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to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,
He's Jagan Zaus. Have another person in the room again wanting to join
us? Possibly maybe maybe Kevin for me? Hell, Kevin? Howardy?
Kevin? Hows it going? Man? You're a big sports fan? Great?
Great? Uh yeah, what what do you well? This may qualify
you or discount you right away. What are your what are your baseball teams?
I'm from saying Louis So Cardinals. Okay, he's gonna cry already.
He's a Dodger. Yeah, creating for a week now, all right?
And football team because it took you, Yeah, and you don't want to
be Cardinals here school, And I was like, maybe the Cardinals. You're
originally from somewhere you where you originally from? Okay? I was Chicago.
When you're saying, okay, you're going trying to get back to Chicago,
Yeah, okay, Okay, good, good to tell you. Good to
have you in. We'll probably ask you things. Going on another day here
in Paradise, Another day in paradise, in Paradise, another loss. You
hate today? I hate the Astros, but I already hated the Astros so
and I don't know that I could hate him more than I did before the
game yesterday. Yeah, I just so, someone said to me today or
yeah, this morning, He says, I liked what you told Jay yesterday
because it's true. Uh, when you said they're dead to you? Yeah,
And I said, well, what team is it? They are?
They are? And they were dead to me. But you know, I
did take a little solace in the fact that by picking them they lost so
anothery're in the hole too, oh, having to go on the road.
They're gonna get swapped. So I did my part. It only cost me
ten bucks. Yea, it only cost me ten bucks. Can't do with
that, Okay, totally Jay logic, Yes, it makes perfect sense.
Okay, No, welcome back, uh, Jed. We talked about Jed
and his decision. I saw the headline in the Star that he doesn't know
what he's gonna do yet, right, He kind of in decides and decides
he has ready to make a decision right he doesn't. He does, He
doesn't have to make a decision right now. But let me tell you something
I would guess and maybe you could tell me if I'm wrong. Eighty eighty
five percent of the people, if not more, if not more, want
for Peter to start well too. And two things are in play there.
And as much as I hate to bring this up, a part of a
part of why Jane Delora has lost a lot of favor in this town is
because the whole Hawaiian said, Yeah, people are pissed at that. You
know, they feel like they almost feel betrayed bye bye by Jadeen because he
was he came here, he'd been here. Then all of a sudden it
comes out that this thing has been going on for a year, a couple
of years. And I think you'll feel if you'll betrayed by by all of
that, and not that you can say, okay, hi, I'm coming
and guess what I did this right. It's not going to do that.
But I think there's a lot of people out there, and I run into
a lot and say, you know what, if we've got a quarterback who's
really good. Then you know, then let's go with that, right.
No, no, it doesn't have the baggage. Yeah, the baggage.
Yeah, and I haven't heard much of the baggage because of this. But
but he you have your quarterback. You have a quarterback. Have a quarterback.
Don't screw with a big good thing or the don't broke, don't put
fix or whatever. I went back and watched a good chunk of the game
this morning on the you know that sixty minute I think you know, wait
well for two things. One, when you see when you see the plays,
you know, without the huddles, so one play right, explain next
play, next play, next play. It kind of magnifies you know what
you're what you're seeing and what you saw. What you see with Fafita is
how decisive he is, you know, with with with with the with the
passing game. He's I mean, you rarely, you're rarely sitting there like
looking around. He finds somebody and he gets rid of it. He had
a nice side arm throw where a guy was on top of him and he
kind of threw a side arm around him and found a t mac in a
you know, a big third down play. Things like that. Then the
other thing I saw was how smothering the defense was no, no, they
just it was crazy. Like I said yesterday, I was impressed throughout the
whole game because I'm thinking, like you, Smidge, thinking that, Okay,
Washington's gonna come back at some point. You didn't allow it. He
didn't allow it. And then I did something on Twitter. Really, you
know, I'm really on Twitter. I said, let me pause this for
analysis. F Fita is very impressive. Yeah, it's what you saw on
the sixties. Right. He doesn't get flustered. He just does his job
and he's just impressive in a simple kind of way. Yeah. And then
those times that you see him, like say after a play, yeah,
right, and he's looking at the bench or whatever. M hm, his
eyes aren't big, you know, he's like he's calm as hell, right,
and and uh, you know that's that's sort of I don't know if
you want to call it an IT factor or or something that a guy just
has. What got that? What was the what was the one thing that
we saw eighteen months ago when we first went to practice, Right, we
heard all the hype about him, which was very right, legit, Jayden
was Jaden was Jaden and we're thinking, what was his biggest criticism for FRIEDA
he's short short, doesn't that doesn't seem to matter. Okay, look,
maybe he's not going to be an NFL quarterback, but he can be a
really damn good college quarterback, right And he's a he's a he's a wretched
freshman and just is you know, just the poise, the poison, the
knowledge of he knows where guys are supposed to be. You know, there
was a great throw that he made. It was in the second half.
I think it was their their first possession of the second half when they went
down and I think they ended up kicking a field goal. But he throws
this. He threw an NFL pass to to uh to maclachlin. Okay,
just you know Maclochlin almost like a wheel route. He just went up the
sideline, got behind a defender and he hit him on the run. He
takes it down inside the five and then he always has his safety valve,
h his his team. He knows where that guy is every time, and
he found him a few times in that situation. I think you so want
a third down or whatever was It's just you know, So when you,
like I said, when you watch it in that mode and you see play
one right after another in quick succession, you had a real sense of what
was going on right, you know, on on the field, and Arizona
was just really good. That what do you think? What do you think?
Uh? And I'm asking you to do something you shouldn't do, but
get into the mind of Jed And what do you think he's thinking about this
team? Like he said Saturday night, He's thinking, damn it, I
wish we hadn't lost in Mississippi's team in USC. We should have won those
games, right, I mean, we should have won those damn games.
We should be six and one right now. That's what I'm thinking, because
I saw I saw a good chunk at USC last week. They looked like
crap. They don't look good. Yeah, and you know they they look
worse than I thought they were going to be during the summer and I thought
they were the third or fourth best team in the league. I was reading
something. I don't know how legitimate it is, but it seems like like
Caleb has become this guy, right, and he has become this guy and
the rest of the guys are thinking you're not that guy. You're you're a
tour team. Don't leave us. And there might be some fractions inside the
well. But I also think there's there's an expectation that because they have the
Heisman Trophy winner from last year, they can come up. But they should
be really damn good and he should be able to fix anything. Yeah,
they're a terrible defensive team. Yeah, they're not just bad, they're terrible.
No, and when he gets them in trouble, even worse. Because
last week he got to got him in trouble turnovers and stuff like that.
So he's not gonna be able to do that right. And I don't know.
I don't have a bet with you. I just don't feel that they're
most they're gonna get into the playoffs with the with the championship game US.
No, No, I'm talking about PAC twelve. Oh wow, it's gonna
be Washington and Oregon again. And I really like Oregon the second time.
Yeah, but again, you know, depending on what else goes on,
if they're both sitting there at eleven and one or twelve and one, if
you know, they could both get in, I don't. I don't.
I don't have any confidence at the committee will put two PAC twelve teams in.
Yeah, but you know, look at the SEC. You know who
besides Georgia deserves it. I don't know. Maybe you guys think because the
PAC twelve has been notable this year because of Colorado and other teams, uh,
maybe that more eyes are on the PAC twelve and because of the quarterbacks
they are that that could help them with this, right, and there there's
more eyes on the on the on the Pack twelve because of Colorado. For
better or's that's my point, for better or worse. I mean, you
know we're just seeing a lot more of that. I mean, what do
you think. I mean, it's like there just seems to be so much
more attention. I think as far as the PAC twelve goes, it's really
unfortunate what's going on with the conference realignment considering the teams you have this year,
right, Pack twelve, like so many eyeballs on Colorado, USC,
Oregon, Washington and you brought you brought up the defense for USC. I
think there's a little bit of like Colorado to USC. I think you have
like like obviously not the start coach, right, but you have a start
quarterback who's expected to maybe bring wins that he might not be able to deliver
on his own as a solo guy. Show Sudar and Williams like they can't
win games on their own, right, you have to have a defense,
and these neither of those schools have defenses. And I think all while that's
happening, you have Oregon Washington teams, like you mentioned, kind of slowly
building just to go into a different conference. So definitely all eyes around the
PAC twelve. I feel like coming into it's a super second. So it's
twelve games, Uh, Washington is eleven or twelve when Oregon is eleven and
one, right, whatever, and they play each other in Oregon wins,
that Oregon would be be the choice, right, don't Well, Oregon,
it'd be the first choice. Okay, So then you have Washington State,
who they might have the been Trophy winner, So how would you not could
include them? Look, and let's remember TCU who was TCU last year?
It came out of nowhere. They lost their conference championship game and they still
got into the playoffs, so and played crazy good Yeah and until the championship
Yeah you know, but so yeah, I mean there's a look, there's
still a lot to happen, you know. Watch. The thing is every
every Pack Puff team has a tough schedule the rest of the way. Let's
talk real quick about who we have on. We have Michael eleven the first
hour, right usual, we'll go back and see what he sees because he
sees a lot of good things. Uh, that'll be at three fifteen,
three seventeen, right about that, and then we can Ted Robinson what we're
talking about with all eyes more on the PAC twelve does what does it mean
in the future, Yeah, for you know, in a month or yeah,
you know it. Haads a play by play guy for Packed pub Network,
so you see, he gets to see all the teams. Yeah,
so we'll see what, you know, what what he thinks. But the
PAC twelve has not been the Packed off has been what people are expecting it
to be really good and the fact that that game was so darn good it
was cool, he makes kind of elevates elevates the league even more. Yeah,
I mean, you know, there's still people saying it was the best
game of the year, you know, even with what happened with the Oklahoma
Texas game. Yeah, and that was that was an incredible game too,
you know, so I I, you know, I almost feel like there'd
be some sentimental value to the fact the league is breaking up and they're gonna
say, you know, okay, let's get a couple of teams in there,
if they're both good, if they're worthy. I thought you can say,
oh, let's kind of get the band, you know, if they're
if they're worthy, I mean, I don't expect them to not be in
the league. But right now, you know, I've seen, you know,
I watched a lot of football. I watch at the college football.
They're two of the three best teams that I've seen, the other one being
who Georgia Georgia and I don't they haven't been great. The team that's kind
of stuck in there for whatever reason. I only see them. Well,
there's Florida's Florida State, Tolordida State. I saw Florida State play I Softloresa
State and nearly lose to Boston College. Yeah no. And then there's Michigan.
All right, Michigan, but again, who's Michigan played so far?
Right, then they're not gonna playing but great until like next month. So
in Ohio State played and they didn't again and that gets to you talk about
Ohio State Michigan. They you know, they go undefeated or lose one game
every year. Well, the rest of the league sucks, right, you
know, after after a High State and Michigan, everybody's been Iowa. Iowa
has one loss and they're averaging like eight points a game. We were talking
about that with with someone today. They could sneak into something, and they're
not very attractive. They could they could get I've heard the rest of your
schedule was terrible. Yeah, they could get to the They could get to
the Big Ten championship game with an eleven and one record. Then what happens
if all of a sudden they hold Ohio State to fourteen points and they win
seventeen to fourteen. Yeah, fifteen to fourteen. So I saw today some
pole I can't remember what was the guy who who picked the bowl games already,
you know it's Arizona in a bowl game against Oklahoma State, kind of
like the Independence bullish. I saw. I saw one projection that had him
in the sun Ball against Georgia Tech. Okay, and that's that's moving up
the last This is what day is that it's like three or four new years
because this was the twenty sixth, but my game game, so it's something
like that. I think the sun Ball is like on the thirty, okay,
twenty. It's late, it's late, in the very late toasa.
I do you love to go see that? But I've already got plans between
Christmas and years. So they play a bowl game between Christmas and the years.
I don't. Oh, then you're done, You're done, You're not
going. Well, they got to get there first, Yeah, they got
to get there. Look, I think I based on how they played Saturday
and they've got three wins left on their schedule. Sure, yeah, no,
no, I get I totally get it. But but but but they're
Arizona. Yeah, and were Arizona, and they may not play like that
again, Sure I don't. I do think though, we talked about this
yesterday that it helps with selling tickets and he said, one more flight,
one more playing, and the restaurant home, and they'll have people in the
stands to go see them. Yeah, of course unless they have poop the
bed and then they can't they can't let they can't let the Oregon State come
in, you know from Saturday and just you know, they can't lose.
Did you thirty five to tend Did you see them? There's an exhibition game
Friday night basketball. Yeah, I didn't. Didn't realize that. You're you're
already dressed up. You're already dressed up for the shower. But what I'm
doing, what I'm is, I'm wearing them to get the dust off of
them. They can get washed so I can start wearing them. You've been
a receive preseason for the merchandise as well. Yeah, yeah, have just
got it right. So I went back and I dug this one out of
well, please shower with it. It'll get watched. Thank you. All
right, let's get the heck out of here. We're going to come back.
We've got Michael lev we'll get his take on Arizona, what he saw
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Now on the phone, we have the Arizona Daily Star columnist Michael liv Michael,
how are you, hey, guys? How's it going good? Good?
A week off for you guys? Or is it really well? I
mean it's not a full week off. I have several assignments and places to
be over the next several days, and Justin my colleague is also working on
some stuff. But it's definitely a lighter week when you don't have a game,
especially a game that starts at seven thirty pm, and you're you know,
you're not going to bed until like four in the morning the next day.
So yeah, it's all good. Better you than me. Yeah,
I'm getting up at four in the morning because I go to bed at six
o'clock the night. Right again, my tap yoka and I hit the sack.
So hey, So Michael, you're you're missing all the packbull Doctor Dark
to do that. Okay, maybe much more of it left. I'll stay
up for that a couple more months, and that's it. I know.
I'm sad about that. So Michael, first impressions after the game were,
what were your first thoughts when you saw what happened? God Like? So
I wouldn't say that I was stunned, more like pleasantly surprised, but man,
what a what an outstanding overall all around performance by the Wildcats. I
would say, clearly the best game that they've played under Jetfish and and really
maybe not even close good in every single phase. Like I came out of
there going like, man, I have like no notes, you know,
like like what are what are we even critiquing here. My report card was
all ways except for I think I did the the the offensive line a B
plus. You know, I think I think we knew. I think we
knew that they were capable of being really good. But even Jetfish himself,
like when if you watch the video that the U of A put out like
you know, the sites and sounds like big question of the team was are
we for real? Because they had come so close and they hadn't finished the
job, and they they finished the job and then some on saturdayay employment,
Yeah, no, no question. I was gonna say now, I was
gonna ask any different question if I could. I'm gonna change gears just for
the moment. So what's you did a very good job with the with the
decommitment of of UH with rushing right. I'm sure that people a lot of
work and a lot of thought into it. This may be a tough question
to answer. Did you leave some thoughts or impressions from others because you had
to talk to others on the cutting room floor? Oh, a really good
question, very like inside baseball. I have a question. I appreciate that,
no question about it. Yeah, of course, I mean, if
you do a good job. With any given story, you're leaving a lot
of stuff on the cutting room floor. So with this particular one, I
wanted to find out find out what happened like, and I wanted to get
it from both sides. So I talked to some people in the rushing what
I would call the rushing camp, and I talked to some people you know,
inside the program, okay, and they all agreed that they would speak
to me on condition of anonymity, which is fine in this particular case.
I don't think we should do every single story that way, but worked with
this one, and then I kind of just decided, like, Okay,
what are the most interesting theories that are out there? Do they have any
validity to them? Are their rumors that kind of need to be shot down?
And so I kind of picked maybe the best five, you know,
of the group, and I just kind of went from there and injected my
own sort of judgments, opinions, et cetera, amid all of that kind
of speculation that's so prevalent when something like this happened. So coming out of
that, you know, what will Did you think that the Russians were butt
heads? Did you think Arizona screwed it up, or a little bit of
both. I would definitely say that it was a combination of two. But
I don't know. I don't really want to like blame one side or the
other. I just feel like communication broke down in a lot of ways between
the two sides. I do think that at there was an nil component to
this, you know, coming from other schools. I think that was that
was a big factor. And in a lot of these situations, I just
think you're naive to think that it's not right, you know. I mean,
that's just that is the way of the world, the way that they've
set this thing up. Now, there are certain schools that have deep pockets
or their donors have deep pockets, and they're going to be able to win
some of these recruiting battles if that is what's important to a particular family.
I'm not saying that that is the sole reason that this happened. I'm not
saying it's fifty percent of what happened. I'm saying that it's definitely a factor
to some degree. So lost in this, uh was the decommitment of Willheigh
too right where you didn't write about that. But I'm sure you learn more
from all this. Yeah, I didn't. I mean, I don't know
as much about that particular case. I do know that, like the kids
been in Washington and he went up to went up for a visit at Washington.
I can't imagine a better uh, you know, recruiting weekend for U
dub than how that whole thing played out, with Dame Day being there.
Incredible crowd, like, unbelievably good game. I mean, what a scene.
I feel like anyone would just sort of sign on the dotted line after
being a part of that. But you know, I don't know. I
don't like people are maybe are upset or they feel like, oh, you
know, hey, maybe same old Arizona. They can't close, they can't
bring in the local guides. Maybe that's true to a tiny degree. But
to me, this doesn't really change anything about the way they've gone about recruiting.
I just think it's a shame that it didn't work out, because it
would have been really cool if it did. All right, so they've got
a week off. Obviously, the question of the week is going to be
quarterback. I mean, I don't know. I mean, he almost I
don't know if his hands are tight or well, they're not tired because he's
gonna do whatever he wants. If you were, if you were a betting
man, what you think Fafeta is starting the next game? I would I
would definitely place my bet on Noah Fafita. I think that Jed has told
the team what's going on. I think he told the quarterbacks what's going on.
I just think he feels like he has no reason to tell us what's
going on right at this point anyway, for them, largely because you force
Oregon State, even if it's kind of transparent, you're still forcing Oregon State
to spend a certain amount of time preparing for the other quarterback, you know,
like the remote the possibility, even if it's remote, that he's going
to switch back to Dolaura. Who knows, maybe he'll even play the Laura
like you'll play both guys. I don't think he will, because he's an
NFL coach at heart, and and that's not what they do up there for
the most part. But I just feel like Defita has played his way into
the job, Like how could you mention him after he has done so well?
He's gotten better every single week in terms of the passing yards and completion
percentage, zero turnover. Where he plays this last game, he's just operating
like a point guard, distributing the ball to his playmakers and just letting the
offense percolate. So we've already gone through seven weeks, right, Well,
how fast does that go? Right? Who would you say is the MVP
to this point? Offense both if you want, man, it's tough,
I would say, yeah, I would actually vote for on an offense because
so much playing time has been divided at certain positions. I vote for Jonah
Sava, the offensive lineman. He has played almost every snap. He has
played both right tack land right guard pretty seamlessly. I think he's allowed one
fact the entire season. He's just been a real He's been a rock for
that. I'm super consistent. Uh from the start of the season tip to
this point. Uh, and defense that I just don't see how you can
pick anyone other than Jacobanu. He's there, you know, leading tackler,
most offensive stops, he's tied to the team lead and quarterback pressures. He
just kind of you know, they don't have a lot of stars on that
side of the ball. He's close to the thing and he just sort of
feels like the players would be the most difficult to replace the lost him.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I I was when you start, when you
said Jonah, I was gonna throw out Jonah Coleman because I just love that
guy. But you're right. I mean he's not. You know, he's
better started a couple of games, but man, he's these last few weeks
he's just been he's been money. Hey look, I'm I'm a bit as
big a Jonah Coleman advocate as you'll find. I've been saying it's like the
first time I saw him practice. I mean he's a stud. There's no
two ways about it. I mean he's averaging over five yards after contact per
rushing attempt, which is I think third in the country. Crazy, crazy,
fat. He's just like he's like a it's like trying to tackle a
bowling ball. Yeah, you know, he f low to the ground.
He's super strong, he's really tough, runs really hard, and and like
I could see two you know, it's not like he's the one trick pony.
He can make some moves in the open field as well. So very
impressed with Jonah. They haven't skipped a beat without Michael Wilder. Guy there,
So let me ask you a quick question. I just came up with
this one on Russia to any good, maybe the stupidest question of the day.
So, so, Jenson is two and a half years of coaching here
as a head coach college wise. Has he become a has he become a
better coach? And we talked about this yesterday. Remember her first year he
said he can't call places, he should let somebody else call plays. No,
he's calling plays and doing really well with them. Maybe it's better tell
But to me, I'd answer my gold question saying, yes he has,
But what do you think I think definitely you learned from experience. He was
a first time head coach. He coached what two games in UCLA. But
if that's different from actually being in charge of a program, right, And
the thing about when you assist a college coach, it's not just what happens
on Saturdays, you know, so much of it is what happened the rest
of the week and the rest of the year. Like recruiting is at leaf
tap and he and his staff have done a really good job in that regard.
He's put together this NFL style front office. He's made really good defensive
coordinator hires. You know, there was a lot of skepticism. I think
about Johnny Anton going into last year and even maybe throughout last year, and
he's quieted a lot of the doubters with how well the defense has played.
So I think there's no question about it. Jed would probably say the same
himself. And it's maybe it's not like this calling wait, because he's done
that plenty of times. It's the rest of it. You know, it's
managing your time, managing people, managing the whole program. And I think
there's I think it's a very good point that you make, and I'm a
good theory and I think it's true. Yeah, Okay, well, Michael,
enjoy your time off the weekend. Enjoy the weekend. You never get
weekends. I'll be spending like six plus hours at high Corbett dealed on Saturday,
bring a ball baseball scrimmage, So you know, do you want to
call that time off? And they could be worse things. It could be
worse things. You could be doing what I'm going to be doing this weekend,
and it's putting in a floor. So no, Hey man, Hi
Corbett, Hey, Hi Corbet, it's the best place to thank you,
Michael. Appreciate it. No, no, thank you Michael. Thank you
guys. Good stuff, good stuff. You know, I never ever,
ever, never ever would have come up with the offensive lineman. I'm yeah,
I don't even think about that, right, I don't. But but
you know, he follows them more, and he he's got the stats,
he knows the numbers. And when he said though to Summon, like,
hey, yeah, kind of makes sense, right, yeah, because their
offensive line has been has been money. I would have never thought that though,
which is great. Yeah, that's where we have him on this.
We don't vote for the precincts, all right, So we're going to be
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Sports Stage. Chef Fox Sports fourteen fifty Hey, welcome back to Why on
the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, He's Jay.
Got our guy Kevin with us today. We're hello. We got about twelve
minutes. You guys can give us a call if you'd like. Yep,
fight two four one six four forty will take your call and Jay, what
do you got? Okay? So this came up on uh, you know,
I subscribed to the athletic and they had a serve put out a survey.
It was yesterday or the day before. I think it was yesterday,
Yesterday, Tuesday, Tuesday. Yes, it was yesterday because I wouldn't have
done this during the games. So it was a it was a how do
you watch college football? Survey? They had some interesting question We're only a
handful of questions, so I since I responded to it in nice other results,
they thought we could talk about it because it was pretty interesting and you
know, the interesting questions that they asked and the responses that they got.
So the first question is what network do you prefer for national game broadcasts.
You know, to me, that was a no brainer. ESPN and ABC
they got of the of the Boat, the CBS at twenty, Fox at
eighteen, and then NBC just a sliver because all they've got is Notre Dame.
And then they do They've added a Big ten game this week. But
you know, that's kind of like, okay, no brainer. But then
some of the other interesting questions, what is your favorite conference network for games?
Big ten edged out the SEC, they were both way ahead of the
ACC. Then after that came to back twelve at seven point five typicult,
But and then your favorite broadcast announcer team, So the two guys in the
booths Chris Fowler, Kirk khurb Street my favorite. I mean, I like
sense guys Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt. That was a tough one because I
like Gus Johnson a lot. I'm not as big. I like Joel Klatt
a lot more than I like Kirk kirk Street. That's so I voted Follower
and herbs Street as well. But then you got Brad Nessler and Gary Danielson
on CBS, Sean McDonough and Greg McElroy in ESPN, and then a bunch
of guys I've never even heard of. After that, I've heard of something.
He's got Tim Brando, no Tested Tour, Noah Eagle, some of
those guys are in there. But Herve Street and followed got thirty eight point
three. That came some some interesting stuff. Pat McAfee, we've talked about
here and mentioned. You know, you and I are not the demographic form.
But I do like the show. You like it. You see a
show. I don't see a show like when I had a chance, I
do it. Can I see this and not entirely for this reason, like
a car crush, you can't take your right because you don't know what's gonna
happen. If I just watched maybe six or seven shows, but you're watching
it to see what can he cost because they allow him to cost and they
but yeah, but if they noticed to cuss on this show, we'd be
fantastic. Oh yeah, we'd be like, you'd have to we're money exactly
anyway. So this is about his role on Game Okay, Okay, see
that I haven't. This has been a big controversy for sure. I think
he's ruining Game Day. Okay, I really Okay, how do you feel
about Pat mcafeel on Game Day. Like it thirty percent, don't like it
forty eight point nine percent, no opinion twenty one percent is it wasn't not
a selection? For give him a couple of years, or give him some
give him a season or two. Just how do you think about him right
now? I mean he's been on it, on it right. Yeah.
The thing is, once you don't like him, it's hard to not like
him. Yeah, he's kind of hard to avoid once you once you see
it, you can't. Yeah. Some reader comments I don't watch Game Day
anymore solely because of Pat McAfee. I think is that he's an embarrassment to
ESPAN and the major whatever cibility. Have you seen him on it? Have
you seen the game Day? So what's the big deal is he? What's
he's bringing to the show? He's brought to the way I describe it is
he's brought a World Wrestling you know, a WWE persona to a show that
a doesn't need. That. He's loud, obnoxious, he grabs the attention,
he gets in people's way, He talks too much, and he says
ridiculous things. There you go, Jay, I got a call from I
gotta call about you yesterday. Hi, you're on the air and I on
the ball. Hey Jay, this is done. Hey DoD. You know,
my opinion on McAfee is he's just twenty twenty threes version of dick Y
Town. Yeah, in a way, you kind of started getting good and
we were getting more on ESPN. It was fun and it was all that
and all, you know, and then it just grew. It was just
tiring. If how became a clown in no time. He was just you
couldn't you couldn't even hear him. I don't I don't dislike McAfee. I
think he's just he's just trying to be a little bit edgier than what what
everybody's used to. And and and that forty eight percent on that survey is
forty eight percent of the people that pay to read the Athletic. I don't
pay to read the athletics, so I'm not in That's an interesting point,
don interesting point. But again, as we've said, you got to see
that it's it's not the demographic. Were the demographic that's reading the Athletic that
likes McAfee exactly correct. And and he's and he's grab he's grabbing ratings.
Yeah, they wouldn't have given him a show, well, especially a show
right after first. Yeah. That On another subject, yes, on another
subject. I wanted to add something. I want to get this out.
It's not that or that Arizona is not getting the local kids right now.
It's that they're in there fighting to get them, and so we're they're going
to get them. The better the program becomes, the better the program is
going to look for these guys to stay. How old are you so the
good thing is I'm fifty eight. Good luck with that. No, no,
no, we were, we were. We were a good pro hold
on real quick. We had the CEO of Siaga about three or four pretty
good players, right, yeah. The other schools were after. Yeah.
Did we hear Arizona in on them? I don't remember them saying that.
No, no, no, no overall Oh yeah I don't know. Yeah,
yeah, because we heard the Oregon and Washington were there, right right
right, Yeah, No, it's tough. Well, the two guys,
the two guys that are on the Midtown team that had signed with Arizona were
completely neglected. A staff a goal, yeah, no question, I mean,
I know, I know there's some I know there's some other guys that
are in town that Arizona should be in on that they would probably get.
But you know, it just depends. I just think that the fact that
they were in on trying to get those guys, I think that that that
speaks volumes for the program itself. Right, No, I don't disagree with
that. Done all right, don thanks a bunch man, appreciate it.
Yep, that's all right. So Jay, we talk about this all the
time. If you have the Ransoms and the Bijons and you know Texas or
Ohiosti coming for you, what are you going to do? You know?
But also you know, I feel like the relationships here were so broken.
Yeah, I'm gonna take them a while. Sure, no question for guys
to say, Okay, I'm staying No. This was a blow to that
because they thought they got it then they left. Sure, no, no.
And then on the other side you have the guys like Jake's, the
Tennis's who kind of are overlooked and what do they want to play here here?
Because they were overlooked by other people, they got to get some of
those guys. Anyways, Okay, getting back to the whole the whole thing,
So there was that comment about McAfee. Then another one said, I
think Pat McAfee has a great energy to game day, and I don't understand
the hate for him. And this is my favorite one. Oh I'm not
a big McAfee fan. It far out weighs watching anything involving Urban Meyer.
Who's that? And that's why I can't change it. I tried. I
tried to watch the Fox Show, and Urban Meyer makes my skin because because
because of his show or because of who he is. I think because of
who, because he's arrogant, ye, you know, and then the whole
you know, just the way. I just never liked Urban Maye. So
it's more, you have a bias, have a bias against Urban and I
don't want to listen to anything. Sure, okay, let's give you the
go back to the ESPN. We have it's a it's it's a Reese Davis.
Uh no one. Do you have what's his name again, Patt McAfee.
But then you have courso Yeah, so that's kind of making it uncomfortable.
Opinion is the issue. I think it's misplaced energy. Yeah, Pat
McAfee brings a very like young, exuberant noise. He brings noise, he
brings nice and that's what they're at, no question. But then you have
the other side, and that's my Yeah, that's what I feel. It's
a bad cast to put him in, and a bad cast to match everybody
with. I mean, it does doesn't. If you're watching it that hour
of the morning and you're getting Pat McAfee screaming, and then you're getting Kirk
curve Street trying to just like talk regularly, it doesn't match. It gives
the view like a very it's hard to listen to feeling watching it. I
disagree with you. Yeah, yeah, But then then you talk about Fox.
It's my understanding that's a pretty good show. But then but then you
have uh, what's his name? Uh? You know who who likes him?
I don't know anybody who likes him? Urban Meyer Like, well there
exactly. Okay, So here's what do you watch pre game shows more or
less than you used to? Sixty three percent say less, But it points
out that ratings are still really strong a pregame show, So it doesn't it
doesn't seem to match up with you know, the data. Then finally it
says, do you believe TV networks are biased? Towards certain conferences with question
eighty two yes, yes, And then do you believe TV networks play an
active role in driving conference realignment? Five with no question Yeah. With the
other five percent on that one, that's my it's a plus or minus five
percent. So you saw this weekend. I don't know the details on this,
but Colorado is going to be on a b C again over Washington and
all these school See, that's that's the factors over Yeah, that's done,
you know after what they did the other day. Absolutely, but people are
I guess not people. It's the station yea or the company nets it's in
love with them, which makes zero sense that it bothers me. But like
Arizona, Arizona's got a seven thirty game, gets working state, that's gonna
be a great on TV, is on TV, it's on ESPN. Okay,
but at the seven thirty at night you got you got U c l
A and Colorado are playing at four thirty, Like what the hell? No,
that's gonna be that's a terrible game. U c LA is a bad
team and Colorado's has become a very bad team. I mean, you can't
you can't lose the way they did the Stanford and and still get it for
every ward every ward. All right, we're gonna take our break, we're
gonna come back. He'll be breaking news at the top of the hour.
And we've got Ted Robinson from Pack Club Networks coming on at about four to
twenty, so stick around. We gotta cat. I'm gonna have a good
samd holing in that and the boughts Inland of so say, I'm gonna get
loose. He's on fire.