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Earlier today, the College Football Association announced that the new format for the
new twelve team Playoff, which will be starting next season, and it will
be the five highest ranked conference champions in the twelve team playoff along with the
next seven highest ranked teams. What do you guys think about that? Well,
that they had to make that change, right because well, the way
they built it for six and six and six was that you had the five
conference champion, the five Power five conference champions, and then a group of
five champions with the PAC twelve gone sort of. I think what this does
is leave open the door for whatever Washington State and Oregon State do in terms
of a conference or whatever, that they have a chance to get in if
they go crazy. But it'll be the it'll obviously be the four UH power
the Power four now Conference champions, Big twelve PAC twelve, I'm Big twelve,
Big ten sec ACC will get in, and then somebody from either the
group of five or maybe that includes Washington State and Oregon State or a sitate
in Oregon State have a shot at that large or something like this, and
then the next just seven highest ranked highest rank right, the committee is still
going to do the rankings, and basically the top twelve team, the conference
champions, and the and the every other seven highest ranked teams probably theoretically the
top twelve teams in the rankings get in the tournament. You know, they're
already talking about haven't even played the first twelve team tournament. I'm already talking
about expanding it just sixteen because it's only two years. The contract runs out
in two years. The current uh TV contract for the playoff runs out in
two years. They're already talking about in two years, let's go to fourteen
or sixteen. They have to go to sixteen and just end it there.
I mean, come on, twelve is weird, sixteen is perfect UH and
they'll go to sixty eight if basically by the time we die and It's the
same thing with the NC double. As they're talking about going to ninety six,
they're adding adding uh, who does adding thirty adding thirty two teams,
adding thirty two teams and then a bount your thirty two will have a first
round by Yeah. I think we talked about this a while back when they
said, yeah, no, what point do you get what is wrong with
it? What point? What point do you say there's gotta be some specialty
to this. You play the season to become specialists or be qualified for it.
There's nothing wrong with the everybody gets a trophy time of situation. You're
you're hey, we're nine and two, nine and fifteen, but hey,
we're in the door in the tournament. There's nothing wrong with the tournament.
There's nothing that needs to be fixed with the with the basketball tournament. Nothing.
It's perfect. It's the most exciting time of the year. It is.
I love single elimination basketball, totally agree. All right, okay,
I'll stop up next. The PAC twelve appointed. I think this was today
too, Teresa Good to lead the conference as a new commissioner. I know
last we were talking about whatever that means, right, I mean that was
the first thing that people were saying. Okay, so she's the commissioner of
what the PAC twelve, the dwindling PAC twelve. Well, I mean they're
still on the for two more years. You know, the PAC twelve still
has a seat at the table, for instance, in the college football playoff
and other things where So, I mean the thing the misconception is that PAC
twelve has ceased to exist. It hasn't. It's still got two teams left
in it as an entity. It exists, right, which is kind of
weird, But you know whatever, I mean, she's she was the deputy
commissioner, so she just basically stepping into the job and playoff cough is gone
and whatever millions of dollars he was making doing that packed the Pack twelve saves.
Yeah, I think they god be interesting to see what happens with the
PAC twelve. It's sad but swindling down. So maybe she can turn it
around and make something. Yeah, build something out of it, build it
back up. It still won't be the Pack twelve. Never again. Yeah
again. Now moving on to baseball, the PAC twelve first Picture of the
Week was announced this this week and it is Arizona's Jackson Kent And this is
the third time in the year Arizona's picture got the first picture of the week
of the season. So that's interesting that Arizona is always starting off strong.
Well, they had a nice weekend, right Northeastern any think Northeastern like it
really Northeastern, but they are ranked twenty third and Arizona is not ranked.
They're not ranked and they're playing right now though. Yeah, and they win
two our three, So that's a good start for chip. Hale like kind
a clip of his of his inurvim and said it was a big deal to
them that, Yeah, Northeastern came here ranked in Arizona was not. Then
they took a little as we say, Steve, you try to get some
momentum with that. Okay, Okay, I got miss momentum here. Yeah,
I won't argue. Okay, they maybe they do have little momentum because
they're playing Utah Tech right now and they're up thirteen to four, or they're
just playing a bad team, right, that's what you said by as U.
Two give them no credit matters. I mean, yes, it matters.
But four, I'll let you guys enjoy your time. They're winning you
they're winning and that's all them and that matters, right, they're winning right.
Yes, that's interesting though that they always start with packed past three years
Pactal Picture of the week first one, oh yeah, the last three yeah,
the last three years okay. And then in the USA today came out
with the softball coaches pool for softball today and there were seven of the pack.
Twelve teams were in the top twenty five. Arizona is number twenty two.
Who's whore's you? Two? Three? Four? I lost? Okay,
if you can't still number one, I think, yeah, why did
I? I saw that one? They could be yeah, could be.
And Stanford's in there. When did Stanford get they played they played Texas last
week solo on TV. When when did they get good? You know they've
been hot and hot and cold for a while, so yeah, I did
see that. But again another another situation where Arizona came in unranked and now
you know they had you know, they beat our Arkansas in their in their
tournament, and so they're they're ranked. Well, they started the season five
and oh and then they lost since then, but the softball team has been
playing strong. And then did you guys see that buzzer beater last night.
You talk at U c l A. The last second it was blocked and
then he got a rebound and made it so they won by one point.
Was given the guy got ejected and yes, oh my gosh, that was
an assault, Like there wasn't assault. I'm like, what are you doing?
And and and in that fraction of a second before you did that?
What what in your mind set? This is the thing to do is to
throw this guy at forearm, shiver to the throat right as the ball goes
by, and everybody's looking at you and Cronin doing what he was doing with
a few bu he said the m F word. I saw that one I
saw that, but that that was I'm like, my thinking is that something
like that. It's not only just you're ejected, but you need to miss
another game or two. But you know what, So what came of it
was a he got tossed as he was out for the rest of the game,
and then they lose on a buzzer beater and the final play was was
was didn't they get a steal? Well? No, the thing was Mitt
Cronin got so out coached on this job because what they did is they did
that thing where they passed the ball to a guy out of bounds on the
baseline and then the guy who threw the ball to him just darted down the
court. It was their guard. He was wide open. They thrown and
there was nobody to stop him going down the lane. Now he did go
shoot the lay up high off the glass, and they missed, but they
had a guy there to to get to lay it in, get the rebound
and laid in. And it was the ball game. And you know,
ul A had like a two tenths of a second to do something with and
they were on the other end of the course, so they couldn't do anything
with that. And for anybody at UCLA who thought they still had a shot
it something, yeah, they're gonna. I mean they're fourth in the twelve.
You know they still have a chance. I mean, because they do
well. I think that there was one was gonna probably lose to them up
there, Pauli and then I'm not so sure anymore. Looked really bad right
today on February twenty first through whatever today, I mean that was ul A
was the game. We were down by nineteen right and gay back and they
were gonna play in use Paulie and we'll see. I think that's the only
one left. They're not very good. I just it was such an airport
team, but they don't play at airports. Sounded was kind of a rivalry
for a few years, you know, and then now there's not. The
rivalry is gone. Yeah, the rivalry. You have more stuff that was
it. I have. I have a couple of things just came into the
as he does this farm, the Wildcats, the tennis team, which we
know is very great and always play as well. The Wildcats completed the i
t A National Indoors in New York City and for the first time in program
history, they defeated number three Texas on Friday and number ten Texas A and
M. They did fall to number six Wisconsin, but now they're number nine
in the country, the highest rating ever in the program history. Wow,
did such And we you know, I don't know about how you feel about
this because you know, some of the coaches we talked about, who did
we think is the best coach today? I mean right now, we came
up with him and Shields. I mean, he turned that program around for
nothing, nothing, They were nothing, you know, With all due respect
to everybody, else. He's done a great job. He's done great.
Yeah, and like recruiting too, with like all those international players, and
yeah, he's going a long way for their players day right like this day,
like all four years and there's only isn't only ten people on the team.
Yep, it's a crazy small number, small number of people. So
yeah, good, good for Clancy Shields. I'm still looking for this post
that I saw that was talking about, you know, multiple bids for conferences
in the NCAA tournament, and I remember who put it up, so I
almost hesitate to quote it. But they had five for the five for the
Big twelve, which makes sense. I can't remember if it was five for
the SEC or the Big ten. Let me tell you, I'm not gonna
be here tomorrow, as we know, we haven't said ye, but I'm
part of a group of media up in the state and I'm going to Phoenix
tomorrow too. We're gonna do our own bracket to kind of project what's gonna
happen. And a big ten is one of my my things. I have
six, I said, Okay, then it must be the Big ten.
So then it must be that the SEC, the A C C, and
the PAC twelve are each only getting two according to this uh wherever's predicting this,
which I thought was really I mean, when we think of the a
C C they've got sixteen teams or whatever, we'll only getting only getting two
bids powerhouse. But I mean, and I remember there was one was North
Carolina. I'm assuming the other one was was Duke. Duke's number eight right
now, Yeah, so I can't but they had above yeah, it had
nobody else getting getting a bid, which I thought was kind of crazy to
imagine that that that the AEC would only get two. But I could be
wrong, It could be could be way wrong. So we'll see. But
you know, right now the PAC twelve has got Arizona, Washington State.
That's it right right? Well, Evenardi, I'm just going through now,
leonardis it with two? American with two? Uh? Acc with four with
four? Real quick? Uh? It looks like North Carolina, Duke Virginia
mm hmm. And I don't see the other one. It could be Pittsburgh.
Yeah. So anyways, just uh man, that's gonna be interesting.
It's gonna be it's gonna be a crazy time. We're gonna be a fun
time. Yeah. No, in fact, we're gonna be gone. Uh,
let's if you want to say anything about the Yeah, let's do that.
First of all, you're gonna be gone tomorrow. It's either gonna be
me and somebody Sammy's on Wednesday, Sam's on wednther canna be me and Samuel
al I might get I might get a guest host in here. But then
we found out over the weekend we got a bad break to your Vegas show.
No, we haven't mentioned anything about our Vegas show. We we you
know, last couple of years, three years now, right, tried to
do uh the Friday show in Vegas when we're up there for the packed off
tournament. Already we know Thursday and Friday, Wednesday and Thursday there are no
shows because we're both up there. I'm working the tournament. We've all we've
always had time to do it on Friday because the games, what's the first
game on Fridays at six o'clock Vegas time, and with daylight savings time not
in play yet, it would be seven o'clock Vegas time, So that gave
us time to do our show till five o'clock and then also over to the
arena. Well, we got two bad breaks. One daylight savings time is
before the tournament, and then they pushed the games up to five o'clock,
so the game is at five o'clock Vegas time and twoth On time, which
doesn't allow us to do the show. So you giving me a three day
break, three days off, so that week to get packed off tournament week.
We will be off the air Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We'll
be back here Monday to break it all down because right after then, you
know, we'll have NCAA Tournament brackets and the whole deal. But unfortunately,
no show from the park MGM on Friday, right, okay, but we'll
be up there doing whatever, yeah, doing the things that we do.
Yes, So anyway, so there you go. So no show on that
day. So anyways, but I'll be in here tomorrow and Steve is gonna
go off and play in the sandbox with his other NCAA tournament buddies. Yeah,
leave me here all by myself. You'll be fine. You'll be fine.
Your pay, Samuel, will you pip me in? Yeah? Yeah,
you know he has you know, you know he can. Good.
Look, let's all right, let's take our break. We're going to come
back, Mike Andrea uh still will be the innner. No, we have
a b I'm sorry, we got a break. Andrea fourth there so well
we your calls right, I'll give us a call in the next segment five
two zero four win sixty and then Mike Andre at about four thirty five.
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the ball. Here o'clock sports Fortune Cookie. I'm Steve, He's Jay.
We have an Elise. You know. We have a couple more items if
you want to talk about them, I guess we do so. Reagan name
Reagan's Shocky was named Pactball Freshman of the Week. Is a softball player for
first nice baseball player and a softball player all in the same week. Would
you have Jake and h men's golf won their tournament in Hawaii? They the
I forget the name of it. Who should coach? Jim Anderson? Jim?
We had him on like a week. What's your name? To remember?
Names? I couldn't remember least. It's the John Burns Intercollegiate. They've
they've wanted a few times, they've wanted four times. They were runner up
last year to BYU. The ranking ninth and they win this tournament and golf
is ninth and tennis and what how much be to be a golf with you?
And they go play in a tournament Hawaii, take you a couple of
weeks or take a week or so off, you know, play some golf.
Then they go to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico for their next tournament.
You're kidding. I'm not kidding. Here's the thing. And everybody, everybody
who doesn't know or isn't involved all this travel for these these other sports,
they're gonna be so, yeah, they're not going to study. They have
to go so far. Give me the violin. It gets a small one.
Anyways, three three Arizona guys were in the top nine. Yanick Maleik
finished second. Zach I guess I would read this as poo. I don't
know if it's Paulo p O l l o A finished tied for third.
Uh and who is the other one? Yeah, I don't know, but
I have a question for both you both you know. Okay, So,
so we've watched a pretty good basketball team. They're number four in the country
now, one spot from last week. So would you or or how could
this not be if Caleb Love is not the player of the year? Oh
yeah, I mean who you're gonna get it from Washington, Washington in Washington
State. I think it was so but I don't even stop there. What
are they twenty something and we're for like yeah, yeah, no, stop.
That's that's that thing of why Loot didn't win more Coaches Coach of the
Years in the conference, because well, they're Arizona, so they should be
good. And you know, uh, you know, Caleb Love is good
because the rest of the team is good. Let's give it to this guy
who plays on the team that sucks but is really good. Stop you agree
with you? I'm just Washington State doesn't suck. I know. But there's
not a player in the Pac twelve. No, there's player in the pack
pub that I would rather have on my team than Caleb Love. Yeah.
You put Caleb Love on any other team in the league, and they are
one hundred times better than they are. Yeah. Here we gotta call real
quick. Now let's take this higher on the air and on the ball.
How's it going today? What's up, Ryan? That's a beautiful day of
the ballpark. Oh you're at the baseball game. I just, I just,
I just I had an appointment I have to go to. I was
gonna say, you must not have a job. That's called retirement. That's
my job. Nice. Who do you have? What's up? Well?
Just you know it's it's gotta be Caleb Love. I mean, you know,
I can't see anybody. You know, I don't know anybody else.
I don't know anybody else conference. No, you don't. I mean,
who's consistably that good every game? You know? I mean he has his
days where he scored like five six points, but that triple overtime game.
Should have a lot of people should have woken up about him. I mean,
he had it, didn't have a great game until the overtime, until
it really mattered. Yeah, you know, and again there are days that
he has a great game and they win, and their days that we plays
doesn't score a million points and they win. And so he's right, he's
certainly you know, kind of the guy. Yeah, he's the he's the
reason. He's the reason. Yeah. So all right right, it was
great right out there for the baseball. Yeah. Look, good man,
I've got it on on my computer here. It looks like a nice sunshiny
day. Yeah, fifteen four. All right, all right man, sounds
good. Thanks Brian. We will talk later, Okay, Yeah, I'm
not sure. The guys from Washington State, there was another guy that they
the one of the announcers kept saying, Oh, he's gonna be in the
top ten, he's gonna be a lottery guys from Colorado. It was Colorado.
That's it, the guard, the guard. Yeah, they have him
as that, they have him as the lottery guy. Stop, that's the
good I'm trying to go through rosters right now. Stop, what's Colorado.
They're not ranked with their record, Yeah they're not. It's just weird how
they kind of threw this guy out and says what it might be. Even
the kid that there was on a recruit he's on Simpson Simpson. No,
it's not kJ Simpson, it's it's another kid. No, No, that's
another kid. But yeah, but that's another year, yeah Simpson. No.
But the guy that there, there's a guy from Colorado who's on who's
on a bunch of draft boards. And I saw his name on the draft
boards before the Arizona played Colorado, so I kind of kept an eye on.
Yeah, and he's stop, uh, I mean that guy. I'm
not sure the guy would start for Arizona, right, And and yet you
know they've they've got him on on on a bunch of mock drafts. I'm
like, who is this guy? I can't think of his name, but
yeah, well I think kJ Simpson was the other guy that thought. But
you know, none of them compared to what what Caleb is doing. Cody
Williams is a six to eight wing guy. I'm looking at, uh a
mock draft on the athletic and they've got him as a number four pick.
I'm like, I did not see that game, the number four pick,
no playing for Colorado neither year, No nor there. Well, I think
maybe he didn't play here because I think he and Tristan the Silvera were both
in there. But I saw him in there in the game up there,
and I didn't see a number of four factor. Yeah, taught trouble in
that game. But I think kJ Simpson was the part of the other guy
that they thought. I said, even if he has a great year,
it's still not better than Caleb's what he's done for his team. Right,
So you're saying Caleb love for Pack twelve Player of the Year, PAC twelve
player. Yeah, he's in mid season for other things in that. Now,
what do you think about national He's probably not the national player they're gonna
give. They're gonna give it to Zac eighty. But but he could make
second or third team All American. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Yeah
for sure. But you know, remember where we're at, We're not in
the central hub of media. So yeah, Jane Daniels won the freaking Heisman
Trophy over over Michael Pennix. I'm still better about that. Steve, You're
not never bitter, You're never. I'm bitter about that. Gay, but
you might want to check your DNA. You might son gave the homie.
Do you think gave the homie? I don't think so. What did you
think about Jaden Bradley coming off the bench twenty one points fair high, fantastic,
awesome, great game by him. I think that he probably uh it
was that was due for him. You know he would I'm saying he he
does love to attack the basket. Yeah. Speaking of Okay, I bookmarked
this Evan Mikawa, buddy, Yes, did you see his uh top ranked
freshman list? Please tell me Arizona's got a guy in the top five who
brother no top five? Yeah, of top freshmen in in in the country
crevas Nope, all the crevas is twelve? Okay? Who kJ Lewis?
Oh? Yeah, well, what's what's the criteria? It says uh uh
measures overall player value using the box Score stats, his his rating, you
know, his BPR rating, and he's got uh he's got the k A
J. Lewis in the five spot. Who was above him? A guy
from Kansas read Kentucky read Shepherd, guy named Stephen Castle from from Yukon.
And then another Kentucky guy Rob Dillingham. Okay, if you got two of
the best freshmen in the country, why are you where you are? Did
you see no hey, because he's call a party. Did you see Patino's
rant? He did? He went off? That was team Then you wonder,
then they wonder why guys shut down on them? Yeah, you know,
rip rip rip this, So I still need to shut up. I'm
out of here, man. He did. He went off on his boys.
Yeah, and then he says, I didn't really go off on anybody
specific. Y, you did names. He named names and positions. So
go to the Mayakawa all purpose guy. Whatever you see. If I'm sure
Jim Bradley is still there, let me see if I can find this.
Yeah, because Jane Jane Bradley is not a freshman, so yeah, no,
no, no, but he's the guy that you know, the impact
guy. Right. Let me let me look that up right now, because
your top ten players. Let's see looking looking looking, looking looking at don't
you don't yell at me, don't yell at me, don't yell let me
play raiding? Is this Jade and Bradley at eleven overall? Okay, but
in Arizona, in the Arizona system, specifically Arizona where the best player who
they you know, because because of the Pelly Pelley where he would be,
Well, that's Jane Bradley. He's ranked highest among Arizona guys. Really,
Yeah, and then you go down to forty five, pell at twenty nine
and Umar Bellow now in the on the top fifty at forty five. But
didn't it was that the same list that the individual players the impact that they
have. Yeah, I and Pelle was at the top for a while until
Jayden took over. Well, yeah, okay, the rankings on on the
Arizona on Arizona, Okay, Jade and Bradley, Pelly Larson is in order,
Lumar Bellow, Caleb Love, kJ Lewis, Kylon Boswell, Keisha Johnson,
and Crevis. Okay, but you again, you gots give me what's
the what's the headline on that, what's the category on that? It's just
that their overall uh importance or yeah, the BPR his whatever I can't Bayesian
performance rating, that's the that's the analytic that he's developed with his own theory.
Importance to the right, and it's and it's basically the importance to the
team and Jade and Bradley is at the top of that. You know,
that'd be a good question for for Tommy. You know, if I throw
this at you, would you believe this? You know you want to come
up, he yelled, He would come up with something. He doesn't like
those like two, these two deep questions. He doesn't like those who coming
from He'd be like, I don't know, Steve, I don't think about
Yeah, I just come to practice with game plan, want to pass the
ball. Well, well, here's the funny thing about it. We're just
talking about player of the year and and and he falls fourth or fifth on
that list, right on his team, honestly. Yeah, but imagine this
team without Caleb. Yeah, yeah, right, Well Pella only scored five
points on side, right, but he played well. And Pella can play
well without scoring a ton of points. He can play well defensively, he
does a lot of he did you know you think we're having this conversation.
Do you think he's an NBA player? No, you don't, not at
all. No chance. I wouldn't say no chance. Maybe fifteen chance.
You don't think he can go to the league, Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, but not that he's not somebody. Is he an NBA player?
Could he be? Could he make it in the NBA in some shape or
form in a few years? You think, well, he's a senior,
he's got he's leaving it if he goes to the league. Yeah, no,
I'm still sorry to say, but no, but hey, I didn't
think. I don't think mconnald's going to be one thing too, But then
all the other guys too. He's got, he's got. Hey, he
I can't say sorry because he's gonna make a ton of money wherever he goes,
whether it goes back home or hell. Yeah, And he's he's great
because he's a great spokesman for the team because they you know, they put
him up on the put him a lot. Yeah, he speaks well,
a good dude, very good player. But everyone must have better players here.
Yeah, that did not make him wondering if is what he does because
we often talk about because of Evan Mike, how we all often talk about
important he is to this team. Sure, you know he plays well.
They play well because he does so many different things when he's when his game
is up, it's up in so many areas of what they do. Defense,
ball, handling. Uh, you know, making score some points,
making some free throws. So in your guy, your group, do they
say, yes he is Yeah, I totally agree he's. No he where
would he play? He'd have to be a shooting too, And he's not
a good shooting. He's not that good shot. He's a decent. Yeah,
but this is the NBA you're paying millions to be Yeah, yeah,
you gotta be really good. Yeah. I don't want a kind of sort
of good doctor operating on. Yeah, I want an NBA doctor operated on.
Well, okay, he's a good doctor. No, I don't want
to do anyone. He's almost like not powerful enough. Yeah, he'll play
pros somewhere though. Oh yeah, yeah, of course, make a ton
of money. And he'll call me and say I don't know, I don't
know. He's gonna have to find the right spot. The guy can shoot
it, there's no question about that. Yeah. But let's remember too,
and this is a bad comparison, uh with with oh I just had his
name. He left because of uh, he's not because of Gilbert Arenas.
And he went to the new Mexicano Ruben Nun Thanks you is good. Look
at that pulled off so he left you because of Ruben Dougle, because of
gilbert A. Renas. He scored twenty eight twenty nine points a game for
New Mexico conscoot it, score it right. He was an NBA guy,
but he got a lot of shots up. Yeah, so you know what
I'm saying that you have to be a certain player. I'm looking. I'm
looking to see you. I've got the NBA draft net up. You pulled
that one from I don't really know it was good. He's got everything up
on that computer. I know he's not a computer. I could have pulled
will bind him if he said went to Georgia Tech, you could have pulled
that too. You know, sometimes Steve, it's like right there and other
times I don't know where it is. But yeah, let's go. Oh
we're way over. We got to go because he's going to cost him in
two minutes. All right, we got to get out of here. We'll
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Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox sportsporteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to I
on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, your
chicken dollus least at least what are you pointing the code? Now? The
phone microphone is on and okay, okay, we're having a hard time reaching.
Hope he calls us any moment now, uh to talk about what's going
on? If Youvey and his time as the a D I hope you got
a raise. Yeah you know, I mean I had a very short stinted
circle K a long time ago. So I don't know if that maybe Mike's
Mike's had a job for a shorter amount of time. Here we go,
here we comes. Let's take this Mike Candrea, is this you? This
is me? How are you? What do we call you? Now?
Are still the introm mate? No? Well I am for another few days?
Yeah, no, March. I've been dying to ask you. Have
you ever had a job for a shorter amount of time than this? Absolutely?
Not not not not like working a record, not like working at Circle
K or McDonald's or something like that. Well maybe maybe I worked out a
gold kart track one time a couple of days. How was how was your
moment in the sun? It's been good? Did you have fun? Do
you hear me? Yeah, we hear you. You know you probably got
an echo, but trying to ignore that because it's our phone system. Is
that better. Yes, yes, did you have you? I mean,
have you been having fun? I have been having fun. I mean it's
been it's been challenging. It's very enlightening to to get a I guess,
thirty thousand foot view of everything. You know, when you're coaching, you're
in the submarine, but you're only in a small submarine for your team.
But here it's you get a little bit of everything. It's it's pretty daunting.
It's it's quite a challenge, and especially in today's world. You know.
So, Mike, I noticed you sitting or standing up in your area
and obviously the president acknowledged you, and you're the goat. Obviously, how
was I going to say this? Shoot? You know it is to get
old. Oh. The one thing I noticed is you have you have your
colleague slash, you know, the ideas and all that coming up to you
and hugging you. I mean, people love you. People love you,
and I know that's not your intention, but that's how much respect you've you've
earned through the years. How does that feel? Well? God, you
know, you just hope you've treated people right. And I love this place
and I love the people, and you know, like I told them when
when Bobby called, I said, I wanted to be a band aid for
this little moment, but I wanted to be a good band aid. And
I think hopefully it gave everyone a little bit of comfort that, you know,
I could keep the chip sailing in the right direction and keep it out
of troubled waters. And and it's it's been fun, you know, it's
it's a wonderful place. I mean, I've forty years of blood, sweat
and tears. It's it's kind of kind of hard to just walk away when
when especially at a time like this, when it they need people, you
know, And I think Desiree said it perfectly. We have to cook on
to one another and continue to move forward. So did this hire happen a
little quicker than maybe you expected? Did you think you're going to be doing
this a little longer? I mean, what did you think? Where did
you think the hiring thing was? When you when you agree to do this?
You know, I did not know anything. Yeah, I definitely had
no idea what the timeline was going to be. And like I told Bobby,
whether he needed me for a day or a week, a month or
a year, I was prepared to do what I could do for him.
But yesterday about ten o'clock, I had gotten message that I was having a
meeting with him, and that's when I found out. Oh well, and
and and ten o two there was a a tickers saying that she was hired.
So it happened very quickly. Yeah. But so, yeah, you
weren't. You weren't involved in any of it then, is what I would
like? All right? No, absolutely not. So how Kney deep were
you able to get into anything right? Anything? Uh, the Tommy Lloyd
contract, any anything, any involvement there with Tommy Lloyd. Yes, I
definitely was a little bit. I mean, I'm definitely aware of what was
going on there. And uh, yeah, that was that was kind of
when I took took the chair, I said, you know, one of
the priorities that we have right now to get done and number one was getting
Tommy situated, and we got a chance to get that done. What are
the surprises that I didn't know? I'm not sure why I didn't know that
you were kind Heikey's right hand man, or at least assisted him for a
couple of years. How did that help you kind of step in that role
for a little bit because you kind of party already knew what was going on
financially and otherwise, well not really. I mean, the role I was
in with Dave was a special advisor to him, but basically my chore was
to work with the head coaches and so I had a monthly breakfast every month
with the head coaches and we just talked about you know, best practices and
any issues that they had and felt like I could be a voice to get
stuff up the ladder to Dave and give him a pulse on what our head
coaches were thinking. And I thought it was very effective and worked well.
And the reason why it works so well, I think is because of the
involvement we had with Tommy Lloyd and Jeff Fish. You know, both were
had a total buy in from them, and I think that made a huge
difference with all the other head coaches to know that if it was important to
them, then it should be important all of us. Well, this is
a good group, man, I'll tell you. I love I love this
coaching staff. I love the staff around here. I mean, we've got
good people and we've had some challenging moments from COVID on. You know,
it's been it's been rough, But I really believe that with the right leadership
and sounds like desire will be the right one. She's been through it before,
that we can come out on the other end in a better place.
You know, I'm saying here thinking to be a fly on the wall or
on the table or wherever around a meeting with all the all the head coaches
that at Arizona. But what are from that? You know, what are
the big issues? You know what what's kind of what are kind of the
universal issues for the coaching staff and you know what's on their mind and how
to do some of this stuff? Well, you know a lot of it
was, I mean anything from recruiting, you know, how can we how
can we get better at when we have people on campus to number one,
say money number two to give them the best look at what this place is
all about. And so we started doing a tailgate with football prior to football
games, which helped everyone. But it was just a hodgepodge of different things.
You know. Sometimes it was like for the first ten minutes a little
bit of a bitch session, but then after that it became productive and and
someone would step up with an issue, whether it's recruiting, or whether it's
dealing with players or you know, mental game. I mean, there's so
many different things that we had all this expertise in the room that unfortunately we
were never getting together to share our own expertise. And I thought this would
be a great venue to be able to put them all together in one run
and use one another and use the expertise on one another. And you know
it was it was fun. Well, it's funny you call it a bit
session, but that's when you really get to air things out and speak your
mind. I mean, that's how things get solved. Yeah, there's no
doubt. I think that one thing we learned was that, you know,
if we could have a collective voice on something, that it probably will get
done a lot quicker than if we have twenty people. But you know,
bitch about something but not really falling on the right ears. And so I
try to walk out of there every time with a kind of a plan to
bring to Dave about you know, here's here's the three top things that I
see right now that we need to start taking a look at. And a
lot of it, you know, was the big twelve transition. And I
mean there's so many things right now that are moving parts that it just gave
us a chance to sit down and talk. Is one one collective group.
So one of the things that desirely talked about bringing the group together no egos.
And I just told Jay earlier, says, come on, you have
a group of good coaches who are very good at what they do, very
good at what you do. They wouldn't be here otherwise than they're successful.
How do you not have an ego? But if that's a requirement of no
egos, there's a little you know, okay, a step back from them
or requirement. Well, yeah, they all they all have egos, but
they all have the same common goal, you know. And I think that
that's the nice part about coaching is it's a fraternity and we all have a
different process to get to the end result. But we all know what the
end result looks like and feels like, and you know, there's challenges along
the way. We know that the process isn't a straight line, you know,
it's sometimes a crooked line to get there. And so I just think
when coaches can get together and listen to other coaches, number one, realize
that they all have the same issues. But number two that there's a lot
of different approaches to get there. You know, Tommy is a very unique
guy. I mean, his teams look like they have fun, and he's
a very good communicator. And you know, Jed, on the other hand,
was a little different because he has so many different guys that it's being
able to manage the people underneath him to get the job done. And then
you have, you know, sports like tennis that you know you're kind of
at bare bones and it's an individual sport, but it's also a team sport.
So I think we all have a lot in common, and sometimes it's
learning different verbiage or getting a better idea of how to communicate something I think
is the gift of coaching. You know, That's why I think we all
go to coaches clinics. It's not like the game's going to change, but
sometimes how people do it and how people say it can make a difference.
So what I'm certain, I'm certain there were a lot of fans out there
who got a little uneasy when it came out that Tommy's contract hadn't been done,
that they were closed and now it might not be done for a while,
and stuff like that. From where you sat both as the intermad but
also is it just somebody in the department. Is there sort of a everybody
taking a deep breath now and saying, Okay, we got everything kind of
set. Now we can move on. How do get I think it's been
a while since we've been able to kind of take a deep breath and feel
good about what's in front of us. And I think right now, you
know, I feel good with our football program. I think Brent Brownham is
going to be a wonderful leader. He is going to be tremendous in his
community. He's a dictomy Disciples who I love dearly, and you know,
he his son means something to him. And I think Tommy has proven a
point that this is a very important part of his future because he wants to
be here. And I can't. I can't think of a better person to
run our programs. And then I mean, we just we have a whole
list of good coaches here. I mean, I think Idias had one of
her best years ever as a coach, taking what she's got and doing the
josh he's doing right now. And you know, Chip Hale and Caitlin and
and I mean the list goes on and on and on if we have some
really good people that love Tucson and love this university and will continue to work
hard. So Disrae starts March the third. Are you going to stick around
in a role similar or are you going to become Jay and I and just
kind of slubber out? You know, that's a good question. I think
my my present contract with Dave was up like in June, and and but
I think I'll have a conversation with her and see where she wants to go
and if I can be of any help. You know, I'll definitely be
around. But you know what, I can't wait to get back on the
golf course. Of course. I guess the bigger question is do you have
to go back and share an office with Danny Martinez? You know, I
gave it up to Danny, and I don't think he's gonna let me back
in, so I may have to I may have to just put my bag
down when I come uh in there. And but you know, Danny's uh,
Danny's He's been a servant for me for a lot of years, and
I owe him a bunch and I'd love to see that he's enjoying what he's
doing well. I think the two side appreciates you. You've a definitely appreciate
you. You're one of the dudes. I mean, you're you are a
goat. You're a goating in probably and just normal because you're a normal dude
who happens to be very good at what he does. Yeah, well,
I appreciate that, you know. It's it's this place has been a blessing
for me, and you know, it's hard. What's really scary is that
I look back now and next year will be forty years and I don't even
feel like I'm forty years old. But it's time goes by very quickly when
you enjoy what you're doing. And I must say that I've enjoyed my time
here at Arizona, and hopefully I've made a little bit of an impact.
And now it's it's being able to give back, you know, And that's
I kind of what everyone does at certain times in their life. Mike and
Andrea, thank you very much for your time. Get back to work.
The world's probably you know what. I I for one like, I hope
to see you around. I hope you're around somewhere. You got it's at
the end of the day man, I'm I'm I'm meeting now you appreciate Mike
Kendrea. I we love the guy. I love the guy. You're really
we wanted the best ever right to come through the department with not just what
he did write, what he accomplished with his program, but just a good
guy who, you know, feel a lot of different things than he has
been. If you don't have him on your Mount Rushmore, you've a you're
something you've missed. Yeah, yeah, you're not You're Yeah, you don't
have it all? Who are leaving off that Mount las Well, you're gonna
have to make it like six or eight, the big one, you know,
I mean you mentioned one today Mary Roby, Right, you know when
when you think about the fact that Arizona has a female athletic director now,
and I thought that was a great, great pull, you know, to
ask Rocular Rose about Mary robe and going all the way back to there a
big deal. That was very cool, big dang big day. And we
barely talked about Arizona be an by forty five on Saturday. Right. Well,
it's funny because there was I just shot up my computer. I guess,
Bobby, Bobby, uh, Bobby Herley was that was with Bickley and
know them this morning, says thanks for thanks for having me. This is
the first time I've come out of my public my hiding to be with you
guys, because it was it was not that it was I didn't realize it.
That was the biggest beatout. I've seen a lot of beatdowns. There's
been a lot. To me, I thought, forty five that's nothing.
It was it was between forty five is a lot. Yeah, it's a
lot to lose. Sixty yeah, yeah, And then they put in all
their every starter. I loved those. You know what he would do,
he'd point to the scoreboard out of here, the guy. It was just
just checking the score man, Yeah, chick the score. All right,
Thanks everybody for being here. Tomorrow, we've got Michael lev lined up Calmness
for the start to come in and talk to us about all this stuff that's
been going on the last few days. We'll get another great guest as well,
so be sure to come back tomorrow and we'll kick it around. So
thanks for being here.