get into that. 798 00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:46.079 You did say tentacles, right, just think just being sure, what 799 00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:49.760 do you think I said. I don't know, I heard tentacles. Yeah, 800 00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.920 yeah, I'm just making sure it's some big deal. I'm joking. 801 00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:00.440 You got him with one. So you know, you know we've kicked the 802 00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:05.519 men's basketball game team around. I mean, look, last night, we 803 00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:07.039 have a fun thing at our table. You know, we always know what 804 00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.519 the point spread is, and it's like, so we go before the game 805 00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:14.039 started, the I think, eat, we're cover it or not? Right? 806 00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:16.960 Thirty one? Right? Everyone and a half and two of us at 807 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:22.079 the table said no, yes, and one said no, and they did 808 00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:27.079 and I thought they were going to And now when it was twenty what was 809 00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:30.239 it, twenty seven to twenty at the half? Yeah, some Oh no, 810 00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:35.360 they're up twelve ten, eleven, eleven. They got up eleven at 811 00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:38.440 that because I remember thinking, if they get a double digit lead at the 812 00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:43.280 half, they'll cover, and then they did. That's where I was, 813 00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:45.760 but you know, I was a little thinking, you know, okay, 814 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:49.760 they were at thirty thirty two, thirty four. Yeah, when you know 815 00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:52.559 the subs were coming in at that, they don't have enough of a goosh. 816 00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.119 Took me back. He took me back and send in my seat by 817 00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:58.639 myself and michale I was there like a looking at the score. I were 818 00:52:58.679 --> 00:53:00.199 thirty one, all right, we're thirty two, all right? They just 819 00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:04.320 said it. Oh no, they didn't have a question. And they were 820 00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:07.320 launching threes there. The Southern was launching three because they hit. But if 821 00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:10.119 they hit a couple more of those, they almost hit my pockets. Yeah, 822 00:53:10.199 --> 00:53:13.880 exactly. All right, let's take our break. We when we come 823 00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:16.920 back, Kevin's got breaking news and then we'll have to delve into some uh 824 00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:25.800 current college football issues and stick around talking about down saying bottle this and that, 825 00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:31.239 how much spam I swear it's all hea