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This is I on the Ball with
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Welcome to I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve

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Rivera, He's Jagansaus. We've got
our guy Henry in today. Welcome to

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Monday. Good to be back after
a little hiatus. Thanks everyone for sending

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their notes and their well wishes and
all that stuff about my family situation.

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But good to be back. Jay. Thank you for holding up the fourth

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not driving this into the dish.
It was closed a couple of times.

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Steve, I'm not gonna lie.
And you did great. I hurt Friday.

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You had a pretty good show.
You were doing. You had some

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Yeah, we had you know,
we talked about the broad Runners coming back.

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We talked with Bruce. We got
him for about five minutes when he

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was up at that tournament up in
Phoenix. And then we had Jake on

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and we talked to him. We
actually talked some football, like actual this

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is what could happen football? Did
he did he make his prediction already or

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no, no, we didn't.
I thought, I wait for you to

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get it out of him. But
we did not go into that. We

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just you know, we more or
less just talked about, you know,

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being on the road. You know, he was on the team that went

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and played at Oklahoma State and I
was fifteen years ago, but still you

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know, just the venues, you
know, things like that. It was

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fun. It was good conversation because
we were actually talking about like games and

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things. It was good, good, good. And we're about less than

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about eighty were No, we're no, we're nine saturdays away, eight saturdays

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away now six start of the season, from the start of college football,

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nine saturdays away from Arizona Planets first
game. So that's nine time seven fifty

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six. So it's under sixty days
then, right, is that right?

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Nine times now? Because it was
seventy days this last Saturday. Yeah sixty

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something. Yeah, yeah, I
think mymth was okay, yeah, I

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only knew it because we it was
an easy no over ten times seven was

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seventy and that's it was. That
was it was ten. It was ten

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saturdays from Arizona starting its season Las
Saturday. Well, great, great,

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We're getting closer and we should be
a good have a good show. I've

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paid a little attention to a few
things. Obviously today you probably have a

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lot of stuff in breaking news with
with signings or commitments, right, A

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lot of things going on into the
U of A. And what intrigued me

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while I was gone. One of
the things, the major things, was

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the finances of Arizona, and I
guess you spoke briefly about it last week.

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Yeah, because on Thursday afternoon,
right coming into the last segment,

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they put out the report from their
meeting at the Border Regions. Bruce covered

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it. He didn't he did not
go to the meeting. He watched it

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on stream, but he wrote the
story about it. So we tried to

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get We got him. He was
covering that tournament, so he got tied

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up. He came out for about
five minutes at the end of the at

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the end of the four fifteen segment, and we talked briefly about it,

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but really it was we don't know, and you know, we don't know

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what it all means. I mean, there weren't any specifics right to the

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present then and then uh, I
think Lev had first his five takeaways.

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Uh. And then I saw the
big story yesterday on in the Star about

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uh all the finances. We know, Wilner did his take on it,

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and then the Star had a big
with the new reporter Wolf, very intriguing

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uh information for me at least,
and all the numbers that were coming out.

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And and we'll talk to Michael lev
about this on the second hour about

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all this. But holy crap,
it doesn't look good. And I'm sure

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it doesn't look good for a lot
of universities across the country. Well,

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that's the thing. It doesn't you
know, it doesn't look good for anybody.

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It's uh, it's uh no,
misery loves company. Everybody's kind of

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in the same boat, different places, handling it different ways, you know.

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And that's and that's one of the
things about about the whole thing,

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Steve, is that you know,
everybody's trying to figure it out, and

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nobody really has got to handle it
right. And that's that's what uh uh

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the new ad and miss miss read
Francois was talking about this. It's kind

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of like I think Wilner put best, it's like flying an airplane and you're

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still trying to build, you know, to build the airplane, right,

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and we've heard that turn before.
But this is not gonna be fun.

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It's good for journalists and as much
as you have stuff to write about,

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but it's gonna be repetitious because it's
the same stuff. And how do you

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get out of a hole that's so
deep? It's so deep, so deep,

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and there's no dirt to fill it. Because it's gonna be it's gonna

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be tough, don't I don't.
And then then the comings and goings did

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you guys talk about and I need
to know more about this the and I

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saw Greg did something yesterday about the
the new I MG, there's no I

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am. We don't know what that
is either, because it's they're gone.

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Those dudes are gone. The people
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website. They're gone, like Jefferson, all those Well, I know that

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some of the guys on the roster
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Friday. I don't know. You
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don't think they're there now. It
was because there was a we did talk

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about that, because there was because
that came out first, right right,

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this media thing, And I'm like
Okay, what does that mean mean?

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We didn't really understand it. And
then because they issued that release I think

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on Wednesday, and then it was
part of the presentation on Thursday, and

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and there's like, what, you
know, what does all this mean?

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Because none of it there's nothing specific
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the first question that people had was
jeffres one, what does this mean for

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Brian Jeffreys? And I can't imagine
it. Be silly, right, I

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can't imagine that there's going to be
anything happening with that that doesn't involve Brian

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Jeffers. It's just maybe a restructuring
of some sort. Maybe. Yeah,

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well, I, like you said, I don't know much about it too.

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I just know that people some people
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staff director right now. But yeah, no, it's Steve that this,

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all of that, all of that
put more. There's more questions than answer

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right now. Sure, sure,
no one likes change, right, I

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know I don't. And uh,
and there's gonna be a lot of change

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in u of a. It's kind
of already started, uh to get things

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rolling. But guess what, when
you're in a situation like this, it

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calls for change. Yeah, okay, okay, Well the Wildcats Sports Properties

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organization that's in the org chart with
you know, Brian Jeffries, Dana Cooper,

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you know, the group that does
that's selling all those sponsorships through liar

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Field. There's still okay, okay, but that's the organization that we think

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is new and it's like all those
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Arizona Media something around. You know, Brian Jefferies' list is director of Broadcasting

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and Voice of the Wildcats. Dana
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he's a senior manager for business development. There's some other people in there.

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We don't know. You know,
there's no answers to that. Maybe their

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contract, you know, Like I
said, I too too. I read

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Greg yesterday or this morning on yesterday's
call him and it said that, uh

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I love those guys were gone,
and maybe I misread it if you go

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to his columnn Yeah, I was
a little busy over the weekend notes,

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as I told you his notes,
because maybe they keep a lot of the

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people and because they know what they're
doing, or you think they know what

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they're doing, they just got to
struct, restructure and move, you know,

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create a new organization. Yeah,
that's what I'm thinking is gonna happen.

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I can't imagine that they were just
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well, they've brought these people go. They brought in a new assistant,

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a d to help her with the
marketing part of it. And you'll read

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it as you read it. Say
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the bios or their bios are gone. Let me see if I click

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on one. So there you go. And then so new people are coming

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in and some people are leaving.
Uh, it's correct. So they're listed

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on the directory. You click on
their link and there's no pay. I

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just clicked on Brian Jefferies and I
got an air man. See, so

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there's that. So there's party needs
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Uh. With with all that,
uh uh, And they're bringing new

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people in in terms of trying to
fill the holes, well, probably a

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lesser salary. The well look,
let's let let's let's let's say this much.

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It's something's got to change, right
the way that the things have been

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going, They got to do something
different. Because what got him to hear,

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you know, it's not working.
So yeah, they're gonna have to

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figure out something. Again. I
can't imagine that that we're not going to

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see. You know, Brian Jeffries
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or they maybe put him somewhere else
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yeah, but that would be that
would be wasting his talents. Right,

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don't you go to when you need
a home run, you go to the

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home run hitter. If you need
a single, you go. What I'm

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saying, I imagine he'll be doing
whatever he's doing now as part of the

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new organization. Now all those other
people who knows, yeah, we will

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know if they're if they're gonna just
start over. Yeah right, yeah,

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but there there's again a lot to
unpack. You know. When I when

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I reached out to uh to uh
the FLA Department to try and get somebody

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to talk to us on on the
Friday, uh, they said, the

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only one who can talk to us
about this is the Ages. So we're

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trying to get her this week.
She was on they were up in Pine

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Top on Friday, one of those
on the road things. So we're gonna

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try and get her at first chance
we get. And she's been good with

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us. She's been the candidate.
She could be. Uh, and let

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me say, and not to give
her an alibi, she's up against it.

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I mean, if you took the
job, guess what should be up

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against it? Exactly. Because this
is this is a big number. Now,

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I will say I tried to get
I reached out to a couple of

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prominent boosters on Friday. Did they
decline? One could not? Couldn't because

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not available right, just could say
out of town. I think it was

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Burt La but he said he couldn't. He was, he's in he was,

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he's in California and he's doing some
stuff. I asked another one who

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declined, who chose not to say, I have no comment. It's a

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sense of situation. I have no
comment on any of this. Was what

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was what that booster said? So
that's where I stopped. I just said,

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okay, if if that's kind of
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leave that. Then I went in. I tried to get Bruce. So

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this is this is part of the
problem. Uh, your your your dear

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friend of the u A. I
mean talking about the boosters. You've contributed

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a lot of money through the years. Now all this changes are these changes

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are happening. Do you continue to
be a dear friend? And how does

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that work? Because there's got to
be more coming from somewhere. Well,

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look, some of you know these
boosters, they're putting millions of dollars and

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a lot and a lot of money
going into this with the advent of nil

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and all that stuff. So there's
more money that they're that that's coming in.

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I think they're gonna want to know
sure, what's what's going on,

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how does this work? And is
uh they want to make sure their money

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is is being used, you know, one for its intended purpose, but

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two efficiently. Right when we take
the break here to before we speak to

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more, and I want you to
read what happened to the Wolf story.

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There's a line in there and will
have the same thing, just how you've

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a mismanaged the funds throughout the years
because they had Ernst and Young do their

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evaluation, and I'm thinking they could
have had Rivera and Gonzales evaluate because you

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know what they say, you've got
to sell the rights to the Michael.

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You got to sell the rights to
Arizona Stadium. That'll give you some money

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and then work your ass off at
the end of the day. That's what

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they're gonna have to do. That's
exactly what they're gonna have. And we've

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been talking about that at least the
rights. Yeah. And it's not even

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my money. Yeah, here's the
here's a rob Jay. We live in

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Tuson, Arizona. I love this
place. You love this place. It's

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not a rich town. There's only
so much money to go around. They

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need henery, they need to get
a good job so we can help.

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Well, and here's the thing they've
got they do. The University of Arizona

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does have let's call them supporters,
Okay, massive amounts of money. There's

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a whole bunch of them. Okay. The thing of it is that over

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the years they've pissed them off.
They've some of them been alienated. There's

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one in particular that you know that
we're talking about, who doesn't give them

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the time of day anymore. Right, And that that they got they got

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a lot of money from and and
and you know they they have to get

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back out there and and rebuild,
refurbish those relationships because it's more important than

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ever and and and it's a it's
an arms race, it's all. It

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already was an arms race with all
questions. It's even more of an arms

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race question, you know when you
think about the you know, the how

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how this thing is going to develop
and how the SEC and the Big ten

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are going to hoard all the money
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in college athletics. Yeah, there's
no question. And that story talks about

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that because that's the haves and have
nots. It's going to be like that

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for a while. And obviously you're
Arizona deep down, like you a grad

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and a fan of them, believe
that you deserve to be better than what

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you are, you know, you
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be competitive and and this that they're
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competitive at the highest level, and
financially they're not because it's just they're not

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for some of the reasons you talked
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or alienated. But now they have
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We got copper, okay, so
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this because I've heard this. People
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should be. I'd be, you
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department. I mean with my son. You know that he's you know,

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things didn't go great for him there, you know, in a different part

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of the university. If you're at
the University of Arizona right now, you've

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got you're worried. You're you're putting
your head on the pillow at night,

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wondering if tomorrow's your last day or
tomorrow they're gonna tell you your your last

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day's coming up. And I'm giving
your situation with BIZ Tucson. You know

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this. I guess Raytheon is the
number one employer here. I don't know

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number one. Ray John's number one
private employee. And then what about to

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you is the number one employer overall? Okay, so that's going to take

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a major hit right right all over
the school. Yeah. Well, no,

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I know, Steve, I know, and you and I have both

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been into this business a lot of
time. It hit me when the paper

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closed, I had to reinvent and
reinvent. Right, you're doing the same

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thing yourself over all these years.
Yep, still doing still still doing no,

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no, multiples are and we know
how difficult it is. Yeah,

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yeah, okay, that's said.
Let's set go to some good news on

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the other side. Yeah, lots
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recruiting side. So we decided to
bring in Matt Mardeno give us an idea

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of It was a big weekend for
Arizona, a big days too. It's

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continuing on today, so we'll talk
to Matt about all the recruiting is.

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how you doing doing great? Steve's
staying busy. Everything's picking up. It's

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been an interesting couple of days here, and it doesn't look like there's any

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signs of down. So it's a
fun time to, you know, be

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covering this team and covering college recruiting
for sure. So little Birdie told me

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that you're you're the busiest you've been
in a while. Yeah, I mean

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it's I'm trying to remember back to
the time that I've been as busy as

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I have been the last you know, several days here, and you know,

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June has been the month that's kind
of taken over for recruiting, especially

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the high school prospects because of uh, you know, you can sueeze official

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visits and over the course of these
two weeks here, and everyone wants to

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do the last visit before the dead
period happens in July, and so everyone

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kind of crams them into this last
weekend. So there's proper truths visiting all

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over. It's a bunch of different
schools, and Arizona's now kind of at

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least the teams that I cover,
Arizona has been the biggest beneficiary of a

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really strong weekend and a commitments so
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again, like I said, doesn't
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So class are gonna get filled in
a hurry, and it'll be interesting

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to see how it kind of all
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you know, when when you know
going into the weekend, you know,

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everybody's saying that, you know,
there's a big recruiting the weekend, Arizona's

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got a bunch of guys, expect
a bunch of commits afterwards. You wonder,

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though, you know, if somebody
commits right after their visit, how

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solid did those generally turn out to
be? I know, sometimes some are

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some aren't right, But you know, is it I guess let me ask

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it this way. In this era
of the you know the portal and you

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can go back and forth, do
commitments seem to be softer these days than

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they used to be? Honest was
saying, I mean, I think a

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lot of what you're seeing right now
is of recruits going well, I want

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to make my decision now because I
want to lock up my spot and I

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want to know at least I have
somewhere that I really like that I'm you

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know, comfortable going to. But
if something else comes across and plays out

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towards the end of the year,
then you know, things go ex change.

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I mean, I think it's more
than every kind of can't necessarily completely

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buy into the commitment right now.
There's just so much that can change.

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There's coaching changes that are going to
happen that are going to impact recruits across

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the country, not necessarily Arizona,
but you know places across the country as

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we saw lost off season, which
that was at Arizona, where you have

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coaching changes that kind of come very
late in the process and it changes things

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for a lot of recruits. And
so you know, for all those things

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that you mentioned, you know the
transfer portal and you know everything that's going

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on. I mean, it's it's
definitely a different type of feel. I

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think there's we get excited about commitments
and it's a strong sign of where things

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are headed and you know, the
job and a lot of the coaching staffs

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have done up to this point.
But to think that because the recruit is

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making the equipment today, that he's
going to end up signing or even playing,

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you know, with with the team
Nicks fall, you know that that

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could be a stretch in some cases. I think there's a lot of guys

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at Arizona has picked up the last
a couple of days that will stick and

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will eventually play for Arizona. I
think, you know, having a new

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coaching staff on board is a big
part of that. But you know,

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there's always a chance that this class
is going to look much different, you

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know, today than it will know
in December, and so I do think

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there's a reason to be excited,
like I said, but yeah, I

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think that to your point, I
think that you can't get fully fully invested

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in every one of these players because
it's kind of natural that, you know,

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one or two these guys, maybe
more will end up leaving the class

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and signing somewhere else. So that
that said, you said they had eight

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and less a couple of days or
a few lest few days. How good

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are they? It's on the uptick. That's that's the positive sign for Arizona.

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There was a little bit of maybe
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know, going back a little bit, but those are starting to be answered.

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And I think the last couple of
weeks have been very very good for

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Arizona. I've added some talented pieces, and I think think more importantly these

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last couple of days, it's in
the offensive line. You look at the

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players they've added up front and it's
impressive, and you look at some of

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the offers that a couple of those
guys have had on their list, and

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it's top programs across the country,
and so they really did need to address

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that. In this class, there's
been there's some veteran guys up front,

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and so they needed to make a
splash in terms of offensive line recruiting.

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They're not gonna blow anybody away there. In terms of their stars, you

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know, their stars and all those
things, we don't. We have them

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all the three star recruits and and
you know fans will look at that in

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a certain way, but you have
to. If you look at the offer

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lists, they're really impressive. And
I think they added some real talent,

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beat out some top programs for a
couple of those guys, and I think

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that's something to really be excited about
if you're an Arizona fan. And then

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the end state recruiting, I think
is a big deal as well. You

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know, you have now three of
the top ten at least according to US

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and in our rankings, the rivals
rankings in Arizona. You're the top ten

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players are not committed to Arizona and
you know, staying home. And I

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think that's a really big deal.
And you flip one of them from as

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U, and so I think those
are couple of things to be really excited

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about. And like I said,
I think that the talent and the strength

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right now from this last group is
upfront with the offensive line, and I

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think those guys are really impressive and
are going to be making an impact for

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Arizona and the not be distant future. Tell us about this quarterback that he

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was at the Elite eleven, you
know event how good is he? Really

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impressive? Really really impressive. I
saw him earlier in the year, right

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right after he committed to cal and
I said this. I wasn't sold.

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I wasn't told that he was necessarily
a top tier guy. He gets a

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late invite to the Lead eleven.
I know he had from really well at

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their previous at the regional camp in
Vegas to kind of get on the radar

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a little bit more and kind of
wipe the slate clean of that performance that

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I saw earlier in the year.
And he came to Lead eleven as a

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late invite at Tennessee commit got injured
and wasn't able to participate, so they

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brought in Robert McDaniel. He was, you know, since committed to Arizona,

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and I was kind of a I
think there wasn't a lot of expectations

407
00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:03.920
for what he was going to do, and he kind of blew everyone away.

408
00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:07.920
The second day, in particular the
pro day, where it's a little

409
00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:11.359
bit of a difficult challenge, you
have to make a lot of difficult throws,

410
00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:14.000
and then he really shined on that
day and separate himself from the seven

411
00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:17.880
on seven period. The next day, there several events of the course of

412
00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:21.559
three a's and seven on seven year
passing against defense. The rest of the

413
00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:22.720
days it's kind of just on air, so you can't really get a true

414
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.599
gauge of everything. But the last
day, you know, he was seven

415
00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:30.240
on seven and going up against the
defense and he was impressive there. So

416
00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:33.039
he really helped himself. I would
imagine he's going to get a bump and

417
00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.640
ranking across the board and really kind
of looks the part. I was really

418
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:41.559
impressed by his footwork. Again,
a chance to really kind of see him

419
00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:45.359
do some different things for the first
time in person. I think was enlightening

420
00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:48.359
to kind of about his game and
what he's about. But you know,

421
00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:52.480
he came to LA and really handled
his business, and it's hard to do

422
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:55.599
that. There was a lot of
the top quarterbacks there, including Julian Lewis

423
00:26:55.720 --> 00:27:00.400
is the number one prospect in the
class committed usc All, a lot most

424
00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.160
of the top quarterbacks were in attendance, and he really held his own and

425
00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.119
really outshine them in a lot of
ways at different moments. And so he

426
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:10.319
helped himself a lot. And I
think it's that fair has done up very

427
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:11.920
well for the future. But the
flip side of that is that now he's

428
00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.559
again going to put himself on the
radar for other programs at that position.

429
00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:19.519
It's a little bit different because a
lot of the programs already have their guy

430
00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:23.519
committed. Quarterbacks tend to decide really
really early on in the process, so

431
00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:27.359
maybe there's not as many options.
But I have to imagine if somethings change

432
00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:30.160
and some guys, you know,
leave early, or something opens up down

433
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.480
the line, that he's going to
get some more looks and potentially add some

434
00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:36.480
more offers before it's time to sign. And so it'll be interesting to see

435
00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.200
if that happens. But I know
he really likes Arizona. He was just

436
00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:42.000
on campus again this last weekend.
His family really likes Arizona. He had

437
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.880
a connection to the to the current
Arizona staff back when they were at Santase

438
00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.359
State. He's in northern California recruit
a small town in northern California, and

439
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:52.160
so he really fills a bond with
this coaching staff and so I think that

440
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:56.559
played into it as well. But
the opportunity to potentially step on the field

441
00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:59.279
early is going to be a big
deal for him. And so I wasn't

442
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:00.279
again sold but that he is going
to be that guy, that type of

443
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.240
guy. But I think I'm more
convinced of that after seeing him off.

444
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.160
So heak at wait eleven. So
so, Matt, I always asked this

445
00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.240
question, uh, to two coaches
or whatever, but what do you think,

446
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:18.480
uh, Brennan's secret, sauces?
Does he does he have a personality

447
00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.200
that kind of sways him to come
here? Uh? What's your secret to

448
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:26.359
get him here? Yeah? I
think personality. It's all personality right now.

449
00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:29.079
And and I think, uh,
you know, until they can kind

450
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.920
of prove what they are in terms
of playing coaching at this level and coaching

451
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:37.200
players and building systems and schemes to
you know, perform at the highest level,

452
00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.400
I think there's still be maybe some
questions about it. But you know,

453
00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:44.039
talking to recruits, have you committed
in these last couple of days and

454
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:48.319
even before that, there's a kind
of a mix of personality and then especially

455
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.839
on the defensive side of someone like
Bwayne Keane. He's been very, very

456
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:56.079
key to this entire process. He's
been really active, He's been you know,

457
00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:59.359
he's been out on the road and
he's been making the phone calls and

458
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:02.400
it's been a part of the whole
process. And I think kind of from

459
00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:06.559
starting with him on down, we
always kind of talked about this, but

460
00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:08.799
the guys that he's been able to
coach to the next level, everybody wants

461
00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:11.720
play in the NFL, and I
think that they see a lot of those

462
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.119
connections with his staff. Obviously was
you know, Jetfish. That was kind

463
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:18.160
of his deal, is selling players
and recruits on the opportunity to play at

464
00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.160
the next level and his connections to
the NFL. But there's still that kind

465
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:26.359
of involved here with this kind of
staff under Brent Brennan, and a lot

466
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.039
of players have gravitated for that.
But I think he just the personality and

467
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.319
someone brought up today the culture that
he's building right now, and I think

468
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.880
the players on the team deserves a
lot of credit. I think no Fafita

469
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:41.200
temat a lot of these players are
doing a lot when these recruits get on

470
00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:45.079
campus to sell the program, and
that can be more important than almost anything

471
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:48.359
in this entire process. And so
I think it's that. I think it's

472
00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:53.079
kind of the the culture and the
personality that that Brent Brennan has. And

473
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:56.559
I think you know, there's been
moments where you see pictures that come out

474
00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:59.599
and he's wearing sunglasses and he's taking
pictures. He's not afraid to be goofy.

475
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:02.960
And I think the more that recruits
get around those types of people,

476
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.319
I think that really resonates. You're
finding that, you know, fewer recruits

477
00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:10.680
and is not a real surprise.
Few recruits kind of want, you know,

478
00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:11.720
that coach that is going to coach
them hard. They kind of want

479
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.759
something they can kind of have a
conversation with. And so that's becoming more

480
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.240
of the norm. And I think
being willing to be goofy, being willing

481
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:21.200
to be transparent, I think that's
come across as well with this current staff

482
00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:22.759
of like, hey, this is
what our situation looks like, is what

483
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.480
it's going to look like, this
is how you're going to get on the

484
00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:29.720
field. Now, feeling like they're
being sold on something that is inaccurate.

485
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:32.119
I think has been important as well, and so I think it's you know,

486
00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:33.799
all those things kind of playing to
it. But I think personality definitely

487
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.279
at the forefront. And I think
Brent Brennan being willing to kind of,

488
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:42.519
you know, provide that entertainment for
these recruits and they come out all these

489
00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:45.960
visits and be someone that they feel
like they can go to and just have

490
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.279
a normal conversation with. I think
has been really a big part of this

491
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.119
whole thing. So I was going
to ask you this because I would assume

492
00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.319
that the culture and the and the
looking forward to NFL or whatever it was

493
00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:00.400
under Jet as well, and they
were moving in the right direction. And

494
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.680
then you use the work transparency that
kind of screwed my pushing up. But

495
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:08.359
but isn't it the same kind of
what Jed tried to do? Absolutely?

496
00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:11.319
And I think that there's, you
know, a lot of similarities. I

497
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:12.200
don't think that you can I don't
think you have to be like, hey,

498
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:15.480
we're doing things different. I think
they're doing a lot of the same

499
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.000
thing. And Jed was a very
good recruiter. I'm not I'm not somebody

500
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:21.039
who's like, man, Jedfish is
a bad guy, Like I think he

501
00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:22.680
was doing a lot of the right
things. You don't get a Troo McMillan,

502
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.759
you don't get some of these guys
that he was getting by being a

503
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.039
bad recruiter. He was doing a
very good job, and they were recruit

504
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.920
at a high level. I think
they've they've taken on a lot of those

505
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:34.000
same things. And whether that's by
designer, that's just naturally how they are.

506
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.599
But you know, the staff has
been good recruiters at their previous stoffs,

507
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:40.920
and they've been you know, they're
a good recruiters at fantas they say,

508
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:42.759
and a lot of times just a
bigger school came in and you know,

509
00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:47.000
pulled someone out of their hands.
And so I don't think anything they're

510
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:49.559
doing as a shock and again I
think they probably do, you know,

511
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:53.359
need to give some credit to the
to the previous staff and because there is

512
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:56.319
kind of a blueprint and an outline
for how you do it, and I

513
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.440
think they're kind of falling in line. They're doing They are doing some things

514
00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:01.519
their own way. They're really diving
deep into Texas and you know a lot

515
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:05.960
of coaching staffs previously have been a
little bit afraid to do that heavily and

516
00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:07.799
as heavily as are zone As being
right now. And then I think the

517
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.279
other thing is just that they can't
kind of take But I think Brent Brendan,

518
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:16.039
having you know, his connections to
previous Arizona eras, understands that the

519
00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:21.200
importance of the Polynesian connection, and
that's something that they've really kind of expanded

520
00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:22.640
on, I think, even more
so than you know, Jet Fish and

521
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:24.839
is previous staff. I think there
was a hint of that and there's definitely

522
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.759
wanting to get paul Asian players at
Arizona. There was that desire, but

523
00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:32.119
I think his coaching staff has taken
that to another level. And so there

524
00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.839
are some different things that they're doing
within kind of their plan and their method

525
00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:40.519
for bringing recruits in Arizona, but
there are a lot of similarities as well.

526
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:44.720
And so again, I think it
was one of those things where if

527
00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:45.759
you can kind of see how it
was working and how it was going,

528
00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:49.920
you just kind of step in and
continue to do the same things and maybe

529
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.400
you know, expand on it and
kind of make it your own unique path.

530
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:54.319
But yeah, there are a lot
of similarities to what the previous staff

531
00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:59.480
was doing and what this current staff
is trying to do right now. All

532
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.039
right, but talking to man,
what I know from rivals and Gooiseycats dot

533
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:06.440
gone real quick, Man, you
were at that basketball event up up in

534
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:09.799
Phoenix. Uh, everybody was there. You guys were reporting you know who,

535
00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:13.720
you know who the coaches are watching, whatnot. Oh what did you

536
00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:16.160
get out of that for as it
relates to Arizona. Yeah, I mean

537
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:19.880
there's a handful of recruits that Arizona
really likes. It's kind of the same

538
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:22.119
old, same old from Tommy Wood. I think that you know, he's

539
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.079
he's going to evaluate different options and
there's some different players that they have their

540
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:28.480
eye on, but they really hone
in on the guys they really like.

541
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:31.000
And so there's really only kind of
a handful of guys that had Tom Lloyd

542
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:34.640
at all of their games, and
so you know, those guys start to

543
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.640
come from the come to the forefront
and there's a lot of talent that they're

544
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.200
looking at, but a lot of
competition as well. There's you know a

545
00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:44.839
lot of these recruits that Tommy Lloyd
was watching and he looked over and there

546
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:47.240
was other head coaches, you know, Mark Pope from Kentucky with you know

547
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:52.039
in attendance as well, and Scott
Drew and Bill self and you look at

548
00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.319
down the line and there's a lot
of a lot of top coaches that Tommy

549
00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:57.799
Lloyd is sitting next to you and
trying to battle for the same recruits.

550
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:01.359
And so I think Arizona's approach has
kind of been well established by this point,

551
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:05.920
and Tommy Lloyd, they're not going
to stress, they're not gonna overthink

552
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:07.320
it. They're just going to kind
of do their due diligence and let recruits

553
00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:09.320
go like, hey, we want
you, and we're making it clear that

554
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:13.760
you're a priority, and not putting
too much pressure to commit. And I

555
00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:15.119
think a lot of those things have
done well for Arizona in the past.

556
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:17.440
And so, uh, you know, kind of the same deal from from

557
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:21.719
Tommy Lloyd. He's never he's never
looking stressed out on the recruiting trail,

558
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.039
and that was the case this weekend. He was having a lot of conversations

559
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:28.559
with other coaches and I really kind
of honed in on the guys they really

560
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:30.760
like. And so we'll see kind
of how that plays out, because they're

561
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:34.480
going to start taking place a little
bit more rapidly, you know, as

562
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.760
the summer approaches and really gets going. And so we'll see where that's out.

563
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:39.559
But Arizona's in a good position with
a lot of top guys, and

564
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:43.440
I think that will continue to be
the case until those guys make some decisions.

565
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:45.320
I've never seen Tommy Lloyd stressed,
and I didn't see him stressed against

566
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:52.039
Clemson either, so maybe he needed
to stress. Yeah, thanks a bunch,

567
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.119
man, thanks a bunch, if
you will, absolutely, thank you,

568
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:58.840
thank you. All right, it
was good, you know, so

569
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:00.840
much going on. I don't know
how these I still don't know how these

570
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:02.480
guys do it. No, Yeah, the twenty four seven guys, all

571
00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:06.519
the energy that they have to do
that, you know, not just one

572
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:07.920
school, a lot of school Yeah, Matt, I mean Matt's covered a

573
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:12.320
bunch of schools. He's not just
in Arizona, right, crazy. The

574
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.239
good thing is you don't have to
you know what, We'll just get mad

575
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:16.119
on and tell us all about it. That's what we do. I hate,

576
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:19.800
and you know how much I hate
recruit absolutely. Yeah, Okay,

577
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.199
just take the break, all right, come out, take some calls maybe,

578
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:24.079
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welcome back to my I on the Ball

610
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here, Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Rivera. He's jacobsaus Have Henry

611
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:47.159
today manning the board. If you
want to call us five two o four

612
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one six seventy four forty you'd love
to hear from you. A lot of

613
00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:55.159
things going on. We gotta call. Okay, Hi, you're on the

614
00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:59.599
air and I on the ball.
How's it going today? What's up Brian?

615
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:02.519
Well, welcome back, Steve.
I'm very sorry for your loss.

616
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:07.920
Thank you. I appreciate it also
too. I don't want to be the

617
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:16.360
the Steve Rivera downer guy on a
recruiting but but but everybody has to remember

618
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:22.920
that you commit to anything doesn't mean
anything anymore exactly right, you know,

619
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.840
because in two weeks, all these
guys are we who committed could change their

620
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:31.760
mind and go somewhere else. Well
and that and that's the point that Matt

621
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:36.639
made predicted about the quarterback. Right, Okay, Now you know this quarterback

622
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:38.679
has said he's committed to Arizona.
Now he's on everybody's radar, and say,

623
00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:40.679
oh, this guy's going to Arizona. We got to check him out,

624
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.239
right. But you know, but
but even even when they even when

625
00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:50.079
they signed the letters, that doesn't
mean anything anymore. You know, they

626
00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:53.199
could still leave. Well you remember
that there was an I took advantage of

627
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:57.800
that the last week too. They've
got some players. They flipped some guy.

628
00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.679
So you can't say, you know, it works well way, where's

629
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:04.480
both ways? Yeah, I think
what people have to look at us when

630
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.960
they walk on campus and they enroll
in school, then we can get excited

631
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:12.760
about what we got really not until
then, right, and and that's it,

632
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.239
I mean, and you know what
it's like that even with the guys

633
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:19.039
that you have right until you know, until they're they're back and they're in

634
00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:21.920
their locker rooms and whatnot, you
know, you know, I mean,

635
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:23.280
there's that whole thing with to Cario
Davis, Right, how long did he

636
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:28.920
wait and wait and wait and wait
to say I'm staying you know, he

637
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.639
wasn't even being you just okay,
I'm in the portal. What he did

638
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:36.800
go in the portal, right to
Carrio Davis. Yeah, so he went

639
00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:37.760
in the portal and said, like
everybody just waiting, what are you going

640
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:42.039
to do and nothing, nothing,
nothing, nothing, and then he's back.

641
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.559
So, uh, not only are
you waiting for guys that commit,

642
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:49.239
you're waiting for guys who are already
here to figure out whether they're staying.

643
00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.239
Also too, you have to look
at what's going to happen. And it's

644
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:57.119
not too far away that a kid
who has been here for maybe played four

645
00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:59.719
or five games and all of a
sudden he said, I want to go

646
00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:02.679
over there instead and play finish the
rest of the season somewhere else. That's

647
00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:06.400
the next step in all this,
right right well, In fact, I

648
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:09.239
wrote a story about this when Miller
was here Sean uh No four years ago

649
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:14.400
and then from m might goodbye to
him and to me. He coached like

650
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:20.800
that in terms of having manion green
and the Nika the one that does so

651
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:22.679
he let him play, let him
have fun, let him play, did

652
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:25.880
really well. And then it's semester
break. Kind of turned it into his

653
00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.039
style, thinking that if he did
do that in the first semester, they

654
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:36.079
would have jumped right away, right
you know, but it's probably gonna happen

655
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:39.320
to it since the NCAA is losing
all of its power, that these kids

656
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:45.039
will transfer during a semester and be
able to play automatically. Is that is

657
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:47.480
that rule hasn't changed yet. I
don't think that's changed. I don't know.

658
00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:52.039
I can't I can't say. I
mean, we never thought all this

659
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:53.599
was going to happen two years ago. You're right, you're right. What's

660
00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:58.320
happened? Yeah, you're right,
Bright, you're right. Thanks Brian,

661
00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:01.079
thanks for not being Steve Rivera but
actually being Steve a bear. I know

662
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:12.559
I'm contagious. I hate to be
the bearer bad news. But but it's

663
00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:14.719
true. It's true. No,
it's true, It's totally true. And

664
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:15.800
and and you know, and and
like I said, Matt made that great

665
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:21.079
point on the quarterback. You know
he some people didn't probably don't even know

666
00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:22.960
who he was. And I said, well, this guy committed Arizona,

667
00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:25.039
he must be pretty good, so
let's go check him out. Right.

668
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:28.280
Well, then you go over there
and you waive some more money at him

669
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:30.679
or whatever, Like I said,
Arizona's benefited it too, not just this

670
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:34.960
year. To look at McMillan.
How he got here, Yeah, he

671
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:37.920
was at Oregon, right, probably
flipped him and he flipped him. Yeah

672
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.400
it look that's part of it now. And we all have to get used

673
00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:45.519
to it again, and it's not
fun because you feel like there's not this

674
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:49.519
you know, the whole uncertainty,
and you know, then people get pissed

675
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:52.280
and they say things to these kids
and stuff. And let me ask you,

676
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:54.760
because you're the fan of the room
and you you know, you have

677
00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:59.840
your friends who are fans of the
rooms a different level, is it tougher

678
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:06.000
now to be a fan because of
the situation that we're in now. No,

679
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:08.320
it's the same. That part of
it's the same. You know,

680
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:13.840
I'm you're you're you're You're a fan
because you're a fan of Arizona, right,

681
00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:16.760
not because you're a fan of TM
Mac or no Fafida. It just

682
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:20.800
happens. It just helps. It
helps that when those guys stay and now

683
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:22.679
you feel good about your team.
But you're gonna be a fan of Steve.

684
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:27.480
I was a fan of Arizona the
Sumonlan and Macavic years. Right,

685
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:37.159
Yeah, so you know, I
I don't think college fans unlike say pro

686
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:40.440
fans. I think college fans are
fans of their teams and not so much

687
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:45.760
fans of their players. Yes,
of course, right, you know,

688
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.960
in Major League Baseball or the NFL, NBA. Whoever a player leaves and

689
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.960
goes to another team, now you're
a fan of that team. Because here,

690
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:57.079
if a kid leaves, out of
sight, out of mind, he's

691
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:00.360
gone, right, Jed Fish has
left. Good luck Jed. You know,

692
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.039
and you know Arizona's not playing you
next year, so you're gone.

693
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:07.239
We don't we don't really care about
you anymore. Uh, you know,

694
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.679
and think of all the players that
left Arizona over time. You don't think

695
00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:14.119
about what I think. That's true
to a certain degree, certain degree.

696
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:15.239
I mean there's some well let me
tell the kid, the kid who went

697
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:22.559
to u U USC the receiver.
Yeah, yeah, or so people people

698
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:23.960
maybe not to watch the straight up, but they had a side eye,

699
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:27.800
all right, they were. They're
rooting against him over there. He's doing

700
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:30.840
to a degree, but not not
to the point where you know, a

701
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:36.639
player leaves and they take they take
your fandom with them. You're still a

702
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:38.920
fan of Arizona regardless of who's here. Sure, So in that car,

703
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:43.360
in that regard, it's not it's
not harder to be a fan and you're

704
00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:45.880
still a fan. It's just you
just kind of don't like to me,

705
00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:50.400
it's more about I just don't like
what's happening to college athletics in general.

706
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:52.800
It's not affecting whether or not I'm
a fan of Arizona. Now, are

707
00:43:52.800 --> 00:44:00.679
there some some college football or basketball
fans or college athletics fans who are less

708
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:05.159
lesser fans because they don't like what's
going on across the board. Maybe they're

709
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:08.119
not buying season tickets because they're just
hate what's happening. Yeah, there's probably

710
00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:10.239
some of that. Okay, that
said, I don't I don't think you

711
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:14.840
attend to do your homework yet.
Okay, So so now you're you,

712
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:17.440
you have money in your pocket,
and you've been giving, you've been giving,

713
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:21.639
and now the school needs help,
the clic department needs help, the

714
00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:23.840
players need help. There's three different
and Bobby, more than that. Are

715
00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:29.440
you knowing what you'read how are you
inclined to well, you know what,

716
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:36.800
if I'm the one hundred five hundred
thousand dollars donor per year doesn't affect me

717
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:39.519
at all. What effect what would
affect me is if I'm the million dollar

718
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:45.800
two million dollar house house, and
that I want to know where my money's

719
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:49.519
going, and that you're in that
you're not screwing it up because I'm making

720
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:52.079
an investment in you, and I
want to make sure that when I make

721
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:58.159
an investment that you're not pissing away
my two million dollars on because you're your

722
00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:01.400
budgeting system is all screwed up,
or you're giving away too many tickets or

723
00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:06.519
all these things that were pointed out
in the in the Ernstin Young report,

724
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:08.599
you know. So, I think
if you're a donor who gives away a

725
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:13.760
significant amount of money, by that, I'm gonna say maybe in the fifty

726
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:17.280
thousand plus range. You want to
know that money is being used properly.

727
00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:22.480
That's what you want to know.
My thousand dollars or my five hundred dollars,

728
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:23.400
you know, I pay on a
seat license, you know, the

729
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:30.000
seat license or whatever. I'm not
worried about that. Now if I'm somebody

730
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:36.159
who maybe I've come into some money
and they've come looking for me, and

731
00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:38.920
they you know, and I'm gonna
ask questions like, how do I know

732
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:44.800
if I give you this one hundred
thousand dollars that it's going to the right

733
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:46.800
place or you're using it the right
way and you're not screwing it up as

734
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.840
I give it to you. So
let me let me ask you this because

735
00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:52.960
we live in a blame pool society. I don't live that way, but

736
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:59.280
let me do it in a small
degree. But who's to blame for this

737
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:04.400
mess? Or is there or it
goes everywhere, it's all over the place,

738
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:08.599
Steve, you know it's it's it's
the department head who wasn't didn't know

739
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:13.039
what their budget was and didn't ask
the questions about it. Right, am

740
00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:15.519
I Am I spending too much money? Or am I not right? Or

741
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:17.840
they just went around and said,
okay, well nobody's telling me not to

742
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.000
spend it, so I'm gonna spend
it right. That's it seems like that's

743
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.000
what was going on in the department, right, athletic department. The people

744
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:29.360
in the athletic department were spending money
that they didn't know whether or not they

745
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.760
had it right. That's that's what
that report seems to suggest. Okay,

746
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:38.840
at the highest levels, when you're
talking about the CFO and the athletic director

747
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:45.559
and you know these department heads,
you have to know that they had to

748
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:49.519
think maybe this stuff's out of control, but nobody really ever said anything.

749
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.880
Right, they say, Okay,
if nobody's gonna come and bug me about

750
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:54.440
what I'm doing. Then I'm just
gonna keep going what I'm doing, right,

751
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:59.480
and then you're in a cross word. Then ultimately the whole thing comes

752
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:05.000
crashing down. Now, this report
just came out, but I have to

753
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:08.800
think that do you have anew knew
about a lot of this even before?

754
00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:12.960
And that's why I'm thinking, Dave, he he's not here anymore? Sure?

755
00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:15.199
Sure? Okay, Well, because
ultimately he was driving the wagon.

756
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:19.400
We talked about that. They're talking
about the report for a long time.

757
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:21.800
Right, what's gonna come of it? What's gonna come of it? What's

758
00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:24.119
gonna come up? And eventually this
is what's come of it. I was

759
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:28.360
gonna ask you, now, do
you believe I believe it's not the right

760
00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:30.119
word to put you on the spot, But we had the president on here

761
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:32.880
a few months ago, a couple
of months ago. He talked about getting

762
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:37.400
out in eighteen months or whatever.
Right, eighteen months, Yeah, look

763
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.679
there he'll be gone if they find
a new president. But no, but

764
00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.000
the situation would be fixed in eighteen
months, I think, he said.

765
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:49.639
Because we even threw that at Yeah, I mean, I wishful think I

766
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:54.280
don't see how wishful think because it
talked three to six years of really major

767
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:59.679
cuts and Addie and are you willing? Are you willing or your fan base?

768
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:02.039
Your friend and fan base? Uh, they said fifteen to forty percent

769
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:07.760
increase in tickets. Again for in
a city that's that's not very wealthy.

770
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.039
Yeah, they're gonna lose some,
but I I'm gonna still buy tickets.

771
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:14.519
I'm not gonna stop buying. Picture
to me, it's like it's like a

772
00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:19.199
uh circle here, you're having the
more you're spending more, How are you

773
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:22.840
gonna get this where you're gonna get
them from more. I fully expect ticket

774
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:27.280
prices to increase pretty dramatically over the
next seven I really do. They already

775
00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:30.400
went up this last year. Now
you know they I got the increase with

776
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:31.360
Okay, I can do I can
deal with that. You know, they're

777
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:35.440
gonna have to do it in a
way that people that they don't just bludgeon

778
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:39.239
people and they lose a bunch of
people. But if you're if you're a

779
00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:45.039
season ticket holder or just that somebody
who goes to games, just come to

780
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:46.320
grips with the fact that it's gonna
cost you more. And that's the way

781
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:49.920
it is. I mean, it
has in it has in the major leagues,

782
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:52.960
you know, in the in the
major pro sports, you know,

783
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.039
going to I mean we've talked about
going It costs you three four hundred dollars

784
00:48:55.079 --> 00:49:00.440
just to go to a single,
a single Diamondbacks baseball game. I went.

785
00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:01.360
I went to the Reds, right, Yeah, done to a few

786
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:06.960
times, uh parking, And I
got tickets from from a friend. Yeah.

787
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:10.239
Well, and beers are twenty pretty
much eight ten bucks whatever you're spending

788
00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:14.400
at least a hundred and when you
get tickets. Six of us went to

789
00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:19.000
a game, just the tickets,
and we sat up in the noseblad and

790
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.239
just the tickets was three hundred dollars
for six of you for six five fifty

791
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:25.039
bucks. And then you didn't go
there next to eat right right, and

792
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:29.159
then you got I mean we probably
that night as a group of six,

793
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:35.199
I'm gonna say we spent six hundred
dollars five six hundred dollars, twelve hundred

794
00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.280
total. No, no, total, Well, tickets were three okay,

795
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:40.480
yeah, tickets for three, and
then probably another three hundred some food I

796
00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:44.519
spent. I spent one hundred and
twenty bucks on food at a U of

797
00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:47.119
a baseball game recently, I'm like
you, it was a crap hot dog,

798
00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:53.320
crap hot dogs. And they still
they still don't serve the nachos the

799
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:58.320
way I want to serve of the
damn nachos. You completely, you can

800
00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:00.519
put it. That's part of it. But that's part of it. You

801
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:05.000
know. The price of the price
of going to games like that has gone

802
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:07.199
up, and it's it's just the
way it is. And if you look,

803
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:09.280
if you don't want to pay that, then don't. It's up to

804
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:13.639
you. That's a that's a personal
decision, and that's the problems. And

805
00:50:13.639 --> 00:50:15.599
that's the problem. But because they
need people to go to the game,

806
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:19.880
right And I think I've said this
before. You know, major league fans,

807
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.159
you know, the pro fans,
the NFL fans, the NBA fans,

808
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:24.639
major League Baseball fans, they're going
to go to games the Maria well,

809
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:29.880
major League Baseball, lesson say it. And NFL NFL fans they're playing.

810
00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:32.400
They're paying out of their you know
what for football tickets. But those

811
00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:37.760
stadiums are still full. And it's
a fortune to go to a foot an

812
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NFL game. It's a fortune to
go to the NFL. I mean parking

813
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:47.079
at Parking outside the Cardinal Stadium is
fifty bucks. Fifty dollars. That's why

814
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:51.400
people are getting big screens TVs and
they're watching it from home for a two

815
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:53.480
dollars beer. You see these guys, who see these guys who just put

816
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:57.199
a fence around a dirt lot and
they just make a whole bunch of money

817
00:50:57.239 --> 00:50:59.400
over the course of a baseball season. Yeah, you know, because they're

818
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:02.880
charging twenty I have thirty forty dollars
to park within walking distance of a stadium.

819
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:07.280
It used to be five bucks.
But you know it's the cost of

820
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:09.400
this is going up for everybody,
right, Well, they got to pay

821
00:51:09.400 --> 00:51:14.639
those athletes millions and millions of dogs. Good luck with that. Remember,

822
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:16.400
I'm not a sportsman. You're not
for a reasons, Yeah, exactly.

823
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:20.400
But at that part is good for
you on that one, because now you

824
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:22.440
don't feel compelled to. But yeah, I mean you went to a ball

825
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:25.039
game though, but you are a
fan enough that you might want to go

826
00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:28.440
check out a ball game. Sure, sure, yeah, just to see,

827
00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:30.079
just to enjoy it. I'll probably
go to another one sometime soon.

828
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:35.159
But you know, I have to
not to watch it, but to just

829
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:38.920
to wick away. You know,
go to an event that their fun events

830
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:42.679
to go to. They're exciting,
it's cool, you know, being at

831
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:45.760
a baseball game is very cool.
But then you go to the snack bar

832
00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:47.800
and you go, god, dang, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna diet.

833
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:52.159
I'm gonna die it. I get
one dog or half a hot dog

834
00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:58.480
by to one hot dog for two
of us. Well, we're through the

835
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first hour. Thankfully, we got
through this and no problem. Thank you

836
00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:04.000
very much for what I know.
Now we're going to get to the next

837
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hour with a lot of breaking news
and then Michael led with some clarity maybe

838
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:12.960
on the finances. If he's got
clarity, he's a genius, right,

839
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:15.079
he's a genius. Okay, all
right, we'll be right back.