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R two sad at iHeartRadio Station at Okay, well maybe that does it right
there anyways, so that the uh the you know, he was pulling the
ball down and the USC defensive back comes and takes it from him. Arizona
loses the game seventeen to fourteen. So it was you know, it was
a tough game. But Jay Dobbins was in that game, so we'll talk
to him about you know, a by playing at the Colsseum more than anything.
Okay, I've been there. How many time have you been there?
Oh god, I can't even count, you know, a bunch of time.
Yeah, I just went the ones, you know, pretty all losses.
Right, Never did go to a never did go see a win over
there. Uh well you should go get your get your butt in the car,
drive seven hours because you said two days, three days, whatever days
ago, they're gonna win. You better go because this could be the one.
You know, Steve, you never know, man, I may wake
up Saturday morning and grab a kid and say let's go go. You know
we've done that before. You've done that before. So uh, I've been
there a bunch of times. You know, some good games, some some
bad ones. Uh. There was a fourteen to seven loss in in ninety
two in that stretch that we talked about with with the Malulu. You know,
some tough ones and some blowouts, a couple of blowouts. You know,
went went there when they it's very rare though. I don't blame you
for thinking that they can play them because historically they've played them close. Even
when Arizona was bad, they still play them close. You know, got
to see Reggie Bush play there, you know, in the game there,
So it was uh, you know, it's been fun. I've loved going
to the coliseum. You know, some people like going there. Some people
it's in a bad Neighborhood's a bad neighborhood, say well I'm not going.
Well, you remember, I guess back when I think you were covering the
team. When I was covering the team, and the kid from Sorrow whatever
his name was, when got shot or he got shot shot in the Yeah,
he was on the practice league, got shot in the leg. Yeah,
I forget his name now. Yeah, but yeah, he was walking
to practice or something and got shot. I mean the first time I ever
went to the coliseum goes to the first year there's someone was in the Pact,
well in fact then now, and that's when U c l A and
USC both played there and I saw they. So they both played the colseum.
So if they were both at home games, one would play on Friday,
play on Saturday. So we went to it was a Friday night U
c l A game. It was the day after we talked about. Yes,
it was the day after that plane crash. So we're in the where
we had a motor we're in the motorhom heading towards l A when that crash
happened. We heard about it on the news. So that's how far back
I go to, you know, going to those games. We're talking that
seventy seven ish, seventy five years Yeah, yeah, something like that.
Yeah, okay, So you know, I loved going there. I'm a
I'm a sucker for the history of a place like that, right, been
a couple of Raiders Playoffs games there. You know, I'm gonna miss the
place. I'm gonna I'm gonna miss you know, having a chance to go
there. That's why we were talking about all season long going to this game,
but everybody kind of lost the interests different things. We didn't go.
I was, yeah, I was just on the road, you know,
the beginning of this week. You know. Yeah, I'm glad we didn't
go because we were gonna try to do the show from there. Yeah,
it would have been tough to get there, and then you know to drive
back to drive back is the drive back. Yeah, we one of the
one of those times we drove up on Friday, it was a day game
on Saturday. We drove home after the game. That was one of the
worst things ever. You know, we got home at you know, four
o'clock in the morning, whatever it was. That's what happened to me last
year. And with San Diego, remember Joe, we drove up there,
did the show from del mar and they broke ba when they broke into your
car, my car, and drove home right after the game. It was
scorching coming back. Yeah, miserable time. So I I you know,
I don't know, I mean, I I like going there. I say
similarly with the Rose Ball, right, I'm gonna miss going to the Rose
Bowl. You know, going to going to see them play U c l
A. Got to cover a couple of games that the road. You'll love
to go down on the Turn. You'll love Texas Tech and Baylor don't.
Anyways, Well, we'll have Brian Jefferies on in the second hour to take
us down memory lane. You know he's been doing Arizona game since the eighties.
I we'll talk about some of his experiences there, you know, I
mean, you know, if you're a if you're a broadcast, right,
you're in the press box at the at the only coliseum where so much history
has happened. It's got to be an appreciation for Then. We know Brian's
that kind of a guy, so I wanted to talk to him about,
you know, some of his experience going on. Well kind of sad,
I'm sad. Yeah, I'm not crying. Yeah, well I'm not crying.
You crying. I'm crying. Which I we had some commons. Let's
talk about it. So his usual Tuesday press conference will Thursday Thursday. Excuse
me, excuse me, two days later it's Thursday press conference. But we'll
just start with his intro and then go into some of his comments about playing
in La So here's what he had to say at the start of his presser.
We have a great challenge ahead of us. We have a team that
is averaging over fifty points a game. We have a team. I think
we're the only team in college football that is playing back to back Top ten
teams. We could be the only team in college football that have done that
all year long. I don't think that has happened yet where a team has
played back to back top ten teams, and on our schedule has back to
back to back undefeated teams sitting here at week five, six and seven,
and we have a fantastic opportunity to go to the Coliseum and to play really
good football against a really good football team. And it's a team that came
off a battle against Colorado last week. And I think that is an indication
of how good the Pac twelve is and that every single week there's gonna be
challenge after challenge after challenge that we're all going to have to face in terms
of who we're playing and how we play. And if you don't play well
in the Pac twelve, you're gonna wind up losing games by a lot.
If you play well, you still might lose a game, but you're gonna
have a great battle on our hands. And that's what's going on right now.
Within the conference. We have a great number of teams that are competing
at a very high level. I don't think we're getting nearly the respect we
should be getting across the country, but it is what it is. And
as we're sitting here in our program, we've lost two games by a combined
four teen points, one in which and overtime and one in which against the
top five team. And I would say that that is a really good start
to a season where we know that we've got seven great battles ahead of us
moving forward. So excited about this opportunity. As I said, to go
back to La I don't know the next time we'll be playing in Los Angeles.
I hope we'll be able to play in Los Angeles often, as I
believe it's great for college football and it's great for our program the way we
recruit. But what I do know is that we'll be playing six seven games
in the state of Arizona every year, and that is a lot closer than
what a lot of other teams will be traveling to around the country. So
we are excited about that part for the California people and our Arizona people and
our recruits moving forward. So let me ask you. I know, I'm
just gonna throw a question outside of the realm of the press convers but do
you think and it just came to me when he said that, do you
think that the move to the Big twelve? Is it going to impact his
recruiting, Arizona's recruiting, maybe not specific to him, Arizona's recruiting. I'm
trying to figure out how to say this completely given that they won't be going
back there and I and hear me out, they're not going to get the
stars like they never really have, right, right, they never got they
go to USC, they go to UCL anything they got, they got the
second level guys, Will that change? Yes, because I don't know.
I don't think they We're gonna know that until it starts to happen, right,
Because you understand, I understand questions two things in play. One by
not playing there, you know, you don't you're not there regular visible,
you know. And and well we'll play one of these questions later because we've
got to get to the quarterback situation. But we'll play his answer response because
he got to ask specifically that oh, but you're asking okay, okay,
and and and the thing is, and that's where he was trying to say.
But we're gonna have seven games in Arizona where you can jump in the
car and go, and you're not you don't have to go to Rutgers,
Penn State, Iowa, you know, Michigan to go see your kid play.
All right, So there's that. But on the other hand, some
of those kids want to go to Michigan Penn State. So I don't think
we're gonna know how this is going to affect recruiting until it starts to affect
recruiting. Okay. I think it can either way, because there might be
some parents who say I don't want you to I want to see you play,
so play at Arizona or Arizona State, right, Or they might say
I really love to go to the Big House. You know, I'd love
to see you play Michigan. Sure, you know every other year. I
have a long I don't think we're gonna know, you know, Okay,
my point, what you you got, Well, well let's go to the
quarterbacks and come back. So obviously the first question is you know who's playing
quarterback on Saturday. I'll just let him answer it. Here's what he said.
No change at this point from a few days ago. He took seven
on seven reps yesterday and took individual reps yesterday, so I guess I would
say it's more hopeful than last week at this point in time after Wednesday's practice.
Last Wednesday, he didn't participate in the practice at all. He was
off to the side. This Wednesday, he participated in seven on seven and
in uh indye. So we'll see what today, what today brings, and
we'll see if we get any closer to being able to play uh. We're
preparing both quarterbacks to play to start and meeting with both of them, going
through the game plan with both of them. And Noah has been taking the
majority of the team reps at this point, but as I've said, Jaden
has had thirty two starts under his belt, so he could take less reps
and still be prepared. Let's play this. He talks about how evaluating from
the Saturday's game gets Washington State. It is different when you go into a
game when the game is out of hand one way or the other. The
evaluation post game is very fast, usually one way or the other. So
whether Noah went in against Utah year ago or whether he went against NAU this
year, whatever it might have been, the evaluation at that point in the
game is pretty quick. Now he's sitting there and he's evaluated on a seventy
seven play game where it was a thirty one to twenty four game where he
wound up throwing I believe thirty eight passes or something to that effect, and
we would you know, it's a lot more stringent grading. You look at
exactly now you're sitting there and you're no longer in that backup seat where you're
watching and kind of saying, oh, yeah, you know, Jaden's drop
wasn't really good there, or yeah, I wouldn't have thrown it there,
or you know, whatever it might have been. You wind up now being
you're being told we need to correct your drop here, or we need to
change your read here. And he's been fantastic, absolutely as coachable as anybody
I've ever coached, willing to learn, willing to work on his craft,
and really willing to take all of the coaching from all week long of what
we were able to show him and all the practice reps he got Tuesday and
Wednesday and be able to really try to help him become a better quarterback for
this Saturday night. Okay, let me ask you another dumb question. Do
you think that USC worries about who they're gonna face? And I say that
because maybe, for one reason, one reason only in their mind, Delora
runs more Forfeita won't run as much. And that's for the only reason I
don't think. I don't think they're gonna do. I think they're set right,
they're gonna do. No, No, exactly, don't you exactly.
Coaches worry about well if we play, if I say this, say that,
well, the two of them aren't so different. That is set a
million times. We do the same thing with both of them. It's just
it's just Jayden does it a little different. They ran the same plays,
they ran the same paths. You know, they ran that same play,
that same pass play where they scored on again Stanford, the tight end pass
where Jayden, you know, faked to pass to the left, fake to
pass to the right, and then through the tight end over the middle.
They ran it with Fafeita too, was the exact same play with the and
it didn't get a touchdown, but they completed a pass for a first down
because he wasn't as wide open as he as he was against Stanford. They
run the same plays, it's just they executed differently because the feet is less
prone to run. I think, but he's still ran. Yeah, I
think that he was still kind of being conservative, right, conservative literal?
Maybe that changes. Yeah, all right, we're gonna get We're gonna get
Jay Dobbins in talk about you know, being at the coliseum and then as
a fan, you know, is he gonna miss going to the coliseum and
playing USC. So stick around for Jay Dobbins. We'll be right back.
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Fox for fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, Yo Jiggins Aus and now on
the phone we have j Dobbin Dobins Trumduba from back in the day. How
are you, Jake, Steve, Jay, thank you for having me back,
and good afternoon to your audience. Afternoon, Ay, we kind of
want to go back into the good old days like we'd always do forty years
Jay, how do you feel about that? I don't feel very good about
it. Jayle's see, it doesn't seem like that long ago, but I
guess it was, you know it was. I remember I was at that
game in eighty one at the Coliseum, like walking in that place and being
completely in awe of that stadium and knowing what had taken place on that field
and who had played there and watching Marcus Allen run for two hundred yards that
day, but we still came away with the win. Yeah, what a
great day. Yeah, that was an incredible day. You were there as
a recruit or what was your capacity? You know, that was my transfer
year. I had come back home from Arkansas and that was you know,
there was no portal back in the day. Man, you moved schools.
You had to sit and watch for a year. Yeah, all right,
so you were, but you're on you're on the sidelines. You have to
sit in the seats where you have to sit. Yeah, I was on
the sidelines. I was, you know, handing out cups of water and
patting people on the back and and and doing all those things that you try
to do when you don't have a uniform on and can't get in the game.
You talked about the atmosphere or the just the presence. When did it
wear off during that game or did it you know what, I don't know
that it ever does when you when you when you're on the field. And
the history of the University of Southern California and John Robinson's on the other sideline
and those those uniforms, those iconic uniforms. I you know, I played
against them or or was that games three times and was always a little bit
I had a little bit of stars in my eyes, to be quite honest
with you about it. Yeah, so you went, you went back as
a player or on the team, you know, active on the team.
In nineteen eighty four game that I mentioned at the top of the yard where
you know Arizona fans thought the Walkats got jobbed on a call in the end
zone. But you were there for that game. So when you actually put
the uniform on, you're on the field, you walk out onto the field,
pregame or whatever. You know, how did you absorb all of that?
Well? It was so the eighty four game again, we're back in
Los Angeles. For me personally, it was my best statistical game of my
college career. I had nine or ten catches that day, playing like Kim
McDonald was their free safety. Jack del Reel like put a big lick on
me that game. I caught a slant and Jack Reel Jack del Reel basically
said like, don't run slants in my area because I'm gonna hurt you little
boy, But you know it's still at some point you had to say,
you know, I'm good enough to be here right well, yeah, and
be competitive and to be on the field with those guys, with those elite
athletes. There was a childhood hero on mine. You guys might remember a
USC receiver named Bob Chandler. Yeah, played for the Bills like in their
glory years, and then played for the Raiders with Jim Plunkett in their Super
Bowl season. Bob Chandler did the color commentary for the USC radio And I
came out of the locker room after the game, and Bob Chandler's sitting there
waiting, and like I knew immediately who he was. And he came up
and he said, I was waiting to I wanted to shake your hand when
you came out of the locker room because you played the game the same way
that I played it, like coming from a USC legend, from an NFL
star man, Like we lost the game, but like I felt pretty good
about me. Yeah, they had to give you goose bumps. Well,
you know, it's like when your hero or one of your heroes, someone
that you admire and look up to, shakes your hand patchy on the back
man. That's that's a special moment. Let me ask you this historically,
and not all the time, of course, but historically Arizona always plays the
Trojans will whether they win or not. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't,
but they always play them. Well, why is that? I think
Arizona has traditionally had tough teams. They've had teams that like, are willing
to fight, and the reputation of USC, like, I think that's always
been like a chip on our shoulder to show that we belong on the same
field as they do. Interesting. Interesting, So you know during the week,
you know, because and I don't know, maybe today it's a little
different because you know, the mystique of USC is kind of kind of got
lost for a while. They're they're really good again, you know, their
top ten team, in top five in some areas, but the mystique was
kind of lost at that time. As you said, you had guys like
Marcus Allen, Jack del Rio, guys who were I don't know what that
is, that's me, guys who became superstars. You know in the NFL.
There was more of a mistique to them than there is now. But
going into that week of practice. You know what was you know, what
was your approach? How how are you guys? Uh? You know going
through practice? What was on your mind? You know, Jay, If
you can't get excited to play in that game, if you need a coach
to amp up your attitude, if you need coach Rogman to give you a
pregame speech when you're getting ready to take the field against USC, something's wrong
with you. You shouldn't have a uniform on. Yeah. I always joking
and maybe a joke say this about some of the guys from southern California that
either the coaches here would say. You know, they didn't think highly enough
for you to recruit you. Now go show show them what they're missing,
you know, Steve, I'll tell you a funny story. When I'm at
Arizona. Rodney Pete is coming out of high school at Shawnee he went.
He finished his career at Shawnee Mission High School in Kansas after his father,
Willie took the job with the Chiefs. So Rodney comes back to Arizona for
his recruiting trip and I was his host. I had known rod since he
was a little boy. You know, we grew up together. I played
with Skip, and so Rodney shows up on campus and like, my job
is to show him around and convince him that Arizona is the place he should
be. The first night out, he said, dude, let's just go
have some fun. I'm going to the University of Southern California. So then
the coaches come back to me after he announces and they're like, hey,
we put our prize recruit in your hands. You guys were boys. He's
a Tucson kid. How did you lose him? I'm like, you asked
me to beat USC on this, dude, What did Jack del read a
shot at him? You know? I mean, I get he was from
Tucson and stuff, but you know he was never coming to Arizona, was
he? No, he wasn't you know. I think Coach Smith was banking
on his long term relationship and his friendship with Willie Pete that that would score
points, which I'm sure it did. I don't think it was ignored.
I think rod like still does love Tucson. But man, those Hollywood lights
they shine pretty bright. And when you're a star, and when you're like
a Heisman Trophy quality player, man, that's where you want to be.
Yeah, well, let's go there, because you transitioned into bringing coach Smith
in here. Now do you blame him come from leaving here to go there?
You know what I never did. I was never one of those people
who held resentment for him. And I'll tell you another story about Coach Smith.
Long after I was out of school and Coach Smith had retired, I
asked him, we were competitive with USC, but then you leave and you
go there and you take that team to three Rose Bowls while you're there,
what was the difference? And and Larry said, Jay, he said,
let me tell you something. My ones at Arizona were competitive with USC's ones.
But my two's at USC were competitive with Arizona's ones. My threes at
USC were competitive with Arizona's ones. I just kept reloading that, and that
was it. And now you know, it's always been, That's always been
it. You know. Yeah, you you might your your top line players
might be be good enough, but when the next guy comes in, and
the next guy comes in and the next guy comes in, I mean god,
I remember being, you know, covering the I was covering the team
when Junior Sea was running around at linebacker, and then I think Steve,
you were too. I remember being on the field and watching Junior say I
and going, yeah, how do you get a guy like that? You
know, how does that Arizona ever get a guy like that? Uh?
You know here and there's just no way. You guys both know from your
job and the perspective that you get being right on the field, being right
next to these guys, which you don't get from the stands, you don't
get from the fiftieth row, when you see them face to face, how
big they are, how fast they are, how violent they are, the
collisions that they create. It is stunning to see those elite level guys perform.
Which brings me to this because I saw some games of the weekend.
I watch it all the time obviously, but you guys got punished, I
mean just football players in general. Was there ever a time you said what
the hell am I doing here? You know? See, when you're like
small and slow and skinny, you better be willing to get blasted or else
there is no other place for you. And that was my position, Like
I had to play reckless. That's part of the reason why I played reckless,
because if I played soft or timid like I was gonna get run over
like a road grader. Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, absolutely,
Yeah. So you know I feel about all this day, you know,
going to the Big Twelve, not going to be played the LA schools anymore.
You have to, I mean, you played college football. I'm assuming
you're a bit of a fan. I mean, how do you feel about
all this that's happened over the last couple of years. Well, you know,
I was listening to you guys in the league, and I actually listened
to you guys every afternoon on my way to practice, and that like my
folks were able to go to games in California. My folks went to watch
this play UCLA and the Rose Bowl, they went to the Coliseum, they
went to Stanford in cal that's taken away. But you also made a good
point the glamour of being able to play in some of those iconic Midwestern cities
and stadiums, that there's an allure to that as well. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, no, we'll see what happens. I do think and we
both agree, Jay and I that Arizona's chances of winning a conference championship is
probably a little better in the Big Twelve. Well, you know, well
at least if you look at the at the Pac twelve or pack, whatever
we want to call it this year, top to bottom, maybe at the
very very bottom, there's a couple sure things, but from one to ten,
man, every Saturday is going to be a slug fest, right right,
And I just don't see, Well, there's well, the thing is
in the big tub. We'll keep saying there's no USC, there's no Washington,
there's no Oregon in the in the in the Big twelve. And I
think that's that's gonna be the big difference. Well, you know, I
hope our fans like enjoy this last season in our conference and and everything that
we contributed to it. It really is a special conference. I personally feel
like it's a shame that it's gone away. I understand the reasons why,
but I really hope that we as fans can embrace it and enjoy teams like
Washington come into town and and playing USC and Oregon. Like we need to
like really enjoy that because it's going away, and it's it's going to be
gone by November. It's over. Jay. You know, the only way
that our fans here are happy you gotta win. You gotta win. That's
the only time they're happy. Winning fixes everything. Hey j Man, glad
to see you're back at our at our at our home school. Uh once
went back to the old stopping grounds. Dude, I'm still sliding down the
railing out to the parking lot sitting between the one hundred and two hundred building.
And you've been there. You lived at my friend on the Wall,
Man on the Wall exactly. All right, Jay, thanks a bunch,
Thank you guys. That was fun, very very fun. Again. I
had I had. I was a senior when Jay was was a freshman,
but I had him in a science class. Oh god, you do so
old, and he's not even I took a chief science class because I dropped
out of chemistry and took earth sights. I just got through, man,
I just got through. And the day was a He was a star right
away as a receiver Arizona. He came in John Missmer if you remember,
Yeah, he was at he was in my shafts. I know Mark Day
was sort of his understudy. Yeah, I know his brother Mark's. Yeah.
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the iHeartRadio app. This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacobzalez
on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to my I on the
Ball here Fox Sports fourteen. Cookie, I'm Steve Rivera. You're Jaginsaus.
You got about eleven minutes. If anybody wants to call, We're gonna get
some jid stuff here. Yeah, you know, I'd love to hear you
know, look, Arizone has been going to as mentioned, there's one's been
going to the h LLI costume over forty years, right, So I'd love
to hear some other folks memories of that. I've got a lot of memories
from you know, going to games there as a fan, went there a
couple of times as a as a as a writer. You know, what
are your memories of the colssume? And how much are you gonna miss that?
I'd be great to hear from some folks now five two zero four one.
So uh, Jed, obviously you know we're in usc week was asked,
Uh, you know, you know, are you gonna miss playing in
l A. What did you like about that? Is it gonna affect recruiting
all of those things? Here's what he had to say. Well, I
mean it's been you know, over the course of the years. You'd play
one game there, right, so it'd be a one game differential. Uh.
What I would say is you have the ability to still drive from southern
California here and get here in about six seven hours. Uh, be able
to watch your son play seven times based on the fact that the team up
north and US are both in the Big twelve, so that rivalry will continue,
that game will continue. So we either have seven home games or not,
or six home games in one over there. I would say that I
do not. I think it's an advantage for us that we're still going to
be playing. When you start looking at the other games, you still have
Utah available, Colorado available, a easy flights from California and you have the
games in Texas, and there'll be a significant amount of games in Texas with
the four teams in the conference there. Very different than you know, having
to fly all over the Midwest and the Northeast to go to road games.
Very different than the weather opportunities or the weather that you could end up getting
delays, flight issues, all the things that occur. So I think for
sure, if you're from southern California, go to Arizona was the way to
go. Well, he's continued to recruit, right Yeah, that's what exactly
what he's doing right there, he's recruiting. He's he's absolutely recruiting right there.
But uh again, you know you'll you'll miss it. I mean,
how can you not miss going over to playing the costume in the Rose Bowl.
I don't, Yeah, I see. To me, it's to me,
it's nothing because I only went there once, you know, in ninety
when they beat him ninety. No, but don't don't you like, like,
uh no, don't you love the mystique in the history of a place,
Like when you don't know that when you know I was gonna say some
stupid analogy, No, when you just don't know you don't know, and
I just don't know. In basketball, it's like I don't miss the sports
Arena. When they built Gala the Rock, that was a rat hole,
Steve, nobody missed the sports what we call the sports Aroma exactly. You
know, here's the you know, anytime Arizona ever went to play there,
it wasn't a full house, right, yeah, fifty sixty thousand people.
Whatever. I had the I had the chance of speaking to Rodney pet I
had the chance, uh one of yours. I was covering the team.
It was gonna be Larry the first time Larry Smith played Arizona. So sou
Arizona had laid yeah, no over there. It was or coming you no
coming here? Right? It was eighty eight season because the Arizona played at
Oklahoma. Then Arizona was gonna play I think Central Michigan or Eastern one of
the Michigan's directional Michigans, and then they were gonna play USC. I believe
that was gonna be the game. It was gonna be there. So they
say instead of sending me, instead of having me cover the home game with
Central Michigan, whoever it was Eastern Michigan, they sent me to La to
cover the Oklahoma USC game and both teams were in the top ten at the
time. It was ninety five thousand people there. Yeah, and so I
got to be at that game, you know, at a game where the
coliseum was full and the loudness of it and you know, again one of
those one of the best games of the year kind of thing on the national
stage. Rodney Pete was the quarterback and the whole bit, And I got
to cover that game. So I got to be there for a game like
that where it was where the where the atmosphere was incredible, and then of
course covered the game when when they played uh Arizona here. So to me,
I'm you know, I love the history of those kinds of things,
as you know, as Jay Dobbins was saying, you know that when you
think about the players that played there, you know, Marcus Allen not only
playing for USC, but the leader playing there for the Raiders. So I
feel, uh, you know, I'm gonna miss it. I really am
going to miss it. So Jed was then asked, uh, okay,
do you you know you're not gonna be in the conference anymore? YadA,
YadA, YadA. Are you gonna miss or do you want to keep playing
them, which it'll be interesting to see how the administrations of well handle that.
Jay, there's questions that are loaded, and there's some questions that are
not loaded. How are you going to answer that question? Well, this
is how he answered it. I would love to play U s l A
or USC or San Diego State, Calm Stanford every year if we could get
that done, if we could find a way to make that the non conference
Power five game, I think that would be fantastic to be able to do
that. Those are challenging because of everybody's scheduling and how that works, and
how football is so different than basketball. That our schedule. I went on
Wikipedia the other night and I saw that we have like games scheduled for twenty
thirty three or something to that effect. But I'm hopeful that we'll be able
to make that happen. I'm hopeful maybe we could play some games it's so
fie, maybe do something like that. I think that would be an amazing
opportunity to use our connections with the RAMS and see if we could do something
there. So that would be number one. Yes, that would be fantastic.
Skill recruiting, excuse me, coach, Will you be here in twenty
thirty three? Come on, man, well, by the way, you
brought some be up coaching, Will you be here in twenty twenty? You're
always digging into something like that. Oh, that's kind of funny. But
he's still recruiting there though, right he wants to play in California, so
he could tell recruits we're still gonna play. So so what would you still
want to do this? I want to still play against something? Oh no,
I don't think. So we're moving on, right, And the thing
is, you know what are the administration's going to say, right, people
above him and say, you know what, those those guys screwed us.
We're not playing. But when he was talking about we still want to play,
you could have had the conference wised up exactly exactly so I you know,
yeah, I mean, if if I was going to place us here,
you still like I do, would I would try to go yeah,
because it's gonna be one of those rare routies trip to go to. Yeah,
you don't have fun, Sure, you could even go down. I
forget it old, I mean, I'm getting too old. I mean,
I you know, I'm trying to make it to the Alabama game in like
twenty thirty two, Will met this man be here in twenty thirty two,
seventy four or seventy three. Oh man, that's what I'm saying. I
don't know if I'll even be able to travel, right, don't you got
another one of the storylines is the three guys from Arizona. Yeah, so
left to go to USC and Jed was asked, you know, did you
have a message to your players about, you know, making sure that you
kind of you keep yourselves in line when you're when you're facing these three guys.
Here's where here He was basically asked, did you have a message for
the team? The message was decisions were made at the end of the season
by certain players, decisions were made by the staff, decisions were made by
the program. And we don't get into what why people transferred and whether people
were encouraged or discouraged to transfer. But I would say that this has to
be about us and we don't need to get caught up in the emotions of
playing former players or former teammates, because if any of them have any aspirations
to be in the National Football League, they will be doing that on a
weekly basis. And if that is the case, uh, and they're gonna
get wrapped up in the emotion of it, they will be cut from the
NFL teams that they play at because it's gonna be a constant battle between Oh,
this guy was on this team, now he's on that team. This
guy was traded, this guy was picked up, this guy was a free
agent, and all the things that go into their futures that I would recommend
just going out there and playing really good football, but there is certainly,
Ah, it's personal. Let's say that, and the team understands that.
So there's a lot of things to digest. R Right, do you think
do you think that USC coach Riley will kind of throw to him more Singer
more? Yeah? I'd be willing to bet that Dorian Singer went and asked
him if he would do that more, But maybe only because you know,
again, every every pass that Dorian Singer catches, he's gonna piss somebody off
on the Arizona sideline. Right, this should be an interesting or or will
Jed Fish throw more at Christian Roland Wallace? Yeah? No, no,
I don't think that, right, I don't think that, you know,
I think the other way. I think with Singer, you get a sense
though that you know that they probably you know, they feel they know Christian
Roland Wallace right, so they might know some tendencies and might be able to
pick on some things there. He does this every time. So we'll do
this kind of like last week when when Washington recognized that Arizona stuck a freshman
linebacker in on their tight end and they immediately threw a bomb to that tight
end. Coaches watched that, you know, they watched it. You know
they're looking for it for if they're in a certain uh, in a certain
formation whatever, that they know Christian Waller Roland Wallace is going to do a
thing that they're gonna try and take advantage of that those little pieces of information.
I bet you whatever you want to bet that Singer has a huge day,
huge day, huge, huge, his his his most what's his most
catches there this year for five whatever, that he has a best day,
the best day of the the Trojan. I'll bet you that. Okay,
catches and yards or what we're talking about. Catches and yards. Okay,
Okay, let's put this way. I have to he has if he has
more catches and more yards. You win. He has fewer catches and fewer
yards. I win. If it's a split, okay, if it's a
split, Okay. And at the break, now, let's let's say maybe
because I want to see the numbers. Okay, we'll look it up.
We'll look it up, and then we'll see you come back and we'll talk
about Okay, we'll look on the luck and we'll lock up his game because
it might be crazy, but let's yeah, I'm willing to do that.
We had a pretty good game against Colorado. Yeah, yeah, so we'll
if I like those numbers, well i'll say it, okay, all right,
Well, okay, I like the idea of a bet like that.
Okay, let's uh, let's say you're wearing the same mad I'm warning today
I wore this yesterday. Today much dirtier. All right, Okay, we've
had enough. Okay, So do you remember what song I played last hour?
Well, you have to have access to a lot of rooms, you
know, But I don't know. I don't know the names of most of
those. Those are those songs. All right, we're gonna take our break,
We're gonna come back. We got a little bit of breaking news we'll
probably just talk some more usc stuff, so stick around. Don't believe,
I don't believe.