WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:07.480 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:14.240 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions kat z 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:30.519 R two SAD at iHeartRadio Station. Hey, welcome to Iron the Ball here 4 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:35.560 on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, here's Jay, and we're late. 5 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:40.320 Sorry, Welcome to the show. Hey, it's Monday, and I 6 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:44.679 expect goofy things because we have no interns in today except for Juan trying to 7 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:48.079 learn the system with us. Welcome everybody to Monday. A lot of things 8 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:53.439 going on here on Monday. We have a couple of good, well one 9 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:56.000 good guests for sure, and then in the first hour, what are we 10 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:00.679 gonna do. We're gonna play the Brent Brannan press conference from the uh post 11 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:03.560 spring game press conference. You know, he had some interesting things to say, 12 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:08.560 uh just how it went, how he does things. Uh, some 13 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:14.319 comments about North Flafida. Uh, some injury stuff not talking about because if 14 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:15.319 we about injuries, but just guys will be ready, YadA, YadA, 15 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.519 YadA. But we thought we'd just going ahead play the whole thing because we 16 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:22.840 don't have a guest for that first, uh for this first hour, so 17 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.799 we'll give you all his thoughts on on the spring game. I was impressed, 18 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.480 more more impressed by the crowd than anything more. Yeah, I think 19 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:34.879 that was probably the most impressive thing there was. I think I think if 20 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:40.200 you were impressed, I was okay with it because I really didn't kind of 21 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.560 observe things. Uh, there's people out there who thought it was kind of 22 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:48.519 boring that I saw on the internet. And the offense was okay, but 23 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.439 they're not gonna show everything obviously, and what for, right, And a 24 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.040 lot of the guys sat out. Yeah, well and here's the thing. 25 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:57.239 To me, it looked like football, yeah right, yeah, And and 26 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.680 I know, I know, I always go back back to the Kevin Someonlin 27 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:05.760 spring games and and you know, and uh fish fall fall practice, you 28 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.919 know, the Kevin someone ones that looked like you knew Arizona was in big 29 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:15.319 trouble because he was he was unengaged. Yeah, there was no energy on 30 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.199 the field. Uh, there were a lot of people that looked like they 31 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:22.080 didn't want to be there. And and I thought that at the time, 32 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.639 not you know, it's not after the fact. I remember going to the 33 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:31.120 first spring game and thinking this doesn't look like you know, not, it 34 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:35.039 just doesn't look like it has any energy. And it turned out it didn't 35 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.599 didn't. So you know, the crowd was great. Uh you know, 36 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:43.919 seven eight thousand somebody said maybe as many as ten. Yeah, I can 37 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:47.599 conservatively seven day there was at least some excitement, uh bottom the bottle was 38 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:53.800 full. The excitement there. And it didn't need it didn't have the bells 39 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:58.919 and whistles like wronk throwing water ballots into the crowd and whatnot. But you 40 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:00.120 know, the fans were, you know, we're there and I think they 41 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:06.159 saw that it still looks like football. Sure, I'm glad it doesn't the 42 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:08.639 football, Steve. I mean, you know sometimes it doesn't well like you 43 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.360 said, in some time. Uh no, no, so we'll talk about 44 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.400 that. Do you when we when we got on the field, did you 45 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.960 hold your impression of the team size wise? Smallish? They always look small. 46 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.879 I you know, I remember when I first started covering football. I 47 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:29.639 I was surprised that you know the size. I mean, yes, there's 48 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:34.199 some big linemen and stuff, but most most of mostly they're not huge guys. 49 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.719 They don't get huge till junior seniors or you know because they do. 50 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.120 I remember I had I had an opportunity because I was invited for something to 51 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.159 be on the sideline of a Cardinals gate and they're playing the red Skins, 52 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:50.919 and I remember walking around those guys. They were massive. They looked so 53 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.560 much bigger. I'm like, Okay, these guys do not look like guys 54 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:55.400 you know out of that you used to seeing, you know, the running 55 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:00.960 backs, the quarterback, the linemeness of it. They there was a big 56 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.680 difference. There's some of those guys on a college team, but most of 57 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:10.560 the guys are not big guys. Although I will say I walked by by 58 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:15.360 by McMillan. He was he was sitting under that overhang on the on the 59 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.839 at the north end zone. He's putting the cast, but he was standing 60 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:23.160 up and as I walked by him got bigger. Yeah, big. He's 61 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:27.759 taller. He's taller than I remember. They're listening him at six five now, 62 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.240 which I think last year was listened at sixty four, so I don't 63 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.199 know if he's still, but he looks basketball tall right. I couldn't believe 64 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.639 how tall he was. Well that's how he gets the balls, you know. 65 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:41.519 And him and some other guys out there. I'm wondering how it's gonna 66 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:46.079 if they look small or feel small, how that's going to translate because to 67 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.600 the Big twelve, because we haven't really seen that regularly, right, and 68 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:56.600 the PAC ten PAC twelve has been more of a stealthy type of conference rather 69 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:00.000 than big type of conference. Yeah, I mean, I I kind of 70 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:05.120 agree. I think, you know, we we like to uh convince ourselves 71 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:11.879 that these these other conferences are all so much bigger, you know, SEC 72 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.879 guys. I remember all the way, all the way back to the that 73 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.639 the eighty five Georgia Arizona Sun Bowl, being on the sidelines of that, 74 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:23.680 and I was, I went, I was on the Georgia sideline for a 75 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:29.040 while and thinking those guys were huge. And then you know, catching a 76 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.639 festival with Tennessee in it, and I thought, Okay, Arizona doesn't have 77 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:35.879 those guys. But the Big twelve outn't know, you know, it's not 78 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.600 the SEC. So I think size wise, as far as that goes, 79 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:45.680 Arizona will be fine. Uh, I don't know. Yeah, we'll see. 80 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.160 Yeah, we won't know until we know exactly, you know. I 81 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:54.279 mean, look, we saw Arizona got pushed around by Washington in the game 82 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:58.560 last year, right, I mean, Amzona was it wasn't right off, 83 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:00.920 I mean, and it was a seven point game, But Arizona was never 84 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:02.800 gonna in that game. They got they got pushed around. I thought they 85 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.480 got pushed around a bit by Oklahoma, right, But let's remember those are 86 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:10.839 top teams in those leagues. Oklahoma was, you know, one of the 87 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:14.079 best teams in the in the in the Big twelve. Washington was the best 88 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.399 team in the Pac twelve. So I don't expect it to be as much 89 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:23.759 of a factor or so obvious as Arizona heads into the Big twelve. Like 90 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:27.879 I think they'll be able to, you know, to uh hold their own 91 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:30.439 as far as all that goes. Okay, well, we'll see in time. 92 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.199 Only time will tell, right, And now we won't see these guys 93 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:35.120 for a while now, because they'll come back in June. Is That's what 94 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:38.360 no one said, right, right, And then work out on the summer, 95 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:41.959 and then get ready for the fall here in early August, and then 96 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:46.360 until the first game August thirty first at New Mexico. Yeah, you know, 97 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:47.920 and again you and I did not get to see a bunch of the 98 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.680 practice and stuff like that. I mean I made the comment when we were 99 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:55.279 we were up in the press box and it just no, Fafita just throws 100 00:06:55.319 --> 00:07:00.680 a great ball. You know, he's he's decisive, he's you know, 101 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:03.839 he makes good throws. He can throw, you know, he can throw 102 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:08.800 the long ball. I don't know. I don't think anybody thinks he's got 103 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.639 the strongest arm around. But he's got a good enough arm. He can 104 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:18.560 make the sideline throws. You can tell that he's a quarterback that's unlike most 105 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:23.399 quarterbacks at Arizona, has gone into the season with So let me ask you, 106 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:27.680 because you mentioned this earlier, what were your impressions of him coming into 107 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.600 the locker room? Well, you know, which is the press company? 108 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.279 Well in the press conference, you know, and we had it was the 109 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:39.360 car the tight end was there, Yeah, and Malie Riley, the Riccardo, 110 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.680 Yeah, Ricardo Mendoza that his name, and then Malchi Ridley were in 111 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.399 there answering questions. It was okay, you know, we're they were talking. 112 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:47.120 No Feeto walks in the room and I thought the room changed, you 113 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.480 know. He was about four or five minutes yeah later, Yeah, he 114 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:51.560 didn't know that he was supposed to be in there. Why did you think 115 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:57.720 that this is gonna sound really corny? And he's a what nineteen year old, 116 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:01.560 twenty year old dude. He has a presence, He's got a presence. 117 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:03.519 He walked in the room and he sat down at the table, and 118 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:09.800 the table was different. Contest Stanford game to me. Yeah, I know 119 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.360 you keep throwing that out, but the room was different. You could see 120 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:18.920 it. He walked in and there's the there's a thing that some people just 121 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.360 have and some people don't. I'm not comparing him to Loot, but I'm 122 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:24.120 talking about the kind of thing when Lout walked in a room, the room 123 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.079 is different. There have been guys like that, you know, there have 124 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:31.159 been coaches who don't have that. Well, dead fish doesn't have that, 125 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.360 right, Yeah, No, and her, Yeah, he came in the 126 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.799 room and there was just a different buzz to the room. Yeah no, 127 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:43.559 I hear you. I felt it too, to a degree. I felt 128 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:48.159 that in his presence and his his not his presence, put his voice because 129 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.639 he had this hmmm. He's a very bright kid, a very bright kid 130 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.480 because he says all the right things right, and I don't think it's rehearsed. 131 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.399 I think it's just how he feels, right, And then you see 132 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.120 him on you see people read tweet or whatever he does on Facebook, and 133 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:05.480 and and and on Twitter that this guy is thoughtful, thoughtful, And now 134 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.600 he thinks there's a confidence, right, he's sure of himself, which needs 135 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:13.679 me to believe. And I wasn't gonna I didn't write, yes, trying 136 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.720 to write from the game, but he wasn't really feeling it. But I'm 137 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:22.440 thinking makes you wonder what a Jed? What did Jed not see or is 138 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:28.759 refusing to see him playing in playing De Laura before? I don't know, 139 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:33.919 you know what I'm saying, Yeah, because you think if this guy has 140 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.759 that, I mean, why did he wait that night show that right? 141 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.279 And if it was so, if it's so obvious to us, how did 142 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.639 he not see it? Or what was it that? What was his loyalty 143 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:48.639 to great De Laura? You know, even three games after no Ifa had 144 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:50.559 gone on the field and shown what he could do. I just, uh, 145 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.159 I'll never I don't think I'll ever understand that, Steve, because I 146 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:58.840 think that he just for some reason, he just felt like he was loyal 147 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.120 to yeah, and maybe to a fault, to a fault. And again 148 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.440 I've said before, I understand that, you know, without Jade and de 149 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.559 Laura, you don't get no Ah Alfida. So you were given Jayden Dolaura 150 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.919 every benefit of the doubt. But there came a time when that's it. 151 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.480 You can't, you know, there's no decision to be made anymore. Now, 152 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.240 Ultimately, no Ah Flfieda forced his hand and made him played so well 153 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.639 that Jed could do nothing but leave him in there. You know, he 154 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.960 would have he would have emptied the stadium if you'd have gone back to DeLaura 155 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.799 as the starter. So he saw what he had to do and he and 156 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:33.799 he did it. But it, you know, it took a little more. 157 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:35.360 So I don't know, I don't know who was what he wasn't seeing 158 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:41.159 that that everybody else sees. Now why I'm here. Did you watch a 159 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:43.000 lot of football last year? Were you? Yeah? And what were your 160 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:48.440 impressions of just the conversation we've had from DeLaura to Frafida And did you have 161 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.799 the same impressions as the student Oh, all of a stead, all of 162 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.720 the students diad we knew that Faffido was going to be the guy at the 163 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:56.759 end of the season. And it was just a matter of time, of 164 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.679 formalities and him proving himself. Even so, I work at the rec center 165 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:05.399 at the U A right t mac Fafita. They all come in during the 166 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.799 summer to play volleyball, whatever they want to do, and you could see 167 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:15.279 it. He was the leader of that group. So when when he got 168 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.480 the chance, I was excited. And when he started to show what I 169 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.960 thought he could do, it was like, all right, so when is 170 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:24.840 he going to be named the starter? So when is he going to be 171 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.240 that guy? So, Jay, it's not so I think my observations were 172 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:33.600 correct back in Stamford. I think your observations are correct here because it's almost 173 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:39.399 too obvious. Yeah, I mean, to Want's point, it's like it's 174 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.279 like, Okay, you're right. He was the leader of these guys, 175 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.000 and all of a sudden he walked on the field. That's what these guys 176 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.759 were waiting for, right exactly, And then all of a sudden it was 177 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:50.279 there. And it's like, you're right, Steve, because remember I kind 178 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:56.440 of disagreed and was it then with a little month disagreed. He didn't he 179 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.840 didn't agree with players don't do that? What do they do that? Or 180 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.080 there's there's something there. Does that make sense? Yeah, No, there 181 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.440 can be. And that's what I saw in Stanford. Some it's like when 182 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.639 your star pitcher comes in the game, all of a sudden, you're gonna 183 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.960 play a little bit better defense because you know you have confidence in the guy 184 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.159 on the mound and you feel like you need to be ready. There's also 185 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:20.080 to the opposite of that, when your star pitcher comes in or starting, 186 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:24.919 you don't play. You don't play maybe as well as you should because your 187 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.200 starter, he's your starter, He's gonna be fantastic. You don't have to 188 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:33.279 be that Many times you say the starters is gonna play and they lose, 189 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:35.840 and you how did that happen? Because you know some starters don't get the 190 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.919 run the red production that they should, right right. I think even your 191 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.919 guy the left for the Dodgers wasn't what was his name? Krisha suffers that 192 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.120 a lot. Yeah, and then how does that happen? It's unexplainable what 193 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.279 happens. But you know, I feel like seeing this now and seeing more 194 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:58.080 of and what he's become, you kind of get I get it, I 195 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.320 get why you why you you saw that? And now that I think about 196 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.200 it. You know, they were a different team when he was on the 197 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:09.200 shore, whether they didn't like Delora or they liked him, and just different. 198 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.919 It happens. You stand up more straight, you performed better, right, 199 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:16.240 you die for the ball, you respect the he out of the eye. 200 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.960 You know, you know, maybe Team Act you know, jumps an 201 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.919 inch or two higher because you know, you know, going after the ball, 202 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.360 right, because yeah, And whether whether you think that's fair or right 203 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:33.960 or what, it's more about human nature than about well, I don't like 204 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:35.080 Jade DeLaura, so I'm not going to try its hard. It's not that, 205 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.440 it's just that you know, you know knows my guy, and I'm 206 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.720 gonna I'm gonna take that extra step, you know, do that one extra 207 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:48.159 thing that maybe I didn't before he goes mile, So I better right, 208 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:52.080 exactly right, because you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean 209 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:54.639 you've talked about how you know, the guys didn't want to disappoint Steve Kerr 210 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:01.720 exactly exactly another algy and that that's kind of what he is. No, 211 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.279 that's it. We'll talk more about that, because much more to talk about 212 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:05.320 what's all this? All right, We're gonna come back, We're gonna play 213 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:13.279 the entire al, said Tommy Lloyd, the entire Brandon press conference post spring 214 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.000 game. 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Yep, 288 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:33.799 Coach Brennan at his postgame post spring game press conference. We'll play it 289 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:37.920 in its entirety and you can we'll talk about it afterward listening what you think. 290 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:44.680 Here's coach Brent. Overall, though, how do you look back on 291 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.160 the last five weeks and where you're all get done. It's been great, 292 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:51.599 it's been awesome, really excited about the process and the development of some of 293 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:56.119 the players. You know, as you go through spring you get guys like 294 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:57.519 dinged up and you know, some of that stuff, and so it gives 295 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:02.240 like like Noah saying, other guys an opportunity to play and practice and get 296 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:04.400 meaningful reps. And so you know, that's when you see some guys do 297 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:08.079 some really good stuff. And I think you know this. The spring game 298 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.319 is always such an interesting thing because you're the biggest thing is you just want 299 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.240 to come out of its healthy and safe, right, So you're trying to 300 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.240 but you also want to play a little bit and you want to put on 301 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:21.519 a show for the fans, and you know, I thought the guy settled 302 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.240 in and it was fun, you know, sort towards the end there where 303 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:27.079 we started to trade a little bit of punches. But it's a The spring 304 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:32.920 game is always a complicated thing for coaches grand someone. Most of it was 305 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:37.160 blocker last year, and you guys kind of open things up for him in 306 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.200 a big way this spring. What do you know about him coming in and 307 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:42.000 what have you seen out of him? Actually he was a little bit of 308 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:45.440 an unknown coming in outside of the film we watch. You know, I 309 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.960 do think that Matt Atkins is one of the best tight end coaches in the 310 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.559 country. We consistently had all conference tight ends at San Jose State. It's 311 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.480 a it's a position that's important to us and so and it's a it's a 312 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:00.160 position that we utilize a lot. And and also, you know, Kean 313 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.480 was a little bit dinged up, and so that gave Berto a chance to 314 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:06.799 get more reps. And you know, we all get better with practice, 315 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:10.519 at least I hope we are. So, you know, that was it's 316 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:15.960 good to see him start to do some stuff. Do you bring exit interviews 317 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.079 since you're not going to be seeing guys for a little while at least on 318 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:22.400 the theater. The coaches will yeah, yeah, all of the assistant coaches 319 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:26.319 will meet with the players. This is a little bit tricky one because I'm 320 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.119 this is a really small window. I don't know that it'd be really fair 321 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:33.039 for me to do the kind of evaluation I do with players normally it's like 322 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:37.359 an annual thing, right, and so it takes into consideration the seasons spring 323 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.119 practice, their academics, their process, you know, how they handle their 324 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:44.279 business, and so it would be a little bit different. So we went 325 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:45.400 back and forth on it as a staff. But the coaches are going to 326 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.400 make sure all the players know where they stand and what they need to do 327 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:52.079 to improve and the things that they've done well. Also with the would stay 328 00:21:52.319 --> 00:22:00.680 of personnel and rosters affordably, they're still being open having open spot. Maybe 329 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:04.440 you expect it kind of really no road. That's an awesome question, and 330 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.279 if you know the answer, to go ahead and tell me. You know, 331 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:11.720 I think that's that's just the world we're living in now, right and 332 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.559 everyone's trying to find the best way to navigate it. It's definitely complicated, 333 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:21.440 you know, And and I know the NCAA and and and all the conferences 334 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:25.799 and all the coaches. Everyone's trying to figure out the best calendar and how 335 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:29.519 it, you know, can serve the players and serve the game of football. 336 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:33.160 And you know, I don't think we figured that out yet. You 337 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:36.319 haven't. You didn't coach those guys at Arizona. But what what? How 338 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:41.119 is it? How important is it to have NFL draft picks into shoot? 339 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:44.359 I think it's huge, you know, I think it's critical because every player 340 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:47.359 that you recruit, his dream is to play in the NFL. And you 341 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:49.119 want to be able to demonstrate that you can develop players and put them into 342 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:52.519 or they can come to the U of A and and get to the next 343 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.359 level. And so I think it's critical. And and that was awesome to 344 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:59.599 see those guys. I've had a chance to meet all those guys, and 345 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:02.039 you know, and I'm sure I haven't heard yet because of the game, 346 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.119 but I'm sure we had a handful of others signed free agent deals. So 347 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:07.640 it seems like a lot of Wildcats are gonna get a chance to chase that 348 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:12.440 NFL dream and it's gonna be fun to watch. Is there anything anyone that 349 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:18.799 sit out to you in real time? That's always so hard to say, 350 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.079 you know, I thought, you know, we had a couple of nice 351 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:25.400 catches out there at the end, you know, and uh By, you 352 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:30.119 know, Brandon Phelps and and Devin Hyatt was really nice and Rex made that 353 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:32.799 nice grab. I thought the tight ends made some nice plays over the middle 354 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:36.759 of the field, you know, ripped off a couple of nice runs. 355 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:38.400 I've been really impressed with where our defense is at. You know, I 356 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:42.119 think there's been just real continuity there over spring with the with coach of Kina 357 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:45.920 being here and some of the other coaches on that side of the ball, 358 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:48.960 and so that's given you know, I think it's important in spring practice that 359 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:55.480 you essentially trade punches right offense versus defense. It can't if it's really lopsided, 360 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:59.680 You're gonna have a problem in the fall. And so, you know, 361 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:03.720 I thought that was really good. Just you know, I'm so impressed 362 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:07.400 with a lot of players on our defense, and I think they're the staff's 363 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.079 doing a great job coaching them. And so, you know, continue to 364 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:15.200 be impressed with all the guys in the secondary right to Carrio, you know, 365 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:21.359 Gunner Stukes, I mean, Dalton really really impressive with those guys. 366 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:25.599 Those guys are doing. And then up front, I think we're really excited 367 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:29.039 about a couple of those guys and so you know, Ti Tigh and you 368 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:33.759 know tray Smiss done some really good stuff. Isaiah. It's it's a it's 369 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.319 awesome and it's good for me because I've coached with you know, most of 370 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:41.200 the staff before and so there's a lot of trust there. And I really 371 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:45.400 believe in the in the men that that are coaching these players and their ability 372 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:49.440 to develop them into great players. And I'm excited for that process to continue. 373 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:52.960 I'm kind of bummed springs over. I guess it's just a long answer. 374 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:55.000 I just gave you. It's all over the place with it. But 375 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:59.200 I'm bumming spring practice is over because now we don't really get to get out 376 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:03.960 on the field with them for three months. You know, I told you 377 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:12.119 that easier to day ve mon name and coach a Keta coaching up some of 378 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:17.119 the young future Wildcats on the field. It's awesome. You know. I 379 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:21.119 think that you know that that next level flag football program is such a cool 380 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:22.279 thing to see. It's you know, what happens. I'm kind of in 381 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:26.599 the winter time here and they they practice in the indoor and you know, 382 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.279 in the Davis indoor, and they they play on the you know in Arizona 383 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.480 Stadium. They play the games there, and it's just awesome. There's young 384 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.880 people running all over playing football. It's like a safe, fun environment. 385 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:41.599 Our players do an incredible job of coaching it. Brandon Sanders does a great 386 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:47.559 job of organizing it and the structure of it. So it's a it's a 387 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:49.680 cool it's a really cool program. And and I think that's one of the 388 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:55.160 things that's special about this city is just how connected it is with the university 389 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:59.240 and our players feel that. And so that's why our players put so much 390 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:03.680 into that next level flag football thing. Like that's why you saw Noah and 391 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.880 Kevin Green and those guys run out there and start coaching those guys. It's 392 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:10.400 just a lot of fun. Now, questions went on the offense. Did 393 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:14.359 you expect that the running back? You think? I think so, I 394 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:18.880 think so. Yeah. And Tristan Dats I noticed he was playing inside six 395 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.759 six seventy five or so. Is that because you need him there or is 396 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:26.359 that like a long term maybe that. I think what you'll find with coach 397 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:32.640 Sam Alo is that those guys will play all the spots, and more players 398 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:37.160 will play there than you're used to. He's big on them being fresh and 399 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.960 them being able to play really hard. I mean, redline all the way. 400 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:45.599 And so he's gonna that's gonna have a little bit different look. I 401 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:51.000 think you'll see more guys get opportunities to play. You're coaching all the last 402 00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:53.880 season, did you what you know about it? Did you see a level 403 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:57.920 of amp with this spring that you hope to see? What did you see 404 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:03.960 from? Didn't know where? Oh? Shoot? The beauty of it is 405 00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:07.319 how he attacks practice. I just like, I've been doing this a long 406 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.160 time now, and the best players are incredible practice players, Like I've never 407 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.440 I've never had a player who sucked at practice and was dominant on Saturday. 408 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:19.839 I've never seen it. And so you know, and the thing's so beautiful 409 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:23.319 about Noah is he's always trying to learn. He's always trying to improve. 410 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:26.119 He's always in there with coach Babers, He's always in the facility. He's 411 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.119 always asking me in between series like, hey, what do you see? 412 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:32.799 And he's just he wants to be coached all the time, and he just 413 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:36.519 absorbs information at an incredible rate, and that was something that was really fun 414 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:40.880 because there was a little bit of scheme variation right with kind of marrying some 415 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.839 of the Verbigion concepts that they were that the players were comfortable with with what 416 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:47.680 we had done in the past, and he just did a great job with 417 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:59.559 that last question. Well, I hope any player that comes around, I 418 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:03.240 really hope anybody that comes around our program can feel that it's a great place 419 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:06.880 to be, that it's a fun place to be, and it's an exciting 420 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:10.720 place to be and where like the people really care about each other. And 421 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:15.000 I think everybody says that. Everybody says family or whatever, and I don't 422 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.400 think it's real at most places, but it's real here and we're going to 423 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:19.960 double down on that. And to the credit of these players, they had 424 00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:23.519 that when I came in and so, but that's always been something that's been 425 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:26.480 a huge part of the programs I've been associated with, and that's something that 426 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:29.480 we're going to double down on. And I want everyone to feel that. 427 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.000 I want you all to feel that with our players, I want the fans 428 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.480 to feel that. I want everyone to feel great about when they're here, 429 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:37.319 when they're around our players when they're in this building. I want them to 430 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.920 feel great about how it feels that we're having a great time playing college football 431 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:47.079 and we're going to love every minute of it. Well, and there you 432 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:52.880 have it. Interesting stuff. Another thing from him. He's very a very 433 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.079 candidate in what he says, and not in a crazy way, right, 434 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.680 he just says how he feels. Well, he's not rehearsed at all. 435 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:03.920 Right, And and you know, I think not salesmany and that's not it's 436 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.640 not not anybody, right, not a criticism, but Jed was a salesman. 437 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.960 You know. Sean Miller was very you know, this is what he 438 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.519 was gonna say, no matter what the question was, whether you answer the 439 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:19.880 question or not right, and and so uh and and and and Brendan, 440 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:22.880 you know he kind of sits back in his seat and just chats with you 441 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:26.839 that that's that's that's kind of what I know is in fact, I want 442 00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:29.200 to tell me, can you leap forward into the microphone so we can make 443 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:32.400 sure trying to tell him that right, we're hearing you, but you know 444 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:34.640 you need to be in the microphone for the for the for the for the 445 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:41.240 audio. But you know he's he's he's relaxed. He's just he's just having 446 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:45.400 a conversation. He's not I don't feel like he comes in there with I 447 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.880 got to get these points across. Sure, right, you get a question, 448 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.000 you get an answer. I think Jed came in, he had notes, 449 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.240 things he wanted to say. He always had an introducing in an introductory 450 00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:00.599 statement of comment. You know, I didn't play, but Brandon walked in 451 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:03.759 said okay, what do you got? And then and the press conference was 452 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.440 on. You know, so I think you know, did a different style. 453 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:10.440 For short, not saying that one style is better or worse than the 454 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:14.559 other, I just saying that he's a different guy. I do think we 455 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.200 kind of knew him back in the day, right back early ninety nine and 456 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:19.759 whatever it was two thousand. We knew him from then, you and I, 457 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:23.200 and we know him just as much today. We really don't know him 458 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.039 more that much. I think he's going to be I think I think the 459 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.440 program's in good hands, right And I think because and I'm gonna ask you 460 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.440 a question now, I really don't have an answer to that. He has 461 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.039 the people around him like Jed who will help facilitate the process. If that 462 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.680 makes any sense because Jed was a good CEO. I think that's undeniable. 463 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.119 And to tell you truth, I don't know how good of a coaching three 464 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:48.720 years in. I don't. I don't because what do we know? He 465 00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.920 had good people around him. Maybe you feel differently. I think his offense 466 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:56.039 was really good. Okay, he was calling the offense right. It took 467 00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.240 it took a couple of years. Yeah, but I think his offense was 468 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.960 really good. And you know they won ten games. Okay, to that 469 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:04.400 point, I was just gonna ask you a question, even for basketball, 470 00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:08.079 for at this level, at this level, and even the NBA or put 471 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:12.920 an NFL, what's the job of a coach? Is there to teach or 472 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:18.319 there to manage? Manage? Because it's not the coach. The coaches on 473 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:22.720 the field CoA coach, right, the head coach should manage. Now, 474 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:26.519 Jed was a little bit more of a coach and a manager, you know 475 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:30.240 he But I think I think he let his defensive coaches just do whatever. 476 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.880 Just said, just give me a good defense, give me a good enough 477 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:36.359 defense. I don't have to score forty points a game, sure, right. 478 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.160 My impression is that that's how he ran his program and in that sense. 479 00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:44.400 He was sort of a CEO and said, go do your work right 480 00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:48.160 and if it's not any good, I'll let you know, okay, And 481 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.720 then he ran the offense. I think he was hands on, maybe even 482 00:31:52.759 --> 00:32:00.599 a maybe my micro manager has a bad connotation because you feel like at somebody 483 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.519 put del who's Delvidian stuff that you know, you let the other guys do. 484 00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:06.519 But he was something like that. But he was something like that. 485 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.359 He was not maybe not a micro manager, but maybe just a notch less 486 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:14.039 than that. Sure, because he was running the offense. He was running, 487 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.440 he was calling the plays. He wanted to know what he had and 488 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:20.160 if he didn't have something, he wanted to see how am I gonna get 489 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.599 that? That's your impression and kind of my impression too. But we don't 490 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:28.480 know. We haven't asked any of the assistants how truly was he with them, 491 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.440 but that I do know that, I do know that he was. 492 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:35.279 I think I say this publicly, be careful that he was a little pushy 493 00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:39.720 or very pushy when it came to getting money from the locals because he needed 494 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:43.920 the money to have to pay the kids, right, you know, so 495 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:45.799 he was over the top with them. Yeah, I don't know if you 496 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:51.000 heard the same thing. Yeah, you know, kind of like get this 497 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:55.480 stuff done. Ye, no, I hear you. You know, I 498 00:32:55.480 --> 00:33:00.799 I've heard little bits and pieces from It's like second hand information from the assistant 499 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:05.599 coaches, some of whom liked his style and some of whom. And you're 500 00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:07.119 not gonna win everybody over the right and no matter who you have. And 501 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.359 when you got a staff of as many many people as sure as these college 502 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:15.640 football staffs, you know, you get guys from different places, maybe guys 503 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:17.079 that you have history with, maybe some guys you don't have a history with, 504 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:20.480 and you bring them in and you try and mix them up. Yeah, 505 00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:23.599 you're gonna have You're gonna have different impressions of of you know, from 506 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:28.440 from different people. So I you know, I think Jed was a good 507 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.720 coach. I think he's been a good coach. I think he grew into 508 00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:31.799 being a pretty good coach. I don't know if he's good enough to be 509 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:38.079 the coach at Washington yet. We'll find out, but he certainly along the 510 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:43.680 way has grown into his He was a much better coach by the time he 511 00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:47.000 left than he was when he got. Sure, you saw the growth process 512 00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:51.359 even in him. Well we also said that you become a better coach with 513 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:54.160 better players. Well that's true, but guess who had something to do that 514 00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:59.240 he did by helping get those better. All right, let's take our second 515 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:00.400 break. We're gonn come back. Would love to take your costs. Tell 516 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:04.440 us what you thought of the spring game. If you went, you know, 517 00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.240 was it was it exciting? Did you? Was it kind of eh? 518 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.760 I thought it was a good crowd. They stuck around, you know, 519 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:15.079 nobody left early. It was short, which was nice. People got 520 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:19.719 to go on a Saturday night and wherever they went afterwards. So just give 521 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.039 us your thoughts on the spring games. That will take it costs five to 522 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:24.599 two zero four one, six, seventy four forty we'll break back. If 523 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:29.000 you're an Arizona Man's basketball fan, you know it's been successful for nearly forty 524 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:31.280 years. Now take a look back at the Ludolsen era. In my new 525 00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:34.920 book, Lessons from Loot, it was a labor of love through the eyes 526 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.599 of twenty five former players, coaches, and friends to give insight to the 527 00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:42.079 coach and the man who led them, competed against them, and inspired them. 528 00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:45.599 Twenty five chapters for his twenty five years as Arizona's beloved coach. 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The annual 552 00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:38.760 Centurions event is featuring smash Mouth, Ay Now Yeah, and i'lso joined us 553 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:43.480 for an evening of food, fun and music, all while supporting local charities. 554 00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:46.760 Proceeds benefit TMC for Children, Courtney's Courage, Candle Lighters, Childhood Cancer 555 00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:52.320 Foundation, and Assistance League. Get your tickets and sponsorships online at the Centurions 556 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:57.880 dot com. That's the Centurions dot com. This is I on the Ball 557 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:02.800 with Steve Rivera and Jagin z Soun Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to 558 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:08.159 the podcast on the iHeartRadio app just Surgery I on the Ball. Hey, 559 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:10.679 welcome back to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm 560 00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:15.679 Steve, He's Jay. Have one in with us today our new apprentice, 561 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.400 hopefully I want to talk to about one thing. You know whose name we 562 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:24.760 have not heard after the draft has been done. Jen Dolores, I google 563 00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:30.280 him just now, not because you have a contractor to this point. So 564 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:32.800 I was gonna ask you, do you think its career is over given the 565 00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.400 circumstances of what's that I do? I thought I thought it was. I 566 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:40.880 thought it was over when Texas State wouldn't let him in, right right, 567 00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:49.000 right, because he's he's not He's not a level of talent that you could 568 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:52.719 have baggage, right right right. I think that's the way to put it. 569 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:58.360 No, you can't. You can't have skeletons in your closet. I 570 00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:00.960 mean, if you're a great player, you know, people will overlook him, 571 00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:04.800 sure, But if you're not, it's like if there's another guy like 572 00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:07.880 you who doesn't have your baggage one to one. You're a student on campus, 573 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:12.679 you're an older student on campus. You saw probably what happened in Texas 574 00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:15.679 State when he left. Was there any was there any not thought or whatever, 575 00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:21.639 because you probably just cage the community at the campus of why is he 576 00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:24.519 still on the team when this broke? Yeah, there's definitely a lot of 577 00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:29.079 talk about that. There's a lot of people upset that he was on the 578 00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:31.559 team because you see nowadays, when something like that comes out, they're immediately 579 00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:35.239 off the team, even if there's any doubt. So it was just kind 580 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:39.199 of a lot of questioning of why he was still on the team. At 581 00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:42.400 the end of the day, all of us just wanted a football team that 582 00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.320 won. Yeah, and there it is, right, you you make exceptions 583 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:50.760 to to the quarterback. And I think we talked about this, and I 584 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.079 know I think that ad the beginning, if he wasn't the quarterback, he 585 00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:57.320 probably would have been. I think we said that quite a bit back back 586 00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:02.119 then, especially with no emerge and and and and the Lord became expendable, 587 00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:08.400 which brings into question, say, Okay, if he was expendable, then 588 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:14.920 why was he there in the first place, right if if if again as 589 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:19.679 to the loyalty of Jed, Right, but but again, think about it, 590 00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:22.039 Steve, If Jed and the team did not know about this before he 591 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.639 got here, then they didn't do their own due diligence on him before they 592 00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:29.599 brought him in. Yeah, I know they said they did. But how 593 00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:31.840 could you not know? You know, how could you? How could you 594 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:35.000 not have somebody call you and say, hey, wait, this guy you're 595 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:37.840 talking to he's got this, you know. So I don't buy that they 596 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:43.039 didn't know. I really don't. I never did. I think we accepted 597 00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:45.840 it because that's what they said, and who are we to say? But 598 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.719 but I I don't know that I ever really believed that they did not. 599 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:55.239 They these guys know usually know everything that they need to know, and they 600 00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:59.639 needed and and you know what, in the end, uh, he served 601 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:05.239 a purpose. Yeah, uh you know he Uh he attracted other guys. 602 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:10.199 He created hope for this program. And I'll give him that. But you 603 00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:13.719 know, you make a mistake like that, you know in your youth, 604 00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:19.239 it can it can go on for let's take let's take this call. Hi, 605 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.679 You're on the Aaron, I am the ball afternoon your guys. This 606 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:24.679 is Gabe. How are you guys doing. We're good, Gabe, how 607 00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:30.559 are you doing. I'm good. Just enjoying my birthday day. So your 608 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:35.559 birthday, Gabe. Happy birthday. Thank you Jay, Thank you Steve. 609 00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:38.639 I really appreciate you guys. I hope everything is going well for you, 610 00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:44.320 Gab. Gabe, real quick, it makes sense now. I'm a tourist 611 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:49.199 and you're a tourist. No wonder you always upset? What do you mean? 612 00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.559 What do you mean by taurus? So what do you got in your 613 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:59.239 mind today? Gabe? I know it's that Arizona Arizona men's basketball got age 614 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:07.880 for out of Tennessee and also I and then yesterday and today Arizona football got 615 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:15.440 a online U from Oregon and they and Arizona football gone up its transfer from 616 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:21.280 the University of Utah. I think it was a linebacker or cornerback. He's 617 00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:27.159 an edge rushers. The edge rusher. Yes, Okay, well anyway, 618 00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:32.639 I'm not gonna complaining. I'm not one of those dumbasses on Facebook questioning both 619 00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:37.360 Tommy Lloyds and Brent Brennan's recruiting. So good for you, good for you. 620 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:43.719 I fully trust book coaches smart. Yeah, no, you know, 621 00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:46.039 and and again you know, because of the way it all is now, 622 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:51.519 you have to just wait for coaches to get their get their rosters finished. 623 00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:53.880 And it's gonna take as long as the portals open. There's still movement available. 624 00:41:54.000 --> 00:42:00.320 It's open I think till day after tomorrow at least of football. Yeah, 625 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:02.360 I totally agree. Hey, one more scene. Did you see the 626 00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:13.159 Jordan Washington, a commit from Arizona did He basically tweeted a University of Washington 627 00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:20.519 umbrella umbrellas the spring game. There were four purple umbrellas in the tweet and 628 00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:23.960 here's the here's the rub though he was up the game. Yes, he's 629 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:30.719 in the transfer portal. So I just kind of, what are you doing? 630 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:37.079 Kid? If I know re Brenda is a very nice person, but 631 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:42.159 if I was bredfreend, Hey, kid a Jordan Washington, if you don't 632 00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.679 want to be here, then transfer out. We don't want We don't want 633 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:53.360 you to tweet that kind of Mediocurt saying crew Arizona, I'd rather just be 634 00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:59.000 at Washington. Well he was at he was. I don't want you, 635 00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:02.199 we don't want If you know, committed to us, then then we don't 636 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:06.639 want you. What's your opinion, Jake, Well, I think I think 637 00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:09.599 I think some of that has has had to change, because you know, 638 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.440 if if a guy goes in the portal and you still want me to come 639 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:17.000 back, because going in the portal doesn't mean one hundred percent that they're leaving. 640 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:21.280 Now, granted it usually does, but guys have gone in the portal 641 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:23.039 and we're waiting on to Cario Davis here, who's been in the portal, 642 00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:28.079 and and he's been he's been playing in practice and stuff, and I know 643 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:31.400 Brent Brandon would like to have him back. But so I think it some 644 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:36.360 of that has had to change just because of the nature of all of this. 645 00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:43.159 But now Ta Carrio Davis did not tweet four purple umbrellas to Caario Davis. 646 00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:45.280 You know, he was a practice, He's been a practice, he's 647 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:51.920 been participating. Jordan Washington tweets this, that gives an indication he's headed for 648 00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:53.679 Washington, yet he's still out of out there on the field. I thought 649 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:58.280 I was a little low on his part for sure. Yeah, just like 650 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:06.199 efesions talk when he was selling his jerseys and that sasco. Even Jacob Goodaka, 651 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.639 who is just basically committed to the team on North. He didn't say 652 00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:15.039 like he didn't and like put Arizona's name in the muddy. He's just basically, 653 00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:20.559 Hey, I'm just going to the school out north. Sorry if we 654 00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:25.519 kind of don't agree with that, and you know my opinion about those kind 655 00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:30.280 of people, but anyway, I'm not gonna call them my favorite kind of 656 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.239 work. Yeah, we appreciate that. We gab all right, Gabe, 657 00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:40.239 Hey, thanks a bunch man, appreciate it. Happy birthday. Yeah. 658 00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:45.000 You know what coaches have to do more than go out get people in the 659 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:50.400 portal. They have to recruit the guys already have. Well, that's just 660 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:53.400 a tough state, that thing, you know, And and it's again it's 661 00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:58.320 different now. You can't you can't. You can't crap on a player when 662 00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:01.199 they say I'm jumping in the port because they might be just jumping in the 663 00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:06.559 portal to see if there's another opportunity. Sure, and you have to respect 664 00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.079 that to a degree. But again, don't jump into portal. Say I'm 665 00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:14.800 at Arizona and I'm tweeting, you know, washing husky stuff. But this 666 00:45:14.840 --> 00:45:16.320 is the worst time to be a coach. We've talked about the number of 667 00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:21.159 time so so the thing is, it's because the it's like you're owning a 668 00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:24.599 business and it's your employees that run the show, right, because right now 669 00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:28.639 the kids are running the show. They are they have all the power and 670 00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:30.920 it ain't gonna change until it changes. It changes. They have the power 671 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:36.519 because they can be because of the ability to go anywhere they want to go. 672 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:40.920 You know, it's all at any time. It's all up to them. 673 00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.639 So yeah, no, it's a and that's just that's just the way 674 00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:47.199 it is. And I hate the fact that we've got to get used to 675 00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:50.119 it. But we've got to get used to it. And it's going to 676 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:54.679 be like this from now until somebody changes the rules, right or even that 677 00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:59.159 implies there are there are no rules until somebody makes up some rules. Sure 678 00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:04.119 make it more at least at least direct, Yes, because and I think 679 00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.639 the next step and we Corey talks about it the best. They become employees. 680 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.559 And then you get to get it back. Sign contract, sign contracts. 681 00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:15.400 Sorry to tell you, Jay, you're just not performing. You got 682 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:20.360 to look elsewhere. Yeah, and your paycheck and your paycheck that ends next 683 00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:22.400 week. Yeah, Well, but the contract is a contract. Let's say 684 00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:25.360 you got a contract with the u of A for two for two years. 685 00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:29.840 Well, even if you suck, you know, maybe you don't play. 686 00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:35.920 But whether it's guaranteed money or whatever, as long as you're reading whatever expectations 687 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:37.960 are in the contract, grades wise and all that kind of stuff, you're 688 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.320 gonna you're gonna be able to stay on the team that you might not play. 689 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:47.000 We got a call, uh, we got take Cahi. You're on 690 00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:52.079 the air and I on the ball. Hey, Hi, guys, Hello, 691 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:58.760 who's this Kevin? You haven't are you? Your background is covering your 692 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.360 voice up? Yeah, very loud. Yeah, I'm good. Hey, 693 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:07.480 Just a couple of things about the Spring game quick. Personally, I had 694 00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:12.760 a great time because I met kids that I had as football players years ago. 695 00:47:13.639 --> 00:47:15.840 I was a head resident for four years before I became a dean of 696 00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:21.639 students, and so we had a great time swapping stories. But the game 697 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:30.679 number when it was in the game, but they played music incessantly through it, 698 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:35.880 which was disturbing. It just to me, it would have been nicer 699 00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:40.960 to have more of a game atmosphere, because, let's face it, football 700 00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.159 coaches and programs are in the entertainment business, and I think we could have 701 00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:50.599 done that a little different. But I love this coaching staff. I think 702 00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:52.559 our team is going to be very good, and I would urge everybody to 703 00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:57.719 get tickets and be a part of it. You're talking about former players. 704 00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:00.840 You're talking about some of the veteran players, right that you So, yeah, 705 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:07.400 I'm talking about guys that have more aches in their body than you can 706 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:12.079 say you pick at. It was I bet who We had some great stories 707 00:48:12.159 --> 00:48:15.800 about, not only the players, but the coaches, and uh, you 708 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:22.559 know, later I became the disciplinarian university. So if a football player or 709 00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:29.559 a basketball player had a problem of their coaches felt very close to me and 710 00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:31.920 sent me those kids their way, and I straightened out a few of them. 711 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:36.280 My fight, What what years? What years were these? What were 712 00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:38.800 you? What years? Well? The kids, the kids that I took 713 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:46.159 pictures of up in the Sands club where it's like justin Lenae and uh and 714 00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:54.320 uh, they were freshmen in nineteen sixty nine, So we're talking about all 715 00:48:54.400 --> 00:49:00.719 guys. They've been around this university, they've supported it. And I got 716 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:05.119 to hung out and hang out with h hammer Schmid for quite a while and 717 00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:07.719 had a great time with him. Yea good for you. Good for you. 718 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:12.119 Thanks thanks Kevin perfect and having Hey, thanks about man. I appreciate 719 00:49:12.119 --> 00:49:15.199 it. Yeah, I love you guys, do a great job for it. 720 00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:19.199 Thank you, Thank you. Kevin has been there forever. I was 721 00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.639 gonna ask him our guy eighty nine, eighty eight, eighty nine, Uh 722 00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:28.000 skate country. Oh, Melvin Smith, how would you would have handled that? 723 00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.679 Because I thought maybe he was there during that Yeah, but no, 724 00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:32.880 no, yeah, and we all know that that Dick Tomy was a little 725 00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:37.320 more lean. He was. He was you know, well and he was 726 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:38.400 here, as you said, your ceo. You want to talk about a 727 00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:43.000 guy who was a consonate ceo. He I mean, you know, watching 728 00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:45.320 him at a practice, he was just letting me walk around, walking around, 729 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:49.000 walking around, and if he saw something right, he jumped in. 730 00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:53.079 Yeah, but he was he was really really do took on there, that 731 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:59.800 ceo. How would you describe I only got a minute and this maybe two. 732 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:06.400 How would you describe that era of his? The late eighties early nine, 733 00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:10.360 even because you've been here all you left no revision's history. No, 734 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:20.119 I mean you felt like the team was always solid, but not you know, 735 00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:22.559 I mean they had that they had the great season in ninety three. 736 00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:27.360 You just felt like, you felt like they were always close. They were 737 00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.599 always competitive. They didn't have losing seasons, but they weren't. Yeah, 738 00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:35.400 but they weren't quite getting there, and and sometimes it was bad breaks. 739 00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:38.239 Sometimes it was you know, mistakes, coaching mistakes. You just felt like 740 00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:43.400 they were always on the edge of it and just never took that last step. 741 00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:46.159 So how would you good old days? I mean to me, it 742 00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:50.960 was because, you know what, because you liked the team. You liked 743 00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:53.760 his team, because you liked his players the team, and you liked the 744 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:58.320 coaching staff, and I just felt like it was a it was a great 745 00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:01.400 fun time. Frustrating though, because you felt like it just didn't quite get 746 00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:06.119 right. And eventually this was kind of fire. Yeah, all right, 747 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:07.599 let's take our break. We're gonna come back. We're gonna breaking news, 748 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:12.599 and then we'll have our Saul Bookman talking about the Phoenix Sun stick around.