Steve Brabera and Jacin Salins. They have their eye on the ball on Tucson
Sports Stage yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to Alaball here
at Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Of Steve, he's Jake. You've got Kevin
with Breaking News Sports fourteenth fifty. Al Right again on the ball Baking News
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. You know, one day I'm gonna have a
perfect week Tuesday and Thursday. I'm gonna nail it one day. It might
even be next week, who knows. But we're gonna get going here at
Breaking New. We have some UFA related stuff To top off the list.
The Royals Award for Best Assistant Coach Coordinator was the list was released today and
Arizona' Johnny Nansen made the list. And I know that Jay was talking about
that when he came in. Yeah, you know, he should be on
the list. I think, uh, you know, hands down, the
the thing that's improved the most Arizona has been the defense. And they are
where they are because the defense clearly made the leap that they were hoping that
it was gonna make, similar to the leap that the offense made last year.
You know, that was the big question over the summer. We talked
about it a million times. Is the defense going to go improve to that
level? And if it does and the offense holds where you know, he
keeps doing what it's doing, that this could be a pretty decent take.
Did they I was I didn't watch a game on the over the weekend.
Did they not play well or what what happened? Defense played pretty well.
Schador Sanders is good and and that you just got to say he's good.
Yeah, I mean he you know, he kept making things happen. He
you know, they'd have a you know, they'd have a third and eleven,
you know, they'd go back to pass and he'd find a seam and
get a first time. He did three or four times on key drives.
So what what the defense was able to do is get a few enough stops
for Arizona to to you know, keep keep you keep up with the with
Colorado. Colorado played a really good game, you know, and Deon Sanders
said it after the game. We thought we were the better team. We
thought we should have won the game. And you watch the game and you
say he's right. Yeah, but you know, at the end I got
to I got to catch like early this morning. They got to catch like
the last fifteen minutes of the Pac twelve and sixty thing, and uh so
it's basically the fourth quarter. And I didn't realize how many stops both teams
got in the fourth quarter, how many three and ounce or stops both teams
got, and then Arizona got the last one and then was able to do
well. They didn't get to stop. What happened is they missed a field
goal and just barely missed. It was like a forty four yard field goal,
just missed it outside the upright and that was Arizona's opportunity. There was
like six minutes left in the game, and they drove down, used all
the clock and won the game. So it came down to, you know,
who had the ball last, is what it came down to. And
it was that kind of a game for Ari Zone. So the defense did
not play bad. Colorado played really well. Colorado played like you had seen
them play earlier in the year. So it was it was interesting to watch
and I think, I think, you know, the defenses this this season
is really I mean, the offense is doing what the offense is doing but
the season is all about what the defense has been doing. I agree,
And we're gonna stay in Colorado for this next piece of breaking news. Even
though the technically didn't happen in Colorado. In fact, some California high school
students, specifically Beaumont High School students, have been suspected of the being the
culprits and the theft a couple of weeks ago at the Rose Bowl, right
where Colorado players while they were out in the field, had their jewelry and
cash. Why do you have cash? And I don't know, but their
cash and jewlier was stolen and officials now believe it to be UCLA recruits.
Right committed that, yeah, well there were four recruits. There's there's been
different reports on whether it was an official visit or unofficial, but either way,
they were recruits guys at UCLA was recruiting, you know, football,
four guys from the same high school. They haven't been named, but the
Beaumont High School issued a statement saying how disappointed they are and going to do
whatever they have to do. Just the stupidest thing you've ever heard. Yeah,
and Dion, I think when we were watching his talk about it earlier
he said. He described it as a completely stupid, irresponsible mistake that he
doesn't want them. He doesn't He doesn't want the rest of their lives to
be changed for it, but he does hope that they get held accountable,
right, He wants to be held accountable. He hopes that this doesn't ruin
their lives or their football careers. Which you know, first, you know
your your gut reaction. Your first reaction is say you should never play college
football when you do something like that. But on the other hand, you
know, as Dion said, okay, who didn't make a mistake when they're
seventeen eighteen years old? He said, I know I did, And he's
talking to me. He says that, and I know you did, and
he's right yeah, and he is right now. I didn't do anything like
that. I was just about to say, that's a different And I'm pretty
sure if UCLA was recruiting me to play football, I'm not breaking into a
locker room and stealing StuffYeah. If I invite you into my house, I
don't expect you to steal from my neighbor, you know, And then then
that falls on me. So I think that's where ULA is probably at with
these recruits. Yeah, you see what happens. The MLB awards are being
released throughout the week. Yesterday we had the Rookie of the Year Corbyn Carrol
obviously announced Today's is going to be the Manager of the Year for the al
and NL. I was on ESPN's website today and I noticed that Lavolo didn't
didn't didn't crack didn't crack it anything like it was a finalist or anything.
No, there wasn't even seeing him in the It's Craig Council for the Milwaukee
Brewers, Skip Schumacher, My Marlins, and Brian Snitker of the Inlet Braves.
Mm hmmm. Council must be a heck of a manager, just because
he's this nondescript dude who's putting Milwaukee in a baseball map again after all these
years. He's stopped me up for golf ones automatic dead to you, Dead
to me. You don't have very many people live for you. Jay's gonna
be the last man on earth in the show pretty soon, all right.
And then we have some some coordinator stuff. Ken Dorsey of the Bills fired
out of here. Offensive coordinator Joe the Quarterbacks go after last night. Yeah,
at the last night, that was tough to watch. But Joe Brady's
gonna take over and hopefully lead Buffalo to maybe. Looking they're one of the
big disappointments. What Cincinnati's record five I think that entire division is like six
and seven one, and these are contenders, or at least thought to be
contenders. Cincinnati, Buffalo the usual suspect there on the aside. Looking into
the Texans, Cincinnati's dead to me in Texas, you have nobody left.
Cincinnati is five and four, but they're in the last place in their division.
They wouldn't zero. You're bad when you're behind Pittsburgh and Cleveland Pittsburgh and
Pittsburgh's boring. And there's six and three and outscored in every game, I
mean outgained. I believe it's actually Buffaloes five and five, so they're they're
five hundred teams. Yeah. And then Arizona's Umar Ballo was one of the
fifty players named to the Wooden Award list. We were talking about that that's
a huge list and he hasn't been the ball that we thought because there's so
many guys. Well, it's a mix exactly. I mean, there's nobody.
I feel like there's nobody. The way it looks so far is there's
gonna be one guy that's gonna stand out and go, you know, eighteen
and thirteen or you know, score twenty points a game or whatever. This
is a team that's gonna have four or five guys and double figures every game.
You know, the guys inside are going to get you know, six,
seven, eight rebounds, The guards are rebounding really well, kind of
Boswall's getting a lot of rebounds. Yeah, you know, it's just gonna
be that kind of a team. I was thinking about that last time on
the way home when I was listening to Brian Jefferies. You know, run
the stats. I'm like, not one of those guys has these numbers that
you go, wow, Well, I think Brian Peterson brought up this eighteen
guys in double double, double, double figures whatever it was, eighteen times,
eighteen times. It's very very it's not sharing the ball. That's an
Africa. The six guys a game going in double figures. They did last
last night, they did again. It's not like the twenty fifteen team when
they had all these guys and they all shared the ball with McConnell. But
it's kind of like that where there's no one star, although Gordon was the
guy, but like McConnell didn't score a ton, So that was that was
a spot in the you know, on the court that there weren't points coming
from, so the points were coming from you know, basically four spots,
but this is you know, they're coming from six and seven spots on his
team. Yeah. Yeah, and you guys are mentioning how Umar hasn't been
the same with all the different moving pieces. I was wondering, if you
guys, where do you guys think he could fit in and and improve Because
I was looking at his stats. Obviously he's playing least minutes, all his
stats are down, but I'm looking at him on the court. I think
it's like he doesn't look like he has gotten better over last year. To
me, I don't want to be over I don't. I just feel like
I think he's still coming back from being overweight. Remember he took that trip,
but he was big and heavy and kind of lumbered. He's not like
that anymore, but he's still kind of trying to get back into it.
Yeah, it see it seems a little bit, but I think one of
the things that we're finding though, and that maybe we're seeing and maybe it'll
maybe it'll get better as the season goes on, as Key shot Johnson becomes
more uh integrated into what they're doing. Think of how many passes for scores
Ballow and Azulas threw to each other last year. I mean, those two
guys work together, et cetera. They had a chemistry that got them both,
you know, their points and their rebounds. And and he shots a
different player from assoulas he shots not a you know, and he's not the
inside guy to the level that aulis. Yeah. No, no, he's
more, well he's more, but he's going to go in and as you
said, grab garbage, grab rebounds, uh you know, and that type
of stuff. But he's not a guy that is sitting there, you know,
drip, you know, backing up to the basket with the ball and
then my passage bottle, right, and then he's gonna start sharing time or
he already has with grievous crevas. Who's gonna continue to get better, Who's
gonna continue to get better? Look really good? And the thing about Keishad
that I noticed is obviously we're all seeing it this season. He jumps off
them, off the screen, jumps off the court. Is his effort level
is always here. It never goes down, It never goes That was my
story for today. And I asked, I asked Tommy if if that's contagious,
and of course he's gonna say yes. And and then he said,
but that's what I'm saying. I want to bollow because Ballow is a big
dude. Yeah, but he's he is who he is too. He's not
that aggressive dude. He's got to like a big dude. I don't even
want to be aggressive. Honestly, I just wanted to use his size to
grab boards, block shots. How much patience are you? How patient are
you? Not? Mary? Look the way I see it right now,
the way it's mixing around, it looks pretty good. Yeah, well it's
still early early. But the guy, the guy you know that wants to
shoot more, but he's not love Yeah. Oh yeah, I've actually I've
actually been happy with as a fan. I've been happy with how he's done
at at delegating the other players and scaring it around. No, there's a
lot to like with this team. I mean, they're deep. If they
want to go deep, they're not deep. They have good even if they
replace some guys that are good and got in the game early. Yeah,
he did some fun players last night. He is he's I think that's why
I like him. He's crafty. He's crafty. He's crafty. But the
thing about it is you can't craft if you're not on the Yeah, that's
what I was gonna say. When he's in the game, he's trying to
do something that's gonna make you remember I was in this game. That's a
really good word, you guys. But we'll see and then guess what we're
not talking about Henry too, who would have been part of this mix and
where he would have fit in? Right, and he's we had we all
know that he's got a lot maybe well, and maybe he would have been
the guy playing instead of instead of uh crevous, and we might not have
known what what we have with right right, Yeah, I know you're right,
you guys brought up call of Love. He did reach a milestone last
night, fifteen to him kind of what you saw Kylon on the on the
bench giving him a big hug, give a big embrace. All is all
is good and good and good well, well, when you're winning everything,
everything's good. No, there are no problems when you're on your honeymoon.
Everything's fine. That big game tonight, interesting game tonight, Michigan State,
Duke, Michigan State. The loser of that is going to have two losses
already. And these are two teams that were top five course in Chicago,
Chicago. What's the spread or where I chocked this morning? Was for Duke?
Uh? Yes, yes, I think Duke's favorite because Michigan State.
Yeah, and then its Kansas Kentucky, and Kentucky's like six and a half
underdogs. I think, yeah, yeah, that's the double head of both
games tonight. Okay, Well, and then you got in the NBA.
You got Chet versus Banyama, Homegome versus Baniama, Thunder versus Spurs. It's
some good basketball to night for those Yeah, yeah, yeah, anything his
basketball game, you have more good basketball? You know? Do you have
anymore? Forty? Did forty forty? He had just jed at twenty eight.
Uh and that's not Coaches of the Years, but he mentioned how he's
done a great job with the program. Obviously, you yeah, you'd have
to be not doing your job if you didn't notice that. But Jedty is
getting a lot of pub Yeah, he's got him in. He's got him
among coaches for National Coach of the Year with Kirby Smart, Nick Saban,
he like drink withs Ad Missouri, who's having a great year. David Brown
at Northwestern. I mean, with all the crap that they had to go
through their five and five right now, Mike Norvella Florida State undefeated. Let
me, well, we could do this later, you know with Jed your
question to Jed, you know about leaving there are a few jobs, and
we talked about Florida, but you know, lateral moves wouldn't be the case
unless, of course, everyone has no deep in the pockets are right or
shallow? Right? So yeah, let's take our break. We got some
topics to cover. No guest in the next segment, so we'll take your
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Big yet, Fox Sports fourteen fifty streaming live, I Mean I Hid
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four one six seventy four forty. I'd like to hear from you. Oh
whatever you want to talk about yep, Michigan. Well, I've been wanting
you to rant on this for two days because it just pisses me off.
And I'm you know this whole thing with that thought. Hold that. Oh
got a caller, Hi, You're on the air and I on the ball.
How's it going today? What's that? Brian? What's happening today?
Are you ready for your big gale gate? I am? I am.
You know we're got to go out and get some Menuda and Ardiso. It
is at our favorite place and we're gonna get going man seven thirty in the
morning. Oh okay, Well, you know I tek you that you just
spend the night there. Yeah. Brian suggested that we just after the after
the basketball game fight just go park on the lawn and and stay there.
Smart right, you got what's up? Well, I'm sitting there going it's
hu. This is a tough game to figure out, you know. I
mean, Utah's good. I mean, they really handled us the last couple
of years. We know that much. Uh. But I you know,
if we play an air free game, we have a great shot at winning
the game. Yeah. We just just don't make mistakes, right right,
Yeah, I mean that's simple. That's simple. Well, I mean,
you know, that's about how we've gotten through the last five games, you
know, just not making mistakes. I feel like I feel like I've gotten
to the point where I got to quit believing that they can't win the next
game because just because they're Arizona, right I. I think most people feel
that way. And I think one thing too, that's gonna hurt. I
know, Jed Fish went to sellout is not going to be a sellout unfortunately.
You have a lot of stuff going on this weekend. Yeah, you
have, you know, having the day game, you lose the families that
are playing, kids are playing soccer or whatever going on that, and then
you have the tour this weekend. Yeah. I know, you're you're right,
but I think the more concerned with the tour is the traffic and how
to get to the game or people say that, all right, I don't
want to deal with that or whatever. Yeah, but we'll see with the
ticket giveaway. Yeah yeah, yeah. You know, to me, I
really feel you know, uh Aafta has really blossomed. You know, he
didn't have the best game in the first half last week. The second half
with the defense playing as well as it did, you know, uh,
they did great. Yeah, he's uh yeah, I mean he's pility established
himself as a I mean, they're gonna be talking about him going into next
year, right sure, as one of the top top quarterbacks. You know
that. You notice that Jed continues to say they got two good quarterbacks.
I know he's trying to appease him, trying to make sure he's happy that.
He even gave a lot of credits to Jayden for Noah's good second half.
He said it was it was the Laura that was next to him the
whole time, after every incompletion, saying no, I see what you saw,
you had it. You got to keep making complays, you know.
You know. But one thing, too, is one thing by having the
two quarterbacks as we do have you have to look at too, is if
Pepita does have a difficult time against Utah. You can't feel bad or feel
less if you have to bring the Laura into the game, right, And
I halfway thought I thought they were close to doing that on Saturday, he
got a little Put it this way, if Jane DeLaura had come out and
started the second half, it wouldn't have been shot. Well, yeah,
just missing, just missing. But they're only down seven at the half,
and that's wasn't that bad? Yeah, you know. Yeah, And he
must have had a hell of a speech at the halftime, That's all I
got to say, because they were a completely different team in the second half.
I don't think that Jed's speech guy. He's not a speech man.
Yeah, video, you know. And also this thing about the possibility of
him leaving. Okay, if these schools you're talking about, Florida, Michigan,
whatever, they're gonna go for the big name. That's just the way
they do that's where they do business. Jed's not there yet. Jed's no,
he's not. I mean, he's been here three years and he's done
an amazing job. But he has done an amazing job to take over Florida
or Michigan or Texas A and M Well, that said than anything else.
Would be a lateral move. Yes, exactly, exactly anywhere anything, And
if they were to pay him more money, they'll find the money exactly somewhere.
They'll get somewhere. Well, j hasn't plenty of money? You could
take care of it. Yeah, I got it, will fund me,
Yeah, I'll get It's in my couch cushions, all right, Brian,
Hey, thanks about man, appreciate it. Speculator. Brian always comes with
sensible. So I was gonna get into this Michigan thing. So here's the
here's the thing that's pissing me off. You guys. Keep that good.
Look Okay, let's take them, man, let's take them. You're on
the air and nine of the ball, my fellows again. What's up,
Jim? Yes, hold on, I need to turn off my you.
Okay, okay, I'm gonna give you my final score pick right now.
Okay, let's hear it Tuesday U tah what Arizona? What? Because you're
gonna pick you t how to win you tah thirty one? Arizona thirteen or
fourteen? WHOA? You're such a downer, Jim? How did you get
like that? You listened to me for once? That's that's based on what
I saw Saturday, okay, and the progressive men I talked about yesterday.
The defense is the field is getting smaller and smaller for the defense, and
you know, we're all hyped up about our defense and our own line is
doing better making some holes. This is Utah. This guy's been putting teams
together for twelve years or more. We've been doing it for twelve weeks.
Okay, So you're gonna have to again. They're gonna have to scratch the
field of playout sideways and vertically, and they're gonna have to add some more
speed to the game. Okay, Jim, you called thirty one to thirteen.
Yeah, okay, you want to give me seventeen points in a bet?
No I should because they don't get paid anyway. I'll pay off if
you want to. If you want to give me seventeen points, I think
it's gonna be thirty one, thirteen or fourteen, something like that. Okay,
Okay, all right, based on what I saw Saturday. Yeah,
no, you you and Jared like that. Though you're off the last game.
I'm not sure you can do that, but you know that's your your
pick. Thirty one thirteen. I don't. I don't think. I don't
think Arizona's gonna win. I just don't, and I don't think they're gonna
lose by seventeen. No, I agree. Two times I've talked about a
progression here where they keep the field of plage just keeps getting smaller and small.
Okay, explain that. I'm not I'm not sure what you what you
mean by that. Explain that they're not testing They're not testing them deep to
stretch out the deep. They don't have to throw it deep every time.
That's not what I'm saying. Oh, you're saying the offense is not is
not stretching the field. Yeah, okay, well they haven't. He hasn't
done that. I've done that. Okay. That's that's what I see going
on. And it's been going on the last three weeks. Okay, Okay,
No, I'm no, they haven't stretched the field since Noah God got
the job. He's not that quarterback. He's not the guy. He's not
Jayden Delora that's going to throw the ball sixty yards down the field. I
don't know if he even has that arm. But they haven't had right that
right there is my point, well, Jim, Jim, to think about
it. Your point hasn't been made in the last they've won, for they've
won five in a row, Jim, not having to do that Utah or
do you just want to go down and say, well we had a good
year. No, No, I think they can beat Utah doing what they're
doing, is what I'm saying. I don't. Okay, Okay, we'll
find out next week. Yeah, you get to have that opinion. I
will call back and say I was wrong. Okay, in hardly way.
All right, Jim, thanks about man. He's right in the evaluation.
But that doesn't mean it's not going to happen, right, I mean I
get it. Yeah, I get what he's saying. They haven't they haven't
stretched the field off. They haven't had to be for you know, you
can dink and you're dunk, and you're dinking, you're dunk and win.
Still right, And they're not drinking and dunking either. They're moving. You
know, they're moving the ball. You know they're they're throwing you know,
ten fifteen yards down the field, getting first downs and moving the ball and
and and and keeping the defense off the field. So when they get on
the field. You know they have a chance to stop. I know you
want to go to Michigan. Let me ask you something because you saw what
happened in Utah. Yeah, time to discuss this. So you see what
happened in Utah with how smart and this is a solution for Arizona. And
I don't know how they would do it, but they have name me rights
now with Utah. Yeah, they've named their baseball field. I thought it
was football. No, they named the BA baseball field. So at what
point? At what point, given their deficit of a lot of money,
do you think that that Arizona Stadium could finally get a name? Well,
they've talked about it for years and Arizona Stadium. I don't think people would
mind them. You don't mind it being, you know, the Verizon Arizona
Arizona Stadium or or whatever. But I think the the the off limits one
is michale. I think is town would lose its mind if they if they
sold naming rights to Michale. I think everything else is fair game. They
might have to. They might have to, you know, but who to
who? Though? Right who? We're not a corporate town. Sure,
I don't know that they want to name it the Desert Diamond, Desert Diamond
Arizona Stadium. Casino does sold Arizona. No, you know, nothing against
those businesses. They're great businesses and they're doing a lot of things. But
I don't know that you want to tire state your college football stadium in regards
of all studd that's going on to you know, a casino and we don't
you know, Bank of America is not you know, doesn't have is an
headquarters here? You know, are you gonna do raytheon has done? Have
any reason I have naming rights you know to the stadium? You know,
Yeah, no, I I get it. But there's something that there there
there you We talked to Dave he and he'll say, we're looking for all
kinds of ways. He talks about come up with somewhere. He's talking about
something that's there and it may happen, and and if it does, people
can't lose their minds. You have three minutes on Michigan, all right,
So here here's what I was saying. I'm really pissed that Michigan did.
What's going on with Michigan. They did to themselves. Okay, they broke
the rules. They you know, in three different situations, but particularly this
one with the with the thing with the with the spine. You get this
coach that wins this game and goes on crying after the game like they're victims.
They're not freaking victims. On you just keep that thought, because we
got another call a, HI, you're on. You know they're not victims.
They did this. They crashed the car right, they ran the car
into the ditch. It was their freaking fault. And yet they're acting like
somebody's done something to them. And that really and then the whole Oh,
we're we're America's team, We're the we're the underdog. No, you're not.
You've got everything. It's crap. It pisses me off. Let's take
this call. HI, you're on the air and I on the ball.
Hey, I don't want to trust that's all right, go ahead recommend I
on the ball stadium on the ball. You guys sponsor it off your airtime
with the big, big cutouts of you guys up there. I love it
all right, will be paid off, said, I'll go check my couch
cushions, see if we've got the dope. We've got four bucks a week
for I was interested about those cutouts in turns, get on the cutouts,
you know, you know you first, Yeah, all right, you got
me the good point, you know, like our images hanging from the balcony
at Lowell Stevens and see that coming. But anyways, going back to the
Michigan thing that it's just really pissing me off. I'm losing my mind over
this because they're acting like somebody's doing something to them. They're acting like they've
been the underdogs who are getting picked on when they've done all this crap and
and you know, especially Jim Harbaugh, and it's just like the whole episode
of the guy crying on you know, you know in the post game interview
after the game one punchman's face. Yeah, I solid I didn't hear what
he said. But oh wait, you know, Jim Horrible, he's my
coach, he's my man. Like, shut the hell up and give them
back back to the microphone and go back to your locker room. You let
you let a couple of exportive slides. Yeah, and he did. You
did a couple of bom and the last point on You Live, I was
I was doing my laundry and I was like what is he on about her?
And you're just thinking about that particular guy. My last point on this,
I talked to a former college football coach over the weekend, and this
is kind of what set me off on the r And he said, there's
no way in holy hell that that coach, that assistant coach didn't know what
was going on. That he not only did he know, he is most
likely a part of it. He said, if one coach knew what Connor
Stallions was doing, they all knew what Connor Stallions was doing. And so
this coach should get up there and cry all these tears, acting like he's
he and his team are victims. He was a part of it. He
did it himself, and and it just pisses me off that they're playing this
game and and I'm just losing my mind over it. I wish I knew
how you really felt there. I wish he told us this true feel.
I have no indication of how he feels. Yeah, let's let's go,
because I got a cool out. I'm gotta throw some ice on myself up.
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Extremely Live Ony, iHeartRadio WIF. This is I on the Ball with
Steve Brivera and Jay Gonzalez Fox Sports Sport. Hey, welcome back to I
on the Ball. You know Fox Sports fourteen Good Steve, he's Jay,
got Kevin with us, got fourteen minutes. If you guys want to call,
we's got some pretty good callers if you want to join in on the
show. I have cooled out cool. I had to get it out.
I had to get it out. I've been, I've been. I've been
thinking about this on Saturday, and you know, and so I got it
out. I feel better. I'm ready to move on. I love to
hear it. I have a question for you, Steve. Now you're gonna
know the answer to this the minute I ask it. Okay, I'm going
to ask it anyways, Okay, we'll hold up up. Hi, you're
on the air and I on the ball as Richard. How you doing pretty
good? Richard? What's up? Well you guys? Uh? Here we
are. We are on the cuff of one of Arizona's greatest football seasons ever,
and you guys sound so tired today. You sound like we're on losey
streak or something. It's Steve, He's I can figure it out, Steve,
Steve. Now you know I'm thinking. What you guys need is a
Vitamin D twelve shot every week. I took some this morning, just coincidentally.
What are you talking about? We're a peppy today. I know you're
not. I know you're not, Steve. I'll tell you what it is.
It's all that rich food on that cartwalk diet you have on when you're
traveling and all those fancy hotels are staying in off you have no idea.
That's not even half true. When I'm about my own dime, when I'm
on my own dime. I eat at Burger King. That's what's giving me
down. Well man, Hey, also, I found a little secret weapon.
Take one extrin about twelve noons and that stuff is fabulous. Okay,
it will pep you up. It's got caffeine in it, and they'll carry
you right through till dinner. So Richard, you're a smart dude because you
you know, talk to us and you send me emails. What's going to
happen this weekend. Arizona's gonna win because I have I'll tell you what this
offense, this team is, so you know, I really believe that sometimes
the tumbles of the universe just fall into place and a t and you produce
a great team. And that's what we have right now. That's what Arizona
and Jay, that's what your team is. Off This is like a video
game offense. It's so cool, Richard. I think the same thing I
said about destiny, and someone gave me grief about it. But you know,
hey, here's your one every four years to do right, although next
could be And that's the thing is that we'll get through this season. Wherever
they get to eight wins, nine wins, ten wins whatever it is,
Yeah, and then it's gonna come. Okay, now what happens next year.
That's where Arizona doesn't doesn't seem to build on these things. Well,
this is a different different era, exact coach and different staff. And if
you're looking at their recruiting, what's going on. They just flipped a really
great receiver from they issue this past week. They've got six or seven great
players coming in from the Phoenix area. He's heavy in California, He's going
to go to transfer portal. I just think Jed's very confident in his staff
and they know what they're doing. Yeah, So I agree, it's very
that's a very excellent team. Well, and that's what you know, that's
what you see because you know, those those two great teams that Dick had
the recruiting classes coming after that, they missed. They just missed on guys.
And the same thing you know after rich Rod, you know that twenty
fourteenth season, they just missed on guys. Jed's already getting those guys right,
right, even if it's three or four of them, right. Yeah.
No, Hey, Richard Lincoln Riley, I know we haven't talked about
this in a while I'm not surprised at what's happened to him at the USC
or Yes, well it's rough over there, isn't it. And I mean
you got the media spotlight all over you, and unfortunately his defense it just
didn't come through. You know, but I think you look takes leaves me
back to Arizona. Jed won the transfer portal. He did a great job.
He beat USC out of the better defensey linement. I think that whatever
I'm you know, Lincoln, he's got to find him a defensive coordinator.
But you know, it's a it's not such a great job sometimes over there,
is it? It's not? It's not. Sometimes you don't want to
get what you wish for. Yeah, but I don't fulk him a bit
for taking the job. No. I mean, he's thirty eight years old,
he's from West Texas. I don't think he was really a big Oklahoma
fan ever. And you know you're off for the UFC job in Hollywood for
one hundred and ten million dollars, you're taking it. You absolutely are guys
living in a mine somewhere, probably as a hellic. Okay, guys,
will you hit that B twelve? All right? Take two two I'll get
them on the way home. Thank you, Richard, But real Wildcats,
I'd be twenty four. I'll be taking two. Okay, So I'm gonna
ask you a question. Okay, Okay, which team more recently? Hold?
That's time, Okay, let's take it. I love this. Hi,
You're on the air and I on the ball. Hey you guys,
Gabriel, Gabriel, what's up as Marshall? Are you guys doing today?
Okay? What do you got? We got grumpy guy? You got grumpy
Steve going on over here? Who do you go? Who do you got?
Gabe? H Nothing? Well, uh so I was a little worry
about how this last Saturday Arizona was going to have a letdown game, and
so luckily that didn't happen, and Arizona gotta win, and so two more
games left. I'm glad that Arizona has another home game against Utah. So
show up Tucson, and I think Arizona has a Utah is very vulnerable and
so the next week is hate week against the dumbasses up north. Yeah,
well you were kind of a happy guy and that, Gabe, thanks you
always for calling. Thank you very much. One more thing do we know
do we know when is the Territorial Company gonna be broadcast from? We will
find out Sunday. You're gonna tell us on Sunday. Okay, thank you,
all right, You're welcome on Gabe for taking knife to the heart at
ASU every time. Yeah, okay, okay. Back to the question,
which team more recently won ten games in the season? Think about it?
Football? Yes, that's the goal. How you're on the air and I
on the ball. Yeah, I wanted to call just so we didn't have
to hear the question. Anyway. I got a question for Steve tomorrow,
but I got yours today. Jay about the football team. You're so gun
ho it's making me want to go on Saturday. Then get there, man,
even though I don't want brunch or menudo. That's a long story for
directors, but anyway, huh, yeah, it's really good. Oh yeah,
basketball. When you guys said Henry Bassard, I was thinking him before
you said it. If he was out there, I think that the big
guy that's there, Crevis, he's going to be good. And if we
had Henry out there, he would help push ballow button gear too. If
they had both of them pushing his button to gear yeah, I agree,
you know, having that that would be just one more guy. Now your
rotation is probably nine guys. But uh, you know, I I think
it's gonna work pretty well. And then if you can plug in Borovich and
and and uh and uh Moroscus occasionally has needed you know, I think it
got enough depth to do to do good things. I think Johnson needs to
be at the three some because at the next level he's a three at the
bas Yeah, because you gotta take me and but but I'm really happy with
the guard player what you guys are talking about, because we're gonna need sour
great guards come play tournament time. That's gonna be a muss. Johnson's gonna
have to be a three at his own time. Yeah, because he's not
a three here. He's not gonna be a three here. Yeah for sure.
Yeah sure, Okay, thank you, how yeah, but it's yet.
I'll see you guys. Thanks, thank you. Oh so I don't
know ninety eight Okay, which team more recently had an eleven win season.
Oh you're talking about Texas A and M more recently had a ten win seaon
texts A and M or Arizona. That's a true question. So I guess
it's Arizona. It is the nineteen when twenty fourteen. Oh yeah, yeah,
because they eventually went to your southern son. Hi, you're on the
air and land the ball. Hey Jay, this is done? How you
doing good? Don? What's up? Hey man? Take it easy with
that, Michigan. Those those are first world problem. That's that's not for
us to worry about out here in the in the Pac twelve. I know,
I just I lose my mind when I see guys doing that, though,
you know, you know, you don't get mad at you. You
laugh at that. You know, that's that's that's otherworldly, n c A
a football stuff. That's a very good point, Don, I shouldn't.
I shouldn't be getting mad at them. We're not. We're not at that
level. We're not at that level yet. And uh, that's those are
that that doesn't concern enough. So take take that easy. Okay. Another
and another thing, getting back to Jim's comments before about Utah. Does he
not realize the game they were just in this is a trap game for Utah.
Yeah, this is a big time trap game. And if they let
down at all, that scores could be flipped. I don't think it will
beat it like that. I don't. I think it'll be a lot closer,
like like last week's game against Colorado. But Utah better not come in
here thinking that this is and at any level they bet are not come in
here thinking that they're playing the Arizona the last couple of years. Right,
Well, they're coming in there. They've bet in Arizona with six in a
row. Yes, they're very Yeah, if you're a trend player, you
go with Utah. Yeah, yeah, but it's the This is not the
same team we've had for the last six years. And so again they're not.
Even though that they scored some points this last week, they're not.
They're not the offense that they've been a couple of years. So don what
does your heart tell you to do? Well? One, I never bet
on Arizona, But my heart is telling me that Arizona's gonna win in this
game. It's gonna be close, and they may they may just pull it
out to where it's a little bit comfortable and we're able to breathe easy the
last several minutes of the game. But what does your head say? What
does your head say? My head say, My head says it's gonna be
like last week, and it's gonna end in the last minute. Okay,
I like that. Win, win or lose, win or lose. It's
gonna be tight. That's what my head is telling me. As a term
my son likes to use, it's gonna. I think it's gonna be a
rock fight, right, just a rock fight. This guys just knocking the
hell out of each other all day. It's gonna if you like football,
if you like football and rough and tumble football, I think that's what we're
gonna see Sunday or Saturday. Okay, thank you, Hey, thanks don
We got to go appreciate you. Care guys. Okay, so you okay.
Arizona fourteen the last ten win season for Texas A and M twenty twelve.
Well okay, so all these guys who think Texas A and M is
this job that should be winning national championships and all that kind of stuff,
they're just wrong. Yeah, and they were a tough conference. But yeah,
you picked your another number, A quick number. I want to give
you a number, real quick number. Jimbo Fisher. I paid two point
six million dollars per win. Yeah. Well, well, well it's well
I think uh, I think someone got about a million per win. Let
me tell you this. According to a recent report and the Brewin Report Online
Brewin Report Online, the school will likely fired chip Kelly ahead of their move
to the Big Ten starting in twenty twenty four. Ouch just came out this
about twenty five minutes. Wow. I was told that they didn't have the
money to do it. So maybe it's a booster, remember, because they're
they're like the fifty million dollars boosters who paid off someone. It wasn't you
may it was a booster. Yeah, you're right. Wow, your cushion
thing, your cushion are naming rights fireing the ball stadium? Yeah? I
like that. Let's go with It's deep. Go go go dig, Go
to your ash trays and your change buckets and stuff. Plasma, sell some
blood, have a have a yard sale, yard sale, sell a little
bit, a little bit of memorabilia. Find those old baseball cards. George,
Get George. And then and then let's let's buy the naming rights to
the stadium. Okay, we'll get a skybox. We might even keep the
lights on for a day exactly. All right, everybody, Well, thank
you for all the phone calls today. That was great to have everybody calling
in today. We had a lot of fun. Appreciate that. And we'll
be back tomorrow and we'll break down some more of this stuff, so be
sure to come back. I'm going on the shot t