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Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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to I on the Ball Hero Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera,

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He's Jaginsaus. Got our guys sit
in again on Friday. Welcome to the

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show. We've had a great hectic
week, it has been why not finish

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it with a great hectic day?
Strong show? Steve yees strong. So

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and hey, if we're gonna start
it this way, let's edit this way

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exactly. So we have a lot
of things going on today. We put

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it on social media. We have
like four guests. Uh, first we're

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gonna have other than Brent Brandon Brennan. Yes, you football. He did

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a number of one on ones.
Actually I put up one on one on

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social media. Actually the two on
right. But we got ten minutes with

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Brent Brennan, so we got to
ask him the questions we wanted to ask

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him. So we'll play that here
in a minute. Then we're gonna get

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Jake Fisher who's always got some stuff
to say. We haven't talked to him

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since all of this happened. Yeah, so we'll get his thoughts both on

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Jeed Fish leaving and Brent Brannan arriving. And then we've got Yogi Roth back

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twelve Networks. He's he's he was
high right at four seventeen. He was

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very high on Jed Fish, also
very high on Brent Brennan. So we'll

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get you guys played both sides they
do, they do, and then we'll

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close it out with uh, we'll
get Matt Othic on on on the phone

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and talk about his days in the
UCLA Arizona rivalry. It's gonna be according

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to Tommy, still exists, Yeah, but not as often. Yeah,

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and uh, you know they won't
I'm sure they won't be playing twice a

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year, but he'd like to keep
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You know, if they do a
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you know, uh, you know, back and forth, that'd be

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fine. But that you got UCLA
tomorrow two o'clock. So we'll get some

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of matt Othic's thoughts on some of
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Yeah. So your best time if
you want to call us, will be

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about three thirty five to four,
and after that we're going to be pretty

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pretty busy. Yeah. So we're
gonna go to the tom and we're gonna

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go to the Brent Brennan. Uh. Okay, So now now you've called

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him Jed and now you've called him
Tommy, you got, you got.

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If you ever call him Kevin,
we're gonna fight who. We'll get to

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that later after the suck. We
talked to Brent after we showed the clip.

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We'll explain that later. Okay,
Yeah, you just don't call me

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late for dinner. So that should
be fun. We're gonna go in about

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three minutes out good day. I
think it's a good show. Yeah.

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No, And and it was.
You know, it's good to get,

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you know, to get a couple
of minutes just outside of a press conference,

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uh, atmosphere with with the coach
and you know, we'll get to

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know and outside of getting getting Kevin
there you go. See you just called

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him Kevin. Okay, Sean is
next shut Sean. Uh. We had

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more time with Brent than we did
with Fish. But although we had him

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on the show late into right so
already we're doing we're cruising along. So

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we'll let's say so you get it. You can call me Ray, you

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can, Yeah, No, we'll
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Brent. I wonder how many people
are gonna call him Brad also or Brett.

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Yeah, yeah, okay, let's
go to it. All right,

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let's get to it. We got
the nine minutes. We're just gonna play

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it straight through with with Brett Brennan. Hey, welcome to I m the

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ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Barbara, He's Jakinsaus.

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Now with us, we have a
new head coach, Brenton Brennan. How

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you doing, Coach. I'm doing
great. It's been a fast and furious

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few days here, but just enjoin
every minute. I've been excited about the

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future. So I want you to
know that Jane and I covered Dick.

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Tell me when he first started here, that's how old we are, late

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eighties. For three years, two
years we covered him. So we're gonna

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make a bingo board for all the
tomy isms and cross them off when you

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have them. I'm sure you have
a bunch of them. Now your favorite,

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My favorite is probably work together,
stay together. But or my other

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favor would be your action speaks so
loud, I can't hear what you say.

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That was one that I've used repeatedly
my team at San Jose. Those

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guys heard that one frequently. So
it's it. I'm sure, been a

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whirlwind few days. So just just
feelsen, what have you been doing the

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last couple of days. The one
thing that everybody keeps asking me about,

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and that is getting to know the
players and working on retention and keeping this

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team of really good players and really
good kids together. And so just I've

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had a million one on one meetings. I've met with two guys, three

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fourths you know, in groups of
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I'm just trying to give them a
chance to get to know me and

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for me to get to know them. It's obviously it's harder for me to

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get to know them because there's so
many of them, but for them to

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get to know me and start to
have an idea of how I'm going to

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do this and and how we are
going to do it together and what that

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can be for them is really important. And so in order to do that,

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we got to get face to face
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You've been here before, obviously,
you know the locals and how they feel

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about the program. You were there
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could feel the energy was palpable.
Can you talk about that and just get

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the sense of the community and how
important football is. I thought that was

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such a That was such an amazing
moment in my life. They're like walking

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out on that court and looking around
Michale during you know, a u of

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a basketball game was just epic.
And to be out there with my wife

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and my daughter and my brother and
get to talk to the fans and just

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their reception was was special and really
meant a lot to me because I know

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we're going to need to pack that
thing in the fall. You know,

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having a real home field advantage is
absolutely impactful to the success or lack of

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that for your football team. And
we've all been to stadiums where we know

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that if the crowd is on you, it's going to be a long day,

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and that that that's happening here right
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here this past season where you had
great crowds, a lot of energy.

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The Zona Zoo is rocking, Like
all those things are so important towards building

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a consistent, winning football program.
You need the support of the fans to

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show up for the team so that
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when they come to Arizona Stadium to
play. So you're making this transition at

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a time in college football where it's
just so different from the last time you

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had to had to do this.
You know, where do you get ideas,

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thoughts, suggestions on how to go
about this? And mainly, you

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know the part that's you know,
the big outfhant in the room, you

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know, keeping good players and keeping
them out of the transfer portal. You

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know, where do you get the
vision or the strategy or the ideas on

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how to do that by talking to
other head coaches. You know, one

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of the cool things about college football
is it other head coaches help each other,

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or coaches help each other. We
share ideas, we share concepts,

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you know, we share recruiting and
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professional development. And and so,
you know, when you're trying to make

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sure you can put all that together
and build the program the way you want

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to build it, talking to the
people that that I'm fortunate to have in

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my life. There's so many people
that helped me on this journey, and

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you know, I still did.
Dick Vermeil and Chris Peterson and Mac Brown

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and David Shaw and Dino Babers and
it's just people that have been head coaches

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a lot longer than me. And
and then you know, before there was

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also some people that were a programs
that had more staff or more resources,

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so they were you know, we
would have good back and forth because we

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would explain how we were attacking one
situation with a limited staff and how they

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were attacking the same situation with a
maximum staff, right, and could we

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find a better way? So it
was it's been a lot of fun and

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the people that I'm fortunate to have
in my life are really helping me,

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you know, be a better coach
every day. So you come from State,

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I'm not sure how the coverage was
media wise. I'm sure probably out

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there in the corner somewhere. Now
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people care media wise. How is
that gonna be for you? More attension,

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more spotlight. Oh that doesn't bother
me. I like the media,

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you know, I enjoy working with
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with the media in San Jose,
I have my whole career, you know,

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And so I think that I'm looking
forward to that. I'm looking forward

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to getting to know people in that
space. And I think it's also a

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really important thing because you know,
that space is where our fans, future

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players, recruits, you know,
donors, students get a lot of their

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information about the program, right and
so I think it's important that they were

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active in that space. And then
I do a good job getting to know

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people and building relationships. So the
great stories about the students here at University

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of Arizona and get told. So
I don't know if this is kind of

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an overlooked is a question I haven't
heard. I didn't hear it in the

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press conference. But what's your team
going to look like on the field?

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What do you do compared to what
Jed Fish was doing here in terms of

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the type of offense, the types
of things you do defensively as well.

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Well. I think offensively you'll see
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because you know, I've talked a
ball with Jed lots of times in my

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career. A couple of years ago, I spent a couple of days when

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he was at the rams with him. I guess it was four years ago

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now, just talking football and concepts
and in the past game and you know,

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but I think everything in college football
is stolen or borrowed, and so

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I think you'll see a version of
that on. You know, defensively,

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will be a mix of odd and
even front playing anywhere from you know,

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playing out of a nickel you know, five DB's or playing you know,

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out of a more heavy with a
more heavy group, you know. And

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we've had success with I think in
the variety of stuff that we've run at

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San Jose State, and you know, it was fortunate to have a bunch

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of good players there. And really
the biggest thing is the players. Schemes

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or schemes. People win football games
lots of different ways. You need players

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that really care about that are connected
and really care about each other and are

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willing to play their tails off and
work for each other on game day.

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And the scheme is second to that. Well, no, I think the

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biggest question you're talking about players are
keeping the players that you have here already?

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How what's the process of that with
a couple of kids that are high

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profile that want this community wants them
to stay. Yeah, well that's I

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think that's a great thing because I
think the community is making every effort to

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help convince them to stay, you
know, and I think that's really cool.

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I mean, the reception for four
of those young men the other night,

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you know and McHale was incredible,
Like you can see how loved they

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are, and I can tell you
from firsthand experience, it's not always that

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way, you know, And they're
loved in this community, and I think

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that's one of the things that's keeping
them here as a team. They are

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really connected, right with the head
coach and a new coaching staff coming in,

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we're like kind of feeling that out
and getting to know each other.

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And then with the comunity involvement in
their life, you know, and what

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that is here in this town because
the u of A is so important to

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the city of Tucson, and and
the sports programs here at the university are

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such a part of the you know, of people's life here. That's all

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contributing to this being a good decision
for the players to stay with us,

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and we're working really hard at it. So how's the coaching staff assembly going,

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you know? Honestly, it's been
secondary to the to the player retention

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work that we're doing. That that's
been the primary. And spend a ton

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of time talking to players, just
like I said earlier, getting face to

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face like that has been the total
focus. Because they had this great season

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and then they have a coaching staff
change, and then there's this transition and

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then all of a sudden there's a
new guy put in front of them that

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they don't know, and so that's
that's complicated, right, So I need

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to be sensitive to that and and
try to give them a chance to get

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to know me. I just need
them to get to know me quickly.

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If Dick had the team, the
team, the team, to me,

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you come off as a guy of
the people, the people, the people

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that it's the people that make it
better. It's the people that make the

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experience, you know. And and
when you combine great people on a coaching

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staff and in a locker room with
that football team, with the people on

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campus here at the u of A, and then a community like if we

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can get all those people in great
alignment, we can continue to do something

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really really special at the u of
A and football program. Thank you very

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much, Brent for joining us today. Appreciate it's great talking to you guys.

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So so so we laugh. We
laugh because I pulled the what the

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hell what name you call? No? No? But I didn't start you

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got the j out you. Yeah, that's why we were laughing at I

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did. I did edit it out
for but it was kind of funny.

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We're talking about laughed. You know, it's great. I'm still it's all

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new to me. Man, It's
just happened yesterday. Okay, we got

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we got about two minutes and we
got to get and then we're gonna get

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take fish out real quick. What
you know, your your thoughts, just

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exactly being able to sit across the
stage, just exactly who he is.

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He's genuine, uh, just one
of the dudes. I guess we'll see

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how he acts on the car.
I think he's just a calm dude man.

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Sound likely Jen was a little like
that, but this dude's just more

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like you. He'd been in running
at this radio show. Here. Here's

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what got me is that and again
this has become you know, I'm you

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know, I'm dug in here right, I'm I'm a native. You know

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when when when when Arizona higher.
Jed, I thought it's gonna take him

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a while to understand this community,
understand what makes it tick, Understand where

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the buttons are that need to be
given, what his given where he's been

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or ed Yeah, that he didn't
know tu soon from Joe Schmoe, Right,

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You know, you feel like Brent
Brandon already has that coming in.

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I think he's got a good feel
or uh And and I know he wasn't

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here here a long time, but
the fact that he was connected to Dick

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and you know, did spend some
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You know, I think he's he's
more up to speed on Tucson itself

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and the community than any previous coach
that Arizona has had and quite some time.

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Yeah, No, he's gonna compit
in if they can win that first

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year man, yeah, man,
look if he yeah, I mean,

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if he can just keep a handful
of these guys. He didn't have to

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keep them all, but you know, keep some key guys, win some

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games, maybe go to a Bowl
game, you know, in the transition

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here like that, you feel like
that's that should be good enough. And

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you can tell given the sense in
the back behind the scenes people are working

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on keeping keeping him. However,
some interesting stuff I just saw some is

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stuff come out on Twitter. So
yeah, all right, let's take our

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break. Jake Fisher will come on. I'm sure he's got plenty to say

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about what's happened here in the last
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Breaking down all the exes at OHS. It's Steve Rivera and Jake and

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Salvias. This is I on the
Park on Fox Sports fourteenth fifty. Hey,

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welcome back to I I on the
Ball hero Fox Sports forteen fifty.

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On Steve, he's Jake no One, but we had Jake Fisher for were

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ulea football player? What are the
sponsors? What's going on? Jake?

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Yeah, Jake's been going on.
What's happening? Nothing much? Just ready

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to talk about the whole coaching situation
and moving forward. Okay, so give

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me a refresh us because you were
high on Jay je jays see, I'm

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sweet them names Jed and you even
predicted what they would would happen. You

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were the guy. I mean,
I say this all the time. Now,

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how do you feel about Jed?
Well, before I get into Jed,

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I just want to give a congratulations
to coach Brennan and to Antonio Pierce

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for taking over the Raiders. That's
awesome. I'm a Denver Broncos fan,

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so I'm actually gonna have to root
for the Raiders, which is gonna stuck.

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But other than that, yeah,
complete one eighty from what I had

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been hearing. You know, obviously
it took everybody by surprise. And to

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be honest with you, like I
try not to take a side on this

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because if I got offered you know, seven million or whatever it is a

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year, I might have looked twice
at it as well. But you know,

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you don't go around the facility shaking
hands saying I'm gonna be here.

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I'm gonna be here. But that's
why coaches a lot of times nowadays,

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because of the landscape of college football, they say, don't commit to me

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or a staff, commit to the
university. I mean they do that because

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obviously they know they can move if
they get a bigger deal, they're gonna

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move. I'm just really happy we
found a guy that seems like he is

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going to be here for a while. He loved the university, and you

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know, you can tell that he
doesn't talk out of the side of his

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mouth. He's straight up on it. He cares about the players. And

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I'm just hoping that we can retain
the team and get a good coaching staff

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in place, because we have the
guys to win the Big Twelve next year.

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So it's just about basically keeping the
pieces and adding a few more.

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Yeah, you you went through a
coaching change here, so and we probably

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talked to you about this back when
you know Jed came in, but you

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know that was three years ago,
and Steve and I don't remember anything from

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yesterday. So you know, what's
it from a player standpoint? You know

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what's the hardest thing about a coaching
change? And then thinking about the fact

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that this is even different from when
you went through it, What do you

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think the players are going through right
now? Well, the players might field

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betrayed the fact that Jed went in
there, talked to him for three minutes

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and then said I got to go
catch a plane. That's kind of selling.

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The other thing is is completely different
situation back when, you know,

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we had a coaching change that wasn't
it Francis. So it was a lot

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more you know, it was a
lot more difficult. I guess if you

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wanted to leave to do it.
You know, I never once thought about

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leaving. But you know, talking
to other players, they're like, man,

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I you know, I committed to
the staff, I might want to

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move closer to home, et cetera, et cetera. So nowadays, you

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know, players can jump into the
portal. You know, they have nil

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deals. They might have to you
know, keep fulfilling, and so you

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have a bunch of folks sitting on
the edge of their seats wondering what the

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hell. You know, a guy
like Jonah Coleman, who's probably going to

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be able to go whatever school in
you know, the new Big ten or

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the new Big twelve. You know, you have guys like Noah Fafida and

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cetera McMillan and Big Jonas Savanea who
you know, all of them. Who

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knows what they're going to do.
I've heard good things, but you just

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never know because a lot of these
guys that jumped into the portal. Now

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it doesn't mean they're gone, So
it's going to be up to the to

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the coaches to really uh you know, build the relationships with them, tell

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them on why they should stay here
and stay at the u of A,

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uh stay here connected with the players. But it's also one of those things.

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Then I might also have, you
know, something different and you go

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to you know, a place like
you know, Washington. As much as

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I hate the Purple rain Bs,
if they try to throw out their Husckey

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fans whatever, they're terrible, not
as bad as a couple of other stand

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bases. But I'm a little on
the edge right now too. But I

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mean they might have more. They're
in a big market. They're in a

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Seattle market. You know, Seattle's
obviously one of the biggest cities in the

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country. So you never know.
It's just completely different from when I was

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in college. Yeah, no question. You use the word, uh,

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not betrayed. What do you use
the word at the beginning? Maybe that's

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going to be a good thing for
for the Arizona football players who who you

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know heard jed for three minutes or
feel betrayed and decided, you know,

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if that's the guy I'm going to
play for, I don't want to do

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that, Yeah, exactly. And
I'm also hearing stuff I don't know how

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much of this is true, So
I mean, I probably shouldn't be putting

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it out on the way, you
know, on the radio. But you

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know, there's a lot of people
now talking about tampering, so you never

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you never know. I just I
don't know. And and the fact that

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you know, Jed's guy went out
and he was basically on a on a

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not an apology tour, but he
was trying to change the perspective of people

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of you know, in the media, of him and all this other stuff.

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They're trying to you know, throw
it in Arizona State. It was

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our fault, it was our fault, all this crap, you know,

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and just all the things coming out
lately. It's it's annoying. But you

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know, if you're a player,
you guys just went ten and three.

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You know, he's taking credit for
a lot of his stuff, saying I

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called the players, which he did, but you know, he's always talking

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this way, and then all of
a sudden, the players go out,

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they win that game, and then
like three days later he goes three minutes

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I'm out, y'all, see I
got to claim to catch I mean,

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come on, and then he already
had these media videos, you know,

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ready as soon as he's left,
you know, the folks from Washington walking

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in his house. He's smiling,
he's still got the Arizona Rock outside.

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You know, he's signing all this
crap, and it's just, you know,

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it just it comes off as so
fake and disingenuous that if I was

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a player, I'd be pissed off. I wouldn't even you know, consider

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it. Well, you're not a
player, and you still sound pissed off.

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So there you go when you stro
Okay, So this, this is

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why I get annoyed at people because
they say the transfer portal sucks. No,

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the transfer portal is literally the way
that players can move if they don't

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like a coach, whereas the coach
can take a bigger deal. You know,

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why do you think Dorian Singer went
to USC. I mean he probably

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got a huge nil deal and it's
the same thing that Jed did, so

408
00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:26.039
you know, you see, it
makes you feel some type of way.

409
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But at the same time, some
folks value you know, being together as

410
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a family more than money. Right, So okay, so we did get

411
00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:37.079
a chance to talk to a Bret
Brendan today and he said, an interesting

412
00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:38.279
thing because, like you know,
you've been here a couple of days.

413
00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:41.599
You know, what's been the focus? And I asked him, I said,

414
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how's the coaching staff thing going?
He said, that's kind of that's

415
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been secondary to what he's doing to
try and keep the players here. As

416
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a player, you know, let's
say you're a defensive player. You want

417
00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:52.720
to know who the new defensive coordinator
is going to be, who the new

418
00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:56.759
linebackers coach is going to be.
You know, how long can these guys

419
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wait around to find out you know, who the coaches are going to be.

420
00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:04.000
Because it's been said a number of
times during this stretch, the players

421
00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:07.960
have more of a connection and a
relationship with their position coaches than they do

422
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with the head coach. This thing
of putting you know, having to wait

423
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.400
to get you know, the coaching
staff put together. How much does that

424
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:18.440
affect with these guys are going to
decide or how are they going to decide

425
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.119
it? Well, a couple of
things. These guys are all close,

426
00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.559
you know, I hear nothing but
things about how these guys have, you

427
00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:29.599
know, a relationship with each other
they're all really close. They hang with

428
00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:33.119
each other outside of the facility.
They spend all day together. You know,

429
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.240
they're just really good friends and they
love each other. Number one.

430
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:40.119
Number two, they got thirty days
to decide, which means Coach Brennan is

431
00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:41.880
going to sell them on his vision
and the fact that he is going to

432
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be bringing a good staff. I
know that Danose say they're going to have

433
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their guys, you know, whoever
it is that's going to be the head

434
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.599
coach by the end of the weekend, So we might have a couple of

435
00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:53.279
guys come over here from there.
I know that he's got a lot of

436
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:56.759
ties on the West Coast. He's
developed a lot of good NFL players,

437
00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:00.359
so you know, just sell the
vision there, you know. And then

438
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:04.359
another thing. That's the reason why
the players, some of them have jumped

439
00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:07.720
in the portal. It's prove it
to me. But I'm also going to

440
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.160
go ahead and see who else is
interested, so I have a backup plan

441
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.759
if I don't like the idea.
So yeah, it's all kind of working

442
00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:18.400
together here. You know, these
guys are going to know where they can

443
00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.119
go if they you know, if
they don't like the guys coming in and

444
00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:23.119
then the other thing is at the
end of spring ball, they're going to

445
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:27.359
have the ability to move again,
So you know it's almost worth it to

446
00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:32.200
not upbrook yourself and move somewhere else. You know, you have an il

447
00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:36.000
deal here and sometimes grasses and greader
on the other side, So you know,

448
00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:37.880
if you don't like it during spring
you can get the hell out of

449
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.519
there, and you're going to have
a bunch of colleges that you knew you

450
00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.400
could go to probably are still going
to want you there. So we obviously

451
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:48.559
know the history of a Brent.
He's been here before. We see his

452
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.039
style. I'm sure you've seen these
clips and all that. You probably talked

453
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:55.839
to some players. Uh, he's
a guy I would want to play for

454
00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.720
and I and I say that not
knowing much. But his demeanor is presence

455
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:04.240
that gives me that vibe. Yeah, it looks like he genuinely cares for

456
00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:10.599
the players. You know, there
are not a lot of coaches at San

457
00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:15.240
Jose State for what was it seven
years? Right, there's your far No.

458
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.400
In fact, in fact, Jack
said, we talk about this where

459
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.799
you go to a place to get
fired. Yeah, you're breaking you're breaking

460
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.319
up, breaking up Jake, Oh, can you hear me now? Yeah?

461
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:29.599
Yeah, a guy that says that, you know San Jose State for

462
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:32.920
that long takes them from being,
you know, kind of one of the

463
00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:37.119
bottom player, bottom teams in that
conference. And the last three of the

464
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:38.680
last four years they've been able to
make a Bowl game. Is pretty great

465
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:42.279
and you can tell it by the
videos you watch the players, the coaches,

466
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.440
they all love them, you know, and even told the players I

467
00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.400
watched the video. He said,
if you guys know anyone in San Jose

468
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:51.279
and you guys on a reference,
ask them they know me and they'll tell

469
00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:53.640
you. So he's all about it. It seems very genuine. No,

470
00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:56.920
No, I agree with you in
a sense that it's a place where you

471
00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:59.960
go to get fired. You get
a job, right, and you hope

472
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:02.240
you well enough just to get the
heck out with the next one. And

473
00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:04.599
he didn't. I mean, after
seven years, you would have been fired

474
00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:07.200
if you didn't do a good job
or they didn't think that you were good

475
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.079
at what you do. Yeah,
I mean three Bowl games in the last

476
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:15.039
four years at Santos Stay. That's
a that's a pretty damn good accomplishment.

477
00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:18.160
Yeah, that's really all you need
to say. So, So, Jake,

478
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.799
you know, put us at you
know, put us in the mind

479
00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:23.839
of a you know, of a
player. Uh, what do they want

480
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:27.640
to see? You know you've talked
about that a little bit, but specifically

481
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:30.519
what do they want to see?
Not only for Brent Brennan, but you

482
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.440
know, as you said, you
know other people who know him. What

483
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:38.000
what do you want to know?
I want to know that he's very genuine,

484
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:42.480
he's no bs. If I do
something right, he's going to tell

485
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.039
me. He's gonna be the first
person to tell me. So if I

486
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.359
do something wrong, he's going to
be the first one to tell me.

487
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.079
So I don't want him talking out
of the side of his mouth. I

488
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:53.160
want him to be straight up honest
with me. And I want to know

489
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:56.400
that he actually cares about me as
not just a football player, but outside

490
00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:00.720
of the game. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no kidding.

491
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:06.480
You know he mad some second guys
say that again. Scheme comes second to

492
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:07.880
that. You know, he said
that, right, he said, they

493
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:10.880
said, our scheme is our scheme. You know, we just got to

494
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:15.240
have the right people, you know, to do that. So, na

495
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.119
see, and I said that,
and I forgot I was going to ask

496
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:19.880
you something, so oh. You
know. Also, you know, when

497
00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:22.440
you think about it, and he
brought this up a little bit at his

498
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.240
press conference, you know, if
you had taken the job back in three

499
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.599
years ago, it would have been
a hell of a lot harder job than

500
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.240
maybe it is right now. Now
there's a different kind of pressure because now

501
00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:36.920
there's an expectation to win. But
he's already had a point for there are

502
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:40.480
good players in the program. There
are some expectations they hadn't you know,

503
00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:44.519
they're on a nice track, better
time to take the job now than three

504
00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:49.279
years ago. Yeah, and competitors, they're okay with that kind of outside

505
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:52.279
pressure. I mean, if you're
a competitor, you want to know that

506
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.640
people think that you should win.
You don't want to walk into a job

507
00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.519
like Jed did. And guys,
Jed did a great job, like I

508
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:00.839
said, And it doesn't matter what
scheme it is. You know, you

509
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:05.119
have good players like they were able
to bring into the program, You're going

510
00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:07.359
to be fine, you know.
But yeah, of course, coming into

511
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:10.960
this situation is a lot better than
the last. I mean when when you

512
00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.119
walked in to the job a few
years ago, I don't I don't think

513
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:19.960
there was there was like two or
three years where nobody got drafted. Like

514
00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.359
from this class, you're going to
have probably three or four people drafted,

515
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.079
and you've got you know, as
long as these guys don't leave, you've

516
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:30.640
got another twelve to thirteen fourteen NFL
players on the loster, so you have

517
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.200
a much better roster. Players win
the games. Obviously it's up to the

518
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.680
coaches to put these guys in the
right situation. But again, the players

519
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.680
got to execute. If you have
players, that's what wins. So yeah,

520
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:45.440
I mean high expectations, but guess
what, that's what you want if

521
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.359
you're a high level head coach.
Yeah. No, quote, Hey,

522
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:51.279
let's get you a little upset.
Now, what are your thoughts on Arizona

523
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:54.640
Van's basketball. In my eyes,
they're not playing like they had been playing.

524
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:00.559
It looks like they're playing well enough
just to win. But you know,

525
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:02.759
when we get to March, if
they're still missing you know, towards

526
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:06.319
the basket or close to the basket
at this clip, we're going to be

527
00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:07.799
doomed from the start. I mean, we're going to make it to the

528
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:10.759
second weekend, but at the same
time, it's just if we want to

529
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:15.559
get further than that, we cannot
be missing bunnies. I don't know what's

530
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:17.680
going on with Bollow. I mean, once he starts making it like he

531
00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:22.400
did last year close to the basket, you know we're going to be fine.

532
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:23.960
I know that. Uh. You
know, I'm really happy with Kha

533
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:28.559
because even if he's not making shots, at least he's active on defense and

534
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:31.279
active on the boards. You know, I love the way that Pelle's playing

535
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:35.279
the last few games. Uh,
Caleb Love is going to be the X

536
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:38.680
factor as always, and uh,
I mean I just Kylan right now.

537
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:42.519
I know he's going through a little
bit of like a sophomore you know,

538
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.359
slump type deal where he's up and
down zero points one game, fourteen the

539
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:49.480
next that type of thing. But
if he he's got to be kind of

540
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.640
like key shot and and uh,
you know, Jayden Bradley, if you're

541
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:54.960
not making shots, you got to
play hard on defense and you've got to

542
00:33:54.960 --> 00:34:00.519
be a disruptor. So I think
that some of these older guys we're gonna

543
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.920
have to lean on a little bit
more. But you know, we'll see

544
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.759
what happens. Totally agree with your
observation. Very good. You know you

545
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:09.000
can do this show if you wanted
to. You know, you're really good

546
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:13.000
at I just I just listened to
people smarter than me and then copy their

547
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:17.239
stuff. Well, good for you. You're not listening to people smarter than

548
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:20.679
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558
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great weekend. Get two guys.
Yeah, always good to talk to.

559
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Jake. A straight shooter, well, a straight shooter. And again we

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we didn't put the pads on,
and we didn't we weren't in the

564
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locker rooms. So always gives us
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611
00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:47.039
those guys. Good that you're Jay. Yeah, I am who I am.

612
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:50.960
And he said, he said,
we got twelve minutes. Anybody wants

613
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:52.440
to call, no matter what your
name is, We'll take the call exactly.

614
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:57.000
Yeah. So, because we're going
to be busy with breaking news,

615
00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:00.880
then we have Yogi and then we
have Matt Othick. So a busy show

616
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.719
today. That's a good show.
Yeah, a lot of thing's going on.

617
00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:07.599
I think that the U A programs
isn't gonna be in good hands.

618
00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:12.280
I think it is. You know, there wasn't any i mean, not

619
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.320
an inkling of anything, you know, sitting across from from Brent Brandon.

620
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:20.800
Then maybe they made me think I'm
not not sure what we have here.

621
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:22.079
No, No, I get you
know, one of the questions that I

622
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.920
thought, and Anthony tweeted it that
he asked Anthony was there. Uh,

623
00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.199
he asked him if Teddy Bruski was
going to be part of a part of

624
00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:34.639
the situation because he was with jet
He said, he's called him, he's

625
00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:37.480
left a message. He hasn't heard
back. Right, Let's see what happens

626
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:40.440
there. Yeah, you know,
And so look, that's the thing that

627
00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:45.400
we'll be missed from the time that
Jetfish was here. You know, he

628
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:47.599
was bringing in you know, Pete
Carroll and Bill Belichick and all these guys

629
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:52.519
that were coming in here. You
know that the Arizona players were googly eyed

630
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.639
over. Yeah, were seeing these
legends, uh, you know coming in.

631
00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:58.599
Sure, I was talking to them, and I was I thought that

632
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:00.920
was a fantastic idea. Yeah,
you know, and and and doing a

633
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:05.880
lot of that, all the name
dropping that that that Jetfish was able to

634
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.840
do and did. But you know, Brent Brennan's you know, a guy

635
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:12.039
like that who's been in this business
for as long as he has been,

636
00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:15.119
He's got his own connections. Sure, and can he call up Bill Belichick

637
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:16.199
and say, hey, can you
come to a couple of practices? Probably

638
00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:21.400
not. But you know what also
matters is that he's he'll you know,

639
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:25.960
he'll well lean on guys that he
feels can have a great interact on his

640
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:29.079
program. Sure, well you talked. I think he did answer. He

641
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.960
talked about Vermeil talking about the people
who've been Yeah, so he's not uh,

642
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:36.960
he's not a guy who just showed
up, right. And it's funny

643
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:38.440
when you think he's been to San
Jose State all the time. You think

644
00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:43.000
he's kind of been in the backwoods
of college football. But as he said,

645
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.480
you know, college college football coaches
all help each other. I'll talk

646
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:52.159
to each other and and so he
knows guys just by being a college football

647
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.800
coach. And and you know,
I mean San Jose State isn't you know,

648
00:40:55.039 --> 00:41:00.360
some hyphenated you know school and you
know somewhere and you know the mountains

649
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.920
of Tennessee there, you know,
Samsey State is a program that's you know,

650
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:07.639
people are well aware of. So
he'll have his own connection. I

651
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:10.159
also think that because I asked him
about the media, he he doesn't get

652
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:14.079
a lot of attention out in Sanderse
State. Obviously, there's the forty nine

653
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.039
ers or the Warriors, there's all
these teams. Uh, he'll be in

654
00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:21.519
the limelight a lot. And I
think maybe you you know this, and

655
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:28.400
knowing this, he might be more
available to the media to tell his story

656
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:31.920
and to tell his team story.
Well, he already has been right and

657
00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:35.960
and you know, well, you
know, look, he clearly a guy

658
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.239
that understands how important it is.
I mean, he said, you know,

659
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:40.280
through the media is how people learn
about our program, learn about our

660
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:45.000
players. Uh and and uh and
and get you know, connected to the

661
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:49.320
thing. And you and I have
talked a million times about how unfortunate it

662
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.360
is how much access has been limited. Yeah, from a time you know,

663
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.280
when we were covering sports on a
regular basis. And you know how

664
00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:59.599
much of that comes back the other
way. I don't know how much they

665
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:04.559
can do that, but it certainly
sounds like, you know, we may

666
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:07.920
see him a little bit well.
And also where are we We're in Tucson,

667
00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:12.199
affectionately noticed the old Pueblo. We
even talked to Jim Moore earlier this

668
00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:15.239
week about the Seattle And I think
it's the way the media has gone softer.

669
00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:21.800
Who's gonna ask the dumb, not
dumb, the hard, the just

670
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:27.039
critical question. They're not they're not. This is this is a media group

671
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.320
that wants this team to be good. Well, you know, it's fun.

672
00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:32.800
I was having him. And I'm
not saying this is as a criticism

673
00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:36.920
of, you know, the local
media. We like those guys at all.

674
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:39.719
We've been part of it. But
they're very young, very you know,

675
00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:45.880
yeah, and the media is different
here. There's not a bunch of

676
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.239
you and me and Greg Hansen's running
around. They're all younger guys who are

677
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:55.280
less inclined to take the New York
Times approach. To every press conference,

678
00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:59.440
they're trying to find something bad out
to write it, to write an article

679
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:01.199
about. These are just kind of
like, I'm a scrap part what's going

680
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:05.519
on and it's mostly good news,
and you know, yeah, I mean

681
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:10.760
I think I think about the coverage
in the Sling years that yeah, it

682
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.480
was just it was just uh,
you know, I mean, we knew

683
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:19.679
that was we knew it wasn't going
well, but every story wasn't ripping on

684
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.920
Kevin someone right, And they had
a gatekeeper, a gatekeeper that that I

685
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:27.840
wonder, what the hell is his
job? It is either to drive someone

686
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:31.639
or prevent him from tough questions.
And I didn't get it. But you

687
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:35.760
know, University of Arizona paid for
the guy, right, and and and

688
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:37.559
Jet had it too. You know, why waste them? I don't know

689
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:42.519
what they're making. I don't know
what they're making, but could you use

690
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:45.239
that money for better? Are you
growing up? Are we grown ups here?

691
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:50.840
Why have another grown up taking care
of another grown up? Right?

692
00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:53.639
I'm trying to be no. I
hear you. I hear you, I

693
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:57.719
hear you. But you know,
it seems to be the thing that that

694
00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:00.239
happened. Look, and there have
been guys like that, you know,

695
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:07.599
dating way back still remember going to
Georgetown and running into their uh media relations

696
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:10.800
guy, you know, trying to
get anything regarding John Thompson. It was

697
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:14.559
like the guy was like, you
know, the gay as you say,

698
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:17.960
the game closed and you're not getting
in yah, you know, and or

699
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.000
what are the questions? Yeah,
what are the questions? Sorry, we

700
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.280
don't do that. Sorry we don't
do that so that you don't get to

701
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:27.719
interview. Well okay, then we
don't get to interview. Yeah, but

702
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:30.679
uh, you know, so look, it's a it's a whole new thing.

703
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:36.880
This will continue to develop over time, you know. Uh, I'm

704
00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:38.320
like, okay, you know I
was asking Jake Fisher, you know,

705
00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:43.199
okay, who's the coaching staff going
to be? You know, it's kind

706
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.400
of like by this time, most
coaches have their staff here and they're you

707
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:50.599
know, they're going out and then
but you know, the biggest recruiting thing

708
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:52.800
that that Brent Brandon has to do
right now is the guys that are here.

709
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.840
No question he's got and I didn't
mention my name. He's got to

710
00:44:55.880 --> 00:45:00.000
come up with uh. He and
other people have probably had to come up

711
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:05.320
the little cash uh glue coin to
keep these guys here. And and that's

712
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.559
the way the world. I was
thinking that as as you were were paying

713
00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:12.840
a clip here, the world has
changed in athletics so much you're you're paying

714
00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:15.760
it's not and it's ni l and
alsup. But you're not paying them to

715
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:19.039
come here. You're trying now,
you're paying them to keep them here.

716
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:22.920
How do you we asked Rubew of
this, how do you coach that where

717
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:25.360
you've got to be tough on them
to to get better, but you can't

718
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:30.000
piss them off so they so much
that they leave right well you know,

719
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:35.639
well, you know the Clipper referred
to we were watching uh Bromberto Lopez local

720
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:43.760
uh businessman, very prominent businessman,
philanthropist, you know, a guy who's

721
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:46.719
been very generous with his with his
money, not only for you know,

722
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:52.760
the community philanthropic philanthropic things, but
he's also kind of also you're seeing him

723
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:59.320
making his uh uh presence known as
it relates to the athletics and uh you

724
00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:05.760
know, there's an event yesterday for
a nine million dollar uh donation he made

725
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:08.119
to the to the School of Business. And it sounds like a whole bunch

726
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:14.000
of the conversation was his involvement in
in trying to keep these these players here,

727
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:16.559
uh you know, through Nil.
He did a brief interview where he

728
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:22.280
just flat out said, uh,
Jetfish is out here throwing money around at

729
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:25.480
these guys, which is a huge
which is a huge accusation. Call it

730
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:29.760
an accusation, call it a comment, whatever it is. If he's doing

731
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:31.920
that, that's against the rule.
Right. And this is after and I

732
00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:36.480
don't know how they place the quotes, but after him talking to Jet saying

733
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:39.280
whatever you need, I'll make it
happen, and you say right, and

734
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:43.760
he he flat outside He's very disappointed
at Fish. He thought that they had

735
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:46.320
come to a shape, you know, handshake agreement that that fish was going

736
00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:51.039
to stay, and then he took
the job. So look, I believe

737
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:53.440
it, right, Why I believe
Why was Burt? Why would Burt Lopez,

738
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:57.639
who you know I know personally,
I know how well you know him.

739
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:00.159
I've done I don't personally and have
done some you know, business stories

740
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:04.719
on him. The guy's you know, he's a he's a straight shooter kind

741
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:07.079
of guy. And he's not a
guy who's gonna I don't see Bert Lopez

742
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:13.320
as a guy who's gonna speak out
of you know, he doesn't need to

743
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:16.440
make stuff up. He's Burt Lopez
and and you know he's he's in that

744
00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:22.440
group of of of high end businessmen
in the in this town who you know

745
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:24.880
made this town, you know,
like the Burt Knerks and those kinds of

746
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:30.519
guys. And you know, for
him to say the things that he said

747
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:35.400
to k Wild as it was,
as it was part of the story they

748
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:37.039
were doing on the on the donation
he made to the A was was kind

749
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:40.639
of amazing to me. And you
know, I, you know, I

750
00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.039
there isn't any reason to not believe
that these things are going on. But

751
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:47.239
we know, we knew that,
right but to have somebody say it is

752
00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:52.280
different. Sure, sure, So
we'll see what happens, because it's it's

753
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:58.039
a crazy time with Bama doing doing
o Bama for Washington, Washington, Arizona,

754
00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:00.760
who knows what buy down to sand
as they state. We'll probably see

755
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:04.840
some guys from so I mean,
I think about it, the Alabama Nick

756
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:07.519
Saban retiring. The trickle down is
gone all the way down to San Jose

757
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.119
State, and it's not done because
Sanday State is going to go get their

758
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:15.760
coach from somewhere unless he's unless they
hire a coach is unemployed, somebody else

759
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:20.119
is losing their coach, whether it's
an assistant coach or a head coach somewhere.

760
00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:22.760
Yeah, that I think the head
coaching search for San Jose State is

761
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:27.800
also going to play a direct role
into us, into into who we can

762
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.400
bring to our staff. Yeah.
Yeah, let's say they hires as they

763
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:34.880
state assistant. How many guys decided
to stay there? How many does Brandon

764
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:37.440
try and bring here? Right?
Well, there's still not over. Still

765
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:40.760
more trickle down to go, a
lot more trickle down to go, which

766
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:45.119
means, guess what, we have
a lot to talk about coming days.

767
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:50.760
This is what you call sid keeping
our job security. Yeah, because we

768
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:52.800
have a lot to talk about.
I mean we're having that conversation with Damian

769
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:57.519
Alabina, a Chaunter thirteen guy at
Okay, well do you guys should call

770
00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:01.880
him that? At this function is
one on one thing and where everybody's getting

771
00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:06.000
their shot with with Brent Brennant,
we were and that this is just keeping

772
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:08.639
us, you know, keeping the
lights on because we're having so much to

773
00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:13.199
talk about and there's still so much
more. There's a lot that still has

774
00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:15.559
to happen with the Brent Brandon ire
well, no question, the players and

775
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:19.559
coaches. So the news kind of
trickling out too, is that will a

776
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:22.639
Keena stay, will we come back? What position? If he is the

777
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:24.159
if he did he say yes?
Did you see the tweet that? Yeah,

778
00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:28.000
I was a little confused by that. Yeah. I had to verify

779
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.639
because I'm friends I follow him one. You know, we've talked a couple

780
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:34.599
of times and he uh, that
wasn't that wasn't out of the co ordinary

781
00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:37.880
tweet from him. I had see
if that was actually him. Yeah,

782
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.360
I went I did the same thing, went back to has he been on

783
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:43.800
social media? And why are why
are we why aren't we following him?

784
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:45.840
Yeah, you know he's been on
browing out there, so we'll see.

785
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:51.320
And anything official comes from me,
exactly exactly it. I thought that was

786
00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:53.480
the sources. No, it comes
from me. Yeah, yeah, very

787
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:59.199
funny stuff. Yeah, so much
more left to happen here. You know,

788
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.320
the thirty day clos is ticking from
when what was the official higher up?

789
00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:07.280
What about school? So you have
these kids coming to school, right,

790
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:09.119
you're two weeks in maybe a week? Yeah, about two weeks in,

791
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:13.159
so so okay, let's see if
they make a decision in a week.

792
00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:15.000
What about school? If you've already
come to school for three weeks now

793
00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:19.199
you have to cancel out and then
go somewhere else? How does that work

794
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:22.440
for the semester? Yeah, that
that's a huge part of it. Also,

795
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.159
they have to make sure all of
these guys have majors that are very

796
00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:30.920
versatile, that that can they can
make it work. But yeah, for

797
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:34.639
for transferring wise, it you gotta
it's not just moving schools. You gotta

798
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:37.960
worry about what what classes you're gonna
take, What what classes transfer? What

799
00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:43.079
classes do transfer? And this is
going to play a role into into the

800
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:47.320
older guys as well, because say
they're close to graduating here, what if

801
00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:52.079
they transfer, They don't the credits
don't transfer, right, and you know

802
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.400
now you're ineligible. Washington started it's
current quarter January third. Yeah, see,

803
00:50:55.440 --> 00:51:00.920
that's exactly jan There are two weeks
into the uh, you know,

804
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:02.159
the semester over there. All right, we do have to go. We're

805
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:05.400
gonna be back and we're gonna be
busy the rest of the hour, the

806
00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:08.719
rest of the last hour, breaking
news at the top of the hour,

807
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:15.239
Yogi Roth at at four point fifteen
and Bat I think at four point thirty

808
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:17.840
five, So stick around for all
that. Lots to talk about