WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:08.039 This is I on the Wall with Steve Rivera and Jagonzale Sound Fox Sports fourteen 2 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:14.679 fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions kt z R 3 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:19.239 two SAD and iHeartRadio Station. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to 4 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.679 I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. 5 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.879 He's jagins As. All we have is each other. Jay, It's a 6 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:29.960 couple of sleepy guys in here. Man, you guys, we could have 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.159 just taken the week off. Some quick turnarounds over the weekend. Yes, 8 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:35.439 a lot of games you went too a few, yeah, you know, 9 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.359 went too well. Had the nine o'clock Friday night game. Saw Dave Heiky 10 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.600 after the game, and I asked him if I could just put my car 11 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:47.880 on the lawn and spend the night there on the tailgate lawn. He politely 12 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:52.479 said no. So I went home and I was back at seven o'clock in 13 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:56.799 the morning, and you know, we tailgated and did the game, and 14 00:00:56.799 --> 00:01:00.560 then another game yesterday afternoon at four o'clock. Long weekends for bost of us, 15 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.319 you know what, let's say, you know, for for you know, 16 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:07.040 you go to those events. You see all the same people right the 17 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.560 staff, you know, all the same people were all doing the work. 18 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.640 You know, Mike Hargrove, who's the you know, the facilities guy, 19 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:18.239 you know at the at the arena. You know, my poor my poor 20 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:22.400 daughter had to work a volleyball game on Friday, then the Friday night game, 21 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.280 then the football game Saturday, a volleyball game on Sunday, and then 22 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:29.920 the Sunday game. All those people worked all those games and and it was 23 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:32.400 you know, there's a lot of stuff going on over They don't talk about 24 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.040 the glamour's part of it. It's not, it's not. That's the hard 25 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:40.000 part of it. You got to sit on the sidelines. How cool. 26 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:42.120 And the guys are great, aren't except the fact that you know, some 27 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:46.519 of those folks got there at you know, nine o'clock in the morning on 28 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.239 on on Friday, on Friday, and didn't leave until midnight. Quit your 29 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:57.799 bitching, man, quit your bitching. You got it easy dream job. 30 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.439 People are going to school for this job. But what a weekend, right, 31 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:07.120 one of the better weekends in the weekend. Friday night, they went 32 00:02:07.199 --> 00:02:12.960 big. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna give you a platform here Okay, 33 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.919 so you could do whatever you I'm gonna let you bitch a little bit more. 34 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:17.240 Well, you know, I've been thinking about that. I've got a 35 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:21.039 fan rant. I mean, what the hell is up with the with fans? 36 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.639 Tommy Lloyd called him out, Yeah, Dave, he called him out 37 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.400 during during the during the during the football game. Where are you going get 38 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.759 back here? It's a great game. What are you doing? Why didn't 39 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:37.919 you show up in the first place? And that was my deal? Right 40 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.680 once again? Once again, Steve. You know these people bitch, bitch, 41 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.560 bitch, bitch about these night games. Bitch bitch. Oh it's too 42 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.520 late. I get home too late. You know they're on. I'm just 43 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.080 gonna say, I'm watching you give him a twelve thirty game. A beautiful 44 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.039 day. I get it. A storm came in and the but you didn't 45 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.400 know that when the game started it was beautiful. It was seventy degrees, 46 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.080 the sun was out. They said it was a sellout, and the place 47 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.199 was half empty. I took a picture five minutes before the game when the 48 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:13.560 team's about to come out on the field and the upper deck was half empty. 49 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.840 Where what you like our side was? Okay, I did see I 50 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:20.560 see our I saw on our side during the you know, I watched the 51 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.400 games. Side the east side it was full, west side, the west 52 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.680 side it was full. Okay, it was pretty full. But the east 53 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:35.280 and the end zones. Where the f were you? Okay, you got 54 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:39.639 a winner, you got a ranked team playing another ranked team that you never 55 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:46.159 beat. You're favored. Okay, you're going for your eighth win unexpectedly, 56 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:52.199 a team that comes out of order to do this. Where the f were 57 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.719 you? Now? Okay, here's the here's the here's the the crux of 58 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:01.960 my bitch. If Jedfish takes another right, there's only there's go. This 59 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:08.919 is one of the reasons he encourages it. Every He starts every press conference 60 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:14.599 selling tickets, buy tickets, get out there. You're missing something he doesn't 61 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:20.279 beg but he sells every press conference, every single press conference, and people 62 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:25.240 say, well, we'll come when you start winning. They're freaking winning. 63 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.480 Well, I've said there there. I've written this story a few times fickle 64 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.439 Arizona fans, and it's hard to make them happy. It's just what it 65 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:40.839 is. What do you think that what do you think that bottom line is 66 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.079 with them? Because you've seen it you've seen it forever. The bottom line, 67 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:47.920 Steve, is our fans suck. They just suck. That's how you 68 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.839 start. They're never going to be happy. That's how you start the story. 69 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:55.079 They just suck. And then you just bullet point the rest of it. 70 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:59.360 Right, and then again, you know this happened a couple of years 71 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:00.560 ago. You know, they they were bitching about all the night games. 72 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.319 Then they're a great day game and the play nobody came. Well, it's 73 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.959 funny because I didn't know this. I was too busy with my weekend stuff 74 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:12.240 with a tour, but I didn't know that Tommy had called out the fans 75 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.199 on Friday, right, and then Friday night the places the place is half 76 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.759 ampy. So this is this is what I'm not surprised because he did this 77 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:20.120 last year or the year before and he says, well, you guys, 78 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:25.959 consider yourselves college basketball fans. Where are you? And then fans freak out? 79 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:30.480 He called what what somebody's calling us out? Yeah for a reason, 80 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:33.240 Steve, yesterday the zonus Zo was half full, Yeah, half full. 81 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.920 The upper deck was empty and it was about ten or twelve rows into. 82 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.680 The lower deck was empty. So how many times I've been here thirty five 83 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:43.279 years, You've been here all your life, and all you hear is, 84 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.240 Okay, the blue hairs blah blah blah. Well the blue hairs are passed. 85 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.560 The new blue hairs are there because we're the blue hairs now. Okay, 86 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:53.519 So they want to move the kids on the side sideline blah blah blah. 87 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:55.800 Where are the kids gonna go there? They ain't gonna show up for 88 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:00.560 them either, Right, It's just it's frustrating because we talked talk about how 89 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:02.279 this team, Okay, you win, you'll you win, will show you 90 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.639 win, will show you start winning, I'll start coming. Well, where 91 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:10.199 the hell were you? Right? There was no reason to not be at 92 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.600 the Utah game zero, you know, I get it. El Tour was 93 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.839 going on and maybe that you know, that's not that's a different crowd, 94 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.480 totally different on it. There's no way, okay, there was no traffic 95 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:26.040 issues, right, No, you know, you know two weeks ago or 96 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:27.959 the the U c l A game, I got, you know, I 97 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.959 got. I got to the tailgate area half hour after the open. I 98 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.439 barely got on the lawn. I barely got on the makaylon. I showed 99 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.600 up at the same thing. You know, half hour after the open, 100 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.160 I was in the third row. You know, nobody was there, Like, 101 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:46.639 where the hell were you again? It just it just drives me nuts. 102 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:48.399 It just drives me nuts. You know, Tucson wants a winner. 103 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.600 They give you a winner, and you say, well maybe next year. 104 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:55.560 Yeah I got too much to do. Yeah maybe next year. Yeah. 105 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.399 Not. I hear you, I hear you, And well I applaud you 106 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.480 because you're ripping your own people. And let's not forget. And let's not 107 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:04.560 forget as mt as the place was. They gave away a bunch of tickets, 108 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:10.000 right, they gave away they every season ticket holder had an opportunity to 109 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:12.759 get two free tickets. All right, I got two tickets and you know 110 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.600 we brought some people to the game. What the hell is going on? 111 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.600 Well? I think that was part of Tommy's thing too. It's just if 112 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:21.920 you have tickets and aren't using them, give them to give them to somebody 113 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.720 else who wants to go to the game. Exactly. But the thing about 114 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.040 is, you know this, I mean, it's a it's a it's a 115 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:30.720 strong voice on Twitter and Facebook and blah blah blah. A lot of the 116 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:35.439 bitching and complaining and and the loud voices. But they don't go. They 117 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.319 don't go. Don't Oh no, we were big fans, but you don't 118 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:42.639 go. But here's the tickets are too tough. Well, there's tickets. 119 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:46.720 Both Tommy and and Jed are doing their part. They're doing their party. 120 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:53.560 You know, let's say Jed's built the winner. It's unbelievable, it's done. 121 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.439 They're they're you know, they're winning programs now and they're gonna be one 122 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.839 of the favorites. And Jay, whether he's here or not, he's proven 123 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.720 it can be to look at how fast it is, right right, look 124 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.800 at how fast this happened. There is proof of your resume shows it. 125 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.720 Uh this year, no one thought it, but it's here, maybe Jake 126 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.519 Fisher, but it's it's happened, and now we'll see what happens from it. 127 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:22.480 Remember my eight what is that now? For ten wins? It looks 128 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:28.800 pretty about seventy five percent? It's what are they ad now? Wins? 129 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:33.879 He win's yepp. But to get away to yeah, so Sam, I 130 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.159 want to know it depends what they played the bully so but yeah, but 131 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.919 you're you're getting closer your probability of getting it. It's pretty good. Look 132 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:45.120 if ten wins, Steve, it's only been done four times. It's hey, 133 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:48.320 he should run for mayor, he could run for Southern Arizona whatever. 134 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:52.480 If you who's going to vote for because nobody knows who the hell he is 135 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.360 or where what is? No, it's it's very they want but they don't 136 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:58.720 know they want, but they don't know. Come on, that's the world, 137 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.399 man, I would I would live it started the game. Well, 138 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.080 you know, I will say this because you know everyone knows I'll tour and 139 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.120 uh this weekend. Uh. We we do it every year, right, 140 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.399 same time. You would understand because we talked about on the radio, right 141 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.919 yeah. Uh, And and people can understand it's one year and one one 142 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.000 day of a year, but they don't know until it happened, until it 143 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.759 affects them, right and the other pist kind it doesn't work that way. 144 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.600 But we tell them, come to the game. We're good. Come to 145 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.960 the game, we're good. I'm talking to know that bad. Come to 146 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:35.159 the game. Maybe I'll come next year. Yeah, did you have a 147 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.480 problem with them storty to story the field again? I kind of wish they 148 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.480 hadn't, But what the hell right, what the hell? You know? 149 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:48.320 Three times? Three times? Okay, okay, next year when again, 150 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:50.399 when whenever's win some games, let's not from the field like you've been there, 151 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.679 right, act like you've been there. I'm kind of one of those 152 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.759 believers in that, right, you know. But you know, you know 153 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:03.360 it's the same, it's the same mentality of trashing the downtown area after journeying 154 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.919 over of cars, Right, why do you do that? But I you 155 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.960 know, I was okay, it's fine, but you know what, it 156 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:15.120 was cold and it was starting to raising. It wasn't good. It was 157 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.480 the wind was howling inside your in sheer area, right, yeah, because 158 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:22.039 of the win, but yeah, because when it was raining. Okay, 159 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.840 I you know, I had a ring pointer, so I wasn't getting wet, 160 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.840 but I had the puntra but it was cold because it was it was 161 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:33.840 so windy. But we haven't even talked about the game. Yeah, we 162 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:35.519 haven't talked about the game. We have a good show, though, yeah, 163 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:37.519 we do. We do. What do we have a Bear Baker? 164 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.159 He was the special teams captain on that ninety eight twelve and one team. 165 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.519 Yeah, we'll talk to him a little bit about getting ready for this a 166 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:48.039 SU game and just what what that was like? You still that team still 167 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.720 stands as the best team ever. We'll talk about that period. You turn, 168 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.480 you turn a couple of games in the in this season around in this 169 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.240 team is right up there, right up there with that team. And then 170 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.360 uh, man, we're talking him about Hell, he was on the call 171 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.519 last night. Uh he's been twice now, twelve networks. You want to 172 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.960 get his impression of of uh, you know what he's seen from from the 173 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.840 Cats, Steve, They're good. There's no question. Did you read me 174 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.759 today? Yeah? And I went to the talk to the car. I 175 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.679 was the only one that went to talked to. I went to because I 176 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:20.919 knew. I knew I was gonna be the only one one, and I 177 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:24.000 knew what he was gonna say given his back right and now, had he 178 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.480 played that at Chapman College or whatever, I would never would have done that. 179 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:33.120 But he he was at Kentucky before he got here, and I'm thinking 180 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.600 this guy might say something, and he did, and he did, and 181 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:37.679 he did and he's right. I mean, I'm not sure if he's right 182 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.480 for the five four, but it has every ingredient you want. They got 183 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.200 all the bases covered. Yeah, even the bench of the bench yeah covered. 184 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.000 Yeah, yeah, you know, you know, you bring in Moroscos 185 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:54.120 and Borovich for for right a couple of minutes, three for minutes, and 186 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.879 then they go, you know stuff right. No, This the thing about 187 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.840 it, Jay, is there's the problem because I hear this every time time 188 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:03.279 again, I'm sure you have to. Well, Lout had some pretty good 189 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.799 teams out coming, didn't win more championships. Guess what other teams. Duke's 190 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:11.480 pretty good, Kentucky's pretty good, Kansas is pretty good. They have things 191 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.840 to do to you. You get up there and you gotta you gotta get 192 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.159 lucky and good and be good on that, on that and not get hurt. 193 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:22.559 Everyone talks about Ashley, right, stuff happened to right, you know, 194 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.320 Gilbert Arena skating hurt, writing hurt, Gilbert Rena skating hurt, turned 195 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.480 the uh you know during that final four, you know, just stuff like 196 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.639 that, right, So, you know, but they're really good. But 197 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.600 you know what it the Arizona football team. I'm gonna you know, I'm 198 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:43.480 gonna say it, Steve, I think I people might people might disagree with 199 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:48.039 me or Mike or as you often say, I might be overstating things, 200 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.600 overacting things. Arizona's the top ten teams in the country right now. Yeah, 201 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:54.799 I don't know, because it's hard to measure them. But let me 202 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.480 tell you something. Even Mikey me, I mean Mikey likes it because that 203 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:03.039 Washing USC game kind of said. Okay, and then the Washington States of 204 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.879 God, these guys are good. You know. Yeah, you know, 205 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:15.120 I'm sitting here thinking, if I'm Washington, I don't want Arizona to have 206 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.320 another shot at me. No, no, right, and I backf championship 207 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:22.240 game. No, and then uh, and I don't think he's I think 208 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:24.440 that's very capable of winning that game. Okay, let's go down the list. 209 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.879 Okay, these are these are the real quest got a minute. I 210 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:33.519 don't know if I've seen enough of a one one through one through for Georgia, 211 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:37.360 Ohio State, Michigan, Washington. Okay, a Zon's not better than 212 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:41.000 any of those. Florida State, especially with the quarterback. Certain Arizona can 213 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.279 beat the Oregon probably not, but you know they'd give him a hell of 214 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:48.919 a game. Texas Arizona can beat them, Alabama, probably not. Louisville 215 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:52.840 Arizona can beat them, Missouri Arizona can beat them. I'd be put them 216 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:56.759 up against Penn State. Then you go after that old miss O or or 217 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.399 Oklahoma l s U. You know, I'll put it. I don't know 218 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:01.960 that there's going to beat all of them, but I think they can. 219 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.720 This has to be in your your mind because I don't even been here and 220 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:09.080 I don't follow football like I did a new for basketball. The most surprising 221 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:16.000 seasons you've ever witnessed? Yeah, could you even think about the first one? 222 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.639 I don't know how many of us saw the twelve and one ninety eighteen 223 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:24.879 coming. You know, remember ninety seven they'd gone like six and five and 224 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.720 they need ASU and snuck into a bolt predict this, Yeah, I don't 225 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:33.279 remember. You know, they started winning game. But you know, this 226 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:35.919 team didn't look all that great at the start of the season, you know, 227 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.919 And I tried to ask Jed then. I don't think he liked what 228 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:43.559 I asked him about the slow starts and stuff. But you know, they 229 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.399 didn't look all that great. And they were they were, you know, 230 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.440 they were what they thought where we thought they were going to be on after 231 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.159 the first six games, come on, they were three and three. I 232 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:54.799 was thinking about this today. The circumstances of events de Laura getting hurt, 233 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:01.320 Flafida coming in right, uh, the Wiley getting her, Jonah coming in 234 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:05.600 and playing more. These little things that happened, that just happened. Sometimes 235 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:07.600 you take a ride at Albuquerque and you end up in the right place exactly, 236 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.679 I mean, just because it was a roadblock somewhere. Yeah, exactly. 237 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:15.919 And that's what they've done, which is just crazy. Yes, I 238 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.720 don't know that there's been a bigger surprise in Arizona football. You have to 239 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.759 reduce some research. But I don't know my time here because this was totally 240 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.679 unexpected. And he should if if anybody's paying well, we smoked him today, 241 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:33.679 right, excuse we spoke to him today. He hit something on the 242 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:39.559 top of the head with a question about Arizona. No one's, no one's 243 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:43.759 everyone's not paying attention or whatever. Welcome to Arizona, bast Arizona football. 244 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:46.000 Right, all right, let's take our break. We're gonna come back. 245 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.559 Barrett Baker, who was on that ninety eight twelve and one team, he 246 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.600 was the special teams captain of that that year. We'll talk to him about, 247 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.759 you know, finish shaving off ninety seven and then going into ninety eight 248 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.879 and when he thought that was gonna happen. So stick around for all that. 249 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.440 We'll be right back. Steve Rivera here to talk about Dorato Rock and 250 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:04.759 Materials. I needed a lot of gravel for my driveway, so I called 251 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.879 Eric at Dorato Rock. He found out the amount and color I needed and 252 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.000 boom, it was taken care of and at a great price. 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I'm Stive Rivera, 320 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:08.519 He's Jagins Aws. Now on the phone, we have Baker from the ninety 321 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:12.200 seven ninety eight football team at Juba, probably one of the better ones that 322 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:15.920 we've seen in a long time. Barrett, how are you doing, oh 323 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:21.240 Man? Just excited that obviously had a great win Saturday, a lot of 324 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:26.240 momentum coming into the big game on the upcoming Saturday, So great time to 325 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:27.960 be a Wildcat. You know, a lot of people in town and obviously 326 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:32.720 a lot of people know that you played for that team. Do you get 327 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:37.720 into a lot of conversations from there and about about this team being compared to 328 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.440 that team? You know, I would say that you get into a little 329 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:47.759 bit of a recency bias and where anything today is better than it was in 330 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:49.839 yesteryear, if that makes sense. And I'm all for that, because at 331 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:53.799 the end of the day, when you wore the uniform, you just want 332 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:57.799 success for it. And to watch those kids be able to sing bear down 333 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:02.160 in a winning locker room, I wish they could do that every week. 334 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:07.160 So I'm excited about the fact that at some point we are now actually talking 335 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:11.200 about this version of the Arizona Wildcats compared to some of the better teams that 336 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:17.680 we've had specifically ninety three and ninety eight. So for them to actually be 337 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:21.680 relevant, that's what's exciting I think as a fan. You know that after 338 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:26.279 twenty years of we had some decent teams in there with the twenty fourteen squad 339 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:30.680 obviously, but we are trending in the right direction, and the fact that 340 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:33.960 Arizona football seems to be relevant again. As an alum, that's exciting for 341 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.559 us part. Just you know, in terms of comparing, right, you 342 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:42.759 know, you guys decent season in ninety seventy one, seven and five, 343 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:48.400 but the big thing was you beat ASU, you know in that you know, 344 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.920 the year after getting born after you know, ACU came in and blasted 345 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:55.839 air Zone on their way to the Rose Bowl. Then, so leading into 346 00:22:55.880 --> 00:23:00.519 the ninety eight season, how much did that help you guys in the off 347 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:03.359 season to kind of get have being a say, a better frame of mind 348 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.119 went into ninety eight And how much do you think that had to do with 349 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:10.480 what you guys did eight? And did you see this see did you see 350 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:15.359 this coming exactly? Well, I think going back to that nineties, I'll 351 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:17.319 go ahead, Steve, no, no, did you see that coming? 352 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:22.759 Like just I think when we lost in overtime to Washington State in ninety seven 353 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:25.400 on the road, and that was Washington State's rose bull team. But we 354 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.200 gave them everything and more, and we probably should have won that game if 355 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:32.759 we If we scored on our two point conversion, that changed things for us. 356 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:34.960 At that point. We barely lost to Ohio State played them very tough, 357 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.640 so we had some building blocks in ninety seven and it seemed like we 358 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:44.240 were holding ourselves back a little bit. I'll never forget going into Sun Devil 359 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:49.480 Stadium on Friday night and excuse me on Thanksgiving night and basically coach told me, 360 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:53.000 telling us this is where it's going to happen then, and they had 361 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.640 a good team. They were supposed to be going on a Fiesta Bowl and 362 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.119 we knocked them off, and that momentum carried out through the inside dot Com 363 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.160 Bow and I think we finished with four wins in a row, and we 364 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:07.440 knew that we had the building box there. We worked our butts off that 365 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.680 summer and we had the pieces in place and it was just a matter of 366 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:15.359 pushing the right buttons. And there are similarities with this team. To go 367 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:19.960 from one to eleven to five and seven to I won't jinx it. But 368 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:22.400 what should we be at the end of the season, right, we should 369 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:27.039 be nine and three going into a bowl game that they can feel it. 370 00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:33.400 The one thing I would caution everybody about is that each team is a team 371 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.799 in and of itself, and it's so difficult to forecast next year's success based 372 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:41.960 off this year because we just don't know the chemistry, the moving parts, 373 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:45.200 if everyone's coming back, if they're injury free. You know, there's so 374 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:49.000 much that goes into that. But yeah, we knew we had something special. 375 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:52.200 I think this team has a great chemistry and they've got something special in 376 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:56.119 that locker room, and I think we're seeing that every Saturday. Yeah, 377 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:59.000 so when you're on the sidelines, what do you see? Can you see 378 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:03.240 the chemistry, see the just the unbelievable things that we probably don't see. 379 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:07.839 Ye. I think I'll give coach Fish credit. I mean, he's just 380 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:15.519 an open book when it comes to making the alumni feel part of the program. 381 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.720 And so you know, we've got to give a twenty four hour notice, 382 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:21.559 I'll say, but he is so awesome about letting us go and watch 383 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:23.680 practice. So when I've gone to practice, you know, and you hear 384 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:29.279 coach Akina yelling and everybody in a positive way. And you see guys ten 385 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:33.519 weeks or eleven weeks or twelve weeks into a season that are still running around 386 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.759 and having fun at practice. That says a lot because practice is tough. 387 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:41.039 You're physically beat up. You've been doing this since August, and how do 388 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:47.799 you keep pushing through that and putting your best effort into the field on Saturdays? 389 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:51.559 But man, we do it. We show up and we are ready 390 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:56.519 to go every Saturday. So they're doing something I think you know in Canner 391 00:25:56.599 --> 00:26:00.680 McLaughlan, I wouldn't say that we lucked into finding that kid, but obviously, 392 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:06.160 you know, coming from Southern Utah transferring in rehabbing from a knee injury. 393 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:10.279 Would we have forecasted him a year and a half ago that he was 394 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:12.759 going to be the VIP or MVP type of player that he's been. And 395 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:18.720 yet he's a great teammate, you know, Anthony Ward busting his butt year 396 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:23.039 in or week in and week out on special teams and then boom making a 397 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:27.920 play that has such a huge impact. Right if we pulled one hundred percent 398 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:32.160 of our fan base, and that's not a shot at him. But ninety 399 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:34.440 seven percent aren't going to know who after they award is. A three percent 400 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.920 might know, oh, that's Isaiah Ward's brother, right, They don't even 401 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.079 know if there's a connection there. But we know who number fifty seven is 402 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.880 today because he had such a huge impact on the outcome of last Saturday's game. 403 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:48.799 And for a kid like that to be rewarded and getting a scholarship, 404 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:55.079 you know, those are the program building chemistry things that you have to have 405 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:57.839 and coach Fish and his staff have done a great job doing that. So 406 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.680 that we Steve and I have talked about often is this whole idea of chemistry, 407 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:07.039 and you talked a lot about that that you know there there have been 408 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:12.759 teams in any sport at any level that have great talent, you just incredible 409 00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:18.880 rosters, and have no chemistry and they don't farewell, whereas a team that 410 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:22.279 does have great chemistry doesn't even have to have the best players on the field 411 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:26.160 every every game, and yet they can do things. I mean, how 412 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:30.519 you know you were in the locker room, what you know what makes great 413 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:37.240 chemistry? And how is that more important than almost anything that you know? 414 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:44.480 It starts with unselfishness and there's twenty two kids on the team that are starters 415 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:48.640 and happy and about eighty that have to push right because they're practicing just as 416 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:52.440 hard they're doing the scout team. They're the backup that's waiting for their chance. 417 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.880 So you have to buy into the team, the team, the team. 418 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.480 And that's what coach told me was so great about, right, we 419 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:00.960 don't know where, we don't know who, we don't know when, but 420 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:04.519 some wildcat's going to make a play. And this team, I feel like 421 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:11.880 they echo that same thing because when these backups have gotten a chance to step 422 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:15.279 in and take care of business, there's no drop off. They're ready to 423 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:19.440 seize the moment. And so it really starts with that unselfishness and then the 424 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:23.400 fact that you just love it when another teammate does something good. Right, 425 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:30.119 When you see a teammate that has individual success but that individual success helps the 426 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:33.480 team, then it's just a wildfire that spreads the right way. And so 427 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:37.279 I think when you see that on the sidelines, you know somebody makes it 428 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.920 play man, that sideline is jacked up. They are excited, And I 429 00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:45.000 keep going back to that unselfishness, But like if you take a look at 430 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.039 I hate to use myself as an example, but I was a walk on. 431 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.759 They had two years of eligibility and after getting a scholarship from coach Tolmy, 432 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:57.480 which is awesome. My teammates said, that's a kid that we want 433 00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:02.200 to be our team captain. Well, who in the world would have a 434 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:07.400 walk on become a team captain. That says everything about the ninety seven guys 435 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:10.799 that pick them right, because now it's not what you were, it's what 436 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.640 you are and what do you bring every day to the table to help your 437 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:18.920 team. And this team does the same thing. They don't care if you 438 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.720 were a walk on from this or a transfer from that, or a two 439 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:29.279 star kid or a five star kid. You're all wildcats one to one hundred. 440 00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:33.400 And when you see the same thing Nos Bombada going in and reaking havoc, 441 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.279 you know, and getting praised by his teammates for a guy that you 442 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:41.880 know, DJ Warnell, There's just you could go down that roster and find 443 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.079 guys that aren't necessarily t MAC, but man, they have a huge impact 444 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.200 on the program behind the scenes as well. And that's what it takes, 445 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.200 is that just one hundred from one to one hundred, rowing in the same 446 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.519 direction, putting in that effort, and then obviously, yes, you do 447 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.599 have t Mac, you do have Jonah Coleman, you do have fufet it. 448 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.079 You know, you got all those guys that when the game needs to 449 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.519 have an impact play, they step up and they do it. And that's 450 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:11.759 that's obviously very necessary as well. Do you can we get you for one 451 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:14.559 more minute? Yeah? Sure, so okay, because it's three thirty and 452 00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:18.720 I need to go. But when did you when did you see this team 453 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:26.519 become this team? There had to be a point how would I describe this? 454 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.119 I talked to a teammate earlier this year, one of the kids on 455 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:34.759 the team earlier this year. When you are coming off of one and eleven 456 00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:38.480 season and then you're five and seven, do you truly know how to win 457 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:42.680 games yet? Right? And the answer is no. But when you battle 458 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:47.200 and you go on the road against Mississippi State and unfortunately, you know, 459 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:48.920 we weren't able to pull that game off, But then you punch USC in 460 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:52.880 the mouth and you know that was just a fluke that we didn't come out 461 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.720 of that game with a win. But when you're going toe to toe with 462 00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:00.680 these teams and you're saying, Yep, we can do this, and then 463 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.359 all of a sudden, you get that victory, and then you get that 464 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.119 next victory. Now you know that you are legitimate. And so I think 465 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.680 we had to convince ourselves that we were the big dogs and that we were 466 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.000 the ones that if Oregon State comes into our house, that we're going to 467 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.319 beat them, and we're not going to think that we can beat them. 468 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.200 We're going to know that we can beat them. So looking in the mirror 469 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:25.680 one to one hundred and realizing that every guy said we're the Arizona Wildcats and 470 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:29.680 it's twenty twenty three and this is our team, and every time we take 471 00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:33.759 the field, we are going to win. That expectation of winning you have 472 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.960 to grow into that twenty five years ago. Jay, to your point, 473 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:40.799 I think that we found that late in the season and it carried on to 474 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.160 the next season, and I think mid season, right all of a sudden, 475 00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:45.799 it's like, no, we're the guys. They're going to try to 476 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.960 beat us, but it's not going to happen. We're going to beat them, 477 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:51.279 and when we take the field, we knew that we were going to 478 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:53.880 beat them. And I think that you see that now that we go out 479 00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:57.960 there and to jump on Utah, who is an established program for the last 480 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.559 fifteen years, and man, they didn't know what happened to them. And 481 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:08.240 that just shows a growth in the program of believing in ourselves and knowing to 482 00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:13.039 expect, expect to win, not think you can win, expect to win. 483 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.000 Well. Well, thank you Brett for coming on today. You sharing 484 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.440 me a lot of Thank you so much. Hey, bear down on Saturday, 485 00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:22.960 guys, I've finished this thing out. Get to nine and three and 486 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.519 then go get a great ball. Great, great, great to hear from 487 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:28.319 you, Barrett, Thank you, thanks a un all right, bear down, 488 00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:30.160 guys, good stuff, good stuff. The funny thing about it, 489 00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.400 Barrett's you know, former walk on scholarship guy. How many of those dudes 490 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.559 are like him on this team, right, there's a bunch of them, 491 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.960 a bunch of those dudes that you say, what that dude, but he's 492 00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:45.160 kicking your ass and they did. Man, that was something on Saturday. 493 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:46.640 Okay, let's take our break. We'll come back talk more about the game 494 00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:51.079 on Saturday, and then Jed clips. We got some Jeed clips from the 495 00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:53.799 press conference today. Talked about a lot of that stuff. So stick around 496 00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:57.880 for that. We'll be right back. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, 497 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.319 you know it's been successful for nearly forty years. 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This is I on 537 00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:52.400 the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez sound Fox Sports fourteen to fifteen. 538 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:58.719 Subscribe now to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app Just Surgeon I on the Ball. 539 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:02.320 Hey, welcome back to Why the Ball Here Fox Sports fortune and fifty. 540 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:06.559 I'm Steve, he's Jay. You have about fifteen minutes left. I 541 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:10.360 will talk up to each other. Maybe take a call. We would love 542 00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:14.880 to take your call to each other. That would be a first and then 543 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:17.760 take your calls and we're gonna listen to Jed. Today. We spent a 544 00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:21.320 few minutes right. Well, there's so much going on, Steve, especially 545 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:23.880 with what's happening with football and basketball. So yeah, I've had my fan 546 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:29.360 rand I'm done with that. So no one called you, but they're gonna 547 00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:30.440 yell at me. I'm gonna yell that at home for being no. But 548 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:34.599 that's it's true, Jay, I mean, how do you the thing? 549 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.119 The thing I like about it because just because Tommy has done this before, 550 00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:43.679 he called them out, and because everyone thinks they're the poop for the poop, 551 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:47.840 we're the poop. We're Wildcats basketball program. Well show up. You 552 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:52.519 can say all you want about yourself, but show up up, show up. 553 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.679 Yeah. All right, So a lot of a lot of different things 554 00:36:54.719 --> 00:37:00.239 in the press conference today, one of them being just Jed was asked out, 555 00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.800 you know, how do you keep your team from being over confident in 556 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:07.360 this game against a su You know, as you've got slaughtered over the weekend 557 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:12.320 again, Arizona's beating the hell out of everybody, and how do you how 558 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:15.000 do you fight that off headed into this game? And here's what you had 559 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:21.519 to say about that. Oh, there, there's no overconfidence with this team. 560 00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:25.360 This team I've you know, I've shared with them, like we you 561 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:29.599 know, there's not a lot of people out there that talk about our program, 562 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:30.880 a lot a lot of people out there that talk about our team. 563 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:38.239 Our guys are just you know, scrappy and hard nosed and passed over by 564 00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:44.000 a lot of programs to come here, and we like it that way. 565 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:49.320 So we're going to continue to live in that world, remind ourselves of that 566 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.760 and you know, do everything we can to get to this next win. 567 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:59.719 But if we can get there, you know, on Saturday, to get 568 00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:01.320 to no, that's great. But for us, it's just a matter of 569 00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:07.039 always remembering where we came from. So so when he said that, I 570 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:12.519 kind of picked my eyes up and that said that describes Arizona football to a 571 00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:16.960 team not today all the time, what this team has And correct me if 572 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:20.880 I'm wrong, Jake, because you know this better than me. They've had 573 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:24.639 the scrappy dudes forever. Right now they have some guys who are very good 574 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:29.760 sprinkled in. So those sprinkled in dudes are making the other dudes play hard 575 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:31.679 and play tough because they don't they don't want to disappoint each other, right, 576 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:36.039 so they play as a team. And that's this team. That's this 577 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:37.880 team. Well, like bart Baker said, you know our guests. You 578 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.840 know, last segment he said, you know, Arizona's always had those blue 579 00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:47.599 collars, but now Jed is gone out and gotten you know all you know 580 00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:55.320 North Jonah Coleman, who those guys are really really good college football players. 581 00:38:55.679 --> 00:39:00.320 They're not and they're not the blue collar underdog kind of guys. Those are 582 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:02.239 guys. Those are top of the line players. Say, No, fa 583 00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:07.880 Ft has proven that you know that he's well, well he's short, he's 584 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.760 really really good college quarterback. He's a college good college quarterback. No, 585 00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:15.519 he is. You know what two is. I think they've built the program 586 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:20.840 here that's worthy of staying. You know, the Dorian singers are gonna leave. 587 00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:25.039 The scooter spots are not gonna leave because they see bigger, brighter lights 588 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:30.519 somewhere else. I'm not saying that's gonna not gonna happen. But you like 589 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:34.679 this situation? Now, how do those three USC guys who transferred from here 590 00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:37.679 at field today? Someone said, we tell them their coach is going to 591 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:43.039 be on the hot seat. Dorian Singer cut thirteen passes this year. Now 592 00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:45.840 he's a junior. He's gonna be back next year. And maybe he's you 593 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.840 know, more a piece of it and whatever it is, maybe it's all 594 00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:52.079 worth whatever nil money they got. But those three guys are on seven and 595 00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:57.159 five team Arizona. They could be in the New Year six Bowl if they 596 00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.719 get themselves into the Pac twelve championship game, which is not out of the 597 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:05.280 realm of possibility. You know, I don't think it's gonna happen, but 598 00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:08.159 it can. But either even so, Arizona could be nine to three and 599 00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:13.639 everybody's talking about and the only the people that are talking about USC are talking 600 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:16.639 about what a crappy season, right right? Be careful what you wish for. 601 00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:20.760 Sometimes it doesn't work out. You know, how does Dorian Singer feel 602 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:24.480 about playing in a bowl game without the quarter heisom Trophy winning quarterback that he 603 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:28.960 went to play for. Because again I say, there's no way in hell, 604 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:31.079 KILEB. Williams is gonna play another game. I don't know this problem. 605 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:36.519 I'll never know this problem. But more money, more problems. Us. 606 00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:38.119 See, you do you have the wealth of wealth, of talent and 607 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:42.119 all that. Now guess what you got to live up to it. And 608 00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.800 if you don't, people people will say, what the hell happened? You 609 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:49.360 do? I brought up I brought up the issue of Arizona slow starts, 610 00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.039 you know, early in the year, which they did they have slow starts, 611 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.840 you know, Jed, Well, I'll just say we'll play what Jed 612 00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:59.199 said, because since the USC game and then all the way up to what 613 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.360 happened on Saturday, the blitz that they put on Utah. Yeah, I 614 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.199 mean, we just don't see. You've just not seen anything like that, 615 00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:09.559 right against a team of that quality. They've done that to NAU and Idaho 616 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:15.000 State whatever, but a team of Utah's quality to do what they did, 617 00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:17.760 to go up twenty eight to nothing in no time flat, that was crazy. 618 00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:22.840 And I just thought, did something change about what you guys were doing? 619 00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:25.639 What he said? Now, I think you guys were more focusing on 620 00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:30.519 the slow starts than I was. Really. I know that there was a 621 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:32.519 couple of games that we only had two possessions in the quarter, and then 622 00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:37.239 we scored the first possession of the second quarter, and we scored against NAU. 623 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:39.760 I know we all talk about the Mississippi State game, you know that 624 00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:45.079 we wound up going down fourteen to nothing there and then utap. I think 625 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:47.760 we had a chance to score in the second I think with the second drive 626 00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:51.880 and then we fumbled the ball. So I don't know, I just think 627 00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:53.599 it kind of happened that way. I think it was kind of meant to 628 00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:58.039 just as the year went on. I think we were just going to get 629 00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:00.960 to a spot where we don't punt a lot. We try not to pun 630 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:05.760 a lot, and I think we just early on maybe we didn't hit on 631 00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:07.559 a couple of things. But I never really saw it as big of a 632 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:12.320 problem. As kind of got addressed. But I don't think it's a big 633 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:17.119 deal. Well, of course now things are going well, No, it 634 00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:20.800 give may have been, but they've solved it. We talked about this in 635 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:22.360 basketball all the time to remember when they slow started and blah blah blah. 636 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:27.639 Yeah, I know what you're going with it. Well, again, what 637 00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:30.400 they were talking about that though, you know, they just didn't get off, 638 00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:34.920 They didn't get out of the out of the out of the gate those 639 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:37.840 first few games. You know, well, who's the quarterback? Yeah, 640 00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:43.599 I mean honestly, yeah, you switched. You switched a few things, 641 00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:46.679 putting you spark plugs in the car and maybe a little bit maybe he thought 642 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:51.440 that's what I was fishing for, and I wasn't at all. It was 643 00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:53.360 just like, well, you know what happened that Maybe he was, but 644 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:59.039 it was wasn't. He doesn't know. Well I just thought of that just 645 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:02.000 now. Yeah, because because there was a change. Yeah, and and 646 00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:06.400 and and who do who gave me some old Lamont gave me grief about they 647 00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:12.360 played harder for Whether whether it's true or not, there was some change that 648 00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.960 happened. Something something something, something got different. Yes, what was it? 649 00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:20.880 Yes? All right? Jed was asked, you know, how how 650 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:23.880 long did it take for somebody to tell you how important the game is? 651 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:29.159 And he had he had an interesting answer to that. I mean, it 652 00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:32.159 was a huge part really, even early on when I met with the I 653 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:38.079 think that first day I did a zoom call with former athletes that coach Sanders 654 00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:44.599 headed up before he was on the staff. Dave got me in touch with 655 00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:46.440 I think it was with Brandon Sanders, and had about seventy five but football 656 00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:51.440 alumni on and I was, you know, my job was to introduce myself 657 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:54.559 to them, and I think their job was to kind of inform me a 658 00:43:54.599 --> 00:44:01.400 little bit about the history of Arizona football. And clearly the game itself of 659 00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:06.320 the Territorial Cup is one of the most important parts of Arizona football. So 660 00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:08.760 probably that day, day one, it was brought to my attention. And 661 00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:13.400 then Teddy came to breakfast, as you guys all know that story the next 662 00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:15.920 day, and I talked to him a little bit about the importance of the 663 00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:22.639 game, and we've not we certainly I recognize the importance of the game because 664 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:27.440 I know that I was hired after it. So is that that's it? 665 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:31.280 Right? So? So are you surprised about the spread? Oh, I 666 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:39.440 mean it was ten yesterday. I I'm surprised it's that low. Me too, 667 00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:42.599 Yeah, me too, unless, of course, you know, it's 668 00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:45.840 a rivalry game and blah blah blah, But me too, Yeah, I 669 00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:51.639 you know, yeah, I'm surprised that's that, love, because I think 670 00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:55.880 that the the disparity between the two teams is very apparent. Yeah, well, 671 00:44:57.079 --> 00:44:59.800 hey, look as she played. They played a nice game against Washington, 672 00:44:59.880 --> 00:45:01.920 right, remember that game, close game, but Utah beat the hell 673 00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:05.079 out of them, or can beat the hell out of them, and they're 674 00:45:05.119 --> 00:45:07.760 depleted, you know, and they're depleted. You know, they had a 675 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:09.719 running back, you know, taking snaps at quarterback last week. I mean 676 00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:14.239 it's just you know, there, there's so much there. We only had 677 00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:15.840 fourteen minutes with him. We could have spent a half hour. I know 678 00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:21.199 we could have. Because I'm assuming, I'm assuming that Jed ces a issue 679 00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:23.760 a lot like U of A was two years ago. Yeah, near the 680 00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:28.599 bottom, near the bottom, trying to work itself out and with a young 681 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.119 with a young coach with the who's inspiring or whatever word that is all right, 682 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:35.320 and I think he expects as to come out like his team came out. 683 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.159 Yeah, you know, not just last not just you know, his 684 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.239 first year, but last year too. Now, his first year they were 685 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.679 helpless, right, they didn't have guys. But last year they came out 686 00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:45.480 and you know, they won that game. And get to the point that 687 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:49.360 I made you try to make with with with Barrett Baker and how much momentum 688 00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:52.280 did they get from that win, Yeah, to go into this season and 689 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.199 kind of believing themselves. And then here's the second thing, or maybe thirteen 690 00:45:55.280 --> 00:46:01.039 I felt there was interesting the billboard or and he didn't say much. Uh, 691 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:05.119 he didn't even he didn't say much about it. All he had to 692 00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:08.760 do was say the billboard the billboard. I don't remember. I'm not sure 693 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:13.000 where he said that, but he did the reminder. I think it might 694 00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:19.400 have been Jenny's uh yeah, yeah, I think's question. I think could 695 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.719 have been, but he did. He did talk about the fact that there 696 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:24.800 are some guys on who are on that twenty twenty team they got beat seventy 697 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:30.480 to seven. Who are there? He he he's not unhappy that they're that 698 00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:32.800 they're thinking about that. Well, what did you think about what he did 699 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:38.880 to Utah Saturday? I initally thought it was kind of from me, but 700 00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:44.000 then he almost immediately thought, wait a minute. He did that for jayde 701 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:46.159 and de Laura. He wants Jaden de Laura to have something. When did 702 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:51.159 you realize that or think probably about when you were just no, no, 703 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:52.679 no, just a couple of minutes after the play, Okay, I thought, 704 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.119 I thought, wait a minute he did, you know, he wanted 705 00:46:55.239 --> 00:46:58.920 he wanted to Laura and I and I listened to the postgame show to see 706 00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:01.199 if he said that infect it so so that brings me to my point. 707 00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:06.360 He's not a guy who will not do that, right, you know what 708 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:07.840 I'm saying, right, and you know, and I liked, I liked 709 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:13.360 how how the Utah you know coaches responded to it. Waitningham basically said, 710 00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:15.079 hey, you know, Jed gets to do what he gets to do, 711 00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:19.039 and we had it's up to us to defend it. And then there was 712 00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.000 a lot of things because if you saw him on the team coach broadcast, 713 00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:23.960 the defensive coordner just kind of walked by Jed. He said, I didn't 714 00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:28.119 see him. He said, I would have. The coach said, the 715 00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:30.960 defensive corder, okay, because somebody tweeted, I saw somebody tweeted. There 716 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.719 was a blow by head and then he came back and he responded to that 717 00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:37.920 guy and he said, look, I respected, but I didn't see Jed 718 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:40.280 fish. If I had seen him, i'd have shaken shig his hand. 719 00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:44.280 And I congratulated. That makes sense, and he said I had no problem 720 00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:45.519 with that makes sense. And like I always say to you. And then 721 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:50.079 the Sean Miller rule of if you don't want the court stormed, what do 722 00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.480 you do? You don't let him storm the court. You don't let him 723 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.039 beat him, you don't let him know that. The Utah coaches handled it 724 00:47:55.119 --> 00:47:58.840 exactly like they did. It was the fans were upset, and and then 725 00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:00.719 some of our some of airs, the fans were upset saying it was you 726 00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:04.159 know, it was low. He should have done that. I knew. 727 00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:08.519 I thought that shortly after the past and then I listened to the pro postgame 728 00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:12.960 press conference to see was Jed gonna say that? And he infected it makes 729 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.119 sense, totally makes sense. He did say that. Here's here's this tennis 730 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:21.480 player being the love forty love, fifty love. You know. And again, 731 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:24.320 you know, people pointed out that, uh, Utah did that Tarrizona 732 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:27.599 a few years ago, you know, ran a fake punch when they were 733 00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.360 up by thirty five points or something like that. Look, you know, 734 00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:34.719 the guys gonna do what they're gonna do, and they have their keep receipts. 735 00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:37.800 Man, this is the Steven Elphins, Steve Alfred, Sean Miller time 736 00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:44.639 out thing. All right, Again, Jed talked about there's thirteen guys who 737 00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:49.920 are on the team in twenty twenty who are dealing who are uh uh playing 738 00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:54.079 in this game, And he said he's sure they remembered, including Michael Wiley 739 00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:58.599 and Jordan Morgan. Yeah, brought to their attention that there was I think 740 00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:06.920 thirteen players total that were Arizona Wildcats when the game occurred here in twenty twenty. 741 00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:13.920 Of the starters you're talking about, Jordan Morgan, Mike Wiley, Trading 742 00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:17.199 Stokes, and I guess Kyle Austendorp. I think we're the guys that are 743 00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:22.239 right now off the top of my head that may not have played in the 744 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:24.280 game in twenty twenty, but are now starting in the game here in twenty 745 00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:28.880 twenty three. It means a ton to them. It's a huge part of 746 00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:32.400 their legacy. It's a huge part of what they want to get accomplished here 747 00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:37.280 before they leave. They do not want to leave here one in three or 748 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.400 one and four, whatever it might have been. They want to make sure 749 00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:44.159 they leave here two and two and do everything they possibly can get that done. 750 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:50.480 Yeah. I you know, there's a little piece of me that says 751 00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:52.719 they should try and beat in seventy seven to seven. But I don't. 752 00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:57.760 Well, you know, the players are gonna do as much as they can 753 00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.239 to make something like that happen. To make man. But but okay, 754 00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:04.480 here's your here's your thing. Because you've seen quirky things throughout the whole thing. 755 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.440 You never know, you never because the gods sometimes show up and say, 756 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.960 uh, the underdog, so I'll have the power. And you know, 757 00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.199 you turn the ball over a few times, you let them be in 758 00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:16.280 the game, and then all of a sudden you get to the fourth quarter 759 00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:20.679 they're still in the game, and it's like, who's panicking, Sure you 760 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:23.119 are, And some of the freakiest things happens in the game. Right yeah, 761 00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:27.559 No, I'm look I to me, it's a just win the game. 762 00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:29.519 I don't care how you win it. To win it, I don't 763 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:32.039 care what the score is. Win the game. They're gonna know. They're 764 00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:36.079 gonna know Saturday what happened Friday night with Oregon and Oregon Space. And if 765 00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:38.360 they're playing to get in the back Culp Championship game, you know, do 766 00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:44.159 you have that clip or done no that they'll pay attention or they're aware or 767 00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:46.159 whenever, you probably didn't because you have a minute I think yeah, I 768 00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:49.519 think I do. I think I do. Well, you know, we 769 00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.480 don't have time to play it all. Look play it on the backside. 770 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.480 We've got breaking news coming up. It's uh a lot of stuff going on 771 00:50:55.599 --> 00:50:59.719 went over the weekend and we've got you know, we're gonna cover some of 772 00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.559 that. It some things going on right now and uh there's been a women's 773 00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:07.199 basketball game today and all kinds of so stick around for that. We'll be 774 00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:17.280 right back crowd street, talking down down, saying bottles this and that, 775 00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:25.760 how much you down spare, I swearsh must believe it's all head of SI's 776 00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:30.320 better way to check around to the sad