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I heart radio arm Hey, welcome back to I in the back here,
I'll post Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. He's Jake Jason with his final
breaking news. No presure thing, man, you gotta oh, I don't
have this out, isn't it isn't there? Oh? Shoot, I gotta
fix that. Yeah, Okay, my bad, It's all good. Okay,
don't let's now that. Okay, breaking news. Okay, we go,
okay, like grow what's his name? Good? So what's his name?
The comedians? Oh, George, George Low Okay. Arizona Volleyball will
hosts their annual Reading Blue Scrimmage this Saturday. It's going to be the Matchess
have four twelve pm at the mckail Center. Yeah. That's for the new
coach with the coach, Rita Stubbs. Uh uh. It schedules not been
working out for us to uh to be able to get her on the show,
but hopefully we will at some point. But ye have Red and Blue
game tomorrow. Then they've got their tournament that they that they do ATTUS Classic,
Cactus Classic. Ye, August twenty fifth and August twenty sixth. Right,
they got the UC Davis, North Carolina and Pacific coming in. So
North Carolina thing is pretty good, aren't they. Yeah, they slay like
one of the top teams in the country. Yeah they are all right.
So yeah, that's uh a bunch of games. The twenty fifth through the
twenty fifth and the twenty sixth over McHale yep. Former Arizona soccer player Twilight
Philgore has been named as the interim had a coach of the US women's national
soccer team, as announced by the organization of this product. Yeah, I
didn't see that a big deal it is. I didn't know that she was
already the assistant coach. Yeah, she was an assistant coach under under the
head version before. I never knew the name she played. She had to
play under Lisa uh, Lisa back in the day thirty years ago, right,
nineteen ninety eight, twenty five years ago? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
right, weren't get it on the show. How do we do that?
Who knows it out? We'll see, We'll just called the federation.
Probably no man, they will never get through there. We got to find
somebody who knows her, who's like her cell phone number. Good. Look,
well she's been gone thirty twenty five years. Sorry, should we've been
disconnected? Okay? Number? Well that's very cool though. I mean Arizona
soccer has been good, but you know, to have you know, an
Arizona player be the NAT you know, whether it's interim or not. The
national women's soccer It's like twenty Clark when he was association. Yeah, very
cool, very cool for Arizona. Some more Women's National Soccer news. The
general manager cage Mark mark Raft is set your lead role. Sources confirmed that
she's going. I started contracting Spires at the end of August. She's gonna
be stepping down and from the team. Sounds like they're just cleaning house over
there, which it sounds like they need to. I know, we had
Kellie Pearson and she was talking about that. We didn't get a chance to
go through that with Beckhamorrows, but it sounds like that's needed to happen for
a while. Yeah. He kind of got a little full of themselves,
yell a little bit. The Ravens are signing j Davian Clowney to one year
deal. So they are getting a key, a situational pass rusher on the
edge. I don't know he was still around. I thought tells you how
long or how short careers are, because I thought he how old is?
He doesn't say he's gotta be thirty at the most? No, yeah,
yeah, no, yeah. What do you think he is? Thirty five?
Lass? Yeah? Yeah, less? Yeah, I would say thirty
thirty two maybe thirty yeah, thirty. It doesn't seem like he's the knock
the helmet off the yeah Michigan guy. Yeah, yeah, he's It seems
like it was just yesterday, right, but he's been there a while and
it just seems so fast. Yeah he's thirty. Yeah, yeah, come
on, what do you think that he should be younger? I feel like
five years ago. No, yeah, he's been league a little bit.
Well, he has. He signed a one year deal for up worth of
six million dollars. He was born on Valentine's Day. Send him on chocolate,
hardsty you get worried about this, I can chocolate first, chocolate before
me local local. The Commanders have named their starting quarterback for their twenty twins
season. They've decided to go with Sam Howe over Jacoby Bercett, who I've
never heard of. Really, he's been there for a little bit. Who's
the team, the commanders, the command Where did he come from? Sam
Howe? Yeah, I'm pretty sure, but I know he's been there for
a couple of years though, yeah I heard, yeah he hasn't you know,
the greatest. But I mean their quarterback room is Sam Howe, Jacoby
Brisset, and Jake from So I'm from, Jake from from Georgia, from
from from from Yeah we Steve Our demanded minds both That was crap. Yeah,
so they don't have a great quarterback rounds. I wonder how good the
commentators are gonna be. I mean, they have good players, but it's
just the court that a good defensive line, good receivers, old line is
okay, but this is the quarterback, which is the most right. He
played in North Carolina? Do we remember him? With no idea? And
he left after his junior year. Okay, dude, When they said Sam
how I'm like, who sounds like to do from from cheers? Oh?
Yeah, yeah, they don't go but I mean what okay, yeah,
so goes? The Colts signed former Steelers second round take our receiver James Washington
today. Is he any good? He should be? He's from what I've
heard, he's pretty good. Because the courts have been injuries that almost every
day, and then that stuff going on with Jonathan Taylor, right, yeah,
who's gonna hold out? And then he came in that don't always hurt?
Don't you know? What the hell? They're like they're having any They
sounds like a mess. Yeah, they're having injured every other day with like
reskivers and cornerbacks and different guys, and then Jonathan Taylor's to hold out situation.
So they're trying to figure things out because you know, Athony Richardsons is
gonna be starting and they're there. Their whole focus is on him, but
they have to the whole team. He got right, All teams like mess
right now? So what's their over? What's their what's their window? We
know I'm gonna look maybe three four because dang well no, but seece seventeen
games? Now that's hard too. I mean, are the Cardinals like what
like expected from like four games? So we just say bad, there's the
Cardinals are four and a half, four and a half. So the culture
much aren't much better. The cults are six and a half six and man,
that sounds like I'm an easy under yeah right now, so dang okay,
yeah, well that's why breaking his eye for today? Wow, branch,
did you see uh? I think it happened yesterday the day before Little
League because Little League Baseball is going on strong now or in the uespian So
one of the kids from Chinese type A yes, through eighty one miles per
hour, Yes, which is one hundred and fifteen. You have the reaction
time of one hundred and fifteen miles an hour fastball from a major league distance.
Check their IDs, you know, well, you know, uh,
man, I'm gonna, I'm gonna think about the kids age. It's just
to me, it's it's unbelievable that you know that the players you know,
continue to progress pgress to that you know, I mean back you know,
back in the day, right and I'm talking five years ago, tenure or
whatever. If a kid threw in the seventies, it's really hard. That
was really really hard to have a seventy seventy miles an hour fastball from a
little league distance, and they said that was approaching one hundred miles an hour.
I mean, I saw some picture. These kids are afraid of the
pitch, you know. I saw somebody batting against him, and there was
one kid that just didn't want to be there. No, I remember placed
playing guys against that. I was just get me out of here, get
me out of here. And I love to hit, but it was no,
nothing gonna happen, and that's scary. And then then I guess he's
got a slider. That just well, he's pretty big too. He's a
pretty big kid kid. But dang, yeah, i'd be intimidating. Question.
They said one hundred ten to hundred fifteen miles an hour. I thought
the number I saw was one fifteen. But that's crazy that the kids throwing
in the eighties. When the listener said, I think the kid drove himself
to the game thanks to him. That was good. Could you shay please
before you get on the mount? Well again, I saw those kids up
close back in there. Oh yeah sure. And that kid was a kid
was hairy and he had four it's like alante, and he turned he was
what was he what was he sixteen? He was two years older. He
was fourteen? Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you never know. You
never know. But I did see that. I you know, I don't
know that that's standing there. Look I stood in against my daughter throwing a
soft, pitching a soft, and I'm like, no, Plus she hits
a lot of people, so I was a little afraid of that, especially,
but she threw hard, and she wasn't even you know, she wasn't
even like a you know, a super fast picture. She didn't get it
up into the mid sixties or anything like that. She was probably high fifties,
maybe hit sixty a couple of times, and that was hard. I
thought the thought of getting hit by one of those was not something I was
I was looking forward to. But no, I you know, yeah,
I did see that, and I watched the video and I'm like, no,
no, and no, I'm not I'm not getting in there. It's
like, have you ever seen a you have like Jenny Finch pitching against major
leagues? No chance, you know they The last one I saw it was
her throwing against Albert Pouhole. He had no shot, right, he had
no shot. Yeah. So I think she was at the All Star Game
this summer and she hit something on Twitter says, do you want to pitch,
you know, pitch, and she says, you want me to slow
slow my slow my pitch up because you know they wanted to throw a hardball.
That's that's slower than money. Man. So I do you see that
we haven't heard anything about the Lina Stadium. It survived, it survived,
yeah, the last we heard it survived. But man, that town is
a I don't know how they'll recover to be able to do much of anything,
right, because that tournament is in November, right over Thanksgiving? Right?
Or is it in December? Oh, what's the one they class?
It's in the right before Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving week that week, right. I
don't know how they could possibly be able to take an influx of people.
Here's this is why I bring it up. Kansas is at to play in
the event. I guess Bill Selt is gonna help, and a couple of
others coaches gonna help raise money, although the tournament officials have said their plans
for the event are uncertain as a results of the five yea. I mean,
I don't know, you know, in terms of infrastructure and stuff like
that. To bring people in. You're gonna bring people into a you know
place, that's just basically burned down. Right. Well, I remember Arizona
played in New York right after the uh the towers were were and this is
not right after, but this is a month's or two and you could still
see all the work being done and the smells and the clouds of smoke.
We were, We lived there. We stayed in a hotel not too far
and it was like it was and that it was. Yeah. Well,
and I remember going to eighty nine after the San Francisco earthquake. Yeah,
going to going to Northlake north north Ridge was at north Ridge. No,
No, north Ridge was in southern California. This was the Bay Area earthquake.
Remember that that stopped the World Series? Oh yeah, in eighty nine,
right, and then you know, I mean yeah, it was an
eighty nine and the Bay Are part of the Bay Are your bridge had clapped,
so you had to go all the way down to the Hayward Bridge.
I remember all that stuff. And then there was an earthquake while we were
there. You know that the night before the game, there was an earthquake
that was not an aftershock, it was an earth It was another earthquake.
And so remember that. Yeah, yeah, okay, I know, it's
just you know, it's I mean, think you don't you do what you
do, But I don't know how I don't see how how how they can
they can play what's in August, September, October, November, three months.
I mean so much of the like the restaurant areas, that stuff just
burned out. There's nothing left, there's no really point to go to.
Yeah, No, it's tough. It's gonna be tough. Right, maybe
maybe you play it, maybe you play it on the mainland for yeah,
really you know what played in Vegas? Yeah, have to go. We'll
go. Honey, I'm not gonna have your turkey this weekend, and there's
this important event going on in Vegas we're gonna have. We're gonna go help
and raise some money Game Day games here, hope. So you'll be here
because you know this, you guys, the number we're we've too many family
connections. No, it's become a family thanks So we're not going over Thanksgiving.
We're gonna go two weeks before. Okay, we're gonna go. We're
gonna go up to Vegas for our trip the week that they're at Colorado.
So we've we've just said because like wives and daughters and kids are all going
time. We'll see you, Steve. A lot of our guys that used
to go on this trip have died off. I mean literally, like four
guys that have used to be on this trip with us welcome to have died
probably on the ball morend there's seriously, there's a picture like a team picture
that we took it with a restaurant and you look at this picture and four
of those guys are going going to the subs were bringing in the left handers.
Now, so wives are invited, My daughter is a going this year.
It's become more of a family thing. So because of that, we
decided to not go over. Thanks getting okay, So okay, Hey,
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Radio WAP, this is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez
on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to all all right in
the ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, Ja Gnzalsfo.
We have coach Zach Niblick from Tucson. Hi. How are you, coach?
I'm doing well. How you guys doing today? We're doing fine.
Thanks for joining us. How's it feel being the head coach at Tucson Hi
challenges that I'm up for it. It's been fun to be to be completely
honest with you, I have an amazing sab, a huge you know,
support system. So I'm up for the challenge. So in terms of your
taking this job, but what did you see in this job that you felt
made it right for you? You know, I saw the young core that
they had, so I saw the building pieces I could go around. So
you know, Derek Mathe is an excellent quarterback. I believe you have Noah
chan As Johnny Dash. For them to start last year as true freshman,
that was pretty intriguing. And then you know, obviously I see the freak
show of running back in Prince, so I know with a correct coaching,
he would do very very well in my style of offense. So that that
probably was intriguing me most. And then talking with you know, Cam Gaddis
seeing if he'd be on board to come over with me, it was just,
you know, he kind of just hold itself. It's not like you're
a slouch coach. I mean you coach Enter Banetian and Run Jersey and you've
put some pretty big names. Bijean Robinson, Mario Padilla, David Cordero,
You're no chicken little you know, you know what you're doing. Oh no,
for sure. You know I have not missed the football season time I
was like five years old. So I've been fully vested in this since a
young age. And you know, learning from coach Banane and then learning from
Jay Dobbin, learning from Eric Rodgers Verner all the stole point grates that are
over there, and then you know, I got to learn under bad McCray
for a little bit. And then just you know, a lot of my
Pop Warner coaches were excellent coaches as well. You know, I played in
a couple of national championships and Pop Warners. So my football life has been
I've been blessed with a super high IQ on house football work. So you
get there for this job. You know, they had a kind of a
strange season last year. They had interim coach Malcolm Nelson, very very cool
guy. I know him, I like him a lot. But what are
some of the things that maybe may have come from last year that are either
helping you or making it making it hard for you to to figure out how
you do this season, or do you just kind of trying to wipe that
away and start over. How you handled that? Uh, you know,
I don't really talk about last year all too much except to remind them that
they were three and seven football teams. The biggest key is, you know,
you just got to move past that. It wasn't their fault necessarily.
And I wouldn't say coach Nelson had the best stack of cards to work with
when he got there. I mean, how do you place Seancha within two
weeks of the season starting, right, You know, I wouldn't say it
was the most fair opportunity for him. And you know, they called me
last year and offered me the interim job, and I turned it down for
that reason. It's just it's just too soon. I couldn't. I couldn't.
I didn't think it was fair to leave the running back at that point
that I've been with all that time. And basically I just waited for December
when it was going to open back up again and tell my name in the
hand of that. Where do you think you bring the most experience? Is
it with the running backs? Is it's just knowing the football that you know?
I would say it's just my football IQ. I mean, yeah,
I'm you know, I wasn't a running back. I know a lot of
people say I was just fullback or whatever, but I played on the defensive
side of the ball. I was a linebacker. So it's really easy for
me to coach offense because I know what the defense is looking for. So
in that regard, I feel like I helped us all over the place.
And then with my rugby background, I could kick, I know a couple
other different things. And I've just been a student of the game. I've
played multiple positions and I've coached multiple positions since I've started playing football at a
young age. So you mentioned Cam Gaddis and some of these guys you have
a staff. What were you looking for in the staff? Who are the
kind of guys that you wanted to bring in and how do you know,
how does all that together for you know, getting this program, you know,
back on solid footing. So I really wanted all the underrated guys,
all the guys that everyone doesn't see as a coach, and I wanted them
on my staff because I know I'm a young coach and I know I probably
have the youngest coaching staff in southern Arizona, it's not the state. And
I know, they're all up for the opportunity and the challenge as well.
So I figured if I could get like minded individuals who could connect extremely well
with our youth there that that's just you know, that's in the RelA story
waiting to happen. So how are the coaching meetings and a bunch of young
dudes just with a bunch of ideas. Now, I mean we all have
like great football mind like you know what I mean, Like everyone on my
staff played high football U if that even if that was just high school,
they were all you know, stand outs on their high school or some of
them were all Americans played at the Division one level, you know, So
everyone all my staff, i'd say their roles very well. Yeah yeah,
okay, And we lost you there for a second. So okay, so
you're you're you've got a season you started. You mentioned some guys, but
you'll give us some guys that were you know, they're gonna be key for
you and and some expectations you have for this team. Well, I mean
James Jimmy Diaz, he's a transfer from Gianaga. I definitely look forward to
seeing how he messes with me and my coaching staff and being able to unleash
him in a way he wasn't used properly out there in Sienaga. And then
also Kevin Burns. I think I think he's a tremendous athlete. I think
she has Division one talent. It's just us getting it out of him.
I have a couple of linemen that are good. You know. Julian Lopez,
he's been around. He played on that Pop Warner All Star Kid when
he was younger. He's really good. You know. I have talked all
the place. You know, it's really my young guys like mccola, mcola,
Tenia, He's good. He's gonna be a baller. Dominic grow my
middle linebacker. That dude is tough as nails man, and I'll put him
up as anyone in the weight room right now too. What you talked about
challenges when you first decided to take the job. What have been the biggest
ones or are they kind of just minor ones? I would say the biggest
challenges is uh, I think everyone knows what the biggest challenges and it's it's
navigating through TUSD and I think I've done that with Flying Colors. There's just
just you know, everyone has to be bought in so that the administration,
the students, the coaches, everyone, the players, and everyone's been doing
that so far. So but the biggest challenge is probably me figuring out the
ways of which I need to navigate through TUSD. So I'm looking at your
schedule. You open a South Mountain a week a week from today, but
then then you go right into Marana and Sienega. I mean, that's not
an easy way to get started. You know what's on your mind as far
as that goes, And how do you get ready for that that kind of
start to a season. I mean it just like you do every other game.
You take a game by game, But I mean I hear the chuckle,
and I see a lot of people thinking, you know, we don't
stand a chance against those teams. But I believe we're gonna win. I
believe we go ten and oh like, I don't think anyone's standing in our
way. We're standing in our way as long as we can get our stuff
together as a coaching staff and the kids understand what it takes to win.
There's not another team talented than us in Southern Arizona, right and to half
to battle this sin is having them believe that, right, How old are
you? You talked about being young. How old are you? I'm thirty
one. Oh yeah, you're young, but you've been around them. But
you've been around for a while with some of these great players. Yep.
Well, Steve and I could be your father. That just kind of dries
me. You know, you're you're you're at the same age as my son,
Holy Kyle, come on and hey, but that's the mindset we're wising,
you know what I mean. We're changing, We're changing how things are
done right right like we would make to the kids. We give the kids
what they want. You know, I do have some old school rules,
like you know, one of my coaches was just giving me some you know,
is today about selling them they need to wear long sauce and not with
his ankle socks. But you know, it just is what it is.
I love that. I love that old school man socks. I love that
it drives me crazy when I see football players not or look like they don't
have socks on. Right. It just I love you for that. So
uh, in terms of your your your approach to this, you know,
what did did you map out a plan for yourself? In terms of I
want to be a coach who does this, this, this, this and
this. I mean, how do you do that? And then you get
on the field and then you find out some of these things may or may
not work. What was your approach this for as that goes? Honestly,
like to be completely honest with you, I've been to the state championship games,
so not a lot of coaches can say that. So from there,
I just try to figure out and red like reverse eton there how to get
there and make sure I crossed all those points. And so far we've been
doing that. You know, we lack death sometimes that's offensive line, but
goes everyone in Southern area once once we get that dialed the way I expect
to be, you know, in the open like that is told be my
goals for my coaches goals. We're not here to play for no, you
know, region championships. We don't. We're not gonna count those like twoth
On High, home of the champion for the region. Let me ask you.
You talked about TUSD. But there must be some love within the family,
the parents and all that so kind of relling together to become this team.
Yeah, I mean I love my booster club. I love my parents.
They're all bought in. They want to see us when they understand what's
been going on at Tusas. But some of them are old enough to remember
whatso to beat. Yeah, great history and tradition that TUSO. I was
and I didn't know that, But then once I got there and I saw
the banner they have like thirteen state championships, and then I started thinking about
all the Mayfield and coach Gridley, I'm like, yeah, tell me in,
I'm about to about to be up there now. Yeah, I know,
I'm I'm old enough to remember that. And you know my brothers played
at Sunnyside and the Tucson. I just was that was you know that they
were they were they were the uh I don't know what the right word is,
but they kind of set the standard for for the for the city for
a really long time. Guys came out of there, played major college football,
played at the u A, got some some some NFL guys. So
no, it's it was that you do. You are walking into a place
that has some some long ago tradition, but you and then you know it's
it's had some years recently, so looking forward to watching how how you guys
do this? And U man to see a young guy like you when they're
coaching these guys. Sounds like a lot. It sounds like a lot can
happen for you guys. What do a video show interview some of those players
when you get the chan Yeah, we will we have. Let me ask
you, so, most of the times players got to feed off the coaches
and become kind of the coaches, a model after the coach. So what
type of team do you think you're gonna have? Having a super physical team
that's ready to you know, fight and scrape and you know, uh do
anything they need to do to win, you know, in at the bottom
at the end of the day, that's the team I'm to have all four
of courses. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, coach, Well,
we'll probably have you back at some point. Good luck to you pretty soon
it happens. Yep, good luck to appreciate it. I have a great
one. Hey, And if you haven't already in a role today, okay,
thanks coach, appreciate your best. You know. Look, I mean
I grew up and you know watching Tucson High just you know, most shredible
set. They just used to beat the hell out of everybody. You know,
you've got a text from somebody earlier. I think the team when when
you're starting like it's obviously the troubles. They're right, they've gone from coaches
like crazy. They need somebody who people believe in and have that kind of
chip on their shoulder, right, and well, here he comes, and
you can get you know, you can get guys to get behind na be
you know, be happy to be proud to be playing for Tucson High because
you know too. I mean, you want to talk about history. You
know Tucson High and Phi, you know those for the longest time, those
were the school. So let me ask you get a minute and a half
here. Uh, I have no idea. Maybe I have blue bloods.
Blue bloods and Tucson So are they a blue blood? They were? Okay,
so see, this is what we're our discussion is either you are or
not. But they were were way back in the day. We're talking in
the sixties and seventies that they were there. Well, that's kind of how
you establish a blue blood. So if not, who are right? No,
south Point, south Point cdo those are the successful programs right now?
So? But at the south Point. See south Point. They didn't win
state championship. That's that's my whole thing. They were really good, So
how where do you put this blue? But I think Tucson is if you're
your age twosons, Okay, Tusson has a blue blood like UCLA is in
basketball, correct, right? Right? When other championships in the sixties and
seventies, Yes, they won one in ninety five, but ninety five,
you know, So Tucson is that kind of a blue blood. That's that's
kind of a place, right, you know, but it was forty fifty
years ago. Sure, and that's kind of where the blue blood starts,
you know, a long time ago. That's why I asked the question.
Maybe south Point is sort of an Arizona blue blood. It's kind of a
Yukon or it's kind of a Yukon of yeah, you know, to come
on the scene exactly in the last twenty years. Yeah, okay, maybe,
okay, So that's good. Good thanks coach. All right, okay,
let's take our last break, Jason's last break of the day. Jason
holy Cow. Yeah, all right, and we'll be back. We'll take
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It's Steve Rivera and Jagen Summings. This is I on the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty and welcome back to I on the bout Hell Fox Sports
fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve's Jay Jason with us for fourteen more minutes. If
you want to call, please do five two O four Ward six Senate for
forty. He's done with the old men after this. I mean about a
good time. So have you? Yeah, for sure. I haven't told
him anything. You haven't told him that you've been doing this. No,
he has no idea. Seriously, you he doesn't a lot of things.
I'm gonna be on. Doesn't a lot of things as long as the chicks
cash. Yeah, exactly. Oh my god, I'm not sure. We
don't want that's funny. I'm not sure what parents because we had interns.
Parents, parents would call it and stuff, but not the phoenix like he's
not you know, it's still we stream. Yeah, because one of our
dads was in Seattle. That's very funny though, because your dad she's busy
and he's not. You know, that's so funny. She was working all
day. So I'm getting in ship. You don't need to know what the
else you don't what I'm telling your dad. I'm gonna find him and I'm
gonna tell him, Okay, you can do it for the last six months,
that's funny. Yeah. Does he know you're in college? Yeah?
Does he know you're at the UFA, He does not much. But does
he still think you're in med school? He does? You think I'm on
the premed track? You know? Like I think I said this, He's
gonna find out. Once I got my diploma, I'm gonna hand it to
him, let him know, and then go off where I gotta go.
What the hell is that really funny? The social sciences that you Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very funny. Yeah, Steve, I
feel like I feel like we've been hiding this guy, right, We've been
hartbering a fugitive or something with this protection program. I know, serious better
place than here. Oh my god, all this time I didn't know that.
Ye. So what does he think you're doing? Well? He thinks
I'm doinging an internship with the school, but it's like some medical related stuff.
He doesn't ask for details. He kind of just says, like,
what are you doing this? Summer and then you say, you say,
I'm working on these two old guys, and he just thinks that you're doing
like you're like, yeah, straightening, I sticked in the frog, you
know whatever. Like he doesn't really ask for details. He's just kind of,
you know, making sure you're doing something, and he's doing okay,
yeah, send money, yeah, man, just get the piece of paper.
But I don't want to be there when you hand it to him,
so he comes out just my name is Pepper, right, yeah, you
know, you're just in spears and I'm David Kelly. Oh my god,
you haven't made his left this much. I got to go all the bank's
Yeah, Oh my god. That's one of the funniest things I've Sorry,
sorry to just put you down, but I'm a journalist and I've been hanging
out with these two old guys on the radio. We've been talking crap about
everything. Didn't even give me a chucklate, I didn't get a donut,
didn't give me anything nothing, man. Yeah, oh my god. Well
the good things you got Nick Nico's endorsement yesterday. Yeah, more than Nico's
endorsement, I know. I mean, you can do a lot with that.
I know, right, so honored. You know, you can do
a lot with that. Now, Well, you know, we wait and
we've had some you know, we've had some interns go on to some cool
things. We've got d over there working for fan Duel and stuff. So
that the truck. You know, so what's his name? Mobby's running around
somewhere. Don't forget our guy who turned down the Montana job to stay in
LA. He's working at Santa Anita. He's working at sending. Good for
him. We got a job down there. Yeah, so it's not Yeah,
well I don't know why I keep forgetting his name. Will. And
there's a couple of brothers they're doing okay, good, Yeah, good to
know that. Okay, anybody calls for eleven minutes five two, four,
one, six four forty. You're going to the scrimmage this weekend? Yes,
what do you hope to see? I want to see I want to
see what this looks like, you know, I want to see what the
receivers look like. And then the lines, you know, the two lines
I mean and not just I mean I want to see their size, you
know, when they're standing next to each other and stuff. I'm you know,
I want to see. I want to see justin flow. Yeah,
see him running around. If anybody we need to see and see be consistent
to saim, yeah right, A lot of talk about him. Yeah,
I want to see what he looks like. You noticed him, Yeah,
and you look. I mean he's moving around, he's commedy king with the
guys. He's looking good, like he's looking ok right places right? No,
wait, were needs to be so looking good? So I out of
how that translates like an actual game. But we'll say, yeah, well,
his thing is, you know, if he can stay healthy, right,
because that's been his issue. That was his issue up at Oregon built
like gars. Yeah, but you know what some of those guys man,
you you know, you poke them and they you know, and you sprain
an arm or something that bruise easily. Dude, man, you know I
ran on the treadmill last night. I can't walk today. I filled my
name. You should have walked on the treadmill. Well, I do what
I would. I was walking thirty minute walk, but then like the last
three minutes, I job and that hard, I mean just a job,
and I can't get out of the car. Push it in. I got
I got a bad wheel, put a good head wheeling, and then we
ran out of bad villa at home. So that's that's been a bad thing.
When was the last time you ran? Oh, dude, I jogging
or you know, runder your car. I'll tell you, I'll tell you
truth. I had to eat kg at a hard test about two weeks.
Oh did you have to get in there? And yeah, yeah, please
please don't give me a long time. And it gave me two minutes of
it, yeah, two minutes as a runner, I was on for ten
twelve minutes. Yeah, but yeah, the final minutes where I was running
and I'm thinking, please please, Yeah, I did. I had one
of those last years last I didn't get. I didn't I didn't get.
I didn't get to the end. No, I'm saying what happens if I
have a heart attack? Here says, don't worry, we have doctor days.
A matter of time, Jason, it's only a matter of time.
Yeah, I mean your long ways off, it's still just a matter of
time. Yeah, and you're there, but no, it's uh, you
know, I mean I'm interested to just see what it You know that it's
organized right, that there's not people running around who don't know where they're supposed
to be, that kind of stuff. You're you're thinking three four years ago,
Well I am Steve, but you know, because no, Jed knows
what he's doing. Yeah, it's a guy. I mean, I'm talking
about the whole thing. It's just got to look like there's there's some organization
or everything, whether the organization to the scrimmage, the things that they do,
look like everybody knows where they're supposed to be. You know, I
was watching again, it keeps coming on, so I keep watching pieces of
it. You know, last year's UCLA, you know, Arizona football game,
and you know that was Jamee Delora's best game. He you know,
I mean maybe yardage wise, I might have had other other really good games,
but that game, he kept answering what UCLA was doing. He kept
making plays. He just made plays. You know, he got sacked a
couple of times and key and keep moments, but he just kept making plays
and finding guys and and uh, you know, that's that's the good Jaden
Delora. And there has to be a lot of that this year. You
know, let me say something to regarding that. So did you see his
Twitter yesterday or this morning. He talked about some all Polynesian team came in
and he says, I'm watching or something like that, you know, or
really or something I can't remember. So his name was not on it was
not there. It was not on there. So he's, you know,
I'll prove this to you guys. You know. But then later he got
added Oh did he Yeah, I didn't see that. Yeah, you got
added to that. It was a graphic, right, he was got added
to it. Okay, they might have just missed him. Yeah, they
put him on it. Okay, I didn't see that. How did you
see that? I saw? I saw the first one. I didn't see
the first one. I saw the second I saw it was up and somebody
said they've added Jad like that. Yeah, okay, because yes, sing
So he was not on it, and then he got added to it,
okay because they may have seen his tweet on You may have seen his tweet
and set. Yeah. I didn't see that, so okay, good for
him. Yeah, I think not sure was like part of the there's a
bunch of yeah, so okay. It reminds me of the Dictomy time with
a lot of a lot of weight. Yeah, no, they've really made
some headway in that. And then if he saw that they did, they
did like a little video about to help support and stuff like that, because
those guys are off a ton of guys from there. Yeah, on this
Arizona team. Well, it's like Tony remember we had when we had to
cover them and they had a bunch of guys pulp millions because yeah that Yeah,
and then of course Dick was from there, so you know forever.
Yeah, yeah, okay, very very cool stuff. But no, I
did see that they added him to that. But but getting back to the
thing, you know, I'll pay attention a little bit to the Safeties because
they've been talking about the competition there because it was gonna even No. I
don't know if they're all good, or they're all mediocre, or they're all
bad, but nobody's emerged there as no the one guy I'm gonna do a
story on. I really was impressed with him. I saw we had him
at a media day Stukes Stukes Uh, and then talked to him a little
bit more. He had a great play last week. I don't know if
you noticed he defended Uh. I asked the question about who was it who
did you defend. While it was somebody, somebody big, he had a
nice play and he says, back in the day, I would have never
been able to run with the guy. But here's a dude that had no
scholarship three or four years ago, no scholarship. Now he's this guy.
That guy and the Keena even said, keep an eye on this guy because
he's gonna be good. And Keena loves these guys. Chuck, Chuck had
no scholarship. Hamer Hammer was just some other dude, and he turns these
guys into players. And that's what you know. That's that and that's what
you have to do with Arizona. Yeah, exactly so much. Yeah,
cut him up, you know what I mean. Jet is out there getting
higher end recruits, but it's always been the place that you gotta go get
guys that ultimately can become really good football player. Right and and not to
mention two star Scooby, just get these guys and cook him. Teddy Bruski,
you know a lot of those guys that. But that's who you guys
are, That's who Arizona. You guys were there, always been in the
eighties. Yeah, that's where Arizona has always been you know, guys like
that, that that that came here a little under valued, the raider under
the radar, under valued and then just became really good football players. I
mean not everybody was a top recruit like you know, like a Ricky Hunley
or somebody like that. You know, they got guys. I mean,
you know, think about Jay Dobbins, think about you know, uh,
the receivers in that time, Brad Anderson, you know who they're not to
be a really good rece Derek Hill was a he was a decent recruit.
He was a pretty decent recruit, but he came here under Larry Smith and
then Dick showed up and started running the option and that didn't you know,
that kind of took some of the value off of him. But you know
John Horton, right, David Adams, I know, he's yeah, he's
a workout fiend. Yeah he's old business. But you know, but a
guy like John Horton, you know who was found. He and David Adams
are kind of found by accident, you know, and then turned out to
be really good players for Arizona. So you know those guys, Vance Johnson
right, another another guy, So you know it's that's that's what you have
to do. Now. Again, Jed is changing it a little bit because
he's getting guys like, you know, a t Mac, like Elijah Rushing,
you know, some of these four and five star recruits. He's getting
a handful of those guys. But the numbers of those are so small that
you still got to develop guys, right and and if if they're doing that,
then you know, that's that's how you build ARIZONI and do and then
you get get a bunch of those guys all together at the same time,
and then that's when you go twelve and one or something like that. Yeah.
Yeah, So we'll see scrimmage. I hope it's nice out there.
It must have been nicer this weekend because because the little potential, right yeah,
look it is now kind of overcast. Yeah yeah, yeah, And
so I I you know, I'm I'm looking forward to it. I hope
it runs a lot more like a game and less like a practice than some
of the scrimmages have been in the past. I would hope that, Yeah,
it would be like that. Yeah, we'll see, We'll see.
But you know, I'm I know, I wonder if I have snack bars
open maybe get some nachos or something. You know that's like lappen. Well,
I mean they're they're they're inviting theirs an, they're inviting fans to come
up to this. Yeah. Well so they played in front of like so
many five last week. Yeah, but mean this time, I mean students
are coming back on campus as much should be there, so you know,
it should be a much bigger crowd this time. Okay, if you weren't
doing anything with your life, would you go to the scrimmage? Yeah,
I mean just to see, yes, you see how the team has something
to do Saturday night. Yeah, because I mean land at eight thirty,
plenty of bartment it's left after that, right, Yeah, you're not a
bar dude. I'm not a bar dude. No, you're not. Even
his dad doesn't know that. He knows that. Well, Jason, it's
been great. Yeah, it's been great having you. I hope you had
fun. I did hope you learned something definitely different. Sure, I hope
you learned. I hope you learned that you don't want to be like me
or Steve. No, you know, he has he has a great out.
You do. So it's been a pleasure's kind of learning from guys and
observing you guys guys about you know, doing the radio and the interview processing
it with people. So did you learn anything about journalism from us? Oh?
I did? I did? I mean the interviewing different guests and different
people from like all you know, walks by sports has been really interesting kind
of witness because I've had a chance to talk to some of these people you
guys interview on the day to day to day basis. Yeah, I've really
enjoyed kind of watching that from you guys. All Right, I hope,
I hope you got something out of this because that's the intent, because you
know, you got no money out of it. That Yeah, that's and
this is it. I mean, because you got nine months where you gotta
get your stuff to settle it, get your resumes. Tell you, I
tell you that almost every day you did. So I got a locking and
crime. Yeah yeah, what's that saying? First eighteen years you're on the
clock. You're not on the clock, because after that you're on your own.
Big, you're on your own your dad what you say, Well,
you're more than eighteen, but yeah, you know what I'm saying. I
mean seven from seventeen what did you give? You're sorry son, the job.
You gotta go switch your job. You gotta work, all right,
man. It's been great having you. We appreciated. There's been a lot
of fun. You've done a great job for us. Very much, and
say hey to your dad for us. I'm a'll do that all right.
We're out of here. Have a great weekend everybody. We'll be talking about
the scrimmage when we get back on Monday, so be sure to come back
on Monday.