WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.399 --> 00:00:08.080 Streaming live on the iHeartRadio WIF. This is I on the Ball with Steve 2 00:00:08.199 --> 00:00:13.720 Rovera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to 3 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.039 I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's 4 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:20.399 Jay, and I'm hoping Jave has some breaking news. This is Eye on 5 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:25.440 the Ball, breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, with 6 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:29.039 just one game left in the college football season, obviously, you know Michigan, 7 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.479 Michigan and Washington Monday, a lot of activity both in the transfer portal 8 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.560 as well as players declaring for the NFL today. Tyler McLaughlin, the tight 9 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:43.039 end at Arizona. He's got another players still have the one year of free 10 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:47.719 ouchability from the COVID year. He's got your your eligibility left. But he's 11 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.560 declared for the NFL rightfully. So had a great year, a lot of 12 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:58.600 attention and I really liked him a lot. Yeah, like him a lot. 13 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:00.960 The good thing is good for you, good luck and all that because 14 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:07.480 they have Benett was at our guy that we talked to, the Dad Burnett, 15 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.280 Chester Burnett, Chester Burnette and a good stock coming in right and actually 16 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:17.040 Chester Burnett went on on Twitter today and thank you and thanked him for everything 17 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.280 that he did for his kid, said he was he was a great mentor 18 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.840 feels like his kid. You know. Uh, Kyl learned a lot about 19 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:32.319 about kind of key on his learned a lot from from Aclachlin, you know 20 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.719 what. And that opens the door for for him to, you know, 21 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.640 to to have a chance to make an impact next year. Look, you 22 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.599 know, guys like a door on. Jacob Cowing also announced today he's you 23 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.480 know, he's going into the draft. He could I think he could stand 24 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:49.480 another maybe not Jacob Cowan. Jacob Cown Oh yeah, yeah, of course, 25 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:52.319 you know. Yeah, here's time. What else do you need to 26 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.920 prove? Exactly. So, so those two guys are to open the door 27 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:02.120 for another guy to come back. Yeh, it's I can't help it be 28 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.560 a jerk about this. And then I would say, no, you can't 29 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:08.719 come back. The door's locked. You broke up with me, and now 30 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:13.120 you want you want to come back. It out of here, And I'm 31 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:19.159 saying, Dorian, come on back. We know that you wanted to date 32 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.439 that cute girl. Didn't turn out well, did it? Yeah? Exactly? 33 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:23.919 Okay, A couple of oh wait, one more, one more player 34 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:29.000 that's going in going into the draft. Uh the Jonathan Brooks are running back 35 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:34.520 from from Texas towards a cl in November. He's not going to take any 36 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.479 more chances about geting hurt in college. He's uh No, mal Kuiper has 37 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:42.719 him as his top ranked available tailback, so he's going into the draft. 38 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.080 A really good player missed at the end of the season with that injury. 39 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:50.000 As far as the transfer portal goes, we saw that Malachi Nelson, who 40 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:53.120 was the top rated quarterback last year, uh well, two years ago, 41 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:58.919 went over to USC under Lincoln Riley, who had recruited him to Oklahoma. 42 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:04.479 On Lincoln Riley take the job at USC. He he went to he went 43 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.080 to US. He jumped into the transfer portal. Now they're saying he's going 44 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:12.639 to What do you think about? No, no, no, no, 45 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.000 no, you got you got to lower your standard way man, I don't 46 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:22.159 know. Well, there is a Peter principle involved in a lot of this. 47 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.240 Right, if you're not good enough to play here and you reach your 48 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:28.400 level of competence or whatever, you end up at Boise State and maybe you'll 49 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.719 turn into but you know, that's kind of what the transfer portal does, 50 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.000 right, You kind of reach a level of how good you're going to play 51 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.400 if you and you want to play right away. If there's one thing I've 52 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.400 learned in this business, Okay, what's the number one? They think they're 53 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:43.280 coming to school for to play? Play to play. It's not about education. 54 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.879 Money is being in there, and now I know now money yeah right, 55 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:50.199 No, that wasn't the case when we covered the teams. Now it's 56 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:52.560 the case where where can I go play? And where can I get the 57 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.520 bag? And then one more again, another one of those head scratchers. 58 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.439 Quinn Shawn Judkins running back in Old miss He is it all SEC players this 59 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:03.800 year. He was at last year's SEC Freshman of the Year. In two 60 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.280 years, he's rushed for twenty seven hundred yards thirty four touchdowns and he's jumping 61 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.960 into the portal. Wow, that's a huge career too. Yeah, twenty 62 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.399 seven hundred yards into into two years. He's got he's gonna you know, 63 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:20.319 he's got as is anybody happy? What are they looking for? Right? 64 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:25.120 Nobody? Oh, it's not like Old Misses some crap program. No, 65 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:29.000 where he's gonna where he's not getting visibility and those kinds of things. There 66 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:33.639 was a player just uh, I think he's a receiver alignment at Florida. 67 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:40.360 Who is going to Georgia now going to the rival. And it's like, 68 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:44.319 these guys, what are they looking for that picnic? That picnic is gonna 69 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.879 be different now right? Yeah, no, no one's happy. I guess 70 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.360 they always see the greener, greener grass. Blah blah blah. Yeah, 71 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:58.160 it's nuts, it's really nuts, all right. Okay's some twenty twenty four 72 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:04.079 hes been betting odds are out, Benny nuts. Ye, okay, there's 73 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.839 a there's three guys that our favorites. One of them I don't your note. 74 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.959 I think he's the Neohio state quarterback, but Quinn yours, Jalen Milroe 75 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.199 Carson Beck are the three favorites. But down here on the list in about 76 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:23.480 I think twelfth place. So there's one Noah Fafida, which four thousand plus 77 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:27.759 four thousand, and then a little further down the list, not not a 78 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.160 lot further down the list, but a little further down the list, you 79 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:34.879 gotta Jaya Roy McMillan, and he's about five thousand, seventy five hundred. 80 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:39.240 I would i would bet ten bucks or twenty bucks on that. That gets 81 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:43.160 you some pretty good, pretty good the news, the breaking news on that 82 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.360 that there's two Arizona guys on the high school. No, that's very that 83 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.240 crazy. When was that ever? When was the last time that ever happened? 84 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:53.279 Never? Ever, never, That is breaking, never, never, 85 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:58.120 huge breaking is that those are on on our our buddies over at fanduels. 86 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.040 So those just came out today. No, that's a that's that's good. 87 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.279 Interesting. Well, now you have people we hadn't talked to NFL with UA 88 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:10.720 football in forever. Yeah, and now we're talking the NFL exactly. Another 89 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:14.720 ranking that came out in the last couple of days is ESPN's top one hundred 90 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:17.120 players. Yeah of twenty twenty three. Yeah, Arizona has a guy at 91 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.920 number thirty one in Noah Fafida. Yeah, we'll get back. There's a 92 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:23.879 guy missing from the list, and Arizona fans have lost their And we'll talk 93 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.160 to Michael Love about that, because he's tweeted about this already, right, 94 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.720 because everyone bags out of ESPN. Yeah, but they hate us. Yeah, 95 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:34.079 well that I yes, that's where I got this. I followed that 96 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:40.560 that discussion where people are saying ESPN hates Arizona. They don't think about Arizona. 97 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.560 There's a difference. They don't hate, they don't think about him. 98 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:48.959 Where's Arizona? Have you ever been to all forty nine states? You know? 99 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:54.160 No? No, no, did you get my point exactly? Yeah, 100 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.279 Arizona, no one exists. We don't belong to the union. Yeah, 101 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:00.079 and Arizona was what the forty ninths or forty eight state? So you 102 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:04.600 know, look, that's fine, that's fine. Yeah, it's yeah, 103 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:08.720 because it was he one of the top one hundred players. Of course, 104 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.240 of course, of course he was. You know, there's there's something they 105 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:15.160 were comparing other receiver stats to this, and you know he's got the stats 106 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.560 and stuff like that. But again, no, they're not intentionally ignoring airs 107 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:24.560 Arizona. They just don't think about it and they just don't watch Pennix play. 108 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:29.079 I'm still mad. I'm still mad about that. Here's my finger. 109 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:30.920 And I don't know why I'm so mad about a guy who not even from 110 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:35.240 Arizona. But again, maybe it's because because they called this at the beginning 111 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:40.920 of and he never did anything. I thought to lose the heist because at 112 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:45.319 one point you had it came true. Yeah, that was right once and 113 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:53.000 I the people won't agree with all rights. Some very funny not very funny, 114 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.680 interesting discussion. Oh wait, let me go one more time, one 115 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:00.759 more sort of a rainy Two four seven Sports came out with five teams who 116 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:05.199 could be next to kick the door down in the twenty twenty four twenty twenty 117 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:11.839 five season being football, with five teams with national championship potential. The reason 118 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:16.040 I'm bringing this up is because Arizona, Arizona is one of the fives. 119 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.519 Well they could be. Well there can be a top ten team next year. 120 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.560 Yeah. That they've got these five teams that you know, it says, 121 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:28.759 twenty twenty four candidates right with national championship potential. According to Brad Crawford 122 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.960 from two four seven Sports, he lists Missouri, Arizona, Ole, miss 123 00:08:31.960 --> 00:08:37.440 Oregon, and Tennessee. And they've always kind of been kind of not always 124 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.639 but uh those are names, yeah, except for Arizona long term Missouri. 125 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.200 So did you did you? I know you haven't talked about you had to 126 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.480 have read. It came out last week. I guess why you were on 127 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:54.639 the road the athletics Blue Blood Series. No, it was fantastic basketball fantastic 128 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.080 because because they had like four or five writers talked about the blue bloods in 129 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:03.799 basketball are discussion to a t and they had to go back and do it. 130 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:07.399 Oh miya coupla kind of because they forgot, you know, they so 131 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:09.919 it was. It was very good. Go go read it. Dan O'Neil's 132 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.960 part of it. And it's a group. I think it hits to my 133 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:20.320 point because they have like six teams. They're the blue bloods, but the 134 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:24.000 next up and comers Arizona. But there's a lot of there's stuff to work 135 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.600 work on. Go go read and we can talk about it when you read. 136 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.879 I love it, but it's maybe a week ago. Okay, I 137 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:33.279 voted that I was busy Land Athletics on my radar. All right, Big 138 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.279 big news in the n C Double A with the with their the NT Double 139 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:43.720 A and ESPN signed a nine twenty million dollar eight year deal for ESPN for 140 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:50.279 rights to forty championship events, including uh Division one women's basketball, the women's 141 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:54.879 basketball tournaments being valued at being worth sixty five million of that. It's a 142 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.080 big deal in that there's a lot of people saying, you know, women's 143 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.960 a women's particularly basketball, is starting to get, you know, the attention 144 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:07.200 it deserves from a financial standpoint. Look, it's still based on who's gonna 145 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.679 watch, right, That's that's what That's what ESPN is paying for. But 146 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.279 it's a it's about one hundred and fifty million dollars a year that they're paying 147 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:18.399 for, uh these sports, including you know, softball, you know, 148 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.200 all kinds of other stuff, but women's basketball obviously is sort of thing because 149 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.919 remember, and men's basketball doesn't. Uh is A is a CBS Probert Yeah, 150 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.120 and then right now is strike while you're hot, right, because the 151 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.240 women's team with Kaitlyn you just see the shots. Yeah, Yeah, she's 152 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:41.000 Steph Curry. She's Steff carry Out. I mean, unbelievable step back three 153 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.279 from the logo to win a game. I'm crazy, crazy, crazy. 154 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.120 She can play anyway. All Right, So that's a that's the big news 155 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:52.320 coming out of DNC double A. All right, the Rose Bowl as a 156 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.080 venue, there's been the topic of a whole bunch of discussions last couple of 157 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:00.519 days. Yeah, you've got you've got Kirk Curbs Street came out and said 158 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.639 he thinks that the National Championship Game should be played at the Rose Bowl every 159 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.360 year. Just make it the national whether you call it the Rose Bowl or 160 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.159 that's just where you have it, sure, but that's where the game should 161 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:13.840 be every year. Obviously, you know, people in New Orleans and Dallas 162 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:18.440 and Houston this year and wherever gonna say the hell with that. You know, 163 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.519 we we want it around, but that as a venue, there's no 164 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.679 better venue for the game. At the same time, stephen A. Smith 165 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:33.600 comes out and says they should move the Rose Bowl game from the Rose Bowl 166 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.600 over to Sofar because the traffic is so bad about around the Rose Bowl. 167 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:41.200 I'm like, so you're inconvenienced by the traffic, so let's kill one hundred 168 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.919 and some years of tradition because you don't want to deal with it with the 169 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:50.799 traffic. He's been obliterated on social media for saying that, and what just 170 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.639 a stupid thing it was for him to say. But that's stephen A. 171 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.240 Smith's stick. He's say stuff like that. But you know, the whole 172 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:03.320 idea of locking in on the Rose Bowl and I don't know, like I 173 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.960 said, nobody said, you'll still call it. You know, the National 174 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.759 Championship game will be called the Rose Bowl. I hope that doesn't happen, 175 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:13.759 because what I'm looking at is if Arizona can win a Big twelve championship and 176 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.679 get in a bracket where they can play in the Rose Bowl, that's the 177 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:22.120 only shot I got to get to a rose Bult before I kick. No, 178 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.240 No, it's going ticking fast. But lot you know, but a 179 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:31.519 lot of a lot of conversation of that. Chris Vanini has talked a lot 180 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.200 from the athletic has done a couple of a couple of calms about that, 181 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.080 you know, and are are you're saying? He called he compared the Rose 182 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.919 Bowl the game or the rosebu to the Masters. It's just like one place 183 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:50.639 that's that you just there's a mystique to it, which there is, there 184 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:54.480 is. But then again, you hear people were pissed off at the fact 185 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.519 that the Rose Bull won't move from its time slot, which made the National 186 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:03.840 champion and the other semi final game on Sunday and at one o'clock in the 187 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:07.159 morning Eastern time. If people are pissed about that, and they're pissed at 188 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:09.519 the rose Ball because of that, Yeah, so just a lot of discussion 189 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.080 about the Rods. Well, I would assume I would assume that. Well, 190 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.600 I guess they could play it at night at Rosebull, but it's so 191 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.200 beautiful during the day it is. It's such a cool place. I don't 192 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.919 know if you've ever ever been to a game, it could be a u 193 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.399 c. L A game or a Rosebull or whatever, and going to see 194 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:30.000 a game at the Rose Bull there's nothing else like it. I've not gone 195 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:31.519 to a rose Bult because I don't want to go to a Rose Bold until 196 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.519 Arizona gets into a Rose Bold, which may never happen. But well, 197 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.000 the tribucket list exactly exactly, all right, So that's that's what we got, 198 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.759 Steve. Okay, No, that's good timing. We got about a 199 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:46.120 minute. Let's just go and then get ahold of Michael left Michael, we'll 200 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:50.080 get get his last takes on on the Arizona on on the ALBUMO Ball, 201 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.679 and maybe talk a little basketball with him, see if he's got some some 202 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.399 things that he wants to say about this game going in tonight. He is, 203 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:00.399 after all, the columns, not not just the football writer. Chick 204 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:11.960 her out for Michael dab see you. 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Now on the phone, 277 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:21.119 we have I was on a Daily Star columnist Michael lev Michael how are 278 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:25.240 you. I'm doing fine. How are you, guys? We're doing fine 279 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:26.720 as well. That we haven't talked to you in a while, or at 280 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:32.839 least the big game of San Antonio. What were your impressions from that game? 281 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.279 Well, it was kind of like two games, right. The first 282 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:42.839 quarter and the fourth quarter were controlled by the wildcast, second and third quarters 283 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:49.400 were controlled by the Sooners. I think the absence of Jordan Morgan was a 284 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:56.920 bigger factor than a lot of people thought it would be. Oklahoma really was 285 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:02.039 able to affect the quarterback and made away, especially in the middle of that 286 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:07.000 game. And you know, if it weren't for the heroics of Dalton Johnson 287 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:12.400 and Gunner Maldonado, Arizona probably would have lost because they were on the ropes. 288 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:18.279 They were down already two scores. Oklahoma was driving, and then those 289 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:23.119 two teamed up to make you know, one of the iconic plays in Arizona 290 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.920 football history, right, I mean, that's got to be. That's got 291 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:32.160 to be a top ten all time play. I would think, considering the 292 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:36.440 stakes, the situation, you know, the difference between a nine win season 293 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:40.799 and a ten win season, all of that stuff. So you know, 294 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:44.319 you just mentioned it a ten win season. Obviously shocked the hell out of 295 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.400 everybody. I'm sure shocked. You shocked me, I know, a shock 296 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.119 Steve because he thought they were only gonna get five. But you know, 297 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:53.920 how does that carry into you know, next year? I mean you hang 298 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.279 your hat on something great like that for Arizona, which you know people talk 299 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:00.200 about, Well, Oklahoma's done it a million times, then their zone's only 300 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:04.039 done it now four, But how can Aarzon to use that going forward? 301 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:11.640 Yeah, obviously it's a huge milestone for the program. It is only the 302 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:18.759 fourth time that's ever happened. It happened a lot sooner than most people expected 303 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:22.640 it to happen. Well, the biggest silver under I think was five right 304 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.960 coming into the season. I think I think maybe the initial one might have 305 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:32.039 even been four and a half, maybe a climb to about five and a 306 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:36.160 half. I always thought that that number was too low. I had them 307 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.880 going seven and five, which would have been, you know, good progress 308 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.319 from five and seven the previous year, but obviously made an even bigger leap 309 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:52.160 and it gives them a lot of momentum and buzz heading into next season, 310 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:57.799 going into a winnable conference in the Big twelve. I don't think it's going 311 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:03.920 to be a cakewalk by any means. I've mentioned this already elsewhere, but 312 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:08.559 the schedule next year, especially the road games, is kind of tough. 313 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:15.160 It's kind of tough. There's they can easily lose three of their six road 314 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:19.240 games or however many they have when you when you break it down, so 315 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:23.039 you know, winning the Big twelve is going to be a big challenge, 316 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:30.119 but I think it'll be It's an easier wall to climb than the Pac twelve 317 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.880 of this year. And they were extremely competitive in the Fact twelve this year 318 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:40.160 against really good competitions. So given the momentum and given you know how many 319 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:45.640 key pieces are coming back, the program is in really good shape heading into 320 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:49.119 next season. But one one last one last thought on last season, you 321 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.279 know, being the being the Arizona fan that I am and that you know, 322 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:56.960 the history that I have with this program, probably wasn't until going into 323 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:00.119 the SU game that I thought this team is really good. When did you 324 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.279 think that? Or was there a time that you thought that? When they 325 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:08.079 kept winning those games, particularly against ranked teams. Well, okay, so 326 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:15.160 you know they'd be Washington State handily right the game, right before the Buye. 327 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:17.400 I was th was forty four to six. I mean, they just 328 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:22.599 they obliterated them. I mean it was completely one sided. They were clearly 329 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.319 the superior team. But I don't think that that was the that was the 330 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:29.559 game that convinced me, because I feel like Washington State was a little bit 331 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:33.440 overrated heading into that and Arizona was kind of due to win. I would 332 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:41.000 say that two game home stretch against Oregon State and UCLA. They went to 333 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:45.599 Totoe. With Oregon State, it was a really close game against a very 334 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.759 good team. They came out on top, and then they were really controlled 335 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:55.640 the action against UCLA, A pretty tough UCLA team. I know they had 336 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:59.359 some ups and downs over the course of the year, but their defense was 337 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:04.359 really good good and for them to kind of control the line of scrimmage win 338 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:11.960 that game relative relatively drama free fashion, that was pretty telling to me. 339 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:15.599 I thought they were kind of on their way when that happened. So realistically, 340 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:21.079 did you and you talked about it with Maldonado and the other one other 341 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:25.880 one, Justice Johnson, did you think going into the fourth quarter they had 342 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:30.240 a chance at all that game? I would say, I mean going into 343 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:34.240 the fourth quarter. Yes, late in the third quarter, no, because 344 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:38.240 I mean they were in trouble. It was twenty four to thirteen, and 345 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:45.000 worst case scenario really you thought for Oklahoma and that drive was that they're going 346 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:47.400 to get a field goal if you have twenty seven to thirteen, right, 347 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:52.119 And the offense wasn't doing anything, you know, I mean those of Fido 348 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:55.880 was kind of running for his life. They were all out of whack. 349 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:03.759 They weren't able to get the ball to their makers. And then everything changed, 350 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:08.240 you know, the whole the tide of that game changed did a full 351 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:14.400 one to eighty when that play happened, and you know, the turnovers kept 352 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.720 coming and the offense kind of found its rhythm a little bit. They were 353 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.599 able to put together one nice, big scoring drive and they got another turnover 354 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:27.680 scored again, and that was that. It was. There weren't a lot 355 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:33.400 like that this year either. Really. The Stanford game on the road was 356 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:38.799 tough. The Colorado game required a comeback. But you know, when we 357 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:44.400 talk about the term game control, you know, starting with that Washington State 358 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:48.519 game, they were in control of pretty much every game that they played. 359 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:53.839 So it was interesting to watch how they would respond to uh An adverse situation 360 00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:00.480 like that. So from where we said, now you was all that you 361 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.359 know, covers all these things us as me as a fan, Steve is 362 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:08.480 just a grumpy guy. What you know, what what should we be keeping 363 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:12.680 an eye out for this off season? You know, we as fans have 364 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:15.680 been through this thing. You know, they've had three other ten win seasons. 365 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:21.559 The next year has not been even close to what you know, reaching 366 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:25.680 you know, the level of expectation that those seasons created. And so that's 367 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:27.680 the kind of thing that I'm sitting here thinking about, like, how do 368 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:32.160 you not how do you not screw this up so that this isn't just a 369 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:33.519 one off? What do you what do you get an eye out on? 370 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:37.680 Yeah, well, I mean the first thing, of course, is the 371 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.359 coaching staff. It looks like, you know, Jetfish is going to be 372 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:47.759 around for at least one more season here, and you know, I think 373 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:52.359 in less an NFL team takes a liking to him and then makes him an 374 00:26:52.400 --> 00:27:00.160 offer that you can't refuse. That's I think still a possibility at least and 375 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:04.039 not only Jed, but you know, Johnny Manson reportedly has been offered a 376 00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:10.279 job at Texas as a co defensive coordinator, intet linebackers, coach. So 377 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:14.799 you know, there's those issues that you have to monitor. I think, 378 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:18.480 you know, they've pretty much survived the transfer portal at this point. You 379 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:23.279 know, things change if there are changes to the coaching staff, that might 380 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:29.759 spur some players to leave. But Jedfish has done a remarkable job in terms 381 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:36.200 of retention with both coaches and players. And then you know, like what 382 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:38.720 else can they add through the portal? They've addressed some of their needs. 383 00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:45.519 I was really high on the offensive line acquisition that they that they made last 384 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:49.960 week, you know, getting a kid from the Phoenix area with four years 385 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:56.440 of eligibility still in college, with a big frame and Alex Deuce. I 386 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.559 think that was an excellent pickup. That got a defensive back, two defensive 387 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:04.160 back defensive linemen. Would still like to see them, you know, come 388 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:11.759 up with an edge rusher at some point, maybe a linebacker to add to 389 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.640 that mix, and also a wide receiver who can just bring in a little 390 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.440 bit more experienced than you know, some of the young guys they have coming 391 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.839 up through the ranks. But you know, none of those things are deal 392 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:26.559 breakers, you know, as far as the as adding personnel I mean, 393 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.720 I think if they went into next even with the roster that they have today, 394 00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:34.559 they'd feel pretty good about things. Okay, you mentioned a wide receiver 395 00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:38.640 at the end of that list. Do you knowing Jed? How you know 396 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:44.200 him? If Dorian Singer wanted to come back here, what do you think 397 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:49.759 he says or does? Man, that's such a tough one. I think 398 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.559 if Dorian wanted to come back and he was like, hey, you know, 399 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.119 I I messed up. I should never have left, you know, 400 00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:00.000 give me a second chance, I think Jed would. I think Jed would 401 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:04.119 take him back. Personally. He might go to the team, to the 402 00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:07.440 votes right, you know, and be like, hey, what do you 403 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:10.960 guys think you know? And I bet you bet the team would say yes. 404 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:15.480 Also if given that choice, I just don't know really what the status 405 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:22.240 of that whole relationship is like if that is a bridge that has been burned 406 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.880 and never to be repaired. But you know, he's obviously a talented player 407 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:32.559 who put up huge numbers here, you know, like Jedfish knows how to 408 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:36.880 get the best out of him us. He obviously did not I know how 409 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:41.559 to do that. So it would be interesting to be sure. I don't 410 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:45.359 think it's likely to happen, but I don't think we can. No, 411 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.359 I agree with you. I mean, it's not just about Jeff, It's 412 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:51.319 about the rest of the team. Yeah, because you know they know they 413 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:55.200 saw a guy, a brother, Well he broke like I said, he 414 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:59.319 broke up with them, followed the swimsuit model over to USC and found out 415 00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:02.599 she wasn't so great. You know that she was on ozempic. What are 416 00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:07.359 you talking about, I've the gruppy guy. So this was the basketball with 417 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:11.880 Michael. Uh, what were your thoughts? Well, you were you were 418 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.480 defending you know what, I will we'll talk another time about defending ESPN with 419 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:19.359 the teamax stuff. But but basketball, what do you make of that one 420 00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:25.240 off? I call it a one off with Stanford? Well, I am 421 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:30.240 definitely tempted to say it to one off because Stanford shot the ball so exceptionally 422 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:36.599 well in that game, made sixteen to three pointers, made over fifty percent 423 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.039 of their three point attempts, just the kind of thing that rarely, if 424 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:47.480 ever happens in basketball. So it feels a little bit like a one off 425 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:49.640 in that regard. But then again, you know, they've lost what three 426 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:55.880 of their last five games, you know, get some tough opponents, to 427 00:30:55.960 --> 00:31:00.720 be sure, and you didn't expect them to go unscathed through that of non 428 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.640 conference games. But it's definitely a little bit worrisome to see that. And 429 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.440 then maybe you wonder a little bit like, hey, did we overrate this 430 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.720 team? You know, are they not as good as we thought that they 431 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.599 were when we saw them earlier in the year tumbling Wisconsin or winning you know, 432 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:21.880 on the road at Duke. So you know, this next little stretch 433 00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:26.839 here will provide a good measuring stick. I think Colorado and Utah both quality 434 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:32.599 opponents. Colorado might be a little dinged up heading into this game tonight, 435 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:37.920 but I think the upper echelon in the league. Utah has been one of 436 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:42.599 the surprise teams in the league. And I think then they go to Washington 437 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:48.480 State, I want to say, for a one off road game following Saturday, 438 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.559 always toss to go up into the Pacific Northwest, so an important time 439 00:31:52.599 --> 00:32:00.200 here, I think for them to kind of re establish their footing and kind 440 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.960 of figure out who they are and what kind of team they want to be 441 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.480 moving forward. I'll also add this, like it is not unusual over the 442 00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:14.079 course of a long basketball teas and for teams to experience ups and downs, 443 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:17.440 abs and flows, you know, whatever you want to call it. And 444 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.799 what you want to do is, you know, do you want to improve 445 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:27.279 right over the course of the year. And sometimes it takes, you know, 446 00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:30.880 taking a step back in order to take a couple of steps forward. 447 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:34.440 And maybe that's kind of what's happening with them right now. Well let me 448 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:36.880 ask you this, and again, you know you're you're not in the locker 449 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.039 room, so you know, you don't you don't know, but you might 450 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:42.720 have an opinion. Is this team fragile at all? And by that, 451 00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:45.640 I mean, you know, let's say they fall behind, you know, 452 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:47.319 ten to two, twelve to two, you know, Colorado, you know, 453 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.079 punch them in the face at the at the start of the game. 454 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:53.480 You think, is that an issue with this team at all? Do you 455 00:32:53.519 --> 00:32:57.839 think, uh, you know, or are they at a point where if 456 00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:00.839 that's something like that happens that you know, they can going to the end 457 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:06.160 of the into the toilet again? I don't think so. I mean, 458 00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.079 if you you act at the beginning, you know, was this last game 459 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:13.920 a one off? And if you want to look at the score and the 460 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:17.480 way that the game played out, then, yes, because they were extremely 461 00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:22.759 competitive against Purdue, kept kind of battling back and forth in that game and 462 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:27.000 against Fau as well. I mean, that was a heck and forth. 463 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:30.519 That was a double overtime one point loss, you know. I mean, 464 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:34.640 I was not panicking at all after they lost that game, even though some 465 00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.160 people were pointing out that Fau the stuff. We lost to a couple, 466 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:42.240 you know, not so great teams this year, but that they played that 467 00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.079 was a veteran team that played really well. As the announcers said during the 468 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:49.920 game, it was probably the biggest regular season game in the history of the 469 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.440 program, you know, so it was kind of the super Bowl for them. 470 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:58.759 The Stanford game was the only one where Arizona got down and stayed down 471 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:01.799 and couldn't catch up. And I think that that mostly had to do with 472 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:07.119 the fact that that Cardinals just couldn't miss. No, I'm not worried about 473 00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:10.159 I'm not worried about the wildcatch. From a character standpoint, I think they 474 00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:16.679 need to defend better, They need to communicate better on defense, and I 475 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:20.320 think, you know, a couple of guys need to step up their games 476 00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:22.320 a little bit, like Tylan Boswell. I think it's been a kind of 477 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:28.559 a disappointment in his second season, and Lumar Balo hasn't been quite as efficient 478 00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.519 this year as he was last year. So those are a couple of guys 479 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:37.800 that they were really counting on that to me need to take take a step 480 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.320 forward here for the team to do the same. One last quick question because 481 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:44.079 we're running out of time. Did you go to the press conwence yesterday with 482 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:46.960 Tommy? I was not there, No, okay, but you saw it. 483 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:52.480 I'm sure I'm familiar with what was said. Yeah, okay, okay, 484 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.599 I say more about the tone. So you didn't write about it today? 485 00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:59.480 Okay? Yeah, So if you would have written a story today, 486 00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:05.599 how would it what would have been? I mean just kind of how feisty 487 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:12.760 and defensive he was. Yeah, look, I mean our Bruce Pasco was 488 00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:16.840 up there at Stanford where you know, Tommy was like using the term kicked 489 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:23.800 our ass like a two minute span. You know, he's obviously frustrated and 490 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:29.079 that showed after that game, and I think yesterday was more like, hey, 491 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:34.320 you know, like everyone's bashing a team and I need to step up 492 00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:37.199 and defend them a little bit and take some of the fire here. So 493 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.159 I think that's really what was going on in terms of what he said and 494 00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:46.079 how he said it yesterday. More than anything that was just that was just 495 00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:52.559 a coach kind of taking responsibility, using himself as a shield to protect his 496 00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:55.559 players from criticism. Yeah, okay, I like it. I like it. 497 00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:00.760 Okay, Well, thank you, professor lev Philosopher Love. We'll see 498 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:07.119 at the game tonight if you're going, yeah, that's good stuff. Yeah, 499 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:08.559 interesting. Well, you know again, I love their you know, 500 00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:12.880 their perspectives because they see they see things we don't see. You know, 501 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:15.840 well, we all have different views of what we see. Yeah, absolutely, 502 00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:22.119 all upbringing, man upbringing. All right, we'll get we'll close it 503 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.239 out. If you want to give us a call. 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It's Tucson's own end of year park that doesn't 560 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:36.159 stop until the Taco touchdown at the Taco Belt New Year's Eve Downtown Bowl Bash 561 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:42.039 featuring fireworks presented by O'Reilly Chevrolet. Start your Putshanga journey and get your tickets 562 00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:49.840 today at the Arizona Bowl dot com. Steve Rabia and Jacob Salz they have 563 00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:54.559 their eye on the ball on Tucson Sports Stage Chef Fox Sports fourteen to fifteen. 564 00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:00.599 Hey, welcome back to I'm the Ball Hero Fox Sports Team fifty on. 565 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:02.000 Steve, He's Jay. He got about twelve minutes. If you want 566 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:06.039 to give us a quick call. We like to hear from you. Good 567 00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:07.639 show today, a lot of fun and a lot of fun, good discussion. 568 00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:12.519 Yeah, yeah, we'll screwed up here in two minutes. Yeah we 569 00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:15.519 can mess. Yeah. Do you know if someone asked me today on Facebook 570 00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:21.159 if Nico has Facebook? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, And I 571 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:22.760 said, I said, I don't know, because they won't go see who 572 00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:24.960 his girlfriend? No, No, I probably wanted to just probably friend him 573 00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:29.239 because they liked They like Nico. What's not to like him? On Nico? 574 00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:34.159 We want to see an interesting character. Yeah, I think he would 575 00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:36.880 caused me problems being a friend, but you know, kind of made a 576 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:39.480 name for himself from our lot of people, you know, my paymid gamee. 577 00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:42.920 Yeah, the people that you know that I hang with, Hey, 578 00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:46.599 they love Nico anyway. So Steve, what do you think tonight? Man? 579 00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:50.320 Oh, I think they're gonna come out and play really well. They're 580 00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:52.079 at home, right, they always play well at home. Twelve and a 581 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:55.039 half, Uh, yeah, it was, it was. It was lower 582 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:59.159 than that. It was like ten and a half. They moved to twelve 583 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:01.679 and a half. Yeah. I think I think they'll cover I think they'll 584 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:06.960 cover. I still think there's a couple of things. Blow needs to hit. 585 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.719 Prie throws. He just does. He has been though more than the 586 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:14.679 more than usual, but not right. Let's take this call. Hi, 587 00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:16.519 you're on the arm and one on the ball. Hey, guys, what's 588 00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:21.159 up this? Vic? Vic? What's going on? You win any participation 589 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:27.840 trophies lately? Days participated Bampa of the Year? Oh, they're that. 590 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:32.920 It's not easy to be totally one year old around Disneyland. I'll tell you 591 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:37.079 what. So what's going on? Still my mom My Mom's been gone about 592 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:42.719 ten years and I'm still a hero for carrying my nephew on my on my 593 00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:49.400 on my uh shoulders for a whole Disney Yeah, it's not easy, man, 594 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.800 It's not easy. So what's up? I wanted to chime in on 595 00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:58.519 the coaching thing. Okay, So basically, you can't win without players, 596 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:02.119 guys. I mean, look at look at isn't Pop regarded as one of 597 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:07.519 the greatest coaches in NBA history and the guy can't even make the playoffs now 598 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:13.159 that he don't have uh Kim Duncan and that and that those guys around. 599 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:16.760 Okay, Bill Balichi, isn't he one of the greatest coaches, and now 600 00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:24.239 he can't make the playoffs without Brady and that crew. McHale is as one 601 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:30.679 of the greatest places to play because of all the players we've had, or 602 00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:35.239 because a great coach, or what. There's a hell of a lot of 603 00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:38.800 great players been through the last thirty years in that building. Yeah. No, 604 00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:42.880 I said this before as part of the stories that I did for the 605 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:45.559 Loop book. Montgomery said, you know how, I said, you know, 606 00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:47.880 how was it coaching against Louton here? And he says, well, 607 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:51.880 they had some pretty good players. That's what makes it tough. And I 608 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:54.440 mean, look, mcale is tough, but the players made it even tougher. 609 00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:58.920 So you're right to your point. So you guys asked about idea, 610 00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:02.119 he was a I'm a good coach when she had airy. Oh okay, 611 00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:07.400 that's where you're going with this. Yeah, so is she a good coach 612 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:12.320 or did she? You know? Years ago in nineteen eighty nine, one 613 00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.119 of the greatest teams in Little League history. We dis missed a Little World 614 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:20.199 Series, but I had two pictures that I rolled the ball out and went 615 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:24.440 and folded my knee and Steve j They once told me, you man, 616 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:30.199 you have such a great infield. Well, those two pitchers averaged fourteen strikeout 617 00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:35.159 the game, and in the little league there's only eighteen outs. So how 618 00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:38.480 good a defense that I have. Yeah, but people don't realize that they 619 00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:42.679 you know, and like I said, look at look at Belichick. Can't 620 00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:46.039 you make the playoffs? Now, I'm sure he didn't change drills or didn't 621 00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:52.320 change his coaching philosophy. Yeah, I know, you're right. Well, 622 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:57.280 but at the college level, though, getting players is up to the coach 623 00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.320 too. You know, you go, you you're talking NFL, NBA, 624 00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:04.079 whatever, Major League Baseball. You know, you've got to have a general 625 00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:06.679 manager who's got to spend money and got to get players and stuff like that. 626 00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:12.000 You know, and look, there are great recruiters who aren't great coaches 627 00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:15.679 who bring in great players. And you know, look Sean Miller, right, 628 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:20.159 he kept getting five star after five star after five star, but he 629 00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:24.280 couldn't get those five stars to play and win him a championship. Luke did 630 00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:27.960 it a different way. He got guys that fit what he was trying to 631 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.719 do, won a national championship with him, went to four final fours. 632 00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:36.000 You know, he had to go get those guys then, he also had 633 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.679 to coach him. You know, Tommy Lloyd. You know, he's getting 634 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:42.559 guys again that fit his system, mixed in you know, five star here, 635 00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:45.320 five star there, getting guys and he you know, we're still finding 636 00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:50.280 out how he's putting those guys together. So there, I think. I 637 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:53.760 think from a coaching standpoint, at the college level, coaching is more than 638 00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:58.079 the x's and o's on the court. And well, it's true, and 639 00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:01.800 you do velop and you got to remember Luke changed philosophies a couple of times, 640 00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:07.440 right, he ran, and then he had the big guys, the 641 00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:13.760 the Brian Williams, Stokes and Don Brooks Gill and so he changed philosophies, 642 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:16.559 which I think made him even a better coach, right, and then went 643 00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:22.239 back to running again. Went yeah, exactly, Okay, exactly, Okay, 644 00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:23.960 So I'm gonna write this down. What was your point? After all? 645 00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:29.559 And you got that you got to have players to be a good coach. 646 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:32.639 Okay, what is what is what if you got if you got sucky 647 00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:38.079 players, you're you're You're obviously not. Like I said, Pop is the 648 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.960 perfect example. Okay, So I thought you're gonna go with basketball too, 649 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:47.480 So what does Tommy have Jerry's still out man that that. You know, 650 00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:52.400 you've got the Princeton lost in there, and you've got a couple of bad 651 00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:57.119 uh and but in college you got to develop those guys too, not like 652 00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:00.639 the pros were they're already. I mean, so you think anybody coaches Lebron 653 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:04.639 nowadays? How though? So let me ask you something just with a minute 654 00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:08.239 we have left for you, uh pull disclosure. Rick text me all the 655 00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:12.559 time during games. He's a pain in my ass. I'm okay with that. 656 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:15.519 So here's New Year's Eve, right, he's already, he's already. 657 00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:21.400 I had to get him off the leads New Year's Eve to admit that, 658 00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:27.119 mister Vick, I admit it. And Day said about ruining the day got 659 00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:32.599 me ruined my Chris Year, and I believe it. Yeah, sorry, 660 00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:37.400 Vick. You know there's another one coming up in a few months. So 661 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.679 there you go, all right, Vick. Hey, thanks a bunch man, 662 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.760 you guys take care, Thanks for listening. You know he's he texted 663 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.480 me all the time here and John Morrites all these guys. Oh come on, 664 00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:52.159 let me watch the game. Guys. You know I appreciate them. 665 00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:57.760 I get those two man I get those two from a different group of people, 666 00:47:57.760 --> 00:47:59.800 but I think they're kind of all saying the same thing. Right, 667 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:01.679 what the hell? This is what it is? I mean, you have 668 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:05.960 to if you're gonna be Oh, I was gonna say that level of fan 669 00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:08.960 because I say this to you. If you're putting money into it and you're 670 00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:12.880 you know, you're you're given to the nil, You're given to the school. 671 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:16.000 I understand that passion, right, but if you have just emotional you 672 00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:19.599 know, I was criticized for not being a fan. You know, I'm 673 00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:21.559 a fan, but I'm not a fan like you guys, right because I 674 00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:23.320 don't I like to sleep at night. I like to sleep at night. 675 00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:25.320 I don't want to work up Monday. You know, I make it. 676 00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:29.760 I don't lose sleep over these Okay, so that's the level of fan. 677 00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:36.880 But you're around a people who do lose sleepover. Okay. See, that's 678 00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:39.760 kind of crazy to me. I think I overcame that when I was thirty. 679 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:44.079 But you know what I'm saying, it's I saw the purpose. Why 680 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.440 would you put invest your heart and your stolen it because at the end of 681 00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:51.559 the day, they're gonna break your heart. They at the r remember I 682 00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:58.599 said this yesterday. You've won one title in twenty seven years. Good luck 683 00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:02.360 for the next twenty seven years. Full disclosure. I once Larry Smith's first 684 00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:07.679 game. Let's take this. I'm gonna tell stories. Hi on the art 685 00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:10.360 on the ball, my guy, this is Kim. Hey Jim, how 686 00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:15.000 are you? I'm great? How are you? We're good? What do 687 00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:17.960 you have? What do you have for us? I wanted to quickly give 688 00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.440 Jay props for he was the only guy I heard that picked the U of 689 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:28.360 a football team to go ken and three, and in fact they did well. 690 00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:32.000 There's a caveat for that. There's a for that. Jake was the 691 00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:36.400 guy that kind of started this whole thing, and then you came. But 692 00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:40.519 I did say, but they were going and they were doing well. Yeah, 693 00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:45.840 okay, thank you Jack. All the griefs that Jay has taken over 694 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:52.679 the years for his game pics. I'm gonna pat him on the That's okay. 695 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.320 He deserves that, man. And we're getting them glasses for the blind 696 00:49:55.360 --> 00:50:05.199 Squirrel fort glasses for the That last game was very opportunistic. Uh Nubby there 697 00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:07.599 it was, Yeah, it was fun. It was yeah, I mean 698 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:09.480 it was You want to talk about a roller coaster of a game for Arizona 699 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:16.039 fense. Absolutely absolutely well and fixed turnovers. I mean that the defense didn't 700 00:50:16.079 --> 00:50:20.719 really hold up Verry into the bargain. Yeah, yeah, all right, 701 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:23.840 Jim. I do appreciate you taking the time to pick up the phone and 702 00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:30.000 call in and tell Steve how he messed that up. Well, that's not 703 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:31.960 exactly what I said. Well, that's how I took it, That's how 704 00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:36.920 I was writing the story. Yeah, I get it. Okay, Well, 705 00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:40.000 one more quick thing, Jay, I take issue a little bit with 706 00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:45.400 Vic that you can CoA jump a little players once in a while. You 707 00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:49.480 can't. You can't. You can't. Dick made a living off of that, 708 00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.400 so absolutely you can't. All right, man, Hey, thanks a 709 00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.440 bunch, Jim. Happy New hear to you, Happy New Year to you, 710 00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:58.679 guys, Thank you, thank you for listening. All right, Getting 711 00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:02.639 back to your topic about people lose their mind. Full disclosure. Larry Smith's 712 00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:08.079 first game at Arizona. They're playing. They opened with Colorado nineteen eighty twoish 713 00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:14.119 nineteen eighty nineteen eighty eighty Okay, yeah, okay, I think it was 714 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.960 eighty first game Colorado. Colorado State comes in here. They lose on a 715 00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:22.719 last second field goal. I smashed a nice chest at the game the holders 716 00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:28.360 one. Okay, okay, well, okay, there's some okay that you 717 00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:30.800 know, but that was when you could take little ice chests into the stadium, 718 00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:34.840 little baby igloose, and I smashed it on the seats and busted into 719 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.000 pieces and left it there. Okay, Okay, that's where I was at 720 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.119 twenty one. Oh, thank god, you've matured. Yeah, I had, 721 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:46.239 I had, you know, and I would say probably mid eighties that's 722 00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:50.159 when it kind of changed. Yeah. It took a few years where I'm 723 00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:52.119 like, Okay, they lost, and you know, I hate that, 724 00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.559 but let's go on to the next you know what solved it for me? 725 00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:59.840 You know what I think when Arizona started beating in Arizona State, right, 726 00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:04.400 because that was that was just a thing that growing up that you have on 727 00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:07.840 that you know, it was just you hated the end of the football season, 728 00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:14.800 and and you know, you started feeling better about being an Arizona fan 729 00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:17.760 because they started being ACU and you weren't. You were no longer the you 730 00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:22.440 know, the little brother that gets in the way. So okay, but 731 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:29.239 then and then comes two thousand and you're in twenty twenty one, just loses 732 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:32.679 to NAU. I was passed, so I just smashed an. I said, 733 00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:36.639 well, because you probably didn't have one with you, But what level 734 00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:40.400 of the pissed were you? You know, it was more of a resignation. 735 00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:44.119 I was mad, Okay, I'm like, you can't lose. I 736 00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:46.239 don't care how bad you are. If you're Arizona, you can't lose to 737 00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:51.639 AC. I was really I was angry at that, but then pretty quickly, 738 00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:52.920 I mean, now I'm gonna say, by the time I got to 739 00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:55.159 my car, you know, parking in the nailgator. By the time I 740 00:52:55.159 --> 00:53:00.000 got to my car, I thought, holy hell, this is way worse 741 00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:05.119 than anybody thought. Right and and and now I'm cussing at Kevin someone Yeah, 742 00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:08.000 not it. Yeah, And we found out that was the case. 743 00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:12.719 Yeah, it's a bad group of apples back then the case. All right, 744 00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:15.239 Uh god, that's it's okay, man. We're headed to the Colorado 745 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:19.840 game. Yeah, uh seven thirty start. Well, we'll be here to 746 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.000 talk about it tomorrow and we'll bring somebody in who can give us some thoughts 747 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.199 on that as well. So be sure to be back tomorrow. Have a 748 00:53:24.199 --> 00:53:24.639 great night.