WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:07.639 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:14.400 fourteen fifty powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure your most Prized Assassions kat Z 3 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:19.199 R two SAD and iHeartRadio Station. Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome 4 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:22.440 to Eye on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, 5 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:26.440 He's Jagan Zawis got our guy Kevin in the house today on a Monday. 6 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:30.679 Welcome to the show. We hope you call, because who knows what's 7 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:35.840 gonna happen? Five two, four one, six thirty four forty Arizona showed 8 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:42.320 a good Arizona and a bad Arizona and then a good Arizona. Uh. 9 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.840 I'll just ask you guys a question today. Do you trust this team? 10 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:51.039 Do I trust it to do? What? To do you trust this team? 11 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:54.039 Uh? You're you're in mid March or your first run on the tournament? 12 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:59.359 Does this? Does this team have six bullets in it? I think 13 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:00.960 it does some right Here. Here's what you know. What I was paying 14 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:07.719 attention to as as Stanford was yesterday Stanford was doing again what it did Arizona 15 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:15.319 in Palo Alto, was that I was watching Arizona's saying, are they really 16 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.000 playing bad defense? Where Stanford just shooting the lights out? Because they're just 17 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:26.120 shooting the lights out, And it looked to me like Arizona was just playing 18 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:30.120 good that Arizona was playing good defense. They were just making shots. So 19 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:34.640 and that's my way of answering, Yes, I trust them in that the 20 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.719 effort was there. I thought, you know, I mean, look, 21 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:44.079 they're not so good that if a team goes off that they still can't lose. 22 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:47.799 They're gonna lose. Yeah, they can't do they have six wins in 23 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:52.719 them in March. I think they do when they're somewhere, you know, 24 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:56.040 as I'm watching more of the other teams go out, Like I watched the 25 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:01.680 entire Kansas Houston gate, they look fantastic. Kansas looked really good and Houston 26 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.560 looked ordinary. But guess what the Houston game before that? Rightable? Right, 27 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:08.960 and that, And that's what I'm saying. I watched a bunch of 28 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:14.680 the Duke North Carolina game. Yeah, I like Carolina. I think Arizona 29 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.080 has those same pieces in there. They can do those same things. The 30 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:21.919 question is, on a given night, you know, do you have the 31 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:23.639 right matchup? Because The thing that I couldn't get out of my brain about 32 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:29.479 the Stanford game was that, for some reason, Stanford just a terrible matchup 33 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:31.960 for Arizona. Yeah, because yeah, right there is. They are right. 34 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.919 They got big guys who can shoot. You know, you got you 35 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.680 got forty two who was out on the out on the perimeter in the first 36 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:43.919 half and made like, you know, four to three pointers and Umar ballas 37 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.280 the guy's got to get out on the get out there on him. Finally 38 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:51.080 he did. Finally, Well I saw exactly when he did. When the 39 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.879 guy, uh, you know, made one in the second half, I 40 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.199 think the only one he made in the second half, and Tommy is yelling 41 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.759 at Umar, you know, pointing, get out there, and he did 42 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:05.319 and that was that. But that's not Lumar's game though, No, he's 43 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.240 close to the basket guy. So as I was watching midway through the first 44 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:12.120 half and then the near this the halftime, I'm thinking, God, I 45 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.319 might have to go kat Williams on these guys in my column, you know, 46 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.319 just kind of say, is this team worthy of getting to the Final 47 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.680 four or whatever? Do they have six bullets? And even in the early 48 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.639 parts of the second half, I'm thinking I'm gonna have to start being a 49 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.800 little more critical in my story. And then they won the game, right, 50 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:32.080 they kind of did it one away as well. I guess they called 51 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:37.520 him off to wait. I may may never never be written, but I'm 52 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.840 thinking, Man, if this team plays against a good team, it won't 53 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:46.159 have a chance, because because this is for four chances. They lost five 54 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:51.080 games, right, four of them from the perimeter, four of them produe 55 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:53.520 five maybe all five from the perimeter. And I'm thinking to myself, Ja, 56 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:58.560 how difficult is it to get on the get out and defend him on 57 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:05.000 the perimeter, And again it's it's uh, well what I what what I 58 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:10.800 saw was that I think the reason that I think that they can be that 59 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:18.279 good is because of how we're seeing kJ Lewis emerge, Jade and Bradley's you 60 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:23.279 know, handling the ball, you know really well. You know, Crevis 61 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:27.120 is is you know, becoming you know, more confident underneath the basket, 62 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:31.120 like he actually went up and dunked a ball in traffic, right he also 63 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:35.000 didn't. Yeah, but what but what I'm saying is that those next three 64 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:42.480 guys make them pretty good, specifically kJ Lewis. So I think they have. 65 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.120 I I think they're comparable to the other teams that we think, you 66 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.360 know, have a shot at the national champions So so, uh, we 67 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.759 talked about odds last week, were you We talked about odds and getting too 68 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:57.800 the final four? Was even Sammy, we did talk about that. So 69 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.199 okay, you would probably say that they what what would be the worst case 70 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.839 scenario if you would be disappointed on the season if they didn't they got to 71 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:10.519 get to the second weekend. They gotta get I don't know, you know, 72 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.079 I have a problem with saying the team got to the sweet sixteen and 73 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.839 it wasn't good enough because it's hard to do true, no matter what you 74 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:23.560 say, it's hard to do true. But the last two years disappointment, 75 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.879 right, Yeah, well definitely last year's I mean no doubt about that, 76 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.120 okay, and then and then and the other one because you just thought Arizona 77 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.199 should be able to take Houston in that game and then they couldn't and didn't 78 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:35.879 look good doing right. So, well, isn't this team just the same 79 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:40.199 as it was two years ago? Even last year where they're they're very good, 80 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:44.959 but you don't know how good they are or well you've seen the basta. 81 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.959 But who's who Name a team that's not like that? You can't. 82 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:54.160 Probably to this point, that's really it. You can't. I mean you 83 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:58.079 don't. You don't like to do and I don't like the're built around They're 84 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.199 built around one guy that you if you stop him and if the other guys 85 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:06.120 don't, his shirt shots, so you know, and new CON's just hot 86 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:10.959 right now. I mean, you know, so is ukon the team that 87 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:13.360 you look at and say, well, they're you know, but Steve, 88 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:15.600 all the teams are like that. Kansas is like that, North Carolina is 89 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.519 like that. Duke's like that. You know, Tennessee is like Kentucky, 90 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:26.120 you know, lost another one over the weekend. I mean, there's That's 91 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:29.240 why I'm saying Arizona's really not different from all the other teams that we're talking 92 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:31.920 about who can win it. The question is who do you run into? 93 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:36.759 You know, if if if Tennessee and Kentucky are playing in the Sweet sixteen 94 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:41.399 like they did on Sunday, Kentucky's getting his ass kicked. You know. 95 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:46.560 Similarly, if you know, if Arizona has has Duke again, you know 96 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:55.040 they can beat to So I'm just saying that we it's like we want Arizona 97 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:58.920 to be perfect, right, Well, we see what we know what we 98 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:00.199 see, right, and this is the only team we see on a regular 99 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:04.000 versis. But it's like we want them to be we want all the pieces 100 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:08.959 to come together in every game, and they don't and that's not gonna be 101 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:12.040 possible, and and so and then I think the added thing is, like 102 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.600 we said and I said in the past, is that you know it's Pack 103 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.560 twelve competition. You don't expect much from the PAC twelve competition. When Arizona 104 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.639 has a tough time against a PAC twelve team, you go, what the 105 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:28.000 hell? So, uh, look, you're back to your question, your 106 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.600 your question. Do I still think Arizona can win it all? Yes? 107 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.360 But do I still think Arizona can be out in the first weekend? Yes? 108 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.480 So that's a big extreme there, you go. No, I do 109 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.120 too, because you don't know if they come up against a team that you've 110 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:44.800 never seen before, that can shoot the shots early, and they're gonna they're 111 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:48.279 gonna face that that uh, that Murray State or that whomever. But but 112 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:53.160 also think about think about what they did against both U C. L A 113 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:58.519 and and and Stanford teams that were playing out of their minds, okay, 114 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:03.000 out of their minds when they came here, and yet it got it. 115 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.720 They got their act and they came back and they won both of those games 116 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.800 and they never looked, uh in a panic. Okay, but let me 117 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.279 also say that Stanford, and you say, art n Cuba team, I 118 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:18.120 hear you. So if you get a better team, the better team may 119 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.600 figure them out how to stop Arizona in a rush, in a rush, 120 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:22.959 I hear you. So I'm not I'm not trying to poop poo Arizona. 121 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.279 Everyone thinks I'm gonna pooh pooh, mister poop poo. But that's not That's 122 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:31.679 not the case in this room, mister more realistic. But you know this 123 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.159 is I agree with you. There's a team that can get to the final 124 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.039 four and who knows, and I even like their chances once they get there, 125 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:41.480 because there'll be Arizona that no one thinks anything above them. But they're 126 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:45.360 also the team that says, oh, we're the guys that can show up 127 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:46.600 and pakay, well, let me ask you this way because they because as 128 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.840 we all know, it takes basically you just get on a street. If 129 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.320 this, if this Arizona team with what it's capable of, goes on a 130 00:08:54.360 --> 00:09:01.559 tear, goes on a streak like the ninety seven team or whoever, don't 131 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.799 anything they can win at all. Sure, Sure, but there's also five 132 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.440 or six teams like the I hear that there are, and it's depending who 133 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.080 you run into. Matchup is when you run into them, and the whole 134 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.480 bit. I agree, I agree. But when Arizona's playing at its best, 135 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.279 Okay, let's say it plays six straight games where it's playing its best 136 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.600 basketball, Sure they can win it. Sure, of course. Of course, 137 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.320 It's like I see on Facebook. I think I talked to you last 138 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:31.679 week about this some guy they beat in California. When when Arizona plays as 139 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:33.519 best or capable of beat of anybody, Okay, you can see that of 140 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.960 five teams, and that's just not cos just not anybody. They're not anybody, 141 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:45.200 you know again, it's uh. The bottom line though, is you 142 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:46.679 know they won the two games they needed to win. Yeah, okay, 143 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:52.679 so this conversation maybe be different next with us Monday after the road. It 144 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.600 depends on what happens, right, I mean, most you know, pretty 145 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:00.519 much anybody in the league is going to go into the go to the mountain 146 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.440 schools and lose a couple of games. You know, Arizona, you think, 147 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:05.279 just got a split, Go in there and win one and you'll be 148 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.519 and you're good. Neither of those teams have lost at home this year. 149 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.720 There's a reason for that. So no, they're good. They're good, 150 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.000 and they're good at home. Yeah, so, I uh, you know, 151 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:22.519 I think that I think what we saw was both ends of it, 152 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:24.519 right. We saw a team that you seek to be out in the first 153 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.840 weekend. Then we saw a team that you think that team gets on a 154 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:33.159 roll and kJ Lewis keeps playing the way he's playing, and and Crevis gives 155 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.759 him, you know, and and Umar Ballow back to back double doubles. 156 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.320 You know. No, there's lots of like this team that you know, 157 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:46.080 they play like that, that they can do a lot. Sure, they 158 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.159 can do a whole ton. And I think I think part of what Jay 159 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.360 was talking about earlier is that with the amount of teams in the top ten 160 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:56.320 that can make a run and yeah, see success, why not Arizona. 161 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.240 And especially because we I think fans have seen the high Highs and they've seen 162 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.919 them. We have four minutes do you have the top ten up or do 163 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.159 right? Now? Go give me, give me the give me your number 164 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.279 one? Two threes? You con right, very capable, very good. 165 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.159 Obviously I haven't seen them enough to know how good they are. But but 166 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:15.679 they're obviously number one for a reason. We have you cut at twenty and 167 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.960 two and then Purdue. I don't know, I don't. I wouldn't trust 168 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.879 them at all. I don't trust given given whatever. North Carolina at three 169 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:26.960 Kansas they play Kansas State on the road. They are a lot like Arizona, 170 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:30.759 don't you think? Yes? Oh? Okay, I mean honestly, 171 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.360 any of the teams that were about to mention here a lot like Arizona. 172 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.840 Who's Who's five? Houston? Okay? Okay there? I think I like 173 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.759 them better than anybody, But i'd be a fun game, good game. 174 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:46.480 Tennessee at six, I haven't did you see that game with Kentucky? They 175 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.200 looked good, they look good. Look at home right a Kentucky? Okay, 176 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.440 look really good? So that transferred Dalton connect he's yeah, he's scoring 177 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.039 all the points for them. He's he looks really good. Marquette at number 178 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:00.519 seven, I haven't even seen I saw them early in there. I haven't 179 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:05.039 seen them recently. Arizona at eight, Duke at nine, Illinois at ten. 180 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:11.080 They just barely beat Nebraska yesterday at home, Wisconsin at eleven, Auburn 181 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:15.000 at twelve, Baylor thirteen, okay, sty So yeah, in the top 182 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:20.279 ten, they're all outside of maybe Yukon or a lot like Arizona. Yeah, 183 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:22.360 you want to trust them, you want to trust them, but you 184 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.240 know that you're not sure whether to trust them. Yeah, you can trust 185 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.120 them. You can trust them to be talented enough to get to a certain 186 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.639 point, But do you trust them to be consistent? That's what But and 187 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:35.679 here's and here's your thing, and I don't know, you know, again, 188 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.720 I think I don't. I didn't feel like what was going on yesterday 189 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:45.960 with Arizona had had anything to do with Arizona overlooking Stanford, because Stanford kicked 190 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.720 their asses. So I didn't think they were overlook I just thought Stanford came 191 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:54.559 out and played great for you know, the better part for the whole first 192 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:56.480 half, and you know, and then Arizona came on in the second half. 193 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:03.679 So you know, I feel like, you know, when Arizona shows 194 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:05.240 up to play, let's say they're you know, in around and they're playing 195 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:09.200 one of these teams above me. You're gonna see the best Arizona team. 196 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:11.159 Oh yeah, Now they may they may still lose, sure, but they're 197 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:16.240 not gonna lose because they didn't play well. That's fair, right, that's 198 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:20.360 fair. If you lose that way, that's fine because you just weren't good 199 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.960 enough. And I think that's the case if you get to the Sweet sixteam. 200 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.360 If this team gets to see existing, all bets are off because they'll 201 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:30.960 play like they can play. Look, I'm looking at I'm looking at everybody 202 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:33.720 above Arizona in the rankings, and the only one that I think I'm willing 203 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:39.799 to say that I believe is better than Arizona is Yuka. Okay, I 204 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:45.759 think I think aside from that, Arizona is pretty much on a level with 205 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.840 everybody else. And and those two, you know, they walk on the 206 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:52.120 court against any of those teams and it's like a fifty to fifty shot. 207 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.080 Okay, we'll get to more of this later. We have a pretty good 208 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:58.039 show here with a couple of great guests. We do. Chip Hale was 209 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:03.200 gonna going to us a previewing his team getting ready to get to kick off 210 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:07.200 their their season his third, yeah, his third, right, yeah, 211 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:11.440 and then Or's four, No, it's third because we all the softball him 212 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:15.360 okay, and Tommy's third years, oh yeah, okay. And then we're 213 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.759 gonna talk super Bowl. We're gonna try to talk Super Bowl all week with 214 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.559 people who players have been in the Super Bowl. Our first one up is 215 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.840 Ricky Hunley. 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Actually he's the head coach of the baseball He's 295 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:12.359 not just from the team. Just what you hit? How are you hitting 296 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:18.279 at the chip? How you know? You guys can call me anything you 297 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:19.960 want. I am part of the team. That's what that's my that's part 298 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:23.240 of my job. How was how was the KG event? In his third 299 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:26.880 year. Uh, we're good, We're good. We're ready to go. 300 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:32.559 And uh, you know, it's it's tough to tell right now. We 301 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:36.920 say that first series this year it'll be against Northeastern here at Hi Corbett. 302 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:41.279 We'll tell us a lot about the team right now. They're they're fighting it 303 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:45.079 out with each other and it's interesting to tweaking to watch the pitchers and the 304 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.200 hitters compete like that. I'm excited for them to root for each other. 305 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:53.160 Now, Yeah, Doude, you going into in the preseason, do you 306 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:59.000 have a sense of where your team is going to be in terms of strengths, 307 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:03.000 weaknesses, Uh, that kind of thing, or the type of team 308 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:07.160 it's going to be, or is it just kind of do they ever surprise 309 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.680 you? And you go, I had no idea we had this. Yeah, 310 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.400 I know, you get you get surprised all the time. This year, 311 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.599 I mean, we kind of have an idea. This is the kind 312 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:21.519 of the youngest group we've had since we've been here. I mean, we 313 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:25.640 had a pretty veteran late group to start with. This year, our pitchers 314 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:30.200 will be a little more veteran, with our position players being newer and younger. 315 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:34.960 Uh, and there's still actually some position battles going on, so it's 316 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:41.680 been exciting in baseball. How do you tell how do you tell about if 317 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.079 a players are competitor? You know, a guy who can be very talented 318 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.880 and hit the ball, and you know glove has all the tools, but 319 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.680 how do you find out if he's a competitor. And I'm sure that's like 320 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:55.720 maybe a priority of yours he any coach. Yeah, you want you want 321 00:21:55.759 --> 00:22:00.480 mentally tough guys, and we hope we we hit that when we were you 322 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:02.960 know, we look at that, We talk to coaches, We watch them 323 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.039 in the summer when we're able to get out and watch them compete. You 324 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:11.279 get an idea of it, but yeah, you won't really know that until 325 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.000 they get into it. They face some adversity that you know, a lot 326 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.119 of these kids have never done that. They're always the best guy on the 327 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:21.400 team, are the best guy in their whole high school, you know, 328 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.640 whatever. Sports. So now all of a sudden they're playing against guys are 329 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.400 as good as them and they get they get smacked in the face around a 330 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:30.519 little bit and see if they can battle back from it. So, you 331 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.039 know, if you're a good team, you're gonna lose good players, you 332 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:37.400 know, every year you've got holes to fill in that type of thing. 333 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:40.079 But you know, to me, I mean, Chase Davis, to me 334 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:42.000 was one of the best players I ever saw in Arizona. I've been here 335 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:45.119 a really long time. You know, what's your approach when you have to 336 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:51.640 fill a hole like that? You know, you try to avoid putting pressure 337 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.039 on the new guys. Ull What how do you handle that? Yeah, 338 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.279 we just you know, we just throw it open and see who wins that 339 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:03.799 job. You're never gonna You're never gonna have the same guy, you know, 340 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:07.240 Nick McClary at shortstops. You know, we were hoping Mason White, 341 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:10.680 uh, the South Point grad who was you know, came on the scene 342 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.799 late last year really really good and played second third for us. We're hoping 343 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:18.599 he can fill that short stop spot. Do we expect him to be exactly 344 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.039 like Nick? No? Probably not. Do they have a higher upside? 345 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:26.680 Maybe we'll see with Chase. You know, we have a number of guys 346 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.440 running out the left field right now, and they're all good players. They 347 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:33.079 were all good in high school, they were all good in junior college. 348 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:37.039 But who knows until the lights turn on and and who's gonna take it. 349 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:41.920 That's why you might see some different lineups from us were last year. We 350 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:45.119 were kind of set from the start. You you've been doing this pretty much 351 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:49.000 all your life, coach uh, at every level. Your third year in, 352 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:53.720 how do you feel here, more comfortable, more at ease, what's 353 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:57.759 your temperament? Well, you know, we went out and hired new pitching 354 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:03.480 coach this year and a new player development coach. My player development coach went 355 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.000 to BYU, so we went more on the pitching side for the player of 356 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.519 the moment, so we put a lot into our pitching. I feel super 357 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.559 comfortable with what they've done with these guys, but again, it doesn't matter 358 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.480 until we get into the outside competition. So there's a little bit of uneasiness 359 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:25.599 on the new group. But I feel comfortable about the way we've coached them 360 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:27.920 and the way they've competed. Whether it's in the weight room or in the 361 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:32.759 classroom, they've done a good job, and in the preseason they've they've done 362 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:34.880 as good as they can do. So it'll be fun to get going. 363 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:38.119 I think sometimes when you have so many unknowns, it becomes more of an 364 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:44.720 exciting time, so you just mentioned how you know you've gone put a little 365 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:48.680 bit more of an emphasis on the pitching side going into a season. You 366 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.720 prefer having a veteran pitching staff and a you know, a young you know 367 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:59.039 fielding hitting group, or the other way around. I mean, which makes 368 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:03.720 you more comfortable having veterans going on the mound? I think the most comfortable 369 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:07.799 to be. We have veterans everywhere, it seems like in college sports for 370 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.160 the most part, we see it all over the place. You know, 371 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:14.119 older wins. You know, you see the gonzagaz and these the butlers and 372 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:18.200 basketball that you don't be good and they got a bunch of seniors. Those 373 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:21.839 are the good teams. And it works that way in our sport too. 374 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.759 But I do feel more comfortable if I had to pick one of the other, 375 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.759 as our pitching be a little veterans. Now, we have a lot 376 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:33.680 of veteran arms that really didn't have as much success as they probably should have, 377 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:38.880 and I think they've done a good job of adapting to Kevin Vance's new 378 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:44.440 new way of doing things and it improved from it. So it should be 379 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:48.000 really fun to watch them. So are you where are you in terms of 380 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:52.319 how close are you to having the lineup. You said you still got a 381 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:56.920 lot of some competitions going on, but you you started a little over a 382 00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:59.880 week, well almost two weeks. But how close are you are? You 383 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:03.119 are you close as you would like to be? Yeah, we are. 384 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.680 We're as close as we like to be. We're we're close. We're close. 385 00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:12.079 We're you know, we've got an idea of third base, left field 386 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:15.960 for you know, first base catcher is a big one for us too this 387 00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:21.119 year. So we've got an idea. We've got two or three guys that 388 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:25.759 probably could start at all those spots, but we're gonna have to sign on 389 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:27.400 one to start. And uh, we have a good idea. We we 390 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:32.000 talked about it today and we're getting there. How did how did the fall 391 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:37.200 help? The fall was great? I mean it was obviously that that's their 392 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.759 chance to compete. We always tell them you can. The funny thing is 393 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:44.359 you can win the job in the fall, and you could lose it, 394 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:47.359 you know, the month before we start. That's how that's how tricky these 395 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:49.359 things get. So we had a lot of guys did well in the fall. 396 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:56.039 Outside competition against Pima and Central Central Community College was good. Uh, 397 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.359 we played hermaicyal again and the guys. That's what was really happy, made 398 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:03.480 me happy was watching how hard they competed. You talked about it earlier, 399 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.599 and we want to have a bunch of gamers and even if the help level 400 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:11.759 may not be a big league at this point when they're young, if they 401 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.599 compete hard, they're gonna be really good for us. So, going kind 402 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.000 of going back to following up on my first question, so, do you 403 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.720 have a sense of what this team is going to be and you know, 404 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:25.880 uh, you know what you're gonna sort of what you're gonna stand on this 405 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:30.400 this year, or you know what are they from a competitive standpoint, an 406 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.400 urgency standpoint, anyone of a number of characteristics that you you hope a team 407 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:37.839 has, do you You haven't You haven't the sense of that yet. Well, 408 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:42.359 probably not not until they get outside and you know, gets another team. 409 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:47.200 Our pitchers have been so good and in the early part of you know, 410 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:51.640 whatever youone call it winter spring, seems like win or more to us 411 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:56.039 the wage ways been but they've really been good. So our hitters have battled 412 00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:59.960 their butts off to get you know, to get on base and get hit. 413 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.119 It always hasn't been easy, So I think it's just going to make 414 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:07.160 them better with the outside competition. I think there's emergency there. I'm hoping 415 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.759 that that continues. You know, do you want to talk about physically what 416 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.720 kind of team we're going to be. We should be a team that's a 417 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.160 little more athletic then we've been in the past. We should be able to 418 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:19.519 run a little more. We should be able to handle the bat. But 419 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:25.200 you don't got to do it when games start. You've never shied away from 420 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:29.799 being having a tough schedule. I'm assuming that's going to be the case again. 421 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.920 Yeah, we've got a nice Northeastern comes in here to open the season, 422 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:38.480 and every goes Northeastern. Well, they're ranked twenty third there that we're 423 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:42.160 not ranked at all. So they have a supposed first round pick, I 424 00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:48.039 guess, a top ten outfielder that's really good, and they got a bunch 425 00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:51.799 of veteran pitchers. So it'll be a good past to go to start out. 426 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:52.759 And then we're gone for three weeks. You know. We go to 427 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.279 University San Diego. We're gonna bust over there and play them three games, 428 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:03.440 and then off to Frisco, Texas to play a Dallas Baptist. We'll play 429 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:07.759 TCU on that trip, Alabama and Indiana those are all good, good quality 430 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:14.319 teams, and then we'll go from there to over to USC and play the 431 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:18.160 Trojans. So holy heck, that's good. No, that's good. I 432 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:23.519 don't know. The coaching good, Okay, that one. So chip, 433 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:27.880 you know, of all the of all the sports I've covered, baseball, 434 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:33.279 what I found is that, Nope, no players have more of a chip 435 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:36.160 on their shoulder than baseball players. Just the way they walk, they talk, 436 00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:40.960 you know, and they they act because they're good athletes overall. Not 437 00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:44.440 being ranked and probably not maybe being overlooked may help you, right, I 438 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.960 would assume. So yeah, it definitely does. I mean we obviously people 439 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.559 are not happy, the kids aren't happy. I feel exlighted. But it's 440 00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:57.440 funny because you start voting for the PAC twelve rankings, and you know you're 441 00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.599 not allowed to vote for yourself. You start looking at the different teams and 442 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:04.759 you know there's there's some veteran teams in there, and they're always going to 443 00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:07.640 get more votes than us, just because that's all you can go on as 444 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.119 who has who's who's coming back? And when you see are a bunch of 445 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:17.079 our pitchers are coming back. It's well, have they performed well enough to 446 00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:18.119 get, you know, to think that they're gonna we're gonna be a good 447 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:22.599 team. And we feel like they've gotten so much better, but the outside, 448 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.720 the outside doesn't and we're ready to prove it. So this is your 449 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.839 last season coaching in the Pac twelve. You played in the well when it 450 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.519 was the Pac ten. But uh, you have any time for being a 451 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:38.119 little sentimental about this this year and sort of the the last rodeo in in 452 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.400 Pac twelve baseball for you. What are your thoughts on that? Yeah, 453 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:47.240 definitely there there's there's gonna be some reminiscing. And it's too bad that your 454 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:49.559 USC you know, it's Billy and New Stay and they're they're building out their 455 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:55.039 practice football facilities, so they they're knocking down Dale Field, so we won't 456 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:56.720 get to play there, which was disappointing for me. We're gonna have to 457 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:03.279 play them in Irvine. But yeah, we get to go up to Washington 458 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.680 and Oregon. It'll be tough. I mean, because I don't you know, 459 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:10.359 the funny thing about it is when we start playing the Big twelve, 460 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:14.200 I don't foresee us going you know, we'll go to hopefully go to Stanford, 461 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.079 play up in the big area at some point, play in LA somewhere, 462 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:19.960 whether it's you know, whether it's an O Pac twelve school or it's 463 00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:25.519 fuller tentor schools like that. We want to make our presence there because of 464 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:27.359 the recruiting part of it, right, But yeah, it would be our 465 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.319 last time probably going north. You know, I don't see us going back 466 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:34.319 up to Oregon or Oregon State or Washington or Washington unless it's some sort of 467 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:41.119 regional We haven't talked to many of the of the sports like you guys, 468 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.400 But do you talk about the travel, right, how difficult difficult it's going 469 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.160 to be. Do you think it's going to be. I'm thinking nineteen twenty 470 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.039 year old kids don't give a crap before they play, know that we're in. 471 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.960 That's the funny thing about this. Obviously, I've got so many years 472 00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.359 in this league. I can remember, you know, growing up in California 473 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:02.680 as it's the Pack eight. So it is sad it's it's ending, and 474 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:06.599 who knows, maybe it comes back in five six years, you never know. 475 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:10.680 But the good thing for us on the other side of it is the 476 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:15.440 Big Twelve, especially in baseball, it's a very very competitive league, sort 477 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.880 of like the basketball side of it. Yeah, and you're not going to 478 00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:22.279 go into a stadium in the Big twelve and not see it pretty packed and 479 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.000 that our guys aren't used to that. You know, we play issue up 480 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:29.799 there. We'll get a big crowd. Oregon State draws really well, but 481 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:31.559 other than that, there's not You go to calund you might get six seven 482 00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:36.000 hundred people. So I think the Big Twelve will be fun for him. 483 00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:39.960 They'll be rowdy crowds. And you got to remember it's not easy to get 484 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.319 to Washington State and Oregon State and Oregon It's hard to get there, so 485 00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:49.559 that travel in itself is no you know, the Big twelve has got the 486 00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.440 same deal. You know, it's not that big a difference for us. 487 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.480 Have you talked to any of any of the coaches about this and whether or 488 00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:59.720 not, you know, everybody wants to be the last Pac twelve champion? 489 00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:04.240 Is that a thing at all with you guys? I don't think anybody would 490 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.519 admit it, but I think it is. I think it is a thing, 491 00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:09.519 and you know, I commis. You know, they're on the cusp 492 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:14.359 of it. I'm excited for them, and you know, football was so 493 00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:17.599 exciting down the stretch and hopefully we can make it that way and Katelyn can 494 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.359 do that with softball. We'd love to bring home that last back twelve trophy. 495 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.440 We have a spot for it and our new haul of champions in Hi 496 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:30.759 Corbett, so we got a spot saved for it. Chip, Well, 497 00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.279 good luck. Thanks. J want to remind everybody you got to meet the 498 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.720 team on noon on Saturday, right, yes, sir, Yeah, we'll 499 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.720 play. I think it's gonna be about nine innings, all right, all 500 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:44.519 right, come on and see what they look like. And then you open 501 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:49.640 up in against Northeastern here on the sixteenth, a three game set the sixteenth, 502 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:52.759 seventeenth, and eighteenth. So good luck, chapter, we'll see you 503 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.440 around. Well, thank you guys so much for having me. Thank you, 504 00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:59.599 Okay, Chip Hill, one of the great guys. Yeah, the 505 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:04.039 great guys. When you're always flying under the radar, it helps. Yeah. 506 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.480 Yeah, I think Plus one, you're you're motivated to say, as 507 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:09.119 he said, people don't believe in it, right, so that gives you 508 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:12.320 some motivation, and then you just kind of want to be able to go 509 00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:14.920 out and say here we are. It's how you handle it right right, 510 00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:17.639 Okay, all right, thanks a lot cheap, appreciate you being on. 511 00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:21.559 So we're going to be back in a few minutes. We'll take your calls 512 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:23.719 five two zero, four, one, six seventy four forty Ricky Honley in 513 00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.480 the second hour, coming up at about four to twenty and we'll talk to 514 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:38.559 him about playing in the Super Bowl. If you're an Arizona men's basketball fan, 515 00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:42.960 you know it's been successful for nearly forty years. Now take a look 516 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.960 back at the Ludolsen era. 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He 552 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.960 couldn't have chip. It was, you know, talking to him about this 553 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.920 being the last season I mean we're getting to it, Steve. Yeah, 554 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:28.840 you know, the the basketball season is, you know, we're winding up 555 00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:32.519 the packcluff tournaments coming up. I've been getting a little, uh sentiments, 556 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:37.880 sentimental about you know that this is the last PAC twelve tournament I've I've worked. 557 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:40.280 The only one I didn't work was the one that didn't happen was the 558 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:45.400 COVID h when COVID came out, they started the tournament. But I wasn't 559 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.920 on that one because I was busy doing sugar skull stuff. But I you 560 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.000 know, I covered them all and you know, been on the court, 561 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:55.360 you know, for the championship, for the championship trophy presentations. It's you 562 00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:00.840 you all the games. You know what it's been cool. What I interpreted 563 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.119 from all that is, oh, Jay has a heart and he's not black. 564 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:10.840 I'm a sentimental guy, Steve, mark this date down. I think 565 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:15.440 we knew I got a soft side. I got a soft side. But 566 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:19.960 you know, but really, you know, you know, Stanford and calcume 567 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.840 in right, this is the last time we're going to see them. You 568 00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:24.400 know, we've we've seen u c l a In here for the last time 569 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:30.679 as a PAC twelve rival. No, the tournament in Vegas is gonna be 570 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:32.599 a lot of fun, a lot of fun in a weird way because it 571 00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:36.159 is the final one. Yeah, that one's I mean, that one is 572 00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:38.840 really I think in a really nic Yes, they're still basketball and I mean 573 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:43.599 baseball and softball to play and stuff like that. But I feel like when 574 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:46.679 the PAC twelve tournament ends, that that's kind of like that's it. That's 575 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:51.920 that's it. Soone shut the door. Yeah yeah, and and and it's 576 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:54.360 sad. I'm really sad by it. Well, but then next year you 577 00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:59.719 look at this, this fresh new toy. But I'm already talking about you 578 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:02.440 know, we're not gonna you know, we're not working the tournament in Kansas 579 00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:07.639 City. So the tournament week is going to roll around and where we're normally 580 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:09.880 all fired up and excited, and we're going to Vegas and we're going to 581 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:13.960 spend a week work in the tournament. It's kind kind of like there's nothing 582 00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:16.239 to do. You're gonna miss the slots hunt. Yeah no, dude, 583 00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:20.039 I don't play slots, but I don't. I don't gamble that much when 584 00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:22.079 I'm there because I'm so darn busy. I just love being there the atmosphere 585 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:24.440 is in Kansas City is going to be funny. We might have to miss 586 00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:29.000 the road fun But you know, I don't know if we had this conversation 587 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.960 on the show. I know I've had it with some other people. I'm 588 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.320 not enough of an Arizona basketball fan to travel to travel to Kansas City. 589 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:40.400 Well that's the whole tournament. That's the whole thing because you have to travel 590 00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:44.400 there, right, and then guess what turn around n C Double A tournament, 591 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:46.440 you know, to travel there. I mean, the funny thing about 592 00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:51.000 is Arizona has its following, right, but they're not travelers. They're not 593 00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:53.760 travelers. They have great alums at all the places. You know. I've 594 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:59.440 only traveled to the NC to watch Arizona in the n C Double A Tournament 595 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:04.239 as a fan, to the final four three times, oh Anaheim three times. 596 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.679 Anaheim in the final four of the year before that, the national change 597 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:14.760 when they went Anaheim the Sweet sixteen the next year and they played Iowa up 598 00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:16.840 at ASU one year and I went and saw that track. I remember that 599 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:21.519 I was coming that Sweet sixteen game. Yeah, yeahst Iowa. You want 600 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.559 to travel three times? Only three times for the nets for Arizona basketball and 601 00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:29.360 so double a tournament. I've only traveled to the final four in Minnesota. 602 00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:31.719 It's cold. I didn't go to I didn't go to Minnesota, didn't go 603 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:37.760 to Charlotte. Now, yeah, obviously I went. You know, I 604 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:40.800 went to one, one, two, three, four as a reporter eighty 605 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:44.639 seven, eighty eight. Well, I didn't go anywhere for eighty seven because 606 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:46.679 they played here and got beate in the first round in eighty eight, eighty 607 00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:51.840 nine and nineties. So from ninety one on, you know, I've only 608 00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:54.199 traveled three times as a fan. I you know, I'll go to a 609 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:59.639 bowl game as often as I can, But I don't know, it's kind 610 00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:01.199 of like we you pick your spot, right. I to this day, 611 00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:06.960 I can't explain why we thought we should go to Indianapolis for to follow that 612 00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:10.719 team, thinking that they were even going to play more than one game, 613 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.920 right, But we did, And you know, I've always you know, 614 00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:20.239 been happy about the fact that I was there for that. But you know, 615 00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.280 then again, so then we followed them the next year, and then 616 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:25.639 they they put on our head and they got beat in the in the in 617 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:29.920 the in the Elite eight. So so again, you know, I don't 618 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:32.199 see myself going to Kansas City unless somebody gives me some free tickets and a 619 00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:35.800 plant and a plane ticket. Yeah. No, it's different. It's a 620 00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:38.159 difference. A lot of things will change and a lot of people, not 621 00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:43.039 the riffraff, I'll say riffraff, the people will see in Vegas this year. 622 00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:45.039 Yeah, we'll be going to Tennessee next year. Yeah, you'll get 623 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:49.000 you'll you'll get. I don't. I mean there's a lot of basketball travels 624 00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.000 pretty well, you know, the bigger boosters and whatnot. Sure, well 625 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:55.559 you know there are three four hundred people go to that, but not fourteen 626 00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:00.760 thousand like go to Vegas, right, And so yeah, it'll be it'll 627 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:02.880 be a lot different. Uh. And that's a longer tournament too because there's 628 00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:06.119 more teams in it. So how do you how do you think that will 629 00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:12.360 affect like Pack twelve teams and other conferences going to different places and and now 630 00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:15.079 no longer having certain advantages or disadvantages. Well, first of all, the 631 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:22.840 pack twelve fans in all sports are going to find out that our fans here 632 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:27.840 don't take it near as serious as everybody else's fans. They just do it 633 00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:30.760 on the Internet. That's all right, you know what I'm saying on the 634 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:34.119 internet. I mean, I mean, if you've been, if you've been 635 00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:39.159 in Arizona Stadium when a team like Iowa or Ohio State, even Oklahoma State, 636 00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:45.159 some of those teams come in, their fans put us to shame in 637 00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:49.199 terms of how serious they are about this. Well you see, just take 638 00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:52.119 a look. They don't even fill the stadium with the local fans. Yeah 639 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:53.840 yeah, I mean, just look at the size of those those teams stadiums 640 00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:58.320 and they actually sell them out. Yeah, Kevin. That the year it 641 00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:01.800 was it was a the year Ohio State came and that was Dick Tomey's last 642 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:08.280 year. I think was it two thousand Ohio State fans bought season tickets to 643 00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:14.159 u of A so they could be sure to have an Arizona Ohio State football 644 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.280 ticket. And they bought the season tickets and then did whatever they did with 645 00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:20.840 you gave him away, sold them or whatever. A friend of mine who 646 00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:24.719 didn't renew his season tickets on time, didn't have didn't get his season tickets 647 00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:29.960 because the Ohio State fan bought them. There's just so many levels to the 648 00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:32.840 end of and we we had a su in town that here that year and 649 00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:37.159 they sold the A s U tickets to a to a couple of ASU fans 650 00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:43.159 we got in a fight with and so you know, uh, that's that's 651 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:45.960 serious. You know, is there an is Arizona fan gonna buy you know, 652 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:50.119 an Ohio State season ticket to get it to make sure they got tickets? 653 00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.239 Day no, no, And Arizona fans are even going to that game 654 00:43:54.599 --> 00:44:00.159 Arizona. And particularly in basketball, you know, Arizona's not going to back 655 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:06.280 twelve teams or former pack twelve teams aren't gonna be playing in arenas where there's 656 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.320 only five thousand people like they do now. You know, you go to 657 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:12.119 U c. L A, you go to Oregon State, you go to 658 00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:16.679 Stanford, you go to cal Washington State, even Washington five six seven thousand 659 00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:21.760 people. Every game in the back in the Big twelve is gonna be is 660 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:25.320 gonna be sold out? And and that's really a home court advantage. There 661 00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:30.039 aren't too many home court advantages in the back twelve. Who do you think 662 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:34.800 has the best home court advantage in the Big twelve? Kansas Probably Kansasfield House, 663 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.360 Oh yeah, with our question, although there's Iowa State's pretty good now 664 00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:43.239 there's there's a lot of them. Well it's just the name Bailor. Now 665 00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:47.000 you know Houston, Houston, you know, well Houston. It wasn't it 666 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:51.079 wasn't the case because it was gonna play in Houston. That was the Jared 667 00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:55.039 Bayless year and it was gonna win in and beat them. But now well 668 00:44:55.239 --> 00:45:00.079 there top five, their top five team, and this is you know, 669 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:01.960 they're in the Big twelve. This is their first year in the Big twelve, 670 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:06.880 so that you know, they're you know, look, Houston is coming 671 00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:09.000 in with you know in Arizona will go in with that as well. You 672 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:13.360 know, it's gonna be hard on the Big twelve teams to come to Michale. 673 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:17.239 But it's it's gonna be I think, you know the A s US 674 00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:22.159 you know, the not Utah so much, but maybe Colorado, you know, 675 00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:29.320 Washington, even Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, they're gonna what the 676 00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:32.440 you know, Washington State and and and and and uh I mean, now 677 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:36.559 callan Stanford. They're going to the A C C. H. They gotta 678 00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:38.960 go. They're gonna go play Duke in North Carolina. Talk about state, 679 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:44.159 talk about travel for them, but not just the travel, but then getting 680 00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:46.119 there. What they're gonna be up against in those arenas. But the thing 681 00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:51.159 is cal sever. They don't care. I mean, the players care, 682 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:52.519 but got to compete. They're gonna want to compete. Sure, but you 683 00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:55.320 know what I'm saying, it's like, okay, here we are. Yeah, 684 00:45:55.199 --> 00:45:59.440 we will give us the money, and then Duke is gonna show up 685 00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:01.679 at you know, and Maples Pavilion. They're gonna go where is everybody right? 686 00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:05.119 No, No, you're you're right unless there Duke, and that'll be 687 00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:07.559 a little job. Yeah, they'll drop it. Spell yeah, you know, 688 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:09.320 but they're like, what what you got? Ten thousand seed arena? 689 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:16.199 What the hell? There's nobody care here. They're studying'roughout, studying creating molecules. 690 00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:22.039 Yeah, splitting it anyway. Getting back, I'm starting to get sad 691 00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:24.519 steep talking about Oh, get them a Kleenex. Already had enough of that 692 00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:28.039 stuff. You get five minutes? Anybody want to call five? Two, 693 00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:31.079 oho, four, one, six, seventy four forty. On a more 694 00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:35.079 positive note, what are you guys most excited for? For the Big twelve? 695 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:37.559 Just to get But I'm waiting for basketball. I don't care about football. 696 00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:43.960 Bestball's gonna be fantastic I'm so excited for basketball next season. I'm I'm 697 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:46.320 looking forward to seeing how Arizona does in the Big Twelve in the first year 698 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:50.519 in football, you know, if they if they really are going to be 699 00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:53.519 that good, if they really do have a shot at getting in the playoffs, 700 00:46:55.239 --> 00:46:59.639 you know, getting off to a good start. The Utah game, 701 00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:04.199 is you Tah the first pack Big twelve game, It's gonna be huge, 702 00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:07.159 you know, to the point where Arizona wins, that excitement's gonna be off 703 00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:12.079 the charts because people feel like, holy hell, Arizona actually does have a 704 00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:15.239 chance because Utah, you know, it's probably gonna be the favorite to win 705 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:22.159 the Big Twelve this coming year. Yeah. And so, speaking of that, 706 00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:29.119 I was listening to the Wilner Canzano a podcast had Mark Harlan on today, 707 00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:31.559 and Mark Harlan, the first question I asked him is you know, 708 00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:35.920 as you know, are you looking at the Arizona job. Did you look 709 00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:37.760 at the Arizona job? Would you look at the air Zone job? And 710 00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:40.639 he just said no, no, I mean he said, in a very 711 00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.639 nice long waistace, I love Tucson, got all my friends there. I 712 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.639 love Arizona. That's my Alma Mater. They got a good thing going on 713 00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:52.360 there. I'm very close with Brent Brannan. I really like Brent Brannan. 714 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:54.840 I like what they've done over there. But I like what we've got here. 715 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:59.559 Sure, everything we've and we've said that, you tell he's going a 716 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:02.320 better play and you and and he basically said that. He said, he's 717 00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:06.960 not pursuing it. It's gonna take it. It's gonna take a special a 718 00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:10.639 D to take this spot. It's not the job we think it is for 719 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:15.119 many people think it is given the circumstances of the job. Well, I 720 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:19.519 think one thing. And I know outside because they're not seeing the daily news 721 00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:22.280 on all this. But and so you know what it came out of that 722 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:25.719 Border Regions meeting. They were all basically, you know, fawning on Robert 723 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.320 Robbie Robbins that he's that. You know, there's people out outside saying, 724 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:31.840 well, Robinson is gonna be there for very long, So why would you 725 00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:35.440 take that job? It looks like he's gonna be here for a while. 726 00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:39.360 Well, well, how do we know that? Yes? And no, 727 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:43.039 well he's not. He's not getting fired Steve, Otherwise he already would have 728 00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:45.760 been I don't know. Maybe once he gets his contract runs out in June. 729 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:51.199 But talking to me, yeah, well they renew it, but for 730 00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:52.760 now it appears like he's gonna be here. Yeah. I don't think a 731 00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:55.760 decision will be made by then. I don't. Do you think we got 732 00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:59.320 to get an athletic director? No, No, I'm talking about an a 733 00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:04.440 D. Yeah before then, so yeah, but I don't know if that's 734 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.840 gonna happen. You hearing anything. No, there's some names that have been 735 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:09.440 thrown at me, but I think Greg did a pretty good job. But 736 00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:14.760 there's one. Greg Gregg's column was basically who they should who they're going to 737 00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:15.800 get? What? He threw some names out of roads. Well it probably 738 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:19.960 won't come. Uh. But there's a guy at Vegas that was here before. 739 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:22.960 Who might he was? He was under he was a pund raiser, 740 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:27.440 he's now the a D at un LV. I can forget his name. 741 00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:31.599 Someone texted to me earlier. Who knows you need something like someone like that 742 00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:36.239 with good experience? Probably not a not at a level this way, because 743 00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:38.559 there's a lot of there's a lot of would you take this job? Would 744 00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:42.199 you take this job given for a million a year? No? No, 745 00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:45.039 no, but you're making but no, no, but you're making Yeah, 746 00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:50.280 you're if I'm an a D somewhere else thousand. If I'm an a D, 747 00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:52.039 like at a group of five, you know, a U N lv 748 00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:59.320 A Nevada, Uh, making six and a half seven? Okay, let's 749 00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:01.039 say but let's say, is that making three? Oh? Yeah, but 750 00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:04.800 that's that's that's okay, let's not making five? Okay? Is that making 751 00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:08.000 five at a at A Nevada or U n l V. Say, yeah, 752 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:13.000 I'm taking it. Given the situation, we're gonna have a we're gonna 753 00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:15.800 have h We're gonna have somebody this week. I've been trying to find him 754 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.800 and work him, and somebody send me some stuff. A former a D 755 00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.880 at another school nearby. Uh, we're talking about the tournament. He's on 756 00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:25.239 the committee or somebody. He was on the committee, and we'll talk to 757 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:29.840 him because he's a former a D. I mean this is not I'm taking 758 00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:32.039 it because I'm I'm because the universe of Arizona is not going away. It's 759 00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:36.519 not true bankrupt. It'll get fixed. It's gonna get fixed. So I 760 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:38.800 would take the job thinking I can be part of that fix. Sure. 761 00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:43.440 So no, what what what coach? What a d what? Whatever? 762 00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:45.760 Doesn't have the ego to think that there's gonna be the guy that fixes that. 763 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:47.800 And that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I would take the job, 764 00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:51.800 you know, for you know, Hounblish. Does he he made do we 765 00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:54.000 know? Did he made it a million dollars this last year of his contract? 766 00:50:54.800 --> 00:51:00.239 Okay, be something like that, right, Okay, well, party, 767 00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:02.239 it was probably me it was more than a year, right, because 768 00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:07.719 he was gonna be due. You know, Yeah I would. I would 769 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:12.320 because it's a great place to be sure, lovable guys like us are all 770 00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.159 over the place, and and ads and and the this is not his problem. 771 00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:20.320 He's here. He's here to problem fix the problem and and and guy, 772 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:22.159 as you say, those guys have the egos to believe that they can 773 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:25.079 do that. Absolutely all right, So we're gonna take a break. We're 774 00:51:25.119 --> 00:51:30.119 back with breaking news from Kevin. Uh. Been kind of a busy weekend 775 00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:34.440 rights and stuff, So stick around for breaking news. Then Ricky Hunley coming 776 00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:39.719 up at about four to twenty