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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay. Now we have Adam
with breaking news. This is Iye on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox
Sports fourteen to fifty. All right, so the first order of business that
I saw is that Washington fired head coach for basketball Mike Hopkins. They told
him he won't be back for next year, but he can finish the rest
of the season. How difficult is it to be a lame duck coach when
you have really you're you're there, but you're not there. And then he
pulls off last night's game, right, I know that's it. Hey,
nice win against Washing Steak. Guess why you're fired. I hope they didn't
like tell him, like in the locker room after the game that they at
least enjoy the win overnight. And then hey, mikeel we need to see
you at breakfast today. Yeah, here's the plank. But you know he's
gonna get paid with three point one part of that knife in your back.
Well that but that was the last year of his contract, is what it
is. So they're just paying paying his contract out. So so all the
speculation has already be done. Kyle Smith at Washington State UH Jason schre tweeted
that Lorenzo Romar is available go back. Yeah he could be a good assistant
coach somewhere some there or me even but yeah. So yeah, so Washington
is gonna have a new, uh, a new basketball coach next year,
and he ain't gonna be Tommy Lloyd point something. Some baseball news, the
Los Angeles Dodgers just announced Smookie Bets will be the permanent shortstop. Wow,
the rich got Richard. Well, he's been He came up as a second
basement and then he's been playing a lot of outfield. He's a great outfielder.
Yeah, and then they they brought him into they brought him back to
the infield because they felt he was you know, no, they went from
second base to the outfit because they thought he was, you know, diving
for balls and hurting himself. I guess he's gonna be shortstop. They had
Miguel Rojas last year. It was a rookie just at the plate, just
wasn't getting it done. So now you get, you know, a great
hitting shortstop and uh and they off guy. Yeah yeah, you'll fill some
fill some holes out in the outfield with some of the guys that they've signed.
So next Tiger Woods will not He announced he will not play in the
Players Championship. Yeah, well he had that. He got in that tournament
that the Genesis and ended up bailing out because he was sick. I don't
know if he's got Physically he's uh, he's in good shape, but he
just he's just not And I guess he never said he was gonna play,
but now he's he didn't. The deadline for for entering the tournament passed and
he was not on the list. He hasn't played in that tournament since twenty
nineteen as well. So yeah, forty eight years old. That so big
news. Missouri governor rejects to comment on Andy Reid's son regarding the case.
Yeah, Dan wetzel Man, he ripped, He ripped the governor of Missouri
and the easy Target general. Easy target for obviously a big deal. Yeah,
yeah, he said, you know, and then and then say you
know where they said, well, most o the people convicted of the same
thing have served about that much time. And they said that, but didn't
offer any proof of that, just basically saying, you're Andy Reid's kid,
and you're a coach with the Kansas City Chiefs, you get special privileges.
Even if it's true. It doesn't look good, it looks bad, looks
terrible. So what did he say? What did what's say? Just just
that this is you know, again, for anybody who thinks that that you
know, the justice system is equal for everybody, it's it's well, we
already knew that. But there's another another very high profile example that it is.
As it said, what he's gonna do is he gonna go back to
coach. He was a coach for his dad, right, Yeah, he
was well, and that was that was the other thing that the me his
coaching experience was as a grad assistant in college and then he gets a full
time assistant coaching job in the NFL. Yeah, he said basically said that.
The way Dan Wetsill put it was he he got to cutting the cutting
line in the NFL. He got to cut and line out of prison.
Yeah, I mean just just to give some context, he served sixteen months
of a three year sentence after pleading guilty to felony driving while intoxicated, resulting
in serious physical injuries driving eighty four miles per hour in a sixty five zone.
He had two part cars near a Arrowhead stadium. Six people were injured,
and including a five year old girl, Ariel Young, who suffered traumatic
brain injury right and was in a coma for eleven days. Look, I've
told my kids and anybody who listens to me, or life is not fair.
It's it's just not fair. It's not well, it's more fair for
some than for well, it's it's more advantageous, vantagious. Yeah, sure,
exactly that. And that's the outrage over this is that you know,
would your kid have gotten that break? No? You know, would Adam
have gotten that break? No? Would I? No? Absolutely not?
Yeah, all right. Next in college basketball news, Temple is to reviewing
reports of unusual wagering activity on the game versus U A B. It's been
flagged by gambling watchdog company US Integrity for unusual betting activity. Did you see
how it was spread? It was a three three? It it was like
two and a half points. I think moved to a Temple by two and
a half, and then it moved too point favorite Florida Atlantic by eight,
and then then they won by like thirty or twenty five. Florida Atlantic A
f A U A B there all the time, U A B one,
Yeah, U A B one by a bunch. And I guess a previous
game that Temple was initially favored in they got blown up like that as well,
and they're kind of looking at that one as well. This isn't the
first time that's happened. But you know, it goes to that argument that
people saying, oh you you you make ambly legal. This is going to
happen all the time. Look, folks, this has been happening. Yeah.
By making it legal, it's exposed. It's out there, you find
out about it. And that's what's happened here that you know that these watchdog
companies that the conference is higher figure this stuff out. If this is the
same company that flagged that Alabama baseball game, remember that. Yeah, and
that got the Alabama coach fired because he was sending text messages to his guy
who was betting in Cincinnati. You know, my pitcher's not pitching go put
a bunch of money on. Something happened that I got to just recently.
I can't remember, saw in the news the guy that was gambling in Cincinnati.
I'm not sure what happened, but it was a big scandal. Yeah.
Next up, Arizona's going to have its pro day on March fourteenth.
They have fifteen guys listen to participate, as opposed to six players a year
ago. A couple of those players are projected NFL picks, Jordan Oregon and
Jacob Cowing. Yep, Jaydeen de Laura is going to be at that at
that pro day, so you know, we all saw that he it didn't
work out for him to go to another school, so he declared for the
NFL draft. Yeah, Tanner McLaughlin's going to be in there, Michael Wiley's
going to be in there. Those are the guy well, I know Delrd's
gonna get drafted. With Cowing, Morgan, Wiley, and McLoughlin, we're
all at the NFL combine likely to get drafted at some point. Then there's
a bunch of other guys. DJ Williams is the running back from who came
here from North Carolina and a few other guys, So fifteen guys in the
Pro Day that'll be uh, been pretty cool, good for them. And
then in the NBA, Trey Young would like to He's open to facing Kaitlin
Clark in a three point contest. So inspired by Steph Curry and Sabrina Iyanescu,
he wants to partake in something like that as well. That'd be fun,
sure, or they should do a good for them, yeah right yeah,
or you know, pair him up as a team, right right.
Did you see the one thing that they wanted, you know, the fourth
thing the pros Golf they had for remember covid Uh it was Tom Brady,
Yeah, Tom Barkley. So I saw one yesterday that would be interesting.
I don't know if I watch it, but I guess I'm good Tiger and
his son and uh uh John Daily, John Daley and his son. His
son's good player. That's the match that they want to see. I think
that'd be a cool match because there need no pressure on Tiger, right and
everybody kind of wants to see his son. How much do you think they'll
drink? Drink? And I don't know how much did they make? I
don't know. That would be fun. That would be a cool cool because
the kids might carry the mats. Charlie Woods. I mean he's fifteen,
right, and he like he's fifteen or sixteen. Yeah, he's young.
Yeah, I mean you know you put a kid on the kid that age
on a stage like that would be crazy. Right. Well, didn't you
played least two weeks ago? Yeah, you tried to in a qualified eighty
six or so. I didn't didn't play very well. I could have been
dream of eighty six. I could have read him that day if I got
to play the way I played, meaning that if I'm on my way to
a twelve, I'm taking an eight at the most. Good luck with that.
Okay? Cool? Is that was that? It? Yeah? That
was didn't you have you up some dates? Think, uh, you have
softball and you have golf. Yeah, okay, softball is uh they're going
to extra innings. They were down, they were down to nothing in the
bottom or in the top of the seventh. Carl Scooping came in with the
bases loaded and two outs, knocked knocked a single to score to score two.
So they they just got the Oregon State out in the bottom of the
seventh. So we are going to the top of the eighth in uh in
Corvallis with Arizona and Oregon State tide to two, okay, and then golf.
Oh yeah, the Cold Guard Classic is going on. For those of
you who aren't out there, we were, but uh, the leader as
of now is uh Stuart Sink He's he's at minus nine through sixteen holes.
One of the past champions, Miguel on Hell he Menash He's through fourteen holes
and he's minus eight, so he's right up there. kJ Choi is in
the running. If you're looking for for some names, uh, there's some
other guys. Uh, let's see. Well, Cameron Beckman is in third
place. He's at minus seven, so he's two strokes back. But you've
got Jeff Sluman in there, Billy Andre Ratief Goosen is uh is a five
strokes out, defending champion David thoms is Uh is a minus four, so
he's five strokes back, and the host pro Jerry Kelly is minus four.
All those guys we are minus four are tied for fifth, So there you
go. Ernie L's out there minus three steep strict or minus minus three.
So there's some names out there. If you want to you want to go
check him out? Two more days of the tournament out there is supposed to
be much nicer the next couple of days. And it's not too bad.
It's nice, It's it's okay. But of course I'm inside, so I
can say that with the jacket, with the jacket exactly. So yeah,
So that's that's going on out there at the cold Okay, anything else going
on? Steph Curry entered his ankle last night. Yeah, they say the
MRI I was was clear, so he's uh so, they're not sure how
long. He's not expected to miss that much. It says there's optimism his
absence will not be lengthy. So so there's that. Also, Russell Wilson
had an exploratory meeting with the Giants, and Pittsburgh also has renewed interest in
Russell Wilson. They're making fun of the fact that he was flying commercial because
there's he was taking pictures of people at the Newark Airport and then he was
he was on a private plane or anything like that, so that was kind
of funny. And Lebron is going to be out for a couple of days.
Peterson SI he's going to be at the game to Mars. Expect to
be at the and Lebron. He's hurt his ankle and he's tweaking his ankles.
He'll be out for a game or two for they play the bucks.
They'll play the bucks here. I guess tonight A toorrow, tonight, Yeah,
tonight, okay, all right, anything else? I think that's it.
Huh, there's a big UFC game fight tomorrow. I can't I don't
remember the principles, but there's that's going on tomorrow, and I think that's
who we have. We have Jake. Let's go. Let's why, We'll
just go. I know we're way ahead of it, but we are.
Fine. Let's do. Let's do. Let's go. All right, let's
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ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve. He's Jay. Now
on the phone. We have our guy, Jake Fisher, former Juve football
player. Jake. What's going on? Nothing much? Happy Friday, guys,
Happy Friday. Good to be with you. Hey, we've been talking
about chemistry, team chemistry and how it it affects teams. I'm sure you've
been on a team or two. You've been on a number of team since
you were a kid where the guy could be unbelievably talented and you say we
need him and then figure out he's a pain in the neck and he says,
now we don't need him. Yeah, exactly. And this year we
literally have had none of that. I'm really thankful that, you know,
a couple of these seniors that came and they know that this is their last
year, so they had to kind of fit into the mold. They knew
that we had, you know, gotten a number two seed last year and
that uh, you know, we had some big aspirations. So and the
other thing is those two freshmen that are playing all those minutes, you know,
coming off the bench, along with Jade and Bradley, those guys all
fit perfectly into the system. They're all buying into their role. They're not
trying to step on people's toes. They're basically letting the seniors kind of lead
us to where we need to go. And I mean that's incredible because you
know, for the next couple of years when these guys have to step into
those roles, they're going to be perfectly you know, content with it.
They know they went through it, and they're going to be able to teach
the young guys coming up how to do the same. You know. Steve
and I we were talking about the fact that probably one of the biggest differences
between this team, this team this year and last last year's team. Last
the team was really talented, right A Zulus was a really good player,
had a bunch of really good guys. But the bench, these three guys
that are coming off the bench and the way they're contributing, you know,
because we should just sometimes close our eyes when guys came off the bench last
year. That's a huge difference for this team. Well yeah, and to
be honest with you, like if we all take a look back and we
just watched some of the games last year and we saw that mid season low
if you remember before the tournament, I'm like, we can literally lose to
anybody, and we can beat anybody, and it's very inconsistent just because you
only had really six guys with a seventh guy that showed up every three or
four games. This team's got six guys that show up every game, and
then another guy that plays relentless defense. And you know, if he scores
a point like great, and then Moe Crevis if he can spell you know,
big O like he did last night for twenty minutes and play decent defense
against the den bona. I mean, that's just a bonus in itself.
So you got five guys that are averaging double figures. You've got three or
four guys that can just you know, get up in me on defense.
You have two major seven foot plus guys, you know, kind of anchoring
the defense, and you have guys you know, on the perimeter that can
switch everything. It just makes everything so much easier. You know. He
allows guys to get into passing lin get out, get some easy breaks,
and I mean hell, Like I said, top to bottom, I think
besides maybe you know Houston, I think has a couple of guys that are
injured. Give you con I don't see another team as talented with more of
an upside. Maybe you know Tennessee, but we're up there in that upper
echelon. It's pretty nice. Yeah, you talked about you talking about last
year about the teams could if they played well, they can win it all.
Or this year, if they don't play well, they can lose it
all. Was it last year? This year? You're talking about last year
year this year? Just because you have the seniors and you have guys that
can get buckets in tournament time. I think, like the floor is a
sweet sixteen. Last year the floor was getting beat by Princeton and it happened.
So you don't think that this year, No, I don't. Honestly,
Guys, like the main difference is you have so many guys that have
been there before. Do you really think of Caleb Love, a key Shaw
Johnson, or even you know, a senior Pella who now I haven't seen
go to the basket as much as he has the last few week, A
senior big O. Guys that can actually shoot. The guys coming off the
bench, that they can go ahead and they can get their own bucket.
That's not gonna happen this year. Last year, who's going and getting you
their own bucket? Besides you know, besides big Z. But then again,
come tournament time, he disappears. Nobody wanted to shoot the ball last
year when things got tight. This year you got three or four guys that
have no problem with it, so you're not going to get ran over by
it, you know, a lesser team. The floor is the Sweet sixteen?
That or yeah, the floor is the Sweet sixteen. Jake, Steve
and I had a debate about this, and I don't remember if we asked
you about it or not, but if we did, refresh our memories having
two guys make Caleb Love and Keisha Johnson who have been to the final flour,
I mean saw the road firsthand. How much does that add to the
locker room or does it not? Guys just go well, I want to
get the final four anyway, So whatever you say doesn't make me change my
approach or make me think any differently. How much does that matter, do
you think? I mean, it matters entirely. I mean, why do
you think we brought these two guys in? You know, like last year
it was a major disappointment two years ago, even though you know it was
Tommy Lloyd's first time here or first year here. We got to the sweet
sixteen, but we had a roster that should have got at least to the
Elite eight in my opinion. So this year it's hey, listen, we've
got everybody coming back with the uh, you know, with the exception of
the big you know, big Z down Low. We're going to bring guys
in that have been there and those guys that have been inserted into the starting
lineup. You've got the guard everyone wanted to get rid of, Kirk Cries
before. You still Pelley, you still have Big O. And then you
bring in a guy like Jayden Bradley, who you know, I mean half
the year last year he was the starting point guard for probably the most talented
team in the country. I mean, you bring these guys in for a
reason. So, these guys have been here, Jamee's been around a very
talented team, and then you bring in a couple of freshmen that are willing
to, you know, kind of buying their role. But bringing in these
guys that have been to the Final four, that have been to the national
championship game, this is their last chance. So how hard do you think
they're going to play to get back there? And it's only going to make
everybody else play hard? So what what can they so is it mainly how
they play? Or what is there something they can say, you know,
in a huddle, in a locker room or whatever. Are you right with
that experience? And Jake, remember you're on the team or you're on the
team, you know what you know, and you're and you're a good player.
How much are they going to influence you? Jake? You got to
play better because we've been there, you haven't. Well, if I was
a guy like a Pella or you know, an Umar, you know,
I look at them and say, they've been there, I haven't, Like,
what the hell do I have to do? You know, now that
we're on the back half of the season, you see how hard Key SHOT's
playing. I mean, key shot, got what eleven twelve words last night
against probably the most athletic big men in the country. And I mean it's
one of those things to where he's doing exactly what he needs to do at
the right time of the year. He's switching off and guarding point guards and
shooting guards. I mean, he's he's you know, you could plug him
in at the five and he has you know, you have Caleb Love yesterday
who got off to a slow start, but I mean they were doing everything
that they could in their power not to score. And he's dropping dimes and
making good passes and you know, swinging the ball when he needs to,
and then when he needs to, you know, take a shot. He'll
take a shot. But you get in one of those situations where you need
a bucket, you know he's gonna get it for you. I mean that
guy can literally take ten shots miss him and I'd still be comfortable getting them
the ball at the end of the game. So these guys have been there
before. These guys are the ones that basically are going to say, follow
me, I've been there, and there you go. I trust him.
They've been there. I haven't see I told you no Jake. I don't
always believe what Jake says, and I'm not sure I believe him. Now.
Well you should see because Jake, you already know what it takes to
get there. My point is, what I'm saying is maybe you don't no
what do you mean? Maybe you don't know what it takes to get there.
These guys can tell pos possibly or give you more information, but I've
seen teams I'll give you, and this is a bad example because it's been
a thousand years ago, nineteen eighty seven. They were all there, they
were all there all back then. You all you what to do, and
guess what they didn't do it. But it's not I never said it's a
guarantee. So yeah, you said, guys, it's not. It's not
a perfect science. Well, I'm saying I have two people that have been
in the National Championship Game and I haven't. I'm gonna go ahead and think
we're going to get there. I'm gonna go ahead and mimic what they do,
and I'm going to feel comfortable following them and to help, you know,
helping them to get back there. Dude, that's all it is.
I mean, you literally can have a one seed lose to a sixteen seed.
We've seen that happen two times in the last five here. That's how
crazy the tournament is. What I'm saying is, you have senior leadership,
you have two guys that have been there. I am more than confident that
they can get me there again. I like your thesis. I like your
theory. I don't don't agree with it, but I'm fine with it.
I like it, Jake. I'm with you, and I like it too,
but but I understand you. And you and you meet Jake were one
and Jake, remember that the Jay's rarely right. So I had Washington State
last night, Jake. If I knew something weird was going to happen yesterday,
so I didn't even think about doing a parlay. And that's one of
the reasons. Very smart. The end of the year, something weird is
gonna happen. Very smart. So what do you think They got one tomorrow,
and they got three possibly in the Pac twelve, and then they got
six possibly in the tournament. They got to roll nine ten games. They
don't have to. They don't have to, but it would look good if
they did. They they're capable, well, they're capable. I don't think
in a perfect world, obviously they're capable of reeling off all those wins in
a row. But you know, tomorrow, I think, you know,
they got the monkey off their back. I think they're going to play a
little bit more free. You know, it's not like we have to win
this game in order to lock up the one seed or the regular season tournament
or the regular season championship. I don't know if USC is fighting for seeding
or what that all looks like. So they may come out just you know,
trying to you know, prove a point or basically saying, hey,
we have one last chance to take down and you know, a good Arizona
team this year. I know I have a feeling Arizona is gonna it's gonna
be a closer game against that. See that it wasn't against UCLA. I
think UCLA's basically given up on the season. Yeah, you know, after
that first ten minutes, you can tell they were kind of like, yeah,
we're not gonna beat this team. And then USC they have to their
two best players or two of their best players back to play against us,
and so I think they're gonna have you know, they're gonna want to go
out and prove it when it comes to the tournament again. I think that
we're gonna win the tournament championship. I think Tommy's gonna go perfect three for
three and then after that it's just hey, guys, you know want and
done. Let's get ready to go. Yeah, So let me ask you
a funny question or a weird question. Croton has been kind of up and
down. He's thrown his players under the bus a time or two, maybe
the last two to three months, and then he said, you know,
it's all on me, and then last night he did it again. Kind
of if you're a player for a guy like that, how difficult is to
play and not give up? And say, how would you if you think
nothing of us? I'm just gonna, you know, play what I can
in hell with you. Yeah, it takes a very particular type of player
to play for a man like that. What I love And someone pointed this
out to me, and then I went ahead and tweeted about it. This
is the first year that Tommy and Cronin have both had their own teams.
Look how crappy Ucla is and look how good Arizona is. So all the
UCLA folks that are saying that you know, so and so's a better coach.
I would have loved to walk into a team that had Tiger Campbell,
Jim Hawk as you know, you're able to get Johnny Joosang or however the
hell you say his name back, you have a dem bona. I mean
the two five star kids that he's recruited, that Peyton Watson kid who hardly
played and then became a first round draft pick. And then that point guard
that they had last year that came on strong late and didn't want to come
back and play with Mit Cronin. I mean, just imagine that, like
you, basically you're a five star, you go there to sit on the
bench for most of the year and you can still become a first round draft
pick. I mean, it just shows you that there's a track like that
people do not want to be there. When it comes to Tommy system,
obviously you got a bunch of guys that are coming in, they're going to
play. He never gives up on you. He does not, you know,
trash you in the media. He you know, he'll tell you how
he feels, but he's not going to you know, brate you in front
of people, and then eventually, you know, if you could play,
you could play. If not, you're not going to play. But you
know he's not going to drag you for the damn mud and the media.
No, you're You're absolutely right. And again, I mean he had there
was no reason for him to say even mentioned the den Bone the last night.
They all played like crap, and yet he singled him out and said
well, and then he tried to say, well, you know, it's
it's hard to put that kind of pressure on him, but it's true.
And I'm like, why why do you even say that? Just I don't
know, Well, it's one of those things where you know, a den
bona one of the more talented athletic freaks in the country, but I mean
he's going to get somebody hurt, and the fact that he doesn't know how
to pull the reins back on this guy and say, hey, listen,
you could play hard. But I mean there were two or three times where
you know, he'd run across the lane and drill Mo creviously in the back,
knock him on his face. They wouldn't get a cloud call. There
was a time where he dated Big O into you know, trying to back
him down and he just he grabs his jersey, pulls him down, gets
up smiling. It's like this, listen, I love the fact that he
plays his ass off. There's a difference between playing hard and playing reckless.
There's a huge difference. And he was playing reckless last time. I'm glad
I even tweeted. I'm like, I'm surprised nobody swung on him yet,
Like that's how bad. Like he was pissing me off and I'm not even
playing well, I just did, And I'm glad you're five hundred miles away
from me. I mean, it's gracious, Okay, what else is going
on? So okay, let me ask you this then? You know,
with what they had, you know, football, you were excited, you
know, ten wins, it was a great football season, had a blast.
More excited about what's going on basketball wise, or you know, is
it is football? Just okay, that's past and I'm just thinking about basketball.
Hey, listen, basketball season. I'm excited about basketball normally, and
during football season, I'm excited about basketball. That The cool thing is the
fact that we have a good team. We have a lot of guys coming
back. I have you know, full faith in the staff, and we
got a lot of excitement coming on, you know, coming up spring.
This is the first time during basketball in a long while that I'm excited to
see the football team. So that's just you know, a shout out to
all the guys that decided to come back even after the coach has left.
Happy for him, and I'm hoping that we have a really good season coming
up. Have you had any contact or you know, seen anything of you
know, on a on a football zoom or thread or anything of Brent Brennan
your impressions of him that you've gotten so far. Yeah, I got on
a zoom. I didn't talk or do anything. I just wanted to kind
of listen in because you know, a lot of the older guys and a
lot of the older you know alumni that know him, you know, they're
the ones that kind of took over the meeting. And I mean he just
seems like a down to earth guy, you know, almost like almost like
a little bit you know, Jeff Fish was very calculated. Brenna just seems
like, you know, hey, whatever comes comes, I'm just going to
coach these guys up, and you know, let him go out and ball
out. Where you know, Jed was more of a car salesman type guy.
You know, everything was so calculated with what he said. Brennan is
just kind of a you know, go easy. You know, hey,
I'm just gonna I'm just here to coach football type guy. So you know
it's gonna be different. Obviously, I can't wait to see what the schemes
are and everything like that. He didn't really dive into it, but you
know, we're going to know if he's a good coach. Sing is how
these guys, you know, seeing how these guys basically react and how they
come out and play for him. And that's what I'm excited about, given
how you described Jed just now car salesman and kind of you know, said
what he says. Did at any point while he was your coach at you
Vey, did it give you pause or you know you kind of said,
hmm, these things just don't feel right. No, I mean because you
have I mean guys like he's a good coach, right, good recruiter,
all this other stuff. Nobody likes. How he left. Everyone knew he
was going to probably lead next year, Like that was kind of what everyone's
holing on to. When it comes down to it, he had a good
year. I hope Brennan has a good year. I did not think twice
like when I heard how you know, calculated he was or how he spoke.
It's the fact that he had been at like twelve places in the last
fifteen years. That's what I was like, Ah, this guy's probably gonna
use this as a stepping stone if he has success. And you're right,
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O Flox Sports fourteen fifty M Steve. HE'SJT Guy Adam And now we have
a call right away that oh callack, we missed you. We just missed
you. Yeah, we're coming out of the break, So go and hang
up the call. The call back finally watching you. Are you sure that
he didn't? Is anybody there? Okay? All right, Just you just
try to again, keep punching it now, keep hitting the drop call thing.
Just call back. Yeah, give us another callback. We would love
to take hear your take on whatever you got. Yeah, okay, you
know what on Monday, I just got a text for somebody who listens to
us when on Monday we talk about some of the top twelve top twelve pac
twelve all time moments that we've experienced, or that we in basketball, whatever,
football, do some homework. Let's come back with the list homework.
I never mind, do some homework, Steve, Come on, you haven't
done you haven't done homework in thirty years exactly. Let's take this call.
Hi, you're on the AAR and on the ball. Hey, guys,
what's up this Vic Vic? What's up? Hey? I just want to
call and tell you Steve Ja went back to his participation trophy days. Yeah,
he said one in eighteen team is the best kind of team to coach.
I didn't say that, like you can go to dairy Queen day of
the week. You ain't having fun on a one and eighteen. You are
completely out of context there. I said, that's what you said. No,
I said back, No, I said, you can have a one
in one in eighteen team, and if they're fun to coach, they're fun
to coach. I'm not saying it's better to have a one in eighteen team,
you know. I mean, you coach, you want to win championships.
I just said you can have a one in eighteen team and it can
still be fun if the guys are a bunch of good guys. Thanks for
keeping me ever, I had j J. I never had fun on a
one in eighteen team. Nobody you can ask anybody under the sun. Nobody's
ever had fun on one in eighteen team. Well, we weren't actually one
in eighteen, but yes we had. We had. We want enough games
to have fun, let me put it that way. But I want to
play on your team because I know you guys go to dairy Queen. You
know VI, I'm not talking to you the rest of the day, but
he'll see you a dairy queen. No, you know what, if we
go to dairy Queen, you're buying for yourself. All the kids wanted to
play on Jay because they lost, you know what, and I'm not taking
kids to dairy Queen. It's expensive to go to dairy Queen. The fifteen
set, ice cream cone is gone. You know where he's taking you,
Vic to the some point pregame party where he has cornel burritos. Exactly.
They as long as somebody as somebody else's tailgate though, exactly exactly. All
right, guys, all right, well okay, let's see what happens tomorrow.
Good hey, Vic, you follow the women's team. Your impressions with
what Ad has done, because we've we've talked off the off the I I
actually he was kind of not a fan at in the beginning, but I
turned into a huge fan. I ever missed a game a huge fan.
They played hard, and that's I guess I'm contradicting myself, but that uh,
those losses, I went home feeling great. Yeah, speaking of participation
trophies, yeah, exactly exactly. But but you know what, that team
was so fun to watch, and those seven girls did play their hearts out.
She did a fantastic job. You know. I see if I told
you this about even the men's team, they're missing one shooter. One shooter
do loosened it up inside and they if they had Connor back on this team,
they would have won two or three of those games. Yeah, yeah,
who can shoot? Yeah right, Yes, they just needed that one,
and they really don't have None of the girls are just one of those
top shooter type of They had to have some scorers like you know, like
Jada uh and play in them, but they don't have a shooter playo.
Even her. She's not that drop dead killer, you know, outside shot
correct. Okay, see you what dairy queen. But I'm lactose and teller.
Okay, see you guys, take care any more with you you're reviewing
the tape. I'm pretty sure I didn't say exactly what Vic said. I
said, so there's something that just came over another team with a gambling situation.
Loyal of Maryland. They're looking at him too. All right, let's
take this call. Hi, you're on the air and I on the ball.
They had that first one. It was a butt call. I was
getting ready to call. Okay, all right, what's up Howard? Anyway,
I was a fan of a deal when she was doing all the thing,
doing championships and getting there. That was quite a coaching job. But
she self inflicted her own self this year. And I think the first caller
in the first first hour said that I don't remember already, but well he
did, Yeah, he did. He said that she you know, you
know, like you guys were even saying, and maybe hits the program she
was running right here. Oh yeah, yea, yeah. Well I won't
say he sent this to me, but uh, he's a he's a frequent
listener and in factor, he's a he's a guy who who comes on the
show every now and again. He talked about Ada. I think realizes that
you can't go after certain players. And uh, I can't find to hear
this. Uh I think I did. You know she made a mistake by
loading up her rosher with full of fifteen scholarship players who were touted after the
Wildcats made the championship. Bark Luke did a great job of mixing talent with
role players who improved their career and went on, you know, to other
things. She needs to do that. I think she realizes that yeah,
right, yeah, make the peace players right. She has said that she's
got you just don't go after five McDonald's. All Americans get some get some
players are gonna come in and do certain Yeah, and they you of a
yesterday remember was the easy game against USC. It'll be a lot harder.
Yeah, I think so too. I think so too. You know,
months ago I would have said they would the loss that you show a game,
but no, I agree with you. But they're playing well though even
I'm thinking, yeah, okay, they're doing really well. They're gonna but
it's gonna be good. There was a Goodtuona game, just like with my
sons. That's gonna be nationally televised against the Celtics, and you know,
the Celtics will be favored, but if it's by more than four or five,
I'd be jumping on the sun. Where's the game? Oh, it's
in Phoenix. And then they're gonna go on the road in about three or
four days to Boston. But Booker will be ready, so they're gonna crush
him on the road too. Okay, thanks for not being biased. Well,
the Booker will be back. Remember they just beat the Nuggets, and
the Nuggets beat ball, so I mean at home. Okay, thanks,
all right, Thanks, we'll see guys have a good weekend. To thank
you. All right. I found I found the Loyal Maryland thing. It
was it looks like it's a player who was gambling. Okay that that,
Uh, there was a statement issue by Loyal Athletics basically, I won't read
it. Basically said that the US Integrity, the company that we've talked about,
that that finds these things, so analyze, analyze the contest, and
no anomalies were discovered. They're just saying that a player got caught gambling.
It's been reported, he's removed from the program. It was. It was
a self report and no further action being taken. The coach just got let
go to Yeah that probably you know who's the A D. You know who
the S I D there is? Right? Oh? All Ryan, all
right? Another thing that just came across Evan Mayakawa. Do you see this,
he says, confer he puts up that Jayden Bradley is the most valuable
sixth man in the country, and he says by fault. Yeah, well
we talked about that three weeks about another thing in the top ten is also
kJ Lewis. Yeah, so you're talking about it. I mean, that's
a formidable bench. Just have when you know you got guys on the bench
that if one of your guys is having a bad game, you can throw
him in there. Right. It's a lot of the like in nineteen ninety
seven year, right, you had Mike Bibby and Miles Jason Terry, Michael
Dickerson there as well. Uh, this funny thing about it, I can't
remember who did. Don't think it was Goodman. It might have been Rostin
or one of those national guys that said, and this is the world we
live in. Okay, you have Caleb and and and who's the sidekick these
two guys. You have two guys coming in if they decide to return.
It was the if they decided to return thing ten years ago. You're thinking
they're coming back for another year right now? You wonder are they gonna stay?
Yeah? Yeah, I mean kJ Lewis is already showing up in maccacraft
for next year. Yeah. You know. No. I love the way
he plays, and you talked about his physique. He's aggressive, he's fancying
the back. Yeah. Here's an interesting piece of this thing. So this
rating that that Mike Awa gives them in each spot in the rankings, it's
a it's a it's a point two difference usually right from you know, the
second the guy number two is Richie Sanders from BYU is rating six point four
nine. Whatever that means. Then the next guy six point two to one,
the next guy six point oh two. But it goes from six point
four to nine for Richie Saunders is seven point sixty six for Jayden Bradley,
meaning he's far and above the best six man. Ye according to this h
this system that Evan Mike Colla has. Interesting, Yeah, but that's they
just didn't have that last year. No, no, of course not well.
I mean when they needed somebody like that to come off the bench against
Princeton, they didn't have it. No, well, they had a guy,
but he didn't do it. Jaden Nudge and Coylin Boswell, Yeah,
because Kerr was the one that was kind of in there and he wouldn't put
him in there, right, So unless you're Colin was fantastic. Yeah yeah,
so very interesting stuff and uh, it's stacking up steep again. You
just don't know because you're Arizona fan. You think something bad can happen.
But they're they're they're they're stacked up to make you're a singing right now.
So when you got here in August or whatever, h don't you think the
season has gone by like your senior year is almost done very fast? Like
now we were just talking about Duke Wins. We were talking about the day,
right and now we're at the end of the last month or three weeks
of the season. Yep, goes why fast. I don't think he gets
older. It gets faster when you get older. And that's sad because you
know, because we're that end of the tunnel is not that far the hill,
the hill that we've climbed is the way down exactly. We're almost to
the top of the hill. And that's that's tough to think about it.
It's gone very fast, very fast. So they've already put up the the
twenty twenty four Conference champion thing up on the wall inside McHale, put up
at the top of the list the champion championship years. They've also So you
watched the go Ahead you want to? I was just saying, you kind
of looks like they're hitting their stride right now. This is the time you
want to, you know, go right in the conference, at tourney and
right into march Man. Don't say it, don't say it, don't say
anyth about momento. I like that one, okay, I like that one
because you can always not hit your stride at some point, you know,
did you see you watched did you see Desiree on the state She's gonna love
so she loves social media. Yes, man, she was doing it right
there on the on the sideline and she was inside the picture of them with
the banner. Yeah, it's a new age we live in. We meet
with her Monday. I think that what I think it is. I think
we r s v P for that you did for Monday. We haven't checked
the time. They need to check the time, man, let me know.
Okay, So we got to see that for that and have her on
at some point. Ye Stewart's sink in the clubhouse at nine under at the
at the Colt Guard Classics. So he's early starts sinking. My favorite guys.
Here's why we went at when they at the match play up and up
at dub Mountain. My my my wife and my daughter who was like eight.
She for some reason she went with us and I think both my daughters
were with us and we were just sitting on the grass at the eighteenth hole.
He finished his round and then just walking off the thing off the green,
he signed the ball, the golf ball, just tossed it to my
daughter. She still has it. She probably has. It's probably been there
for quite a while, but you know, no, just he just signed
it and tossed it to it. That was cool. So he'll be always
to be one of my favorites because of that. It's all it takes,
right, that's all it takes. Any guys like that to have done stuff
like that. Autografts you've gotten or T shirt or nothing like. Nobody's that
kind of me. But maybe the facial hair could be. Sorry I had
to say that because I can't do I can't do that. I get you.
Yeah, but no, not really, not really. But you know,
there's but do you have we haven't We haven't quiz you on this favorite
athletes Guys that you you're a big fan of and you have a jersey of
or anything like that. I was a big Kobe guy. Yeah, I
was a really big Kobe guy. Been living in l ah sure all you
guys know they were Kobe Kobe people. Yeah, yeah, he was.
He was an icon there. So not really, I don't really go on
the jersey route. Maybe when I was younger, yeah, Kobe and Lebron
and all that, but nothing lately baseball football, anybody, Wait, were
you an NFL fan. I was, Yeah, I was a Bear fans.
Oh that's what you mentioned. When Jake Color first got traded to Chicago.
Jake Color, you were all all Jake Color he was Yeah, he
was respectable for us, but yeah, you know, not as good as
what we thought. So all right, not really any baseball Maybe Cubs Derek
Lee good first baseman. Remember when the White sucks Arnon Beckham when he was
he was supposed to be a budding star. Yeah, then fizzled out.
Yeah, so that was that. All right? Really, what can we
do to make you a Dodger fan? Nothing? I go to the games.
Yeah, but they're not like a huge fan though, right, or
are you you know they? I mean if you're in for some of you
win for the Cubs. Yeah, and the clubs played the Dodgers. Yeah,
you're ruin for the Cubs. Yeah. Okay, well that's all we
need to know. You're not really a Dodger fan. That's fine, that's
problem with it. Okay, all right, we'll have fun this year.
Yeah, no, I'll be. They gotta win, they have to win,
so yeah, we'll see all right, Okay, sounds good. I
slipped through that conversation I'm okay with it. Hope you carry on with that
conversations because you get to the end of the show. All right, hey
man, we're just about done. Air's on a baseball place tonight. There
they've got usc you know softball. They lost. They did the bases loaded,
one out, a swinging bunt, a little dribbler up the line in
the winning run. They lost three to two. What's the record, they
were seventeen and five, but I think that was their first conference games.
They own one in the league. Okay, hey, good show today,
Thanks a lot of fun, Thanks Jake Fisher, and thanks to Brian Peterson.
We'll uh, we'll talk again. And we got one more, one
more show before we head out for the Pact Off tournament. So we're off
Tuesday through Friday next week. We can't do our show from Vegas. We're
disappointed by that, but we will be here on Monday and do as much
as we can to preview packed Off tournaments. So be sure to come back
on Monday. Okay, you then have a great weekend.