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Welcome to I on the Ball. Here a Fox Sports fortune sifty. I'm
Steve Rivera, he's Jagan's Dolls, and we're a little late. Not because
of our situation. This was on the radio. You know, we paid
the rent, Steve. They just took two minutes away from you. I
don't know what the deal is. I don't have any idea that maybe this
is a sign taken dress the day all. Yeah, I don't know what
the deal was. But we said we're coming on at twelve. At three
h two three is unusual. There were a couple of commercials. I hope
people didn't wonder what the heck was going on. But here we are,
Yeah, here we are good. Okay, two minutes into our life.
Can't get those back. Can't help us back, Steve, you know what,
we've had so many minutes. It's probably like no big loss, right,
true? True? Should be class Monday when there was no show.
There is that. No, people didn't think there was no show because they
didn't start right away, right right, No, yeah, yeah, welcome
to Monday. We're surviving. We're not melting yet. Just feel like it.
It's just boils out there though. You know what I like. I
like to think I'm immune to the heat, and that's totally immune. But
you know I'm used to it, right, I'm not used to know.
And I got out of the car today and it's what is it on thirty
steps from our cars to the door, almost didn't make We'll see when I
went to the car just now, I'm gonna go to the store real quick.
Hell no, I want to get a grab of water and run right
back. But you know on at the at the arena, you know when
I do the Sugar Skulls, they change. We used to park be able
to park as a parking garage right the right across right, Well they moved
us. We're in the back over by the you know, behind the music.
That was a long way on on on on Saturday. It was funny
because I told Pat Paris, Pat said, Pat said, I said,
Squared, I'm paying the Tempox to park in the garage. You TV people
coat and ties on and stuff that's hot. Man, bacup, it was
a melting I don't do anything, bacup makeup. I'm not on I'm not
on the on the on camera long enough for Jerry and you know what,
I don't know the makeup could help, but I got going. I just
don't even try. Well, Welcome to Monday, everybody. If you'd like
to give us a quick call five to oh four one six seventy four forty,
we'd like to hear from you, guys. How was your weekend?
What's going on? Big week this weekend? Big big week and things kind
of get things kind of get rolling right day on Friday, Right, we're
gonna have Justin Spears for videos on the Daily start to get in here and
talk about maybe some of the storyline that we don't want big one, Right,
we've talked about with the Jaked Laura, Right, but he's gonna come
in and talk about maybe what kinds of things he might be talking about as
the official now football beat right for there is in Daily starting. Yeah,
it should be interesting. A lot of things going on. I thought of
people should be in Vegas. I mean it's it's in Vegas, now right,
Yeah, it's in Vegas. No, this is the time that we
just go and just say heck, i'll I'll do it. But yeah,
we're working on getting Yogi Roth, the large football analyst from the PAC PAB
networks. Do you come on in the next couple of days to give us
his his sense of what he expects to see this week? Yeah? No,
big weekend. I'm sure you've been paying attention to the SEC. Today
has the show and then the Big twelve last weekend right over the weekend.
Interesting stuff, a lot of stuff, interesting stuff coming out of the SEC
today. You know it's the first day. So Greg, thank you.
Yes, the Commissioner got up and talked about some stuff. Then he says
some interesting remarks regarding N, I, L and I mostly um but no
expansion bansion stuff. So we'll talk about that. Well, i'll bring that
out in in breaking news. U. Let's go on. No, no,
no, let's fine. I was just gonna ask you, what do
you think the over under is with expansion with PAC twelve by Friday? Um?
No, I'm beginning to think that nothing, nothing's even gonna happen on
by Friday. Do I feel like if you don't do it by Friday and
there's nobody's saying something about to happen, then yeah, then you know,
why rush it? You've already missed the Sandy stake dead line. You know,
it's like, you know, I rush it. It's been a year,
yeah, plus a year in over a year. Yeah, I think
the people. I don't know if people are just tired of it already,
like me, I like me, I like you, I can I'm not
living by it and I'm sleeping losing sleep already. I think you're over that
now, Yeah, I am, Yeah, I am. I mean I
do want to know what's going on. I feel like either, you know,
either gonna expand or not. I don't think anybody's going to the Big
twelve right now. Um you know that could they next year? Right?
Maybe in time? Right so you know, I don't know. I don't
see I don't see anything like that happening in right now. And it's like,
okay, just just get it done so we know who we're who we're
dealing with the rest of the fall. Yeah, so we'll see. It's
gonna be interesting. I think that there's a media or or coaches. I
think the poll comes out as well. Right, we talked about this.
I think of pH Land about eighth length. I bet you they're like eight
faith or line fair, that's fair. I think they'll be ahead of a
SU Colorado and Cal now Washington State and Washington State. They got a good
quarterback. I think Washington State. Kel's got a new coach. I know,
Stanford guy, No, yeah, Kel's got a new coach, Troy
Taylor. I bet their head of those three teams got Stanford guy, yeah
no, no, yeah, Taylor from Cal yea from Cal. Correct,
right, I bet that I bet their head of Cal Colorado eight is fair.
Eighth place team according to you and our boy Jake, six seven wins,
that's pretty good for a deep, a deep competitive league, if that's
the case, right, yeah, yeah, definitely. I think that I
could see them finishing even you know, seventh place. You know you've finishing
ahead of maybe Stanford as well. Yeah, um maybe even yeah right,
you know question yeah, so uh, you know, maybe if they finished
seventh, and if they get six wins, they finished seventh and they you
know, they go to bowl games somewhere and everybody will be happy. Yeah.
Yeah, a lot. I think a lot of people would be happy
given the progress of the program. So we'll see what happens. There's a
lot of buzz obviously, Yeah, the most buzz in a while. It
is you know there, there's people, you know, there's a lot of
stuff. You see a lot of social media. Um. I get a
sense that even like you know, the Zona Zoo is going to be you
know, a lot better this next year, or shore students going to the
games. They seem to be getting a little more jazzed up. So we're
gonna we're gonna have them because we've always promised imbody just to say, you
know, what the heck I mean, it's not on them, discourage,
it's on zon Zoo forever, right right, sure, Oh you know where
out where, reach out to them, give them a chance to to there's
some ways defend themselves because we've been critical of them. Yeah, they pumped
their group up because you know, yeah, no, it's it's it's I
think it's I don't know how many of them listen to us, right,
No, there's a couple of old guys on the radio. But we're going
there. We're boomers, aren't they know we are. But you know,
on the other hand, UM, maybe they'd like to know they're like our
audience, you know what, you know what they're doing that because we have
been critical of over time and so millennials, what are you thinking? Yeah,
well they're not even millennials. They're like generations. Yeah whatever whatever alphabits
and left or whatever whatever it is wherever we are in the Okay, Okay,
no, well that's that's just going on this Friday. You will be
here. I will not be here on Friday. Um, I have a
family event. I've got to attend to Dallas. Um. You know,
I'm looking forward to it for a lot of reasons, but just something that's
been on my on my bucket list. Have you been there? I've never
been there. I've had layovers in Dallas, but I've never lived in there.
I lived in before I came here. Something I've been on my bucket
list. You're gonna be how many days? Just just a weekend? Oh
so you're gonna be miserable. Yeah, it can be really hot. It's
gonna be up miserable. But I'm gonna go check out all the JFK stuff.
So okay, going to the sixth Flour Museum daily plot, I mean
again, we you know, we've talked about that a million times. I
told stories about where I was and when all that stuff happened. And I
was four years old, but I have very vivid memories of all of it.
Sixty years later, I'm going, so, are you gonna go check
it out? The office? When I worked on there was downtown it was
all down there. Yeah, verticle, but did serious? It's as this
is what It's a miserable huddle there, supposed to be really gross. And
I know it's human there. I mean I've gone to Texas a number of
times. Yeah, nobody else family over there. I just always remember it
being hunt. I remember staying at my at my my grandparents house, and
when my mom and dad and you know, the kids would go and would
see my grandparents and they don't have reconditioned No, I'm not gonna don't sleep
with the windows open. You know. Then the mosquitoes would get you in.
Oh where where wouldn't Texas outside of San Antonio? Oh we weren't.
They weren't, sure, Belle. You know, stuff like that. So
I do remember that it was a different kind of heat. It's a miserable
and you know, and later on in my business. Just you know,
several years ago I went to Houston, numbers miserable. Yeah, I just
remember Houston. Come getting off a shuttle bus after you know, getting on
you know, getting on the shuttle bus at the airport, then getting off
the shuttle bus. My glasses fucked up. Yeah, good time here in
the summer. Yeah, yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it sucks like
July. Yeah. No, I spent a long time down there covering stuff
for the paper. It was. Let we'll talk about that down the road.
Yeah, okay again, if you guys want to callisfy two four,
one, six, seven four or four zero. In addition to justin spears,
we're gonna have a fun time in the second hour, Big Game Boomer
piece back, Big Game Boomer John Whittaker. So so I asked him,
because can you come out of the days? He said, sure? What
are we gonna talk about? I said, oh, your great list pizza
stuff? Well, I kept the one list that that really caught got at
least two sons people up in arms when he said when he rated as used
the weather up in Tampede better than the weather in Tucson. And so that's
the one that we gotta we gotta get him the pizza thing. You know,
you know, everybody's got their own favor I mean, I got you
know what, Nico called me, called us up and gave me crap about
and I love Graham and Tony right to me. That's my fits all subjective
of course, the subject. But we'll talk about that because today he had
won about offensive line. They're in the top forty. I think they got
to look for the emblem, right. They got a personal first uh potempsial
first round draft pick, uh you know in the uh in uh Jordan Margat
So yeah, man, I could see. So I just got a text
for one of my buddies who listens. Stanford is the only Power five team
that is currently an under an underdog in every game. So maybe there is
a chance that that'll be So that'd be Stanford Cal, Stanford Cal. So
that could be seven. They're gonna win six seven games? You think them
to finish near that near six? Seven? Yeah? You never know?
Yeah, I am. You know, here's the here's the deal. They're
gonna be in the middle of the yeah, well yeah right, yeah,
and nobody, nobody's going to project him to finish in last place. So
I think that, Uh, I think that it's sort of a good way
to go into this season, right because I think there were still a lot
of people taking him for last place last year, if I recall, yeah,
probably right, well, there's there was none us to hope on.
Ye, Now, I'll have to look that up. Uh, I believe,
I believe that they were they were picked to finish uh last last year.
Now if they're fick, big Fish eleventh only ahead of Colorado last year.
So yeah, and then who knows this show? What do you think
cover ahead of Colorado? The show picked not ten? I think I think
the media here are on the PAC twelve Okay, okay, is much more
skeptical of of of Dion Sander, of coach Brian the national media. No,
they're not, especially the better I mean, did you see that,
like sixty one percent of the bets, Yeah, on the PAC twelve champion
are on Colorado because they're what's the one of the odds, Yeah, because
of the odds and stuff. But nonetheless there's a bunch of people out there
throwing some money on him, saying you know, I I think not even
what they call that in the real world dead money. You had money,
because that has no hope of winning any movie. It certainly could be in
certainly should be happy. You know, they ever under on win still is
three and three? You don't know, I think on a whim, on
a whim, now, that won't do it. Going over on that could
work, he thinks, So three and a half, if it was gonna
happen, we definitely do it. Well. Two other three non conference games
are TCO and Nebraska. Well, those those aren't gonna win. That won't
happen right now, you gotta win thee Yeah, I think they won't do
it. They could lose all three. They won't do it because they have
to find three wins every league in the league. I don't have to see
their schedule. Maybe go do that. Well, those are the three non
conference yeah no, no, but the rest right and then who do they
avoid? Who do they play? If they play Cow or they play Stan.
You know that's a chance they play Arizona, right yea Arizona goes up
there. Okay, so you never know that that's one that they're gonna look
at and say that you know, we should get that, Yeah, that
they're gonna look at it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, cool,
all right, let's take our first break. We're gonna come back.
It'll be Justin Spears. We'll be talking to him about again. Pat's all
met to day coming up. Some of the storylines we can expect to see
Justin covering when he gets up there, and then we'll take a cause after
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phone. We have the Arizona Daily Stars, justin spears, justin how you
do it. You're doing my grook for five different people. I should just
say all of them, but it's gonna take for fun fifteen minutes. How
are you? I get around? You do? Good for you? I
mean you're young and this business needs to get around. Do you know how
that goes? Good to hear from you? How are you? I'm doing
great? Guys, Thanks for having me on this afternoon. Have you rested
up for a big weekend? Man? If we get closer and closer and
closer to the date, and it almost looks like this giant wave, like
I'm just looking at this big tsunami and I'm not sure if I'm ready for
Friday, but I'm gonna do my best now. Thankfully at two sound dot
com, the Arizona Daily start John Wilmer's Pact Fell Hotline. And I know
John is a frequent guest on your Guess radio show, but you know John
and his Pact Fells Hotline that's indicated on two sound dot com. In terms
of meteorite deal Colorado Dion standards the big picture with the conference. Thankfully,
John, we'll be able to handle all that. And then while I'm in
Vegas, I'll be obviously at the Arizona and then we still have a lot
of questions that we need to ask, especially regarding you know, quarterback Jaden
Delora because this is the first time that she's talked. And you know that
that the news came out of him settling that civil case you know that stems
from the sexual assault case from a high school base in twenty eighteen. But
you know, you know that in also you know, the defense you know
how Arizona kind of views this upcoming season. There's a lot that we're going
to ask get Fish and Jada Delora this upcoming Friday. But man, it's
going to be a circuit show man, it's going to be. It's absolutely
crazy, just so many storylines that you can talk about. And yeah,
it's for me a while time in Vegas and that's it. And that's you
know that the James Delord thing is probably the storyline sort of for you know,
for guys covering Arizona. Um. You know, Steve and I have
talked a lot about that that they might have been able to diffuse some of
it by doing something locally before they showed you know, they showed him up
at at the Pac Club. Me today, what are your thoughts on that
would you have I mean, I think you would have liked to be able
to talk to him, you know by now about all that stuff going on.
But do you think that it becomes too much of a It could have
become too much for him and for the football program this Friday, Well,
it could be very interesting because you know, when you think about it,
I mean, does Arizona really generate a bunch of interests from national writers?
You know, guys can cover the Pac twelve? Um, I don't really
think so. I mean outsider maybe you know what people think about I was
going to possibly going to the Big twelve because we've heard about, you know,
the four Corner schools being linked to the Big called should the past twelve
has completely become extinct, and you know that's of course we're going to ask
Arizona about that. But as far as as Jada Delora goes, you know,
I think that he's going to answer a lot of tough questions. I'm
serious, you know what questions will be thrown at him. I mean I
have a few, you know, already going to write down it. And
one of the top questions that you know, I'm going to ask Jayden is
you know what, when did Arizona know? When did you tell them?
When were they informed about all this with it? You know, before you
transferred Arizona with it after you know what was the communication rights between the two?
And I think you know for Arizona, you know, they had two
months to prepare for this where the news dropped on Jada Delora back in May,
and so you've had two months to get Jayden media train and he's been
in several press conferences all that Arizona and Washington State. So if you've already
trained media wise in the last couple of years, but you know, you
really get him polished on answering the questions correctly. I'm really wondering how transparent
he's going to be. But you get game go a out in pastwall media
day. You allow him to face the music, answer the tough questions,
and then you move on from it. And then you know, you can
kind of, you know, pull the old Sean Miller, you know,
when he was a coach at Arizona and just say, oh, just refer
to my statement that the pastual media day, we're going to move on from
this. We're folly focused on football at this point, I think that's going
to be the game plan for Arizona. And honestly, it's it's a really
good game plan because you know, it shows that, hey, you don't
have nothing to hide. You can throw out Jaga and he can answer those
tough questions. And it's also that you know you're doing it at say,
Passwall Media Day as opposed to Arizona Media Day, because where's all the attention
at it. It's about the media, right steal, It's about comperenceor realignment
beyond Sanders and prime time being at Colorado. So I think this is a
good scenario for Arizona. You said that you'll answer the questions. Do you
really think that he'll You talked a little about this, but do you really
think he's gonna answer the questions? No? I totally agree with you.
I totally agree with you. That's why I asked the questions. I don't
either. Yeah, And see that's the kind of the unfortunate part about our
job is, like Leando, they're not going to answer it, but you
have to just because it's it's what we have to do, you know,
and um, you know you have to risk Oh maybe he will be transparent.
But you know, you guys know this better than me. It's it's
gonna be very day since you know, Jade is going to say refer to
my lawyer or I'm not going to answer anything because it's a legal case and
I can't talk about any of the details. But we're not going to get
really anything out of Jaden the lawyer. But at the end of the day,
you address it, you will. It's the first time that Jaden's spoken
about it publicly. He's gonna get it on the way and then Arizona can
move on to the football season and get ready for any U on September.
Second, all right, so let's move on to that. Let's the what
are the on field storylines you think you know are coming up, whether it's
U of A or the Pac twelve that you know things are going to get
talked about this week. I mean, what are we what are we talking
about? On the field? First? On the field, the Pack twelve
is as good as has been in several years. I mean, from top
to bottom, we've seen Organs Washington, We've seen these teams represent the conference
to be the flagships programs for this conference and go and go into the CFP.
But now you have USC in its last year in the Pac twelve with
Kati Williams. They're defending the Hiveman Trophy, winning quarterbacks coming back, USC
roading up on all sorts of transfer portal editions, some from the University of
Arizona like a Dorian Singer and Keyon Bars and Christian L. Wallace. You
know, USC is gonna be a really good team this year, and I
think that there will be a team that can compete for the College Football Playoff
and that would just be such a summer. You know, if USC were
able to get into the CFP for last year that they're part of the Pack
twelve, and of course it's you know that team that goes through the CFP,
you know, USC becomes USC again and then they just decide to get
out on the Pack twelve. Ess it's a very sad situation. But I
think USC will be a really good team this year and I'm really excited to
see worth the Washington Huskies are going to be able to do this year.
I mean, I think offensively they might have the best offense in college football.
And with Michael Pennox junior back, who's you know, one season in
as the starter for the Huskies. Washington arguably has the best receiving core in
the Pack twelve. And that's bes a lot because you know, down here
in Tucson, Arizona, you got Tamac and Jacob Howelling, and these guys
are really good in NFL prospects. But that just really goes to show how
Bill Washington is in the receiving corps. So I think Washington will probably be
the highest scoring offense in the Pack twelve. There'll be a very fun team
to watch this season. And you know, even teams like organ State,
you know, getting dj Ua La from Clemson and danteeing More at UCLA.
Because the five star quarterbacks bone knicks at Oregon. The quarterbacks in the Pack
tworld are as good as a gift. And I didn't even mention Jaden Delard.
You know, we were just talking about his wishywashy off season, right,
you know, he was working out with the Manning brothers. But then
he also had that incident, know with the civil case. I still think
Jaden Delara can be one of the best quarterbacks in the Pack twelve. You
put on thirty pounds of good weight, which I mean his muscle he looks
like he knows as some body armor to him and didn't really lose a touch
running the football during springball. And now that he's been one year in the
Jetfish's system, and it was it was alert, it was there was a
really big learning curve for him because him and Jed they just got together and
then we're like, all right, we're gonna go through the growing things and
we're gonna work out the kinks as we go. Where you know, you
look at other quarterbacks across the conference, like like Michael Pennocks, Bo Nix,
k of Williams, you have, those guys were transfers, but they
were all familiar with their coaches fired Cranford. Jaden didn't have that luxury.
Now that he's been in Jetfishes's system for a year, I really think Jaden
Delora is gonna have an impressive season. So last year, Arizona's offense had
to score a lot of points because their defense wasn't very good. Do you
think that's going to be the case now? I don't think so, because
you know, the defense is much improved and I think, you know,
one of my biggest takeaways from springball is they addressed up front. They got
you know, transfers from from Georgia, from UCLA. They got some guys
you know in the high school ranks, but um, you know there's the
defective line and transfer that they got from Utah as well. Like they got
some really big bodies up front. But what these guys are not going to
do is recording a bunch of tackles and you know, have a bunch of
statistics that are going to show up at the box sports. They're just gastiality.
They're big bodies that are going to be able to hold the line of
scrimmage. They not create lanes. So running backs in the Patwalfy just run
up and down Arizona. They're gonna be able to clog the holes and allow
Jacob Manu who's just got and those for the ball. He's everywhere and wherever
the ball is, Jacob man is going to be there. And then justin
flow, you know, the former All American number one rated the M five
linebacker who didn't really work out at Oregon, can he you know, crapp
into his potential and really show why he was one of the best prospects for
the twenty twenty recruiting class. If those two can be the leaders of the
defense and really get after stopping the run, and I think the Arizona's defense
is going to be much improved this year. And also, you know Isaiah
Taylor at one of the starting stafy spots Jackson Turner entered the transfer port h
led the Wildcats and interceptions last season, albeit it was only just a couple
of Arizona. They were last in the past Wolves in interceptions, even though
turnovers were improved. Isaiah Taylor, I could have sworn, had maybe six
or seven interceptions hearing a two setting throughout spring ball. So if he looked
at the Ballhawks as we all know yet the game sailing interception against AFU.
He's the son of an NFL Hall of Famer. He's a really good player
and I expect him to have a bunch of interceptions this year for Arizona.
So defense is going to be very much improved this year. And when you
couple that with one of the top passing offenses in the country, then now
we're talking about Arizona. Gold Boy, what did you think of the job
Johnny Nansen did last year? Because I mean they there was the defense wasn't
good but did you like what they did? Did you feel that it fit
with what Arizona can or should be able to do with the with the with
the players that it has well because the recruiting class that they got, all
the great freshman and also the trans reportal guys, what Johnny Nason decided to
do was like, Okay, rather than rely on the veteran, let's just
simply get out our best talent possible. So we got to start playing for
freshman. We gotta start playing some younger guys. And what's the second half
of the season came and those those freshman a gout the mental reps and you
know, they were part of the cost football culture and really got adjusted to
the speed of the game. That's when he started to see you know,
Jacob rich Land, the walk on from modern day Tay Tay Yulia go away
On, you know, on defensive ends, all these throwing Deuce Wayne Douce
Davis like these all freshmen were really starting to impact Arizona in the second half
of the season. And then Jacomano being the kind of Scout Team superhero,
all of a sudden he takes over kolbe Cage's spot and doesn't turn back.
I mean, he earned that spot and he started making plays. So Johnny
Nanson started to rely on his younger guys. I think it was a brilliant
chess move on his part because all of these younger guys now have legitimate playing
experience. And then you have those guys coming back and they're kind of like
your veterans. And then you bring in a Justine Flow and a Build Nordon
and a Tyler Minoah on the defensive lines, and you bring in transaportal guys.
You marry that with the young players who got the rep last year.
And now we're talking about Arizona's defense really taking a significant step forward. And
you know, lastly, for me on Johnny Nanson, I give him a
ton of credit because he made the decision to really start using that dollar package
where Arizona was using seven defensive backs. If using seven to defensive backs,
if that's getting their best players out on the field, and so be it.
And you saw a few Dames Price Socket getting the game, and the
car of Davis and all these other dvs or just kind of statsed away on
the bench, and next thing you know, they're out here making play in
good time games. So I think Johnny Danson, Yes, he kind of
took his lumps at the beginning of the season, but I think as the
year went being a first year defensive cordina is, he figured out what worked
for him, found that recipe and now let's see it and work out a
year too. Okay, just one last quick question, Ja, making a
quick answer if you could offensively, who are you gonna look forward to seeing
not named teams or Dolora or not named tamac or Dolora. You know what
I'm gonna go with. Man, this is a tough one because I would
like to say Montana leimonious, Craig is transfer from Colorado. But you give
me the tight end, give me another team Mac. You mean Tanna McLaughlin
who had the most receiving yard by tight ends as Rob don Couski and two
bout an eight year two now in the system. I'm expecting a big year
at Tanna McLaughlin and the other tight ends can Burnett. So give me a
tight end, but more so Canna mclacklin. Cool, good answer. Okay,
all right, so stuff coming up? How much do you think you're
gonna have to write out of this? A lot a lot Man, this
is gonna be a very busy week, and I mean, shoot, I'm
looking ahead right now about you know, putting together a story, you know,
asking me five burning questions, bears on the football, so there's gonna
be a lot of content coming your answers dot com Burning Burning. Thanks.
Hey, So all right, justin well look for you tuson dot com and
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I mean I Heart Radio Wires is high on the book with lieber Vera
and Jacob Slid on Fox Sports Sports ten fifteen. Hey, welcome back to
I'm About Here, a sports fourteen fifties. I'm Steve Day. If you
have fun eleven minutes that win long, you just want to call up and
what would you ask color stand or fish if you were one of us?
Uh In the next couple of weeks, I I liked what Justin said.
You know, the first question he wants to ask is when did Arizona enough?
Yeah, I think I was one of the burning things at the time
that that this went on. Well, they said, then, and what
did Arizona? They've answered it in their own way. I can't remember that
they you just because they became aware of the lawsuit after he got here in
the fall, after he got The question is did they know more than that
before? You know before that you you hang around a different club than I
do. But we kind of know the same people. Jay, Um,
when this all when all this happened, I got some boosters, some kind
of people who sped the money said they were disappointed. They were disappointed in
the program. Right, not so much on the act, well on the
program and how Arizona has handled it. Right. Um, I don't know
if you've heard the same thing. No, I absolutely, I absolutely have.
Um. Look, I've I've joked that I wouldn't care zone cheated if
it got to a rose ball. I don't really honestly don't honestly believe that.
But the same thing with this is, like you know, you have
se him, people who tend to see, well, he's really good and
Arizona doesn't hasn't had many quarterbacks like him. I'm willing to overlook some claud
right, but I think, as you said, the way this was handled
and and what it is, I do think that there's some boosters that are
that have been turned away by this. Hum. I know, I know
some let's just say some people, some people who are close to me,
um, who know how I feel about it, Arizona Football, who think
that I'm I'm giving him a pass and that I shouldn't be giving him a
pass, and that they're very disappointed in what in that Arizona didn't take him
off the team when when they find out about it, um, and so
it's uh, it's it's a it's a tough one. And again, are
there things in there that we don't know that Arizona know? Yeah? Maybe,
but I like, excuse me, I'd like to know those Then if
if you made a decision based on some things that we don't know. Maybe,
well you ought to tell us what both. That's kind of almost the
question how you phrase it? Do you know more than what's been and they
do obviously, because we don't know what's gonna be in the pay pack?
Uh do you? Is there something in there that we don't know that major
or alleviates the problem? The problem, however you phrase it, the well,
the uh distastefulness of it. Yeah, right. You know you feel
like you got this guy that supposedly possibly maybe or certainly accused of committee or
a sexual assault. Um, he's the quarterback at Arizona. You obviously overlooked
it. You're okay with whatever would occur in order for him to play at
Arizona. So I almost feel like they owe fans and now look at if
they if we were gonna get that explanation, we would have gotten it already.
True. But I do believe that they oh fans an explanation of why
they made the decision they made. But they're not gonna get that. We're
not going they're not gonna get that. It's gonna get asked. That's too
and and and Jane's gonna get asked. Na they're not. They're not gonna
answer that question. Uh and and and that's their obligations. They're right to.
Yeah, I mean you know you'll go and at some point, you
know, they'll get on the field and I'm not gonna say people will forget
about it, but they'll push it aside. Well, it's it's, um
this is how can I say that we talked about this before? This is
And I don't want to diminish the seriousness of it. It's Arizona's ugly baby,
right, it's their but it's their baby. It's there. It's the
very bond stuff in San Francisco. Everyone else hates him, but Sanrancis called
because he's their baby. Right. And now Delora right, I mean you
know, if you're if you're you're an Arizona fan and Jane Delora is the
quarterback at a su Yeah, oh they're calling them out. Oh yeah,
no question, right, no question, you're gonna what the hell you guys?
Right? Right? Yeah? But yeah, I saw you know,
depending on who you are, that's what you know, you're gonna have an
opinion on that. Um. I just you know, I just believe that
anything that we were going to get in that regard we would have gotten by
now. I don't see anything new coming out of Back twelve media. I
totally agree with you for better or worship. I mean, that's this's this
is theirs, this is theirs look, and I don't know, people are
rich you and let's just talk about the football, right as we did with
you know, with Justin. Okay, let's talk about the football. And
I know that's what people want to do. I mean, I'll tell you
right now, we got Yogi Roth on the show. I don't want to
talk about anything I want to talk about. You know, he's a guy
that we we only get a limited amount of time with him. We want
to talk about, you know, the football, Yogi Roth. Right,
But we'll be interesting to see what what the local guys come up with.
You know, David Kelly, who's now at the twelve ninety guy, you
know he's going to be there, so you know, you know, he
just tweeted something. What do you want us to ask Jake de Laura.
Right, we'll see if the meet local media guys go up. I don't
know if any of the probably that's probably Love is out for a while and
he's just gonna be that. I didn't know if you know, any of
the easy desert swarm guys or probably be there, but they're kind of at
their job. They're more of a fan would be good, goody good type
of stuff. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. What
said, um, it'll be interesting. I think another another storyline that that
I'm guessing based on what Justin Justin said about how they're going to cover.
We're gonna get the USC UCLA um reaction stuff from John will you. I'm
gonna be atert to see what the other coaches say, what players say um
about about USC and UCLA that year. Last year he wanted his big ten.
I saw a funny uh, a funny thing. There was a tweet
from an LSU player an SEC media day when they asked him about Texas and
Oklaholm and he said, they have no idea what they're getting, really crazy,
really great, grey will be true and and maybe vice versa. We'll
see it's it's it's all bravado. It's all you know, who's who's bigger,
stronger, blah blah blah. It's gonna make for a good good year
next year. Yeah, and it'll be fun to see what, you know,
what, how the fans treat those teams when they come here. You
see, LA has to come here. Yeah, so we'll see how the
fans you know, deal with that. Arizona goos to USC. I'm planning
to going to that game was in October, second weekend in October, Okay,
I know, I know. If we want to think about doing something
over there, where's what do your what's the time? I think it's like
I think October tenth, okay, okay, the second Saturday in October maybe,
so you know, that might be trip. There's a good place to
okay, to do a show from. It could be our last one and
last in La. Right, I hadn't been there forever. Yeah, I
love going I let you know, I love going to the Coliseum. You
know, my brother Jane hates it. He won't go because he hates the
Coloseum. He thinks it's it's not just it's a bad area and I don't
care about the area. He just thinks it's a drab venue. The atmosphere
isn't great. Well, the atmosphere is not going to be great if us
he's not any good that'd been good for a while. I've been really good
for what was the last time he went. He must have. I don't
know. I think it's been a long time. So I went in eighty
nine. It was one there, but that was last time. Yeah,
I did the m or nineties the last time. I remember that because I
was the year I got married. I mean I was on I was on
my honeymoon when that came come. But um, what I do remember is,
uh, I think we went there. I think it was Mike Stoops
first and third years and that we went. We had a great time,
saw Reggie Bush play. You know. Um we barely we barely were in
the stadium. They sat us so far play. But it's been a hun
since I've been there. Been to the Rose Bowl a couple of times.
Maybe we do that. I knew just the first you mentioned first brought it.
Maybe maybe you know, I just kind of that's most starts about that
time in terms of practice and stuff like that. It might be fun to
see if there's a good place that the Arizona fans my cat. Yeah,
yeah, we can go do a show, right. I just remember F'm
leaving the State Downtown Basketball getting to my car and getting the hell out of
town. Wow. Yeah, that's that's that's true. That's true. You
know, nothing like honestly, nothing like a day game as a call Victor.
Victor just texting me. He's in, he's in for the road trip
in LA. He's from that area. Hey, your Victor, you're driving.
You're driving, baby, we'll pay me the guys you're driving. I
love a day game in LA, whether it's the rose Balls or that or
the Forever. Yeah. But you know what, I don't want to I
don't want to go as a as a report. I don't want to go
as a fan. That's what you're doing, right, a fan. Just
go do the show and then kind of go to the games. Just go
to the game. Well, you know what, we'll get your tech go
with us to see what the hell we're all about, you know, all
the crazy client we're not as crazy as you think. You know why,
because we're really old, really really in fact, we're those old guys that
get annoyed as a lot of guys. Guy in front of a we can't
see have to stand down. Yeah, where those guys can we leave up
to the third quarter. We're definitely those guys too funny. Okay, that's
a good idea. Okay, we'll see what happens. But that could be
fun. Yeah, I think that could be. It could be a lot
of fun. But you know again, it's what I liked, is Steve,
is that we're here on Monday. We're already talking about the Friday media
day. Other media days are going on. Football's right here, well so
around the corner rust here we're starting to talk about it. Um, things
are happening, a lot of stuff and breaking news about college football this uh
from the media days and some other things going on. Um, I'm I'm
starting to get that field that I love to get as a fan, you
know, starting to make sure that the stuff I'm fine. I'm finding all
my stuff that go you know that I need for the tailgate parties and making
sure I know where it's at when when the time comes and I don't have
to go looking forward in my garage or wherever. So right, let's just
six weeks, um, yeah, so go anyway, so I'd be good.
But you know, we'll see the media Paul, I think usually comes
out day before day before or read that morning or morning. It starts early
in the day. Uh, you know it's Edward, It's it's one of
the resorts, but I don't know which it wasn't one that wasn't like at
the Mirage or the MGM or something like that. I can't remember I saw.
I'll look it up and I just just text justin. He wouldn't know,
would I hope you would tell us? He would tell us. But
let's say you should say right here, where's that? Uh? It doesn't
say okay, here, we gotta go though. All right, let's get
out of here. We're gonna come back breaking news here at the top of
the hour, so'll be sure you stick around for that, and we'll take
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we'll be happy to take it. So give us a bus and we'll be
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