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Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera,

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the jakins Os got our guy Jason
for the last day. Get your

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tissues out one more time. Man, I'm saying Jason donuts or something.

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Brot Brown brought the brownies. Dang
it. We'll see him again tomorrow.

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Yeah, he's still Yeah, he's
still going to see more, more than

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he wants. We'll get you a
couple. I'll do this for Jay.

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I'll get you a brownie at the
media of pregame for you, a n

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au Okay, yeah, have you
been to a game before? Yeah?

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This service brownies maybe maybe sometimes they
do time. Okay, Yeah, I'll

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get you in there. No need
to get up. Okay, Steve appreciate

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it. He's not going out of
his way. Yeah. Yeah, I

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don't know how that makes you feel. Jason. It's all right. Wait,

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wait, he's the one that should
have brought something. He said,

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I mean, jawd, you forget
man's family. Man right too. He's

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the guy with we'll take care of
this. Okay, we'll take care of

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this. And you're two. We're
two dudes, dude, we don't think

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about yeah, I mean yeah,
you know yeah, and one and one

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of us doesn't have a wife,
so she's not gonna think you throw the

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trash trash coming single, dude,
trash dishes. Okay, Hey, welcome

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to Friday. Yep, finally here, we've got scrimmage tomorrow. Hopefully had

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no Hurricane Hillary coming in and crashing
didn't. Well, I was telling you

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they've they've already canceled, not canceled, but changed the games, rescheduled the

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games for Sunday in the LA area. The Angels, the Padres of the

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Dodgers. I know, I know
it said. The Dodgers are playing a

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double or tomorrow against the Marlins instead
of playing you know, one tomorrow,

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one Sunday. So they're already preparing
for that. So it's supposed to hit

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California on Sunday. Away. Good, Yeah, we're good. But it's

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been nice outside today. It's muggish, but it's good. But you know,

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there's a kind of a cool breeze, kind of nice, not bad,

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a cross summer breeze. And you
don't even know who seals and cross,

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so y'all would not expect you.
Yeah, okay, so today we

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have a nice show. Yeah,
you know the new coach at ATUH Tucson

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High or Tucson Magnet School or whatever
you want to call it, zach or

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Zachary never left? Right? Is
that you pronounced it? Never left?

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Never left. He's the new guy
there, just hired. You know.

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I heard him on somebody else's show
and he sounded pretty impressive, so you

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did. Yeah, yeah, so
we'll, uh, you know, get

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him on. He sounds pretty excited. I did uh to be there,

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so we'll talk to him. And
you know, as we continued kind of

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trying to roll in some high school
football coaches here, you know, we

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need to talk to Morana coach because, man, did you see what happened

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in school yesterday? It's funny how
it's gonna I talk to some of the

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people from Randa. So we didn't
get it. It must have been just

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like a dump open area. Well, you know, when Morana High School

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is kind of oout the middle of
nowhere, it's you know, remember used

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to be by the freeway way back
in the day, down the middle of

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nowhere on Sandario Road out there.
There's not a last time I was out

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there, there was not a whole
lot out there. But it sounds like

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it just ripped right through there,
tore up the school and knocked a bunch

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of trees down, power lines down. I guess a bunch of students cannot

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even leave for a while because the
lines that were down, and the flooding

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all around the school look crazy.
And the and the and the football field

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got flooded. They're putting in or
they have new AstroTurf in there, and

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it's it's a it's a mess underwater. Yeah. And Tucson High we went

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through that a few years ago.
Yeah, well that was that was a

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drainage issue that they had, but
its flooded. But it shouldn't have flooded.

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It flooded because there were other problems. There were problems with either with

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the installation or the drainage that was
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it didn't drain and it filled up
with water basically. So it looks kind

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of crazy. So so we'll have
him on then at four fifteen or usual

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uh, Friday afternoon with Jake Fisher, see what he's at, what he's

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got on his mind, as we
had for the uh you know, last

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really open practice of football tomorrow with
the with the scrimmage six thirty at the

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stadium. So we'll see how that
goes. Yeah, we'll see what happens.

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Two weeks before the first game next
week, everything starts in earnest something

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you've been waiting for since me.
Yeah, Well, there's some games.

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They're like about six or seven FBS
games on Saturday of next week, including

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Rich Rode his first game at jackson
Jacksonville State taking on UTAP at home.

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Is at home. He's got him
at home, Tips going there, and

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that's with one of our guys,
Deil, right, Dana Demil, Dana

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Demil. We've got there's gonna be
Navy Notre Dame in Dublin in the morning.

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You've got usc is going to be
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there's some interesting, you know,
stuff to just kind of wet our appetite

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a little bit, right, right, So that's fun. Obviously, the

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Major League Baseball of season is coming
to a close with one more month left.

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First month, about a month and
a half left. Dodgers are on

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a roll. They won their eleventh
straight last night. They've won their fifteen

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and one in August. Maybe the
kiss of death has been struck dead.

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No, I've been saying that.
Hey, I've been saying it. With

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their straight I've been saying there,
you know, their nine game winning streak,

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ten, ten game winning streak.
I'm not even I can't kill this

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one. So they won last night
on a on a solo homer by a

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one twenty five hit. Or hit
his first homer of the year, first

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game of the year where he had
more than one hit. Austin Barnes,

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the backup catcher, and he went
yard in a zero zero game in the

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bottom of the eighth, and hey, one one did nothing. Yep,

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And you know, I was kind
of watching what do they have next?

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They got the Marlins coming in.
Okay, do you think they can keep

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this up? So? Well,
they're at home, so that's a that's

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a big deal. They've been They've
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So you know, I've got a
three game set with the Marlins, and

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then they got the Rangers coming in, so we'll see how that goes.

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You know the Rangers are good.
Yeah, yeah, so we'll see,

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But do you want to be the
best. Just keep winning, man,

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just keep winning their ten games up
uh in the National League West. Okay,

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anybody want a call, please do
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four forty. Would appreciate your call. Listener Bills already giving me crap about

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talking about the Dodgers, Bill Bill, listening listener, Bill, I think

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you got one of his answers for
yesterday from McKee. Scott McKee. He

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had asked me about where he was
at he was at and then he's an

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assistant coach with yeah over here with
peace right right? Okay again, anybody

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want to call in five two four
six thirty four forty. We'd appreciate your

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call. Text, you can text
us, you can email us, you

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can do all kinds of ways to
get a hold of us and yell at

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right right right right, okay.
Uh. Soccer, I'm sorry, breaking

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news, not much. It was
regular season game. Yeah, yeah,

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first one. Wildcats got bat two
to one. As uh, sounds like

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they came out a little slow defensively. They went up one nothing and within

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a few minutes there was one one
and then they got bat two to one,

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although I hope Heis did uh did
stop a penalty kick, you know,

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some sometime during the game. But
you know they went up there in

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last two to one. We we
know the Heisie and mister Heisi baseball he

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uh. She seems like he's been
here for like twenty years. Hope,

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Yeah, she's been. I mean
she got the you know, she got

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the extra she got the extra COVID
year, and then I think, you

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know next she'd stayed for you know, fifth years. Did you have the

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soccer thing from the United States women? Yeah, you got that. Okay,

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I want anything there, Okay,
Yeah, So soccer has been in

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the news. Volleyball start chair pretty
soon too. You gonna get some Pima

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soccer. They're gonna host the national
title again, right right, and PEMA

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volleyball is getting ready to start.
So a lot of seasons getting ready to

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go. Okay. And the basketball
team I think has a twinal game tomorrow

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Morrow, six o'clock in the morning, six our time. Okay, you

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can watch on YouTube. I don't
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it's the same thing where there you
just got a guy with a camera if

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there's actually gonna be a broadcast up
the game? Oh is that what it

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was? Yeah? The last time
it was it was it was it was

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their you know, their staff with
a with a camera. They hooked up

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a live feed to to YouTube and
they ran it. They it was just

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the camera. There was no no
you could just watch them. There was

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no h like your it was like
you you're spectating right. There was no

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uh, no commentary or anything like
that. Okay, I mean they getting

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Nate on Nate, Nate on the
mic. Man, don't you think send

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him and not somebody get on the
mic? So Buddy tells what's going on?

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Yeah. Yeah. But the interesting
thing did you see the post by

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Umar Bellow? What was by Umar
Bells by the basketball department? Basketball office?

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But but Umar, you know he's
Muslim, so he went to this

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mosque. Yeah, holy crack,
did you you should That building was crazy?

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Yeah. I think I saw on
my feet. I mean it's just

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you know, it was. He
was so I don't know what the right

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word is, almost emotional kind of
you know, spiritual and touched by it.

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It was a big deal. And
maybe maybe think of when I went

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to Saint Peter's at the at the
Vatican. I'm a Catholic, so I

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went to that and I told you
guys, I got real religious, real

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fast. Yeah, and then he
left and then I left. I got

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in there, didn't get hit by
lightning, didn't fall into you know,

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bad of flames. Even the Holy
water saying please don't touch that didn't get

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and I didn't get burned by the
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and you know, he didn't like
point him me and say get him out

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of here. You see those movies
for the lightning strike, it didn't happen

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survive the original the Omen right where
that that priest gets gets think it was

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scary movies When I was a kid, that was actually scary. Was the

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first exercist was the graveyard scene of
that movie. It was just like the

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scariest movie scene ever. Yeah.
Anyways, we we digress. But it

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seemed real cool for for for Ballot
to go through that and be up and

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see that, and he was just
he was just fascinated by the whole thing.

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Cool. Yeah, Okay, what
else. It's that it's kind of

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a slow not a slow Friday,
but looking forward to next week. School

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students or students are back, and
I feel like things are, you know,

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kind of building up right. We've
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all the realignment stuff, you know, behind us. Except I did go

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read the athletics article today on the
whole realignment timeline did. Did the stories

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that you read two or three a
couple of them, there was one times

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and then one by one by that
where they differing in terms of it's pretty

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much the same thing. You kept
getting other small details in there, Like

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the detail that I picked up,
uh in the one today was how USC

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put the brakes on what would have
been a merger of the Big twelve and

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the PAC twelve back right after Texas
and Oklahoma left. And how how powerful

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I guess or influential that she was
is that the discussion came up, she

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said no, and that ended the
discussion and that was it. The discussion

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was over. It's the president,
the president of of of of of USC,

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and then less than a year later
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Sometimes my questions have obvious answers,
and I know the answer. So,

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so USC has always been has has
USC always been that elitist of the

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group. Yeah, So that's not
a surprise, and only because of football,

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because they're crapping everything else. Yeah, you know, I mean they've

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been good in baseball over the years, but not lately. And basketball has

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been you know, hasn't won a
Pac twelve championship like ever. You know.

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So it's foot it's it's football.
And she just came out and said

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we're not doing this, and so
that that ended the conversation, right,

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And nobody pushed back on that.
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nobody said what if? And I
said to you, even though probably USC

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and UCLA were packages or a package, that why not come back after they've

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left and said, okay, guys, you have ten teams. Now let's

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try to do this again. And
luck they have got put in it called

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to your mark, right, your
mark, and yet they said, well,

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we're not interested. Oh, your
mark wasn't interested. The Big twelve

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was once USC and ecl are gone. They were not interested in the merger

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with right, but why because you're
too, because your two best teams were

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your two your two TV markets were
gone, right, you know, and

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so and then uh, I was
just thinking there was another piece that another

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thing that well, let me ask
you before you said, was there a

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chance in any of those stories that
the PAC twelve could have survived the PAC

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ten. Now it could have survived
at any moment besides besides the last when

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they when the when when ESPN offered
him thirty million dollars, then they snubbed

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their nose right right, right right. And then when they said there was

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a there was a professor at a
school, and everybody's assuming it was ASU

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who said, no, we can
get We're worth PAC twelve is or pack.

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The rest of the pack is worth
fifty. And nobody pushed back on

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that. They said, oh,
okay, let's go get fifty and and

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and George Klafkoff and nobody that was
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ran with it. I thought the
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it was a name. No,
this was after USC, A horse a

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professor from you don't everybody's assuming it
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She's not identified, he's not identified. It's not identified. Everybody's assuming it

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was from ASU because that president is
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fifty and everybody things Michael Krom Yeah, so well it is what it is.

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It's done. You read the you
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realize how many things it depends on
how you look at it had to fall

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in place or had to go wrong
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won. Let me say this,
Jay, and I've been here right as

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the Oh we gotta go. Uh, I'm okay with the change. I'm

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okay with the change. It didn't
have to happen. No, it didn't

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have. Of course, this is
what I'm thinking, is what I'm saying,

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And I wish it had, but
it did. So here we are,

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okay, let's go all right,
let's let's take a break. We're

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gonna get the Tucson High football coach
Zach Green never left coming up right.

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You're looking at me funny. I
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that we've got them earlier you didn't
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I might have. But you told
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Rivera. He's Jakin's ass. Now
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doing well? We're doing okay.
And Friday, you know it's Friday.

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Hey, I wanted to ask you
something real quick because do you and I'll

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bring up the point after I ask
you the question, do you get glee

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in fighting with people on Twitter?
And not that you thought with people on

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Twitter today? But do you get
glee in the discussions? I do,

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because I mean, I mean,
I have a team that I root for,

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obviously, but I'm not so biased. I'm gonna go ahead and say

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that, you know, USC's quarterback
isn't good that type of stuff, and

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people do that all the time,
and I just you know, when I'm

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scoring through Twitter whenever I have a
moment in the day, just I like

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trolling people a little bit. So
I mean, it's not really a passions

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a hobby. Well, let me
ask you to bring it up. I

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saw that you had made a comment
on one of the guys that I think

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that Jay thinks or you know,
reads a lot. The college basketball won

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for Twitter, yea, and he
talked about or they talked about the top

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five teams in each conference, and
Arizona wasn't not even so, and there

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day it was sc UCLA, Colorado
organ and then a SU who's gonna be

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absolutely awful. Right, No,
right, I don't understand it. It's

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one of those things where it's like
it's almost like they for Arizona was in

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the past twelve Yet I still just
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that done. That was well,
like I kind of I thought, I

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almost thought, did they mix up
a SU in Arizona or something like that?

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Even then they were fifth. If
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it would have been fifth, which
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a UCLA team that, in my
opinion, is probably going to be rebuilding

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a little bit, even though I
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or Colorado is or sorry Organs.
But then again, you know, sc

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they're gonna be about Brownie James probably
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if anything has changed since then.
I don't think they're gonna be able to

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score enough points. Like I said, Ucla, mccrone's gonna have a bunch

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of you know, young European guys
that probably don't like to play to slow

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down and you know, grinds yeow
type of ball, So it might take

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it a little bit of time for
them to get their stuff together. Organs

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has been kind of spiraling, even
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I'm not sure if they just don't
buy into the system whatever it might be.

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Colorado I think might legit be one
of the top three because they're talented.

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But then again, tat Boyle,
I just don't know if he's a

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great coach. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I guess I didn't know that

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Colorado was supposed to be any good
this coming year. You know, that

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surprised me a little I know people
are sick. You know. Well,

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first of all, they're talking about
USC you know what they think Bronnie James

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might not even play, So what
the hell's going on there? So I

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don't know. I don't know what
to make of all these games. That's

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because they have the number one recruiting
class in the PAC twelve of this past

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year, probably, But at the
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of a coach their guy is.
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don't know if they can really develop
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somebody comes in, it doesn't look
like they get better. They're just already

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good. And that's why they get
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no, no question about that.
Yeah. So now we have like one

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day before the final scrimmage. Do
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it get easier or harder as you
start to rev it up for the game?

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rev up for the games. The

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practices are always grueling, but the
game's always you know, they bring a

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little bit more out of you every
now and then during the middle of the

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season, whether it's you're on a
little bit of a losing shriek or you

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know, you've come off too really
hard fought games and you might look down

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on an opponent. And if you're
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The old guys know, you know
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type of stuff. But you know, if you have a team that's got

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a lot of old guys, not
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it, normally that doesn't happen.
But it's always fun leading up to a

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game because you get to go out
and hit somebody else in a different color

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uniform. There's this scrimmage tomorrow.
It's kind of the last time we get

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to we get to see them.
Uh, how I guess how you know,

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how much do you guys go go
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terms of you know, playing hard? What are you trying to show?

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You know what? How do you
how do you treat the like this last

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scrimmage of camp before you start getting
ready for the you know, for the

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season. Well, I don't think
they're going to show everything. I guess

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they're planning ast Lebanon. I literally
just got considered reading about it. Jason

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Sheer said, they're actually a really
good team if they bring their entire squad

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to play us, So you know, it wouldn't be surprising if we lose

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because we're playing against the Guns,
the bunch of grown men who played professionally.

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If we do win, obviously that's
going to be very impressive. But

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at the same time, I think
our big need to do a little bit

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more. I think Crevius has done
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out of shape, is going to
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bit. And then if our guards
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pockets like we've done the first two
games and get some easy baskets, I

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think we can actually stay in the
game. But it's a scrimmage. He's

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just gonna tell him to play hard, and he's been starting different lineups,

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so we haven't found that you know, starting five or sure. I know

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Bollo is probably gonna start the season, but I mean crev Us the way

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he's playing, and some of these
other young guys that look, man,

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you know, I just hope that
we find a starting five years soon so

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that we go into the you know, the regular season we're going. Uh.

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One of the other Twitter guys said, you can't read too much into

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these games and you shouldn't and you
shouldn't at all starting lineup or whatever,

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but you must like what you see. I know I do. Yeah,

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Well, it's just it shows the
ability and you know, we don't even

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have the continuity that we're going to
have even halfway through the season yet.

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So and then both of those teams, you know, love that they're playing

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hard, but their inferior opponents.
So until we kind of find who are

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you know, eight to nine men
rotation is until we kind of see some

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of these guys, you know,
step up the big games. And until

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these guys play you know, a
few games with each other, they goes

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to a couple of battles together,
you know, playing against the professional team

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00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:37.279
obviously, then we're not going to
know how good they can be. But

407
00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:41.200
the good thing is they're playing hard. The shots are not falling that much.

408
00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.039
But I think this team's defensive ability
is going to be the best one

409
00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.000
that Tommy kat obviously since he's been
here. Caleb Love is playing great.

410
00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:52.079
He's not just trying to take over
the game. He's actually playing within the

411
00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:55.079
offense, you know. And like
I said, some of those freshman kids

412
00:26:55.079 --> 00:26:57.240
from Withthuania, those two that came
over here, they looked really good.

413
00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:03.400
I think one of the things that's
going to be improved, uh you know,

414
00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:08.599
hopefully for them, is the the
toughness of them. Yes, yeah,

415
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:12.480
no, I think I think it's
key shot, just the ball of

416
00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:17.759
energy. Obviously, Babbo has always
been tossed down low. We just need

417
00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:21.359
to give it in shape. You
know, you look at Boswell, Uh

418
00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:22.640
you know, you look at Bradley. Both of those guys are gonna be

419
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.960
tough point guards that like to get
into people's you know, faces, and

420
00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:29.839
then they like picking those guys up
full court, which is awesome. You

421
00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:32.799
can't do that against everybody, but
you can do it enough to, you

422
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:37.519
know, make somebody irritated and they
might make a mistake. Caleb love Is,

423
00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:40.119
you know, obviously he's tough.
I mean he's he's been getting in

424
00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:42.599
people's faces defensively too. I like
that. And you know, even some

425
00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:47.880
of the young guys, they've been
playing great. I mean crebas is walking

426
00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:49.400
m your four shots a game,
and I know, like I said,

427
00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.960
there, it's against interior opponents,
but he looks good, moralitious. I

428
00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:59.680
think I said that name right,
He's he looks tough. JJ obviously is

429
00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:03.039
tough. Hella is obviously tough.
So you've got a bunch of guys that

430
00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:06.640
are you know, they're gonna be
able to buckle down to play some good

431
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:08.680
defense, and when you're in close
games and your your shots not falling,

432
00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:11.640
that's going to help us win some
of those close games. Yeah. Yeah,

433
00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:15.200
And again what we've been saying is
they look a lot like what we

434
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:21.000
would expect him to look. Look
like that's a bridge, which is better.

435
00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:22.599
I mean, don't you think even
when they had NBA guys two three

436
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.559
years ago, I think they're more
athletic cross the board than than he's ever

437
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:30.000
than he ever had, right right, Yeah, I agree. Yeah,

438
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:34.039
And this is Tommy's most complete team
in my opinion. You don't have a

439
00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.599
been mancher and who's going to be
the number of six or whatever it was

440
00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.680
overall picked by the Pacers, But
you have a bunch of guys that are

441
00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:47.119
going to hold wall potentially you know, potential professional careers, and I like

442
00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:49.759
to have they put a little flavor
of about you know, world basketball,

443
00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.880
like the Siva basketball. But then
you've still got the guards that are going

444
00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.440
to get up in your face and
they're gonna pressure you it's pretty damn cool.

445
00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.319
Yeah, it's It's been a lot
of fun, for sure. So

446
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.279
let's talk. Let's talk some football. Now, last scrimmage of the year

447
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:07.039
of this, you know, before
the before camp gets going, so we

448
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.000
will be anxious to get started on
prep for the you know, for the

449
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:14.119
first game. Well, you know, how much did you how much did

450
00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:17.200
you put into the you know,
the final scrimmage? You know, what

451
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:21.119
are these last few days of what
they call camp? Like, oh,

452
00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.440
shoot, my my senior year,
they told my old ass to sit down

453
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:26.079
and just let some of these younger
guys get some rest for the last one.

454
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.400
You know, you have some guys
that are already proven, Yes,

455
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.519
some guys that you might have to
count on playing in the season, so

456
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:34.599
you might want to get them,
you know, a few more reps.

457
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.519
But it's fun because as soon as
that thing is done, you're like,

458
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.559
oh, we finally get to play
Nau or whoever it is. Then you're

459
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.279
playing. So you know, as
soon as it's over, it's great.

460
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.440
It's kind of the end of the
grueling part of camp. And now let's

461
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:51.920
just I get to hit some money
in a different color jersey, so let's

462
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:56.359
go. Yeah, and that must
be a good feeling. It's a very

463
00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:59.680
good feeling. I mean you're literally
hitting your own linemen every play, and

464
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.640
you know, especially when we were
in the rich rod era, I mean

465
00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:06.519
there are you know, practices where
we went for damn near two and a

466
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:10.920
half hours. It seemed like in
the hundred and fifteen not that hotit you

467
00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:14.480
know, one hundred and five hundred
and ten degrees heat and you're running sprinting

468
00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:18.680
the entire damn practice. So as
soon as you're done, it's like great.

469
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:19.519
You know, we might have a
couple periods where you have to go

470
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:23.000
ball to the wall, but now
we get to actually do install. We

471
00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:26.880
get to learn about how to fit
up their offense. What are their tendencies?

472
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:29.920
Do you do a little bit more
film, a little bit more study,

473
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.200
and a little bit less getting your
head knocked up. Let me let

474
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:34.920
me ask you something. We talked
about this a couple of days ago when

475
00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:41.880
we saw it. Udon Sanders is
at scrimm practice, these guys getting a

476
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:47.559
fight in house. Uh did you
see that? Yeah? I don't know

477
00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:48.839
how the hell to feel about that. I mean it's one of those things

478
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:52.960
where it's like, you know,
he may have gotten taken out of context.

479
00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:55.440
I don't know, but it could
have been one of those things where

480
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:56.359
like, hey, you know,
we had to stick up. You know,

481
00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.759
everybody's one unit, that type of
thing. But if it's the other

482
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.240
thing where it's like, yeah,
you know, if it was intentionally,

483
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:04.839
hey, you know, if your
guy gets into a fight on the field,

484
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:08.160
everyone goes, then that's just stupid. I don't understand what the hell

485
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.839
of mentality is there if it's on
you know, a football field. We

486
00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.960
talked about that because it's I've never
seen that. I've never seen that before.

487
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.240
I know the guy. The coaches
we've talked about it said get the

488
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.039
hell off the field. You could
cost us some yards, you could be

489
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.079
thrown out of the game whatever.
I mean. I've had coaches where if

490
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:27.480
you have two guys and they addressed
this at the beginning of camp, the

491
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:30.839
beginning of spring, whatever math.
But we've had a couple of coaches where

492
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.079
it's like, hey, listen,
if you guys are gonna fight, nobody

493
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.440
else jump in. You're not doing
a dog pile, cheap shot crap like

494
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.200
that left those guys you know less
on the ground. Don't throw any punches

495
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.240
because you're gonna break you know,
a dam, a risk or fun or

496
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.160
something on a face. Math that's
really stupid. I've seen that happen a

497
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:49.920
couple of times. But then as
soon as you get outside of the white

498
00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:55.240
lines, you two have absolutely no
grudge with each other. That was it,

499
00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:57.039
you know what I mean. So
it's like if you're gonna throw a

500
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.839
punch on the helmet, you know, don't use your fists, you know,

501
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:07.160
use your palm, do something.
But nobody jumps in you guys as

502
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:08.480
soon as you gets out of the
white lines, because it does get tested,

503
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:12.799
you guys have no grudges. I
was gonna say, have you ever

504
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.240
felt like get into one of those
with a teammate. I've gotten in a

505
00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:19.839
couple of those. I got uh. You know, I was just messing

506
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:22.920
around with Chris Putton and he came
over from behind me and tripped the hell

507
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:23.839
out of me, and then there
was a little bit of a dog pile

508
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:28.599
there and we all got yelled at
uh, and then we had one probably

509
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:34.200
my first, yeah, my first
day of pads as a freshman. I

510
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:38.559
hit a receiver going across the middle
and I started walking back to get the

511
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:43.119
play call from Coach Kish kick,
came up and pushed me, so I

512
00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:45.640
pushed him back, and then all
of a sudden, you see Trevor Erno

513
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:47.440
coming out of the corner of nowhere
and he does like a Superman punch,

514
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:50.920
and then all of a sudden,
there's a giant dog pilot and then we

515
00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:57.160
ran the rest of practice. Yeah, so it serves no purpose, it

516
00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:00.000
does Yeah, it's it's and it's
nothing person and only you know, he

517
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.440
came up after practice and he was
like, hey, nice set man.

518
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:06.880
I'm like, okay, God,
there's no you know, no feelings there.

519
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.960
It's just you know, you're you're
competing and you know, you're trying

520
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:16.200
to a damn spot and things get
testy. Yeah. Uh so, uh,

521
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:20.720
I don't know. We're you know, we're finally talking football, which

522
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:23.039
is fun. I'm you know,
I know, we keep bringing it,

523
00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:27.519
bringing it up a little bit,
but it's it's nice to talk some football,

524
00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:31.519
but it's it's still weird feelings about
this, uh this season coming up

525
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:36.039
right. Let you know, I
was hearing some podcasts talking about, you

526
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:37.839
know, as you as a player, Let's say you're playing for Oregon State,

527
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:40.640
are you gonna go out and want
to kick some ass? A little

528
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:44.079
more on some of these teams who
were leaving. Does it matter to you?

529
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:46.599
Does that not enter into your thought
process and vice versa? You know,

530
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:50.880
right, you know when you're when
you're uh, you know, when

531
00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:52.279
you're going out on the field.
It is it part of Is it part

532
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:57.799
of it or not? I mean
it could be. I mean the guys

533
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:01.839
from Oregon State, Washington Day,
Stanford, and Cal. I think Sanford

534
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:05.839
and Cal aren't going to be very
good this year, but anyways, they

535
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.360
might come out and say, hey, listen, Colorado, you're the one

536
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:12.639
that kind of broke the straws back, and then Arizona you followed up,

537
00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:15.000
and then you other two guys jumped
out with them and lost us a bunch

538
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:17.280
of money. So there might be
a little bit of motivation behind it,

539
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:21.239
especially because they're not gonna get paid
as much as they would have, you

540
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:23.239
know, from here on out.
For the guys that are leaving, you

541
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:27.840
know, for greener pastures. I
hope they don't look down on a couple

542
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:30.559
of those teams, because, I
mean, Cal they have the athletes,

543
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:34.320
even I don't think they're gonna be
great this year. And Oregon Stain Washington

544
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.800
Stator book they're be tough. So
I don't think that a team like a

545
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:43.119
Utah or even Arizona now just because
you know, we're kind of on the

546
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.960
ascension. You know, we're going
up, and uh, you know,

547
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:49.920
I think we're hungry to do more. So I don't think they'll look down

548
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.920
on anybody, but you never know, as you might. You know,

549
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:54.840
I kind of hope they do,
just because it's fun watching them loose.

550
00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:00.519
And then I don't think color Colorado
can either be like you know, somehow

551
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:04.440
get to a Bowl game or literally
win one game this year. I have

552
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:07.719
no idea what that's going to look
like. I have no idea, but

553
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:10.000
it's gonna be fun to watch.
Yeah, Okay, Jake, what's up

554
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566
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All right, see you guys.
Thanks much. Hello Jake. He's never

567
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boy, it's not now, but
you know again, I say it every

568
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their eye on the ball on two
sons sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.

625
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They welcome back to the ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve.

626
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:20.280
He's Jay. Jay sold us twelve
minutes. I want to give us

627
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:23.280
a quick call to twelve minutes five
two oh four? What's sixth centy four

628
00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:30.679
forty I'm gonna put you on the
spot. Oh all right, since you're

629
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:36.039
not, uh a fan or how
are you? However you word you know,

630
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:37.159
you don't think you said. I'm
I guess I'm a sports fan,

631
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:44.119
but I'm not a fan of sports. Yeah, how do you accurate?

632
00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:47.599
However you say it? All right, we're coming up on football season.

633
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:52.400
Okay, what are you looking forward
to? I'm looking if anything really good?

634
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.679
Question? Uh? You way?
You way? Football? I want

635
00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:00.320
to see how good Judd does for
the third year, uh, with with

636
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:05.840
more experienced to better talent, because
first year, what do we think no

637
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:07.639
talent. We didn't know how good
of a coach he was, and it

638
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.159
got bad fast, and it got
bad fast. He was able to win

639
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:14.599
a game. Remember remember after the
BYU game though, we thought, hey,

640
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:17.920
yea, because how we might have
something here there? And then they

641
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:21.840
were down fourteen to nothing before he
even got in the stadium at the San

642
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:25.559
Diego State that weekend it was probably
a losing weekend in Vegas anyway combined.

643
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:29.559
And then then you beat him and
I'm like, okay, this is really

644
00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:32.400
bad. Oh. I just remember
how he looked after that. He was

645
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.159
like someone had just beat the crap
out of it something really really, like

646
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:40.079
a really bad It was like,
Holy moly, is this how it's going

647
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:44.119
to be? And then he got
better obviously you want I wanted to kind

648
00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:46.000
of know last year can he play
call? Because I was a question that

649
00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:50.320
got really good and you, like
you said, wouldn't you have better play?

650
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:52.039
Better player? You can call better
play? Right? So he did

651
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:57.239
that. I don't know, just
a market improvement to your point. I

652
00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.519
went to another website thing and it
was not four and a half, it's

653
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:04.760
five. It's five. That's five
everywhere, So they must have changed.

654
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.880
I've not seen anywhere. I was
looking hoping to four and a half in

655
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:12.760
one place and a long time week
a month ago. Okay, I haven't

656
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:14.920
seen it again right now, Yeah, I haven't seen it. Yeah,

657
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:16.039
and I wouldn't know, because that's
a great bed. If it's four and

658
00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:21.519
a half, five is fantastic.
But I don't know. That's what I'm

659
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:23.840
looking forward to. NFL. I
haven't even looked at what I usually do

660
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:30.559
make my picks. But college football
with Arizona. Yes, I might even

661
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:32.239
buy a ticket and I'll go to
the game and just have somebody else cover

662
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:35.440
it. Wow, come to a
tailgate or something? Yeah, well I

663
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:37.079
do anyway, I have come and
hang out with us. You know,

664
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.719
I have some I have a drink
or two. Yeah, drink or two.

665
00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:44.840
Yeah, I might do that if
we're there, If you were calling

666
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:49.119
ahead, we're realizing we're getting really
Oh can I get the reservation place?

667
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:52.280
My thoughts are setting up, you
know, because we set up a couple

668
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:53.679
three of those tents, right,
we set up three of them. I

669
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:59.039
figured that's what's got of setting those
up and breaking those down. I think

670
00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:01.599
that's what has you that want to
do hard, especially if the young dudes

671
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:06.719
are not there to help you,
right, Okay, So so anyway,

672
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.239
what you're looking forward to, yes, and not so much national you know

673
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.599
it happens. I like doing it, but I don't really pay attention.

674
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.320
Yeah I do, but I don't, you know, live for it.

675
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:22.639
If if we couldn't gamble on stuff? How much? Oh, I did

676
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:24.920
the same. It's the same,
because I don't do that just for your

677
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:29.400
picks. You do some you could
do some partlays on the weekends or something

678
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:32.119
not very real, very just when
you're just on your thing. Okay,

679
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:36.559
yeah, yeah, no, because
I don't follow it well enough. Well

680
00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:44.599
need to. That's that's the gab. No, I don't like no unless

681
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:46.480
I have hunches. But no,
not really. Yeah, because it's it

682
00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:50.239
doesn't you know, it doesn't really
turn then, do you do? You

683
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.719
do you like just the whole in
the fall? You know, looking forward

684
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:57.960
to Saturdays. I like even getting
the Thursday. Yeah, you're right,

685
00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:00.760
you're you're if I'm a three,
which I'm not a three. If I'm

686
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:05.800
a four or five, you're an
eight or nine at the least, right,

687
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:10.360
I really look sometimes I really look
forward to college football season. I'm

688
00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:13.880
in a big way, and not
just for the U A. I love

689
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:15.960
college football. Well, I like
the fall because if you go to the

690
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:19.679
to the tailgate and you don't have
to go to the game and just be

691
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:22.960
a fan. It's it's got a
nice atmosphere, the weather's fantastic, and

692
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:28.360
Tucson you can mingle with your friends
and it's a joy to be here.

693
00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:30.480
You know, October and here,
November? Here, come on, where

694
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.000
are you gonna beat it at?
You can't but not so much where live

695
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:37.519
or die with anything anymore? Yeah, I'm beyond that, but but you

696
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:40.320
still have fun with it? Oh
yeah yeah? Yeah, funding a weird

697
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:44.679
way funding a Wow. That was
strange because I don't follow the Cowboys anywhere.

698
00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:51.480
They're much They're not even good No, no, you okay? As

699
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:57.280
a season college football, football,
basketball, baseball or are they all kind

700
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:01.119
of no? College college football college
bas well obviously just because there's so many

701
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:06.280
good games to watch. Yeah yeah, And but I also like, like

702
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:09.000
I said yesterday about travel or day
before I traveled out, I mean I

703
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:14.000
traveled out. But basketball is there's
something special about it, especially when like

704
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:17.480
the big guys lose because you don't
expect them to lose and it happens all

705
00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:22.800
right, so then there's probably an
obvious question. Then NC double a tournament

706
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:27.440
over all season, it's yeah,
yeah, because yeah, because when I

707
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:30.760
covered them and you covered them,
we went it was Hawaii, New Mexico

708
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.360
Bowl, things like that. I
didn't get the flavor of a huge bowl.

709
00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:38.760
I went through the festival ninety three. Yeah, okay, you know

710
00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:45.119
you see I covered the the I
think it was the eighty nine It was

711
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:50.000
the ball the National Championship between Notre
Dame and West Virginia, and they sent

712
00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:52.079
me to cover that. It was
a spectacle. It was cool. Course,

713
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:54.639
yeah, it was cool. And
actually that it would have been it

714
00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:59.239
would have been the eighty nine game. It was after the eighty eight season,

715
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.440
And actually I thought it was very
cool that I went to the final

716
00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:06.079
four and eighty eight and then covered
the National Championship football game, you know,

717
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:08.079
basically the same calendar year. And
that was really good that she was

718
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:15.320
kind of your prized that you actually
actually actually framed my my press passes from

719
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:17.840
from those two I made a little
frames. Have all those. I know

720
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:21.320
how it is now, but it
used to be in my office when I

721
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:23.039
had an office, Like no,
I have all those. I have all

722
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:28.159
those I have all those framed,
those big ones, like the final fours

723
00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:31.480
and things like that. Yeah.
Yeah, I think just like when we

724
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:36.039
were telling Jason, it's good to
be that way, but you can have

725
00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:37.280
to be you know, well you're
the same kind of fan as him,

726
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.679
right, You're you're not. You
don't have like favorite teams and stuff like

727
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:42.559
that. Yeah, but what do
you look forward to? Think I'm more

728
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.440
excited than Steve, Like you don't
see that enthused about all the different seasons

729
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:50.519
about beginning. But for me,
I'm really really excited for like for basketball,

730
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:53.039
football, college and national just because
I haven't had it for so long.

731
00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:57.440
So I've been keeping track of like
like preseason football, like no one

732
00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:00.960
really watched about watching every game.
Well, what we're just because there's a

733
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:02.960
lot of like new young talent coming
into the NFL. A lot of the

734
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:07.280
older guys are retiring and moving on. So I think it's kind of exciting

735
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:09.760
to his new generation, you know, athletes in the NFL. The sub

736
00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:15.400
I think in the track of that
so interesting. Yeah, I don't.

737
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:20.559
I don't because to me it means
nothing. Yeah yeah, if the regular

738
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:27.719
season means not much, I mean
yeah, yeah, and if I think

739
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:30.840
if Arizona had more players in the
NFL, I might be more interested because

740
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:35.159
in the NBA, I did.
I followed Golden State Warriors because you know,

741
00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:40.159
obviously Steve Steven and maybe Andrea Little
now uh, not much because he

742
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:44.840
was hurt a lot of the time
and he's obviously a great player. But

743
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:46.559
but we don't know these dudes.
Yeah, you know, Jake, We

744
00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:50.599
don't know these dudes, not like
we knew in Luke's time because we spent

745
00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:54.559
time with him. In Miller's time, we knew Aaron Gordon. He was

746
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:58.280
here for like a cup of coffee. Yeah, all these guys were here

747
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.119
for a cup of coffee, and
we didn't get to Jim McConnell was probably

748
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:05.119
the brightest moment for us, right, yeah, Jay, because he spent

749
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:08.320
three years here. He was personable, we could write stories on. He

750
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:12.719
was fun, he was cool.
But everybody else not so much. Even

751
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:17.119
the shimmy in and out and now
with Tommy it's it's still too fresh.

752
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:21.119
It's still too they were here for
a day or two, right, So

753
00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:23.440
you feel like you kind of need
that personal connection very much players very much.

754
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.880
So okay, I get that.
Yeah, Yeah, And that's not

755
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.159
our purpose, but it's better to
have that for sure. Yeah, for

756
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:34.920
sure, Yeah, Okay, I
get that, And I mean, are

757
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.280
you excited for college football season?
Yea, beyond the fact that you're gonna

758
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:40.280
be covering, yeah, I mean, you know, covering the team.

759
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:44.440
I'm really interested to just see how
the defense looks, how they're the guys

760
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:46.880
have been developing, how they actually
look against actual you know, offenses,

761
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:50.960
because that was the weakest point of
the team after like last year. So

762
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:52.079
I kind of want to see.
I think got to take the next step

763
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:55.239
and kind of really keep pace with
our offense because I feel like our offense

764
00:48:55.280 --> 00:49:00.000
is going to go on the better
you know units you know in college football.

765
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:01.400
So I feel like if they can
kind of just keep you know,

766
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:05.760
kind of even a keyo with them, or keep pays with them, kind

767
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:07.679
of you know, keep teams below
thirty points per game, I think our

768
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:12.119
offense will be able to win most
of these games on the schedule. So

769
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:14.840
it's okay, Okay, you're a
student yeah, of the U of A.

770
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:17.320
This is your school. We've asked
this of no go go because where

771
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:20.480
you're going kind of yeah, okay, you're a student of school, are

772
00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:24.239
you rooting for them. Yeah,
I'm rooting for them inside. Where what

773
00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:28.320
do you mean, like, well, because you can because I can't.

774
00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:31.199
You can't. You can't because you're
a student, but you're not really supposed

775
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:36.119
to. Yeah, my question was
kind of like that, but different.

776
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.679
Do you notice your peers who are
rooting for them and very apparent that they're

777
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:44.920
rooting for them? No, how
long have you been in the business here

778
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:47.280
this year, second or third year? This is like my second year yet,

779
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:51.440
And have you noticed that where they're
kind of hoping that they do well

780
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:53.199
because it's their school. Yeah,
I mean, but like they don't really

781
00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:58.519
like it's not like die hard like
over cheers. I mean, they hope

782
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:00.000
they do well, but because we
haven't done for so long, the kind

783
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.119
of like whatever happens happens, right, But since I'm covering the team,

784
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:07.440
not gonna kind of see guys progressing
and one kind of just have more faith,

785
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.599
I guess than they do. But
your but your peers and how they

786
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:13.920
say you don't see them before it's
obviously you know, okay of cool Yeah,

787
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:17.039
yeah, not not really you know, yeah, Okay, that's where

788
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:22.559
you can yeah yeah, And and
look and we've we've talked about this before

789
00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:27.360
too. I was rooting for Arizona
because I wanted to carve you know,

790
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:30.519
cover good team, cover a good
team, and and and and you know,

791
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:31.760
go to the final four, go
to a bowl game or whatever,

792
00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:37.239
but not you know, with my
arms raised in the press box. I've

793
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:40.760
seen guys cheer under the under the
table. Yeah, I've seen yeah,

794
00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:44.760
oh yeah, you do one of
the first what's one of the first warnings,

795
00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:49.320
Daniel says, no cheering in the
press box. Cheering and you'll hear

796
00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:52.280
it. Yeah, yeah, sure, and you'll hear it. Yeah.

797
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:53.760
Yeah. That's when they wake me
up and say, what does this happen?

798
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:00.800
Oh my gosh, But that's why
we yeah, you know, okay,

799
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:04.400
it's very apparent. It's no shame. It is what it is.

800
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:06.559
Yeah, for sure. And like
Jay says, you know, it's better

801
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:09.000
to be coming a winning team.
It's way more fun, for sure.

802
00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:13.320
Locker rooms and stuff like that are
way more fun. Yeah. Now we'll

803
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:15.119
see if he has a winning,
winning team. Yeah, we'll see,

804
00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:17.880
which, of course would be fine. If there's six and six or seven

805
00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:22.920
to five, yea, whether it
is okay, cool, that's not just

806
00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:27.400
you know, just curious to what
the approach is anymore, you know,

807
00:51:27.719 --> 00:51:31.320
because I know we again we're Steve
and I are kind of the purest in

808
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:35.519
the room. You know, we
kind of like to don't cheer, don't

809
00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:38.599
you know stuff. But and you
you know, but you can't help be

810
00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:42.519
connected when you're the student, you
know, at the student paper. Yeah

811
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:45.840
for sure. Yeah, there's only
if you find something out that's bad news

812
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for the for the for the team, right, you're gonna go, You're

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gonna follow that up. Of course, I got do my job at the

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end of the day, and so
I'll have to do. But I always

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I want them to succeed and do
well. But you know, I kind

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of how to like separate that.
So yeah, pretty cool. We feel

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good about you now, not that
we didn't feel good about you before.

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I didn't know. We feel good
about you, all right, Thanks,

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good first hour. All right,
all right, Jason Man, last day,

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holy cow, last breaking news.
Yeah, last breaking news for Jason

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coming right up, So stick around.