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He's Jaginsaus. We've got our guys
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give us a quick call when we're
not on the phone. Five two zero

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four one six seventy four forty Jay, did you miss me? And there's

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only one right answer. No,
No, I didn't. That's not the

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right end. That wasn't the answer. Wasn't the answer. Hey, Sammy,

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Sammy kick button man. Sammy's good. He came in here. He

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was prepared. He was way more
prepared than you and I ever are its

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fool, the young fool. He
worked at it. Man. Look,

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it was this big shot, right, it was a big shot. He

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did a great job. We had
some good conversation and it was a lot

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of fun. So you became smarter
after you. I did miss you a

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little bit. Yeah, how's that? That's okay? He could none or

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none at all, everything or none
at all on one of those no in

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between. You can't be a little
bit pregnant, right Exactly, that's one

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of my phrases. Yeah, okay, cool, cool of a big day

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tonight or big night tonight. Who
would ever thought this a month or two

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ago, that Arizona needed a win
against Washington State to stay atop of the

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Exactly, that's what I said yesterday. And we said to Michael lev I

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said, okay, you know,
at the beginning of the season, these

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are some words that you never would
have thought we would say yesterday that Arizona

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has a game tomorrow for first place
in the Pac twelve against Washington State.

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Yeah. And that was it.
I mean, that's just that's really it.

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And and and a win would prevent
a sweep because they've already lost to

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them already once, right well,
And and a win, I mean a

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loss, a loss that may be
it for the Pac twelve, you know,

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because they because they would have to
pass Washington State to win the league.

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They couldn't tie with them, they'd
have to pass them. So Washington

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State would have to lose a couple
if Arizona and Arizona would have to not

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lose any what's your schedule? Because
they're not a role, they're nice.

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They've won. I think we said
ten of eleven or nine of ten or

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something like that, seven seventh straight
think some some yeah, some number like

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that. I'll look up their schedule
here. But you know, for if

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Arizona were to lose tomorrow, Washington
State would have to lose two times,

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and Arizona would have to not lose
at all. And I don't know that.

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You know, we were talking yesterday. There's got to be a loss

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in there somewhere for Arizona. Yeah, I think it's the last. I

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think it's the last one or second
last one last week? Yeah, wow,

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who would ever thought this in Washington
State? Good for them, Good

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for them. The police need some
news like this. You need some love,

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They need some love. It's cold
up there. Yeah, so this

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will be their warm How good.
I'll break your prediction tonight, Arizona a

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win by how much? Have you
know? It's eleven? Eleven and a

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half is the last thing I saw? It seems like a lot. But

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the eighteen and a half against a
SU seemed like a lot too, because

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that that AC would put up a
fight. Yeah, and they clearly didn't.

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They had no fight. And then
here's here's the here's a well you

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know you can you can if at
Washington statebut arizonier night, you could see

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them not losing another game because they've
got at a s U on Saturday.

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Then their home. Their last three
games are home against usc U, c

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l A, and Washington. Yeah, yeah, it'll be this is the

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key game, key game, a
huge game, and I can't believe it's

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a huge game. And they're thirteen
and one at home. So so on

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top of their only loss at home
was to uh it was a flukey game.

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I think after they played there at
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the overtime Uh? No, they
lost to Oregon at home. They lost

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to before that must after the Arizona
game. No, there was two games

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before the year. Really well,
I would have gift they still Oregon,

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then one at US he then then
I went home and beat Arizona. Okay,

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we'll see what happens. I think
I was gonna be okay with tonight,

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but we'll see. Okay, And
then would you get would you give

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the points? Yes? Are you
going to give the point? Maybe?

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But I would give the point.
Give the points, okay, but let

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me tell you I'm not doing well
so, I mean recently I've been missing

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one or two. This could be
the one or two. We were laughing

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about the fact that I had the
yukon night before last. Oh yeah,

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yeah, how could you? Bobby? Daddy Harley was looking for you at

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the stands. He said, I'm
gonna knock you out when he saw me

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up in the Seaton. It's gone
up to thirteen thirteen. They're taking it.

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I don't like that number. One
fifty one, thirteen and one fifty

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one. The number just scares me
now. So it is what it is.

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I'll probably stay off of it.
What they scored last time up there,

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they scored it was a big game. One hundred and forty three.

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Yeah, oh under seventy three seventy
yeah, okay, I might just do

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this one of them. Yeah,
anyways, but uh, I don't know.

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You know, Tommy's verdy impressed by
them, if you heard him on

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his press conference yesterday. And they're
playing well, I mean again, you

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know, comparatively, they're twenty and
six Arizona's twenty and five. Arizona's eleven

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and three. In the league,
they're eleven and four. I mean,

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I know the preseason schedule is different, yeah, but the league schedule is

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about the same. When when was
the last time you heard an opponent's coach

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not being impressed with a team coming
into their place or you going there?

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Well, I know, but it's
kind of a seventeen they're the best.

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But you know what though, but
he the things that he said about what

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defensively, yeah, just how defensively
you know, he got just it just

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sounded more of more than the coach
speak. I'm not going to say anything

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bad about the other team kind of
thing. You know. There's just a

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lot of things that they do.
He talked about there. They've got a

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quirky defense, he said, but
it's not a it's not what do you

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called it? A gimmick? A
gimmick defense and it works, you know

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that kind of stuff. So,
well, we're gonna have We're gonna have

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Greg Woods, who covers Washington State
and is in town actually for the covering

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Washington State for the Spokesman Review,
so he will be on the on the

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air, will remind him that we
last we talked to him. He as

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well as the rest of us,
were all wrong when we were picking the

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Washington State Arizona game. It couldn't
have been further off. But the media,

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the media wrong. What are you
talking about? They picked him to

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finish tenth in the league or eighth
in the league, whatever it was.

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What the hell do we know?
Nothing? So Greg, Greg, you

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know he could again, he could
be your grandson. It looks like from

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his pictures all these kids that we
have on how old are you? Twenty

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two? Just out of college?
So Greg, Greg Woods will join us

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here. So you have hopes,
you have hope. What do you do?

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I'm the president of the United States. Start coach of this old stuff.

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And then uh, in the second
hour, we're gonna have Jeff Neil,

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who is the head boys soccer coach
at bush Ridge. They want a

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state championship. Yeah, we're trying
to, you know, roll through and

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get some of the state championship winning
coaches and or players on the show.

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Uh. You know, somebody tweeted
us the other day said, you know,

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be sure you got Sunnyside. Well
we're trying. Yeah, But Anthony

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Leone, the head coach as well
as Audrey hey Man is the possible Olympic

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Women's Olympic wrestler or out of the
country right now at an Olympic qualifiers,

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So we are trying to get them, so please be pitchid next week.

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Yeah, we'll get him. We'll
get him when we can. But just

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want to make sure that the Sunnyside
folks know we're not ignoring uh that program

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right well? Okay, uh yeah, a lot of them. And see

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who's in the finals tomorrow in the
soccer points got both of the boys and

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girls. All they do is win
in that program, so we'll see what

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happens that point. The South Point
boys are playing Micah Mountains. There's gonna

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be a Tucson state champion in the
four A for boys. I think so

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forty boys, so we will have
a two state champion there and then a

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bunch of the basketball teams are still
cruising along, right Okay, cool,

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if you guys want to call five
two four one six Sunnyside boys, oh

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yeah, got beat tenty four to
oh and one and the yeah last week

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this week one of the just reaching
over the weekend. Yeah, oh yeah,

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I saw the up in Phoenix,
up in Phoenix. That's a tough

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one, man. Yeah, to
go undefeated and then losing a in a

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state fine in early round rounds,
the early round. Yeah, even in

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the finals they were the they think
they fished the eighth seed from Uh.

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Yeah, Jagier was up there.
How you can they always tweet me and

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let me know how does that happen? Yeah? You know Arizona kids.

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Man, what do you do?
High school kids? Right? Right?

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Okay, okay, back to U
high school? Stoff got women's basketball on

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the road. Uh did you u? Who do we have on? Was

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it Candrea Canrea? Yeah? Uh? And I thought this was interesting.

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We didn't talk about this after the
that he said and this is probably him

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probably waxing poetic, but very sincere
what he said about Ada that this may

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be the best coaching job she's done
while here. I found that to you?

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He said that, right? What
did you think? Did you even

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think what he what he said?
Any thoughts when he said that, because

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you know, we're always thinking of
the circumstance. What was going on?

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Right? When you think of the
circumstance, and if you don't try and

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if you don't try and make assumptions
for why she's got few players. You

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know, certainly, Uh true,
you can make that argument that she's playing

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with seven players, she's still winning
games. Uh she's in the middle of

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the pack in the a very tough
league. Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe

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it is. You know, it
makes me go back to that that scene

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in that movie Blue Chips, right
when you know, in his rant at

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the end of the at the end
of the movie, Nick Nolty was the

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head coach of a u c l
A like team. I want to hear

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this quote he thought he thought the
best coaching job he did was the previous

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year when they went like sixteen and
sixteen or something like that. He said,

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that was the best coaching job I
did because I felt like I got

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the maximum out of my players.
We didn't win the number of games that

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you wanted us to win, but
I felt like that was the time that

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I most got the max of my
players. And that's what you're looking for,

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Right If I got everything I could
out of them, and that's the

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best that we could do because and
we gave it the best, then that's

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what you're trying to do. Because
there are times when you have a great

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team, you have great players and
you don't get the best out of them,

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and you lose to Princeville, or
you lose to Santa Clara, or

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you lose to you know, Saint
Peter's or whoever, and you feel like

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you didn't get everything that you should
have gotten. Sure, well, it's

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well, first of all, where
did you pull that quote from? Because

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I see that movie all. I
love that. It's one of those movies

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that I can jump into anywhere in
the movie and just watch the rest of

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it. Shack, Benny Hardaway,
Bobby Hurley's in it, Beheimen in it,

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Bobby Knight's in it, or it's
Traveling's in it, Louke Carni second

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and second, lou Campinelli's in it. You know, uh, but all

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these guys are in it. And
and then Larry Bird's in it, you

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know when he says like ninety six
is shit when he came out, Well,

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they got actual college players to do
the college basketball scenes. And the

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review at the you know when that
movie came out was that it was great

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because the basketball and it looked like
college basketball right right. It was a

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kind of updated version of my one
of my favorite movies when I was a

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kid one on one one one with
Bobby Benson. Yeah, okay, yeah,

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no, cool, Yeah, that's
how you think. That's why I

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pulled that. I see. In
fact, if it's on, I'll watch

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it just to see that end scene
when he was when he ran, when

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he ran, that was just kicked
out the door, and it was kind

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of a softer version of Bobby Knight
that he was, you know, yeah,

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exactly. He kicked the ball in
it, he kicked the basketball in

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it, he punted the basketball in
it. Made me think that they literally

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got that from Luke, you know, when Luke tried to punt the ball

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at at Oregon. Yeah. Well, okay, okay, so many things,

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man, Yeah, well you know, coaches got to motivate, got

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to motivate. Okay, So tonight's
game, whatever else is going on,

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you want to talk about, let's
talk about Shwan rucle. We have two

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minutes, so Sean be and Sean
well, we can't play the clip because

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it's more than two minutes, and
I want to play. You have to

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beat something. I bleeped a bunch
of stuff two minutes. I thought it's

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like almost three, oh, because
you went further than just a minute of

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me talking about him talking about he
went to the They we'll talk about it.

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Yeah, we'll catch it on the
rebound. But we've got some cool

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stuff from Sean Miller. If you
haven't, if you haven't seen his his

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you call it a rant, right
little bit of a ramp and his roster

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providence. It's not that he touched
the ball rant, but it's well,

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I really you know, when he
talks about what happened, really, that's

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the first thing that came to my
mind was he touched the ball. He

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said, I just said this and
that's all I said, and I got

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technical fall for it. Well,
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shot in that whole Oh yeah,
yeah, the whole thing. Well,

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you think about it, and and
this is no. I think Sean's a

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fantastic coach in his way and his
method, but there's nobody just dut dot

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dot uh. He when he sat
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of experience kind of re evaluated him. He found this revaluating his way of

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doing things. And then I see
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you would to I'm not sure where
you found yourself. Well, look,

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no matter what you are who you
are, right, And that's exactly where

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I was gonna go with it.
Because you are who you are, you

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are, you are, you could
be, You can do things different,

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you could get lighter sided. Maybe
that was a better version of what he

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could have done. That was worse, That was better than he touched the

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ball. But in the end,
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or or in a situation like that, when you're pissed or something, who

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you are, that's most likely time
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right right. That's how your defense
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go. Let's go take our break. Greg Woods, the Washington State beat

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fourteen fifty. Where in the hell am

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I? I'm Steve Rivera, You're
Jagan Zealiz. Now we have Greg Woods,

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who covers the Washington State basketball.
Greg Woods just wondering what he got

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himself into by a green to view. Yes he has no he's been with

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us before. I know that.
But he's like, you know, two

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men to two men and a beat
writer. Two old guys. Yeah,

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So what's going on, Greg,
I know you're busy working already. Yeah.

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Well, I they're wrapping up Shooter
around right now at the arenas.

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I've kind of been hanging out and
watching a few that thing and it's exciting.

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It was still guy, I mean, he's like six hours old tip

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off, which is kind of the
same. Here we are, here we

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are so you know, we were
Steve and I were talking and brought kind

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of brought this up yesterday that nowhere
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think that today we would be saying
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for first place in the Pac twelve. I mean, how surprise, shocked,

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whatever word do you want to use? Are you about? You know

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what the Kooks have done so far? Totally, it's been a big surprise.

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I mean they were picked tense,
I want to say in the preseason

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pack twelve pool, which I mean
that looks silly, but I mean at

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the time I think it wasn't that
outrageous. I mean he got I mean

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almost you know, entirely new team. The guy. I mean, I

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mean, you know, a fashion
you know, running point guard, so

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a lot of new pieces, a
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I'm pretty surprised. I mean,
they would tell you that they're not surprised

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obviously, but I think it just
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a good objective kind of perspective,
I think it would max tense to be

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surprised because of you know, just
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really because of you know, over
the off season and much of like

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has been the case under Klausmith's tenure, they just had to rebuild on the

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fly. And so yeah, I'm
pretty surprised. I'll do you know,

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our surprise, Yeah, first place
on the lines. Crazy. I'm wondering

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if they had not been this good
or not in this situation, you probably

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wouldn't even be here. No,
not at all. No, I mean

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I once we kind of realized,
I mean I think the first one,

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we kind of realized that they might
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and I think people around the area
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it might be for real. So
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planes to come on trips like this. So I'm excited to be here,

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this winning streak that they're on.
You know, both you know, at

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home and on the road. What
did something click? You know? And

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it sort of started, you know, right after right before they played Arizona

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they won three in a row.
There took a a loss that I can't

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explain to and then a bunch of
a bunch of wins after that. Did

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something click? Did you see something
different once this thing got going? And

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if so, or if not,
what what? What is it? I

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just think like the more they played
together, I think it's just a huge

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for them. I mean, a
lot of them that not play together just

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you know, like I said,
because of how new the team is,

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so I think, just like it
sounds very cliche. I realized that,

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but like I really do think the
cohesiveness has just been a very can't really

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overstate how big of a deal there's
these guys and then that I think that

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combined with the implementation of just like
the matchup zone they been playing on defense.

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It was around pretty shortly after the
d Arizona actually, in like late

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January or so, they went to
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of their guys would not become back
in the injury and they needed to kind

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of free up their main guys to
not be invalligable. They need to not

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kind of exhaust them, you know, for the long haul. So they

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started playing this matchup zone. Was
given a lot of teams problems just because

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I mean it's it's hard to kind
of get a hold on you know,

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what's what are they doing on defense? You know, there's a lot of

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qunching going on on defense, which
makes it hard to kind of get a

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looks on offense. So I think
like those two things that the six use

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for them, and most of all, I mean, the more they play

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with each other, I mean,
the more you can kind of job was

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just cook it for them. And
yeah, no time going down, that's

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for sure. How long have you
been covering the team? How long is

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have you been covering the team?
Last summer I got this, Well,

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I've been covering football, so that
I got the job, like last summer

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covering the program. Okay, I
remember that. So so now that the

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coach and this happens, and you
know, this basketball doing very well,

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it's hard to win the police,
Uh, this coach might be looked at

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by other programs now totally. Yeah, I mean there's there's been some rumors

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about, you know, if the
Washington job comes open with Kyle Smith's lato,

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I want to go there. I'm
not sure whether up these are right

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now, but yeah, I mean
the more he went here, well he

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shows that he could win, you
know, wherever he goes. I mean,

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he wanted Columbia, he wanted uh, San Francisco. He's won here,

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like all these different places that like
had not was good and you know

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who knows before he got there.
So I think like for him that it's

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huge because he's just show that he
can take you know, simil where it's

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hard to win, like mans and
you know, make him into winners,

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which makes him a pretty attractive tendidate
anywhere, but especially a place like you,

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Doug, where you know they fod
a few down years for sure.

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So let me ask you, and
I always ask this for guys like this,

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So what's his secret, sauce,
I mean, what's what makes him

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that guy? I think it's a
few things. I think one, he

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just has like this awesome eye for
talent. I mean, like this on

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this year's team, for example,
you know they have guys like Isaac Jones,

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who played three years at a junior
college, played last year Idaho.

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He's like the second best player.
I mean Miles Rice, who's the best

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player, I mean, Whilezo was
his only power five offer Oscar Cluff who

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played center for them, also from
a duco in Arizona. So I just

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think that like he has just this
I for uh, funding guys that don't

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have you know, a million offers, and so that's been huge. And

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I think he gives a lot of
better a lot of time to his staff.

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Jim Shaw, who's been awesome,
Uh handled the defense. He was

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a big reason why they went to
the matchups going to be in with and

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so I just think like his his
eyes of talent and the staff he's put

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it put around him has been awesome. And then just I mean, I

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mean it's like the development of the
guys on you know, that are on

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the team now. I mean this
within the season, they've been getting better

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and better and better, which again
sounds clu see, but I think that's

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you know, kind of an understated
the reason why they've become so good.

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It's just the way they brought these
guys along, you know, to doing

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the first place. But also just
like within the season that getting a lot

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better. You know, I knew
I as we speak At his press conference

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today, Tommy Lloyd uh mentioned Miles
Miles Rice, who uh you know,

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had to go through chemotherapy last about
this time last year for for lymphoma.

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And and just in credit story,
you know that he is or a couple

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of years ago, I get no
blast year. How inspiring can a guy

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00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:07.160
like that be, you know,
for a whole team, and how much

408
00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:15.200
has that entered into maybe why these
guys are doing what they're doing. I

409
00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.759
think it's awesome. Yeah, he
Uh, you can't overstate how awesome of

410
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:22.279
a story that is. I mean, he he was read treating obviously his

411
00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:25.680
true freshman year and then you know, you know, like you said,

412
00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:29.920
set out with Huskins with film last
year, and I think that's been you

413
00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:30.839
know, huge for them. It's
just been you know, someone that can

414
00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:36.279
rally around and whatnot for sure.
But I think, like I'm almost at

415
00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:37.839
a point where and I think this, I think he would tell you the

416
00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.720
same thing like he I think they're
kind of past that. I mean that

417
00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:44.880
they're past that because that's that that
will stick with them for as long as

418
00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:48.960
he lives. But like he's become
so good so fast that like I think

419
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:52.839
the bigger story right now is like
he's become so good as to diminish the

420
00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:56.880
storyline of him beating cancer, which
sounds insane, So like, I think

421
00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:00.519
you have to be really good,
So that's for the whole anything to do.

422
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:03.160
You know, our best are part
of your story. But that's how

423
00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:07.319
good he's been. And I just
think the more he plays like this,

424
00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.279
yeah, people will keep bringing up
the cancel thing, but I think the

425
00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:14.480
more he plays as well as yeah, it's just more about how awesome he

426
00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:18.640
is in his first to a point
in firefy basketball. Typically, typically there's

427
00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:22.559
not a whole lot of fans in
Washington States games. Has that improved now

428
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.119
that they've been very very good this
year? For sure? I think the

429
00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:30.480
first Arizona game in January was a
season high in at ten, and so

430
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.119
I want to say that was like
fifty three hundred or something like that,

431
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.279
and then the other game with ad
Stanford, I want to say he was

432
00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:40.240
close to that. I don't know, I'd have to go back in the

433
00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:44.759
book, which obviously, I mean, it's nothing compared to the numbers that

434
00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:47.759
you know Arazella's going in. But
I mean, while do hasn't been good,

435
00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:48.839
I mean in like a decade and
a half. I mean, there's

436
00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:52.759
just like a lot of apathy around
the fan base, and you know,

437
00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.000
understandably so for sure, I'm not
signing Blaco, so it's hard to kind

438
00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:00.279
of generate, you know, that
that height when they haven't been good in

439
00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:03.559
that long. So but I mean
they're they're pointing well, and I think

440
00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:07.759
fans are trying to wake up.
And even I mean even those numbers for

441
00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.119
as you know, relatively small as
they are, are still kind of oppressive

442
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:17.279
just because of how long it's been
that they've been just good and how hard

443
00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:19.519
it is. The kind of kind
of you know, engender that the heights

444
00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.839
on the fan base within a single
season. I they were trying to do

445
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:26.400
well. Well. You were talking
about about about the coach and you know

446
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.119
just that he's he's got an eye
for talent, but you know, on

447
00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.680
the floor and you know what he's
doing there, I mean, what what

448
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.799
what I mean? What is he
doing that's got getting the most out of

449
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:40.359
these guys. You look at Miles
Rice, you look at Isaac Jones and

450
00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:44.000
the numbers they're putting up, and
you know, again Rice is a freshman.

451
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:48.359
I mean there's something that besides you
know, having a good eye for

452
00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:51.519
talent, he's coaching him to do
something. What is it that he's doing

453
00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:56.000
totally? I think like a part
of it has just kind of given these

454
00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:00.200
guys confidence, uh, you know, giving him the green light to do

455
00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:02.880
their thing. I mean not a
lot of coaches, you know, would

456
00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:07.920
would be that ready to trust a
red shirt pressman in these biggest spots.

457
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.200
But I think it's just like kind
of in viewing them with confidence that like,

458
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:12.920
hey, you know you belong at
the stage. You know we're gonna

459
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:15.240
keep going you even when you know
when you make the stage. Like I

460
00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:19.240
remember, uh, maybe you dubbed
a few weeks ago in Seattle, like

461
00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:22.519
you know, Miles Rights at a
table throwing overt overtime, but they went

462
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:25.799
right back to him, you know, you know the point after that.

463
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:29.720
So I think you're just kind of
intangibles as are pretty bullet in that way.

464
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:33.519
And I mean tactically, I think
he's he's awesome on defense. That's

465
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.519
kind of like you said, where
uh Jim Shaw comes in a lot of

466
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:40.799
times they're always in confete shot type. Okay, how can we you know,

467
00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:44.519
improve on defense? And uh what
kind of works that were giving us

468
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:48.200
so I think like this tactically,
he's he's he's putting the right lineups in

469
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:49.039
there, kind of figured it out
after a little bit, like, hey,

470
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:53.960
you know, our our best lineup
is having uh Miles right, sayma

471
00:29:55.000 --> 00:30:00.279
Wells Offra Cluff, Isaac Jones and
then Andrew Kmoby off. This think it's

472
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:02.440
just like kind of figuring out,
you know, the right mind ups,

473
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:07.079
which they did about a month ago, and then I mean ever since then,

474
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.039
it's kind of all come together for
him. Nice. So what type

475
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:11.599
of game do you I know,
we got about four or five minutes uh

476
00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:17.480
here, what type of game do
you expect tonight? I mean, I

477
00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:19.759
don't I don't think it'll go.
I mean I don't think well people have

478
00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:22.440
as easy as the time winning as
they did in Pull Mincess there. I

479
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.240
mean, this will be for sure
the biggest draft they've played in front of

480
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:29.039
the season, and I think very
a lot of these guys maybe ever,

481
00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:33.000
I mean for sure Miles right and
playing at first year Pac twell basketball fame

482
00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:36.559
off Cuffs, So a lot of
these guys, it's like, you know,

483
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:38.960
it's hard to play in front of
a car like that, especially when

484
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:42.680
they get going. So I think
that's you know that, Uh, that'll

485
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:45.839
be a factor. I think if
the coups can play at the pace they

486
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:49.640
want, because I mean these two
teams are like very opposite to tempt the

487
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:52.359
pace, you know, obviously walking
up one to get out and run twops

488
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:56.799
a rather slowed down and kind of
working in the post. So I think

489
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.240
it's just more about, you know
what, to dictate the pace and play

490
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.519
the way they want to play,
which, yeah, at think of a

491
00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.240
difference as they have in terms the
play style. I think the team that

492
00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:08.599
play they want to play, well, you know, pretty give it a

493
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.720
pretty big advantage concerning well, we're
going to remind you that all three of

494
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:17.839
us actually when we had you on
the show last before the football game between

495
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:21.160
Arizona Washington State, we couldn't have
been further off than we were. That

496
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.680
guy, you know, well,
I don't Yeah, I don't think anybody

497
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:30.200
saw that one coming. It's certainly
not here, that's for sure. Well

498
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.000
let's uh, let's switch gears just
a little bit here. You know,

499
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.400
all the stuff that's going on with
the realignment. We saw that the college

500
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:40.400
football playoffs, you know, came
out with their five to seven uh format

501
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:45.000
and stuff. Like that, how
are the fans and the administration if they're

502
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.720
handling you know, what's happened to
them? And what's you know, what's

503
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.079
the strategy, What are they trying
to do? How are they what are

504
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.400
they trying to wind up? You
have any ideas? I mean, I

505
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.319
if I knew what I I mean, I mean to be, I thought

506
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:02.640
you would just be speculating. If
I had a better pull us, I

507
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.519
would you be reporting it. But
I mean, I think among the fans

508
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:10.200
there's kind of a sense of I
mean, I don't want to say gratitude

509
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:14.000
because obviously there's still a lot of
you know, bitterness for you know,

510
00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:19.440
having been left behind this whole cycle. But I think I think, you

511
00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:21.039
know, they feel it could have
been a lot worse. I mean,

512
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:24.079
they got control the whole freak back
to for you know, so that was

513
00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:27.960
a big deal, I mean,
a big win in the organ States.

514
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:31.400
And I think with that they've been
able to kind of kind of asteraloges some

515
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:35.759
fears, and you help fans realize
that, hey, you know, we

516
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:38.160
might not be in the fact of
twelve as we know it, but you

517
00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:43.480
know, we still have a championships
and obviously that'll be a lot harder with

518
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:49.240
the playoffs going to five seven,
like you said, but I think there

519
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:51.599
is there's a sense among the fan
base, hey, this could have been

520
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.559
a lot worse for us, and
uh right now, I think they just

521
00:32:54.680 --> 00:33:00.319
need to hammer out like TV deals
and and took off times because I think

522
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:04.680
there's for you know, for for
Coke Schultz, Kerk Saltz the president here,

523
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.480
it's like a bouncing act of like, hey, you know, we

524
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:10.200
want to you know, generate the
most revenue, but but we also want

525
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:15.400
the exposure, uh forgetting that a
sco times, which those don't always you

526
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.119
know, go hand in hand.
So I think they got to do somethroning

527
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:22.519
out with that type of thing.
With the tamplet. They'll begin that done

528
00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:27.960
somewhat do and according to you know, different things I've read, so that's

529
00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.599
kind of I would say the main
priority right now, which is examply we'll

530
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:32.519
get some more clarity on you know
coming up too. I'm curious about your

531
00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:37.039
situation, your your first year there
covering the team. You're you're a young

532
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:39.960
dude. Uh do you live in
Pullman or in Spokane and you must have

533
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:45.559
a kind of almost exclusivity with the
team because there's one paper and and the

534
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:51.759
TV stations are in Spokane. Yeah, so I live in Pullman and there's

535
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:55.960
really just two kind of daily uh
outlets that cover them. It's me and

536
00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:01.720
the two pot seven outlets called kuksand
that cover them the most. So both

537
00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:07.000
they're a writer and I both him
and Ivan Pullman and most of you kind

538
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:10.079
of like most of the TV stations
are out of Spokane, out of Lewiston,

539
00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:14.079
so and that way, Yeah,
it's it's cool to kind of get

540
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:16.800
into the scene because there's really just
two of us that cover them daily.

541
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:21.800
And I mean even I'm the only
one from from Pullman, Spokane that's here

542
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:23.400
on this trip. So a lot
of times, just the way it goes,

543
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:27.800
I mean I said, very fortunate
that I work at a paper that

544
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.079
has the budget, you know,
and the willingness of semi on trips like

545
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:36.000
this because it's not a lot of
yeah you know places do so so that

546
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:37.239
way it's awesome. And I mean
I guess you know the team and they

547
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:40.440
all know me, and which you
know, it doesn't really happen, you

548
00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:44.039
know, it's the bigger and better
you go, and just because there's more

549
00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:45.880
media covering each team. So I
feel very fortunate. Man, this is

550
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:50.280
cool and they're all, you know, very likable guys. That's easy to

551
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:52.480
root for us. So it's just
so yeah, it's just it's a good

552
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.360
time. Well, fantastic. We'll
see you tonight at the game. Don't

553
00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:59.840
uh, don't get intimidated by fifteen
thousand people and trying not to get in

554
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.320
all the between now and then,
right, Yeah, it's a long time

555
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:05.760
before the game, so yeah,
yeah, get some side. Yeah.

556
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:09.199
I've covered some games down field House, the Morris games and that was back.

557
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:13.000
Yeah, okay, I think that'll
be pretty close for that. Yeah,

558
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:14.679
it'll be fun. There'll be a
lot. Okay, good for you,

559
00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:16.119
Greg, Thank you a bunch.
We appreciate it. We appreciate the

560
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:21.159
time, totally. Thank you great, Greg Woods. He's for the Spokane

561
00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:24.639
Review, Jokesman, reading spokesman,
spokesmoking spokesman review in Spokane. Yeah,

562
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.840
uhr is to beat right, covering
watch in state. Yeah, good area

563
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.360
if you could deal with that,
but not me. Yea, too cold,

564
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:34.639
it's too cold, too far.
My my cousin lives up there.

565
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:38.039
Yeah, and a great country.
It's beautiful, great cold, it's beautiful,

566
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:40.840
but damn it man. You know, yeah, you know, eighteen

567
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:45.320
inches of snow in one night is
not usual. No, In fact,

568
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:47.480
I asked this when it's cold here, just would you rather deal with one

569
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:52.320
hundred and fifteen or or twenty five
for weeks? Yeah, go with one

570
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:55.960
hundred and fifteen two because I can
golf from that. I shouldn't, but

571
00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:59.800
I do. Okay, let's do
it, all right, let's take our

572
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:00.920
next Raanko will be back, will
take your calls. We're gonna have this

573
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:07.039
conversation about about Sean Miller coming up
with the video that's kind of gone viral.

574
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:10.320
I'm upset about a technical. Followyguy, A couple of beepsp three beeps,

575
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This is I on the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey,

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welcome back to I the Ball.
Here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm

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Steve, he's Jay. We have
said with us we have thirteen minutes.

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If you guys want to call,
please do five two zero, four,

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one, six, seventy four forty. Great to hear from you see you

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about tonight's predictions and all that good
stuff. But let's get to Sean your

615
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friend, Shun everybody's friend, everybody's
friend. Well, San Miller. They

616
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first of all, I didn't realize
that they're thirteen thirteen. Yeah, they're

617
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not gonna get it. They're they're
not doing one. But they had a

618
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game of Providence, close game,
it's that exavier and uh they lose seventy

619
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:17.280
nine to seventy five, which was
a stunner to me because they were a

620
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favorite. There will beg favorite and
uh, you know, it goes down

621
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to the wire. Providence is up
by two. Uh, they go in

622
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for a basket in the paint.
Guy makes a great block and you know

623
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.960
gets the rebound, a couple of
free throws in it's the four point game

624
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.880
and they lose. So after the
game against Sean Miller got called for a

625
00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:38.719
technical for in the first half.
He was very unhappy about it. And

626
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:43.719
we'll let him explain it and then
yeah, what are gonna say? I

627
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:45.800
was gonna say, and he's the
guy who doesn't get many technicals. He

628
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didn't get many technicals here. Or
he was thrown out of that one time

629
00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:52.360
maybe no, it was that one
famous he touched the ball. Yeah,

630
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:54.400
he didn't get thrown off for that, so he he didn't get tossed,

631
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.480
but he got technically the tournament.
He did the PAC twelve tournament. But

632
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:00.519
go ahead. But anyway, so
he just had something to say about the

633
00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:04.920
technical father that got called. It's
a little bit of a rant. We

634
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had to bleep out a couple of
words, but you got to hear this,

635
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and then we'll have a conversation,
not so much about Sean, but

636
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just about the issue that he brought
up. I got a technical foul.

637
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And you know, one of the
things that I've learned, and I got

638
00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:25.360
this, there's a tier system in
this league, and I know what tier

639
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:30.760
I'm in. No one has to
remind me. I haven't won enough.

640
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:36.360
I haven't been here long enough,
I haven't been in the final four,

641
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:43.400
don't have enough championships or wins.
I get it. But what I get

642
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:47.280
a technical foul and this is the
second time on this for saying that's five

643
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:52.679
thousan in a row. Now that's
five thousand in a row. That's a

644
00:40:52.800 --> 00:41:00.400
problem. That's a problem, and
I get it. I'll take my frightful

645
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:05.079
place on one knee. But what
I'm not going to do is sit and

646
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:10.280
watch that other coach do anything different
than sit on his one knee, because

647
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when you get into these type of
games at Creighton in Providence, I don't

648
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:20.840
want to give Providence one, one
point or two points. That technical foul

649
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:23.880
came at the beginning, in the
middle of the first half, and if

650
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:30.559
that's the bench decorum, then let's
let's even out these tiers, all right,

651
00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:34.079
don't pick on the on the week
dudes like me. Spread that out.

652
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:38.440
Get some more guys. We didn't
lose because of a technical foul.

653
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:44.280
The officiating was fine. I thought
even des clause strong drive at the end.

654
00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:47.239
Sometimes you get a foul on that
call. But Gaines did a great

655
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:51.079
job. That was an awesome block. That's the play of the game.

656
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.719
He left the left corner, jumped
above the rim and blocked DES's layout.

657
00:41:55.000 --> 00:42:01.239
Awesome job. But when you get
a technical foul for the that's five thousand

658
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:05.199
a row. You know, I
get it, I know who I am.

659
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.840
I get it, but I don't
know just just in terms of how

660
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:12.960
that feels for our team. And
I just want to make sure that as

661
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.440
that tier systems in place, you
know, the top tier guy can't do

662
00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:19.960
one thing and then man, I'm
sitting on my little, you know,

663
00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:25.599
left knee and getting that that technical
foul. That is sickening. There's a

664
00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:29.960
lot at stake. There's a lot
of players and people that work real,

665
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:36.679
real hard game can't be decided by
that's five thousand in a row. Tired

666
00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:47.880
of up? I miss him.
Well, at the very least, he's

667
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.039
a pretty good quote. It's a
lot of pretty good qu Again, when

668
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:53.159
he said, I said, that's
five thoules in a row, I just

669
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:57.239
replaced that with he touched the ball. Yeah, well I heard. I

670
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:00.480
felt the same way. He wasn't
as crazy with this as he was with

671
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:05.480
that. But when would you ever
think that Sean Miller is a small dude.

672
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:07.519
Well yeah, I mean he's got
it. He's got his reputation and

673
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:13.119
he's got he's Look when he was
at Arizona, he was getting the calls

674
00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:16.239
right. He was every coach at
Arizona gets the calls. But and again

675
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:19.719
what was interesting to me was that
he said this, right, a coach

676
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.920
actually came out and said, you
know, other coaches get calls that I

677
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:27.079
don't get, you know, because
I don't know that I've heard that much,

678
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:29.760
if at all, that a coach
actually comes out and said there's a

679
00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:32.559
tear system. That's what I thought
was interesting about the whole thing. He

680
00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:37.920
I think, do you believe what
he said? Well, except for the

681
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:42.400
fact that the Providence coach is in
his first year. Now, maybe he's

682
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.639
thinking, I don't get the calls
on the road. He wasn't he was

683
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:47.480
at home. Oh oh, that's
right, he was at home. So

684
00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:52.079
that's what that's my point that that
is your point. You're right, he

685
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.599
wasn't. He wasn't home, So
I I don't know. I don't know

686
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:59.199
how he can sit there being Sean
Miller, who's been the coach at Arizona,

687
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:01.880
who's into some of lead eights,
and sit there and say, I'm

688
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:06.039
little Sean Miller and the coach over
there on the other side is getting calls

689
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:08.280
it I'm not good. So so
obviously I followed him covering for top years.

690
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:12.199
I think he's a very good coach. He does his way. His

691
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.760
his way is coaching his way.
Uh as always listening and just now because

692
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:19.360
I've listened to it like three times
now, and no, I just lost

693
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:22.119
what I was going to give you. Uh he you'll agree with me.

694
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:27.400
Very calculating. He says things for
a reason, right, He doesn't bs

695
00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:30.159
and and kind of just say things. He says things specific and every word

696
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:34.880
is calculating, of course. And
he wanted to send a message here.

697
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:37.400
Whatever that message was, he I
don't know, but he's not. He's

698
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.960
not Joe Schmoe coming off the streets
and coaching. He's got a heck of

699
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.320
a resume. He's won a lot
of games. And he's no small dude.

700
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:47.360
Yeah, no he's not. He's
not little me. I'm not a

701
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.800
little knee. No poor you know, poor me guy, he's not.

702
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:53.800
But you know, the big issue
to me is that his whole comment about

703
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:57.880
the tears system, because we know
it exists, So we do we do

704
00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.199
know. And I'll give you the
perfect example of this. I don't know

705
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:06.199
if I've told this story years ago. George Raveling is a usc Okay,

706
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:10.320
they're playing here. Well, prior
to that, just a few games before

707
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:14.840
in the in the non conference season, one of those hyphenated teams was playing

708
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:17.800
here, or maybe for some reason, Howson Satan States was playing here,

709
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:22.239
all right, and the coach,
you know, there was a fall call

710
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:25.000
and the coach just turned around and
he was actually facing us. He goes,

711
00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:32.320
damn. He got teed up,
and I'm like, whoa you Uh

712
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.480
yeah, I mean lou was still
here. He just goes damn and he

713
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:42.199
got teed up. A few games
later, George, same season, George

714
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.400
raveling as the he didn't like.
As the ref is going by, he

715
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:49.679
jumps in the air, like you
know, big man, big man jumps

716
00:45:49.719 --> 00:45:52.199
in here, gets about a couple
of feet off the ground and says m

717
00:45:52.440 --> 00:46:00.679
f C s ing all right right
right at the reft ref, I mean

718
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:02.679
in his ear, and the ref
just went right by. Yeah, yeah,

719
00:46:04.079 --> 00:46:07.559
he didn't hear it's going too fast. Well Corn said something like that

720
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:10.599
a couple of days ago. Conin
You could hear see his mouth moving like

721
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:15.480
exactly that with the with your little
words there. Yeah yeah, Well some

722
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:17.920
people have it and some people are, hey, you haven't heard it.

723
00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:23.199
Yeah, I mean just said damn
it. Well different right here, let

724
00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:25.599
me ask you something. So,
do you handle your kids, well when

725
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:30.159
there were kids, not their adult
stuff, did you handle their discipline differently

726
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:32.400
because you expected, probably differently from
all three of them. No, because

727
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:35.760
we knew they were talking about it
behind our back. So what do you

728
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.280
mean? So you kept them all
the year the same, like if one

729
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:42.039
you'd give them the same penalties if
if they had penalties. Yeah, it

730
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.840
was all equal. Yeah, okay, are you are you? You're here?

731
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:49.440
The other Okay, some kids,
if they're good kids, you kind

732
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:52.199
of say, you know, Jimmy, you shouldn't you know better than I

733
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:54.079
know. When I was a kid, we all got the hell beat out

734
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:58.800
of it equally. Well probably maybe
maybe less less or more lashes for the

735
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.760
other kids. But you know what
I'm saying. Were you kind of in

736
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:06.559
that boat? Are you favorite or
not favorite? Well? I was always

737
00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:07.719
the younger one, so I kind
of got the bag. I got the

738
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:12.519
benefits. Well, I will tell
you that my brothers thought that I got

739
00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.920
off. They always thought that,
Yeah, because that was the baby for

740
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.679
a long time. You'll be okay, you'll be okay, you could get

741
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:21.719
one. He did that, and
I did this, and I got this

742
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.440
right. But there's always that welcome
to coaching. Coaching the reps, I

743
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:28.960
say, I said, it was
that my parents. It just happened that

744
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:32.039
my parents were getting softer getting as
time went on. Let him go that

745
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:37.079
my parents were really young when they
had those three guys who were all within

746
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:38.960
four years of each other. Well, you were like kids six. That

747
00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:45.679
was four four, there was three
six years. And then me as I

748
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:47.519
think Kevin Lee would say. By
at that time, they're saying, let

749
00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:50.559
him meet the rocks. It doesn't
matter, he's not gonna get sick.

750
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:54.079
Let him. Let him play with
the little electric electric put the put the

751
00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:58.519
knife in the electric thing there.
Now in that regard, yes, we

752
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:01.159
treated you know, you know Adam
was like we were just you know,

753
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:05.559
afraid every little thing. And by
by the time Rachel came around, I

754
00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:07.679
said, she was playing with knives. She was climbing trees. You know,

755
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:13.039
she's played with knves. Maybe she'll
be a cook. But again,

756
00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:15.480
but the whole tiered system, it
exists, It exists. Of course,

757
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:21.119
Lebron gets calls that, you know, Michael Jordan always got calls. You

758
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:24.079
know, it's over time, it
takes time to build up to that.

759
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:29.440
But you ultimately do get it.
I don't believe that he doesn't get him

760
00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:34.000
because he still has the stare,
he still has the presence, and he's

761
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:37.440
still Sean Miller and Steve we saw
him get those calls. Hell, yeah,

762
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:40.920
Tommy Lloyd gets I don't want to
Tommy Lloyd gets the calls here.

763
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:45.079
Sure he doesn't, and he doesn't
mean. It's more about the place,

764
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:50.679
sure of course. And Tommy doesn't
doesn't berate. He kind of like talks

765
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:52.559
to him. He's not a he's
not a braider, he's not a He'll

766
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:57.599
yell, but then he's not gonna, you know, scream in the guy's

767
00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.400
ears. He comes by, like
he'll call him by their name. He'll

768
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.880
say, whatever your name is,
Like no, But I just loved his

769
00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:13.239
his tiered system a commentary because we've
all known that it exists, and I

770
00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:15.920
just don't think I've ever heard a
coach say it but that way. Yeah.

771
00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:19.280
Well, he had a message to
send because that's what he does,

772
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.719
because he wants it, you know, that's what he does. He wants

773
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:24.559
the ref to be thinking about it. Yeah, So they showed the press

774
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:28.119
comments. I listened to all ten
minutes of it, and I was they're

775
00:49:28.199 --> 00:49:30.800
more interesting to see. Okay,
he ranted for a long time without any

776
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:34.880
questions, and then he got like
two or three questions and that was it.

777
00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:37.639
And I'm thinking he must love being
back at home. There's not a

778
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:42.519
whole lot of people following it,
right since NATI newspaper, they have Cincinnati

779
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:45.719
and they have Xavior what else,
And if you're thirteen and thirteen, they're

780
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:49.840
not going to follow you like they
do here, right, And he loved

781
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.559
that. Right. You know he's
not going to be you know, getting

782
00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:58.119
shredded for going thirteen and thirteen or
questioned about his play team's play. Right.

783
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:00.880
So I'm sure he's in't happy Bill, and he was. I'm sure

784
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:05.360
he wasn't expecting that when he left
there originally to come here to get what

785
00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:07.920
he got. I think he I
think he underestimated what this was going to

786
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:10.559
be, no question, I think, And no question. I think Tommy

787
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:14.639
underestimates it, no question, because
Tommy doesn't like doing it. But but

788
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:15.880
for Sean, I think that he
can't, Oh, I can do it

789
00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:21.480
and then realize he had and I
said this all the time. In fact,

790
00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:22.599
the story for you guys, it
was that he had to feed the

791
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:27.400
beast every year, right, every
year, and it got more and more

792
00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.039
and that's kind of what got him
in trouble. Were you how many times

793
00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:32.559
can you feed the beast before it
eats you? Ye, well, you

794
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:38.159
gotta keep feeding it doesn't eat,
and it did eventually, it ultimately did.

795
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:42.119
Yeah. Okay, okay, we're
here at the last minute. We're

796
00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.920
getting close, all right. So
we got Jeff Neil. His Push Ridge

797
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:52.159
three A boys soccer team is a
state champion. And as we said,

798
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:54.159
it's one of the fun things I
think we do Steve is get coaches in

799
00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:58.559
here and we had the one A
basketball coach yesterday, Craig Everson from the

800
00:50:58.599 --> 00:51:00.800
Gregory School at three eight coach.
You know, we're trying to get all

801
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:05.480
the state champions in here to just
talk about their teams. Are very proud

802
00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:07.960
of their teams. True hope that
their fans and their parents and you know

803
00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:12.519
kids at the school are listening when
we know when we get them on the

804
00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:15.400
show, because it's an opportunity.
You know, Now, you didn't just

805
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:16.360
get a trophy. You got a
trophy and then you got to go talk

806
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:20.320
to two old guys on the ring
and that that's just got to be.

807
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:22.519
I don't know. I think it's
one of the fun things that I think

808
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:27.159
we do that really I don't think
anybody else anybody else is and so so

809
00:51:27.199 --> 00:51:30.719
we're trying to get them all in. There's some more probably smart state champions

810
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:32.480
coming up this weekend, and we'll
get them. And then we have our

811
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:35.840
guy here with breaking news, breaking
news at the top of the hour.

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Set. I hope you're loaded up, man, he says, he is.

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Okay, all right, let's take
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breaking news. And then Jeff Neil
from Push Ridge Christian Academy, we'll right back