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back to Winning the Ball here on Fox

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Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jaginsaus. Now you have some

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breaking news from Jacob. This is
II on the Ball, Breaking news on

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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, Well, in what has become just

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an I don't know, I don't
know what you call it. It's just

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this is the this is the college
college athletics world. Right. You know,

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we talked all year long about you
know, people you know, transfer

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portal and guys going and chasing money
and whatever. Jed Fish has made a

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bunch of comments about it. One
of the guys that left Arizona to go

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to USC last year, Dorian Singer, was a big part of the U

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of A offense last season. He
had let me let me dig this up

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here. In a year before last
he was a starter. He he had

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sixty six sixty six catches eleven and
five yards, six touchdowns in the in

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the five and seven season, and
he said that's not good enough. I'm

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going to USC. I want more. And so he went to USC.

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He had he was down on the
def chart twenty three catches, two hundred

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and seventy six yards, three touchdowns, fifth on the team in receiving.

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So now he's leaving USC. He's
going somewhere else. He jumped into the

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transfer portal today and it's headed somewhere
else. You know. It's like,

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so so, Jay, I joke, you joke about this. I joke

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about this, but seriously, joke
about this. What's the divorce rate in

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the United States now over sixty percent? Maybe it's pretty high. If I

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don't like you, jakus, what
I'm gonna do, I'm going somewhere.

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I'm going somewhere else. Yeah,
I mean it sounds maybe divorce is not

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the right thing, but I don't
like it. I'm gonna go. Yeah,

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I'm gonna go somewhere else and get
somewhere else and do something else.

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But you look at this kid,
who you know, got an opportunity,

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a look and none. And I
was blamed him for going to you,

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Like, Okay, you're gonna go
out some money and you're gonna get a

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better situation. Great, but he
went and he did not get a better

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situation. Right. He broke up
with the with the steady girlfriend that he

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had here, you know, kind
of cute, very nice, steady girlfriend,

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broke up with her, followed the
hot girl to to USC and she

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turned out to be at this Yeah, a mess. And now he's you

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know, he's going, he's dropping, He's going somewhere else for whatever reason.

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Yeah. No, it's it's the
way of the world today, you

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know. And and you know,
on the one hand, you don't want

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to wish anything bad on somebody,
but the go, okay, dude,

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lesson learned. What do you what? Now? What now for you?

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Right? Jed could come back?
Yeah, I mean really, did he

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derail his his career? Did he
blow it? Right? I'm completely blow

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an NFL a potential NFL career by
what he's done by because he decided to

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go chase whatever he chased us.
Yeah, we won't know. But I'm

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still on the corner of him him
because I've defended him about two or three

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months ago, because you talked about
the numbers and he's still the same player.

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I'm not wishing him anything bad on
him, but I'm saying he's still

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the same player, the guy who
got sixty six balls and only caught whatever

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here? But wait, is he
right? How much more would he have

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been developed here that he got developed
over there? He's got these NFL guys

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here and that that's what Jed fish
is. Sally, you come here,

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We're gonna get you ready for the
NFL. He goes over there, and

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how much development did he get?
Well, we don't know. Is he

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a better player? We don't know. You don't know what the thing is

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the US. He's not a bad
place to take a back step or whatever.

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But but you know, he's probably
the same player, if not better.

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They just didn't use him, maybe
as they should. We don't know

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the circumstances. But to me,
he's probably the same player, probably still

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a very good receiver. And who
knows what if he does come back,

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what do you think you think they
take him back? Well, here's the

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here's the catch. And have you
been on Facebook or Doug Twitter? What

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was what was what happened near the
end of the year with him? And

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DeLaura is gone? There you go? Which is our next breaking news?

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Uh? Jane de Laura? Uh? With this With this ruling, the

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court ruling that said players can transfer. It will so now he didn't even

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have to get his degree in Arizona. He can transfer. And he did

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announce during the during the holiday break, after it was it right before,

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it was right before the game.
It was like the Tuesday before the game

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or maybe even money might be you've
been on Christmas Day, announced that he

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is in fact in the transfer and
triangle finish. You know, there was

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a lot of attention paid to how
he was reacting on the sideline, giving

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hugs to know Aflfeda. It seemed
to be very excited for him, exciting

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for the win. You know,
he played, He played the good soldier

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and he played a big part in
the Arizona's success to this point given what

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he did last year, kept him
afloat, played very well, gave him

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hope. There's some people out there
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it, no because of what happened, of course because Hawaii, of course,

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just because of that, of course, and they say, you know,

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I don't like him being here.
I don't want him be in here.

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I'm glad he's gone. Well that's
all done, and yeah, but

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I but I've said to those people
have said that to me and said,

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but you can't deny how much he
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of what he did last year by
coming here to a program that had gone

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one and eleven and saying, I'm
gonna go there and try and start to

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turn this thing around. And regardless
of what you think he would have done

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if no, if he hadn't gotten
hurt, YadA, YadA, YadA,

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he meant a lot to what how
quick Dedfish was able to. He's if

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you're writing a book or a big
story, he is part of that story.

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He is and a big player in
that story, a big part of

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the story. So you know,
so he hasn't announced where he's gone.

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He's looking around. There's two thousand
players in the in the portal, a

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lot more. And if you're a
school, if you're a school, given

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his past, whether whatever, do
you take them, I don't know.

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I don't know. That's not for
you to decide, right for me,

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he's gone from here, So I
don't really care to you because it's say

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in our world, all right,
speaking of the portal that been, there's

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been a lot of action in the
portal, but most most prominently nine players

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from Alabama have jumped into the portal. Now, you know those are all

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good players. They're all four and
five star recruits. You've got a a

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four star quarterback, couple wide received
as a tight end, two offensive linemen,

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defensive lineman, and two defensive backs. So this was also uh an

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hour and a half ago. There
could be more by now, sure,

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but you know you've got players jumping
jumping into the portal from great places.

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Well there was lost a couple of
people, right, they lost a couple

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uh uh uh, well one one
one player declared for the NFL, and

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then Konga, the defensive defensive lineman, jumped into the portal for the old

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Tyler Minoa. Okay, okay,
yeah he's going. He's going to the

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he declared for the NFL. So
anyway, okay, for all of for

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all of you who are fretting,
continuing to fret about what this Stanford loss

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may have done to Arizona their seed, all that kind of stuff. Joe

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Lenardi came out with with his latest
bracketology. He's at Arizona on the two

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line in the West with Kansas is
the one. But he did say he

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still thinks Arizona is a one seed. Eventually they're not today, but they

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eventually will be sure a one.
You don't talk about the pregnancy success until

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you get to the pregnancy. Here's
like four months in we get the right,

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A lot of time left, a
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lot of teams going into the weekend. Arizona was the favorite to win it

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all. I think they were like
still the one, their second only second.

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There's there's still plus one thousands,
so the same same same number.

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Who's first produce Arizona plus a thousand
produced not gonna win it. I'm not

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gonna say Arizona was gonna win,
but produced one. So there's still the

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the the the odds makers who know
way more than you and I. They

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still believe in Arizona. Uh and
and there they bet Arizona had a good

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price too, plus one thousand,
you know, bet bet ten wins one

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hundred, bet ten one eleven.
There you go, all right, uh

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as we all know Washington, it's
Washington, Michigan in the in the National

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Championship Game on Monday. Two great
games. I was, yeah, very

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fig was so locked into both very
fun games. You know. On New

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Year's Day by by middle of the
afternoon, late afternoon. I'm out on

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a couch somewhere, and I was
glued. I was riveted. Well,

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you didn't watch very many good games
earlier in the day. Oregon came in

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and blistered Liberty, Tennessee and Iowa. Uh and who was the other one?

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Uh? Uh, I can't remember
what it was? God, I

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forgot. It was another big,
big game. Obviously wasn't very good.

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Oh l s u and uh yeah, yeah, yeah they came back.

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You one. You liked that game, didn't you. No, they didn't

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cover, they didn't come Yeah.
I was mad for taking them instead of

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taking Georgia. Oh I still got
a four though. Yeah, I know,

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this is your best week of the
year. The year. Well,

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because I had locked Arizona, which
is great, and then I had Washington

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in the special. So I got
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But rivety, both games, very
riveting. Washing It almost blew it,

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Washington almost blew it, and Alabama
did blow it. Yeah, they had

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very strange They were up twenty to
thirteen. Michigan had been moving the ball,

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gave up a long drive, got
it into overtime. Uh called a

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crappy crappy call, you know,
very strange play Hill. Well, if

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you listen to I don't know if
you heard what Nick Saban said, saw

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some of the pressures he said.
He said they had a play called and

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they had a good look on you
know what Michigan defense was going to do

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what they lined up for a Michigan
call timeout and then they come out to

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the come back out. Now Michigan's
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So Alabama calls time out. So
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didn't mind them giving the putting the
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not that, just not that,
just he I mean here, I don't

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know where he thought he was going
right And if you saw the play from

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behind, the right guard pulled and
he had an he had an open lane,

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but it was a low snap.
He got it paniced went straight into

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the line. Saban said he thought
that they expected to have a gap.

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There there was no gap. It
closed. Yeah, no, two gives

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a good football. Yeah. I
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on both of them. I thought
both. I thought Alabama was gonna win

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that game too. They should have. I thought they were gonna win it.

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All when they were announced to be
in the tournament, I picked them,

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and you know it was cool.
I've been poking at some people on

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social media, but well, let
me say, I saw, I saw

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you, go ahead, go ahead? Well about you still don't think,

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well, Michael Penix, don't.
I don't. I don't always agree with

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what you write. I don't really
follow Twitter, but I read your Twitter

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on that, and I think you
were spot on because you know what it's

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like Fau last year? What's his
team? Oh, they're pretty good.

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Well, you hadn't seen them all
year. How would you know until you

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see them? No, I guarantee
you how many voters Heisman voters in this

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country? Okay, six hundred?
How many of those six hundred actually saw

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Pennis play one hundred two games?
Right? One hundred? Okay, one

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hundred, and they're voting to see
if he's the best player. You saw

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him the other night. That's probably
who the guy was. Yeah, he

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was that guy all you and you
wrote that. It says where you been

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right exactly, And that was and
that was my point, like, Okay,

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now you're seeing and all these people
were saying, Michael Pennix, Wow,

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unbelievable what a performance. He's the
first quarterback to have back to back

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forty two hundred yard passing passing seasons. What ever they're saying? And man,

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where did this guy come from?
He's been there all damn year A

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damn your first time beat bow Knicks
two times? Yeah, you still voted

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bow Nicks ahead of him or from
the High or Jayden Daniels. No,

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So I like that tweet because it's
accurate if you don't know what you're not

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seeing. They they gave it to
Jameis Delaarden because you know, they saw

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him, I mean j Jaydon Daniels, because they saw him week in and

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week out. Ellis, Oh,
he's really good. He's got all these

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stats. Well yeah, how many
games did he win? Yeah? He

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didn't get him to the promise line, right, and then he didn't show

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up for his bowl game. Yeah
yeah, Hey you know Loo come to

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twenty twenty four? Oh man,
I was so mad. No, No,

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I thought that was a good I
don't know why I'm why, I'm

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no goud. It's a good tweet. I thought it was. It was

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good because it was accurate. If
you don't know what you're seeing or not

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seeing, don't be a voter,
right, watch it pay attention to.

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I mean I watched them. I
purposely went out and watched, you know,

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the other guys. Yeah, you
know, I saw Jayden Daniels I,

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you know, well obviously saw bow
Knicks all season long. But you

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know, I watched Marvin Harrison Junior. I watched these guys. But I

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had the advantage of, you know, of the Washington guys playing in my

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time zone. Yeah, and you
had a bias because you'd like them to

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begin with, right, and so
you had Washington from day one. You

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made good two picks, good things
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Hey, you know what I got
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So that was that was nice.
I mean, I I again for all

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you, for all you Arizona fans
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won ten games because I didn't take
them all season long until the bulgein and

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then my daughter, who we you
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game together in California. She yelling
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see what you did. I thought
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have it. They did not have
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been a crazy last couple of weeks, no question, all right, I

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know if you saw George Kakov,
I saw him. Well, he was

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at he was at the Yeah,
he was at the uh get aa.

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I took a picture of him.
He was not too far from me.

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But he said talking about Washington,
just saying, uh. I'd asked him

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about you know, he was asked
about you know, what do you think

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about Washington? Get into the winning
the CFP semi fi. I said,

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it's surreal, it's surreal. So
it's upsetting that some of our schools weren't

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more patient because if they saw what
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off. What the hell were you
building that we didn't see? He was

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still on the on the ground Apple
TV. Dude, Yeah, okay,

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we gotta go. He's gotta just
shut them all right, we gotta get

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out of here. We'll be back
with come back, come back with Brian

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Jeffries. So stick around and we'll
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evaluation Today. Steve Rapia and Jacob
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fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to

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right the ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen to fifty on Steve rivera he' jigbs

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Austin. I went the phone.
We had the voice of the Wildcats,

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Brian Jeffries. Hi you doing Brian, gentlemen doing very well. Happy New

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Year. It's great to be in
twenty twenty four and working strong. The

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last seven days for you must have
been very fun, very tiring, very

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everything given your job. How was
it because you went from I guess San

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Antonio kind of plane and then went
directly to the Bay. Yeah, it

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was one of those crazy things.
And that's just the way the schedule worked

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out. And you know, you
always have a little added I guess energy

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or whatever you want to call it
after a big win. And you know,

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that win at the Alamo Bowl was
pretty special, and so it didn't

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get much sleep that night and flew
straight to Oakland and called the game on

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Friday night, which you know,
Arizona one handily had a data kind of

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catch up before the game at Stanford
on Sunday, and then you know,

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took a couple of days off to
do some fun stuff and you know,

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now back home ready to roll again. So let's go back to the to

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the Animile Bowl. You know,
you and I've been through a lot of

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these seasons, you know, or
you know, ten win seasons, and

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you know, all kinds of excitement
to go with these. I you know,

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I told Steve that I thought,
you know, at the end of

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the Oklahoma game. At the end
of the Ellima Bowl, I kind of

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had a similar feeling to what I
had coming out of the Holiday Bowl in

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ninety eight when Arizona had beaten Nebraska. You know, Arizona didn't get quite

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to the Promised Land, but you
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you know, no matter what the
circumstances are, you got to hang your

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hat on that. And it felt
really good. At least that's how I

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felt. Now. No, I
absolutely agree, Jay, and I think

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that you know what this does to
boost the program. You know, we

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really don't. You can't measure it
yet, but I think it's something that

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we're going to see on the road
in terms of recruiting and you know,

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ticket sales for next year. I
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because you know, beating Oklahoma,
beating Nebraska, you beat one of the

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story programs in college football, and
you do it in exciting fashion. The

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way that game kind of played out, it was if you weren't a rooting

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fan for either team, that had
to be really fun to watch because of

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the way the teams went back and
forth and both played really hard, battle

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hard, and I just, you
know, I'm glad Arizona came out in

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the end, but I just think
they were already on the upward swing and

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this kind of puts them now into
a new atmosphere in terms of what Jetfish

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can do with the program. Well, go ahead and asking that question,

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because all all these successful teams you've
had in the past, the four can

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win seasons. What's come of it, which is that's been the tough thing.

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It hasn't really sustained itself well.
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Now that's you know, they put
some more pressure now on the coaches

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because come next year, you know, Arizona expected a little bit more.

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I think coming into this year they
what was the thought this year? You

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come off five wins, you're hoping
maybe for six, and you get into

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a bowl game, and then you
have nine, and then you get ten,

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and now the expectations go up with
that, even though you're going into

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a new conference. A lot of
people who feel Arizona's going to be one

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of the strongest teams in the Big
twelve next year, and so you know

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the pressure is on now to keep
it up. I mean, now no

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one's going to sit here and say, hey, you got to win ten

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games next year. But at the
same time, I think with the number

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of players coming back, there's going
to be a lot of people that feel

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that Arizona's going to be certainly a
top twenty five team going into the season

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next year. And yeah, that's
the that makes the work a little bit

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harder now for the coaches because you
know that that old target's on your back

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now whenever you play another team,
it's you're playing Arizona ranked team instead of

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just you know, an Arizona team. So that's that's the I guess you

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look at the flip side of it, is it it makes everybody's job a

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little cover. But you wouldn't be
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Well, actually, Brian, I
think a lot of people around here

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are going to expect Arizona to win
ten games next year because that's justo Zona

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fans are and if they don't,
they're going to go, what the hell?

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I mean? I mean, you
know, unfortunately, that's that's just

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how it is. But again,
if you know, if you've been here

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all this time, you know you've
had these seasons in the past, and

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as he said, they haven't sustained
and we talked to Lemon Huntley earlier about

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what do they have to do to
sustain He just said, the players have

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to sustain it. They have to
make up their own minds that they that

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they got to do this and not
let quote unquote the outside noise affect you

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know, what they're doing. But
that's the challenge. Now, It's like,

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Okay, you got there, now
how do you stay there? And

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I think this year's team that's a
good point. I think this year's team

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blocked out that outside noise. And
when things, you know, didn't go

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well those couple of weeks there against
Washington and USC and you're thinking, okay,

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what, you know, which direction
are we going to go? And

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you know that you're playing a really
tough schedule, and you get that win

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at Washington State, it's like,
Okay, you know these guys they're starting

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to figure it out now. And
then you just keep winning after that.

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And I just think that the players
were able to block out the outside distractions

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because you know, Oregon State came
in here one of the best teams I

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think in the country, and Arion's
gonna wins that. You know, UCLA

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comes to town, and you know
they're looking for a chapter last year Arison

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One's at and then you have that
the game that you knew you were going

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to have a bit of a letdown. You go to Colorado, they're not

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playing well, but and yet it's
their last home game. You know,

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it's coach Prime, full house,
the whole thing, and you figure out

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a way to win it even though
you don't you know, play your best,

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certainly in the first half, and
then you just drill Utah, you

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know, really kind of the flagship
of the I call it the pac call

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South right now. And then of
course you go up and do the same

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thing to your your rival. And
so they were the players were able to

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block that out. They were able
to keep their focus week in and week

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out and win games. And so
I really believe that these guys will go

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into an extra with that same type
of feeling that hey, look if we

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play, if we work hard and
we play hard, we know we can

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be successful. And that's how they
got it done this year. So you're

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part of the team, but not
part of the team. How enjoyable was

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it for you given the circumstances of
the last five years. You know,

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on the sum lend time which is
you know, I'm sure very difficult previous

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two where we're not as difficult,
but still tough as a professional in your

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end, because you know, there's
some you're the voice of the Wildcats.

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Sure people identify you as that.
Hey you're Brian, you know whatever,

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How was it for you? Oh
well, I mean it's great, But

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then you don't know from week to
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that I love about this business is
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idea what's going to happen during that
game. And I guess that's why I

409
00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:48.519
still get nervous before every game because
I don't know what's going to happen.

410
00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.680
I mean, yeah, I want
Arizona to win because you know, that

411
00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.160
keeps everybody in a good mood,
It helps everybody around the program, it

412
00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.640
helps our business. There's no doubt
you want to see them win, but

413
00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.799
you don't know, and that's,
you know, probably the mystery of this

414
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whole thing. But the exciting part
is when they keep doing it. And

415
00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:12.640
I think every game, really the
last few games, the Utah, Arizona

416
00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:17.680
State and Oklahoma game, I went
into all three of those thinking, Wow,

417
00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:19.240
is there any way they can win? Can they win this game?

418
00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:25.319
And I was probably more nervous than
anybody thinking that the difference that it went

419
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over Utah would make to beat Arizona
State to finish the regular season, the

420
00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.680
difference that would make, and then
wow, to beat Oklahoma. And in

421
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:36.839
some ways, you know, the
Elimi Bles, it's kind of a it's

422
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kind of gravy. It's kind of
a gift. It's a present, it's

423
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a reward for a great season.
Uh. For a team like Oklahoma,

424
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:48.359
it's just a it's another bowl game
for them, and I know they wanted

425
00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.319
to win it and put another Bowl
trophy in their trophy case. For Arizona,

426
00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:56.119
it was a chance to have a
major stepping stone. And so I

427
00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.920
just can't tell you how it was
great to walk into the lobby of the

428
00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:04.480
hotel after the game on that what
was that on Thursday night down in San

429
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Antonio and they were, you know, the ice was jammed with Arizona fans

430
00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:12.640
and the players, and just to
see the joy on everybody's face, That's

431
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that's something special. I love being
around that. So you go from the

432
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football program and you go jumping and
playing, and get to the Bay Area

433
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:26.640
see a very good Arizona team beat
Cal handily, and then you see Sundays

434
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.279
and you're going through it. You
watch this game and then you interview You

435
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:34.440
know, I'm being serious now,
So you interviewed Tommy and I had not

436
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:38.200
heard him so distraught in the time
he's been here. I was going to

437
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:41.440
actually text you and say, did
I hear what he was saying? He

438
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.759
felt like he almost like a death
in the family or something. He was

439
00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:49.799
just very distraught. What was his
reaction to that loss? Oh? Yeah,

440
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:56.240
I think that he was. He
was exceptionally disappointed because you look at

441
00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.480
their two losses prior to that,
and they got beat by Purdue, a

442
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:04.480
better team okay, played better,
just was better, and you got beat

443
00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:10.039
by Florida Atlantic, a team that
goes to double overtime, a Final fourteen

444
00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:12.920
from a year ago. Arizona didn't
play. I didn't think played all that

445
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:18.000
well and they still got to double
overtime. And so it's a respectable loss.

446
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:21.799
And you know, Stanford they got
healthy. I will say this that

447
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:25.440
they had not had, you know, all their parts together until that day,

448
00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:27.880
and then all of a sudden they
just go off. Their three point

449
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:33.200
shooting, as you well know,
was record setting. They had sixteen,

450
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:36.400
you know, Spencer Jones goes off
in the second half, and then a

451
00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:40.240
guy that you know nobody had heard
of, Canon Carlisle, you know,

452
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:44.359
puts up twenty eight in just his
fourth game in college. And yeah,

453
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.079
I just you know, Arizona didn't
play with a lot of energy. Their

454
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.519
their defense just you know, it
wasn't there the entire game. They could

455
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:59.359
never find you know, really I
think a combination of guys that could stop

456
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:02.799
Stanford, and and so yeah,
I could see the disappointment when Tommy came

457
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:06.759
out after the game, and certainly
you heard it in his voice because you

458
00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:10.519
know, Stanford, Stanford's maybe they'll
turn out to be a pretty good team.

459
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:11.880
I don't know, but when you
look at their record and who they'd

460
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.720
lost to going into that game,
you just figure, there's no way,

461
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:19.359
Arizona you can't win this game.
And they should have could have. That's

462
00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:22.039
the way it happens. And as
you guys well know, we talked about

463
00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:25.880
a year after year, when Arizona
goes on the road, it's the biggest

464
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:27.759
game of the season, and Stanford
showed that again. Yeah, they did.

465
00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:32.640
They sure did. And you know, again and as as fans are

466
00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:34.000
wont to do, you know,
Arizona fans want to do. There's panic

467
00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:37.920
in the air already, and it's
like, guys, it's a it's a

468
00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:41.119
long season. There's a lot,
a lot left to happen. And I

469
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:44.200
thought we just thought it was funny
the way Tommy Lloyd was just like,

470
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.720
you know, at the at the
press conference, guys, you know,

471
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:51.200
quit picking the scab. I've moved
on. Everybody else needs to move on

472
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:56.079
as well. And that's how a
coach like Tommy Lloyd coaches, and that's

473
00:30:56.119 --> 00:30:59.240
how they're successful. Okay, we
had this, we you know, we

474
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.119
dealt with it. We're onto the
next thing. And Colorado come, you

475
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.960
know coming in is a really good
team. Well yeah, really good team.

476
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.559
I mean might be the second best
team in the conference. You just

477
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:12.200
take a look at their talent,
and you know, they've had a couple

478
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:15.559
of guys out here of late,
including Tristan de Silva, didn't play this

479
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:19.400
past weekend. They still won both
games at home, and so they haven't

480
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:23.319
won here since they joined the Pac
twelve. So I think that's it's a

481
00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:26.960
huge game for them. And you
know, the Wildcats better have their heads,

482
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.599
you know, screwed on tight and
ready to go in this one,

483
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:33.480
because I think this is a This
is the best Colorado team that Ted Boyles

484
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.759
had and I'm looking forward to seeing, you know, how Arizona comes out.

485
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.079
But I'll tell you this, even
though you want to move on from

486
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.240
games, there's always lessons to be
learned. And I think for the guys

487
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:49.559
in an Arizona uniform that found out
on Sunday what it's like to play on

488
00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:55.759
the road against a good conference team
that wants to beat you more than anything

489
00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:59.000
in the world. Then the next
time Arizona goes on the road when they

490
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:04.799
get to Pullman here, what is
it next week in Washington State's pretty good?

491
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.480
You better have your a game because
you're going to have the exact same

492
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:13.119
approach. Washington State's going to play
just like Stanford where it's the biggest home

493
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:15.640
game of the season for them,
and they're gonna do everything hand to knock

494
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:20.480
off the top Dog or the top
Cat in this player in this situation.

495
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:24.640
And so it's a lesson I think, particular again for those those guys on

496
00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:29.079
the Arizona roster that have not been
through this before, Yeah, no question,

497
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:31.599
And you've done this often enough.
And I was with you guys for

498
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:36.519
like twenty years on the road.
We've seen this loot suffer these glosses.

499
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.480
Some dudes shows up and scores thirty. You don't even know who the guy's

500
00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:45.039
name is. And it happens,
I mean anywhere anytime. Yeah, no,

501
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.000
it's not. You know, you
can't look at that game and say,

502
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:51.920
like you said, nobody can push
the panic button right now. I

503
00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:53.400
mean they're sitting at ten and three
in the ranked tenth in the nation,

504
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:57.519
and they're still going to win most
of their games the rest of the way.

505
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:01.440
Like I said, it's how you
grow from like that, and this

506
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:06.000
team has a lot of growth and
they've got to learn. They've played,

507
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.240
you know, their offense has been
fine, but in the three losses this

508
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.759
year, the defense has you know, not been effective. All three of

509
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:16.039
those teams, Purdue, Florida,
Atlantic, Stanford all shot fifty percent or

510
00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:20.880
better. And that's where I think
Tommy Lloyd is hoping this is going to

511
00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:23.759
be a better team and if they're
going to avoid you know, losses like

512
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:29.039
that down the road, that defense
has to come to play well and I

513
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.720
mean we've been saying up until maybe
up until the Purdue game, we thought,

514
00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:36.599
okay, we hadn't seen any flaws, although we knew their wereflaws.

515
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:38.799
There have to be flaws, right, They're not the perfect team. Nobody's

516
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:43.039
the perfect team. And okay,
it's been exposed. We know what it

517
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.519
is. Good for Tommy. Now
he can go deal with it. Yeah,

518
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:50.279
well and that's it. And you
look at it Stanford game and just

519
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:52.799
a couple I know Tommy doesn't want
to look back at it, but we

520
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:57.240
can. Season low ten assists,
season low free throw attempts. I think

521
00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.880
they tied their season low. They
got to the line only fifteen times.

522
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:05.160
Those are two areas that Arizona's excelled
at and so they just got to get

523
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.960
back to that. And uh,
you know, for one reason or another,

524
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:09.719
it wasn't working that day. I
give Stanford more credit than anything,

525
00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:13.719
because, like I said, they
all of a sudden had their full roster.

526
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:16.960
They played like it, and uh, they got some you just wonder

527
00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:22.440
they got Spencer Jones, Brandon Angel. I mean, these Michael Jones,

528
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.840
these guys have been around. And
then the Skoyanovitch kid that they got what

529
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:30.519
a tremendous freshman. They've got some
talent. And I'm not going to sit

530
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:34.320
here and explain why they lost some
of their games. They they have lost,

531
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.880
but they're good enough to win a
lot right now. I tell you

532
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:40.880
what, if they play like anything
like that the rest of the season,

533
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:44.159
they're going to be right there in
the end. I say, bringing back

534
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:47.840
the loot Montgomery days, those great
games. Let's see those games again.

535
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:53.039
Thank you, Brian. All Right, thanks guys, those Stanford games were

536
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:57.239
fantastic back in the day. Uh, not so much prayers out of this

537
00:34:57.239 --> 00:35:00.800
weekend, but good stuff. Let's
talk about that because when we come back,

538
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:05.079
the flaws that we kind of joked
about or not talked about, you

539
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.239
know, what's wrong, what's what
could be wrong with his team? Before

540
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.480
they went into this, we we
kind of didn't really we didn't really know

541
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:14.079
until you see it. And I
think I think we have an idea now.

542
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:17.679
Yeah, and Tommy, he was
very very upfront. But our guard

543
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:22.079
defense is our perimeter defense is terrible, and we have to fix that.

544
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:27.280
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00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:14.840
I missed the place? You did? I did? I missed you?

611
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:21.280
Steve? Resolution was what does not
lie? I'll tell you what I will

612
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:24.039
say this. Though we did Disneyland
for three days, it was a grind.

613
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:30.800
Yeah, Ryan, did you stay
on on site and still across the

614
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:35.440
street. Here's here's the here's like
not not that anybody needs to hear this.

615
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.079
When I graduated from high school,
so I'm still seventeen years old,

616
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:44.320
I talked my parents into letting me
go on a trip to California with a

617
00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:47.719
friend of mine instead of and I
said, I'll pay for it instead of

618
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.559
you guys paying for me to go
on the senior trip which went to Disneyland,

619
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:53.920
and it's just an overnight thing,
you know, with the whole senior

620
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:57.159
class. He said, if you
let me go, I'll pay for it

621
00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:01.000
myself for my mom. Unadvice.
Lea said, okay, And so a

622
00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:04.559
friend of mine and I were seventeen
year old kids, just jumped in the

623
00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:07.000
car and went and spent the week
in Disney. Well, we stayed at

624
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:12.639
this Howard Johnson's right across the street
from Disneyland, nineteen seventy seven. That's

625
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:15.400
where we stayed last week. Same. Oh, really it was cool.

626
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:20.360
Was cool. It was It's been
it's been upgraded the number of times,

627
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.519
so it wasn't. Really I was
expected to go in there and see like

628
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:25.719
crack toilets and stuff. It was
really nice. It was very nice.

629
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:30.559
So give it up to the whole
time. That's the lack. In fact,

630
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.679
that would have been forty six Howard
Johnson and it's still a Howard Johnson

631
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:37.800
still. The last time I stayed
at the Howard Johnson and we stayed at

632
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:42.039
this one. It was great.
So let's take this call. Hi,

633
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.079
you're on the air and I on
the ball. What's up? Nico n

634
00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:50.119
hey Man New year's man, have
a new year, Nicko, what's your

635
00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:53.440
resolution? Make it clean? Please? Hey man, I got engaged.

636
00:41:53.679 --> 00:42:00.159
Oh you know, come on,
did you really? Hey man? There

637
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:08.639
comes a point in a man's life. Man, Now she doesn't know about

638
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:14.840
that. I know you're lying,
and you gotta be lying. Hey man,

639
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.400
you believe what you want to believe
exactly. I don't believe you.

640
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:22.599
What's up? Hey? I want
to talk about the Alamo. Go ahead,

641
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:24.960
go ahead. That was a great
win. It was a roller coaster,

642
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:28.880
man. But did you think they
were going to pull it off beginning

643
00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:32.480
the fourth quarter? I don't know, not really. My dad went to

644
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:39.400
sleep. He bailed on him that
he gave up. He thought he was

645
00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:44.920
jinxing him, so he went to
bed. Well didn't, we didn't.

646
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:50.159
So they pulled it out. It
was a great win. And talking about

647
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:53.480
let downs, I could see it
let down coming in what way the next

648
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:59.480
year? Yeah? Well see that's
a fan. That's a fan. Yeah,

649
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.159
seen it too many times. Well, not only that, you're going

650
00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:06.440
to a new conference. You gotta
figure that out. See, I think

651
00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:08.280
that that's a favorable thing. I
think, yeah, I think it helps

652
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:10.920
because I think, you know,
we've gotten rid of usc Washington, Oregon.

653
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:14.639
They're all gone, let's go,
let's go play some other guys and

654
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:16.679
that we can be No, I
get that, but I mean, like

655
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:21.800
you got to find new hotels and
oh you'uring different time zones and stuff.

656
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:24.880
Yeah. I don't know that I'm
going on any of those road trips.

657
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.039
The only one. I again,
I could see myself going to Colorado.

658
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:31.320
I can see himself even going to
b Yu, even though I hate those

659
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:38.360
people. Just go there again.
And that's about it. And I don't

660
00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:42.840
go to su I mean, it's
not a sexy it's not a sexy thing,

661
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:46.000
especially in the middle of winter in
those places. I mean, no,

662
00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:50.679
Orlandos good. Well, outside of
that, it's really far. That's

663
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:54.480
far. Yeah, come on,
Nico, did you really get engaged?

664
00:43:55.639 --> 00:44:00.719
No way, there's no way he
did. You've never even introduce to her.

665
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:04.719
What the hell? Man, You
guys don't need to know my private

666
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:09.559
A bunch of product. When when
did you meet this girl? I met

667
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:15.000
her in high school? Oh he's
been in high school. He's okay,

668
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:21.960
Well, congratulations, congratulations Nico.
That's the Steve Berbara approach. Bring her

669
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.679
around next football season. Hey man, we you gotta take it easy,

670
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:29.360
all, thank you, right,
thank you. She's gonna be around for

671
00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:36.760
football season. We had that in
it. I don't I don't think he's

672
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:40.800
told us with it. Okay,
so what about speaking of speaking of flaws

673
00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:45.880
flaws? Well, you know,
okay, when when we saw when we

674
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:51.760
saw that show its face in the
Purdue game, you thought, okay,

675
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:55.519
those two guys just went off and
right, yeah, and you gave him

676
00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:59.920
credit for that. Well then these
guys go off in the Florida Atlantic,

677
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:02.000
you go, okay, you know
that was a little different. Couple guys

678
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:06.400
scored a bunch of But now this, I'm like, okay, that's there.

679
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:09.280
That's their flaw. And it's a
big flaw, right because you're if

680
00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:13.440
you're gonna give up points three games, shot three points at a time,

681
00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:16.159
that it's a problem. Sure.
Sure reminded me in a different way.

682
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:21.480
Arizona nineteen ninety eight. Okay,
you have Bibbie, you have Dickerson,

683
00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:25.079
you know Jason Terry, you have
Miles Simon. Offensively, one guy goes

684
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:28.719
down, you got another guy to
step up and do well. If two

685
00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:30.920
guys go down, you still have
two of the dudes are gonna step up.

686
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:36.119
In Utah, everybody writing down and
so far they have this is this

687
00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:39.000
is a good backcourt, right,
strong backcourt with four or five dudes,

688
00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:43.719
right, but they're not playing the
defense they need to play offensively, they're

689
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:47.239
fine. Well, I don't Boswell's
not doing he hasn't played well in several

690
00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:51.039
He's gonna play better. Yeah,
and then the backups, you know,

691
00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:54.079
are capable. But then again,
you you have a love who's kind of

692
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:58.679
taking over, right because he has
to. He has to. We'll see

693
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:00.880
if he not all the time he
has to, We'll see how that moves

694
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:04.679
forward. Right. You know.
Here, here's the thing is that what

695
00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:07.199
I think Tommy is a as a
coach who will wreck. I mean if

696
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:09.840
we recognize it. He recognizes it
and he said it. I mean he

697
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:15.159
said, our perimeter defense has been
terrible. We've got to do better with

698
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.559
that. And you know, and
so if it's got his attention, well,

699
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:21.960
the good thing is I think defense
is fixable because you've got to be

700
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:23.800
more aggressive. You got to be
get up on them and be better.

701
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:27.639
And you look and you look for
it. You look for matchups and things

702
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:30.480
like that. You know, defensively
that can that can help you do that.

703
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:32.320
Let's take this call. Hi,
you're on the AAR and I on

704
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:37.599
the ball. Hey, it's Richard. You guys, Richard, Hey,

705
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:43.280
I want to say congratulations to Nico
about getting engaged. We're all invited to

706
00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:47.599
the wedding and Nico whatever. You
don't listen to Steve too much. We

707
00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:53.840
can tell about marriage exactly. He's
not. It takes one to know one

708
00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:57.760
though. Yes, I mean,
I listen, Steve. I've been done

709
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:01.239
more times in the local trash.
Can you know we're not talking dumping here,

710
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:06.760
Richard, We're not talking How about
them sooner? So how about how

711
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:08.000
about that game? That was a
great game, man, That was a

712
00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:13.480
heavyweight battle and I loved it.
I mean I was very happy for Tucson

713
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:16.920
and you know that that we won
here and I thought it was a win

714
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:22.039
win because you know Arizona one.
Yeah, but the Sooners look hopeful.

715
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.519
I think Jackson Arnold ended up being
a really good quarterback. He will be

716
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:29.480
good. He impressed me. I
mean the interceptions and the fumble and the

717
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:32.400
whole bit, those were you you
chalk those up to a guy who started

718
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:36.400
for the first time and you know, made some mistakes. But he looks

719
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:39.480
like he's going to be good.
Yeah, I think so too. So

720
00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:44.199
we're I'm hopeful for the future.
Headed to the SEC which is a drag,

721
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.360
but you know, we gotta go. Let's roll with the punches there

722
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.800
on that. You you followed the
Big twelve a lot, right, right,

723
00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:55.960
Richard, follow lot? Steve's the
Big twelve? Yes? What what

724
00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:01.119
is Arizona minus the Powers? Oklahoma
and the other one? But what is

725
00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:07.039
what can they expect? Well?
You know, I think you know,

726
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:09.280
one of my buddies who lives back
there, is pretty knowledgeable as kids played

727
00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:16.199
college sports. You know, his
first inclination right now is Utah Cameron Rising

728
00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:22.000
is healthy, and then he likes, uh, he likes maybe like the

729
00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:25.559
Holcoma State or and you know,
and then Arizona right in there. You

730
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:30.760
know he's he's in press with Arizona
and that sort of thing. Yeah,

731
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:32.719
I think that's accurated, right,
Yeah, did you stay there? Now?

732
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:38.199
Well, somebody posted a graphic of
a projected twelve team bracket for next

733
00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:43.679
year and had Arizona as a foresee. Yeah, I think that was misread

734
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:45.599
in a couple of different ways.
They had him as a four seat or

735
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:51.519
that would have been the case going
in this year. It was because because

736
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:53.679
have you wrote that? And they
got all over him said no, no,

737
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:58.159
no, it was a projection.
Did you listen to it? You

738
00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:00.039
had to listen to it. I
didn't hear it. I just saw the

739
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:02.280
graph. I saw the graph.
I think he had he talked about it

740
00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:06.559
in the other way. Yeah,
so I don't know what. I don't.

741
00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:08.679
I saw it, but I'm not
sure. Have you guys me let

742
00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:13.760
me ask you this. Have you
looked at that schedule next year? Because

743
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:16.880
it's very strange. What's going on
if all these with the changes, but

744
00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:21.519
Arizona's going to play their last four
games on the road, right right?

745
00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:25.000
I saw that today because of my
other job and because it's very top heavy

746
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:30.679
at home and very bottom heavy on
the road. I don't know how accurate

747
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:34.880
that is, because maybe it's just
placeholders. But I saw the same thing

748
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.440
Richard, and it was kind of
strange. And the a issue game was

749
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:42.880
the fourth one or fifth one in
the on the schedule. I know it.

750
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.480
It's weird. It's weird. I
be I think that's a disadvantage having

751
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:49.920
those last four games on the road. With no question. I don't think

752
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.239
about it. I don't go on
so I don't think it's still Arizona's a

753
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:55.519
great team. Man. I love
that. One final comment since we're ending

754
00:49:55.559 --> 00:49:59.960
the football a year and I hate
to see it happen, but Michael Pana

755
00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:02.000
Penny should have won the Houston Trophy. There's just no question about it.

756
00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:07.480
Dude, don't get me started.
Don't get j because of regionality, I

757
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:13.239
guess that's question that led the country
in passing. He's got the most yards,

758
00:50:13.239 --> 00:50:16.360
he's fourteen and oh yeah, so
anyway, that's my final comment.

759
00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:22.639
Washington. Yeah, I'm seriously rooting
for him. And yeah, in Washington

760
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.639
because he didn't pile up one hundred
yards rushing against Savannah State or whoever the

761
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:30.960
hell Jane Daniels had to play against. I'm really upset about that. Come

762
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:35.599
on, anyway, good luck against
Michigan. All right, thanks Richard,

763
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:40.840
Thanks guys. I don't think they
set the dates. Well, you just

764
00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:44.760
said they have for the first three. The first three, yes, those

765
00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:46.840
are the not so you're gonna tell
me that the rest of them registers.

766
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.639
They've not said. They've just said
who they're playing. They've not set dates.

767
00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:52.920
So they just put them like that, right, They just you know,

768
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:54.639
they just didn't like you think that
or you know that. I'm pretty

769
00:50:54.639 --> 00:50:58.519
sure of that because we were looking
at that today for something that's going on

770
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:00.679
in September. Yeah, so we
used the first three, right, that

771
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:05.639
are probably set right right. The
first three games are set, and that's

772
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:08.320
that's always the case. They get
the non conference game set New Mexico Northern

773
00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:12.960
Arizona Kansas State, which they kept
as a as a you know, even

774
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.519
though they're in the Big twelve,
they've kept it. But it'll be it'll

775
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.800
be a non conference game. Well
after that, it's it's to be now.

776
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:22.880
Yeah. No, and I thought
that too when I was looking at

777
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:25.079
for our other stuff el for uh, well have you have you are?

778
00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:29.920
One of the fact checkers said they
don't have the schedule out the schedule they've

779
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:34.960
they've just said they we know who
Arizona is playing, just outside of the

780
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:37.360
first three. Because we know who
they're playing, they just haven't set the

781
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:40.119
dates. The case stated the third
game. I think here's the third game,

782
00:51:40.239 --> 00:51:44.199
because that was that's been on the
schedule for okay quite a while.

783
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:47.480
Yeah, and because remember we asked
Dave he Key when when when they went

784
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:50.360
into the big pubs, what are
you gonna do? With the Kansas State

785
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:52.639
game, and at that time he
said, I don't know. Yeah,

786
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:57.440
so I was assuming the other schedules
are out. This should be out pretty

787
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:02.000
soon some I don't know. I
don't know, not times or anything,

788
00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:05.840
but just the dates that they're going
to be playing. Because you think that

789
00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:07.960
Colorado's coming. No, definitely,
not times. That doesn't happen at the

790
00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:12.679
week out. But I'm talking about
the season when the season is actually you

791
00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:15.559
know, finalized in terms of days. Yeah, let me see. I'm

792
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:17.280
looking up to the Big Ten real
quick. We'ly got about a minute twelve.

793
00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:21.199
I mean, I'm looking up the
Big Ten to see if they've announced

794
00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:28.320
the actual uh you know, the
dates that they're playing. Oh yeah,

795
00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:30.599
yeah. The Big Ten has its
dates out. The Big twelve does not.

796
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:37.880
I think this is great. It's
great radio. Okay, just go

797
00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:43.599
ahead. We got a couple of
seconds left. So it'll be out at

798
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:47.079
some point soon, I hope,
hope. Yeah. Here's there's a scheduling

799
00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:52.719
matrix, but I don't think it
has dates on it yet. Yeah.

800
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:54.280
I found it this. I saw
the same one that Richard was talking about.

801
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:58.960
Uh, and uh, I found
it kind of strange because there's a

802
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:01.559
lot of home games early but away
games late. Yeah, so that makes

803
00:53:01.559 --> 00:53:06.280
sense. Yeah, it just has
home and away. That's it. That's

804
00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:08.320
all we got. That's that's from
the Big Twelve Conference website. Okay,

805
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:10.199
all right, man, let's get
out of here, Steve, Okay,

806
00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:13.719
we'll see tomorrow. All right,
we'll be back tomorrow. We'll have some

807
00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:16.639
more stuff for you and we'll get
ready for that Colorado game. So be

808
00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:17.599
sure to come back tomorrow