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Rovera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to
winning the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jake.
Now we have Kevin with breaking news. This is Eye on the Ball,
breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right, So, as
Sauce Gardner, the corner for the New York Jets, tweeted today, it
looks like a Maden franchise has gone broken out in the NFL. Everybody is
moving everything, a lot of money's moving around. We're gonna go ahead and
starting New York. Saquon Barkley has left the Giants and moved to the division
rival Philadelphia Eagles on a three year, thirty seven million dollar contract. Fans
are not happy. Uh, New York fans are not happy. You're New
York fans for all fans of all fans of not the Eagles. Yes,
yes, yes, all non involved parties and non Giants fans. Yeah,
they're not happy. They are doing wrong things to his jersey, uh,
you know, unsanitary things, and yeah, the Eagles have moved on from
DeAndre Swift as well, and he's gonna go to the Bears. But Tiki
Barber came out and said that Saquon is now dead to him, and Saquan
responded with you didn't like me anyway, don't try to smile as if,
as if Tiki Barber would not have, you know, in the situation that
Bartle was in, would not have also gone to a team like the Eagles
that you know, Uh, it was in the super Bowl and was a
game away from the super Bowl this year. I was surprised he didn't go
to Houston, to be completely honest, just because you're losing Jason Kelsey.
Yeah, I feel like that's gonna be a bigger deal than maybe we think
it's gonna be. Yeah, because the the iconic push push does not work
without Kelsey, so at least not work as well. Well, maybe we'll
see. Russell Wilson has gone to the Steelers on a one year, one
point two. He did that. There was talk, you know, speculation
that he was going in the Bronx one year deal. Yeah, and the
Broncos are gonna pay the brunt of the thirty seven point eight million dollars for
Wilson not to play for their franchise. Here's money. Gift the hell out
of here. Yeah, that is how you run an NFL franchise competently.
Don't even go back to Denver Gardner Minshew to the Raiders. He joins Max
Crosby, who he quoted, is saying Max Crosby is so mean. NFL
films caught him saying last yearn was how old he's like your age? Didn't
you know he's not way titt way tittle. I think I think it's not
got four or five years of the twenty eight, maybe thirty one at the
oldest. Maybe's the mustache. Kirk Cousins has signed with the Falcons on a
huge four year, one hundred and eighty million dollar contract. Now that's one
that I just want to spit talking about mediocrity. Right, he's gonna make
if he if he if this contract pays out completely one hundred and eighty million
dollars, he will have made over four hundred million dollars playing football. And
he's as you said, media, don't get christened here because he hates the
guy because he played old Chris Oh. I saw him in the hallway.
He lost his mind. He was so happy he get rid of him.
Yeah, he was so happy. Well, so, if you look at
kirk Cousins contracts throughout his career. At twenty twelve, he signed a standard
four year rookie deal twenty sixteen and nineteen point nine million dollar fully guaranteed,
and then the next year twenty three point nine million dollar fully guaranteed. These
are all fully guaranteed now up until his newest contract eighty four million dollars,
sixty six million dollars, thirty five million dollars and now one hundred and fifty
with one hundred million dollars guaranteed. Actually hundred and eighty one chart actually had
it incorrect. Yeah, one hundred and eighty million dollars, one hundred million
guaranteed. And again he's not he's not been good. He's certainly not been
great. That's four hundred and eleven million dollars for twenty twenty seven right there,
for good old Kirko. Can I just ask him for one of those,
just w one, it's one million, I would take half, I'll
take I'm young, Yeah, I'm not, Yeah, I'm not picky.
Unbelievable. Yeah, the packers have made a couple couple of different roster moves
with longtime players. Aaron Jones has been let go and so has David Baktiari.
It's unclear if Bakti is going to retire or trying to seek employment for
another team. We assume Aaron Jones will look for another job, and they
have also replaced him with Josh Jacobs the Raiders and the Raiders well, it
was it was funny watching Twitter because the announcement came out first that they got
Josh Jacobs, So Packers fans were on there saying we've got a great one
too for Jones and Jones and Jacobs were gonna be awesome. And then a
little bit later came out that they're relieve that Jacobs was replacing Jones because they're
releasing Aaron Jones. What is it? Jacobs and Jones sounds like a good
buddy cup or a law firm, Jabs Jones law firm. The Jaguars have
signed bill star receiver Gabe Davis to a three year deal. The Bengals.
T Higgins, after being franchised tagged, has now requested a trade from the
team. Uh away from Joe Burrow. You think that he'd want to stay
with a quarterback like Joe Burrow next to Jamar Chase, getting the second best
corner on the team, maybe even third on some plays. The Raiders have
gone out and signed Christian Wilkins to a big time, four year, one
hundred and ten million dollar deal. The Dolphins are kind of for sale in
a lot of ways. Then a lot of their players goes David Howard,
Christian Wilkins, just to name a couple big players there. Austin Eckler you
mentioned earlier off air Jay that he might be going to the Commander's for two
years around eleven million dollars. And Derek Henry is on his way out,
probably to Baltimore or Houston, it looks like at this point, and the
Titans have replaced him with Tony Pollard from the Cowboys. From the Cowboys,
so you wonder if does Aaron Jones not wind up with the Cowboys because they
haven't they need a running back now, right? He does seem like a
cowboy, doesn't, Yeah, he really does it. Just guy's moving around.
But this thing you're burning the jersey of a guy who's left, you
know, to get a job. I mean the Giants clarity did want him.
I even saw some jerseys and some bathrooms. Yeah, jersey in the
toilet are expensive, very expensive. And and really he didn't do anything to
you, right, like he just took a job. You're really just burning
your own clothes. Fans fans are fans, fans are wild. Kobe Bryant's
brand new statue in LA has some spelling errors on it. Jose Calderon and
Von Waffer's names were both misspelled, in addition to decision being misspelled in the
word in the phrase coaches decision. And this is this like outside Stable Center.
It's his brand new statue outside Staples Center with him doing the point.
And yeah, the Lakers postperson came out and said that they're gonna immediately try
to get this fixed as quick as possible. So it should never have been
a problem in the first place. Somebody proof read this stuff. Man,
come on, two people, how'd the internet do it? And then big
news. Pima Community College has now earned an automatic bid into the national Ornament
after defeating Chandler Gilbert just three points in the Region one Division two championship this
past weekend. There were a number two seed. They beat the one seed
and then the women, Sary Ray. The women looks they have the I
guess their things tomorrow, their view their viewing party, so they'll be in
the tournament and then the women will probably get a invite in at large bit
in a large bit. Good for them again, college man knocking it out
as always. It's always impressive when you could score one hundred and four points
a game and then within the title game with just sixty four points. Well,
and that's and that's Arizona's demise. You play in the sixties, they're
done pretty much. Yeah, you know, there's only the weekend was the
lowest points they put together. Slow them down. You got a chance,
throw zone, you got a chance. The Alabama's of the world. Aaron,
Yeah, exactly. Former Wildcat Benedict Mathern is going to undergo season ending
so shoulder surgery on his torn labor in his right shoulder. I was going
to keep them out for the rest of the year. And Jolinardi has moved
Arizona into the second two seed and Colorado is now in the first four in
Yeah, I don't know if you've mentioned this. When Kevin Leeman said there's
no way there will be a number one. No, no, again.
And part of it is that they just don't have good enough teams to play
because they can run through the Pac twelve and and and you know the bracket
guys can go who cares? Yeah, who cares? Before supposedive, well,
who cares? They lost to ten eleven twelve right there. Shot even
had they beaten USC they you know it was a long shot. Yeah,
it was long shot. It was a long shot. But now the North
Carolina has hopped over them on the Tennessee's seed tennant. So right now it's
it's Purdue on one to six. In order to Purdue, Yukon and Houston
are together, and then you got Tennessee North Carolina, then Arizona. Then
the other ones on the two line are Marquette and Iowa State, and Jolinardi
has Arizona in the Tennessee bracket. So you know, hey, don't talk
about this whole thing about you know, whether you're ready now, you know,
Yukon came out and just beat the living hell a lot of Providence on
Saturday. You know, when you know they were in the same position as
Arizona, they won the league, they're you know, they're they're you know,
they're number one seed, and yet they showed up and when it beat
the hell out of Providence, that Providence, I'm gonna lit them up.
And and you go, that's where you shake your head about Arizona. You
go, guys, why can't you be that every game? Maybe they are
who they are and we've seen it, we saw surprise, but we shouldn't
be. Now what else do you have that all I have? Let me
ask you, Jay, So it would it be a shock to you surprised?
I don't know what level? Uh if if kill a Love is not
the clearly no, it wouldn't. Because this conference is all has shown that
they don't vote for Arizona guys. I'm a bitter soul. I was just
gonna say, well, because because because they're looking for a reason to not
vote for an Arizona guy, the way they'd always look for to not vote
for Luke for Coach of the Year. It's like, well, Arizona,
you're really good and you get all the good players, so we're gonna give
this to somebody else. kJ Lewis is not better than Caleb Love. Sorry,
no, no, no, no, no. Jim is not better
than Caleb Love. He's not you know, let me put it this way,
Nobody's had a better season in the Pac twelve than Caleb Love. It's
that simple. Arizona's won the league one that you know, hands down,
he's the best player. He's really good. He's better than all those other
guys. I'm sorry, kJ sent but there it's like, well, he's
really good, so let's give it to somebody, not Arizona. I really
feel like that that that happens. Well, one Bay Area writer a former
colleague. He works out of San Francisco. He chose Simpson. Uh,
your buddy and our buddy, Willner had Caleb Love. But let me give
you also two how many guys from you they deserve to be on the first
name? Two? Maybe three? First team pack twelve. I'm gonna say
two almost almost give me the name. So Bumar and Caleb and then you
could you could make a case for Pala, Larson and and Key said,
well, okay, so here's Wilner's top first team and second team, right,
uh, kleb Love, Miles, Rice, kJ Simpson, Jordan Pope,
Keon Brooks. That's first second team. Oh he only got five.
Well Pa made the second team and that was it. Well, Paco does
ten third team, So he made the ten h third team. Nobody?
Okay, so and and the thing is yeah again that the thing is because
both Kapella and and key Shot have had games where they've just not showed up,
but they have them consistently there. Yeah, so I I didn't I
wouldn't have a problem with them being left off or I think that. I
think both of those guys are at least second team, which the way they
do it, they did ten teams, ten players first team on a five
player second team. You know, I put those guys on the second team
and all defensive team. Bradley made the team and so did the so did
No, No, no, Bradley did And that was it. That was
it in terms of defense. Yeah, defense was It was Bradley. And
I like the way he's played. Did you notice anything from that Saturday game
in terms of Bradley the way he played you, No, I'll have to
go back and show you maybe one days we see anybody played all that well?
Nobody did? Well, I don't know, follow me have I mean,
it was just a bad game. Yeah, and you just said we
were just throwing stuff at their TV. It was just a bad taste,
you know, all the way around with every players, like none of you
guys showed up, you know to win this game, and and there was
a total team loss. Yeah, and again disappointing to see that. Don't
argue with you. I know you're right on that one. You never write
to your right on that one. We're run to a steam here. Let's
take a break come back with Corey yep, Corey Williams, ESPN Basketball analyst,
also Arizona guy. I went to a final four, Arizona ninety four.
So Corey will come back and we'll break down some of the some of
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welcome back to I Thebaull Here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve,
He's Jay and I won if on we have Corey Williams, former Uba
basketball player and ESPN basketball analyst. How are you, Corey? You're doing
pretty good. How you guys doing fine? Thank you? You've done this
a number of years now. I don't know if this year is any different
because of how crazy it's been, But has it? I know last year
we talked about parody and all that stuff. Was that any any different than
the years past? This year? I think the teams that are finish the
top the conference in the Pac twelve are pretty solid. You know, you
look at Colorado, you look at Utah, you look at Oregon. Teams
that need to play well in Vegas to get off the bubble and possibly get
their way in. But I would say the top half of the league is
pretty firmly set. There's not a whole lot. I'm not expecting a lot
of surprises this week. Yeah, no, of course, Yeah, you're
talking about the pac twelve or across the board. Just pack twelve across the
board, across the board. What you're saying is actually true. I think
people have done the best job they can trying to say what's what. We've
got a number of number one teams and no one's been able to stay king
of the mountain for too long. I honestly think the talent spread is just
going to continue. Yeah, in this trend where nobody's really going to be
able to mask a team that's going to stay number one for an extended amount
of time. So you've watched Arizona enough, obviously a number of times.
I watch them all the time, and Jay we talk about what we see.
I see inconsistency, and it's a perplexing season when you see Arizona.
What do you think in moments Arizona is the best team in the nation,
and then in moments there are glimpses of a team that could lead the tournament
early. They are not yet the sum of their parts. When you look
at their roster, they should be far and away beating everybody by twenty five
every night. Just if everybody's playing at full potential and they're playing together,
there have been games where they've been that team, but for the majority of
the time, in my opinion, they look a little disjointed. They're extremely
talented. There's a number of games that they've won just based on sheer talent.
There have been games where they've executed and got wins when they were supposed
to. But I really don't feel like they played their best basketball game.
I really don't. What do you ever wonder what they're waiting for to do
that? Well? Basketball teams are pretty complicated. Coaches will do their part,
but there's a settling effect that happens among players, and it's something that
the coaches have nothing to do with it. Guys know their position, they
know their roles, they know what shots they're supposed to be. Hey,
somewhere throughout the middle of the season, the team just has an understanding of
this is how we play, this is my job, these are my expectations,
this is what's going to happen at night in and night out. This
Arizona team, to me, just never has really settled up on that.
I think when you look at this team, they can beat you so many
different ways. Boswell can get hot and beat you. Cay leb Bluf can
get hot and beat you. Pela larks And can have a double double and
beat you Allmarballo and Keith Shawan can dominate the paint and they can beat you.
You really just need a little bit from everybody, and they're unstoppable.
But what seems to happen with this team. You get one or two players
a night and the other three it's just not in rhythm. And I'm really
wondering if this team can ever play with all kind of talents and six shots
players. I mean we're talking about you know, Bradley coming up player.
I mean, it's got They only need to get seventy five percent from every
and they would crush people. Absolutely. Yeah. Well you play there and
let me kind of go through your your history, and in fact, I
want to ask you, given the success of your career, so ninety three
year freshman, ninety three, ninety four obviously sophomore than the years up to
that, but which was the better team of all them? Even though you
got to a Final four with Clinton Damon and you were a contributor. Then
you got to the sweet sixteen with the ninety six team that was pretty damn
good with a bunch of seniors. But you know what, as I looked
back the ninety two ninety three team, holy crap, you guys were very
good until the end. Our ninety two ninety three team would was probably our
most talented team. That's the team that probably should have ended up going to
a Final four, if not winning the national championship. When you look at
the team and the players that were on that roster. We had one of
the biggest offsets in the NCAA history, losing the Steve Nash and Santa Clara.
But that team, I believe at one point that year we won nineteen
straight games, and we were number two in the country and we were lowly
with NBA players. That team was by far the most talented my senior year
team. I felt like, if we could have gotten over the hump,
we were getting great guard playing. We had good young guys. Ben Davis
was playing really well, Reggie Gary, myself, Miles Vickerson, Mike Dickerson,
Miles Simons. Yeah, a really good team my senior year as well,
so well, if I could real quick, so let me ask you,
I'm glad you said the ninety two ninety three team you won nineteen straight.
You lost only one game against Cal in the conference, and then Santa
Clara comes and slows you down. How does stuff like that happen given that
you've experienced it. It happens because you start playing the moment and not the
game. Oh my god, there's eight minutes to go at a two point
game. You know, what are we going to do to win instead of
just relaxing and playing the game? Are there is no disrespect, but our
second string would beat Santa Claara seven out of ten times. Yeah. As
a freshman, I felt comfortable saying our second string. I could have went
out there and played Santa Clara. We were that talented. But in the
tournament, when that clock is winding down and there's only eleven minutes left in
your season or four minutes left in your season, you stop playing time,
you stop playing loose, and you start playing the situation. And that's how
those things happen. We see it every year, five or six games where
an underdog allows leverage and pressure and momentum to build up in their favor,
and when you're the favorite in the tournament, the only place to go is
down. If you win, nobody back to night because you were the higher
seed and you were supposed to So you step out on that court with everything
to lose and nothing to gain except the game that everyone's expecting you to win.
So it's a really odd formula for the NCAA tournament March madness. You
just have to go out there and play the game with a chip on your
shoulder and not paying attention to who you're playing, and that's how you advance
and survive. Right, No, we talked about that ere Yeah, which
it's puzzling that, you know, again, a team that good can lose
to a Santa Clara or a team like this team that Arizona has, where
you said they could be the best team in the country when they're playing all
together, and they lose to the three worst teams in the league. Yeah.
I mean, it's one of those situations where your identity and your motivation
come into play. I think coaches try to manufacture that edge, that toughness,
that desire, that nastiness, because that's what you're going to need.
I think going out there with something to prove, going out there with a
chip on your shoulder, that's the safest way for a talented team and a
tournament because, like you said, there's really no upside when everybody's picking you
to make it to the final four. Those are the expectations. That's just
another form of pressure. So you have to flip that and block it out
and play for something else. Yeah youah, no question, totally agree with
you. So you spend a lot of time this season the West Coast,
mostly covering a lot of the teams who were maybe one or two of the
three best teams you saw. Well. To be honest with you, I
liked Arizona Obviously, they played well. Oregon had a ton of injuries.
I really thought the Utah youths would be would challenge Arizona for the Pac twelve
title. They're very good, very talented. They just couldn't put it together
on the road. They lost a lot of games on the road that they
shouldn't have dropped. I was really impressed with them when I watched them play.
Washington State obviously did a great job, but it was really BYU.
I had them early, and I knew that they were gonna turn some heads
in the Big twelve just because of their style of play, and most Big
twelve schools weren't used to going to the Marriott Center and dealing with that crowd
in that atmosphere. So I wasn't surprised by you. I definitely was pleasantly
surprised by Saint Mary's. I knew they'd be good, but I didn't know
that they'd win it out right the way that they have in the WCC.
So it's a good year where I think there's going to be five or sixteen
from the West Coast that hopefully can make some noise in the tournament. I
mean again, we just sit here and watch this and as Steve and I,
you know, started out the show, it's like to me after they
lost to the US, see, nothing changed in terms of what I think
about Arizona. They can still lose to a bad team and they can still
beat the best team. But when you look at those teams that are up
there right now, Purdue, Yukon, Tennessee, Houston, you know,
where does Arizona fit in there? Do you think? And you don't think
they're same? About ten? I mean I don't, actually actually I do.
I think that anybody who can tell you those top team, those top
ten, I don't think there's any separation from anybody in the top ten that's
just me being blunt. Okay, those those rankings one through ten, you
can flip a coin on any given night. The thing that as an Arizona
fan that helps me be positive. Arizona has done the work the sedule this
year. They've gone to these places, They've played the top teams in the
country, They've gone to Hockel environments. Their schedule should pay dividends for them
in Vegas and as well when the tournament starts, because there's not going to
be any situation that they've been in that they haven't been in previously. This
year, it doesn't get any tuffers than at Cameron. They played Purdue,
they played Michigan State, they played in the Florida Atlantic, which turned out
to not really be a good loss to them. But you know, they've
had people gunning for them the entire season. Every road game's been contentious.
There have been nights where they've come out and handled their business and crushed the
competition, and there's nights where they took hells. So there's nothing new around
the corner for Arizona. The question is can they dig deep and play with
a chip on their shoulder with something to prove Okay, would you be surprised
if Caleb Love was not the player of the year in the conference. I'm
definitely surprised. There's no question he's the best player the best team, Caleb.
Caleb Love made so many great plays and big shots for Arizona. It's
one thing to shoot a lot, but he made a lot and I got
to give him credit for that. Whose shot selection at times for me have
a little too much to deal with, and I think it's one of those
situations where you live by the sword, you die by the sword. But
with Arizona you've got more than one sword, so he doesn't have to shoot
bad shots. Going into the postseason. He's out on a team where he
doesn't have other capable players, so good shot selection from him, balanced attack
offensively. I think Arizona's definitely a Final four team. Let me ask you,
because you've covered a lot of guys at Euve and beyond, who does
Caleb remind you of? Most? At least here at you, I really
don't have a guy you know, because of his distance and not afraid I
know Loot would have been really felt the same way you do. What are
you doing shooting those twenty five footers. No, no, And see that's
the thing. At a different time. It's twenty twenty four and the coaches
have opened up the shot selection and the way that these guys play. The
reason Caleb Love doesn't compare to anybody in past Arizona history is no one has
had that type of green light. Even as much as Gilbert Green scored when
he got to the pros, he wasn't shoot like that At Arizona. There
were guys, I mean, David Stottamar was a lot of your pick and
had the green light going into his senior year, and he didn't shoot a
lot of the looks that Caleb shot. The game that's changed, and that's
not a knock on Caleb. He's taking the same shot his counterparts are taken
all across the country. This is just the first time Arizona fans are seeing
somebody do it in one of our jerseys. But yeah, that's why he
doesn't ring any bells. He doesn't compare to anybody because we haven't ever had
a player that could literally shoot ten feet from behind the arc and stay in
the game without anybody betting or not true. Let's talk about colem Boza for
a second. He went through that that period out of whatever you want to
call it. He just seemed like out of sorts or whatever. Played a
couple of good games. Obviously everybody played bad on Saturday. But you're your
thoughts on kind of Boswell and Tommy Key's you know, trumpeting. Well,
he's only eighteen years old, but he's got a lot of games under his
belt. I don't know if that the inexperienced card can continue to be played.
Well, it can. It can't because you're right, there's experiences and
situations that are happening to him for the second and third time, and that's
when the learning curve. That's when the learning process starts. I think what
he's having is two things. One, you're coming into college sports. That's
a huge jump. Then you're coming into one of the top premier programs in
the country. That's a huge jump. Now you're having everybody come gunning for
You're trying to make a name off you. The point guard matches have been
ferocious, people trying to come at you because they know he was an ESPN
top pick in the country. They know a lot of the proceige and height
that he came to Arizona with individual matchup each night in somebody trying to make
a name off of him, and he's like, wait a minute, I
just got here. And then the other thing is, I think a lot
of people forget for all college athletes. If you're doing it the right way.
Basketball gets harder each year. You're going up against better competition, You're
in more difficult situations, there's more at stake, so you've got to elevate
your play. And I think he struggled early because I didn't think he understood
the seriousness of playing point guard in Arizona. He's immensely talented, he's a
great kid, He's going to be a great pro someday. But I think
he really thought that there was an area where once I get the hang of
it, it's going to be easy. And it's like, no, they're
going to keep coming for you. Coaches are going to keep scheming for you.
You have to continue to get better each day. And I think Tim
they finally got through to him towards the end of the season. So what's
the schedule for you moving forward? Well, I'm going to try to get
over to Vegas Wednesday and watch some of the PAC twelve on Wednesday, Thursday.
I've got the Big West semi finals and finals on Friday and Saturday,
So hopefully our Wildcat will be playing in the finals and I'll be calling the
game but watching from my phone. Okay, and then and then you're done
for the year. Well, there's still a question. I think there's a
lot of Pac twelve teams that will take an n T invitation. So hopefully
I'll grab a couple of n I two games on the way out and that'll
be that. One of these days, I want to be Corey Williams.
Thank Corey as always, Thank you man, appreciate you. Hey, no
prop, thanks for having Corey Williams. You got a little boat tie on.
You know, you got to list some weight and get a little taller.
Still a big dude, okay, yeah, good. You learn how
to shoot the ball exactly. Okay, we'll pass the ball, okay,
cool? All right. I think he's talking the same and some of the
things that we've said, he just says it better. So we'll come back
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net. Steve Ravera and jaygn Salles. They have their Eye on the Ball
on Tucson Sports Stage Chat Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to
Eying the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, he's Jay
got came on with us. This is your final sixteen minutes to get with
us. We're not going to be here tomorrow or the day after or the
day after. Yes, that not a vacation. Nope, not a vacation.
This is their last show of the week. Steve and I are both
at the PACKEDF tournament. Steve Covernet for All Sports Tucson. I work for
the PAC twelve at the tournament, so busy week ahead of us, and
then with the timing of the daylight savings time which started yesterday, and then
the game's being moved up on Friday, and no ability to do a show
from Vegas on Friday as we've done in the past, right right, Sorry
to say yeah, because we always enjoyed doing that. A lot of people
come and see us where we were. Yeah, but we'll be back next
week. Yep. Get ready for the tournament. Yep, we'll get ready
for the tournament. I'm Steve is gonna be gone a bit with that,
but I'll be around and we'll keep having shows and we'll try and get some
some great guests hosting. It might be a quick trip maybe or maybe not.
You know what I I you know they're gonna get to the second weekend.
I do to two question is okay, now who do you match up
with? And what happens after that? Very much? And that's and that's
just the way the term is. And it's like that for everybody. You
see the latest you've seen the latest Lunari bread potology. Right, yeah,
what do the second round game look like? Uh? You just have to
guess and you'd be right. Oh Gonzaga, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. I don't know who would have the edge there psychologically or mentally because
you have your former coach who left, right, and so although you know,
and so your players here playing hard for you here, right, but
over there playing even harder because you left, right. I think they would
both hate it. Oh there, No, both coaches would absolutely they didn't
want to do it. They didn't want to do it already, right,
they would absolutely positively hate having to play each other. And we talked to
Begnado, right, and then I was in that that thing. They're not
into conspiracies, right, but this year looks like one. Well again,
you know, if Gonzaga were to where they are on the seed line and
then they would probably be in the West, and if arizonas in the West,
that just it would just happen. Yeah, yeah, you know,
you know, the question is what happens to Gonzaga in their tournament coming up?
Sure and stuff like they are a favorite to win it, even though
they did win the regular season. They are a favorite to win it.
Yeah, you know, and again, you know, was was Tommy Lloyd
mark few secret sauces you like to say, you know, and there's a
lot of people who's who are saying that that. You know that you know,
Gonzaga last year now this year where they've taken a little a little further
step back. Is this the Tommy Lloyd effect of him being gone? You
know, whether it's recruiting, coaching, whatever. Yeah, No, if
you want to call police, do we'd like to hear from you? Five
two zero four one six seventy four forty we've already had a few calls,
or a couple of calls already. Yeah, talk about what this team will
look like. The women have some time to wait, think a couple of
their bracketology things they've gotten in they're in. Yeah, do you think that
usc winning it all? The last weekend helps I do. Yeah, Well,
I don't know. Does it diminish does it diminute? It helps their
losses to USC But it does it diminish their win against Stanford? Yeah,
I don't. Well, they didn't have the twitcher and the tall little against
when there's the Yeah, but when you could play the champion close two consecutive
times. Yeah, had them on the brink and then it didn't work.
I I see that they get in and I didn't. Didn't. Today I
met the s I d for the first time. Women's You probably already met
her. Yeah, I hadn't met her before. What's your capacity? I
said, Well, I think you're you're one of the better, better stories
on campus, don't you think? Know what what what it has had to
do? Yeah? You know again, if you could get past the why
did all these girls leave? And just look at what she's done with what
she's got. Yeah, that's a pretty good story. She's done a great
job. And although that the first part of your first partment, it's part
part of it. It's part of the course of the party, you know,
And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It looks like it worked.
Yeah, because they're playing their butts off for they are they are and
you know, and there there was a debate, I think it was on
Twitter, and I don't know who was holding the debate about some people saying,
well, maybe it's better for them to go play in the n I
t because they get more games they'll play at home, and I'm like,
no, you want to be in the n C Double A Tournament even if
you lose in the first round of the NC Double A Tournament. And look,
these seven girls have played enough. They don't need to just go play
a bunch more games. What they what they want and what I think what
they would like to have is a is a chance to get into the n
C DOUBLEA Tournament, maybe win a game, maybe playing another one. Sure,
well, what would they be twelve thirteen? So if you're playing,
you're playing twelve thirteen, you're playing a three or four whatever it is.
Yeah, but I don't want to be a three or four to play this
team. They've already capable of being a number two, right, Yeah,
USC and Stafford are going to be twos and ones or both maybe both twos,
so you know, and Arizona's handled those two teams pretty well. Again
didn't beat us either time, but took them to the wire both times.
Then they beat Stanford, which proves that they can handle a lot of teams.
Yeah, yeah, okay, So anybody want to call five two,
four, one, six, seventy four forty our final day here final eleven
minutes on the show. A couple of left over breaking news things that we
didn't get to. First of all, a spring spring practice has been announced.
The schedule is where you have a football spring practice. It starts on
March twenty sixth, the Tuesday, and runs through April twenty seventh, when
the spring game will be played. The practices will be open to the public
like they have like they were under Jet. I imagine they'll do it the
same way, you know, be able to sit in on the sidelines and
whatnot, and you know you go watching practice. But they put out the
schedule of fifteen practices that start on Tuesday, March twenty six They basically have
three practices a week, so Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday practices again,
ending with the spring game on Saturday, April the twenty seventh. Yeah okay,
And then a study came out, Well we'll go back to this one
Jose Perez. I saw that. I want to talk about that. Yeah,
he quit the team like right before the game Saturday. But it turns
up somebody found this. He's already playing for us. His uh, his
uh for the Dominican Republic, right, uh is always yeah? Or is
he he's already played international? Yeah, he's playing internationally in the Dominican Republic.
Already had a game over the week, right, I guess he he
was. He had scored twenty five that Thursday, decided not to return,
and he says in loyalty, there's one thing about loyalty. Sometimes you need
have it or don't have it or whatever, and it's just you know,
and sometimes you gotta be true to yourself too. And then that's on to
a team right away. Yeah he's out, you know, he's not playing
professionally already, and good for him, you know again the typical thing in
Arizona fans saying typical as typical son devil who quent on his team gott Yeah,
yeah sure, but you look, you know, the guy had a
job offer, he took the job offer. Isn't that way you go to
college? Well that's the things I've heard. Yeah, you know, how's
that coming with your job search? You know what's going I would say it's
going okay, all right, good to hear as much as I can tell
you we're going to here. Yeah, we're gonna mission. Good to hear.
And then a study just came out uh today. Uh study that was
done by the u of A. Was actually done by the college or the
Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, that measured U of A athletics impact economics
and what did it say? Came out to said, uh, on a
yearly basis two hundred and sixty five million dollars a year. That that is,
Yeah, that it when you all the things that throw in there,
says the economic impact comes in the form of direct spend from visitors, taxes
generated by their purchases, thousands of jobs supported by Arizona Athletics events. So
uh, it's uh, you know, the the with the jobs and all
that kind of stuff. It just it adds up to a whole bunch of
miney's a million dollars. Let me go to a place where and that's not
a shock. I mean, did this one drives the city? Yeah?
And the love for the ub Let me go a place where I didn't expect
to go here. But did you see the l s U South Carolina?
I did, I did? What did you think of it? Winking?
The most interesting thing was how the two coaches handled right and what did you
think about this? Go to both sides? Uh? The self killer coach,
very well respected, Took took the high road and said, you know,
this is on us. We gotta you know, we gotta be better
at this. I gotta be better at this. She apologized for what her
team did as you know, uh you know, uh it's a named Don
Stately. Don Staley you know, said all those things and Took took took
it. And then Kim Mulkey basically came. I said, I wish she'd
gone after winning this. Other players that she would have kicked her ass.
And that's Kim Mulky, That's who she is. Yea. She said she
wished she had pushed Angel because she's six smaller and you know again just then
that's why these things happen. Mhm. But Kim, that's who Kim Malky
is. I told you she if she was here for when Arizona hosted the
first and second round, and she was mean, I'll just put it that
way. Let's take this call Hi on the air and one on the ball.
Hey, guys, I haven't heard all the programs, so I'm sorry
I'm repetitive, but considering the game against USC for the future, sure,
what do you guys think or what have you heard from others? What is
the strategy for Lloyd? Now? If the three pointers are not hitting,
can they get the ball at the ball a more? I mean he was
you know we shot, well you can rebonded? Well, what what what's
going to be the strategy? Well, that's the if the two polers are
going down, I think this is mister. Is that right? That would
be it? Yeah? So could you do what you do? I mean,
go to Tobolo. I think I was surprised. I think he leads
or is in the top ten conference or whatever it is for a fild goal
percentage in the paint in Arizona is one of the better teams, right,
go to him until you can't go to him, and then Crevis has done
very well too. But but but Frank, I don't think that the team
is going to go as dry as they did Saturday night. And Frank,
I you know they're gonna do what they what they do, right, if
they're having a game like that, you know there's something they're supposed to be
doing. It just none of it worked on Saturday, not sure. And
that's and that's the thing about what what you see with this team is that
they can go into a funk like that and lose to anybody. But at
this point, as we say, they are who they are, and they're
gonna do whatever it is they've been doing all season long. And if it's
not going well from outside, then yeah, I mean the actually you try
to go inside and get some points. But you know, they're just gonna
keep They're gonna not change the way they So Frank, if they did play
USC again, who you think is gonna win, Well, they probably will
be playing them right the way the records are looking, so USC plays Washington,
but USC is the nine seed, Washington the eight seed. Actually yeah,
but I mean in the second game right that way, Yeah, in
any way, I think Arizona will win. But what I'm worried about is
you know the n c A A. You know, like I don't want
to see the Princeton again. I mean I don't want to see the you
know, the Tennessee State. I don't want to see all those you know,
uh, you're going to Frank, you're gonna see one of those.
Get the senatives ready. They're gonna be a two seed Frank regards pretty much
regardless of what happens in the because the conference tournaments are kind of like,
they're not thrown out. But unless you do something absolutely stupid, you are
where you are, and there solidly as in the in the middle of the
two seeds, they're gonna be a two seed. They're gonna they're gonna play
a fifteen seed, and it's gonna be a Princeton like team, a team
that can beat you. Yeah, yeah, well, uh, I don't
I don't mind them being the two seeds or even the three seed. I
mean, but between the first, the one seed, and the two seeds,
is there really uh uh other than the hype, you know, which
I'm not sure we want. Is there a reason to be a number one
over number two? Is there a do you get better better opponents in the
second and third and round and so forth, Well, you get lesser opponents,
or what's perceived to be lesser opponents. But in this case, those
lesser opponents want to kick your butt, kick your button anyway. So it's
it's all equal when at the end of the day, you still have to
be the best team. Yeah, and you have to be the team that's
good enough to be in the tournament, and you have to and you just
have to well yeah, I agree, but I mean you and I have
seen too many, so many good teams, great teams go down. Well,
well, here's one more thing, Frank, is that pretty much across
the board you talk to anybody, even Corey Williams said it a little bit
ago on the show, the top eight or ten teams are all interchangeable.
So if you're a two seed, you're in that top eight or ten teams.
So it's kind of like, you know, you're gonna if you get
to that point they played one of those teams in the Elite eight, you're
just gonna have to beat a really good team. And it's just the way
it is, so, Frank, if you want to be the best team
in the country, just what you have to do win a lot of games.
And if you're the best country, the best team in the country,
you should have to worry about winning a lot of games pretty much. Okay,
you know all right, So okay, so I should put ten bucks
in for the for the uh, for the you know, for the Wildcats
in the final four, right, you'll get for you Yeah, you'll get
about thirty bucks back. It's only yeah, well that's big time. Okay,
I thank you, Okay, Frank, thank you. Do we do
not encourage gambling on the show. They're like, they're like sixteen hundred to
win it all. Now they've gone. They got up to sixteen. So
if you if you didn't want to, if you want to get him at
eighteen when they started season, yeah, get him at sixteen and sixteen now
that's as good as its going to get. Yeah, Houston, you got
him at twelfth. Yeah, see, your money is better now. But
do you feel more comfortable now than the earlier were the same? Like Jay,
I feel about the same. If anything, it's a little more nervous
because of what we were talking about earlier, where they just don't seem to
care about making the right plays every time too. All right, Scott,
take this one last call? Last call it how you're on the air and
on the ball. Hey you guys, I just wanted to say that this
late season lost the UFC is a alarm. It's Sydney red flags up.
Tommy needs a cry so it's right now, real or manufactured. He's got
to come up with something to galvanize this team around. It's March. People
in the hard Man there dreaming about the tournament. They're hungry, they practice
all winter, they're dreaming of this. We need a christ if we need
something to wake this team up and get him going. Okay, you appreciate
it. Well, they got one. They certainly have it, all right,
Thanks Bud, Thank you. I think that was Richard. That's richer.
Yeah, I believe. All right. We're at the end of We're
at the end of it, Steve, this is it for the week.
Yeah, reminder, no show the rest of the week. The week if
you missed the show coming on late. We had a good in with Desiree
Reid Francois, the athletic director with the podcast will be Up. We went
within an hour or secon so you listen to it. A lot of stuff.
Corey Williams was great with a lot of analysis on the upcoming UH packed
off tournament for Arizona. So uh and then you know the rest of the
week. If you're looking for us to go. You know, go listen
to one of our past podcasts. We've had a lot of good stuff over
the last few weeks. So and if you're king up and if you're vegasy,
yeah, say hello to us, come looking for us. I gotta,
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Bail anybody up. See you dance two in the morning. You'll kind
of bail him out if you see him doing that. You're true, Well,
go let me go, Steve. You guys are way too old to
be doing anything that would require Bailey out. You know, you know that
you guys are in the sack bag an hour after the games are over.
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