WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:07.120 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jag and Zalaz sound Fox 2 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:13.960 Sports fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure your most Prized Possessions kat 3 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:18.839 z R two sad at iHeartRadio STATIONA. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. 4 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:21.879 Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve 5 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.920 Rivera. He's Jagan Zollis. Happy New Year, everybody. Jay, Good 6 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.960 to see that you're alive and upright. I'm here. I'm choking down the 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.920 cough drop, so I don't up along all over the studio. Keep your 8 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:36.600 distance, ready to go, keep your distance, don't talk directly to me. 9 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:41.520 Yeah, just you know, I'll just apologize ahead of time to everybody. 10 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:44.880 If I cough into the microphone. It's you know, it is what 11 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:48.640 it is. I won't get through the system. I'm gonna try and hit 12 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:51.640 the button before I do that. But uh, you know, came home 13 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.600 from Disneyland with a cough and a little bit of a sore throat. Happiest 14 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:58.880 placed on the earth. Uh you know what, Steve. We had such 15 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.520 a great time and you know should have a time of parent This trip was 16 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:04.719 for for my my one year old grandson, and I'm like, he's you 17 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.840 know, he's obviously not gonna remember how much fun is he gonna have? 18 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:12.319 I know we're gonna have fun. The kid had fun? Did you tape 19 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:17.519 it? Oh? We're we It was funny. We set up a a 20 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:22.560 shared album on you know, on the cloud for us all three days. 21 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:26.560 Okay, over a thousand pictures and like two hundred little videos. You see, 22 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:29.719 Dad, we really or Grandpa, we really wanted to. He had 23 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:32.400 a good time. We could tell he was having fun. You know, 24 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:36.840 he went to Goofy's Kitchen and you guys have fun. He was I rode 25 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:40.879 Winning the Pooh two times. We had a great time. It was a 26 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:45.280 great family trip. And we got back and a couple of the family members 27 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.400 turned up with COVID. My daughter stayed behind in in in LA to spend 28 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.640 New Year's Eve there she got it and my wife has it. But I've 29 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:56.079 so far tested negative, so here I am. Yeah, okay, good, 30 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:57.760 just stay keep your distance keeping. Just a lot of people, I 31 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.480 know, I'm so real. Yeah, there's a lot of people say yeah, 32 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.519 yeah some time of year, Okay, no, hey, a lot 33 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:09.199 to get to a good show. First of all today with Lamont Hunley coming 34 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.960 in first first in about ten minutes, and then Brian Jefferies on the second 35 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:17.800 half. Right, you're gonna have us with Jed Fish and Tommy Lloyd in 36 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:22.719 between. Yeah, we figured out the technology and I think I think I'm 37 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:28.560 ninety nine percent sure we're gonna be able to live stream Tommy Lloyd's three thirty 38 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:31.479 press conferences, holding it during our show. They can't stop us from having 39 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:36.159 it on. Great, we're gonna I think I've worked out the technology and 40 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.360 we're gonna play live for you. Great, and we have a lot of 41 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.479 positive to get to and some negative. And there's lots of negative out there 42 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.000 with the basketball team. But we'll wait. Let's talk first. Football first. 43 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:47.280 We a lot about football. We're gonna talk with Brian, but both 44 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.319 of them, Lamont with football. But you must have been very happy. 45 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:53.960 I let me tell you. I didn't think they were gonna cover, and 46 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:59.560 they found a way to win it. Uh cover only in sense of coming 47 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.639 back. But I thought they played out of their minds in that fourth quarter. 48 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:06.520 They looked bad. It looked really bad. We were watching it in 49 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.680 our hotel room outside of Disneyland. It looked bad. You know, they 50 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.199 got that great start and you thought, ok right, this is gonna be 51 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:15.639 a killing. Oklahoma doesn't have their players, and all of a sudden, 52 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:20.319 Oklahoma starts to playing ball for two quarters, Arizona had nothing. You know. 53 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.240 Well, what ran through my mind was, this is a big boy 54 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:28.400 football. While Arizona had a good record, winning streak against some good teams. 55 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:34.360 You know the difference between an Arizona and Oklahoma, Michigan, Alabama, 56 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.159 Georgia, all those teams are the lions. Those guys have massive guys. 57 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:42.199 And that's where Arizona was. There was always going to be bad, badly. 58 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:46.120 Yeah, and so that's right. Arizona can't block now, like can 59 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:49.759 they not block? They're being blocked, so they can't stop them either, 60 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.960 And and it looked bad. Well, the the offensive mines that they have 61 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:59.520 came up with a plan. They rotated the fuffita in the pocket, moved 62 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.520 them around and made made them less stable, and they moved the ball. 63 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:08.120 Hey, and and thankfully for Arizona fans, maldon and I don't know how 64 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:10.879 you feel about this, but we were the guys are talking about this. 65 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:15.879 Maldonado's play has to be in the top five all time biggest players in Arizona. 66 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.839 It's up there, top five because you know, when you think about 67 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:25.040 you know those the momentus brought you obviously go to Chuck Seasil, you go 68 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:29.160 to the Leap by the Lake. After that, you got about eight plays 69 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:34.959 that could be next. You know, uh uh, you know the game, 70 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:40.439 you know, Darrel loss against Muskraave James the bow in the A s 71 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.160 U game. There's a whole bunch of whole bunch of players. You can 72 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:45.360 go in there. But yeah, I mean, if not for that, 73 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:47.399 players don't lose the game. They're they're driving this. They were gonna score 74 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:49.879 again, this score again, it's over. Yeah, score again, it's 75 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:51.759 over. Yeah. And you know, we're watching the game and I'm like, 76 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.000 this is it. Arizona's gonna lose this game. I had already talk 77 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:00.040 myself into thinking believe has lost the game. The fourth they're not playing very 78 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.000 well. You're thinking how they gonna survive this. They're out there what twenty 79 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.879 whatever it was, and then the ball pops out his hands and they have 80 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:11.040 a chance. And not only do they have a chance, they show that 81 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.040 they're capable of winning the thing, right Because you could have a chance, 82 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:15.600 but they moved the ball. Looking in the end, you know, people 83 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.160 are gonna say, well, Oklahoma didn't have the quarterback, they didn't have 84 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:20.079 this, didn't have that. I get that. Yeah, And you know 85 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:24.800 what, and the Oklahoma quarterback made a bunch of mistakes, freshman quarterback through 86 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.120 some picks. He had that last fumble that a lot of Arizona to get 87 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.120 the clinching score. But you know, I'm gonna tell you at the end 88 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:33.879 of that, when that game ended, I had the same feeling that I 89 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:40.600 had after Arizona beat Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl, because so go there, 90 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:42.800 go there and say say that, and then I'm gonna ask you a question, 91 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.160 because again, Oklahoma's the blue blood, right a college football blue blood 92 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:51.040 one you know, once some national championships. They were that team that Arizona 93 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:58.079 wants to be, you know, and regardless of st Oklahoma was in terms 94 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.680 of its its its team, They're still Oklahoma. They still have those guys, 95 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.480 and they were beating the hell out of Arizona and it was kind of 96 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:10.160 like, you know, remind me of the nine eight season and that you 97 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.800 know, this team came out of nowhere, had this great season. H 98 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.600 and then they went off and beat somebody just set up. Okay, So 99 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:23.040 so so I'm gonna ask you to get your realistic football fan hat on. 100 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:27.160 They win this game, they win ten games of ten and three for the 101 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:33.519 season, realistically, realistically moving forward, What is capable or what's this program 102 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:40.360 capable of moving forward? Should the fans who usually get too giddy over giddy 103 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.800 for this because now they think they can compete with everybody, you know, 104 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.680 bring on, bring on, baman, where do they stand. They've got 105 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:48.759 work, They still got work to do, you know. I mean, 106 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:53.920 look how many of those games in the in the in the winning streak at 107 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.759 the end of the season, did we actually think they were gonna win? 108 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:00.160 Not many? If Colorado, without you, I didn't think they were going 109 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.759 to win any of the rest of them. And they did. Here's the 110 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:08.399 thing, and this this gets back to when you're an Arizona fan as long 111 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:10.839 as I've been. Here's what here's what you think. I know where you're 112 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.199 gonna say, you know where I'm going. Ten wins in nineteen ninety three, 113 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:16.360 they crapped, They craped the bed. In nineteen ninety four. Ye 114 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.879 ten wins in nineteen ninety eight, they crapped a bed. In nineteen ninety 115 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.920 nine, they went six and six and nine, right, you know, 116 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:30.040 ten wins in twenty fourteen, We're never. We're never. UCLA blow them 117 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.519 out in the first conference game. Game day was here and they yes, 118 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.839 they got to I think they played in the New Mexico Bowl again. Or 119 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:43.800 it's like the follow up has been bad. After all. They can't sustain 120 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.279 it. They haven't been able to sustain it. And the question is what 121 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:49.480 are they gonna do? And I'm gonna ask Lamont Huntley this because Lamont Huntley 122 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:54.319 was on the eighty two team that the eighty then the eighty three team came 123 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:58.279 up and they were ranked like the number three in sports illustrated all these expectations 124 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:03.120 and that that team didn't I live up to you it's expectations. What are 125 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:07.759 they gonna do during this offseason to not let that happen again? Because that's 126 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.279 what we're using. Well, I've said this a number of times with the 127 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:13.800 program itself, just for basketball and a little bit of football. They can't 128 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:18.360 handle prosperity, right, they get the everything? Do they overthink it? 129 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:22.639 They think they're full of it? And I'm thinking the crowd based the CAMBI 130 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:26.439 where look just last week with the basketball team and I said this on Facebook 131 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.199 and I will get to that later. Where we're we're the we're the stuff, 132 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.399 We're the stuff. You can fill up whatever word you want, and 133 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:33.320 we're the stuff and no one's gonna touch us. Then they show up and 134 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.480 they don't show up, they don't show up and says, don't talk it, 135 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:39.440 don't talk it, just do it right. Don't you have to say 136 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.519 who you are, what you do. Just go on and kick the crap 137 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:45.759 out of him. And I love Tommy Lloyd and how he reacts. Did 138 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.799 you you read his comments to kick their ass? We're gonna how many times 139 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:54.000 the dude, the dude is right. The dude self evaluation was pretty damn 140 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.799 good. But but you know, getting back to the football thing, that's 141 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.519 you know, that's what's happened to Arizona every time, right, So give 142 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.919 the history. I want to know. I want to see. I want 143 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:09.399 to hear what's Jed Fish and his staff going to do to not let that 144 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.679 happen, because that's what's happened every time. You hope that it's different, 145 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.840 because, like you said, those years twenty fourteen included with rit Trod. 146 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:20.080 You think, oh, he's gonna build on this. Yeah, and it 147 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.759 didn't. Right. And I've mentioned before a few years after that, that 148 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:26.960 ninety four season, you know, because remember the ninety three and then they 149 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.679 were number one and sports illustrated going into ninety four horrible and they went, 150 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:33.879 they went eight and three, but it wasn't a good year, and they 151 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:39.240 lost to Utah in the Freedom Bowl, a terrible loss where Utah had like 152 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:41.559 less than one hundred yards total offense but won the game. Something like that. 153 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.120 And a few years later I asked Dick Tomy, I said, what 154 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.519 happened in ninety four? Why did Why were you guys didn't work? Why 155 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.639 did And he flat out to him, I said, we didn't do the 156 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:56.080 work. We thought we were good, We thought, you know, we 157 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.440 didn't have to do the work, and we didn't do the work in the 158 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.440 off season. And that's what And no matter what we did, no matter 159 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.759 what we said, our guys didn't do the work. And that's and that's 160 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:11.559 what happened. The number one killer of Arizona Athletics many times, many times, 161 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:13.639 not all the time, but many times. Okay, so we're gonna 162 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:18.200 have Laman huddling here in about five minutes. Uh, then Tommy Lloyd at 163 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:20.200 the end of the hour, see how long he goes partly fifteen minutes or 164 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.279 so. And then have breaking news. There's a lot of breaking, a 165 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.639 lot of breaking news. Lots happened over the last couple of weeks, right 166 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:31.279 and even today, even tonight today. And then we'll have Brian Jeffries, 167 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:37.080 who's lived at all the last two weeks in person, traveling all over to 168 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.360 get to the places to give you the news. We'll hear what he says 169 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:43.120 about everything. We'll talk to him about those follow ups. Yeah, yeah, 170 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.519 because he's all right, And that's the thing that's what's in my mind 171 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:48.440 now about this year. Great, he had a great year, a lot 172 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:52.720 of fun. Sure, it was as much fun as we've had. Gratulationship. 173 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:58.559 Okay, now what No, you're you're you're car sails, car salesman. 174 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.240 Jay. You sold ten ten cars in January, you better sell twenty 175 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.120 of February. Yeah, exactly? Or what or your job? I mean, 176 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.399 what's the expectation? Right right? You know what's the expectation? So 177 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:11.320 I'm interested, Okay, okay, let's get out of here. All right, 178 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:13.679 Let's let's take our break. We're going to come back. We'll have 179 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:18.720 a lemon hunter will comind and we'll talk to him about you know what, 180 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.720 what goes through what goes through players minds in this in an off season like 181 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:26.399 this, when people think you're the you're the stock. 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And how proud were 264 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:32.599 the team? You know what my my chest was was was spreaded wide out 265 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:34.279 their way out there. It was I mean it was. It was such 266 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:40.160 a great experience to be around that. I brought my family and my daughters 267 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.640 and my wife. We all was able to enjoy it. And you know, 268 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:45.559 it was like being in Tucson really and they had quite a few wild 269 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:49.319 cats, was there. It's a Lamont you know, we're we're We've been 270 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:52.240 talking about this season as you know, it gotten better and better as the 271 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:56.920 year went on. You get this, you get this big win. You 272 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.200 know, I don't know how you can wrap it all up with a little 273 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:04.440 bow, But tell me one thing that you think about this team that allowed 274 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.559 them to do what they do. There's a lot of things, right, 275 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:10.759 but the one thing that comes to your mind first when we think of this 276 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:14.480 is why they did this. You know what I tell you, man. 277 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:21.640 I watched the interview by Hervy and and he summed up the whole thing. 278 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:25.559 Man. It's all about, you know, the love, the faith you 279 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.400 know that they had in one another as far as what they did collectively as 280 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:33.640 as a group and as a team, you know, and they understood each 281 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:36.599 other. They came together as a team. You know, I'm talking about 282 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:41.160 the players themselves and the message of that kid put out there in regards to 283 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:45.039 the feeling that he had for his brothers, you know throughout the season. 284 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:51.160 I think that that right there is it's maybe something we as fans really didn't 285 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:55.119 get to see that they had internally. And I think the worst that he 286 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:59.880 said it basically summed up their whole whole season in regards to what these guys 287 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.799 did as a family unit as brothers. No, I think that's it. 288 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:07.920 You've been on teams like that, I'm sure where people don't see what happens 289 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:11.039 inside the locker room or on the field with that love that's huge. Without 290 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:15.440 that great chemistry, you don't have a great team. You don't know, 291 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.680 I mean, and and you and you don't allow things penetrated either. You 292 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:23.920 know, once you get that that that connection with one another, nothing can 293 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:27.359 penetrate it. You don't let people in it. I mean that was fortunate 294 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:30.599 of course, be there and in the hotel with these kids. I mean 295 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.200 you can see the kid as far as the relationship they not only had with 296 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:38.640 the coaches but with their family members. Man, it was just so exciting 297 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:42.599 leading up to the game, but after the game you really tells it even 298 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:48.279 more. Well, that's yeah, And that's exactly where I you know, 299 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:49.920 was going to when I saw that interview. I'm like, whoaly yact. 300 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.640 You know, there was something really special that was going on in that locker 301 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:57.720 room. And we've talked a million times about you need to have that, 302 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:02.079 you need to have something like that. You can have the best talent in 303 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.279 the world, but if you're not all on the same page, you can't 304 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:08.519 get there. Whereas a team like this that, while talented, wasn't the 305 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.400 most talented team on the field every game. They were able to do that 306 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.440 because of those things exactly. And and I mean look and even look at 307 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.960 the kids that was playing certain positions. As I said earlier in the year, 308 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:22.400 I mean, you got you got, you got defensive backs playing linebacker, 309 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.279 you know, I mean me as offensive coordinator. But I look at 310 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.799 that, I'd be like, well, heck, I put a big body 311 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:32.960 on that small body. We should be doing things. But these kids, 312 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:37.079 I mean, they played out of out of out of their you know themselves, 313 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.920 and and and they of course played for themselves and play for the rest 314 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:45.200 of their teammates, and and and everything just came together collectively. And you 315 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.880 can even the game itself. Man, we we was controlling that game in 316 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.680 the first quarter, and then Oklahoma just came and took it away from us, 317 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.359 completely took it away from it. I was like, okay, where 318 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:57.839 are we going with this? And all of a sudden, the defense, 319 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:03.039 the defense just got out there and created turno was made, things happen, 320 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:06.680 put the ball in the hands for the offense again to control the game and 321 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:10.279 take it back and the momentum back to us. You know again that that's 322 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:15.359 that, there's stuff that that you know, it happens because of togetherness. 323 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.119 It happened because of the fact that you know, brothers are bonding and and 324 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:23.240 and and trusting one another. So that's that's that's that's it's true stuff. 325 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.519 It's true to form and that you can't teach as a coach. So I'm 326 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.359 gonna let Jay ask the sixty four thousand dollars questions, but these days it's 327 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:34.680 more of the nil million dollar questions. Okaylemn So you know, every ten 328 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:40.359 win season that Arizona's had, the next season hasn't been hasn't reached the expectation, 329 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.279 and a couple of playing cases not even close. I'm gonna I'm gonna 330 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:48.000 throw you back to your your your team, you know. Nineteen eighty two, 331 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:49.279 you guys, you know, did pretty good. You beat ASU at 332 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:52.759 the end of the year nineteen eighty three. You guys are in Sports Illustrated 333 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:57.359 and all kinds of stuff. You're considered the top ten team. What what 334 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:03.960 has to happen this season to not let them, to not let what's happened 335 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:08.240 in the past with these great teams happen. What put yourself on the locker 336 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:14.359 room right again? I mean, they can't allow outside distractions, you know, 337 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:18.640 penetrate, penetrate their unit that they got, and you can't allow you 338 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.880 know, you know again all of these outside distractions, like even the nil 339 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:26.559 and whatever it may be. I mean, for me, they all outside 340 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:30.519 distraction. I mean, these kids got gotta gotta believe that, you know, 341 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.920 they got something special here. We got to try to keep this together. 342 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:37.759 As far as far as players, at this point in time, it's 343 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:41.359 all about the players, and they got to take the initiative to say we 344 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.960 got to keep this thing together. You know, for me to go chase 345 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.000 a dollar at this point in time in my career, why chase a dollar, 346 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.279 you know, because you're gonna get that dollar. I mean, you're 347 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:55.279 gonna get that dollar eventually. And if things keep going where is going they're 348 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:59.200 gonna get even more dollars than they talk about getting tomorrow if they go somewhere 349 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.920 else. It's going to take a few guys that's in that locker room to 350 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:07.519 step up, you know, and show that leadership and create that leadership and 351 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:11.599 get them to believe we got to keep this together as a unit and let 352 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:18.119 them not allowed any outside distractions pull us away as a family. How hard 353 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:23.519 is that to do with kids with kids, because you're dealing with young people 354 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:27.440 first and foremost, and you're dealing with people of need. You're dealing with 355 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:32.279 football players and that family of need, and so when you're dealing with that 356 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:36.240 aspect of it, you know, you can find kids chase dollars. But 357 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:41.799 I still think there's a certain culture of players that's on our team that believe 358 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:45.799 in family first. And then sometime when you got that culture, and I 359 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:51.160 believe family comes in for anything. A dollar, you know, don't mean 360 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:53.200 anything at this point of our lives, you know, because the mom and 361 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:57.039 the daddy are gonna make sure you stay true to form in regards to what 362 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:02.039 you're doing. Now. You know what you're doing now, stay true reformed 363 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:04.960 for that, and the dollar's gonna come and I think we got enough families 364 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.359 that's that's a part of this team that can step up and say let's do 365 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:14.480 this thing more at least one more time, at least one more time, 366 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:17.480 and see how far we can take it next year. Well just twenty seconds 367 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:19.599 in a response, please. So the taste of the victories and all that 368 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:25.200 fun has to help, has to help moving forward. Oh yeah, it's 369 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:29.680 gonna help in every fashion as far as keeping us together collectively as a unit. 370 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:32.880 And also it's gonna help you know, the community here. They going 371 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.720 to get on board. You know, they're gonna start selling some more tickets 372 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:40.160 and who knows, they might know, people may start doing that little nil 373 00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:42.799 things organically and the kids don't have to chase it. Yeah, no, 374 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:45.920 that's great, great, great, Okay, thanks the lonch An mind. 375 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:49.680 We appreciate your comments all these long. It's been great, all right, 376 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:53.559 brother God bless you. Yeah, thank you so much. So. Yeah, 377 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:56.119 it's great. Uh, we've got some insight. He's inside, you 378 00:24:56.200 --> 00:25:00.799 know, he's got some insight and he said the right exactly what you would 379 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:02.880 think. You with you. It's about the player. They have got to 380 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:06.759 have got to keep their quote unquote eye on the ball this off season, 381 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:10.480 right right, not on the nine il exactly. So all right, and 382 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:12.759 we'll have some we'll have some talk about that during breaking me. So all 383 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:15.720 right, we'll be right back. We're gonna come back. We should have 384 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:19.839 the Tommy Lloyd press conference live for you when we come back. 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It's Tucson's own end of 433 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.960 year party that doesn't stop until the Taco touchdown at the Taco Belt New Year's 434 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:57.759 Eve Downtown Bowl Bash featuring fireworks presented by O'Reilly Chevrolet. Start your put Shanga 435 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:07.480 journey and get your take us today at the Arizona Bowl dot Com. Streaming 436 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:11.240 live on the iHeartRadio Whap. This is I on the Ball with Steve Ravera 437 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:18.680 and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty he Welcome back, everybody. We're 438 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:22.000 gonna get in progress with the U, a pres converge with Tommy Lloyd. 439 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.359 What there's it a chance, especially now a few days like this, that 440 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:29.160 real guys really lock him maybe a little bit more after a game like that. 441 00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:30.680 I mean, Bruce, if you don't try to lock him more, 442 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.279 I don't know what to tell you. I mean, like, yeah, 443 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:34.079 I mean I hope. So, I mean, I don't got it. 444 00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:37.640 I don't got any magic potion. I just know we didn't play well last 445 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:41.160 weekend against a team that did play really well. And you know we've moved 446 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.119 on, and you know we're obviously you know, I don't know, I 447 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.880 weedy dress things whatever. We just we we had like a normal week of 448 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.319 preparation and you know, we've lost games before and I'm sure we'll lose them 449 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:55.359 again, and uh, you know do we just know we're prepared to play 450 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:59.640 a really good Colorado team in a big game. Those two games against the 451 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:03.400 Washington Schools without a couple of starters to that impress you even more than well, 452 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:04.839 listen, they're really good. They're really good all around. They got 453 00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:08.519 a great group of experienced guys. You know, they obviously had Cody Williams 454 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:11.000 as a really young, talented freshman. I don't know if he's gonna play 455 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:15.440 or not, but but they have a really, you know, good group 456 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.759 of experienced players and they've been together for a long time, and you know, 457 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:21.160 this looking like it could be one of those teams where they could have 458 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:26.319 a real special season. So you definitely about Sunday's game that you weren't able 459 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.240 to maybe see from the sideline. Maybe it's about defensive rotations or just kend 460 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.000 of what happened on defensive I mean, we played a team that you know, 461 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:36.640 maybe our sense of urgency wasn't enough, but you know, they hit 462 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:40.079 a lot of tough individual shots to kind of it going. And then you 463 00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:44.759 know we probably panicked a little bit defensively and maybe got too active or every 464 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:47.640 little adjustment I tried, they picked it apart and made a three at the 465 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:49.839 end of it, and and it was you know, you tip your hat 466 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:55.039 simply. Well, beyond that game, you had mentioned that the perimeter defense 467 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:59.200 hasn't been good multiple games down we've watched the film. Is there a calming 468 00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:02.119 thread in that of the I mean, you can probably find a bunch of 469 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:03.079 things. I don't know if there's one common thread you know, at the 470 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.279 end of the day, you know, it comes down to want, want 471 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:08.400 to You got to want to do great there, and then you know you 472 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:11.559 have to have the discipline to execute a plan. And you know, for 473 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.880 long stretches this year we have we just you know, kind of lost our 474 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.079 way a little bit, and you know we'll have to, you know, 475 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:21.559 see if we can get it back. Think about teaching defense, you know, 476 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.680 a lot of time to it starts with the shell or it starts with 477 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:26.640 on ball and it feels like you got Okay, okay, here's the guy. 478 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.640 You guys, stop you're making you guys make a lot. We got 479 00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:32.240 our as kick last game by a team that was on fire. Okay, 480 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:33.839 okay, you know what, going into that game, we were the second 481 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:37.640 rate defense in the country. So I mean, I don't know, if 482 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:40.720 it's broke, we'll figure it out and we'll see how it is tomorrow. 483 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:41.759 And if it isn't tomorrow, I just have to keep working on it. 484 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.960 We didn't. We're not approaching it any different than we have before. And 485 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.640 we're not we don't need to get into philosophical deals to start questioning, well, 486 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.839 do we start with a shell drill? Do we start with this ball 487 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:53.640 screen coverage. Going into the game, we had the second rated defense in 488 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:57.119 the country and we got torched. So now we need to step up and 489 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.160 see where we're at. I mean, I you see, the plan was 490 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.359 okay up to that point. I mean, if you had the two hundred 491 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.880 and second ranked defense in the country, you could ask me any philosophical question 492 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:08.200 you want, and then you know, now you and I could go to 493 00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:12.319 Bob Dobbs, get out some napkins, and we could talk about you can 494 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.200 help me with how I want to start my base defense, and I'd probably 495 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:20.039 be all ears insinuating of that. I was saying, since you guys are 496 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.880 such strong on ball defenders, and you see that in the first half against 497 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:29.519 Cal, what does it take to get the rotation or get their you know, 498 00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:31.359 their their willingness to help at the same energy level of their own. 499 00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:35.119 It just takes consistent effort. And you got to be great on the ball, 500 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:38.119 you got to be great off the ball. What you're saying maybe is 501 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:44.480 if you think the schemes and that things were there, but maybe the effort 502 00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:49.160 left. No, the scheme wasn't there, the effort was wasn't there. 503 00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.759 Well, I mentioned a little bit after the game about getting Polly as an 504 00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:57.880 opportunity and looked like he made the most of it, especially with being able 505 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.880 to have that. You haven't really had a man like that that that stretches 506 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:05.000 the floor and shoots the three as well in the previous two years. What 507 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:07.319 does that do in terms of changing the office? Well, he Poulos is. 508 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:09.759 He's an interesting player. He's got he's got some real strengths, and 509 00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:13.799 he's got some weaknesses that you know, he's gotta he's got to address if 510 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:16.319 he wants to be a great all around player. And uh and he's young, 511 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.079 you know, so so we'll see in time over time how he develops. 512 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:22.279 But there's no doubt he has a real talent. He has some real 513 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:24.480 strengths, you know, and and we'll see, you know, if we 514 00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:29.359 can tap into those strengths. When you have a player Kylon's been struggling a 515 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:30.759 little bit, how do you kind of handle that? Do you just part 516 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:35.680 of the deal. It's it's it's it's your guys's place, dirt bakes, 517 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:37.640 it's part of growing up. You just hang with them. You hang with 518 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:42.720 them and you help them and you love them. You mentioned that nothing is 519 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.759 guaranteed to the starters that like a lot of the rotation or some of the 520 00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:50.039 rotation players are getting some more action of how have you seen them respond to 521 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:52.279 speaking practice? I mean, yeah, practices were fine this week. You 522 00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:55.359 know, our practice was fine and and you hopefully they would be after what 523 00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:59.839 we just went through. So you know, but but guys, I know, 524 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:01.359 you guys haven't had a chance to talk to me, and you guys 525 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:06.160 are like picking up the scab a little bit. We've moved on. We're 526 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:09.840 one hundred percent focused on Colorado. I have not said one thing about Stanford 527 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:15.599 in forty eight hours. You guys can scheme about all you want. You 528 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:16.559 know, I have to move on. Our team has to move on. 529 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.559 And we've got a really good team. If we would have won by twenty 530 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.280 or lost by twenty, tomorrow's game is gonna be hard. So that that's 531 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:28.920 one hundred percent where my focus is about Colorado. That makes them so good. 532 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:31.320 They got really good players, and they got a good scheme, and 533 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:35.559 they've their experience, they've been together, and you know that they're a team 534 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.920 that's kind of been building to this. You could see a building for a 535 00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:45.960 couple of years. They've added some really good pieces to a good core the 536 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:50.800 audio of the audio, and they're just an impressive outfit. I mean either 537 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:52.840 they look like one of the stronger teams in the country, and I felt 538 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:58.000 like that going in the offseason too. You look at Kaja Sumpthing last year 539 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.320 versus yar, what do you think he's made in such picion? He just 540 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:01.559 continues to get better, you know, he just continues to get better. 541 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:06.159 I mean he's a he's a dynamic guard. You know, he can you 542 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:07.559 know, run their offense. You can play with great pace, he can 543 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:10.199 score, he can pass, and he just he just you could just see 544 00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:15.880 he has a supreme confidence about him. He's a really good player. Oh 545 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.000 he just he said he had a really good conversation with you media day. 546 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.679 I didn't know, like, you know, what that relationship has been like 547 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:24.760 because it was kind of this that was so fast and you know, I 548 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:29.039 mean it was I mean, listen, it was probably a lot you know, 549 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:31.920 things were probably a lot more. He was probably a lot more focused 550 00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:36.159 on his situation. I was focused on a lot bigger situation. And he's 551 00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:38.079 a really good player, and you know what, he obviously made a great 552 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:40.960 choice for himself. And I'm really happy for him. I'm really happy for 553 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:45.239 Colorado. You know, we've been fine, you know, the last couple 554 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:49.280 of years, and you know, it's just looks a situation where it kind 555 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.119 of worked out for both. But it was never anything where I didn't think 556 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:53.559 kJ Simpson was a really good player. It's just hard. You get a 557 00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:58.760 job, the kid signs with another staff, that's a tricky situation for a 558 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:00.000 lot of people to work out, and you know, and then and then 559 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:05.000 you have to rebuild a whole roster. Things happen fast, and and he 560 00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:08.360 he picked a perfect place for him, and he's a perfect player for them, 561 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:12.280 and he's playing really well. What do you make of Eddie Lampkin and 562 00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:15.519 are there any advantages of guy like Umar going against him two years ago? 563 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:17.559 Eddie Lampkin's a really good basketball player. I mean we saw the best of 564 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:21.840 Eddie Lampkin. I mean he you know, had a twenty point, twenty 565 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:24.039 rebound double double against that's the NACAU Tournament. He's a really good basketball player. 566 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:27.920 He plays with great energy, He's got a great feel for the game. 567 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.280 Yeah, I mean he's impressive. He's an impressive player. What Burph 568 00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:37.119 said you're going to assume that Da Silva and Williams play. But if if 569 00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:40.679 if Da Silva doesn't play because of what he does so many different things, 570 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:44.760 does that make them different? I mean, then do you kind of that 571 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:49.119 too? They have really good players and and you know, so you know, 572 00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:51.679 I mean, I I think whoever they roll out there, they're going 573 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:53.400 to be really comfortable and they're going to be really good. And you know, 574 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:57.920 obviously Da Silva is a dynamic player. He's really experienced. Now you 575 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.760 know, he's he's he's you know, playing well in side, he's playing 576 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.199 well outside. So you know, I'm sure their preference would be to have 577 00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.079 him. But whether they have him or not, whether he's at one hundred 578 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:08.320 percent or not, they're still going to be a really good team. So 579 00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:13.199 we're we're preparing the same way. We don't have a we don't have two 580 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:16.519 sheets of preparation with the Silva and without Da Silva plan. So just a 581 00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:20.239 really good player and whoever they plug in there, it's gonna be a really 582 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:22.320 good player. You guys are a great home atmosphere in Phoenix, but you 583 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.559 haven't played here in the Kale in a month. What's it gonna be like 584 00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:27.800 having a two game we get here, it's gonna be awesome. I mean, 585 00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:29.760 you know, you know, hey, the scheduling kind of broke, 586 00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:31.679 how it broke, and you never want to be away from home that long. 587 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:35.800 It's gonna be good to be back home. And you know, I 588 00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:38.400 think we need a little home cooking. But hey, you know, I 589 00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:42.119 have no regrets for the schedule we're played, and it's just kind of a 590 00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.199 tough hop when you play a tough Deceimber schedule and you end up with your 591 00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:47.079 first two conference games on the road, and you know, but that's also 592 00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:50.920 a great opportunity to go win them. You go win two road games right 593 00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:52.320 away, and and you know, you kind of get put yourself in a 594 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.000 good position, you don't you know, you're you're probably right where you should 595 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:58.400 be. So you know, I'm comfortable with where we're at. And you 596 00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:00.079 know, I mean, we just we just got to have a great for 597 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:05.079 tomorrow. One more question. Did you guys take Monday off you don't have 598 00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.239 to, right because you're not in school, or did you go? I 599 00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:12.559 can't remember. I mean, what does it matter if we did or didn't. 600 00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.119 Bruce, we got a really hard game, Bro Bruce. Bruce, 601 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:16.920 Bruce, do you think we took Monday off after the way we played on 602 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.679 a Sunday? Okay, there we go. I mean we of course we 603 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:23.320 came in and we we might not have ran him into the ground, but 604 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:25.840 of course, I mean, we got to get better. We're like everybody 605 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:30.559 else, got to get better. Jesus last time. Are you looking at 606 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:32.679 the coach with you you kind of do you ever just throw out them, 607 00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:36.320 just say we played like crap, Let's move on to the next game. 608 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:37.119 Mark. I mean, I don't think either. I mean I don't make 609 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:39.800 too much of it. I mean I don't make too much of it because, 610 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:43.000 like I mean, at the end of the day, we got to 611 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.719 you know, you got to figure out some why's and you address those things 612 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:46.599 a little bit. But like I said, we haven't talked about Stanford in 613 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:49.400 a couple of days. We had to move on. We don't have time. 614 00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.639 We don't have time to sit there and dwell on something that, you 615 00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:54.159 know, we didn't do well. And at the end of the day, 616 00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:59.079 guys, I tipped my hat to Stanford. They played awesome that day. 617 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:01.119 They played really well. The last two years we've played them, there played 618 00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:05.519 really well, exceptionally well, I mean so well, to the point like 619 00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:07.119 sometimes I'm like, how are they not? How is the record not better? 620 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:10.119 But but that that's neither here nor there. But they they played really 621 00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:14.559 well and we didn't so and and you know, we probably had something to 622 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:17.199 do with them playing well. They probably you know, had something to do 623 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:20.599 with us not playing well. And it's just kind of how it went that 624 00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:23.199 day. So I'm excited for tomorrow. You know, I'm looking for a 625 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:27.199 great effort from our guys, and you know, you know, win or 626 00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:32.159 lose, we're gonna we're gonna keep plugging away. Thanks guys. Well there 627 00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:38.760 you have it, le Vintage to Tommy. Yeah, and it's it's some 628 00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:45.440 that's his relationship with with Bruce. Uh and they do that because well he 629 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:51.599 does that because he can and he does. But that's the most uh back 630 00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:55.840 and forth I've heard from him ever. That's also the most how can I 631 00:39:55.920 --> 00:40:02.559 say this more the most the not dire straits. But he's in a tough 632 00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.079 spot. When you're at Arizona, you don't lose like games like this. 633 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:10.000 Loot lost a few and Luke got a little testy with the media after questions 634 00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:15.639 like that, but you know what he meant, that game is history and 635 00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:17.119 I'm not gonna do that either side because you have to ask the question, 636 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.360 right, you know, you do, You absolutely have to. You have 637 00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:22.480 to go because the first time the meat has had a chance to talk to 638 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:27.960 him, so you have to ask those questions correct. But on the other 639 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:31.599 hand, Tommy is a coaching He doesn't dwell. No, he's not. 640 00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:36.559 No matter how part try to make him dwell, he's not going to dwell 641 00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:38.639 on on those games. I listened to it, and you did as you 642 00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:42.360 did, and many people did. Uh. Some guy just said, I 643 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.360 won't say some guy, but one of our listeners said, he ain't very 644 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:47.880 funny. Where are the jokes? He's a boring interview? That was not 645 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:52.639 boring to me. That was very funny actually because he was very pointed and 646 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:54.880 he's he's there in every day dude and every day man, a common man. 647 00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.599 Jay, we sucked. How else I mean, is gonna tell you 648 00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:04.280 that we sucked and we got to get better and we sucked. It's not 649 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:07.440 about defending even though well he did funny say this on Sunday. Uh. 650 00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:13.480 The Ken Palm, Jim Palm, Jim Palmer, The thing doesn't mean crap. 651 00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:15.639 I was cussed, doesn't mean crap if you don't play that way. 652 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:20.000 And they didn't play that way. They didn't were terrible, And I covered 653 00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:23.800 a pretty good coach under Loot. He had these games. Yes, he 654 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:28.559 had a few of these games. I remember trying to kick the ball at 655 00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:32.760 Oregon State the National Championship, No, No, No eight nine. It 656 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:36.840 could have been could have been eighty eight eighty nine. When you get pissed 657 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:40.960 and kicked the ball. Hey, these guys get paid a lot of money. 658 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.280 They're not a lot of stretch. And and again you know if he 659 00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:47.760 if he sits there and dwells on it, then the team is going to 660 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:52.320 dwell on it, and they have to prepare for a team that's really good 661 00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.880 coming into coming in. It was disappointing. I think the fans know say 662 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.960 that all the time. A lot of people were coach YadA da da, 663 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:05.360 YadA YadA. In fact, I posted something I wanted to talk about. 664 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.000 We will talk about your stuff. So you know, here's a guy I 665 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:12.159 won't say who it was, but one of the most talented and also the 666 00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:17.000 most inconsistent teams we've ever had, just not that good way overrated, and 667 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:22.400 there was people just just ripping, just ripping, and another guy said, 668 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.599 please stop this, blah blah blah. And I responded, responding to the 669 00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:30.239 guy who was very sensible, I said, well, a rational response unheard 670 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.920 of on these things. You know, on these posts, the worst thing 671 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.719 that happened for you of A and its fans was beating a mediocre duke team. 672 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:42.840 It brought out unrealistic expectations and as for years and now people think UA 673 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:47.000 is short of invincible. I'm guessing many of those posts, most by the 674 00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:51.159 pictures, are done by older people, more than older than thirty. You 675 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:55.280 won one title in your lifetime one a second might never come. But by 676 00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:59.920 my posts, by my posts of the recent past, or the world post 677 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.800 recent past, uh, they think or act like they're entitled. You're not 678 00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:06.960 entitled. And I've said that many times in the show. Relax and enjoy 679 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:10.480 the moment. They're not. They are fleeting. Even Arizona's best teams all 680 00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.960 time didn't win. It didn't win at all. I mean, realistically, 681 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.280 just why do you why do people go freak out with this stuff, because 682 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:25.519 honestly, you're gonna sleep. You're not gonna sleep tonight and they lose. 683 00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:29.519 I mean, you know, after watching the Stafford game, I'm like, 684 00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:34.400 what the hell just happened? I'm like, I'm mad at them? Did 685 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.360 you get on Facebook or Twitter? And no? What would be the point? 686 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:42.639 Right? Right? I was mad? What it was Sunday afternoon? 687 00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:45.519 It was Sunday afternoon. So you know, I'm like, what the hell 688 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:49.119 was that? You know, we had friends coming over Sunday night. Get 689 00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:52.159 a ruin your day? No, exactly, no, man that maybe I 690 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:58.760 had a prima, I had some crab legs and had we had a great 691 00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:02.199 I say this on the show with you and joke with your what's the big 692 00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:08.719 deal? I mean the world ended because Steve's so many people throw so much 693 00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:14.960 into this emotionally, emotionally and in some cases because they don't have enough other 694 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.199 stuff going on around them. Right, But you know, look, you 695 00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:22.360 know did I care? I absolutely cared. I was pissed partly because I 696 00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:27.599 put some money. You're the reason again, you know I lost you. 697 00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:30.719 I lost a little bit of money, but more than anything though, here, 698 00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.760 here's here's why where I am on this stuff is I I hate the 699 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:38.719 noise that comes after after something like that. So That's why I hate losing 700 00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:43.079 those games, not because they lost the game, but because then I have 701 00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:45.880 to listen to this. You know what you're talking about? I hear you 702 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:54.880 know you want me. This was after the game, right game? You 703 00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:59.440 buddy of mine says we got out coached, and I said, yeah, 704 00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:02.440 probably, well they have a better coach. I'm like, what you're gonna 705 00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:07.239 tell me that you think Florida Atlantic has a better coach because he have coached 706 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:10.639 just one time? Right? Stop it? Yeah, it reminds me, 707 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:14.360 and I've said this before. So you get a mathematician who you know, 708 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:16.400 there's a meme about it. He goes up on the board and has nine 709 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:21.079 equations in one right, two, right, nine or right, the last 710 00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:23.519 one purposely wrong. What do they talk to him about? The wrong one, 711 00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:28.159 the wrong one, the wrong ones right? Here's this mathematician. They 712 00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:30.400 should have them all right? No, guess what every now and again you 713 00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:35.199 have a clunker. Yeah. And I'm not trying to apologize for for Tommy 714 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.679 Lloyd because he'll he'll be fine. But it happens. It happens to everybody. 715 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:44.079 Ten and three, ten and three, Okay, if you said, 716 00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:46.079 looking at the schedule that they had before you knew how good Duke was, 717 00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:51.519 how good Michigan State was. And if somebody said to you, you know, 718 00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:54.039 if you're an Arizona fan, you're ten and three overall, one in 719 00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:58.480 one in the league, will you sign will you sign on the dotted line? 720 00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:00.719 Hell, yes, yes you would. Hell yes you would. And 721 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:05.320 guess what, they're tenth in the country. The only thing you might not 722 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:09.400 sign on the dotted line for is splitting that cal Stanfords because that's a trip 723 00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:14.320 that a bunch of teams are gonna sweep, you know, but Arizona didn't. 724 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:19.920 But then there's also given take you beat Duke on the road, you 725 00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:22.559 beat Alabama on undertube game, you know, you know, people just lose 726 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.920 their minds. Okay, to put it in context, what would people be 727 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:31.639 saying about the football season had they lost to Oklahoma? Ah, you know, 728 00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:37.119 Luke, you guys got lucky though all those games you lost to an 729 00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:40.559 Oklahoma team that didn't have its quarterback. Yeah, it's not, you know, 730 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:45.239 overrated, That's what we would have heard. And at the end of 731 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:50.360 the game when Arizona was losing, that's what's going through my mind, was 732 00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:52.639 like, oh crap, now I'm gonna go back to town. I'm gonna 733 00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:55.239 go back to home, and I'm gonna have to listen to all these people 734 00:46:55.559 --> 00:47:00.119 who said Jed Fish can't coach in the big game, Arizona can't play with 735 00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:02.280 the big boys. The season was a fluke. They got lucky the Pac 736 00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:07.239 twelve. The league was down, the league was not done. Guess what 737 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:10.559 they may have This league may have a national championship, right. No. 738 00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:14.159 I used to say, you know, how many big games do I have 739 00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:16.039 to win to prove I can win the big Game? You know, He's 740 00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:19.000 only had to win the Big Game to win it all, you know, 741 00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.320 obviously, But I mean, what would legacy if he had not won? 742 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:28.079 That's a very difficult question. You know, you're right, right, he's 743 00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:30.679 probably he's probably still a Hall of Fame coach. But they totally everybody has 744 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:32.840 been saying, but he didn't, he didn't win, he didn't win. 745 00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:37.079 Well, what's the knock on? Sean didn't didn't get to the final hasn't 746 00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:39.599 got the best coach had ever gone to the Final four and may never get 747 00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:45.440 to the final four at this point. Yeah, you know, I mean, 748 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.079 yeah, yeah, you have to And for anybody who out there who 749 00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:54.400 listened to the press conference and thought Tommy Lloyd was being snippy or was mad 750 00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:59.400 or he's not. If you if you're watching him, you just know he 751 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.400 doesn't want to talk about the Stanford game anymore. And it's as simple as 752 00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:05.960 that. He wants to move on. Yeah, OK, let's take this 753 00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:10.000 call. You're on the AAR and I on the ball. Yeah. That 754 00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:15.239 press conference is great. Tommy's fantastic, and like Steve, I got some 755 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.400 kicks out of it too. And you got to enjoy the ride. I'd 756 00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:23.639 rather be on this ride than running around our stupid town run Buddy's idiots, 757 00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:29.519 the Bumpiness and Tucson roads. I gotta get that one in there. No, 758 00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:31.599 I agree with you, but you're not a I mean this in a 759 00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:36.559 good way, Howard. You're not an overthinker. Enjoyed the moment, go 760 00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:38.400 to the game. Yeah, if they win, great, If they don't, 761 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:44.480 d well had Okay? How many times have we said this to these 762 00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:49.320 guys are eighteen to twenty three years old? How many times have we messed 763 00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.840 up in our work the tennis court, the rec center? How many? 764 00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:57.880 You know what I mean? Come home? These kids are young, Howard 765 00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.360 Man, what a sensible call. Look at that. What you haven't been 766 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:05.079 drinking, have you? Or maybe you have? You're going up. I 767 00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:09.199 just wanted to call before I'm going to my favorite I'm having a brewery the 768 00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:14.239 name thanks my house. Okay, all right, well you guys later, 769 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:17.679 even though should we have one? Probably on paper? Yeah, but how 770 00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:21.079 many times does paper win the game? Well? And and then and and 771 00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:23.639 again. The whole thing is exacerbated by the fact that two nights earlier a 772 00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:28.440 su went into Stanford and beat me up. And that that's what I kept 773 00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:30.880 saying, like, wait a minute, what's happening here? This team wants 774 00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:34.239 to a sc two nights ago? How are they doing this? That's the 775 00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:37.079 way it is, Jay, because its circumstances of events. Well, John 776 00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:40.400 Rothstein, who was always posting stuff, and and he said, he always 777 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:43.559 says, it's at the end of something like that, how does this happen? 778 00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:45.320 He says, that's college basket, college bus, friend, college foot 779 00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:50.599 just sports. It's just how it is. Some things are unexplainable. Well, 780 00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:52.719 uh, and talent doesn't always win the day. He just doesn't. 781 00:49:53.760 --> 00:49:59.400 It doesn't and and it did you know Arizona could play Stanford tenth time? 782 00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:02.639 We say ten times they'd win. What eight? You think? Yeah, 783 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:08.079 at least come on, everybody, everybody has Arizona winning in eighty eight eighty 784 00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:13.599 eight championship. Play play Oklahoma nine more times? You know they're gonna beat 785 00:50:13.639 --> 00:50:16.480 them eight more times or whatever? Uh, every other game, every other 786 00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:20.880 game, Oh we were better than well, you weren't bad day day and 787 00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:23.480 guess when you had to play them that day on that particular day, and 788 00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:28.719 you move on. Tommy was fantastic in the sense that he was biting. 789 00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:31.000 He was biting. He doesn't get how was you watched it? You watched 790 00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:35.480 it right? How was this? He just just like it's like like you 791 00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:40.320 guys, stop, just stop. Okay, we've moved on. You know, 792 00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:45.079 you want to pick the scab and and I'm I'm past that. Well, 793 00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:46.159 we got to go to Bob dobs out and meet him, see what's 794 00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:50.239 going on, because no, he he wasn't you know, well, he 795 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:52.159 wasn't getting angry. He was just like I don't want to well, I 796 00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:55.000 don't want to keep how many dead horse? How many times can you answer 797 00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:59.360 the same question right? And it did get asked much times? And you 798 00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:02.760 know, you got you got guys like us out in the audience trying to 799 00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:07.440 break down his offense and how to run his offense. I mean, are 800 00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:10.920 you going to do this? Your rotations? And Bruce, I love Bruce. 801 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:14.800 Bruce is a great friend of mine. Uh did you break this one 802 00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:20.239 day? Because he does get in the weeds. He's got to he's got 803 00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:23.239 to have confidence. You got to. But you know what, this is 804 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:30.119 a side that we haven't seen of Tommy. Uh if if if he gets 805 00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:34.800 the uh if these uh the strains getting tighter, we'll see how he well 806 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.719 how And now you know, if you're listening to so you heard the whole 807 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:38.960 press conference, that's the whole thing. I mean, we didn't butt in. 808 00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:43.440 That's a that's a Tommy Lloyd press conference. And that's how they're You 809 00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.559 know, if you're not there, you know, you follow on social media. 810 00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.920 You get answers to certain questions. We play that. We play some 811 00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:52.440 of the answer, but we pick and choose what's the most interesting stuff. 812 00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:54.000 You heard the whole thing. That was the whole thing, and that was 813 00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:59.280 his his approach the whole thing. And he was like, guys, I've 814 00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:01.519 gotta I've got a game. We've got to win tomorrow. I can't keep 815 00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:07.039 thinking about the game we played three days ago. You know, I got 816 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.400 to think about this one because Colorado is really good and I can't be preoccupied. 817 00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:15.079 Said, we haven't talked about Stanford in forty eight hours. Everybody else 818 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:22.280 is still talking about sure that it was fun, it's funny, it was 819 00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:23.840 good. Okay, we gotta go. We got news, Yeah, we 820 00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:27.519 do have breaking news. Interesting thing. Yeah, I'll be back with it. 821 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:30.159 We've got all kinds of stuff going on, and as we said, 822 00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:32.880 stuff going on today, but you got to catch up on a few things 823 00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.199 as well, So stick around for breaking news at the top of the hour. 824 00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:37.840 We'll be right back