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Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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

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He's Jacon Zos. We have rookie
analyst. It's been nuts. Wait

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it Stevehn been here like half an
hour and it's been all kinds of crap.

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I know. We almost didn't think
the station was off the air.

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We didn't know if we were going
to have a show. Came in and

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then the music hacks have totals.
We can't play music on our show anymore.

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Yes, we get all that good
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having to cease and desist. It's
the only thing people listen to. The

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music is Hey, what are they
gonna play today? Not September. I

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can't even do that in No Earth
and Wind and Fire. Welcome everybody to

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Tuesday. Luck to get to a
good show today. We have Tommy we

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might get to that early in the
show, and we have some good guests

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talking more about Super Bowl. Right, We've got we with brand the help

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of Brandon Sanders over at in the
football Office. We've got Frank Middleton,

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played in the mid nineties here at
Arizona ninety five and ninety six, got

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into the NFL. Was with the
Raiders when they played in Super Bowl thirty

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seven. Yeah, about twenty years
so he was a starting guard in the

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Super Bowl. So we're going to
talk to him about, you know,

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continuing to talk, you know,
with guys who have been in the Super

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Bowl, you know, because Steve
and I and a lease over here,

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none of us have ever played in
the Super Bowl. Probably not going to

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ye what, I don't know what
the prices are, but did you see

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my Facebook posts about that suite that's
going to go for one and a half

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million dollars Jesus for twenty tickets And
I saw the get in price. The

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lowest get in price was eighty five
hundred dollars. So what's the maximum you

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would pay to go to a game
like that? Probably five hundred bucks.

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I'm not going I'm not going right
at least yeah, I mean, probably

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about the same. But none of
my teams are in it, so I

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feel like that depends, like to
go to a game like this, I

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probably wouldn't pay that much because I
don't Yeah, you see, I don't

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have a team. Yeah, neither
are my teams. Yeah, I don't

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have a team. So if you
had a team, if I had a

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team, probably five hundred bucks.
That's look at I'm not paying a thousand

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dollars to go to football. That's
a that's a brutal wars. Yeah,

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I mean serious, I'm not paying
a thousand dollars. No, I wouldn't

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need to go to to go to
football. I'm just not I paid,

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you know, I mean, you
know, my son and I we paid

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one hundred and seventy five bucks per
day to go to the US Open up

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Pebbleby. That's good. It was
a great experience, a great great weekend.

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Is that what it was? Maybe
it was more like I don't remember

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it was it was a few hundred
dollars, you know, but again not

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a big fan. How much were
you were just additional? So how much

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just tickets for that? I don't
even ask. So that's undred and fifty

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that was bad? Well, well
see, okay, we okay, we

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got a package of it was it
was four nights of a hotel, three

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nights at the park. Okay,
I just want to get into this,

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and it was probably about it was
like four grande for no, okay,

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but how much for each individual?
There were four of us, four of

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us, but that's for that's for. It was about a thousand dollars apiece

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for hotel and tickets. Was last
time you there to Disneyland a few years

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ago? Kind of one hundred and
twenty five hundred fifty bucks to get in.

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No, it's in the twoes.
It's in the twos, and it's

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and it's all different. I would
pay for Disneyland if it was Christmas times

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bested. I also driving their stay
that need to happen this place on there.

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Okay, let me say this.
I think we paid per ticket to

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the Final four nineties Evan. Yeah, okay, like seven fifty per ticket

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for the two games, per ticket
per person for two games, for two

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games. That's okay, that games. It was affordable. Well, and

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then you had your team, right
and we were going to see our team

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back then. Though that's that's still
a lot of money back there. It

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wasn't. But I will say that
we were very very crafty with it.

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We got a hold of some some
other tickets and we sold and we sold

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other tickets to help pay for the
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that's about the max. Like I'm
you know, I'm not going to pay,

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you know, four or five hundred
dollars to go see Taylor Swift or

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even Earth Wind and Fire or you
know whoever. I'm you know, I'm

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not. I no, I didn't
know why I brought it up, but

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it's crazy. Those prices the most
expensive super Bowl ever. I'd pay okay,

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I'd pay over five hundred. I'd
pay six seven hundred dollars limit to

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go to the Masters. Okay,
the Masters. I paid one hundred dollars

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for this weekend for waste management,
Phoenix open. Did you where are you

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going? I'm going on Saturday?
Is that for the weekend or just Saturday?

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And I don't even follow Golfs's going
there Friday? I think, or

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something like that. He's got him
free, but he knows Sammy has a

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press pass, press press. I
mean, these people who are paying a

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thousand dollars to go see Taylor Swift, I'm not, you know, or

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even if I liked her a lot, you know. No, no artist

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is worth that to me, or
no football team or basketball team is worth

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that. I disagree. I would
always pay money for an experience for whould

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you pay them that for? I
would have paid a thousand dollars to Taylor

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Swift, but the dates she was
in LA didn't work out. Would that

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have been a good seat? Yeah? For the floor? Yes? Okay.

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My daughters paid six hundred bucks to
see Harry Styles New Year's Eve.

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Reach, No, six hundred each
Harry Styles New Year's Eve, Madison Square

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Guard. That's different. That's New
Year's Eve. Yeah, yeah, it

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was all Anything you do on New
Year's Eve is gonna you're gonna have to

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pay. I take it back.
It was Halloween. It was a costume,

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but it was a costume concert.
You know, everybody worked. I

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think it was I can't remember.
Maybe it was New Year's I don't know

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why I brought this up, but
no, it's yeah, I mean,

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it's it. It's a valid question. But would you pay? I'm with

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you. I don't I'm not that
interested. Five hundred bucks maybe, yeah,

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but you guys have seen a lot
of sporting events. Yeah, that's

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that's part of Vegas. Remember,
Vegas. You got to go and stay

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a couple of days. Those rooms
now are through the roof, just because

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of the situation. And then you
have to eat, which is of course

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that you know, like for the
you're not going to pack toalf tournament.

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That's reasonable for us because you know, we we get you know, we

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get things. Yeah, you know, we get in for free. But

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even then Vegas is is kind of
yeah, but no, I'm not paying

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eighty five hundred dollars to go see
the game. That okay, five hundred

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Yeah, some teams that I don't
really care the worst seats to eight eighty

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five hundred bucks open the right,
I wouldn't. And we've been in the

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that's how it is. You've been
in the stadium for the Arizona game and

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I was there, and the press
box is in the cheap seats. We

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were, we were, we were
bottom level in the in the that's what

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you believe, Hey, this team
could be good. That was right something

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that no, No, it was
Fish Jet Fishes Fish's first game. And

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I think also, if you're going
to see your team in a big game

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like that and you're paying a lot
of money, you have to be okay

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with them losing. You know,
you have to be okay, you just

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want to see a good game,
because imagine that sucks. You pay all

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this money. You're a die hard
Chiefs fan and the Chiefs loser something you

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have to be okay. You just
have to be going for the experience.

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Also, also, though, if
you have that money to spend, you

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have that money to spend. I
mean, yeah, that's a couch right

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COUCHU money because you know you make
a lot of money. What do you

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want to do? Well, let's
go the game. Yeah, I'm saying

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as a young person, though with
no money, I would pay. Okay,

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I would pay though. Okay,
here's I'm trying to think of.

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I'm trying to think of a game
that I would absolutely have to be Arizona

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Arizon Championship. No, no,
Arizona and the Rose Bowl. Okay,

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okay, I pay four figures.
Okay, if if all I could get

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was a ticket for twelve hundred bucks, I'm going, yeah, you know,

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I'm borrowing money from somewhere to go
right right? You take his ashes?

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No, no, that's good.
But Final four two, I think

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Final four Championship game Arizona fans would
pay a lot for Final four tickets.

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I'm not sure I would personally.
I mean, like I've told you those

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times that we had tickets set up
for, you know, for final fours,

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the two thousand and three thing,
we we had we had tickets at

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face value, which were you know, a few hundred bucks, but we

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were going to go. I mean, I told you guys last week that

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I saw in the Sweet Sick teen
two years ago. For that reason,

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when we flew to San Francisco,
you know, we had to fly,

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stay for a hotel, and tickets
were probably five hundred dollars. It could

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have been coach K's last game,
and that's why we went because we were

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like, this could be the last
time. And it wasn't his last game.

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It was his second, third to
last, but we paid because it's

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an experience and I'm so happy we
went. We went. I always remember

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that. I mean, it was
like online. Oh so that's not fun,

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because you know you said that stuff
was. In today's digital world,

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you don't save your ticket. You
can't put the digital thing on the wall.

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The kids in today's digital world,
they don't give you a ticket.

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Had a Q on my phone demanded
tickets so I could frame it and say

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I was at that game. I'll
always remember we took photo we had I

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have then, I have our ninety
one of our ninety seven tickets. Yeah,

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uh final four tickets signed by John
Wooden. See, I mean you

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could you sign my phone? Please? Yeah, make sure you use a

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sharpie. I didn't. I get
it. I get it. But come

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on, there's gotta be some sentimental
value in that ticket to me. Do

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you any reasons why they didn't give
us? I'm sure I have it.

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I don't have it if I remember
that. I remember that game though,

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and I'll always remember that day and
that weekend. No sentimental value there,

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no, man, that's that's mad. I remember the flight on the way

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there. Of course it was two
years ago. It was I remember.

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Do you have any memorabilia of any
of any sort? Probably find something,

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books and stuff from when I was
little. I have like d'ts from yourself,

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but of but like of an event
that you went to, or an

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audit, an autograph, nothing like
that. I don't know WoT think?

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So? I used to tell myself, Oh when I when I started covering

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games, sports games for the U, it I was like, I'm gonna

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save all my press passes. This
is so cool. And now I've been

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to so and they all look the
same. You have never you have you

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haven't have a little mountain of well, I've got only for a big game,

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I would save them. I've got
them all. I've got a bulletin

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board next to my desk, got
a nail like this, long, sticky

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out and I hang all my press. Okay, I should start doing that.

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I've got officially kind of you know, you're you're doing it, but

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now is the time to start.
Yeah, I've got I've got you a

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I sit on the floor and you
know what, I'm putting my point from

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here on. Yeah, I'm going
to save them the next game I go

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to. Yeah, I mean i've
got you. Your grandchild's on your lap,

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he said, yeah. Back,
and I was working for two old

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dudes. I started saving these trinkets
and look at look what's gotten. Yeah,

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how far back you have you have? Uh? Press passes? Oh?

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Since before well my first final four
ninety one? Probably, yeah,

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I have something like that. You
have to say, Okay, but but

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it's like if I'm going to see
Arizona versus Washington, let's say it's like,

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let's say your regular basketball you have
a basketball passes? How far back?

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Oh you think since I don't,
I don't know how I have to

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go back, but you have you
have got I know I've got some into

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the night all over the place.
Yeah, okay, that's cool. I'm

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gonna start doing that because then you
remember that specific game. Okay, I'm

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gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
bring you I'm gonna take a picture of

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my press pass collection wall and show
it to you. Yeah, it's a

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bunch of crap and to start a
fire, but it means something. To

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do mean something. And when I
first started going, I was like,

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oh, I'm gonna save all these, but then there was just too many.

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Yeah, I didn't do what you
did, hang them on the wall.

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If I started doing that, I
had a place I do have I

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have. I have two of them
framed. Because I did this in the

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basically the same count that's sort of
the same calendar year. It was the

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eighty eight basketball season. I covered
the final four. Then it was the

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national championship game for the eighty eight
college football season. Now was January one

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of eighty nine, because it was
the festival and I covered that, so

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I put those two things in a
frame that I've got some more so,

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I got my two of the two
national championships that I covered in one on

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calendar. And I actually told one
of my professors this and she said I

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told her. I was like,
oh, I don't save my press passes.

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And she was like, well,
when you cover the Olympics, you're

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going to save your press pass Yeah. Yeah, I've done two yet,

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I've got all my NCAA tournament press
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I was speaking of the you know, speaking of my you know,

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my golf thing. We do have
a golf guest today, Jim Anderson,

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head coach of the Arizona men's golf
team that a great tournament last week.

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They broke a school record with their
score. Still finished second in the tournament,

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but played as well as they've ever
played. So we'll talk to Jim

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his season going on so far and
the guys he's got playing, And then

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again at four fifteen or twenty,
it'll be Frank Middleton played in the Super

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at the end of the hour,
we'll get through some Tommy clips at some

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point. Right, But if you've
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event, did you save your stuff? Get us a call. How much

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did you pay see a big game? Right? Yeah? Yeah, because

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I save saved my US open ticket
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So let's let's talk about that after
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evaluation Today. Steve Rivera and Shaken
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on Twusons Sports Stig Jet Fox Sports
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heard radio WAPs. Hey, welcome
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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve
Rivera. He's Jiggins Aws. Now on

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the phone. We have Jim Anderson, the Arizona men's golf coach. How

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are you, Jim? Hey,
Steve doing great? Hey, Jay,

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how are you guys this afternoon?
Thanks for inviting. Yeah, we're doing

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well. But you're doing really well. What's going on with your team as

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as you head into this spring?
As they say, even though it doesn't

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look like spring today, Yeah,
it's definitely a little bit more of a

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fall ish day, I guess,
or no Sunday, how's that? But

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No, our team's been doing great. We got them back early and we'll

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started, you know, first week
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was, and we competed shortly after
getting them back in the Copper Cup,

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which was an awesome format of Ryder
Cup versus a SU and also USC and

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UCLA played as well, so we're
on the right side of those head to

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heads having won both days and one
Copper Cups. So it was a good

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start, got to see eight guys
play and really opened up the season on

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a positive note. And then as
it goes, we hosted in our first

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event just last Monday Tuesday. It's
the NIT played at Omnitu Sun National.

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We had great weather, had some
great teams come in and put put three

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really good scores together and the team
shot fifty under par and normally I would

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say that's good enough to win because
it set a program record and really excited

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about how we're playing. Unfortunately,
we had one team shoot fifty one,

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Mexico Lobos, and so we finished
second, but still beat a ton of

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great teams and we've got a lot
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and ranked tenth in the country.
So the guys are hungry and we're we're

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gonna just keep doing what we do
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setting up for a fun semester right
now. Jim talking about that that fifty

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under par last week. You know, when you when you do that and

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then don't win, you know,
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for lack of but with the emotions
of that, right you feel good about

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it, will feel bad? I
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when you've played that well but didn't
win. I think the human inside of

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me is really disappointed and really bumped
and really mad that we didn't win,

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you know, but the coach inside
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you know, we we had such
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and our our sport is a team
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individuals play well and and do things, make good decisions and you know,

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put together eighteen whole score three different
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do that, that's when that's when
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like we did. So Tiger Christiansen
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uh He shot a final round sixty
four and finished third place in the tournament,

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and Tony Jong is a freshman and
he shot sixty three in the second

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round, which is a program I
heard for freshmen. So I think the

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perspective of knowing that, you know, really we played some great golf and

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it's really difficult to win. Yes, there's easy, easy things to point

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too that we could have maybe done
a little bit better. Sure, but

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the reality is when you when you
play that well and don't win, you

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just take your hat off and shake
the other team's hands, do great job,

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and wait till next week. If
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gonna win a lot of times.
So how do you kind of temper that

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enthusiasm? You come out of the
gate and shoot like that. That's like,

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in my world, the equivalent of
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and then where do you go from
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know, I told the guys this
before before we played even the Copper Cup,

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which was which was again something we
were fired up to compete against our

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rivals, and you know, I
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metrics, we were probably the underdog
going into it. So of course we

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get excited, we want to play
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win or lose, you know,
this is that perspective thing again. We

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want to play our best golf,
you know, in April and May.

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That's that's when that's when we have
opportunities to win championships and along the way.

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All of these steps are important and
things that we take very seriously.

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Opportunities and that we that we want
to take advantage of. But on the

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other hand, too, it is
it is all preparation for trying to execute

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and perform. No difference than like
you mentioned the Duke game is you know,

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it's coach Tommy that they want to
play their best basketball in March,

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and that's that's what we're setting up
for. It's fun to have accolades come

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come across and have some guys play
well enough to be earning you know,

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all American status and having a national
rank in the top ten. But the

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reality is all that stuff goes out
the door when we tee it up in

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the postseason. Yeah, just just
trying to keep our focus on five ft

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in front of us and play our
best golf the next opportunity that we have,

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and that's really been the message we've
shared with the guys and Actually that's

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all you can do. If I
could. You talked about about the Tommy

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thing and the Duke thing and and
playing playing in March, and you want

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to play better then, but you're
not guaranteed that. I mean, I'm

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a believer like in every Gary,
every games the season, and you know

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you you play that way that day, you play that way the next day,

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but you're not guarantee. Please,
he's not guaranteed to give his team

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to play well in March. No, you're exactly right, Steve. And

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you know I've heard I've heard this
one before. I think you guys have

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heard it too. But how you
do anything, it's how you do everything.

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And that's why the tournament that we're
getting ready for next is the most

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important one. And and and how
we prepare and how we show up and

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you know, the game plan that
we instill, the composure that the guys

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play with, the confidence that they
exude, and the belief and they have

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them in that strategy and how they
execute is how we That's how we play.

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So you know, the more times
we can we can use that experience

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and know that our preparation works,
is it just it really builds into who

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we are as a team, and
it feeds to the culture that we have.

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So I'm looking at your at your
stats, and you've got I mean,

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you've got some guys who are who
are scoring low. You've got,

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as you said, Tony Jong with
the six three, Tiger Christiansen is sixty

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four. A couple of sixty six
is in there. I mean, you've

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got guys that on any given day
can go out there and shoot the lights

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out. Yeah, And that's one
of the reasons I'm very excited about the

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team this year. And I don't
want to get too far over my skis

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with expectations, because that's one of
the things we have to manage, especially

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in the sport of golf. But
the thing that encourages me a lot about

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this roster and this team is we've
we've got two guys on our team now,

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Tiger Christensen who we've mentioned, Zach
Polo, who was it was only

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a sophomore, he won the n
I T last year. We've got two

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guys who have have won fullative and
I would say that you know, there's

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there's probably two or three more guys
who have the ability to do that.

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So when you show up with a
team of guys who you know, can

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put together three rounds and win a
golf tournament individually. That's that's a good

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sign. And you know when we
when we have good players playing well at

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the golf courses they're familiar with and
and and comfortable, that's when our team

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score can be really you know,
competitive with honestly anyone, you know.

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And we've seen it this year,
and I think we're going to see it

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a little more in this spring.
I don't want to project too much confidence,

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but I am confident in our group
and I do believe in our in

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our guys, and they're they're prepared
for the opportunities that that we're going to

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put put in front of them.
Do you as a coach, when you

408
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when you you guys, you know, get on the golf course and you

409
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know, start playing in a tournament, as is there an amount of time

410
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that you need to that they need
to be out there a number of holes

411
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that before you say okay, it
looks like it's going to be a good

412
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:38.599
day. It looks like we're going
to battle today. It looks like we're

413
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going to struggle today. You know, is there this this whole word about

414
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you used it a minico momentum and
guys start playing and they play well and

415
00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.680
shoot a sixty four or sixty six
or whatever. You know, do you

416
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:57.599
see that or is it like hole
by hole golfers golfers? Yeah? Yeah,

417
00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:03.319
I think for me it's probably a
little bit more situational and hole by

418
00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:07.359
hole only because sometimes in college golf, as you know, Jay, you're

419
00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:11.079
you're playing with a shotguns start,
so maybe the part fives are coming in

420
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a different point in the round than
than you would normally get them. And

421
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you know, if you're only if
you're even par through five or six holes,

422
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but I haven't played any of the
part fives, well that's okay,

423
00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:23.759
you know. And conversely, if
you're even part or one over part and

424
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:26.720
you played three of the you know, two of the part fives or something,

425
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:30.160
you know, you're you're you're maybe
not going to get some of those

426
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:36.839
strokes back. So I don't I
don't necessarily feel like I get a read

427
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.240
off of the first couple of holes
from our team, and I've complimented them

428
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:42.839
a lot internally. Now I have
a chance to say it to the listeners

429
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:47.119
too. But our team is very, very composed, and I think part

430
00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:52.079
of that composure is a lot of
why we've been successful. And with with

431
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.440
good composure, you know, when
it's going very very well in your in

432
00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.279
your composure is great, Okay,
that's going to lend itself to continue to

433
00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:03.640
do things well and maybe even get
another one or shoot a sixty three like

434
00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.440
Tony did or sixty four like Tiger. And when it's not going well,

435
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:11.599
that composure really speaks to the player
you are too. And so so that's

436
00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:15.039
where if it's not going well,
I don't I don't want to say I

437
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.519
don't panic, but I have confidence
that our guys can write the ship when

438
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.559
when one round isn't going exactly how
they planned it to go. I'm assuming

439
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:29.200
that because they're so good an individually
as well as team that and they're probably

440
00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:33.519
really competitive that each one of them
kind of doesn't really compete with each other.

441
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.279
But that's what makes them better,
because they have to compete with each

442
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:40.960
other to be a better team.
Does that make sense? One hundred percent?

443
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.240
And that's a big part of our
program right now. And it was

444
00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:47.839
a message that we delivered early because
you know, the guys on our team

445
00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:51.880
all is m fire to play professionally
and win on PGA Tour, European Tour.

446
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:53.799
You know, play this game for
a living for many, many years.

447
00:29:53.960 --> 00:30:00.759
And we're out qualifying right now for
our next event. And really there's

448
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.599
you know, eight or nine guys. There's nine guys on the roster,

449
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.640
and based on play last week,
I'd say eight of them feel like they

450
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.519
deserve a chance to go to the
next tournament. Well, we only get

451
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:15.680
to take six. So that competition
at home and guys taking advantage of the

452
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.640
opportunities when they do earn them through
through tournament starts, whether it's on the

453
00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:23.200
team or playing as an individual.
You know, those those starts are very

454
00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:30.920
very precious, and them building the
resume and having the opportunity to post the

455
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.880
score that says, okay, I'm
one of your best five players. Coach

456
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.880
put me in and uh, you
know the good thing for me, we

457
00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.759
got great guys who are very competitive. We are pulling for each other.

458
00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:47.119
We also know how important everyone on
the team is because in golf, you

459
00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:48.920
if you want to be the alpha
and you want to be the top scorer,

460
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.359
that's fine, but if you don't
have other guys around you who can

461
00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:56.880
also play at the level that you
aspire to and you're trying to, then

462
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.759
your team's not going to advance,
and it's much much more difficult to get

463
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:03.720
to the national championship as an individual
than it is with a really good team.

464
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.920
So I think we've got that this
year, and the guys are pushing

465
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.559
each other and it makes for decision
making difficult, but it certainly makes my

466
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.119
job easier because we've got a lot
of talent. It tell us a little

467
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.319
bit about Tiger Christensen's experience in the
in the British Open last year, he

468
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.680
got to playing that he qualified got
to play in it. Have you seen

469
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:29.440
any impact or effects from having had
that experience? Has it affected his game,

470
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:33.559
changed his game, changes approach,
anything like that. It's a great

471
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.559
question, Jay, and I think
the answer is yes, it has impacted

472
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.519
him. But I will say this, Tiger has very clear goals and I

473
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.319
was lucky enough to get to travel
and watch and be a part of his

474
00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.240
very small circle for that week.
So so I got to see him compete

475
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:56.880
at the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool
and it was an amazing experience to take

476
00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.440
that in for obvious reasons, but
I think what it's done for Tiger is

477
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:05.680
it's really affirm to him that what
he's doing is working. And you know,

478
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.559
after the first day of Wow,
you know, I'm at the Open,

479
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:12.839
I'm taking pictures with you know,
some of the history and just you

480
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.440
know, being in a practice round
with this guy or that guy, or

481
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:17.599
having a tour bag or all that
stuff. You know, by the time

482
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:22.200
practice round two cames around, he
was all business and he was he was

483
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:24.960
there to compete and and honestly he
missed the cut, but he played some

484
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:28.319
really, really good golf. He
was on the first page of the leader

485
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:30.559
board early in round one. And
I think, you know, I think

486
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:36.000
if anything, it's just affirmed to
him that that this is what he's you

487
00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:38.720
know, he's capable of playing at
a very high level and he and he

488
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:45.680
clearly wants to play professionally. And
I think I think it's it's put him

489
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:50.039
in a place where now he's just
even more dead set on where he's going.

490
00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:53.359
It's put it's put an affirmation into
his goal and he's he's doing some

491
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:57.720
amazing things. So I think it's
helped him, but he was that way

492
00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:00.839
before. I think it's just confirmed
what he was looking looking for. Who

493
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:02.799
we have about ninety seconds left.
And let me just ask you a weird

494
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.599
question. Would you fault any of
your kids, like the Alabama kid who

495
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:12.240
wins the tournament, doesn't get paid
one and a half million, but decides

496
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:17.240
to go pro given his talent,
How would you feel? Well, I

497
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:22.240
mean, I would hate to see
somebody leave the University of Arizona because it's

498
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.640
just such a great spot. But
I do know that the reason I coach

499
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:30.599
is because I want to help young
men, you know, have a platform

500
00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:34.279
to jump off and be successful for
the rest of their life. And obviously

501
00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:38.440
the degree is very important and something
that we coach into our program our players,

502
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:43.880
and it's something we encourage for everyone
and they do that. But when

503
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.880
you win a PGA Tour event,
it's life changing. And so you know,

504
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:52.519
I can't fault Ni Dunlapf for making
that decision. And I know if

505
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.480
that ever happens here with our program, I'll be completely supportive, and I

506
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:59.720
know that we would back them up
with helping them finish their degree when they're

507
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:04.200
ready if they chose to leave to
pursue PGA Tour status after having been a

508
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.799
winner as an amateur. So I
think I think it's a really really good

509
00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:12.719
thing for college golf and certainly makes
for tough decisions, but in a way,

510
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.719
probably not that difficult to a decision. Well, the last guy did

511
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:19.360
that was Phil Mickelson. I think
things turned out okay for him. Right,

512
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.719
that's exactly right. And it was
done in Tucson. Right, I

513
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.199
was on the eighteenth. Hold,
I remember, what are the what were

514
00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:30.440
the odds of that happening? Oh, I don't, I don't study odd.

515
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.760
Maybe maybe maybe you guys, get
somebody else, but it's probably pretty

516
00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:38.760
it's probably pretty small. Well Michelson
did in ninety one, and nobody had

517
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:43.280
done it since then. There you
go. Okay, coach, Thanks,

518
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:45.760
Hey, coach, Well, thanks
a whole bunch of good luck the rest

519
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:47.000
of the season. We'll talk to
you again. We'll keep an eye on

520
00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:51.159
you guys and see how you do. Hey, thanks for having me on,

521
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:52.960
gentlemen, appreciate it and fare down. Take care. Thank you.

522
00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:59.599
Yeah, Jim Anderson. You know, it's funny because when the British Open

523
00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:00.519
came on last year and I'm like, hey, wait a minute, there's

524
00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:02.440
the U of a guy playing in
there. I thought it was cool.

525
00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:06.079
I was just paying attention to I
mean, that's fun. It's like you

526
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.599
know, you know, you see
somebody when you come out of the u

527
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:10.920
of A and they're in the major
leagues. When your name Tiger, you

528
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.039
better be good. Yeah, well
he's pretty good. You know again,

529
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:17.920
if you're playing in the in the
British Open, the Open Championship, and

530
00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:22.000
you're nineteen twenty twenty one years old, you're gonna be pretty good. You're

531
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.000
gonna be pretty good. You're gonna
got some ahead of you. All right,

532
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:27.199
let's take our next break. We're
to come back. We got some

533
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tom Tommy Lloyd press conference clips to
play for you, talking about getting ready

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Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome
back to My the Ball Hero Fox Sports

569
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fourteen fifty I'm Steve rivera Peter Chicken
sauce and at least with us today work

570
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on the board. So we got
fourteen minutes. We're gonna get some Tommy

571
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:16.440
clips in. Yeah, Tommy hald
his weekly press conference kind of a day

572
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:20.760
earlier than normal. They used to
do it like early in the day before

573
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:22.880
they get out to where they're going. You know, they're going to uh,

574
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:27.400
you know, the Utah. It's
gonna be cold to Thursday night,

575
00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:30.480
Utah Thursday. Then they go to
Colorado on Saturday. They play in door

576
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:34.800
shight, they do play inside.
Do you have altitude? They do have

577
00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:37.719
altitude. Everybody has altitude. Okay, I'm just gonna preface this that Tommy

578
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.559
was asked a bunch of questions about
altitude, and he was basically like,

579
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.000
look, we all just got to
go play up there. Yeah, so

580
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:45.920
you know, do I think it
affects them? I don't know. Maybe,

581
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:49.719
maybe doesn't. He gave the whole
I'm not a doctor, but I

582
00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.719
did stay at a holiday inn last
night kind of kind of line, and

583
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.719
there were a couple of questions to
that, and basically he was saying,

584
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.960
I'm not making a big deal of
it. We just got to go up

585
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.360
there and play, So we didn't
at any of that in the clips he

586
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:06.400
was He was asked though about because
in the last several games, you know,

587
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:08.079
they've played teams that weren't at full
strength. Stanford had you know,

588
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:12.719
uh, the guy who put twenty
eight points on him up up at Stanford

589
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.039
was out. When Colorado came down
here, they had two guys. Their

590
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.719
two best players were out. Usc
two best players were out. So they've

591
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:23.440
gotten lucky with that, and on
the flip side of it, they haven't

592
00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:27.760
had, you know, a bunch
of injuries. He did mention the Keishad

593
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:30.480
Johnson hurt his shoulder a little bit
on Saturday, but our Sunday, but

594
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:34.039
not enough to you know, he'll
he'll be in the lineup again. But

595
00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:37.679
he was asked about injuries. Is
it is it? You know, is

596
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.719
it luck? Is it whatever?
And And here's what he had to say,

597
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:45.679
just talking about their their business with
injuries. I mean, I think

598
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:49.800
the first thing is you have to
give credit to your your your your training

599
00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:52.800
staff and your strength coach. I
mean, you know, Jay Rock and

600
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:54.360
Rounds do a great job and they've
been around for a long time, and

601
00:39:54.519 --> 00:39:59.519
just you know, the medical setup
overall is really good at Arizona. You

602
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.159
know, that's umber one and number
two has probably just been a little bit

603
00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:05.239
lucky, you know, I mean, you get a little bit lucky.

604
00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:07.159
I mean it's a there's there's lots
of bodies, there's lots of feet on

605
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.559
the ground, there's lots of guys
in the air. So you know,

606
00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:12.920
sometimes you just have to get come
out on the lucky side of some of

607
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:15.760
those injury types of things. So
the combination of those two things usually are

608
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:20.400
it. Yeah, I mean,
and that's it. I mean, they

609
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:23.159
have been lucky. What's what's the
mention that we have said for the last

610
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:28.280
thirty some years. Luke kind of
used that in order to be really good

611
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:30.599
at basketball, you have to be
lucky, you have to be good injury

612
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:35.480
free, and who knows after that, but those threes are those are the

613
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:37.840
requirements. Yeah, and they have
been and so you know it's kind of

614
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.599
like he sort of like just shrugs
his shoulders said, you know, what

615
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:45.440
can I tell you? You know, we we've been fortunate. The next

616
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:49.840
thing is was and I want to
ask him a little different question about the

617
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.960
bench, but he did get asked
about you know, how you know your

618
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.159
bench is doing them. Look you
got you got three guys that come off

619
00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:00.280
the bench, Moe Crevis, kJ, Lewis J and Bradley Lewis. Actually,

620
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:04.360
yeah, has been good the last
few games between the between the three

621
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.360
of them, they are averaging about, I'm looking at it, almost twenty

622
00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:09.840
points a game combined. You know, when you're getting twenty points off the

623
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:14.400
bench, you know that's pretty good. Previous is doing a nice job rebounding.

624
00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:17.760
He's getting nearly five rebounds a game, averaging only thirteen minutes a game.

625
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:22.400
So things like that. But you
just kind of asked, you know,

626
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.440
tell us a little bit about your
how your bench is doing. I

627
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:30.719
mean, they're they're really good players, and are there instances or circumstances where

628
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:34.480
they are good enough to start?
For sure, there's no doubt about that.

629
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:37.320
But you know, sometimes you have
to make a decision, and they're

630
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:39.960
not always easy decisions, and and
you have to trust that decision. And

631
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:45.119
I feel good about the decisions we've
made. So was the question how was

632
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:47.599
The question was kind of in the
context of have you been thinking at all

633
00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:51.920
about making any lineup changes and stuff
like that? Okay, yeah, and

634
00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:53.880
that's what got into well, our
bench has been pretty good. Yeah,

635
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:57.480
but he just he just said,
I'm not even thinking because you know in

636
00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:01.280
the past he did this time or
two with Pelle. Yeah, he figured

637
00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:05.760
that he was he was not he
was better as a reserve. Well,

638
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:07.559
that was a specific question. It
was Brian Peterson asked it about. It

639
00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.920
was about this time last year that
you put you took Pella out of the

640
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:15.199
starting playing up, that's what and
and and you had him coming off the

641
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:21.440
bench again and you put Cedric uh
Henderson, Yeah, Cedric Henderson in and

642
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:24.360
and so you know, I'm you
know, how do you feel about your

643
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:30.920
bench kind of thing? And now
and then uh, you know, he

644
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:35.199
just they're starting to kind of run
through different players. You know, he's

645
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:37.719
giving sort of short answers, right. I thought his answer on on on

646
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:43.239
Creevous was was kind of interesting about
how he thinks Creevous has been doing over

647
00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:45.559
the last several games. It's been
good. You know, he's good.

648
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:47.519
He's a freshman. You know,
he's had some really good games, and

649
00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:50.960
he's had some other games you know
where you know, he probably could have

650
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:52.079
done one a few things better here
and there. But I think all in

651
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:54.719
all, he's trending in the right
direction. And you know, I I

652
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:58.320
I still think he's got a lot
left in the tank, and I think

653
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:00.639
he's got more to offer this team
this year. So so you know,

654
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:05.679
I would be I'd be happy to
see him take another step forward for sure.

655
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:08.079
Here here's a few numbers on him. He's shooting fifty eight percent from

656
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:14.559
the field, as I mentioned,
he's playing thirteen minutes a game. Importantly,

657
00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:16.800
he's forty of fifty three from free
on free throw so season, seventy

658
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:22.440
five percent, which is great.
Which he's got such a nice smooth he

659
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:27.280
takes forever to shoot it, but
he's got a nice shot. He's getting

660
00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:30.360
four point seven rebounds a game,
which is you know, another good another

661
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:35.239
probably thirtes, right, a few
too many turnovers. He's got twenty turnovers

662
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.920
in thirteen minutes, so he's got
he's got a few of those. But

663
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.800
he's blocked sixteen shots. I mean, he's he's just solid across the board

664
00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:45.079
on the stat line, and you
know, and and when when, uh,

665
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:47.199
there have been times when he's had
to come in and actually you know,

666
00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:52.440
not just stand his ground, but
actually you know, make an impact

667
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:53.960
where you know, Umar Bello has
had a few, you know, tough

668
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:57.480
games. Yeah. So one of
the things that I've noticed, and I

669
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:00.239
think I'm accurate. Some of the
people who text me Therizone as big men.

670
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.519
I don't know if you agree with
this play small, uh, in

671
00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:08.079
part because they miss a lot of
easy shots well, and they don't force

672
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:12.920
them. They don't take over near
the basket where they you know, rim

673
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.239
around and babble spinds half the time
on the floor, right, they do

674
00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:22.760
they do, And and you think, how does this seven footer missing right

675
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:25.559
there, right right right? Yeah, you're tall, tall, when you've

676
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:29.039
been in volleyball, how do you
miss a spark? You know what I'm

677
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:34.920
saying us normal people a good answer
with us normal people saying how does that

678
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:37.440
happen? I'm sure it does.
Yeah, I mean it does, but

679
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:39.679
I feel like he does it too
much. Totally agree with you. Yeah,

680
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:43.199
you get your hand, but you
know, they go, they're going

681
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.480
up there and trying to put the
ball on. There's all these hands around,

682
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:50.400
and I think sometimes they're expecting to
get their shot blocked or something like

683
00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.280
that, and then it doesn't,
and then they and then they they don't

684
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:55.440
put it in. I'm like,
I'm like, dunk the ball, Just

685
00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:59.880
dunk the damn you anyway. Well, it could be a little bit more,

686
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:04.079
both of them, both of them
could be I think over time.

687
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:08.639
I think way earlier in the season, Crevios was incredibly lacking in aggressive.

688
00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:13.079
He was getting the ball taken out
of his hands, even over his head.

689
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:16.239
A bunch of times he's gotten better
at defending the ball, but there's

690
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:21.760
been some time like like there was
one on Sunday where he was going up

691
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:25.440
and I think he just expected somebody
to come and swat it and he just

692
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:29.599
kind of didn't get it over the
rim. He just a front rimw do

693
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:34.400
you what? Times think that he
plays tentative not tentative. I just think

694
00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:39.559
he's he's just expecting to be,
you know, pushed around more than he

695
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:44.119
gets pushed around. I don't know
if that's the definition of tentative. I

696
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:46.480
would go there. I would go
there, but I don't know. It's

697
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:50.360
just weird because I gear it to
you he doesn't want to go the line.

698
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:55.960
Yeah, he could be more efficient
though, and he can definitely be

699
00:45:57.079 --> 00:46:00.079
more efficient, all right. The
burning question that I know a lot of

700
00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:07.960
Arizona fans have on the this w
gonna be interesting is about does Tommy think

701
00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:15.880
his team sometimes doesn't take the other
team? Oh great, I don't know

702
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:20.920
if it was Bruce, somebody,
just you've kind of well, it just

703
00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:23.719
kind of do you feel like sometimes
maybe they've gone into games and not for

704
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:28.840
It's a legitimate question, a very
legitimate question. So here's what here's what

705
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.320
he had to say to that.
We played the game Sunday night. I

706
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:36.599
was with you guys. I went
home and I haven't even seen my players.

707
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:39.719
So I mean, I'll find out
in practice this afternoon where we're at

708
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:43.920
with all that stuff. But you
know, I expect us to have a

709
00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:47.280
mature approach. And you know,
hey, you know we lost two games

710
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:52.679
to to you know, you know, a very good Washington State team that

711
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.119
played good and an Oregon State team
that that played good and made all the

712
00:46:55.199 --> 00:47:00.400
timely baskets you know they needed to
make. And and that happens some So

713
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.000
I'm not overthinking it one way or
another. And and there was no come

714
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.639
to Jesus meeting or anything like that, and and and so no, I'm

715
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:12.360
I'm you know, hey, I
just know, listen, maybe we go

716
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.079
out, our guys do pay uninspired. I don't know. I wouldn't expect

717
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:17.360
that, but if they do,
I guess it happens. But you know,

718
00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:21.440
we also go out and play really
inspired and lose because these are going

719
00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:23.000
to be hard games. So I
mean, that's what we're going to prepare

720
00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:28.239
for. So well, he was
asked, you know, does your team

721
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:30.800
look like they're fired up for these
games this weekend because they're hard games,

722
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:34.480
and so that was his initial answer, saying, I haven't seen them,

723
00:47:34.519 --> 00:47:37.840
so I don't know. We haven't
had any practices. But then it was

724
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:39.760
kind of like, look, Oregon
State and Washington State, we played them,

725
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:44.360
they beat us, they played well. I don't think we came out

726
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:46.320
uninspired, and I don't think our
team would. But he's not saying that

727
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:50.079
they wouldn't. Well, he's a
coach. Also, he's a coaching So

728
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:52.719
look, I have two people in
the room here. Do you think they

729
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:55.800
do play uninspired? I mean,
I agree more with what you were saying,

730
00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:00.800
that they don't take the opponent seriously
sometimes when I thought that was a

731
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:02.079
question, but that's that was that
wasn't the pest. Okay, but do

732
00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:07.440
you think uninspired? I don't think
they play uninspired? So what what is

733
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:09.719
it. I think it's more where
you say they don't take these games as

734
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:13.079
seriously they think they're going to win. They think it's a shoe in,

735
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:15.360
which is worse. I yeah,
well see, I kind of think that

736
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.639
that's the same if you're not taking
a team seriously. Okay, if you

737
00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.519
don't think they can beat you,
so and you go out there playing like

738
00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:23.880
you don't think they can beat you, and then all of a sudden they

739
00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:27.119
hit you in the mouth and they
beat you and talk about this long time.

740
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:30.559
Okay, so you say maybe you're
maybe, but yeah, ended up.

741
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:31.760
But you know that U c L
a game for example, they were

742
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.920
down by nineteen in the start,
they were uninspired, and then they became

743
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:37.639
and start, they were at home, the crowd was with them, and

744
00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:40.480
the same thing with Stanford. Yeah, same thing with Stanford. And then

745
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:44.719
they came back and played really well. And then it's like their energy on

746
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:47.719
the court totally shifted. Second half. There's some there's some energy there,

747
00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:53.079
there's some Yeah, there's some knowing
that they have to get around of here

748
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:57.400
right and then and then the right
and then the times that they didn't do

749
00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.960
that, they couldn't come back in
the second half they were on the road.

750
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:01.440
Want to be asked, you do
you feel that? Do you see

751
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:06.320
that? I think that as the
cliche. I think they played dow under

752
00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:09.000
the competition more often than you would
like to see. Okay, so I

753
00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:12.840
have two people in the room I
agree with you. So there's three people.

754
00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:16.880
Tommy's not gonna say that. He's
not gonna say that, but they

755
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:22.880
don't, well nobody, he's not
gonna say you don't think he sounds yeah,

756
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:27.000
it sounds to me though that the
one who handles that is not Tommy

757
00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:31.039
Lloyd. Yeah, sounds like it's
Ricardofoy. Well then they because he's always

758
00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:34.920
fiery. But but think about it. Think about to the teams that we

759
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:37.519
knew, you know, who was
the guy that was going to do that

760
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:40.480
under Luke his assistant coaches, whether
it was Ricky bird Song, Kevin O'Neill,

761
00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:45.239
Rosbero, whoever, those were.
Those are the guys that would get

762
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:47.480
the team. But they were guilty
of not this arizon. Those teams have

763
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:52.440
been guilty of since I've known them. They don't get up for teams that

764
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:54.400
they think that they can just show
up. I mean, they just But

765
00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:57.400
don't you think a lot of teams
do oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

766
00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:00.320
yeah, it's really hard. I
don't worry about the yeah, you're not

767
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:02.239
covering the other teams worried about my
neighbors, weeds. I worry about what

768
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:07.719
I would worry about my neighbors.
But but I hear you and that.

769
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:09.599
I mean, that's kind of been
the knock. But that's sort of the

770
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:15.079
knock on any really good program like
Arizona, no question, right, imagine

771
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:20.360
the Duke fans imagine they're due great, right do you play they play down?

772
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:24.639
I mean, don't don't really good
football teams play down to the compety

773
00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:30.000
you know, a USC even in
Alabama, or or a Michigan or Ohio.

774
00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:35.239
It's so hard. Obviously you're gonna
be more fired up for a game

775
00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:37.280
that's more compet it's gonna be a
tighter game, it's gonna be harder.

776
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:42.719
It's hard to just have that energy
against it every single game, not everything,

777
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:45.679
not only every single game, but
against a team sure that you think

778
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:52.719
you can beat Arizona. Its historically
in basketball specifically, uh, you worry

779
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:58.599
about the first and second rounds after
the Sweet sixteen. They're inspired right now?

780
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:02.440
Maybe Kansas in ninety seven. They
everyone told them they were underducks.

781
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:06.639
How are we underducks. We're not
underdu beat We can beat these guys.

782
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:08.800
And they beat them and they did, and that was one of the all

783
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:14.679
time great basketball I guess what happened
The next game they played Providence, a

784
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.320
team that will came the almost lost. It went double overtime, overtime,

785
00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:22.880
right, So Arizona is that's their
great Stuff's an m. Yeah, that's

786
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:27.960
it. That's that's definitely and always
it has been. It has been,

787
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:32.159
It has been ever since. They've
been a program that other teams get up

788
00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:36.400
for. In eighty seven, in
eighty seven, and this is what we

789
00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:38.920
know, no one thought, right, Yeah, so they kicked the crap

790
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:42.800
out of people just to prove a
point. And that's when it started.

791
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:46.199
Yeah, that's when it started exactly. Now, I hear you steve it,

792
00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:50.559
you know, yeah, I mean, that's that's what they do.

793
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:53.760
But it sounds to me like they've
got their full attention with these two games

794
00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:58.400
coming up. Okay, look,
the crowds are going to be crazy.

795
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:04.440
Both of these teams are undefeated at
home. If they go in with anything

796
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:08.719
other than inspired, then then there's
a bigger problem. And if they get

797
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:13.039
beat. They get beat right right
if you if you play hard, to

798
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:15.400
play well and exactly all right,
let's take a break. We're gonna come

799
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:17.800
back. Uh, and let's be
up with breaking news.