WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:07.599 Steve Rivera and Jaden Solens they have their eye on the ball on Tucson Sports 2 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:14.919 Station Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to what I'm about here 3 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.960 on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Jagon's ass, and 4 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:21.839 I'm hoping you have some brickaty. You know, I gotta tell you, 5 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:25.399 I really don't. I've been flapping today. I'm gonna played the thing anyways. 6 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:33.280 But you know, not much news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty Okay, 7 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.359 I do. I do have a quiz for you. Why in the world 8 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:44.479 is Britney Spears trending on sports Twitter Feed. It's so funny because I saw 9 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.039 this story and I'm thinking, I'm thinking, the only way She's gonna go 10 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.560 up to him and say, kay, mister whatever, mister wimban Yama. 11 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.960 Can I get some autographs from my kids? That's the only thing, right, 12 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:00.799 I have no nothing else. Why would you smack unless she was beating 13 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.519 up knocked just but what I then not realizing who it is. Yeah, 14 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.719 I mean they knocked her to the ground. I thought they just hit her 15 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.400 with a I saw things said it knocked her to the ground, knocked her 16 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.959 glasses off, and then she had to get up off the ground. And 17 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.000 now it may have just been that, you know, in the in the 18 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.439 instant, you know, a strong guy, right, you know, you 19 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.719 know, kind of like get away. But basically the way she reported it 20 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:33.120 and the way she's wore you watch, listen to New York just various websites. 21 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.680 You know, the police report that she filed. She is saying she 22 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:41.159 got she got hit with a backhanded slap and knocked her to the ground. 23 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:45.959 And she she said she was walking up to behind so I'm at a restaurant, 24 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:53.319 walked up behind him, tapped him on the shoulder and got smacked alone. 25 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.480 God, you know what the house? What's the world? Timber two? 26 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.599 I mean, what the hell? This is in Vegas? Right? 27 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.400 This is yeah in Vegas. Yeah, because that's where he's at right now, 28 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:12.360 playing for those You ever see Britney in Vegas? Who sees Britney in 29 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.439 Vegas? Who goes to I don't know. I've never been one of a 30 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:17.560 concert. I had to go to the Backstreet Boys once, but I never 31 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:23.199 had to go see uh Britney spears. Although Dan Patrick famously talks about going 32 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:29.000 by himself. Britney to a Britney Spears concert in Vegas at the at the 33 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:34.560 MGM Grant Arena because he just wanted to. He just wanted He likes her 34 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:37.520 music and he wanted to go see her, and he went all by himself. 35 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.719 I think that would seem a little creepy. Well, you know, 36 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:44.560 I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do that, but I've also been the guy, 37 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:49.039 you know, stop stop. I wouldn't have done that, but he did, 38 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.840 so apparently that was that was one of the things. Um uh, 39 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.039 well, I don't have Steve. I really don't have anything else. Um. 40 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.680 I will say, you know a lot of things being posted about about 41 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:06.439 the recruiting thing today. UM twenty four seven Sports posted the top ten recruits 42 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.000 in the Arizona football history. And you look at this list, and this 43 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:14.479 is where you where you're if your Arizona you go. It's so hard for 44 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.840 us to have good things. Okay, Elijah Rushing now jumps up to number 45 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:22.680 one. T mac who's here number two? But just that, you go, 46 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.360 Jetfish is just killing it. And anybody, you know, guys, 47 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.159 people who are still out there thinking Jetfish can't do this. Sorry, he's 48 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:35.919 got the top two recruits in Arizona football. His see Devin Ross is number 49 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.439 three. I do even remember him, Yeah, I mean I know he 50 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:45.159 was a defensive back, but he was I mean he played right, but 51 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:49.080 he wasn't great as I recall. Yeah, I mean, you know. 52 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:53.000 And then Mike Bell, who I didn't realize was was ranked that high, 53 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.080 you know, played played under stoops. He was good, he was never 54 00:03:55.120 --> 00:04:01.199 spectacular. I always remember him break going to run against as a SU, 55 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.599 pointing his finger up in the air like he was gonna score to the touchdown, 56 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:09.199 and then he got run down from behind. So that's what I remember 57 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:15.199 about him. Nick Costa from Portland who was recorded recruited by h Macavic, 58 00:04:15.399 --> 00:04:18.800 Right, yeah, he was a Macavic guy. Yeah, by to Portland. 59 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.160 I remember him being like a quarter quarterback. Round was like a five 60 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:25.920 foot eight quarterback, right, he could run like run like the wind. 61 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.439 But well it's like you guy from the Ramble guy from LSU could throw it 62 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:32.079 a mile yep. Well if there's no receiver in a mile a mile, 63 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:38.279 what the what's the point. Then Gronk Gronk comes in at number six. 64 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:44.879 Now these are they're they're they're recruiting ratings as as done by by two four 65 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.040 seven sports or twenty four seventh Award, and we'll ask him to know some 66 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:50.879 of these things. Number seven is Robert Golden, who's had a nice career 67 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:56.199 in the NFL. So who's Robert Golden? Ok? Really good player, 68 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:01.319 not spectacular even nondescripting of point of how did he have a good career in 69 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.439 the NFL? But he has? Yeah, Keenan Walker who I have never 70 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:10.839 heard of. Who is that? I don't remember? No, I don't 71 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.720 know who that is. Marquis Flowers um who had again nice career, yeah, 72 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.800 uh with uh with remember him? Yeah, really good player? Um. 73 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:24.800 And then Cam Denson right stop point kids out a stop point went to 74 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.199 Was he the one that went to order Dane back? No, No, 75 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:30.680 he went to he came here kind of phased out, fizzled out, and 76 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:36.000 he went to NUKA. Yeah I'm thinking of no, No, yeah, 77 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:40.720 No, he's the one that he's he's the one that got in Trouble Boys. 78 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.240 He got in trouble is now in the prison for killing somebody. Yeah. 79 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:50.959 He's the one that went with with Regel two two Boys boys, one 80 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:55.399 of those squirres. Yeah, but it was those are the top ten now 81 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.000 like you look at that list, you go top ten recruits, and how 82 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:00.920 many of those guys are actually really good? Right? Right? And we 83 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:08.240 had a guy who just passed away the defensive end um during our time, 84 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.240 not our time, but twenty years ago. Uh he drove the hummer, 85 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:19.600 drove the hummer. Oh uh he was a Jap. But yeah again he 86 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:26.680 was good. Was never great, right, just did materialize? Yeah, 87 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:29.160 okay, we'll talk to We'll talk to him. Know what some of these 88 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.399 things. You know, I know you don't have much, but what's up 89 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:35.319 with the live and the golf? Now? Some filing suit and chicking? 90 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.800 Does it really matter anymore? Aren't they together? I thought they were together 91 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:46.079 there a lot or yesterday some kind of stuff going out live and lawsuits, 92 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.480 and I have no I've not seen anything related to that because I thought, 93 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:54.879 as he said, I thought this whole thing was everything was kind of uh 94 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.920 kind of settled, and uh, you know, there's nothing to do nothing 95 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:02.560 golf all of a sudden about drama, drama, drama, drama, women. 96 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.240 I'm a place tomorrow, I guess, starts his debut at in Vegas 97 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:12.319 tomorrow. Um. Yeah, well, you know, if you can stop 98 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.240 slapping you know, and your guy, your guy, your guy that you 99 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:20.560 didn't really uh think much of last year's number one guy has played fairly well. 100 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:26.360 Yeah, it's a skinny guy league now it is. And you know 101 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.560 what, and it is right A guy like DeAndre Ayton's built like a brick, 102 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.519 you know what. Um, it's kind of like too big. Yeah, 103 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:39.920 too big, can't he can't he can't do enough things. You know. 104 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.120 It's kind of crazy when you when you when you think about all that. 105 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.480 But um uh, where is this list? Yeah? I know there's 106 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.319 we could go past we could go past ten on the walk out authority has 107 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:58.639 the list. Gabe long Well, I don't remember remember h A. P. 108 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:05.480 Juey Hallamaka Nope nope. Solomon Peeler Nope nope. Wait, Michael Elatt's 109 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.240 that name sounds from it. Remember the Weird Brothers are the were brothers. 110 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:16.160 They didn't materialize at all. Yep. Lewis Holmes, JaMarcus Webb, Willie 111 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.879 to Atama, Jalen Curry, Cols Tate, jamar Ja Cobb. Um, 112 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.480 that's at twenty one. I've been trying to think you guys were you know 113 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:30.199 Adam Hall number twenty four key On Burnett a couple of years ago. He's 114 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:35.200 still here. Um Ephesians Prisot Class of twenty two. Nick Wilson, he 115 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.000 was had a great year, yeah right, I was right after the after 116 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:43.440 codem right, yeah, yeah, Well he was the running back on the 117 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:50.200 twenty fourteen team that got Richard cole Check. That's a name that just brings 118 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:52.960 back nightmares. Not because of him, because of the time that he was 119 00:08:54.080 --> 00:09:00.159 here. It wasn't that under Macavic, and then he was still the core 120 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.519 back when when Stoops was here, But he was. I think he was 121 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:07.559 a guy who was the starter when Willie to Automa took over. If my 122 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:13.919 memory serves me correct, Matt Scott had one great year playing his senior year 123 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.399 under h under Uh. These are still to some of the best recruits. 124 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.480 You know, we're probably up to now number fifty, the top fifty recruits 125 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:28.679 as rated by twenty four seventh Sports. So, I don't know, it's 126 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.879 just there's still so much uncertainty, right. You'd like to think Elijah Russian 127 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.600 is gonna be really damn good, But until he's really damn good, you 128 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.679 don't know if he's gonna be really damn good. Right, You got you 129 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.799 gotta prove herself first. You do, you do, you do, And 130 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.720 it's not gonna happen right away, you know. And again, you know, 131 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:48.120 he may come in and if if he's if he's ready to play, 132 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.559 he's ready to play. And if he's not, he's not. But you'd 133 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.840 like to think that a guy at this level of well, you know, 134 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.120 in terms of being you know, as a recruit, was ready to be 135 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.919 close to ready to play by the time. Yeah, but there's so much 136 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.480 pressure on these kids to do that. It's not like basketball where you play 137 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.320 in the NAAAU ball and you're you know, in this competition and you're seventeen 138 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:11.240 eighteen. You come on the scene and play one year and you're gone, 139 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.960 not like the Aaron Gordon's of the world or whatever. Yeah, yeah, 140 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:18.519 yea. So I you know, it's just I'm sitting here. Time to 141 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:20.679 go through Twitter and find more, you know, breaking news. Nine out 142 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.120 of ten ten you don't remember the tweets, No, nine out of ten 143 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:30.000 tweets on my thread or about Elijah Russian Everyone's while I guess I know, 144 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.559 somebody sprinkles in a baseball Oh, um, Arizona's hired and you and you 145 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.600 assistant assistant baseball coach. Um he was promoted, So I guessing he was 146 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:46.279 the grad assistant Toby de Mellow. Um, he's been the Wildcat's hitting coordinaty 147 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:52.440 he'll be the third third base coach. But he is uh entering his third 148 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.960 year with the season. He was a Sacramento State Um he was, you 149 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.240 know, the hitting guy. Think he must have been a grad assistant or 150 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.360 something, or a volunteer coach. We also missed and I don't know the 151 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.960 name. Um, you a golfer will be playing in the Oh, yes, 152 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:11.080 yes, yes, I want to get him. I want to try 153 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.200 and get him on the show. He's gonna be playing in the British Open 154 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:18.279 in a couple of weeks. Um, Tiger Christians. Right. God, 155 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:22.279 didn't the women have somebody like that going somewhere on the women's team. No, 156 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.759 there was something going on. Um, and I thought I heard something 157 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:30.679 like that. I don't know, Okay, So, yes, this is 158 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:31.759 a funny moment. I don't know if you saw the highlight of it. 159 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:37.799 So uh uh Alie Dela Cruz. Since then a red skuy okay gets a 160 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.080 base hit, he gets a triple or something like that, and Dave Martin, 161 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.720 as the manager of the of the Washington Nationals, comes out and has 162 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:50.840 his bat check, you know, for the white number leg a legit bat. 163 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.120 So as next time up Dela Cruz, it's a four hundred and fifty 164 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:00.399 five home run, and as he's going down first base, he's pointing to 165 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.840 his bat and then he flips it to the side and then Dave Martinez had 166 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:07.759 a good response to look, this guy's been in the major leagues for two 167 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:11.360 weeks. He's got to get a grip on himself. But the whole, 168 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.759 that whole little exchange is actually kind of and you think, here's this whispy 169 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:18.279 guy. He's I don't know how tall he's, but he's another one of 170 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:20.919 those bo Yama guys who just has some power. He looks like he's about 171 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:26.519 six four and like one ninety yeah, you know, and has power because 172 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.200 he's hid. Now does he end him runs? He has someone runs really 173 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:35.360 far um and uh and and then he just you know, he plays defensive, 174 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.159 could do all the things. Just that guy that they was born with 175 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.519 all the tools and is I'm making the most of them now. So he's 176 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.519 he's fun to watch. I hate the fact that he's excuse he's with the 177 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.639 Reds. But he has been fun to watch because after all of a sudden, 178 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:52.759 become a fan of him and he might have to go put some money 179 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.720 on him. But yeah, you know that's not a bad idea. You 180 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:00.840 know, I think they're like they think like twenty one and seven since the 181 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:03.279 last three weeks, yeah whatever, a few weeks, whatever, however many 182 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:07.360 weeks that is. It's a big number that they that they are. But 183 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:13.919 you know it's, yeah, what's going on in baseball? I really don't. 184 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:18.480 I mean, the Dodgers a little bit behind the Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks keep 185 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:20.679 winning games and you think they're gonna stop. They won the lost last night, 186 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.840 the Diamondbacks Dodgers one. They blew one on on on Wednesday night. 187 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:30.879 But they did you she did she the game with Saint Louis and all the 188 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:33.559 way that ended. Yeah, where they grew the ball into the outfit. 189 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.559 I mean just a picture. It was just the picture. Yeah, ball 190 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.559 up, just a little dribbler up in the infield and he throws it into 191 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:45.159 the aufha, two runs score and they walk lose the game. Happens a 192 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:46.720 little legue all the time. Well, yeah, but not even they don't 193 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:52.519 get paid millions to do this. Oh god, so no, you just 194 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:58.080 excuse me. It's it's been. It's it's just nuts right now. With 195 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.879 what's going on in baseball. They All Star Game next week, they've got 196 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.879 the they've got the eight guys who are gonna be in the h the home 197 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:05.919 runs. Everybody like watching? I did, I do, and I did? 198 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.519 I like you. Have you ever wateen the Olden time? Oh? 199 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.399 That black and white one? Yeah? Oh yeah, I love those. 200 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.960 Yeah yeah, I used to watch those lots yea with Willie May's making man, 201 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:20.559 you Mollie McCovey. All, I just don't have drama to it. 202 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:22.960 I mean I like it. I watched it, I guess just for the 203 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.759 curiosity, but no other reason. Yeah, no, I did. I 204 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:28.919 did watch just like a half hour program. And it would be two fifteen 205 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:33.559 minutes, right, two guys against each other and just getting home runs. 206 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.039 It's some ballpark to look like it was in the middle of a neighborhood or 207 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:41.039 something. Yeah, I remember all that. I remember all that. So 208 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.080 anyways, all right, let's go take our break. We're gonna have a 209 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.360 met Mournano gonna come on and talks a little bit about more about what this 210 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.799 all means from a recruiting standpoint for Arizona. You know they got their guy. 211 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.399 You know, is Arizona getting in getting up there with the big boys 212 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:01.200 to recruit Matt Mournano from arrivals and uh go easycast dot com. You'll be 213 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.200 here to talk about all that's happened today, so we'll stick around. 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Yeah, it's you know it round 256 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:18.319 me a lot of you know, a couple Decembers ago and we kind of 257 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:19.720 felt like, all right, Arizona is going to be in the in the 258 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.680 works for a really big day and land you know, a five star recruit 259 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.200 and one of the top wreakers they've ever landed and kept throw McMillan, and 260 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.319 sure nothing happened, and it was a big day. And today it feels 261 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.480 very similar. Our whole front page is Elijah Rushing and obviously for good reason, 262 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:36.920 you know, a big deal for Arizona to land a local guy like 263 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.480 that who has so much acclaim and I had so many other schools after him. 264 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:44.680 Just a really, really really nice day for Arizona that maybe even pops 265 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.839 that day when they picked up Tetrow McMillan in a lot of ways. So 266 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.599 as a number of people were hearing as we were talking hot Fair or we 267 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:55.079 thought we were off fair. Um, you know the meaning of this for 268 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:57.400 Arizona. I mean this is a big deal from the standpoint of you know, 269 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:00.599 you know, Notre Dame get guys like this all the time. Oregon 270 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.160 gets guys like this all the time, even Tennessee. The three those were 271 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:08.680 the three schools a rout that we're partly in the hunt for Russian. But 272 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.880 Arizona doesn't get guys like these all the all the time. Now they've gotten 273 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:18.160 a couple hundred jead fish. What is there? What's the long term impact, 274 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:22.400 long term meaning of this to get a guy like Rushing, Yeah, 275 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:25.759 it's huge. I mean, it cannot be understated how important it is to 276 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:30.279 land someone like Elijah Russian, who had opportunities to go to pretty much every 277 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.839 conference, every major conference, go to any pretty much. If I wrote 278 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.279 it today, if you could name a top school, he probably had an 279 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.559 offer to go there. Um, he had over three dozen offers. He 280 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.519 had opportunities to play across the country. Like I said, So to have 281 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:45.119 someone like that keep them in Tucson, I think that's the most important part, 282 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.480 more so than just based all landing at a high level of recruit and 283 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:52.839 somebody who is highly ranked highly sought after. It's landing, landing a player 284 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.599 from a school that has been difficult for Arizona to land players from in recent 285 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:02.039 history. And to keep an instan player, a top instate player home. 286 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:04.839 Um, that is that is maybe more meaningful than anything else other than, 287 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.319 you know, more than just the rankings and who he is as a player, 288 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:11.279 is just that it's a local guy. The trend for a lot of 289 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.160 the top in state prospects, and Elijah Rushian at Rivals is the top instate 290 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:19.279 prospects of the twenty twenty four class has been to leave Arizona and go play 291 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:23.039 somewhere else. And Arizona's seen that obviously. People in Tucson has seen that. 292 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:26.400 You hate to see a player like, you know, be John Robinson 293 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:32.559 end up at school like Texas and become who he's become and what everyone saw 294 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:34.279 on two son and expected her to be. You'd love, if you're Arizona 295 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:37.319 to have that guy at home and have him you know running, you know, 296 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:41.319 running the ball, uh, you know, at Arizona and so um 297 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:45.839 to land him, like Elijah Rushian has a very very very promising future. 298 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.400 To keep him home says a lot. And I think it is only going 299 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:52.400 to influence other top talent within the state to say we need to take a 300 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:56.960 stronger look at playing at home. Um, obviously a lot of it. 301 00:20:56.039 --> 00:21:00.160 The talent is kind of centralized in the Phoenix area. It's gonna say a 302 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:02.359 lot of those guys and say, maybe we need to take a stronger look 303 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:06.119 at what's going on down in Tucson as opposed to what's going on right down 304 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:10.799 the street in Tempee, which is obviously important. And then you're gonna have, 305 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:12.920 you know, just recruits across the country and especially across the West coast 306 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:18.039 saying what what did they do to keep this recruit who had every opportunity to 307 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:22.200 go to you know, these schools that are that we know are giving out 308 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:26.240 you know and are leading to big nil deals, And to see Oregon in 309 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:30.160 particular, and what did Arizona due to land a player like that and keep 310 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:33.640 him home. Something had to go right. And obviously the fact that the 311 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.599 Oregan side is saying it's all nil, it's not that you talk to him 312 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:40.920 and you get a field for him. And there was more to it than 313 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:44.359 any potential nil deals that could be coming his way. It was a lot 314 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:48.480 about the people that Arizona had and I think that says a lot about what 315 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:51.839 brought it together and what could help Arizona in the future and what Jet Fish 316 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.079 is trying to build. No, I was just going to ask you that, 317 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:56.680 so you kind of asked the ques solve my question of how did this 318 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.960 happen? And then you're talking about and coach, it's about billion relationships. 319 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:04.599 You're staying at home, things that you have to prove, you know whatever. 320 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.359 It's all local, local, local, which is great, which is 321 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:14.039 great. Um uh, well, you know, just real quick, because 322 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:17.759 I you know there errors. Arizone goes the hanger had on that he was 323 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:22.480 the number eight rank. Um uh player on twenty four seven sports. You 324 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:26.440 you work for rivals, Rivals, He's rated in the fifties, he's a 325 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.359 fourth star. What what's the gap there? Why is there? Why is 326 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.680 there a gap like that? It's just how it goes. And I think 327 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:38.000 if you if you ask the different evaluators. I don't have a hand in 328 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:44.160 making the rankings. I don't have I can discuss what I've seen and give 329 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:45.799 my input, but I don't have any say in the final ranking. So 330 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:49.119 I'm not in those conversations. And then I'm not in those conversations with other 331 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:53.759 company companies obviously, but based on my vantage point, I think what you're 332 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:57.759 when you look at someone like Elijah Rushing, you see you see potential, 333 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:02.000 and that's really what it's about. And if you're one company versus another, 334 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.039 you say, we believe his potential is this. We are going to rank 335 00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:08.880 him based on what we believe his potential to be if it is fully realized. 336 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:12.839 Right. I think at rivals, I think the conversation is what is 337 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:17.519 the ceiling? And yes, there's the potential for that, and we think 338 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:19.839 he could be that. But I think for a lot of the mantra is, 339 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:22.279 you know, we need to project what he truly is going to be 340 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.039 and what we think he's going to be. And right now, I think 341 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.440 the feeling is like there's some work to be done and there's some development to 342 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:33.559 be done for him to be what he feels like he can be. Right, 343 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:36.680 that's no slight to him. I think that. I think anybody that 344 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:38.839 has watched him work can see him play. I see that he's not what 345 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:42.839 he is today is what he's not what he could potentially be down the line. 346 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:47.039 And I think there's just that discrepancy there of saying do you give him 347 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:48.880 the ranking now and say, look, we had him highly ranked because we 348 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.480 knew he was going to be this, or do you hold back a little 349 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:55.279 bit and go, Okay, we know there's some more room for improvement. 350 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:57.559 We want to see that first, right, And so I think that's pree 351 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:00.880 You see the discrepancy is I think for Rivals as a company, it's it's 352 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:04.319 temper moore, Okay, what can we see right now and what can we 353 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:07.559 see as potential in the future, and you kind of figure out, okay, 354 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:11.079 where does he lie with matt range where I think some companies say, 355 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:14.000 look, we think this is what he's going to be, and that's what 356 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:17.079 we think. Let's rank and where where we think you'll end up eventually. 357 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:19.279 And so I think it's just two methods of doing things, and all of 358 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:23.880 it is based on potential and projection and that's difficult and obviously that happens at 359 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:26.240 all levels. And you look at the NFL draft, you look at the 360 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:30.119 NBA draft, you look at it anywhere, and it's you're trying to project 361 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:32.359 somebody you know, based on what you think they're going to be, and 362 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:34.039 it's it's not science. I mean there's a lot of things that can play 363 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:37.440 into it. And so I think that's where you see the discrepancy in the 364 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:40.920 rankings. And you know, I think where he's ranked with rivals, it 365 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.319 still tells you he's a very very raal good player right now, and we 366 00:24:44.359 --> 00:24:47.400 think he could be he could potentially be a very very good player when he's 367 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:51.079 just find about that finding that middle ground of where you rank him closer to 368 00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:52.640 what he is now versus what do you think he's going to be in the 369 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:56.799 end. So if when we go see him on a Friday night here in 370 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.079 two sun in September, what are we going to see from him? I 371 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:04.319 mean, I think there will be some people go, he isn't making every 372 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:07.839 single play, and I think that's where the discrepancy is. And he's gonna 373 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:11.359 make a lot of plays. He's going to demand a lot of double teams, 374 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:14.000 and that's where the difficulty comes. At the high school levels, you 375 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:17.200 can kind of tailor everything. When you're not you know, a college team 376 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:19.079 with players across the board and my little players across the board, you can 377 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.119 tailor your you know, your your schemes to you know, eliminate a player 378 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:26.359 like that and or limit him at the very least. And um, I 379 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.559 think what you'll see is that, um, you know, there's a lot 380 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:30.759 there to work with, and there are going to be moments where you go, 381 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:34.400 Okay, there's flashes of like, I can see he's different than everybody 382 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:37.079 else in the field. And I think that's the first thing you look at. 383 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:40.680 And you know, he tweeted out the lightning and thunder thing with him 384 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:42.960 and kan and will Hike, um where you know he is the speed guy. 385 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:45.920 He is the kind of a flash guy and the one who's gonna try 386 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:49.359 and get past, you know, the offensive tackle to get to the quarterback. 387 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:52.599 And so they're gonna see a lot of players he's made. I mean, 388 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:55.839 there's there's no doubt about that. He's gonna make plays. He's gonna 389 00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:59.599 get to the quarterback. Um. Is he completely dominant yet? And if 390 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:02.319 he you know the guy that you're like, oh, this guy's going to 391 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:03.880 be in the NFL based on what I'm looking at right now, probably not. 392 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.559 But I think there's flashes of that, and you can see as long 393 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.079 as he continues on the same path, he's going to be eventually one of 394 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:14.079 those guys. And so I think right now what you see is, you 395 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:17.960 know, again a lot of speed, a lot of technique that I think 396 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:19.359 is really hard to teach, and you know, it'll be up to him 397 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:22.119 and I think he talked about it today and we'll continue talk about it. 398 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:25.039 Is just getting bigger. That's all you want to see from him, is 399 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:27.599 that you want to see him grow into that that position of being you know, 400 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:30.640 true outside linebacker defensive end type where you go, Okay, he looks 401 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:34.799 like what the addressers look like in college and the NFL, because ultimately, 402 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:37.440 when you look at someone like him and with the size that he has and 403 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.720 stills that he has, you're talking about someone who has the potential you know, 404 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:42.880 to play on Sundays eventually, and you want to see him kind of 405 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:45.680 grow into that, you know, over these next few years. So I 406 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:48.960 don't know if you saw it. We talked about this quite a bit of 407 00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:52.680 the last couple of days, this article that ran in The Athletic talking about 408 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:57.799 how the entire airs on the coaching staff was on the south Point campus at 409 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:02.880 six o'clock in the morning, the first day the coaches could be on campuses. 410 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:06.440 I know, I talked to a former South Point assistant several years ago 411 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:10.079 ask him about how did you're not not so much Bjohn Robinson, Lake and 412 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:12.519 Ransom, but how did John Feenis kid go to UCLA? And he said 413 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:18.680 they were first in your in your you know experience talking to all these recruits 414 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:23.680 over all this time. Is that sort of like you know, item one 415 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:26.119 in terms of what you gotta do to get a guy, you gotta be 416 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.880 on him early and often. Um. Yeah, I mean, especially if 417 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.400 you're a local school, especially if you come from quote unquote college town. 418 00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:38.799 I mean, the recruits in that college seohn expect that the coaches in that 419 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:44.319 city know who they are and know what they can be and understand what they 420 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:45.880 can be. And I'm sure being told by a lot of coaches within the 421 00:27:45.920 --> 00:27:49.319 city, Hey, pay attention to this guy. He's going to be something. 422 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.240 That's your evaluations. Look at him. He's going to be a player. 423 00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:56.359 And I think a lot of times with previous stabs that got overlooked and 424 00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:59.559 it was, hey, we'll eventually come around to them. We'll see, 425 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:02.559 we'll give it some time and wait to see what happens. And I think 426 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:04.200 to some of their credit too, is you know, they don't want to 427 00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:07.400 hand out an offer and go, we don't want to pull it later on 428 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:10.240 when he doesn't become what we think he's going to become. But you know 429 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:11.319 a lot of these players, Lafin and Bijon, you look at them as 430 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:14.680 freshman, you go, I know they're gonna be very very good. You 431 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:17.319 look at Elijah Russian, you know they're going to be very very good and 432 00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:19.240 at least have a chance to be a Power five player. And so it's 433 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:22.440 worth it, I think at that point to take a chance and you know, 434 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.599 give them an offer. And obviously nothing is binding until the official offers 435 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.720 come out later this year, and so you know, right before their senior 436 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.279 year begins. And so the reality is, yes, you could pull those 437 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:37.519 offers later on, and it is probably honestly benefits the coaching staff to just 438 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:41.039 hand out a bunch offers very early on. And if there's guys that you 439 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:45.640 think could potentially be a Power five level player and you maybe pull it later 440 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:47.519 on or I have that discussion later on, I'm like, hey, we're 441 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:51.880 not in that same big mindset anymore. But I mean it does come down 442 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:52.880 to something as simple as that. And you heard that a lot with the 443 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:57.359 previous staff at Arizona was that the recruiters didn't feel like they were wanted because 444 00:28:57.400 --> 00:29:00.359 they didn't get on him on them early and they didn't show that early interest. 445 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:06.079 And they remembered that. And really recruits that have ended up in Arizona 446 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:10.279 have not in Upiter Zona. A lot that I talked to you asked them, 447 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.160 do you remember your first offer? And they remember the exact moment, 448 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.200 what they were doing, who they were with, the day that it came 449 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:18.480 in, sometimes the time that it came in. Um, they remember that 450 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:21.759 first offer in a lot of cases. And that's why you see a school 451 00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:23.799 like Arizona. We'll try and get out as many early offers as they can 452 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:26.920 to recruits, and UM, it does matter. And maybe it doesn't get 453 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:30.880 you that commitment in the end, but at least doesn't keep you from keeping 454 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:32.759 that commitment. And that's what it felt like a lot, you know, 455 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:34.880 with the last with the last staff at Arizona. So Arizona gets this kid 456 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:38.240 and got a couple of great ones out of South Point. What does it 457 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:41.680 all mean? Long long? It's not long term, but in this grand 458 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:47.119 scheme of things, issue I guess is doing very well. Does this moving 459 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.920 past a issue? Right now. Yeah, I mean, Glannie, Elijah 460 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:52.920 Russia just moved Arizona up eighteen spots and the team rankings. I mean, 461 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.799 that's that's the kind of impact it has. And now they're, you know, 462 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.200 on the cusp of being inside of the top thirty and they were number 463 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:03.519 fifty you know when this morning started. So um, it's it's big, 464 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:07.640 it's huge, it's it's everything that you that you'd want if you're a program. 465 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.400 And to me, it almost doesn't matter what happens the rest of the 466 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:12.519 way. And I would have said this, and I did say this weeks 467 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:17.720 ago. If they're able to land Elijah Rushing, nothing else really matters in 468 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:19.119 this class because you've got the guy that you wanted. I was at the 469 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:22.359 top of your board that you had to have. There's always those must have 470 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:26.599 recruits, and Arizona has been pretty good about getting a lot of them, 471 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.039 you know, under Jetfish Tetsuro McMillan's was one of those. Raymond Polido was 472 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:32.880 one of those last year along the offensive line where they said, we want 473 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:34.440 this guys at the top of the board, we have to have him. 474 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:37.559 They go out and get him. Elijah Russian was in that same category and 475 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.839 so to me, it's almost like the rest of the class is kind of 476 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.640 a wash no matter what happens. There's honestly some momentum building for them now 477 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:49.480 and they can potentially land the more top guys down the road. But it's 478 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:52.759 it's a big deal for a lot of reasons. They're gonna, you know, 479 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:53.960 continue to stay right where they want to be in terms of the team 480 00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:57.559 recruiting ranking. They move up a little bit more, but it's a big 481 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:00.960 deal because they is going to start focusing a lot more on instate recruiting than 482 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:03.880 they did under her Edwards, where they kind of just kind of dispatched it 483 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:08.119 all and let those guys go wherever they wanted and not necessarily tried to keep 484 00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.720 them home. So, um, it's a big deal for instate recreating. 485 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.519 It's a big deal for again, the point is going to continue to have 486 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.599 talent. There's going to be players there for Arizona, and you want to 487 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:21.720 have that relationship, you want to have that pipeline, and so to rekindle 488 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:23.039 that is very very big for the staff. And again I think it just 489 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:27.160 shows i think one point than anything that Jetfish continues to not be afraid to 490 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.960 go up against the big boys, whether you have in IL or lack NL 491 00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:37.799 or whatever you're reasoning. Jet Fish is not afraid to go against top programs. 492 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:41.279 And now he's showing you can win against those stop programs. And that's 493 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.880 a really really big deal. And you know, when you when you beat 494 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:47.359 out Oregon for Oregon, Notre Dame in Tennessee for Elijah Russian, you beat 495 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:51.519 out Oregon for and USC was pushing hard for Tetro McMillan, When you beat 496 00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:53.720 out Alabama for someone like Rayon Polido, a lot of the other programs across 497 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:56.599 the less coastal on him. I mean, that's that says a lot, 498 00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:00.119 and I think it just shows you that Jetfish continues to be the higher that 499 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.720 I think Arizona fans wanted. And it's all it's a lot, a lot 500 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:07.160 of it is about just effort and wanting to do the job and wanting to 501 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.279 be good at Arizona and recruit at a high level. And I think he's 502 00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:13.279 got all the pieces in place with his staff to do it, and I 503 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:15.680 think he's got the right mindset. So you know, recruit at this level 504 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:17.519 at a place like Arizona, well that's where I wanted to go with that 505 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:22.079 because you mean you mentioned effort. I mean I I don't recall a staff 506 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.000 that any staff let's put this much effort or emphasis on recruiting, not only 507 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.400 from the standpoint of recruiting, but also being very public and visible with their 508 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.759 recruiting and who they're going after and as you said, not being afraid to 509 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.680 go after guys. I mean, this is different from what Arizona has ever 510 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.279 had, don't you think? Absolutely? And I think that's the biggest thing 511 00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:45.480 is you just you just have to try. And it's a tireless effort. 512 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.839 It's a tireless, you know, work ethic that you have to have because 513 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.039 it is as much as Arizona fans and people who went to the school love 514 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.680 the program and say, why wouldn't you want to be here, it can 515 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:58.640 be a difficult cell at times, especially for some of these areas that are 516 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.519 that Arizona wants to bring recruits in from. It's difficult to pull them out 517 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:04.960 of Southern California. It's difficult to pull them out of different areas, and 518 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:07.599 so you know, I think the effort has to be at a high level, 519 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.680 and I think you've seen that reflected in the staff. And also there's 520 00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:15.640 kind of an intangible thing that goes with us of where I always just subscribed 521 00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.200 as either get it or they don't, and and some head coaches just don't 522 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.319 get it. Jetfish gets it. He understands who needs to be on his 523 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.960 staff, what they need to be doing, how they need to approach it. 524 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:28.599 And I think if you look up and down even just some of the 525 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.160 recruiting staffers that he's brought in, people that are dealing with these recruits on 526 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:35.920 a regular basis when they come on campus and being kind of that first initial 527 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.559 line of contacts, maybe guys that aren't known by the common Arizona fan. 528 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:42.599 On this coaching staff, even those guys are getting the job done and doing 529 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.279 it at a high level, and you hear about them being talked about a 530 00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:47.319 lot. M Brett Arcy is someone that comes comes up quite a bit. 531 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.400 He's, you know, just a staffer on the team, an analysts on 532 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:55.000 the team, and his name comes up a lot. And so, you 533 00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:00.079 know, just Jetfish just gets it, and he understands a job and how 534 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:05.279 it needs to be done. And I think whether that was other previous coaches 535 00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:07.440 just not understanding it fully thinking they are who they are, and they have 536 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.360 the big name, and recruits are just going to follow them just because of 537 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:14.039 who they are. I think there is some of that going on where you 538 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:16.280 just don't have to put in maximum effort. But at Arizona you have to 539 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:19.800 put a maximum effort. And I think that's what we're really seeing. If 540 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.679 there's one underlying team to all of this, it's that Arizona understands the job 541 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.000 under Jetfish and Stoff understands how much work they have to put in. And 542 00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.599 I think you're seeing the kind of fruits of that labor right now. Great, 543 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.880 Matt, thanks a bunch of stuff. Matt has always appreciated. You 544 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:35.840 know, you've got a lot, a lot of stuff going on over there, 545 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:37.599 so we thank you for taking the time. Yeah, absolutely, anytime, 546 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:42.159 guys, Matt bodneral bisycatch dot com. We went a little over so 547 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:45.760 we'll be right back. Yeah, thank our break. If you're an Arizona 548 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.400 men's basketball fan, you know it's been successful for nearly forty years. 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Do you have about fifteen minutes and dobody want to call 601 00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:40.079 us? What is this all new to you? With Asia Russian? Yeah, 602 00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:43.159 you know, I've got a friend of mine texted me and said within 603 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:46.440 minutes, within minutes of I'm announcing the commitment, you got a call from 604 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:51.199 them Kale ticket offer. So hopefully they're doing their job too, right, 605 00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:53.159 right, right right. The one thing that I was just paying attention to 606 00:38:53.360 --> 00:39:00.440 the Twitter and everybody's on it. It's the best all time recruit right in 607 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:02.119 the history of the program in any sport. No, no, no, 608 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:06.840 no no. It has to be a local. It happens to be a 609 00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:08.159 local, to be a local kid, right, happens to be a local. 610 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:13.039 And maybe that's how it starts, right, Well, yeah, and 611 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.400 it's and that, and that's I mean, you want to talk about somebody 612 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:20.639 calling somebody's already called him a wauking billboard right for for local players to stay, 613 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:23.679 top ranked players to stay and and and and and not go to Notre 614 00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:29.559 Dame or Ohio State or Michigan just because they come calling for them to open 615 00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:31.840 the door at South Point, right, which is going to continue to put 616 00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:36.599 put players out there. Look, CDO's got players, Ciannega's got players. 617 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.800 You know, Ironwood Ridge has players. But over the last however many years, 618 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:44.440 South Points had players players, right, And I was just gonna say 619 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:47.960 that, I don't know. And this is maybe Hperbbly um once in a 620 00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:53.480 generational player, because he's been it's been forever. Right, although Bjean was 621 00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:58.199 fantastic, and obviously in Ransom was fantastic. All these kids were fantastic. 622 00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:00.000 Um, all right, I don't know, I don't know. I'm one 623 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.039 of those guys gonna show me and blah blah blah. And so there's that, 624 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.360 at least I think that's And we'll know when we know, Yeah, 625 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:09.079 like what we will. And I love what Dick told me, used to 626 00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:15.159 say about that. It's a great Dick and this was by Michael Bates. 627 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:19.079 After you know, they got him the whole bearings. Okay, how good 628 00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:22.559 is he? And he goes, we'll find out the first time he gets 629 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:24.280 hit them out right, right, right? And so Mike Tyson, Yeah, 630 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:27.679 the first time he gets hit in the mouth, we'll know, he 631 00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:30.960 said. We don't know today. We think he's good. He was worth 632 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.440 the effort we went to get him. But let's let him get hit in 633 00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:37.880 the mouth and see what he what what what what he looks like after that? 634 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:40.599 Right? And that's and that's you know, when when Elijah Russian lines 635 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:47.000 up as a freshman against a senior you know, offensive tackle or or or 636 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:51.639 a tight end, you know, who's the size of Rob Gronkowski? What's 637 00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:53.880 that gonna look like? Right? Right? Know? Who? The kids? 638 00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:57.400 Who the brothers? Uh? Who are the brothers? Are just the 639 00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:02.920 brothers the son of the former the former player in our time, Sean Sean. 640 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:07.679 The kids his kids are Harris. Harris, I mean, very imposing, 641 00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:12.159 very impressive. They looked apart, they looked apart, and they just 642 00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:16.239 they were good but not great. Uh yeah, I mean yeah they were 643 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:21.360 good, but they weren't you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't even call him 644 00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:23.599 special. But they're good starters. They looked they looked at it. But 645 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:28.920 you know, so again you don't know, I don't until you line up 646 00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:31.559 and do it. But um, and that and that's the kind of the 647 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:36.239 inexact science of all the recruiting stuff. As I told him on the way 648 00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:42.679 in UM listening to listening to the show that preceded, uh the announcement. 649 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:45.480 You know, they had a guy and they were just running through they were 650 00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:49.920 running through their their list, their feet and people saying what about this player? 651 00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:52.519 What about that player? And every player that they talked about. It 652 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:55.679 was gonna be an NFL superstar. If you listen to what they were saying, 653 00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:00.960 I'm gonna I'm gonna guess at half of these guys that you're talking about, 654 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.000 there's gonna be any good. Or they may be good, but they're 655 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:07.960 not going to be great, right because it is such an inexact science. 656 00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:09.559 Sure, and there's work that has to be put in, a lot of 657 00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:14.719 work. Had you had you talked about Stefan Stefan Curry back in the day, 658 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:15.559 Oh, he played a Davidson. You know, he's that guy. 659 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:20.119 He's an undersized kid. He looks like twelve years old and then he turns 660 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.480 into this guy and he went and did the work and made himself exactly. 661 00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:25.360 He did the work that he became and that's you know, and that's what 662 00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:30.880 that's what guys do. Again, you know, is Elija Rushing in the 663 00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:35.599 end going to be better than Teddy Bruski. Yeah, I mean that's a 664 00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:37.079 lot of weights to place on him, But that's what I'm saying though. 665 00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:43.159 Right right now, we're talking about Elijah Rushing in a way that nobody ever 666 00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:45.800 talked about Teddy Bruski. Right, Teddy Brusky is the college Football Hall of 667 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:51.800 Fame. Yeah, right, in the same position I'm the poop poo guy. 668 00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:53.840 Put No, I didn't say that he's not going to I just said 669 00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:59.800 that might just said put it in context. Right, Eliza Rushing, who's 670 00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:02.840 a freshman, is going to be as a senior at not even well technically 671 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:07.320 a SE's gonna be senior at South Point High School. We're talking about him 672 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:09.639 in a way that he's going to be the greatest player Arizona has ever had 673 00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:16.239 yet a guy that played his position. Teddy Bruski barely got recruited and came 674 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:20.280 to Arizona became that player and wound up in the College Football Hall of Fame. 675 00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.360 At one point held held the career nc double, a career record for 676 00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:30.719 sacks. That's the that's the bara, right, well, yeah, that's 677 00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:32.119 a bar. That's a bar. Not the bar. It's a bar. 678 00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:36.400 But it's something that you think about when you think about what we're all. 679 00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:40.440 Our whole show has been by the lives of rushing today. And yet there's 680 00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:45.280 the Teddy Bruski is out there as a mark for him. Yeah, of 681 00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:47.880 course, of course, No, he's just gonna find that market kind and 682 00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:51.519 can he get there? And you'd like to think that he can. He's 683 00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:54.159 got you know, he's certainly got the body, the potentially he's had the 684 00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:59.239 coaching from you know, Eric Rodgers and his staff, the training from Carla 685 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.519 Garrett who was there their strength coach over at that point. You know, 686 00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:05.800 all these people who have had a hand, his parents, who have had 687 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.039 had a hand in getting him to hear there's still a ton of work to 688 00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:13.840 do. Back to his dad. Uh And someone's just sending another note, 689 00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:16.840 but I've seen this on the YouTube that his dad says, there's gonna be 690 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:22.360 more. There'll be more coming, he'd be the pipe piper of and the 691 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.119 pipe piper of any and again getting him to the bigger picture of that's what 692 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:29.960 happens because of this, Let's say down the road and Liza Rushing turns out 693 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:37.679 to be average, but because he attracted a whole bunch more players and turned 694 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:43.039 a change the image basically of a program. I'm happy. I'm happy with 695 00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:46.119 him, yeah, but I still want to be really good. Of of 696 00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:49.360 course, that's a lot of us me, a lot of pressure. I 697 00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:51.559 mean, that's part and I'm not you know, I'm not saying that to 698 00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:53.039 put pressure on, and I'm just saying, of course, but it's gonna 699 00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:55.679 be certain. You know, people are gonna come. He's gonna get here, 700 00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:59.800 and they're gonna start comparing you. Yeah, right, they're gonna compare. 701 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:06.679 You're gonna compare and do to Ricky uh no, no, the defensive 702 00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:13.719 man Allison. Oh well yeah, yeah, yeah, Bndy Brunny Ricky Ricky 703 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:15.239 Alison. Yeah, you know, yeah, he played in the Pro the 704 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:20.079 pros. Oh no, Brooks Reid, Oh, Brooks Alison played too, 705 00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:22.119 you know, and Brooks Reid, who you know, went in went into 706 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.320 the NFL. A guy like Ricky Hanley, as he said, you want 707 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:30.079 to talk about a guy who changed the face of a program right as as 708 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:32.280 a as a as a linebacker at Arizona, you know, and then again 709 00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:36.679 you get to the Teddy Bruskies and those guys who played during Desert Swarm? 710 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:40.280 Does he have that kind of impact, uh, you know on this program? 711 00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:44.719 And then and and as he said, is he does he become the 712 00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:47.800 pie piper you know, to Arizona. That's the thing that I'm hoping for 713 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.039 more than anything. Yeah, the thing is a tu son is two son, 714 00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:55.159 and we love two someone with CLU. But the number of kids that 715 00:45:55.320 --> 00:46:00.280 are this good is limited. And here here, right here, which is 716 00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:04.360 why it's so important to get to get him, to get him here, 717 00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:07.599 because there are so few. Right. You can't miss on the locals, 718 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.559 but you can't miss on the loan. You can't give him away. You 719 00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:14.000 know. Well, I think what he does, what he does for me, 720 00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:16.679 and he proves me wrong, not so wrong, but that there is 721 00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:21.400 another theory of and I mentioned this with the Ransoms and the Bijeans and the 722 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:25.360 guys who leave. You can't blame them. And you understand why Bijean would 723 00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:30.360 not be the mustard guy if he stayed here. But the Russian you can 724 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:32.760 you could, you could do it another way, right, you could skin 725 00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:36.400 a cat in a different way, right, and you can still become that 726 00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:38.480 guy. You know. I'm a look at the careers that some of these 727 00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:42.639 guys have had. Look at the career that Crockett, that grond right here, 728 00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:45.079 right, I played here really one year right right? Well that that 729 00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:49.079 kind of shows the player that he is. Yeah, right, But that's 730 00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:51.519 what I'm saying. If you're you hope he's kind of that level of player, 731 00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:53.000 right, But again, you're Bruskie. You know all these you know, 732 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:58.039 super Bowl championships, playing with the Patriots all those years he was he 733 00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:01.079 came ready to play though he was. He looked apart. He played the 734 00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:05.840 part he acted, you know, he wanted somebody's you know what, and 735 00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:09.039 he wanted it. Now, it's like the kids, the Aden's, the 736 00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:14.760 Gordons and the one one and Dons. They didn't get better here. They 737 00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:19.559 were already putty good. They rented time here, that's a good way to 738 00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:22.599 put it. And it just six months of time because you know what, 739 00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:24.280 they didn't want to be here. They knew they didn't have. They had 740 00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:29.519 to be here, so let's go. He still say that Tom Tiber didn't 741 00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:35.559 attend a class after January here in nineteen eighty eight, well after the Christmas 742 00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:37.559 break, and he didn't attend another class. Whether that's true or not, 743 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:39.920 I would have to ask Tom, and I don't know if he would admit 744 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:44.079 it. But did you read this chapter? I haven't read. His chapter 745 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:46.880 on how he got here was fantastic. I'm gonna read that. Read you 746 00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:50.119 know, he's a funny dude. You would have to do with that book? 747 00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:52.119 You know? Would I have to do with it? Put it in 748 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:53.519 a can, put in my bathroom. Yeah, you'll finish it in two 749 00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:57.159 Put it in my bathroom. I will, I will. You. You 750 00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:00.639 gotta put it. Read the chapter. It's the reason I haven't sitting there 751 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:02.119 in my office, sitting on you know, like on my table in my 752 00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:06.119 office. But I don't know, I don't pick it. I'm gonna You're 753 00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:07.599 right, I'm gonna put it in. Put it on. It's a perfect 754 00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:10.079 place for it. In a month, you'll be done twenty five chapters and 755 00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:13.360 then we'll have a show about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll 756 00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:15.519 get some more guys. October. It was you know, Tober's being Tober 757 00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:22.079 funny guy. I love that guy, You'll love you love. We all 758 00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:25.559 know that he was going to go somewhere else to be, but the circumstances 759 00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:30.719 of that happening, we're fantastic. And I hadn't known about the circumstances. 760 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.360 I gotta read that. I can't even read that to night. Yeah he's 761 00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:37.880 funny, he was funny. Yeah, okay, well thanks. We had 762 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:39.840 maybe a chance for one call if anybody wants to give us a call, 763 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:44.800 just your thoughts on what happens. But um, again, we keep saying 764 00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:47.119 that this is Bill, this is bigger than getting a really good play. 765 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:50.000 Yeah, Bill, if you want to call please do I know you've been 766 00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:54.000 texting us a time or two giving your thoughts that give you some We I 767 00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:59.639 don't think we can we can reiterate that more, that this is getting this 768 00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:04.119 guy is more than just getting a good player. It's it's what it means 769 00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:07.559 over to it's a trend center and what you know, you ten Yeah, 770 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:12.880 Arizone's getting all kinds of attention on on on social media because they got this 771 00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:15.920 guy getting national attention. You know, Aaron Torres is talking about him, 772 00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:20.679 you know, all two sons trending. Now these guys so two sons trendy. 773 00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:30.000 So it's brittany so brittle. Yeah, gosh, all right, Oh 774 00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:36.400 here we go quick one higher on there and I on the ball. Hey 775 00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:37.559 this is Bill, Hey, Bill, make it quick. We got about 776 00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.079 a minute, so Bill, real quick, go ahead. So Bill. 777 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:43.840 Bill texts me like at two o'clock, I'm in the doctors and he says, 778 00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:45.840 what's gonna happen? I'm thinking, Bill, you're an old man, 779 00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:51.559 come out, relax. What do you think I'm I'm excited about the big 780 00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:52.760 picture. I think he's gonna bring other people, like no, like our 781 00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:58.000 quarterbacks of Difta did he brought Ko and you know those other guys. I'm 782 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:00.960 expecting him to bring other people help us with that pipeline at a south point. 783 00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:04.519 So I think, you know, it's important that he does well in 784 00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:06.639 the field, but it's just important that he's here. And it opened the 785 00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:07.840 door for other people for us, right, and that's just a south point, 786 00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:10.880 but all the local kids, right, look at this. Okay, 787 00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:15.559 that guy stayed. You know I can and now now we need to squeak 788 00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:17.480 some people out of Phoenix. Yeah, yeah, I think that's gonna happen. 789 00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:22.000 I think that's gonna happen. So we'll see. Yeah, relax, 790 00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:27.360 relax, Bill, enjoy opinion and go Dodgers. I feel better for five 791 00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:31.440 minutes, and then I'll start worry about somebody. All right, Bill, 792 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:35.559 thanks so much. All right, thank you. That's about right. You 793 00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:37.599 know you're on to the next worry. Oh yeah, and you do it. 794 00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.159 Yeah, you are going to start worrying. Okay, who's gonna try 795 00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:44.480 and flip this kid? But no, this was a you know, a 796 00:50:44.599 --> 00:50:47.320 great gat. It's a way better feeling than if they didn't get him right. 797 00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:52.559 And now now you go, uh, now you go see you'll see 798 00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:53.840 what you know, what happens. A good show today. Thank you, 799 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:59.039 mister Rushing yea, thank you, yeah, thank you for giving us something. 800 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:01.800 Thank you Eric Rogers for coming on the show and talking about talking about 801 00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:06.159 Elijah and how all that came down. And we'll we'll try and get we'll 802 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:08.280 try and get Elijah later. Um, we know it's a big day for 803 00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:13.079 him, and uh, I'm trying to hit I guess I got two years 804 00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:17.199 and then uh care we go and then uh we're we'll be talking about this 805 00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:21.280 some more. Because there's there's a lot more to come in terms of what 806 00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:23.719 all this means. Be sure to stick around you around tomorrow we'll be back 807 00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:24.480 with some more stop