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Streaming live on the iHeart Radio Lamp. This is I on the Ball with

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Steve Ribera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back

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to on the Ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty I'm see Ribera. He's

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Jakin's ass and we had better have
some breaking news. This is I on

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the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty eight. All right, so

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a little bit of a controversy he's
kind of broken out that came out of

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the press conference today. I don't
know if you saw the question to Jason

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Cher asked about uh, one of
one of Arizona's a lineman who's on the

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starting on the depth chart, Tia
Savella, who he was one of the

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guys ejected at the end of the
A s U game last year. Remember

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the fracas after the I don't remember
the Arizona intercepted the past that basically four

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the game and when then when they
ran and then there was a there was

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a bunch of guys push around and
two ways you guys got kicked out to

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Arizona guys got kicked out. Savella
was one of them. So he's listened

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first one depth chart and Jason brought
it to U Jed's attention in the press

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conference. The Jed said, holy
crap, you know, uh, I

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wasn't aware or something. He just
he didn't really realize that that. You

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know, when you get kicked out
of a game, you got to miss

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the first half of the next game. Who's who's the buck up? So

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I don't know. But but anyways, what's happened is that so ASU has

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tweeted out or put on social media
that yes, they didn't do. In

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fact, have two guys that won't
be able to play tonight when they take

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on Southern Utah. But Christian Roland
Wallace, who played for Arizona last year

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and was the other Arizona guy kicked
out of the game, he's a USC

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now. Well, he played in
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week, So that the question becomes, what do you do with that?

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Does does USC have to forfeit the
game for playing an inaligiable fare and that

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may be a big deal down the
road. That's silly, but I get

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it. They should have known.
They should have known. It's funny because

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I guess who didn't know. They
didn't know ye and me, And it

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sounds like as you didn't know either. And I don't know if I don't

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know if Jason was the one who
brought it attention of as you, but

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he he brought it up at the
press con. I think they I think

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they had already known. I read
something earlier. Uh and then and then

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someone else confirmed it just been confirmed. Yeah. So anyways, but the

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question now becomes with Christian Roland Wallace
over there s you did he you know?

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Did he know? And not saying
it did you know? And not

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say did they know? And not
and think it didn't apply because he changed

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schools or what. But in any
in any event, Christian Roland Wallace was

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not supposed to play last week?
Did he have did he have it?

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He started? Yeah? But what
happened? Did he do anything? Yeah,

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he did play. He did all
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We saw a bunch of him,
We saw about We saw a bunch

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of all the airs on the guys
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former Arizona guys, I say,
in that game. So anyways, interesting

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thing. We'll see what happens with
that. But give Jason share credit for

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he's the guy who brought that up
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I'm gonna bring this up right now
before I get in trouble because my my

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my daughter was a volleyball player at
the in high school. Told me that

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I better report this today. But
Nebraska volleyball they I know, we brought

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up the thing that they were playing
that the game in that match, and

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that's in the stadiums, right.
Did you ever see the pictures of any

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of that? I mean, you
got this volleyball courts in in the middle

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of the field. It was kind
of towards one end ninety two thousand and

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three on the field as well.
It was on the field. It was

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sort of on a platform on the
field, but the crowd didn't ever they

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were sitting in the seats, but
there were there were some there were some

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people sitting around the court, around
the court nine a little ninety two thousand

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and three went to this event that
the basically world record for a a woman's

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sporting event the history of mankind.
And I believe they do you think you

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could pull that off here? Now? So so what's the what's the stadium

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holdine? So it was the South
for Nebraska football. Yeah, so that's

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what they could get every game so
this is what fifty six, fifty five

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whatever it is, but plus people
on the well, it could be about

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sixty. Keeps saying thet maybe that's
what he is with whatever changes they made.

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But in anyway, I think you
could get I bet you you could

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get forty five or about well.
No, it may be the way they

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market it and the way they sell
tickets for it. I bet you could

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fill up the stadium for a basketball
game for for the novelty of it.

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You know how they do those hockey
game hockey matches. Sure, you know

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they would, people would go,
people would go, they'd fill it up.

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I bet you, I bet you
that's special. It had to be

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in October possibly, yeah, Okay, you could do in November early November.

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Okay, you know, even if
it's an exhibition, right, no

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cruel. You know why we do
the altur in November mid late Luke eighty

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degrees Yeah, yeah, I mean
it depend on new you would hope for.

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You know, you're hoping for weather, right, you open that you're

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getting the decent weather, but uh, you know it's uh, I think

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I think you could do that with
with the thing. But ninety two thousand

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people for volleyball match, and there's
some great photos. There's some aerial phote

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you know, drone photos and stuff
like that. That we're done, you

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know, that very very cool,
real cool thing they did last night.

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So anyway, made some mystery,
made some serious degree. All right,

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Uh, well, what let's stay
on on women's sports. John Court,

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Uh, he's been a guest of
the guest of the show, and uh,

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he's uh the gymnastics coach, has
been, has been with the has

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been the head coach for six years, been the program for twenty. He

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got a three year contract extension today. So it looks like Dave Hicks running

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around, you know, getting signing
up and trying to keep this uh,

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this group of coaches that you know, we've we've said a lot of times

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they you know, you just feel
a vibe over there at McHale Center with

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the coaches that they have and whether
it's you know, the volleyball coach or

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the beach volleyball coach or the you
know, gymnastics coach or tennis coaches or

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whatever, they're just sort of this
vibe around McHale. Now. So John

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Court gets a three year contract extension, so he has not signed through the

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twenty twenty sixth season, so congratulations
to him. All right, so we've

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we're still waiting on the AEC stuff
with cal Stanford and smu U. There

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was a meeting that was supposed to
have happened on Monday, I think it

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was, and then there was a
shooting on the North Carolina campus, so

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I had to that they postponed the
meeting. That meeting has now been scheduled

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for tomorrow morning. There's various media
people are saying they've got the votes to

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get cal Stanford and smun there's others
in that they're not sure and they got

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to have a long discussion and nobody
really knows what's going to happen. But

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the belief is that something you're gonna
have a sense of what's going to happen

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with it, uh tomorrow, sometime
tomorrow. But they're you know, they're

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trying trying to meet before uh,
you know, they get into the weekend

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of a football games. So what
happens, Okay, you know, just

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find it. Just ran across a
post by Michael lev on Christian Roland Wallace

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back to the build things, he
said. Christian Roland Wallace was USC's highest

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graded defender in the game, so
he wasn't just out there running around.

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He actually you know, made a
difference in the game. So it'll be

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interesting to see how much of that
enters into whether night they decide if he

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if he gets suspended. Well interesting, all right, women's soccer Arizona Soccer

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is, uh, they're in a
in a brief tournament, I don't know

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if you call it a tournament,
but an event up at up at a

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s U. They're playing Kent State
in soccer today and they're in the sixty

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second minute and they're up the ree
zip on Kent State. Our our favorite

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coach, yes, thank you,
I know, and so uh so well

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not our favorite one, but you
know, she will love all of them,

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but she's she's she's certainly one of
the one of the you know,

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on the impressive list up in the
top top two or three over at McHale.

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So anyways, that's kind of oh
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friend of ours, Anthony Jamino,
joining the do we call it Phoenix Wildcats

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or phn xh p h n X
Wildcats. It's uh sort of a uh,

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you'd call them an online media,
not a fan site, not a

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fan sact. But it's a little
Mike Luke pictures of that side. But

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I think it's it's just the other
website that covers a team, and he'll

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be writing about Arizona and so he'll
be he'll be covering U Arizona, all

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of Arizona athletics for them. Anthony's
as right. Yeah, yeah, he's

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gonna be doing columns, not often
but sometimes. Yeah, so he'll be.

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He'll be producing some stuff. So
maybe he'll make himself available for a

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show because he hasn't up. He
says he's working, he's working. I

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don't know, I don't know.
Maybe he maybe he isn't. Did you

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ever you ever tell you the story
about Anthony with me? I probably have

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it. It's kind of a self
self serving story, but let me cannot

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take me. So I was writing
the last book before the Loop book,

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and Arizona was going through there twenty
fourteen. They were the number one team

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before actually got hurt right there,
and they asked me, can you do

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a book just in case they win
win it all? And I said sure,

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of course, And I knew.
It was like February and they were

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undefeateddfeated, defeated and all that,
and then they lost, and then things

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kind of change and I'm thinking,
oh, no, I have to change

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this. He may not win it. I have to change the sale of

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books. So we went with one
hundred things, and he says, what's

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gonna happen. I says, well, I'm gonna need to get a get

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a helper because there's no way I'm
gonna come up on a hundred things and

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finished by my deadline of may or
whatever it was. And it says who

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can I get? Who can I
get? And I said, I said,

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well, he's not available, so
I'll just ask Anthony. Who's the

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best guy I could get? Well, I couldn't ask him, so I

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asked Anthony, which was a joke
because he he wasn't the best guy.

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But first he wasn't my first choice, but obviously he was my first choice.

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I was just saying that, Yeah, he gets a kick it out

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of them all the time. Yeah, we love Anthony, known since forever

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guy. Yeah wait a hundred years
ago, so good, good on Anthony.

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It'll be good to see his uh, some of his voice out there

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for you know, covering Nars and
it's clever. It's clever stuff, all

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right, under the under the category
of the hashtag kiss of death. Cooper

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couple who happened would be my keeper, uh for for fantasy football. He's

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he's, he's he's had an issue
with a hamstring. He's had a setback,

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and he's considered a day to day. But you get a hamstring,

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man, it takes tis weeks,
especially if you're running running all over the

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pride, right and with what he
does, a hamstring is a really bad

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things. Yeah, I'm a little
upset right now about that, about that

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piece of it. So anyway,
Oh and uh, Joe Burrow was back,

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was back on the practice field today. The Browns have been kind of

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I mean, the Bengals have been
kind of non commental about whether he's going

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to be ready for the first game. But he is back on the practice

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field. After he had that,
they just kept calling it the lower leg

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issue whatever that was. Remember remember
when it happened, a lot of people

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thought he had blown his achilles or
something. So anyway, but he was

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back on the practice field, So
we'll see, uh how how how he

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goes It looks like Arizona Soccer just
scored again. No, that's an all

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look never Okay, So what else. That's it. Probably that's all I

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got right now. Okay, I
thought I had it in something, but

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I don't think i'd do it.
But I can't remember it. Uh some

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signing. You got the court thing
right, the court thing, volleyball,

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I'll get all that stuff. I
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was it. Yeah, and then
I think, you know, we're gonna

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get into the We're gonna get into
the depth chart here with Brian Peterson.

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Okay, you know these guys,
I mean, they really dig into it.

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Get some of his perspective on on
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think you know just that my my
eye went straight to who started a linebacker

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or justin broze position is And it
isn't justin Flow. It's Dane Lym Mooley,

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the guy from Washington. So you
know, but there might be some

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other stuff in there that, uh
that Brian Peterson. We'll see. I

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have one real quick. So Claikoff
was at the meetings this week with the

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college football playoffs, and I guess
some someone of the ESPN reporters cornered him

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and asked him about, you know
what the future is, YadA YadA,

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and he says, you know it
was all good. You know what's happened.

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It was nice to focus on everything
in the future. Blah blah blah,

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and he says, well, now
my focus on this year, I'm

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just focused on I was winning the
National championship. What else is gonna good

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luck with that? Yeah, what
else is it gonna? Say? Yeah?

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I you know, even though I
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team teams in the league, primarily
USC and and and in Washington, I

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have a hard time thinking that anybody's
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with one loss with this league and
be able to get you USC to your

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point earlier they didn't look good enough
to go and defeated in the league right

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on Saturday. Just from week to
week the week you know, I mean,

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it's hard to go from week to
week and not come out for one

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game kind of battered, tired.
You've gotten to help, you know,

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you've gotten your wins, but you've
gotten the hell beat out of you weekend

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I'll box. What's fourteen fifteen.
I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jakin's aus.

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Just waiting for our next yuest Brian
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him. He's called him. He
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had to uh we had to uh
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Brian, is you iss you?
Yes? Sir? So identify who

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you are and who you w This
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Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I think I think our listeners are

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waiting for rob Waldrop and uh,
you're not where rob Waldrop? Are you?

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No? I'm his understudy? Yeah
you know, yeah, I told

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I told Steve, I said,
you know, if we're not going to

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get the Hall of Fame football player, let's say if we can get the

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Hall of Fame media guy. And
we immediately went to the top of the

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list and got Brian Peterson. So
well, we probably weighed the same,

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so that means anything, He's lost
a lot of weight, so I'm not

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sure. Okay, no, then
they're not definitely wigh more than he probably

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wears it a little different, but
that's okay. Bright. We love you

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anyways. So interesting discussions with you
guys today with the depth chart. What

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struck you the most? Probably the
biggest surprise was was having Tsa listed as

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the defensive tackle starter, considering he
missed a lot of time during the training

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camp, didn't play in the last
scrimmage, seemed he seemed to have a

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lot of injuries during his time at
Arizona. I mean it limited it on

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only seven games last year, but
apparently he must have just done something in

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this last week or so since Camp
ended to really stand out from the pack.

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So, I mean, who starts
isn't really that bigg deal considering that

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they're supposed to play eight nine guys
on the defensive line, so it's more

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of a ceremonial thing. Well,
and Dad tried to you know, he

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said that a bit that you know, they have trouble, keep changing and

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all that stuff, But guys do
want to start, you know, no

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doubt, and anybody who played a
sport, you know, wants to be

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the starter. But is it is
it? Do you really expect it to

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be that fluid? Uh? You're
predicted for Arizona. I think you've got

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the two interior spots that they're going
to want to try to rotate regularly because

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of how much they're smashing into the
offensive line and those guys are over three

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hundred pounds. The edges I think
might be more about matchups. That the

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two starters Upshaw and Ward, will
will play the most, but they're going

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to need their breathers on that and
you'll see other rotation elsewhere. A lot

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of it will also dictate on that
you is doing with uh its pace.

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If they're playing fast, there's not
going to be as much of an opportunity

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to make subs unless the offense make
subs, because then you're they stop it

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until the defense has a chance to
sub. But if you're trying to sub

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in the middle of a fast drive, that can be a little chaotic.

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And getting back to the stuff about
starting and that it could just be ceremonial

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if you've got it. Last year, the opener at San Diego State,

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Tzo McMillan technically didn't start the game. He was back first punt return of

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the game, play for punt coverage
and off the field. He had to

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wear a different number because Isaiah Taylor
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jersey changed in time, so A. J. Jones ended up going out

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and starting, playing the first snap. So technically he was the starter in

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the season opener, But Temac is
the one who had the bigger season.

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So that's just how much being the
starter really matter? Team thing. Yeah,

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So so the one that caught me
and I think we had gotten a

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hint of it that justin flow might
not actually be the starter, and you

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know with a he's just a physical
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that we all saw. But uh, you know, Dani him Willie is

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the guy who just beat who beat
him out for the job. But I

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mean you still expect to see both
of those guys a lot, right,

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certainly, certainly, And yeah,
it's going to stand out that Flow is

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not starting, especially considering the amount
of hype around him, his background,

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expectations and whatnot. And it's not
that he did poorly in camp or anything.

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I think it might be more of
a matter of considering they talk so

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much about his energy and his juice
and his explosives and all that that they

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may want him to be specialized in
certain plays and like be a third down

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guy where you know it's always going
to be rushing the pass and whatnot.

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Becaus Ago Bama, their guy who
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on first and second down. He
was pretty much just in on those obvious

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passing downs. And he's in the
NFL for that. I'm drawing a blank

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on his name right now. So
that you have those packages where you get

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those guys. It's just kind of
like in the NFL, you see a

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lot of third down running backs and
then they become just as important as the

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guy who's who's out there taking the
carries on first and second down. So

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let me ask you, outside of
the win, and that's obvious for Arizona

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on Saturday's what's the most important thing
to see on Saturday outside of a win?

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I think just maximizing the opportunities when
they get into the red zone.

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They need to score touchdowns when they
if they force turnovers, they need to

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make the most of those. They
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mean they were to shut out or
shut an AU. That actually necessarily indicative

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of how good they're going to be
against better opponents. But you still want

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to see if it's third and eight, you don't want to see them get

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up an eleven yard game or you
know, guys missing a tackle out in

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open space and it leads to a
big play. Teams are always going to

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get their first downs and get their
yards and get some scoring and whatnot.

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It's just a matter of if you
don't want to see where it's just a

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given. Okay, Well, now
in a use scores and Arizona scored now

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and the UTH scores again, a
couple of years. I think twenty nineteen

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they beat an AU sixty five to
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a poor performance because you're giving up
forty one points to an FCS opponent.

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So I think it's going to be
you know, maybe not the final margin,

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but just how impressive and how comprehensive
they look in those you know,

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we always talk about in games like
this that, you know, because they've

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got Mississippi State coming up right after
that, how much they want to show

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or don't want to show. Is
Jed that kind of a coach or do

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you think he just he needs to
see a little bit of a little bit

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of everything. I think you'll see
a little trickeration maybe, but I don't

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think that they want to do everything. They want to do what they know

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is most effective in this game.
I think also the game plan for facing

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NAU is going to be a little
different than facing Mississippi State of different types

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of opponents, different quality opponents.
But also they're actually going to have film

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on this year's Mississippi State team to
look at, whereas it's pretty much a

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guestimate when you're facing NAU. Jed
said that he watched their last six games,

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and you know partically how those their
defense did against those games. But

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they have, like so many others, have new personnel. They've got a

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new defensive coordinator, so it's really
a guess what you're facing in this first

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game. So I think for that
first game, you want to make sure

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your guys know how to do their
play. What what do you expect from

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Delora status quote. I think he
showed towards the second half of last year

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the willingness to take the yards rushing
when they were there, to throw it

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out of bounds when needed, to
not always force everything, whereas in the

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first half of the season. I
mean remember that Mississippi State game where he

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was running all over the field avoiding
a fact, avoiding a sac avoiding fact,

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and then throwing it down field into
double coverage to an interception. Those

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things really didn't happen late in the
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Washington State game, and there were
there were other factors at play in that

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one. I think just showing the
further growth, maturity, and willingness to

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play within the system and not try
to feel like he has to freeland.

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You know, we talked to him
on Hunley last hour, and he said,

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what he wants to see is Arizona
run the hell out of the ball,

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Punish him a little bit, push
him around. What you know,

406
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:21.160
he hopes to see the line,
you know, dominate. It has to

407
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have sort of a dominating performance.
It can't it can't be kind of I

408
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:29.759
don't know, uh, equal or
whatever. And I mean they got pushed

409
00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:32.440
around, let you know, two
years ago. But that's what he wants

410
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:33.759
to see. Said, you know
they can fling it around. We know

411
00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:37.359
they can fling it around. I
want to see the running backs run,

412
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:41.279
is what he said. Oh absolutely, and I think you will see that.

413
00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:44.720
A good emphasis to do that and
to try to get everybody involved.

414
00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.279
But I mean Jet is Jet is
a guy that likes to throw the ball,

415
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.559
and they're not going to completely abandon
it. It could be a lot

416
00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:55.759
like the ASU game where they ran
the ball a lot in that one,

417
00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:59.559
more than in any other game during
the season. Because they knew that ASU

418
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.519
was not strong against the run,
and they knew that they had at the

419
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:07.240
combination of the line and the backs, and they should have a distinct advantage

420
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:11.440
offensive line to defensive line, and
why not take advantage of that? So

421
00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:15.839
what are you going to make of
Speedy Luca After watching USC last week and

422
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.039
their guy the guy who run thet
puts back and the kickoffs back in Kariah

423
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:25.440
branch yestastic, it seems like Arizona
has a threat like that if we get

424
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:30.960
to see him, Yeah, I
mean, he would be a great option

425
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:37.359
for kickoff and put return in my
opinion, but I think they they want

426
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.039
the guys that they know are most
sure handed in those situations. And there's

427
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.960
been mentioned of that that Luke had
had some some fumbling issues some ball protection

428
00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:51.599
early in, like maybe in the
spring, that caused them to be a

429
00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:55.359
little concerned about that. That's why
you would see a lot of Mike Wiley

430
00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:59.559
and Jacob cowing back there because those
they know, those guys are dependable with

431
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:06.559
the ball. Like Speedy is very
athletic and very elusive, but he needs

432
00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:08.039
to have that space. He's not
the kind of guy that you're going to

433
00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:11.039
hand off in the backfield. You're
gonna want to either pitch to him or

434
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.039
you're gonna want to do a little
swing passes whatnot and get him out into

435
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:19.240
the open field where he can dodge
people and not have to go through piles

436
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:25.559
with punt and kick return, you
have that potential to be able to work

437
00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:27.440
up the speed and then find the
angle. I think it'd be great for

438
00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:32.319
him. Maybe this is when they
give him that opportunity. I don't know.

439
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.079
Yeah, no, I that's that's
the thing that we're all anxious to

440
00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:38.480
see. I know, I know
we got hurt in the San Diego State

441
00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:41.119
game, and maybe that bugged him
all year, But you know, you

442
00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:44.640
just hope to see she said,
if they got a guy like that,

443
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:45.720
I mean, they're really stacked up
at running back. I mean, you

444
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.519
look at they got four guys there, and all four of those guys could

445
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:53.519
play anywhere pretty much if you look
at him. Yeah, it's always good

446
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:56.759
to have options and and it's it's
better to have it where you're like,

447
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:02.480
why isn't this guy playing as my
as opposed to why is this guy playing

448
00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:06.000
so much? Which has been the
case in the past. Yeah, no

449
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.359
question anything else. So what's what's
on your agenda to the next couple of

450
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.160
days to write? What are you
writing about? I mean I just put

451
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:18.200
out a breakdown of the depth chart. Just what kind of stood out and

452
00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:22.559
not the surprise It wasn't really too
surprising the projections that I did maybe ten

453
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.440
days ago. I think I had
twenty of the twenty two starters. Most

454
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:33.480
of them were pretty much pretty solid
there. Beyond that, we'll have our

455
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:40.839
regular preview coming out tomorrow and our
columnists will be doing some expectations to the

456
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:45.559
season. But I think it's just
just like the team, those of us

457
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.799
who cover the team just want the
season to begin so we can start writing

458
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.880
about actual results rather than what could
happen and what might happen or what we

459
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.039
think will happen. Instead, we
can actually say what did happen? What

460
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.720
do you expect to see? Blow
out? I mean big blowout, many

461
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:05.559
all out, take a while to
get a goal. Predicted was fifty one

462
00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:12.640
to twenty four, And I mean
that that could be a gradually pull away,

463
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.720
like they give up some scores early
on, or it could be that

464
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:20.640
they give up some late to make
it seem a little closer. But I

465
00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:24.599
think they're they're really going to try
to to as explosive or just as dominant

466
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:36.000
as possible offensively and play and fifty
one point they haven't scored over and the

467
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:38.920
last time they scored over fifty was
that sixty five to forty one game against

468
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:45.039
NAU in twenty nineteen. So getting
the fifty point mark would be I think

469
00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:50.559
a big step. If it's twenty
four to ten at half time, our

470
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:54.839
Arizona fans gonna get edgy or what? Do you think? The ten?

471
00:32:54.960 --> 00:33:01.599
Not so much the twenty four maybe, but you know it's to complain about

472
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:07.160
being up twenty four ten in your
opener is not something that Arizona has really

473
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.720
had to worry about. So I
guess that would be a good problem to

474
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:17.000
have. If it's thirteen to seven
or twenty eight to twenty one, that's

475
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:20.759
a little different. Yeah, you
know, a half times they're already a

476
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:23.960
bob dobs, they're already admitted.
No, they stuck around a little more

477
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:28.079
last year, I will say that. I mean two years ago against an

478
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:31.240
AU, they were up thirteen nothing
midway through the second quarter, and but

479
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:36.000
then through a pick six and pretty
much everyone up there in the press box

480
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:37.599
like, oh, well, we
see where this could be going. And

481
00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:40.640
next thing you know, it's twenty
one thirteen n AU. Yeah. So,

482
00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.559
and people were talking about a completely
different team, but people were talking

483
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:50.680
about basketball already. Basketball. It
got to basketball season real fast that time.

484
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.119
Oh, yeah, well yeah,
okay, Brian from ac Desert Swarm,

485
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:58.039
thanks for reporting in appreciate it man, hall of famer in our Hall

486
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.400
of Famer, in our book man, thank you, thank you, and

487
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:06.480
shooting for Rob Warldrip. We'll see
if we get him tomorrow. We'll give

488
00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:08.119
it a good stuff, good stuff
we can do. No that was,

489
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:12.519
you know, and again you know
those guys and we count on those guys

490
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:16.480
to you know, Justin and Levin
to Phillis and Troy Hutchinson and Bran Peterson.

491
00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:20.960
They're a good group of guys.
They dig in, they get,

492
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:23.559
you know, they get they go
dig out the knowledge and then we just

493
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:25.400
kind of run with it, which
is kind of fun. It's a good

494
00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:29.360
way to do it. I think. At least don't have to do the

495
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.039
work, so we don't have to
do the work exactly all right. Well,

496
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:34.559
plus they're young, they got time
to do all that stuff. I

497
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.440
gotta take a nap. We do
all right, thanks uh for to Brian

498
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:40.039
Peterson. So let's stick around.
We'll close out the show. Give us

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minutes to begin. Just want to
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You're gonna into year of job here. Well, first of all,

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fourteen to three on Kent State.
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all it's all happening, Steve,
It's all happening. Yeah, I'm wondering,

581
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no, because I'm reading about saving
bullying the locals local media for the

582
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depth chart. Remember, I guess
this week he did that. Maybe that

583
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was Michael Lev's call him because he's
one that started. Yeah. I don't

584
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get I don't get it. And
we've seen it here a time or two.

585
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:50.480
How the how the coaches, the
big time coaches trying to bully the

586
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locals, And I don't know what
the purpose is. We see it's it's

587
00:40:54.440 --> 00:41:00.039
power, Steve. You know,
they make so much money and means so

588
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:04.880
much to their schools and their programs. They get all full of themselves and

589
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.719
they feel like they should get to
make all the rules. Yeah, it's

590
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:12.440
it's a it's a power play.
I'm I'm a Sean did that here here

591
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.280
I'm publicly saying that. But wow, the a D and I think it

592
00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:21.119
was either it was a burn or
whoever didn't kind of say enough. You

593
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:22.039
know, come on, it looks
a bad look. It's just a bad

594
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:25.719
look. Don't give a crap,
but it's a bad look. Who in

595
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:31.440
the entire state of Alabama? Oh, is gonna tell Nick Saban But that's

596
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:38.840
and that's exactly it, you know, or Jim Harbaugh or or the Georgia

597
00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:42.960
coach's name I want to say to
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

598
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:47.400
you know that guy. You know. And it goes to pro you know,

599
00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:52.480
professional coaches as well. They get
full of themselves, Steve and and

600
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.039
you know that that's I mean,
Jed, Look, I know, Jed

601
00:41:55.320 --> 00:42:00.960
is you have to have a certain
level of ego to to be confident enough

602
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:05.239
to go get a job like sure
like that. Of course, that doesn't

603
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:08.119
mean have to be a turd about
right, Jed Fish is not a turd.

604
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:13.679
Tommy Lloyd's not any right. We're
lucky to have that, no question.

605
00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:16.519
We also they are kind of first
time coaches too. Uh. Success

606
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:21.039
has yet to happen. Not that
they would change it, but you don't

607
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:22.599
know, you don't know. But
you know, I didn't have to deal

608
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:25.079
with rich Rod in the media,
but you did, right. He was

609
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:29.079
at turn every now and again.
Yeah, he was a turn and I'm

610
00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:32.000
you know, you would see comments
from you know, writers because you know,

611
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:36.280
writers don't just write, they do
stuff on social media, so you

612
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.400
hear other little bits of stuff and
you would see that, you know,

613
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:44.079
rich Rod was a big baby after
a press conference, you know, and

614
00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:50.079
and and guys like and Kevin Sumlin
was just you know, so I think

615
00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.559
these guys, you know, and
I'm not mister psychologists, but I do

616
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:55.719
think these guys get feel that,
well, I make all this money and

617
00:42:55.760 --> 00:43:00.760
I'm doing all this stuff, so
I get to decide and everybody loves me.

618
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.039
Yeah. And then and then reporters
who are just trying to do their

619
00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:07.159
jobs, you know, you know, just get you get caught under the

620
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.400
wheels. In fact, it's it's
one't a bad look. And then if

621
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:13.960
you're a columnists Gregg or somebody else
who wants to kind of rip him,

622
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.280
you can't. Well that makes for
a better copy. Yeah, but but

623
00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:21.039
they okay, they you brought up
Greig example. Think about Greg, Think

624
00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:24.840
about the people, the perception people
have of his relationship with Loot. Right,

625
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:30.679
Greg didn't hate Loot, but people
thought he did because every once in

626
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:34.039
a while he would be critical of
Loot. Correct, And people have crapped

627
00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:37.079
on Greg to this day because they
felt like he was not fair to Loot

628
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:42.880
when all he ever did was,
you know, criticize him when he needed

629
00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:46.039
to be criticized. And now there
were times that things, you know,

630
00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:50.079
different things happening with that whole,
that whole feud that they had in the

631
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:53.960
whole bit. But the point being
that, you know, you see somebody

632
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:58.679
like Nick Saban act like that,
you think he's a big jerk, but

633
00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:01.880
then you're on his side because people
generally don't like they like the media less

634
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:06.760
than they like their Sure, but
it's again one of those things where the

635
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:08.639
few good men. You don't you
want me on that wall, right,

636
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:12.199
you want me on the wall,
but you gotta do I won't talk about

637
00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:15.360
it. Yeah exactly, Yeah,
exactly no, and and and and that

638
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:21.119
that that's the unfortunate thing. And
look, nobody asked, jed anything no

639
00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:24.280
crazy today? No, I mean
Jason Sheer asked, should this guy be

640
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:28.880
playing? No, But that's never
been the case so far. It hasn't

641
00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:32.800
been the case even with tom and
Tommy after the first round loss took every

642
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:37.079
question. Uh it was, and
he said, and he continued to say,

643
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:38.800
it was on him. He you
know, and he's gonna get better

644
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:43.000
from it. YadA YadA. Uh, it's still fresh. This is all

645
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.679
still fresh. Uh. Dick Tommy
never I don't did did did? Did

646
00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:52.599
Greg get on and Tick Tommy?
I can't not any more than he did

647
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:54.760
on with Luke. He would criticize
Dick if he needed to, And I

648
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.119
can't remember. Dick was a different
He was a different cat when it came

649
00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:02.199
to that. There were a lot
of times that he thought we were easy

650
00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:06.559
on it. Oh sure. He
actually said that to me one time.

651
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:09.159
It was after the Melvin Smith gunning. He said, I thought you were

652
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:13.000
going to rip me about that.
And I said, why would I rip

653
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.280
you about that? Melvin Smith shot
a gun at somebody? How are you

654
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:17.760
to blame for that? I mean, are you to blame for him being

655
00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:21.360
here. Well, but did you
know that he carried a gun and he

656
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:23.840
was going to shoot at somebody at
skate Country, shot in the air.

657
00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:25.639
Well he did, I know,
but he shot, you know, but

658
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:30.679
he fired off some shots that skate
country, you know. And and and

659
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.840
so Dick kind of he knew it
was part of part of being a coach.

660
00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:39.480
It's some some coaches think they're above
criticism. Kirby Smart, the Georgia

661
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:45.039
coach, if it took a while
to dive into my brain. But you

662
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:47.079
know, but you know, and
that's how things are, you know.

663
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:52.199
Urban Meyer was another one of those
guys. You know, he very little

664
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:54.760
patience with the media when all they're
trying to do is there jos. They're

665
00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:59.679
not trying to make you look bad. They're just trying to report on what's

666
00:45:59.719 --> 00:46:01.840
going on, right right, No, And in fact, it's my thing

667
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:05.800
is with the locals. Right the
locals are there pretty much every day.

668
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:08.519
They're chasing around trying to get a
quote from you or the team or whomever.

669
00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:13.159
And it's the national guys that they
you know, kid gloves they don't.

670
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:15.440
And and let's say I talk about
this a lot with Sean Sean,

671
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:20.480
he you know how we treated the
locals, but he was kind of friendly

672
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.960
with some of the Nationals. Who's
the one that screwed him in the end,

673
00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:29.440
the Nationals, right big time.
Yeah, be careful who you get

674
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:31.960
in bed with. Yep, you
know, yeah, I'm not telling you

675
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:37.519
what you just have to say.
I know, I know. It's it's

676
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:39.039
it's you're you're hard percent correct,
Steve. I mean, it's just like

677
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:44.360
they feel like, Okay, if
I'm getting national attention, then I need

678
00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:46.239
to be this guy. Yea,
But if it's just those guys, I'll

679
00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:49.280
be whoever the hell I want to
be, right right, Yeah, yeah,

680
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.199
yeah, it's flick flick you with
like a bug. Yeah kind of

681
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:54.079
when in the end, those we
got to call those guys are just trying

682
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:58.199
to do his report. What's going
on? Yeah? Yeah, well all

683
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:01.519
right, you're on there are not
on the ball all Jeff. I've called

684
00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:06.239
a few times. I'm told you
I'm big duck fan. Yes, sir,

685
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:09.280
Hey, Jay, you're going you're
chugging this weekend. I'd like to

686
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:13.159
drop by and see us. Where'd
you say you're sitting up? Well,

687
00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:17.039
we usually try and sit up in
the last row right by the Jefferson Gym.

688
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:20.960
They're on the mcail lawn, so
kind of along the tree line there.

689
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:24.159
That's where we try to get So
we kind of have to time it,

690
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:28.079
so you just kind of look for
we we have we we always put

691
00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:30.599
up three of those U of a
U of a tense. I have a

692
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:36.719
light blue SUV, so uh,
just just look for that and uh and

693
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:39.000
we just never know where we're gonna
end up because it's the first come,

694
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:43.960
first serup kind of thing. All
right, I'll find you. I'll be

695
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:46.840
wearing my duck swag. Well,
if I see you'll probably be the only

696
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:50.159
one wearing duck swags. So if
I see it, I'll stop you.

697
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:54.039
What do you think my wife will
be wearing? She works with the you

698
00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:57.960
of a Okay, and the more
of those checks, the more of those

699
00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:01.079
checks get deposited, the more I
have. What do you? What do

700
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:04.280
you think of your what do you? What do you think of your ducks?

701
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.559
It looks like they're underplaying them a
little bit, you know, maybe

702
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:10.039
the you know behind USC in Washington
and maybe Utah? What do you think?

703
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.440
I mean? I'm a homer,
I'll admitute, but I think that

704
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:20.280
you're gonna go eleven and one whin
the back and get him the fourteen.

705
00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:27.679
All right, I'd never think you'd
be a homer by saying that they're lost

706
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:34.119
to Washington. Okay, all right, all right, okay, well good,

707
00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:36.559
that's legit. I mean, you
know, and there are some people,

708
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:37.639
I mean I saw some you know, one of the national guys put

709
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:42.159
put Oregon in the playoffs, so
you know it's not out of the question,

710
00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:45.079
that's for sure. Jeff, thanks
for listening to us. Appreciate it,

711
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:46.960
man, I love you. Sure, guys. Okay, well I'll

712
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:52.039
look for you Saturday. Thank you
appreciate it. Okay, yeah, okay,

713
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:57.880
So I got a little soapbox with
them. I just felt. I

714
00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:00.440
just felt because I found the question
of the depth chart and then I just

715
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:04.719
read the savement stuff and really,
can't we just all get along. We

716
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.239
asked questions to answer him, We
asked questions, and what's so hard about?

717
00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:12.480
What it's so hard about? Well, no, no, I'll revisit

718
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:15.639
and I'll bring you into the story. I'll bring you into the story because

719
00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:17.239
and I don't like doing this,
but I'll bring you into the story.

720
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:22.840
Twenty five years ago, Bobby Knight
was here whatever, and you know,

721
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:27.039
cranky Bobby Knight was here and and
you know, being cranky, and you

722
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.079
said, what did you ask him? I asked him why he came in

723
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:36.280
and he yelled at Bob Young for
republic, for writing something. He didn't

724
00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:38.920
do any interviews leading up to the
NC Double A tournament. So so Bob

725
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:43.719
Young went and interviewed other people about
him, and he said something in there

726
00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:45.800
that that Knight didn't like. So
he walks into the press conference. Before

727
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:50.199
the press conference starts, he calls
out Bob Young and lights him up.

728
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:52.840
And so then he said, okay, now I'll take questions. I raised

729
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:54.880
my hand and I said, I
asked, why are you so worried about

730
00:49:54.920 --> 00:49:58.840
what was in the Arizona Republic When
you've got an NC Double A tournament game,

731
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:04.440
you got a courage? He went
off. Don't I remember that I

732
00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:07.400
was on the road at the time. He made it on CBS, made

733
00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:12.119
it on the pregame show. Remember
that was like right before the right maybe

734
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:14.760
a year or two before we brought
up brought up the whip. Remember he

735
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:19.760
brought up the whip and to motivation
and he was obviously be facetious, but

736
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:23.119
he made news. So what did
he say? He just you and he

737
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:27.079
well, he went off on the
media. He sorry, the media does

738
00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:29.280
this. They do that to make
me look bad. They do things on

739
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:31.199
purpose. I hate the media,
right yeah, and he goes, he

740
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:34.119
goes, you know, you know
I hate the media. You guys are

741
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:37.880
and I actually got another question and
I said, well, I said,

742
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:40.559
I said, coach, we ask
you a question all we get our smart

743
00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:43.800
ass answers from you. And he
says, well, I'll tell you what.

744
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:45.320
You don't ask me any more questions
and I want to give you any

745
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:49.599
more smart ass answers. And that's
how it ended. At the end.

746
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:52.679
Well, guess didn't guess what at
the end of his career. Guess what

747
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:57.800
he is smart as a media member. Oh yeah, he became a media

748
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:02.039
guy. Yeah, so you know
again, you know what I'm I'm a

749
00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:06.400
turn too. I didn't have to
ask him, that could have gone,

750
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:08.440
but he could, you know,
baba sitting right next to me, and

751
00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:14.599
he was like, hell did I
do? Yeah, you want to talk

752
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:16.039
about it, bully? I mean
I sat. I sat next to him

753
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:21.480
at another you know, uh tournament
here I was when he was a Texas

754
00:51:21.559 --> 00:51:23.920
Tech that came here and I was
the I was the press conference moderator.

755
00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:28.239
I sat right next to him.
He didn't remember me, but he again,

756
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.960
even in there, not always and
not always as vicious as that.

757
00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:37.000
I would say, vicious, yeah, but you know, always with some

758
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:44.440
sort of agenda crappy comment about somebody's
question, right. You know. Well,

759
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:47.880
I ended up having to cover him
that that year because I was eighty

760
00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:52.840
nine and Arizona had hosted, so
they were in the West Regional in Vegas,

761
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:55.639
and I was the backup guy.
So I had to cover his game

762
00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:00.199
the next week, you know,
and I had to face some up at

763
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:02.320
the press conference the next week too. But he was fine, and actually,

764
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:07.199
let me say this because I know
I got to complete the story the

765
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.719
next day. After their game.
The next day, he pulled me aside

766
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:15.840
in a hallway. He didn't apologize, but I guess he would say.

767
00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:20.119
He explained himself, you know,
to me, what about what happened the

768
00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:24.039
day before about Bob's comment, or
to me you know, he he didn't

769
00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:27.679
apologize for yelling at me, but
he just said, look, you know,

770
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:30.159
I don't like the media. You
guys get on on my nerves.

771
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:32.480
Sometimes I just want you to know, no hard feeling. Basically it was

772
00:52:32.519 --> 00:52:36.960
about our age. Now I meant
five sixty whatever it was, I don't

773
00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:39.039
know, so I did have it. This is not brain surgery. This

774
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:43.119
is not brain surgery. I don't
care what. Anybody on the radio doing

775
00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:45.480
stories is not brain surgery, you
know what. And doing that, being

776
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:49.280
the coach and dealing with the media
is part of the job, without question,

777
00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:51.119
you part of the job. You
get paid a lot of money to

778
00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:54.639
It's not an unnecessary evil without part
of the job. If you're gonna give

779
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:59.079
you three and a half million dollars
to get over it, do this part

780
00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:00.320
too. By the way, if
it brain surgery, don't have a few

781
00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:06.440
dead pretties because I can't do brain
surgery. All right, that was fun.

782
00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:08.280
Hey, Lamont Hunley, thanks you
for being here. Brian Pearson,

783
00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:12.239
thanks for stepping in. Rob Waldrop, we hope we talked to you tomorrow.

784
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.239
We'll be back tomorrow justin spears,
Jake Fisher coming on and maybe and

785
00:53:16.280 --> 00:53:20.159
maybe Rob Waldrop, and we'll be
ready for the any excuse me, we'll

786
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:24.039
be ready for and yes, first
first week of our fab five Friday pick,

787
00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:27.559
so be sure to come around.
Lots to go, lots to go

788
00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:29.239
through tomorrow, so thanks for being
here.