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This is I on the Ball with
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everybody. Welcome to Eye on the
Ball here on Fox Sparts fourteen fifty.

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I'm Steve Rivera. You're jagn Zaliz. Jay. You do know I'm Steve

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Riverta. You know what. That's
practice. I'm not ever calling you fast

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for a name again. Jason,
you're Jason today? Yeah, I got

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you. Jason. I remember his
name. Yeah, I remember his name.

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He's making fun of me because I
couldn't remember the name of one of

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our previous interns. Okay that he
just saw that, ye Devin, Devin,

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Okay, Devin, if you're listening, I couldn't remember your name.

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Yeah. No, it was funny
because so what I wait, you hesitated

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too, don't don't. No,
I didn't know which one you would talk

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to him. Then I realized it
was only Devin at the damn thing,

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and we have Jason here. Yeah, I think, what are you talking

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about? What one of the guys
at the at the practice today, which

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I melted and I'm lost about ten
pounds. UM said, hey, good

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show, funny blah blah blah.
But she never remembers names. He said,

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yeah, that's about right. You
didn't say neither do I no,

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no, I'm not. It's not
about me. It's not about me.

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And I said, yeah, he's
always remember that guy. Yeah, you

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know what, I've done that to
my daughters. Uh, yeah, that

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work. I've done that. Hey, welcome to today's show. I think

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we're officially, unofficially wondering what's happening
with the back Well, well, I

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think you know, it sounds bout
you know, by reporting by people that

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we know, Um, it sounds
like it's done. I mean, Oregon

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and Washington have accepted at least I
just saw that Oregon has accepted its invitation.

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Yeah, so Washington's gonna accept its
invitation. So Arizona is gonna accept

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its invitation. What happened with Utah
and a s U. I think we

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can all guess that they're going with
Arizona and then there's just scraps left.

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It was funny, It's not funny
to you. Very good answer by by

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the guy that's coaching the football team, jem Fish about the times we live

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in. Right, and Ediot will
go into any specifics about stuff, but

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he talked about the time, the
times that we live in and the players

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are involved with Right, I'm sure
you have that, we haven't we you

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know? Funny. I mean,
it's the first practice that the media could

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go to and the first three questions
we're about about. So we'll just play

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him in order because he was just
you know, asked, you know,

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what what he thinks of all stuff? Okay, go ahead and play the

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first class. I try to tell
the players what I know, and so

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they're aware of what I'm aware of, which isn't much. And they're aware

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that our president is um you know, sitting in the catbird seat and gets

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to make some great decisions for our
program and for the university. What I

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love is that all eyes are on
Arizona football. And you can't open up

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an article, you can't read anything
on social media, you can't see anything

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on ESPN without an Arizona helmet.
And that tells me that our brand is

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growing. It's getting better. More
people are talking about us, more people

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want to know what's happening with Arizona, and you can't beat that in our

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situation right now, go ahead and
play the second one, because it was

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I did to our team this,
I said, you guys are literally living

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through history. If you think about
the guys that played college football from let's

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call it twenty twenty to twenty twenty
five, you live through a pandemic and

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how that worked in college football,
the uniqueness of playing in front of no

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one. You went through a transfer
portal rules that no one really ever thought

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would ever happen, the way the
amount of exchange of players then nil,

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you started getting paid. And now
you're sitting there looking at conferences that were

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historically a group of twelve ten,
ten, twelve whatever they were turning into

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sixteen mega conferences. You know,
sixteen team mega conference. You know,

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the Big ten's getting bigger and bigger. For one, I understand, the

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SEC is doing their deal, bringing
in Texas, Oklahoma. Whatever happens with

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us will happen with us. But
it's a change. Everything is just new.

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It is truly a new frontier of
college football. I love it.

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I mean, I love the fact
that we are just sitting there in a

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position where everything right now is gonna
be better for the athletes. The athletes,

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especially in football, are going to
be seeing significant change in regards to

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the financial impact of college football.
The CFP is gonna bring probably another billion

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dollars into athletics, and um,
we're gonna sit there and these kids are

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gonna play some teams maybe they haven't
played before, They're gonna see some things

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they maybe haven't seen before. And
all of college football has changed and I

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think it'll probably change again in the
next three to five years. So,

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Jay, this is funny. I
asked you yesterday book you guys, oh

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will you yestere? Yeah, yeah, yeah, So but the percentage you

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thought that things could change in in
a day or so, right, pretty

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much zero percent? Right. We
talked very little, very Okay. So

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I was up till two in the
morning, dude and whatever, out with

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some guys in and out. Um
came back. Felt comfortable with, you

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know, telling people because you get
asked what's gonna happen, and they're going,

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They're going, They're going. And
then a week up at seven,

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look at Twitter, they maybe not
be going. And I'm thinking how in

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five hours this old change overnight?
Thinking that, oh I told people some

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bad information, and thinking that they're
gonna vote again. They're gonna vote again

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and try to maybe the last Hell
Mary that they had. I thinking,

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hell, I've been giving bad information. And then an hour later it's all

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back. I'll say this has been
this has not become a circus, but

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it's become a circus. No,
it has been a circus, Steve.

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And and that's that's the unfortunate part
of it. I mean, in the

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end, if you get to a
place where it's stable and everybody is,

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you know for the moment, not
everybody's gonna be okay with where they wind

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up. Yeah, four schools that
are gonna be and maybe six left behind

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in the pac twelve or gonna be, you know, not happy. But

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this became an every man for himself
thing, right, And and that's what

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it became. An Arizona had had
and has to do what it has to

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do for itself. And I think
there was a period it sounded like the

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meeting last night that Michael Crow,
the president of ASCU, was trying to

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hold it together. I think of
that scene, if the scene at the

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end of Animal House where the where
it's Kevin Bacon and he's the he's like

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the cadet and the whole the riot
is coming at him and he's holding his

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hands up saying, please be calm, Everything is gonna be okay. And

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that was Michael Crow last night,
and there were it got some legs.

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It sounded like, um, everybody's
kind of hold up, there might be

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something here. And then the next
thing, you know, we were back

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to where we were this morning.
Right, Um, it looks like he

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lost some oop. He's looked bad. He's looked um like, like he's

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just not very uh forward thinking.
You know that all this stuff is happening,

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the college athletics landscape is changing,
and he's trying to hang on to

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the you know, to the old
guard. And it didn't realize he had

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no chance at this. You know, he wanted that he won the league

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to take this Apple deal, and
it was like, you know, and

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you know, for a time last
night I thought I could see the path

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to that. Only from the standpoint
that when you think about and I don't

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know if I mentioned this on the
show yesterday, when you think about all

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these like the Big ten conference deal
goes through twenty thirty, Okay, the

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Big twelve deal goes through twenty thirty
one. I thought, maybe the PAC

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twelve will look at this. Okay, look, let's go and take the

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deal. We're gonna still get a
spot in the College Football Playoff. We're

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gonna get some money there. We'll
find other ways to recoup the thing.

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If we can just hang on as
the PAC twelve until the next round of

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realignment, that maybe the league could
hang on and then be in a better

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spot by that point. I thought
that for a minute, and then I

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you know, I just heard that
that, you know, the Arizona was

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gone. And then again then you
say you woke up this morning and also

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in Arizona was not gone, and
then Arizona was gone, and now it

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sounds like they are gone. Yeah, as a student, what do you

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think? Is what Jed said?
Yeah, I mean kind of just whatever

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happens happens, you kind of paying
attention to as it all is of his

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happening, but you know, just
kind of let the you know, however

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the far but you know, whatever
happens happens really So yeah, I think

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that's if I try to call him, I probably will eventually. Um,

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this is a freight train and reading
to happen. You could not stop it.

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There was no stopping it. Yeah, there was no stopping. There's

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one more clip from Jed just talking
about you know what this means for for

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athletes and whatnot. Here's what he
had to say. No, I don't

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know where we're headed um or what
we're doing. I would just say that

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as you look around the landscape of
college football, you see Texas playing Alabama

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every year, Oklahoma back, you
see Nebraska, you know in the Big

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Ten. You see Ucla. I
know Nebras has been there a few years

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now. You see Ucla flying across
the country to go play Ohio State.

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Things that these kids have never thought
they could ever experience. And we all

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know there'll be more changes that go
on, whether it be new teams coming

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in or US going out, but
there's gonna be just something new that our

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kids have never thought of experience and
that that is true, and that that's

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and as a fan too, you
know it's gonna be new for fans all

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of a sudden. You know,
Kansas comes to play some basketball, you

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know, once a year every other
year, depending on how the scheduling does,

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you know, in some of those
other schools. So basketball is going

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to be different than Arizona and in
that regard, it's gonna be better,

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right, You're not You're not gonna
have a crappy cal team. And I

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know Washington State in Arizona hit home
last year, Washington State team. You're

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not gonna have crappy Washington teams coming
around. You know you're gonna go You're

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gonna have I mean, you're losing
the the UCLA. Uh, but that's

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the only one. Yeah, that's
the only one of the that's only one

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of the rivalries at this point because
Stanford's not a rival anymore. Right,

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They're terrible. So the basketball is
gonna become great and there's gonna be I

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think there's gonna be more excitement for
Airzona basketball in this town than maybe ever.

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Steve, let me ask you a
question that might create some controversy.

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So, um, I'm gonna ask
you, Um, do you Arizone has

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a pretty good strong fan base,
right? Yeah? Basketball basketball specifics.

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I don't want to go fotall because
because it's football, we we know it's

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good whatever it is. Um,
do you think Arizona fans travel well?

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Travel well? There's key wards in
there. Well m overall, No,

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they travel well to southern California Okay, okay, they travel well. He's

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in Vegas, easy, easy trips
driving. They don't travel well to Stanford.

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They don't travel well to or in
state there because those places are far

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sure. Sure. So the reason
I say that is because I see this

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all the time. Ever, was
gonna travels Well, No, they don't

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know. They don't because you're they're
not gonna go to stay fastball does best

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one. But let me say this, the reason why you hear a lot

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of the error zone rors is they
have they They're a lot of fans in

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that area. We've seen it.
We see it all the time and see

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on the travel Well, no,
those are dudes that live there. Yeah,

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those are I don't know what they're
gonna live in the Midwest. You'll

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see it in Texas, yes,
right, Dallas. You'll see him in

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dadasas him in Dallas. You may
even see him in Waco. You'll see

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him in Love The Arizona fans will
go there. But I don't know that

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you're gonna see him at Oklahoma State. I don't know that you're gonna see

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him at Kansas and Cannon. Well, they'll go to Cama games. You're

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not gonna go to Kansas, but
I can see him at at Iowa State

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and whatnot. You're you're correct,
and football fan and the football fans travel

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to u C L, a USC
A, SU and then to Vegas,

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to Vegas, Vegas, that's the
biggest Vegas. At least the Big twelve

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does something and they're not there.
You know, there was a that got

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thrown out there on social media and
all the Big twelve fans were come around

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saying, you guys have no idea
how cool it is, how cool the

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tournament is in Kansas City. You
have no idea. Vegas is cool and

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it's a great place, but you
have no idea how cool the tournament is

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in Kansas City. It's not going
anywhere. Imagine that tournament, imagine that

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turnament. It should be fun,
it should be fun. I have to

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guess. I have to say my
money to get there for the next year

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in two twenty four. But but
I just want to throw that out there

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because it's it's a fallacy that they
travel well because they don't, especially certain

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places. But they have a lot
of the lums out there. Now,

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we gotta call, we gotta let's
go take this call. H you're on

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there and I on the ball.
Hello, Hello, we hear some background

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news. Go ahead and try to
call us back those like a radio show

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or something. Yeah, yeah,
probably listening. He didn't turn off his

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radio or something. I'm looking at
the buttons to see if there's some buttons

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on that shouldn't be on. No. Um, But that tournament in the

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Big two in Kennas City should be
a lot of fun. Yeah, a

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lot of fun. We don't know
about I shoo yet, right, they're

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they're not they're not as Utah are
not in yet. Now. I think

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they want in and a su is
coming kind of kicking and screaming. But

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at this point they should want in, and I'm guessing if I'm Mark Harlan

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up at Utah, they want it. And that's so funny because of all

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the teams football wise, they are
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the group. Okay, let's see
we can take this. Hi, you're

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on they are on the ball.
What's going on? Man? How y'all

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doing over there? Good? How
are you doing? What's up? Who's

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this? Hello? I think you
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I don't know what they do turn
off? We can hear you.

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I think you're ray is your Are
you you have your radio on? Yeah?

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What's going on? How you doing
good? Good? Turn off the

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radio and then give us a holler
yeah, or just turn off the radio.

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Talk to us that. Yeah,
what what's happening? How y'all doing

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the day? Good? What's on
your mind? Let's talk about Apple Joy.

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He was listening to the radio and
it's a seven second delay. Yeah,

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that's weird. Yeah, okay,
if if if you call in,

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you can't have the radio on in
the background. No, you can't call

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until after then, guest, go
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bottom, No, at the very
bottom. Well, no we can.

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We can go to break because we
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got a good job. Yeah,
we got Jake Fisher coming in. He's

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he was a little vocal on on
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all the xs and os. It's
Steve Rivera and Jakin's summits. This is

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I Am the book on Fox Sports
fourteen Differy. Welcome back to im the

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ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, he's Jakins us

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and Jenkins all us and now we
have Jake Fisher. What's going on,

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Jake? Are you guys doing?
Is it pretty hard to signs all the

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last name? Or why we're you
know, we're we're getting names really bad.

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And we've been out in the sun
today at practice and it it's just

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it's just killed everything. Let me
ask you, Jake, Um, So

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we're out there for like two and
a half hours, you know, waiting

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for football. How was it during
those hot days for these these practices any

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pads? Oh, we'll imagine around
two thirty imagine being in a full tend

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of practice with rich Rod with how
much they made us run. With the

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Stoop's regime, it wasn't all that
bad. But as soon as rich Rod

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and his guys to like a runnion
so you feel like you're going to throw

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up every day, it got really
bad. So completely different deal. But

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yeah, it's not fun. Especially, I mean I can't even imagine these

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guys doing it right now with the
heat that we have this year. I

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mean up here in Channel we had
I think twenty five straight days was at

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least one hundred and thirteen. So
it gets bad with that mind because we

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talked when we talk to you last
week, we talked to you about,

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you know, the anticipation of you
know, opening camp and first practice and

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the excitement of it and stuff.
How quickly did fall camp become more of

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a grind. It becomes a grind
right away. I mean the first couple

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of practices or either in helmets or
you know, you're in shells or you

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know, spider vests or you know, whatever you want to call it,

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whether it's you know, soft pads
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But as soon as you start getting
me the full gear on and you start

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happen to try to you know,
go against one two sometimes even you know,

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a triple team of grown men or
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it starts to really hurt. So, you know, you get used to

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it early. There's a reason why
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much as they do prior to camp. But the first couple of weeks it's,

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you know, let's try to get
as much out of you as we

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possibly can. And then as soon
as we get about a week and a

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half out of that first you know, away from the first game, that's

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when you start kind of settling down
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back in shape or at least the
body back where it needs to be to

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go into you know, a game
where you might be playing between seventy five

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and ninety snaps. So a week
or a week and a half prior to

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the first game, they'll start,
you know, swimming it down a little

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bit. Yeah, Okay, let's
get down to today's news, like yesterday's

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news and every other day's news.
What do you think about lament and what's

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going on. I'm glad that President
Robbins and Heke are getting us out of

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this conference. Ever instance, Larry
Scott took the helm, and a lot

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of the presidents they're not big into
sports. So you know, I'm just

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really happy that we have a president
who loves sports and he's gonna go ahead

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and get us into conference that actually
loves sports and not still academics. And

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you know, they don't put their
you know, they don't put their nose

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up high and just kind of look
down upon the rest of the colleges.

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These guys want to go out and
compete. They want to be good at

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football, basketball, every other sport. Um, you know, I see

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a bunch of people that you could
tell they're they're Pack twelve folks. They

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keep saying, we'll look at all
the small towns and the Big twelve,

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et cetera, et cetera, and
we have well they used to have that

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way, but you know, we
have Seattle, we have uh, you

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know, San Francisco, et cetera, et cetera. And it's like,

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you know what the money's following in
the smaller towns right now? In the

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Big twelve. They want to see
a good product on the field. They

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want to see a good product out
on the basketball court. They want to

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see these guys at the highest level. And so I'm just glad that we

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are. We're getting out of the
dumpster fire in my opinion, that is

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the PAC twelves. Well, it
certainly became that, Jake, I mean,

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I wanted the Pac twelve to survive. But when it became to a

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point and probably over the last you
know, several months, that it just

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it just wasn't going to not survive, but it just wasn't going to be

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up to the standards of the other
conferences. I don't want to be in

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a subpart conference, and so when
that became appared to me, I'm like,

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let's get the hell out of here, right. And this is the

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thing, like I don't need to
talk down upon any university is the only

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university because I actually stay plugged into
this subject because I think we should have

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left a few years ago, to
be one hundred percent honest with you.

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But you know, the fact that
they're going to be bringing in maybe as

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Presido State, maybe an SMO,
maybe you know, I don't know Colorado

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State. You know, some of
these these schools, it's like, okay,

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well, you guys are kind of
you know, I mean, it's

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kind of the last bitch effort to
just get a few more teams in there,

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you know, just to kind of
safe face. I mean, when

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you're going all streaming with Apple and
you're gonna get paid you know, probably

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like between twelve and fifteen million dollars
less a year to be in the conference,

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I think it's time for you to
boat, especially if you want to

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be competitive. I mean, imagine, you know, not being able to

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keep Jed Fish, you know who
him and an entire staff they've been including

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like crazy. Obviously you guys have
seen, you know, the wonderful work

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that he's done. But imagine you
know someone in a different conference who's able

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to pay them just a million dollars
more and has more visibility, and you

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know they're on ESPN as opposed to
being you know, streamed on Apple.

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I mean I would leave the files
a head coach too. And then you

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know, once you start getting some
of the notoriety and things of that nature,

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you're able to recruit at a higher
level. So it makes all the

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sense in the world. And when
you have teams like you know, Washington,

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Oregon who are probably gonna end up
going to the Big ten. You

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have Colorado who already left, you
have LA schools who have left. It's

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a thinking ship man. So don't
get left behind. Don't get into some

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sort of deal where you have to
wait another four or five years before you

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can actually leave to go to a
better conference. And then if you're recruiting

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goes down, if you're not able
to retain good coaches, there's not going

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to be a better confidence not want
you at that point. Let me ask

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you, what can you say if
you see any negatives to the move maybe

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the travel or whatever, any negatives
and maybe the biggest positive. I just

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think the biggest positive, like I
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you get guaranteed money, you're gonna
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to be more of a national thing
where you're not gonna have to wait till

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nine PM for a football game or
a basketball game. You're gonna have more

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than just folks on the West Coast
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you're gonna be seen more. You
know, you're gonna become more of a

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national brand. You're gonna become more
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think that they're gonna, you know, I think Arizona's gonna become more of

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a national brand. You have a
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and coming football product. I mean, just look at the football team.

408
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I mean, you've got two potential
first round draft picks on the offensive line.

409
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You've got you know, two or
three receivers who are going to play

410
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in the NFL. You probably have
a couple of your backs that are going

411
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to play in the NFL, and
to be honest with you, a Big

412
00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.519
twelve that has been a lot about
offensive lately. So I think we're gonna

413
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sit in perfectly. The biggest negative
is I mean, and it's just going

414
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to be like one of those deals
where it's like, ah, I wish

415
00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:04.000
the PAC twelve would have survived,
But at the same time, as these

416
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folks aren't doing what they need to
do in order to keep us around,

417
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then who cares. You know,
go where the money's at. You're gonna

418
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get guaranteed money. It's gonna be
a hell of a lot more than where

419
00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:17.839
you're gonna get with the Pac twelve. And you have incompetent people up at

420
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the top that has been leading this
proke or at this conference for the last

421
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what eight nine years? So get
out, I'm gonna say so, I'm

422
00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:29.519
gonna I'm gonna start to turn the
page right now. Jake to Arizona being

423
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in the Big twelve, the football
program being in the Big twelve throughout all

424
00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:37.920
the time, and that Arizona was
in the Pac twelve, we always always

425
00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:44.720
always thought that they were at a
recruiting disadvantage against Washington, USC, UCLA,

426
00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:47.960
and then more recently Oregon and that
we were never going to be able

427
00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:52.200
to outrecruit those guys. I don't
see one school in the Big Twelve that

428
00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:57.839
Arizona can't recruit with no and especially
with the track record that these guys are

429
00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:02.839
going to continue having putting guys into
the league. I mean, like I

430
00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:06.559
said, you have you're starting free
receivers, and I'm that's just me assuming

431
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:08.759
that, uh you know, Limonious
Crag or I forget what the heck of

432
00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:15.079
name name, but I think the
starting pre receivers are all going to be

433
00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:18.480
playing on Sundays. Yeah, and
you know, you have so many quarterbacks

434
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.200
that you've brought in that are awesome. Um, you know, one of

435
00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:23.680
those four stars is gonna you know, one of those four stars as soon

436
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:26.880
as you know our guy eventually goes
to the next level, is going to

437
00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.680
step up and they're gonna be awesome. Um. You know, like I

438
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:33.680
said, offensive lineman, We've already
gotten great offensive line in there. I

439
00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:36.599
think Toledo is going to eventually be
another one that ends up, you know,

440
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:40.240
being a first or second day draft
pick. And then you know,

441
00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:42.079
if we can continue getting some of
these cranswers on the defensive side of the

442
00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:45.200
ball. As long as you're able
going to keep up scoring in the Big

443
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.079
twelve, you're gonna be fine.
And the other good thing is going into

444
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.599
the Big twelve. You know,
we have a really really good track record

445
00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.640
of accruiting kids from uh, you
know, southern California and just California in

446
00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:59.680
general. But now that's going to
give us a bigger foothold in the state

447
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.920
of tenn Right, So if we're
still able to recruit in California, we're

448
00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.960
able to you know kind of uh, you know, turn page and we're

449
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:08.960
able to recruit really well out of
Taxis. I don't see a reason why

450
00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.680
we couldn't be one of the upper
echelon teams in the Big twelve football wise,

451
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:17.440
basketball wise, we will obviously the
brand, you know, it doesn't

452
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:19.160
matter where the hell we go,
the Arizona basketball brand is going to be

453
00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:22.279
there. So, um, you
know, I like to move quite a

454
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.359
bit. It's funny. I was
just gonna ask you and Jay, so

455
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:30.599
Arizona has typically been you know,
seventh, eighth, ninth in the lower

456
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.960
half of the Pac twelve. If
you have this this this list, now,

457
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.000
where do you think they're gonna Land. Who do you think right now,

458
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:41.079
right now kind of in the middle
here. What I was trying to

459
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.200
get at with what I said a
man ago is there isn't anybody in in

460
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:49.279
the Big twelve that Arizona should be
afraid of. It doesn't feel like they

461
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:55.759
can compete with where There's was always
usc There was always Washington throughout the whole

462
00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:57.920
time they were in there, and
to a degree Ucla, although they didn't

463
00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:00.440
do anything with it, but they
were. You know, we're getting out

464
00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:06.759
recruited by Useley. I don't see
one team in the football, one football

465
00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:11.039
team in the big in the Big
twelve that Arizona can't recruit with No now

466
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.319
Oklahoma and Texas, it comes down
to Kansas, Kansas State, we cannot

467
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.039
recruit them. When it comes to
Oklahoma State, we can out recruit them.

468
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.359
You don't have Oklahoma in Texas anymore. So the fact of the matter

469
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.039
is, I mean, our biggest
competition is going to be who, Like

470
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:27.440
I mean, Texas Tech has been
doing really well recruiting Whitely, Baylor's been

471
00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:30.920
doing pretty damn good. Um,
you know Houston obviously with them being in

472
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.480
the Big twelve, that might you
know, Pump up their recruiting as well

473
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.359
in the state of Texas, you
know, because I mean Houston's what the

474
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.079
third largest city in the entire country. So I mean, I think we're

475
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:42.440
gonna be able to capitalize it.
And I think that we'd, like I

476
00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:45.559
said, we're still going to be
able to recruit on the West Coast,

477
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.400
but now we're gonna be able to
get a foot in the door in terms

478
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.039
of Midwest recruiting Texas. Midwest recruiting
is where you find the hosses that actually

479
00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.160
moved the line of scrimmage. You
know, the size the Midwest. You

480
00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:57.640
know, if you want to go
down to George, Alabama, Florida,

481
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:02.160
but um, you know, obviously
that's going to be hard to bring guys

482
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:04.319
from there. But you know,
like when we went against Sokol the state

483
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:07.880
they had a bunch of farm boys
and as soon as they get their hands

484
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:10.880
on you, you can't get them
off of you. You know, they

485
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:14.000
have that farm boy strength. You
have some of those big boys that you

486
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:17.880
can bring in. You can still
continue to recruit the athletes out of California

487
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.200
and you know, just the West
Coast in general. And then once again,

488
00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:23.759
if we make the move, I
think just because we were the ones

489
00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:29.440
that potentially brought ASU with us,
and just because we're in a different position

490
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:30.640
than as do is right now,
I think we're going to get the better

491
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.599
of the Phoenix area too. So
there's a lot of good things happening,

492
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.880
and I think it's kind of the
perfect timing. Yeah, and again,

493
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:41.799
there's no USC, there's no Washington, there's no Oregon or in the Big

494
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.319
twelve. There's not and you know, people say, oh, well,

495
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:47.160
you know, it would have been
easier to win in the PEC public.

496
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:51.480
I would never have wanted Arezone to
go to the Big ten, but I

497
00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:53.880
really think that they can be they
can become very competitive in the Big twelve.

498
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:59.359
And you could sense a sense of
excitement about that from Jet Fish.

499
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:02.200
Well. No, well, now
that if Arizona State does not go in,

500
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:07.319
if they do not go in,
yeah, they have to go in.

501
00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:09.440
If they didn't go in, how
much advantage would it be recruiting?

502
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:13.640
Way? Oh yeah, totally if
Arizona States in the back or something or

503
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:16.160
the Mountain West, right, Yeah, Well, think about it. The

504
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:21.160
brand difference between a Big twelve now
versus a Pack twelve. Who's going to

505
00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:24.200
bring in you know, four or
five teams that just one percent, you

506
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:29.720
know, being honest, probably shouldn't
be Pack twelve caliber. And then the

507
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.119
second thing I want to go over
the fact that you know, we did

508
00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.599
have se Oregon, Washington, and
I mean, you have ASU, who's

509
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:42.039
in a spot where there's like over
five million people just around the area in

510
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:45.079
general. I don't know how the
hell they haven't become one of the top

511
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.200
ten, uh, you know colleges
in America. I just say, they

512
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:51.240
just dropped the ball all the time. But which is good for us.

513
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:54.000
But the fact that Utah has been
able to become a top five or six

514
00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:58.440
team in the country over the last
you know, five six years, and

515
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:01.400
they were in a conference like that, there's a I mean, there's a

516
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:06.079
there's a way that you can get
it done. And so I think that

517
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:08.279
Jetfish when he came in, he
was talking about how he wants to be

518
00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:12.759
more like Utah. I think that
if we're able to kind of do the

519
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:16.119
same things that Utah did in the
PAC twelve and we still have you know,

520
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:22.039
footprints in California just anywhere in the
West coast, Phoenix, Texas,

521
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:24.039
Midwest, I think we can be, like I said, one of the

522
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:28.759
top tier programs in the Big Twelve. I mean, Oaklahoma State's always going

523
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.160
to be competitive. Texas Tech right
now, it's probably going to be competitive

524
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:34.599
for a while. I think Houston's
probably in the next team that's going to

525
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.880
become more competitive in that conference.
But I don't see a reason why,

526
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:39.480
you know, we shouldn't go into
every game think that we can win.

527
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:47.160
I mean, I agree, I
just think I assuming that the progress that

528
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:52.599
the Jetfish has made continues, I'll
actually believe that Arizona can win a league

529
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:54.799
championship in the Big twelve, where
the odds against them doing that in the

530
00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:59.960
Pac twelve have been minimal every year. I mean, there a couple couple

531
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.160
great teams. Twenty fourteen teams tendered
out to be a really good team one

532
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:07.440
up backed off South championship. The
ninety eight teams should have or I think,

533
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:13.639
year in and year out, if
Jake Jake Fishing Jed Fish, if

534
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.440
Jed Fish, you know, keeps
doing what he's doing, I think Arizona

535
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:20.480
can be competitive, you know,
all the time, because all those teams

536
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:22.920
they mostly are, you know,
I mean, TCU came out and won

537
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:25.760
the Day League, and tc is
not going to be their year in.

538
00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:31.679
They're not USC or Washington or Oregon. So right, I like they gonna

539
00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:34.960
have some of those teams that just
kind of poked their head out for a

540
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:37.840
couple of years and they're really really
good. But it's going to be more

541
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.239
cyclical. I think they don't have
the brand that you know, an SC

542
00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:45.119
Washington, Oregon, whoever it is
has. I mean, just imagine Arizona

543
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:52.480
going into Lubbock or going you know
and beating Baylor going into Houston and you

544
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.679
see a high flying offense for a
bunch of potential, you know, NFL

545
00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:59.719
players, You're going to get a
heck of a lot more attention out of

546
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:02.239
those kids that are in Texas.
I mean, you're gonna have people on

547
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:06.719
visits all the time at those games. And if we go in and perform

548
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:08.679
like I think we will, I
don't see a reason why we can't have

549
00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:12.679
more of a foothold in Texas,
you know what I mean. So it's

550
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.599
just going to open up more doors. We're going to continue to recruit like

551
00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:19.760
we are now. But you know, I think because of how aggressive you

552
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.800
know a lot of the coaches are
in terms of recruiting, I don't see

553
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:24.920
a reason why we can't. You
know, I don't see a reason why

554
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:28.880
we can't win a Big twelve.
Like I said, TCU, Oklahoma State,

555
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:31.639
Texas Tech, Houston, Kansas State
right now is really good. But

556
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.679
I mean none of them are burn
Burns. You don't have an Alabama or

557
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:37.239
at Georgia in that conference. You
don't have an sc at their highter,

558
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:42.239
Oregon at their you know, in
their prime in the conference. So I

559
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.519
think it's gonna be a lot easier
to get some wins you know football.

560
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:47.239
But at the same time, you
don't have any doormats. You know,

561
00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:51.719
you don't have Um, I mean, you do have a Colorado now,

562
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:53.920
but you know you gotta be on
there, but you don't have you know,

563
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:58.599
a Colorado. Like over the last
few years, you're only winning one

564
00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:01.239
game a year and it's you know, non conference, so it's gonna be

565
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:05.559
competitive. We're gonna have to bring
it every week. But um, you

566
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:07.000
know, if we do come to
play, I don't think there's anybody in

567
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.519
that conference that we're not going to
be able to beat, especially with some

568
00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:13.320
of the talent that these guys are
bringing in. There's nobody in the conference

569
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:17.079
that scares me. No that I
say we can't we that Arizona can't beat

570
00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:21.599
you know, I'm not gonna say
year in, year out, but have

571
00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:24.079
a chance to beat you know,
if if they if the program gets going,

572
00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:29.079
if you know, you know who's
a sleeping giant though as UCS.

573
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:32.960
Yeah, I mean I had a
buddy that went to UCF, but you

574
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:37.280
guys probably know him, Ray Cottman, And the year after you graduated,

575
00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:39.280
they went to the FSA boot and
beat the brakes off of Baylor. So

576
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:42.639
if they're able to get some of
the talent down there, you know,

577
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.880
pick them over Florida, Miami excepta, et cetera. Every now and then,

578
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.639
you know, it's probably like once
every six or seven years they're a

579
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:52.079
ten win team and they're good.
But once again, it's somebody cyclical.

580
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.039
You're not gonna have somebody that wins
ten games a year every single year,

581
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:57.599
because it's gonna be competitive and everyone's
going to be kind of on the same

582
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.599
level. Okay, Jake, thank
you. Man to have a good hut

583
00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:06.320
weekend. Of course, we're going
to be in the pool the rest of

584
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:07.960
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us tell us where people can find you.

585
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590
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593
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594
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have a good weekend. Yep.
All right, Well, Jake was

595
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:51.559
on the phone. The announcement both
from Washington, Oregon and the Big ten

596
00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:55.199
came out that they are now in
the Big ten, and then Brett McMurphy

597
00:37:55.239 --> 00:38:05.519
reporting that the Big twelve will will
approve UM the membership for Zona, Arizona,

598
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:09.880
uh Arizona State, and Utah tonight. Okay, so then by sometime

599
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:14.960
in the next couple of days.
Ye. So, so the Arizona,

600
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:20.599
Utah Utah is kind of still I
think they're they're underrated to Utah can go

601
00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:22.559
in and grab and grab this conference
by the throw, Yes, from a

602
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:25.280
very at least from a football standout. Yeah, okay, if you're if

603
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:30.599
you're asking me, Okay, Now
you've got sixteen teams. You know who's

604
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:35.239
the best football team in the in
the conference? It's Utah, not Oklahoma

605
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.480
State. Let's go, let's take
a break, and I'll ask you the

606
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:39.920
question that you can think about it. Don't you think that some of the

607
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:45.360
some of if not all, the
teams in the Big Twelve as it stands

608
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:51.400
out, should be afraid of what's
happening with the influx of Utah and Arizona

609
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:55.119
and even to Degree Asu. You
know these these are you know these teams.

610
00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:58.079
Well, let's let's go and take
our break. Well, we'll have

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this conversation because we're already wait long, so take a break. We'll come

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back and we'll take your calls.
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seventy four forty give us a call. We have some time for you.

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Now is second hour. We're gonna
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666
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get his take on just how all
this is unfolded, you know the meaning

667
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:58.719
of it for Arizona. But you
know, Steve, we're starting to kick

668
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that around a little bit. And
now that the reality of this is starting

669
00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:08.440
to hit, I like, I
like Zona that I do year later I

670
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do now I like it. I
like it a lot. And I said,

671
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.039
whatever they do, whatever they do, but I like it because,

672
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:16.199
well, I'm not gonna go to
the games. I might go to the

673
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:21.920
pack the Big twelve tournament. Yeah, but you know it's gonna be games

674
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:23.559
few and far between. Yeah,
you know, we won't be we won't

675
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:28.119
be going on the road to games, you know, because not because they're

676
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:30.039
you know, we don't like the
towns or in the cities and stuff like

677
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.079
it. Just they're they're far,
they're expensive. I mean, you maybe

678
00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:37.519
can go to one trip a year. Maybe you know, we again,

679
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:38.960
you know talk, you know,
we could get in the car, you

680
00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:42.079
know, when the USC game comes
out, we're gonna jump in the car

681
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:44.119
and Friday we're gonna get tickets.
We jump in the car on Friday,

682
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.960
get a hotel room and go.
And you can't do that with any of

683
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:51.199
the road trips in in the Big
Twelve. That's the only unfortunate thing.

684
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:55.599
But when you think about where Arizona
now sits as a football program in the

685
00:43:55.639 --> 00:44:00.000
conference, it's gonna be in Like
I was, we were saying to Jail,

686
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:05.719
I think that Arizona is in a
way better position to compete for a

687
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:08.800
championship by going to the Big Twelve
than it ever was going to be in

688
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:13.960
the in the in the Pac Twelve, because of USC, because of Oregon,

689
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.639
because of Washington, and to a
degree, because of UCLA. All

690
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:20.280
the way up until last year,
it has been a big deal to beat

691
00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:24.960
UCLA because you know, they've always
got better players, they've always recruited better,

692
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:29.679
you know, and then Utah came
along and started beating the hell out

693
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.639
of everybody. You know, we
don't I don't see anybody in the Big

694
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:36.960
twelve that Arizona is afraid of,
because I think Arizona can ultimately compete with

695
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:39.320
Uta, because they have in the
past. There's nobody in the Big twelve

696
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:44.199
from a football standpoint that I go
Arizona can't be better than them. Oh,

697
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:46.400
I'm gonna remember to stay in a
year or two, two years now

698
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:50.719
to see if they do compete against
him, because I think it's gonna take

699
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:52.679
a little bit. No, I'm
not saying it's a little this year,

700
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:57.360
but I'm saying two to three years
down the road. If the progress that

701
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.840
you're seeing in Arizona and jet Fish
sticks Aroun and keeps pull you know,

702
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:04.800
pulling this thing through, they will
be able to compete over there. I

703
00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:07.519
really believe that. I think we
have a caller. Hy you're on the

704
00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:12.800
air around the Ball, how you
guys? This is Gabe Kasarian. Hey,

705
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:16.400
um, I just want to say, um, Arizona is in the

706
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:23.280
PID twelve. Let's go up.
Yeah, I am um. So I

707
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:29.159
have a lot of things to talk
to you of guys about, So let's

708
00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:35.639
get started. You got YouTube,
just lovely gentleman on the perfect guys to

709
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:40.320
talk about and I really appreciate you
guys Heavier radio show, and so,

710
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:45.280
UM, I just want to say, um, I think it was last

711
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:51.480
last year or no, a couple
of months ago, I kind of predicted

712
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:57.880
that Arizona would be in the bit
twelve between June and the and the start

713
00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:07.159
of uh college football. So I'm
not gonna be broncodoshous but but anyway,

714
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:14.639
but anyway, UM, I think
Arizona made the right choice. It was

715
00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:19.440
amount of survival. I don't want
Arizona to beat in the Mountain West,

716
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:27.280
and so I'm happy. And I
think Jetfish basically said, uh when when

717
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:35.000
he would he if? I think
Jeff Fish basically said that he wants to

718
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:39.280
be here. And if if he
if Arizona it was in the Mountain West,

719
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:45.639
I think he would decide to leave
and go to some other play like

720
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:52.119
some SEC school or even Big ten
school. And um, so let me

721
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:57.679
get to the scum Devils and and
then Oregon, Washington and then um and

722
00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:04.320
Bill Walton all those jokers by anyway, to the scum Devils. Um listen,

723
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:09.159
listen you guys. UM You're welcome, and uh how about you said,

724
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:16.679
uh say two words, um,
thank thank you, and UM who

725
00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:24.519
who's I don't I think you too, basically said, um. Some Tom

726
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:30.000
devil basically said, oh, uh
you know the Bittel was the goaling after

727
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:36.639
Arizona. We were the Bittel was
going after Arizona. Um. No,

728
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:43.199
first off, shut up, steck
off, steck off. Arizona runs the

729
00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:49.960
states. You're you're mainly uh the
ginger kids. So UM, how about

730
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:55.599
you, um please shut up and
let us Uh let's the grown ups deal

731
00:47:55.639 --> 00:48:01.199
with the business. And so so
anyway, Uh to Oregon and Washington,

732
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:07.960
UM, have fun, um plane
half fun, have fun getting beaten by

733
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:14.400
Ohio State Michigan. And I'm not
going to miss um Arizona plane in their

734
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:21.320
uh in the duck uh fecal matter
h court, which is um the phil

735
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:29.119
Knight Court in Eugene. And so
so Bill Walton, UM, I don't

736
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:32.599
like you, and so I suggest
you retire. And I'm really happy that

737
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:39.760
Arizona is. I'm really happy that
I'm not announcing Arizona game. So um

738
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:47.239
and to John Werner and John Kazano
and Tony Altimore and uh George col coff

739
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:54.239
um by Felicia car down Arizona coachoun
you just listen to the game show.

740
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.360
All right, man, Hey Gabe, we appreciate and I'm happy that you're

741
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:04.719
happy. I think Arizona sets up
really well to go to Who are you

742
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.920
gonna complain about now this week you're
gonna well, you're gonna be now you're

743
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.679
gonna call him, you have fun. Right, I'm still gonna call you

744
00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:17.639
guys, just love man, We
love you, Gaye, Hey Man,

745
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:22.880
thanks a bunch. You appreciate it. Like there was a lot there.

746
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:29.400
There was a lot there. But
you know, I mean, there's no

747
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:31.320
doubt that Arizona gets you know,
it winds up in a better place,

748
00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:35.039
and especially now with you know,
Oregon Washington on that. I mean that

749
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:38.559
we're just dumbed even talk about that
anymore, because it's a no brainer at

750
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:43.119
this point. Yeah, I'm glad
you come. It's a no brainer for

751
00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:45.639
Time. It's a no brainer for
you Time. No, I think they're

752
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:52.320
they're not the sleeping giant. They're
an unknown beneficial of this right beneficial.

753
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.079
Well, so I did say somebody
said, you know, somebody said the

754
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:58.440
big you know, saying to the
Big twelve and social media, Hey guys,

755
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:02.079
you really don't have any idea what's
coming at you? You know with

756
00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:07.559
with you know, I agree with
Utah football, Arizona. I think they

757
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:09.320
do know about basketball, they do, but it's gonna be fun. I

758
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:15.039
think they're excited about Baylor, Kansas, um ilays Ilwa staying now. Basketball

759
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:20.599
is pretty good, Um Texas techts
has been pretty good lately. That's gonna

760
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:24.679
be Arizona is another great game for
the fans. Yeah, Big twelve right,

761
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:28.360
No, it's gonna be a lot
of fun now that if I were

762
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:31.119
covering the team, i'd be looking
forward to. Tommy Lloyd is fired up.

763
00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:37.760
Um yeah. The thing is,
the thing is with that is you

764
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:40.400
can now you're gonna bolster your home
court, right he. I don't know

765
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:45.400
what's gonna happen with the non the
non conference schedule, because it's good this

766
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:51.039
year, right after years after years. Maybe he'll reduce it, maybe he'll

767
00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:54.480
continue it. I know I would
venture to guess um that Lout would say,

768
00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:59.000
let's continue to keep going, keep
going with the same. Yeah,

769
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:01.519
I don't care if I'm twenty four
and eight going to the tournament. But

770
00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:04.920
I know what I have right,
and I've played good teams, and I

771
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:07.440
know where you're exactly. I know
who I am and and you know,

772
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.599
I think I made this point,
uh the other day that you know,

773
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:15.559
playing in the Big twelve now Arizona, will you know, we'll play that

774
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:19.519
physical style of basketball that you feel
they don't get enough of. And then

775
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:22.559
they get to the ncuble A tournament, they get pushed around, they know

776
00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:24.320
they'll know what to expect, right, yeah, right, you know,

777
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:29.280
because they'll have been playing it all
year long enough for the finesse basketball.

778
00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:30.840
Yeah. Yeah, you know they're
gonna have to They're gonna have to play

779
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:36.559
TCU and play Houston and play Kansas
and play these teams that are physical.

780
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:39.599
I could already hear it. Oh
those refs really did us in. Yeah,

781
00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:43.400
you know you're gonna hear we're gonna
have Big twelve refs in the league

782
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.800
instead of Pac twelve refs. Those
refs did us in. Is there any

783
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:50.880
difference Pack twelve and Big twelve refs? Huge difference? Oh? Okay,

784
00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:53.079
you play, they let you play, They let you get to Pack two.

785
00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:57.559
Refs are just they're soft. I
just create they call it every right

786
00:51:57.559 --> 00:52:01.639
now, I just created a foul
on you. Yeah you didn't feel it,

787
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:05.599
you didn't see it, but I
found you right, Okay, all

788
00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:07.119
right, let's let's hit the road
for this hour. We're gonna come back.

789
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:09.840
We'll have breaking news, and then
we're gonna have Damian alimated from Cholen

790
00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:10.840
thirteen. We'll be right back