WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:07.679 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez sound Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:14.400 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services and Sure Your Most Prized Possessions kat z 3 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:20.359 R two sad at iHeart Radio Station. So welcome everybody to I on the 4 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:24.039 Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jay. We 5 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.239 have analyst and today welcome back analyst. We didn't scare you, No, 6 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:30.519 you did not. I'm happy to do that. Great. Well, we'll 7 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:32.759 see if we scare her now that she's got to run the board. Oh 8 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:38.840 yeah, yeah, don't forget the Yeah, look for hand signals. Okay, 9 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:41.920 Hey, wecome everybody. Hey, the schedule came out today. The 10 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:44.320 schedule is out. I hope you didn't have that on breaking news because we 11 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:46.960 did go but I you guys would talk about it. Yeah, it's a 12 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:50.079 I didn't. I didn't really go through it. But our but our resident 13 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:56.200 father texted me or tweeted me this morning or this afternoon. Doug from Seattle. 14 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.280 Oh yeah, and uh said, I think to win more than six 15 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.840 games. I think that's easy. Sex is not the goal. I think 16 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:07.840 it's neither. Tag away, Doug. Six is not the goal this season. 17 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.959 Big twelve championship is the goal. I think so because it's doable. 18 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:15.120 It is doable. I think, you know, Jay, given given, 19 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:19.519 how can I say this? Historical minds like us, we think about the 20 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.159 past and we throw Oklahoma wed and they're no longer in the in the mix. 21 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.920 But you go with other schools Oklahoma State and say, oh wow, 22 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.280 they're going to be good. Well we it's today, it's not nineteen seventy 23 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.640 five, right exactly. It's funny because you know, my wife, who 24 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.719 as a season ticket holder for women's basketball, she got the email right with 25 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:44.319 the schedule and I'm looking at I'm walking by her her home office there and 26 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.680 I see that she's got the schedule of and I'm like, what do you 27 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:51.799 think? She goes, who are these teams? That was her first year? 28 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.239 She goes, No, she knows. She goes, I don't want 29 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.480 to see any of these teams. I don't want to see West Virginia. 30 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.599 I don't want to see I don't want to see Texas Tech. This. 31 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.480 You're like, well, that's who we're playing, man, that's who we're 32 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:05.359 going to. And you know what, you are going to go to Texas 33 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:07.640 Tech we are going to go see West Virginia. We are going to go 34 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:13.319 see Colorado and Houston. She loved this schedule in November or in December, 35 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:15.919 January. He's not going to recognize the uniforms, right, you know, 36 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.479 I mean, it's it's all different. But you know, you look at 37 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:22.520 the schedule and you go through and you say, win, win, win, 38 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.199 win win, right right right. It's funny because when it when it 39 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.319 came out early this morning, I was thinking, oh, here we go. 40 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:31.479 I was gonna see know how many wins blah blah on paper before the 41 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:35.680 paper last year? Yeah, you had five six wins. Yeah that's all. 42 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.840 I mean, I've told you you know, I had a truly, 43 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:42.360 I mean I kept saying six or seven wins, but I really, really, 44 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.319 honestly didn't have six wins. Sure I didn't, and and uh you 45 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.599 did. I I know you didn't lost. You still have me a lot 46 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:54.120 your dinner or something. But you know, I look at it now and 47 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:58.879 it's like it's not scary. No. No, Now do I think for 48 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:00.719 sure? No? I mean, do I think Do I think Arizona can 49 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:05.199 win the league? I do? Do I think they will win the league? 50 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:10.159 I'm not willing to say that, but there isn't one game, not 51 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:14.280 one game on there that I go Holy hell, that Arizona can't win that 52 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:19.360 game. And we knew this before Jed left. We didn't know this after 53 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:22.479 Jed left. But I think we know a little bit more now that he's 54 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:24.120 going to do and the players will return, you know, I mean the 55 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:30.719 conference opener is probably the biggest biggest game for Arizona in the conference. Uh, 56 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.840 you know, they they go off and they go beat Utah. Look 57 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:38.599 hard to do at Utah. But let's say they go off and do something 58 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:42.639 stupid and beat Utah. They're the favorites to win the league. Now, 59 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.759 you know. I was listening to John Wilner's podcast with John Canzano and and 60 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:52.840 he picked Utah to win the league. I think that's that's pretty well. 61 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:54.759 I mean that's I mean, who else? I mean, you know, 62 00:03:55.199 --> 00:04:00.560 Oklahoma State is the only maybe maybe TCU, but they weren't any good life 63 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.680 after being in the National Championship game year before last. It's gonna be a 64 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:05.719 lot of fun. You're gonna be gone, at least, you're gonna miss 65 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:10.439 all this screach no I know, but I'll be tuning in obviously right, 66 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.759 but you know, I mean tell you look, Texas Tech is an old 67 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.279 rival, Utah is an old rival. B WHYU is an old rival. 68 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:19.399 They've been playing Colorado for a while now, uh you know, and then 69 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.480 you got a US. So really there's only four new faces. And they 70 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:28.319 played Houston not that long ago. But West Virginia, Central Florida, Houston 71 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:33.160 and TCU are teams that Arizona doesn't really have a long history with. I 72 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.800 definitely see more than six. Doug. Sorry, I know you're probably not 73 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:41.839 listening because he hasn't listen hent d us anymore. What that no reason to 74 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:44.680 listen to you. He's got he's got to go find a big ten, 75 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.079 a big ten conference radio show. So it should be fun, a lot 76 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:51.639 of fun. Maybe we get some calls today anytime we have our show, 77 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:57.160 our guests are. Our guests are today, Bruce Pasco. We're gonna ask 78 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.839 him what the hell is going on with Arizona basketball and what do you think? 79 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.720 What do you think it is? Right now? One get his take 80 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.680 on the weekend, and then you know the things that they've got coming up. 81 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:11.399 We talked to you know, Brett Brian Peterson about they say we'll get 82 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:15.959 Bruce Pasco's wealth of knowledge in here and then at we're gonna start running through 83 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:19.959 some of the spring sport coaches at Arizona. So the first off he's gonna 84 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:25.199 be Clancy Shields, the man's tennis coach. He's built quite a program over 85 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.879 there. They're already four and oh on the spring season right now. They're 86 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.160 going to play Pepperdine and San Diego on the road this week. That's a 87 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:39.360 tough, a tough trip, right to go to Malibu and San Diego for 88 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.639 the weekend. But we'll talk to Clancy about what he's got going on with 89 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:46.720 his program. So Clancy Shields will be on here at. Yeah, but 90 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:48.319 I think they're well. I don't know how good those programs are, but 91 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:53.079 I think that Arizona now is is not a big dog, but it's a 92 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:58.279 pretty good dog compared to what it used to be because of Clancy. Yes, 93 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:00.319 yes, he's come here and done it incredible jobs. I'm not sure 94 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.800 the other teams are saying, hey, Arizona's coming in, but I'm sure 95 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.240 they kind of are now. Well there the ranked success the rank number thirteen, 96 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:13.079 and the I think it's the intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. I looked that 97 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:15.439 up and they're at their thirteenth, so you know they're they're top program. 98 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.720 Does he recruit a lot of international players? They're a bunch of international national 99 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:23.879 players, right, and that good got a whole bunch of and they and 100 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.759 they can play. What did you view from LA? Why did you come 101 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.240 to Arizona? I mean, I just wanted to go to a big school 102 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.439 that had everything like football, team, athletics. Yeah, and I wanted 103 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:38.000 to go to a large school, you know, yeah, big school, 104 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.480 and and you wanted to get out of town. I didn't want to go 105 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.279 too far though. I didn't want to go all the way across the country. 106 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.160 So I feel like it's the perfect distance. So what I think my 107 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.360 point was, I think you were I kind of knew you were going to 108 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:53.399 say that. But see how athletics continues to be a driver, a driver 109 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.319 of kids. It's not about well, I thought their program was a good 110 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.439 but no, it's about kind of I want to be where there's good athletics 111 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:04.639 and then I'll get a take a full college experience the social aspect of it. 112 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:09.680 So so given the money situation, uh, I think once they get 113 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:14.240 this ship righted. I don't know what the reputation is now, but but 114 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.680 it's going to be fine. Yeah. Well, you know, one of 115 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.360 the things that people want to know on stuff like that is that there's a 116 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:24.800 plan, you know, that it's fixable, that within an x amount of 117 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:28.199 time. You know, you get to work yourself right out of that. 118 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.319 You know, again, people hate uncertainty more than anything about you know, 119 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:39.199 about about whether it's you know, school, I mean, it's like we 120 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.360 want to know what our baby is going to be or it's more you know, 121 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.240 if people just want to know and that that's that's the comfort level. 122 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:51.759 So yeah, I think if there's if there is a sense that there's a 123 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:57.279 plan to get Arizona out of this financial situation, then you move on and 124 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:59.560 you say, okay, we're dealing with it. Let's go, let's let's 125 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:01.759 do the other stuff. I mean, it's still gonna be hard, you 126 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.800 know, Robin said, there's gonna be a bunch of layoffs and stuff like 127 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.560 that. But in the end, people just want to know what the hell 128 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.720 is going on? Yeah, yeah, okay, uh, we'll talk to 129 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.920 Bruce, like you said, what's going on? And we've got about six 130 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:16.319 six seven minutes. Uh, anything else going on, you know, just 131 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:18.879 a lot of just a lot of stuff. You know, here's the thing 132 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:20.480 and with I know, the schedules, the football schedules up. But you 133 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.199 know what, we've been talking mostly about basketball the last couple of days, 134 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.480 and that's it's kind of things that sort of the dust has settled a little 135 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:30.920 bit, right Uh. You know, Brent Brannan's got his staff in, 136 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.960 they're out doing whatever they're doing. Uh. You know, I know, 137 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.679 you got to hire an athletic director and there's all that stuff going on. 138 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.120 But I feel like the dust is starting to settle after like a frenzy, 139 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:48.159 you know, from you know, mid December or late December until a couple 140 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:50.679 of days ago, right right with the Heikey kind of nice and there's still 141 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.480 some kids leaving and going and then probably we'll be coming here pretty soon. 142 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.360 That's gonna happen. You know. You know, we haven't talked about is 143 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.960 is is not that we did talk about Jim Harbout leaving Michigan, but the 144 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.679 fact that they hired his assistant and they just like, you know, kind 145 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.679 they're just going to kind of keep the ball rolling over there and see what 146 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.120 they can do with that. I mean, the guy's young, he's still 147 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:15.399 actually this on the show a number of times. You probably tired of me 148 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:22.480 saying this. I don't know how well historically hiring the hiring the substitute teacher 149 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:24.759 doesn't work. Yeah, because he's not the head coach. He's he's you 150 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:28.600 don't recognize him as the head coach. He moves up a pi, slaughter 151 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.360 a seat over, and it's hard to continue to gain that respect or keep 152 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:35.679 that respect. So good luck with that. Well part of it too, 153 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.639 You got to figure, is this happened so late? Right, Harbrot went, 154 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.360 You know, it took this job so late they almost had no choice. 155 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.399 You know, they couldn't take a whole bunch of time. Now, 156 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.799 look, we know Alabama took two days to get a coach. You know, 157 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:54.679 then Washington took two days to get a coach. In Arizona took two 158 00:09:54.759 --> 00:10:00.320 days to get a coach. But you got a sense that if they'd have 159 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:03.240 gone and gotten somebody else, a bunch of players probably could have left, 160 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.559 just like they did Alabama. And now you got to wait until the portal 161 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.279 opens up in April to get your team back. If they all leave yeah, 162 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:15.440 so you know, I think their hands were kind of tied, and 163 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:16.279 you know, there was a lot of support for the guy. So, 164 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.360 you know, Sharon Moore's his name, a lot of support for the guy. 165 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:22.279 So he's the new coach in Michigan. Just I mean, you know, 166 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:28.320 Jim Harbaugh once made the comment about Ryan Day where Ryan Day was bitching 167 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.480 about something and he said, you know, here's a guy who woke up 168 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.320 on third base and he thought he got there. He thought he got a 169 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:35.960 triple to get there, you know, and then the people are saying, 170 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.240 well, Sharon Moore, you know he's he's woke up on third base. 171 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.879 The question is, you know, does he feel like he's lucky to be 172 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.200 there or does he feel like he had it coming. Well, we'll see 173 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:50.399 what he does with that triple or not triple. I'll go with Pinchron at 174 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:54.480 third base. That's im. I'm taking whoever Michigan's playing in the opener. 175 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.960 Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be tougher because they still lost a lot 176 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:03.080 of players. They were very very veteran, veteran team, didn't Rich trud 177 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.440 first gave me the stopolation state was it was up the game No, Richard 178 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.360 wasn't the one. It was the car. Rich Trod didn't. Rich Trod 179 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.039 wasn't the coach when they lost who who he replaced? Yeah, okay, 180 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:18.720 okay, sorry Richard. I appreciate it. I apologize now just in case 181 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:24.080 you're in town the weather listening to the show. Right, he's parked next 182 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:31.440 to his your next to his phone listening to us the same thing. Yeah, 183 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.879 ok so anyway, but you know it's man, I tell you what, 184 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.960 It's gonna be really interesting year in college football. Next year with all 185 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:46.600 the realignment with you know, coaches like Harbaugh and and uh and say we're 186 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:54.080 gone. It's I mean, next the the the anticipation of the college football 187 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.840 season is going to begin. The mint at the final four is over. 188 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:05.360 So so another grading of another thing with coaches being hired. And what grade 189 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.919 do you think they gave Brennan. This is a different thing. Plus it 190 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:09.840 was about a B. It was a B or C plus. I think 191 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:15.720 was a C plus. I talked about his record overall. You can't count 192 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.679 that. It's like we talked to a local guy here who said, well, 193 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:20.440 the record's not good. Well, if you go into a bad situation 194 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.159 like Jed. They didn't you know what, they give Jed a A A 195 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.360 A under the same conditions. It doesn't make any sense if you're going to 196 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.480 apply the litmus test this way, shouldn't Jed His record sucks well. First 197 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.080 of all, he's only got three years as the head coach right. Second 198 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.720 of all, even after going ten and three, he's still under five hundred 199 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.639 and now he's the coach of Washington. And if you go Rennan and you're 200 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:48.519 kind of in your first years at a bad you know, a bad place, 201 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.519 it's going to take you a while. So if you scrub those first 202 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:54.360 three and see that there's progress, he's done very well done. He's done 203 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.960 well at a tough place to I just didn't add a hard time. So 204 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.480 if you're gonna apply those things there up there, why not down here? 205 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:03.559 Yeah, it doesn't make any sense, But I think that he's won over 206 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.919 people here. He certainly has, media wise, national wise, all that. 207 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:11.039 No, and you know, and and and the and the and The 208 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:16.840 great thing about Brandon too now is because I think one of the issues the 209 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.320 last go around when Jed got hired was you know, when you're thinking about 210 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.080 Brent, bring your thinking. God can he actually come and rebuild this. 211 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:26.159 Now I don't know that he could have. I think it took somebody like 212 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:31.360 Jed to do this. Well, now he's it's built and he's here, 213 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:35.320 and now all he's got to do is make it better. He doesn't have 214 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:37.799 to build it. And and I think that, uh, he's in a 215 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.120 he's in a way better place. And I'm not gonna say it's gonna be 216 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:46.759 easier. I'm just gonna say, you know, he's he's coming into a 217 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.799 place where if he's if he's a good coach, then he's going to be 218 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.240 able to do this, you know. And and I think all signs are 219 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.519 that he's a good coach. I think let's let's say this, we've got 220 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.279 a bit here in this problem. Okay, Let's say he does turn into 221 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:03.759 Dick Tomy and and for whatever that means. But it's a seven and four, 222 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:07.120 it's an eight and three, maybe a six and five, and the 223 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:11.639 usual Dick tellmey kind of thing, maybe a nine and two run in that, 224 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.519 are you okay? I think there's gonna be a little higher expectations in 225 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:22.519 the big twelve. I think there's a there's a belief that that he should 226 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:24.240 do better in the Big twelve than Arizona was able to do in the Pac 227 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:28.919 twelve or Pac ten. So I think the expectation is going to be that 228 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:35.039 maybe they should be a seven eight nine win team every year as opposed to 229 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:39.480 a six seventy. And that's and that's that's crazy to hear that from you 230 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:43.600 from to hear that. Good luck, Yeah, good luck. We'll see, 231 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:46.080 we'll see, we'll start to see what it looks like this year. 232 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:48.320 All right, let's uh, let's go and take our break. We got 233 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:52.600 we're gonna come back. 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Did you have a better trip to 312 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:42.759 Oregon than the basketball team did? Oh? Yeah, I always love going 313 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:45.519 up there. Yeah, I mean it's a lot of driving and a lot 314 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:51.640 of rain. But you know, it's it's beautiful and two really fun venues 315 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:56.359 to visit in my opinion. I mean, it's totally different and just yeah, 316 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:00.039 it's just it's fun, and this time through it's you know, I 317 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:04.000 mean it's kind of a bittersweet thing too, because it's the last time most 318 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:07.400 likely Arizona's going to make a trip like that ever again, although I maybe 319 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:12.160 could see him playing in Oregon, you know, and maybe going to Portland 320 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.839 to meet one of those teams in a in a in some kind of tournament, 321 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:19.880 but not not making true trips to Guild Callisseum or anything like that. 322 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:23.319 You know, it's been a lot of years since I you know, I 323 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:26.960 went there. But did you have some favorite spots over there? Restaurant that 324 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:33.200 you hit that well maybe has been around a while before you say that that's 325 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:37.240 my favorite college town. I love that trip. Anywhere Eugene was was awesome. 326 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.559 So what were your spots over there? Yeah? Well, you know, 327 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:47.519 I mean, actually Corvallis has a there's like a Hawaiian place near the 328 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:52.440 right cross the streets in the campus, and there's a there's a taco shop 329 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.880 that's kind of like a Nico style taco shop that's open all night, so 330 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:59.440 it's like the only place you can go besides McDonald's after the game, So 331 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.720 that's kind of cool. And then there's a there's a there's a little kind 332 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:06.000 of like a brew pub type of place in the main drag there in Corballis 333 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:08.000 is pretty good. I think it's called Block Routine or something. And and 334 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:11.799 then down on Eugene, you got, uh, there's a I mean there's 335 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:15.799 a place called Fishermen's Market. I really like just you know, to get 336 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.200 fresh press, sea food, sandwiches, fish and chips, whatever, all 337 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:22.839 all kinds of good stuff like that, you know. But man, it's 338 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:25.920 all over the board in fact that you know. Actually one of the places 339 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.599 I went to, Corvellas is out of business now. It's been a while, 340 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:32.640 so you know, some things went down with COVID or whatever like everywhere. 341 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.559 But still there was in w at the fork in the road. Remember 342 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:41.359 in W there in the forks in the road, the one road to get 343 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:47.319 in and get out what in w Yeah, Now, dude, a Eugene 344 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:51.119 was always about the electric stations, which is also since yeah, were you 345 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:55.400 was it around when you were going up there? Yeah? I remember, 346 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:59.640 I remember even I probably remember years ago there a s U and you have 347 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:02.759 able at the same hotel or they met there and there was like a fight 348 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:07.880 or matched that they were both both teams are there and it was the Friday 349 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:14.119 night between games and that at that time, that was like the I guess 350 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:17.400 the Davis place for teams to go because they had tons of room and it 351 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:21.559 was kind of like that bacant seafood potta, whatever kind of place so everyone 352 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:26.880 could be happy, and but it got out of control that night. I 353 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:29.559 never I think I maybe ate there once, but it's pretty hard to get 354 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:30.799 in on the expensive court, so I didn't usually go there. No, 355 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.000 it was a J. Brownlett and and I think it was house any house, 356 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:37.920 and I don't because it was the book. It was in one of 357 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:41.519 my books and he says, you want a piece of this national championship. 358 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:51.640 Wow, those are the days. So so, Bruce, what did we 359 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:52.920 see over the weekend? Who the hell are these guys? Which one? 360 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:57.920 Which one are they? Well? You know, I mean you guys know, 361 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:02.039 I mean it's you know, it really is a cliche. It's hard 362 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:04.720 to win on the road, and it is, and particularly I think the 363 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:08.160 PAC twelve and this will all go away sadly, but it's really unique in 364 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:11.880 the Pac twelve where you have this these two game road trips and when you 365 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:18.240 lose the first one, you know that you're supposed to win more often than 366 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:22.119 not. And Steve, I think you could probably agree with me on this. 367 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.799 You seem to two Saturday you play great, you just do or the 368 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.440 other way around. I mean, it's one of the other ends, you 369 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:34.400 know. And also the challenge about the playing at Oregon State is not usually 370 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:37.599 what your typical road challenge is, where you have that hostile environment all that 371 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:41.839 there's like thirty five hundred fansit and their guilt cost team with their hands on 372 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.640 their laps not doing anything for the first twenty five minutes of that game. 373 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:51.079 So what you have to deal with and it's a nineteen forty nine building that 374 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:53.559 still looks a lot like in nineteen forty nine building, and so you have 375 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:57.000 to create your own energy and get up for that. And then if you 376 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:02.000 don't and you don't take a commanding lead, then then you get the fans 377 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:04.480 get excited and you know, and it becomes kind of a tense environment. 378 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:08.160 And that's exactly what happened, and you know. I mean, you know, 379 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:12.319 I think what I think it's happened four or five times where Oregon State's 380 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:15.839 beating them up there, you know, in years when they're not supposed to 381 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:21.759 just just kind of in that in that situation. I don't know, So 382 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:25.759 an answer questions Jay in a long way, I guess you know, they're 383 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:29.480 they're you know, I think they're kind of the same team to me that 384 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:32.079 they've been all the season, which is kind of a top fifteen team, 385 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:37.160 and they are subject to having trouble on the road, and they've had maybe 386 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:40.160 arguably a little more road I mean, I think the game that really stands 387 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:42.240 out as a Stanford game, but they just got whipped and the other ones 388 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:47.160 were kind of you know, not really issuge surprised. I didn't think. 389 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:49.640 I mean Oregon State also too, is you know, they had lost five 390 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:52.599 in a row, but four of them are on the road. The other 391 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:56.559 one was at home against overtime overtime against Stanford. I mean, they weren't 392 00:25:56.599 --> 00:26:00.720 really as bad as their record looks, so, you know, so there's 393 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:03.079 a way to look at that as well. I see Oregon State, and 394 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.759 I see coach Hinko Hinkle and I'm thinking, how many lives does he have. 395 00:26:08.079 --> 00:26:11.519 I mean that that run two three years ago to the tournament deepened the 396 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:18.039 germot and saved him because it's been bad every other year. Yeah, Well, 397 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.680 he got a he got a long contract extension after that, Covid Elite 398 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.240 eight, and so he was kind of locked in there, and then you 399 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:29.000 know, I think he's done. I think he's done a pretty good job 400 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:30.759 there. There's a lot of it's a very difficult place to recruit to. 401 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:34.119 It's going to be even more difficult now that they're leaving the PAC twelve, 402 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:37.960 you know. And and he's a good guy. Everybody loves him, you 403 00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:41.720 know, you know, he appears to be clean, does all the right 404 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:44.839 things, and you know, has good guys. So I think they just 405 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:47.759 are kind of rolling with it. And then every now and then he's he's 406 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:49.079 uh, you know, making that Elite eight, and he's had a couple 407 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:52.839 of big wins against Arizona, so that that's probably helped him stay in good 408 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:57.160 savor there too. Dana Alltman, you know, always questions about, you 409 00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:00.400 know, how far he can take his team. You know, he did 410 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.839 get him to a final four, but you know, they if he's you 411 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:07.000 kind of feel like he's in that same mode as as Sean Miller, with 412 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:08.720 the accept that he did get to a Final four, that he's just not 413 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:11.440 always quite as good as you think he should be. You know what, 414 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.720 what's the you know, what's what did Oregon look like to you? Uh? 415 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.200 I? I saw that Mike Michael of course he had them even though 416 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:22.519 they were in first place in the pack twelve on Saturday during that game, 417 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:26.079 he had them as you know, as the first team, uh, you 418 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:33.400 know out of the tournament. What are they? Yeah? Yeah, well, 419 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:37.160 you know, I mean there he's you know, I think to me, 420 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:41.200 it's almost kind of like the he was like the transfer portal guy before 421 00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:45.279 there was a transfer portal. He's always mixed in guys from all different levels, 422 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:49.039 freshmen, juco transfers, four year transfers, grad transfers, and then 423 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:55.319 and then pretty high profile five star freshmen sometimes, so everybody comes in with 424 00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.400 their own agenda and it takes some time. Then. He's also had a 425 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:02.759 lot of in the last few years and so many injuries. In fact, 426 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:07.839 they lost Keyshawn Barthelmy, their their backup point guard. The other day when 427 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.200 they played Arizona. It just keeps happening. So, you know, I 428 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:15.400 don't know, He's got talented teams there, but sometimes they do come together. 429 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:19.039 Uh, and at least in the conference play and are pretty tough, 430 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:22.599 and we've seen them take care of Arizona a lot over the years. But 431 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.559 you're you're right, Jay, I think maybe you could you could say why 432 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:30.079 why does this team go further in the tournament? And you know, it's 433 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.759 hard to It's hard to say on that one because every time I've seen at 434 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:36.599 least play Arizona, I mean, they looked really good. They didn't look 435 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:38.799 at so good Saturday, and I think probably the biggest surprise was defensively. 436 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:44.680 Usually defensively they really caused Arizona some trouble and it didn't that didn't seem to 437 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:47.000 be the case at all. I think, you know, Arizona shot really 438 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:49.680 well, didn't seem fluster, you know, nothing like that that we've seen 439 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:53.440 there over the years. So I don't know, they're they're always probably one 440 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:57.200 of the more the M and A sure probably the two most enigmatic teams in 441 00:28:57.279 --> 00:29:00.119 the PAC twelve is to figure out what the heck heck is going on. 442 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:04.640 So Bruce, I asked Jay this yesterday from the Gorgon game. What was 443 00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:10.559 he most impressed with or impressed may not have been the word, but seeing 444 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.119 Love do what he did at thirty six or Kaitlyn coming back to doing some 445 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.319 of the things he had been doing. Yeah, it was a little of 446 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.079 both. I think probably he was I think I mean, if I'm listening 447 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:29.240 and understanding what Lloyd is saying, I think he felt that what Boswell did 448 00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:30.839 was going to happen. So I don't think that was a huge surprise to 449 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.720 him. He just he was kind of like this part of the process, 450 00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:37.880 that kind of stuff. But I think the love think surprised him, not 451 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.480 so much the Love scored thirty six, but because of the way he didn't 452 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.359 seem to force the issues. Granted, Oregon gave him some pretty good looks 453 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:49.680 at times, but he didn't go forcing it, and particularly in the second 454 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:52.839 half, you know, because he came in with twenty its first half, 455 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.720 and that's a situation where you know, you're sitting around a half time thinking 456 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.640 he got twenty. You're thinking maybe I got forty. I'll get on ESPN 457 00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:02.880 whatever, blah blah blah, you know, And so Lloyd said he talked 458 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:03.799 to him coming out a halftime, he said, hey, I don't care, 459 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.279 you know, if you if you just have twenty for the whole game, 460 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.079 just just just make good decisions. And so he seemed Lloyd said he 461 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.640 was he was impressed that that's that's what happened. And Lloyd, you know, 462 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.960 and Love didn't didn't press the issue too much, you know, and 463 00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:22.759 had a pretty smooth effort. I think because because I think, you know, 464 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.240 I mean, we saw two years ago and to have mathmom Matham was 465 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.440 kind of that that powerful, aggressive, go to score. Last year they 466 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.400 don't have to have that guy at least on the perimeter, and then this 467 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:36.680 year they have it in Love. But it seems like he needs a little 468 00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:38.359 management where, you know, you just want don't want him to get too 469 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:42.519 overheated and really start forcing it. So Love's or Lloyd's been talking a lot 470 00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:45.839 about that. I think a couple of weeks ago into Clay Utah, he 471 00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:49.440 I think he actually told him after he had twenty three, so hey, 472 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:52.279 that's enough. Let the rest of these guys finish up, you know. 473 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.559 So it's it's it's interesting, but it's I think Love is listening to him 474 00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:00.599 too, because I think he knows that being more efficient is going to get 475 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.000 him to do the NBA. There's no way he was going to get there 476 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.119 last year shooting, you know, as poorly as he was. He is 477 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:10.200 being that kind of player. You Know. One of the things that we 478 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:12.880 keep hearing is Umar Ballo. He doesn't look good. He's not having a 479 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:15.599 you know, do you think he's having a bad year or do you think 480 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:19.640 he's just kind of leveled off a little bit from the big leap he took 481 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:26.440 last year or is he kind of are people not having an appreciation for what 482 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:30.599 he's doing? Wow? Yeah, I mean it's probably a lot of all 483 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:34.279 of what you said. I mean, I think probably the most is I 484 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.480 think he's leveled off a little bit. People probably figured out a little more 485 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.200 about how to play him. He's a little you know, he's a little 486 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.759 limited defensively sometimes, but that's not unusual for a guy of his size, 487 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:49.119 you know. I think, you know, I think maybe he caught people 488 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:53.480 a little surprised early last year when he really came out of the gate just 489 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:59.279 demon he was so good there and then won that Maui MVP title, and 490 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.160 you know, and then I think it's just you know, he ran into 491 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:06.599 some injuries last year. He's had some minor injuries this year, and that's 492 00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:08.880 kind of the expect I don't really know if that's playing a role or not, 493 00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:13.759 because you know, they don't he doesn't like to talk about nobody doesn't 494 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.599 like to talk about. So I don't know if if there's any thing to 495 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:19.279 that. But I do know in the preseason he had some things going on, 496 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.079 so it just didn't seem like you get off to a great start and 497 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:27.079 then you wonder if you know, if there's confidence issues or anything going on 498 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.880 too, because you know, judging by his free throw shooting that you know 499 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:32.960 that that appeared to be kind of a mental block. Is you know, 500 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.160 not like he you know, he's his free throw shooting got got you know, 501 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:40.319 has gone down and although it's been a little better lately, but so 502 00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:43.400 you just I don't know, it's a little bit of a puzzle, I 503 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:45.920 think. But but you know, but I think it's a classic case of 504 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.039 an Arizona player and the team often has this problem where you get expectations get 505 00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:53.039 ratcheted up because of something you do early and it's just hard to keep living 506 00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:55.960 up to that. I think that's that's a lot of it. So we 507 00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:00.480 all know that Tommy has some some talent on that team. Some days some 508 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:06.200 good, some days not so good. We see the rotation now eight probably 509 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:08.680 Philip probably is going to be nine or ten, and the other kid number 510 00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:14.599 twenty four, twenty twenty three, that Gyroscos. Yeah. So so you 511 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.000 think that we'll ever see these other two, the other two that we just 512 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:22.559 mentioned deep into a game, probably not right? Well, that's you know, 513 00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:27.680 Lloyd's still been talking about doing that. He's been playing them a little 514 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:30.279 bit more and he's you know, he experimented a little bit the other day 515 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:36.400 with going with smaller lineups, which allows more opportunity for those guys to get 516 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:40.400 in or and or play Kshaw Johnson or Pela Larson at the five, and 517 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.079 you know, if he continues to do that, it creates more opportunities. 518 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:46.880 But it kind of seems to me like a you know, here we are 519 00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:51.400 almost February, and you know, find now your rotation is pretty sad, 520 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:53.240 and it's hard to imagine it would change a whole lot, but it does 521 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:57.480 seem like kind of an eight plus two situation as far as the rotation, 522 00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:02.200 and maybe maybe depending on you know, we'll turn to those other two guys 523 00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:06.160 to kind of make a different look in his lineup, but it's hard to 524 00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.199 imagine either one of them being a regular guy barring some kind of you know, 525 00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:14.280 injury issue or anything like that. Right, Okay, Bruce, thank 526 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:16.639 you, Hey, Thanks Chris. We will see you this week at Micheale. 527 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:20.199 Thanks a whole bunch. All right, thank you, All right, 528 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:22.440 let's take our next break. We're going to come back. You're an Arizona 529 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:27.039 man's basketball fan. You know it's been successful for nearly forty years. Now, 530 00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.239 take a look back at the Ludolsen era In my new book, Lessons 531 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.360 from lut It was a labor of love Tobi with twenty five former players, 532 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:37.199 coaches and friends to give insight to the coach and the man who led them, 533 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:39.800 competed against them, and inspired them. Twenty five chapters for his twenty 534 00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:45.159 five years as Arizona's beloved coach. 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Good afternoon, everybody, if 569 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:22.639 you want to call, calls five to two oh four, one, six, 570 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:25.599 seventy four forty an Aleasa's handy with the phone, ready to go. 571 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:29.920 Yeah, now, I'm ready. Yeah, we were. We continue to 572 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:31.840 tutor her through the day. So he's got it, she's got He'll be 573 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:35.159 good the first time. Yeah. I want to know what people think of 574 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:37.760 the schedule, the football schedule, you know, the home games, you 575 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.480 know, New Mexico and NAU, Right, those are you know, kind 576 00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:45.480 of standard non conference games. I already got a text saying, don't poo 577 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.559 poo the schedule, don't know, Mike Parade. No, I like the 578 00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:51.719 schedule. I like the we I mean, you know, I know me. 579 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:53.559 Oh because I'm mister down, Do I mis Do I miss the PAC 580 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:57.079 twelve? Yes? Am I gonna miss you know, having you know, 581 00:37:57.400 --> 00:37:59.679 USC and U C, l A and all these teams coming here. Of 582 00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:02.159 course I am. But I'm also kind of looking forward to the newness of 583 00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:06.440 this. Right, teams that we've never teams that we never have don't see 584 00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:10.000 often uniforms that we don't see often. And then to see how all of 585 00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:15.079 this is going to play, you know in the national media. Uh, 586 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:17.679 you know, you know, you're you're starting to see a lot of stuff 587 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:22.000 about Arizona being a favorite for the Big twelve, right, and and so 588 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:27.880 what kind of where in the conversation with Arizona be from a football standpoint next 589 00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:30.719 year, right in a different area of the country, Right, this is 590 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:34.320 going to be the West. We are the West now as far west as 591 00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:37.679 you're going to go, because of the other schools are out somewhere else. 592 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:42.119 Yeah, no, all the schools are in our time zone or well, 593 00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:45.599 we had a situation today because of all tour. So those games you know 594 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:50.079 obviously, but games are not going to be played, could not be played 595 00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:52.960 at one o'clock in the early September windows. I mean, that's going to 596 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.880 be brus home games. Home games. No, you're still gonna have Lake 597 00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.760 games. But I you know, but I like those games to be it 598 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.199 five o'clock. Yeah, six o'clock, right, you know, the eight 599 00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:07.800 to thirty game is gone, you know that's gone. Right, Seven o'clock 600 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:10.440 might be the late seven o'clock might be be the latest eight o'clock Central time 601 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:14.719 right. Yeah, So let's say we're playing we say, let's Arizona's playing 602 00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:17.159 a Central time zone team. I could see a game being at seven o'clock 603 00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:21.199 or seven, even seven thirty, you know, eight, you know, 604 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:22.639 eight, eight o'clock or eight thirty in the central time zone. I don't 605 00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:29.320 see Arizona playing in Central Florida or West Virginia at seven thirty at night for 606 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:31.599 a conference game. They're not going to do that. In conference games, 607 00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:36.880 you can do that. You can do that when you know, if you 608 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.559 know an Iowa comes to town and you want you want them to, you 609 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:43.480 know, have a tough time with you play them at seven thirty two some 610 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:45.239 on time and and say, I, you know, I don't see that 611 00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:50.079 we're going to have all the late games that we've we've had for sure, 612 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:52.880 for sure, not the eight thirty games that we've had a couple of those 613 00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:55.719 in the past. You know, same thing with basketball, right, you 614 00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:59.679 know, we're not gonna have those nine o'clock games anymore. There's a nine 615 00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:02.360 o'clock game coming up, isn't there? Or did we just have one o 616 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:06.480 those nin oclock they had Oregon State basketball? Yeah, basketball, they had 617 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:08.639 Oregon State at nine o'clock. Those aren't fun. Those are fun. They're 618 00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:13.599 not was eight o'clock. I was still kind of right because you're not getting 619 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:15.800 out of there to ten third well eleven, yeah, yeah, because the 620 00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:20.679 press conference all that stuff, and you're carrying your stuff right right, So 621 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:24.360 I I I'm I'm you know, don't want b y U fan coming over 622 00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:28.599 here? No, I don't, but don't don't go there. Don't go 623 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:30.440 there. But you know, Texas Tech, you know again an old time 624 00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:34.840 an old time rival. It'll be interesting to see, you know, West 625 00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:37.960 Virginia Central Florida teams we've never seen before. I know, I was gonna 626 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:45.519 play back played a home and home with TCU back in the early two thousands. 627 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:49.679 We saw La Daniel Tomlinson, we saw uh and the TCU came here 628 00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:53.280 Houston. We've seen them a couple of times. But it's gonna be new, 629 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:59.360 so I'm kind of I'm kind of intrigued by it. Yeah, yeah, 630 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.119 No, and then with a new coach and you look, we'll see. 631 00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:05.239 I think it's been a lot of fun. You know, too bad, 632 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:12.079 Too bad, Dave. He can't see this through for whatever reason, 633 00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.880 I guess eventually we'll get an explanation from from the boss, from his boss 634 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:22.639 or not, or he'll find this, he'll find a spot, He'll find 635 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.320 a spot. Yeah. Yeah, I think most people, most people in 636 00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:30.760 his industry, given his situation, With all due respect to Robins, know 637 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.480 he was kind of escape good not kind of he was. Yeah, and 638 00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.880 so that's not going to ture him to anybody else from hiring him. Yeah, 639 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.039 I mean, you'll be able to see this is what happened, right, 640 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:44.320 I mean again, you know, the athletic department got beat up by 641 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:46.719 COVID, just like everybody else. My dad, Jay gave me the approval 642 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:51.639 to spend ten bucks on a candy bar, but mom didn't like it. 643 00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:58.079 So now mom has put me in the room and I'm in trouble. But 644 00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:01.800 Jay's okay. You know, how does that work? I'm not really sure. 645 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:04.880 I want to go ask Bob. Okay, you get to approve and 646 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.960 you're still screwed. Yeah, I god. I did see on the schedule 647 00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:13.760 that the Houston game, which is the last home game before the ASU game, 648 00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:17.480 could be on a Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. So that's that's 649 00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:21.519 kind of up in the air. I don't know when the day that November 650 00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:24.239 fourteen, fifteen or sixteen, OK, and then they go to TCU, 651 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:30.440 and then Thanksgiving weekend that Saturday, Arizona State is here. But and then 652 00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:35.079 the Kansas State game, which would normally be a conference game, but because 653 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.960 it was already on the schedule as a non conference game, they're going to 654 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:40.920 play it as a non conference game. In Arizona goes to Kansas State for 655 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:45.960 that and that that's either a Friday or Saturday game September thirteen or fourteen of 656 00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:51.280 the third week of the season. So it surely is going to be different, 657 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:53.079 but it'll be different in a good way. I can't wait to I 658 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:57.239 can't wait to bust busson. You have a bunch of teams at least five 659 00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:01.320 I think this week or in the top twenty five, and just just the 660 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:05.880 craziness that Big twelve basketball. And then you know their fans are going to 661 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:10.400 show up here too, and yeah, they're gonna come here and they're gonna 662 00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:15.199 be loud. And you know, I mean we remember Kansas coming here and 663 00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:17.880 it's gonna be great. Kansas State has come here in the past. Yeah, 664 00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.639 you know some of these other teams, it's gonna be fantastic. So, 665 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:27.440 uh, you know Houston and basketball Texas Tech and basketball Kansas, Baylor, 666 00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.639 you know Baylor, all these teams that's gonna be. I think if 667 00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.320 you don't have tickets to the basketball season, better you better try to find 668 00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:38.320 a way. Games will be coming. Good point, good point comes here 669 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:42.239 next time. What a schedule that will be next year? Right, right, 670 00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:45.000 let's see what happens. So let's just get through this next two months. 671 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:47.159 Right, February March is already around the corner. Short month in February 672 00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:52.760 March comes. Yet already I already got asked for my for my shirt size, 673 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:57.079 for the for my gear at the back of tournament. I'm still got 674 00:43:57.159 --> 00:43:59.000 to bring you some guys. Keep looking up in my closet. I got 675 00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:01.000 to get I got to get Steve some stuff. But everywhere I go, 676 00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:05.559 and if I'm wearing a Pac twelve things, that's going to be some some 677 00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:07.199 say that's gonna be worthless. Another is going to say, you know, 678 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.440 that's gonna be worth a lot of money. I'm like not, they neither. 679 00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:14.920 It's it's gonna be like some of our colleagues from the past. We're 680 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:22.280 in the comparable the comparable talking exactly what you're talking. You know, he's 681 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:28.159 just old. He's just doesn't nothing else to wear. It's not that anymore. 682 00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:31.159 In a very inside joke, that's over here. Okay, but yeah, 683 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:35.159 so you know, are you going to the Pac twelve Tournament, the 684 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:37.320 Pack twelve Tournament. Well, I don't. It's going to be here, 685 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:42.039 right, no Vegas, in Vegas. You don't. You don't travel. 686 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.360 I don't travel. But you're the boss the well, here's money. It's 687 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:51.960 not during spring break this year, it's not. Fin four is in Phoenix, 688 00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:58.159 right. I could see if they get when they get, but but 689 00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:02.760 not the I think spring break is the week before. Okay, okay, 690 00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:07.960 so because it is running a little late this yeah, yeah, so iky 691 00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:10.480 so they well, kids to still go. I don't have any kids in 692 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:13.599 school anymore, so they're all going. Yeah, kids are Yeah, of 693 00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:15.599 course the kids will see it Thursday fighting class cares. Yeah, the whole 694 00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:20.360 clan will be up there for this one. If you're never gone, you 695 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:22.440 gotta go. Yeah. It's the last rodeo. Man, it's a blast, 696 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:28.599 the last rodeo. I'm sure I saw Duke in the Sweet sixteen two 697 00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:30.960 years ago and they played Texas Tech in San Francisco. Yeah, oh, 698 00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:35.039 you were at that I got there, yeah, and I was at the 699 00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:38.480 other one was playing the same day. Yeah, yep. Yeah. And 700 00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:42.559 when the smack coach came the head as he walked by me, Well that's 701 00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.960 when you said, what's his name? There are number one guy Pollo? 702 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:49.119 Yeah, Carol, there was you know that he was. He was the 703 00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:52.920 real deal. Like they won that game by like one point or something right 704 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.360 at the end. Yeah. Yeah, he was like eighteen years old and 705 00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:58.800 he looked like thirty five out there, just a big du haven't heard his 706 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:00.920 name much in the NBA. He's like, he's doing well, Yeah, 707 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.239 he's doing well. You know the guy you don't hear much of. This 708 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:09.199 guy from Gonzaga who went to Orlando's sas one of those guards, the guards, 709 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:14.440 the guard who went to I think you went to Orlando. Oh okay, 710 00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:16.199 he's the one that hit the last second shot. Oh yeah, way 711 00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:19.920 back yeah court shot. Yeah, the half court shot against the c l 712 00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:24.639 A. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, no, it's uh all 713 00:46:24.719 --> 00:46:28.159 that Steve. I think it's gonna be fun. And it's around around the 714 00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:30.880 corner. I mean, you're sucking five six weeks. Yeah, talking about 715 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.000 yeah, yeah, yeah, I I I don't and I don't know what 716 00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:37.079 to think of what that's going to be like, you know, is there's 717 00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:39.480 something just gonna go in there and get it stuff together and blitz everybody. 718 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:44.519 Is somebody gonna step up and you know, you know, make a fight 719 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:47.239 out of it because the rest of the team's just you don't know what you 720 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:50.760 got. You know. Stanford goes off and beats Arizona, then they lose 721 00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:52.920 a couple of bad games. You know, same thing with Washington State. 722 00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:58.000 You know, is a su any good We don't know. It's it's to 723 00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:01.360 me when you've seen it the packed what has been Arizona's they'll lose pretty much. 724 00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:06.400 The ones that always scare me, having covered the team for twenty three 725 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:10.480 years before traveled was the first and second rounds. Why because they're expected to 726 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:15.400 win the game, right, Yeah, to show up? Yeah, yeah, 727 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:17.440 yeah. And it's always we talked about confidence over confidence killed the Cats. 728 00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:21.400 It's killed them a number of times. I remember they struggled with Stanford 729 00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:23.199 last year in there for in the first game, in their first game. 730 00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:28.000 They're not going They're not really going to lose this, are they so you 731 00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:30.920 know sometimes they yeah, well you wonder, like we say, Tommy's on 732 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:35.360 the clock. Tom's on the clock. He knows how important that first round 733 00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:38.679 game is because he said it's on me if there's two going to be and 734 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:43.480 went back to back first rounds. It was on him and the city let 735 00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:45.639 him know. Yeah, it was on him. Yeah, no, absolutely, 736 00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:51.559 there's still some people who don't think he was that great. We talked 737 00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:53.639 about that. We talked about that, right, and I'm like, guys, 738 00:47:53.719 --> 00:48:00.239 he won a national championship. Let me write down get ahold of them 739 00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:01.440 call it? One of them used to sit next to me on the stat 740 00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:05.639 crew, so you know, yeah, yeah, like you know what I 741 00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:09.360 would say, you should have won more championships and coach k and Calipari, 742 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:14.119 all these guys should have done the same thing. Yeah, right, absolutely, 743 00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:19.639 But now it's uh, it's just been it looks for as you as 744 00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:22.719 you're saying in you know, in the ad, you know, advertising your 745 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:25.000 book. For forty years. Man, it's been a ride. It's been 746 00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:30.079 a ride with this basketball program. A lot of wins who have been there 747 00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:31.760 and a lot of great wins. You know, we're into the get heading 748 00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:36.000 heading into the third generation of that right, Well, there's a lot of 749 00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:40.760 great wins of the kids. Of the kids are Joe Well Arenas Gilbert, 750 00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:45.239 Gilbert's son might be recruited here or whatever. But I said, a lot 751 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:49.400 of great wins and a lot of crazy losses, a lot of unbelievable, 752 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.039 a lot of that heart breaks, heartbreaking losses. Those those back to back 753 00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:57.400 Elite eights for Sean Miller, you know, the the Elite eight, the 754 00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.719 ninety eight one was sticks out, the eighty eight loss in the final fource 755 00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:04.480 I want to make you cry. I want to make you cry. Yeah, 756 00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:10.840 uh, Chicago, Illinois. You know that one that made me mad 757 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:15.960 more than made me sad. That one pissed me off. We were we 758 00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:19.440 were already registered to get to the final four. Yeah, that one, 759 00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.480 that one, that one made me mad because I'm like, how the hell 760 00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:27.639 do you guys do that? You know, not my kid and and his 761 00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:32.239 friends cried, But that that one made me mad more than anything. But 762 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:35.880 then against Steve, I'm gonna you know, look, I was more sad. 763 00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:39.079 I was sad when I was a writer. I was sad for the 764 00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:44.079 eighty eight teams loss, and I was sad for the eighty nine teams loss. 765 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:47.559 Then my last game, the last basketball game that I covered was the 766 00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:51.880 ninety team against Alabama, and I'm like, you guys are idiots. How 767 00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:54.280 how did you do that for the same reasons they lose? Now, yeah, 768 00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:59.559 over what what did say? Yeah, we weren't ready. We came 769 00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:02.320 out flat. There's your example starts right now, it starts yeah, and 770 00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:07.320 so you know, those those ones. So those of the two that I 771 00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:08.920 will say, the I think was two thousand and three, the Kansas last 772 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:13.559 Jason Garden. You know, now, when I was set because my kids 773 00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:15.199 were sad. I sat there and watching it cry because we were going to 774 00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:19.719 the Final four. We had tickets and everything. We were going right, 775 00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:22.199 and then it all came apart at the end of that game another one and 776 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:24.800 that was that was on. That was on Salm Selaine didn't show up. 777 00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:28.880 Yeah, So anyways, okay, I don't know. All right, we're 778 00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:30.400 gonna end of the end of the break here. Yeah, we're coming to 779 00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:35.519 it. And at least all right, her rookie breaking news today. So 780 00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:37.719 no pressure, Yeah, no pressure at all, and at least none none 781 00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:42.199 whatsoever. We're gonna break into that and then we're gonna have Clancy Shields. 782 00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:46.000 We'll be coming up. We'll talk about some Arizona men's tennis when uh when 783 00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:50.199 when we get back, so uh stick around for all of that. We'll 784 00:50:50.239 --> 00:51:00.639 be right back. This is the last