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and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen
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Welcome back, Hid the Ball.
Steve has stepped out of the out of

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the studio forbid. He's he's got
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gonna be out. He might he
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phone. Okay, bye, Steve,

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but welcome back. I've got Kevin
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he's about to take us through breaking
news. This is I on the Ball

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breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Yeah, j we are gonna go

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through a little bit of breaking news
today, emphasis on the little bit.

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Not not too much breaking news coming
through between the last twenty four hours or

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so. But we do have a
ton of news about the Arizona football coaching

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staff, as the department has rolled
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last you know, a day or
so. I kind of started with Colin

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Carroll. Yesterday I got announced as
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Kena. Obviously, we mentioned that
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defensive coordinator right for the UFA football
team. Did what did you think about

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that? Hired Jay Well? I
love Dwayne A. Kena known Duayne a

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Quina for thirty years, thirty some
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he was here as a defensive coach. Loved the guy. You know,

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he's been given a lot of credit
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You know, he was an on
he got hired as an analyst,

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so he wasn't gonna be an on
field coach. But due to some issues

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that Rickey Huntley has had with some
physical stuff, uh Ricky had to step

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aside and he was sort of a
doing some other tasks with the with the

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program, and Dwayne became an on
on field coach. Look, I had

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a number of people say, make
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doing has a lot to do with
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the field. Dwayne's been around a
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about Arizona. He's loved it in
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as the defensive coordinator, there's a
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you got you know, you got
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the defense. He's been a defensive
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coached at Stanford. Certainly qualified,
we'll see, you know, qualified and

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desired and yeah, and you know, you know, the fans love it.

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He's known Brent Brandon for a long
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guys are both part of the Tony
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think it's a good move. Arizona's
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in there that the fans believe we'll
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Yeah, and from what I don't
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during the you know, uh turnover
time, but between you know, figuring

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out what players are entering the transfer
portal and what players were not going to

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enter the transfer portal, it seemed
like that was also important for the players

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to have Duyna Keena back in some
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a guy that will help hold again
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together. A lot of the you
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back, you know, the other
direction, we're we're talking having fun with

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this media. He posted his u
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Fanatics, what did that mean?
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looking for the slightest sign of good
things. Does it mean by up,

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we can wear watching him on the
field next year? Right? Exactly,

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So we'll see. But uh,
you know that that's certainly having a guy

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like Dwayne who knows the ropes here
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University of Arizona, just knows the
ropes as the defensive coordinator, and that's

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probably a good choice. Yeah.
And then we do have Alonso Carter coming

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over from You have a bunch of
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Brennan's last staff. But Alonso Carter, the running backs coach, formerly and

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assistant head coach. He's gotten the
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uh, the offensive line coach.
Both of those guys are are are

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San Jose State guys. Oglesby will
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tight end coach, the pass game
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And then they officially announced you have
a legend. Bobby Wade as the

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wide receivers coach. I think that's
a good high It's a really good higher

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one. You know, the guy's
got street cred, right, you know

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he's done he's done it. He's
done it here at Arizona. He's been

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making his way up the ranks as
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s U. We'll have to excuse
thats Woll. We're gonna give him a

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hall passed, but we're also gonna
make fun of him. First time we

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get him on the show. I
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with uh uh Antonio Pierce when we
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said, didn't didn't it like sting
a little bit the first time you put

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on an a s U golf shirts
coaching shirt or something like that. It

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had burned just a little bit,
didn't itself. It's a little sizzle.

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Yeah, Well, we'll ask uh, We'll ask uh uh Bobby Wade the

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same thing. And then we also
had Joe Samalo bringing as the defensive line

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coach line coach, and I thought
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shifted the title of brett Ars at
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Now the coach of the Stars.
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what what that means. It does
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believe Stars is obviously some sort of
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Probably special teams and returners maybe maybe
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Yeah. But well, but except
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one of these guys was the one
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the linebackers coach. Uh oh,
when we haven't mentioned right, Oh,

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they haven't announced, and they haven't
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coming in as a def as a
linebackers coach and a and the special teams

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coach. But some some staff members
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baio, offensive analyst Ben Thanes.
Who theenis? I think how you pronounced

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it? Who? Brent Brandon mentioned
him in his press conference. Who's gonna

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be basically the chief of staff running
the show? James Perez, Assistant director

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of Football Strength and Conditioning. So
there's these things are these things are coming

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up every few minutes, so there
may be more may before we before we

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sign off the show. Uh,
but Brendan staff is finally starting to shake.

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The staff is filling out, you
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or the next the spring signing date
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over a week, and still some
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there's some re recruiting to do.
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back. We you know, we've
seen some guys coming back. Key and

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Burnett and the other tight end both
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a lot, a lot has to
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for Brent Brandan to get some help
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you know, he did say it. U was on Friday. He said

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the main thing that he was trying
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that those guys are all uh,
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he's got a bit of got some
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work to do, yeah, And
it does seem like he's attacked it in

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the correct way, you know,
especially because if you don't have the players,

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you don't really have a team right, uh, to to go compete

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in the next conference. So,
but we do have some more breaking news.

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Kind of a shocker here, honestly, Texas State, uh, well,

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prospective Texas State quarterback Jane DeLaura,
formerly here of Arizona, is no

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longer going to enroll at Texas State. He left, He's left the pro

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he's left the school. Uh that
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he is no longer a student at
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Uh, There's been some insinuation on
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that it has something to do with
the uh, the situation he had has

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going on in Hawaii with the uh
sexual assault settlement that he apparently he just

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settled this. If Texas State didn't
already know about this, then that's on

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them. If so, there's no
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But he apparently has left Texas State
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this coming season, which, like
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this just came over a little bit
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that, not only did it unfold
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rapidly him going there. Yeah,
it felt like he entered the portal and

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then visited Texas State. So there
was a tweet that that he visited,

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and then all of a sudden it
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you know, it kind of unrolled
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then as as as as is always
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effect. The quarterback that they had, TJ. Finley, who was their

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starting quarterback last year, got him
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to the most wins in program history. When Jaden announced that he was coming

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to Texas State, TJ. Finley
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State doesn't have either quarterback quarterbacks,
right, So now the kind of it's

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kind of messed up, it is. It seems like it's a very strange

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situation that just unfolded that that's just
the way this thing is. Now,

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it's just the way this thing is
that you know, somebody like that.

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There's always dominoes falling when when when
stuff like this happens, but just this

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one, especially a long line dominant, incredibly crazy thing. So I don't

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know, Anyways, we did want
to talk about a minute about we did

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you know, we talked about with
with Michael Lev John Wilner put out a

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column if you don't if you don't
follow John Wilner, he has the Pac

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twelve hotline as a as a Michael
Lev said, it's probably gonna become the

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Wilner hot line. John's a former
reporter in Tucson. I we jokingly,

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my wife and I jokingly call him
when you know, our oldest son,

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because he was very young when he
got here. He took over covering the

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basketball team after shortly after I left. He spent a lot of time here,

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went to La He's been up in
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years. Works out of San Jose. We worked for the Santaday American News,

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and he's really carved a niche for
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on all things Packed twelve, particularly
from the business standpoint. We have him

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on the show all the time.
He just remains a really close friend.

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So John has a hotline that he
puts out a column. If you don't

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subscribe to it, you should.
Now the runs syndicated in the Star.

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And so today John had a call
him about six candidates that actually this came

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out yesterday. Six candidates that Arizona
should look for in As for the athletic

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director job. At the top of
the list, he mentioned Mark Harlan,

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who's he calls him the obvious choice. The question is, is Mark Carlan

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is financially in the picture for Arizona. You know Mark is again a close

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friend of mine and Steve's. He's
the guy who was here for a lot

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of years, was a graduate assist
under Dick Tomy. He was here at

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the same time as Brent Brannan,
so we know he knows Brent Brennan and

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they work together also at Samsey State. So Mark would be a great choice.

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The question is is he in Arizona's
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he mentioned, one that seems to
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be Stephanie Rempi. She's currently the
athletic director at NAU. She was the

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chief operating officer at LSU Big Time, held the same post at Texas A

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and M Big Time. So she's
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time and she went to the U
of A. She played volleyball here,

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so a little bit of a connection
there. She's in Reno right now,

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not far from here. Somebody who
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might be the type of person who
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out to me the most was Rempy, but also Mark Jackson. Right,

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just from a pure sports standpoint,
I think he has awesome experience in terms

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of UH and honestly impressive experience in
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programs, And I think that's something
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gonna have to deal with now,
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football program going forward. He's He's
currently the athletic director at Villanova, spent

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some time at USC, so he's
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country. Lisa compos another another one
who's although Wilner says she has no direct

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ties to Arizona, she to the
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d at Northern Arizona for for some
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Antonio, and hired the coach there
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top group of five programs. So
another other's Boise States Jeremy Dicky was on

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his list Eddie Nunez at New Mexico. But all the all the all the

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people that Wilner mentioned are our sitting
athletic directors. Now we meant we you

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know, there's a question of is
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Erica Barnes, you know, who's
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you know, what what's her?
What are her chances of this job?

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done a pretty good job over there. Uh knows that knows the landscape.

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I'm sure she'll have an opportunity at
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that the financial well, I'm sure
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think the financial state of the university
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pursue for this day? It's hard
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to be somebod who's gonna help him
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does Erica you know, is there
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over what's going on over there financially
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been here a long time, so
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there that uh, you know Erica's
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so you know, it's hard to
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all the exes and oh it's Steve
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on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty Welcome back on the ball here on

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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm jacon
Zalez. Your host Steve is out on

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some other business, possibly for the
rest of the show. So it's Kevin

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and I right here and we're waiting
to hear from John Pearlman from FC Tucson

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to talk about their Desert Friendlies match
coming up this this Saturday out at the

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Keno Sports Complex. It's going to
be c F Montreal versus Minnesota United,

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a couple of MLS teams who come
here and there's a match like this,

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a friendly every year, and this
is the next iteration of this. So

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we wanted to talk to John about
this and what's going to be going on

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with the with the at this event. So well, hopefully he'll uh give

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us a call here in just a
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we'll just keep going with where we're
going. I'm sitting here trying to text

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John to get to give him us
a call. Uh it bear with me.

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But you know, we were talking
about the coaching staff. You know

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that that uh Brent Brandon is putting
together. Uh you know, as as

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it always happens, Uh, there's
a you know, a trickle down,

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right, you know. I know
Arizona fans were complaining about you know,

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you know Washington and and Jed Fish
taking all all the coaches. You know,

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well, Arizona's doing the same thing. They're getting the San Jose State

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coaches. I know they're gonna miss
them at San Jose State. But you

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know these guys are you know Brent
Brannon. Uh, if we feel good

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about Brent Brandon, we should feel
good about the staff that he's bringing in.

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That's exactly my thought earlier, Jay, As I was looking over the

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signings for the coaches today, I
always thinking, wow, it must be

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really unfortunate for loyal San Jose State
fans to watch all their coaches go to

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a new school, a bigger school, and and and chase their their new

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goals. And I was thinking,
wow, this is just like you said

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earlier, the dominoes of college football
falling as they do in the modern era

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and the era, and you know, it's just the way it is.

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And there's still a lot of a
lot of churn going on. You know,

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we just talked about, you know, this thing that happened in Texas

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State. You know, you're sitting
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the best season you've ever had.
That, Yeah, you transfer in this,

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or you think you've transferred in this. This quarterback who was at a

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at a power five school, had
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did pretty well here in Arizona,
and did well with Washington State. He

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comes there. Your quarterback that you
had who did all these great things for

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you leaves, and then this and
this guy, and it's just this.

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It's constant chaos of stuff that goes
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the whenever this stuff happens. You
know, let's look at let's look at

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Duayna Quina, right. Duyne Quina
had decided to go over to Texas with

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Johnny Nansen. Johnny Nansen. Uh
oh, let's see if this is uh

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this is John? Hi? Is
this John? Hey? John? How

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you doing? I'm sorry my interview
went with someone else went ah okay wow,

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so so so we're like kind of
never mind, I'll just leave it.

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I'll just leave that. You're the
guy you bought me for, the

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old swim coach that was Steve,
not me. Yeah, you're gonna come

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at me. Yeah, you're gonna
come at me with a better, better,

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am when you're the one that's screwed
me yesterday. Okay, I'll stop.

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I'm sorry, don't sweati. We
appreciate you still getting with us.

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So the Desert Friendly begins this weekend. Tell us a little bit about,

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uh, what's going to be going
on at the stadium. Yeah, it's

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it's gonna be incredible. So we've
got absolute games coming up for us.

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We've got Montreal playing this so United
six pm, Keenan North Stadium. Two

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MLS teams, two coaches making their
debut. It's gonna be really a fantastic

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night and obviously everyone's got to come
out as soon as you have the kicks

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the ducks butt exactly exactly. So
this is some of you guys been doing

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for for a while. It really
generates some interest to you know. I

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mean this is sort of, you
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things, sort of a spring training
game for these guys. I mean,

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it's it's the guys. It's a
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and big time you know, Yeah, this is this is this is big

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for our community. We have a
lot of teams coming in to train here,

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but the MS teams obviously are at
the top of the level of the

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stock up heramide here in the country. And you know, this team is

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filled with former Premiership stars, players
that have significant national team experience in the

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number of countries and obviously the BB
able to be up this close to see

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the game from the speed, the
athleticism and the quality of play for the

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young players here and the and the
fans from all over the country. We

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have a lot of snowbirds out here
from Minnesota and it's just played and Tison's

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so popular with Canadians for visiting for
the Gem show. So again it's a

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wait for people to mind some of
the things they love we're visiting here.

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the soccer players who always you know,

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want to see who they're aspiring to
be right up in person, close up

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a mint, right and this is
where the you know, things start to

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start to build up with with the
World Cup coming to our part of the

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our part of the world in a
couple of years, you know, you

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start generating exciting it's never too early
to do that. And then this is

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kind of where things start to start
top percolate towards that right absolutely, and

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you know what's what's really great.
Is this is such a great summer of

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soccer. So we have our event
in January and February, and in March

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we're running our open tryouts. In
April we're rounding out the team. And

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in the summer, obviously, this
is an amazing summer. You of Copa

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America coming to the United States for
the first time. You have the Paris

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Olympics, so there's going to be
the women and men trying to win golds

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at the Olympics in soccer. So
it's just such an exciting time for soccer.

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And we start to build up right
here in January with a big match

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between Montreal Minnesota, and it goes
all the way through the summer and we're

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going to get to see our FC
Twuston teams, you know, obviously compete

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for national prominence again. So tell
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on in the off season for you
and and FC Tucson. You know,

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how are you fitting into the owner
position and the things that you're doing with

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the team, and how are you
kind of shaping this sort of molding into

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what you want it to be.
Yeah, it's it's been great. It's

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like it's again for me making sure
that you know we're planning for planning this

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preseason. We have so many teams
coming to train. It's always a lot

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of sales work in terms of getting
and recruiting the teams, and my chief

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operating Officer, Kyle Cornell's continue to
do a tremendous job and assisting me with

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that. But for me, you
know, again, it's making sure that

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we we're already been working on the
teams and the structure and improving our Youth

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Academy team all the way through.
So it's always constant planning. Obviously,

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increasing our partnerships. We have so
many great community partners and sponsors that we

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work with and seeing how we can
you more in the community. Obviously we

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do a lot with ARIS on a
complete help. We work with t USB

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and a bunch of the school districts
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their outreach initiatives. And most importantly, we have to be a solid member

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of the community year round and contributing
to organizations and to charities and to different

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pieces that are part of the fabric
that makes two sound amazing. So there's

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always something, there's always somebody to
help, there's always a way for us

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to be impactful in kids' lives and
lives with all the people in Tucson.

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And so we're so pleased that we
have so many great events here and so

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many great organizations. It's doo good
work here. We try to figure out

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where we can fit in and where
we can help them get their messaging out.

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So we're growing all parts of our
digital platforms and all of our more

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organization here is going to be streamlined
and better each year, and obviously with

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the ultimate goal of returning to pro
soccer when we can figure out the best

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most commercially viable venue for us to
play in. So, you know,

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it might surprise some people that you
guys started here back in you know,

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twenty eleven, you've been here over
a decade. You know, you feel

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like this is that that FC two
Son is really well embedded, you know,

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into the community. People know about
you, they're you know, they're

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aware, they come out to the
games, they see the things that you

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guys are doing, they come out
to the friendlies. Uh. I mean,

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you feel like that you guys are
very well recognized as being a big

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part of what we have going on
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I think we have a lot of
a lot of good recognition, but I

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think you can always be better.
I think you never know who isn't getting

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your message and who's doing this.
You have to find different ways outreach.

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I mean, you know, I've
always tried to come and spend time speaking

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in different groups. I mean I've
spoken to a number of groups that I

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had never spoken to here that kind
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really understand our ethos and what we
were about. Right. So it reminds

406
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me as an owner and a leader
that people might know a little bit about

407
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you, but you also have to
remind them why it's some and that they

408
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support you and that you're worth supporting. So we're always going to do that

409
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work. We're always going to have
to reach out and listen. There's so

410
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many it's not sets on these four
to two song but it's for PEM accounts

411
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for Southern Arizona, So whether it's
us being on Serra Vista or Sara Rita

412
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or No Gallus and make sure those
people know that they're part of our fabric

413
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and they're welcome in our games,
and they're they're wanted. So we're always

414
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trying to do different things and through
different memes. Obviously, it's great to

415
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:29.880
be on your show, but I
got to make sure I'm on podcasts and

416
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:34.119
I'm on you know, I'm not
ready to make TikTok yat jay although to

417
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:38.279
see that, but understand that new
platforms in the way young people are receiving

418
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information. We have to be part
of that and we have to solve that

419
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puzzle every every day, every week
and every year to be better. So

420
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.519
it's a great question you're asking,
and the answer is, We're always going

421
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:51.839
to be a work in progress and
we always think we can do better.

422
00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:53.799
But I hope when people think about
it and think of this event, they're

423
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.960
always they're creating memories with their parents
or their children or with their friends,

424
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.480
right, And that's what soccer's about. It's the world's game. It's about

425
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:07.839
experiencing something together and caring about something
and rooting for somebody and sharing the join

426
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.480
relation that a great goal can be, or a great save or just just

427
00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:17.400
a cold beverage with somebody you love. So this last year is as an

428
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:21.480
owner, Now, is your approach
changed at all? You know? Are

429
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:26.160
you staying up later getting up earlier? Is there is there a lot more

430
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.119
to it for you personally in terms
of the work that you do with the

431
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.680
team. Now, No, I
think it's it's it's really what we've done

432
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:38.279
is building smartly, building the team
around me and giving them the tools they

433
00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:44.519
need to be successful. I think
micro management is not the future of any

434
00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:48.519
organization. I think it's appreciated or
enjoyed. I get to find people that

435
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.079
I trust to share my vision and
let them go and do the things they

436
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.400
need to do. And for me
it's always anybody who's a coach who's used

437
00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.680
to controlling all the access and those
and it's a good quality to have.

438
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:04.359
But also realizing that soccer in the
best way. You do the training,

439
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.519
do the best game, but the
players play the game. It's not like

440
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.519
basketball or football where you can time
out or script to play. So managing

441
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:15.480
a stock organization, I should be
taking a lot of the the cues I've

442
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:18.759
had as a as a soccer manager
as I've gotten better as I get older,

443
00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:21.519
which is do all the work I
can, but when the event happens

444
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:23.279
or when they need to go and
shine on their own, allow them to

445
00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:26.440
do that, allow them to feel
confident, making the mistakes and making their

446
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:30.920
own decisions. And there's a lot
of smart people we have working with us

447
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.599
now not going to make sure I
help them spread their wings. Awesome,

448
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:37.079
awesome, awesome. So no,
that's a I mean, certainly, that's

449
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:41.000
you know that if anybody who's been
in any sort of sports administration or in

450
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:42.960
any administration, you know that you
got to have, you know, people

451
00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:45.839
around you who you know, as
you say, you can trust to do

452
00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:49.839
the work and are capable of doing
the work. And you know, especially

453
00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:52.680
in the you know, in the
situation that you guys are in with such

454
00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.400
a you know, competition for the
you know, for the entertainment, attention

455
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.319
and dollar in this in this community. And you know, look, we're

456
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:04.160
football and basketball centric, you know, with with the U of A here,

457
00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.799
but there's there's plenty of other stuff
going on and you guys have to

458
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:12.880
find a place in there and and
to be able to do all that well.

459
00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:17.640
It was well said to me by
one of our new guys, and

460
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:21.119
he said it great. Listen,
there's a million people in Tucson. All

461
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.759
we need are five thousands of peoples
to come out in the summer into our

462
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:29.240
games, and we're a massive success
so I know there's more than enough soccer

463
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:33.200
fans to do that. I know
and and to me, I love it.

464
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:36.920
Support all the u of a sports. I support Ali and the football

465
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.759
team. We support the Noble Home
loans work formerly and now obviously the barstool

466
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.599
bowl. These things are good.
The Kisadors and the work they do and

467
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:49.839
having us here, all these things
can be complementary to each other. The

468
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:56.240
Sugar Skulls, the fantastic job Bob
Hoffin does, the road Runners right,

469
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.480
and the Rise and Todd raises all
shifts so we can co brand, we

470
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:01.839
can come. We don't know,
all of our games crossover and it's fund

471
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:07.279
of those key moments where we can
help each other. Because us helping each

472
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:08.559
other, it's not that we have
to take away from each other. Each

473
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.799
sport has its own crew. And
then as overall family entertainment, people are

474
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:15.319
gonna choose to go to each of
us at different times, and we need

475
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:19.640
to make sure that we we make
sure we maximize that. Well said,

476
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:22.440
well said. So, last couple
of minutes we have here, tell us

477
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.519
a little bit about you know,
what's what's the schedule now for you as

478
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:31.039
you guys get ready for your next
season. Yeah, for us, it's

479
00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:36.400
uh season. Tickets are obviously on
sale. We just got our we just

480
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.680
got our schedule hashed out, and
we'll be able to make it public probably

481
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:42.319
in about a couple of weeks.
On the men's side. The women's side,

482
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:46.319
I'm going off to Oklahoma to get
that sort it out in a day

483
00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:50.960
and we're gonna be able to come
back with another great schedule for the people

484
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:53.920
on the women's side. And obviously
we'll be announcing different events for going out

485
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:58.799
in the community with our partners,
whether it's watch parties or you know,

486
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.200
for for a lot of soccer events
as we built into the season in our

487
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:06.440
open tryouts, So we'll be talking
a lot more hopefully moving forward with a

488
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:10.240
lot to announce. And most important
thing that people can do is enjoy themselves

489
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:15.880
on Saturday night, six pm Keeno
North Stadium CF Montreal VERSUS Minnesota United and

490
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:21.240
enjoy some pro soccer. Yeah,
tickets starting at sixteen bucks. Is that

491
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what I see? That's right,
and we have you can call in and

492
00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:30.119
get your U of a student discount
as well. We've got a group discounts,

493
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:32.519
so you can call five two oh
six hundred and three Zone ninety five.

494
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:36.920
If the online rate isn't good enough
for you, call us up,

495
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:38.720
tell us what you got. We'll
sort you out. All right. Saturday,

496
00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:45.160
six o'clock at the Keno Sports Complex
of Montreal taking on Minnesota United should

497
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.720
be fun. Thanks so much for
the time. And the other thing is,

498
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:52.400
as I was joking, Frank Bush
is an absolute leuger. We should

499
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:59.160
bump me for the single time that
guy has not come enjoyed watching every swimmer

500
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.079
we've had when big metals man.
Someday, if I can be as great

501
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:05.880
as him, this will be a
huge accomplishment. Well, John, we

502
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:09.440
appreciate you, and I always appreciate
getting you on your lot a lot of

503
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:12.960
stuff. And again, as I
say, you're good for the community.

504
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:15.920
So we were glad to have appreciate
you. Thanks, take care, all

505
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:20.480
right, Thanks, thanks a bunch, John Proman, owner of FC Tucson,

506
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:23.119
a big gamils. You know,
a friendly coming up on Saturday night

507
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:27.320
out of the same If you're you're
a soccer fan, uh, you know

508
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:29.840
this is your chance to go out
and see the big boy. So it's

509
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:32.320
always fun to have pro sports and
Tucson exactly exactly. So all right,

510
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:35.639
so we're gonna take our last break. We'll come back. Take your calls

511
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512
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on. Man lots to talk about, So give us a call. So,

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Streaming live on the iHeartRadio app. This

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is I on the Book with Steve
Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen

557
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to fifty. Welcome back time the
Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

558
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:12.519
I'm Ja Gonzalez. Steve is out
on some other business that he's working on,

559
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.679
so it's just me and Kevin the
rest of the hour. We got

560
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:17.639
a call right out of the break, so let's take this call. Hi,

561
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:21.679
You're on the air and I on
the Ball. Hey, hey,

562
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:24.280
guys, Hey, this morning I
was listening to one of the sports talk

563
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:30.559
shows and they had Petros on and
they asked him, you know, most

564
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:35.440
of it thought about football, but
they had to ask him and they said,

565
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:39.599
do you have a favorite coach and
it was Brennan. Wow. Yeah,

566
00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:44.360
yeah, I did see something from
Petros when it when the hire happened,

567
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:47.000
that he was big on it.
Yeah. Well I was on the

568
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:51.599
National show this morning. It was
pretty cool. Yeah. Now you know,

569
00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:55.159
it's widely seen as a good hire. Yeah. One of the things

570
00:38:55.199 --> 00:39:00.639
is fucking sucking me though, and
it's on social media. Is there's some

571
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:06.840
guys doing in podcasts with the parents
players, right, that's that's not good.

572
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:15.119
That'll go south. It can and
uh, you know, look,

573
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.840
you know guys have their have you
know, figure out what they're doing.

574
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:23.079
You know, that's that's way more
of a fan podcast and than what we

575
00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:27.159
do. You know what our show
is. I mean, I'm a fan

576
00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.920
and that we make no bones about
it. Steve's the impartial reporter, and

577
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:34.480
we feed off of each other off
that stuff. But uh, you know,

578
00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:37.880
to me, you gotta be a
little careful. Not because you're worried

579
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:43.039
about what fans are gonna say.
It's like, I I what parents are

580
00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:46.719
gonna say. It's just that their
parents and you know, I guess if

581
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:49.880
they didn't want to be on the
show, they wouldn't be on the show.

582
00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:52.159
So it's I, you know,
I don't have any issues with it.

583
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:54.920
But you know, we've had parents
of players, but more from the

584
00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.960
standpoint of For instance, we had
you know, Roy Lopez, who had

585
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.639
played at New Mexico State came here
to play at Arizona. Suddenly he was

586
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.480
somebody who was going to be drafted, and we got his dad on the

587
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:09.280
show, and you know, give
give give his dad a chance to talk

588
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:13.480
about how proud you know, he
is of him. We had Chester Burnett

589
00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:16.880
key on. Burnette's dad was on
the show. So we've done that from

590
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:21.440
time to time, but we haven't
made that like a thing to do like

591
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:24.119
for a stretch of time. So
you know, you have to you have

592
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:30.599
to be careful, yeah, with
the parents. So that's a no go.

593
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:35.239
I don't think The other thing is
is I I remember the days of

594
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:40.000
the players being on TV. Remember
when Trell Turner had his little bit and

595
00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:45.679
he'd have Victor Gates on there after
practice every once in a while. Yeah,

596
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:49.880
yeah, we're not allowed to do
that anymore. Yeah, I know,

597
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.559
but that was so it was pretty
cool back in the day. Remember

598
00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:59.639
the one time they had the uh, the wildcat come out to practice.

599
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:07.599
Oh and uh, an actual one
or what? Yeah it was the actual

600
00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:12.760
one. It was from the I
guess that International museum. Oh yeah,

601
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.679
from the snor Dees Museum. Yeah. Yeah, and it scared the crap

602
00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:21.119
out of them, is what I
recall. Yeah, I remember that.

603
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:23.599
Yeah, Yeah, that was It
was really fun. And I think it's

604
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:27.360
going to get back that way pretty
quick. Well, we would love to,

605
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:29.559
you know, because Steve and I, you know, we're we're old

606
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:30.920
school, right, We were doing
this in the you know, in the

607
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:35.159
eighties and nineties, and you know, the access that we had. We've

608
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:37.599
talked about a million times to be
able to, you know, get a

609
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:42.079
player walking off the field after practice
and go have a one on one conversation

610
00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:46.440
with them, and and what that
allowed to happen was fans like you got

611
00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:50.559
to know these guys, got to
know these players with male, female,

612
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:52.199
whatever. You got to know the
athletes. And we have so little of

613
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.719
that now, and it's it's sort
of a you know, not yes,

614
00:41:55.760 --> 00:41:59.880
you see them out on social media
and they're doing whatever they're doing. But

615
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:01.320
but you know, for me as
a reporter, to be able to tell

616
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:05.920
a story of a player or a
coach or whatever it is, yeah,

617
00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:08.719
I missed those days. Yeah,
well I appreciate the show. Guys,

618
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:13.039
all right, well thanks about appreciate
your calling. Yeah, no, we

619
00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:15.239
you know, Steve and I have
talked about that a whole bunch, you

620
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:17.440
know. I mean, I mean, the reason one of the reasons Arizona

621
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:25.280
basketball became Arizona basketball is because we
had the ability to to bring those players

622
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:30.239
and their personalities to the fans.
We were able to do that. I

623
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:34.039
spent you know, I went and
spent a full day with Steve Kerr his

624
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:36.760
senior year. They were going into
the his senior season. He was coming

625
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:40.000
off that injury uh and uh in
in the preseason, so was before the

626
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:45.199
before the first game. I went
and met Steve at Saturday morning practice.

627
00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:47.639
They finished like a if I call
about noon, I picked him up.

628
00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:51.559
We got in my car, we
threw he rode a bike to practice,

629
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:55.000
put his bike in the back of
my car and we went over. We

630
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:58.559
got a sandwich. I went to
his apartment and I spent the day there

631
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:00.360
and you know, part of it, you know, I was interviewing,

632
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:05.239
and part of it we were just
were we were watching football games and Bruce

633
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:08.639
Frasier was there, and you know, you get to know the guys,

634
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:14.079
and that's the piece that's kind of
missing, that kind of it's really missing

635
00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:16.800
from what we do now. Yeah, what I was going to bring up

636
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:21.440
is the access to players has totally
changed with the amount of agency that they've

637
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:24.039
gotten to build their own platforms,
and they now understand that there is a

638
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:28.320
certain amount of leverage that they have
to give their time and and and I

639
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:31.280
guess space for lack of term,
like some players have been known to try

640
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:36.960
to charge for interviews, which is
not what we do here at all.

641
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:40.159
And yeah, so I think there
there is definitely an adjustment going on with

642
00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:44.480
with how to get access, how
to properly engauge, like for example,

643
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.679
when we were trying to to discern
the emotions of Tam Mac and Noah through

644
00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:52.320
their podcast episode because that's all we
had access to at that time. It's

645
00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:59.079
it's definitely a new era, and
it's a it's an interesting way to players

646
00:43:59.159 --> 00:44:02.000
and too often and you know that's
a good example, Noah and and Uh

647
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:06.679
and Team AC. You sit there
and you watch that, and you wonder

648
00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:09.960
how much of that is real,
how much of it is scripted, how

649
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:14.719
much of it is messaging right that
they want to do. Look, these

650
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:16.360
guys are not dumb guys. They
know what they're doing right, Uh.

651
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:20.079
And they're now in a business where
you know, one hundreds of thousands,

652
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:24.960
millions of dollars are are involved.
And and you you see those guys in

653
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:29.719
that format and you're not sure what
you're You're not one hundred percent sure what

654
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:35.400
you're getting whereas if I'm interviewing Team
AC for a story and I get you

655
00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:37.039
know, I get full on,
you know, an hour hour and a

656
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:42.039
half with with with a with a
player. You know, I'm gonna draw

657
00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.039
things out of him, and sometimes
they would be things that he doesn't want

658
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:46.960
drawn out of him, but he
can't help himself, but talk about you

659
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:51.199
know, those things, and that's
what we that's what we did as as

660
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:55.440
as reporters when we were covering the
teams back then. We would sit down

661
00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:59.800
with a guy. You know,
I took Sean Elliott out for a pizza,

662
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:01.440
and you know, he didn't want
to eat it at the restaurant because

663
00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:04.559
he didn't want to be bugged.
So when he picked up a pizza,

664
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:07.639
went back to his his his dorm
room, and again spent hours sitting there

665
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:09.719
talking about you know, he told
me about all these you know, all

666
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:15.199
these you know, I had a
an data similar interview with Anthony Cook,

667
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:17.800
who was part of that that eighty
eight team, and Anthony told me a

668
00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:21.880
whole bunch of personal stuff. You
know, his dad had committed suicide,

669
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:23.840
and you know, those are things
you don't get when you're the only time

670
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:30.360
you're getting with these guys is on
the podium right with twenty other reporters,

671
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.360
everybody trying to get one question in, you know. And and that's to

672
00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:37.760
me, that's what's missing, not
just at the college level, at the

673
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:43.159
at the pro level, you know. And so when you see a player

674
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:47.119
come out and say something, uh, maybe it's bad, maybe it's good

675
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:52.400
or whatever, you're you're really not
sure what you're getting. And and it's

676
00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:54.519
kind of like, I don't feel
like I know this guy, and so

677
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:58.679
I don't really know what he meant
by that exactly. And one more thing,

678
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:00.880
because we do have some big breaking
news, I want to wrap up

679
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:04.679
this conversation before we get onto that
one because there'll be a whole new conversation.

680
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:07.760
But one thing, with what you
mentioned about t Mak and Noah,

681
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:12.800
it's also hard to tell how serious
the comments are. And and for example,

682
00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:15.480
we were talking about Apeciens price sock
posting his jersey on social media.

683
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:19.360
It's kind of tough to tell what
he even means. Is he taking that

684
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.920
seriously? Does he know what people
are reading into his tweets about and uh

685
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:29.039
yeah, And it really increases the
contrast between you know, the controlled environment,

686
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:31.840
right sound clips you get and for
example, it makes things like ninety

687
00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:37.840
four feet with Jay Billis on ESPN
look like a window into the life of

688
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:39.079
the person he's interviewing because you don't
get any access. Don't get it,

689
00:46:39.199 --> 00:46:45.039
you don't get any access. But
the breaking news that we were absolutely massive,

690
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:47.639
according to Adam Schefter, that's where
I'm seeing it. Jim Harbaugh is

691
00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:52.280
leaving Michigan to accept the head coaching
job with the Los Angeles Chargers. Sources

692
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:57.480
tell ESPN the Chargers have have got
the national champion winning coach. Do not

693
00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:00.079
shock nuts shocked, not nutshocked at
all. I mean, look, you

694
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:05.760
know, with everything that happened over
at Michigan this this last year, the

695
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:10.920
spine scandal, the burger thing,
I could see he's just you know,

696
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:14.840
he's like, I don't need this, I don't need this. You know,

697
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:16.800
he's won his national championship. You
know, he's been to a Super

698
00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:20.840
Bowl as an NFL coach. He
wants to go win one. And I

699
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:22.360
was just gonna say, how much
he can't get any higher than where he's

700
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:25.360
at right now, especially with all
the things that you mentioned that some of

701
00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:29.360
them have not been yet resolved,
right and so and what happens when you

702
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:31.639
win one at a place like Michigan, you gotta go win another one,

703
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:35.880
and you got to do it like
right now, right you know, Nick

704
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:38.199
Saban did it. He won some
in a row and yet you won one.

705
00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:40.800
Okay, go do it again.
And it's the same thing with leaving.

706
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:44.840
When there's not a better time to
leave than it's a cruel time to

707
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:46.840
leave. But right then, right
now, when his stock in Michigan is

708
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:52.039
high, well, good for the
Los Angeles Chargers. You know Harbor's you

709
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:54.519
know, he's again. He's been
in an NFL coach he got he got

710
00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:58.280
the forty nine er to the super
Bowl pretty quickly after he got there.

711
00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:02.000
But you know, I'm not surprised
at all. And it's gonna be fun

712
00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:06.119
to It's so many fun to watch. You know. There's a lot of

713
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:08.800
things in place there for him.
He's got a quarterback in Justin Herbert,

714
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:13.440
maybe a great quarterback. We don't
really know. Yeah, we think it

715
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:15.679
looks like he could. You know, he has the potential to be great.

716
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:17.719
He's got other pieces, you know, they're there. They're offense.

717
00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:22.400
Allen is one of the most forgotten
about elet receivers in the League. Right,

718
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.920
the running back Austin Eckler. You
know they got guys, right,

719
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.039
they got guys, So I could
see that seems like a good landing place.

720
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:34.159
He's got some history in San Diego. His college coaching career began in

721
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.320
San Diego at the University of San
Diego. So not shocked. So now

722
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:40.880
here we go again, Right,
what's the what's the trickle down? I

723
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:44.760
was just gonna bring that up.
It definitely opens up a whole new domino

724
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:49.559
effect with because I think the Chargers
job seemed like the most coveted almost or

725
00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:52.559
at least the most popular job on
the market. So now that that job

726
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:55.840
is off the market, Herbert as
your quarterback is now off the market,

727
00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.559
how do jobs like Atlanta now look
for some coaches? And it'll be interesting

728
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:05.679
to see, like the the the
news pieces that come out about oh,

729
00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:07.920
you know, so and so coach
was close to signing with the Chargers,

730
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.199
but they went with Harbaught and now
he's here. Yeah, and that would

731
00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:14.519
be interesting to see. Right field
Yates, who we follow? Oh,

732
00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:16.920
let's take this call. H you're
on the aaron I and the Ball.

733
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.480
Hey, Jay, how's it going
today? Pretty good? How are you

734
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:32.760
I'm good, So maybe Jed's gonna
go to Michigan. Now there's certainly people

735
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:38.800
already saying that I wanted to say
thank you for putting Umberto Lopez on the

736
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:47.360
radio yesterday. And my question is, how are they gonna reduce that two

737
00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:52.320
and forty million dollar deficit? Well, a couple of things on that.

738
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:54.119
The two or thirty million dollars isn't
a deficit. It was a it was

739
00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:59.760
an accounting error. It's something less
than that, but it's still a massive,

740
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:02.960
uh financial issue. They've got financial
problems. What it is is they

741
00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:07.800
have way less cash than they thought
they had. So whether they I don't

742
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:12.320
think they've got to go find two
hundred and forty million dollars and and put

743
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.280
it, you know, put it
somewhere, But it's still a lot of

744
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:19.039
money, and it's still a thing
that happened that really is bad for their

745
00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:22.800
for the University of Arizona financially.
The issue in the athletic department is they're

746
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:27.239
they're they're eighty seven or something like
eighty million dollars in debt uh and and

747
00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.519
there's like a fifty five million or
a fifty five million dollar loan that they

748
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:36.199
owe that the athletic department owes to
the campus. So those are the things.

749
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:40.400
Those are the harder numbers. The
two hundred and forty million dollars we've

750
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:45.840
heard from a number of sources.
Says it's kind of misconstrued. It's it's

751
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:50.880
a it's like you it's like you
thought you had X amount in your checking

752
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:53.320
account, but you only had X. So it's not like this money is

753
00:50:53.400 --> 00:50:57.079
gone. It's just that they thought
they had some money that they never really

754
00:50:57.199 --> 00:50:59.280
had. So but I don't know
what they're good. I don't know what

755
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:01.800
the result a solution is going to
be to that. That's way above my

756
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:07.000
pay grade. Okay, I just
figure out it, all right, all

757
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:12.079
right, Yeah, I appreciate the
call. All Right, thank you.

758
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.079
We got about a minute, so
we've got to get out of here anyways,

759
00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:19.840
all right, Jed and Justin Spears
already already tweeted out Michigan job opening

760
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:22.320
up means Jdfish has the opportunity to
do something very funny. I don't know

761
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:30.360
if that would be funny to the
Washington folks, but certainly here's the thing

762
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:37.599
about that is that the reputation now
that Jedfish has established or that he's stuck

763
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:39.480
with. And that's what I asked
you in Steve that one day, I

764
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:44.119
was like, how long is that
that he's stuck with? Is that he'll

765
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:47.000
go anywhere anytime. He'll sign a
contract today and he'll break it tomorrow.

766
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:52.360
I imagine he can't leave Washington.
There's probably a massive no no. The

767
00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:57.159
bouts twelve million dollars. Cheez,
they gave they did. They bought out

768
00:51:57.599 --> 00:52:00.760
Jimbo Fisher for seventy so you know, if Michigan wants him, they could

769
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:05.599
go get him. I can't imagine
that that would happen. You think you're

770
00:52:05.639 --> 00:52:07.400
like the guy for that job.
Now, I can't imagine. But I

771
00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:10.000
was gonna say before we got that
last call. Interesting stat three of the

772
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:17.079
four coaches who coached in the College
Football Playoffs are gone from their jobs.

773
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:22.920
Michigan's coach has gone, Alabama's coach
is gone, and Washington's coach left Washington

774
00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:25.559
to go to Alabama. So now
just sark. Yeah, so sorry,

775
00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:30.039
Steves are kisy and the only one
that's left, the only remaining coach from

776
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:32.079
the playoffs. So all right,
yeah, thanks for being here, thanks

777
00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:36.480
for calling. We'll be back tomorrow
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778
00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:39.079
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