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Spring Day in Tucson. We'll come tying the ball. I'm Steve Rivera,
you're Jaginsaus. Got a guy Kevin in the house today for Monday. How
about them cats? How about them cat? Uh? Surprised? Not at
least at all, Not at all. Kevin, you were out of the
room Friday for you were you were doing your man business, out of time
or two. And when you were out your man business, I assume it's
some man business. I don't know, Pete whatever. So Kevin and I
talked, right, we talked to what do we think it was like?
A We talked it was a locker to me, it was a locker.
You felt I us. I felt like it was gonna be a no brainer
that Arizona was certainly going to win and cover against the Ducks, right,
and then we talked about it on the show. Thankfully, you did not
touch it. I did not touch it. That's why I said I deserve
a percentage of what you want, because I want I was going Cats in
the over and both of those hit you were you would not be going for
the Cats had we not told you that. Yeah, you know, I
I was okay, all right, all right, I'll admit I didn't take
it because I just wasn't didn't feel all that great about it. For the
same reason that I felt that the Ravens were gonna win is that I thought,
you know, at some point, Tommy Lloyd is going to lose two
games in a row, and if there's a place for it to happen,
this is it. Because they're not playing well. They got beat by a
last place team on Thursday night yesterday. I think that they would come out
a little more fired up and play with a little more determination. But I
still still thought they're at Oregon. They haven't won there since like I was
born, and you know, I just didn't think Jay, you grew up
watching this program, so I don't know much about much about before eighty seventh
and when I started covering the team in ninety one. The one thing I
learned from this program loot probably Sean I didn't follow Shawan as close to this
probably should have. If Arizona is challenged, right, they show up.
If they're not challenged, they don't. That's it. Yeah, that's it.
First round losses, first round losses, exactly. That that's your title,
that's your tombstone title in the first round losses. So to back that
up, Steve our friend Brian Peterson, who's gonna be on the show later
today. I don't know if you guys saw this, but he tweeted on
the twenty seventh, he tweeted that Arizona might just need big crowds, and
then he tweeted the stat the Wildcats are fourteen and won this season in games
where the attendance is nine thousand or more. That includes wins at Duke,
Oregon and neutral side victories in Phoenix and Palm Springs. They're one and four
when there are fewer than seventy five hundred fans and zero to three when the
announced attendance is blow five thousand. Yeah. Well that's he could put that
up for the last twenty five thirty years. Yeah, because that's just how
it is. Morning games, first round games Miami, Ohio had two thousand
people. Yeah, the loose yeah, I can remember the games if they're
not motivated to play. Hell, they won the ninety seven title game in
that first round because they almost lost that first round, right, It was
just they think they can just show up. Yeah, well, I My
problem, Steve, is that my mentality as it relates to football spills over
into basketball and no, no, no, you know, and just like
I you know, after Arizona got beat by a USC in a tough game
that they should have won, I thought, I didn't think very much of
their chances going into Washington State, and they came back and beat the living
hell out of those guys and the rest was history. Same thing. I
just you know, it's just like when you're you're when you're beating down Arizona
fan like I am, you just think they're not going to be able to
get it together in time to beat Oregon. Yeah. Yeah, no,
no, it's uh, that's just the way it is. I get it,
because you you have you're just a wounded dog in the corner. No,
I mean, you've been kicked in the side so many times that you
know, with all due respect to dogs, but that's just the analogy.
That's because that's what happens. You can go through years and years of this
analysis, like like Brian did, and we're gonna have him on the show
here in about ten minutes. Give Arizona a reason to win, and then
they win. They will give them no reasons just to show up and they
don't well again. After what was arguably the worst loss in the history of
Arizona basketball when they got beat by Santa Clara in ninety two, they go
to the final four the next year. Yeah you know, yeah, he
changes it up, yeah, gives him some some encouragement. It was ninety
three. It was ninety three, yeah, three, And then he came
back and they go to the final four. Right. And then on the
other hand, they win the national championship, get everybody back, no no,
and poop on their leg in the in the because it was Utah.
They had already played them, they beat him before. I had a history
of beating them easily, and they just beat the crap out of them.
I mean, Jay, if you're going to write a thesis or for your
graduate degree, this is it. And why And we get ahold of the
psychology girl from from you a get her quotes. We're done. No,
yeah, no, seriously. I mean, it's it's weird. It's weird,
but I will say that, you know, I only got to see
the very beginning because I had no I didn't even see the very beginning.
I had to I was having my I was having my daughter move I got.
I got the last half of the second half. So I was listening
to Brian Jeffers on the radio, and when Arizona got out to the you
know, the quick lead, I thought, yeah, they're going to win
this game, and they and they were never headed. So so let me
ask you this, okay, Soley, So they went on Saturday very impressively.
Do you think they'll ever lose again in the Pac twelve? And I
say this for a reason because because everybody and everybody everything's right in the world.
Right, Yeah, they win a game and everything's you know, the
sun sunny year, it's eighty two degrees here and everybody's happy. But but
using the thesis from the attendance and stuff, they're gonna have a clunker here
in here or two again. I see I see them splitting the l a
trip, right, yeah, one of those teams is gonna be them.
You see the plays, you say they're playing very well. Again, I
see them, I see and then and they'll probably they could lose too at
Colorado and right right right, because you know those and those games though,
are gonna be packed, they're gonna be ready blah blah blah blah, and
there was if they don't know that they need to show up, that's on
them. Yeah, and maybe again, you know, if if, if,
if, the they you know, they'll be good, good crowds for
those two games or the Utah Colorado game that comes after I got cal Stafford
at home this week. Then they go to Utah and Colorado, you know,
they'll have good crowds. They'll they'll be geared up. Maybe they play
really well. Yeah, you know yea. So let me ask you,
so both you guys will portion the game, what would pressure you the most?
Caleb's thirty six where he was fantastic or more importantly or was it more
important that Calen bobs will played well? It was more important for calin bos
Wow to play well? I agree. You know he he had a smile
on his face in the second hand. You hadn't seen it in a one.
I hadn't seen it in a long time. He had he had a
smile on his face. He felt good on the court, He's doing something.
Yeah, you felt like the court was not a foreign place for him
again, that it was like he belonged there and was playing the type of
basketball that we saw him play early in the year. But more importantly,
just if he looked like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders and if
he can keep that together. Look, I think it's perfect for them to
come home and play two games at home. Now, if they had to
go on the road again, I'd say it could be hard. But you
know, to come home, they got callum Stanford. They're gonna want to
use to Stanford very much. So on Sunday, Yeah, you know there's
a double header on Sunday, the women and the men right right on that
day, Like what times that women aren't noon and the men are at six?
Okay, oh really it's a long stretch. Yeah, so it's you
know, they finish at two thirty, clean up the arena and then getting
ready to get Yeah. But anyways, I think I think this this home
stand, or it's two games, that sets up well for them to continue
to gather themselves and get ready to go for what's going to be a really,
really tough road trip to the Mountain Schools. Yeah, and I think
it's important that Kylon had a Boswell had a better game just because we know
that Caleb, we know that Caleb Love can do that. He was well.
It was a career high, right, it was a special night.
We know he can be the top end scorer for this team. But we
needed to see Boswell have a more stable performance amidst all the unstable ones that
we've been seeing from here's the thing for me for for Love, he took
only eighteen, only eighteen shots for thirty six points, right, which usually
he's he's on fire, he throws up a bunch of throwing up everything.
Yeah, and for you know, twenty points, you know, eighteen for
twenty point whatever it is. But he was fantastic, very efficient. I
played well. It's funny how he talks to the interview. Oh, you
want to thanks my teammates for setting me up. No, you just took
the shots of you know, the shots were there, and you know,
I mean he played thirty nine minutes, We played the whole game. But
he was twelve of eighteen from the field, five to eight from three.
But you look at Colin Boswell's lying. You know, five of twelve a
little under fifty percent, but two of five from three, yeah, but
three assists, two steals, only one turnover. He played a complete game.
And and to me that that's what you have to do. Uh you
know uh uh you know, Umar Ballow you know had uh you know nine
he had a game and some points, nine rebounds, really had a double
double with some foul trouble. Yeah, right, both he and Crevias had
some foul trouble. So you know, it was it was a game that
they needed to have. They shot nearly fifty percent from the field, but
made ten three pointers and so you know, on the road. As as
Tommy said, it looked like their best game. Yeah, you know,
yeah, most complete game of the season. Right, And it's a good
time. It's funny because I was listening to Field of sixty eight or whatever
last week and he was talking about they were talking about and it's a silly
podcast to me. You know, it's they have the struggle here and it's
it's now the time to peak. You don't know when you're peaking. Every
game. Every game is different. You can have a peak in November if
you don't play well. Ever, Zona peak in ninety seven. No,
they played well for six straight games. They were peaking in ninety eight.
Well again, the ninety seven team lost its last two regular games. They
got swept on the road, so they had but then it went the crowd.
Yeah to my point, Yeah, but you get it. It's a
lot of times you don't know if you're peak exactly exactly you want to peak,
yeah, but you don't know if you are. To get on the
field and you play a stretch of games in a row, they said,
Okay, this one's better than the last one, and better than the last
one, better than the last And for the most part, it's it's something
that we look at after after the fact and say, oh, that's when
that peaks. And they peaked at the right time instead of this team didn't
seem to be a practice and be like, guys, we're really peaking this
week. Hey, but let's pump the brakes, don't they don't the opponents
have something to say about that and how well they play the peak? We
thought the Ravens were peaking, No exactly, oh year, No, no,
ers are going back. Let's talk about the casey for the middle of
the season was what the hell's wrong with What's the hell wrong with Case?
There have always been Case. Now they're showing showing who they know, who
they are, and I'm so pissed at myself for going I went against the
Green I mean, I said on the show, I said, you know,
uh uh uh Patrick Mahomes has entered that territory where you say, don't
bet against him. You know, you know, beware of betting against uh
uh Patrick Mahomes because he's just gonna step up when he needs to step up.
And he and he has and he did again. So what he does
everybody else does too, right, Well, that's it. He brings people
with him. Well it sounds like the guy. Yeah, and that's why
he's so mad. Earlier in the year when his receivers weren't elevating with me,
he was like, guys, I'm doing my best. Didn't Tommy,
didn't Tom Brady? Uh, Mike a living doing that exactly, guys.
Get on his guys to get them to play harder. Hey Manning and Jeff
Saturday Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all those guys. So so
get up, get up, guys. I need you guys here. I
can't carry this program. So I have to decide if blood is thicker than
water and whether or not I go against my kids have a funny story.
I have a funny story in forty nine ers. So my my son Adam,
and he just did you know what a forty nine I got? Joe
mont Dana Jersey in here dead, said forty niners. He did not want
to come over and watch a game, he said, No, said,
I've been to the last two Super Bowls at your house and they've lost.
I'm not coming, And Adam, it's it's it's our Sunday family dinner.
You have to go. All right, I'll come, but if they start
losing, I'm leaving. And so he comes, and maybe we made hamburgers.
In the first half, he said, he choked down his and he
ate and he left. At halftime. He left his wife and kid at
our house and he went home to watch the game, and and they came
back and won. He'll never see your kid again, yeah, I said,
so. So I even bother asking if you're coming over for the Super
Bowl that I don't know who you are. He let, I mean,
he high tailed it out of the house, and like I said, he
left his family behind. Well, they came back and need a nice little
comeback. Thankfully, the Detroit kind of collapsed in front of him, which
feels worse today being a Ravens fan or being a Lions fan. I think
the Lions. I heard a good point I was. I would have said
Lions too. I heard a good point though that the Ravens have been here
more recently than the Lions. Lions fans in a week or two, they're
gonna be like, I'm just happy we had the season that we had.
They're always going to have this season right, no matter what happens going forward.
But the Ravens fans, I feel like they at least have passed success
to be like to look back on the glory days of whatever twelve years ago,
Well, what about the sugar sensus now and how good they've been the
last several years and can't get over the top. That's fair. I do
think that's fair. But for the Lions, they were this close. They
they they didn't give it away. I mean, the Niners took it from
him, but damn they they they did their part to give up. He
is he is okay, all right? Brian Peterson coming I we're gonna talk
somewhere you have a basketball uh and the weekend that they had just a weird
weekend, and then some of the women, the women still it's been It's
been an interesting weekend. So stick around for Brian Peterson from Azy Desert Swarm
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fourteen fifty streaming live. I mean iHeart radio. Wapp Hey, welcome back
to Winding the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,
He's Jaginsaus Now on the phone. We have Brian Peterson from Arizona as desert
storm or desert storm or swarm? Where how are you from? I'm looking
at rough glasses with snow glasses on that. He does a good job on
that site. We're talking about men's basketball obviously, and some maybe some football,
some women's basketball because you have that covered as well. But I don't
think that you're shocked at you have a beat Oregon this weekend, are you?
Uh No? I mean it's so weird. This team seems to always
play its best or under Tommy right after a lost. And it's been that
way this year, it was the way last year, it was that way
the year before, and also it's like the big games, it just seems
like that they play up for more than maybe the lower ones. And I
found the weirdest stat before the game on Saturday, and it's still played out
if there's more than nine thousand people in the crowd. Arizona has won all
but one game this year. The only one they didn't win was the Curdue
game, which was just a great game and a better opponent. But the
four there, I think one in four when there's less than like seventy five
hundred people and if there's less than five thousand, they just don't win.
And maybe there's that whole you know, they say you got to bring your
own energy on the road. Maybe this team doesn't bring its own energy that
it needs a good hostile crowd, whether it's in their favor or against them,
to get them hiped up. Yeah, I mean it it makes sense
because you know, I mean, they're used to the crowds here. It's
always loud, it's always crazy, and they you know, and they love
playing. They get used to that, and you almost feel like they've got
to feel a little out of sorts if it's not like that. Yeah,
I mean, that's that's just an number, and it should it shouldn't matter.
It also means that I think the rest of their road games this year,
Colorado, Utah, Asu and USCU the CLA should have good crowds,
so there might not be another example to see what they would do in front
of kind of a quiet or small crowd. But the inconsistency is still a
concern. I mean, they haven't won consecutive games since starting the season,
or they haven't won more than two in a row. I should say since
starting the season eight to no. Now they may have an opportunity here to
get at least three in a row before they go back out on the road
to Colorado and Utah. At some point I think though that Tommy should have
or should be getting their attention because the rest of the way it's important to
get those wins. Given the you know, they're still at number two,
I think I think there are number two on most most things, so they
have to stay there at least stay there. So every game has to be
important. And I said before you came on, Brian and you followed the
team for a long time, if they think it's an important game to show
up, if it's just one of those games where there we can just show
up and beat them by our pure talent. They lose. I've seen that
lout. It was probably happening with Sean, with Lute, I know that
happened. But the thing is is that if you don't think every game is
important, then these things happen, and they should all be considered appointment important,
especially as you get to this point in the season. And last year
down the stretch, they started to treat every game like it was important.
The only game they lost, the only game they lost down the stretch before
the NCAA Tournament, the ASU game, which was just a wild one,
especially with the half court shot, and losing at UCLA, which was going
to be a really big game. I mean, that was a great matchup.
But then they go and they win all the games in the Pac twelve
tournament. But then, yeah, they probably just said, well, Princeton's
not who need to worry about Let's concern ourselves with the second opponent and moving
on from there and these other teams. It's always the most important game when
you're faking Arizona exactly. Yeah, no, no, no doubt. So
I mean, what were you thinking after the Oregon State game? Were you
thinking that a blip where you've you know, so many fans were panicking.
You know, I'm saying your thinking they're playing their way into a three or
four seed, you know, I mean, what were your thoughts after that
game and that loss to the last place team in the league. Just that
they are not the same team without that support that they have, that away
from home, it's very difficult for them for whatever reason, and that just
fundamental things keep breaking down, particularly the leaving guys open on the perimeter.
And Tommy had said afterwards that it is bigs act like they've never seen a
big man shoot a three because it's I had found a stat going into the
Oregon game, guys in the Pac twelve who were six nine or taller were
shooting forty three percent on three pointers. Skin Parasel Well, I was gonna
ask you before you Kim on the show. I asked the guys here,
what was more impressive to you, Caleb doing his thirty six or impressive maybe
important Caleb doing his thirty six, or killin doing his job. Kylin having
that better game, Yes, was much more important, especially because early on
you saw multiple instances where it looked like he was second guessing himself. He
had that time where he was in the air with a wide open three and
at the last moment passes out of it, merely throws it away and then
gets it back and drains it. And then there was at least one other
time where he hesitated and gave up on the shot. And so there's definitely
something there as far as him being uncertain about himself, but the fact that
he was able to put up fourteen and showed a lot more assertiveness, particularly
on the defensive end. Actually in both games I think. I mean,
he had four fouls against Oregon State and that's the first time in his career
he's had four fouls because he was trying to defend and sometimes you need to
do that. If you're not able to contribute in one way, you need
to find another way to do it, and he was trying to do it
on the defensive end. So, you know, we talk about teams peaking
and Arizona certainly you can't say to them about that about them right now,
but you know they have to get to that point and you know, to
get ready for Marshall, what do you need to see this week to feel
like, Okay, you know they're they're they're starting to put some things together.
I mean they need to win by a lot. Do they need to
be very impressive or just a couple of wins in any way they can get
them. I mean, what do you think, what do you think Tommy
Lloyd wants to see this week? Well, the Stamford game provides the first
revenge opportunity of this year and last year. They were successful in all those
first times facing someone after losing to them. In fact, every time they
face an opponent they had lost to previously under Tommy Lloyd, they have won.
And that kind of also feeds into the hole responding to a loss,
not just beating Stanford. I think the key in that one is take away
the things that Stanford was doing so well. Yes, some of their shots
were unconscious, but they also that was the first real instance where we saw
that they had so many wide open three point shooters and particularly guys who are
bigger, So showing that they can address that would be helpful. It is
funny that the one team in the Pac twelve that didn't shoot well against Arizona
that has good shooting big men is Utah and those guys had a lot of
open looks but just miss them. So that might just be a flaw of
this team. If you remember the Alabama game, that kid Grant Nelson was
three or fifteen from three and most of those were wide openly. So it
is a big flaw for this team. But since Stanford was the one that
really kind of exposed it in league play to start, I think that's what
Tommy's going to want to see, is that, you know, Foolmy wants
shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I have to
show that I can address that and fix it. Yeah, and they have
the comforts of home. I think next week, next week on the road
will be the test of where they're at because Colorado and Utah are not going
to be easy places to play. Correct. Correct. I believe both of
them are unbeaten at home this year, right, And so I mean that's
that's going to be a very tough trip. And you know, I thought,
actually losing to Oregon State that this was going to be the first back
to back losses under Tommy that it really does stand out as an opportunity.
But that's it's a kind of trip where if you lose both of those games,
it's not as big a deal. As it would be on some of
these other trips, unless it's about the way they lose. If these are
competitive games that they lose, then that's one thing. But if it's games
where they clearly were outmatched and outplayed and out coached, then that's more of
a concert. What do you make of Lumarballo, I mean, what he
kind of comes and goes well? I think that. I mean, it's
very very evident that not having someone like Ishulis Tavellis right next to him shows
how limited he is from an offensive player, because if he is the focal
point down low, he maybe isn't good enough to be able to beat all
these guys and particularly finished through traffic. But when he adds somebody that had
to be paid attention to just as well, just as much, if not
more, then that was making it so that his opportunities were a lot more
open. I do still think there is a lot of value to the amount
of fouls he draws, and that it helps from the accumulative It just when
you get into later in games and the free throws are more meaningful, you
can't really have him out there because there's no benefit to him being fouled.
If he's going to miss the free throws later in the game. But I
still think he provides so much value, particularly from rebounding and being in the
way on the defensive end. But he also has to show that he can
rotate out for defending guys. One thing I noticed was they were having like
guards like Kylan Boswell guarding Nathan Biddle on Oregon rather than just having big on
both bigs trying to guard big men because they see that that's position. I
was going to go there, we have about four and a half minutes,
but I want to talk about women's basketball real quick and a little about football.
So what would you say is the best lineup that he puts out there
for women's basketball, men's men's This last question of men's men. You know,
I don't see him making a change with the starting lineup. No,
I don't think that just he likes Boswell being that initial guy, but that
when when he puts Bradley in, Bradley is the guy who's going to be
leading the point, not so much like someone like Caleb. I think he
likes having Caleb be the guy who is off the ball. I went back
like thirty years and Arizona's never had a team that started the same five guys
the entire season, and so far it's been these five, and I think,
barring an injury, that that's the way it's going to stay. I
think he likes the way that the three bench guys, Crevus and Lewis and
Bradley provide their spark in those minutes. I think it may be more a
matter of how much they play, which is why you saw a couple of
those games with Bradley starting the second half, but Boswell's still getting more minutes.
If anything, they may want to try to cut down on some of
Bollo's minutes and more for Crevius. But in this last game, like Crevis
could not defend in Polly Dante, so Bobo had to be out there.
So in situations like that, they're forced to stick with Bobo. Yeah,
that's what do you talk about the starting lamps. I think two thousand and
one Gilbert was probably pissed off Lute and said, no, you're not playing
today a couple of a couple of times. In fact, well let's go
to women's sport. You know, Adia has at an admirable job. I
guess that's my word, at least seven girls and someone else's hurt. Now,
she didn't explain Hayle and Gilbert their best player. Yeah, so what
gives I mean, she's trying to do guess what you can. Yeah,
and without Gilbert it puts them down to seven. And this last game against
Stanford, it was really really evident because all three of their front court players
got their third foul in the first half, and you had to have one
of them out on the court in order to have five and it was frankly,
if it weren't a blowout, they all would have filed out instead only
one of them filed out. But the team is severely limited. They just
don't have a lot of options. And it's kind of they could still make
the NCAA tournament if they were to pull off a couple of games here and
there and maybe pick up a win or two in the Pac twelve tournament.
But I was discussing with our women's writer Kim Doss the other day that it
would actually be better for them to make one of the NIT type tournaments for
women's basketball, because that would probably provide an opportunity to play at home and
to get more experience. Because you know, they've they've got several young players
on this team, and it should be about thinking towards the future, I
think at this point, because gosh, the remainder of their games this year,
they still have games against I want to say five of their remaining nine
games are against ranked teams, and or three of those are on the road.
It's just it's a ridiculously tough schedule, and to expect to do that
with seven or eight people and have it hang up is just not there.
Unless we've got one minute left to stock real quick about the movement in u
of a football players coming and going. I assume more to come. Yeah,
there was a There was another one of the signees from this most recent
class, Raheem Right, who decommitted today. And I think another one in
an offensive lineman, Justin Hilkama, I think has backing out of his letter
as well. I mean that those ones are less surprising because you have no
idea if the new coaching staff can gel with these guys that were recruited off
the on the prep scene, if they never had any contact with them.
I think it's a lot easier to get the guys who were already here to
stick around because they understand the setup and the culture and everything, and that's
been very impressive the number of players, not just Noah and Timac who managed
to stay, but just that it was kind of this collective unit and so
you know, it's set up to where they could still have a very good
season next year, and then twenty five is when it's more of a rebuilding
thing. I still want to see who they add because they've got about fifteen,
if not more, available scholarships right now. So that's the next step
is seeing who they start to add, and then we can get an idea
of what Brent Brennan and this staff can do as far as how they want
to bring in their own guys. Great, Okay, Brian, thanks a
bunch as always appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me guys. Great.
Great. You can just search out Azy Desert Swarm right find out the
storm dot com. Uh uh. Bryan Pears and Kim Dass, who has
covered the women's team always some good stuff, Brian. Brian's a stat geek
man. He's going back thirty years and getting snats and stuff. It's always
always good stuff. It's nice to have a guy like that around who provides
us some materials. I was tweeting that stuff out. Okay, so let's
take a break, yep, and come back and talk. Maybe take us
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welcome back everybody. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jagan Zask got our guy
Kevin in for on the ball. If you want to call us five two
zero four one six seventy four forty you'd like to hear from you? Did
you were you surprised that you you saw the Cats win? I think that
according to you know, the Internet and the experts that are out there.
Some were and some were, Yeah, there were. I think there were
more people who were not surprised, yeah, than than surprised. I think.
I know Arizona fans tend to panic. Yes, when something like that
happens on Thursday night and you lose to a bad team the way they lost.
You don't, you're not. You're not. A Facebook you don't.
You don't. You don't. On Twitter, you don't either. You're not.
I don't comment a lot, like you know, I follow and I
read you're a peruiser here. Yeah, but like and sometimes I tweet on
r behalf as I did on after the game on on on Saturday. I
just said I didn't. I said, sometimes college basketball makes no sense.
And what are you talking about? You thought it made all the sense in
the world perfect to me. No, I didn't see that tweet. But
you're not. You're not. You don't go. I don't. I don't
rage. Once in a while, you know, something will set me off,
and I'll I'll say, I'll say something, but yeah, not very
off. Yeah, no to me, to me, I don't get it.
And I said today one of the tweets, because I don't even know
why I read it, maybe just to talk about on the show. But
you know, you have to certain people either they're really good to get the
beat and then complain to me, it's a tree in the forest. What
do you who's gonna read? Tell me? Know? Going? What are
they talking about? On Facebook? It's like I'm gonna, I'm gonna start
the bar. It's us, sure, us and the people we know.
You know, you you follow somebody because you're interested in what they have to
say right on on on Twitter that you know, I I want to know
what Mike Decursi is saying. I want to know what you know Yogi Roth
is saying. So we fought those people for our for our Twitter account for
them about Twitter account, we follow those guys cause we get information from those
guys a lot of the you know, they're on our show. When they
follow us, we follow them. And but then I have a personal Twitter
account that I pick and choose, and it tends to be you know,
friends of mine, and I'm I'm curious into what they're saying. So those
are the two things that I pay mo attention to. But you know,
I go in and I read this stuff once in a while, somebody will
set me off what they do. Also, I'll put something up personally and
say you're full of crap or excellent point, you know when when i'm when
when I'm the one who's generally tweeting on behalf of mine on the ball,
and it's more of a like that, like sometimes it doesn't make any sense,
you know. Or I'll congratulate somebody you know, who's done something great
whatever, But you know, people, you know, I see what and
I fight it. I'm not engaged. I get I don't know why.
I get a little anxious, a little like what the hell are you talking
about? But it's guys who people open the computer and oh, he should
have passed that ball. Okay, what I mean, Oh he should have
shut the ball or he would We all saw it, you know, just
because you said it. You know. Well, you know it's the thing
like you know, you see Bruce and you see Brian Peterson, uh,
Devin Homer, you know our former intern uh, and they're all tweeting a
play by play of a game, and I'm like, I'm not sure what
Yeah, no, but I'm talking about that. I'm talking about fans who
were, you know, just watching the game and on Facebook saying oh God,
and then this is their this is their main story. Oh these guys
are horrible and then they watch a game, and then watch a game enjoy
the game. I don't know how guys do that? Why why they do
that? Hi, you're on there and I have the ball. Yeah.
I was sorry to hear yesterday or read yesterday that apparently, uh, Chuck
Cecil is down going to be on the coaching staff. Is that for sure?
Or do you have any ideas what's happened on that? I didn't see
that. It was in the Daily Star, Greg Yeah, Greg Hanson.
Yeah. So so this is what my impression was before Sunday, because carry
Cecil had been tweeting and kind of hinting that that was going to be the
case. I had not heard. I heard that Hunley was going to be
an analyst. He's not going to be on the field, but helping capacity
as an analyst. I'm not surprised about Chuck. I'm not sure why that's
the case, but I'm not surprised. Why are you not surprised? Is
that? Uh? Well, because his own team from San Jose or what's
going on? Sure? Well, and there's only a number of spots.
There's only enough spots. I'm not surprised, I will I'm saying that because
of what Carrie had been tweeting out and and kind of like just the the
numbers game. Yeah, it didn't sound like there was a spot for him,
correct and pretty much. And you know, a coach is going to
bring who they're comfortable with. Sure, and you know, I mean,
I'm pretty sure Bran Brandon knows of Chuck Cecil No, you know, of
course, but it took pictures together. Yeah, but but you know,
he's also going to get a coaching staff that he feels, you know,
uh, he's most comfortable with. And yes, was it a great thing
that that uh that Jed Fish uh you know, brought on brought Chuck and
Ricky Huntley you know, to his coaching staff. Of course it was.
But Jed with Jed also had a little bit of a different approach and that
he was really trying to rebuild the fan base's faith in the program and rebuild
their interest in the program, and and not the Chuck and Ricky aren't good
coaches, just that there was the added benefit of them sure being legends here
and uh, and it would get you know, get some uh you know,
uh some cachet or cachet with the fans. That's what I'm trying to
say. Yeah, but beyond that, isn't he one of the best tacklers
ever ever put together? There is Orna or even at the NFL. And
what he contributed to Maldonado having a great year. Yes, and yes and
yes, yes, oh that's true. Oh that's true. But apparently it's
not gonna happen. You must be heartbroken or something by your tone. Yeah,
yeah, this is freak so to my arm and watching for a long
time. Yeah and uh yeah, Chuck seas old. You know, even
before that one hundred and sixty yard touchdown against a su was always one of
my favorites. Yeah, no, I get it. I get it a
little surprising, but but I'm not. I'm sure Gregg's got it on the
surprising. But no, you know, I mean a coach is going to
bring you know, the guy, as we said, the guys that you
know he's comfortable with, you know, maybe you know from his old coaching
staff and whatnot. You got to remember Jed was building a coaching staff from
scratch. He wasn't coming with the coaching staff that he already had somewhere else
whereas Brent Brannan you know, had a bunch of guys he's been coaching with
for a while, and that that's the big difference. Okay, well,
thank you. By the way. You also said Greg said that him Ricky
Huntley was going to be UH player and development or something like that, more
outreach with the U with a former players and so forth. So appairently he's
not coaching, you'll have a role. So yeah, that's that was kind
of jerry for me. I like what Brig Branner has done so far,
but I'm not real happy with that. But you know, I guess I
guess I'll live another day to see what goes on, so real quick,
Frank, You know, Ricky didn't coach much on the field this year either
because he he had he had a knee operation. They had a knee replacement
and and you had some complications with it and really couldn't be out on the
field. That's why Duyne a Keina ended up on the field. They swapped
UH and and and Ricky was more on the analysts side, working on you
know, UH with with players and whatnot and that's how Dwayne Nakina got on
the field as a coach, so that may be as much to do with
Ricky's health as it is anything else. All right, guys, thank you,
all right, thanks Frank good, Yeah, thank you. Yeah.
No, I I you know, somebody asked me that, so not on
the staff and as well sounds like the the you know, the the on
field coaching positions are all full and so but I didn't know you had been
uh uh you know, talking to carry and no, no, no,
I hadn't drunk to her. She's been tweeting that, you know, she's
been tweeting. She's been tweeting talking about nothing specifically that but God only this
on our very oh and you can kind of tell what was going on through
those tweets. Look, I know fans would love to have those guys on
the staff, but the end, you know, as I said, a
coach has to be coaching with guys who he has a connection with, is
comfortable with. And you know, I you know, there's always there's always
somebody around that kind of hangs around and stays on the staff all the way
back to when uh what's his name? Ha ha, Mark Luxford, you
know, hung around a couple of staff, you know, to create some
continuity. Sure, uh, you know, but guys in the end,
guys are going to get the guys that you know, they sure make up
their staff. They feel like they feel good in the room with Yeah,
that's that's what's going on here, right. Okay, anybody else want to
call? We got about five minutes and we appreciate the call. Yeah,
I'm just reading now the retirement blah blah blah. So he's talking about that
yesterday in the notes. Okay, what else is going on? You know,
it's surprising to me, Gilbert, you said it did not play right?
She played? Was she dressed on Thursday? But didn't dress dressed on
Thursday? I told I went to the game, Oh yeah, yeah.
My seats was, you know, across the bend, the other side of
the court from the band. So I saw Kaylen Gilbert didn't start, and
and I leaned over to my my daughter Rachel, who is up until December,
was working stats with me as well. We looked at each other like,
what's Dalen Gilbert's not starting? What's going on? So then you know
the game is going on, and then she doesn't come in and she doesn't
come in, so I'm I'm kind of paying attention to what she was doing
on the bench. You see, is she moping? Is she suspended?
Uh? You know, is she hurt? What's going on? And she
kept like turning in her seat like she was turning her like her back,
like she was having a back issue or something. And then she got one
of those bands that has the you know, the you know, the muscles
the muscles stimulator stuff, and she put one of those on. I'm like,
Okay, she's got a back issue. But I guess now they're saying
she might be out for the year, right right, And Idea didn't say
specifically why she was out for whatever reason. I don't know what the deals
and since she's hurt or whatever, but it was clearly an issue where she
was, you know, there was a health issue as to why she wasn't
playing. She didn't play, and then you know, they played well against
Cal and won that game. It was funny at halftime Cal had nine field
goals and eight of them are three point If they were only making stuff from
the outside, it was weird. They were like one for five on two
point shots and like eight for twelve on three point shots somewhere Staff. But
they you know, they played a nice game on on Thursday, but you
know, or Friday, but you knew Stanford was coming in on Saturday,
and Stanford had their way with them. I think it was like ninety six
sixty four, you know. And and as Brian said, they they do
have a tough They've got ACU coming up. That's part of the doubleheader next
Sunday. But then they got to go to USC and UCLA both rank come
home for Washington State and Washington then they go to Stanford cal usc in the
UCLA's it's it's it's a monstrous they're eleven and ten. They're going to do
well to finish above five hundred. If they do finish above five hundred,
you got to say that's about as good as much as you can expect.
I don't know if he is used any good this year. No, they're
not. They're not there. You will just from not beginning if terrible is
at the bottom, to be not good there and then they're terrible. Yeah,
there's the they're above terrible and not good. So I'm looking, do
you love me? Well? What level do I love you? Well?
They're ten and eleven. But they're two and seven and the well Arizone is
only three and six in the conference. So there, Arizona is only a
couple of games better than that, right, Okay, Okay, let's we'll
see it's a home game, Yeah, home game, okay, doubleheader,
and you know what we need to do. We need to get some of
some of the other sports baseball starting here. For yeah, all the sports
are going. Tennis is going, golf, they've got a tournament going to
day. I'm assuming swimming is gonna get going here, quick track, indoor
track is going right now, So yeah, there's all the other sports.
Get are going, just truck real quick. We're gonna talk some n i
L stuff. We've got Ray Wells back in this in the on the show
talking about you know, does it change, how does the scope change with
a new coach? Right? And and you know what was their role?
What's been their role in getting getting players to stick around? Right? No?
Good? They had to have had a role, right they're if they're
holding some money, Yeah, yeah, I mean they gotta be their Their
job is great n I L opportunities, uh for the athlete. So that
had to be the topic of conversation, you know, with Jet and Jet
help raise money, right, I'm not sure for N I L, but
for the for the facilities and stuff. Yeah, so, uh yeah,
Ray Wells will be coming up at a quarter after. In the meantime,
we're gonna breaking news coming up with Kevin, So stick around for all that.
A lot of stuff we're gonna find out, alright, stick around breaking
isner at the top of the hour.