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It's pretty live on the iHeart Radio
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with Steve Ribera and Jay Gonzalaz on
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Welcome back on

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the while I'm your host of the
Dave Jay Gondalas. My buddy Steve is

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out out of the office today.
He's a Phoenix for a El Torty Tucson

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event that just setting up a right
up there, so he'll be back Tomorrow's

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we could do our Friday football picks
and with a loaded show with Yogi Roth,

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Kevin Singleton, and Jake Fisher.
I've got Danny Martinez here from the

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arizon A Softball program. We've been
talking a lot about the Arizona Washington game

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coming up, but for now we've
got some breaking news. This is High

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on the Ball Breaking News on Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. All right, Well,

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something that just came across and uh, you know, we're always looking

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for up to the minute breaking news, but it looks like the XFL and

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the USFL are going to merge,
which nobody's surprised right when they get I

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mean one Spring league hasn't worked in
the past, and then there were two,

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and so it's always not. But
they've the team's announced that they're working

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on a merger. Yeah, you
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never h Neither really piqued my interest, neither the XFL or the USFL,

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and the fact that there were two
of them never made much sense. So

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I would say, this is you
know, this is for the best.

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Yeah, but you know, you
got I mean, there's it's another opportunity

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for guys, you know, you
know me and with my relationship with the

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with the Indoor Football League, that's
sort of the next goal for the players

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in the league. They can get
into the XFL or the USFL, then

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they can now they're playing the outdoor
game, then they might get a look

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from NFL team. Not that many
players are very few players to get an

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opportunity to go directly from the indoor
football to the NFL. But mostly it's

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kind of like a middle a middle
league for them to shoot for. So

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I'm glad it's still around. I
like you, I don't you know,

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I'm busy watching basketball, yeah you
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I mean it's good. You know, guys like Scooby Right, Scooby Rights

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been playing Canadian But you know,
you got guys that it's another chance to

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keep playing professional flip. Yeah,
but so that that just came across so

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not shocking, but uh, you
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that you kind of figured what's gonna
happen. I want to throw this back

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because this is pretty cool. The
story has come out. Sports Sociate did

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a story Travis Hunter has been hanging
out with the guy that nearly tores liver

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out. Henry Blackburn, the the
defensive player from Colorado State, got death

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threats because of the hit he put
on him. Two guys have struck up

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a friendship. Apparently they went bowling
yesterday that people can't win to that.

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I mean, it's yeah, that
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I think that's that was a really
bad situation. I mean, death

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threats over you know, that's just
absolutely ridiculous. And I think, you

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know, both Colorado and color Orotto
State kind of making the best out of

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that bad situation. And and yeah, I think that this is a really

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really good, you know move for
books, you know, And every time

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I want to, I want to
think about Deon Sanders and this program being

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all flash all, you know,
arrogant. They do stuff like that,

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right. I mean, Deon came
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leave the guy a little yeah,
right, you know. So you know

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he talked this week. You know, he got asked about a player who

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who's not playing. He said,
you got a show, right, you

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know. Just all he's seem like
I want to make him a bad guy,

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but I don't think he really is. So I feel too, especially

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with the Travis Hunter thing. I
don't know if you saw the video of

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Travis Hunter basically saying, you know, I I'm ready to play. I

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have to I'm gonna play this week, and Deon, you know, responded

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to him and said, no,
you have to take care of yourself,

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you know. And you're right because
I'm right there with you. I want

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to hate them, but but you
just can't. You just can't. You

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try and try and try, and
he keep giving your reasons to not hate

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him. It's a yeah, I
don't know, I know what to say.

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Yeah, all right? Uh,
last night, what's his name,

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Ronald Laguna, Yeah, goes into
the forty seventy club. What he's doing

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before, it's incredible. What he's
doing is absolutely incredible. I I saw

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today that every month of the season. Every month of the season, he's

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had over a nine hundred ops.
That's I mean, he doesn't go through

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slumps. He's just mister consistent,
all while stealing seventy bases. Seventy Well,

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you know, they had a four
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him, beat him three one.
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know, I turn on the TV
and you know, automatically c the bases

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loaded, and I'm like, who's
bad? He is, said he's gonna

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hit it, and he did,
and I'm like, he's that he's got

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those guys. Yeah, it really
don't. And that's the thing is not

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only is he that good, but
that entire line up. I mean,

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it's it's insane. But you know, one thing that I look at when

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you go into the baseball playoffs is
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just about who who can get hot
in October. The Braves haven't, you

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know, really played any meaningful baseball
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able to flip that switch? I
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it related that you see that the
Cubs announcers got upset, Yes,

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they got upset that they stopped the
game for a little I wouldn't call it

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a ceremony, but reckon, yeah, he did the thing, and they

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were just that this is grap Yeah. I love seeing the you know,

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local uh announcers reactions to things and
yeah pretty funny. Yeah that that was

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good. All right? Okay,
so oh going back to Colorado. So

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you know they've got USC coming to
their place, all right, obviously a

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lot of anticipation again. I think
Fox Sports again is gonna do their their

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big news show at at or their
their pre game show in Colorado. Well,

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Rick George, the athletic director,
felt he had to put out a

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statement to tell his students and fans
how to behave I'll read the begas.

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We want to remind you of our
expectations of fan conduct during games. We

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expect all our fans to refrain from
vulgar language, verbal or physical abuse,

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underage drinking, good luck with that, and overall intoxication. I think I

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think they're probably talking, you know, the regular intoxication and the herbal intoxication.

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Yes, true, this type of
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home supporting events. And I've instructed
out a game day staff and members of

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law enforcement to enhance their monitoring efforts
of our fans conduct. Consequences for such

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behavior can can include expulsion from the
game, bands on the TENDE, future

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contest, student conduct investigations, and
of course, if it's a long statement,

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it goes beyond the does it not
to rush the field? If you

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know, if that opportunity comes comes
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Well, okay, I will say
I agree with them. Well, the

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rushing the field I guess would make
sense this week, But after they rushed

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the field against Colorado State, I
thought that was I thought that was the

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most that was the most embarrassing thing. So that's the one part of that

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statement that I can get. Rushing
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would be okay against USC, But
overall, well, you know that that

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game ended right after the Arizona game. So I was listening on my phone

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and I was listening to Colorado State
announced okay because I was rooting for Colorado

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State, because I said, I'm
trying to hate and yeah, so I'm

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listening to Colorado Colorado State and they
were like, really, I had to

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feel kind of good for them.
They're rushing the field against US. Okay,

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you guys, we're rushing in the
field after beating Colorado State. That

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was ridiculous, all right. Speaking
of the pregame shows, Ken Jong known

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as mister Chow to me, he'll
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Duke graduate he went to he went
to undergrad a duke? Did he

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got it? He got he got
his uh doctor's degree whatever at at at

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North Carolina. But he's gonna be
the guest picker game day on Saturday.

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He's a great guy. He's a
stand up comedian, so you know he's

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gonna put on a but on a
great show. I don't know how you

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go from being a doctor to stand
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But he's one of my favorite guys. Yeah, he was I love

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hilarious and the Hangover I love him. So he's he's gonna be doing the

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He's gonna be the guest picker.
It's the first time the Duke has gotten

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a game day. Yeah, that'll
that should be an interesting game, especially

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coming off of last week's com the
two game days that they did at Arizona.

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Wait, what did you have to
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for those dream first one I did
not the Oregon game. I went as

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a fan. I was a student
at the time time. I was a

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sophomore YEP, sophomore for that game, so I went as a fan in

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the crowd, you know. Woke
up incredibly early. The second one against

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UCLA, I did have to work
it both just awesome, awesome, awesome

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experiences, so cool. That was
really fun. At the first when I

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got you know, my son Adam
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pounds. I somehow got him up
on my shoulder at the beginning. I

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was sore for my whole week.
Did he get on TV? I don't

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remember. Yeah, we got we
did. Yeah. We did it kind

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of in the background because we made
a sign that they eventually took away.

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We had a great sign. Our
SIGNE said, no ducking way, that's

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a great sign. A sign.
I thought that was very cool. But

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we had a professionally made It wasn't
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it to a printing shop here in
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we put it up and they took
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us after we got it on.
Okay, we got it on one time.

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I thought that was very clever.
In fact, I think I still

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have it. I think, okay, I think it's still in my garage.

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Okay, I want to talk to
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at at the U of A,
you're very attuned to all the things that

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go on related gambling. Got another
gambling situation. The Air Force men's golf

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coach bet two hundred and fifty dollars
on six Air Force football games in twenty

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twenty, using his girlfriends information to
start an online account and he started making

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making bet. So he's been uh
I think I think he's been fired and

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given a five year show cause bability
over this. You know he bet?

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Uh well said he it says in
totally. They then head golf coach wager

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two hundred and fifty nine on NC
double A or professional sports, including two

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hundred fifty dollars on six Air Force
football games. You can't often do they

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talk to you all the time.
I mean they it is hammered home to

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us all the time. Do not
gamble on any any sport that is NC

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double A sanctioned, college or professional. So we we are very very well

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aware, So you can't. You
can't bet on professional triathlon, right,

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that's correct, Yes, that is
correct, no betting on on triathlon college

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or pro. But yeah, I
you know, I'm assuming all schools are

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like us. Yeah maybe, you
know, our compliance department is is very

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on top of everything, but I
would assume that that's a thing everywhere just

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here. Yeah, yeah, so
he's he got caught, he got flagged

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by the by the online uh you
know thing and they said, okay,

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you're out of here. So in
trouble. So that's too bad. I

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you know who who knows how much? The Airforce men's golf coach. But

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it was his job right now he
doesn't have it right, it's a bummer

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for him. Yeah, all right. A couple of uh injury and injury

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Deebo Samuel and and uh is this
Juan Johan Jennings both wide receivers for the

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forty nine ers or I still have
not practiced, so he might be out

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this weekend. So you may want
to stay away from the forty nine ers

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this week. Yeah, all right. Here's one a little closer to home.

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Former Suaro High football coach. He's
the wrestling coach for a long time.

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He was one of my pe teachers
at Swaro goes all the way back

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to where he was a football coach
for my brothers down in the Sunnyside School

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district. Howard Bryaning, they're naming
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him. Well deserved guy. He
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All American wrestler at Arizona. A
great character. I love the guy.

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Tough guy, like a bowling ball. I don't know if you ever saw

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him or met him. He he
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I think he predates me. I
don't recognize that name. Yeah, I

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played at Sabino so I but yeah, not doesn't ring any bells for me.

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Legendary wow, okay, he uh. He coaches the war from seventy

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nine to ninety four, but then
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rink On and and I don't know
where else, but again, a legendary

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wrestling coach as well. Swar was
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he was the coach there and again
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assistant football coach when I was there, came the head coach after I left,

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but one of the coolest guys.
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that you Yeah, I didn't want
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like you know, he walked in
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but you didn't want to piss him, all right, you didn't ever want

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to piss him. You had like
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right, So anyway, so they're
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against Pubble, which should be a
lot of fun. So good congratulations to

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Howard Bryani. I wonder if he
would be around to come on, come

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on the show. It'd be very
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those one. Oh we'll go to
talk about a man's basketball here in a

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minute. But October twelfth, there's
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to go and check out the women. Their media day is on Monday.

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I think I will be here for
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Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Jaylon
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here, Danny Martinez from Beat Arizona
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day, and now we've got Bruce
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day to star Beat Rider covering Arizona
basketball, getting ready for all hell to

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break loose for Bruce with the Red
and Blue game starting tomorrow. Bruce,

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how are you doing? Oh?
Pretty good? How are you good?

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Good? You sound you sound energetic? You're not. You don't sound like

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you've been worn out yet? Just
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I took a couple of easy weeks
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I don't have to do anything with
football, and so I'm just kind of

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gearing up, and you know,
it's still it's still kind of a you

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know, time to time to gear
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towards the season. It's still six
weeks off. Well, are you really

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until they get going? Are you
shaking your head that you know, we're

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gonna be at McHale with you know, guys on the court in September,

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with a crowd in the whole bit. I mean, it's a little crazy

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that it's you know, starting in
September. Now, yeah, it does

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seem kind of early, and you
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and all that, and and but
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can start six weeks in front of
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regular season game. And I think
because there was a football game, and

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also because I think a lot of
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the USA Basketball camp next weekend,
they pretty much had to do it this

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weekend. It's just the way it
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and you know, back when they
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a big deal your midnight madness and
all that kind of stuff. Yeah,

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what have you taken from the Red
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Do you do you see anything of
value when you watch these guys? You

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know, it's funny Jay, not
not that much. Really. You kind

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of have to temper your expectations a
lot because there's a lot of guys.

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I was just looking at the two
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four from three point line and have
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he was gone by December, and
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of rise up. I think,
you know, pretty much the only thing

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I usually like to see is just
how these guys look, because typically there's

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not a whole lot of access to
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so you don't know, like who's
gained weight, what do the freshmen look

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like? Are they are they do
they look like they're ready? Are they

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are they having fun out there?
Or do they look nervous? Whatever?

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You know, there's this little sort
of little things like that is what you

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get out of it, and then
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been doing it. The interesting thing
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of both of the first two games
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be his starting lineup in that second
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kind of shows where guys are stacking
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asked Tommy at the press conference on
Monday if he saw anything unexpected, uh,

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you know on the uh, you
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the and the overseas trip. You
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surprised him? He didn't really,
he almost didn't answer the question. I

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mean he kind of said, not
really, but did you see anything that

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that kind of surprised you? Well, I think not really in the sense

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that, you know, it looked
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as far as uh, you know, the not great competition and just a

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lot of playing together, a lot
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of the baskets set up by assists
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and that's kind of been his signature, and guys are bought into it.

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I think maybe the slight difference,
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time and that trip being so early, you know, you know, they

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trained in janet July and went over
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was the Yeah, a lot of
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including of course Caleb Love, who
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came over here and you're like,
where is he going to fit in on

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a team that already has a lot
of good guards as well, and he

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and he appeared to fit in pretty
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He didn't take too many shots that
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so that's that's kind of I think
that, you know, if that continues,

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that's that's what they need, and
probably it'll be better for him in

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the long run. So there's a
there were some little subtle things like that,

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but you know, it was it
was hard to judge off of the

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competition level. And I do know
that Lloyd did not want any of us

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speculating about what those games meant as
far as who's doing what or whatever.

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And but you know, you can
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we all are. Yeah, you
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depth. Uh, you know,
he's got more guys. You know,

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do you see this being a group
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Uh with it with the guys that
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bunch of guys in guard, right, Caleb loved, Jaden Bradley got uh

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you know, a Boswell, you
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has to go deeper, right,
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I think and and he's referred to
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day when you're there, Jays.
He he was a little burned last year.

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He went down, he cut down
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part was okay, worked pretty well. I mean he and in some sences

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you could argue maybe he didn't have
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needed at Henry Baso and Adama ball
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seven and they played pretty well.
But the bottom line is they lost score

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the last tense, including a game
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know he did, you know,
and that just and you could argue that

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those seven guys got a little worn
out, and then on top of it

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they had injuries. Do more Ballo
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injuries that might be surmountable if you
had an eight or nine mam rotation,

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but they didn't. So I think, combined with the fact that he's got

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more guys you know, that that
they should go you would think at least

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eight, maybe nine deep or maybe
eight. What I could see is because

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this roster does have the flexibility to
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depending on the matchup. You know, they could have eight plus two,

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you know, and maybe maybe two
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You know, it could be something
like that. It'll be really interesting

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to see, I think, more
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where it was pretty much clear who
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top seven or eight guys, this
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Larson again, to me, it
seems is like he's got to be really

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year to the point where you ended
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to beat? Do you think?
Yeah? I mean well, and I

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think, you know, it's interesting. I mean, he didn't quite get

408
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there, and I think that's probably
why he turned around quickly when he did

409
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sort of test the draft there.
I think he realized he had a long

410
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ways to go. But he's already
been, you know, arguably the most

411
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versatile player, might even be their
best defensive player. You know, can

412
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our power forwards and he can guard
point guards. He's you know, you

413
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know, got a lot going for
him in that self. But that said,

414
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you know, it gets to the
NBA you really need to have some

415
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you know, just superlative talents and
and you know he's probably got to,

416
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you know, excel a little bit
more offensively. And you know, we

417
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may see this, but it'll be
interesting to see with him this offense how

418
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it works out. And you know, he may not average that many more

419
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points, but you know, if
the whole team is more balanced and he's

420
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more efficient, that's going to bode
well for him too. And and here,

421
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right, he could be a key
to see how how he kind of

422
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does he kind of become the glue
to that engine, so to speak.

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Bruce, Danny Martinez here got a
question for you. Do you think do

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you see that the off season has
been kind of ramped up at all with

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the way that the non conference schedule
plays out. You know, a lot

426
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of teams at this point in their
season are just kind of ramping up toward

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where a conference play is the bulk
of their season. Arizona schedules kind of

428
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flipped where the majority of the big
games are going to be early in the

429
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season rather than in conference play.
Do you think that that's changing the way

430
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that they're going through, you know, preseason workouts or anything. Well,

431
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that's that's a good question. I
don't know if it's changed their workout,

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and I think because they had I
think the only thing that maybe kind of

433
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changed it was the fact that they
did have so much time in July and

434
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August to really work on things,
so they're a little bit ahead of the

435
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game that way. But but I
think in general, it's certainly, you

436
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know, they they've cranked up the
schedule. I mean, they're playing Duke,

437
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They're going at Duke and their second
game of the year. I mean,

438
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and it's not just that, but
then they got you know, five

439
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other teams that could be in the
top twenty five before they even get in

440
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the league, and that that's really
you know, we haven't seen that since,

441
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you know, since lud Olsen's you
know, hey days. Really,

442
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you know, when they maybe even
you know, comparsis to some of his

443
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toughest schedule, and that was back
when the Pac ten as it was back

444
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then, wasn't even that strong,
so he kind of loaded up. And

445
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then it's just interesting because I think
Tommy Lloyd brought in, you know,

446
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he came from Gonzago, where you
also have to load up because your conference

447
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is going to be weak. And
yet he's still kind of loading up this

448
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year. And they gotta play the
PAC twelve, which is, you know,

449
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may not be the best pack towel, but there's there's four or five

450
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teams that are could be ranked in
the Pac twelve as well. So it's

451
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really a daring schedule. And you
know, I think he's banking on the

452
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fact that he's got a lot of
veterans and uh, you know, wants

453
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to topping them up and and and
you know, get a little more out

454
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of the team in the long run. How to look, uh, in

455
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the overseas trip, well, I
think you know, he didn't. I

456
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think he didn't look as good as
he maybe was expected to. I think

457
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some of it was just kind of
uh, you know, matchups that were

458
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a little strange for him, you
know, and there was part of that,

459
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and I think part of it was, you know, Lloyd was mixing

460
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the matching linus and all that,
so I didn't really you know, look

461
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.400
at it one way or another.
I mean, you know, he he

462
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you know, he had some injuries
towards the end of last season, but

463
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he uh, you know, he
really was, you know, the first

464
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:14.359
two months of last season was you
know, really on the top of things.

465
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And so you know, we'll see. And that's kind of the bar,

466
00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:18.559
he said. And I think he
I think he can give back to

467
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their of the season. I don't, you know, but it remains in

468
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.480
the same I don't think we can
really judge too much one way or another

469
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:27.359
on that trip. Well, that
leap he made from his first year here

470
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to a second year year was tremendous
and so would be interesting to see,

471
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:36.960
you know what kind of a ye
this time now Colin Boswell is you know,

472
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.119
he's his name is getting you know, thrown in as a first round

473
00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:42.200
draft pick, YadA, YadA,
YadA. Is he is he elite?

474
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:47.359
Is he going to be you know
that guy that you know gets national attention

475
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:49.720
and you know people are talking about
him on game day and that kind of

476
00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:53.960
stuff. Yeah, I think so. I mean I think so. I

477
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think he you know, he had
an interesting outing with USA Basketball in the

478
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:02.200
U nineteen teams, and he was
a point guard for that team, and

479
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:06.440
they ran into some troubles. They
didn't meddle, and that's you know,

480
00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:08.759
if you're playing for USA Basketball,
even though it's tough because you just you

481
00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:14.799
know, they always have a hastily
assembled roster compared to other countries. You

482
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.759
know, it's a tough deal,
but you know it was It's hard to

483
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:21.599
judge much on that. He did
show some pretty good defense. I think

484
00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:23.759
he was pretty solid there. He
certainly, you know, he looked good

485
00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:27.839
on the exhibition trip, and you
know, I think it kind of goes

486
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back to where he would have been
if he didn't get hurt, you know,

487
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:37.119
coming at his junior year, what
became his senior year in high school.

488
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I mean, he was a guy
who was supposed to play high school

489
00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:44.480
basketball last year, wanted to play
high school basketball, wanted to be McDonald's,

490
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.079
all that kind of stuff. He's
you know, he's talked about that

491
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:49.759
and then but he got hurt,
and he knew he was going to be

492
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.759
better off rehabbing here at Arizona and
and maybe getting a chance to play.

493
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:57.119
So it was kind of like last
year was kind of a bonus year that

494
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you know, now now he's becoming
what he would have been. What because

495
00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:04.240
if he had stayed on the track
and had gotten all American high school blah

496
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.000
blah blah, he would have come
in as a really hyped by star freshman

497
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.799
this fall. And so in a
way, that's kind of what he is

498
00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:14.480
now. He's just a sophomore who
who happened to play, which which in

499
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:17.720
the long run makes him you know, potentially even you know, more capable

500
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:21.880
of contributing, especially right away because
he doored have been through it. Right?

501
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:25.559
Is this his team or can it
be any one guy's team this year?

502
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.759
Oh that's a great question. I'm
kind of wondering that myself. I

503
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:35.880
don't think he's maybe not quite as
vocal as some of the guys, but

504
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:37.599
he's certainly gonna have the ball in
his hands, and I think he will

505
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.279
be a leader. I think he
saw that a little bit again with that

506
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:44.920
USA team. He's kind of that
guy. I think, you know,

507
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:50.279
I think teach at Johnson could be. He's a very you know, outspoken,

508
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:53.160
likable guy who's been through a lot
of the wars, so to speak.

509
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:55.920
And you know, I think he
can be a kind of leader out

510
00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:00.440
there as well. And you know, we'll see there. It comes from

511
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:02.000
a couple of different areas yet.
And then you know, I think Larson

512
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:06.839
for sure, although you know,
you know he's he's been around a bunch

513
00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:09.280
too, and how how he kind
of developed that way? All right,

514
00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:13.239
Bruce, Well it's time to get
the ball rolling. No no pun intended,

515
00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.760
but you know it. I'll you
know, blue game tomorrow, man,

516
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.199
and then the next thing, you
know, they're playing games. Yeah,

517
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:21.280
I know. And they got two
exhibitions this year too, so we'll

518
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:22.079
see them. We'll see him a
few more times. That's where they get

519
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:23.960
going. All right, sounds good, okay, man, we'll catch you

520
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:27.599
there tomorrow. Have fun, all
right, Thanks all right, thanks for

521
00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:31.679
being with us. Appreciation those,
Bruce, Pascal, but be right for

522
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:35.199
the start, just trying to pick
his brain on what we might see and

523
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.639
you know them. What do you
think, Dan? Yeah, I'm really

524
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:44.199
really looking forward to this basketball season. I think we talked about it earlier.

525
00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:46.480
The depth I think is going to
be completely different than than what we've

526
00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:51.519
seen in Tommy's first two years,
and I am so excited to see them

527
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.719
play this schedule. I'm I'm yes, it's very excited. You're gonna go

528
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:59.599
to Vegas? Yeah, yep.
Now then I've got a little, you

529
00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:01.199
know, a little more time on
my hands. Yeah, I'm gonna go

530
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:05.320
to some games as fans, which
I haven't experienced in a long time.

531
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So yeah, very cool. All
right, let's say, let's take our

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609
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.599
You know that they've got a lot
of guys, so we'll start to

610
00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:44.840
see what that looks like tomorrow.
But I wanted to I wanted to talk

611
00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:47.159
to Danny, but you got you
got a new job, the director of

612
00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:52.159
operations. After ten years of sports
information director when it did a little bit

613
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:57.880
of time in the marketing area and
digital media, now you're the director of

614
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:01.840
operations. What does that me?
So, I mean to be totally honest

615
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:06.000
with you, I'm kind of still
learning as we go. I'm on.

616
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:12.719
I think I've Yeah, I'm about
a month in so far and loving every

617
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.639
minute of it. So basically,
the just all day to day you know,

618
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:21.400
operational stuff, you know, I'm
in charge of. So right now,

619
00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:25.719
this is our big recruiting season,
So all the visits, all of

620
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:32.280
the you know, when the recruits
come here, when our coaches go there.

621
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.440
You know, I'm I'm booking flights, I'm booking hotels, you know,

622
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:42.440
all of just the day to day
you know, the logistics of everything

623
00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:45.599
I'm kind of in charge of.
And I think, you know, my

624
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:47.280
job is going to be very different
in the fall than it is in the

625
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:53.880
spring. So yeah, just got
my hands in a lot of different things

626
00:41:55.280 --> 00:42:00.599
with everything related to the program.
You mention right now, you're big recruiting

627
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:02.280
season. I know they're in fall
practice. Yep, we're gonna start playing

628
00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:06.599
games, yep. But you know
what, you know, what's the day

629
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:08.920
to day stuff that you've got on
your plate right now? So we practice

630
00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:15.639
every day Monday through Friday. And
I so during practice, I'm I'm taking

631
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:21.159
stats. I'm you know, keeping
all of our live at bat statistics,

632
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:25.159
scrimmage statistics, stuff like that.
So during practice, I'm I'm working,

633
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:31.719
I'm I'm keeping the stats, and
then outside of that, I'm sometimes it's

634
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:37.280
ordering food for the team. Sometimes
it's booking flights. Sometimes it's right now,

635
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:42.159
we're we're getting all of the uh, all of the travel set for

636
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.719
the spring. So we'll have all
of our flights, all of our hotels,

637
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.480
all of our buses, everything booked
here in the next couple of weeks

638
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:53.199
for the spring. So doing that, you know, if if something goes

639
00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:57.920
you know, if there's something that's
not working at the field or something like

640
00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.079
that, you know, I'm in
charge of getting that thing to work.

641
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:05.920
So it's it's a lot of different
stuff every day, which is great.

642
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:08.119
How does the different role feel,
because you know, as as the as

643
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:13.559
the sports information guy, media relations
guy, you're basically dealing getting information.

644
00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:15.119
I'm dealing with the media, all
that kind of stuff. You're really not

645
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:20.639
a part of the day to day
operation of the program, correct, right

646
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:23.440
now? You are? Yep?
I mean you can you can say some

647
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:28.559
of the things that you do,
if you don't do them right, they

648
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:31.400
can affect the team. Yep.
Exactly is that you put your head on

649
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.159
the pillow at night, going what
the hell no, I actually I love

650
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:40.719
that. I for some you know, I played sports all all my entire

651
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.000
life, and I you know,
I was on teams my entire life,

652
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:46.239
and and I loved that, you
know, being a part of that,

653
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.199
that my high school basketball team.
I love that. And then the second

654
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.360
you graduate high school, for the
vast majority of us who don't go on

655
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:57.480
to play college sports, team sports
are done. Teams, you're you know,

656
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:00.239
you're never part of a team again, and you you miss that kind

657
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:05.360
of feeling of kind of what you
just described, like, you know,

658
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:09.039
you're you're part of this family,
and if if you mess up that,

659
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:13.000
you know, the affects the team
or or something like that. And I

660
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:16.719
like that. I like that.
That's kind of my speed. I learned

661
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:21.320
that I'm not the kind of guy
who likes to sit at a desk and

662
00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:23.159
being meetings all day. You know
that. That's just kind of what I

663
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:29.360
learned from my you know, my
my last job. So I mean you're

664
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.360
out on the field, yeah,
yeah, and practices, yeah, games,

665
00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:36.239
still gonna be doing the p announcing, yep, still doing PA announcing.

666
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:39.000
So I'll be you know, in
game, my my duties will will

667
00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:43.199
remain the same yeah, I remember
you asked me to. I went and

668
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:47.320
did a fault game one time,
and I'm like, I was intimidated by

669
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:51.159
this because I'm like, I'm feeling
in Danny Martinez. I mean, I

670
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:52.960
gotta do this right. I can't
mess this up, you know. And

671
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:57.360
I've been to enough games I've heard
seeing your style and stuff, and you

672
00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:59.400
know, you and I are different. But it was like it was a

673
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.400
little it was I was intimidating.
I'm not gonna loe it really was.

674
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:05.800
But you've been the voice for a
long time. Yeah, yeah, I've

675
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:08.000
been the voice for a while.
Actually, Adam, your son, tells

676
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:14.159
a good story. I had him
fill in one time for me because during

677
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:16.880
when I was the SID, I
was also the volleyball SID, which means

678
00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:20.320
during fall games. You know.
That's probably when I had you fill in.

679
00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:22.920
Is I had a volleyball match that
I couldn't make the softball game,

680
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:29.119
and so one time I had Adam
fill in, and Adam did his announcement

681
00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:35.280
and the fans turned around and they
booted him. Okay, well they didn't

682
00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:37.239
boom me, so I get that. That makes me feel better. They

683
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:39.920
might have turned and said, who
the hell is that? But I didn't.

684
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:44.559
I specifically remember, I didn't get
boot That's good funny. Yeah,

685
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:45.960
he was like, man, I'm
just out here doing this for free,

686
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:51.519
just helping out Danny and foods pretty
much. I love when he tells that

687
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:53.920
story. That's pretty funny. We
had Dave Hicky on yesterday and I said,

688
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:59.440
Okay, you've got like a handful
of coaches that this is their third

689
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:04.239
year. Yeah, Caitlyn lows one
of them, Tommy Lloyd, uh Jip

690
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:10.960
Hale, I think Bernard Legott,
Yea beckhamar Becca. The third year is

691
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:15.400
kind of like that year that now
it's mine, right, You're not the

692
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:20.840
new coach anymore, you know,
Caitlyn is you know, I mean kind

693
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:24.079
of settling into you see that you
see a little bit for that. I

694
00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:30.159
do, yes, I think I
would totally agree with you with what you

695
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:36.519
just said, especially when you're replacing
someone like Mike Andre I mean, obviously,

696
00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:38.840
in year one went to the Women's
College World Series, first coach to

697
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:44.199
ever lead their team to to the
Women's College Worlds World Series in their first

698
00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:50.119
year as a head coach. Last
year some difficulties, and I think this

699
00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:53.960
year it has a totally different feel
and I think it's exactly what you just

700
00:46:54.039 --> 00:47:00.119
said. It's it's this is Caitlyn's
team. This is you know, is

701
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:06.079
on a softball twenty twenty three,
this is it has a totally different feel

702
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:08.079
than last year. So and yeah, and you you would kind of expect

703
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:12.480
that, you know, I mean, I mean, I'm assuming you sit

704
00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.400
in on meetings and you know,
player meetings and stuff like that. What's

705
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:21.440
the I don't know, I don't
know, not the expectation level. I

706
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:23.960
don't want to see that because we
always know yours, We know what the

707
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:29.000
expectations are. But you know,
there's there's gotta be you know, after

708
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:32.320
missing the tournament last year, there
has to be a sense of hey,

709
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:36.159
guys, you know, yeah we
can't you know, we gotta got there

710
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:40.199
our game. Yeah, I would
say that in you know, in May

711
00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:45.320
of twenty twenty three, missing the
tournament was the worst thing to happen.

712
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:50.920
It felt horrible. But now in
September of twenty twenty three, us missing

713
00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:54.199
the tournament last year was actually the
best thing to happen to us because they

714
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:59.119
have that chip on their shoulder,
they have that Us against the world mentality.

715
00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:01.960
We never ever ever want to feel
what we felt on that day ever

716
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:07.760
again and so yes, at the
time it was horrible. Obviously we wish

717
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.159
that that that that was different,
But now, right now it's the best

718
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:14.039
thing that could have been. Some
changes on the coaching staff, right,

719
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:16.280
So the new coaches you know,
fitting in yep, but you know some

720
00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:21.599
of the personalities, I mean,
are you are you seeing any cohesively?

721
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:25.840
Yes? Yes, yes, I
think that this coaching staff is really,

722
00:48:27.199 --> 00:48:30.679
really, really good. I really
like the new pitching coach, Christian Conrad.

723
00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:37.440
And then so this year you can
pay a third assistant coach, so

724
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:42.960
we brought in Josh Bloomer, a
hitting coach, and I think both of

725
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.119
them have first of all meshed very
well with the staff, with the players,

726
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:50.719
with the team, everything like that. But also I think are going

727
00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:57.079
to take their respective areas to the
next level. I really like both of

728
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:01.000
their personalities as well as their capabilities
as coaches. So yeah, well and

729
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:06.400
you know, and oh we got
Well let's take this call. Hi,

730
00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:08.760
you're on the air and I in
the ball Hey you guys, this is

731
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:14.119
gay Roll. How are you guys? How are you? I'm doing pretty

732
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:17.280
good? Hey, I want to
talk to you guys about the game on

733
00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:23.280
Saturday. Jay, I just I
listened to your show last night and you

734
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:28.800
kind of made me chuckle when you
kind of made fun made fun of Michael

735
00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:35.119
Luke. So that comes in my
face. That was well, okay,

736
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:37.960
I'm not gonna say that wasn't intentional, but okay, So what's up,

737
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.960
Gay? What do you guys for
the game on Saturday? So I think

738
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:50.440
so, I think do we know
who's gonna be starting? Or basically Jeff

739
00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:55.480
Pitch basically holds his cars to his
check it's a game time decision. Jane

740
00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.280
Delora is not practice or he did
not practice yesterday. He said that you

741
00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:04.679
know they're gonna work him out and
see what he looks like on Saturday and

742
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:08.559
then decide. So we don't know
who's who the starter is, although he

743
00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:15.400
did say he'd be comfortable with either
one. Okay, well before so what

744
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:20.000
before I give you my thoughts about
what's the score, who's gonna win the

745
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:27.280
game? How are YouTube feeling about
the game? I feel just because it

746
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.760
was such a close game against Stanford
and they just didn't play well, I

747
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:32.880
feel less confident about about them.
But I just think, you know,

748
00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:37.800
we've been we've been down this road
before. Where everyone has had a you

749
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:39.599
know, not look great and then
they shocked the world the next week.

750
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:45.079
So I wouldn't be shocked if they
won. I'm not expecting them to win.

751
00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:49.840
Yeah, I'm I'm very curious.
That's how i would describe it.

752
00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:55.719
I'm very curious to see how how
we perform. Okay, well, for

753
00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:01.239
me, I think whoever is a
far back, they gotta play hours their

754
00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:06.559
mind. Good. For the offense, they need the score on every single

755
00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:14.920
possession, and for defense they need
to bend but do not break and try

756
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:22.800
to limit how much points does Michael
Peanut of Panics and IS and the whole

757
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:30.400
watching coaching staff ten score good good
news. Is is in Tucson, so

758
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:37.159
and so. Unfortunately, I'm not
gonna be able to make the game,

759
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:42.079
but I'm gonna be watching it on
the on the television, and I'm playing

760
00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:47.079
to go to to Arizona football games
of UCLA and the Oregon State. But

761
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:55.280
I'm just kind of distracting it.
But I think Arizona, I'm I think

762
00:51:55.519 --> 00:52:04.400
that somehow, some way that Arizona
can win the game. All right,

763
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:08.199
I think they can. I do
just because there's so many other you know,

764
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:12.280
the wild card is Washington never plays
well in Arizona, you know,

765
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:15.639
yeah, are they gonna, right, are they gonna come down there and

766
00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:19.360
do that again? Because if they
do that, if they come down,

767
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:21.840
if they don't bring their A game, they can lose for sure, right,

768
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.039
just like Arizona didn't bring their A
game last week and gould have lost

769
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:29.599
its stand for sure. Yeah,
all right, all right, Gabriel,

770
00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:30.760
thanks a much. Man. Well, we know you'll be rooting for him.

771
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:35.760
Give us a call after after the
game next week. Okay, thank

772
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:39.639
you, Beer down Arizona, go
cop, trusty Gabriel. Man, he's

773
00:52:40.440 --> 00:52:44.159
big fan. Yeah, he's up
in the he's up in the Fresno area.

774
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:49.400
Okay, always calling in. He
likes to rip on the sukay good.

775
00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:52.559
Sometimes you have to hit the dump
button because anyways. All right,

776
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:55.920
well Danny, we're out of time. I appreciate you being here today.

777
00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.559
This is a lot of fun.
I hope you had fun. We'll have

778
00:52:59.599 --> 00:53:01.079
to do it again if we get
a chance. And good luck with the

779
00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:05.480
job. Yeah, thanks, thanks, good luck with the team. Everybody.

780
00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:09.599
Spring Falls Softball game, first game
real Yeah, first game is next

781
00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:13.960
Friday, next Friday, October six, at six pm against Central Arizona.

782
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:15.599
All right, there you go.
Hey, Thanks Jin Danny and we will

783
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:19.159
see you later. Thanks Jake,