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welcome back to an of the ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve,
You're Jay and me Kevin with Breaking News. Have at it, Kevin,
good luck. Oh we sure do do this like your job depended on.
Hevin. I forgot to tell you I'm not being you got to play
that thing up there, he says, Breaking News number two. They hit
that and hit Oh, you gotta turn up the volume two sports. We
got to train you on that part. We'll get it. We'll get it,
all right, no big deal. Mashing start to the breaking News segment
today. But the former Arizona kicker Lucas Haversik is to sign with the Rams.
Yeah, he killed the Rams killed me over the weekend. Be killing
this guy. He killed me, I said, well, I saw that
he released him. It's a good ask, BacT. Go go to the
unemployment line. Yes, if you're so mean, you rubbing off on that's
not good, Brian, No, not good. I didn't you know,
just a mean guy. You know you want this guy in the unemployment line
because it costs you ten dollars better. Whatever. He makes tons of money,
you'll find another job. Yeah, but good for him, you know
another you ake guy out in the NFL, So very good. I mean,
Nick Folk is still kicking. I think Lucas Haversik was born after Nick
Folk left the event. Yeah, if you're consistent in one thing, yeah,
do it, babe it. Yeah, all right. In terms of
other breaking news, you guys already discustoming Snell this week. Yeah, top
thirty for Woman of the Year. Yeah, look looking to be the fifth
uh Arizona Woman of the Year obviously. Yeah, but no other woman in
the fact, twelve was nominated this year. Wow. Okay, well she
well we talk about this all the time. Her and Geist are the faces
or were the faces of the program, the whole overall athletic you know,
Olympians and the whole thing. And if they walked in the mall, they
would know who the heck they were. They wouldn't know who they were.
Yeah, and then they're probably maybe getting you know, getting water bottles as
nil and stuff like that, and you know, not getting the big bucks
and some of these other guys are getting. Yeah. But in terms of
breaking news. That was that was all I had. Okay, yeah,
all right, Well, you know there's a I mean, there's a whole
lot of stuff that you know, is always going on. So I had
a couple here and I can't remember what the hell they were. So we
Arizona Softball got two more commitments for the class of twenty twenty five. Oh
that was big. That was That was big. Okay. So our friend
Jake Fisher is pounding up on big Game Boomer because he posted the top fifty
wide receiver duos in college football and he had Cowing and t Mac at twenty
two. Jacob's like Arizon his boys our top five basically, he sounds Yeah,
that sounds let's unless we're missing missing out on what the other teams have.
Yeah, yeah, they're at least in the top ten. Well,
of course, you where's you see Taj Washington and Brandon Rice at eleven,
the Washington guys at two, Romey Romey, o'dunzie and Jayalen Polk. Then
he's got USC in there. There's you know, he's got Oregon States guys
in there, Silas Bolden and Anthony Gould at nineteen. It's it's hard to
argue with Tim Makin and Jacob Colling. You know, but we'll say,
look in the end, Arizona's four and three right now, so you know,
they win some more games, they'll get more of this. So I
think, yeah, so you I think you missed a big one, the
big one being San Diego Padres manager Melo Melvioyn going to the Giants. Yeah,
Bob Melvin, which would be strange to me. Why would you want
to do that? I don't know. I mean, come on, get
the guys really good. But she was the one when that one the Giants,
you know, three three world again and he's doing it against some type
of imagine. Well there's one. Okay. So we got the Diamondbacks coming
on this afternoon. Up to now, I've not been a huge fan of
the Diamondbacks obviously now because they beat the Dodgers. I will say, for
all of you Diamondbacks fans who care, don't you probably don't even care if
I that I care, I'm moving for the Diamondbacks tonight. Are you good
luck with you? Guys? Good luck? I didn't. I haven't bet
on them. I'm not gonna bet on the game. No, nothing like
that. I'm gonna stay away. I'm just let it be. I don't
want to have any influence on it. I am. I am thinking about
taking one for the team and locking Oregon State this week. What do you
think, Oh? They can thinking if I lock Oregon State. The only
thing that would go could go wrong is if Oregon State were to win but
not cover and it's only a three and right now three and a half points,
would they could get three? Yeah? Last second field goal? But
I figure if I take Oregon State and they went by a touchdown, fine,
I've hit my back. Or if they lose, you know, then
Arizona, Arizona. It's good for a zone. Well, you've hit four
or five games? Switch or you're five and what what are you? Five?
Total? No? Five? Six total? No more than I'm like
eight? No? No, you know, no, not total points?
Oh six points? I thought your main number of games? No, No,
six six, six points. That's what at the end of the day,
you're you're known for your results. Okay, so that record, that
record is not keeping, You're right. So so where do you stand on
Oregon State because you've not liked them most of the year. Yeah, and
the quarterback specifically, here's it. Here's the thing, and this is really
not about whether whether I think Oregon State is good or not good. This
is a game that historically Arizona doesn't do well because they had a big,
a nice win, look very impressive, knock the crap out of Washington State
at Washington State. They're coming home, You'll think they're all excited, and
then you know, they get beat up. You're exactly right. I've seen
it a thousand times, wasn't it. I think the week after they beat
Oregon in twenty fourteen, week after they beat Oregon up there, one of
the biggest wins in Arizona football history. And then they come down here and
lose to USC. Sure, right, you know, and not a really
good USC team. And that's the kind of thing that you know, happens
all the time. Happens all the time with Arizona. They don't sustain it.
Well. The funny thing about it this year specifically, there are no
trap games. There are no trap games because every game, every game is
a big game, right. You can't overlook this team to face use Cilly
next week or Colorado the week after, because they're all all equal importance,
right, And along those lines, Steve, you know, the Stanford game
is the game that you know, is a game that normally turns into a
lot. Sure, they played poorly against a bad team that they shouldn't be
losing to, and they and in this case they almost did, but they
didn't. They won the game. They pulled it out. So that tells
me, maybe is this team different. Maybe it is. Maybe they're so
zeroed in on beating Oregon State that they that they might win the game.
You know, Oregon State is a good team. I not. I don't
think they're like a Pack twelve championship, no normal team. They're top five.
Yeah, but I mean they lost to Washington State, right, didn't
they? Yeah, it was on the road, had Washington State because I
thought Washington State was a better team at that at that time, at that
time. But they committed a game at the end, they made it a
game at the end. Oregon State's good. I mean, they have a
good coach. I thought Fisher's analogy to their team and his program was pretty
good. You don't play that. Let's let's play that that clip because he
was asked, look uh on that go down a little bit, look for
number where it says always you comparison number, it's near the top right there.
Hit the you gotta get a little training here, all the way up,
all the way up the way. I don't know, you know,
we haven't gotten to year five or six yet, but I would say that
if you look at just the way his team has developed, then the type
of football they play, the brand the football they play, I think we
are similarities in that regard. We believe in a lot of the same things,
a lot of the same principles. We believe in how you high school
recruits a certain group of players and develop those players and try to help those
players, uh move on as part of your program, uh into the next
level. I think that he came from an offensive background. He was an
offensive coordinator at UDUB, so we have similar beliefs in terms of coaching the
quarterbacks and and and there as well. But yeah, I just admire admire
him from AFAR have become friendly with him through the years, so I've been
able to get to know him better and better and better. And you could
see the progress that Oregon stands made under his direction, and hopefully we'll be
able to take those same leaves and be sitting at the eleventh in the country
one day as well. So, Jay, you've had the opportunity to go
to Corvallis a time or two. Right, it's in the middle of nowhere.
It's like, with all due respect, Morana. Yeah, it's a
good one, like in between Morana and Constant Ground can like that. I
went, sure, yeah, kind of just like there. And it's you
have to go off the road to go there and have an AMW maybe a
steakhouse and that's about it that I can remember that one of those diners where
you get the turkey gravy, yeah, white, no, exactly, that's
Alice and Alice Diner. Right. So so if this guy can win,
or anybody could win there, you must be a darn good coach, you
know. It's like the baseball coach, Yes, how do you win there?
Unless you're fantastic coach? This football coaches must be pretty good, because
how in the world are you gonna get kids to go there one and to
play out of their minds? Well, one thing is he's committed to the
place, right, He played there, right, okay, and so he
believes in the place. He loves the place, so he can if he
can get that, you know, to the players and have them believe that
it's a good place to go because he loves it there. That that helps,
you know, if if a coach, if a coach looks like he
doesn't want to be there, how do you get other guys to come A
kaa Kevin smlan, Right, So, uh, just beating the dead horse.
I can't help myself. But how do you feel sorry for me?
But you know that's probably one of the things, Steve, I mean,
how do you get you know, dj U galle to come from Clemson to
Oregon State One. You got to get him to believe that he can help
them get to his goals, which is to get to the NFL, but
to that it's a good place to come to from a place like Clemson,
which I can't imagine. It's further, it could be any more different.
Well, and you're going to a place where Oregon is. That's your footstep
Oregon. You know the pretty girls over there, and you're over here,
Washington's up the road, all these steppers down here. No, No,
he's done a great job. A great job, because that doesn't happen.
I mean, it's like when Tinkle did really well that one year and how
did that happen? That one was a one off? Well, it did
happen, But you're right. I mean, you know, Jonathan Smith has
to again, you know, create something in the mind of a of a
player to convince him to come and more importantly, to stick around. He's
got to be able to convince them we can beat Oregon, we can beat
Washington, sure, you know, around here to recruit, you know,
to Arizona. You guys say, we can beat a SU we can beat
you c l A, we can beat usc And that's what you have to
be able to do to get those LA guys to come here and and or
we you know. So yeah, no, you get you give a guy.
You got to give a guy a lot of credit, you know.
And that question was, you know, do you see your program at all
when you see Oregon State in Jed's basis And I guess so you hadn't really
thought about it, but he's been there a while. Yeah, but yeah,
he's had more time there. So we'll see, you know, you
know, give us five years and maybe we'll be you know, number eleven
in the country in five in three more years. So let me ask you.
We we've had the jet On a couple of times on the show.
Rate we see him a lot at the games or at the press commersons,
Uh, did your did your eyes or your your thoughts change after last week's
interview with him in terms of him being a better coach, different than what
you thought? Going no, No, I think what I you know,
what I felt last week was that, you know, we asked him a
couple of questions that we've been dying to ask him, you know, his
long term plan for being here, you know, and some of those things.
And I feel like we got a better sense of that. But I
don't think I walked away from the interview thinking anything different about him. He's
still you know, he's the coach. He still looks like a guy who
you know, was a tennis player in college. But I think he's really
damn smart. That's for sure. What I heard him, Like I said,
the last week at that press comings that Monday of last week and when
there was a buy and he talked about, you know, being the U
c l A and being at the Rams, I'm thinking, yeah, maybe
we sold them short when he first got here. And he's been everywhere,
right, He's been everywhere and there's there's something to that. And the dude,
the smart dude, there's still savvy. You don't get to where you're
at by not knowing what you're doing. Well, you can tell that everywhere
he's been he's studied. Yeah, the guys that he's been coaching, whether
a head coach like Bill Belichick, Jim Moore at U c l A.
You know, he was up at Michigan with Harbor, you can tell he
studied and paid attention to what they do and how they do it. And
he's he's absorbed all of that and that's what makes him really smart as a
coach, and that's why he's a head coach now because he's been able to
convince people I know this stuff. Okay, so I didn't play college football,
but I know this stuff. You know, just like the CEO knows
how to run their business because they've kind of worked their way up through the
business. You know, maybe a guy who's, you know, in an
engineering firm, isn't an engineer, but he knows how to run the business.
Yeah right, no, no, all right, let's take our break.
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Breaking down all the exes at all. It's Steve Rivera and Jagen Salaz.
This is I am Ava on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome
back to I in the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve
Roverta. If you're Jiginsaus on the phone, we have Kaylen Gilbert from the
U of A women's basketball team, Killan. How you doing. I'm good.
How are you? We're doing fine. Thanks for joining us today.
Yeah, Kaitlin, So we appreciate you doing this. It's the first time
we've had a chance to get you on the show. You got to be
pretty fired up. You got your exhibition opener tomorrow and the season's right there
for you. Just tell us some things that are going through your mind right
now as you get started, you know, probably moving up on the food
chain a little bit in the lineup. So tell us how things are going
with you. You know, I've just been really hungry. I feel like,
you know, we got a lot of girls on this teams that are
really hungry and are expecting a lot of things this year. So I'm really
excited. How was it last year sitting out and then getting ready for this
year? You know, it was very motivating. Like, you know,
I had a lot of times where you know, I was kind of upset
about playing time, but you know, I just felt like it it prepared
me for you know, what's to come for this year. So so you
guys have been practicing, you know, haven't had a chance to you know,
get any games and stuff like that. But you know, what do
you see about this team this year that already that might be different from last
year? You got a lot of new faces, obviously, but in terms
of the way you're going to play, the roles that everybody's in. What
what's that been like to figure out over the over the the preseason. I
definitely this team we played a lot more defense, and also I think we
play better together. I feel like last year we had a lot of people
that were kind of just trying to get there. But I feel like this
year, you know, people want to share the ball, swing it and
just help other other people get looked as well. So, yeah, so
you're from Florida, correct, Yes? So so from Florida to Arizona,
so pretty far distance. What brought you here? What made you decide to
come to you there? So the first thing is definitely playing style, I
felt like I fit in here as the point guard, So definitely playing style.
I love the web. The weather being from Florida is really hot,
but Arizona's hot as well, so the weather made it perfect. And then
just really just the fans and stuff like we're number one in the park,
sols of fans, and I love playing in front of people. So that's
those are my main third reasons, just real quick. And the bugs here
are smaller than the ones in Florida. Right, what did you say?
I said the bugs here are smaller than the ones they are in Florida with
all that humidity. Oh yeah, So okay, So you know you're people
are gonna get to know you this year more playing time, and you're probably
playing a key role over there. What do we what should we expect to
see from Kaylen Gilbert? What kind of player? How would you describe yourself
as a player. I feel like I do everything well and it really just
depends on the game. So you know, if I needed to assist and
facilitate, then that'll be my role that game. I need to defend and
lock down somebody, that'll be my role that game. If I need to
come out and score, then that'll be my role, so just playing like
whatever my team needs. So one of the things that's been talked about a
lot is the two you know, fifth year or I don't know, maybe
even six year seniors as Mary Martinez and and Helene to play tell us a
little bit about the what you know, what you're gaining from them, the
role they're playing on the team, and how how important is that can be
to to the rest of the team to have to We've been around quite a
while now, Yeah, so you know, I love play and as Mary,
you know they as Mary start off with her like she last year she
used to push me a lot and she was telling me like come okay,
and then like she would, you know, put me in the right direction.
So this year, you know, she's kind of doing that as well,
Like it's like a certain play like she sees me like not like locating
fast enough, she'd let me know. So just her being more of a
leader, I really appreciate her. And then Quail just spoils i Q and
just overall like so for the game, like I just love the way she
plays, she does everything well. So yeah, I love playing with them
too. So Kaitlyn, so when you were being recruited Arizona. Was this
team coming off a Final Four appearance and had done very well last year.
They had a lot of high hopes and this year are less high hopes.
Is it kind of puts a chip on your guy's shoulder as a team to
to look forward to this year? Definitely? I think I think a lot
of players on this team, you know how that mindset of like, Okay,
you know we didn't really due to well last year, and you know
this is that chance to prove this year. I just feel like we have
the right people and I think we'll play a lot better together as a team.
So you know, I really am looking forward to that. So there's
some faces underneath the basket, Mynaji who you know if you played a lot
last year, but you know there were you know, some other people under
there. You know, what what's it gonna what's it gonna look like,
particularly offensively? What what are we going to see from from the team?
And is it gonna be a lot different or does the do you do what
a da does? I mean, from like the standpoint of like the players
and like the way they play, I think it is gonna be a lot
different this year. Well, the kind of keeps the same philosophy. So
of course we'll be like pressing up on people playing a lot of defense,
so it'll be pretty much the same thing defensively. Have you have you thought
put any thought into you know, you're gonna be playing a position that you
know one of the all time great players at Arizona. I know it's been
a few years, but if you probably probably saw Aery McDonald and what she
did here, do you put yourself in kind of look at her and say,
you know, there, maybe are there some similarities, some things I
wanted to do that she did or is she too far removed from the from
the from the program. No, I love area. I'll look up to
her game. She was one of the main reasons I came here, So
just just seeing how she thrived in the system and just really just kind of
paving to win for myself. And you know, I look at areas like
like this. I mean, she's great, she's a great player, so
you know, just trying to emulate that and just be the best version of
myself. Really that's the main thing. Oh that's nice, nice, nice,
So what do you what do you I'm sure you don't have any goals,
or do you have goals? Are you just a point guard who does
everything for everybody else and doesn't worry about your numbers. No, I just
want to win this ultimate goal. I feel like if you win, everything
else will take care of it. So so the main goal is shoes to
win the Taxol tournament. Well that's obviously, you know, that's that's what
you're looking for. So as you get ready to go tomorrow, Uh,
you know, what, what are we going to see tomorrow? A lot
of a lot of people just getting some playing time. Any ideas what our
idea is going to handle the exhibition game? Try to get a look at
everybody or are we going to see a lot tomorrow of what we might see
going forward? What are your thoughts on that? I think we'll sit a
little bit. You know, it's you know, it's still early. People
are still kind of figuring out their role with the team. But I just
think you'll see a lot of energy. I feel like we're tired playing against
one another. We finally want to go and you know, strap on somebody
else's next. So I just think it's gonna be a lot of energy.
You're a tough point guard already talking about stepping up people's necks. We like
it here, like Florida. That's that Florida. Hey, you get to
go to the Bahamas, right, so you get to go sort of the
you know, in your old area. That should be fun. Yeah,
I'm looking forward. Yeah, Okay, well thanks for joining us, kill
and we appreciated. Good luck. Ye appreciate it. Thanks about all right.
So, so I think Arizona's going to be better than what people think
of Jaya. But you know, once we get coach on and she's pretty
honest with us. So she tells us about her family and stuff, uh
that she the last two three years haven't been easy. They've been tough,
you know, and and the pieces kind of haven't fit right right right,
you know, ever since that final four year again, that final four year
created all this sure expectation that it's that's the way it's always gonna be right
without Okay, we're there, and they weren't there, and and and and
you found that that you know, these last couple of years, they had
a lot of pieces, but they weren't kind of you know, they didn't
And what's the most what's the most important thing in a team, the chemistry,
the chemists for each other, absolutely, you know, and she and
she said it there, she said there were some some players on the team
who wanted to get there. That's why I wanted to use and guess what
the last two three years, I guess what we've heard exactly it looked like
that. It ex absolutely looked like that. And that was that was you
know, and you know it that just drives a d nuts because you could
she she kind of infers it in her discussions. I mean, look,
any team is supposed to play together with chemistry or whatever you want to call
it. Every and every coach wants every team to be that. So it's
got to drive any coach nuts when it's not, especially when they think they've
got really good players. Yeah, no question, I've covered a lot of
teams and loots and otherwise that they just didn't see eyther eye or whatever.
And there's only one ball. There were some Sean Miller teams that looked like
at the at the end, you know, well, the best team,
there's only one ball better, who played defense better on marketing then Trier,
You're right, I mean, yeah, he was there, he was,
he was he was Exavier's best to end or that day. Right, Oh,
yeah, exactly. I mean that's not a lie. We saw it
with our own eyes. You don't know what referred to, right, You
probably don't know what we're talking about. I do know, though I didn't
watch that game specifically, but yeah, I know I know the situation.
Yeah, yeah, no, we saw it from the floor. That was
terrible. Yeah, that was terrible. But you know, again, you
know, every coach wants that, and so we'll we'll see how it how
it starts to come together for Arizona. A lot of new faces, so
you know that they've got to use these two exhibition games, uh, you
know, to to really you know, get things in order and before they
before they get going in the regular season when they get picked eighth was it
seventh grade? It was there was low seventh or eighth, and there was
low. I think though, that her team's played better with that. Yeah,
when they're like, you know, I'll prove it to you. Yeah,
and I mean they won't, but I think that's that's what will happen.
I think a big key to that is is is Mary Martinez. Because
she's she looks like and she plays like somebody who's like, you know,
get on this bandwagon and and you're going to do your part. I think
he learn to play was a little quiet, but not as uh. Yeah,
I don't know, forceful, aggressive, whatever whatever you want to call
it. Uh. She can be a leader, you know, from an
instruction standpoint and experienced standpoint. But I think I think as Mary is the
one that is going to kind of get other players to play harder, play
better, uh and and pull those things together. And they need somebody like
that. I don't you know, I don't think they really had somebody like
that over the last you know, over the last few years. I think
Sam Thomas was a little bit of that. Sam Thomas is so nice and
smiley, and you know again like like like we're talking about Kashaw Johnson.
You need somebody who's out there on the floor, sure saying I want you
to kick somebody that they had. Who's the ben yan those people? Something
wasn't working there. Sure she got shipped out, you know, and so
yeah, you just don't know how those things are gonna go. So pright,
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Fox Sports fourteen to fifty and welcome back to I'm the walking out Fox Sports
fourteen to fifty. Oh, Steve Rivera, you're Jiggins. Also got Kevin
in today. We got sixteen minutes. If you'd like to call, please
do five two o four one six forty. Hey have you been? Have
you been? Continued to follow this Michigan then, so there's more stuff came
out today. Yeah, go ahead, and Tony well, okay, So
according to Sports Illustrated, actually it was a ESPN story. Sports illustratedscording the
ESPN story saying that this guy, Okay Connor Stallions, who's a an analyst
uh with with Michigan, he's the one who's apparently been the guy allegedly buying
tickets uh to all these games. So apparently he purchased in his name tickets
to the Ohio State Penn State game on either side of the stadium, facing
the benches, so so he could look right at the benches. So basically
they're you know, they were gonna Now the tickets did not get used,
but they were continuing to do this and a pair obviously did not show up
for the games because you know, everybody's found out what's going on, but
that this is the thing that they apparently have been doing, you know,
going to these games and filming, uh, you know, the other benches,
filming their signals to see if they can figure out what happens, you
know, on each play and what the signal is on each play. And
then they're saying that at Michigan games, you see Stallions himself standing next to
Harbor all the time, so presumably telling him these are the signals that they
just gave. This is bad. This is the defense that we need to
under the Yeah, this is bad. I guess the guy is a is
a I think he's a Naval Academy grad and he's a military guy. So
now they're saying, he's presumably a guy who understands, you know, codes
and signals, and yeah, apparently he's supposed to be like a like a
expert like pattern guy. Like see you know when third down they're running this
offense or this defense in situational Well, that's what you do when you shout
right, you find when you watch the film Tenancies, they just took it
to another to another level, saying, Okay, this is the this signal
says they're running this particular defense or this particular play. Now the question becomes
and that the you know, the the gazillion dollar question is going to be
how much of this did Jim Harbaut either direct know about or you know,
how how involved was he? And then if you know, if if everybody's
busted, what do you do? What do you do? This year?
For instance, where they're like it was pretty much a favor to win the
National Championship? It right now? Right right? You know, it's it's
bad. I mean, I think this is bad. And I on the
one hand, you don't sense that the NC DOUBLEA can work fast enough no
to do anything about it. But if they don't, you know, what
the hell? Right now, again, they're busted, so they're not going
to do it probably anymore. But they were doing They had tickets all the
way up last week, you know, to do that for thirty games at
eleven different yeah, different conference opponents. Yeah, it's nuts. It's nuts.
Is your computer on it? It's almost it's almost not I can see
a background. Yeah, all right, it's just it's coming to it's again,
it's still got to dry out. You just shouldn't pour iced tea on
it. I have to think, right, don't they tell you not to
do that? Yeah? The first thing they do when you buy your Lenovo
is okay, not not don't liquids on it, don't drink let's see if
it works. Sports some stuff on it, clean enough, but not safe.
Anyway, the Michigan thing is getting worse by the day. You know,
it's really getting worse by the day. So it would be to see
what they what they do with this. So did you see also too,
SOSL and emocon that I guess Lincoln Riley, Well, so I'm gonna go
with this transition to your Michigan thing. Lincoln really missed his radio show today,
uh presumably or guess mentioning some NFL stuff, some NFL stuff something we
talked about yesterday where he would you know, and then guess who's gonna probably
follow him? Well, he don't have to deal with this stuff. He
didn't want to know. I don't get your cheating. I'll go to the
NFL. You know, there's been a lot of I mean remember it was
it like it like three years ago or something like that. He went and
interviewed for the Minnesota job, remember that. Yeah, you know, in
the off season and then they signed into you know, a big long term
contract. I don't know it's it's yeah. I mean, Harbor is widely
seen as a guy who says he wants to do things the way he wants
to do them, and the an'body to give them any crab about it,
he'll take his ball and go somewhere else. Sure, I think he's a
good coach. He's a good coach. That's the whole thing. I don't
know he needed to do this. Yeah, yeah, but again, well
he's he's I think it's his nature to say, you know, I play
by my rules. I mean, the whole recruiting, during the you know,
during the COVID thing, you know that he was doing and stuff like
that that he he got busted. Did he beat he beat I stay last
week last year? Right, Why he's beating push in a round? Okay,
so coincidence. Yeah, yeah, that's what I was gonna bring up.
I was gonna say, like you, you brought up the fact that
it might just be his nature, but it also could be it also could
be the the fact that he hasn't been beating Bright. Let's take this call.
Oh they hung up on us, Okay, hey, try calling back
whoever whoever was just calling. Just now we kind of missed you, but
try calling back. Sorry about that. Oh, let's try it again.
Hi, you're on the air and eye on the ball. Hey guys,
George here, Hey George, do any thing about computers? Yeah? Yeah,
did you get over here right now? I can't make it to the
Oracle and Roger or what do you got? What's up? No? I
can't be the only one that thinks this, though. When you're watching an
NFL game or a college game, right, they all have these big laminated
plays all over their thing, and they use their they use that big play
thing to cover their face. You don't. You can't zoom in on that
and figure out what their plays are. I mean, geez, they have
an entire thing laminated on HDTV. They can't be the only one who thought
it. No, no, no, google it Google. It happened last
week. I can't remember who it was, but you could see them.
The thing about it, they're not calling those plays because it's on the other
side of the of the lamination, right, They're they're not looking at that,
They're looking at the other side. But I agree with you, but
you would have both sides, Like like, if you watch an entire game,
you could probably both right, yeah, no question, but which player
they're using or they're running from that thing. It's like when we talk to
Stoops. I mean, George, if you're playing against me and you're much
better than me, I'm gonna have to play my ass off to beat you.
And if I'm much better than you, guess what you're gonna have to
do? Beat your asked to beat me. Like the good old days.
Now we're trying to figure out well you know this and that. I don't
know about that anymore. Yeah, but the whole sign is stealing bit and
again it's been there. But of course you know, the freaking Houston Astros
won a World Series because they were stealing signs. And I get stealing signs
is okay, but stealing signs the way Michigan has been doing it is not
okay. Uh, you know that's what's not I agree. I'm just saying
it's out there. You know, the guy on the second base, he
can look at the catcher. You can, you know, you can.
You can scratch your elbow or rub your ear and you tell your guy what's
coming. I mean, yeah, I get it, but I mean it's
it's out there, like we have too much technology to see it all right
now, you know, sure, well, I understand what he's doing is
over the top, but it's been out there forever. Well, yeah,
and signs stealing is part of the game, you know. You you know,
if you're a third if you're a first or a third base coach,
you're you know, when you're looking to see if you can see how many
fingers the catcher put down. They don't do that anymore in Major League Baseball
because they have the little the little uh you know, they just push a
button on a shin guard and tell the pitcher what to throw. But you
know, as a you know, as a first base coach or third base
coach, one of your jobs was trying to see how many fingers are down
and and somehow get that information to your to your batter. Not very good
at it, but you know, as a catcher, you were blocking so
that people so that they couldn't see it. So no, that's been a
part of the game that what's not been a part of the game is the
spying. You know what, what what Bill Belichick was doing with the Patriots,
what Jim Harbaugh is and may have been doing, uh has allegedly been
doing so that's what's different. Yeah, yeah, I mean I see both
sides like you're trying to get an advantage any way you can. But I
don't know that's necessary cheating when you're just getting an advantage from what's out there
in public. Right, Well, here's another in public, I'm seeing it.
Well, use it. Here's another thing, George, we talked about
this, I think last week. The guy was I can't remember which coach
he had his plate card in front of him and he would lower it.
Was the Dallas Cowboys coach. He would lower it and he could you can
see him mouthing instructions or whatever. But Okay, that's instantaneous. You don't
have enough time, you could say, if you Washington, and they're not
gonna have enough time to do anything about that. Sure, Yeah, it's
to me, it's it's knowing the signs and be watching their signs and saying,
okay, this is what they're doing. Sure, and being able to
somehow relay that to your defense. And just just two years ago, three
years ago, we were giving the Kelly grief because he brought in those you
know, the guards, and the Washington had those this year. Yeah.
Yeah, but you could also read tendencies like on third down, I'm going
like and you know, on third down, my card's facing this way versus
that way. And now you had a fifty to fifty chance of what those
calls might be. So now you now you got to look, you know,
if a guy has a giant one versus some of them have ones that
are almost like the size of your hand. Yeah, maybe you got a
fifty to fifty chance of what might be called. Yeah. They used to
joke that Lane Kiffin's looks like looked like an I Hop menu. Yeah,
all right, guys, you guys have a good thanks for listening to George
has been a loyal guy with us. Yeah, okay, now I mean
yeah, I mean there's a million ways to do it, and and and
you know there's a line into what's cheating and what's not. And again,
as we said, what's cheating is what is going to a game, just
that you're not in to specifically watch the other team's signals, so then you
can use that against them when you play them. That's cheating. So so
then we'll give an update on Unrilly. For the second consecutive day, he's
miss practice. He's missing practice due to an undisclothed illness according to school spoke.
But does he have COVID? Is he having a baby? What the
hell is going on? Or he could just be away? Yeah, could
be away. Interesting. Maybe he's tired of this crap one year which he's
making ten million dollars a year. If he's having to live in LA for
that, well, I no, doesn't he have a helicopter to get him
places? I think that's part of the deal. I don't know, he's
like Batman. I can't beat Utah, but I'm Batman. I'm sorry.
I don't know. You know I did? You know it's funny because it's
funny you say that because I remember when Larry Smith went to USC and somebody,
it would have been Magruda who would have done the story on him,
because it was, you know, his first year at USC when when they
played they played Arizona and it was that game was over there, and and
I remember him talking about how Larry, how different it is for Larry Smith,
how he when he first got there, he tried driving himself to work
every day and it was taking him two hours to get there from wherever he
lived, which wasn't very far to the point where he finally decided to hire
a driver so that he could work in the car and wouldn't lose that two
hours of time. Total sense, and how he hated that total sense.
I told you about the story. I think we went ten miles my ex
wife and I and my wife at the time to see some friends ten miles
away. It rained that day, took us three hours to get there.
I'm thinking, you know, you know, it's probably the start of the
divorce that day. You were in the car for three hours. Yes,
yes, but it was torture. It was torture because he already it was
right there, you could see it. It was right there. Three hours
later we finally get there. So I shouldn't be upset that it took me
forty five minutes to get here today through the hail and stuff. Well,
so, yeah, exactly the same type of d It looked like it snowed
on the east side. There was so much hail on the ground it looked
like snow. I took a picture. I showed I showed having the picture.
It looked like it snowed over that Grant and Great Cry and both and
every direction on that road was was a parking lot. It was gridlock.
It don't really takes me half an hour. It took me forty five minutes.
I mean, I'm not complaining that, you know, because I understand
l a takes you. It just takes you two hours. Remember what time
of year it is. Yeah, just the birds are here, Yeah they
are the they were everywhere today. Yeah, they're getting here, they're getting
here. But uh no, you know wow. But again, Steve,
I keep saying, where's Lincoln Riley gonna go that that he's going to do
a better job than he's been doing either in Oklahoma or you excuse me,
you coach college. He's got one of the premier jobs you can't go for
anywhere from here, right, And if you can't win at USC, then
what the hell are you doing? It'll be the it'll be the uh who's
his assistant? Who's the the uh thingsbury? Maybe he'll fall you know what,
he won't be hard accorded to that job. He won't be hard at
us. But that's what Nick doing. If he goes north, gets a
better job, falls forward again and get made a get made an interesting comment
Urban Meyer. He was he was talked about for that job. Last time.
Wouldn't that be a that's another perfect ego on an ego? Yeah,
send him back to the Big ten? How would that be? Oh urban?
How hard urban you're going to If you go to USC, you're going
to the Big ten and you're not going to be Ohio State right outside of
Carrol, who did a great job there. But you know, under whatever
circumstances, no other coach can get that job going against been a while and
that's USC. Yeah, yeah, and that was by accident. Steve again,
don't forget Pete. Carroll was like their fourth choice, you know when
when they hired him, he was kind of a he was kind of an
NFL retread, hadn't done you know, done well, you know in the
NFL, and all of a sudden he came over. But you know,
he was able to turn that around. And now he's gonna be a Hall
of Fame NFL coach. You know, he's gonna be in the Hall of
Fame as an NFL coach. So what he he'd he did something to himself
to make him a much better coach. He learned something about himself or whatever
you want to say. But yeah, I mean who's been Yeah, who's
been a really well Okay, here's one. I don't know if you saw
this stat Lincoln Riley seventeen and five right now in his time at USC.
Guess what Clay Helton was after twenty two seventeen and five. Yeah, it's
funny. He did that same thing with someone and uh and some fish and
Jimbo Fish Fisher. Actually someone had a one or two games with one or
two games better than Jimbo Fisher. Sure. Yeah, so you know it's
I mean, I don't know it. It's as you almost feel like how
bad you got to beat it? Screw it up over there? I mean
really yeah, because you're in a prime recruiting location, you're getting all the
players, you've got a Heisman Trophy winner and you and you you know,
and you can't you can't keep I mean, Arizona should have beat him.
Now now that you think about Arizona should have won that game, Like like
you think about the Mississippi State game. Right at the time, you thought,
okay, you know there's still Misissippi State. It's SEC, it's on
the road, Okay, you know you played them tough, good enough,
and you see USC and they're like, now you look at USC and you
go, there's no should have somehow won that game. You know, made
a couple of mistakes that cost them the game. You know, if if
if, if, if they make that fifty yard field goal you know,
at the end of you know, towards the end of regulation, and they
hold the USC, they win the game. If they if, well there's
a whole bunch of if we can go wanting on about that, Well,
that'll have to come another day. They will have to come another day.
All Right, we got to hit the road. We'll be back tomorrow our
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