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Good, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera

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alongside partner Jagan's aus got our guy
kept Bryan, right, that's right.

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I've been gone so long. He's
been Ryan his whole life. Actually,

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right, yeah, I knew that, right. I said I'll let you

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earlier. It's for years. It
must be because of the Jay passed that

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Doobie or was it you, Kevin
the head that Adoby. It's illegal now,

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right, didn't have it. I
didn't bring any stuff. I've never

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done it, but maybe I'll have
to do it because you never have.

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I never have never never ever,
never needed to, never wanted to.

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But I guess everybody can do it
now. Well, that's what they say

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in n C. Double A now
was saying that you know you're not gonna

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you're not going to be suspended if
you if you don't, if you show,

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but they're they're calling cannabinoids. Just
wanted did you say pot in your

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system? In your system in a
blood test, in a drug test regular

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season, it's a I guess it's, don't I guess I'm assuming if it's.

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If you're good in the postseason,
you're good in the regular seas.

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Fire it up, baby, yeah, lay up? Wow? What the

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world could be to? Everyone's getting
money, lots of money. You do

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whatever your damn please, this world
needs to calm down. Maybe if everybody

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blazed up a little bit, Okay, every and I mean everybody blazed up

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just a little bit in might calm
things down. It and there'll be a

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run on nachos and well, yeah, you know, the big the big

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bag of laze would be would be
in demand. Well, look at the

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world we live in. The kids
are making tons of money, and now

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this there's gonna be a point.
And I think there was hinted of this

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maybe a few months ago, where
you could play not just four or five

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years, you could play it until
you wanted to get you wanted to.

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Yeah, I'm waiting for them to
say what you know, one of the

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one they can put limits on how
long can play college sports. I don't

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want to go there's there isn't there
a ninth year player in the football this

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and we should go back and explain
what this discussion was about. And Double

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A Division one console voted today that
testing positive for what they're calling cannabinoids will

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not result in your being suspended or
declared ineligible or anything like that for its

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n C Double A championships and for
postseason football bowl games. So you can

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play up all you want tonight before
what's next? I think the playing forever

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is next? And then grades.
I'm gonna sue I'm not eligible, Hell

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with you, I wanna sue.
Yeah, Well, like the question we

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got asked yesterday, right that our
caller who called you us and said,

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wait, these guys still stood yeah
right right, yeah, yeah they are.

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They technically still have to go to
school and they have to have grades,

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and you know, you have to
be eligible. But you know,

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you get we don't hear players being
ineligible for grades anymore. I can't remember

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the last time we Yeah, and
obviously they can't do it for hippo laws

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or whatever laws they have. Yeah, but you know, guys not you

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know, key guys not playing in
a game. Why And they just say,

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you know, we haven't had those
personal read personals or school reasons or

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whatever. Yes, so Steve,
now might be the time Steve to oh

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to dude, blaze up or what
did you I'm not hip like that,

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man. No, come, I
already mail though. I don't need to

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do that stuff. Yo, Nico, Nico, this is a Nico question.

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Well, yeah, Nico, Nico. Probably Nico probably stopp passing drug

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testing about the third grade. You
know, if you want to call,

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it's not a snow hunt. What
you're thinking on this? When when did

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you fail your first drug test?
Nico? No, that's that's that's hard.

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Don't tell them, don't tell,
don't tell. That's because that's what's

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the overrunner on that. Not going
there like twelve and a half. That's

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Jay talking, Nico. Don't listen
to, don't listen to twelve and a

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half. Well, welcome to Welcome
to Budday Show or Tuesdayday. Hey,

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you do it right after Monday every
week every week. You killing, it's

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my second day back and I don't
even know where the hell I am.

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Good to be back again. Jay. We have a good show today.

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I think it's gonna be a fun, fun show in as much as it's

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gonna be eclectic. We have Ray
Flores in the first time. Ray Flores,

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who's family are the owners and operators
of all the Altaro restaurants for his

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concepts, is the Umbrella Company.
But they know they're historic family here in

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town. Yeah. The reason we're
I asked Ray, because we've been trying

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to or you did last week,
trying to get some boosters. Then you

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mentioned this yesterday you asked a couple
one couldn't or one declined. We were

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trying to treat some other ones and
I had been talking to Ray. He

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wants to come on and be positive
about what's going on, that they can

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get out of this with a lot
of work, talking to the right people,

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doing the right thing. And he's
involved. He caters a lot of

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the games, right, so we'll
see his thoughts and get a booster's perspective

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because he has some skin in the
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know, just one of those.
Look, there's so many supporters out there.

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There's people that you know, we
we know, and we don't think

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of them as as as huge you
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but they are. And then in
the Florest family is one of those

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you know that, you know they're
out there. Yes they have they have

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concessions at the at the games,
but you know that there's money coming,

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you know, from other directions,
and and they're you know, they they

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support the Arizona Athletics. So yeah, you know, so'd be good to

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talk to talk to Rain just what's
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supporters whatever you want to call them, who are putting money into the u

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of A. Who are who have
a as you say, skin in the

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game. What are they thinking right
now? As uh ash these things are

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developing, and we're finding out that
the University of Arizona Athletic department and maybe

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the university as a whole, really
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way they should have been, right
right, uh And we'll go with that.

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And then the second hour, we're
gonna have coach Stitt. You know

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a long time there was a baseball
assistant. He's down at Pima, one

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of the heads there. In terms
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thoughts on William May's passing. We'll
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some of the administrative things that are
going on now, like like the boosters,

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his former school at Juve and how
you know his thoughts because he's I'm

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sure he's like old school like us. You know, what the hell happened?

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Older school than us? Okay,
right, I'm looking at his I'm

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looking at his buyer. He graduated
from college in sixty eight, so that's

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that's like older than my brothers.
So he's Jerry's been around. Although he's

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a much better shape than all of
them. I want to still know how

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to hit them a curveball in the
middle. He taught my wife how to

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hit really yeah, uh where when
when we were playing we had a co

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ed team that were playing softball out
at sports Park and you know, our

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friend Ray Martinez, his wife was
on the team, and Ray got Jerry

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to give our wives that's meaning lessons. We won a couple of championships after

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that. Co ed. That's cool
because we were in the lowest level of

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co ed were basically, you know
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to hit male and femes. How
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I'm still married. Okay, there's
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what I'm saying? You play with
your playing with Look, we weren't about

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the games. We were about going
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beer and the stuff. And finally
we all started having kids and we couldn't

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play. We could just couldn't do
it anymore. Yeah, okay, they'll

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be looking forward to that and see
what he says about with all that stuff.

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At four fifteen, four seventeen,
whatever time it is, what else

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is going on? I'm sure you
saw the well you saw you have probably

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the last tense baseball game with the
nub NC DOUBLEA. I was flipping channels

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between the College World Series and the
hockey game. So let me tell you.

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I don't watch hockey. I don't
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one percent whatever, but I watched
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fun frenzy. Yes it was fun
frenzy. That's why I watch it.

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But I watched it from the beginning, and I mean the they came out

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of the locker room in a frenzy
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shouldn't take it back from beginning.
When I turned on it was one one,

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and then I was watching when uh, when the Panthers went up to

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one, and I mean I was
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I was coed and it was such
a friend, such a frenzy,

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uh, you know, and then
the heartbreak at the end. You saw,

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you know, the the you know, you see the celebration, but

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then you see the guys on the
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into it. It was a game
seven. They came back all the way

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from three nothing, losing by one
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end, it was it was fascinating
to me. There was even a video

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that I saw on on Twitter where
the captain of the the Oilers stood at

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the door to the lock, not
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the ice and waited for every player, every one of his teammates to get

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off the ice before he got off
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was there for you know, for
each one of them. It was.

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It was really cool, and you
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that much of a I keep using
the word frenzy when they put all that

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into it for those for those games, they're spent at the end. They're

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just spent. Everybody is because they
all play, yeah, right, they

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all play. It's not like an
NFL game. They don't all play.

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There's some guys who don't play.
These guys all play, and they give

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it everything they have and they come
to the end and somebody has to lose,

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and it's it's incredible to see.
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They kept saying, you could see
the you could see the oilers gas their

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gas. Yeah yeah, I wouldn't
know what a guy in a uniform like

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that looks like his gas or not. But it was cool. They were

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they were trying as well as they
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less, riving and poking each other, sticking their sticks everywhere. Just incredible.

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And that's that's what I love about
it about a game seven. I

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sound like a dude who's who's a
little younger than than my boy right here

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thinking about talking about uh some old
school music. Wow, that's pretty cool.

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The Beatles, Wow, that's good
cool music. And talking about the

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talking about hockey. I've always you
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the Stanley Cup in that regard getting
to the last couple of games, you

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know, and watching the elimination games
and watching and now I don't even watch

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the earlier rounds, just the final
because I'm not a hockey guy, but

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I even I have an appreciation for
what we got to see last night.

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It was very cool. Okay,
what else is going on? We got

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about four minutes. I hope we
get a lot of calls on a lot

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of different things today. There's because
there's still a lot of things going on.

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We'll talk. We'll leave baseball alone
for you. I don't know if

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you have that. I can ce
double a baseball was a good game.

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Yeah, that that was a great
game. You know, I was rooting

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for both of them to lose,
you know, because it's that was like,

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you know, the devil versus the
devil, you know, being that

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you know Pac twelve guy out here. There was no way that was gonna

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happen. But I really didn't like, uh, you know, neither one

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of them had won the championships.
I guess, okay, go go win

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one. But you know, I'm
just always rooting against the SEC with the

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well you had no choice because you
know those there was two cars, which

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is there? Well in the tournament? Did you see this that just that

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just came across about Texas A and
name's coach? Oh did he go to

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Texas? He did? Because last
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you oh, did you see that? I didn't see that. So after

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the po post came after the game, one of the guys, I don't

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know who it was, reporters asked
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Texas or what are your chances going
to take it? I don't know how

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he phrased, and he got pissed. I think he say pissed. And

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he got pissed upset about the question
because they had just won a title,

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right, uh and well less than
twenty four hours. I get you gone.

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Yeah, all minutes ago that came
across now CONTI that is plucking coach

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if you were doing content and his
pockets are twice as deep as everybody else

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is just go get whoever you want, what you want, give him the

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cash. He took Arizona's golf coach. But you know it's like the time

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that that um, what's his name
me? Who went from Kansas to North

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Carolina, Oh Williams. Williams.
Remember they lost to the final four and

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they said we got to ask you, and he got pissed off, and

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a couple of days later he was
the head coach in North Carolina was with

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with the girl reporter. I forget
her name, Bonny Bernstein, it was

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Bonniers. It's like, guys,
just don't crap on the reporter. Just

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say I'm not answering that. Just
leave it alone. I know you have

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to ask a question. We have
to ask. I'm not answering that question.

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Yeah, but we know, but
we gotta people find out part of

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part of the thing with it and
my day, your day is a reporter.

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What's your job? I got questions? What's their job? Win games?

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Did you ever apologize for asking a
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in this context? Uh, sorry, but I have to ask this,

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yeah, you know, not asking
immensely. No, I'm sorry, but

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I got to ask you because yeah, well the closest I came was that

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I've told you that story. But
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uh, Sean Rooks did not show
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that was notorious happening. Yeah,
And so I let everybody ask all the

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questions that were getting asked, and
there were no more questions about the game,

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and he was getting up to leave, and I said, I said,

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wait, Lute, I got one
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have to ask this where Seawan Rooks? Because nobody else asked for Sean.

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Well, I can see it.
How do we not ask where Sean Rooks

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was? And that was my whole
story. I was there. I was

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the sidebark guy, and my story
was do the story on Sewan Rooks and

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where he's at. So you know, and I said that. I said,

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like, I let everybody answer,
ask all the questions where Shawan Rooks?

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And he got mad at me.
Did he answer? No? I

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mean, as I recall, he
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something like that. Ye. But
that's all. That's all I need.

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I just need him to say,
you know he's not here, Well,

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we know he's not the thing about
it is, it's notorious. In my

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thirty twenty five years covering the team, it was notorious that that Christmas Man,

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they were coming back. Yeah they
were coming yeah. Yeah. And

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I guarantee you because it's written in
the book a thousand times that a lot

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of them thought of not coming back. But they came back and they and

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they never lived, never lived to
regret it. Yes, they guted it

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out. They said, you know
what, the best decision I made was

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not leaving to not leave. Yeah, you know a couple of guys did,

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Sean Allen h Andrew Bohannan, those
guys saying I wish I would have

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stayed. Yeah, I wish I
would have stayed. Well, yeah,

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because what happened to them? Nothing
exactly nothing nothing. Had they stayed something

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good for something good, Yeah,
right, they did. They had a

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better had a better chance of something
good happening. Right. But you know,

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you're eighteen nineteen, you know more. I knew more than everybody else,

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right, and then you realize,
what the hell do I know?

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I was pretty stupid. You can
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Lucky, you get lucky. You
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He's Jacinsofs. Now on the phone. We have Ray Florids from Florida's

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good, sir. How are you? We're doing on? Yes? Yes,

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the good to have you on.
We had been looking for someone like

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you, and here you are.
Let's let's let's talk about one like me.

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What does that mean? Someone like
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booster who knows knows the ins and
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When it comes to people like you, who you know, give money,

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have this moral support, have this
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what are your thoughts on what's going
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Not academically athletically well athletically. I
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mean, and I haven't met a
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say that's true for every year since
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I really do like the coaches right
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a lot of them very approachable,
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They want things to work. Maybe
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country that so just have to be
a little bit different than they used to

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be, not just x's and o's. But I like what I see right

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now. Well, and you know
it bodes well because the importance of you

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know, having support from people like
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not only to some but nationally it's
become more important than ever with what's going

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on financially with athletics. So before
we go into the issues that the U

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of A has, just your thoughts
on all the how important money has become

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in athletics, whether it's at the
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level, you know, just how
it's changing ever thing and kind of where

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you are on all that as a
fan, well, I think if you're

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walking on two feet or have a
brain matter of any of any a substance,

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everything in our lives is impacted by
the dollar, whether it be our

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politics and who spends more, whether
it be the medical system, and who

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has more, who can cover more
spend more what medicare reimburses more for So

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it's silly to put some negative cloak
of money on top of any industry or

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organizations such as sports. It's going
to be there, and as it gets

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bigger and more important, it's going
to grow. Right now, I think,

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you know, when I see things
that are going on, for instance,

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the constant barrage of articles and terminologies
that are all of a sudden attached

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to sports, like Ernst and Young. I mean, if everybody sees Ernst

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and Young, they automatically freak out. Ernst and Young's job is one hundred

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percent to go out and find critical
issues to be fit and sometimes they may

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not need to be and sometimes they
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business type organism you can find,
but it's that's literally their job.

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If Ernst and Young had nothing to
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So when I see that, I
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this is a there's a little bit
of a drama attached to all this because

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it's a public institution and they want
to have something to talk about. You

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know what, at the end of
the day, the University of Arizona is

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our hometown team. It is our
Chicago Cubs, it is our New York

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Yankees, it is our you know, uh, Buffalo Bills. It's our

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it's everything to us. And a
lot of those teams, Cubs, et

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cetera, they didn't have winning seasons
for many, many years. Right,

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we can't. We can't connect winning
and losing to the love and the need

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to support the university. That that's
a very different mindset. Yes, we

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all want winners, but our support
should not ebb and flow with their record

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on the field. Do you know
our support should be or should be a

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fe all the time? Yeah?
Yeah, I'm thinking you know a lot

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of people like you again, with
the support and all that. What are

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they thinking? Is it a is
a disappointment? Is it we'll get through

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this? What is it? Well? Look, I think there's probably is

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always an opportunity to change how you
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some stores that don't work. I've
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run like an eighty twenty rule,
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percent doesn't. This is a public
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Yes, I think they've I think
there were mistakes made. I think they've

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they've addressed in their moving in a
direction to fix them. But this idea

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that you know, we should cut
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chance to remedy that, or now
support should constantly come under scrutiny. I

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believe that the powers that be are
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the review processes. So let's not
hang on to that hat. Let's get

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back to driving the university forward,
especially for Tucson. You know, as

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much as we know we need solid
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we need solid education. The sports
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together and tied together. We benefit
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tax. Our community needs these drivers. And you know, if you look

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at Family Weekend last year when we
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one of the last, you know, possibly one of the last, if

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ever times they'll play here, you
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jetfish drama, but that weekend was
probably one of the busiest weekend in food

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sales we've ever seen. Well,
you know, well, that's good for

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you, Ray. Well, okay, you can say that if you're single

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benefited from that, more hours,
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wages, and that's what it was
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were rooms that were being auctioned on
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was. And I don't know of
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the Gem Show, and we know
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and our industry trades in general.
We have a chance to have a Gem

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show weekend every weekend that U of
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that way in too soon. So
I guess that's the long wave saying you

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support what's going on over there.
You're I mean, you're probably paying attention

409
00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:48.680
to it, maybe even concerned.
I don't know, I'm not I don't

410
00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:52.000
know if I'm putting words into your
mouth, but you're willing to give the

411
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U of A an opportunity. You're
going to continue support to support the athletics

412
00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:59.640
while it's trying to fix these issues
that it's had. And is that what

413
00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:07.559
you're saying as long as athletics,
and I don't know about you know,

414
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how detailed the lear Field decision or
whatever, But what I do want to

415
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.359
say is that the one thing I
like about my relationship release, and I

416
00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:19.720
can speak for myself with the university, is when we reach out, they're

417
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willing to listen. And I think
the problem is is if you're not supporting

418
00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:26.960
them, and then all you want
to do is reach out and criticize,

419
00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:29.119
well, then that's not good.
I think it's a two way street.

420
00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:33.400
I applaud those who are investing,
I applaud those are involved, and I

421
00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:38.160
also applaud the effort to listen to
the feedback. And if they stop that,

422
00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:41.319
or if we don't have that channel, then I think that's the problem.

423
00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:45.160
What I see right now is there
may have been a lull in that

424
00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.160
over the last couple of years,
maybe where that kind of fell apart,

425
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:52.720
or maybe review processes fell apart.
I don't think that's the case right now,

426
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:56.680
but having owned a bunch of businesses, some that have failed, I

427
00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:02.599
understand these things can happen, but
you don't throw out everything over one or

428
00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:06.519
two issues. And this may seem
very big, but we must rally around

429
00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:11.440
this university and these teams as a
community right now. So mister flutis,

430
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:12.960
if you were the A D and
you have a chance to probably talk to

431
00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:18.799
the new one a time or two, what what suggestions would you offer if

432
00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:23.599
you could well somehow, some way
and Tucson, you know, they love

433
00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:27.359
what they love. We've got to
get the love back for U of A

434
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.759
sports, specifically, you know,
U of A football and it can't just

435
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.119
come out at times like you know, that was great that we had that

436
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.839
turnout at Hi Corbett the other day
when we had the you know, when

437
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.359
we'd won the Pac twelve, when
we launched into the NCAA's that's wonderful.

438
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:45.039
But you know, it was really
hot. It was really nice a couple

439
00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.519
of months earlier, and the weather
would have been great to have more people

440
00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:52.079
out of the baseball park. It's
a great ticket value. I think now

441
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.640
we've got this inaugural year, you
know, we should see a full series

442
00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.599
of games full of occupants. So
U of A has to work on things

443
00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:04.799
like engagement of the community. I
think I think in a little bit more

444
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:10.880
local will help. I think getting
our market, our culture into into the

445
00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:15.359
stadium will help. I think they're
interested in that family, family environment.

446
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:21.079
I think would really help getting the
people that are there celebrating at the tailgates,

447
00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:22.640
not to staying out there or leaving
early, but getting them into the

448
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:26.720
stands, creating an experience that they
like staying throughout the game and not leaving

449
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:32.279
early or our halftime. The student, the students have to be have to

450
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.119
be committed, you know. I
think we've got to get the students to

451
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.359
really feel committed to attending sports games. I mean, I went to a

452
00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.000
lot of baseball games and there were
a lot of students there. Football,

453
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:44.759
We've got to double, We've got
to double and triple that attendant from the

454
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:49.519
students. I think, you know, I don't know that Mexico shouldn't be

455
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:55.279
an opportunity to market to and now
that they've grown in their interest in American

456
00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:57.960
football, that we shouldn't be marketing
more for them. So I look forward

457
00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:03.599
to seeing what this new culture is
going to create because I think I think

458
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.519
the new ad is a person of
action, and I think she's going to

459
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:10.400
take action on some of these opportunities. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,

460
00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:14.079
No, I mean, look,
there's those of us, and I'm

461
00:30:14.079 --> 00:30:17.799
gonna say us because I feel like
you're you're one of them who you're gonna

462
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:21.480
support the You're gonna support the university
as you as you said, it's for

463
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:23.799
sports. It's everything that we do
here. Yeah, there's you know,

464
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:29.160
there's some baseball, and there's some
hockey, and there's some you know,

465
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:32.480
indoor football. But in the end, you know, we're a college sports

466
00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:36.480
town. We rely on that,
and you know, businesses like you rely

467
00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:38.640
on that. But and that's why, on the one hand, you're gonna

468
00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.319
support them, But on the other
hand, you want to you want to

469
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.599
support something that's you know, doing
all the right things, and that I

470
00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:45.839
guess that's what we're trying to get
to in terms of, you know,

471
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:51.400
does the business community that that supports
the University of Arizona and the athletics,

472
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.519
are they okay with you know,
do they feel like things are moving in

473
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.720
the right direction with the new a
D and the the uh you know figure

474
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.519
trying to figure all this out that's
going on, so that you're not running

475
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:10.559
a thirty million dollar deficit, well
those are those are obviously big numbers,

476
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:11.759
right, and to be foolish for
anybody to say that's not a lot of

477
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:19.880
money. I think there were obviously
spending issues, and there were budget issues,

478
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:23.200
and there was accounting issues. But
again, is in business that can

479
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.799
happen. I know it's crazy to
think that it could happen at that level,

480
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:32.720
but it can. It's still a
human based process. I do.

481
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:37.960
I do think that from a standpoint
of hospitality, I think I hope that

482
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:42.680
the new AD and her team will
focus on hospitality because I think from the

483
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:47.920
apples, from the approach, to
donors, the sponsors, to the to

484
00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:51.279
the fans, to the everyday person
coming in and out just for a game

485
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:55.799
or two or hopefully a season ticket
holder, all of that should experience the

486
00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:01.160
same level of heightened hospitality, of
heightened approach, build a culture of the

487
00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:06.279
you know, this is the game
in town, and I think the idea

488
00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:10.359
that it's the only game in town
is actually can bite us back. I

489
00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:16.000
think we need to figure out this
is a part of our fabric. I

490
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:20.519
like leverage in business, I do, but I don't want leverage just for

491
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:24.920
leverage sake. I think we have
to identify as a community that even if

492
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:30.119
you don't like sports, even if
you're in academia, who thinks it's stupid

493
00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:34.799
that a university needs a football team, or you're somebody who believes I like

494
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:38.359
gaming more than I like football,
understand that all of those things and all

495
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:43.960
those categories should have a seat at
the table in a community. You may

496
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.160
not like local restaurants, you may
like change, but you would not want

497
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:51.759
to live in a market where there
we're only changed and there are only locals.

498
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:57.400
Right there has to be a blend
of fabric of different threads and colors

499
00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:00.920
and shapes to make a community.
And right now, the U of A

500
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:06.680
for one hundred and fifty years or
however as has been a vital connecting thread

501
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:09.119
for our community and we need to
support it right now. Has it has

502
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:14.559
it got issues? Yes, but
tell me what household, what business,

503
00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:20.960
what religion, what academic concept hasn't
had issues in our generation, much less

504
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.880
the last hundreds of generations. So
I think we just need to get rid

505
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:27.799
of the negative for a while.
Yes, we got to come back and

506
00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:30.119
look at how they do. But
for the next six months, I think

507
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.240
we need to end this year strong. I think what you guys do in

508
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:40.119
portraying athleticism as a as a newsworthy
concept that people should pay attention to,

509
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:45.960
is really important. Right now.
We can't lose that fact. And you

510
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:50.759
see markets that like look at look
at Glendale right now. I mean,

511
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:54.200
look at the West Valley how it
has been driven forward by sports and tourism

512
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:59.039
in that area, you know,
And we need that here because it percolates

513
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.799
and it drips down. It does. And I know people get mad because

514
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.160
that concept of like, you know, drip down economics. But but I'm

515
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.320
not worried about the economics as much
as even things like I would love to

516
00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:10.039
be in a town where I didn't
have to in a situation where I didn't

517
00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:14.960
have to drive to Phoenix every weekend
for a tournament because there was a sports

518
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:17.000
community here where they were Phoenix would
come to us where I didn't have to

519
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:20.440
get on the road every week and
to drive my fourteen year old to play

520
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.960
a baseball tournament. But there were
some here, and there was in football,

521
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:28.039
you know, training camps and soccer
tournaments and things in Tucson. And

522
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:32.320
that does start with our having a
vibrant u of a because it's about what

523
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:38.519
all those entities and governments and sponsors, they need to see this market as

524
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:43.519
one that's for real. Otherwise they're
just gonna look over us and we're gonna

525
00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.480
die. It's gonna and it's gonna
hurt so many of us that aren't paying

526
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:49.960
attention to this ball because where we
don't think it's our ball to hit,

527
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:52.199
it's gonna hurt us. Yeah,
no, I totally agree with you.

528
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.360
We have to be one pulling the
rope in the right direction on all this.

529
00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:59.440
It's important. Yeah, yes,
hey, Ray, I appreciate your

530
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:02.440
time. Thanks the whole bunch of
very good stuff. Yeah, thank you.

531
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:07.079
You're doing Thank you. Ray flotis
from look and you know, and

532
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:12.599
there here's a business guy right who
this is important to him and so he

533
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.079
wants it to He wants to be
going well, he wants it to succeed.

534
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:17.480
He wants you to get it stuff
together because it you know, as

535
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.360
he said, in a lot of
ways, for a lot of people,

536
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:22.079
it's a life blood of what they
do. Right. No, And he

537
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:25.280
has he has a love. He
has a love. I didn't ask him

538
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:29.480
if I think he's you a graph. He is a love like many others

539
00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:31.679
do for you. A right,
you know, it's the red and blue.

540
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:36.119
He bids the red and blue and
not business is business for me.

541
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:37.880
They've got to do a lot of
things wrong for me to be really pissed

542
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.920
at. Yeah, I'm kind of
pissed at him right now, but personal

543
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:43.920
right, let's go Okay, no, no, we'll come back with that

544
00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:45.679
because I kind of asked you that
yesterday. What would and then somebody what

545
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:50.199
would have to go really wrong for
you to just say enough already? And

546
00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:53.039
the colors are called yesterday, I'll
ask you again, Okay, maybe you

547
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:59.039
could rethink well, no, you
know, okay, let's take a break.

548
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579
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fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.
He's jackins Owis. We have our guy

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fifteen minutes if you want to call five

581
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to two oh four one six seventy
four forty. Do you guys think a

582
00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:27.920
lot like Ray? I mean,
they'll get through this eventually. And and

583
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.760
like I asked, I was gonna
ask you, do you what would I

584
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:34.360
couldn't give you a tragedy? What
would happen if you were to jump ship?

585
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:37.079
But you're never gonna jump ship.
Now what would kind of make you

586
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:39.679
even more depressed? Well, I
guess it depresses that's right. Well here's

587
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:43.880
the thing. And look, I
know that, you know, coaching biounces

588
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:45.599
where things bother me. All right, I get you, I got you.

589
00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:50.639
But you know, I understand that's
part of the game. I understand.

590
00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:52.679
You know you're gonna have to give
Sean Miller. What do you get

591
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.119
four million dollars something like that?
You haven't someone got seven? No?

592
00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.360
No, I think Sean got like
under two something like. Okay, whatever,

593
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:01.800
those you know what, That's part
of the game. Those are the

594
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:07.320
numbers. But I'd be pissed off
if I'm, you know, giving handing

595
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.039
money, you know, giving money
to an athletic department, and my coach

596
00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:14.079
has a seventy seven million dollar buyout. That's where you lose me, right

597
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:16.519
or or you know, you know, let me tell you your selling an

598
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:21.360
example is perfect seven and a half
million to do what every win that he

599
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:25.519
had caught? Yeah, cost two
million dollars or for a win. And

600
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:30.079
then the reason I wasn't more upset
about that, Steve, is because when

601
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:32.000
because somebody took care of it?
No, no, no, when when

602
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:37.480
Arizona hired him. He was the
guy everybody wanted. Everybody thought it was

603
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:39.760
a home run higher right. Uh, you know, he he was.

604
00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:43.760
He was kind of the hot guy
out there as Mike Stoops was back when

605
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:46.480
he got hired. So you know, to sit here and say, oh,

606
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:49.119
you know you never should have hired
him, well, that's crap.

607
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:52.320
Everybody wanted him and and and so
I think it was. Uh, you

608
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:57.800
know, I'm mad at him for
doing such a crappy job that they ended

609
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.159
up having to pay him seven million
dollars to get the hell out of here.

610
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:01.360
I'm mad at him. I'm not
mad at the u A for that,

611
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:05.800
if that's what it took to get
him. But you know, seventy

612
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:10.320
seven million dollar buyout for like the
one they had for uh uh Jimbo Fisher.

613
00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:15.079
There's some forty million dollar buyouts and
fifty million dollar bus that's crazy.

614
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:17.800
You know, it's just nuts.
And on the one hand, yes,

615
00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:22.480
you're protecting you know your your you
know your interest to make sure your coach

616
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:28.199
stays. But no coach is worth
that without question. No coach is worth

617
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:31.159
question. You know, no coach
is worth that. And so uh,

618
00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:34.280
you know, if you if you
got to get him X buy out to

619
00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:36.559
get him, and if he needs
more than that, they let him go

620
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:40.840
somewhere else that you know, that's
what I say. So that's where you

621
00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:45.039
would lose me on something like that. I get it. You know,

622
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:49.920
universities and as as ray as Ray
for Us said, large businesses, they

623
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.400
have issues like this. You know, to me, it's it's affected us

624
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:57.400
personally. You know, with my
son at the of A, it's affected

625
00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.199
us personally. So in that regard, I'm on happy with what's going on,

626
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:04.320
but not to the point where I
like, I just hate those guys

627
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.079
because I don't and and I and
I won't. They're gonna have to do

628
00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:09.199
something really stupid and it's funny.
It's not funny, but it is what

629
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:12.840
it is. Because I don't want
to use your son. I want to

630
00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:15.079
you just as an example kind of
Uh is very good at what he does,

631
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:20.039
affable. Uh, they like him. Oh but sorry, we gotta

632
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:22.119
let you go because someone else screwed
up, right, I mean, if

633
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:24.920
it's not me, it's not me
screwed up. But it was not on

634
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.079
me. What the hell? What
the hell exactly? That's what that's what

635
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:31.840
upsets me that yeah, that that
is bothers them, you know what,

636
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:37.719
It absolutely bothers them. And and
it's you know, but I don't know.

637
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.880
You know again, it's big picture. You know. The university is

638
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:46.199
important to me, it's important to
my family. I'm with Ray. Tucson

639
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:51.800
is Tucson where a million people were
a nice place to live, and a

640
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:55.519
lot of that is because of the
university. Let's take this call higher on

641
00:41:55.559 --> 00:42:00.480
the air and I on the ball. Afternoon, you guys, Gabe.

642
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:05.639
I hope Steve is all right.
I'm sorry for you for your lost good

643
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.400
thank you. I appreciate it,
appreciate it. So just so, the

644
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:15.639
reason why I'm calling is because I'm
very happy that Arizona a number of recruits

645
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:22.400
or commits this path this past Sunday
and Monday, so keep it coming.

646
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:29.719
Also, it's very happy that the
universe Arizona beat beaten out the well flip

647
00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:34.159
I commit from the you know,
the mons in Tempe. So I'm very

648
00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:37.079
happy for that. I hope Jay
is pretty happy. I was gonna,

649
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.199
I was gonna prompt you with that
gay because I said, you must be

650
00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:43.280
happy about the flip from up north. But of course you were right.

651
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:47.280
Of course you were yeah. Yeah, yeah, there's dumbasses hard. We'll

652
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:51.960
see what happens. Are you okay
with the quality of people that have coming

653
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:58.159
in? Yes, yes as well, Yes I am okay, Okay.

654
00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:00.679
I think that's the biggest question mark, and we won't know how good they're

655
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.199
going to be until they play here, right, so wait, what's wait

656
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:08.159
and see? The only thing that
matters is for Brett Brennan, his coaching

657
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:13.920
staff and for the team is just
a stack wins on each on each other

658
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:19.880
on this coming season, because in
twenty four because in twenty fifteen and in

659
00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:27.960
nineteen ninety eight, Arizona has been
the widely coyote recently, So yeah,

660
00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:34.400
they need the stack wins on each
other and then then next year more recruits

661
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:40.800
will come because once you stack wins
on every season, the mainstream media,

662
00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:47.000
including ESPN, Fox Sports, we'll
see. Well, I guess Arizona's power

663
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:52.360
football program that is going to stay
for a couple of years. So they

664
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:57.400
just they got they just need to
win a lot of games. I hope

665
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:02.400
ninety three or at least going to
the Fireoff will be will be pretty good.

666
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:06.159
Yeah, no, thank you,
Gabe, I always appreciate it.

667
00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:09.679
Okay, bear down Arizona Coquat,
Thank you, Gab gave on top of

668
00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:14.400
it as usual, it's as fact, it's as funny as hell. They

669
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:15.800
were sitting here, you know,
they were the same playoff in the same

670
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:21.320
breath with Arizona football. Oh yeah, legitimately, right right right now,

671
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:24.239
it's just got to happen. Now
I can sixty seven, sixty six games

672
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:29.519
days away from the nervous I'm nervous, are you? Yeah? For about

673
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:31.320
what about the fact that every time
they have a ten win season, they

674
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:35.880
sucked the next year? Yeah?
Yeah, Well that's your that's your thing

675
00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:38.039
up it with like it's you know, it's it's it's Lucy pulling away the

676
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:42.000
football. Yeah, no, I
know. Well, the thing is it's

677
00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:45.960
never under this condition is because there's
a new coach, new motivation, new

678
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:50.000
fire under their under their their heart
or whatever fire under to get them motivated,

679
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:52.280
so they have a new will to
win, if that makes any sense.

680
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:57.079
But you know, the conditions would
be great, new league, new

681
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.920
coach, new everything. Yeah,
I mean yes, And that part of

682
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:02.320
it's going to be fun. I
keep saying that, who's the first game

683
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:06.119
we get? Is it in New
Mexico? No? Yeah, yeah,

684
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:08.639
New Mexico NAU. Then they go
to Kansas State. Yeah, okay,

685
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:12.039
okay, should be fun. I
mean, it should really be fun.

686
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:15.079
They're thirty and a half point favorites
over New Mexican. Yeah. New Mexico's

687
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:17.440
has a new coch coach obviously their
head coach is now here. And a

688
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:21.360
half is a lot for a first
game. Yeah, yeah, don't you

689
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:23.679
think. Yeah, but New Mexico's
bad horrible. How do I know?

690
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:30.119
I just know, I just know
that any of you and then the Kansas

691
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:32.559
State right away? You see,
now you're going to be in the league.

692
00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:36.320
Yeah. There are some lists that
you know, there's all these lists

693
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:38.639
that are coming out, and there's
somebody put out a list of you know,

694
00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:43.800
top games early in the season to
keep an eye on, you know,

695
00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:45.719
and that's listed as one of them. In Kansas State right now is

696
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:50.880
a nine point favorite in that game? Oh for Arizona. Well yeah,

697
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:55.360
well should be fun. Yeah,
take your tombs now, I love it.

698
00:45:55.400 --> 00:46:00.840
We're already talking point sprints for football. Should we go to media day?

699
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:05.800
Oh it's in Vegas. When is
it July, like the second week

700
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:07.840
of July. Yeah, I don't
think I can. I don't think I

701
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:10.000
can. If it's mid July,
there's no way I can't. It's like

702
00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:15.400
it's like the second week. Well, maybe I can. I'll make an

703
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:19.039
exception. I have a lot of
stuff coming up in July, so maybe

704
00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:21.599
maybe we take a road ship for
a day, do the story, do

705
00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:23.559
the show from up there on a
Friday or what day? Whatever day is.

706
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:31.239
It's Wednesday July. No, it's
July ninth, and really that early

707
00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:36.440
July. Oh, there's no way
I can go. No, you know

708
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:39.719
you didn't go either July ninth and
tenth. Yes, why so soon?

709
00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:45.719
It's usually like the twenty something.
Maybe not, it's because it's not the

710
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.960
fact. Well okay, but still, I mean that's the way I had

711
00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:54.639
a test schedule. I think we'll
see maybe no, maybe maybe yes,

712
00:46:54.679 --> 00:47:01.519
maybe no. It's so what days
that it's Tuesday Wednesday? See yeah,

713
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:06.880
it's a Tuesday Wednesday. Yeah,
Tuesday Wednesday. You know what. I

714
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:12.920
can't go either. I just I
just lined up like four meetings those couple

715
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:17.280
of days, just literally just today, just today. It'd be fun though,

716
00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:20.880
Okay, it'd be fun if they
do it there every year, we

717
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:23.159
can go win these years. Yeah? Hey maybe, well you can't go

718
00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:27.000
in July. So you talk tough
and then you back time. Yeah,

719
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:29.119
I did, because I forgot about
all these meetings. I said, yeah,

720
00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:30.360
no, we have it. It's
too if it was, I got

721
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:34.480
tomorrow. I've got a bunch of
meetings to get there. Yeah. The

722
00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:37.920
magazine. Yeah, no, no, no. If we would have been

723
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:39.159
able to, I think that maybe
get up there for a day or two

724
00:47:39.360 --> 00:47:44.159
come back. We'd have to sacrifice
ourselves. I know, you'd have to

725
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:46.360
stay in a room with me.
Oh that's why I'm never there, So

726
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:51.400
it doesn't matter. Is a shower
loud? That's okay. Sleep in the

727
00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:53.320
tub. I'll sleep in the tub. I hope it's a tub, not

728
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:57.639
a stand up. Okay, Well
we'll talk about that. We'll think about

729
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.280
that down the road. Okay,
you know, let's let's let's put it

730
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:04.239
this way. If you, if
you guys want to fund us to go

731
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.480
to the go to media day so
you can listen to us from there,

732
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.800
we'll, you know, we'll,
we'll, we'll, we'll consider that.

733
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.199
Go fund me, Paige. Yeah, we don't want to do an official

734
00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:15.599
goal fund me because that would be
a little low level. But somebody actually

735
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:19.360
we could give a responsor with the
trip. You know, yeah, it

736
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.559
wouldn't comet very much. No,
we don't have to go to the forty

737
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.840
dollars. But no, I'm going
to McDonald's. You know, sure,

738
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:32.039
Grand Slam breakfast. He send send
my guy here a quick If you're you're

739
00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:35.280
thinking about it, it wouldn't cost
but a few hundred dollars. I mean

740
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:37.639
a couple of hundred dollars. Yeah, give us up there, get us

741
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:42.639
back. Cool. I could do
it. Look at you thinking ahead.

742
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:46.199
I know I'm trying to. I'm
trying to. Well if not, if

743
00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:49.679
not, then then we'll go.
We'll go for the No, the U

744
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.320
s the first us A game is
he is in Phoenix, right or is

745
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:57.960
it in Vegas? So you Sally
basketball game? That one in Vegas?

746
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.800
Vegas? It is in Vegas.
Yeah, the one. We gotta go

747
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:02.440
to that. Yeah, yeah,
I hope it's a weekend. I think

748
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:07.119
it's a weekend. We got to
go to that. Yeah, yeah,

749
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:08.840
I think I'm sure because you mentioned
that before. Ryan, I just don't

750
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:14.639
know what day, like December seventh, dish. I think yeah, that

751
00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:19.280
would be fun. We could do
that. We can do that. That'd

752
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:24.400
be fun. All right, that's
actually December fourteenth in Phoenix. Oh,

753
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:30.920
it is in Phoenix. I think
it's Vegas. I think, you know,

754
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.679
I think the first one is I
think the first one is in Phoenix.

755
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:42.000
Really I thought it was Vegas first. Well, we're going down for

756
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:47.199
sure, Phi. Okay next year, and then we can go to Phoenix

757
00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:52.920
too. It doesn't matter. Phoenix
is in New Vegas. It is,

758
00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:58.119
well no, but Vegas is yeah, No, Vegas is Vegas. Okay,

759
00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:00.400
this has been great, regular Sorry, we're trying to figure out plans

760
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:05.119
that will never happen. But uh, okay, if you want to call,

761
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:07.360
we have two minutes to a little
more than two minutes. Quick call

762
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.760
five to two four, one forty. It's already gonna be the first hour.

763
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:13.960
That's how fast this went. Uh, the game this year isn't Phoenix?

764
00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:17.719
Well, wow, December fourteenth.
You said that's a Saturday. I

765
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:22.000
get I would imagine surely that's I
think it has to be. Why else

766
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:23.719
would they have it on a weekday. Yeah, we'll get one that quick

767
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:27.880
call. We get about a minute. Hi, you're on the arr and

768
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:30.960
I on the ball. Got about
a minute. Hey, hey guys,

769
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:39.079
Hey, while you're so talking about
you of a moving conferences. What are

770
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:43.519
what are we supposed to expect from
a TV coverage perspective? Do you guys

771
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:46.679
know the scoop on that, Like
you know somebody who's had like needs that

772
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:52.639
packed from network for years. You're
gonna need every single game we do,

773
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.679
you know the outlook as to what
we're gonna expect on TV coverage And you're

774
00:50:55.679 --> 00:51:01.039
gonna need to get a subscription to
ESPN Plus. So for any games that

775
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:07.079
aren't on a network. Now,
Big twelve is is an ESPN you know,

776
00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:10.440
it's TV contract is with ESPN,
so probably all of its football games

777
00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:14.960
are gonna be on one of the
ESPN networks. There's four of them,

778
00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:19.639
so you know the few. But
when you start getting to basketball and games

779
00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.400
that might have normally been on Pac
twelve network, you're gonna need an ESPN

780
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:28.159
Plus subscription and I think it's like
nine bucks a month or something like that.

781
00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:31.000
And that's where you'll get games that
you, as I said, you

782
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:35.920
would normally find on a Pack twelve
network. And you think if we do

783
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:38.760
that, well we'll see every game. Yeah yeah, yeah sure, because

784
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:42.360
they have as many of those as
they want. You go on. There's

785
00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:45.000
some like very obscure games. So
yeah, you'll get all the game.

786
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:50.119
You'll see every game, certainly basketball
if you if you have ESPN Plus.

787
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:52.280
All right, man, hey we
got we got to go over top of

788
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:54.519
the hour. Thanks a bunch,
man, appreciate it. Nice. Got

789
00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.599
a good call, thank you.
Yeah. Okay, first hour done.

790
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:00.719
Wow, how fast it went.
Well. Breaking news from from my guy

791
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:05.920
here, Ryan, got a bunch, a lot of stuff, a lot

792
00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:08.519
of fun. We took a lot
of stuff too, We did some of

793
00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:12.480
it. Okay, all right,
all right, you will okay, so

794
00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:14.800
let's go and take our break.
We're gonna come back. We'll have breaking

795
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:16.280
news here at the top of the
hour. And then Jerry Stitt, former

796
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:21.079
former coach in Arizona, was part
of two of the national championships over there

797
00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:23.360
when he was there in the in
the eighties, so we'll get some of

798
00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:27.000
his thoughts on what's going on over
there. So stick around for all that.

799
00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:27.639
We'll be right back