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This is Eye on the Ball with
Steve Rivera and Jaganzalez sound Fox Sports fourteen

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I'm sure your most prized possessions katz R

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TUCSA at iHeartRadio station. Yet Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to

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Eye on the Ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.

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We have no Jagan Zaws today,
but we have Kevin Thomas in the house.

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Hello, Hello, Hello, running
the booth and gonna be my partner

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for today. Indeed i am.
We do have a couple of great guests,

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so it should be fun. First
guest in the first hour is going

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to be Kim Adare, the executive
director for the Arizona Bor Bowl, the

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Barstools Arizona Bowl. Back on the
CW. Yes, back on the CW.

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We'll break down news that was broken
yesterday actually, and we'll talk more

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about that going streaming and on the
on the tube. You know what the

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tube is. You're hear that,
yes, Sairly, Okay, you're not

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young enough to know not know,
yeah, not that. We so we'll

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talk to her about three seventeen,
three eighteen, and then in the second

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hour we're gonna have my buddy Pete
Williams, the cornerstone of the Arizona basketball

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program from back in the day,
talk about his thoughts on what he sees

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from the U basketball team. I
think he went to the game in Palm

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Springs well to have to see that. He's based out of LA So we'll

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see what happens, maybe get his
thoughts on some of the players and all

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that. So you're looking forward to
it. Thanks Kevin. This this show

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would not be existing if you were
not here. Oh, it's all good.

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I hate that board. Does colors
scare me be on a Friday?

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Yeah? Right out of the rain, out of the rain, out of

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the cold, out of the cold. For Tucson it's cold. Yeah,

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yeah, for us, it's really
really cool. Yeah, a lot of

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things. We're gonna have some we'll
talk about a little about today's games.

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New Mexico State plays Liberty at the
beginning at five for their championship, right

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their their championship, and then the
big game at least for the day and

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maybe the weekend to me is Oregon
Washington that starts at six on what ESPN?

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Good question. I think it's on
ye, Yeah, why not right

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ESPN. So, uh, you
know, we'll see what happens with that.

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I'll I'll make one of my predictions
from that game in the second hour

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as as Jay and I continue to
go head to head on something on the

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picks. Yeah, I have J's
picks for today as well in my back

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Okay, so we'll see how those
go for him. Yeah, but does

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he have his on the in the
back pocket? All year? He hasn't

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had a good He hasn't had a
good year. Oh, by the way,

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if you want to call, please
do five to four one sixty.

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It's just me and and Kevin or
Kevin and I and it is on ABC.

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That packed Oh tonight. Okay,
good, good, good, that'll

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be great. So some good,
good people are doing that game. I'll

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have to watch that one as well. Apparently you can also stream it on

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Sling TV, being that kind of
thing. I don't know Sling TV who

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streams. Yeah, we'll we'll talk
about that with with Kim. Of course,

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a lot of things going on.
You probably have a ton of bricky

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news, a lot of people,
a lot of a few people from you.

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They have decided to leave. That
is true. That is true.

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Yeah, in fact, somebody just
texted me it's on ABC. M hm,

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Yeah, you're correct. Did you
have a couple of people joining the

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transfer portal from U of A.
Yeah, we'll wait for world. Yeah.

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So a lot of things going on
this weekend with the big games,

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obviously NFL last night. You saw
the Dallas game last night? I watched

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it. I watched the first some
of the first staff, and it was

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boring to me. It was it
was the slowest shootout I've ever seen in

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my life. It was the slowest
paced shootout ever seen. Did you not

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watch the shoot Okay, yeah,
like it was the it was the slowest,

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like like I don't want to say
the least exciting, because it was

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a fun game, that's one moments, but it was just like the like

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the least uh exciting, for lack
of a better word, shootout. I've

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ever seen so many flags that really
just messed up the pace of the game.

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Some of the flags just seem totally
unnecessary. I seem that's happening a

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lot. You know that the continuity
of a game is kind of like in

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basketball, Yeah, you get somebody
last five minutes and back it became stuttered,

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Yeah, stuttered and and and stilted
and all that, and it just

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doesn't become a good flowing game.
Yeah, but it was a good game

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for the Cowboys last night the Seahawks. The Seahawks honestly should have been in

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that game even more than they were. They had a misfield so they should

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have been more they were. They
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earlier in the game, I believe, right before half, which by the

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end of the game they're only down
three going into the last couple of minutes.

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So yeah, Dak Prescott, it's
a six straight game with multiple touchdowns.

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That is the longest active streak in
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career high of six. And they
haven't lost in Dallas all year, right,

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like a big, big team straight
which is surprising to me because I

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grew up a Dallas Cowboys fan,
and it seems like they would have had

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a bigger or longer home streak than
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if you want to in my mind, uh you have you have very good

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teams, yeah, mediocre teams and
bad teams. To me, this Dallas

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team is between good and mediocre,
and it's probably more more close to mediocre

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than it is good in my mind. Yeah, I don't know if you

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feel that well. I feel similarly, but I think they're closer to good

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than mediocre, just because I don't
know. Dak's been out of his mind,

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like he's been playing so solid for
them for some weeks. Now.

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I know they haven't played a high
level of competition, but you only play

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who's in front of you, and
he's been he's been killing who's in front

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of him for the most part.
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him a little wiggle room. I
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I don't know he's in the MVP
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forty six to ninety five at home. There was a little bit of discussion

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last night on the on the broadcast
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If you look at their numbers,
I think they're like nineteen and one

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playing on turf. Now they are
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home is a turf, so that
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excuse a lot, but still five
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home games of Jerry World versus I
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stay on grass with the scoring being
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So it's just the Cowboys are a
little bit of weird football team doing

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valuably okay. Yeah, well,
and they haven't played in my mind,

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they haven't played anybody. And like
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are on the schedule, no apologies
or no Cardinals, which is surprising.

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That game was just a horrible mess. Horrible mess. By the way,

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we're gonna have Javier Morales about three
point fifty ish, get a few minutes

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with him while he's headed to or
at the CEO Championship. They start at

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four o'clock with that game, the
state title game for that so we'll have

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a quick live report from that game
with earlier. Yeah, I thought,

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so, yeah, no, it's
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But yeah, tonight, I texted
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time is the game or you know, thinking the game was at seven?

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Could he come on and they tell
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said, oh no, So maybe
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starts because he'll be busy in the
game. Yeah, okay, but yeah,

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there's an Oh it was good,
it was fine, a lot way

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too many penalties. Could have been
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But you know, let's where you
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up teams. Not that the Seattle
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back. Sharonay banged his knee last
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Dallas is missing a couple of playmakers
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and then tomorrow, of course,
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You going, I believe so,
yeah you have you have student tickets,

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right, yeah, I do have? Yeah, Amazona as you remember,

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Yeah, okay, tell them to
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here, right, They're not home
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Yeah, still in town. School. School wasn't end for another like

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half a week or something like that. Yeah, okay, yeah, okay,

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So it should be somewhat rowdy there
tomorrow hopefully. Yeah. It's toothpas

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against toothpaste toothpist Ye. We'll see
what happens. Because on a Friday after

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I mean Saturday afternoon, students,
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there. There's no really need not
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no excuse that to be there.
I agreed, Yeah, yeah, Okay

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again, if you want to call, please do five to two four one

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sixty. Uh. We can take
your call now. We're going to break

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here in about ten minutes, with
about seven minutes, and then come back

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in about ten minutes with Kim Adair
from the Arizona bow See what's going on.

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They're going to make their announcement on
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so we'll know more about that on
Sunday. So there's that. Okay,

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what else is going on there?
Kevin? Honestly, to be honest

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with you, Steve, I was. I was pretty hyped about that Thursday

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night football game last night, and
I'm also really hyped about the college basketball

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game tonight. I know you said
the biggest game of the Washington which football

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world, Yes, the college basketball
world. The biggest game of all night

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is by far Kansas versus which time
is that? I believe it's at six

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let me oh man real quick,
so at the same time as the big

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game, I believe, So I
could be wrong. I'm looking at that,

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but you're you have the last two
national championships face. Yeah, you

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asked me about that game, and
I kind of dismiss because it was you

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know, Birdie in the year.
But you're right. Yukon Yukon, the

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defending champion goes against Kansas, the
preseason number one and before that champion before

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that, right which is party still
odds on favorite to win a title this

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year even though they lost. I
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at it. I'm looking for that
that Yukon tip off time and it's gonna

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be seven pm, seven pm out
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three. For those who can,
where's the game at? Are inclined for

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that kind of thing? It's in
Kansas. Oh that's my Milindfield House,

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I believe. So yeah, if
it's in Kansas and I don't people loss,

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Okay, we'll see what happens with
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one for those who care. Yeah, I think that's the smart bit.

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Yeah. Do we have did that
light just go on? No? Didn't?

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Okay again, So we have a
couple of guys transferring from UVA.

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We'll get more from that later.
I mean, you have plenty of breaking

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news, breaking news, crazy stuff, even involving a cow. I saw

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that. I saw that. It
was strange. Yeah, real strange.

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I can't get much stranger than that. Arrive every week, am I am?

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I am? I right? No, no, not at all.

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Small coaching fires. In fact,
uh Nevada. You saw that the a

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D there is a former U of
a women's volleyball player. Yeah, she's

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pretty well respected. Obviously, she's
been around the around the country becoming or

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trying to become an a D.
She was an a D associate and all

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that stuff at a number of places, including Arizona. Now she's got her

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own gig at Nevada, so that
was her first firing. You know,

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she has to get a coach to
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for Nevada. And they just had
a winning coach with with Ja Corvell as

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well, so we'll see it,
right. I thought he was fantastic,

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He was fantastic. We met him
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Arizona ball two three years ago,
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And then he's a Colorado State gave
Colorado a pretty good game, but

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he didn't have a good year.
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they I think they surprised some teams, but they didn't really do too much.

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players too as well. Yeah,
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Rice just lost their quarterback. JT. Daniels retired medically retired just now.

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According to Pete Damill, JT.
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he said that he received too many
concussions and he went talked to his doctor

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and they and they told him that
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he's gonna hang him up a little
early. Yeah, did you see last

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night's game with l s U and
Virginia Tech did the women's college with Yah.

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She looked a little slow, lumber
lumbering back and forth, but she

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scored nineteen points. Yeah, she
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on the statue. And what I
mean, honestly, what else can you

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expect when you returned from missing four
games at the early part weekson too,

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Like you're already trying to play in
the shape and your four games, but

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we still don't have much detail on
I don't know if we ever will.

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way the world works now, yeah,

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one day someone to get on a
podcast and yesterday, oh you know,

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eventually they they part ways. Yeah, when she leaves her pros or something

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like that. Yeah, or never. I mean there's a lot of stuff

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that never clearly comes up publicly,
but in how you know, everyone knows,

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everyone knows what they don't say.
Yeah, she said that Shaquille and

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Nea was calling her almost daily,
checking on her, making sure that she

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was good. Oh yeah, I
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do. He doesn't really have to
do that. But LSU stars I guess,

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yeah, have that have that link
through time? Sure? Well I

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that your game of the weekend was Oregon

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versus Washington. But yeah in college. Yeah, because because I think that

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Georgia Bama could give it a run
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yeah, yeah, but I'm not
interested in that per se interested tonight

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Georgia Alabama. Yeah, in fact, that's the key game for Jay and

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I I don't really I know I'm
picking, but I'm not confident in it.

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Because you can go either way.
You really could, I think could.

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It's one of those games where if
you talk about it for long enough,

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you'll end up talking out of both
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and you not not know which way
to go. Yeah, so I think

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I know which way I'm going to
go, just because it could be anybody's

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game. We'll see what happens.
You don't know what he has yet,

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you know what he don't. Don't
on this show. You don't need that.

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You didn't do that for me.
In fact, you you sucked for

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me when I but yeah, I
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It was. It was a messenger
kill. It was horrible that weekend.

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I mean, it's hard. It's
hard. It's a hard thing to do.

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Beat the book, to beat the
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Many have failed, sure, or
have done really well and then the next

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year not do very well. That's
also true. That's also true. Yeah,

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Okay, Uh, that's we got
about a minute. Let's just take

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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball

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here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
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on the phone, we have Kim
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Arizona Bowl. Are you doing camp
good? See? How are you doing?

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I'm fine? Have you gotten some
sleep? Are you still trying to

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figure out what's going to happen?
Where are you at? Oh? My

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gosh. I would describe this bull
selection process this year specifically like trying to

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staple jello to a wall. It's
very fluids, things are moving around.

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Just when you think you've got it, something wils happened. And so it's

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been a really interesting situation this year, specifically right in fact, I know

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this is not good possible, but
one of my buddies from New Mexico said,

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God, I really wish that that
and the Arizona Ball was able to

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take New Mexico State. Given the
success of the New Mexico State this year,

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really big success, and how they
were, how they brought the city

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here and they shut down Las Cruises
and they all came here. I know

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that's not possible, but given even
though you have your your your two conferences,

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it's still a big shake up.
What are you waiting for. Well,

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certainly we've got the two championship games
tomorrow to look at to see which

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team would be available. We have
a number two pick and likely the champions

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and both of those games will go
on to other bowls, and so we've

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got the runner up to look at. But you know, both of our

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conferences are really well known for beating
each other up in the end, and

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especially in the Mountain West, where
certain teams started off very strong and look

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like they were going to even you
know, really be highly ranked in the

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standings and then sort of fell off
at the end, while others picked up

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steams towards the end, even though
they were looking a little less strong in

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the beginning. And so it's really
an interesting dynamic. Especially in the Mountain

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West. You've got great schools like
Boise State and UNLV playing in the Champion

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But you've also got Air Force and
Fresno State in Wyoming who also had really

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really strong seasons there in the end. And you've got San Jose State now

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they're out of the selection for US
because they are going to go off to

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Hawaii, which I think they deserve. And and so it's just looking at

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all of the different factors. We
also have some factors that we can't you

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know, control, that the teams
can't control, Like Fresno State, they're

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starting quarterback jumped into the portal or
said he will go into the portal so

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he'll be out for the game.
And then coach Tedford at Fresnes State also

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now today he's got to step out
right for the rest of the season because

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it's health issue. So there's it's
a really it's a very fluid situation right

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now. Yeah, no question.
And so these days is it? How

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much different is it these days?
I think you've been the executive director at

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least four years. I could be
wrong. I haven't had time. Wow,

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seek time flies, And I did
that big story on you a few

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years ago. It seems like yesterday
she was like yesterday, your dad has

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declared you the governor of the state. Yeah, so let me ask you,

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so, do you is travel different
for you now because of technology now

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to use more I test from TV
and computers rather than going out physically or

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is it the same? You know, I would say we visited more teams

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this year than we've ever visited in
the past. We've just been going out

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and seeing more and being more on
you know, on site. This year.

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We'll see how that continues and then
next year. But but like tomorrow,

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I will be in Vegas for the
Mountain West Championship Game. So a

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lot of it, I mean,
this week, a lot of it's just

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been happening with phone calls and you
know, zoom meetings really, but sometimes

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it makes a big difference to be
on site and having those conversations in person.

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Yeah, no question, And I'm
sure let me ask you just real

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quick. So when you go to
the games, I'm sure you have a

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little red carpet for uh, you
have a little red carpet. You know,

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the hosts, the city has a
red carpet for you because they're more

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than thrilled to have you visiting.
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I think when when we show up
for a regular season football game. Those

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teams are excited to see us there
because they know that they're being thought of

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and considered. Right, And so
I'll tell you I went up to they

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I had, you know, two
reasons why I wanted to go up and

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see Fresnes States beat ASU earlier in
the season. I wanted to see Fresdness

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date ASU, and they did,
and so that was a great game for

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us to go to. But also
knowing Presdent State is always a team that

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we're considering bringing to our game and
having some time with their athletic director and

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administrations always and coaches are always are
always meaningful. So I can't remember off

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the top of my head if fresh
Now State's been here, you would know

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the teams. But I know,
like air Force and some of the other

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ones you've mentioned, I have been
through here, you know, Wyoming,

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and they've brought in some nice crowds. Has Fresno State been here before?

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Freston State has not come yet.
Yeah, that's why I could remember that.

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So, and you're right, the
Mountain West and the teams that you'd

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be bringing in. It is I
mean, trying to predict who's going to

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beat whom on what day. Last
week, I think San Jose State played

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the UNLV. UNLV has had a
great record, san Jose State went in

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and beat them. So it's on
any given day, really, on any

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given day. Yeah, I have
no way to predict who's going to win

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the game tomorrow between the UNLV and
Boise State. Boise State fired their coach

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four weeks ago because they were losing, and then they started winning right after

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he left, so you know,
they have an interim coach there right now

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and trying to make a decision on
their head coach situation as well. So

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there's a lot of moving parts and
it's going to be interesting to see who's

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playing their best football tomorrow, right, No, No, you have a

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lot of and then you make the
decision on some day, right that you

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come back and then you you know, we take a nap and then you

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get ready for Sunday. That's right. Sometimes we're still having conversations up until

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minutes before we announce, right,
right, Always a fun, stressful,

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wonderful time. Yeah, No,
I'm sure it is. It's part of

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the job, right, kind of
a job requirement. No sleep check,

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stress check, all this stuff.
Uh so tell me Sunday I know you

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have a is it it's it's for
the media, but is it for other

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people as well? People interested in
the bulk? Can the public go?

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So we haven't you know, announced
that publicly, but you know we if

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we have some diehardbule fans out there
that would love to come, we'd love

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to see them. We're doing it
at the playground at noon it opens,

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and we'll be announcing around twelve forty
five right right the playground downtown. Yeah,

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okay, And I'm sure you know
it's what today Friday, So you're

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looking at less than forty eight hours
and you and you and the guys Eric

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contingency plans. You know, have different

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You don't know what's going to happen. Who is our communications and PR

407
00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:23.079
guy. He's got about six press
releases drafted and then he puts together the

408
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.319
announcement video. So he's got about
four or five different variations of that,

409
00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:32.319
so yeah, we're prepared. Yeah, good for good for him. You

410
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:36.759
also have some big news either yesterday
the day before you're going to be on

411
00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:41.000
TV, right, Yeah, so
we really are excited about this because we

412
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:45.240
are going to be I say that, you know, the ball with the

413
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:49.000
best of both worlds, which is
our game, wills continue to be broadcast

414
00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:56.519
through barstools platform digital platform, So
anyone that's interested in watching it digitally and

415
00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:00.759
online can do that through barstool dot
TV. But we also announced yesterday that

416
00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.480
people that are interested in the more
traditional viewership opportunity will be able to watch

417
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:10.559
it on the CW right. So
that's great, great for all of our

418
00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:15.359
football teams and their fans. While
watching it on barstools as easy as watching

419
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.839
something on Netflix, sometimes it takes
the little people people a little longer to

420
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.160
understand that. So now we've got
an option for everybody. Yeah. I

421
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:23.200
was going to ask you because over
the last two or three years, when

422
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:29.440
the Barstools people came aboard and you
guys really got behind it, they've been

423
00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:33.720
very good to you guys, and
now and you know, hyped it up,

424
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.319
hype that situation up. Now that
you have TV, like you say,

425
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.480
best in both worlds. How is
that? Just? Have you been

426
00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.519
ha You been pursuing that for a
while and you just happened to get it

427
00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.359
at the last minute. Not at
all. This is a really funny story.

428
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.200
If you have a minute for me
to tell it. Sure. A

429
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.279
week after our game ended last year, I got an email and it was

430
00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.920
from a gentleman named Perry and he
emailed and said, Caim, I'm the

431
00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.400
chairman of the Foundation for Ohio University. I was in the end zone when

432
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:08.799
they won an overtime. What an
amazing game, What an amazing broadcast.

433
00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:14.880
I watched it later. My day
job is that I am the CEO and

434
00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:18.960
chairman of next Our Media and we
just bought the c W a few months

435
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.400
ago, and we would love to
broadcast this game. And that's where it

436
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:29.400
started, and it's because they were
here. It's really amazing the depth and

437
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.119
range of people that attend our game, you know, from all of the

438
00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:37.279
different institutions in their fan bases.
And so this is another instance of we

439
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.160
had this person in town that we
didn't even know about, who's a mover

440
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:42.960
and shaker in the media world,
and he came to us and said,

441
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.480
we want to broadcast this game,
and we said, great, talk to

442
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.640
Barstool, they've got the rights,
and Barstool, to their credit, was

443
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.000
like, you know, we're interested
in this type of a partnership and bringing

444
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:57.160
the game to even more viewers.
And CW loved the way they did the

445
00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:00.799
game. Barstool will still be in
the booth and it will still be a

446
00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:04.519
Barstool game. It'll just also now
be available on the CW. Well they

447
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:08.440
so who will have the well,
Barstooll have their own people and then CW

448
00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:14.359
have their own people announcing the game
or it's one one group. The CW

449
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:18.680
is taking the barstool okay, okay, no super super And I know the

450
00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.319
barstool has other things going on with
you guys. So if you can talk

451
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.680
about what's happening that weekend or that
you know, that New Year's weekend with

452
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.920
you guys. Yeah, we're calling
it a Shongo week because it's a party

453
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:37.119
week. I saw that party.
Yeah. So we've got a lot going

454
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:41.759
on. We've got a you know, we've got a pub crawl happening on

455
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.759
the twenty ninth, and a Pepperrelli
on the twenty ninth, and of course

456
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:49.559
our big Tailgate and game on the
thirtieth, and then we have our Taco

457
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:56.640
Bell in New Year's Eve Downtown Bowl
Bash with fireworks presented by O'Reilly Chevrolet on

458
00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.240
New Year's Eve, and we've moved
that. Actually it's going to be run

459
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:06.759
forty East Congress in that big mural
parking lot across the streets. Oh yeah,

460
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.319
the Monica Yeah, and headlining in
that event is Warrant. So we're

461
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.400
really excited to love a silent disco. It's free well, fireworks off the

462
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.839
top of the Hexagon building. It's
gonna be an amazing downtown New Year's you've

463
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.039
experienced. We want everybody come find
us down there. Why didn't you tell

464
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:27.079
me this in uh in January?
I could have grown back my mullet and

465
00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:32.119
you know, got my you know, headbangers music ready and I would be

466
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:37.559
prepared for New Years this year.
It's not too late. You're gonna You're

467
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:40.480
gonna love it. It's gonna be
great. We have eighties and gentlemen opening

468
00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:44.720
for Warrants. It's gonna be fun. Bring your cherry pies, cherry yeah

469
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:47.880
right, cherry, and your at
your mullets. I'll have to go rent

470
00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:49.240
one or so. I have to
go buy one at the week place and

471
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:52.200
get my you know, my curls
back for the for the weekend. No

472
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.279
fantastic, Okay, cool. What
what do you what are you estimating?

473
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.880
I know, you know, you
hope for good weather. You know,

474
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.440
sometimes you get cold weather. Sometimes
you get a hot day and then a

475
00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:05.640
cold day, and a cold day
and then hot day. I remember that

476
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:07.079
day it was really cold and then
the sun came out. It was perfect

477
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:10.839
for the third and fourth quarter.
I'm sure you're hoping like all he says,

478
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:14.720
you know, sixty nine point nine
degrees or seventy two point one,

479
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:19.240
whatever it is. But have you
seen any early projections in terms of what's

480
00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.599
going to happen like today, today's
our winter, right and if it's this

481
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:27.799
bad, that's that's not that bad. No. I mean, you know

482
00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:31.240
I used to check the weather this
about thirty days out and then I would

483
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.160
be stressed up until the week of
the game. Even last year it was

484
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.480
that it was going to rain,
and it didn't rain. After all,

485
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:42.880
it was perfect. After we had
that cancellation in twenty twenty one, I'm

486
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:46.000
just really happy as long as we
have a game. So if it's raining,

487
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:49.839
if it's funny. So long as
we're having the game, I'm a

488
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:52.880
happy camper. But sure, you
know, we've been really lucky for most

489
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:55.920
of the years without having any rain, and I've got, you know,

490
00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:59.759
a good feeling we'll be happy again
this year. What are the things that

491
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:01.799
you we we talked about because I
did that story with Alli. You know,

492
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:05.799
he's the hype man for this event. Uh, you know who doesn't

493
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:08.079
love Ali and his his craziness trying
to get this game going. But one

494
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:12.559
of the things that's kind of like
underplayed, although it's played heavily, is

495
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.319
still the money you give to the
local communities. I was there for your

496
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:20.559
check check presentations, I don't know, four or five months ago, and

497
00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:25.079
how how happy the people are getting
those big checks. Yeah. One hundred

498
00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:29.079
percent of our net proceeds go to
charity. And you know, we're doing

499
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:34.920
this game as a community for really
three reasons. We want economic impact for

500
00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:39.359
Southern Arizona, we want to give
national visibility to Southern Arizona through our through

501
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:43.319
our game. And finally, we
give one hundred percent of those proceeds back

502
00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:47.680
to charity and really build up our
community through these organizations that are doing so

503
00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:52.599
much to help people, our friends
and neighbors here. So it's really important.

504
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.160
Every empty seat in the stadium is
an empty is you know, our

505
00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.920
dollars that could be going to local
charities. And so I know that not

506
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:05.519
everybody has you know, is a
fan of the teams that we're bringing that

507
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.039
they are a fan of Southern Arizona
and they can help us by just coming

508
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:10.880
to the game, buying a ticket, drinking a beer, and having a

509
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.320
really incredible experience. We have people. Once you come to the game,

510
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:17.719
people come back every single year because
it's so much fun. So come on

511
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:21.880
too soon. We need you to
get up, buy a ticket and come

512
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:25.239
visit us. On December thirtieth time. What time is the kickoff again?

513
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:31.400
So you can have an remember earlier
one of these games, maybe two three

514
00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:37.400
years ago, it was the breakfast
tailgating in the band and you still have

515
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:42.599
all that stuff. So yeah,
our tailgate opens at ten am on the

516
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:46.679
thirtieth and we have a cord hole
tournament going on. We have live music,

517
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:52.199
we have our community village out there. We've got games and beer and

518
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:55.800
food trucks. It's a big,
big fun party. It's a pachonga,

519
00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.360
it's a big fun party down there. We want everybody to come down and

520
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.360
join us. Start the day off
right, get in the mood for the

521
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:06.639
bowl, and then join us over
at the game just a few hours later.

522
00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:10.000
And who doesn't love a pachanga?
Who doesn't love a pachanga? Who

523
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:15.239
doesn't? And tickets where can we
find them? You can go to our

524
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.840
website at the Arizona bul dot com
or straight to seat geek, which is

525
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:22.320
our ticket provider, and look up
the Arizona Bull there. Okay, and

526
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.440
you get you get the money from
that as well that you don't lose anyone

527
00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:30.679
near there. Oh no, no, okay, okay, Well, thanks

528
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:32.440
a bunch. We'll probably talk to
you guys again as we get closer to

529
00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:37.400
the event. It's Tony what twenty
eight days, twenty nine days? Man

530
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.519
nine days this year flew by five
flies right, it's crazy, right okay,

531
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:45.039
Kim, get take a nap in
between now now and half fun is

532
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:49.559
half fun of the game tomorrow.
Take care all right by Kim and Dare

533
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:53.760
the executive director of the Barstool Sports
Arizonable. It's back again. It should

534
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:57.000
be a fun game, is here? Right? Yeah? Well, because

535
00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:59.480
you don't know who's going to be
in it one and and the teams that

536
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:01.800
come in are always kind of like, uh uh, they're one excited to

537
00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:06.280
be here. But but some of
those upstarts, you know, that have

538
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.840
never been to a bowl or it's
very infrequent. So okay, who doesn't

539
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:13.800
want to be in Tucson in the
winter time? Right, you'll be gone.

540
00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:16.119
I know he'll be wishing you besure. Oh I'm gonna be missing at

541
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:20.719
a last. Yeah, you're in
Chicago going about Saint Louis. What's the

542
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different not the weather? Yeah?
Right? Right, Okay, miss Jick,

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I'm Steve, You're what's your name?

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Kevin? Kevin in the building today? Kevin Kevin working the board here no

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out summer and join his life.
Uh, so you and I for the

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next few minutes, and then we're
gonna have Hubier Morales from All Sports to

592
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Sun dot Com call us in from
the Mountain America Stadium. Yeah. Uh,

593
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he's at the CEO Championship game against
Uma Uma Catholic. I think it

594
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is. They started four, So
he's gonna give us a quick preview.

595
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Let us know what's going on.
I know he's there, he's already posting

596
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photos. So we'll get that before
the end of the hour. If you'd

597
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like to give us a quick call
before Javier, we got about seven six

598
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minutes something like that. Give us
a quick call. Are you going to

599
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be going to the Arizona Bowl.
I know some locals that do you know,

600
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just to support the program or support
the game and what they're up to

601
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with the with the charities. A
lot of money given to the charities,

602
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which is great. So five two, four, one, six, seventy

603
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four forty we have our picks later
in about an hour. You're breaking news

604
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at the beginning of the hour,
and then Pete Williams will come on about

605
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:57.159
four to seventeen to talk about UA
basketball, uh Ua basketball as he sees

606
00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:00.880
it. Right now, I think
that I'm gonna ask him about to Johnson

607
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:06.000
to see if he sees himself in
there, because Pete was not a great

608
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:09.239
scorer. He's a scorer around the
basket like Johnson, and a big body,

609
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:13.920
muscle guy, kind of the enforcer
kind of guy, right, A

610
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:15.599
lot of effort paid in the NBA
for a couple of years with the Nuggets,

611
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:20.800
uh and lived off his hard work, you know, And back then

612
00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:22.079
it was it was here we got
a call, and back then it was

613
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:27.599
more rough and tumble. Oh you're
on the air with eye on the ball.

614
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:35.559
You're breaking We could bear to hear
you. You're breaking up? Hi,

615
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:39.000
James, Hey James, how are
you? James? I'm doing well

616
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:44.679
enough. I wanted to call cop
to being wrong about my take on the

617
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:49.000
game. Well, your game,
or the way or the or the way

618
00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:55.000
they play. Well they played.
They played very well. You know.

619
00:41:55.079 --> 00:42:00.280
What's happened to me, Steve is
something that has happened, would have incrementally

620
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:06.559
and gradually is a part of the
game. I didn't think they'd be able

621
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.960
to win the last two or three
games, and they did. And that

622
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:19.920
that's the line play on both sides. You know. Fafita was accurate,

623
00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:22.880
He was precise, involves on the
money. Got to give them all the

624
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:30.159
credit in the world for that.
But he couldn't stand in there and you

625
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:34.559
know, look for open targets the
way he does without the offensive line,

626
00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:38.440
Oh, no question, no question. And that that most of the time

627
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:45.119
that I watched Jim Doore was running
for his life. Yeah, yeah,

628
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:51.000
and and so that's improved. And
uh, we've got to give Flafida credit.

629
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:54.079
I do anymore that that he does. He is accurate and precise.

630
00:42:54.159 --> 00:43:01.559
So they put a real tough beat
down on ASU, which they've fully deserved.

631
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:07.199
And I think the credit for all
this goes to Jed Fish. Yeah,

632
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:10.320
no, you're right. Let me
just track get back real quick with

633
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:15.559
Jayden and his situation, because I
think that Noah is more patient behind that

634
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:20.000
line. He's not looking to run
if one, two, three options are

635
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:22.119
not there, right, He's kind
of anticipatient, like you said, Jaden

636
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:24.800
is more of Okay, if this
doesn't work, I got to get the

637
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:30.559
hell out of here and take off. Well that that was what they were

638
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:37.760
faced with early on. Hello,
yeah, I'm listening. I'm listening.

639
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:42.440
Can you hear me? Yeah,
that's what they were confronted with early on.

640
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:47.239
I mean, there wasn't a pocket
for him to pass out of.

641
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:53.079
And if you remember, Jed had
his short to encourage him when we heard

642
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:59.199
him do it on a radio program, to run the ball when there's nothing

643
00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:02.159
there take off. Yeah, yeah, Well he did that. He did

644
00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:06.199
that a lot, maybe a little
too much, but that was his go

645
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:08.960
to you know, if everything else
fails, I'm going Yeah, well,

646
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:15.719
I watched this game intently, and
the play calling and the play design and

647
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:21.559
the execution, we're all just great. And you got to give that Jeed

648
00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:24.280
Fish and his coaching staff. They've
done a great job. Yeah, no

649
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:28.519
question, it's been a it's been
a heck of a year. I mean,

650
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:30.639
this this year should have happened next
year, and who knows what's gonna

651
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:35.800
happen next year with all the success
this year. Well, we're gonna play

652
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:39.199
in a new, new league,
so that'll be interesting. Yeah, yeah,

653
00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:43.039
it's always nice. It's gonna be
it's gonna be fun. It's gonna

654
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.079
be fun. I think I think
it'll be very interesting. I actually think

655
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:50.280
that's where they belong to begin with, is in a league about that level.

656
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.320
Yeah, right, right, right, Okay, Jee, we got

657
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:55.000
to go because we're gonna get another
call here from Flavier. But thanks,

658
00:44:55.199 --> 00:45:01.039
thanks, all right, appreciate it. No, some people who have followed

659
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:05.119
Jim and his comments were wondering where
he had been, because he had been

660
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:08.159
uh uh, he had been saying
Noah was not the guy. Well he

661
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:12.280
was not that, not that he
wasn't the guy. He was back in

662
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:15.360
Jane for a while. You play, yeah, you play yeah, yeah,

663
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:16.840
And I think I think you brought
up a good point about that with

664
00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:20.519
the pocket not being the same just
because of the place, right right.

665
00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:22.400
Hey, Yeah, you're on the
air with eye on the ball. Hey

666
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:29.559
Steve, Hey, you got settled
up in an a issue. Yeah,

667
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:32.239
you've kept the sea worn from me
from last week. Yeah. Nice and

668
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:36.440
nice? Yeah, cool, cool, cool. So I got a nice

669
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:38.039
seat, got a nice view.
What's going to happen? And what do

670
00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:42.599
you think? What do you think
about the crowd, Well, the crowd's

671
00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:45.840
pretty small. It's crazy to have
a game like this in a huge stadium

672
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:52.639
because it's probably I would say about
what to two to three thousand here in

673
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:59.519
this seat is about fifty right right, it's not I think anybody could make

674
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:02.719
it from you and Tucson are here, right, But it's not a big

675
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:07.920
crowd. But it's a it's a
nice uh you know night for football.

676
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:09.679
It didn't look good in Tucson early
with rain, but it's nice up here,

677
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:12.840
right. No, I thought that
when you said it was at four

678
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:16.440
o'clock? Is is this is this
abnormal for the time? Well, they're

679
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:21.960
having the five a championship right after
that. Four makes sense? Makes sense?

680
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:23.599
Okay, so things people are working
right now too, so they probably

681
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:27.519
could make the game, but they'll
probably watch it on stream and streaming live

682
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:31.559
right on a NFAs network. What
if, what if CDO does pull this

683
00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:37.559
off? What would it mean to
the CDO community. That would be the

684
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:40.880
fourth day championship, second for dust
In Peace, first since two thousand and

685
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.440
nine. It would be another fourteen
to no season, which is quite an

686
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:52.519
accomplishment. You know, Tucson has
not had two championship teams in the same

687
00:46:52.639 --> 00:47:00.599
year since nineteen seventy six. Wow, and that was that was or I'm

688
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:05.000
sorry yeah, CDO and Tucson Deaf
and the Blind which is became a SDB.

689
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:09.320
There's been another southern area school like
small schools like Thatcher and Moerenci and

690
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:14.920
other things from southern Arizona. That
one state champions but within Tucson, you

691
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:19.159
know the city limit. Uh.
This this could be the first time Casabno

692
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:21.800
won last week, he could be
the first time from seventy six and two

693
00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:25.000
teams in Tucson won a state championship. This might be a dumb question,

694
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:30.440
but we both know the piece dust
In Peace. Pretty well, he's a

695
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:35.360
neighbor of mine and I didn't know
really that he had had dismissed success.

696
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.000
What do you think his legacy is
now? And then if he wins another

697
00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:43.920
one, what would it be.
He's one of the top coaches ever to

698
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:49.920
coach in Southern Arizona and he hasn't
too many that have won two championships.

699
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:54.480
There's only a handful that have won
two state titles in Southern Arizona or Tucson

700
00:47:54.559 --> 00:48:00.880
area. Richard Sanchez at Sunnyside,
John Malamo at Tucson. Only may he

701
00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:04.920
filled a Tucson in Bob Smith at
CDO. Wow, and Bob Smith a

702
00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:09.559
CDO did in the seventies, so
he would join that elague group. Skerrn

703
00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:15.039
has three A Skerrn like above above
him because with three championships he wanted me

704
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:20.639
in the nineties with Sabino. That's
another interesting thing about tonight is the Sabino's

705
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:23.000
nineteen ninety eight championship team. It's
going to be honored at halftime of this

706
00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:27.519
game for the twenty fifth anniversary of
that championship. Oh wow, Okay,

707
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:30.920
I didn't know so and Freeley,
how many did did freed win one or

708
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:37.000
two. Freely won one and we
all know and you know actually he won

709
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:39.719
too. He won he well he
was with Mornci with one of them,

710
00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:45.119
but he won with Amphi in seventy
nine. Okay, yeah, I take

711
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.480
that back. He didn't win that
with Marenci. He went to a championship

712
00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:52.840
game with Mornci. So, but
he won one with Amphi in nineteen seventy

713
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:57.000
nine. And we all know his
legacy because everyone uh talks highly of him

714
00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:00.760
and he was one of the deans
here, but Dustin would come up with

715
00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:05.199
two. And he hasn't been a
head coach all that long fifteen years.

716
00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:09.920
This is a fifteenth year an assistant
introducing pisa cdo for like eight years before

717
00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:14.000
that. So he's been in the
program for about twenty three, twenty two,

718
00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:16.599
twenty three years, an assistant under
what's his name? Not under himself?

719
00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:22.440
What's his doay, I'm sorry,
under under the Pat Newgen talk about

720
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:24.719
that, right, Pat Newgen?
Right right? No, no question.

721
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:29.000
And he's been in the area for
forever. No, okay, cool,

722
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:32.440
what's to look for? What do
you what's your prediction? Well, Caden

723
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:36.880
Luke, he's got over two thousand
yards, a big running back five two

724
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:40.480
twenty pounds, and that's Video's bread
and butter. They they hardly passed.

725
00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:45.280
They passed on situations where they might
be able to get the defense off guard

726
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:50.079
here and there, like a draw
player or something like that. But they're

727
00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:52.719
running game is what's gonna win it
for CDIO. The key to that is

728
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:58.039
Video can't get behind early. They
can't get behind my two touchdowns. These

729
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:01.599
are both two undefeated teams and CTDIO
uh is not. Their passing game has

730
00:50:01.639 --> 00:50:05.880
not been nearly as effective as their
running game. And then you mccatholic is

731
00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:08.320
much more balanced. They can throw. They have a passer with more than

732
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:13.159
two thousand yards and a runner running
back that has almost fifteen hundred yards,

733
00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:15.440
so they're going to be balanced.
They were as CEO is one kind of

734
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:22.239
one dimensional. Who's the who's the
higher seed? You mccatholic, they're both

735
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:24.719
thirty No, but uman Catholics number
one, number two? Okay, okay,

736
00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:30.159
so defenses too, okay. Yeah, we saw cdo versus versus Micah

737
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:32.480
Mountain, Is that right? Yeah? And they were. It was a

738
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:36.360
good game, great game. So
we'll see what happens. We'll see if

739
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:39.239
Piece can do it. Again and
have cdo get another win. Okay,

740
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:43.599
yeah, it'd be big for Tucson, right. Well, I didn't realize

741
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:46.039
that since seventy six, you said, Right, that's the last time two

742
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:51.159
teams in Tucson City limits won state
championship the same year. Yeah. Wow,

743
00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:53.880
it's been a long time. Okay, thanks, have fun and enjoy.

744
00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:58.800
I know what's work, but have
fun. That's fun. Thank you,

745
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:01.320
Thank you. Man Saber Morales from
All Sports tousaun dot com. If

746
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:05.719
you want to read him after the
game, please do go to the website.

747
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:08.039
You'll have a lot of pictures and
during the game Twitter Yeah yeah,

748
00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:13.519
media read does that very well.
Okay, we've got about a minute left,

749
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:17.000
we'll take we'll take our break here
soon, come back with breaking news,

750
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:21.519
right, and then have Pete Williams
at the out the four fifteen four

751
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:25.199
to seventeen mark, and then have
our picks at the final final moments of

752
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:29.480
the show. Okay, can you
we have time? Right? We have

753
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:31.880
like thirty seconds? Yeah, we
have like a minute a minute okay,

754
00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:35.599
but I'm looking at it, but
I don't want to play some music.

755
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:38.440
I'm talking play some music and then
we'll go to your COMMU say, give

756
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:43.320
me a break, Yeah, give
me to break today. I'll go back