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with Steve Rivera and Jacob Salez on
Fox sportsporteen fifty. Welcome back time in

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fourteen fifty. I'm your host, Jay

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Gonzalez. Steve Rivera is on the
road. We just talked to him as

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he's on his way to the Arizona
Duke game tomorrow. He'll be covering that

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for all sports too. It's not
enough, of course, on Monday,

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we'll have Steve here back here and
we'll break down the whole weekend, the

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Duke game, the Airzona Colorado game. We don't have a show tomorrow.

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As I mentioned, Steve's gone.
I'm traveling tomorrow. I'm headed to Vegas

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for a weekend of watching sports and
the books over there, something that I

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do every year with a group of
people. We'll be watching the duke game

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over there with a you know,
our football crowd that's on this trip.

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So I'm looking forward to that.
So tomorrow you'll just get the national feeds

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Doug gott lieban on after in place
of our show tomorrow, and then as

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I said, both Steve and I
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the weekend. It's it's as we
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this is going to be a fun
weekend. So after that, I'll

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turn over to you for breaking news. To Kevin. This is on the

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All right, so we're gonna start with

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some college football news. Coach Lane
Kiffin and Old Miss they're kind of dealing

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going into a big game this weekend. They're kind of dealing with some legal

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issues. They're being sued by a
former player, well be a current player

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still on scholarship, but he says
he was kicked off the team due to

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having some mental health issues that were
not properly addressed by the school. He's

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alleging, that's what he's agend he's
alleging is that he was discriminated against based

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on his his race, his mental
health situation, and other variables. The

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school has pretty much come out and
said that these are somewhat baseless claims,

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as they would. Yeah, there
was a recording that Lane Kiffin did not

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know happened between a meeting between Rollins
and that's the player and Kiffin where Kiffin

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kind of laid into him for the
missing practic this is and not being as

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communicative as Kiff Kiffin may be expected
of a player. But yeah, that's

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a forty million dollar lawsuit and they're
they're in that going into this weekend against

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Georgia, where he says they have
nothing to lose, so that that should

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be an interesting game. It should
be an aesting game. There are a

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couple of those this weekend. Penn
State, Michigan. We can talk about

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Michigan in a second because stuff continues
to come from that, but we'll get

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to that in a second. You
have some quick betting stuff. A couple

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of of of quite sad honestly over
under numbers have come out recently. Iowa

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Rutgers is the lowest over under for
any college football game since at least two

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thousand. That's before I was born, only one year. I'm not,

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you know, but the total is
a consensus twenty eight. That's four touchdowns

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for two teams for two. By
the way, for those who want to

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four touchdowns four touchdowns two teams,
that's two touchdowns. It's entirely possible both

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Arizona and Colorado can score four touchdowns
on Saturday. So uh, and then

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to pair with that we have a
beautiful game tonight on Thursday night football Panthers

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and Bears. I mean, two
teams that everybody wanted to watch most.

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This is the first time in a
night game between two teams that have a

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win percentage of less than twenty five
percent this late into the season since twenty

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eighteen. So we're just getting some
great football on primetime. Who's gonna watch

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that? And I'm really excited for
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and for those people who gamble on
anything, that's even a game that nobody

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should gamble on, how do you
take? Somebody? Will? I mean

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even in the Panthers Bears, how
do you take? I think it was

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like what mid thirties lowes? How
do you anyway? And then in Arizona

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news, Tyler loop Kicker was one
of twenty semi finalists name to the Lou

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Groza Award list, joining other PAC
twelve kicker Joshua Cardi from Stanford. And

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yeah, he's one of fourteen new
names to the list of twenty six,

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only six returning from last year's list. Yeah, and that's an award that

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an Arizona guy won back in the
nineties. Steve McLoughlin and you actually a

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low o. Kaid went to my
high school, to Swall High School.

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I went to the OVA and he
actually won that award, I believe in

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the ninety three season. So Tyler
Loop, he's made thirteen to fifteen this

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year. He missed a fifty one
yarder or fifty plus yard I think against

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USC and then one other one.
So he's you know, he's in.

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He's in the hunt for a national
award. It's good for him. We'll

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play and I think we're playing in
a minute. A clip from a jet

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fish talking about how important Tyler Loop
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Yeah, and then just a quick
little conversation topic to bring to UJ.

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I saw on Twitter today we get
this from Big Game Boomer. He

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released or they released a top fifty
coaching duos between college football and college basketball

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across the nation. So who are
the best two coaches for each year?

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Right? A school that has who
has the best coaches? Yeah? Two

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coaches? And I think I think
the interesting thing should I just say Arizona

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finished six six in the rankings,
directly behind k State, Kansas State,

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Texas, Alabama, Kansas, and
Tennessee. We did finished. I mean

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Mario Cristoball and Jim Laernega at nine. I thought that was a little yeah,

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yeah, yeah, I mean Mario, Chris Waller's got all the you

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know, he was at Oregon and
all this stuff. He hasn't been a

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great coach this year. I think
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I try to be pretty fair.
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legit, that's that's legit. He
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a game because of a dicision he
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game that they should have won.
All right, but yeah, it's interesting

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and then more. Arizona Wildcast News
currently facing a financial quote financial crisis.

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They believed the school believe. University
leaders forecast that they would have one hundred

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and fifty six days of cash on
hand for this fiscal year. They have

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just ninety seven. Yeah, they
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difference in cash that they somehow made
a mistake on WHENT. I don't know

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how you make that mistake, and
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know they Bobby Robbins, the president
of the university, met with the faculty

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sending yesterday and boyd did they have
some questions and they want they want they

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want people fired. They want to
know how this happened and how they're gonna

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prevent things like this from happening down
the road. Bobby Robins threw a bunch

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of stuff out there as to how
they're gonna fix this, and one of

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the things that he threw on the
table was eliminating some sports. Whether or

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not they do that. Part of
why they're talking about that is that because

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of the COVID thing, the university
loaned the athletic department fifty five million dollars

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and they haven't been able to pay
as much of that back as they were

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supposed to have paid by now.
So they're saying, we need that money

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back, we need that money back
into the university. And they're thinking,

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well, you're gonna have to cut
some sports in order to start paying that

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back. So it's a big crisis
over there. A lot more to come

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on that, but man, it
sounds. Look, if I'm one hundred

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bucks short on my in my checking
it count, I know it, no

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doubt, I know it. Two
hundred and forty million dollars they were off

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on their on their cash on hand. Yeah, you don't. You don't

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want to assume what happened. It
does seem like someone missed, somebody miss

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along the way. Yes, that
much, it's safe to say. But

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it's definitely unfortunate. Yeah, honestly, kind of worry some. Yeah,

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it is worry some. It is
worrying. So it's it's like, again

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you have to ask a question,
how the hell did that happen? Yeah,

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So anyways, all right, and
then we do have more news last

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but not at least we've got more
news out of Michigan. Yeah, well,

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supposedly today the Big Ten is supposed
to say something about what they're going

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to do to Jim har about.
Everybody's still waiting for that, and there

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may be nothing. Michigan sent their
response to the allegations that the Big Ten

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has sent them yesterday. So there's
a lot of thought that the Big ten

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commissioner, who was supposed to be
at a at a uh some meeting that

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all the at all that all the
commissioners go to, and he didn't go

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to it. So the thought was
he's dealing with this, but nothing's come

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across yet, so we'll see if
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happen from a discipline standpoint before the
Saturday Penn State Michigan game, but he

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could come after. And there's the
people saying they're there's a lot of people

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saying there's suspension on the way now
whether they do that, because there's like,

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they play this game Penn State Michigan, then they've got a game against

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somebody else, and then it's Ohio
State Michigan. They've got two games left

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after after Saturday, you know,
do you suspend him for the High State

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Michigan game? I look, then
a Big Ten championship game. Yeah,

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I mean it's it's definitely a tough
time to have to hand out this kind

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of punishment because you know, you're
talking about competitive balance, right right,

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So you're talking about how I guess
has enough time passed? And I guess

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it depends on what the NCAA and
the Big Ten have that's like concrete proof.

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But but there are thirteen teams in
the Big Ten who are saying,

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these guys have been cheating, and
they've been cheating this year. What are

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you gonna do? You know,
I don't think they're gonna they're gonna be

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very happy if if the commissioner comes
on and says, Okay, we're gonna

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punish him, but not till after
the season is over. Because are they

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where they are because of what they
were doing because of this? That's what

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you know, That's what the teams
are saying. I don't know, I

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know all right here, I got
a really serious, really serious one out

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of out of New Mexico State.
And the reason I'm bringing up is because

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it involves a former Arizona player,
kim Aiken, who was here for really

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just half a season before he you
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as a transfer from from Washington State, wound up in New Mexico State.

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Last season there there came out all
this stuff about hazing going on in the

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program. They actually canceled the season
in February. Well, it turns out

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that kim Ake and along with two
other players have now been charged with more

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than a dozen or more felonies related
to this. A bunch of charges of

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a criminal sexual conduct, false imprisonment, conspiracy to commit sexual conduct, a

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whole bunch of kim Ake and himself
got eleven, is charged with eleven felonies

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related to this, and then two
other players, Doctor Bradley and Dechandre Washington

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each got thirteen felonies. They're going
to prison, assuming they get convicted of

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this stuff. They're going to prison. And even if they I mean,

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these are these are charges that they
say. If they're convicted, you know,

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the Bradley and Washington face a maximum
of twenty seven years in prison,

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where they can maximum of twenty four
Now they're they're not going to get that,

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but they're going to prison. Yeah, if they get convicted, even

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if they plead out, they're going
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I mean, it's not kind of. It's a real shame. It's it's

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a real shame. And we see
it up north and Northwestern. He's hazing

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things. They're starting to come out
more and it's really unfortunate to hear,

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like what's going on in these locker
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In the charging document, it said
that the players are accused of quote,

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of holding younger players and students' staff
against their will while they violate them.

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Alleged acts include multiple incidents in which
they forceletly restrained victims while grabbing areas.

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I'll just leave it at that.
So this is serious stuff. And it's

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unfortunate that you have these guys who
had everything in front of them, college

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scholarships, to play basketball, and
now they might be going to prison.

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Yeah, and you're supposed to building
a brotherhood, right, that's why that's

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what you're there to do. Right. Yeah. Highly and highly unfortunate,

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really bad. One more little piece
of news. A top ten football recruit

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in Arizona, in the state of
Arizona who was committed, a four star

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guy who was committed to ASU,
Dylan Tapley, his backed off from his

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commitmentity a SU And obviously people are
saying he's coming to Arizona, so we'll

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see what happens there. Again,
for those of you who are still upset

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that these two guys from Cell Point, you know, went somewhere else.

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If this guy says he wants to
come to Arizona and they're you're going to

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welcome in with open arms. This
stuff is part of the game anymore.

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Yeah, And I was gonna I
think if if if we as fans are

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still upset about about rushing, you
know, leaving and not going at the

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end of the day, he didn't
want to be here. He you don't

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want to be here, And why
do you want him here if he doesn't

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want to be here, Because you
want guys that, like we were talking

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about the other day, you want
guys that want to play hard, no

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matter who who is standing across right
behind him, the right of them to

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the left, hie, it doesn't
matter if they want to play hard.

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And those are the guys you want. You can beat my son, because

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that's exactly what I've been saying,
is that, Yeah, I don't care

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how good you are. If you
don't want to be here, then go

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somewhere else. Like if you're here
for nil, that's fine, Yeah,

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but you might not necessarily need you
is you're here for the money anyway?

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Yeah, And I mean I said
that all the way back when those three

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guys you know, went to USC
and people say, oh, they're losing

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their minds, so them something like
if Dorian Singer doesn't want to be playing

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in Arizona anymore and he's you know, for whatever reason it is, let

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him go, you know, let
them go do what they're gonna do.

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And so so anyways, I'm sure
I'm sure Arizona would take this guy in

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a heartbeat. If you wanted to
come to a zone. So anyways,

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all right, so all right,
well that's you know, that's a b

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right, Okay, yeah, there, you know again, a lot of

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stuff. I'm really curious about what's
gonna happen with Michigan. Me too,

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Actually, me too. It does
set up I saw Michigan was worried about

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it's setting a precedent, and it
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think it's it's interesting to see how
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and when they do handle it,
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was watching Dan Patrick this morning,
which I was doing. He had to

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he had to Rick new heisl On, former Washington coach, former UCLA coach

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now a broadcast guy, who just
said, you know what, whatever happens

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with all of this, he goes, I expect Jim Harbaught to be coaching

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in the NFL next year, and
he's just he doesn't want to do this

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anymore. Too many rules for him
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kind of why he went from Stanford
to the forty nine ers, right.

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He was dealing with a lot of
crap over having to recruit to Stanford even

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though he got them pretty high up, and going to Rose Bowls and stuff.

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I think he I think he'd rather
be in the NFL, where the

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worst thing he's got to deal with
his egos from players making millions of dollars.

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Yeah, I mean we saw this
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just like once, my time here
is up and I and this is causing

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me more stress than it is money. I just I just would like to

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move on to a higher profile situation
at this point. Yeah. So,

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uh so, you know he's uh
I man, I mean, really,

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what do you do? Right?
I don't know, I don't know what

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you do. I'm glad I don't
have to decign this one. Yeah,

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I'm glad that I'm not on that
decision making board. Exactly tough decision.

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All right, let's take our next
break. We're gonna be back with Justin

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Spears. We'll give it the Arizona
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He was at the press conference today. He gets to ask some questions and

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I didn't. So I'm very jealous
of Justin n Hey, Justin gets called

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on every time, but he should
be. He's a beat writer. So

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all right, we'll be right back
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all the excess at It's Steve Rivera
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the Ball on Fox Sports fourteenth.
Welcome back down the ball here on Fox

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Sports fourteen fifty on Jacob Zalez,
your host for the day. My buddy

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Steve Rivera is on his way to
the Duke game for tomorrow, so he's

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still sitting in an airport in the
airport at Denver. We had him on

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a little earlier and had pretty good
perspective on this game coming up. But

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right now we've got on the phone. We've got Justin Spears from there is

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on a Daily Star. He's getting
ready to head out to Boulder for the

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game on Saturday against Colorado. Justin
welcome. How's the going, guys.

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We're good, you know, getting
set for I think of an exciting season

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and exciting season siding weekend of stuff
for you know, for Arizona. You

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got Duke tomorrow, a big game
with Colorado on Saturday. I say a

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big game because you know, very
meaningful to what Arizona's got going right now.

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Right I think we've been talking about
you know, you got to keep

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the momentum going. This is a
game that Arizona is supposed to win.

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They're ten and a half point five. You know, you lose everything,

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not everything, but you lose a
lot of them. Manam if they don't

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go up there and take care of
business. What are your thoughts on that?

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Yeah, I think that this is
a trap game for Arizona. And

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it's it's crazy to say the word
trap game for Arizona right now because think

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about how far this team has come
over the last couple of years for us

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to be able to say, you
know, it's a trap game. And

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also it's crazy to think it's a
trap game also because Colorado, I mean

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they started off the season on a
hot streak. They had two top ten

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wins. I mean, they were
essentially America's team for the start of the

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college football season. I mean they
were so popular that even here in Tucson,

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Arizona, they were selling Starbucks cups
at the Safeway on Princeton Campbell.

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Of that that were Colorado Starbucks cups, right, that wouldn't have happened in

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the pre the era. But you
know this, this game is going to

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be very exciting. You know this, this Colorado team, they're hoping to

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remain in Bowl in the Bull picture. They're four and five right now,

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and this is a winnable game for
them and you know, if they win

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one more game after, you know, if they were able to beat Arizona,

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then they're in a bowl game.
Which is pretty remarkable to say,

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considering this was the worst Power five
football team in America last season, and

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it really wasn't even close. I
mean, this Colorado program last year was

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just awful. I mean they were
just the worst of the worst. And

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Dion came in told all his players
in the spring, I got luggage with

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me that I'm bringing here and it's
Louis and that Louis Vaiton luggage is Travis

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Hunter, is Shadura Sanders is all
these other great players that they were able

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to get in the transfer portals.
But Colorado was still in rebuild mode.

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You can't get it done in just
one year, even in the trench of

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portal Era. So I think that
next year Dion and his staff they'll go

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into the portal, they'll fish out
a bunch of guys and they'll really have

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a sound team in year two.
But you know, you look at Arizona

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on the other side and how they've
been able to turn things around. Not

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long ago. They were just like
Colorado. Last year. They were considered

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the worst Power five team in college
football, and then it's been this very

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slow and steady progress. But now
the Wildcats are ahead of schedule. No

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one expected them to be Bowl eligible
nine games into the season. A lot

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of people thought, including myself,
that Arizona would be going into the last

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couple of weeks of the season trying
to fight the bull eligibility. And they're

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six and three right now. Now
they have opportunity to go nine and three,

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which is, like I said,
it's just truly remarkable to see the

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turnaround and the fact that we're considering
this a trap. It really shows us

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how much better this program is in
year three under Jet Fish. You know,

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I tried to get this question and
at the press conference today but we

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ran out of time. But you
know, compare the bills, right,

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I see a lot of similarities between, you know, what Jed had to

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do and what what Dion is going
through. You know right now, you

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know Arizona used actually four quarterbacks in
that first season for Jed. You know,

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depth was a problem. You know, they were losing to everybody including

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NAU you know Colorado. Yes,
they got off to that great start,

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but now lost five out of six
players are injured they're you know, they're

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dealing with stuff, even though they've
got still got guys like Shador Sanders,

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his brother, Shiloh, Travis Hunter. But you know, the reality of

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who where Colorado was compared, you
know, going from last year to this

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year, it's kind of the same, going through the similar things, you

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know, and towards the end of
the season, depth is an issue there

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they got injuries, they don't they
still I got a bunch of first year

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guys who are trying to figure the
way out. I feel I see a

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lot of similarities between these two.
Yeah, I really do too. But

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the only difference that I would make
is Arizona they really hit a home run

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with their twenty twenty two recruiting class
right and when you look at the fabric

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of Arizona football right now, I
mean you look up and down the playmakers,

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the guys who are contributing to this
team, and it's Temac, it's

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Noah Fafita, It's Jacob manu Is, Jonah Coleman, Jonah Savenea, Isaiah

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Ward, Ty Tayuyaglo. I mean, it's easy as price socks to Carrio

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Davis, all these guys that I'm
mentioning right now are all sophomores just playing

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in their second year at Arizona,
and Arizona did such a great job of

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getting these guys to come over but
also develop them in such a short time

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into key contributors and playmakers. Yea
and Colina out of it. Right now,

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we're seeing a lot of transfer portal
guys that they were able to get

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in this last offseason. I think
that, you know, if you're able

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to get more transferportal guys, that's
great, but you also need to be

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able to groom the younger players because
they're the future of your programs. And

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Arizona has the perfect relationship or the
perfect marriage. It's like a you know,

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hey, it's the holiday season,
guys. You know potpourrie is popular

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this time or year. It's like
potpourrie. It's a combination of the young

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players getting better and also the transfer
portal guys too. You look at the

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defensive side of the ball, guys, and the one thing that really stands

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out to me is that all the
guys who are really making differences on the

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back end are players who are young, who are twenty twenty two prospects.

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And then you look at the guys
up front, like as Tyler Manola,

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like at Bill Norton, even justin
full at linebackers, they're all veteran,

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experienced guys who gives the Wildcats a
lot of beef and a lot of size.

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And then when you couple that with
the young talented skill players that they

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have, it looks to be like
a good mixture for Arizona and I think

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that's what's been so key to their
success on that side of the ball.

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Yeah. Well, and that's a
good point because you know Jed and he's

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always made that point. So we're
going to recruit high school guys, We're

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going to develop high school guys,
but they're doing a really good job of

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filling holes with the transfer portal guys
that they that they brought in. And

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you know, you speak, Bill
Norton is the one that I think he's

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sort of like an unsung guy,
right He's you know, he just sit

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there in the middle. He's in
the way, he's creating opportunities for Manu

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and Flow and and and and those
guys playing at linebacker. It just seems

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like, you know, that was
like a perfect fit for what they're trying

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to do right now. Defensively,
and I didn't even mention Taylor Upshaws right

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the guy who leads the team in
staff and as a former Colorado Buffalo,

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and Taylor Upshaw's right now is sitting
top five in facts in the PAC twelve.

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When's the last time Arizona's been able
to say they've had one of those

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guys like that. It's been a
long time, and now, you know,

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Arizona football, it's reaching places that
it hasn't been in several years.

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We're talking about CFP rankings, AP
top twenty five Bowl eligibility, guys finishing

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individually in the top half of statistical
categories. The program is in a really

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good place right now. And now
it's just a matter of, okay,

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can you finish off the season strong? Because one thing about Jet Fish is

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that every single regular season it's divided
into quarters, and there's four quarters in

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a season. Right now, Arizona's
entering the final three games of the year.

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This is their fourth quarter, this
is their winning time. How can

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you make sure that you're continuing this
historical season by getting wins and not just

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you know, scraping by in finishing
six and six. There are nine games

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into the season. They got three
more games left. They have the opportunity

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to finish nine and three, and
they can also be one of the best

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three loss teams in college football because
you think about this, guys, A

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triple overtime loss to USC, one
touchdown loss of Washington, and an overtime

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game against Mississippi State. Who knows, you know, if Jaydon Dolora doesn't

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throw those three interceptions and Arizona doesn't
have four turnovers in the first quarter,

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who knows what would have happened in
that game. They finish off the year

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nine to three with two games that
were really right there at your fingertips.

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I mean, this has the makings
of being, you know, kind of

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like one of those what if seasons
and Arizona football kind of like that two

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thousand and nine year where they could
have gone to the Rose Bowl or even

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you know, nineteen ninety eight where
you know, if they just beaten UCLA,

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who knows what would have happened,
Or if UCLA had beaten Miami later

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on in the season, you know
what would have happened. But it's just

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it's just again, remarkable is just
the one word that I keep thinking about

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when I talk about Arizona football and
the success they're having right now at this

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point of the season. You know, justin you just brought up two horrible

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memories for me. I appreciate that
that ninety eight two thousand and nine season.

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I even go back to ninety two
and I've compared the I've compared that

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season to this season. And I
did that when Jedfish said that he thought

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that the game against usc which was
a loss, you know, a two

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00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:47.640
point loss, was sort of a
turning point for this team and for this

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season. When he said that,
I immediately went to the Miami Arizona game.

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In nineteen ninety two, Arizona travels
to Miami, Miami's number one in

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the country. Arizona loses Steve McLoughlin, who ended up winging the Groszo.

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I think the next year misses a
long field goal. I think. I

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think Miami had won like forty some
games in a row at home or some

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00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:10.599
ridiculous number of games at home in
Arizona could have and should have won that

453
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game. But yet they use that
to, you know, spark a big

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00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.240
and they went on a stretch of
five wins, I think three of them

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against against ranked teams. How familiar
does that happen? But then as Arizona

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00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.480
does, and as Arizona historically did, they lost their last three games.

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They lost to USC by a touchdown, they lost to a su by a

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00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:34.359
point, then they went to the
went to the Sun Bowl and lost to

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Baylor, and they didn't finish it. They're like in the same spot,

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00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:44.119
right, they've won these games,
everybody's feeling great. Here comes Colorado,

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00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:47.079
a team that you should beat,
and if you're Arizona fan, you're really

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00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:52.279
worried about this game. Yeah,
And honestly, it's pretty crazy to think

463
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:56.519
about this Colorado game. Over the
course of the season. You know,

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00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:00.000
going into the year, you looked
at it like Arizona they could be gone,

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00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:06.240
Roberill problems. And then the Buffaloes
come out strong and put together two

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00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.000
wins against top ten teams, and
then you sit there and go, man,

467
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:13.559
the pack twelve is so much better
than we all thought. Arizona's really

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00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:16.279
going to struggle against Colorado, and
then low the holds several weeks later.

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00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:22.440
Now Arizona is, you know,
ten point favorites to beat the Buffalos.

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So it goes to show you the
kind of roller coaster that goes into a

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00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:31.200
college football season. But yeah,
seeing a lot of Arizona teams in the

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past struggle to finish off the year, and you know you mentioned, you

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00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:39.960
know, those teams in the nineties. I think about that that twenty ten

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season when you know, in the
Mike Stoops era, when Arizona started off

475
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:50.319
the season I believe seven and one
and they were a top ten team.

476
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:54.240
Things were great, and then they
lost the every single game on their schedule,

477
00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:59.720
got smoked in the bowl game,
and then the next season, you

478
00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:04.759
know, Dukes had a rocky start
and then got fired. We've seen some

479
00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:09.240
tough stretches with this Arizona football program
in the past in terms of finishing seasons.

480
00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:15.160
But the thing about Jed that he
has emphasized and I think it will

481
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:22.240
really be their strength this year that
they love finishing games. Tyler Owens their

482
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.359
strength and conditioning coach has done such
a great job of preparing these guys for

483
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:31.519
the fourth quarter. They relish playing
in that final period and it's what they

484
00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:37.960
call winning time, and they know
that they're entering essentially the final quarter of

485
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:43.119
their season and they want to be
able to finish off things on the right

486
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:50.480
foot and so I really have I
really have a hard time trying to think

487
00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:54.599
about Arizona struggling in these last three
games. But it's possible. You know,

488
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:59.920
it's not going to be a cakewalk
the Colorado in Boulder. They would

489
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:02.200
up to beat the Wildcat and it's
always tough to play up there in the

490
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:06.839
Mile High. And then you got
to play Utah next week in Utah.

491
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:08.719
I mean, they could be,
you know, pulling off a big,

492
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:14.079
big road win against the Washington Huskies
this week. You know, they're not

493
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:19.920
a team that Arizona should sleep on
in Arizona has always struggled against Utah in

494
00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:23.039
recent years. And then that game
against ASU and the Territorial Cup. It

495
00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:28.719
doesn't matter where your records are in
that game, so anything goes in a

496
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:34.119
rivalry game, and they played very
tough under Kenny Dillingham. But with that

497
00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:37.920
being said, with the exception of
the Utah game, Arizona's favorite in this

498
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:43.400
game against Colorado, They'll be heavily
favored in that game against ASU. Those

499
00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:45.400
are two guinea games right there,
or two games that your favor to win.

500
00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:50.920
Go out there, handle handle your
business and start turning some more heads,

501
00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:52.159
we say, real quick. So
What do you think we're going to

502
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:57.079
see in terms of what type of
game? High scoring both teams. Yeah,

503
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.400
Colorado's had trouble scoring the last two
weeks against you Sai Oregon State.

504
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:06.920
Arizona's defense is really good. It
is it a twenty seven fourteen game or

505
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:13.119
is it a forty five to forty
game? See Arizona, with the exception

506
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:16.480
of the UFC game, they haven't
really gotten into these kind of shootouts,

507
00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:22.199
right and don't I don't imagine them
getting in a shootout with shador standers and

508
00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:25.000
companies. So I think this is
going to be kind of like a game

509
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:30.119
that we've seen over the last couple
of weeks, maybe the first one to

510
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:35.239
thirty wins. But I look at
Colorado's offensive line, I mean, they

511
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:39.360
got more holes in Swiss cheese.
Then they allow so much pass rush.

512
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:45.400
They allow linebackers to creep in and
get to shador sanders, and they have

513
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:51.159
given up the most sacks by any
college football team in the country this season.

514
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:55.480
This is a perfect opportunity for Arizona's
defensive line, led by Taylor Upshaw,

515
00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:00.000
who is on pace to finish the
season in double digit sacks, which

516
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.960
hasn't happened in a long, long
time. And then a guy like Jacomanu

517
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:07.960
who has gotten to the quarterback in
the last several games. I think Arizona's

518
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:13.840
defense, especially upfront, is going
to feast on Colorado. It's going to

519
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:17.239
be a challenge. Right It's on
the road and Arizona has played five straight

520
00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:22.840
games against ranked opponents. You know
that's gonna take some juice out of you,

521
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:25.360
or at least, you know,
make it really hard on yourself to

522
00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:30.000
continue the season. I think all
the emotions that have gone to every single

523
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:35.039
one of these last five games I
think will show against Colorado. But I

524
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:39.199
don't imagine Arizona losing this one.
I think it's going to be a close

525
00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:45.599
game. But I'll probably go with
Arizona thirty one, Colorado twenty three.

526
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:52.079
Right, all right, justin man, appreciate it, save travels tomorrow,

527
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:54.320
give us a good game in the
paper, and we'll see. We'll see

528
00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:59.159
what happens. Man. Yeah,
I'm going to Colorado. So I got

529
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:05.079
to pack my long John a little
different than do you we even have that

530
00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:08.360
stuff? Or do you got to
go buy it? The guy at the

531
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store looked at me like I was
weird. You really want to buy this.

532
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:16.960
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to
the cold, but I'm looking forward

533
00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:20.440
to good college football. Sounds good. Okay, justin, thanks a bunch,

534
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.320
and we'll follow you in the Star. So appreciate you being here.

535
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.119
Hey, thank you, guys.
Appreciate it. Man. All right,

536
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:28.360
that was justin Spears. We got
to head out because we got to do

537
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the Fab five Friday picks. Kevin
has Steve's picks and has already been in

538
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order not to mess him up.
That's right, don't change him. Uh.

539
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:37.280
Well, there's a lot on the
line for Steve. He's got ten

540
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ten wins in a row, so
you can't. You can't mess it up

541
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for you and I. I just
continue to suck. So we'll see what

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I can come up with here.
So stick around for the Fab five Friday

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My buddy Steve is on the road
to Duke where he'll be covering the game

598
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tomorrow at Cameron Indoor in Durham for
All Sports Tucson, so be sure to

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follow him with his coverage of that
game. I got our very capable in

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turn here. Kevin has been keeping
the conversation lively with us, talking about

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some stuff. We had a couple
of great guests, Brian Holl from the

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Boulder Daily Camera, Justin Spears talking
about the big game at Colorado on Saturday.

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So we've had I think we've had
a good afternoon. What do you

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think. I think he's been a
pretty good show. Yeah, we've done

605
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all right. You know as well, Steve. If we let Steve back

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in the room, what do you
think we'll see if Steve how's a job

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00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:23.800
and he gets back exactly? All
right? All right, so we're this

608
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:27.199
is the time for a Fab five
Friday Picks. We normally do him on

609
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:29.519
Friday, but we're not gonna have
a show tomorrow, so I want to

610
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.519
make sure you all remember that again. I'm gonna be on the road as

611
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:36.719
well as Steve, so no show
tomorrow, you'll hear the national feed.

612
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:40.639
So we're gonna do our Fab five
Friday picks on Thursday. Kevin's got Steve's

613
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:45.000
picks. I've got my picks,
such as they are. Steve has gone

614
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:47.800
ten for ten over the last two
weeks. He's got two perfect weeks,

615
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:51.960
so we'll see if he can keep
that. Going. Fifteen for fifteen is

616
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:52.880
hard. Well, ten for Dan, it's really hard to do. Five

617
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:59.760
for five is hard to do,
so's harder, right, Okay, So

618
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:01.719
you know I'll let you start with
Steve and give me his first pick.

619
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:05.599
All right, Steve's first pick off
the board is going to be Buffalo,

620
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:09.239
as in the bills. He just
told me Buffalo. I don't want to

621
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:12.920
speak for Steve. How many how
many college? How many Pro games?

622
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:16.320
Does he have? In there looks
like, you know, the way he

623
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:20.119
separated it, We're gonna say the
Buffalo Bills because then he has another pick

624
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:22.679
after that reads like a protein.
All right. So he's got the Bills

625
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:25.800
minus seven and a half against the
Broncos. All right. I looked at

626
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:30.000
that the hook on that. The
seven and a half bothers me, and

627
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:35.079
I just don't trust the Bills.
Bills just bother me in general. That's

628
00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:37.280
what I would say, all right. So starting Steve, starting off on

629
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:40.440
the pro set. Now, the
game we have to pick the special we

630
00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:46.280
call it is Penn State Michigan.
So we're both picking that, all right.

631
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:51.360
I'm gonna go go to the college
side. And you know, this

632
00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:53.400
is a team that I've been wanting
to get on their band bandwagon. I

633
00:43:53.440 --> 00:44:00.320
haven't until now, but I am
James Madison. They're giving twenty five to

634
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.280
Connecticut, who was really bad.
James Madison is one of the top covering

635
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:07.840
teams in college football. This sha
I'm getting the hiccups again. It happened,

636
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:12.800
Kevin. But they're they're six and
two against the spread. They've won

637
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.440
six of their last seven against the
spread. So in Connecticut is way down

638
00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:22.559
at the bottom of the list looking
for them. Oh god, where are

639
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:24.440
they? Well, I don't even
really care because I think, uh,

640
00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:29.960
I think, I think James Madison
just crushes them. Colorado's four or five.

641
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.199
That's not bad. But they're but
they're uh uh, they're just not

642
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.920
very good. So I'm taken James
Madison minus the big line of twenty five

643
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:43.079
points. All right, what do
you got? All right? The next

644
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:47.239
bet in the list is going to
be Detroit Lions. Steve's been riding the

645
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:52.639
Lions bandwagon for a while. They're
giving three to Colorado. To the Chargers.

646
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.039
That game is insane in La.
I want to say San Diego.

647
00:44:55.559 --> 00:45:01.559
Oh dang it, it's in LA. But yeah, I have a hard

648
00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:06.079
time with NFL teams on the road, especially a team like the Lions that

649
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:07.840
you just never know. I just
I think the Lions are a little different

650
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:10.800
this year than what I think the
Lions are. And I think, uh,

651
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:13.639
you said the Chargers, right,
I mean I think, yeah,

652
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:16.159
I don't know. I don't know
what to make of the Chargers. I

653
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:20.360
don't think much of the Chargers.
Yeah, they're the Chargers. That's what

654
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:23.639
a different. So Okay, I'm
doing a funny thing on this next game.

655
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:28.840
Air Force lost last week, not
undefeated. Not only did they not

656
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:32.039
cover, they lost. They lost
to Army and it was handily Hawaii.

657
00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:38.079
Who sucks one? And and I
had I had the Hawaii was playing.

658
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:42.920
Who did they beat? They beat
Nevada, and I had Nevada in that

659
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:49.719
game. I'm everything says, just
stay away from the game. Whatever,

660
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:52.880
I'm gonna take air Force. I
think air Force is gonna be pissed.

661
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:57.159
I think Hawaii is gonna be full
of itself. This game is that Hawaii.

662
00:45:57.159 --> 00:45:59.400
I don't think Hawaii is any good. I think air Force is still

663
00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:02.880
really good in spite of losing the
Army last week. Hawaii's getting nineteen at

664
00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:07.400
home. But I think what air
Force does travels, And so I'm gonna

665
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:12.480
take air Force, and I'm gonna
give the nineteen on the road at Hawaii.

666
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.159
It's a lot of points to give. And I yeah, the air

667
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:17.000
Force, that's what they do best. They travel, right, they travel.

668
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:22.639
Yeah, It's a forty to forty
something to ten ten game is what

669
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:24.679
I see. So I'm gonna take
air Force, give up the nineteen,

670
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:29.800
all right, So we're gonna go
with Steve's first college pick is gonna be

671
00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:37.119
Kansas State. Oh okay, that's
Kansas State giving twenty and a half to

672
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.880
Baylor. Man, that's a lot. That's a crazy number. I guess

673
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:45.400
I didn't know that Kansas State was
that good or that anybody. Well,

674
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:49.119
I guess they're in the hunt for
the for the Big twelve championship game,

675
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:52.679
right, yeah, and hey big
Game Boomer had them as a top ten

676
00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:57.880
coaching coaching Well again, Kansas State
is one of those teams that covers all

677
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:00.320
the time. They're six and two
against the spread, So yeah, I

678
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:04.440
guess I can see that, and
I'm looking to see where Baylor is on

679
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:07.440
the list. Excuse me, God, I'm sorry I got these hiccups again.

680
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:10.800
This is a second time today.
But let me let me find Baylor

681
00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:16.079
real quick. Baylor is three and
five against the spread, and they've lost

682
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:20.199
three of their last four games against
the spreads. Okay, twenty and a

683
00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:22.119
half points though on the road,
Man, that seems like is that on

684
00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:23.960
the road? No, No,
that's on the road. I shouldn't have

685
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:29.519
said that. I don't know,
But okay, kids of State against Baylor,

686
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:32.559
give me twenty and a half.
I'm gonna go to the pro side

687
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:37.119
do my pro games. I'm just
picking these games because I think these teams

688
00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:38.880
are playing really well, and I
didn't really care about the spread. But

689
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:44.079
I'm gonna take the Ravens. They're
giving up six to the Browns. They're

690
00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:46.199
at home against the Browns, so
you know, I think, you know,

691
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:50.639
the Ravens are playing tough right now. I think they're a Super Bowl

692
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:55.119
contender. The Browns. You never
know. So I like the Ravens giving

693
00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:59.800
less than a touchdown at home against
the Browns. What's the over under it?

694
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:04.199
Because those are two crazy elite defenses. Yeah, that won't get after

695
00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:06.039
you. That can't. Yeah,
it can't be a lot. Let me

696
00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:08.039
look that up real quick while we're
talking here. But uh I just you

697
00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:15.000
know, I'm not I've never been
a total believer in uh In Lamar Jackson,

698
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.960
but watching what I've watched over these
last few weeks, they're just they're

699
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:22.000
just good. They're just like,
yeah, he's playing different. He got

700
00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:25.920
his contract, and more importantly,
he got the game plan that he wanted.

701
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:29.320
He wanted to be more of a
pocket passer, and here he is

702
00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:32.360
being a pocket passer and the Ravens
are. Yeah, and since this morning,

703
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:35.639
that line has moved to six and
a half. It was six this

704
00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:38.360
morning, which is what we said
it at. But you were asking the

705
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:44.519
over under that's at thirty eight.
That seems high. Excuse me, that

706
00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:47.159
seems high. Yeah. I feel
like that's a defensive game, like you

707
00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:50.400
said, Yeah, it's gonna be
a slog Yeah, be a war.

708
00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:52.800
Yeah. All right, Steve's next
college pick. All right, this is

709
00:48:52.800 --> 00:49:00.119
his lock this one. Steve's confident
U c l A UH is at uh.

710
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:07.039
I believe they're actually at home,
they're at home state and that eighteen

711
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.880
points and he's locking that. Wow. I don't know, oh man,

712
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:13.719
with what I saw of UCLA's d
offense last week, I don't know that

713
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:16.760
I'm doing that. But Steve has
crushed me in this poll, So I

714
00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:21.480
guess I shouldn't be criticizing his picks
for saying that's a bad pick. But

715
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:27.760
all right, so yeah, UCLA
at home at home giving eighteen to ASU

716
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.360
looked really bad last week, fifty
five to three to Utah. Maybe a

717
00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:36.000
little beat up, maybe a little
uh demoralized? Right as Actually, you

718
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:37.800
took the word out of my mouth. I was gonna say maybe a little

719
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:40.559
locker. Yeah, yeah, Okay, I see that, and I see

720
00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:45.519
that and that then my other NFL
game again, a pick that I took

721
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:50.079
these guys last week. They did
me fine. I know the Texans had

722
00:49:50.079 --> 00:49:52.679
a you know, miracle win last
week. They wins down, scored a

723
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:57.239
touchdown with forty seconds left. C
J. Stroud looks really good. Say,

724
00:49:57.239 --> 00:49:59.480
how fun is that team to watch
them? Yeah? That team is

725
00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:02.199
a lot of fun. But again, the Bengals at home giving less than

726
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:06.960
the touchdown. I feel like Joe
Burrow is you know, he's over the

727
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.599
injury. They're playing really well.
I looked at their lines. They lost

728
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:14.480
the first four games against the spread. They've won their last four against the

729
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:17.559
spread. They're on a roll and
I'm gonna take them. I got the

730
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:22.679
I got the Bengals at home against
the Texans giving six and a half.

731
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:24.280
All right, all right, all
right, now we got the special.

732
00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:30.400
Oh wait, I got a lock
one. Hmm. I'm gonna lock the

733
00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:34.599
Ravens. I'm gonna lock the Ravens, okay, like un locked the rape.

734
00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:38.480
Okay, all right, Penn State
Michigan, all right, Saturday ten

735
00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:45.159
am at Penn State. Steve's gonna
go with the Nitney line. Oh okay,

736
00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:46.719
but he did want. I asked
him if there's anything he wanted me

737
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:51.000
to add on behalf of him for
his picks. The only thing he said

738
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:52.880
he didn't want to justify any of
his other picks, but he did say

739
00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:58.119
quote had a hard time with the
Penn State game, but thinking this is

740
00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:01.199
the demise of Michigan. First big
game on the road, yep, big

741
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:06.920
game on the road. They're they're
They're competition so far in the undefeated season

742
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.960
hasn't been hasn't been great. I
mean, they're they're playing in the Big

743
00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:14.320
Ten, They're playing some good teams. They haven't played a great team yet.

744
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:17.719
I'm taking Penn State as well.
I picked that. I picked that

745
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:22.519
early in the week. Penn State
at home getting four and a half.

746
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.800
I think that's uh, you know, I think it's just gonna have a

747
00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:29.840
tough time on top of all the
distractions of all the stuff going on.

748
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:36.400
I think I like Penn State as
well. That's our special game, so

749
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:38.559
that counts for some extra points.
So yeah, all right, So Steve

750
00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:40.719
and Iron, I think the first
time in a few weeks that we've been

751
00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.000
on the same side of the of
the special I don't know what that means,

752
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:46.920
but it has to mean something.
It means. There's the way we

753
00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:51.239
do the point system we have is
each game is at one point, but

754
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:54.320
the special and the lock you add
half a point if you win it,

755
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:58.679
you lose a half a point if
you lose it. So you can get

756
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:00.760
six points if you hit every everything, which is what Steve got the last

757
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:02.639
two weeks. And how does it
make you feel that you and Steve are

758
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:05.320
on the same page about that game? Do you feel good? Do you

759
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:08.920
feel did you wish that he picked
something up? No? I don't really,

760
00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:12.880
I don't really care. You know
that our competition is so over.

761
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.719
He's killing me. I can I
should even give you the score here.

762
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:23.199
It's it's thirty five to ten.
It's not even a game to score.

763
00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:28.559
Yeah, it is what it is. What it is, so anyways,

764
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.079
but that's where we are. Okay, that's a rap, Kevin, nice

765
00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:35.519
job today, appreciate it. Thanks
for being here and doing you did a

766
00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:38.239
nice job with the show, running
the board, the whole bit. I

767
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:44.039
appreciate our guests. Brian Holle from
the Boulder Daily Camera, Justin Spears from

768
00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:45.639
the airs on Daily Star and Stuf. Of course, Steve for calling in

769
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:50.159
from the Denver Airport to give us
some of his thoughts on the Duke game

770
00:52:50.199 --> 00:52:52.840
tomorrow. Again, fun, fun
weekend coming up, man, Hope it's

771
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:55.440
a great weekend. Yeah. I
look forward to watching a ton of great

772
00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:00.119
sports this weekend. I hope Steve
gets to his destination safely, and I

773
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:01.880
hope you'll get to watch some great
sports. Yeah, it should be fun.

774
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:07.199
So again, no show tomorrow.
We'll be back on Monday to break

775
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.559
it all down the Duke game,
the Arizona Colorado game, and anything else

776
00:53:10.559 --> 00:53:14.000
that happens over the weekend. So'll
be sure to come back on Monday.

777
00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:15.840
Have a great weekend, everybody,
We'll see you on Monday. Enjoy the

778
00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:22.199
events. Just weeks o, cat
im, I have a good samp holding

779
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:25.239
in that you set the boughs in
the Atlanta Sassin. I'm gonna get