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Steve Rivera and Jacob Zalez on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back

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You're Jacinzales, and I'm hoping you
haven't breaking news. I do,

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but I'm ready to launch the thing
yet. So here we go. This

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is I on the Ball breaking news
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right,

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so a couple of couple of things. So we need to close the

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book on this thing with Kerkkriesa that
came up, Okay, don't came up

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yesterday because I'm curious how you're going
to close this book. Well, well

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we you know we, I mean
we tweeted out with the announcement. What

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yeah, okay, and so so
we did. We did see that there

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was I do have something to say
about that. Okay, there was.

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There was the announcement and let me
let me let me read the whole the

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whole statement, because it got sent
out this morning and we were there yesterday

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wondering when are they gonna send the
day you know, when are they gonna

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say something? Well, this had
legally all over, all over it,

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all over the lawyers wrote this.
So here here's the full statement from the

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Arizone Athletics Department. Upon learning of
a potential NC double A issue with a

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former men's basketball student athlete who after
they after they left the University of Arizona,

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the Athletics Department were collaborative, worked
collaboratively and transparently with the NC double

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A and West Virginia University in the
review of the matter. The review confirmed

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there was no involvement from any Arizona
Athletics staff members or coaches. As part

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of the evaluation, the NC DOUBLEA
determined that the University of Arizona's compliance systems

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and education met or exceeded their standards
and national best practices. The University of

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Arizona received no penalties or corrective actions
as a relative as a result of the

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NC double a's evaluation. The Athletics
Department will have no further comment on the

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matter in which is the former student
athlete the best movie forward. Okay,

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So when you when we talked about
it yesterday, we you know, speculate

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a lot of different things. Okay, So, so I got a text

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this morning from somebody who listens to
the show. So why did the West

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Virginia published Why did West Virginia published
the statement while at the University of Arizona.

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The ambiguity made it seem like we
were dirty. You need to have

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a the West Virginia reputter on the
show. And I'm thinking to myself,

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and I know the guy who texted
me, there was no ambiguity. He

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was a student here. He was
still a student. He was still a

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student when it happened. When this
happened, they were not throwing Arizona under

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the bus, right, he was
with Arizona. And look, and everybody

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in a situation like that is going
to try and say this was somebody else,

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this wasn't us, which is kind
of what Arizona is saying as well.

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Right, they said this wasn't us, This was you know, right,

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right, all right? But you
know this apparently, I mean remember

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it because well, he entered the
transfer portal, you know, in early

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April. He was still here when
we talked to him, remember when he

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was still a student a month and
a half late or something like that.

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He was still in Tucson. So
no, I get it. And every

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school is going to do that they're
going to deflect, you know, they're

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going to deflect it to somebody else
if they can't. This was not a

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West Virginia thing. No, no, it was not. But he's because

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of what he did. He's losing
some games at Westvirginia as a turnout.

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It was a hymn game, was
a hymn thing. It's a him thing.

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You know. Arizona just happened to
be the residence where he was.

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Yeah, so I don't have a
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schools are gonna everybody's gonna do that. You know, they're gonna say,

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sure, if there's another school that
they can point the finger at, sure

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to say it wasn't us. They're
gonna point the face. Yeah. And

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then Arizona just did the right thing
and said we weren't involved either. Yeah

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yeah, yeah, yeah. So
all right, okay, big news on

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the football front. The Arizona's a
Big twelve Future opponents Future conference opponents have

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been announced through A twenty twenty seven. So what they've told us is here's

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who Arizona's playing home and away each
year for the next four years. Excuse

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me. It doesn't have dates or
anything like that. It just has opponents.

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So next year coming to Tucson to
play Arizona will be Arizona State.

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Obviously. You know that's the continuing
you know rivalry, Colorado, Texas Tech,

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Houston, West Virginia. We've seen
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last couple of years. Houston came
here, Texas Tech came here. The

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one we haven't seen is West Virginia. Arizona will go on the road to

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play BYU, Utah, TCU and
Central Florida, and then in twenty twenty

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five we got BYU coming here with
Baylor, Oklahoma State and Kansas and then

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going on the road to Arizona State, Colorado, Houston, Iowa State,

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Cincinnati. So over course the time
you're gonna kind of play everybody. Play

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Kansas State in twenty twenty six,
you play Cincinnati in twenty twenty six,

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you get UH, and then you
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and UH and you know Oklahoma State, Kansas. They mix them up.

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I don't know what their formula is, but that's who we're getting. The

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thing that I see is that there's
anybody on that schedule scares the crap out

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of me, right right, No, No, So I exactly what you

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just said was on the Facebook,
you know, football group or whatever.

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He says. Look at this schedule. Uh, there's not anybody intimidating,

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right, it's not a sexy schedule. There's we've been talking to this since

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they moved over. There's no Washington. Yeah, there's no Oregon, there's

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no USC. I think Ever's gonna
do pretty well. Got a good chance

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of doing well in this Arizona can
compete in this late sure basketball, yeah,

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but especially right now with the way
with what jet Fish is you're looking

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at you look at this this conference
schedule. Now, let's say i's go

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on to finish out the year.
Let's say seven of five, eight and

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four. Okay, And I was
just out of the question and j Jike

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Fisher, I'll buy you dinner,
but not out of the question to see

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Arizona come out of the satan for
win a bowl game. Now, you

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got nine wins with a lot of
people back, right, with a lot

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of people back, Arizona can win
the league. That league. That league,

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yeah, that league, well,
they'll they'll be a contender. Yeah,

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you know the beyond they have to
go to Utah. Uh, they'll

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you know, B y U was
there just always a pain in the ass.

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TCU, we don't know, you
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what they were last year. You
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Those guys don't scare them, Texas, tex Texas Tech, Houston, West

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Virginia. Those guys don't bother me, you know, as an Arizona fan.

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No, I think for football the
switch is fantastic. Yeah, yeah,

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the newness of it will be nice, you know, to see other

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teams and what we've been seeing.
But yet I'm still gonna miss U c

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L A Utah, Oregon of course, of course, I mean U c

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L A a USC you know Oregon. Sure Washings not seeing those teams because

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you'd get up for those games both
as a fan and presumably well, this

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would be like this will be a
new love for you. Jay. You'll

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see cannabis coming in and you'll say, Okay, I found a new love,

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and I hope we kicked the crowd. A couple of a couple of

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key points of the schedule too.
They are playing nine nine games, nine

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conference games. I saw that the
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sticking with their eight game, eight
game conference schedules, which is stupid and

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then just continues to be stupid that
the NC Double A doesn't mandate that you

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play nine conference games with so much
at stake with the with the playoff and

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the whole bit. So but they
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five and four and four and five, you know, home games and away

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games. There's no divisions, so
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you'll kind of be playing everybody,
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of over the course of time.
I'm assuming that I'm looking at the release,

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I'm assuming they're you know, protecting
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We saw those, uh in the
A C C schedule that came out.

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There are certain rivalries that are protected. But you know, with a s

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U, but you know, that's
the schedule. You know, you see

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b YU on the schedule the first
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year, so that's not an automatic. But I get SUG. Justin Spears

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tweeted out, you know, aside
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biggest rival in the league. That's
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y U Colorado Colorado, Well depends
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goes this way in a couple of
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the fun thing again, I don't
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back to Texas Tech. That was
a yeah, that's private for people like

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you and I know that we're dying
exactly, So you're could be b u

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yu, Yeah, could be,
but only they've played a number of times,

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played a few times, right,
I played two years three years ago.

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Yeah, I don't know. That's
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don't know. Yeah, So anyways, but that's that's be like, be

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like gay. But let's not worry
about it right now. That's not worry

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about now. But I like the
you know, the home schedule next year,

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you know, Arizona State, Colorado, Texas Tech, Uston, West

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Virginia. All right, bring them
in. Let's you and and you know

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what, I do like their chances. You're gonna walk into the stadium every

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game thinking Arizona, right, and
that would be totally different than for a

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while. So anyway, so that's, uh, that's that's the thing that's

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come along. So we'll see how
that flushes out when they start setting dates

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and stuff. Like that. I
guess I didn't see. I haven't seen.

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We'll have to ask Dave Heke at
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the Kansas State? Uh? Not
confident on the schedule. Yeah, but

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he's still gonna play. I assume
they're probably still gonna play it, but

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maybe play it as a non conference
game. Yeah, maybe because otherwise because

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if not, then they got to
go find a game or not, right,

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you know, so they might have
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we'll see what they do there.
Let's move on Diamondbacks. Man. Yeah,

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I didn't watch much of the game. They were down, well,

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there wasn't much of a game.
They were down so big that I didn't

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really care. H. I'm not
gonna get a hold of he apologized.

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Yeah, he did, just one
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then I told I said I didn't
Jack, I didn't take the game.

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I told you I didn't take the
game. That's why he gave you the

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tips a month ago. So where
does he standing? I'm not sure I

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trust him, but tend to nothing. Man. Yeah, you know they're

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good, man, They're good for
reasons. But you know, even if

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you even this is super sickond the
Diamacks went a second or whatever, don't

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win it. What a fantastic year. Yeah, I mean you don't people

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think about that. But they're not
going to walk away from this feeling bad

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about how far they got. It
was this, Yeah, exactly exactly.

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You know, the Dodgers are the
ones licking their wounds. Right. That's

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a disappointment, you said, that's
disappointment, Atlanta, a disappointment. But

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the Rangers ten and Ozer on the
road. I mean that that's how you

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win. That's how you win a
world sure by doing that, you know.

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But yeah, Corey seeger Man again. My son said said it again

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last night. I miss him,
you know, because he you know,

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he was on the World Series.
Game was the m v P of that

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World Series when the Dodgers won.
And the Dodgers are shelled themselves over the

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last few years. Well this year
state, I mean, they had one

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of the best offensive teams and the
pitching they all they're great. Their three

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best pitchers didn't make didn't fit.
Two of them barely played and one of

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them didn't play at all, one
barely played, and the third one beat

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up a girl in the parking lot
and got kicked off the team. Didn't

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get kicked off the team, but
he got suspended for the rest of the

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year. They didn't they didn't have
they didn't have the pitching and go through

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this, and I was even with
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pitching going into going into the cost
season. So the Corey seger Man guy,

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the guy's just been, guy's just
been money to run Homer again last

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night. So we'll see if they
finish it off tonight. If not,

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if the Diamondbacks can pull one off, they you know, hey, man,

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just one at a time, take
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to Texas. All right. Kirk
Cousins did tear his his his achilles,

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so he had surgery. That's what
Rogers did too, right, yep,

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yep, Rogers already out throwing past
and stuff. But kirk Cousins had surgery.

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And everybody's saying, well, you
know, if Aaron Rodgers can do

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it, so of course you can
do it, right. But he's uh,

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you know, he did, he
did have surgery. There's a picture

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of him in his hotel bed with
he's out for the year, right,

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he's out for I mean, you
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season. Sure, and they're still
saying that Aaron Rodgers could be back by

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I saw that, and I saw
that that's crazy. I don't know if

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they're if they're three and not,
whatever they're if they're five and fifteen,

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what why they're not? I mean
there was what are they like? Four?

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Four or five and three? Right
now? The stuff like well and

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if the kids doing well, why
would you take him out? Yeah,

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there's that too, well because there
don't give him the DeLaura the situation though,

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because Rogers is coming back that the
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they're still in the hunt. I
guess who's running the show, the kid,

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Zach Wilson. They're just people who
don't believe in Zach Wilson. Well,

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he's got him at four and three. It's kind of like what they

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said about Ohio State getting the number
one uh ranking. He said, nobody

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out there believes it's the best team, but they have the best resume.

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Who Okay, so because they've beat
Notre Dame, so who deserves to be

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number one? Who do you?
Who? Do people still think George is

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the best team? Okay, but
they've got to go. But they haven't

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played enough games like that. Sure, all these games are coming up in

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November. Sure, you know,
George's gotta play some teams. Uh,

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you got conference championships. But you
know what, I still think Washington has

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the best win of all of those
guys. So, j when was the

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last time you made everybody happy?
Yeah? I guess never. Well do

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you think this is gonna make the
country happy with Ohio State or Georgia or

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Washington again? And people can't lose
their minds on it. It'll it'll plus

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itself. Gabe gave worry. You
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They didn't get ranked this week?
Why exactly you win this weekend? Yeah?

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Yeah, then maybe you're in the
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wins over ran team. Right,
and remember, Jay, it doesn't really

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matter what it does, matter what
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fall or lose or yeah? Yeah yeah,

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so yeah, I I yes,
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then the expectations you gotta rank even
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free evaluation today breaking down all the
exes at OHS. It's Steve Rivera and

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Jagensovitz. This is I on the
Park on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty. Hear

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me. Okay, Hey, welcome
back to wyd the ball here on Fox

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Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jigins os Now NFL. We

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have triple double guy Matthie a lot. How you doing that, I'm good.

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How you gotta doing? We're doing
okay? Hey, when you do

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your evaluations at games, I'm curious
because I'll ask Corey this too when we

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have them on. Do you see
guys or have you seen any guys that

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look and play like you? Yeah? Probably, I think I think you

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see a bit of so many you
know, so many people you know when

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you're watching the game, and uh, yeah, those guys did him Once

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in a while, I'll see,
you know. I try to compare guys.

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I mean, I think it's fun
to do comparisons. Some people don't

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like it. I actually like it. I think against if you were you

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know something something to think about,
and I but when I do it,

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I try to be really thoughtful,
you know, I try not to just

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you see a lot of comparisons with
guys just because literally just because they went

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to the same school or you know, they're both left handed or something.

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But I try to be really thoughtful
about their games and what they do.

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But yeah, I see the other
ons while a little bit of myself or

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you know, combinations of people.
Well, you could do worse. You

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could see somebody who compares to Steve
and then you go, what the hell

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is that doing? Well, Okay, So having said that, since Steve

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started that conversation, you know,
any guys on on this Arizona roster who

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you feel compared to some guys that
you know, you know we've seen in

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the past or have been you know, key guys in the past or anything

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like that. I mean, what
do you see in this team? Yeah?

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You know, when I think of
when I think of like someone that

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for sure, when I look at
kJ Lewis, you know, I've actually

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been watching him in the last few
games in Red Blue, in the last

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couple of games, and I think
there's somebody who reminds me of this happens

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a lot too where I haven't placed
it yet. So you know, one

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of the names that comes to mind
is is Aaron Afalo, you know from

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U C. L A. Because
he was big, strong, and I

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think originally when he's early when he
played, he was kind of a defensive

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guy, you know, and then
he I think his offense really evolved and

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he became a great NBA player or
a good NBA player. But I think

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kJ is that type of guy's just
a tough athletic, you know, two

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guard and and I've seen some pieces
of like a little bit of Reggie Yeari

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with his defense, and you know, some other guys, but the but

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but he certainly comes to mind,
you know when I think of when I

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think of, I haven't figured out
came the love yet and I and I

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look at him and there's somebody,
there's somebody out there that I know he's

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liked. I haven't figured it out
yet. But yeah, it's you know,

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it's it's really fun doing that.
So So let me give you one.

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We talked about this over in the
week, and I'm not going to

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say this is an exact thing,
because I want to get your impression on

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Boswell a big body, strong physical
type, and not that he plays like

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him. He kind of plays well
though. Boswell, like Kalid, he's

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a downhill gun. He's not down
was so fast. But you're right,

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the body type is really similarcause Boswell's
put together man and that and Colid.

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I know Boswow works on it,
and but I think a lot of it's

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natural. And I think the same
with Kalid. Like Clid showed up,

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you know, from Queens, New
York at the u of A, and

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he looked exactly like he probably looked, you know, four years later.

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The dude was uh uh, you
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mean, he absolutely put together.
I think he was fast, like no

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one was as fast as Colid.
He just like the guy was so fast

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with the ball, and so I
see that. But I will say this,

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you know, Colid and Boswell kind
of both playoff two feet. They're

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both not really like, you know, above the rim guys, and most

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guards aren't, I mean, most
point guards aren't. There are some,

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you know, even the tire tiree
Irvings and guys like that can play above

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the rim. But they're both playoff
two feet, you know. I think

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I think Boswell really shoots so well. So yeah, it's interesting comparison,

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but I haven't seen it yet with
the way they move. All right,

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Well I have one more and it
just hit me, uh, just a

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couple of days ago. And while
he's not and it's somebody that probably near

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and dear to you, he's not
as big, but in terms of his

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his presence on the court, the
expression on his face, the way he

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walks around the court, and the
way he handles himself, Kishaw Johnson and

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Brian Williams just kind of a beast
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same position, not near as big, but for the position that he's in,

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he's not going to take crap from
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the one thing I was removing about
Brian Williams is I remember one time we

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were watching film and some a guard
came in and stole the ball from him

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and Luke. Luke got all over
him about it, and I remember Brian

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saying, well, coach, you
know, he looked told, you know,

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put your elbows up, and you
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in there and if the guard comes
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hack. And and Brian said,
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I'm gonna get called for an offensive
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don't He said, I don't care. I want you to do that.

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And I remember Brian doing that like
he actually had the license then to,

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you know, to put those elbows
out and just start swinging them. And

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I remember the literally the next game
he did it and he actually almost took

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some guy's head off and got called
for a foul. He looks over at

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Luke, who didn't say a word. But I'll tell you what. He

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started doing that a lot, and
after that people got the message. It

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was like a picture throwing a high
fast. I didn't crowd the plate more

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so so I could see that.
I can see some of the facial expressions.

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I mean again, to me,
they're a little different. I haven't

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figured out the key shot yet and
who he plays like, right, but

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that's a good one. I'm gonna
look for him, all right. Yeah,

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No, I didn't think that.
I don't think that. It just

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hit me the other night, just
again, just his stride and his and

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his presence. I know again,
I know he's not as big, but

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just the way he he feels on
so Matt since we have you, and

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you've been doing this long time,
and you were part of a great team

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of when you first got here,
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gunna be and and and ideas going
through her situation with you know, she

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only has ten people on the roster
now she doesn't want fifteen because it's hard

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to make everybody happy. How we've
passed the age of people on the bench

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not being happy, uh with with
not playing, because look, look at

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this roster. They're gonna have a
huge roster with people who can actually play.

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Yeah, it's a great point,
seemed because you know, it's funny

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because you know, people always remember
the Gumbies, you know, and and

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sometimes people bring it up. You
know, me, it was just fun.

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It was a fun It was a
fun part of that team. But

408
00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:18.839
I always tell people, would you
let me say this, like once you

409
00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.839
were a Gumby, the goal was
to not be a Gumby ever again.

410
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:30.599
But at the same time, we
accepted that role because of that team,

411
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:33.359
and we thought, you know,
we we sort of subordinated our interests to

412
00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.400
the team. And you don't see
that as much anymore. I agree with

413
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:42.680
that. I think times have changed
a bit and it is harder to find

414
00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:47.160
people to say, hey, I
want to play every minute, but even

415
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:49.400
if I play two minutes or no
minutes, I've got to now be a

416
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:55.839
supportive teammate. And it's rare.
And you know, I've always said the

417
00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:00.400
best teams I ever played on at
a combination of three things. Great coaching,

418
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:07.599
great talent, but great chemistry.
And you get great chemistry because everyone

419
00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.559
wants to play. I mean,
you don't find guys if they're at this

420
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:14.319
level. You don't find them if
they want to actually sit on the bench.

421
00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:18.920
And so if you want to play, but not everybody does, and

422
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.440
so not everybody played, and you
may even have they play ten guys,

423
00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:25.440
but some are playing, you know, eighteen minutes and they want to play

424
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:29.720
thirty. So you've got to be
able to find guys that accept that role.

425
00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:33.200
And it's hard. Well, and
and Matt, guess what if you

426
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.720
guess what they're going leaving exactly?
Yeah, And that's why I think it's

427
00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:44.039
it's a lot easier to just leave
and and say I don't like it.

428
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:47.680
Back then, back in the day, when you had to sit out a

429
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:49.480
year and you had to set out
two years. If you win, you

430
00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:56.359
know, interconference, right, So
it's it's I think that that that portal

431
00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:00.839
does create more of a Okay,
if it's not working out them out of

432
00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:02.960
here, right, and I don't
need the you know, I don't need

433
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:04.960
to buy it as much. So
so you you know this. I talked

434
00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:10.039
to twenty five guys in my book
with Luke of trying to say just random

435
00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:14.400
twenty five guys, how many of
them wanted to transfer but didn't and then

436
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:19.200
don't regret it because they stuck around
and see what happened? Oh you actually,

437
00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:22.519
I mean you have a number.
You will me to guess the number.

438
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:23.799
Yeah, did you know that?
That's what? That what? That's

439
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:26.319
what the case was. They want
to leave, but they don't because they

440
00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:30.319
know when the long term it's just
for them. I bet, I bet

441
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:34.319
if you asked twenty five guys even
successful U of A players, Yeah,

442
00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:40.480
that's twenty out of twenty five,
if not more for the transfer, you're

443
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:44.880
pretty much accurate, exactly. But
they realized long term this was the best

444
00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.920
move to stick. Yeah. Yeah, our you know, our buddy Sean

445
00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:52.119
Brooks, Yeah, passed away a
few years ago. I remember I'd always

446
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:55.240
tell this. I probably told the
story on your show, and you know

447
00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:57.759
I remember him. It is it
is station LaGG and ready to leave for

448
00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:03.359
a pass him. It is after
his sophomore year. I mean it was

449
00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.599
started the middle of the sophomore year, the middle of the business, right,

450
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.920
and he was ready to leave.
And he actually I think he did

451
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:12.440
visit, but we told him.
We're like, no, no, you're

452
00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:15.599
gonna You're gonna have a better career
here and be stuck around and paid off.

453
00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:21.039
Lude is still mad at me for
reporting on that because remember you said,

454
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:22.920
like it was the last game before
Christmas, right, and he and

455
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.759
all of a sudden, Sean Rooks
is not on the bench, and it's

456
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.640
like, where the hell did he
go? And so I asked Lude in

457
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:33.160
a press conference. He got really
mad. So yeah, I don't think

458
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.480
ever forget that's pretty cool. But
you could actually talk about most of the

459
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:40.119
guys if you said twenty of them
want to leave, I mean everybody,

460
00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:44.599
because they didn't have any time.
But you got better by playing better people,

461
00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:48.680
and your your time was coming,
all right, man, You got

462
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.160
you got better by being, like
you said, battle tested, but battle

463
00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:57.079
tested mentally, because a lot of
great things come from having to work through

464
00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:03.279
it. And be and be a
little painful and that that that that kind

465
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.000
of like the development and Rooks is
the perfect case, right, Brooks is

466
00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:10.200
an awesome case. Yeah, all
right, So we've seen we've seen a

467
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.880
couple of exhibition games. One was
pretty sloppy. One they looked pretty you

468
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:17.000
know, pretty good. Chris scored
a lot of points. You've moved the

469
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:22.400
ball around. What are you most
curious about in terms of what you don't

470
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.119
know about this team up to now? What are you most curious to see

471
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:29.799
or show up? And it's got
to show up right away because they got

472
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.759
to go play Duke in game two. Yeah, I mean I think two

473
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:40.119
things come to mind. Obviously,
twenty four turnovers on Monday. That's a

474
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:44.480
little concerning, and so you want
to see if that's just a you know,

475
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:48.880
one game blip or and not something
that's you know, not something they

476
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:51.799
not to be dealing with. You
know, I'm curious one thing, I'm

477
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:55.079
very curious to see, and I
haven't seen enoughing of the first game,

478
00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:59.400
especially because of the exhibitions. If
you play teams that are not you know,

479
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:01.960
they're not as good as Arizona and
they're big guys, especially if not

480
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:08.559
as good. I'm curious to see
that the key shot bollow you know,

481
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:15.200
the connection there, right, And
obviously bollow and and Tabella slash year had

482
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:20.960
an amazing connection. But I'm curious
to see because they're both great players and

483
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:22.200
as you said, you know,
kind of compare to m'brian woods. I

484
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:27.880
mean, they both have the ability
to make a major impact on this team.

485
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.960
And as much as we love the
guards and how sexy the three point

486
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:37.480
shot is and scoring big points,
this team could do damage inside and but

487
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:40.960
that connection is going to be there. And and you know, look to

488
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:45.279
Bella's didn't have a great March initially, Ibruary wasn't, but he had an

489
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:47.960
amazing year. It's close to the
pack club player. The year Ballow was

490
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.920
the perfect compliment. They worked really
well together. So I'm curious to see

491
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:57.480
how that how that evolves. You
use the word sexy, My eyes lit

492
00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:01.640
up. It's a three point shot. Who's going to hit that shot?

493
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:07.839
Because Arizona hasn't had a shooter in
forever. Yeah, well, he's going

494
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:10.440
to do it. He's going to
do it now. The question is at

495
00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:15.640
what percentage will he do it?
Right? You know? And I think

496
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:17.920
he needs to be you know in
the hyper I love to see him in

497
00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:22.200
the high thirties. No, I
know that, I know the coaching staff

498
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.559
is well. I think part of
that is, you know, you know,

499
00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:29.839
good shots, taking good shots in
the offense. He's such a natural

500
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:34.000
scorer. I mean, like the
game on Monday, you look up and

501
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:36.240
it looked like he had a good
game like a lot of other guys,

502
00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.960
and he has seventeen without it.
You don't even really realize that he just

503
00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:45.279
scores. But I also think Boswell. I think Boswell's got a beautiful jump

504
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.519
shot, and he's going to have
to have that balance and when do I

505
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:51.039
take it? When do I run
the team? How do I leave this

506
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.200
team? I think that's gonna He's
going to be the second guy. I

507
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:57.880
think they both have the ability to
make shots. I agree with I agree

508
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.680
with with Boswell. Yeah, you
know, I see those I see those

509
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:07.480
guards, all four of them just
completely interchangeable. And I don't know if

510
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.679
you know kJ Lewis can run the
point at this level. We don't know

511
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:14.239
that he's a freshman. You know, Caleb Love, even if he even

512
00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:15.719
wants to, I think he just
wants to be able to get the ball

513
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:22.119
and and and score and shoot.
But I don't recall four guards, you

514
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.519
know, on the same roster that
kind of all look the same, uh

515
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:28.239
and and can all do all the
same things, drive to the basket or

516
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.000
shoot or whatever. To me,
that's sort of a piece of this team

517
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:35.679
that I can want to see some
things that over the course of this season

518
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:39.679
that we haven't seen before out on
the perimeter with those guys. Yeah,

519
00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:44.000
I mean, you know, obviously
a little bit different, but they're they're

520
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:46.360
all really they all can handle it. They all could run, they all

521
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:51.800
can I mean, they're athletic,
they're all strong as can be. That's

522
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:54.960
the thing that jumps out to me. As they all defend and they've extended

523
00:34:55.039 --> 00:35:00.320
at half court, if not further. Now because of all the turnovers,

524
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:02.320
you kind of wonder, hey,
they all can push it down, can

525
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.239
get the rebound and push it or
outlet to them. Sometimes that does create

526
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.519
more turnovers. You know, Steve
Kerr was talking about how the lawyers hope

527
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:14.639
to lessen their turns because they kind
of had one guy now that brings it

528
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:17.480
up, Chris Paul and and does
that a lot. Now, when you

529
00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:21.960
have a bunch of guys, you
sort of open it up potentially for more

530
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:24.840
turnovers, but they all seem to
me to be really smart guys. I

531
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:30.440
think decision making will be big.
But it's gonna be fun. It's gonna

532
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.360
be fun to watch Tommy coach this
team. He's such a good he's such

533
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:37.159
a he's such a good coach,
not only x's and o's, but having

534
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:42.280
a feel for what guys are doing
right, wanting his team to share the

535
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.199
ball, how they're going to share
it, how they played the team.

536
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:47.719
I think there was some frustration after
the last game, but that's perfect,

537
00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:51.280
you know, perfect early on in
the year for a team like that.

538
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.599
And I can't wait to watch Tommy
kind of just you know, coach this

539
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:58.960
team up. Which is which is
gonna be? This is gonna be fun

540
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:01.280
to watch. Lask question before we
go where kind of already running over it.

541
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:05.039
But you've been here a long time, obviously, you played in eighty

542
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.400
eight and in eighty nine and the
best team in the country until it wasn't.

543
00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:12.800
Wow, Well no, and that's
part of the question. Expectations here

544
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:15.280
have been always big, right,
always big. There's no exception. You've

545
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:19.280
seen it, you've played on when
you've seen it. How big. Are

546
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:23.960
those expectations? Are they over overstated
from the fans point, from the team's

547
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:30.400
point, and how does how do
the players handle that? You know?

548
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:35.199
I think I think that's why people
come to Arizona. They know the expectations

549
00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:37.199
here into so they know the fans
are going to have it. They know

550
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.639
they're going to have it. The
team's gonna have it. Tommy Mooid not

551
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:45.119
He's not coming here to you know, finish fifth in the fact twelve or

552
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:47.960
not make a big run in the
tournaments. And so I think they probably

553
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.880
have more of an expectation on themselves
than anybody as the It's kind of the

554
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.800
old cliche, but I think they
handle it, like I said, because

555
00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:00.960
they love it. That's why they're
here. They want to embrace the idea.

556
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:05.480
Now, I think this team,
you know, could be a team

557
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:07.719
we'll see. I mean, Tommy
did such an amazing job with that team

558
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:13.519
last year in November. But I
think this team has an amazing ceiling and

559
00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:15.679
we might see it, you know, no Limber December, who knows.

560
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:19.880
I don't know if they'll you know, they'll get close to that ceiling.

561
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:24.079
Maybe they will, but I certainly
think it's it's it's very it's very possible

562
00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:28.079
if team gets to a very high
ceiling late in the season. You know,

563
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:30.480
as they evolved, as Tommy coaches
them, they kind of figure out

564
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:32.960
their roles. Again, you guys, says the very game this call.

565
00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:38.079
There's eleven guys that can play.
That's probably the biggest challenge for Tommy and

566
00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:42.760
the team who plays. How do
they deal with those roles? You know,

567
00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:46.079
how they how they interact and integrate. It's gonna it's gonna be a

568
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:50.039
cool process to watch. Well,
I'm glad you're not in this room,

569
00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:53.480
because you'd be the smartest guy in
the room. Thanks, that's hard.

570
00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:59.119
It's not hard, all right.
It's always always fun to hang out with

571
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:02.800
the eyes. Thanks. I'm serious. Spared that could come in and take

572
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:07.639
out the trap and could be the
smartest guy in the room. That's why

573
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:13.719
we locked the door. Let's take
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576
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Streaming live on the iHeartRadio WIM. This

629
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:25.800
is I on the Ball with Steve
Robera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteenth

630
00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:30.519
fifty. Hey, welcome back to
Iye in the Ball here Fox Sports fourteen

631
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:32.320
fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're
Jake and Zawas. If you guys want

632
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:36.320
to call, we have ten minutes. If you're a first time guy wants

633
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:37.440
to call in, please do I
know there's a lot of people out there

634
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:42.079
who want to call but are free
to which makes no sense. We're not

635
00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:44.840
mean, We're not Yeah, no, we'd like to have fun, softy

636
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:47.800
yeah, bringing some big WIENI cool
questions or whatever, say we're full of

637
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:52.280
it? Whatever, Well we are, Yeah, but they could tell us.

638
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.280
Yeah we like hearing that. Yeah, thanks for listening to Yeah,

639
00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:59.679
means are listening. First time color
out here. Let me take you up

640
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:01.400
on it. Okay, cool,
Hire, you're on the air and eye

641
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:06.320
on the ball. Hey day,
tell me Lyang, how you doing?

642
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:12.800
I'm good? What's up? I
was afraid to call you, so I

643
00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:16.599
thought I'd just walked through that pere
Hey listening. Uh. According to one

644
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:22.320
eight hundred gambler, I got the
bat for tonight. The Diamondbacks and the

645
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:28.719
under in Kent State and Ackering they're
both one and seven that kin, Okay,

646
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:32.679
what's the second part of that act? What the under in the Kent

647
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:37.440
State Ackering? Oh? Okay,
So the Diamondbacks, the Diamondbacks and the

648
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:43.599
under, the Diamondbacks and the under
and Kent State Acron. That's right,

649
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:50.679
forty three call one hundreds, Tommy. You know you're betting Akron on a

650
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:53.960
Wednesday night. I wanted to.
I wanted to ask you guys some much.

651
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:58.559
I've only caught Spotsier show today and
I didn't hear yesterday, so I've

652
00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:05.199
only read the first article that came
and came out for everybody about kirk Crisa,

653
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:08.360
and I got panicked. I'm like, oh, ship, is there

654
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:14.320
any is there any danger for us? No? They Arizona issued a statement

655
00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:19.519
this morning that the n c double
A has completely cleared them. No penalties,

656
00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:25.079
no nothing. It was just something
that Kirka apparently did and had nothing

657
00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:30.960
falls on Arizona And we didn't know
anything not at the time. No.

658
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:35.000
No, they're saying that the compliance
department did everything. Was like like the

659
00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:39.760
Laura right, we didn't know anything
exactly right, exactly right. Uh.

660
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:44.239
You know what, It's funny.
I was thinking the other day the last

661
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:46.360
time I went to a final four, because you know, I bet all

662
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:52.119
of ours how far I was.
I was thirty nine years old. Bring

663
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:59.679
one. Yeah, you're probably a
lot lighter too. Yeah right, you

664
00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:01.559
know, my body is not going
to function the same way like you know,

665
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:06.000
I'll just tell you, at least
off so many high rollers. High

666
00:45:06.079 --> 00:45:09.000
rollers at the Strip Club in Minneapolis
at the final four. Everybody was there,

667
00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:14.159
you know, Wildcat club members everywhere, and Matt Johnson came in and

668
00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:16.599
now you're being bed by ten o'clock. Yeah, yeah, Tommy, What

669
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:21.599
the heck now you're be in bed
by ten o'clock. Thanks Tommy, Hey,

670
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:24.000
listen, I appreciate you guys.
Thank you, thanks so much.

671
00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:28.559
Man, thanks thanks for calling.
All right, So, so Arizona's funny

672
00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:31.400
because I have a friend in Albuquerque
obviously who says, how does Arizona be

673
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:35.360
able to get away with what they
did? I said, that's not it

674
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:37.920
was not finding a big deal.
You know, he didn't do anythings.

675
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:40.599
This happens, and you make sure
to state their own probation. Well,

676
00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:45.440
they're shooting each other over there,
I said, well, there's that.

677
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:49.960
They're shooting each other. What the
heck is totally different. That's a little

678
00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:52.400
different here, you know. You
know, guy got you know, guy

679
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:55.079
got a little crosswise with the rules. He didn't shoot or kill anybody,

680
00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:59.280
right right, what the hell,
there's no difference. But then I said

681
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.880
to him, if you here,
this is the NCB's picking on him exactly.

682
00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:07.000
We have another collar. You're on
the Aaronine the ball. Yeah,

683
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.119
I'm not going to call if I
have anything to drink, and then you

684
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:14.760
have to hit the button. But
I didn't because because Tommy obviously had a

685
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:21.000
drink when he mixed with his gambling
in the afternoon on a Wednesday. My

686
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:25.599
god, Howard, thanks for last
I appreciate that. Oh yeah, and

687
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:30.159
you know what, Hammersmith's a lot
like me. Obviously, I'm much older

688
00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:37.199
with all that enthusiasm. Yeah,
when I think of Hammersmith, I think

689
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:40.880
of you all the time. But
my point also, I want to talk

690
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.880
about Bobby Knight. I knew some
stories, but I read some more history.

691
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:50.880
He went to school with John Haletchik
at Ohio State. Oh okay,

692
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:55.039
all right, And and I do
not like Coach k but this is this

693
00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:59.960
makes sense. Coach k gives all
the credit in the world to Bobby Knight

694
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.400
because he was a student to play
from it at what point? Yeah,

695
00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:07.599
and you know, do you know
what do you know? Bobby Knights and

696
00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:14.440
one of his best friends who's one
of the greatest NFL coaches ever? Is

697
00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:21.000
it uh Is Belichick? No,
Bill Parcells was one of those two they

698
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:23.480
have. They have most respect for
each other. And I tried to read

699
00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:27.800
the story because I heard his story. They used to go fishing together.

700
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:30.199
Yeah, they've known each other since
the sixties. I was going to say,

701
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.519
he's a huge fisherman and a hunter
yes, they used to go in

702
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.400
Texas probably and whatever. They're two
of the greatest best for the best of

703
00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:44.639
friends. All right, thanks for
the call. All right, sons,

704
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:47.000
you see what happened to the Suns
yesterday? Yes, I was. I

705
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:51.559
was hitting the sack last night.
And you know the clip came up in

706
00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:53.440
that last few seconds of the game, Like, how do you do that?

707
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:58.079
I heard that Sean was in town
yesterday because they're in Phoenix, right,

708
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:01.000
he came down to visit some people, Sean Ell, yeah, yeah,

709
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:04.760
yeah, And and I wouldn't run
back up and he come and see

710
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:07.079
and he didn't say I didn't.
I just heard someone told me, And

711
00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:09.519
I'm thinking, what the heck?
Come on, Sean, we were fresh

712
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:15.079
Sean john Shaw. We'll take what
we can get from show. Exactly.

713
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:20.000
Now you're gonna say something local locally, I have something locally too. I

714
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:24.000
wonder if it's the same p okay, go you go? Who do you

715
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:29.000
know who the new head coach of
the l A race? Exactly? What

716
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:31.320
in the world of Antonio Pearce is
going on? What do you have to

717
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:35.599
do to get a head coaching job
in the NFL? Break all the rules

718
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:39.800
in college? The same thing.
That's a that's a who's that? Who's

719
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:44.559
the coach at at US? Now? What am I coach? Uh?

720
00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:46.960
Uh? Cliftsbury? He fell forward
at Texas Tech, got the head job

721
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:52.119
at the Cardinals. Now he's how
do you do this? How you fall

722
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:57.880
forward like this? But Antonio Pierce
wouldn't be coaching anywhere but the Raiders probably

723
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:00.920
Okay, but I know there's a
Raider fanatic and there he goes again.

724
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:02.960
So last night, I guess last
time when it happened when they fired the

725
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.960
coach and it came on the screen, and I'm thinking Antonio Pierce is now

726
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.639
the head coats of the Renders in
term or whatever. Yeah, I said,

727
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:13.440
does that happen? It just does
the right place, right time.

728
00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:15.840
So I haven't seen much Fami his
shoe. I'm sure they're pissed. I

729
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:20.360
mean, yeah fans, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I mean I haven't

730
00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:23.079
had a chance to see anything like
that. But no, when you said

731
00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:25.840
that, I think I bet she's
gonna come up with Antonio. Yeah,

732
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.480
I missed that when we were doing
breaking and we're not at a time anyways,

733
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.599
A lot a lot of a lot
of comments and and and obits on

734
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:38.519
on Bobby Knight coming in. But
at this one, this is Dan Wetzel,

735
00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:42.960
you I follow on his podcast.
I think you covered him a lot,

736
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:45.880
right and uh he writes for Yahoo
Sports, has a long oh bit.

737
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:51.920
But on his tweet linking the oh
bit, this this right here says

738
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:54.519
Bobby Knight. He says, I
was fortunate to have gotten to know and

739
00:49:54.559 --> 00:50:00.159
in parentheses and attempt to cover Bob
Knight. He was brilliant, he was

740
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:05.719
difficult, he was charismatic, he
was complicated. Yeah, no, I'll

741
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:08.840
spot on four words right, forewords
that describes who you right, right and

742
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:13.400
you look at it and that's right
because he walked in a room and it

743
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:17.199
was like oh yeah, right right
or but he was a pain in the

744
00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:24.239
ass. Often got another Bob Knight's
story, all right. So years after

745
00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:29.280
my thing with him, I was
I was a press conference moderator when he

746
00:50:29.519 --> 00:50:32.760
was a Texas tech and they come
here for a first and second round.

747
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:39.880
So the n C double A is
very picky about brands on right, the

748
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:44.079
cups and stuff. You have to
have a You can't have a coke can

749
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:46.599
on on the dais you have like
a red you have to have an n

750
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:52.199
C double A cut. So whoever, whoever walk the coaches over to the

751
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:54.159
press conference, and if they had
a drink in their hand, then can

752
00:50:54.199 --> 00:50:57.039
you know, can you put that
in the n C double a cup?

753
00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:00.159
And he didn't want He had a
gatorade and he did not want to do

754
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:04.599
it. So finally they said,
you can't go up there with the gate

755
00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:06.519
raads. So finally he gave him
the gatorade. They put it in a

756
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:08.159
cup. He said, don't throw
away the bottle, went up to the

757
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:12.599
went up to the days did his
press conference, still had some gatorade left

758
00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:15.360
in the cup, walked off the
stage and poured the cup of gatorade back

759
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:22.400
into the gatorad bottle, just to
im in charge. That's just who he

760
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:25.199
was, right, you can't tell
me what to do. So he just

761
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:28.280
like, you can't tell you what
to do. Yeah, I mean just

762
00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:31.519
and it wasn't about dude who's telling
him. It's you know what, your

763
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:34.840
rule is a pain, And he
asked to him and he was gonna he

764
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:37.679
was gonna win that. That's perfect
him though, I mean, tom on,

765
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:39.280
yeah, you can't tell me what
to do. He was gonna win

766
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:44.159
that. And and so you know
that was that was him. But he

767
00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:46.519
didn't. You didn't hate him for
that. For somebody, you didn't hate

768
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:49.559
him for that. You thought it
was a pain, But he didn't.

769
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:54.199
I think I think too though.
We all know those older guys, because

770
00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.599
you know, you get to a
certain age. F you I'm doing,

771
00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:00.800
don't tell me to do right.
I'm sure I'm going to be that way

772
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:04.360
up kind of the way now I
do it that. There's sometimes that I

773
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:07.000
do it that I'm sorry. I've
done it like this my entire life.

774
00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:10.039
I'm gonna do it like that again. The kids are probably saying, God,

775
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:15.440
that old man. Yeah, wait
till you get to Worrow. Got

776
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:24.119
my lot. I was breaking rules
before you were breaking rules. I was

777
00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:30.320
breaking rules before you knew what the
rule was. So but good stuff,

778
00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:34.199
and you know, condolences to the
Knight family and all his all his friends

779
00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:36.000
and all that kind of stuff.
But you know, I mean, he

780
00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:38.360
had been in bad health for a
long time. So but eighty three years

781
00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:42.119
old, so really, I mean, you know, he thought he had

782
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.000
some time left. But you know, one of the greats, yeah,

783
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:46.840
you know, one of the greats
of all times eighty three years old.

784
00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:50.760
Yeah, yeah, all right,
So okay, we'll be back tomorrow.

785
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:52.320
John Wilner is going to join us
tomorrow, so we'll get him. Tracey

786
00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:57.400
McDonald from us A. Oh okay, so we'll have we'll talk some,

787
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:01.079
uh some, we'll start getting getting
ready for that the homecoming UCLA football game

788
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:08.280
on Saturday, So be sure to
come back tomorrow sing it.