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Speaker 2: Set Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the
Speaker 2: Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: You're not Ja Gonzales. You're Andy Brown.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not Steve Rivera either.
Speaker 2: You're not Lucky. You you're not meet.
Speaker 3: I heard you. Get to talk now Jays.
Speaker 2: Jason Gonzalez is out today doing some business stuff and
Speaker 2: we got a boy Ryan, So now you'll have to
Speaker 2: hear me. So sorry about thank.
Speaker 3: You's all right? When when are you gonna type up
Speaker 3: those notes sheet? That note sheet is like one hundred
Speaker 3: years old.
Speaker 2: Don't need to be I can do off the top
Speaker 2: of my.
Speaker 3: Head, I bet you.
Speaker 2: I just just want to have it in my safety valve.
Speaker 2: You're my safety valve. Just it kids, like it's like
Speaker 2: your safety blanket. Yes, my line is lots of stuff
Speaker 2: happening this weekend. Yeah it is, Yes, a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff locally.
Speaker 3: Did you take yesterday off?
Speaker 2: I did take yesterday of course. Yes, we didn't have
Speaker 2: a show yesterday, so uh you were there? Did you
Speaker 2: do you tailgate?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: So you didn't walk through the you didn't do your
Speaker 2: little supervision eighteen.
Speaker 3: I'm way early, you know. I don't get to the tailgate.
Speaker 2: Though, So that's that's it's a business for you.
Speaker 3: Yes, No, that's Saturday is the workday for me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: much like you come on the radio show like today
Speaker 3: is not business for me, but for you it.
Speaker 2: Is, right right, So yees, Saturday A nice turnout. Actually,
Speaker 2: and let me say this before before I move on.
Speaker 2: I was very impressed with something that we kind of
Speaker 2: talked about Jay and I every now and again, the
Speaker 2: student section not showing up and leaving at halftime. They
Speaker 2: were fantastic because they showed up and they stayed. It
Speaker 2: was to me it was like, holy crap, they must
Speaker 2: have had no nowhere to go.
Speaker 3: Well it first game, right, so you got freshman kids,
Speaker 3: don't quite know them. Yeah, saday, they don't have fake ID.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, so a lot of them stay, which
Speaker 3: was great. Yeah, it looks good. The kids love it,
Speaker 3: I mean TV loves it. It's great.
Speaker 2: Then you don't want to miss T Max going on.
Speaker 3: Every possessor record setting day, wasn't.
Speaker 2: He was fantastic. You you you've here one hundred years old,
Speaker 2: right at least half that maybe we've got to get
Speaker 2: our shots in right. Uh, You've seen a lot of
Speaker 2: football players in your time. I'm sure you've seen you know,
Speaker 2: the caadeem carries, the criners, the chuck. Oh yeah, yeah, mcallisters.
Speaker 2: I've said this a number of times. I said this
Speaker 2: on the post game show, uh somewhere else that at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, I think t Mac will
Speaker 2: be the best football player to ever play here. He
Speaker 2: is talented, he is smooth, he's and he's smooth is
Speaker 2: a great word because he's elusive. He catches the passes,
Speaker 2: he gets downfield, he does it all and uh it's
Speaker 2: just starting.
Speaker 3: Does it and people know he's going to do it
Speaker 3: and you still can't do it, right. Those are the
Speaker 3: good players like Grandy Monks. You know he's getting the ball,
Speaker 3: do you still let him do it?
Speaker 2: You know what he says, try to stop me. I'm
Speaker 2: always try to stop you. Thatd reeves like just just
Speaker 2: kind of lett give me the ball, get out of
Speaker 2: the way, man. Yes, yes, because I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Score pressive students, impressive team ax, impressive tackling, will work.
Speaker 2: On Yeah, that was that was the biggest thing that
Speaker 2: I came out away with. What the heck? I we
Speaker 2: didn't make any predictions on score last week, right, but
Speaker 2: I thought it wo'd be forty eight to ten. At
Speaker 2: the moment they cover, it was one and ninety.
Speaker 3: I told you mine was fifty eight to twenty nine
Speaker 3: or twenty eight something like that. Oh that was pretty close. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was pretty close.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Did you did you take a nap after that game?
Speaker 3: Man? I took a two hour nap. I had to
Speaker 3: drive up to Phoenix the next morning and drop off
Speaker 3: some equipment that I had run in and uh, I
Speaker 3: was up there by eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: Holy crap.
Speaker 4: Four.
Speaker 2: I hope nobody replays this show because after further review,
Speaker 2: it was every two minutes.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, there's nobody on that street, that
Speaker 3: road going up there.
Speaker 2: Oh I do in the morning morning. Yeah that's good. No,
Speaker 2: but I'm talking about just going to the game, and
Speaker 2: every play was a reviewable.
Speaker 3: Every play was reviewable. Yeah, and I just like, what
Speaker 3: are we doing? Like every two seconds there was a
Speaker 3: review or a timeout or yeah I heard there were
Speaker 3: some commercials they had to run too. Towards the end.
Speaker 3: I was like, how did you run out of time
Speaker 3: to do commercials? You still have like three sets of
Speaker 3: commercials set. I'm like, where were you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well guess what, you got to pay those bills.
Speaker 3: So that last four minutes took about twenty six minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was not fun. Not fun because you knew
Speaker 2: the outcome and you just needed to get the hell
Speaker 2: out of Dodge.
Speaker 3: You would hope that we were going to just run
Speaker 3: the ball, run the ball, run the ball after we
Speaker 3: were up, but and then didn't happen that first half,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: No the first half, No, second half. They got better
Speaker 2: at running the ball, ringing the ball, ringing the ball,
Speaker 2: but they were still finding success through the air. So
Speaker 2: why give that up? Eat too?
Speaker 3: Right as your bread and butter. It was working. They
Speaker 3: couldn't stop it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. There's a lot of poovement that needs
Speaker 2: to be made on the defensive end, I'm sure on
Speaker 2: the offensive. And it's funny. No, no, if if you'd
Speaker 2: talked about you know him, because the question was like,
Speaker 2: you know, do you hope to get uh, the other
Speaker 2: guys involved. You have t Mac of course, and says, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's my bad. I didn't get to the other guys in both.
Speaker 2: If Andy Brown's open, fifteen out of sixteen times, I'm
Speaker 2: throwing it to Andy Brown. Sorry, guys, sorry, you're right,
Speaker 2: T Mac is open, I'm gonna throw the ball first.
Speaker 3: Well, if your first progression is open, you're throwing them
Speaker 3: the ball. Sure, right, So nine times out of ten
Speaker 3: he was open, right, Well, ask him, he was always open, right, right.
Speaker 2: And the funny thing is everyone was asking him, asking
Speaker 2: or kind of maybe internally asking why why do they
Speaker 2: have one dude on him? Only one dude on him?
Speaker 3: I don't know that you would think that the whole
Speaker 3: team would be looking for that play, right, Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but that's the good players do. Good players get open.
Speaker 3: You've seen it. We've all seen it. You're like, we
Speaker 3: know he's I mean during the Super Bowl, right, you
Speaker 3: know they're gonna throw the ball. Yeah, Like, why not
Speaker 3: put three dudes on?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: He still gets the ball, right, It happens in every
Speaker 3: as of the sports, sure, right, So don't give Michael
Speaker 3: Jordan the ball? Stop?
Speaker 2: How do you yeah, how do you prevent Yeah? And
Speaker 2: then Steve Kerr hits the shot. There you go, because
Speaker 2: I'm open. I'm open, Michael, You'll be the decoy. Michael,
Speaker 2: I love playing decoy. How many times did you play
Speaker 2: decoy in practice?
Speaker 3: All the time?
Speaker 2: Coach? You give me some gum? Dad?
Speaker 3: Do you give me blue?
Speaker 2: Reather blue? We'll have to talk about that story. That's
Speaker 2: always a good story to talk about. Uh, you did
Speaker 2: wear your uniform? I think most.
Speaker 3: Times, yes, all the time. I learned that lesson from
Speaker 3: some people that.
Speaker 2: Came didn't right. It didn't to get into Oh I
Speaker 2: can't go in because I don't have the right uniform.
Speaker 3: No, or didn't have it on. Yeah, you don't have
Speaker 3: shorts on.
Speaker 2: I thought i'd be played.
Speaker 3: The only thing I didn't do was get taped. That
Speaker 3: was for the Michigan game. I still went score.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're durable.
Speaker 3: It happens, you're durable.
Speaker 2: Michigan game. Here the Clidas again.
Speaker 3: Driver, Yeah, yeah cool.
Speaker 2: Anywhere in that box score, that box score in the
Speaker 2: final four score.
Speaker 3: That's it. Well, I didn't get in the Final four one.
Speaker 3: They don't call the foul. I was trying to get
Speaker 3: the foul call and they wouldn't call.
Speaker 2: It against Cordas Williamson. Yeah, so one of those guys. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I was there. Well, thanks for joining me today. Won't
Speaker 2: be boring with you, I hope not. We're gonna talk
Speaker 2: a lot of sports, talk a lot about sports. Uh
Speaker 2: you volleyball? How is it when you have a volleyball
Speaker 2: and football the same day.
Speaker 3: It's it's more stress on the campus resources like parking
Speaker 3: and things like that than it is us. For us,
Speaker 3: it's a small it's a small event, but and if
Speaker 3: it's right into what we're already do. But for the
Speaker 3: that campus itself, it's a it's a strain on the
Speaker 3: resources and mostly parking because you know, you want to
Speaker 3: get your fans to the volleyball so that's cherish your
Speaker 3: garage which is right next to the stadium, which closes.
Speaker 3: You know, all these roads closed at a certain time. So
Speaker 3: they do a good job at with the time and
Speaker 3: when it hits them when things end, so we get
Speaker 3: those things cleared out.
Speaker 2: So let's say, let's say out of one hundred people,
Speaker 2: there's more than one hundred people show up for theolleyball game.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for a percentage. Now, do they just stay
Speaker 2: there and then stay for the football game. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: you have to get them out. Yes, how do you
Speaker 2: know that they're legit to get out? I mean, how
Speaker 2: would you know the difference?
Speaker 3: They don't. So if you're if you parked, well, basically
Speaker 3: the event starts parking at tennish tennish. So for volleyball,
Speaker 3: they'll and they'll charge people there five bucks to get
Speaker 3: in there, okay, and put them up in the top
Speaker 3: three or four level.
Speaker 2: Oh cheering okay, and then they'll you know, there's not
Speaker 2: that many, it's not that big, especially its first couple
Speaker 2: of games or tournaments.
Speaker 3: I guess you were calling.
Speaker 2: But oh and if you I guess if you don't
Speaker 2: want to go to the football game, outcause you're gonna leave.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're leaving. They're leaving anyway, because that's a good
Speaker 3: it's a good five hours. Yeah, I mean, you're not sticking.
Speaker 2: Around that right now unless you have your tailgate.
Speaker 3: Or something else, and then you're going straight to kalgate.
Speaker 3: But it's not that, it's not that, it's just stressful
Speaker 3: in terms of people having to be there extra long. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So now your day starts three four hours earlier than normally.
Speaker 2: You're talking about from your end the.
Speaker 3: Eighteen, everybody's in parking from us. Anything that has to
Speaker 3: do with support systems on the campus. Yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 3: that's when there's people on campuses. You have to be there.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's up? What I was gonna ask you something?
Speaker 2: But you have nothing to do with it. I don't
Speaker 2: think I sent you a sign which one? Well, I
Speaker 2: could tell people because people are gonna go there. McHale Center.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be shut down. It's gonna show. Well, let
Speaker 2: me kind of explain. They're gonna shut it down September ninth.
Speaker 2: Beginning September ninth. If you have any business to be
Speaker 2: doing at McHale Center during the business hours I think
Speaker 2: it's eight to five, you'll have to contact the person
Speaker 2: you're gonna go see or the area you just to
Speaker 2: go see. They'll come and get you and you'll be
Speaker 2: able to go in. I don't know the official reason
Speaker 2: for that, but in fact, somebody sent me something yesterday.
Speaker 2: He says, Well, the library is not like that. Another thing.
Speaker 2: I says, I don't know, but that's the case. They're
Speaker 2: gonna shut it down or be more strict with the visitors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's your stand there? It's best practice if you're
Speaker 3: around the country, it's the same thing. It's it's something
Speaker 3: I'm assuming they had now and they identified as you know,
Speaker 3: a weak point and we want to protect people that
Speaker 3: are inside and right well, assets that are inside and
Speaker 3: things that we have going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense to that to saying that, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure that that came up with the Bobby Robins
Speaker 2: thing a year or two ago when the professor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've done they've done a great job on refocusing.
Speaker 3: They're refocusing but changing a mindset on campus security and
Speaker 3: tightening up and safety of students and employees. And I've
Speaker 3: seen that's and that's one of the things they've done
Speaker 3: all right. So there's a lot of things, a lot
Speaker 3: of positive steps are taking to improve the safety on campus.
Speaker 3: So I applaud it. I think it's a great move.
Speaker 3: It's it's standard practice across the country.
Speaker 2: What a world we live in, the right. I mean,
Speaker 2: when you were in school, we didn't even think about that.
Speaker 3: No, you you mean you had a code to the
Speaker 3: locker room and that was it. Now you got to
Speaker 3: code to the outside, You got to code to this,
Speaker 3: and you got to card. You gotta scan both and
Speaker 3: the code and you get in, and I mean that's
Speaker 3: just the way things go, right. You had to let
Speaker 3: me in today.
Speaker 2: I did for your safety, safety, for your safety and
Speaker 2: Ryan's safety. Okay, so let me tell you today you're
Speaker 2: in for ju at the first half of the hour.
Speaker 2: Is gonna be Brian Peterson. I hope he answers because
Speaker 2: I did not remind him, and he said remind him.
Speaker 2: So we'll see if he's a little survely about this.
Speaker 2: Brian Peters from from Azy Desert Swarm. He was at
Speaker 2: the game last two nights ago, and we'll talk about
Speaker 2: the game with him, or two three nights ago already.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna have a Dean Jeff Dean, the
Speaker 2: voice of the Wildcats at the games and basketball games,
Speaker 2: football games. I think this is his seventh year. So
Speaker 2: we'll to see how that's going. Maybe see how the
Speaker 2: new because the games know how it gets that. It
Speaker 2: was there an audition, Yeah, we'll ask about there was though.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have one of those high dome voices. You
Speaker 2: know it's very white welcome, Yeah, very very white. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's definitely maybe that's not and go protect this. That's
Speaker 2: your jobs. You got to play to your strength. We
Speaker 2: all have our state of our leg Dude, I have
Speaker 2: a face for radio. So I'm here.
Speaker 3: There you go, and you're right, very well, well that
Speaker 3: used to be my old day. You write those and
Speaker 3: then when you write them, have an idea what you're writing.
Speaker 3: You watch the game and then no, no, no.
Speaker 2: I don't have any idea what I'm going right about.
Speaker 2: I sit down.
Speaker 3: As you're watching the game or is it no, no, no.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's it's I watch it. Yeah. It just
Speaker 2: comes to me after what they say, and then I say, okay,
Speaker 2: I was going to be very critical in fact Saturday
Speaker 2: very He's not the right critical because of the defense. Right,
Speaker 2: this team is supposed to be better than when it showed, right,
Speaker 2: and I'm saying that defensively. Offensively, who knows they could
Speaker 2: have scored one hundred points. I guess they scored on
Speaker 2: ten or twelve possessions. That said, uh, the defense was
Speaker 2: a shock because you know, Duyna Quina has this reputation.
Speaker 2: Sure they hung they had the lead midway through the
Speaker 2: second quarter. That was not on my bingo card.
Speaker 3: No, no, it wasn't mine.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, but then with about I don't know
Speaker 2: ten minutes, seven minutes left, you're thinking, oh, they could
Speaker 2: win by thirty some and then the fumble that didn't
Speaker 2: There wasn't a fumble that was not allowed. So that
Speaker 2: was the thing, turning point a little for the score.
Speaker 2: But we'll see. The good thing is you can get
Speaker 2: those Kings out. And I'll say this to you, Kings
Speaker 2: out last week this week within you you just said
Speaker 2: it's a twenty eight point favorite, right do you? Every
Speaker 2: game is a learning experience. Andy you play these games,
Speaker 2: I'm sure against Kansasate you learn more. And on the
Speaker 2: other score, you don't actually get things corrected. You want to,
Speaker 2: but you sometimes those mistakes happen a lot.
Speaker 3: They do, and talent on the other side helps you
Speaker 3: know that too. But you can't duplicate a game situation
Speaker 3: or game speed if you will. So these guys have
Speaker 3: been hitting each other for months now.
Speaker 2: Sometimes not hitting each other.
Speaker 3: So that's the deal. So how do you really know
Speaker 3: how you guys are going to react until you get
Speaker 3: him in that game situation? And game speed is the word, right,
Speaker 3: So I think they all kind of figured it out
Speaker 3: and you'll see a much better team in a you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, Okay, So let's take a break, get
Speaker 2: a hold of Brian. Hopefully he's okay with me not
Speaker 2: checking in with him earlier. Today talk about the game
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jacob Salez they have their eye on
Speaker 1: the fall on Tucson Sports station yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Alan Ball. Here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Andrew Brown. Now I'll
Speaker 2: have some more eyes on the ball with Ryan Peterson.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Brian, great?
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Sure what were your biggest takeaways. Let's do three from
Speaker 2: Saturday's game.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess the first thing would be the way
Speaker 4: the defense looked and what to make of that as
Speaker 4: far as it's going to be an issue or if
Speaker 4: this is just a first game thing and maybe not
Speaker 4: showing everything. There were definitely some flaws, particularly on the
Speaker 4: defensive line when it came to the edge rushers kind
Speaker 4: of collapsing a little too much and not containing the
Speaker 4: outside and New Mexico was able to exploit that a lot,
Speaker 4: and then that as a result also made the pass
Speaker 4: defense look pretty bad on some of those scramble plays
Speaker 4: and some of the deep balls. But they got better
Speaker 4: as the game got on, which was a lot of
Speaker 4: what you would see last year with Johnny Nsen, particularly
Speaker 4: with the strength up front by rotating a lot of guys.
Speaker 4: That would be another one that they stuck to trying
Speaker 4: to be as fluid as possible up there, using I
Speaker 4: think thirteen different defensive linemen. As far as on the
Speaker 4: offensive side, I was surprised at how little Arizona ran
Speaker 4: in the first half, but then made a concerted effort
Speaker 4: to do that in the second half, where you can
Speaker 4: essentially wear down a team, So maybe that was the
Speaker 4: plan all along, and the blocking was great for that,
Speaker 4: especially when they brought in that kid, Caden Luke, the
Speaker 4: freshman fullback for short yardage plays. And I guess beyond
Speaker 4: that was that. I mean, if there was any worries
Speaker 4: about that Timac was going to be as good, if
Speaker 4: not better than last year. I think that that was
Speaker 4: shown not so much by the total numbers that he
Speaker 4: had against New Mexico or it was against opponent, but
Speaker 4: just he looked so explosive and he just looked so
Speaker 4: much better than anybody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I totally agree. I was talking to Andy
Speaker 2: here about my thoughts and I've said this a few
Speaker 2: times on the show. At the end of the day,
Speaker 2: when Tmax is done here, whether it's this year or whatever,
Speaker 2: I think he's going to probably be the best football
Speaker 2: player to ever play here. That will be tough to
Speaker 2: measure if he's want to hear another year this year,
Speaker 2: But what are your thoughts on something like that.
Speaker 4: Well, he definitely has the potential to be. I mean,
Speaker 4: he had said today that his personal goals are to
Speaker 4: break every receiving record here and as far as the
Speaker 4: single season and career records. I think the only one
Speaker 4: that he might not be able to get would be
Speaker 4: the career receptions because he'd need like one hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty something more this year. But if he's doing ten
Speaker 4: every game and they make it into the playoffs or
Speaker 4: at least the Bowl game, that's possible. But he should
Speaker 4: get all the other ones and he's going to be
Speaker 4: a first round pick. He could be top ten, top five,
Speaker 4: which just really depends on how to draft. Shakes out
Speaker 4: and he continues to show this development. Bobby Wade today
Speaker 4: was mentioning that he needed to get on film to
Speaker 4: show his ability to finish and to outrun people and
Speaker 4: to show that speed, and he did that New Mexico,
Speaker 4: which are things that the scouts are going to look at.
Speaker 4: Is this guy just a guy who can catch everything?
Speaker 4: Or can he do something more once he's caught the ball,
Speaker 4: and if he can continue to improve on that, it
Speaker 4: would definitely be that case. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 4: who you would say right now is the greatest player
Speaker 4: to have played here. Would it be a Teddy Bruski,
Speaker 4: would it be a Rob Gronkowski? I don't know, but
Speaker 4: t Meck definitely has the ability to surpass both of
Speaker 4: them right or.
Speaker 2: Or somebody like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think right now you're looking at it round
Speaker 3: Kowski and Hunley Bruski Rusk. I think those two names
Speaker 3: come up quite a bit, and everybody's frunt in their
Speaker 3: mind right now. So yeah, if you can be up
Speaker 3: in that echelon of level of player out of Arizona
Speaker 3: and you're that's awesome for me. Yes.
Speaker 2: The one thing that makes him so good and that
Speaker 2: I talked about this Brian about Noah Tuckins, Well it's
Speaker 2: kind of my fault. I didn't spread it around or whatever.
Speaker 2: But if you have t Mac and that's your guy
Speaker 2: and not a bias, that's your guy. But he's he's
Speaker 2: open and he's good, guess where you're gonna throw it?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, now, I mean maybe this game they will,
Speaker 4: in an attempt to try to build the confidence of
Speaker 4: the other players, not make tam Mac be the first read,
Speaker 4: because I'm sure he is always the first one that
Speaker 4: Noah's going to look at, and then if that's not there,
Speaker 4: then he's going to go elsewhere. But if he's always open,
Speaker 4: then you're gonna throw it to him. They may want
Speaker 4: to try to not force it to other guys, but
Speaker 4: just make it so that those guys show that they
Speaker 4: deserve to be thrown to and have them be the
Speaker 4: first and maybe even second progression on some place. There
Speaker 4: were a handful of plays where they took tea Mac
Speaker 4: off the field against New Mexico and had three different
Speaker 4: guys out there, and those were the plays maybe where
Speaker 4: the offense didn't look as good because there isn't that
Speaker 4: always open guy, and it's on those receivers to show
Speaker 4: that they deserve to win teamacs on the field that
Speaker 4: they're also getting the ball right right.
Speaker 2: So you talked to Brennan yesterday. It doesn't strike me
Speaker 2: anything different about his demeanor. It's very straightforward, not very quotable,
Speaker 2: but very I guess insightful. Even after Saturday's game he
Speaker 2: was just, you know, kind of just tell you to
Speaker 2: ask a question, he gives you an answer you asked.
Speaker 2: Quite is nothing really flamboyant. Yesterday was the same way.
Speaker 2: I guess you are who you are, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's definitely in good spirits. He was
Speaker 4: last week leading up to it much better than Camp.
Speaker 4: Seem like maybe it was grinding on him a little
Speaker 4: bit just because it had been seven months and you
Speaker 4: get tired of talking season as it's described and want
Speaker 4: to really get into the games. And he ended his
Speaker 4: press conference last Thursday. I'd asked him if he was
Speaker 4: going to watch San Jose on Thursday night. He says, Yep,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna watch Colorado too. College football is back, baby,
Speaker 4: and he's like doing a fist pump and all that.
Speaker 4: He's just super excited, like didn't feel like a coach.
Speaker 4: And even that week, after one of the days leaving
Speaker 4: here talking to players and coaches, I'm leaving campus and
Speaker 4: he's just doing a walk around campus with a backpack
Speaker 4: on and some earpos that earbuds in, Like this is
Speaker 4: just he's It kind of has a feeling of like
Speaker 4: how Dick told me he'd finish up and he just
Speaker 4: walk across the street over into the Sam Hughes neighborhood
Speaker 4: east of campus and go home. And it's just Brennan
Speaker 4: doesn't live right next door, but it feels like this
Speaker 4: is just his neighborhood kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're not walking them across Andy, No, No,
Speaker 2: Tommy Lloyd does too. I think there's got that personality
Speaker 2: of just say, dude, I'm just here.
Speaker 4: Tommy, Tommy is loving life here and not really too
Speaker 4: concerned with the pressure. And I get that kind of
Speaker 4: same vibe from from Brennan. Now he hasn't faced any
Speaker 4: sort of adversity. He had all these players come back
Speaker 4: and then he didn't lose as many as everyone thought.
Speaker 4: He was able to put together a great staff, he's
Speaker 4: done well in the portal and all of that. So
Speaker 4: we haven't hit seen like a, well, how does he
Speaker 4: react to things not going well?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: It's whereas Tommy had the you know, the short the
Speaker 4: short falls in the postseason, and he's just kind of
Speaker 4: been like, this is all part of it. We're getting
Speaker 4: better and didn't really look.
Speaker 2: Like it bothered right right now, and he feels that
Speaker 2: there's a breakthrough coming around sometime soon. The funny thing
Speaker 2: is you're talking about you know, Brennan takes it, you know, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: But the funny thing about is your your site and
Speaker 2: other sites on the web get to get the trolls right.
Speaker 2: And I think you had one dude who was already
Speaker 2: freaking out, Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, already time.
Speaker 4: What I tend to do on on socials is asks
Speaker 4: people forget reactions at half times of football games and
Speaker 4: just get some fun stuff and this one guy I
Speaker 4: just jumped in there, and Brent Brennan should be fired
Speaker 4: at halftime. Take his layoff and put it on his tombstone.
Speaker 4: I want my money back, and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean, overreaction is a hell of a drug. But
Speaker 4: if you are overreacting to the first half of the
Speaker 4: first game of a coach's tenure, and it's a game
Speaker 4: where they're winning, then you're going to be impossible to
Speaker 4: satisfy and to please. And those I'm just going to
Speaker 4: make fun of rather than try to rationalize with, because
Speaker 4: they clearly are not thinking straight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, and there's plenty of those, and they
Speaker 2: show up every now and again, especially in basketball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so what do you think. It's hard to gauge the
Speaker 2: cleanup for Saturday against any of you because it is
Speaker 2: an AU But you know, I guess you can always
Speaker 2: say they lost to them two three years ago, So
Speaker 2: there's that. What do you think what's the priority moving forward?
Speaker 4: The priority I think is getting guys comfortable in with
Speaker 4: the plays that they're running, but also knowing that that
Speaker 4: what we've seen so far is probably very vanilla compared
Speaker 4: to what they would do offensive Land defensively against Kansas
Speaker 4: State next week and then into the Big Twelve because
Speaker 4: those games matter more. You don't want to give away
Speaker 4: too many of your secrets. Many of the formations and
Speaker 4: play calls that we might have seen during camp we
Speaker 4: haven't seen so far. And I think that really exists
Speaker 4: on the defensive side as far as not wanting to
Speaker 4: show they haven't. They didn't play the dollar package that
Speaker 4: they did so much last year with the seven defensive backs.
Speaker 4: They didn't do it that against New Mexico, and I
Speaker 4: doubt they would do that against NAU unless they realized
Speaker 4: that they needed to use it. That they want to
Speaker 4: save something like that for Kansas State so that there's
Speaker 4: no film on it and then but once it's out there,
Speaker 4: then it's out there. So I think that they just
Speaker 4: want to they get through this game healthy, be able
Speaker 4: to get a couple more guys from opportunities to see
Speaker 4: if they're worthy of being part of the travel ross
Speaker 4: and meaningful contributions during a quote unquote bigger game, and
Speaker 4: then kind of go from there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good to see mister Luke out there,
Speaker 2: you know, with a few steps doing what he does,
Speaker 2: especially for a local kid. Right, who just was what
Speaker 2: months removed from from a high school championship.
Speaker 4: Luke, Yeah, kay Luke. Everyone keeps referring to him as
Speaker 4: kind of like a throwback player because he's five eleven,
Speaker 4: two hundred and forty pounds, looks like he's in his
Speaker 4: twenty the mid twenties or thirties, and is perfectly fine
Speaker 4: with being a guy that is in there to block right,
Speaker 4: And he was. He was the every down back for
Speaker 4: Kenyon De Lauro High School. And now he comes here
Speaker 4: as a walk on and he's playing in his hometown
Speaker 4: in his first college game, and he's getting national attention.
Speaker 4: Arizona has was tagging him in posts and he's getting
Speaker 4: noticed by barstool and all of this. So, I mean,
Speaker 4: it's it's a great story. And Chuson doesn't produce a
Speaker 4: lot of names for football, and there's historically been the
Speaker 4: inability to keep a lot of them. This wasn't a
Speaker 4: kid that they had to beat out anybody for. He's
Speaker 4: just he's not somebody that it is like, was a
Speaker 4: highly regarded prospect, but just for him to make a
Speaker 4: meaningful impact right away definitely helps with the overall concept
Speaker 4: of this being Tucson's.
Speaker 2: Team sounds like an Andy Brown story.
Speaker 3: There you go, it is right there. Well, I had
Speaker 3: to go junior college two years. That's how bad I
Speaker 3: wasn't recruiting somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Beat a local dude, you know, kind of dream of
Speaker 2: stuff like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you do. Yeah, for the opportunity, and he's
Speaker 3: taken advantage of it. So there's a I imagine there's
Speaker 3: a couple of handful of kids that could have could
Speaker 3: play and could do that. You know, it's just amount
Speaker 3: of getting them a chance and are they runny? Are
Speaker 3: they ready to jump and take it? You know? And
Speaker 3: that's I think we're talking about the level of player
Speaker 3: coming out of Arizona is I think coming back team
Speaker 3: Mac and No have kind of you know ingrain a
Speaker 3: place in everybody's heart into Sonic. They're playing for us, right, Well,
Speaker 3: that only helps with local kids too, is like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know what, that guy's gonna stay here. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: work my butt off too, And it just it breeds
Speaker 3: just an atmosphere of positivity and people want to.
Speaker 2: Do well right and building that It so so Brian,
Speaker 2: you said Tim Mac was available today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he spoke with us for a few minutes,
Speaker 4: and he was very humble with about what he did,
Speaker 4: and he was more concerned about the team. But then
Speaker 4: when we were able to just kind of pick his
Speaker 4: brain about certain things, like the fact that they weren't
Speaker 4: double covering him, he knows that that's not going to
Speaker 4: be the case and he needs to be prepared for
Speaker 4: having those double and triple teams, but that that can
Speaker 4: mean more for his for the other guys on the team,
Speaker 4: because that that is the key, is that if if
Speaker 4: he's getting two or three guys on him and they're
Speaker 4: blanketing him, someone else has to step up. But he
Speaker 4: also I asked him about the touchdown where he ran
Speaker 4: the defense, and he said that he and Noah have
Speaker 4: recently discussed after rewatching the play that that was maybe
Speaker 4: one of their best chemistry plays ever because if you
Speaker 4: watch the replace, he runs to a spot in the
Speaker 4: middle of the field and then he looks back at
Speaker 4: his quarterback and he's like, Okay, I need to go
Speaker 4: somewhere else, and that ball meets him in a different spot.
Speaker 4: So both of them knew. One knew, hey, I'm going
Speaker 4: to the spot, and the other one knew, I need
Speaker 4: to throw it to this spot, which is something you
Speaker 4: can't coach. And that's that's another reason why Deafeta is
Speaker 4: gonna if t Mac is open or he thinks he's
Speaker 4: can be open, he's going to throw it to him,
Speaker 4: even with coverage. Then he might someone else, just because
Speaker 4: of the trust bactor they have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. In fact, I firmly believe he should
Speaker 2: have had eleven catches because the one he ruled that
Speaker 2: the maybe cut out of bounds or he didn't hold
Speaker 2: on to it. To me, who's in bounds?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it looked like it was. But you know, I'm
Speaker 4: a firm believer in the butterfly effect, and if he
Speaker 4: catches that one, then everything else after that doesn't exist.
Speaker 4: So who knows what happened. So he had his ten catches,
Speaker 4: three hundred four yards and four dr oh, maybe he
Speaker 4: could have had this much more. But there is the
Speaker 4: thing that he was eleven yards away from breaking the
Speaker 4: Big twelve record for receiving yards, and Brent Brennan addressed
Speaker 4: that yesterday, saying that those records are great and all,
Speaker 4: but if they keep him in the game just for that,
Speaker 4: and then he ends up getting hurt in the fourth
Speaker 4: quarter when they're up by twenty company. Then that's just
Speaker 4: going to look so bad.
Speaker 2: And there's the ten more games to do that you
Speaker 2: know exactly, and that could very well happen.
Speaker 3: He's just the stats of these games fall under pig
Speaker 3: twelve Big twelve Conference records. Yeah, yeah, okay, it started already.
Speaker 3: Here we go again.
Speaker 2: No, we're one and on, well not we're not wan
Speaker 2: on the conference, but you're not zero one zero one Arizona.
Speaker 4: Arizona has already has won one hundred percent of the
Speaker 4: Big twelve offensive Player of the Week awards since they've
Speaker 4: been in the conference.
Speaker 2: And national Player of the year too, the Player of
Speaker 2: the Week National. Okay, Brian, we appreciate your time. We'll
Speaker 2: see you this weekend.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Brian, Brian Peterson from Easy Desert Swarm. Thanks a bunch.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break, come back, and then finish shop.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get a call or two and get a
Speaker 2: call for Andy quiz your brain something.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, I'm ready.
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Speaker 2: Wapp Hey, welcome back to whining the Ball Here al
Speaker 2: Pock Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. Jay is out
Speaker 2: in today, so I have and Brown and Ryan sixteen minutes.
Speaker 2: If you guys want to call five to two oh
Speaker 2: four one, six seventy four forty take call, answer some questions.
Speaker 2: So you watch the USC game with LSU fantastic.
Speaker 3: Game, fantastic finish.
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you did you see the
Speaker 2: It depends on who you Yeah, and it's packed in
Speaker 2: bekas I guess you know sixty eight thousand or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: biggest attendant. Uh did you see the post game with
Speaker 2: the LSU coach?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, So I'm gonna go as Bryan Kelly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Ryan Kelly. So he goes in the table, right. So,
Speaker 2: so I'm watching the game and he's very calm, cool, collected,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking he's I'm thinking to myself, he's very calm,
Speaker 2: cool and collected. And they got a score. I mean,
Speaker 2: they gotta hurry up and prevent these guys to score.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, oh, I've never really seen him, coach,
Speaker 2: but he looks very calm, cool and collected. He's a
Speaker 2: football coach. I'm thinking, Oh, do you think he was
Speaker 2: holding back to play power to you? More power to you, coach? Maybe?
Speaker 2: I know. I don't get the I don't get that
Speaker 2: because we talked about that last week. Okay. So then
Speaker 2: he goes into the press commers. It shows a little
Speaker 2: emotion and I hadn't seen it until today, but I
Speaker 2: heard a lot of people talk about, oh, he was
Speaker 2: firing and blah blah blah. He hit the table, big
Speaker 2: FN deal because he he had it. I remember Luke
Speaker 2: doing it a time or two in my time with him.
Speaker 2: Louke was Louke kind of that way, calm, cool and collected.
Speaker 2: I don't mind as a coach to them showing that
Speaker 2: I know, fine, bomb kind of said, and I agree
Speaker 2: with find my one. I really usually don't it more
Speaker 2: rehearsed than you know? He said he should have done
Speaker 2: it during the game. It should have been enough collecting.
Speaker 2: But do you mind your coach doing that one? And
Speaker 2: wouldn't you want your coach.
Speaker 8: To do that?
Speaker 3: You would? I think you have. Coach has his own personalities.
Speaker 3: All coaches have the and when when it's not genuine
Speaker 3: and it's outside of their realm, it does its wrong.
Speaker 3: So if coach Olsen was to do that, you're like, WHOA,
Speaker 3: that's not that's not no.
Speaker 2: But I've seen it, are you? I'm sure you've seen it.
Speaker 3: When it happens when he does it for an emphasis,
Speaker 3: it just doesn't seem right. So yeah, I can see
Speaker 3: where they feel like it. Why didn't he do it
Speaker 3: during the game?
Speaker 2: Okay? So I saw him publicly because it covered press
Speaker 2: coverage right and went again. I saw him fiery a
Speaker 2: few times, a few times handful maybe did you see
Speaker 2: him do that many times? Who?
Speaker 3: No? No?
Speaker 2: Twice?
Speaker 3: Okay, twice and what were the circumstances. It was how
Speaker 3: we were dressed and how we represented ourselves. And really
Speaker 3: he pulled us in the locker room and just let
Speaker 3: us have it before the game. No, this was yeah,
Speaker 3: how you dressed coming to the stadium? How do you
Speaker 3: get dressed? And when you're out representing Arizona? How do
Speaker 3: you look? Was there A was there traveling? How do you?
Speaker 2: Was there? A said protocol? Yes, oh there was, yes, Oh,
Speaker 2: and you guys didn't do it and we were mixing
Speaker 2: matching stuff and then he's like, no, you guys look
Speaker 2: like a bunch of ragamuffins. That's what he said.
Speaker 3: And he was so mad, and he doesn't he doesn't swear,
Speaker 3: so everybody when he was like you could tell he
Speaker 3: wanted it's like you and guys, and he goes, you're
Speaker 3: a bunch of rag muffins.
Speaker 2: This is ninety four.
Speaker 3: This is ninety four. So yeah, that's uh. When it's
Speaker 3: out side of coaches a persona, if you will, sometimes
Speaker 3: it seems.
Speaker 2: Ungenuine, genuine hold the other time.
Speaker 3: The other time was we just weren't playing defense, we
Speaker 3: weren't taking charges, we weren't we weren't we weren't hustling, right,
Speaker 3: We weren't getting the fifty to fifty balls. We weren't.
Speaker 3: We were just kind of going through the motions.
Speaker 2: You weren't there for tourists, the tours will walk on, tauruses,
Speaker 2: Villa Pilla, tours villa. When he put him in and
Speaker 2: the bench guy they were getting, they were crushing the
Speaker 2: team put him in the last minute, they were up
Speaker 2: by thirty whatever. He got the balls. Just don't shoot,
Speaker 2: don't shoot, don't shoot, don't shoot. What do you do?
Speaker 12: Shoot?
Speaker 2: You shut? He made it, Yeah, get back in no way.
Speaker 2: He and then he went into the locker room and
Speaker 2: he got a half. Every time I see, uh, mister
Speaker 2: Torrest's say, how's how you doing? And it kind of
Speaker 2: reminded of his oh man right right, So and then
Speaker 2: I think I think you may or may not have
Speaker 2: been part of the team with Joe McClain and all
Speaker 2: that he was getting. He was getting hammered at U
Speaker 2: c l A underneath the basket and he pounded the
Speaker 2: scores table and ripped into the people there.
Speaker 13: You know, you're not getting a call. We're not getting
Speaker 13: a call. We're getting abuse down here, and they you know,
Speaker 13: very rare, very rare, but he he when he needed
Speaker 13: to say something, he got it through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a team. I know those times where he wanted
Speaker 2: and they wouldn't give it to you to tell me,
Speaker 2: he kind of did that. I can remember off the
Speaker 2: top of my head. It was Albuquerque when he got
Speaker 2: jobbed up there and he took out his jacket, took
Speaker 2: off his jacket and threw it against the seat and
Speaker 2: uh and they scored on that last long distance of
Speaker 2: five second thing court to court. Sure, yeah, we got
Speaker 2: a call. Hey, you're on the you're on the air.
Speaker 2: All Hi, guys, Jim, how are you? Jim?
Speaker 1: Great?
Speaker 2: Fine? Thank you? Did you ever get fiery? Oh yeah
Speaker 2: with the kids?
Speaker 14: Not not often, but you know there was. They had
Speaker 14: to really worked me over because I was I was
Speaker 14: sort of intense and quiet to myself most of the time.
Speaker 2: Right right, right, Okay, what are you calling about?
Speaker 14: I'm calling about the football game and the football team.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 14: I missed. I apologize. I missed the first half hour
Speaker 14: of the programs. I don't know what's been said already.
Speaker 2: Okay, but.
Speaker 14: You know, I'm glad that they won. And it must
Speaker 14: have been an interview I didn't get to see it
Speaker 14: live on television. I was driving, I heard it on
Speaker 14: the radio and then look at the highlights. But you know,
Speaker 14: the thing that occurs to me, Steve, and this is
Speaker 14: going to sound more like you than Jay, is what
Speaker 14: happens is if Team Matt breaks his leg.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you put that voodoo hanvi.
Speaker 14: Well, three hundred and five as of six and twenty
Speaker 14: three total were.
Speaker 2: One guy, two guys, one guy. Yeah.
Speaker 14: I would love to see them, like I said the
Speaker 14: other day, establish themselves in a controlled format for at
Speaker 14: least four or five six minutes, and then if they
Speaker 14: want to run wild, that's fine, but show the other
Speaker 14: team that you can control the game, because for the
Speaker 14: first half, New Mexico control the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think that question was brought up at
Speaker 2: the end of the game about you know, becoming more
Speaker 2: versatile and you know, fifty to fifty if that's the case,
Speaker 2: doing more run than pass, and he said, yeah, there's
Speaker 2: no design. We just go with what's given us. But
Speaker 2: there's no question, Jim, don't you think that they have
Speaker 2: to establish the run to even be better at the past.
Speaker 14: I think you have to establish the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 14: and that includes the run. Yea, sir, I.
Speaker 2: Heard you wanted to take my thirty eight points. I'm
Speaker 2: wiser than that job.
Speaker 14: Well, you made a comment the other day that I
Speaker 14: thought you said that thirty eight points. I said exactly.
Speaker 2: I didn't take thirty either, but I was wrong in
Speaker 2: that prediction. So I was just unbelievable to me, them
Speaker 2: scoring twenty four to thirty one whatever. At the end,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, how is this happening? But the kid from
Speaker 2: Suarrow and Phoenix was pretty darn good too.
Speaker 14: Around the quarterback was his name, Devon Dan Pierre.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 14: He controlled the first half of that game.
Speaker 2: And I've said this already over the weekend. I says
Speaker 2: that kid made himself some money. And the reason I
Speaker 2: said that is because some other school it's going to
Speaker 2: sweep him up, sure and pay him more money.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 2: And that's and that's where we're going from from today. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of an audition for your bigger,
Speaker 2: bigger job.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're talking about how many how many kids
Speaker 3: are not being recruited out of high school and they're
Speaker 3: just getting picked out of others schools in other conference
Speaker 3: like other divisions Division three and AA. There's picking them
Speaker 3: out of there first and then going to.
Speaker 14: Well, one more thing, if I may add another sure
Speaker 14: beta point. Yeah, New Mexico ran I think twenty more
Speaker 14: plays than we did for the entirety of the game.
Speaker 14: I think they had something like seventy plays, seventy four
Speaker 14: plays and we had like fifty four or five.
Speaker 3: How many times did we go three plays and then
Speaker 3: get a penalty and they got a first own. There
Speaker 3: was a kind of a few of those that were.
Speaker 2: That's another thing that bothered me, not bother me concerning
Speaker 2: war On. He is unsupported one like, and they didn't
Speaker 2: have to do any of them. When you're much better
Speaker 2: than the team, you just go and crush them. You
Speaker 2: don't have to do all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure coach said a few things in the
Speaker 3: locker room.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, yeah, Oh, I'm sure that kid got lit up.
Speaker 14: He's probably still getting lit up, David.
Speaker 3: He has to sit the first half of this game,
Speaker 3: doesn't he?
Speaker 2: I think, I think since you get I don't know,
Speaker 2: I think so, Yeah, I think targeting.
Speaker 14: I just thought it was interesting. This game was more
Speaker 14: like a circus in a football game, fireworks going off.
Speaker 2: But Jim really knew Jim I do think. I think this,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna be the fun part the rest of
Speaker 2: the year is it's gonna be an up and down
Speaker 2: affair on both ends when they get to the good teams,
Speaker 2: because both sides are gonna be very good.
Speaker 7: I will give you this.
Speaker 14: I was very happy that those two boys, those running
Speaker 14: backs broke those plays. You know, Merritt guy loose for
Speaker 14: about thirty yards and showed what he's what he's got
Speaker 14: on a couple of runs, and then Conley took off
Speaker 14: fifty yards. So that's encouraging. But I'd just like to
Speaker 14: see them can learn to control the line of scrimmage
Speaker 14: a little bit before they go completely bonkers, because otherwise
Speaker 14: we might as well get the Laura back.
Speaker 2: On the phone. What's wrong with you, Jim, let's go.
Speaker 2: I gotta go with that one. Thanks for calling, Jim.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it, appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I he's got a point there, how many plays they've run,
Speaker 3: but we had so many. Yeah that just go for
Speaker 3: a touchdown, go for forty yards.
Speaker 2: When you're efficient and you're not going to complain expect that.
Speaker 3: I think it also gets you in a bad habit,
Speaker 3: so too, if you've played too many of those games
Speaker 3: were one game, one play in your touchdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but you're going to take them. Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 2: you're gonna take them. It's like it's like in ninety four.
Speaker 2: Let me say this, but you had a pretty good team,
Speaker 2: right Damon Khalid, JB Reggie, all these guys. I can't
Speaker 2: remember the season. Maybe there was a tough pac twelve
Speaker 2: pack ten at the time, it was pretty good and
Speaker 2: that prepared you for the tournament obviously. Then you run
Speaker 2: up against an Arkansas team that was pretty darn good.
Speaker 2: I don't think there was anybody better all year. I
Speaker 2: mean Kentucky may have been in the first part of
Speaker 2: the first part first the year. Do you think the
Speaker 2: season prepared you for that final four?
Speaker 3: Yes? Absolutely. We played some really good teams that year
Speaker 3: and in the pack ten pack twelve back ten. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it was you had Leman Murray and Jason Kidd
Speaker 3: at cat Cal, right, you had Abandon Brothers at UCLA
Speaker 3: and Tyas Edney wasn't. Yeah, those guys are aweso. Like
Speaker 3: I think they beat us twice. I think Cal beat
Speaker 3: us once at home in double overtime.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So there was a really Oregon was tough.
Speaker 2: It was a tough con So my point is now,
Speaker 2: I think you want to be in those type of
Speaker 2: games in the regular season, not too where they scare
Speaker 2: the crap out of you and say, oh we they'll
Speaker 2: be entertaining for the fans if you do pull them up,
Speaker 2: but you want to get tested, and you want to
Speaker 2: get tested a lot in case you know down the
Speaker 2: road you're facing teams in the playoffs if you get there,
Speaker 2: or in the in the bowl game, sure where you say, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: we've been through this before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've seen it. You're comfortable with it. You're comfortable
Speaker 3: with being uncomfortable. Right. That's the whole point of basketball
Speaker 3: when you're in those positions at the last minute game,
Speaker 3: the last minute, thirty seconds left, that you're comfortable in
Speaker 3: that position.
Speaker 2: And football because if you can go up against the
Speaker 2: bigger Oklahomas or the big twelve, sure, and you can
Speaker 2: handle the girth or whatever the word is, well.
Speaker 3: If you know you can score on one play anytime,
Speaker 3: that's in your back of your mind, it's like, I
Speaker 3: can do this, we can do this. We're only down
Speaker 3: six points, seven points, that's we can do this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like you said, though, there's always a sense of
Speaker 2: security that doesn't exist.
Speaker 3: Right, that's all sense of security, right, Right? Did you
Speaker 3: see the score that Texas Tech game and Abilene Christian
Speaker 3: was fifty two to fifty one?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't see. It was an overtime, nonetheless, but
Speaker 3: still really Texas Tech gave up fifty one points.
Speaker 2: It almost lost the game.
Speaker 3: It almost lost. The only reason they lost I think Arizon.
Speaker 3: I think Abilene Christian went for two in overtime to try.
Speaker 2: Them, and that was a huge jub on. They were
Speaker 2: a huge underdog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the shouldn't. That's not even in the right league.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they got a lot of My wife goes,
Speaker 3: why do they even play that team because they got
Speaker 3: a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the same for a NAU. That's the reason they're
Speaker 2: paying them a ton of money to go play on
Speaker 2: a page. I'm sure in New Mexico got about three
Speaker 2: hundred thousand whatever it was.
Speaker 3: An il money for keeping that quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, are you are you involved? This might be
Speaker 2: dumb questions. Are you going to be involved in the
Speaker 2: exhibition game in Glendale? Or they have their own people, No,
Speaker 2: they have their own people.
Speaker 3: That's a whole venue difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, I think that's a cool idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an interesting gal they got. It's kind of
Speaker 3: like a non basketball deal though. You got Channing, Fry
Speaker 3: and Richard, the guys putting it together with an after
Speaker 3: party or after after for the fans and after party,
Speaker 3: yeah for the fans. Yeah. So I'm not on site,
Speaker 3: but off site even here, there's one.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sure that helps with the nil.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it all goes to nil. Yeah. Yeah, and you
Speaker 3: know you gotta you gotta.
Speaker 2: Do that, aren't you. You're disappointed. You were about thirty
Speaker 2: years too late.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: Even even if you wouldn't have gotten paid, you could
Speaker 2: have driven Damon around. He'd give you ten dollars an hour.
Speaker 3: Maybe I could have. Yeah, it could have been the
Speaker 3: no guy. No, I'm sorry, sir. You can't come.
Speaker 2: No autographs to day, and Damon and Clid don't.
Speaker 3: Want to buy groceries, thank you very much. Yes, you
Speaker 3: can run in her pers. I just got a text
Speaker 3: from my buddy Joe Turner. Oh yeah, j T, you're
Speaker 3: all back for littles And so I told him I
Speaker 3: give him a shout out with all the other coaches.
Speaker 3: So I drafted the team that won. So with the
Speaker 3: coaches me Reggie and Felicity and Felicsy brought home the championship.
Speaker 3: Give her shout outs.
Speaker 2: She's good. The female I don't remember her name, price,
Speaker 2: miss Price, Oh, Sydney, Sidney Price, Sydney. She was, she's
Speaker 2: very smooth man. I drafted her, Felicity for a second round,
Speaker 2: first round. She I can't say, well, but she was up.
Speaker 2: There aren't too many rounds. But she was one of
Speaker 2: your key players. And so was the mechanic guy Bell
Speaker 2: or something that. Yeah, yeah, Wendell. Yeah, they had a
Speaker 2: pretty good team.
Speaker 3: They had a great team. So I drafted it and
Speaker 3: I left and they started winning. So you definitely can't coach.
Speaker 2: You're just the GM.
Speaker 3: That's I can take that.
Speaker 2: You're the GM. You let the coaches couch.
Speaker 3: Draft and sit in the stands. Then sit on the bend.
Speaker 2: Don't be a don't be a Dallas cowboy owner. You know,
Speaker 2: gotta quote imagine that mess. Yeah, you know what the owner.
Speaker 2: Every time you gotta draft somebody pay them this. So
Speaker 2: I thow TJ got a nice contract. Yeah you did.
Speaker 3: That was awesome. We talked about that.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you Yeah, did you ever think you
Speaker 2: were at the games more than or just as much
Speaker 2: as I.
Speaker 3: Know that he was going to be a guy like this. No,
Speaker 3: I didn't think he would do ten fourteen years. That's
Speaker 3: when his contract's up. He'd be what fourteen years in
Speaker 3: the league. Yeah, but no, I didn't think that at all.
Speaker 3: I thought he's a great hustle player. Yeah, but he's
Speaker 3: found his niche in the NBA. That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Find your niche and make millions for him. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: call him on the nil HOPLNE and say, hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: our guys need help, right, well they should, I mean
Speaker 2: they started here.
Speaker 3: Well you know, Reggie does that. Reggie dials dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, great, Well take a break here. Get ahold
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