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Breaking down all the exes and olls. It's Steve la Vera and Jagen Salmas.

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This is I on the Ball on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey,

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welcome back to my in the ball
here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm

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Steve ven He's jagan' sauce. Now
we have one with breaking news. You're

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on the plot. This is I
on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox

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Sports fourteen fifty. Happy Friday to
everyone out there. Starting off breaking news

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with some Arizona women's basketball news.
Thereforeward, a ji Yoakum is out definitely

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following a knee surgery. Unfortunately.
All wishing all the best to her and

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bust the wishes to It's like this
happens every year to the basketball right to

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that program. Every year somebody,
right, they lose somebody in the summer

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and they're gone for the year.
Like dang who doesn't say how long should

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be out? Does it? Definitely? Yeah? Yeah, but it's a

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it's a knee, right, yeah, knee surgery, yeah, if it's

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if it's meniscus, yeah, but
if you blow out an ACL or something

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like that, it's you know,
that's over. It's over for the year.

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Ah, God, all right into
the college football world. It was

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kind of announced today that the former
Pac twelve teams and along with Oregon State

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and Washington State, are going to
be keeping their bull ties with the ones

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that they've had in the past for
the past couple of years. So you

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could see a possible repeat for Arizona. Yeah, or we can go to

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the vegasball Steve Yeah. Yeah,
you know, they had to do something

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like that. I mean, it
was kind of like it was weird,

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like, you know, Okay,
the the bowl games are locked up with

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their conferences, so what happens to
the Pac twelve both things, so you

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know, all the teams that were
in the Pac twelve, that's still the

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same thing, So the same bowls
that the doligible four. I like that,

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you know, just do this and
during this transition period and see what

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happened with the bowl games. And
I still like all the bowl games.

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I don't remember. Do you not
like all the ball games or do you

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just not care? I just don't
care. I watch some of them,

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not all of them, just you
know, I mean I watched some of

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them, not all of them too, but I like that they're all on

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or you know, if if there's
a game on, I put it on.

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Yeah, no, I'm better than
watching the soap opera. You don't

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watch soap opera, well, I
know, but in the you know,

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in the middle of Okay, it's
better than watching the dayline. I've already

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seen. You know, there's if
there's if there's a game on on a

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Tuesday afternoon. You know, so
it's a better put it better than a

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stick in the eye. Yes,
okay, exactly. So I like that.

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I like that that those those balls
are still there for us to go

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to, you know, maybe Vegas
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places, and you do it,
and you do know the the Holiday Bowl

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is in the San Diego State Stadium
for the first time. Yeah, that's

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it seems like a small venue for
that, but I guess I don't know.

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Well, it's a great place.
I mean I remember that that ninety

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eight Holiday Bowl at Arizona win to
against Nebraska, and they was in the

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big you know, Jack Murphy Stadium
or Qualcom whatever we called it at that

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time, and it was full.
That's sixty some thousand people. But people

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that mean people don't go to Bowl
games. Yeah, and well you say

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ninety eight. They played another one
who won twenty fourteen twelve. Yeah,

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there weren't. It was awful.
That was like the worst, the worst

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football road trip experience. It was
a score no thirty three, nothing done

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with soon I went. I went
on that trip. I wasn't even in

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San Diego twenty four hours. Yes, those two we covered it for the

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for the for the website. It
was horrible. Yeah, we got it.

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It was rainy, awful, cold. Yeah. We drove in on

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the day of the game, went
to the game, and left at eight

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o'clock the next morning. So we
weren't even in San Diego twenty four hours

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and got got our asses kicked by
thirty thirty three. Zip. Yeah,

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it was not even close. It
was awful, and it was in the

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rain. Yeah. Yeah. Two
things I find it interesting about this is

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that the Alima WOL is still twelve
versus the PAC twelve. So you can,

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oh, you could get a conference
matchup. You can get a conference

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matchup for ah. I didn't even
think of that. Yeah. They announced

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that today. They showed like the
graphic the big tall schools packed all schools.

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It was versus Kansas State number two
or number three. Yeah, or

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play you know played, they'll they'll
try and set it up. So it's

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two teams that haven't played. I'm
sure hopefully, but you know it could

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happen. Oh interesting, Okay in
Oregon State Washington State. They still get

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right, they're still in that.
Good for them. Yeah, that's why

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Yogi Roth was in Vegas. They
did a show. They did, they

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did, they did a pack called
media Day with Posted School. Yeah,

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we should get him back one.
Yeah, see what he's got going on.

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Okay, to the NBA, the
k next point guard Jalen Brunson accepted

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a one hundred and fifty six point
five million dollar extension contract extension for four

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years for more years, which is
one hundred and thirty million less of what

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he could have had going into next
year. Yeah, there's a lot of

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word that they that he's trying to
help out the team or something. I

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don't know. It's nice to see. Yeah, and again, if you're

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gonna have one hundred and thirteen million
versus two hundred and thirteen million, what

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the hell's the difference. I hope
they get some more help the Vilanova Knicks

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at the point, I hope they
guess some more help. I think they're

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gonna need it. I don't think
Michel Bridges is going to be enough for

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them. Yeah, yeah, now, I you know, I don't care

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that much, but it's kind of
like, you know, the league is

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better when your matora. Baseball is
better when the Yankees are good. Same

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with the Knicks, you know.
I mean, the Knicks aren't the Yankees,

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but you know, for those of
us who've been around long enough to

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when the Knicks were good, you
know that tradition of having the New York

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team be good, it's kind of
nice. You'd like to see see him

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get back to that. The city's
craving for them to come back to you.

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You can see it. You saw
it in the playoffs this year.

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Yeah. Into more NBA news,
Johnny's choosing a former UCLA basketball player.

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He agreed to or four year,
twelve million dollar deal with the Jazz went

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from a two way contract to this
type of God. I don't I know

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the name, and I remember the
player, I just don't remember him that

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much. Yeah, he played,
he played with our homie friend, yeahmy

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hunkas Yeah, yeah, no,
I remember that he was that. He

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wasn't that good, I mean pretty
good enough. Well, yeah, you

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know again, you know, he
got into the G League. Apparently he's

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you know, made the progress you
need to make. That's that's what the

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G League is for, right,
for a guy like that to you know,

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to improve, get you know,
and get himself into the league.

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So good on him, even though
he's the u c l A guy.

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Uh. Coming up this weekend Sunday
at noon, we have the year Old

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Tournament final, Spain going up against
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you see the video of the Killers? No, they had a concert going

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on, right, and they stopped
the concert to play the last few seconds

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of of the of the Matt England's
you know, semi final match on the

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on a big screen you know,
on the stage, and the place went

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nuts. And then they started playing
again, and it was kind of cool

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that they took the time too,
you know to show that and and you

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know, when the when, the
when when the you've seen those videos when

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they start, you know, throwing
their beers, That's what it was like

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in the concert venue and then they
started playing again. Look, it was

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pretty cool. It's pretty pretty cool
to see, you know, a rock

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band. You don't care that much
about sports in particular soccer, In particular

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soccer soccer. Soccer is a pretty
big international they started realizing couple of years

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in United States is not so much. But overseas, you now there's soccer

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tournament. The Copa Medica tournament is
going to be finishing up. Also on

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Sunday at five o'clock, Argentina going
up against Columbia. There was a big

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fight in the stands the other day, right, and You'ruguay and the Colombians.

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The players went into the stands started
fighting. The coach is pretty adamant

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that the players deserve an apology from
the fans than the other way, rather

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than them getting punished. Yeah,
because yeah, I mean the players were

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saying we were going up there to
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Yeah, crazy stuff, man,
Soccer soccer fans are nuts. Last thing

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I was like to on like a
little fun note coming up on Monday that

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new college football games and be coming
out. So yeah, I think I

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think this is a pretty big anticipated
event. They have people pre streaming it

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all all weekend. Yeah, former
players playing it. They're pretty exciting brand

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and everything. So I think this
is a pretty This is a dumb question,

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yes, because you know. I
mean I grew up, I grew

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up my you know, my kid
grew up. We got them a PlayStation,

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then an Xbox and all that stuff. This stuff's not on CDs anymore.

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You just downloaded and download day is
on Monday. Then they can start

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playing the rest of the week.
So what you have to download it into

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your into your little device as I
and it's in there as opposed to you

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streaming it right? Yeah? Okay? How much does it cost now?

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I think it's like seventy bucks for
the game itself. They have like a

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bunch of bundles and you can get
the Madden game plus the College football game.

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But if you're just getting the college
game at seventy bucks around that or

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is that compared to what it used
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I think a little bit more.
I don't think that much more. I

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would think it would cost less if
you don't have to put out packaging and

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stuff. Gaming was isn't as big, A wasn't as big as it was

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it is now. Yeah, so
are you a big gaming guy? No,

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this is the only game I've only
played. Oh really, yeah,

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you've still been playing just College actually
during the Pandemic. They only have it

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on the Xbox sixty, which has
like been discontinued. I bought it again

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in the Pandemic because I got so
bored. Yeah, and I've been playing

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it since, just waiting for this
game to come out. Wow. Wow,

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Yeah, there's a bunch of memes
going around together. The forty old

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man more anticipated for this game than
their one, Waiting days and stuff like

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that. Uh. I only played
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with my kid, and he was
he's just kicking my ass. So I

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just said, I'm not playing this
anymore. I can't move the buttons fast

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enough, I can't do anything.
And I would just I would blitz off

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every play and I would throw deep
every play. Yeah that was me that

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way. Did you ever play with
your with your with your boys? No,

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they played their soccer stuff and no. No, I had the Wei

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thing, the Wei oh yeah sports. I played that, you know,

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the table tennis and the tennis and
stuff. Yeah, that's what I was

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coming to. We had we had
a wee from yeah, and then the

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then the weight you could kill,
and then I don't know, it got

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old after a while. I guess
I don't like everything else interesting I was,

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I was a a plus polar on
WE Sports. Yeah. Yeah,

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yeah, those are cool. That's
that's twenty years ago. Man, that's

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a long time go right Yeah,
time flies, Yeah, all right?

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Cool? What else? Hey,
I got a big guy, big game

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Boomer, who's who's ran away from
us against the last few months because we

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want him on the show. He
has Tyler Loop as the twelfth best kicker

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in college football, twelfth best kicker, twelfth and he's isn't the conference player

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conference kicker. I think he's the
conference season Conference first team. Yeah.

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And obviously the dude is very consistent. Yeah. I don't think he's a

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huge leg not yes, but he's
very consistent. He doesn't have the leg

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that the last guy had, but
he's he's you know, he'll he'll make

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more and may I don't know,
we'll see. I mean, if you

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can get look, if you can
give a fifty yard and that's all you

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need to be able to kick,
if you you know, I we don't

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expect you to be kicking fifty seven, fifty eight yards or whatever. But

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if you can make and if you're
making the forty five yarder every time,

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that that's all. That's what you
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get you get to the thirty yard
line, you want to know that you're

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in a good position to score.
And so that'll be really that'll be really

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important. Steve. I'm just getting
so fired up for football, and I

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you know, I'm trying to real
hard. I'm trying real hard to not

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get over my skis on this thing, you know, and and get into

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my mind, God, what if
they if they're go un defeated? You

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know, I think there's a no
drinking policy in this building. What you've

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been drinking? You want to check
my check, my shake. But you

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know, when you're a fan like
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this, you let your mind wander
on stuff like that, especially this time

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of the year, right because you're
just waiting for the games just to start.

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You hear people talking about everything.
Arizona's in the conversation for so many

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things now, and then you go, God, what if, what if?

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What if? And I do that
and then also go, you know,

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what what if they lose to New
Mexico? Right? I mean I

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was there for that NAU loss and
it was shocking. Just let it happen.

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You're a freshman and how'd you feel
walking up that building? I was

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stunned. Were you mad? I
was mad? The next day happen in

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that moment. I was just shocked
that that final score had and then with

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more points. Yeah, yeah,
I was mad. I left that.

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I left the I left the I've
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but not angry at the team and
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I wanted to beat up that night. And I could have. I could

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have taken I could have taken it. And you're thinking, what the heck

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just happened? Yeah, super angry
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it was in the second half.
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this game, and then they did. Why don't you bring that up?

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You did? Who brought it up? You did? You were talking about?

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Steve Rivera. He's Chickensauce got fun
with us today. We had sixteen minutes

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hoping to hear from Brian Howell out
of Boulder. Our phone, that's Steve

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Weep. I know, we'll see
if he calls it. Yeah, we'll

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see. We've texted him and see
if he can he can get with us

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here. He's am I meant,
I remember we're talking when he first doing

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it, when Dean first got over
there with all that stuff, and he

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was just like, I don't know, you know, I was just not

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gonna be my first question. I
mean, did he going in? You

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don't know what to expect, right
your whatever, Your anticipation level didn't meet

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the anticipation level. Was it easier
or more much? Ado about nothing?

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Because you know he I don't know
what what did you how to referm to?

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Was it prime? Was it coach? Was it? Yeah? Dion?

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I mean, you know, touch
the ring, kissed the ring?

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Ah? God, look and Dion's
Dion's going to be Dan. He's a

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character. He's a he's a personality, you know, but as we say

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somewhere in there, he's got to
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and uh, you know he's got
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brought up in his press conference that

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he said, yeah, you guys
talk about how you know, we're nothing

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but the transfer portals that we we
signed seventeen high school players. Well,

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okay, he signed seventeen, but
you're allowed to sign twenty five and you

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didn't, so you know, you're
still portal heavy. But uh, you

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know, he's you know, he
from the NFL, where you can you

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can fix your holes quickly, and
then he's approaching it like that, right,

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and there's nothing you know, I
guess there's nothing wrong with that,

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you know. Okay, we're hoping
he calls in. I was looking forward

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to this because last week he said
he had no time until now, and

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then he found time. Yeah,
so we'll see what happens. Then he

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was in he was in Vegas for
for the Big twelve, and he hasn't

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been coming Colorado that long. I
don't think maybe, yes, I can't

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remember. We've talked to him a
number of times. Yeah, and just

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see how it is now, uh
anything else? What else? It was

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well to go back to issue.
It was a good conversation with the you're

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gonna put it on? Yeah,
I'm gonna go ahead and I'll pust that

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one up on social media, so
you guys, so our listeners are you

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know, can grab it and you
don't have to go looking for it.

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But uh, he you know,
I got grammars and he was really good.

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He's sounds like he says, sounds
like a really smart guy. But

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you most ads are sure of course
he was more more official sounding. Yeah,

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and maybe he did it for us
because you know, he's you know,

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he's there and we're here and like
and like Michelle said, you know,

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we know how you guys because we
are who we are. But I

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think he's, uh, you know, when you just talk to him,

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you feel like he's got his head
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as he's as he said, you
know, he this is what he signed

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up for, right, this is
what you know, what he's come into

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the environment and the atmosphere that they
that that that they're they're dealing with,

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and so uh, you know,
he's he's just gotta you know, they

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gotta make I just Steve, I
just don't see how you know, whoever

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it is, right, whatever he
do, Mark Hart, Mark Harlan at

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Utah, Desiree Read Francois Arizona,
you know, Grammars Senior to Asu.

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How they get their arms around all
of this and how there's so much that

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has such a huge impact on what
they're doing and how they're going to manage

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all this stuff and at the same
time try to put try to put uh

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uh, you know, winning programs
on the field. You know, I'm

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mean, that's what's nuts, and
that's what that's what just you just go,

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man, how are they going to
do this? Okay, we're trying

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to figure out number. You text
him. I'm want to retext him and

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see if he can find us,
you can talk. Is he trying?

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Is he trying to reach us?
Okay? Yeah, because I did text

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him at the number that I have
for him, So I hope it's that.

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I hope that's the right number.
But you know, again, you

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know, getting back to that,
it's just that these coaches and these and

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these ads that it's it's just it's
it's just a whole different animal. Anymore,

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and you know, winning continues to
be vital, But how do you

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how do you deal with all the
other stuff and maintain a program? You

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know, how how are they going
to do that when the time comes to

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pay these athletes? Right? Yeah? You know, I mean I don't.

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I don't know how, especially when
you're already in a deficit. Well,

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you have to find money to fill
holes. And now you and you

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need more money. You need more
money? Right right here we go?

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Possibly, Hey, Brian is this
you? Yeah, I'm sorry, no

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problem. How are you? We
missed talking to you? Yeah, I'm

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sorry. I totally forgot and I
was I was visiting my mother kind of

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impromptu and forgot. No probably,
well, no problem. I tried to

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value and our phone it wasn't your
It was on your side. Our phone

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are the number which wouldn't go through, which is weird. That was just

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on our side. So one of
the key questions, Brian, well that

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straight At this time we were on
the phone with you, and you know

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kind of Dion was in this first
kind of year and wondering how are you

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going to deal with this? How
you have to deal with it? Were

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the expectations of uh not met?
What were you thinking going in and did

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they realize themselves or were they easier
than you thought? Yeah, I think

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I don't know the expectations were met. I think that, you know,

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they thought they were going to be
better than they were they I mean,

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the Standards family has never experienced losing
like that, so they certainly expected better.

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But I think they learned a lot
from it. No, no,

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no, let me's terrifying. And
how you cover the team and how he

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was going to be with you guys, your job. Oh yeah, I

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think it was kind of like I
expected. I mean, we knew we

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weren't going to get a ton of
great access to players, and we knew

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that he wouldn't talk, you know, as nearly as much as previous coaches.

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But he was pretty good with us
overall. Actually, I would hear

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people say say that, man,
when they start losing, he might be

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impossible, but he was great after
a lost. Well. Well again,

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I think maybe it just goes back
to the fact that you know, he's

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done his thing right, he knows
that he's good at whatever he does,

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and so he just doesn't worry about
so much about what people think. Accept

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you know, I saw on the
podium the other day that you know,

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he talked about the fact that,
oh, the media says, you know

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we're transfer portal, have you that, Well, we only get guys out

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of the transfer portal and they tried
to point out how many high school guys

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they signed. So, you know, he thinks about things, but he

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keeps receipts, as he says,
how does he balance that with kind of

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being also a guy that says,
I don't care what you think about me,

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because I am who I am.
Yeah, well, I sort of

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laugh at that sometimes, the chuckle
at him because he'll say things like,

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yeah, I don't care what you're
thinking of me, but then he points

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out time and time again he does
care exactly what people say, and so

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like, dude, don't mix when
you say I don't care, but then

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you also say I keep receipting,
right. I mean, it's kind of

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interesting, but you kind of take
him for who he is, and you

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know, I like him overall,
but just kind of takes some of those

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maybe chuckle out of him here every
now and then. And having been a

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big guy, both of us been
a big guy. I think he's called

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you all specifically a couple of times
yes, Oh yeah, you know,

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you never know. You go into
every press conference thinking, Okay, this

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is the time I'm gonna get called
out here. And it doesn't even have

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to be a wild question. It
could be the most what you think is

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the most mundane question. But he
found something in there that he either has

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something he wants to go off the
chest and you're the target, and you're

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the target that time, he'll just
twist it somehow, So you never know.

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Okay, So let me ask you
this, because we were talking about

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the media poll. They've got Colorado
eleven. Then you know, we were

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constantly seeing ratings where Shador Sanders is
the best quarterback in the Big twelve,

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Travis Hunter the best cornerback or best
receiver in the Big club. How do

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you square having talent like that and
then say, having a team that they

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that team has picked to finish eleventh
in the league. How do we how

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are we supposed to process that?
Yeah, that's a good question because I

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look to the media poll results and
they you know, they've got Travis Hunters

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Defensive Player of the Year and Chador
is the first team quarterback, but the

408
00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:57.000
Bust are eleventh. And I'm thinking
if they've got the best defensive player.

409
00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:00.920
That means they're defense is good.
And if they got the best quarterback,

410
00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:04.599
you know, first team conference,
all All conference quarterback. I mean their

411
00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:07.160
offense is pretty good. They're not
going to be able to have it place.

412
00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.400
So to me, more of what
it says is that the media used

413
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:17.039
Colorado as having two stars and not
a whole lot else. Interesting. How

414
00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:18.039
do you view them? What do
you? Yeah, what do they say

415
00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.519
with you? I think they're better
than that. I mean I picked them

416
00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.400
sixth and I could see them being
better than that. I could see them

417
00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:30.720
being worse than that. I mean
I thought they were They should have been

418
00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:34.359
a BOLL team last year, even
with a bad offensive line and bad defense.

419
00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:38.000
You know, they never should have
lost the Stanford game, which would

420
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.680
have been win number five. And
then I think they absolutely get another one

421
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.240
if they beat Stanford and you know, they had Arizona on the ropes right

422
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:48.640
and let them off, and you
know, so I think they were good

423
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:51.720
enough to be a BOLL team last
year. I think they're better. I

424
00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:55.000
think the offensive line is better,
I think the defense is better, and

425
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:59.839
they got more weapons. I think
they're potentially eight to nine wins. Wow.

426
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:02.640
So what what was the difference in
the second half of the season.

427
00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.799
I don't think they ever recovered mentally
from that loss of Stanford. I think,

428
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.240
yeah, you know, I mean
that was right before it by a

429
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:12.559
week and so, uh, you
know, you lose that game and then

430
00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:15.119
you have to sew on it,
you know, for two weeks be where

431
00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.160
you can play again. I don't
think they ever fully recovered from that.

432
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:22.799
And then and then of course they
lose Sha Door with a game and a

433
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:25.839
half left, and you know,
there was no shot left. A happened,

434
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:30.400
all right, So your thoughts on
sort of the vibe at the PAC

435
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:36.200
twelve media. Oh, I did
it. We've got a jar going over

436
00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:40.000
here every time we mistake PAC twelve
Big twelve for PAC twelve and so I'm

437
00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:42.279
up to three bucks now, all
right? So, Brian, the vibe

438
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:47.319
at the at the media days in
terms of, you know, what's the

439
00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:49.359
media saying about all this? What
you know, the guys that you talked

440
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:53.400
to, the people that you talked
to about this transition, and and you

441
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.720
know the new teams. Colorado is
really not new to the Big twelve,

442
00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:03.480
but still they are. I don't
know, just what's what does it sound

443
00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.359
like over there. I don't know
any other way to ask that from the

444
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:11.400
Colorado's perspective, just from your your
perspective as a member of the Median.

445
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.640
What you see, what you're hearing
about, what people are saying about the

446
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.680
new league and the teams that are
coming over, and what's this thing going

447
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.000
to be like? Well, in
general, I think that there's a lot

448
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.880
of excitement about it, and you
know, I think that teams are are

449
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:32.839
generally excited about, you know,
facing new competition and just having this newness

450
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:37.440
of the league. I think the
four corner schools, my impression is,

451
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:42.079
I know from Colorado that they like
the stability that they have that they didn't

452
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:48.160
have literally one year ago. Today
they like having that. So, you

453
00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:52.240
know, I think there's general excitement. Let me ask you, after covering

454
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.160
in for one year, is that
enough sample sized for us to know if

455
00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.079
he's a good coach or maybe any
insight for you if he's a good coach.

456
00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:06.640
Not yet. I want to see
this year. He made some mistakes

457
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.839
last year and he's admitted that that, you know, the game day operations

458
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:15.000
sometimes weren't as clean, and maybe
there's some decisions he would make differently.

459
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.039
I think he knows the game clearly, but I think that if he wanted

460
00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:22.880
to improve in one area, I
would think it probably the game day some

461
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:25.839
of the decisions, and I think
you do there. But you know,

462
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:30.000
I think like most coaches, I
mean, there's coaches that are ten fifteen

463
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:33.559
years in that are still evolving.
And he's really only been a college head

464
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.200
coach for four years, so it
makes sense he'd still be evolving. How

465
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:41.240
good is George Sanders? Is he
a first round NFL quarterback? Yeah?

466
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.799
For sure. You know, I
would be stunned if he was not one

467
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.119
of the top five picks in the
draft. And he's really really good.

468
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:55.960
I think he's because of his athletic
ability. What makes him so. I

469
00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:57.839
think he's really smart. I think
he puts the ball where it needs to

470
00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:03.319
be, and he's got He's not
a runner, but he can run and

471
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.759
he used this feat a lot of
times, not always to get out of

472
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.599
bad spots, and and he'll find
the receiver downfield where you know, even

473
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.119
when you watch those camera views that
are from behind and you're like, man,

474
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:17.279
where is he throwing? Oh okay, I see we're showing it.

475
00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:21.880
There's a touchdown. Yeah, you
know, he sees things that you know,

476
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:25.720
most quarterbacks don't see and it's impressive
to watch. What what does he

477
00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:29.960
need the most this year? You
mentioned the offensive line was really was really

478
00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:32.720
bad last year in terms of you
know, does he have a line this

479
00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:36.400
year? What about the receivers?
You know, does he have the support

480
00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:38.880
that he's going to need that if
he's a first round quarterback, that he's

481
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:44.880
going to look like a first round
quarterback this year? I think So we're

482
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.039
going to find out. I mean, they've upgraded the offensive line. We'll

483
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.759
see how much, but I think
they're much better. He's loaded a receiver.

484
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.519
We think they got talent and running
back as well. But it's a

485
00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.319
lot of unproven guys. But I
think they're better and I think that he's

486
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:04.079
got more talent around than last year. So we saw what happened in the

487
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.240
first half of the season. They
did well. They won over a lot

488
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:10.039
of people. They were like the
darlings of the national media. How has

489
00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:14.519
the How have the locals embraced him? I'm sure they loved him the first

490
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:17.480
half. How did they love him
in the second half. The general family

491
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:22.039
still loves him. I mean,
they're excited about him. They're yeah,

492
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:23.519
they're glad he's still here. They
can't wait to see what he does this

493
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:29.039
year. And they're obviously super glad
to have Travis and Chador for another year.

494
00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:31.319
And so I think they're excited about
it. And you know, unlike

495
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:35.079
anything, when you go four and
eight, maybe a little bit of the

496
00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:37.359
shine is off, but you know, I think for the most part,

497
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:42.240
people are excited about it. Yeah, we're talking to Brian how Boulder Daily

498
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.640
Cameras, So Brian, the league
overall, you know, the the narrative

499
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:49.519
is that it's a very even league. You know, you mentioned that you

500
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:52.759
think you know Colorado can, you
know, can be up there. You

501
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:55.039
know, there's really probably a few
Can maybe Asu and I don't know who

502
00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:57.799
else. Do you kind of think, okay, you got no shot,

503
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.480
but it you know, so that's
sort of the narrative right now. Do

504
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:05.000
you kind of agree with that or
where are you on that? Yeah?

505
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:07.279
I really do. I mean I
look at you know, five or six

506
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.400
teams initially, and those are the
ones that are you know, in the

507
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:14.359
top five in the media poll that
I say, yeah, they've got a

508
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:17.720
legitimate shot. And then you start
looking at some others and like at UCF,

509
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:21.359
I'm like, dang, they are
really good. Yeah, I think

510
00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:23.119
they're picked like Tan or Knights,
and you know, I could see them

511
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:27.039
winning the conference. And then you
look at Texas Tech and you're like,

512
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:30.240
man, they're really good too.
You know, I think they could be

513
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:32.079
a sleeper. And you know,
and then you look at a TCUs only

514
00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:36.799
two years removed from being in the
playoff, and they may not be at

515
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:38.400
that level yet, but you know, they've got a lot of guys that

516
00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:42.000
were still part of that team a
couple of years ago. You know,

517
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.839
I think Colorado honestly can be a
team that is a sleeper that may be

518
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.119
surprises people. And so I do
think that they're maybe nine to ten deep

519
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:52.519
as far as teams that could make
a claim for the conference title. If

520
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:59.240
you put to Colorado sixth, where
did you put Arizona? Ah, well,

521
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:00.160
I can't, I can't remember.
On the top of my head.

522
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:06.400
They were about I had him above
Colorado, the main reason being that that

523
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:09.719
game is in Tucston. I think
that if they were playing in Boulder,

524
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:13.760
I might have flipped that. But
I think that's a pivotal game for where

525
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:15.639
those who land. But yeah,
I can't remember exactly where I had Arizona,

526
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:20.079
but I've got them top five.
Yeah, okay, Brian, Well,

527
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.360
thanks a bunch. As always,
we'll talk to you again soon,

528
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:27.480
you bet. Thanks guys. All
right, hell covers Colorado for who the

529
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:31.400
Daily Bolder, Daily Camera, Boulder
actually the Boulder Paper in Yeah. Yeah.

530
00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:35.079
I love to see those press conferences
because he's always being pointed out.

531
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.840
They do, man, they picked, he goes, he goes. I

532
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:44.039
don't know. Maybe it's a good
relationship to Tom. Yeah, exactly,

533
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:45.679
exactly. All right, let's take
our last break. We're going to come

534
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:51.199
back, last break of the weekend. It's Steve and it's Big twelfth Conference,

535
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not the Pac twelve Conference. Yeah, so we'll take a break,

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we'll be right back and we'll wrap
it up. Give us a call.

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stuff with Brian Hall from the Boulder
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585
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I think it's just this is gonna
be really interesting. There's gonna be

586
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:44.199
stuff to talk about all season it
is and I tend, well, I

587
00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:45.039
don't know if you tend to agree
with him, but I want to tend

588
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.679
to agree with him that for your
point, they have some pretty good athletes,

589
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:52.760
at least some of the two or
three considered to be that they should

590
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:54.880
finish higher than eleventh. They should
with those kinds of guy. And I

591
00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:59.320
think, like I say, I
don't know who voted from Tucson. We've

592
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:02.079
asked a few people and they did
didn't uh, so who did in other

593
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:06.639
places? Uh? And I don't
think that they would know enough about Colorado,

594
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:10.880
Utah, Arizona and uh and you
to Colorado and who else is those

595
00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:15.920
four? There's four Utah, Colorado. There was an issue, Uh,

596
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.079
you know, to know enough about
how good they're gonna be, right,

597
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:22.599
But Steve it put yourself in the
just. I know you don't know a

598
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:27.639
lot about them, but if you
know that you've got this quarterback, this

599
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:31.000
and this and this wide receiver,
wide receiver, you're gonna say, sure,

600
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:35.039
you're not gonna you're not gonna vote
him eleven. Right. I don't

601
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:38.239
know if i'd vote him as high
as sixth like Brian did, but I

602
00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:43.639
probably would have put him seventh or
eighth. That's so you have one bias

603
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:47.159
people who vote who don't know enough, and the guys like people in Tucson

604
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:50.960
who vote for Arizona being higher than
they should, right, and and Brian

605
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:53.639
who's probably has an internal bias to
the team they cover. Yeah, but

606
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:57.320
like, like you know, Arizona
coming in fifth. My first thought was,

607
00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.840
well, that's not high enough.
But then I thought, when you

608
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:01.639
who's ahead of them, and you
go, Okay, I guess that makes

609
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:07.079
kind of sense. Yeah, I
bet I would have voted in Arizona third.

610
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:10.199
You know, if I if I
had a vote, I probably would

611
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:14.000
have put him third, third,
because I think, oh, I think

612
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:16.559
you got to put Utah up there, And then I just think, I'm

613
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:20.760
not even sure what team I put
second. I just don't think it's there.

614
00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:23.239
I just don't think it's Arizona,
is kind of what I'm saying.

615
00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:28.199
But then I see, you know, I would have looked at Shador Sanders

616
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.159
and I thought, how dang,
they've got to be more middle of the

617
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:35.840
pack than that. How disturbing would
this be if if three teams from the

618
00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:38.760
Pac twelve ended up one, two
three in the Big twelve in the first

619
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:43.199
year. I don't think there would
be three, but there could be two.

620
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.639
Yeah, he could be two.
Yeah, I don't think. I

621
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:47.719
don't think. I mean, I
think Colorado will finish, you know,

622
00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.800
six seventh. Yeah, I see, I don't. I still don't know

623
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:55.400
how good of a coach he is, exactly Obviously he's It's like the jet

624
00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:59.599
thing and shed fished to me he
didn't coach a whole lot of games.

625
00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:02.320
We don't. No, he cut
lightning in a bottle. Yeah, accidentally,

626
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:08.719
accidentally accidentally, you are correct,
and and and we know that that

627
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:13.559
he can motivate the kids, the
dion and he can ye Kenny coach them.

628
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:19.920
Canny coach, I mean the just
the physical task of coaching and having

629
00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:22.239
a system that you can win with
Jay. If there's anything I've learned,

630
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:25.440
there's two things I've learned. For
sure. You can't you don't know what

631
00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:29.800
an eighteen, nineteen twenty year old
just thinking you don't know how they're going

632
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.519
to be that day. Emotions play
a huge part. And two, coaching

633
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:37.400
matters. Coaching matters. You can
have talent or no talent. Look at

634
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:40.159
Colorado and basketball. Just that stuss
your right, how many guys to first

635
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:45.119
round draft picks and a two two
lottery picks and three guys who get in

636
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:52.360
the league. How well three guys
and how good were they? Yeah?

637
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.880
And that's no, no father the
coach or it is. But my point

638
00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:01.519
is how did you miss win?
Exactly? And what I learned was like

639
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:06.320
like Luke lut wasn't all about the
five Stars, he was the guys that

640
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:08.519
fit the parts right, fit the
parts and got him to play hard right.

641
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:13.840
And unfortunately Sean Miller in a lot
of ways was all about it.

642
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:17.599
And he never I shouldn't say never. He had a couple of really really

643
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:21.239
great teams. The team that that
you know, what's his name broke his

644
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.280
foot? That was a really good
team. He got some but then you

645
00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:28.599
know, I just think of the
of the of the the year with Josh

646
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:35.679
Green and and and nic Nico Mannion
and and you had those three guys and

647
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:37.880
you were just kind of the middle
of the road team, right. He

648
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:40.280
got caught up in exactly that the
five stars got to get the talent got

649
00:42:40.599 --> 00:42:45.880
and and then ego enough that I
can make him work together. That really

650
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.679
happened. Instead of getting guys that
he could make work together. Guys who

651
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:52.320
understood his system and were really willing
to run his self. And let me

652
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.039
say this, and this is not
gonna be a knock on Sean. I'll

653
00:42:55.079 --> 00:43:00.159
say that beginning, Uh the guy
they had the boy guard position, Wellconnell

654
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:07.280
may have had tons of tons of
uh reason why you had the success,

655
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:10.760
right because because you had a guy
like that, had a guy with not

656
00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:15.239
a five star guy, but with
a guy that brought everybody to get the

657
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:17.400
work and have that team together for
the two years. The Steve Kurkr factor.

658
00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:21.559
You play hard because this guy wants
you to play hard and you respect

659
00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:23.719
the hell out of them, right, No, one hundred percent, Steven,

660
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:28.119
And so you know it's it's it's
I don't know. I think I

661
00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:30.719
think. I think that's gonna be
one of the interesting things to keep an

662
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:34.039
eye on this year, and people
will because of what happened last year with

663
00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:37.159
Colorado is where Colorado finishes in the
league, because people do want to find

664
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:42.360
out how good of a coach is
Deon sand If they finished tenth or eleventh

665
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.360
again this year, people are going
to start to question whether he can do

666
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:50.880
this well tenth thor eleven this year
and his kid's gone after this year and

667
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:53.079
then him or you're gonna go to
the NFL. Are you gonna go somewhere

668
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:55.920
else? Well, who's gonna want
you? If you're going tenth three level

669
00:43:57.159 --> 00:44:00.519
league if you can't win. I
mean, if you're if you're eight and

670
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:05.639
sixteen after two seasons of being the
head coach at Colorado and you had two

671
00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:09.519
first round draft picks on your team, then how good at coach are you?

672
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:14.840
You know? And his his market
was severely dropping. You know,

673
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:20.159
in the end, he's still got
to win at Colorado relatively soon, to

674
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:22.639
prove that he can prove that he
can coach and to keep his job because

675
00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:25.559
you know, I mean, can
you match if the day comes if they

676
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:28.760
got to fire him, well,
how hard is that going to be?

677
00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:30.840
So that's why I asked Brian.
I'm sure the love for him was very

678
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:35.840
high in the first few games because
he was it was the national story until

679
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:37.960
he wasn't. Until he wasn't and
they disappeared in the second half of the

680
00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:40.920
season, people stopped talking about him, and I get it. You know,

681
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:44.559
they win to coach. Okay,
so let's say they win those two

682
00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:46.480
games that Brian mentioned that the Stanfford
game and ys, Okay, so they're

683
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:51.000
six and six, and yeah,
that was great for where they were,

684
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:54.760
but still six and six is still
six and six, you know, so

685
00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:00.239
you know you'd still be looking at
this year. Hey, you've got two

686
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:02.199
first round draft picks and you were
six and six with these guys last year.

687
00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:05.800
How much better are you going to
be? Well? I think in

688
00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:08.159
Colorado they would have been thinking,
like Arizona fans, door Jeded comes in,

689
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:12.519
they go one in eleven whatever it
was, and then you see the

690
00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.599
progression and you're very happy with it
because you see the progression, right,

691
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:16.920
and then all of a sudden you
catch lighting in the bottle, yeah,

692
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:21.920
accidentally or whatever, and then you
say okay, and then maybe in a

693
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:23.920
year, in a year it had
Jed stayed, you're thinking, okay,

694
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:29.000
it's likely that if he has another
year, they're going to come chasing him.

695
00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:32.159
Yeah, honestly, yeah, yeah, if you would have, if

696
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:37.840
you would have stuck around for this
year and met the expectations, then three

697
00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:43.639
yeah, and and nobody would have
questioned exactly because you kind of okay,

698
00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.000
we get it, yeah you're gone. Yeah, but how the circums happened

699
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:49.800
fast? Yeah, as you said, lightning the bottle. It happened fast.

700
00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:52.159
They were ten and three, very
quick, and then it was like

701
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:55.000
that was good enough to get him
the next job. It was a year

702
00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:58.880
earlier than we thought. But okay, fine, take him. He's gone.

703
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:01.840
We'll see how you know again that
that's another thing. You know,

704
00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:06.760
I'll kind of you know, watch
you know, how good is Washington gonna

705
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:08.840
be this year? They were in
the they were in the championship game last

706
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:12.719
year, and now people are saying, you know, six, what's it?

707
00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:15.239
They're over under six I think or
five. I think it's six,

708
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:20.920
you know, And and Arizona's Arizona's
like a minus two forty five to win

709
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:27.000
more games than Washington this year.
So I don't know, but that's that's,

710
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:29.360
you know, the point of what
I was saying at the very beginning

711
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:35.559
of this conversation is that there's gonna
be a lot of cool stuff to keep

712
00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:38.280
to keep us interested, to keep
it, to keep our eye on not

713
00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:42.440
only just within the Big twelve,
but all over the country. I mean

714
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:45.480
talking about some of these games that
are going to get played this year because

715
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:49.079
of the conference matchups. You know, Texas and Michigan play, you know,

716
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:52.719
uh, Georgia, And I think
Georgia and Texas play the fact that

717
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:57.679
Texas got to play those two teams, right, and and Texas Michigan is

718
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:00.880
is a is A is a non
conference game. But know these matchups that

719
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:04.280
you have, you know within the
league, within their leagues, that some

720
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:07.280
of these these teams that got to
play each other, that have avoided each

721
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:10.880
other for all this time. Right, Oklahoma's got to play Alabama. Uh

722
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.039
and they did last year, but
I play him again this year, you

723
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:17.159
know, in a conference game.
So all of those things are gonna add

724
00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:22.320
so much more to the college football
season. There's gonna be a great game

725
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:25.599
like that every week. Every week. There's gonna be a game that you

726
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:29.000
go, whoa, we didn't you
know, we didn't have this before.

727
00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:31.639
Yeah. I forgot to ask Jake
because I saw him post something that he

728
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:36.880
got his tickets, because he typically
doesn't get season tickets, and it looks

729
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:39.800
like he might be coming down not
so much interesting he has. Yeah,

730
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:44.800
And and like you said, with
Desiree, we hope to get her next

731
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.679
week. Yeah about about we gotta
get we got to get their their media

732
00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:53.440
guys back in the building. Everybody
scattered all over the place just to see

733
00:47:53.440 --> 00:48:00.280
about the ticket situation. She said, forty forty percent increase of new season

734
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:04.039
ticket holders. Yeah, so I'm
assuming when you go to the games.

735
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:06.679
Yeah, yeah, I'll be I'll
be out of every game this year.

736
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.280
I haven't. I haven't only missed
two home games over like the last decade.

737
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:14.880
Okay, because you're here, Yeah, can I ask you something?

738
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:17.440
This is the person maybe not a
personal question. Is there a lot of

739
00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:24.599
in stadium drinking? Are they're bringing
our students bringing booze into the stadium like

740
00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:31.639
we used to? We'll change your
name to protect. Then there's a reason.

741
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.599
There's a reason you call me mister
goody two shoes. I'll just say

742
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:40.840
that I look out for people when
I go to games, Okay, for

743
00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.719
in the good way and in the
bad way. I I protect the people

744
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:51.159
I'm with and I try I try
to look out for everyone else I can,

745
00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:55.000
but from there, with people,
I'm gonna prioritize them. That's how

746
00:48:55.840 --> 00:48:59.199
okay? Is it? I mean? Is it? Look? I mean

747
00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.320
the story of when we were coming
in, you know, in college and

748
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:07.760
stuff like that are incredible, But
you know it, I shouldn't say never.

749
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:09.840
It rarely got like out of hand, even though there was so much

750
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:15.159
booze in the in the sections.
How is the zoo pretty orderly or not?

751
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:19.400
Yeah, I would say so.
It's more of a like a health

752
00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.920
thing, the routing routiness thing.
You know. There's been a couple of

753
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:27.119
games where I've been at where someone
will fall out fall down fall two rows

754
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:29.880
in front of us, right,
and you start to worry about them,

755
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:35.000
right, but no one's getting physical, like everyone just wants Arizona to win,

756
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:37.840
right or whenever. Crazy. It's
good to hear, you know,

757
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:40.519
not like ten years ago, twelve
years ago when they were streaking on the

758
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:45.639
field when they're so that was actually
my first game ever. Do you see

759
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:50.280
any sport I had never been to
any sport game. You had to be

760
00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:54.280
ten. Yeah, Dad, does
this happened all the time. It hooked

761
00:49:54.360 --> 00:50:00.880
me for something out there, naked, got to the right, taken the

762
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:07.719
left, got covered, had two
teams going at this but across the fight.

763
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:10.960
Yeah, oh my gosh, I
just you know, you know,

764
00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:14.760
my experience was there was a lot
of booze. You know, you know

765
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:19.199
when first of all we were this
is before they were selling booze, right,

766
00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:22.000
Oh no, this was sneaking booze
into the stadium. I'm talking,

767
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:27.800
you know, because drinking age was
nineteen so most college students could could buy

768
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:30.880
booze and bring it in. I
mean, there are stories of kegs being

769
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:35.480
snuck into the you know, into
the stadium. Really Yeah, I saw,

770
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:38.719
I saw Okay, I saw this. I saw this because you know,

771
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:42.519
there's dorms. I know their offices
now, but there were dorms.

772
00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:46.920
Is still underneath the stadium. Yeah, I saw these guys rig or rope.

773
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:52.639
Okay, So from this was before
the upper deck was built. Okay,

774
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:58.000
on the on the east side,
all right, So I'm I'm walking

775
00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:01.239
up to the stadium and you see
two guys and they drop two ropes down.

776
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:05.679
Okay, and you see two guys
that going. They pulled the ropes

777
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:09.239
in, and they rigged the rope
and they pushed a pony keg out out

778
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:14.159
the window, and these two guys
pulled it up into the stadium. The

779
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.320
nerds stuff. There's a there's a
legend, whether it's urban legend or not,

780
00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:23.960
somebody talks about somebody bringing a keg
in in a baby stroller. Okay,

781
00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:29.159
how and then they didn't and they
didn't search you so you could bring

782
00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:32.280
you could bring well, you could
bring ice chests, okay, and they

783
00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:37.199
wouldn't look in your ice chest,
so you could bring in a case of

784
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:40.519
beer. And and and people did. I mean, I you know,

785
00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:45.239
my my deal was to take in
a pint of Bocardi. You know,

786
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:49.000
I take a pint of Bocardy and
I just buy cox during the game,

787
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:54.679
mister Gonzalez, why do you have
that fishing boot? Then? And then

788
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:58.880
they started searching you, and so
you just hit it, you know,

789
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:00.920
you like you said, you put
it in your boot. You put in

790
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:04.119
you know, the back of your
pants or whatever. There are things called

791
00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:07.599
pocket shots, you know. Pocket
shots are they're like ketchup packets of booze,

792
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:08.920
but you know they're bigger. Yeah, but they're like ketching. You

793
00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:12.199
could buy them at a liquor store
and you just put those in your pocket.

794
00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:15.679
But I probably did never heard those
before, and I'd put those in

795
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:21.880
an egy, get a get a
strawberry, and uh and a pocket shot

796
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:25.480
around. If anything, our listeners
have learned a lot about a little love

797
00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:30.880
about you. Good luck listeners,
good show this week, good shows.

798
00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:34.079
Yeah, it's been fun, Thank
you, been a lot of fun.

799
00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:36.519
Big talk Meetia days. Was fun. Good to see you. One.

800
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:39.079
We're not chef. I'm not sure
we'll let your feet are on the ground.

801
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:45.039
One the sky diving thing. The
skydiving thing, it was you made

802
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:46.840
it, so I'll still tell you, mister goody two shoes exactly. There's

803
00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:52.639
truly all right man. Okay,
guys, uh fun week Steve, Yeah,

804
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:54.960
another one. Have a great weekend. I'm golfing tomorrow at eleven thirty

805
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:58.280
in in the morning, so it
should be nice and warm. I'll see

806
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:00.599
you Monday. Maybe all right,
we'll see you on Monday. Thanks for

807
00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:01.000
being here.