WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:07.440 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jagon Zalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:13.439 fourteen to fifty, powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions 3 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:18.800 kt z R two SAG and iHeartRadio Station. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. 4 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:21.920 Welcome to Eye on the Ball Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.839 We're gonna He's Jagan saus Got our guy sat me from California in town. 6 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.960 We're all here from our trips, healthy, wealthy and wise. Maybe 7 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:34.399 not two nine wealthy? Yeah, two out of three. Bat, I 8 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.119 just got back from Vegas. I'm not wealthy. Yes, I'm glad you 9 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:39.799 made it back, though I made it back from my place. You made 10 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:43.159 it back from San Diego. Were here? What a great weekend you guys 11 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.960 have. Well, he had a great weekend. But then there's also so 12 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.119 much going on to talk about it, even aside from yeah, you know 13 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.840 what, Arizona dead, you know with that's games over the weekend. I 14 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.079 have something to talk about. I don't want to go there right now, 15 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:59.439 though, I don't want to go Debbie Downer, Okay, so let's talk 16 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:06.560 about her. Yeah, I'll wait for that. Let me be whatever so 17 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:10.680 football football. Okay, we had Jed today. He was not as as 18 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.439 Jed like has been in the past. But that's whatever. I thought. 19 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:19.040 You went a place where probably needed to go. But I'm not sure you 20 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.760 asked a question that what was that qull It was a question that if somebody's 21 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.319 not asking it, then we're not doing our jobs. All right, Somebody's 22 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:30.359 got to ask it, regardless of I knew we weren't going to get. 23 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.719 Yeah, of course an answer, but you have to ask it because it's 24 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.319 happened. Yea. And what's happened is Jed's name is getting thrown around already. 25 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:38.840 Wait wait, wait, wait, so where did you see it? 26 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:42.799 I haven't seen it. He's been mentioned with Texas Tech u c l A 27 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:46.920 has even cleared. He's been mentioned Texas Tech. Yes, he's been mentioned. 28 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:52.319 He's been mentioned that if Harball leeds at Michigan, he'll not Texas Tech 29 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:55.719 text saying that, okay, if Harball leads Michigan with all this stuff going 30 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.439 on, then he'd be considered. Journalism sucks. If you know, uh, 31 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:01.840 Billy Napier got his ass kicked again in Florida. Is billyon? If 32 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.359 Billy Napier goes in Florida, the Jetfish would be a candidate there. Who'sould 33 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.919 say, you know, this journalism sucks if if if you know Kaylin de 34 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:15.120 Borr and Washington and and Dan Landing at at Oregon are both being named as 35 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:19.120 you know Texas Texas at Texas and m that if one of those jobs clears, 36 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.840 jets Fish would be named there. Just people Saint Steven's. Whether it's 37 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:27.280 credible or not, it's being said, and so I don't know who's saying 38 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.360 it, but I understood the question. I understood the questions. Uh. 39 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.400 In fact, I was thinking should and then you did, then you asked 40 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:36.639 it, which is fine. I'm just seeing it all over how it was. 41 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:38.520 Of course, we all preface it. We all know that the media 42 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:44.800 makes these lists on their own, correct right. In some cases you've talked 43 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:46.439 to somebody who says, yeah, I would look, would consider Jetfish or 44 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:51.439 Dan Lanning or kaylan bor or whatever. Sure. Other cases it's just guys 45 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.319 like you and me putting a list together. Yeah, but jets Fish, 46 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:58.639 Jetfish's name is showing up on those lists. I'm getting asked all the time. 47 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.680 We you know, you know what Gabe is. You know every week 48 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:05.520 comes on and says, you know, we got to do all we can 49 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:08.479 to keep ted fish. His name is going to come up. He knows 50 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:13.240 it. He's it's gonna come up, and it's already. Okay, I 51 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:15.280 get the question. I'm not saying that's a bad question. I get the 52 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:19.960 question. To me, it's all premature because because it is, he's already 53 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.719 done it correct and then maybe he's good enough to go. But it's still 54 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:25.520 premature in my mind. Well, the question, let me the question was. 55 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.120 I don't have my question, qute I have the answer. Yeah, 56 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.479 that's all right. Yeah. I asked, you know, how how do 57 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.680 you handle because this is already said, because this has already happened, Yeah, 58 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:42.879 how do you handle your name being tossed around? I thought you asked 59 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:46.199 it perfectly because you got into it. I wanted to make I'm not making 60 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:49.080 this up. This is happening. And here's what he here's what he said. 61 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:53.680 Yeah, that's this time of year when you're successful and your team's playing. 62 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:58.960 Well, that's what happens. I think our only focus is beating Utah. 63 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:02.680 This is a great team coming in. I told our team yesterday that 64 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.400 you have a chance to uh. They are the reigning champions. They are 65 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:12.599 the two years reigning Pac twelve champions. Uh. We need everybody focusing on 66 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:16.879 one thing and one thing only, and that is Utah football and trying to 67 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.319 have the best Arizona football program. We can have to go beat Utah football 68 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:27.000 team, and we are going to give him everything, uh that we have. 69 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.199 We are going to empty the tank, and we need a full house 70 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.439 to do that. Yeah, and that was a great answer to that question. 71 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:36.240 He was a non answer answer. I was almost the exact answer I 72 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.639 was expecting. Yeah. Of course, you know, he's shrewd enough and 73 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.000 he's smart enough to know not to answer whatever. Uh, he was a 74 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.120 little not The guys who covered him daily said he was a little cranky. 75 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.279 I didn't get that. Well, he might have been to you a little 76 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.800 to your question because he's not used to meet him. But he also didn't 77 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:57.600 like Jennifer Fink's question. The way she the way she phrased it showed he 78 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.439 was human. Basically, she said, no for you to play like crap 79 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.560 in the first half, what did you think? But but everyone was thinking 80 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.480 of it. He was thinking, so why not ask it right? So 81 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.560 to more power to her, I thought it was a good question, and 82 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:11.839 he kind of poo pooed it, but answered the question. He did he 83 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:15.279 did he? You know, she basically question was he was human in the 84 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:16.879 first half. You know, how do you how do you think? I 85 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:19.360 think it's like, how did you react? It was? Here's his answer 86 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:26.920 to that. Yeah, I mean I think that we had a couple of 87 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.879 drops. I think we had a couple of misreads. I think we had 88 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:33.519 a little bit of pressure. We made some bad throws. He never flinched, 89 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:40.439 she was not worried. You know. I think that there's times where 90 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:45.279 that happens, and you know, he's a he's a good quarterback. We're 91 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:48.439 very lucky. We have two great quarterbacks in our program that have been played 92 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.759 a lot of football, and we have two young quarterbacks that want to become 93 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:56.560 great and want to work really hard at it. So I think that what 94 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.480 Noah able to do is what good quarterbacks do, is why throw out of 95 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.120 time one play at a time. So you miss a throw high, or 96 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.879 you miss a guy, or a guy drops the pass on you, it's 97 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:09.120 come back. But I think the second drive of the game, we score 98 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.199 a touchdown. So yeah, we went three and out. The first Drive. 99 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.439 We probably had Jacob open the first play of the game, and then 100 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.319 we probably we did have Tea Mac open the second player of the game, 101 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:24.399 but we wound up missing those and after that, you know, it is 102 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:28.879 what it is. But moving forward, I don't have any doubt that whoever, 103 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:31.480 if you're throwing completion, you're throwing completion. They're very they're able to 104 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:36.360 handle those. Well, guess what, he's had a pretty good here for 105 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:40.319 two and a half, two and three quarters years. No tough questions, 106 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:44.959 pretty much, and this is what you become pretty good at what you do. 107 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:49.759 The questions will eventually get tougher, sure, more direct, and still 108 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:55.399 well they still love you, honestly, you have no You're just you're asking 109 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:00.560 questions and you're more favorable than not favorable. Either, get used to it 110 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:03.439 and if you're moving on, if you do move on, they ain't gonna 111 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.519 get any easier. And Steve, you know, and preticularly in our case, 112 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.160 you and when I say in our case, you and me, you 113 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.639 and me. With what we do and what this show is about, we're 114 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:15.959 asking the questions and trying to talk about the things that we think fans are 115 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:19.040 talking to. Sure, I got to call this morning from you know, 116 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:21.800 are you you know, are you ready for jet Fish to be the next 117 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:26.839 coach at U c l A. You know, like what you know? 118 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.079 I said, his chip? Has chip been fired? He said, no 119 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.879 chips. But you know who's calling you? If that job opens up, 120 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.759 he's certainly is going to be considered show Okay, sure right, sure? 121 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.959 Now I was also told that job's not opening up because they don't have the 122 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.759 money to buy him out. Who does they don't have the money to buy 123 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.480 him out? You know they're going to the big ten. He's chip Kelly's 124 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:53.160 not going anywhere. But you know, if I'll give you no more serious 125 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.959 question, more serious question that maybe you can't answer, there's only one guy 126 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:01.399 that can answer. He's the president of the university. Right given how serious 127 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:03.279 are the money problems that we saw last week, which that was the talk 128 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.000 of the talk of a lot of things, variety of sources, although they 129 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.199 quoted the same the same story one and two, Jed gets good? How 130 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.720 much how much more can you get? How much can you give him from 131 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:18.199 from a definica that you already have? Right? Well, that's the question. 132 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:20.199 What can you do to keep him here? And there? Their hands 133 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.439 there, you go there, you go right, and they might be in 134 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:24.319 a bad spot as far as that, and then you say, sorry, 135 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.759 we can't keep him because we have no money. He's only getting like two 136 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:30.680 and a half million dollars two point one, two point one. But then 137 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.000 when you add in the other shows like two and a half million dollars, 138 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.519 you know they you know, they just they just fired Jimbo Fisher and they're 139 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.639 giving him seventy five million dollars to go away. So let me ask you. 140 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:43.120 I know you probably don't know much like me, I don't know much 141 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.320 about that story. But how serious do you think the money situation is? 142 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:52.399 One one, it's bad. It's bad. So how do you recover from 143 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:58.960 that? You move conferences? There's no again. They heard the word Dracone 144 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:01.639 and cuts. You know, they're just going to do some things that they 145 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.639 haven't had to do, and one of those might be cutting sports and in 146 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:11.000 the athletic department. Because the athletic department owes the university fifty five million dollars, 147 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.159 they haven't been able to pay it back. They're gonna have to figure 148 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:16.440 out the university needs that money back. So there's a lot of things going 149 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:18.120 on that's a guy. That's a conversation for you know, we can do 150 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:22.000 an hour on the right. So there's that. And that was the talk 151 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.639 of the weekend for me, at least, being on the road every where 152 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:26.840 I went boosters and I said, I don't know. I'm yeah, I 153 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:31.120 don't know because I don't know, And I think December fifteenth will know more. 154 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.360 Yeah, because that's the next big meeting. Right. I'm standing in 155 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:39.200 the line to make a bet at the west Gate on Saturday, and I've 156 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:46.039 got a sweat jacket on, and so a guy standing sitting in the chair, 157 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.320 you know, right next to the front row. You know, he 158 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.159 asked me, what's going to happen today? You know, there's on the 159 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.519 Colorado game. They said, how the hell are you guys going to fix 160 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.559 that budget thing? How the hell do you know about it? Yeah, 161 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.759 he was way. I was wearing an Oklahoma. It was where a duke. 162 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.759 I saw it everywhere. I saw it everywhere everywhere, and it was 163 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:07.960 kind of chance. You know, Yeah, you win, but you you 164 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.200 can't pay your bills or whatever. It was what it was. Yeah, 165 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.679 Steve, we've gone ten minutes into the show and we haven't mentioned Duke there 166 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.080 were something Duke. Yeah, we'll talk more because Brett was there. Yeah, 167 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.480 but we have to talk about our guests real quick. Okay. We 168 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:22.720 decided to ask Brett Farrah Sports Center at there and then it started coming. 169 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.120 He was at the Duke game, as was Steve. So we'll let these 170 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:30.320 guys compare some notes about it, okay, about the experience and and just 171 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:33.039 what the what it all looked like from where I said, it looked pretty 172 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:35.600 cool. It was fun. Yeah, Well it's funny because someone I went 173 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.279 to somewhere before after the press corvers before this to see my doctor and he 174 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.480 says, you got more TV time than Tommy Lowe who it was. And 175 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.360 I was not smiling apparently, but it was it was It was fun. 176 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.879 It was fun. Did you ever go to Stanford like at maplew was rocking. 177 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.799 It was rocking. It was rocking. It was rock This was rocking. 178 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.080 But Maple's rocked too because the kids were right on top of you. 179 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:01.840 And you remember the deaths they had, just simple deaths like little makeshift death 180 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:05.200 and if they won, they were jumping on top of you and your your 181 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.360 your your laptops were not safe. That wasn't this because they were going to 182 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:13.799 jump on top of you. And they didn't win. But it was crazy. 183 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.120 It was crazy. They didn't they weren't now to sit down. They 184 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.879 couldn't sit down. They were filed. You know how you watch a game 185 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.799 straight forward. They were sideways. They had to get more people in there. 186 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.320 Crazy, but they weren't just crazy because they weren't winning. They weren't 187 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:30.759 winning, and then and they were down the whole game. Yeah, pretty 188 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.720 much the whole game. Yeah, I'm glad I went because I needed to 189 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.159 go see to get the experience. A lot of fun. You've been there, 190 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.879 obviously, it's a it's a great campus. I've been to the campus. 191 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:43.000 So you're in the campus. Okay, So were you there in the 192 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.799 summer or when spring spring? Okay? So I was there? Now were 193 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:52.440 obviously both times? It was cool? Okay, so it's coldish the changing 194 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:58.639 of the leaves to me, do you remember Dark Shadows with Barnaby Jones? 195 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:09.840 Barn barnabas Colling, but Barnaby Jones was My mom loved him. That reminded 196 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.759 me of that because he was so creepy. But you didn't want to be 197 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.200 dark at night, You didn't want to be on that campus. My mom 198 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:22.759 would have left our family for Barnabas College. Dracula she loved. So you 199 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.080 understood what I was saying. I know, exactly very it was very an 200 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.600 old school, but it's a spectacular campus. You know, the big church 201 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.840 in the center of it. You know. We went to the you know, 202 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.480 my daughter was in biomedical Engineers. We went to the labs over there, 203 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.399 incredibles. Yeah, well we so Troy I went and he was there. 204 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.679 We were asking, do you know how to get to Cameron Arena, 205 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:43.879 Cameroon in the north. Uh. And then they're all smart, smart, 206 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:48.320 they had no idea where the all the smart people didn't know what arena was 207 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.799 exactly. You know. We went to her graduation in the stadium. You 208 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:54.879 know, the stadium is a stadium, the whole thing. But uh, 209 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:58.480 I purposely wore an Arizona T shirt on a day that we went and went 210 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:01.200 to the books door and stuff. So I'm sitting there in an Arizona T 211 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.840 shirt in the bookstore buying Duke gear and then people are going, who the 212 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:11.200 hell are you? And what is wrong with gifts? Gifts? Here's a 213 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:15.879 funny thing, funny story. So on Saturday morning that Saturday morning, Friday 214 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.440 morning. We haven't left for Vegas this week. Yeah, this last Friday, 215 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.720 we hadn't left for Vegas. We're getting ready to leave. My son 216 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.480 comes over to drop off my grandson for us to just say bye. You 217 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:26.200 were going to Vegas. And my daughter who just wakes up. You know, 218 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:30.159 she's the Duke and she just wa had just woken up. She walks 219 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.759 out into the living room and she got duke sweatshirt on and he blew her 220 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:35.639 head off. He yells at her in as loud as I've ever heard me 221 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:41.120 yell at her, what are you doing? Because she had and she goes, 222 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:45.480 what you're wanting a duke sweatshirt? We're playing Duke today? What are 223 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.919 you doing? I mean people were head off, like, races back to 224 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.120 her bedroom, puts on the u of a sweatshirt. It comes back better, 225 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.759 better, feel better, he screamed at her. It was. It 226 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:58.720 was a fun game. It was a fun game of the dudes. The 227 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.720 dude showed up. They did the dude. That's that doesn't shock you. 228 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.200 Nothing of this game shocks you. It didn't shock me, but I didn't 229 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.120 think they were going to win that game doing it, And I tweeted it. 230 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.120 I tweeted this, and I still believe this. Keisha Johnson had some 231 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:18.879 stones, He's got some st man a man, this is a mode boy. 232 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.840 This is a dude they haven't had in a while. I can't. 233 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:24.559 I'm trying. I'm sitting there trying to think of the last time, and 234 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:26.919 I keep going all the way back to Brian Williams in terms of guy for 235 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.559 the level of toughness underneath the basketball. But he was. They had other 236 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:33.720 guys. He would wield. He would wield the time too, but it 237 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:35.559 have You know, Jean Jean wasn't that guy, but he was guy guy, 238 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.399 But Jean was. Jean was a Jean was a bruiser, but he 239 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.759 didn't play enough to have that kind of impact right on a game. You 240 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:45.840 know, you think of a guy like the tall dude of the two thousand 241 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.679 and one team. So who tall dude? Lord Woods? Yeah, Lorden 242 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:52.240 Wood. No, he was, you know, he was a great guy 243 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.000 underneath the basket, but he wasn't a tough no, no, beat the 244 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:00.480 hell. Michael Wright. Maybe at least he had that manner and he was 245 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.679 he had the person of a man. He was just Yeah, in those 246 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:07.159 two buckets. He they got huge. Yeah, it was like he grabbed 247 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:09.279 a rebound and we go to each other. That was a man read. 248 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.320 Yeah. Yeah, and that's what they needed against Princeton last year. We 249 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.679 did. You needed one two rebounds the game would have been over. He 250 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.600 got. He got a couple of rebounds that a Zulus never got. Yeah, 251 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:20.200 you just need to do that. Could take over the game like that. 252 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.399 All right, we're gonna be back. 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He's Jagins Alas don 339 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:38.799 if On. We have Brent Farah, the sports editor of the Arizona Daily. 340 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:42.559 Start Brett, how you doing good? Guys? Thanks for having me. 341 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:47.359 Appreciate it. You have a good time over the weekend. Yeah, 342 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:49.519 it was. I mean, it's kind of weird. I kind of joked 343 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:52.440 with my wife when I she was with me on the trip. We have 344 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.000 family that lives in the Raleigh area, so we kind of plan this on 345 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.400 purpose to be able to have me be able to go out with the Star 346 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.400 and Bruce pa go to cover Arizona Duke on Saturday or on Friday night. 347 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:04.640 And I joked with her, I go, do you remember what I always 348 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:07.960 say about our wedding day that I don't really remember anything that happened. That's 349 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:11.319 kind of how I feel about Friday a little bit like I need to see 350 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.200 pictures and things because it flew by. I mean that that two and a 351 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:18.359 half hours just went by so fast and so much happened, as I'm sure 352 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:22.599 you feel the same way Steve, where it was just a action packed you 353 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.240 know evening at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Yeah, no question, And there's so 354 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:29.359 many things and you have one story, two stories and you won. You 355 00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:32.000 don't think you're going to do it justice, and you have to do it 356 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:36.319 justice because it was fantastic. Yeah, it really was. I Mean the 357 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:40.279 most fascinating thing to me was a conversation that Bruce and I had actually in 358 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:42.680 the media room. We were kind of the last ones there as we were 359 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.920 leaving, and it was with a guy named Brendan Marx. He worked for 360 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.880 the Athletic based out of the Research Triangle area, and a couple of TV 361 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:52.039 journalists that were there, and I feel bad that I didn't catch their names, 362 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.480 but we were all talking sort of about the place in that area that 363 00:22:56.599 --> 00:23:00.720 Douke holds we think of Tucson and how relatively big of a city it is, 364 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:02.720 even though some people feel like it's a small town, and how u 365 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:04.880 ofa dominates the scene. And we were asking them, you know, is 366 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:10.440 Duke just like carry the load in terms of attention for the research Triangle area 367 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:12.759 of the Raleigh Durham area. They said, actually, it'll surprise you know, 368 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:18.400 it's NC State. If NC State's competitive and good, dominates ratings on 369 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.039 TV, dominates Page US. And it kind of makes sense because NC State, 370 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:25.200 like U of A, is fifty thousand students and tons of alumni and 371 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:27.640 everyone is kind of connected in some way, where Duke is a very small 372 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:32.279 institution all things considered. Jay, you know that from your family, and 373 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:34.880 so you know, people go to school of Duke and then they move across 374 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:38.279 the country to do big things. They don't really hang out necessarily, a 375 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:41.079 lot of them in the Raleigh Durham area. And so anyway, we were 376 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:45.079 talking about it and he said, at the local level, it's NC State, 377 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:49.079 UNC Duke in that order. At the state level, it's UNC Duke, 378 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:52.680 NC State, and then at the national level it's Duke by a long 379 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:56.640 shot, then UNC and then NC State. And I just found that to 380 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.359 be really fascinating because not that it has anything to do with the gay but 381 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.640 just how they were very attentive to media needs there was, you know, 382 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:07.039 and it made me wonder because we asked that question. They said, oh 383 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:10.240 yeah, they they want media here a lot, even though they're in a 384 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:14.240 national brand, because they sometimes played second fiddle in their own city right. 385 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:17.240 In fact, in fact, that so interesting. I said this to somebody. 386 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:18.519 I guess maybe the raleig beat right around, and it was. He 387 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:22.680 turned to me, says, do you guys always travel like this typically if 388 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:25.039 if Duke was on the road, we only have one guy, he said. 389 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:27.000 I said, no, not necessarily, there's pretty much one guy in 390 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:30.240 that's Bruce. But this is a special game. So here we are. 391 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:36.680 Yeah. Yeah, it really was so okay. So you're you're, you're 392 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:40.119 you're the I mean, had you been to Cameron for anything else? Was 393 00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:44.039 this your first time? I had, like I said, my in laws 394 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:45.480 living out there. We've I've gone, and I've been hung out on the 395 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.160 Duke campus a little bit. I had not been to a game though. 396 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:53.079 Back in four when Arizona it was kind of the first crack in the Ludolfson 397 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:59.039 regime in my opinion, was that four team when they were the nine seed 398 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:03.759 playing Seaton Hall in Raleigh at what was the RBC Center, it's now PNC 399 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:07.200 Arena where the Carolina Hurricanes and NC States basketball teams to play, and they 400 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.279 lost in that first round. They would have played Duke in the second round, 401 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.279 but ended up getting knocked out. I was a student reporter, and 402 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:18.559 we paid for the whole weekend in terms of flights and hotels, and so 403 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.960 me and one of my colleagues we stuck around and we spent I think the 404 00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:25.200 game was Thursday. They lost on Friday, we went to Chapel Hill. 405 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:29.240 On Saturday, we went to Durham and went and saw Duke and we kind 406 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:32.200 of snuck into the building. We just opened the door kind of like you 407 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:34.279 can do it, Mchaale occasionally. I didn't tell anybody to do that of 408 00:25:34.279 --> 00:25:37.480 your listeners, but kind of just walked in and looked around. And then 409 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:41.400 we got kicked out. Because the Duke women's basketball teams, I think we're 410 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:44.519 number one in the country at the time. We're practicing because they were hosting 411 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:48.920 the first round of the NCAA tournament on campus two days later. But so 412 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.839 we got about a fifteen second peak inside the Cameron at that point, and 413 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:56.319 I think my eyes darted straight to the you know, two thousand and one 414 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:02.519 National Championship banner from Minneapolis, and and then kind of got got ushered out. 415 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:03.880 But other than that, no, it was definitely my first time there. 416 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.960 And if everything that everyone says about it and an old barn feels like 417 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:12.720 a high school barn but on steroids and and just the noise level everything, 418 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:15.960 I'm shocked. I didn't leave it with a headache. Did you have a 419 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.200 headache? Get out of their seats? No? No, But it was 420 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:21.559 so cramped. I know it was cramped because the guys with the guys, 421 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:23.759 the kids were right behind us. Well, Bruce and I thought, so 422 00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.160 this is I know, this isn't talking about basketball, so I hope I'm 423 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:29.880 not waiting all that time too, which but this is like inside baseball and 424 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:32.559 the media. But Bruce and I were talking about this before getting there. 425 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:36.119 We're like, we always thought that the media were court side, but we 426 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:37.880 weren't totally sure. That's not the case in Tuson anymore. It's sort of 427 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.640 gradually evolved, and over the last couple of seasons, the last couple of 428 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.000 seats, which was Bruce and I think ap or something kind of got moved 429 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.640 up into that corner in McHale and so we weren't totally sure if media was 430 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:51.680 going to be court side, and then when we got there, we looked 431 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:56.960 at the scene and we're like, this makes total sense because if they didn't 432 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:00.319 have media front row with the tables and the teeth, the monitors that were 433 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.799 you know, rotating the ads in front of us and us sitting there, 434 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:08.279 the camera crazies who were like touching our hair, breathing on us, fitting 435 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:11.160 on us everything. Not not on purpose, but I mean just because they 436 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:15.599 were an inch from us, would be so close to the court and the 437 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.480 players that it'd be dangerous. So we actually serve a purpose in Cameron for 438 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:23.319 Duke to be a buffer between the students and the visiting players. So in 439 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:26.720 that sense, for anyone who's covering a visiting team, the chance to go 440 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:33.319 and sit and watch those games court side is a real interesting tree despite it 441 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:36.839 being a little jarring for the first few minutes when you're you know, being 442 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:41.039 sort of hovered over by these you know, thousand and eighteen to twenty two 443 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:44.200 year olds that are just screaming at the top of their lungs an inch from 444 00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:47.519 your ear. So it's funny because I was at Rolly two and I was 445 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:48.759 gonna lost in that first round. We did the same thing, but we 446 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.160 did it before the game, before the game before they lost in that first 447 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:55.480 round. And you go in, and I'm sure you felt the same way, 448 00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:56.559 Jay, when you first saw it. It says, really, this 449 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.000 is it. It's a small place. It's a it's exactly like the high 450 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.920 school gym, but better. Nostalgia that crazy. But Jimmy, have you 451 00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:08.519 ever gone to the White House press room? No, it's you think tiny, 452 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:11.720 it's tiny. It's just like this room. You're thinking, oh man, 453 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.119 it's not No, it's just a small it's once you get reality, 454 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.559 it's not real. It's not real. It's not real. No, And 455 00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:22.920 you know, and and again I know when I the day first time I 456 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.480 went to Durham, you know, the first day that there was daylight, 457 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:29.279 I told my Daddy said, we're going to the campus and the first thing 458 00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:30.440 we're going to see is camera. And so we did. We drove in 459 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.920 and did in that little circle that's right there, and we got out of 460 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:36.880 the car and I'm like, what the hell? You know, it looked 461 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:40.279 like tomorrow high school's gym, right, but nice but nice. Yeah, 462 00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:42.319 it was really nice and everythink it's just you know, just not the size. 463 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:45.440 But Brett, you know the nine and it's Steve Camston is too. 464 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:48.039 You know, there's less than ten thousand people go to these games. But 465 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.960 how loud does it get? Right? How you know is because Mikale with 466 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.960 five thousand more people, is it louder? Well at moments. But but 467 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:00.839 the thing with Duke that I would attest to you, and I'm guessing Steve 468 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.920 would say the same as other than halftime and other than you know, the 469 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.359 national anthem, it was that loud, non stop. It wasn't like there 470 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.200 were the ups and downs, ebbs and flows and like things will play on 471 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:14.799 the jumbo tron and they'll play the DJ music. It was the band and 472 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:18.359 it was the non stop just humming of the group behind us, which I 473 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.400 think I've kind of attested as to why I didn't get a headache or get 474 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.519 unnerved is because it almost became white knowing. Yeah, it was just so 475 00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:29.839 constant for the whole time we were there, even though it was right on 476 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:30.920 top of us, right, No, No, it was exactly that. 477 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:33.079 It was. It was cool. It was cool though. Up. I'm 478 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:40.200 glad I went and it was you got crazy during certain times at the end. 479 00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:42.839 Obviously obviously you know there was closet part the people that were there, 480 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.720 the X guys, because of how they do it. They show their jerseys 481 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:49.400 and in the house, YadA YadA, Grant Hill, YadA YadA, Grant 482 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:53.440 Hill shooting free throws to win someone a one hundred dollars award or something. 483 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:56.240 I mean, like it's so weird, Like they literally bring Grant Hill out 484 00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:59.599 and they're like, okay, NBA Hall of Fame. I think it's all 485 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:02.519 for Hall of Famer and maybe not or in Nate Smith Hall of Famer, 486 00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:04.759 but either way, he's obviously an amazing college player and played a long time 487 00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:07.680 in the NBA. I can't recall, but you know, long story short, 488 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.319 they have Grand Hill go shoot a free throw to win someone a prize, 489 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:15.200 and it was like, wait a minute, like the nostalgic kind of 490 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.319 closeness of it, you could tell is really legit and wasn't just for that 491 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:25.359 one game. I think they said that was the second game that that had 492 00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:27.640 been at. Is that right? Yes? The other one was Notre Dame 493 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:32.880 last January and were you stuck? And he was he was there and they 494 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.480 showed him obviously on the on the screen and it's President. He's there with 495 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:38.000 his wife Mickey. After the game, we had to wait to get out, 496 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.920 you know, because it's you can't get out. You just can't get 497 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:42.519 onto the students to get out, so you stuck in the students where the 498 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:45.920 Arizona fans finally kind of caught up to them and started yelling at them, 499 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.920 and they yelled back. Blah blah blah. It was fantastic because well, 500 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.839 the funnest part of the night was them saying safety school, safety school, 501 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:59.200 safety school, and as happens in Vegas, has happened in Tempe, has 502 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:00.920 happens in a lot out of these places that we see U of a Fans 503 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:06.880 travel to. Once the buzzer sounded and they were yelling safety school, and 504 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:08.279 it was still kind of a loud, you know, there were still nine 505 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:12.240 thousand people that were Duke fans in there. The U of a Chance got 506 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:18.319 really loud and kind of drowneded out, and essentially the Duke Duke students kind 507 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.680 of gave up and just walked out. As as Lloyd came out from his 508 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:25.480 I don't know what he was doing exactly, posting it with TV or radio, 509 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:29.640 but he walked across the court and and kind of fist bumps towards the 510 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:32.759 U of A fans leaning over the railing that had come and visited, and 511 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.680 it was there was there was a loud, a small but mighty contingent of 512 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.200 U of A people in that building for sure, Right, very cool, 513 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:44.559 very cool. You know again, you know, I watched it at a 514 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:48.440 sports bar in Vegas, no volumes, just watching the game, so zered 515 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:52.839 in on the game. I did. Couldn't catch the atmosphere although they kept 516 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:57.839 showing Shozhevsky on camera and he was never smiling, which we were like every 517 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.319 time they showed him when we were fingers at him and the arms cross probably 518 00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:07.599 arms cross looking. Yeah, there's a clip around the second the second Kaled 519 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:09.720 Love banks, then the halftime buzzer beater, he's like up out of his 520 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:13.400 seat and grabs his wife's hand, and yeah, I think it was probably 521 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.920 prescribed, you know, get him away from the crowd at half time, 522 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:19.480 but it was. It was really funny timing just because it looked like he 523 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:21.640 was just getting the heck out of there. But hey, the game, 524 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:23.200 by the way, itself was pretty good as you guys are sure have talked 525 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:29.039 about it. I was most impressed with even though Lloyd only stuck to eight, 526 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.200 and I asked a couple questions about that post game only stuck to eight 527 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:37.000 guys. He got all eight in early and Arizona's first nineteen points were scored 528 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:39.839 by at least two points a piece by all eight players, So sixteen of 529 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:44.240 those nineteen were two points apiece, so spreading it around a little bit, 530 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:46.480 and I think the leading scorers were fourteen, thirteen, twelve, twelve, 531 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:50.480 eleven were the top five, where the five starters basically in double figures. 532 00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:53.799 So so that that reminds me a lot of the one National Championship runner up 533 00:32:53.839 --> 00:33:00.440 team that had a ton of firepower and NBA obviously potential or future star in 534 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:06.720 you know, Richard Jefferson and Lauren Woods and Michael Wright and Jason Gardner and 535 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.000 Gilbert Arenas, but all of them averaged under fifteen points of games. So 536 00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:13.880 I think that's an interesting thing to look forward to with this team, is 537 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:16.039 how a different guy on a different night might be stepping up. The guy 538 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:21.480 that impressed me in Brett was maybe two guys three guys down from me and 539 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:23.240 right in front of us? Was Johnson when he got those rebounds? Yeah, 540 00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:27.960 he was right the fifteen feet in front of us. I don't mean 541 00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.920 this as a dig on Neumar Bollo, because I thought I thought Ballo played 542 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:35.559 fine, even though Philip Hoski is obviously a specimen for Duke, I thought 543 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.119 Bollo played fine and he'll have his moments. So I don't mean this, 544 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:43.319 but Kishaw Johnson played bigger than Umar Bollo and he's significantly not as big, 545 00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:46.039 and that impressed me the most from that vantage point, with seeing how large 546 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:50.839 se Shawn Johnson played in terms of his reach, in terms of being able 547 00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:53.759 to corral rebounds, to those couple of plays that we've seen one hundred replays 548 00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.000 on where he goes up over Philip Howski to dunk, like all those things 549 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:01.119 I knew set Johnson was capable of, but when you see him from ten 550 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:05.319 feet away in a game like that, it opens your eye. Well, 551 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:07.280 and that's the thing, you know, Steve, we what we saw. 552 00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:10.039 And I almost hate to use this expression with you go, what does that 553 00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:14.199 mean? Way? He had some man rebounds and so by that I mean 554 00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:19.760 rebounds that just other guys that have come through Arizona over a lot of years, 555 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.920 never have been getting you know, at a time and in a game 556 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:28.320 with guys that just you know, we haven't had well, we haven't seen 557 00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:30.719 Arizona guys do that. This team is built differently. Yes, it's just 558 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.159 way different. And he said that after the postgame, he he you can 559 00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:39.840 kind of see what he means right now because Caleb Love gut Stones, Bradley, 560 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:44.039 Stones, Johnson, Stones, these dudes, don't. They don't. 561 00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:45.199 They're not gonna give up. They're not going to bow down to anybody. 562 00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:50.360 I know plus minus is meaningless to some degree in basketball, but I think 563 00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:52.440 jam Bradley was a plus nine yea when he was on the floor for his 564 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:54.840 Like, I think I don't have the numbers and pretty, but eighteen minutes 565 00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:59.960 or something like that. I mean, there's there is definitely some deep opportunity 566 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.360 from this. You know. I was just mentioning that one team and I 567 00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:06.000 don't know why that one's the one I keep fixating on in a comparative way. 568 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:08.440 But maybe it's just skin because of the spreading out of everything. But 569 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:12.639 we talked about Keshaw Johnson. I don't think Keshaw Johnson's going to go for 570 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:15.639 thirty points a game once or twice this season. But you know, I 571 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:20.039 mentioned Richard Jefferson, a six steven forward and who could fly out of the 572 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:22.840 building, only averaged eleven and five, but that was a big eleven and 573 00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.840 five and that two thousand and oh one season. I think we're gonna see 574 00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:30.360 that kind of year out of Johnson too, where he just the numbers are 575 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:36.599 underplaying how important he is all over the floor for this team in his greatly 576 00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:39.239 lone season. I guess in too song and then guess what Conlin Boswell is 577 00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:44.559 the guy who gets named right of the week. Well, you you mentioned 578 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:49.239 man rebounds Kylon Boswell looks grown up and it sets the joke because of being 579 00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:52.440 seventeen and now eighteen, and they said that on the broadcast, and it's 580 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.920 the thing. But he looks so grown up to me compared to last year. 581 00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:59.559 But he's the same player. So you add in that maturity that experienced 582 00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:05.119 a little bit of size of thickness, and he he was legit on both 583 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:07.559 games last week, but specifically against too right right, No, great time, 584 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.440 great time, all right, Brett, thanks a bunchy Brett, Thanks 585 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:14.280 all much, man. Glad you had fun. Thank you guys. I 586 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.599 appreciate it so much. Talk No, it was it was all that and 587 00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:20.639 more. I mean, you could talk about a lot of a lot of 588 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:23.199 things. And then he opens up his press comes like in a very kind 589 00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:28.199 of like perspective. Way started almost to tear up, you know, about 590 00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:31.719 his friend having cancer. And he spent about fifteen thirty seconds there, and 591 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:35.280 then we went into the game. But that was kind of like, you 592 00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:37.480 know, this doesn't mean much, but in the big in the greatest sense 593 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:43.159 of the you know, and that's what is. That's what Tommy Lloyd, 594 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:46.519 that's what he is. That everything for him is in perspective. No matter 595 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:52.360 what we do and say and ask, everything comes back to a certain perspective. 596 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:53.199 All right, let's take our break. We're gonna come back. 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What does that mean? 646 00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:39.079 Yeah, just assume you know what it means. You know, I don't 647 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:44.280 you know why because we're on Saturday, a Friday. You know, we 648 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:45.800 got in, we went I mean, we got in just in time to 649 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:50.400 catch the start of the game. So we watched the game, you know, 650 00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:53.039 eight bunch before we're watching the game. Then the game was over and 651 00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:55.599 we basically went back to our rooms and just hung out. Okay, you're 652 00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:59.719 old, so let me so we get this all the time too. Okay, 653 00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:05.320 So December fourteenth, I cameraber December eleventhook game was that Florida, New 654 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:07.199 Mexico. Yeah fourteenth. Okay, So people who don't know any better say, 655 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.880 that's the best weekend of our day and the day and they forget they 656 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.239 went to They went to a title and won a title in April of twenty 657 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:20.480 nineth, of nineteen ninety five. Whatever year was. My point was a 658 00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:24.079 long time ago, so give me the weekend perspective. It was fun because 659 00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:29.239 you know, what what you want is to just feel good about where what 660 00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.559 you're doing, where you are. I would have felt good if Arizona had 661 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:36.559 lost the game by seven points. You're talking about basketball Friday night. Well, 662 00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:38.239 the thing is everyone's going to split right right, because we're going in 663 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.039 on Friday night. You're going to see the game. You're excited about seeing 664 00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:43.760 this game, in the atmosphere that we're going to see it. You know, 665 00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:45.119 we're in Vegas. We're having a great time, a whole bunch of 666 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:49.639 sixteen of us besides you. Besides you, was the rest of the place 667 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:51.960 kind of fixated on the game. No, no, we no, we 668 00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.920 you want to hear this. So we're in a place called Blondies. It's 669 00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:00.159 a sports bar in this mall. We're playing Hollywood Is and we stay at 670 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:02.800 a place called the Alara. They're both attached to. So we go to 671 00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:07.119 the sports bar a couple. There's probably sixty TVs in there. Okay, 672 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:09.639 not a one of them on the Duke Arizona game. When it started. 673 00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.440 We had to ask and so we can and they kept notup. We didn't 674 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:19.159 get We didn't start watching the game till after the first TV time out is 675 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.960 when they finally put the game on a TV where we were sitting, and 676 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.920 that was the only TV that had the game. What was going on? 677 00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:30.000 There were talk shows, eight Man Out, the movie was playing, there 678 00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:35.800 was hockey on, There's this bunch of NBA stuff, you know, and 679 00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:39.079 the oh there was one other TV. Because so we're sitting in a corner 680 00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:43.159 at a big table, there's sixteen of us and we're yelling, right, 681 00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:45.480 we're watching the game and we're yelling and screaming. Again, we got the 682 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:50.039 TV right next finally, about the second half, there was another table that 683 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.800 we could tell was cheering for the game as well. But that was it. 684 00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:57.480 Nobody else was watching the game in there. Nobody else was watching the 685 00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.400 Duke Arizona game. I mean the James Madison was on the biggest screen in 686 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:05.079 the place. James Madison was on it. That's what we're crazy. So 687 00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:07.440 anyway, so we're watching the game. I haven't had a great time, 688 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:10.239 and let's like, then you win the game and all of a sudden, 689 00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:15.960 your weekend no matter what, it's fun, right because now, no matter 690 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:19.199 no matter where you go back to fire night. What a great time we 691 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.800 had watching that game. And then you know we got the game. There's 692 00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:29.000 on the football game was at eleven o'clock Vegas time. So that's either gonna 693 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:32.159 make or break our day there, and it was tense. We were I'm 694 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:35.480 not gonna lie, we were. Every one of us was worthy. There 695 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.440 was losing that game. So I was in Denver, Denver on a layover 696 00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:42.280 there to get back home, and it was like the end of the second 697 00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:45.800 quarter, halftime and then the third quarter they were tied and then not tied 698 00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:47.880 and blah blah, and we couldn't see it because it was a back twelve 699 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:51.559 network. They didn't have the back twelve network. So I kind of just 700 00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:53.760 got my phone and kind of monitored that way. Them sid they're gonna they're 701 00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:58.440 gonna lose because they weren't playing. They obviously weren't playing well. I'm thinking, 702 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:01.840 what's going on because it because they couldn't get us when they got a 703 00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:05.960 stop, they didn't go down and score, you know, then they go 704 00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:07.840 down and score. Then that's you know, Colorado'd score, the Arizona would 705 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:13.000 score, and Arizona couldn't get over the top get the lead. And as 706 00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:15.880 we said, no, Flafita was not playing well. Well, don't tell 707 00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:20.159 Jid that. So it's funny because we got on the plane. Colorado was 708 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.440 driving in the fourth quarter at six seven minutes or whatever, and then all 709 00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:25.039 of a sudden, I see got on the plane somebody had on their little 710 00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:28.480 monitor and I said, how did they get the ball back? So I 711 00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:31.079 guess he missed the field goal. Yes, the badness was it, No, 712 00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:36.679 it was it was he because he's clutch. It looked, it looked 713 00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:40.480 good, and then it faded or hooked whatever. It just he just missed 714 00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.280 it. And and then ay, and any other year that goes in and 715 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:50.039 then Arizona's yeah, but you know, and I tweeted that out. Uh 716 00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:53.679 you know, either after the game, I think after the game said any 717 00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:59.360 other year, you know, with any other Arizona team, they lose at 718 00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:02.239 Stanford, and they lose this game. He said, but this team is 719 00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:06.679 different. And I don't know what's different about it, but it's different. 720 00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:10.679 And you know, you see, you just there's no as you know, 721 00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:17.599 as as uh Jet said, there's no flinch in this team. They moved 722 00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:20.800 the ball down I mean Joan of Coleman, Oh my god, on that 723 00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.880 last drive. I mean, holy hell, they handed him the ball. 724 00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:30.159 He's the dude, though he's he's the dude. That's when I started being 725 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:32.800 convinced about this team. It was him against Washington State. They can't they 726 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:36.719 can't stop him, you know, and he takes the pressure off of no 727 00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:40.039 for he made some plays in the last drive, but he didn't have to 728 00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:44.320 make all the plays. And and so you look at you look at a 729 00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:47.599 guy like Coleman, and and you and you see that you know, they've 730 00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:58.079 got something in that guy that makes no forefeita uh much better. You see, 731 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:00.320 you're ready to go. Okay, So here's here's what. Here's what 732 00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:10.159 Jedfish. Somebody asked Jed Fish, what makes Joda Coleman really good? He's 733 00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:15.519 very strong, He's low to the ground, He's got very strong legs. 734 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:22.679 You know, he has a he has a very similar bill to Maurice Jones 735 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:28.480 Drew, who was also very hard to tackle, who also had a great 736 00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:31.639 you know, lower body power that he could you know, that he could 737 00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:37.320 run with. And I had the privilege to coach Murray's when we were at 738 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:43.679 Jacksonville, and he's very similar to him in a lot of ways. You 739 00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:45.400 know. I mean, think about you know some of the really good teams. 740 00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:51.599 Arizona has had the ninety eight team, right, they had Jeremy McDaniel 741 00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:58.079 number eight, What the hell is his name? Steve who Arizona Pete number 742 00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:01.119 eight? Uh? God, Dennis north Cutt oh yeah, right back in 743 00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:07.280 the day. Yeah, and all these geries. But then they add running 744 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:13.119 back to Carter who uh the guy who ran for oh yeah, three hundred 745 00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:16.079 yards give me, give no, three hundred yards against issue. Oh god, 746 00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:19.639 why can't we think of his name back in the day, yes, 747 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.639 ninety eight, ninety eight? Ohay, I covered basketball, Come on, 748 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:31.079 h football? God, God, anyway, I'm gonna be pissed myself. 749 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:37.000 But anyway, but they had they had both. Uh they had both. 750 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:43.559 You know, quarterback right back to the twenty fourteen team, uh had uh 751 00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:46.679 Nick Wilson. But then you know they threw the ball all over the field. 752 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:52.760 You know those you have to have that that kind of sure. Sure, 753 00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:54.880 look at looking like this, this team too is built this way. 754 00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:00.760 They have t Mac, they have Cowing, they have the running backs, 755 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:05.000 they have a quarterback, they have a tight end. The lines are capable. 756 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.559 I mean, come along, freaking candidate, candidate. I know I 757 00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:12.159 was gonna say, he's give me eight inches and now you know not. 758 00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.880 So you have that and your quarterback is one hundred times better. And that's 759 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:22.719 you know, they that that's what Jonah Coleman and the other guys do you 760 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.360 know, Michael Wiley, you know had you know, he got a couple 761 00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:29.000 of passes you had a DJ Williams the score a touchdown. Mean, you 762 00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:32.519 have these guys that make them so much more complete that if this isn't working, 763 00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:37.719 this will work. And that's that's what they're doing. Yeah, it's 764 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:39.920 a it's a complete it's it's it's as complete a team as we've seen since 765 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:46.079 twenty fourteen because they have they have dudes on on both sides, and Steve 766 00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:50.760 I would argue special team. I would argue twenty fourteen wasn't a complete team. 767 00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:52.840 Their defense was not very good. True, true, but it's just 768 00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:55.920 that their offense was so damn good. You know, every time they got 769 00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:58.679 the ball, you thought they're gonna go down and score, and a lot 770 00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:01.119 of times on the scale a little surprise. On the scale of surprise, 771 00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:07.079 give me a number one to ten that that they're seven and three right now, 772 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:12.159 nine and a half. Really, yes, today, I thought they 773 00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:15.400 could get to seven wins with a couple of things falling their way by the 774 00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:20.760 end of the year. But seven to three right now, you still got 775 00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.320 Asu out there who we think Arizona is going to be. And then you 776 00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:28.079 talk coming in who you think Arizona can be. Yeah, I'm I'm, 777 00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:30.559 I'm a nine or nine and a half and there being seven and three. 778 00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:37.599 And here's something else, Steve, They're they're not mathematically eliminated from grading to 779 00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:40.559 the I saw that. You know, I have to break my leg. 780 00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:45.519 Turn left. No, it's not that bad, and we'll get you know, 781 00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:47.000 We'll got two minutes. But I want to play one more clip and 782 00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:53.119 that's you know. Uh. Jed was asked about this team developing a mentality 783 00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:59.840 of expecting to win, which is what you saw both against Stanford and against 784 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:05.239 two games that this team normally loses. Yeah, well, you know that 785 00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:08.480 was from the very beginning. We felt like we needed to build our program 786 00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:14.920 to that. I think the first year we talked about winners wanted, and 787 00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.239 then that's what we were looking for. And then that second year we talked 788 00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:22.599 about expecting to win and going into games with that mentality. After the second 789 00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:27.679 year and more and more we did that. Last year, I thought we 790 00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:30.360 got to a point of times. I don't even know if we were there 791 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:35.239 this year early on in the season, certain games, I think we probably 792 00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:38.480 would take a mulligan on a couple if we could. But I think, 793 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:45.840 as I've said numerous times that since the USC game, I think we went 794 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:50.559 into the Coliseum expecting to win, and I would say that every game since 795 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:55.639 we have had absolutely that conviction in the way we've played and the way we've 796 00:50:55.719 --> 00:51:00.760 prepared and the way we've practiced. And if you could play with confidence, 797 00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:04.480 uh, you have a chance to do that. Now, we've got a 798 00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:07.880 great challenge ahead of us with a team that I have the utmost respect for, 799 00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.800 that's also sitting at seven and three, that also is playing for a 800 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:17.519 lot that's also looking to continue on their momentum. So we need to put 801 00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:22.599 everything we have into this game and do the best we can with great confidence. 802 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:27.840 So I think that's when I say this team is different from the others. 803 00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:30.840 You know, this team doesn't believe that they're going to lose the game 804 00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:36.639 in the situations that they've been in, you know, particularly like I said 805 00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:39.760 the Stanford and Cal games, which again I'll just go go to the end 806 00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.880 saying that those are two games Arizona would lose the past years. Yeah, 807 00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:47.400 I think something we talked about earlier is the confidence. Yeah, this team 808 00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:51.440 has that confident has it? You know, no if a Fida has it, 809 00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:53.360 Joana Coleman has it. You know, the defense has it. Look 810 00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:55.599 at the things that have happened, look at the things that have budgeted. 811 00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:58.800 So I know, we only have twenty six seconds if you want to call 812 00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:02.840 the col next to uh. Jayden gets hurt, Noel steps in, Wyley 813 00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.840 gets hurt, Jonah steps in. And what if those things don't happen. 814 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:12.239 Something's happened for the reason. They may not even for me for the better. 815 00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:14.920 Yeah, yeah, you don't know, you don't know. All right, 816 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:16.079 take our break when you come back. Jody Aaylor coming up in the 817 00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:20.840 second hour to talk Cardinals and Kyler Murray. But we'll be back with breaking 818 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:21.519 news and Sammy