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Breaking down all the exes at OHS. It's Steve Rivera and Jagin Saliz.

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This is I on the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. Welcome back

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down on the ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm jaking zalids on.

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My partner, Ski Rivera is out
until Monday. One's here running the

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board and running the breaking news.
Go ahead, one, This is I

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on the Ball, breaking news on
Fox Sports fourteen to fifty. Alrighty,

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Happy Friday to everyone out there.
Starting off tonight with a monumental Game six

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in the Stanley Cup Finals, the
Florida Panthers are taking all the Edmonton Oilers

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at Edmonton, trying to come back
from a three y oh series, and

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it's been pretty impressive to watch it
to this point. It's it's it's definitely

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interesting. Right. We were talking
about this the other day that if you

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know, when it went three to
zero and then they got to three to

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one and beat the hell out of
out of the Panthers, then you thought,

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okay, you win, you go
win back and you win one in

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in in Florida. Now it's interesting, and it is Edmonton's at home.

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They win the game. Now you
know, now you go to a game

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seven. I'm I'm looking forward to
this. I'm I'm actually gonna watch a

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little bit of it tonight. You
know, I'll be flipping between that and

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the Dodgers. The Dodgers have the
Freeway series with the Angels tonight. But

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I'm interested and I want to see
you game seven. I don't care who

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wins. I have no dog in
the fight. The only dog I have

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is I love Game seven of the
Stanley Cup. There's nothing like it.

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Not a Game seven in the World
Series, not a Game seven in the

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in the NBA. The urgency that
these teams play within the game seven for

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the Cup, it's worth watching and
I'd love to see that. I mean,

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even just for a game six.
This is the game seven for the

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Edmonton r right, you know this
is this is regardless of the outcome,

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this is their last game right game
home game of the season. So,

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I mean they said it's a sellout
crowd. I'm I was hoping it would

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be, I guess, so good
luck to both teams. Yeah, looking

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for a good game. The Copa
America started this week. We have Peru

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taking on Chile five o'clock. So
right after the show wins. I just

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ran across the thing that they're complaining
about the field conditions there. I was

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going to bring that up. A
lot of players and teams are complaining about

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the field conditions across across for all
locations, right right. Well, you

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know, as they say, they're
playing on football fields and they it's different,

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right, I'm sure. I mean, if if you've ever been on

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a soccer turf and a football turf, they're different, they're different things,

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and so I you know, I
can understand that all of that, So

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we'll see. I mean, I
just in general, I think something's going

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on with turf because I mean you
go back to the Super Bowl, the

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Eagles and the Chiefs, they complained
about that field too, right, So

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I mean, it's not just limited
to one sport. Sure. Sure.

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After the Boston Celtics shopped up the
NBA Finals, they had their parade,

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celebratory parade today around Boston, and
good for you see clips of that,

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and you know, everybody's drinking and
they're having beers. And I said,

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there was one where uh Jalen Brown
was chugging a bud whiles a bud light.

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He drank the bud light and then
and he was then in the top

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of the bus right on and he
reached on and through it, through it

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through the window in the bus.
They're waving. You know, look,

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have a great time. It's a
Those things are fun. You just hope

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nobody gets killed. I know that
there was a shooting at the Chiefs won,

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right, So we haven't heard anything
like that. But uh, you

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know, Boston's had a bunch of
you know, they're they're old hat at

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this. They've had some There was
a picture of a guy on social media

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and he had a sign there were
like twenty three parades in his lifetime or

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something or something. Yeah, it's
crazy. I just want one, just

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wants one. Well, you know, last time there was a championship here

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in twoson, they were turning over
cards. So yeah, we you know,

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we don't know how to act because
we haven't had enough of those in

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the college football world. In the
middle of their sec move, Oklahoma and

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Brett Vanna Bills have agreed to a
new six year deal. Well here's the

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thing. It's a six year deal
and he's getting a four hundred thousand dollars

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a year raise, and you know, with all the things going on,

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with finances in college athletics and really
all the belly aching that's going on by

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the colleges, by the universities,
by the program saying we're not gonna have

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enough money, we don't have enough
money. We got to raise more money.

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We're gonna we're gonna increase. Yet
we're going out and raising coach we're

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continuing to raise coaches salaries. Brent
Vannabilts is going to be making six something,

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eight something a year, eight million
a year, eight million a year.

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He's only been there two years as
a head coach. So it's hard

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for me to sit here as a
fan and hear these guys say they don't

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have any money. Yet coaches are
making eight, ten, eleven million dollars

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a year. So don't tell me
that you don't have the money. You

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do or you think you're gonna have
it and you're gonna and you're continuing to

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spend it. I you know,
I'm like, Okay, when are they

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gonna and who's going to start right
and pull back on this stuff so they've

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got the money that they need so
that guys like us aren't paying the tab,

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you know, the whole tab.
It's crazy to me that on one

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hand, they're they're bitching about the
twenty three million dollar twenty two million dollars

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are gonna have to give the players. Yet we're going to keep giving the

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coach more and more and more and
more and more. It's crazy to me.

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I'm pissed about this. I saw
that today. The first thing I

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did was I got pissed off.
I'm like, what are we doing?

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It makes no sense. I think
I think they just want some stability going

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into the SEC. But yeah,
like you said, it's been two years,

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Brinn, first year, Brent Vanables. How about you saying, you

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know what, I don't need a
raise. I'm making eight million a year

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or seven whatever a year. I
don't need any more money. You don't

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need to give me a raise.
I want to help, you know,

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I want to help the situation that
we're in. How about saying that one

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time, right, you know?
How about Jed Fish saying I don't need

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seven million a year the five I'm
making and Tucson is fine, right,

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Not that I want him back here
or anything like that, but just the

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point being that, no matter what
you say, no matter what they say,

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these coaches are about the damn money, yeah, and they're the ones

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who are bitching about how much all
this the nil stuff and the athlete paintings

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is gonna hurt athletics. Yet when
it comes time, they say, well,

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yeah, but I still want mine. It's crap. It pisses me

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off. Sorry that was my rant. I mean a lot of people.

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I'm sure a lot of people feel
the same way exactly. Into the college

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basketball world. The Division One Council
allot next week on whether or not two

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public exhibition games against other Division one
programs who replace the close scrimmages against another

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D one or an exhibition against the
other lower divisions. That would be really

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cool, you know, because right
now, you know, those two exhibition

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games that you get, you know, you're playing a Division too or a

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Division three team. They're often not
competitive or worse, you lose one,

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and your season goes into the crapper, or at least your fans think your

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season is going into the crapper.
Arizona's lost a couple of those over over

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these. I think Sean Miller lost
one. I think Loud Olson lost an

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exhibition game. But now let's say, you know, especially for the PAC

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twelve, right or PAC twelve character. If you're Arizona, you say,

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okay, well we'll get Stanford and
Cal to come down here for or we'll

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get Stanford here and we'll go up
and play Cal or whatever you want to

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do for these exhibition games that will
actually be fun. It might be good,

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you know, games to for spectators
to go see. Look, I

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as a stat guy. I worked
one of the private exhibitions that Arizona had

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one time under Shawn Miller. They
played Saint Mary's and the amount of secrecy

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that I couldn't even tell people where
I was going. They said, you

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can't tell anybody who were playing,
You can't tell anybody what the score was.

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But they wanted stats, so our
stat crew went and worked stats for

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the game. But we could not
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They said, do not talk to
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in trouble if word gets out about
what happened at the game. That's I

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mean, there wasn't even any media
there. It was crazy. It was

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like woo. But mostly Arizona has
played you know, public exhibition games against

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against lower level teams, and people
still come to those and you know,

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they're fun to watch. But It'd
be more fun if they were teams that,

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you know, you go get Oregon
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go back and forth, you play
one at Oregon here, one there,

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or something like that. You know, those things would be fun if they

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did that. Yeah, it's not
necessarily breaking news, but I just saw

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this article on a seven to nine
center coming into the college college basketball world

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going over to the Florida men's basketball
team. I just I just saw seven

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nine and was already fascinated. Now
he's going to go play at Florida.

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I saw some clips of this kid. He's you know, there have been

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some really tall guys that have been
very awkward, right even yell mean right,

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big tall guy, but he was
a good player. But this kid's

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got skills. He I mean,
he is tall as hell and go okay,

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he's playing against high school guys,
so they just throw the ball up

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in there and he catches it and
dunks it. But you know, there

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was a clip you know he's dribbling, you know, like a point guard

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bringing the ball up the court.
He's got good, you know, physical

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look to him, right, he
doesn't look awkward out of place. He's

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proportional and he only has to jump
him out of two inches to dunk.

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It'll be interesting to see how how
he develops. But he's at the IMG

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Academy in Florida, so he's at
a basketball academy. He can play basketball.

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It's going to be interesting to see. I mean, seven foot nine,

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Holy cripes about this, eight years
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not right. This is unfair.
How much more is he going to grow?

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is he still growing? Is he
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I think it'd be a sight to
see. I hope so you know,

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well, look that this is unusual, right for somebody to be that tall.

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You just hope that physically and health
wise he's as normal as can possibly

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be, you know. I mean
it was funny was there was a conversation

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about him on Dan Patrick's show and
they were going around the room saying,

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Okay, what's the tallest you would
want to be? What's the tallest you

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would want to be? Because you
know, seven nine, there's so many

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things working against you on a daily
basis, you know, walking into a

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room, getting on an airplane,
getting in a car, getting in an

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elevator whatever, and that has to
be hard. It has to be hard

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on you. What's the tallest you
would want to be I'm being humble,

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probably like six three six four.
Yeah right, that's what they were all

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pretty much saying. I don't They
said, I don't know that. If

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you want to be six seven,
you know, six three six four,

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you'd be an athlete. You could
be a pitcher, you could be a

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you know, a basketball player,
you can be a baseball player, you

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know, a tight end or whatever. That's about as tall as i'd want

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to be. Six' three,
maybe maybe six' four. Now.

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I know my son wanted to get
to six foot and he's really unhappy with

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me that he didn't. But that's
the way it goes, son. But

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yeah, I mean that's really about
about it. You know, after that,

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you start having issues, start having
issues with getting clothes, you have

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issues, you know, sitting on
an airplane. I mean I flew with

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the UFA basketball team, you know, on their flights and you know Sean

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Elliott, you know, watching him
squeeze into a seat and coach. I

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mean, that's a that's a tough
go. It's a tough go. Right.

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The last thing I have is that
came in a couple maybe an hour

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ago that Barry Sanders said revealed that
he has experienced heart related health scare.

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Didn't provide any details, but said
that it was unexpected and that it's been

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life changing, life giving him perspective. Right, Well, good for him.

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Oh okay, just got to know
from Bruce Pasco, he's gotta he

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might not be able to come on
at all. We'll we'll, we'll figure

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this out. But yeah, no, I you know, and you know,

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you think about a guy like Barry
Sanders, you know, who's probably

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continues to be fit and all those
things. God, you know, you

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just hope the best for him.
One of the good guys, right,

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he's one of those people where you
think he's invincible. Try to hear something

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like that, right, right,
right exactly? Yeah, it does,

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it does? It does? I
had I kind of had one here.

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Oh okay, you know your geography, right, Kansas City, Yeah,

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it's it sits in two states.
You've seen this, you know it's part

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of it's in Kansas, part of
it's in Missouri. Well, today,

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the governor of Kansas, the chiefs
and the royals are trying to get new

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stadiums. Missouri, the state of
Missouri, and kansasity said we're not helping.

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We're not giving you tax mindy to
do this. So Kansas, their

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state legislature just passed a bill today
allowing the state to offer the Bill of

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the Chiefs and the Royals incentives to
move their state to get their stadiums built

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on the Kansas side of Kansas City, which I think would be a really

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really interesting deal. So I'm for
it. Yeah, you have the Kansas

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right, they have the unique thing
right that that'd still be in Kansas City,

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but now they're in Kansas as opposed
to as opposed to Missouri. You

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know, he turn left instead of
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look, Kansas City would get to
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those two states that they know if
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let's go and take our break.
We're going to come back. Looks like

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Bruce is not going to be able
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to try and see if we can
get Jake Fisher to move up be in

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the next segment, and then we'll
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you know, Fox Sports fourteen fifth
came. I'm your host Ja Gonzalez

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getting through a strange and strange Friday
afternoon here. First week, we weren't

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on the air for about the first
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the air. We've been going through
it now. Bruce Pasco our guests who

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scheduled for this time. He's up
in Phoenix covering that section seven a basketball

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event. He just let us know
he's got an interview he's got to do.

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You know, when you got these
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you work on their time, not
your time. So he's trying to do

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this interview. Then again, he
said he might not even get the interview,

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but he's gonna call us if he
gets free and can talk to us

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for a few minutes. We want
to talk to him about this five point

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plan that the U of A eth
leg Department put out. So anyway,

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so if Bruce calls us during this
segment, we'll take whatever time we have

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left in the segment with him,
and then Jake Fisher will join us at

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four point forty to wrap up the
day. But you know, since we

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were going to talk about that with
Bruce Lee, you know, I'll just

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you know, get into that even
a little bit. Now, this this

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plan is, it's something that's supposed
to fix all things, but they they

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did put it out and uh,
you know again as I as I said

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in a in a previous segment,
it didn't really have any specifics to it.

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Well, it had one one specific
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leadership personnel costs, meaning you know, higher end positions in the department.

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They're going to reduce that by half
a million dollars. Well, great that,

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you know, I'm sure that that's
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it's not just all the guys at
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the heap were getting laid off and
whatnot. That they're going to do some

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trimming, you know, all the
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is great. They're they're kind of
restructuring a bunch of things there, They've

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got they they announced it at the
same time is this they announced that they're

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creating a separate entity to handle their
media right their multimedia rights. Obviously,

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the first question that came is,
Okay, what what happens to people like

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Brian Jeffries, you know, Dana
Cooper who worked for who worked for what's

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called Wildcat Sports Properties. Essentially they
worked for Lickfield, which has been the

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company that handles their radio and multimedia
rights, all the media rights outside of

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television what happens there, right,
And there were no no answers to that

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in there. So we'll see what, you know, what that's all about.

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They're going to change how they do
their budgets. In Bruce's story,

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you mentioned that some areas of the
of the Department didn't know what their budgets

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were, so they were just spending
money, you know, Like, Okay,

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you know, I know that when
I had a budget that I was

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responsible for both at TEP and the
city, I knew what my budget was,

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and I knew what I could spend
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And if I want, you know, if I wanted to spend something that

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was outside of my budget, I
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do it, I had to ask. It kind of boggles my mind.

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If they were saying, well,
they didn't know what their budget budgets were,

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so they were just kind of spending, I'm like, how does that

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work? I mean, don't you
do that at home? You do that

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right? Yeah? You know how
much money you got, how much money

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you can spend, and how much
money you can't spend exactly. I know,

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I know I always got enough for
a five dollars pizza. If if

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I know them near that, I'm
not gonna gonna touch it, right right,

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So you know I that that that
kind of was interesting to me.

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And then uh a three part three
part uh uh segment to their revenue generation.

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How they're gonna have to you know, raise more, you know,

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do more fundraising and development. But
you know again by by setting up this

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Arizona Sports Enterprises, you know,
trying to do more with multimedia. And

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they specifically said naming rights. Right, you know, we've had this conversation

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they've got and they've got to start
selling naming rights, and I mean,

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they gotta find money from somewhere,
and it can't all come from us.

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It can't all come from donors.
Uh, It's got to come from somewhere.

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If you got to rename Arizona Stadium, if you got a name Michale

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Center, which are the two kind
of signature uh facilities that you'd put names

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on, you got it, You're
gonna have to do it. You're gonna

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have to bite the bullet, and
fans are gonna have to be okay with

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that. Yeah. I mean,
as much as we all love Arizona Stadium,

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right, the kill Center. We're
just in a new era of college

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athletics, right, It's it's a
little bit different. But I always like

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seeing the little jokes going around the
like the Welos Arizona Stadium, you know,

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EG Center and stuff like that.
Yeah, I've always I enjoyed that.

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Yeah, but you know it's gonna
be different. It's good. And

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this is this part of it is
real. You know, you're gonna have

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to You're gonna have to get the
money from somewhere, and that's a chunk.

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That's a place where can get a
big chunk of money, right,

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uh and and and and really cut
into all of this and then again trying

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to you know, make the fan
experience better, you know, get more

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people in the seats. You know, I'm great, Arizona led the PAC

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twelve in attendance across you know,
all the major sports. That's fine,

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but there's still a lot of empty
seats in football, right, they got

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to sell all the football seats.
There aren't any more seats to sell.

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In basketball, there aren't any more
seats really to sell. In softball.

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They fill that stadium up all the
time, you know, baseball. Yeah,

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but you know, there's only so
much you can do, you know,

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so much you can do with baseball, but you know, mainly the

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thing is you got to get you
know, you got to get butts in

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the seats in football. You know, A long, long time adage,

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you know in the ethnic department is
if you want to help the non revenue

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sports, if you want to help
golf, if you want to help gymnastics,

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if you want to help swimming,
if you want to help even softball,

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if you want to help you know, track, they say, buy

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a football ticket. That's how you
help them, you know, you know,

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the five dollars or ten dollars entry
feet to go see a soccer match

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or a track meet or whatever doesn't
help as much as mine a forty or

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fifty or sixty dollars ticket. Do
you have a football game? And that's

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what they need. There's no bad
seat in Arizona Stadium. Yeah, I've

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sat all around my entire life.
So there are a couple of bad ones.

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Those ones up in the corner behind
the wall. Yeah, the one

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behind the wall. People who sit
up there sit up there on purpose because

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they they know what they're getting exactly. But you know, yeah, no,

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you know, and I like what
they've done to Arizona Stadium over the

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years. It's it's a cozy stadium. You know. I was growing up

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and I'm stale am. I was
fascinated by stadiums, right and I thought

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the coolest stadiums were the ones that
were like a bowl or they were enclosed

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all the way around. You know, Arizona Stadium didn't getting closed until twenty

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twelve. Well twenty thirteen was when
that that that end zone section opened,

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and to me, now it became
a real stadium. I mean like,

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okay, this is this is big
time. This is what all the the

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stadiums look like. You know,
I love the overhead shots of it.

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It looked, you know, with
the with the with the end and closed,

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it looks like a really good college
stadium. What they've done with the

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surface and how the track is gone
and all those things. It feels like

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a kind of a more cozy football
stadium. You're not closer to the field,

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but you feel like you're closer to
the field because there aren't all these

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other things in between. It's not
open on the end, you know,

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there's there, but there's more seats
to be you know, to be filled.

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Now it doesn't hold as many as
it used to because they put in

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some chairback seats and they're going to
do that some more. We haven't ever

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filled it up on a regular basis
when it was fifty six thousand. A

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fifty thousand seats stadium is plenty for
Tucson, Arizona. When that stadium is

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filled, it gets a loud,
it's a ronment. It is cool.

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It is cool. So and again, you know, we you know the

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conversation we had last segment. You
know, Arizona fans have got to realize

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that every other venue in the Big
twelve is going to be a tough place

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to play. You're going to have
to make it a tough place to play

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in Tucson, and you're going to
have to, you know, get out

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here because if you don't buy the
tickets, their fans will when BYU comes

408
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:11.680
to town and all the empty seats
are going to be taken by BYU fans.

409
00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.960
We've seen them come here and they
come here when Arizona has been bad

410
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.279
and they fill up the damn stadium. You know, I went to the

411
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.759
game up in Arizona, play BYU
and an opener up at the Cardinal Stadium,

412
00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.559
it was all BYU fans went to
the game in Vegas played BYU jed

413
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:32.440
Fish's first year. You know,
we were completely outnumbered. They're going to

414
00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:34.400
come here and they're going to take
the seats if you don't. I mentioned

415
00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:38.640
to I don't know who I was
having the conversation with, but in in

416
00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:45.720
two thousand, when Ohio State came
here, their fans bought season tickets so

417
00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:48.920
they would have tickets to that game. They did, and they just they

418
00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.960
sold, you know, then they
just sold the other seats over the course

419
00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.000
of the year and if they didn't
sell, they didn't care. The reason

420
00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:00.400
I know this is because a friend
of mine didn't renew the season tickets like

421
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:04.039
he was supposed to in front of
us, and he didn't get them.

422
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:07.400
Wow, and they told him,
no, I know how State fan bought

423
00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:11.799
your tickets. So over the course
of that season, we had team you

424
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.200
know, UH fans from other teams
and and and the worst of the worst.

425
00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:19.799
There were two a SU fans sitting
with our group at the ACU game

426
00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:23.160
that year and we got a fight
with him, you know, a couple

427
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:26.160
as we should, and a couple
of our people got thrown out over that

428
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:33.359
because I know I have State fan
bought those seats, all right, Yeah,

429
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:36.920
Okay, Bruce had just said he
can he can come on, so

430
00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:41.039
uh so I'm just tell him,
uh to go ahead and call. So

431
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.680
we've got a couple of minutes.
We've got what I got six minutes,

432
00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:48.720
so we'll just get into that a
little bit. So we'll we'll let him

433
00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.480
call. Uh, we'll look for
right here. But you know, that's

434
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:55.400
I mean, that's the thing.
So Arizona fans have got to have got

435
00:28:55.480 --> 00:29:00.799
to uh, I think they will, and those show out more than they

436
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:04.559
have. You know, you get
you get teams like Oregons coming in.

437
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:10.680
You know they're always good. We're
not right, So don't you don't necessarily

438
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:15.559
want to go see your team.
It doesn't matter to to you know.

439
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:19.119
Again, another game that was like
that was the Iowa game. And when

440
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:22.720
Mike Stoops was here, I've never
seen so many people in that stadium.

441
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:29.400
We we had our seats right where
we sit. We were crowded because there

442
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:33.200
were Iowa fans all over the place. They bought whatever empty seats they could

443
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:37.200
find. They traveled that that stadium. That game was jammed. I mean

444
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:40.680
I was doing what I call the
one cheek sneak. I sit on an

445
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:42.759
end and I had one cheek on
the end of the bench, and that's

446
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:47.200
all the that's all the room that
I had. So even just a couple

447
00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:49.400
of years ago, North Dakota State, Yeah, all the fans. There

448
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:52.799
were fans all over the place and
they had there were fans here, Gore,

449
00:29:52.880 --> 00:30:02.079
here comes Bruce. Let's take this. Oh no, drop the call.

450
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:07.039
Let's see if he calls again.
You know, yeah, North Dakota.

451
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:08.920
That's a perfect example. There were
in North Dakota. There were North

452
00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:12.200
Dakota State fans sitting in the Zona
Zoo. Yeah. I don't know how

453
00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:19.440
they got those tickets, but they
were there. You can get passionate fans

454
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:22.720
always come to Arizona Stadium. I
mean a couple of years ago, I

455
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.119
was in the Zona Zoo when we
played the su Yeah, and to my

456
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:33.279
riot, here comes hey, Bruce, there you are. Okay, we

457
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.759
got about five minutes. So this
is great, this is this is plenty.

458
00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:40.039
I appreciate you making the effort.
I know you're you're busy down there

459
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:44.400
and doing a lot of stuff.
Let's just get right to you. What

460
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:47.440
were you gonna say, Oh,
it's just hard. Yeah, it's hard

461
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:48.720
to find a quiet place. And
I just you never know when these games

462
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.000
are going to end and when you
need to talk to the guy and no,

463
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.559
we hey again, I appreciate it. I know, I know I've

464
00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:59.319
been hounding you all week to come
on the show. Uh so we appreciate

465
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.319
the time and get with you just
real quick. You were at the meeting

466
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:06.039
yesterday, right, the Border Regions
meeting. I watched it. I was

467
00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:07.200
watching the live stream. I was
in black all right. Were you,

468
00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.440
I mean, were you able to
get any sense of what the Border Regions

469
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.839
thought of all this, any reaction, what they look like, I mean,

470
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.799
were they did they just take it
in? And because there didn't seem

471
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.240
to be any meet behind any of
this, yeah, you know. I

472
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:25.799
mean again, I wasn't there,
so it's hard to read everything. But

473
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.400
you did see flashes of it,
and and it did seem like kind of,

474
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:32.920
you know, the usual look of
business as usual. I think a

475
00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:37.480
lot of it with this kind of
thing is they've usually been pressed in the

476
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.119
executive private sessions about a lot of
this stuff, what's going to be said,

477
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:45.400
And it's almost like this is a
public show of what it is that

478
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.319
everybody can see. And I think
there was one, you know, one

479
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.799
question that the chairman asked and that
was about it, and they pretty much

480
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.240
just were like, okay, you
know, which is interesting because you know,

481
00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.319
you would think that with all the
controversy that the loans that the Athletic

482
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.240
Department has taken out and the general
death for the university, you think maybe

483
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:07.880
there'd be a little more discussion about
it than just the presentation from the UVA

484
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:10.640
side. But that's the way it
was, and you know that that's the

485
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:15.200
way it is sometimes. And you
don't know did they have a private conversation

486
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:17.839
about it or the region's just nodding
and saying, okay, we have no

487
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.519
idea. Really yeah, I mean, I look, I understand they've got

488
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:23.960
to have a plan, right,
so the fact that they even have one,

489
00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:28.039
but again, we don't know much
about it, and and they and

490
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.960
they didn't say much about it.
Yeah, I mean, it was you

491
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:34.599
know, they called it a five
point plan and you know, you can

492
00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:37.119
kind of boil it down to two
or three things. Really it was a

493
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.599
lot of you know, a lot
of talk about you know, they're going

494
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.359
to structure things differently. But the
bottom line is they said, there's you

495
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:47.200
know, they're gonna, you know, try and be tighter with the budget.

496
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:52.799
They're going to be more accountability,
you know, more efficient with operations

497
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.400
and uh and then looking on the
other side to raise more money through fund

498
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:59.640
raising, tweaking, the ticket pricing, parking is going to go up,

499
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.480
all of things like that, but
not a lot of specifics. And particularly

500
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:06.359
I think if you're a fan,
you might want to know, Hey,

501
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:07.839
how much are the tickets going to
go up? How much is parking going

502
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:10.559
to be? You know, and
these things we don't know, they're not

503
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:15.440
they're not always in playing. I
think they'll eventually, it'll eventually be clear.

504
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.039
And I think, you know,
even people who are getting season tickets

505
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.200
probably already have an idea, but
it's just there's things to go. And

506
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:24.279
then I think the one thing they
did say was, you know, John

507
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:30.839
Arnold, the interim CFO, was
talking about the amount of cuts they're planning

508
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:35.039
to make, and you know,
and then I think in the presentation of

509
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:39.359
jezre read Pring Swam made was that
they would be five hundred thousand and administrative

510
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:44.440
personnel cuts, which but we don't
know that is that could be two senior

511
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:49.599
associate ads making two fifty each,
right, these ten lower level staffers maybe

512
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.119
in fifty each, or it could
be a combination. We have no idea,

513
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:54.720
you know, but it implies that
it doesn't It implies that they're not

514
00:33:54.799 --> 00:34:00.599
going to cut the coaching staff and
the uh and uh you know anything within

515
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:04.920
the sports programs. Do they do
they go much at all into this Arizona

516
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:09.119
Sports enterprises. Do you have any
understanding of what that is? No,

517
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:14.119
No, honestly, I don't know. It's didn't seem like that. I

518
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:17.000
think there were, you know,
there were some talk about, you know,

519
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.400
in general, about leveraging the passion
of you know, Arizona fans.

520
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.239
They said that, you know,
they want to leverage that more into basically,

521
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.480
you know, more ways to raise
money and whether that's through philanthropy,

522
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:36.800
fundraising or or you know, freaking
people with the higher ticket price for the

523
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:39.400
really desired game that they you know
get, you know, and I think

524
00:34:39.519 --> 00:34:43.639
naming rights they talked about. I
think we're going to see everything that can

525
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:45.599
be sold is going to have a
name on it. That that's something that

526
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:51.079
could be coming down, you know, But not a lot of specifics as

527
00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.360
of right now. But it did
seem that they had a plan, and

528
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.159
they're talking about, you know,
putting what's going to be a thirty three

529
00:34:55.320 --> 00:35:00.239
million dollar depths of this year down
to about two under two next Year's their

530
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:04.320
cotright, all right, all right, well again, you know, I

531
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:06.800
appreciate the time we've got it.
We've got to get on because we've got

532
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.079
another guest to come up with.
But I you know, I kind of

533
00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:13.559
thought that Bruce that there was just
so it was a lot of this was

534
00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:15.559
so vague, right, and it's
gonna probably be vague for a while.

535
00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:20.400
I did try to get somebody from
the Uveada commem on and shaid it's gonna

536
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.199
have to be Desiree. So we're
gonna try and get her next week.

537
00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:27.280
But even then, I don't know
when they're gonna say much of anything about

538
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.000
any of this and what you know, what the details are, and so

539
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:31.800
I guess it's a way to see
for all of us, right, it

540
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:35.360
may dribble out, you know,
hopefully we can get some of it out,

541
00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:37.519
and you know, some of them
may just be transparent. We may

542
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:40.599
have to go to the ticket price
and page to see what we have at

543
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:44.559
some point, you know, But
one way ornother is gonna drible out,

544
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:46.320
so we can hopefully chat about it
more down the line. Okay, sounds

545
00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:49.440
good. Hey Bruce, thanks again, but I know you're busy over there

546
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.239
with the section seven, so have
a great weekend and we'll keep an eye

547
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.159
you. Thanks a bunch, all
right, take care? All right,

548
00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:59.280
all right, that was quick,
but uh, kind of like I thought

549
00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:02.440
though, right, I mean,
how much can you get from this presentation?

550
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:07.960
There was no detail to it.
We'll start seeing, as he says,

551
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.760
as it probably dribbles out over time. So okay, let's go and

552
00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:13.599
take our next break word to come
back. Jake Fisher's waiting for us,

553
00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:15.559
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I'm Ja Gonzalez, your resident host.

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My buddy Steve Rivera has only one
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He'll be back here on Monday.
I've got one here running the show,

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and Jake Fischer's on the line with
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Jake, are you ready? Houly
got it? You know, we

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spent so much time on the whole
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that. Okay, it's done.
The Pac twelve is in the rearview mirror.

605
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Let's go on. We've got Big
twelve football coming up in a couple

606
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of months. You know. The
conversation that we've been having is how different

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it's going to be for the Arizona
programs to be going into the Big twelve,

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and particularly as it relates to football
and basketball, where regardless of how

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good their teams are, their fans
are nuts their rabbit they show up.

610
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:21.119
The days of going to the Rose
Bowl to play in front of twenty five

611
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:24.360
thousand people or to Stanford to play
in front of fifteen thousand people, those

612
00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:29.400
days are gone. Everywhere they go, there's going to be full stadiums.

613
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:31.639
Let me ask you this, Well, first of all, you went to

614
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:36.840
I was talking about off air.
You you were at the game where Arizona

615
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:42.079
visited Oklahoma State got beat pretty bad. As I recall the atmosphere there.

616
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:45.800
What do you recall from that?
Well, if I remember correctly, at

617
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:49.719
one point we got back with and
I believe Ken, which maybe we should

618
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.440
not have because we weren't that good
that year. We were banged up in

619
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:54.719
here. I mean, as that
was the year of the shoulder and the

620
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:58.480
year of the knee in terms of
people getting injured prior to the season.

621
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:04.079
But I will say tell you,
Oklahoma State, I mean that stadium is

622
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:07.000
fantastic. You know, they it's
right upon you, like they're literally only

623
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:13.599
a ten foot difference between the sideline
and the stands. You know, they've

624
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:15.320
got their whatever the hell of those
things are. They do the chop thing,

625
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:20.760
they start hitting the hell they hit
the wall, it gets loud.

626
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.159
I mean the amount of money they
put in that stadium too, is fantastic.

627
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.039
But there's not an empty seat in
the house. A bunch of these

628
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:30.239
big twelve teams, it doesn't matter
if they're bottom dwellers, it doesn't matter

629
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:34.480
if they're great, it doesn't matter
if they're kind of middle tier. They're

630
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.159
going to be packed every single every
single game, every single week. You

631
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:42.239
have some of these teams or some
of these colleges that are in towns that

632
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:46.199
literally have less people in it than
they would feel the stadium, So the

633
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:50.840
stadium still gets filled and that kind
of tells you how passionate these guys are

634
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:54.519
about their football. Well, and
you grew up in was it still the

635
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:57.480
big eg when you were born.
It wasn't a Big eight. It was

636
00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:00.039
a Big twelve, right, Yeah, just turn the Big twelve. I

637
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:04.039
believe as soon as I was born. Yeah. My parents they grew up

638
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:06.840
in Nebraska. Yeah, they know
all about that stuff, right. And

639
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:09.519
so you know, as you said, whether it's Iowa State or Kansas,

640
00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:13.960
Kansas State, whoever, you're gonna
go and you're gonna find a full stadium.

641
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:16.280
Let me ask you this as a
player, because we've had this conversation.

642
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:21.639
It's been more related to basketball.
When the basketball team goes to Washington

643
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:24.840
State and there's you know, four
thousand people there and there's no atmosphere and

644
00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:29.400
they kind of lull themselves to sleep
and then they get beat. Would you

645
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:32.840
did you, as a player,
prefer to have a pack stadium like that,

646
00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:36.760
like at an Oklahoma State or in
the Pac twelve. You know,

647
00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:40.559
you go to Oregon and the place
is jammed. Did you prefer that over

648
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:45.320
going to a stadium where there was
kind of nobody there? Yeah, I

649
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:47.960
mean it gets the juices flowing.
I think it was my sophomore we ended

650
00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.519
up going to UCLA. It was
the game I think it was the day

651
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:54.960
before Halloween, and we should have
probably won that game forty to zero.

652
00:42:55.079 --> 00:42:59.960
We only ended up beating it out
by leave a touchdown or ten points.

653
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:04.039
They only had you know, fifteen
twenty thousand people there because they weren't that

654
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:07.000
good. Same thing with the sc
when they're not, you know, a

655
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:12.519
top five team nationally, they're only
about sixty percent full. You know,

656
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:15.679
teams obviously like Washington State Stanford my
sophomore we played against them, the and

657
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.239
Andrew Look, they had the top, you know, top five team in

658
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.559
the country. They didn't even fill
out their stadiums. Right. You want

659
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:24.920
the justice flow and you want to
know that you're up for a game because

660
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:28.960
if you get lulled asleep a lot
of these teams, if you're going into

661
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:30.360
the fourth quarter and they know they
got a chance, they could end up

662
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:32.599
beating you. It doesn't matter how
bad they are. They're still division on

663
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:37.519
athletes. Yeah, well I'm looking. I'm looking at the media guide.

664
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:42.159
You see that game you talked about
at UCLA your your sophomore year. They

665
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:46.000
announced fifty three thousand. I was
at that game. There were not that

666
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:51.280
many. Yeah, that was less
than half of that. Yeah, no,

667
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:53.920
yeah, yeah, exactly. I
went to that game and you guys

668
00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.719
won by twenty nine to twenty one. Is the is the score. But

669
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.559
you're right, there was there were
not fifty three thousand people there. But

670
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:04.320
that's not even cool. I mean
there was a game last year I think

671
00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:07.280
they played Bowling Green and there were
like five thousand people there. It's crazy.

672
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:08.800
But you're never gonna You're not going
to see that over there in the

673
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:15.000
Big twelve. I'm excited about that, I really am, because I feel

674
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:17.280
like every game is a is a
big deal, you know, and I

675
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:21.239
mean I do. I hate turning
on the TV for a road game and

676
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:24.719
seeing if there's nobody there that I
hated that. Well, it's crazy because

677
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:29.679
Kansas those few years where they were
like really really bad, that looked like

678
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:32.599
you know, your average Pactwell stadium, right, But now they're good and

679
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:37.239
they're packing out that stadium. They're
even building onto it because you know,

680
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:39.199
they just don't have enough seating for
it. So, I mean, the

681
00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:44.119
Iowa State, the Kansas Kansas state
is obviously going to be awesome. It's

682
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:47.639
gonna be ridiculous because they have a
very long lineage of awesome teams. I

683
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:52.199
mean even UCF. You know,
I had a buddy that played at UCF

684
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:57.280
when they were you know, really
really good, just I mean Cincinnati,

685
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:01.280
all these teams they lived in towns
where football is king, right, you

686
00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:05.800
know, the Midwest and even some
of these other outlying places. I mean,

687
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:07.239
it's gonna be awesome. And the
fact that you know, we're on

688
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:10.000
the rise right now, I think
a su is heading in the right direction.

689
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:13.840
I don't think they're gonna, you
know, be anywhere near us for

690
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:16.239
the next few years, which is
good in my opinion. The fact that

691
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:20.639
Colorado has prime, they're going to
pack out every stateium Utah, obviously they're

692
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:22.599
going to do what they do.
I think, you know, us going

693
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.880
into the Big twelve, I think
we're going to bring kind of a similar

694
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:30.599
atmosphere, you know. And I
know you said, you know you feel,

695
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:32.159
you get you know, you get
pumped up, you get juiced up

696
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:36.039
when the stadium is full. But
then again, it's hard. What do

697
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:39.800
you recall or do you have any
place that you consider the toughest place to

698
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:44.719
play in the time that you were
at Arizona. It's always going to be

699
00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:49.000
Oregon in Washington For me, Washington, because you know, I'm in the

700
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.800
stadium. That kind of goes up
and so it traps in the noise,

701
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:55.159
and every single time you go there
it seems like it's raining hard and you

702
00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:58.920
got crazy wind, so it's like
you're not used to playing in it.

703
00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:01.480
Plus A's loud as hell. And
then Oregon just because I mean they've got

704
00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:06.000
all the gimmicks. They come out, they run all those weird formations,

705
00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:09.440
at least when Schip Kelly was there. And then you know, obviously my

706
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:14.079
last time playing at Oregon, you
know, they wore their blackout uniforms,

707
00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:17.199
came out the duck on a Harley
Plus even though they only have like fifty

708
00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:21.599
some thousand people there, they rocked
the house. I mean, because that

709
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:24.679
stadium traps noise. Those two in
the Pac twelve were the hardest to play,

710
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:29.719
and I just have a feeling that
every single stadium in the Big twelve,

711
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:32.119
because they're all there, their fan
bases or you know, they want

712
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:37.440
them to win really bad. They
eat, sleep, breathe football, it's

713
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:39.159
just going to be kind of the
same thing. Yeah, let's talk about

714
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:43.519
things like like body clock. Again, we're picking your brain because you're the

715
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:46.960
only football player that we really know
this well. So I was listening to

716
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:52.440
an interview that Jedfish did with Rhys
Davis, and he's talking about that when

717
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:53.840
they go to the East Coast,
they're going to go two days ahead of

718
00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:59.280
time. How important is that?
I mean, is it really a factor

719
00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.840
if you know, if you're playing
at you know, ten o'clock in the

720
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.039
morning, your time on the road
or do you really need time to get

721
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:12.440
acclimated and how much does that matter? You know, it's a little different

722
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:15.400
because, like, you know,
the furthest East I think that I went

723
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:21.159
and played was either at Toledo or
in Louisiana when we played Boston College.

724
00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:23.719
And I might be wrong, but
with Toledo, you know, we went

725
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:28.880
a little earlier, got there and
it was a two hour time difference,

726
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:30.360
so that was weird. But we
ended up playing at night, so it

727
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.119
was earlier, you know what I
mean, So that wasn't a big deal.

728
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.159
When we went to you know,
to Louisiana to play Boston College,

729
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:40.079
I think we had the first year
of the day and there a two hour

730
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:44.119
difference, and that was definitely different. You know, you wake up a

731
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:46.199
little earlier than you're you know,
then you anticipate. But the fact is

732
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:50.800
we were there six days earlier,
right, you know, I think that

733
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.960
if you're going there a day early
and you're playing an early game, that

734
00:47:55.159 --> 00:48:00.079
might be difficult. But that to
that two day deal, I think that

735
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.000
would be really helpful. But to
be honest with you, you know,

736
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:06.440
in the Pac twel, for me, most of the games they were in

737
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:08.599
the same time zone, so it
never really affected me that I effected.

738
00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:12.800
You. Well, they're going to
Central Florida this year, which we'll see,

739
00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:16.159
you know, what happens there.
That should be fun, you know.

740
00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:20.960
And look, I can't even when
is that game. That game is

741
00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:24.639
in November Space Day or whatever the
hell they call it. It's what their

742
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:29.000
Space Day or whatever they call that
day, or you know, every year

743
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:31.679
they have a game where they go
like Blackout or something and they go you

744
00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:34.920
know, I forget exactly what they
call it. But that's going to be

745
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.760
a routing environment. Yeah, so
that that should be fun. And then

746
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:40.119
at some point they're gonna have to
go play West Virginia. So there's a

747
00:48:40.199 --> 00:48:44.639
couple of those in the in their
future as well. But you know,

748
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:46.960
again, I think the newness of
it, I don't know how long that's

749
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.880
going to last, right, you
know, that new car smell how long

750
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:53.480
we're going to have that from uh
uh with these games. But I'm looking

751
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:58.079
forward to it, aren't you.
Yeah, it's going to be different.

752
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:00.280
You know. It's not going to
be the thing where you're used to playing

753
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:04.800
against every single team every single year. You know, my favorite games most

754
00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:07.159
of the time are the ones that
you play out of conference, right,

755
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:09.320
So every game this year is going
to be a different team for the most

756
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:13.320
part. So I think that's going
to be challenging. But then again,

757
00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:15.000
what you got to remember is a
lot of these Big twelve teams are proud

758
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:19.880
and they saw kind of how we
ended last year beating the number one Big

759
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:22.519
twelve team, right, you know
in the conference. You know, with

760
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:27.440
the exception of Texas obviously, and
a lot of these teams, they're going

761
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:29.559
to kind of pin their ears back
and try to beat the hell out of

762
00:49:29.639 --> 00:49:30.079
us. So we got to be
ready for it, you know. And

763
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:34.000
they're gonna throw a lot of weird
stuff. You know. It's not the

764
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:37.079
the old Stanfords where you know they're
going to line up in an eye or

765
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:38.119
they're going to line up, you
know, three tight ends, or you

766
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:40.480
know they're going to bunch up and
try to beat the hell out of you,

767
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:43.480
and you can get ready for that
every single year. It's not going

768
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:45.119
to be the same organ that I
used to play against, where you know,

769
00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:49.159
maybe one tight end or maybe two
by two and you got you know,

770
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:52.280
a little h you know, one
of their little scat backs there and

771
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:53.760
they're going to try to spread it
throw really quick. So you just get

772
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:58.239
back and you know, basically try
to figure out where the hell they're going

773
00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:00.679
and just run as fast as you
can. There's going to be a bunch

774
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:02.719
of different stuff, but I think
it's gonna be fun. I think it's

775
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:07.159
gonna be fun. All right.
Last question, So look, you know

776
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:09.119
every year you got guys that are
you know, they're getting the tension nationally

777
00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:14.119
or whatever. You've got no Flafiitez
in the Heisman conversation t mac is.

778
00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:17.000
You know he's on all the All
American teams. How do you, as

779
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:22.000
a teammate help those guys keep their
heads on straight and not you know,

780
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:25.840
get caught up and all that stuff
so that when the time comes to get

781
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:29.119
on the field, their heads in
the right place. What can you as

782
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:31.719
a teammate do well to be honest
with you, those guys you know and

783
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:38.199
Jonahs, Adovan Wendel moy you know, a couple of defense to Cary o'manu,

784
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:42.760
you know, Moldinaldo I saw,
got a couple nods for the Big

785
00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.559
Twelve, you know, Tyler loub
you know a lot of our guys got

786
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:49.679
some pretty good, right, pretty
good nods. I think those guys,

787
00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:52.760
because of the leadership from the players
perspective, they have such a level head

788
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:55.440
that it's not going to get to
their head. What I think is going

789
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:58.920
to happen is a lot of these
players, when you go into a new

790
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:02.559
conference and you're trying to establish dominance
in that conference, a lot of those

791
00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:06.719
guys are going to try to either
exploit. They're going to try to take

792
00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:08.880
out not like you know, dirty, or they're going to try to take

793
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:12.320
you out. They're going to try
to make you look dumb. They're going

794
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:14.119
to say, you know, and
I think I'm better than you. You

795
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:15.440
come from a different conference. I
think we do it better here in the

796
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:20.760
Big Twelve. So I think what
you can do as a teammate is essentially

797
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:24.920
you help establish you're all Americans dominant. So help Jonah do what he does

798
00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:28.920
best, and that could be coaching
that can be just you as a teammate,

799
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:32.599
you know, help help kind of
settle no what down by running the

800
00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:37.280
rock right, you know, help
team Mac get a couple of balls early,

801
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:39.880
right, if you're no get him
a couple of balls early established,

802
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:45.239
you know, kind of a connection
or the passing game. If you're a

803
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:49.519
Tecario, I mean, shoot,
if you're a defensive back, the first

804
00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:52.840
thing you want to do is line
up against that guy's best their best receiver,

805
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.880
So get his wet, you know, see wet as quickly as he

806
00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:59.000
can. So I think it's more. You know, from a player's perspective,

807
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:01.159
you want to you want to help
protect them. But then you know,

808
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.360
from a coaching perspective, you want
to put them in a good spot

809
00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:07.400
to get them in a rhythm early. All right, Okay, all right,

810
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:09.920
Jake, appreciate all that. Tell
us a little bit about your business

811
00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:14.280
and what you're doing. Yeah,
guys, there's on a health insider.

812
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:16.320
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you plans that fit your particular needs. We have plans with zero outpation,

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deductibles, no copays. It is
a nationwide ppo, so you can use

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it outside of the county and outside
of the state, and it is in

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the largest network in the country.
We help individuals, families, small businesses

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say forty five percent on average for
their monthly premiums, and we also help

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improve the quality of care. Thank
you guys. We actually got three brand

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new folks from your show just this
week, so it's working well. Plus

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you get to work with a fellow
wildcat, so bear down, everybody.

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Check us out at www dot Arizona
health Insider dot com or call at five

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to two oh eight, five oh
six, eight sixty six. You can

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find us all over social media.
Just go ahead and give us a call

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and we'll help you out. All
right, Jake, thanks a bunch,

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man, have a great weekend,
all right, man, talk to you

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later. All right. We got
through it, Juan, we got through

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it. I call that a success. I do total success, all right.

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Want to thank everybody for being here. Thank all of our guests for

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the week. Bruce Pascoe today,
Adrian Denny Not Bryant and Jake Fisher.

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So Steve will be back on Monday
and we'll be back here to bring you

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some more on I on the Ball. So we'll see you on Monday.

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Thanks for being here,