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Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Heay,
welcome back to on the Ball here on Fock Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve,
He's Jay Now Justin with breaking news. But we do have some breaking
news. It is not Justin today. This is I on the Ball breaking
news on Fox fourteen fifty. Justin, who are you? I don't know,
Justin? What would I say? Just Justin? I guess it was
just like one of those Justin like is like twelve in terms ago. No,
no, because you said just because they did it Justin. Yeah,
maybe that's right because we're talking about Justin Spears, he tweeted the new episode
of Island Time podcast. Yeah, no, it was. It was some
priming to say to say Justin. But yeah, we were talking between the
break about the new podcast episode that Teto McMillan and if Afita just dropped on
the Game Network app. They didn't say too much about the situation, but
it does seem like they're in good spirits to say the least. And yeah,
certainly they certainly didn't sound like devastated that their coach left. They said
that they had been all through all the emotions in the last they couldn't understand,
they didn't fully know, they could how it had been a long day.
It's good to be eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old and have the
world at your feet and you can say whatever you want and yeah, blah
blah blah. You know, and you get your own you get your little
platform to do it and probably making pretty good money. Yeah. But I
don't think we spoke about this yesterday. We might have touched on it,
but I wanted to bring up the fact that Dorian Singer has found his next
home. He's transferring to Utah Utah his one season at USC, so he's
kind of going from the West Coast team to West Coast team here. But
we'll see Utah. I mean, not that I care that much, but
I'll always wonder, you know, was there any discussion of him coming here,
or maybe he was thinking about coming here then Jed left and so he's
going to Utah. I don't know, but I just, you know what,
in the end, I really hope things turn out well for that guy.
You almost feel like he got kind of lost, you know, after
he made that decision to leave Arizona, and now it's kind of like he's
trying to get it back. And unless someoney wrongs, you really don't want
to root against him, right unless you lose a bet on him. Certainly
didn't wrong Arizona because he didn't even crap against Arizona. That's a good point
too, Stee Jay Jay kind of touched on this earlier. But Efeesian's Pricesock
has entered the transfer portal from Arizona. We'll see where he ends up.
Did he give any indication that there was just company could be thinking about just
no, he just he just he didn't. He didn't post uh uh you
know a stage. He just posted his photo and said officially in the portal
or something. Yeah, and then when the news dropped yesterday about Fish moving
to Washington, he posted a photo of the team at the Alamobile with a
heartbroken emoji. So yeah, yeah, a lot of a lot of emoji.
Just tiphering again, you know, thirty six hours, you know whether
or not he's doing this, and you know, he jumped into the portal
as an option, you know, to make sure he's got his options open
or if he's gonna wait and actually meet uh, you know, Brent Brannan
and then make a decision that you know, you'd like to think that these
guys realize what's at stake, right, and that they'll you know, take
a minute and make a decision based on not who you think Brent Brandon is,
but actually meeting the guy. Yeah, you don't want to make an
emotional decision that could really and then you know it takes a moment. He
got time to figure it out, you do, uh. Tulia Takavloa has
committed to the NFL draft, initially applying for another year of eligibility. The
NCAA has denied his request for another year of eligibility, forcing this pivot to
right, so he had to go. People are talking about, you know,
whether or not he actually projects as a pro, so that it's kind
of up in the air to see whether or not he'll be drafted where he'll
be drafted. Did you see last week, I guess cam Ward got out
of the NFL draft, Yeah, to go to Miami, which I thought
was interesting and like, okay, I haven't heard of that. Yeah,
that was that's interesting because he had declared for the NFL draft I'm going to
the NFL and then it was like a second thought, and then you think,
obviously speculation, But do you think that that could be a situation where
a player sees the kind of money they could make in the NFL and actually
maybe the NFB because they were talking about that with Marvin Harrison. But that's
a different level of money going you know, one, two three in the
draft right right? But now, I you know, yeah, I mean
maybe he thought, Okay, I go to Miami and make a little bit
more, maybe get some more skills. Do you don't have a good season
and improve my draft stock? You know? There there certainly is more of
that. I heard the other day that I think season before last or draft
before let or last year's draft, that there were sixty plus something underclassmen in
the draft that had declared for the draft, and this year they're only like
thirty four underclass And that telling you that underclassmen are saying, I can make
sure decent money and you know, get another year of playing time and I
don't have to go to the draft. Right now, I think you see
that a lot of football and basketball with the guys, because you know,
the G League is the G league, you make X amount of money,
why not stand another year or two just to before if you can get you
know, six figures and playing in college because you know, I'm hanging out
at you know, fudd Frogginfrikin or whatever. Yeah, why not? So
I'm thinking, would you think that it's tougher to make the NBA than it
is the NFL And there are fewer spots, so totally so why not stay?
That's just me because there are fewer fewer places. I was just thinking
about it. I was like, well, that's a good question. But
speaking of making the NFL, we have some people that could be leaving the
NFL after this season. Jason Kelcey, after after the last he had retired
after last night's game, indicated to his teammates that he will be retiring.
He's played his last game. Honestly, a pretty sad way for him to
go out after they showed him at the end of the game. I don't
know if you saw then on the band well he was still sitting on the
bench and the tears in his eyes that look like you know, and he
was hugging the coaches. Yeah, I believe it might have been his offensive
line coaches. You know, the way Philadelphia just laid down, blamed out,
laid down, flamed out over the last last part of the season.
Crazy, and it seemed to only get progressively worse for the defense specifically.
The offense had its problems all year, had its you know, had its
words, but the defense really became Swiss cheese by the end. It was.
It was pretty strange to see. But the Buccaneers did did, I
mean dominated them. Honestly. It was ugly. It was ugly. It
was ugly, and I hit the under on that Steve more important than anything
else. No, no grudges to be had. I have no grudges to
once your game. I chased all weekend and then got it all back last
night. That's what The Atlanta Falcons have interviewed Bill Belichick for their head coaching
job. Really or so I saw that. I saw that Bill Belichick interviewed.
I think it's I think it's the different announcements for these for these high
profile head coaching jobs this year. We've seen the Chargers release their press statement
saying, hey, we interviewed this guy. Uh and now that the Falcons
are saying, hey, we've come out and interviewed Bill Belichick. Whether or
not that means anything is interesting. But we'll see what happens, because I
guess the harball is really making it tough on Michigan. But you see what
he what he wants. Don't tell me because I just saw this story.
He wants it to be. You know how most contracts have if you break
n C double A rules, you can get fired. He wants. He
wants the opposite. He wants to say, if I get caught breaking n
C double A rules, you can't fire me. He wants in his contract,
Okay, if I set the house on fire, you can't get rid
of me. He's trying to get. He's trying to get an immunity clause
in his contract. Why would I know why they would put up with this?
But why would they put up with this? I don't know. Isn't
he isn't he isn't he saying I don't want to come back. I'm gonna
put I'm gonna throw this out there and if you give it to me,
great, but I know you're not gonna give it to me, and and
and and so I can say to Michigan fan, you wouldn't meet my demand.
So I'm going to I'm going to the Chargers. I mean, he's
like, it's like you you know, it's like you're you're you're you're renting
a house to somebody and say, you know what if I bust the windows,
piss on the carpet, you know, set the house on fire,
I still get my deposit back. It's kind of what he's saying, get
and it's crazy that that might work the negotiation. Yeah, and Michigan didn't
say no, I don't get it, because Michigan can get anybody you want
to go, why not just wait for the next bus. Okay, see,
dead fish is out there. But the modern makes a fantastic point with
the NFL people. Yeah, he makes a fantastic point. Look, you
know, Seattle still hasn't even hired its head coach. All right, they
could go get a guy and he could be out in three years and guess
who's down the street. Yeah, right, right, right, Okay,
And that could be part of what he was thinking. He did come out
in a press conference. We're talking about jetfish. He didn't come out in
this press conference and say, you know, hey, Pete Carroll's gonna be
around. He's gonna be a mentor. He's gonna be this, he's gonna
be that. So uh, Jay might be on the money with that,
I got it. Uh. Sacramento King's head coach Mike Brown was fined fifty
thousand dollars for hart didn't he for his rant that went quite viral because he
had his assistant bring a laptop that was filled with the game footage with the
clips of the of the different misscalls from the referees went quite viral. A
lot of NBA coaches have been complaining about the referees lately, and has NFL
too. Yeah, the week, that's a new one though. It's like,
you know, that's like new technology now you're bringing you're bringing. Not
only am I saying it here? It is right? And I thought the
Toronto did you? Were you the intern for this last week? I wasn't,
but I did see that. I don't even know who the hell he
was until till so we said he's the coach? Really yeah, twenty three
to two, whatever it was, it was, it was how you I
will break you. I will break you. That was like when said I'm
glad this game was not in Serbia. Kick ass, like like our guy.
But then, yeah, I that was all for breaking news for today.
I don't know if you guys had anything specific that you guys wanted to
to bring into the No. I you know what, I I know,
I didn't. I was so zeroed in on all the you know, the
coaches stuff. Let's talk about that. Back about the Twitter thing that with
you and Greg, I thought it was I totally agree with you. I
totally agree with you, which is which is a rarity. No, but
but it's true. You said, what does the contract mean anymore? It
doesn't. It means nothing, That's the whole thing. He said. I
was concerned. Well, you know, it's funny because you know the Jedfish's
press conference to day was it was on YouTube, so I didn't see it
when it happened, and went after the fact. And then I'm looking down
the down the comments and way more than the majority of the comments where people
who are just basically referencing that he'll be gone, that if Florida opens up
next year, he'll still be gone, and and so yeah, and and
I'm not not to criticize Jet for that, but just to the point that,
Okay, so he's got a contract with however, whatever the buyout is
and stuff like that, if if somebody wants you, whatever the buyout,
I mean they gave they bought out a Jimbo Fisher's contract for seventy plus million
dollars, right, the bat doesn't even matter anymore. Well, Arizona bought
out something for seven and a half. Yeah, I mean, it's the
greatest job in America right now, right, being a fired division. Right,
you've never seen me again? No, I would be in in Montego,
you know, so again to you know, not not not to continue
to hammer on on Port Greg And he yelled at me on the text message
in a in a loving way. You know, the contract just didn't matter.
It just did not. I agree, it really did not. Uh.
You know, there's a lot of people being critical of Arizona of the
administration, saying if they'd have moved on this, they'd have gotten him signed
right after the Territorial Cup, even more so because now there would have been
more time since the contract had signed for him for him to say here.
You know, look, Jed talked about the high pride. They called him
on Saturday afternoon and by Sunday and by Sunday after him he was the head
coach and he was signing a contract yes Sunday afternoon. How long do you
think that that reputation will stick with him? I know, I know it
is who he seems to be. It's who he is because of what happened
here. It's it's stuck to him. Well, let's we knew because he
was an assistant and assistant assistant. Here's another thing. He's never been in
a place where he's had to deal with a possible fiery right, So how
good do we know he is? You know, you stay three years,
then you move, you stay three years, well ten years? How good
are you? Again? Sorry to cut because I don't find anything issue with
him except that he moves quickly and he and he did make a big point
an express conference about making sure he brought all his all his staff with him.
And so we we are. Jerry is still out as to whether or
not he can be the central CEO, as Steve was saying, without the
proper middle manager. But look, you know, the question is did he
hit lightning in a bottle this year without question? Or you know, was
this something that he was going to be able to replicate next year, or
was it lightning in a bottle and the next year as it as it has
been at Arizona. You know in its history, there was gonna be a
back pedal. Is there three things? You just said? Yes, yes,
and yes? Come on? He he didn't want to change DeLaura?
Right? What if he what if he didn't change DeLaura? Right, he
doesn't have this job. He's still here and people aren't so sure they wanted
him to stay here? Right if he only want if he goes five and
seven again, if he hadn't gone to a bulg if he had kept Laura
hadn't gone to a bulgame, he's on the hot seat next year, right
dead. You know, they did what they did, and all credit to
them for doing what they did. Yeah, you know, it was it
was it was. I mean, it was a stretch of seven games that
you you'd have to really go back and look. Has Arizona ever had a
better stretch seven games? Ever? Ever? Have ever had a better stretch
of time? I hope you maybe, yeah, maybe not. But there
was no guarantee that that was gonna be any fast. Anything that is bad,
nothing, whatever, should be shamed because he puts you on a nice
market carpet ride. I hope you enjoyed it. It was very fun.
It was very fun that month where basketball and football was undefeated in the same
month. Yeah, when with that, we don't know when I'll happened again,
but we were glad. I enjoyed it. It was happening. All
right, Okay, we're gonna come back. We got Ortiz Jenkins, quarterback,
one of the quarterbacks of that ninth grade ninety eighteen, and he had
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the Park on Fox Sports fourteen. Hey, welcome back to the ball.
Here on Fox Sports Fortune fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake. Now we
have a great port Tez Jenkins quarterback for u A late nineties. How are
you or Teas doing well? Guys? How you doing? You were fine?
Thank you. You were quoted heavily to day by a number of people
on your comments about Brennan. You must love the man. Well, I
mean I went in, I had I had a guy. I had about
four people that I thought could get the job done either direction at it when
I was going to support it, and they just happened to pick one of
my fours. So yeah, I've known Brent for years, from the time
he was coaching us when I was my senior year at you know, at
you at at Arizona, and then also I kept a relationship with him throughout
as through his coaching career, you know, with other different recruits and different
players that he was recruiting my area, different things like that. So great
relationship with Brent. I'm happy for him, and I'm happy that they picked
at least one of the guys that I thought would be in the mix for
the job. But what's the one thing you want fans to know about who
he is and and and what we can expect from him? Uh? You
know when he gets started here. Well, the number one thing is I
always say is that people will really the players are going to love him.
He's a players coach. Uh, He's very relatable to the players, which
in today's age of players in football and athletics and himself, you have to
be relatable. And I think he does a great job with that. Uh.
The community is gonna love him. He's been here before, he's lived
here, his brother played here, his brother was a starter here, starting
wide receiver here. Uh. And and I think all the alumni and people
are going to be behind him because you know, we we we know who
he is. We know he's a wildcat. And I think the biggest thing
the fans are going to love about Brent is I think Brent will stay here
as long as we have and he understands you gotta win games. It's a
business at the end of the day. Yeah, And and he's going to
be a guy that wants to be here and we don't have to worry about
him picking up and leaving. I'll say that. So, so times have
changed, obviously, I'm gonna hate to say this. It's been twenty three
years since you were here. I don't know if you feel old. I
know I am, But let me ask you. A change of times and
players come and go, leaving all that they're hoping to keep some guys here.
Did you ever think of leaving? Even though you didn't? And I'll
tell you what Lamar told us after you respond to that. I never,
I never once thought of leaving. And when I came up and played,
that wasn't part of the game. You know, you were You had to
stick it out, compete, get better, and adjust. But in today's
market is a little bit different. I mean, I'm sure if the portal
was allowed during that time, guys would have went to different opportunities because at
times, sometimes things just don't work out with you and the coaches and the
schemes in a way that things work out. But me personally, I never
would have left. I loved every second from the time that I got off
the plane to go on to coachies, to do our many get to our
camp, you know, training camp, and to you know, playing basketball,
winning games in football, and the whole experience in two sign A community
was great to me. So sol Mon tells us that it's about and his
brother would tell these guys, it's about building your own legacy at a place
you've decided to come and you you did that. You have a legacy here
because of the things you did and the miracles you worked in Washington. You
know what. And he's he is one thousand percent correct because if you go
to Alabama, they won I don't know how many national championships. So when
you go back, you blend in because they don't know who you are because
there's so many different great players. But you can't create your own legacy.
When I go back, I was honored to be able to be putting the
ring of honor. It'll be there forever. People that know me. The
community has embraced me and my family. When I came back and when I
was also playing. So he is absolutely right. You know, the legacy
is there and it'll never go anywhere. You know, we talk about how,
you know, Arizona's really you know, they're not Washington, they're not
Michigan, they're not Ohio State. They're kind of a next level a next
level program. But still even with that, it's still important to some people,
right in terms of as you say, legacies. You know, Lamont
Lamont Huntley talked about, you know, having the block A in his heart.
Just because Arizona's not competing for a national championship every year, it's still
a place that can be meaningful and important to players and coaches, don't you
think absolutely great great facility, great fan base. That was that that that
that coach fits. You know, you got to give them credit where credit
is due. Brought that, brought the aura back, the alumni, you
know, brought us, gave us the opportunity and ability to be more visual
and be more part of the program and still wanted was huge. So that
those are things for sure, our program may not be you know, Alabama,
Michigan, Ohio State, but we're gonna compete. We winning in the
Alamodo Alamobo and put hands on Oklahoma. And that's and that's what you know
can be the future if we can keep the guys in house and we keep
guys balling, and Brent's gonna do a great job of doing that. Guys,
I'm telling you, they're gonna love brand He's one of the coolest coaches.
But you're gonna respect him because he knows his stuff, he knows his
football. He comes to work hard every day, he's energetic, he's enthusiastic,
and people are gonna want to come play for him. To the funny
thing about it is you came here knowing that you're not the Michigan's blah blah
blah, but you go into Washington and you beat them right, and that
you the underdogs that want to prove that, hey, we can be as
good as you. You felt that in basketball because you were the Michigans in
basketball. Yeah, for sure. And Yeah, I've had luckily. I
was been on both specters of being at Arizona because we're you know, we're
a heavy dominant basketball school and I was able to be part of a great
national championship team at nineteen ninety seven, ninety eighteen. Yeah, being having
a target on your back and then being able to go into places. You
know, I went in and I never lost to USC and FC didn't really
recruit me. So you have that chip on your shoulder. And I think
a lot of the guys that we have, you know, outside of the
Tamac was a five star. He can go anywhere. He wanted to go
anywhere. But a lot of guys are able to come in make their own
legacy and then build respect around the country as well as we've seen over the
last few months of our play and what happens when you win football games.
All right, So so he's here, you know, we're seeing videos of
Brennan. He's probably meeting with the team as we speak. If you're in
that meeting, what do you want to hear from Brent Brennan? Well,
I think the number one thing you want to hear is you want to you
you definitely want to You want to hear stability. You want to hear that
you know that the appreciation for the hard work that's been done, that you
guys have done. And then you're going to talk about, you know,
some of the things you know slowly that will implement to help build on what
they've already started. You got to remember, we're coming to a ten season
win program. Usually when you lose coaches, you're losing coaches because you're losing,
right, So we're getting a new coach because and because enough, because
our coach wanted to go to a program that was already winning. What's the
uphill battle for him? And it's gonna be an uphill battle for Brent because
now you got to match fourteen wins in Washington and you got to match ten
wins in Arizona. So I think the number one thing is, hey,
guys, listen, what you guys have accomplished and started here is amazing.
Let's keep that trend going. Let's stay focused and locked in on the things
we need to do from the weight room perspective, taking care of your business
off to fill in the classroom, and to making sure you're mastering your craft
and getting better each day at your position. That's what it's about. Yeah,
yeah, just kind of. And he's that guy. You can see
videos from him. He's inspiring. He's the coaches a players coach, Like
you said, so you need the kids today need that type of player coach.
I'm sorry, right, one thousand percent specially dealing with what just happened.
You know, that the shock factor. So now if he can eat
the shock shock factor and brench that kind of guy, he gonna talk to
each and every individual person that's in that in that room, outside of just
the team the team meeting, He's gonna sit down and talk to all the
players because he understands a lot. There's some grooming that's got to be done.
And we got a great, great nucleus of players. If we can
keep them in house, and from my understanding, the quarterback FORFEEDA is gonna
be him and t Max said that they're gonna stay. You know where people
don't give credit where credit is doing. My opinion is that offensive line play
outstanding football all year long and they need to be They need to get their
kudos and flowers because they just literally, you know, just were dominant.
And if we can keep that nucleus together along with the defense, uh,
the defense of the guys what they've done on the deepest side of the ball,
turn the ball over and just playing relentless, we're gonna be okay.
From what you know of of of of Brennan, how he how he appeared
to the fans, right, you know the fans. But you know Jet
was energetic, he was involved, he was doing stuff, he was going
places. You saw him everywhere. What's what's your thoughts on how how Brent
will will do with the fans and what would you advise him in terms of
dealing with the fans. Well, what I would think that I think that
the biggest thing I mean in my opinion is is Brent is very charismatic and
is a great leader amongst men himself. He don't you know, it's not
this ain't his first rodeo, reacting like he hasn't coached. And then before
you know, he took a program, you know San Jose State program and
and and was able to rejuvenate and have a winning culture, meaning act and
winning more games than losing. So, you know, the fans, you
know, will he beat Jet? He's not Jet. He's Brent Brennan and
he's gonna But he has the energy and an aura about him that the people
will fall in love about. He will come out, he'll be in the
community, he will talk to people. He's a he's a he's an easy
going guy, very very transparent, very structured, but also you know,
a very likable guy. So I think the community, to be honest with
you, they will attach to him so well. I mean I did with
his brother Brad. Me and his brother Brad have been friends since we played
together. You know, he's one of my top receivers when I played.
And so I don't think that transitional period is gonna be hard at all.
He's a lovable community guy and everybody's gonna see it. It's gonna take some
patience, a little bit not patient. It's gonna take a little time.
But once people you get to know him, it's easy. Man. Brent
Brennan is a great guy. So I quoted you in my story with your
tweet and you're talking about he knows the Arizona Way. A couple of people
are asking me what does that mean? What does the Arizona Way mean?
Well? To me, what I meant by he knows the Arizona Way is
he's been in the program. He was here when we were winning, when
we were a winning program. He's been around it, and he knows players
and the Arizona Way. For me, I was brought up because coach Tomy
was a player's guy. Was he understands how to maximize and get the best
out of players. He understands how to maximize and get the guys to to
you know, exceed expectation. And and that to me is what Coach Tomy
was able to do. We didn't have a lot of five star guys and
you know, we didn't have that, but he know how, he knew
how to get and maximize the best out of all the players and make us
understand that it's about the team, not individuals, and that's what's gonna make
things better and make you successful because when the team wins, everybody wins.
And that's what Coach Tomy's you know, that's the way that he was brought
that he brought us up was understanding about you know, one team, one
goal. So I think I think, I think the Arizona way is just
being able to get all the guys down on the same page, rolling back
in from all the outside noise, and and he'll build trust and he'll gain
their trust with them. I'm telling you, Brent will be here for a
long time. So it's no promise you that, no million dollar question or
t who is better than ninety eight team or this team the ninety eighteen or
who this Steve, this past team. Come on, man, I want
this is what I would say to defend this team. This team was,
this team was was was awesome, don't get me wrong. And there you
figure the USC over time. If we beat USC and overtime, you beat
Mississippi State with you dose it in by one. We took Washington down the
dogfight your three. You're right there. So they could easily have been won,
you know, eleven twelve games for sure, but they didn't. And
we'll leave it at that. You know, we'll leave it at that.
It's perfect. That's perfect, A great answer. Yeah, I love it.
Did you have one work? No? That that's that. That's or
you know, appreciate some of your insight because you know, the first thing
that fans want to do is they want to get to know the new coach
and you and I hate to use the term, but you know, it's
it's personal to a lot of a lot of people here because there's an attachment
to these coaches, whether it's it's Tommy Lloyd, whether it was Loud Olsen
or Sean Miller, Dick Tommy whoever, you know, the fancy. It's
a small enough town where you want to know your coach and you want to
get attached to him. And I think that, uh, they'll appreciate the
fact that you've got some insight into this because uh, you know that's the
first thing that people want to do. You know, you're coming off this
great season that as on the ad and then you kind of felt like,
Okay, he left, and now it's going to be a mess, and
now you're hoping that you got a guy who can kind of hold it together.
Yeah, and and and he and he will and and and believe there's
got there's work to be done. Just because you retire guys don't mean it
automatically means you're gonna be good. And he understands that you you have to
put it together and you have to be the best part of your players.
And I think I think Brent will be the guy that will do that.
I think the community will love him when they get to hear him speak.
And like I said, I know Brent personally, so it's it's it's he's
gonna do a fantastic job. I have no doubt about it. So one
last thing, just the listing, because we saw we talked about this,
so uh, maybe ten days ago whatever it happened, Uh, truck cecil,
Uh the issue, run your lead by the league, and now Gunner
cruises Maldonado who returned to the the interception of the fumble or whatever it was.
You think that's about accurate with all time plays? Absolutely, whatever,
whatever the fans thing, man, I've never been biased about about things like
that. I mean, I look at you know, I look you gotta
if you look at and dissect the whole perspective of the games, then you
can make your own assessment on what you think what you think is the best
play. They all were great plays. You know, Chuck is outstanding,
I know him well, friend of mine as well. And the young boys
had to do the interception and then the lead by the lake. The bottom
line is that they're all great plays, and then everybody's gonna have their opinion
about which play was was better than the other. You know, I just
look at the circlestance of the game. We did it for you know,
we did it for a win, Chucks, and then was for a win,
you know, And and all the three of those players are all plays
that that were significant in winning the game. So I think, you know,
it's it's all based upon the eyes that you know, it's all from
the different eyes to see it. Thank you man, appreciate you all the
time. Okay, buddy, thank you well, thank you great stuff,
great stuff, and we're Tis Jenkins awesome. Look again, you know,
as I said, we want to know. Okay, who we got.
I think this. You know there's panic in the streets for two days.
I think you didn't. Fine, yeah, and then need to come back.
Maybe a couple of other guys just kind of sign on. I think
you can win them today. You can win them today in their meeting or
whatever, and then press conference I'm sure will be tomorrow, and then goods
tomorrow. Boull basketball exactly. Let's get back to basketball. A big game,
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Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve, He's Jake Kevin with us today. No justin good Kevin
Chapter thirteen minutes. Do you want to kill us? A call please do
do your thoughts on the higher. You can ran till you can be pissed.
You can do whatever. But will you appreciate your call? If you
like the interviews, give us a call. Yeah, there's two good interviews.
I thought, so, you know, I again like I like having
Ortiz Jenkins on to, you know, somebody who knows Brent Brandon right to,
you know, to kind of say you know, you guys are gonna
love the guy. And and that doesn't surprise me at all. It's just
like, no, you know, you know, it's just there's just so
much churning around on social media about things. You just like, everybody relax
and let's take this call as Hi. You're on the air and I on
the ball. Hey Jay, Hey Steve, this is done. How you
guys doing? Are you doing? Don Well? You know what, A
lot has happened since the last time we talked. Like before before when we
talked, the basketball team was good. The football we were rocking and rolling.
We're going to be in a college football playoffs next year. Done done,
you know, done? That was so last year. That was so
last year. No, No, Steve, that was last week two weeks
ago when it was twenty twenty three. So what do you think with all
this stuff? You know what I think I think that he key was was
finally able to get the guy that he wanted three three years ago. Remember
the reports that were coming out was and then and then doctor Robbins pushed fish
on him, and so, yeah, I forgot about That's a great point.
That's a great point. I forgot about that. You know. So
there's there there was that. I'm sure that that that. Uh, that
interview was like, hey, so, how you've been doing so how yeah
brend saying how you like me? Saying what the hell took you so long?
How do you like me? Now? Yeah? For sure. Did
you listen to the interviews I heard? I heard some of them. I
heard a little bit of both of them. You know, I'm I'm excited.
And one of the biggest things that I'm excited about is that we're going
to get a guy that's going to be here. We we we can't we
can't think that we can run around like like the big dogs in the in
the top six, you know, yeah, we can't think like that.
And uh, and these people that keep saying, well they got to bring
back Nansen Nanson's not coming back. Yeah, And any anybody that signs to
go somewhere else, they're not coming back, especially if anybody that leaves Arizona
to go to Texas is not coming back. Now. I have heard Chris
Chris del Content ain't coming back. I have heard that Dwayna Keena hasn't actually
gone to Texas and they haven't announced the you know, his hiring like they
announced Nansen. So you know, I think I think Duyna Keena might still
be in play, but I think Nansen. Yeah, And you know what,
Brent Brandon is gonna doesn't, shouldn't and probably won't have somebody forced on
him. No, I don't think so. And the coaches that he has
and the people that he knows that he's going to bring in, a lot
of these guys from southern California have known those guys too. It's not like
they only spoke to the Arizona coaches when they were being recruited. They talked
to a lot of people, heard a lot of stuff. So, you
know, and not everybody can transfer because you could end up without exactly exactly
you know, you could you could you could transfer someplace and then get replaced
and they go, oh, no, coach, I want to come back.
I'm sorry, man, I got somebody else you said you were leaving?
Yeah, exactly with you? Agree with you? So are you're You're
You're happy with it? Now talk basketball? You called it and you mentioned
basketball when you started. What the hell's going on? I don't know.
I mean, we can't. We can't blame this on Miles Simon getting his
eligibility back and nobody knows what the heck to do is. That's what happened.
Remember, Simon came back. Simon came back at the end of ninety
six, and then they lost a bunch of They lost a few games because
like they couldn't figure out what the rotation was and who's supposed to pass the
ball and who's supposed to shoot it, and but this team doesn't have that
excuse. It just looks like they're just lackadaisical. To put to coin,
no want to use one of Loose's words, But anyway, I don't know.
We'll see how that plays out. So done real quickly from relatively made
forgotten. Are you from New Mexico? Do you have no my my dad's
from New Mexico? Okay, because you have that new Mexico twain. He's
got to be from Taus. He's got to be from Towsa, somewhere that
actually you know what if north of Tallasa in Questa is where my dad went
to high school. Oh how old is he is? He still left?
No, he's not. Well, my family, my mom's from there.
My fam my mom's family's from there. Holy craft. Right, and you
come on all the joints in this world a place where two thousand people this,
Wow, we gotta talk. We gotta talk. Good to hear from
you. We'll see you around Primo. Alright, don't go there, all
right, don thanks a much, man, appreciate it takes all right.
Wow, what a small world. Okay, cool, anybody else we got
about six minutes, seven minutes, give us a quick call. Let us
know how we're doing. Tomorrow. We have a we're trying to get a
pretty good another pretty good show tomorrow show together. Oh yeah, talk all
about this again. You know this is gonna be a topic of conversation for
a while. We expect to have hopefully that there's a press conference not during
our show, although Tommy Lloyd's press conference is today. It's post over,
yes, probably over by now. It came on during our show. But
if we have, if we obviously if there's a press conference with Brent Brandon
tomorrow that we can record, we'll obviously have you know, have some of
that for you. We'll put it on if that will be as always,
uh, you know, if you're if you if you miss us, you
know, catch the podcast Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or you can go to
the iHeart website search Eye on the Ball and you'll find us and we get
that podcast up, uh, you know, shortly after the show. So
one more call Hi, you're on the Aaron Eye on the Ball. Hey,
what's up? Guy's I just uh, I want to tell you Lemma
or TJ. I just got back from a mountain. I've been up there
on the lead on Sunday. I'm glad you didn't jump yours live. You're
live and what did you think? So Ortis taught me off the lead,
so I'm I'm okay now, good good. But I was just laughing because
Jay Steve, remember your your collar game broke this news four or five months
ago. We won two games, he said, hey, leaving and you
guys we all laughed at him. I remember telling myself when he was talking,
saying, oh, this guy is crazy, but he he broke the
news four months ago for us. He did hit it on the nose.
Yeah. H sure, that's funny. It's fun okay, But I'm happy.
I I think this guy, this guy is gonna do do well.
And you got to surround yourself with good people and hopefully he does. And
the other thing I just want to say was, it's kind of funny.
I told my daughter in California this morning. You know, Noah and and
Tea Mack. It was kind of reminded me of the Elliott curR and uh
and Bibie Miles days where you're steel so close to those guys and you want
to go support them and and screaming out at the games. And and that's
how I felt with with Noah and t mac and and Manu and those guys.
You've become a big man and you become closed. Yeah you do,
you do, you do? So you know, Yeah, I mean it'd
be fun to see what happens. Well, thanks for don't pay you guys.
Take care now, Hey, Vic, don't trip on your participation trophy,
I promise. Now, you know, we had some good reactions.
Look, universally, it looks like people are you know, the people that
we talked to who you know who think like we do, they they're okay,
they're good with this. So there's no guarantees too, there's no guarantee.
There's no guarantees. What guaranteed did we have when Jed Fish got here?
It was the unknown? You remember the press he talked about the press
conferences all COVID. It was on run on face, on Facebook, but
on zoom Vision we had no we had our own press cover. It was
a basketball game going on during his press conference. I remember if it was
a women's game or a men's game. But yeah, we'll do one more
blest ones take this. You're on the air and eye on the ball.
Hey, you guys, it's Richard. How you doing good? Good?
Good? How are you doing? Hey? You know, I just wanted
to congratulate Arizona fans. Y'all have been really nice and compassionate about uh Jed
leaving. It's very still the way the Sooner fans left. You had no
deaference. I mean, we gave him forty eight hours to get out of
town. I mean, what do you want? But Anyway, if Noah
happens to be listening, just cruising down the road in this beautiful seventy degree
day, think about what it's like in Seattle. It's the Prosa capital of
America. It's no quality and depressing, it's horrible. This was paradise,
man, and it's a blue color town. And uh and we love nor
Flafida, McMillan and all of them. Man, So thanks, thanks,
doctor Richard. But you're right with the with the Riley comparison in terms of
people hating him right away. Oh man, yeah, yeah, people love
that he did get forty eight hours and after that everything was fine. Yeah,
there you go. Okay, Hey Richard, thanks the whole bunch.
Man, appreciate it. That's funny, true, that's funny. All right,
Okay, so you know, all right, Steve, a little basketball
before we go. There's one of is a seventeen point favorite tomorrow. Uh
ullc. That seems like a lot, doesn't it. Uh yeah, you
had both these teams. It's not gonna be a fun weekend. It's not
late weekend. Yeah. Well, you're gonna see Croning for the last time.
Yeah, oh no, no, we'll be at the PEC twelve.
Oh yeah, okay, Pet for the second the last time. Yeah,
yeah, that's that's unfortunately because the PAC twelve is rated by how good Ucla
and Arizona we got one more color com but you get uh, look at
it real fast, real fast. You're on the ar eye on the ball.
You have about thirty seconds. Yeah, Hey this is Tim. I'm
I'm pretty happy with the higher And you know, the thing you have to
remember is there is talent everywhere out there. There is so much talent and
Jed, did you know home run with Mac and Noah and man out and
that would be hard to duplicate. But there's talent out there. There is,
there is, and I'm glad you pointed that out because there's players everywhere.
Uh, you're absolutely right. The transfer portal changes everything. Yeah,
for a minute, I wanted will Cox because cal has got a lot of
talent and may have nowhere to go. But I'm okay, I'm okay with
this. Okay, great, Tim, thanks the whole bunch, man.
We appreciate the call. Yeah, I think more and more you're gonna hear
that. Yeah, we'll see because three years ago we were in the unknown.
Right, did you have a clue right, right, we had no
idea, and we're still after the after the end of you getting paid three
and three earlier this season, we still weren't sure, right, We're still
trying to figure out how they were gonna get six wins and get to a
Bowl game. So yeah, you know, eighty five percent chants. Yeah,
I hit it, man, I hit it. Didn't hit a lot
of else, but I hit that. All right, Hey, there's another
fun day or Tez Jenkins, thank you for being here. Uh Luman Huney,
thanks for being here. Catch us the podcast if you if you didn't
catch it, if you're not catching us live, We're always on Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, and of course the iHeart Web. Another good more stuff coming
tomorrow on this endo, probably a brand friend and press conference, so be
sure to come back tomorrow. The whole world's coming together.