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Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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

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He's Jacin Zawis got our guy Kevin
in today with the Revolving Kids.

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Bring your kids to work today.
Thank you, Kevin. Hey Jay Jdsfish

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continues to be out in the name
which is good, good things, not

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bad things. Did you from our
press converence yesterday? I know a lot

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of people are reporting that his contract
is going to be renewed and more money.

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It's obviously going on behind the scenes, and nothing related to any of

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the deficit that Arizona has because it
comes from a different pool. So we'll

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see eventually what happens. I didn't
realize that he has his to the twenty

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twenty seven. Well, he got
extended after last year year right, right,

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So yeah, so he's he was
already extended, but you know now

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it's about more money, significantly more
money. He said three point five I

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thought it was like two point something. Well, and then with bonuses and

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stuff, you know, with with
incentives, you know, and then there's

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the shoe stuff, TV's contract,
all that kind of stuff didn't make sense.

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But you know he had to earn
a bunch of that, which he

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has done, right. You know
this year was it was it here yesterday

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that we were talking about the whole
thing about why he keeps talking about the

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pack Pulf South Championship. Yeah,
I couldn't remember if I had the conversation

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with you or somebody else that I
talked to you. No, Yeah,

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you brought it up because Brian Peterson
put that out in the Twitter world,

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and you know he had had there
been a PAC twelve self, yeah,

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he would want it. Yeah.
Well, you know, it did come

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across today that Jonathan Smith up at
Oregon State was getting four and a quarter

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four point two five million, and
his contract with Michigan State is going to

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go up over seven. So you
know, if Jonathan Smith was getting four

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and a half million or four point
two five million, that's kind of a

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number that I think Jed Fish sure
is shooting for sure. But the circumstances

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of events, they had a guy
who was making pretty good money and they

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had to pay him off to get
rid of them. Yep. So you

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know, you you you don't want
to get bit twice, right, you

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know you don't want to get a
bit twice. And Arizona's been a bit

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a few times in the string of
coaches since since the sin Yeah, well

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yeah they have been, you know, but look, everything looks look everywhere

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I go, Like I had my
breakfast club today. Yeah, and those

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guys, more and more, I'm
getting my ear talked off about about football.

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You know what you do? Yeah, well they do, and so

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they think I know more than anybody
and they don't know. But you know,

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those guys are you know, they're
coming up and I mean I had

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long conversation with some guys today and
they're all talking about football. Well,

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those are the guys and I'm I'm
not I know some of the guys,

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but they're not. Those are some
of the guys that Arizona depends on right

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to get Hey, reach you reaching
your pocket. These guys are business leaders

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in the community. They you know, they own their own companies and they're

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part of this business group that I'm
that I that I work with. And

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these are guys that you These are
the guys you need to impress. Sure,

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right, sure, and and they're
being impressed, and they're they're asking

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things. Now they're talking, you
know. I mean, I have one

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one of our guys who when Jedfish
got hired, he just said, that's

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not the guy. He said,
he's not the guy. Today he said,

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I'm sorry, I was wrong.
Come on, how many times have

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you heard that? Yeah? Honestly, you and I could probably say we

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were on a we were on a
press comment school. The initial one one

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of the initials. And you're thinking, hmmm. I did think that the

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more I listened to him, the
smarter he gets, or maybe the smarter

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I get, because he's making you
smarter. He was great, he was

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great. You just his presentation.
He's not a he's not a guy who

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overwhelms you with words, but he
tells you what you need to hear or

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and just tells you the story without
pontificating. Right. He's measured, and

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by that I mean he he knows
what he's gonna say, even before you

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ask the question, he knows,
or as you're asking the question, his

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his his wheels are spinning right and
not to the length of Sean Miller,

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because Sean Miller already he just he
was gonna tell you what he's gonna tell

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you, no matter what. How's
how's that sky blue? Well, you

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know, a little red today,
but that's who he was. But Jed

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does it in an every day kind
of guy. Yeah, and and and

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it's you know, I think I
think the media likes that. You know,

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you feel like you get answers,
no question. Now we don't get

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enough time, no question, but
the time we get, we get answers.

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You know, I'm happy with that. But man, you know,

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get in a question and you know, it's tough. It's tough to be

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able to, you know, to
go in depth in anything. I don't

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know what time he'd have to get
back to, but I think that more

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that he succeeds, the more people
are gonna want him. Well, well,

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people say, is you know,
screw it. He doesn't have to

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mess with you guys. He's out
there figuring out how to win games,

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so screw you. True, right, what are the last people on the

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list? But this is another catch
twenty two. If they go back to

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not winning, who do they need
the locals to write stories about to get

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people in the state. It's a
catch twenty two. It is. But

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you you know what, I know
it because we live it, right.

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But you know there's the people out
there who think the media are the enemy.

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Yeah, you know, don't don't
think think of it. And come

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on, you're a dusty Tucson,
Arizona. Yeah, there's no enemies.

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Yeah, in fact, in fact, Kevin, and you get a degree

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from you of a. Here's the
desk. People are cheering under the desk

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that they're doing well, am I
am I wrong? You're absolutely right.

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You're not right, You're not wrong. Yeah, you're your arm percent correct.

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And whether that's good or bout,
I don't know, but that's what's

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happening. Well, and that's the
thing is, you know, it's like

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it's hard to get the stories.
You're not gonna you're not gonna go after

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somebody for something negative going on because
you might not get any more stories.

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Well, it's kind of the USC
Lincoln Riley guy. Yeah, right exactly.

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So you know, but look,
we are where we are media wise.

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You know, fans they get their
media from where they choose, right,

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if they read Rivera or if they
read Brian Peterson, Troy Hutchinson or

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Sheer or Justin or whoever you know
you're gonna choose. I do that with

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my news, right I've got news
sources that I believe and that I trust,

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and I and some that I absolutely
do not. So I choose where,

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you know, where I get it. And that's what people do now.

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And I don't follow college best college
football like you do because you listen

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to all these people. But I
don't know. I don't know, and

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maybe I'm wrong. There's a better
story in college football than Jed Fish and

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Arizona football right now, I do
not, and there could be. I

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don't know. Well this week,
no, this week, there are because

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they're talking about all you know,
what's gonna happen with the playoff and all

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these things, because that's it,
that's all you're hearing about overall in terms

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of the overall college fotball season.
I've heard multiple people say Arizona is,

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if not the best, one of
the top three stories in college and what

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would be the other two? Therap
went on in Michigan. Yeah, Michigan,

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No, no, no, I'm
talking about but feel good story stories,

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the movie stories, the movie stories. But yeah, I mean,

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yeah, if you're looking for field
good stories. You know, maybe you

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feel pretty good about Sarkesian over at
Texas because of all the you know,

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how bad they've been and now you
know he's yeah, but they build himself

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together. But they're still like that
program, right miss and the SEC pretty

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good Missouri. So there's been a
couple of things like that, but still

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to a degree under the radar,
no question, no question. Uh So

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we'll see. He talked up the
games that they might go to. He

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even threw a sneaky fest in there, said the f word. Man,

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he said, festival. You might
have to get up there. We haven't

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been up there since the festival.
You know that. That's that's the thing

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that you know that we can do. It'll sell tickets, they will,

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they will. So but I you
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listening to all the all the all
the college football playoff talk. There's almost

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zero chance that that, with all
the teams that are going to be available,

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that both Washington Oregon get in.
Something dramatically stupid has to happen,

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Like okay, here, here's here's
the path. Georgia. Georgia beats Alabama.

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Alabama's out Florida State loses, Flora
State's out, all right, Texas

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got to lose to to Oklahoma State, right, and then Oregon and Washington

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have to play a very close game. That's how Oregon and Washington both get

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in. And then who would be
in Georgia Georgia, uh, Michigan and

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then the two Patard's the only way
I heard Yogi coming in on twelve ninety.

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So we're gonna have them on.
We're gonna trying to That's the only

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way all all of those things happening
doesn't seem. In Michigan has to win,

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right, all those things happening doesn't
seem That's about as likely as Arizona

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was hoping that Oregon was gonna lose
Oregon State. It's just it just wasn't

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gonna happen. You know. I
still think whoever, Well, I like

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Oregon most in the PAC twelve,
possibly getting further than Washington. But if

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they get to the final four,
yeah, I like their chances better than

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Washington, better than Washington. Yeah. And even if they play the only

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thing I don't know if they'll be
able to handle is Georgia in the physical

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part of it. Yeah, But
Oregon Orgon's fantastic. Yeah, man,

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I just can't get I'm kind of
being dragged, but I can't get off

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the Washington bad Way. Well,
I don't just feel like, you know,

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there's still twelve and oh they've beaten
Tell them you like you're twelve and

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oh they've beaten Oregon. Why why
do we think Oregon is so much better?

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It's it's the analogy of the horses
brought you yesterday. It's a horse

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of gun in a bad lane,
couldn't get through. They played them in

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Washington, played them tough, lost
on a field goal last second on the

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road. All that this horse is
ready to run against. And it was

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game day in Washington. Washington was
up for that all theme. The coach

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was on game day like two hours
before, screaming to the fans he was

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ready for that game. Ready,
ready. Yeah, So you know,

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we'll see. I'm excited about the
weekend. It's gonna a lot of intrigue,

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you because all these weird things can
happen. You know, what if

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everybody wins. What if Florida State
wins, What if Washington wins, What

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if Florida State wins, Washington wins, Texas wins? All right, and

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then Alabama beats Georgia. All right, right, now you have two one

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lost wins in the SEC in Michigan, you've got three undefeated teams, and

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then Texas who beat Alabama, who
beat Georgia is the SEC out? Oh

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no, no, I love Georgia. Okay, but but are you gonna

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leave Georgia in and Alabama out?
After Alabama just beat him? And then

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if you're gonna put Alabama in there, why wouldn't you put Texas over Alabama

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because they beat him at their place
by ten? My head's gonna explode.

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Leave me a little bit. But
it kind of speaks to why this college

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football season is no fun right because
there's been a lot of parody. It

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hasn't really been a star driven year
like there hasn't. If you look at

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the highs and race, it's kind
of like, Okay, if you like

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Oregon, you like oo Nicks,
that you're gonna do Daniels if you feel

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people who are following in Arizona saying
that if there were the top twelve,

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I think there was only fans.
I was speaking, well, I think

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we're good enough to beat most of
those teams, you know, up,

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I think a bunch of them.
Yeah, I don't think probably, I

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don't think the top four four.
But let me tell you you would remind

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me because I don't remember the years
for football. When Dick said at the

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end of the year they were probably
ninety eight best teams in the country,

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Yes they were, and they were
finished. Would they finished fourth the rank?

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Okay, I went, I went
that National Championship game was up at

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the fest was the first year of
the BCS in ninety eight, when Arizona

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went twelve and one. I went
to that Tennessee Florida State game. Arizona

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could have won that game. First
of all, Florida State backed in.

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They weren't they had they had two
losses. They backed in because you see

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La lost and somebody else and somebody
else Florida State back then, I know

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Arizona could have beaten Florida State in
that game, and I think it would

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have been a really good game against
Tennessee that that Remember that Tennessee team game

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was a year after Peyton Manning.
They had tem Martin was the was the

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quarter of them. Yeah, so
you know that team Arizona, you remember

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this stuffer. You can't remember Craft
who's on the show today. I don't

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know what the hell we were at
in that so that we can remember.

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But you know, Arizona could have
won that game. I thought Arizona was

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one of the best teams in the
country year. They every weekend they're impression

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the hell out of me, and
I'm thinking, what the heck is going

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on here? But they have talent, they're playing happy Come on, you

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know this just like a happy marriage. If you're happy in a happy marriage,

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nothing can go wrong. Let's start
having some kids. Screw this up

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exactly those who know, no,
I love my kids, but you don't

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see you're exactly right. But look
the intrigue of this week. Well,

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first of all, the playoff rankings
come out tonight. Okay, you know,

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yeah, I think what I think
they should do is, you know,

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Georgia Michigan, then the two pac
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you want, so that you know
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in, and you can drop the
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think you go. I think you
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there's a lot to play for you, right, It's going to be a

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fun week. You have to keep
you have to keep Texas ahead of Alabama

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because they beat them, and they
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at their place. Right, we'll
see what happens. Let's get to our

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guests this weekend to night. John
Whittaker, known to you as Big Game

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Boomer, he'll be joining us.
He had an interesting ranking of the top

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fifty quarterbacks in the country for the
season, not just in the last week.

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We'll talk to him about that.
He's got a he's got Arizona bowling

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against against like everybody else does against
Oklahoma, his Oklahoma Sooners in the Alamo

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Ball, and a bunch of other
stuff that he's been doing over the last

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well over the over the course of
the last several weeks. So we'll have

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him and then Blake Eager, who
is the executive director of the Southern Arizona

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Sports Tourism and Film Authority, right
right, just to see give a catchup

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up, what's going on on the
string, spring training possibilities, maybe some

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Triple A baseball possibilities with the things
that are going on with the Oakland as

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we're moving to Vegas. So we've
never had him before, so I'll talk

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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve
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We have big game Boomer, John
Whitaker. How you doing, John

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Song? Guys doing great? How
are y'all? Are you doing great down

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there in Tucson after that nine to
three record? That's unbelievable. A little

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bit just in the media, we're
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prints box begins. Hey, but
we're going to break some news here.

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You're going to be coming to Tucson
here pretty soon. Absolutely, Yep,

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I'm coming out there. I said
I was going to come out there for

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a basketball game. So I'm coming
out February seventeenth to see y'all beat up

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on those Arizona State sparky. Oh
god, well, the question, the

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question is going to be whether they'll
beat him by more than Arizona beat him

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in football, because that was up
that over the weekend. So well,

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it's good to have you. Good
to have you, John, you know,

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as always, you know out with
the rankings and stuff. So you

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threw in the you throw one out
today on the top fifty quarterbacks of the

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twenty twenty three season, and lo
and behold that I see Arizona near the

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top of the list with norf Fafieda. Just your thoughts on the on the

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on the whole quarterback thing, and
to me, most notably the fact that

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you you ranked Fafita above Caleb Williams
and JJ McCarthy. Yeah. I just

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thought he was more, more impressive. I mean, he put up some

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gaudy statistics. I mean, twenty
three touchdown passes, five interceptions, a

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very high QB rating, just extremely
impressive. I mean, because he I'm

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trying to remember when when exactly he
came in. It was this the was

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this the Washington game that first game, Well, he came in in the

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late in the Stanford game, uh, when uh Delora got hurt and he

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and he generated a game winning touchdown
drive. So that's when he came.

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He came in, and then he
started the next week against Washington and never

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let go of the job. That's
what. Yeah, okay, and then

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yeah, and then he had five
touchdown passes against USC which I mean that

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doesn't say much. Their defense was
terrible all year, but just consistent,

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I mean off the board, I
mean, very high QB rating almost every

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week. I mean, just very
impressed with him and they the kids only

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a freshman. I mean, we're
gonna be talking about Noah Flacida as a

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dark horse Heisman next year. That's
that's how impressed I was with with really

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Arizona and everything. I mean,
I I get a lot of stuff wrong,

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guys, I'm wrong, way more
than I'm right. But I said

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Arizona was gonna go eight and four
before the season started, and went nine

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and three and probably could have gone
ten to two, eleven and one.

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Some of the games go go a
different way. So very impressed with everything

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that they've done down there. Jed
Fish has done a tremendous job. Obviously

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up for getting Head Coach of the
Year. So it's been a good year

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down there in Tucson. Well,
you mentioned a FAO for Heisman, but

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he comes with a tendem. It's
kind of like a group guy with t

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Mac because there's not one without the
other. Yeah, no, t Mac.

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They go to the same high school. Yeah, okay, so that

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yeah up out in California. Yeah, great package deal. I mean,

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just all the guys, I mean
Coling, I mean the way that the

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running backs in that offense are able
to have good production on the ground as

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well as catching the ball. I
mean Jonah Holman, he was probably said

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second or third best receiver on the
team this year. Him and Michael Wiley,

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You're both great back out of the
backfield. To me, the most

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shocking game was the Utah game.
I mean, I remember I was in

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I was in Ames, Iowa at
the Iowa State Texas game, and I

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was just kind of checking my scores
watching some other games, and that game

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is on the PAC twelve network,
which nobody seems to have. So just

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how that they just throttled a very
physical Utah team, I mean that was

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just that was impressive. So Arizona's
no joke. This is no fluke as

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long as you can keep Jedfish in
Tucson. This is gonna be Arizona's gonna

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be a problem in the new Big
twelve. Well, I'm looking at I'm

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looking down at another thing that you
put out yesterday, Your your Big Your

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Week thirteen takeaways. You said Arizona's
playing best football in the Pac twelve,

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would beat Oregon and Washington. That's
what the kid. They definitely could,

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They definitely could. I mean Washington
right now, I feel like it's just

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squeaking by. Uh. If Arizona
played then today, I think the Arizona

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wins on neutral field. Oregon is
looking very good. I think they're the

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best team in the Pac twelve.
But if those who played right now,

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I think Oregon's defenses have a tough
time with the offense with Arizona's offense.

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So I mean, right now,
Arizona and Oregon are playing the best football

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in the Pac twelve. It's uh, you know, just Washington is undefeated

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obviously, and they they're they're winning, but it's it's very ugly. So

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it's definitely Arizona and Oregon are my
two are the two best teams right now.

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So you were across the country,
you went to a different number of

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places as who was the best team
you saw in person? Gosh, yeah,

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I went to ten games this year
all over the country. Man.

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I when Oregon State beat Utah in
Corvallis, which I think I talk to

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you guys. Yeah, the week
I was going to that game. That

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was impressive, the pretty defensive performance. They beat Utah twenty one to seven.

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That was a good game. I
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Virginia Tech beat up on On on
Syracuse. That was that was impressed with

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that atmosphere there, incredible atmosphere.
Blackbird. How cool is that? How

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cool is their entrance because I've seen
that on videos. Oh yeah it was

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great, Yeah, yeah, very
very cool. I mean enter standment.

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It lives up to the hype.
It's wow. The stadium shaking. Everyone's

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just jumping up and down. Like
I was sitting next to some a couple

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of old dudes and they were just
like jumping up and down like they were

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college kids. So it's it's a
culture up there. You you go to

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school there and everyone just kind of
embraces that inner Sandman deal and it's wild.

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It's a cool venue. Definitely got
to go to if you haven't been

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okay, no, so okay,
So now we're well one more one more

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thing, because you're predicting Arizona to
face your your Oklahoma Sooners in the Albumala,

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Yeah, how much fun would that
be? It'd be fun, man,

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the Alamo Ball. I mean,
of course, it's all the coaching

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changes and opt outs. You never
know who's going to play, what the

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game is going to look like.
But it'd be a good matchup. I

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think two high powered offenses going up
against each other, it'd be it'd be

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a fun matchup for sure. San
Antonio. You guys have been down there

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for the Alamo Ball. It's a
great They do a great job down there

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hosting that ball. It's fun,
it's a good time, and I think

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that'd be a great bawl, a
great matchup. I think a lot of

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people want to watch. So are
you going to any of the Bowl games?

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You know? I don't know,
man, it's been I went to

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ten games this year. I like
going to games on college campuses. I

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went to like four or five bowl
games last year. We'll see. I

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may sneak down to San Antonio fo
you plays Arizona, But as of right

407
00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:57.759
now, I don't have anything planned. I'm kind of getting ready for gearing

408
00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:04.920
up for basketball season now to get
ready to playing those trips and when will

409
00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:11.279
be down here. So Purdue plays
Arizona next week I think or soon December

410
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:14.759
sixteenth. Yeah, so you know, the two or three weeks, if

411
00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:18.640
it all holds out, it'll be
one versus two on a bad TV channel.

412
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So what are your thinking? What
are your thoughts on that one versus

413
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.920
two this early in the season.
Yeah, I mean that's a great matchup

414
00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:32.279
for sure. I mean Purdue,
it's all about you know, Zach Eadie.

415
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:37.079
I mean, they they you know
when you watch them, they they

416
00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:44.279
they just they revolve around around Eadie
and shooting free throws. When they played

417
00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:48.079
Tennessee last week over Thanksgiving, I
mean they shot like fifty free throws or

418
00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:56.000
something. And that's Big ten basketball. It's very physical. Reps get call

419
00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:59.480
a lot of fouls, so there's
a ton of free throw shooting. So

420
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:02.720
with without the free throw shooting,
that's that and that's why they get burned

421
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:07.599
in the in the tournament every year, which is because they don't have the

422
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.440
guard play. It's all around eating. So it'll be that would be a

423
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.799
fun fun early matchup. I mean
Arizona is ranked number two in the country

424
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:21.039
right now. I mean Arizona is
definitely one of the best teams in the

425
00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:23.119
country, and that that'll be a
heck of a matchup. I think Arizona

426
00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:30.319
is more athletic, so I would
I would nodge to to the Wildcats in

427
00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:34.640
that matchup. You were kind of
talking about how big that matchup could be

428
00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:40.839
in terms of the national rankings.
Arizona plays three top twenty five teams,

429
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.960
UH, Purdue, Alabama, and
FAU just in the span of like a

430
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.599
week and a half. If all
things shake out, Like, how impactful

431
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:52.799
do you think that week and a
half could be for Arizona's season going forward

432
00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.759
and as we look towards March,
Well, it's huge. I mean I

433
00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:03.240
don't think a team like Arizona is
gonna need these games. I think these

434
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:07.279
games are kind of build you up
for the tournament because let's I mean,

435
00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:14.599
the Pac twelve is not the deepest
conference in college basketball, so it's to

436
00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:18.640
have to get these get these games, and to get these wins for Arizona

437
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:22.359
will be huge for building their resume, whether or not they get up one

438
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.640
seed or a two seeds. You
know, I'm splitting hairs here, but

439
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.640
I think that playing these games helps
a school like Arizona that doesn't have the

440
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:36.160
top conference schedule that you know,
a Big twelve school would have. But

441
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:40.039
y'all, I'll tell you what,
y'all better enjoy it this year playing in

442
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.640
the Pac twelve because once you get
into the Big twelve, man every night

443
00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:49.279
is a lug fest. We can't
take care. We are really looking forward

444
00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:53.240
to it. Actually, I got
a guy that a good friend of mine

445
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:56.880
who's a huge Kansas fan. I
saw him this morning. I didn't even

446
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.599
let him walk in the room,
and they said, you're always lost,

447
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.279
and he said, he said,
I knew it was coming. I was

448
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.440
waiting for it. I knew it
was coming. But you know, I'm

449
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.200
excited. I think we, I
think the fan base as a whole.

450
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:12.720
Yeah, it's excited, not worried, you know, excited about being able

451
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:17.680
to play those kinds of games weekend
and week out of the league. Every

452
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:21.079
yeah, every every night. I
mean even the worst team. I mean,

453
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:26.720
I guess adding UCF Cincinnati, Yeah, well, I guess to Houston's

454
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.599
good too. It's not they're They're
not as bad as they are as they

455
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:33.400
were in football. So yeah,
I mean, gosh, it's a tough

456
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.720
The worst team is good in the
Big Twelve and you don't have that in

457
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:42.839
other conferences. There's no nights off
at all. It is a meet.

458
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:47.480
I mean, it is a grinder, it's it's it's a fun conference to

459
00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:49.640
play in. Yeah, no question. I think that's what we're looking moved

460
00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:53.039
forward to. Is that basketball.
You know around here, it's kind of

461
00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:56.599
like everybody knows whether UCL is good
or not. That's a huge game,

462
00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:00.759
you know, for for for the
for Arizona, uh, and then it's

463
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:04.200
like you hope somebody else is going
to be pretty good to have to have

464
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.880
some other interesting home conference games.
You know. That's why I think,

465
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:12.240
you know, fans are gonna be
excited about you know, Kansas coming in

466
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:16.920
and Houston Houston and Texas Tech and
Kansas State and Baylor and Oklahoma, you

467
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:21.440
know all these teams that were you
come to the arena and you don't know

468
00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:23.079
what's going to happen. I think
fans are actually looking forward to that.

469
00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.359
Yeah, I mean because like for
you guys, it's really what u c

470
00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:31.640
l A is like the main matchup
that that you guys look forward to Yeah,

471
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.079
and then you hope, you hope
Oregon is going to be good,

472
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.920
or you hope Utah is going to
be good, or you hope usc is

473
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:39.720
gonna be good, but you don't
know if they're going to be good.

474
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:44.240
Whereas you know about so many of
these teams in the in the pack in

475
00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:46.640
the Big twelve. Yeah, I
mean, is the only ranked team in

476
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:52.200
the pack telve right now? Right
might be? Yeah? So yeah,

477
00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:54.920
I'm checking. Have you have you
thrown anything about Arizona? Did you have

478
00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:58.599
a beef with him? Maybe a
month or so good that he the Big

479
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:01.039
Game became a messed up with I
know, we we got on you for

480
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:08.920
the Arizona being hotter than Phoenix because
it was more south. You'll find going

481
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:14.240
to be like down there in February. Bring golf club be bringing your golf

482
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:17.240
clubs. If you golfer, be
ready to do something outside, ready to

483
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:21.119
believe, and be ready to eat
some some great Mexican food will take you

484
00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:24.279
to no place or to no heavy
coats, none of that stuff. Heck,

485
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.839
yeah, that's I'm all for that. That sounds good, Okay,

486
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:30.279
Yeah, I mean I was out
early this morning. I put on sort

487
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:34.880
of a a thicker sweater and I'm
like sweating in it this afternoon. So

488
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:38.640
it's you know, and it's seventy
five. Yeah. Nice. Well,

489
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:42.359
so come on down, let us
know, give us plenty of advance.

490
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.680
So we'll talk to you before definitely
to get from basketball and then see you

491
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:50.039
down here. Take you so real
quick some of the some of the coaching

492
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.839
things going on. You've got Mike
Alco going over to over to Texas A

493
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:57.200
and m Jonathan Smith over to Michigan
State. Uh, you know, all

494
00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:59.920
the stuff that you're hearing about.
Just some of your thoughts on the care

495
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:04.559
cell as it is right now.
Yeah, it's wild as always. I

496
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.800
mean, I hate what happened to
Oregon State, the way that that went

497
00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:12.599
down that I just don't I hate
it for Oregon State. I went up

498
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.760
there, I've met so many of
those fans. That's a good fan base.

499
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:21.440
I hate seeing what's happening to them
right now. And I'm just as

500
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:23.480
a No. U guy like I
saw Lincoln Riley leave and go to USC.

501
00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:29.519
I feel that pain that they are
feeling right now. So I hate

502
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:34.159
that. It's a good hire from
Michigan State, but I don't like Elko

503
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:38.599
is a good safe hire for Texas
A and M. I think he's on

504
00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:42.800
par with Mark Stoops, who they
were going to try and hire from Kentucky.

505
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:46.639
Stoops has more experience, but I
think the ceiling is higher with Elcho

506
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:51.320
just because we don't know really what
he's going to be like in the SEC.

507
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:53.159
Stoops does have that losing record,
but I mean he did well at

508
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:57.960
Kentucky, So Elko is a good
hire. You know. I saw Sean

509
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:01.719
Lewis just got hired from and Diego
State that that's the one. It's just

510
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:07.000
it's wild this this time of year
for the coaching changes, the transfer portal,

511
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.000
and then the early signing period.
I mean, it's just nuts.

512
00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:14.360
And then he put on top of
that, we got college basketball that we're

513
00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:17.199
talking about. So it's a it's
a fun time, plenty of content to

514
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:22.000
talk about and uh, you know, I I enjoy every second of it.

515
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.320
So real quick, last question,
were you you grat? Are you

516
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:28.000
Oklahoma grad? Yeah? Okay,
so yeah, I want to you.

517
00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:31.519
I know you're not a philosopher or
a psychologist on on on the radio,

518
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:35.519
but let's nick you one. Uh. So, Lenko and Ryley went through

519
00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:37.840
what he's gone through this year,
got in in a little ten of tent

520
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:42.679
with a reporter, all this,
all this other stuff with with his team.

521
00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:45.280
What what do you make of all
that? Having having covered him or

522
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:49.559
followed him that, I'm not surprised
at all that. I mean, he's

523
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:58.079
very closed door policy. I mean, gives the media just hardly any access.

524
00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.159
So when I saw that you with
with the reporter, what getting reprimanded

525
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:07.960
hy usc for. I didn't read
the article, but it wasn't that he

526
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:10.840
was suspended. He was suspended by
the Sports Information Office. Yeah, that's

527
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.320
right. Yeah, I mean that
I think that's just ridiculous. I mean,

528
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:22.440
that's my problem with beat writers.
It's like they if they they're they're

529
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:27.679
under such a microscope they can't say
anything negative about program or they lose access.

530
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:31.079
So but yeah, I wasn't surprised
at all. Lincoln Riley he did

531
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:37.199
that the same thing at OU.
So that's just that's that's the policy strict

532
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.760
on the media. Yeah, okay, thank you, John. All right,

533
00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:43.719
Well we'll talk to you again before
you come down for sure. Yeah,

534
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:47.800
no, looking forward to it and
enjoy the holidays. Absolutely, You'll

535
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:52.880
be with John Whitaker. We always
love having him. Got a lot of

536
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:58.159
good stuff too. You know,
he's a The amount of time and effort

537
00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:00.239
he puts into we talked about it
before. It's crazy. Thank it's fun

538
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.079
to watch. All right, Let's
check our break. We're to come back.

539
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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty of Steve
Rivero, p Jagins, Alice Gotder got

585
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Kevin with us thirteen minutes left.
In this segment, you talked about Faffeda.

586
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Yeah, well, you know again
you're talking to Big Game Boomer,

587
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:36.400
and you know he posted this ranking
of the top fifty quarterbacks of the season

588
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:44.199
in order, Jade Daniels at LSU, Boone Nicks Oregon, Michael Pennix Washington.

589
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:45.320
Those are the three guys. One
of those three guys are gonna win

590
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.880
the Heisman Trophy, right, And
then you got Jordan Travis at Florida State,

591
00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:52.880
who's now out, Dylan Gabriel at
ouh. Oh, you I'm coming

592
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like like I'm an Oklahoma guy at
Oklahoma. And then number six, Noah

593
00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:01.679
Fafida ahead of guys like Jalen Milroe, the quarterback at Alabama, the head

594
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of JJ McCarthy, the quarterback in
Michigan, the head of Carson Beck,

595
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:08.760
the quarterback at Georgia, the head
of Caleb Williams, the quarterback at USC

596
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:13.239
Jackson Dart, who was highly thought
of it wound up a Mississippi, and

597
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:19.360
then after that Jordan McLeod former Arizona
guy, James Madison. But you know,

598
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.360
getting back to Northfilfida, it's just
incredible when you're an Arizona fan,

599
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:25.119
had been here Ozon fan as long
as I have. We never talked about

600
00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:28.960
their quarterback. You just don't.
We've never had a chance to do that.

601
00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:31.079
You know, Nick Foles is kind
of like the guy that stands out

602
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:35.239
there and how long did it take
for Arizona to get an NFL quarterback?

603
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.480
Right? Yeah, And then you
know there've been there have been some really

604
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:43.039
good quarterbacks, but none that have
been at this level of the conversation.

605
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:47.079
So yesterday Jed Fish was asked about
Noah Flafieda and why he thinks he's been

606
00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:51.079
so good this year. Well,
we threw the ball really well in the

607
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:55.440
game, that's for sure. Had
a couple opportunities that we missed that you

608
00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:59.639
know, certainly had a chance to
probably have a touchdown at the end of

609
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:04.599
the half that we just didn't come
down with the ball that third down play,

610
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.679
and then through an interception on the
five yard line which should have hit

611
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:14.400
Jacob for a touchdown there. Outside
of those couple plays, I think he

612
00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:17.159
was pretty close to perfect the way
he played. One of the ball that

613
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:22.039
Jacob didn't come down with was a
was a perfect, perfect ball. The

614
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:25.800
decision there and the goal line was
not. But you take those couple of

615
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:31.000
plays out, he was as good
as any quarterback that I've been around in

616
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:36.760
regards to decision making, in regards
to accuracy, getting out of trouble,

617
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:42.400
completing the ball down the field,
completing the ball mid range, and I

618
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:46.480
mean obviously finding t Mac, finding
Jacob, finding Tanner, finding Mike.

619
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:52.360
All those guys had big, big
games. Boy did they. I thought

620
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:58.880
one of the good questions was from
from DK and how tam got so open

621
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:01.639
one of those play He was there
was no one in the nobody in the

622
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:06.960
neighborhood, and we'll plan in a
second. But then he was asked about

623
00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:17.719
the connection between and tam Ac that
one. So just again, these guys

624
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:22.880
have been playing together since the eighth
grade. So it was interesting his interesting

625
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:25.800
conversation about that. Yeah. I
mean I think we've you know, continue

626
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:30.360
to talk about those two guys,
and I mean the story is the story,

627
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:35.199
right, They've played together since eighth
grade. They're best friends. They've

628
00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:40.119
had a great connection in terms of
where they're going to be on every single

629
00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:45.199
play when the balls in the air
to go attack it. But I think

630
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:50.760
that they're both separately very good players
too. Uh. Sometimes we're just kind

631
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.719
of like combining them and they're one
is not good without the other. I

632
00:43:54.760 --> 00:44:00.480
don't think that's the case. T
Mac was a phenomenal player last year,

633
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:06.559
phenomenal player the first four games of
this year. Noah has obviously played extremely

634
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:12.760
well since he stepped in. Having
t Mac as a as a receiver for

635
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:15.519
him is obviously something special because they've
done it for so long. But in

636
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:20.320
the end, you know, they
they find each other, they work together

637
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:24.519
with each other, but you know
they're both independently outstanding football players, not

638
00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:30.480
just collectively. Yeah, and that
was a good way. He's so politically

639
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:34.159
not politically correct, but he's so
thoughtful in what he says. He's intentional,

640
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:36.199
Right, Yeah, yeah, No, that's a good words, great

641
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:37.840
works great words. Let me ask
you this because I was talking to somebody

642
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:42.360
last night, just randomly. I
don't know why, but the guy who

643
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:45.280
would know off the top of your
head. No, I'm gonna throw this

644
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:52.679
question at you. The best football
player to come through here, who would

645
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:58.239
you say? My? Okay,
my first thought, yeah, my first

646
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:00.079
thought came, it could even carry. Oh okay, so that name was

647
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:04.480
mentioned, that name was mentioned.
So no one said Ricky, no one

648
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.840
said Chuck. Right, because you
think offense first, right, you always

649
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:09.920
think, let me tell you something. I've been here thirty five years.

650
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:16.119
I haven't covered him exclusively, but
t Mac to me test neighborhood another year.

651
00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:22.039
He'll probably convince me that he's And
I know I saw Kadeem, but

652
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:24.000
this kid is good. Yeah see, And I think my brain went to

653
00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:28.599
kadem because it went to offense first. Because when you say guys like Ricky

654
00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:32.440
Hunley, Byron Evans, Chuck Cecil, you know some of those guys who

655
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:37.480
you know played on defense, Rob
Waldrip, Teddy Bruce Ki, you know

656
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:39.639
some of the greatest of all time
Hall of famers right opench Hall of famers.

657
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:44.880
But our brain always takes it to
the offensive side of the bad choice

658
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:46.960
when you're talking about best ever.
But Kadeem had one one of the greatest

659
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:51.119
seasons of any Arizona football player.
Sure, and you didn't even mention Folds.

660
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:53.760
Who's who didn't you know he ran? But but let me tell you,

661
00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:58.920
I remember watching Nick Foles and thinking
he can complete any pass he throws.

662
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.559
It's going to depend on if somebody
blocks for him and if somebody catches

663
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:06.960
the ball. Well, I'm the
guy in my leading the clubhouse in the

664
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:10.159
time I've seen this team Mac who
gets you a catch whenever you need to

665
00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:14.159
catch some of those some of those
catches that he makes where he goes up

666
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:20.559
he ball one handed catches you know, you know you can throw, you

667
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:22.960
can throw, and the ball hit
him in the hands and somebody will hit

668
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:25.599
him in the hands right away and
he hangs on too. The there was

669
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:30.519
one in the end zone the Saturday
where he didn't catch it. I'm thinking,

670
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:32.079
how did that happen? Yeah,
it was exactly that. He was

671
00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:36.159
in traffic all that, but he
had a hand on it and somebody knocked.

672
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:37.480
How did he not catch it?
Because he catches those all the time.

673
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:42.440
He does. He does the strength
of his hands or because again,

674
00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:45.119
you gotta have strong hands to make
those one handy catches then makes right.

675
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:50.880
So he's and you gotta have big
hands too. I'm sure he's got not

676
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:53.760
not Harold Carmichael hands, you remember
Harold Carmichael, but pretty big hands.

677
00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:58.079
He's a he's a tall, lanky
dude. So you know he's got to

678
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:00.599
have, you know, long fingers
and big feet in the whole bit.

679
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:05.440
But you know, you see a
kid like that who's got all the physical

680
00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:08.440
tools and then he's got all the
mental tools to go with it to make

681
00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:13.400
him what you know, on his
way to possibly being the greatest football player

682
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:16.239
at Arizona. Yeah, he would
be my bet. Uh And it's still

683
00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:21.920
who's gonna cover him next year?
Doing the big twelve can cover receivers like

684
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:24.880
that, they're they're his historic for
not being able to play the defense that

685
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:29.000
they're gonna need to play. The
guy that I can only compare him to

686
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:34.519
recently was the USC kid Boston.
Is it Boston or London? Drake London

687
00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:37.280
Drink London A big but you know, a talented obviously. Yeah, but

688
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.360
Arizona doesn't see these guys. Yeah, they don't see these types of guys

689
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:44.239
yeah, no, Arizona doesn't get
those guys. I mean, look,

690
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:47.679
and they've had some great receivers over
time. Sure, the the Dennis north

691
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:53.760
cutt Uh darn Crying Hills, Austin
Hill, Jeremy McDaniel. You know,

692
00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:59.400
you go go back to you guys
like Hill. Uh, you had Derek

693
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:02.360
Hill. You know, John Horton
was a really good receiver. You know

694
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.440
for a long time Van Johnson should
have played receiver, but he was a

695
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:09.519
running back. But you know,
there have been some really, really really

696
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:15.119
good receivers over time. Have there
been any what you would call great ones?

697
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:17.079
And by that I mean somebody better
than all those guys, know,

698
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:20.559
I mean think you know, I
think we're looking at him, right,

699
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:22.079
Yeah, I think so too.
I think so too. And and you

700
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:28.559
know what, he's fun to watch. I watch him away from the ball,

701
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:30.280
you know, during the game.
I watch him coming back to the

702
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:35.559
huddle. I watch him when he
goes to the bench, and he's so

703
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.000
kind of nonchalant about stuff, but
to the point where you think, like

704
00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:43.599
he's going, this stuff's easy.
That's what makes him likable, right,

705
00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:47.920
that this stuff's easy, but not
in a not in a way where you

706
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:52.239
think he's cocky or over confidence.
Who's just going I can do this,

707
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:57.920
I'm good at it. It's easy, and he just makes plays. It's

708
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:00.840
not arrogance, it's assertiveness, right, Like he just knows who he is

709
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:02.480
when he's good at what he's gonna
do, right, and he goes out

710
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:05.440
there and does it, and he's
not much flash. I mean I could

711
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:07.760
see you, you know. He
he goes out white and he looks at

712
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:09.119
that guy and he's looking at him
and say, you can't cover me?

713
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:13.400
What do you think? Right?
There was a there was a play last

714
00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:15.000
year against Cal I don't know if
you remember up the middle in the end

715
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:17.039
zone. I think it was that
there was one who needed to catch in

716
00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:20.920
the first half when they're playing really
well. And I said, I even

717
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.519
wrote this, I tweeted this or
whatever. That's why they got this guy.

718
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:27.840
If he doesn't catch another pass the
rest of the year, that's why

719
00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:30.679
they can win. And got this
guy. He's special. Let's play Jad's

720
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:35.519
clip on on TM mac uh because
he you know, somebody just asked him

721
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:38.280
about Team AC and again, why
is he so good? Well, we

722
00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:43.679
uh, he's really good number one. So he's a really good route runner.

723
00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:46.239
He's found ways to get open against
anybody. Uh. Number two,

724
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:50.599
we moved him around the whole game, and we put him in a about

725
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:54.480
every different possible spot you could play
in, whether that be through motion or

726
00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:59.960
through stacked alignments or bunch of alignments, or to try to get him different.

727
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:04.239
Uh, so they can't really find
where he was at. And the

728
00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:08.400
guys made a ton of plays for
us down the field intermediate, uh in

729
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:12.679
the screen game. And uh,
we just continued to do that during the

730
00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:15.800
game. You know, those comments
both about Fifida and and Tamac were kind

731
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:19.920
of in relation to, you know, how did they how did these things

732
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.519
happen? You know, in the
A game. But I like what what

733
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:25.480
he what Jed said about they just
move him around. That tells you that's

734
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.159
a sign of a good true And
you know coach right who just says they're

735
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:34.440
not just going to run them out, you know on you know wide left

736
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:36.599
and the same guys are gonna cover
him the whole game. They bounce them

737
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:38.199
around and they make him hard to
find. Sure. So, so I

738
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:42.920
got a text just now and you
I don't know, I don't know.

739
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:47.679
I won't even disparage your age.
Did you ever see our Dopino no ahead

740
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.159
like Ways of the fifties. So
that name, that name, and people

741
00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:54.559
say that because he led the n
Cuba and rushing two years in a row.

742
00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:59.440
You know, he was, you
know again our greatest of all time.

743
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:04.840
You know, my my history in
watching Arizona football begins with the Jim

744
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:08.199
Young years, the seventies twos.
T Bell another one of the great receivers,

745
00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:13.039
right uh, and Arizona played in
the end in the NFL. Was

746
00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:15.400
with the Steelers and and I think
a couple other teams, you know,

747
00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:21.519
but you know that's where my history
begins. I didn't see anybody really before

748
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:25.880
we mentioned Yeah, yeah, well
ted you know again, Teddy was you

749
00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:30.719
know all American leed you know,
set the set the sacks record and you

750
00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:35.000
know in the career sack Creckerds.
Those guys were all great football players and

751
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:37.920
got helped get Arizona to where you
know it could be in the Pac twelve

752
00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:42.480
or the Pac ten and and all
that that stuff. You know again,

753
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:45.639
Ricky Honley, Lamont Honley, Byron
Evans. We mentioned, you know some

754
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:50.760
of those guys during during that start. So so I know that Justin had

755
00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:52.679
a pole yesterday. You see just
as polar I did best team. So

756
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:58.360
I don't know anything about the years
except for you know local, uh have

757
00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:00.760
you met eighty two, eighty three? Well, eighty two, one,

758
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:04.159
six, four and one. They
had some really good wins. They beat

759
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.480
Notre Dame at Notre Dame that year
and then they beat So what was the

760
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.400
what was your ranking? What was
your I still believe ninety eight is the

761
00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:15.599
best team. But you know this
team, Okay, this team this year

762
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:22.400
is like the ninety seventeen basketball team. They won the national championship, but

763
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:25.280
they weren't you know, you know, they weren't exactly a year ahead.

764
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:29.920
You know, there were there were
a couple of a couple of teams.

765
00:52:30.239 --> 00:52:32.639
The eighty three team obviously really good. You don't have that, But this

766
00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:37.599
team is kind of like they didn't
quite have the record, but you still

767
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:39.920
think they could beat a bunch of
those teams. You know. The eighty

768
00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:45.559
six team was really good. You
know, again, a horrible loss that

769
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:51.960
cost them the Packed Well you know
they against Ucla and eighty six, yeah,

770
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:53.800
they cost them the Rose Bowl.
They're beating the hell out of UCLA

771
00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:57.800
at halftime and lost the game.
So just a bunch of you know,

772
00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:00.639
there's a bunch of good teams,
but I still think ninety eight still ranks

773
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:04.000
is the best team ever. We'll
see what happened with this team next year.

774
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:06.800
All right, well, we'll be
back. Kevin's got to break you

775
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:08.039
news. There's lots of it,
so be sure to come back. And

776
00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:10.119
then we're going to talk to you, Blake Eager, talk about some of

777
00:53:10.159 --> 00:53:17.159
the sports stuff going on around the
state of Arizona.