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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Are on the Ball. You're on
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Speaker 3: to daya Swan and Ray has some breaking news.
Speaker 4: All right, so music's not going, but here we go.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: One of the one of the things that really stood
Speaker 6: out to me today just you know, kind of going
Speaker 6: over the landscape of sports was the West Virginia governor.
Speaker 6: He you know, did a press conference. Felt like they
Speaker 6: got snubbed. I feel like that's a fair that's a
Speaker 6: fair emotion to have today. But he like, in front
Speaker 6: of his little podium, he had a national was it
Speaker 6: National Corrupt Corrupt Athletic Association?
Speaker 3: Nothing like political people getting involved in sports.
Speaker 2: We gotta love it. It's called Tuesday, called Monday. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I saw that, and he was pretty upset.
Speaker 3: Obviously, there's guess what, this time of year, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have a lot of people upset. I said, they're gonna
Speaker 3: move the They moved the back before you guys were born.
Speaker 3: It was thirty two, right, and then with the sixty
Speaker 3: four now it's sixty eight. Now they're thinking about going
Speaker 3: to seventy six, and they might include them all when
Speaker 3: they go to one hundred and two. Guess what one
Speaker 3: hundred and three hundred and four hundred and five, we're
Speaker 3: gonna be pissed that they were not in.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Oh, someone's always gonna be upset. That's just the nature
Speaker 7: of sports, right right?
Speaker 2: What about us? What about us?
Speaker 3: But let me tell you there's some gripe because we
Speaker 3: talked about this on there or North Carolina or a
Speaker 3: fair af fair. I mean, if there's a team that
Speaker 3: probably doesn't deserve to be in there, and maybe a
Speaker 3: West Virginia that's why he's upset.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but I mean I don't know.
Speaker 6: I thought that was pretty funny, a little funny, little
Speaker 6: little like whoa man?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was big news all over.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, So bringing it back local.
Speaker 4: The baseball team on an eight game win streak right now.
Speaker 3: Right, you're you're boss is covering that, right? I keep up,
Speaker 3: I keep up. Yeah, they're lucky. What are they twenty seven?
Speaker 3: What are they then?
Speaker 2: One and four? Something? That twenty one four?
Speaker 3: They're not ranked In fact, someone someone of my puncho
Speaker 3: on my on my Facebook posts that talked about that,
Speaker 3: where they're twenty and four whatever, twenty one four and
Speaker 3: they're not They're not ranked a.
Speaker 7: Little bit surprising in my opinion, because in my eyes,
Speaker 7: they are a pretty impressive team.
Speaker 2: They hit the ball well, they they they.
Speaker 7: Shut out opponents for the most part, and I mean
Speaker 7: shut out when it's they're eleven to three. Score, oh
Speaker 7: they're fifteen to four. Fifteen and four are still fifteen
Speaker 7: and four. Yeah, you're winning seventy five percent.
Speaker 3: You know what, other teams are probably playing well. So
Speaker 3: how do you how do you eliminate those guys? Because
Speaker 3: these guys are doing well. I mean it's a turn
Speaker 3: of not turn of events, but circumstances of events where Okay,
Speaker 3: they're doing really well. We acknowledge that, but the people
Speaker 3: ahead of you are doing well too. How do we
Speaker 3: JUSTI probably knocking you guys off.
Speaker 7: It's company, it's the team that's left out again here
Speaker 7: we are Arizona's left out, and maybe some people are upset,
Speaker 7: but there's only twenty five teams that can be ranked.
Speaker 3: Because I always complained about the fans here locally and
Speaker 3: Bill who hasn't called since he ranked me in August.
Speaker 2: So you're not from here, right? How long have you lived?
Speaker 2: You've been here a while? You're a sports fan, right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I lived in Arizona for five years, lived in Tucsons specifically,
Speaker 6: coming up on three.
Speaker 3: What do you do you and you listen to shows
Speaker 3: like this? Not mine but fan base?
Speaker 2: Tell me? What do you think?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: Funny enough?
Speaker 6: I really liked how Big felt like about his call earlier, Like,
Speaker 6: you know, because everybody says that we were fairweather fans,
Speaker 6: and I think that's I wouldn't say fairweather.
Speaker 4: I'd say a little bit more realistic. Is I think realistic?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: Because I mean I don't think you should ever be,
Speaker 6: you know, be proud of a loss. I mean, oh right, sure, sure, sure,
Speaker 6: but you know there's nothing to hang your head about,
Speaker 6: you know, at least the Houston after a tough game.
Speaker 6: Don't don't be happy that it was a closed game,
Speaker 6: but you know, let a spark a fire or something, Okay,
Speaker 6: And I think that's how fans should be.
Speaker 2: What do you think about those fans? I've lived it.
Speaker 7: I still live it when I'm not on air writing.
Speaker 7: Uh So I get both sides. I'm starting to lean
Speaker 7: more towards the Steve riveras of the world, which means
Speaker 7: a little bit more.
Speaker 2: They're jaded, jaded on the fans more more. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: could you? Could you now?
Speaker 3: Because you're paying attention now where where they're more whiney
Speaker 3: is not the right word, but it's kind of whiney.
Speaker 7: They look at the great plays, they turn away at
Speaker 7: the bad plays, and they still yell what happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, See, you're not there yet. That's why I asked,
Speaker 3: because I figured you would have that opinion, and you
Speaker 3: might have that opinion.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I always think it's
Speaker 6: fun being like a delusional fan too, like.
Speaker 8: Did you do fit?
Speaker 3: There's always yeah, I mean it keeps a fresh How
Speaker 3: much your.
Speaker 2: Eggs in that world? Sorry? How much your eggs in
Speaker 2: that world?
Speaker 4: Oh you don't look at the price, but yeah, keeping
Speaker 4: it going.
Speaker 6: Softball won three to zero yesterday, went swept Utah over
Speaker 6: the weekend, and they're on a five game win streak
Speaker 6: and moving to the m b A. The Sun's lost
Speaker 6: yesterday and they're right now on outside looking in on
Speaker 6: the plane.
Speaker 3: It doesn't look good at all. No, they're not playing
Speaker 3: like they care all that. I'm not a huge fan.
Speaker 7: I'm not a hater of steven A, but he used
Speaker 7: a great uh analogy where it looks like they were
Speaker 7: sent by their parents to go do chores and now
Speaker 7: they're a little bit lethargic and they don't want to
Speaker 7: do the chores. When they get they're getting paid at
Speaker 7: the end of the day to do this and this
Speaker 7: is their their career.
Speaker 3: I think they'll go one further with with that. They're
Speaker 3: told to be doing chores, so they don't want to
Speaker 3: do the chores, the lethargic hoping that they'll never have
Speaker 3: to do the chores because they did such a bad
Speaker 3: job that they'll never be asked to do it again. Exactly,
Speaker 3: you've done that before, a baby, you're good shoes.
Speaker 2: You want choice to perfection. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 2: just the front yards never looked cleaner.
Speaker 9: Come on, I don't want to just my mom keeping
Speaker 9: it moving.
Speaker 6: But still in the n b A, Steve Kerr passed
Speaker 6: al Edels as the winnings head.
Speaker 2: Coach of Golden State and of Golden State. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: okay cool?
Speaker 6: And also, man, I mean I guess the maps are
Speaker 6: kind of bouncing back they've had.
Speaker 4: Man, they've had a had a string of bad look
Speaker 4: since trading Luca.
Speaker 2: Bounce back with a win or too well.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know they got something to look forward to.
Speaker 6: Ads going to the G League now to rehab.
Speaker 2: A little bit. They're done too though, Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, you don't have enough guys to you know,
Speaker 6: you're in jeopardy of having a forfeit games.
Speaker 4: That's never a great sign, right, but I saw that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when was the last time happened where a team
Speaker 2: I don't remember? Or in the NBA? Yeah, no, I never.
Speaker 3: Usually find someone, right, Yeah, bringing people up from the
Speaker 3: G League, you just get your ask kicked.
Speaker 7: They want they want to pay me, I'll I'll make
Speaker 7: a couple of shots. We'll get a border too.
Speaker 4: I could run around on some hard word, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean.
Speaker 6: It's a Cardio went exactly U Yeah, keeping it moving
Speaker 6: going to the NFL though. The Bengals were able to
Speaker 6: pay Higgins and Jamar, But that's forty of their salary
Speaker 6: cap for the season, too.
Speaker 3: Right, They needed those guys, right. They need to get
Speaker 3: defense too, right, because they didn't have a very good
Speaker 3: defense and they.
Speaker 2: Were pretty good. Got a call yeah, let's take it.
Speaker 2: Got a call. Hell, you're on the air and I
Speaker 2: on the ball. Who's this? This is Charles, Charles, what
Speaker 2: do you got?
Speaker 10: I just't Paul, you know what I'm hearing about the
Speaker 10: moral victories and this and that. I had a post
Speaker 10: and I said that I was proud of our team.
Speaker 10: I was proud that they fought Houston. Houston could be
Speaker 10: like the best team in the country right now, that's
Speaker 10: how good they are. And we took them two games
Speaker 10: to the brink, you know, And and if we played
Speaker 10: ten games, thirty three percent of the time we might win,
Speaker 10: you know, the others you know, sixties whatever.
Speaker 8: Uh, percent of the time that they're gonna win.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, so let me ask you go ahead. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: Oh, I just wanted to say.
Speaker 2: That that's true.
Speaker 10: If we beat them again in the final four, maybe we.
Speaker 2: Get that one. You know, we gotta have some hope
Speaker 2: on them.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 3: Well, you're talking. So you posted this on Facebook or where?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So let me on Facebook.
Speaker 2: How was it received?
Speaker 10: I don't know, a lot of people. I got a
Speaker 10: lot of people loved it, you know, a lot of
Speaker 10: people liked it. A lot of people loved it. And
Speaker 10: the reason I was prouded because they showed great.
Speaker 13: You know, they.
Speaker 10: Finally didn't go and get pushed around. Yeah, they made
Speaker 10: some mistakes, they didn't cover on some trees. You know,
Speaker 10: they broke down some plays, and they did let them
Speaker 10: come back in at the end of the game like
Speaker 10: they have been. But you know, one of these days
Speaker 10: they're gonna be resilient. They're gonna you know, from Houston
Speaker 10: and get them.
Speaker 3: Well here's the here's the one thing that I totally
Speaker 3: agree with you. But here's the one thing that why
Speaker 3: I wrote that story too. That hadn't been the case
Speaker 3: for some of the year, right, So, uh, that gave
Speaker 3: you hope, I mean that type of thing gave you
Speaker 3: hope for the future.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And and for Tommy because like a lot, I'm real
Speaker 10: critical and Tommy about not having because he doesn't seem
Speaker 10: like the type of person that you know, a yawler,
Speaker 10: a streamer, like you said, and and some of the
Speaker 10: time outs it seemed like he was, you know, come on, fight, fight, fight,
Speaker 10: and it was like, yeah, that's good, good to see you, Tommy.
Speaker 10: Get get after there. But right right, right, and sometimes
Speaker 10: you know, the team takes on the personality of their coach,
Speaker 10: and if he's always real nice and friendly and you
Speaker 10: know this, and which Tommy seems.
Speaker 4: Like he is.
Speaker 10: You know, sometimes you can get that fight of your team.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I think we got some guys the.
Speaker 10: Three guards, I know, and all you know, the people
Speaker 10: coming behind them are following them. There, you know they're
Speaker 10: getting some fight in them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Charles, thanks for the call, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 10: All right, thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Yeah, it's kind of correct. I agree.
Speaker 3: But there's a point where you think, okay, we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens.
Speaker 2: We haven't.
Speaker 7: We haven't talked about this, but that that clip that
Speaker 7: they showed in the Houston game in the huddle, Tommy
Speaker 7: and the players.
Speaker 2: Hold up there, Hello, you're on the air nine the ball?
Speaker 2: Who's this? Hello? We haven't talked about this, but turn
Speaker 2: off your love.
Speaker 14: In you there?
Speaker 2: Just going hang up?
Speaker 3: You'll come Yeah, okay, okay, go ahead, Hello, you're on
Speaker 3: the air nine.
Speaker 8: The ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 3: Okay, they'll come back, they'll come. I'm so glad you
Speaker 3: were talking like yeah, y'allo said.
Speaker 7: You know, some of the fans had issues with that
Speaker 7: where Tommy's Tommy's too nice. Yeah, Tommy, he's Tommy's a
Speaker 7: players coach. But I think that this is a that
Speaker 7: moment is where he won some of those fans back. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and maybe where in a season that's been lackluster.
Speaker 3: I'm writing about that today tonight. Actually, it's it's pretty funny. Yeah, Hello,
Speaker 3: you're on the air.
Speaker 2: Nine on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 12: Yeah, between my phone and my computer, I'm not sure
Speaker 12: what's gonna wind up in the river?
Speaker 2: First, you turn off your radio. Had you been trying
Speaker 2: to get in? Oh?
Speaker 12: My phone is anyway? Yeah, I just tried again.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's up, Steve.
Speaker 12: I hate to tell you I told you so, but
Speaker 12: I think I said way back December, mainly January, Florida
Speaker 12: was the best team in the country.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that, but I totally agree with you now.
Speaker 12: Because I told you a lot, you know, recovering from
Speaker 12: back surgery and stuff, I watched a lot of basketball,
Speaker 12: read a lot of stuff. He's just inundated myself with
Speaker 12: sports and basketball. But I'll tell you what they whipping
Speaker 12: that they put on Tennessee the other day. Yeah, just reinforced.
Speaker 12: They are just too deep.
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, they're really good and they got a point guard.
Speaker 12: He could probably play in the NBA right.
Speaker 3: Now, he's going and he's going to be in the NBA.
Speaker 3: He is fantastic. Clayton I think I can't remember his
Speaker 3: last name, goold.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Clayton is his last name, and uh yeah, I
Speaker 12: mean he is a heads the player. You watch him
Speaker 12: come up, he sort of reminds me of an older,
Speaker 12: a younger Jason Kidd. He had that look about him
Speaker 12: when he comes down to the court. He's got confidence,
Speaker 12: just boozing out of his pores and and just real quick,
Speaker 12: I think Arizona's going to do pretty well in this tournament.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 12: I think they go to it lead eight, and I
Speaker 12: think that they can. I think they can beat Duke
Speaker 12: if they play him in a rematch with the.
Speaker 2: Sweet Okay, could I have some of that cool aid? Sir?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Would you like an orange or water?
Speaker 2: Pick it? You pick it for?
Speaker 3: We surprised me. Thanks Rick for calling. Thanks I maybe
Speaker 3: you never know. Maybe E lead a replayed Duke, doesn't.
Speaker 7: I do believe that if they go that far and
Speaker 7: replay Duke, they'll beat them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I wish that we have getting close. Okay,
Speaker 3: you got another thing to your point with the Tommy.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have a story about that later today because
Speaker 3: I asked him the question what happened there and how
Speaker 3: did it happened? There's some background to that story. I
Speaker 3: talked to one of his best friends about did that
Speaker 3: surprise him? Because people have they could have say something
Speaker 3: he's not a competitor. Well, he's a competitor. So there's
Speaker 3: a couple of backstories to hold it another call. We
Speaker 3: ready to go, Let's go. Let's go, because we're gonna
Speaker 3: talk to Brad Alice on the other side talk more
Speaker 3: about the history of the Arizona in the playoffs and
Speaker 3: what this team means to him.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball.
Speaker 3: Here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty receive Rivera and with
Speaker 3: Meet to Day Juan and Ray. Now on the phone,
Speaker 3: we have Brad Alice from WSR Arizona Podcasts.
Speaker 2: Brad, how are you done?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 3: Let's start with some historical perspective, because you have that
Speaker 3: in you. What does what does the tournament mean to
Speaker 3: you in your history?
Speaker 8: You know, it kind of meant I came of age,
Speaker 8: kind of as Arizona basketball did. Those early teams that
Speaker 8: were bounced in the first round under Ludols. In the
Speaker 8: first ones pre Final four were sixth grade and through
Speaker 8: middle school. You know, the final four team in eighty
Speaker 8: eight was actually my freshman year of high school. I
Speaker 8: remember watching the Cornell game in the library on one
Speaker 8: of those rollout TVs. I was at the u of
Speaker 8: A through the nineties. Obviously I covered once I got
Speaker 8: in the media in the late nineties, started covering with
Speaker 8: some of those great root teams. So I kind of
Speaker 8: grew up with Arizona basketball. I remember as a kid
Speaker 8: watching the tournament and never really putting together that the
Speaker 8: school down the street was kind of the same basketball
Speaker 8: as North Carolina and Kentucky. My dad was a big
Speaker 8: Kansas fan because he grew up in Kansas City. So
Speaker 8: all of a sudden loop made the University of Area
Speaker 8: Zona and in turn Tucson Arizona legitimate in my.
Speaker 2: Eyes and stayed that way. And is it still there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: You know, you know, I've heard a lot of people
Speaker 8: wonder if the Arizona still an elite program.
Speaker 12: There's certainly a national program.
Speaker 8: You know, they haven't been a Final four in quite
Speaker 8: a while, but they're nationally relevant. You know, they're certainly
Speaker 8: you know, maybe not a blue blood, maybe even not
Speaker 8: a new blood, but they're a you know, they're a
Speaker 8: top twenty basketball program.
Speaker 3: In a perfect perfectly said because I totally agree with
Speaker 3: what you just said. Okay, so now fast forward to
Speaker 3: now are they ready for this?
Speaker 10: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 8: Obviously, I think this is a flawed team. This is
Speaker 8: a talented team. I don't think they got the most
Speaker 8: favorable bracket, nor did they frankly, really really deserve it.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, people upset that they were the
Speaker 8: last and the second to last of number fours. That's
Speaker 8: about right. This is an eleven lost basketball team. Yeah,
Speaker 8: now nine of those are two really good basketball teams. Maybe,
Speaker 8: you know, obviously I had think oldenly West Virginia may
Speaker 8: have missed the tournament in Kansas State. But but you know,
Speaker 8: I'm one of these guys. You gotta win basketball games.
Speaker 8: I'm not one who thinks Texas should be in. Even
Speaker 8: though I see all those Quad one wins, I see
Speaker 8: a lot of losses. You know. So I think Arizona,
Speaker 8: by strength to schedule, is fortunate to be a four.
Speaker 8: I get it, you know, but they have some roadblocks
Speaker 8: front of them. I think Duke when healthy might be
Speaker 8: the best team in America. That really pains me to
Speaker 8: say that.
Speaker 12: That's really just ticky.
Speaker 8: Getting Oregon, what a couple hours from Eugene not the
Speaker 8: easiest task. Akron's a good basketball team, but you know,
Speaker 8: Arizona's certainly capable of at least winning to their seed,
Speaker 8: and then who knows how healthy Duke's going to be?
Speaker 7: Right right, a quandasy doesnerts form. Just in my opinion,
Speaker 7: I think this Arizona team to go far in this
Speaker 7: tournament needs to have maybe a surprise X factor in
Speaker 7: your eyes, who do you think that player could be
Speaker 7: and what they can they contribute?
Speaker 8: You know, that's a good question. I think it's it's
Speaker 8: maybe a Carter Bryant or a kJ Lewis, Carter Bryant
Speaker 8: being able to score kJ Lewis filling up that stat box.
Speaker 8: What I really think Arizona needs is I think Arizona
Speaker 8: needs to consistently be good down the stretch of games.
Speaker 8: I think, unfortunately Arizona's been a team I've called unclutched
Speaker 8: at times. You look at just the last game against Houston,
Speaker 8: when was the last time you saw someone travel because
Speaker 8: they ran into a teammate. When was the last time
Speaker 8: you saw a guy drop the basketball and not be
Speaker 8: able to pick it up and have no teammates? Weird
Speaker 8: things keep having to Arizona late in games. You know,
Speaker 8: they went several minutes without a field goal. You need
Speaker 8: good Caleb Love, you need guys.
Speaker 14: Playing their roles, and you need Arizona making plays late
Speaker 14: because unless you just have a special run, you're going
Speaker 14: to play two, three, four, maybe five really close basketball
Speaker 14: games on your way to a Final four national championship game.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So I've asked this to a lot of people, and
Speaker 3: I like your trust, your opinion. So what And you
Speaker 3: mentioned the word flaw. I've written out a few times
Speaker 3: in my stories. What are your top three flaws? If
Speaker 3: you have that many?
Speaker 8: Obviously it's honestly most of it's around the perimeter, outside shooting,
Speaker 8: outside shooting, defense, and really just going cold for long stretches.
Speaker 8: I think those are the big thing, which is ironic
Speaker 8: because there is almost a very good offensive team when
Speaker 8: it's going good. But when it's going bad, they're going
Speaker 8: to shoot three for seventeen from behind the arc, and
Speaker 8: they're going to have one or two four minute, five
Speaker 8: minute stretches without scoring, and all of a sudden, you
Speaker 8: next thing, you know, a team has.
Speaker 2: Made three or four.
Speaker 8: From behind the arc, and that nine point lead is
Speaker 8: sunning the entire game.
Speaker 14: That's happened repeatedly throughout this season.
Speaker 3: Right, So, and you've covered enough games, see this is
Speaker 3: where I go. If you are who you are and
Speaker 3: you mentioned three quick ones just the top of your head,
Speaker 3: that's who they are.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but we've also seen Arizona teams have a three
Speaker 8: game span where they play perfect or near perfect or
Speaker 8: lucky basketball. Yeah, that's why I'm not sure this Arizona
Speaker 8: keep going. Fin Can I go to Elite eight? Yeah?
Speaker 8: You know, I think that Derek Williams team that that
Speaker 8: that beat Duke and narrowly lost to Yukon played beyond
Speaker 8: some of their They played three really good games and
Speaker 8: I got a little lucky with the you know, the
Speaker 8: five second call was against Memphis. You know, but when
Speaker 8: everything falls and can fall into place.
Speaker 10: But more often than not.
Speaker 8: The reason Arizona loses is either their their flaws catch
Speaker 8: up to them or someone had the horrendous shooting night
Speaker 8: current eighty eight, Gardner in O one, you know, Clinton
Speaker 8: Damon in ninety four. Yeah, and then that's just you know,
Speaker 8: Gilbert getting hurt, Salim not being able to, you know,
Speaker 8: find the open shot. Against Illinois, that's typically what Dooms
Speaker 8: is gonna and that's probably what's gonna do him this year.
Speaker 8: Odds are Caleb Love is going to have a three
Speaker 8: for twelve behind the Arc Knight or a two for
Speaker 8: ten and Arizona's gonna lose that game. It's not Caleb's fault,
Speaker 8: but they need Caleb to be great to pull off
Speaker 8: upsets later.
Speaker 14: In the tournament.
Speaker 3: Right right, there's no question, and I've said this for
Speaker 3: a while though they won't go deep without Caleb.
Speaker 2: Caleb needs to show up every game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he needs to have a special run for Arizona
Speaker 8: to have a special run in but he's there. He's
Speaker 8: their best player, at least at this time. You know,
Speaker 8: I think five years from now, we're gonna look back
Speaker 8: going that Carter Bryant, that's that's the best player on
Speaker 8: that team. Oh yeah, because he's gonna be the pro.
Speaker 8: But right now, Caleb Love is is the guy and
Speaker 8: they need him to be the guy. And if he
Speaker 8: can be the guy for two weeks, they're in the
Speaker 8: final four. And if he can be the guy for
Speaker 8: one game. Then they're losing to whoever they play in
Speaker 8: the second round. If not against Akron, Acron is good
Speaker 8: enough to beat them.
Speaker 3: So obviously you started living in the late eighties. Are
Speaker 3: you skintish at this time of year being a fan?
Speaker 2: Been a fan?
Speaker 8: Not like I used to be.
Speaker 2: You go up. I think you grew out of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know what, you have two fourteen year old
Speaker 8: kids and a mortgage and a wife with some health problems,
Speaker 8: and suddenly Arizona losing and and I'll be real honesting
Speaker 8: one who knows my history in the media knows I
Speaker 8: kind of got burned by the school when my time
Speaker 8: on radio ended. So I don't have that blind devotion
Speaker 8: I had in Frank grinding out like you. I always
Speaker 8: wanted to, like Steve, don't you have the greatest job
Speaker 8: in the world. And then you're like, someday you'll know
Speaker 8: that that's a grind. I mean it does, it becomes
Speaker 8: a grind. I love you of a basketball, I love
Speaker 8: you of a football. I love the school. I kind
Speaker 8: of like the school now more than maybe I did
Speaker 8: a decade ago when the leadership changed. You know, I
Speaker 8: have not had very little deal. I met Tommy Lloyd
Speaker 8: for the first time last night, but I have fond memories.
Speaker 8: It's my alma mater. I want them to do well.
Speaker 8: But if they lose again Sweet sixteen, I'm fine. If
Speaker 8: they lose in the second round to Oregon, I got disappointed,
Speaker 8: but I'm fine. I don't want to lose the Ackron.
Speaker 8: That makes the rest of the tournament stuck. When your
Speaker 8: team losing the word let me but nineteen year old
Speaker 8: Brad was tried and maybe drink too heavily the first
Speaker 8: time when they lost the Santa Clara.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you, and I have a couple
Speaker 3: of fans in the room, what was the last time
Speaker 3: you hurt when they lost?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was probably at the end of the Miller era,
Speaker 8: to be honest, because Houston was just better, you know
Speaker 8: Princeton and and this shows how disconnected I am. I
Speaker 8: watched it at Disneyland, took the kids to spring break,
Speaker 8: watched the game on my phone to Disneyland, and may
Speaker 8: have audibly yelled when they when they had that turnover late.
Speaker 8: I think against Princeton, I think it might have incur
Speaker 8: and said a word I shouldn't say at Disneyland, so
Speaker 8: that was probably it. But we also ruined my rest
Speaker 8: of my weekend of like, okay, we're you know, we
Speaker 8: were leaving on Saturday morning, so I was gonna watch
Speaker 8: basketball all weekend and my weekend was right.
Speaker 14: I still watch games.
Speaker 2: In the games.
Speaker 8: So yeah, that one, that one's gonna hurt because it
Speaker 8: was so disappointing. And that was a pretty good battball team.
Speaker 3: Okay, So so no kind of case all that. So
Speaker 3: and you're connected, and you know, you get the pulse
Speaker 3: of the Arizona fans from back in the day to
Speaker 3: now give me the temperature of UA fans today.
Speaker 8: It's I think we're in a weird place because we're
Speaker 8: now in this There's so much information and so many.
Speaker 14: Ways to communicate, but yet no one really wants to.
Speaker 8: Do the research. If that makes sense, Yes, perfect, because
Speaker 8: when you know, when we got started, you had to
Speaker 8: kind of work to be a fan. You had to
Speaker 8: go get the Star, you had to go get the
Speaker 8: Citizens usually both. You had to go get Cat Tracks magazine,
Speaker 8: you had to you know, thumb through your six month
Speaker 8: old Street and Smith's or whatever. Now do you ever
Speaker 8: look at those Facebook groups? People are dumb, you know,
Speaker 8: They're like, well, why isn't Conrad Martinez playing? He has
Speaker 8: the best three point shot I've ever seen. No, he doesn't,
Speaker 8: you know. I mean we all like to pick and
Speaker 8: choose here, and we could be critical. Do I think
Speaker 8: Trey Townsend plays?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I do, but Tommy.
Speaker 14: Knows more than me.
Speaker 8: But lout would have got run out of town. These
Speaker 8: people want to fire Tommy Lloyd. Now can you imagine
Speaker 8: what would have happened when lude Olsen's missed the final
Speaker 8: four for five years with three first round SIPs or
Speaker 8: whatever it was. They would have tried to run that
Speaker 8: guy out of town. And that just shows how short
Speaker 8: sighted I think fans are now. I think the fans
Speaker 8: who do the work and do the studying, and because
Speaker 8: you can watch clips now, I know guys who are
Speaker 8: breaking down the All twenty you know what looks like
Speaker 8: the All twenty two films. They're reading everything. You know,
Speaker 8: everyone writes those guys, no more than anyone did when
Speaker 8: we did it. But I think you got a lot
Speaker 8: more fans who are just super reactionary, and I don't
Speaker 8: like interacting with those. I sound selfish. I like smart
Speaker 8: basketball fans, I like smart football fans. I like people
Speaker 8: who can challenge me even I don't have to agree
Speaker 8: with you, but I can see these you know, fire Tommy,
Speaker 8: Tommy can't do this, Tommy can't do that. You know
Speaker 8: say people who said, you know, Sean didn't make any change. No,
Speaker 8: Sean made a lot of changes.
Speaker 3: Base didn't always work right right right? So what do
Speaker 3: you think anything short of a what is disappointment?
Speaker 8: Uh? Sweet sixteen? And that's usually my barometer for Arizona basketball.
Speaker 8: To be honest, the really good teams should be alite e.
Speaker 8: I'm not one of these people think you have to
Speaker 8: get to the final boar because I know how difficult
Speaker 8: it is. I know what one charge in Denver can be,
Speaker 8: or one no chargeing the what one push off against
Speaker 8: Wisconsin can be, what one arm injury to Gilbert Arenas
Speaker 8: can be? You know, anything like that. But you should
Speaker 8: you should play to your seed and they should get
Speaker 8: to the sweet sixteen. And if they can give Duke
Speaker 8: a hard time, to me, that's a good season. If
Speaker 8: they get past it, it's a very good season. I
Speaker 8: think what they did this year with the Big Twelve,
Speaker 8: adjusting to a new league, finishing third, going to the
Speaker 8: championship game, being in that game to the end.
Speaker 10: Successful season with the regular season.
Speaker 8: Now they have to get to the second weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What they can't do is lose Friday.
Speaker 14: Yeah they can.
Speaker 8: And Akron is a good ballpup. You know, that's a
Speaker 8: team with the wine ship slows. They haven't already beaten anybody,
Speaker 8: but they're a challenging team. They got their guards. You know,
Speaker 8: they can get hot behind the arc Sarazonat have to
Speaker 8: be dialed in. Are you're going to see Princeton again?
Speaker 8: I don't think they will, but I think you know,
Speaker 8: and I think Oregon slade and I think you have
Speaker 8: the other opponent could be flawed but non easy road.
Speaker 8: But Arizona's still a pretty good basketball team.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: Key to winning it winning this weekend, key to winning
Speaker 3: it the weekend.
Speaker 8: Playing their style and playing smart basketball, being the better
Speaker 8: rebounding team in both games, limiting wide open three point shots,
Speaker 8: limiting bad turnovers, and then just you know, making the
Speaker 8: shots you need to make. I think Arizona plays a
Speaker 8: B plus game in both games. They win, and they
Speaker 8: win maybe not easily the second game. But if they don't,
Speaker 8: they don't have to play great basketball. But if they
Speaker 8: play the way they did against Kansas and Texas. Tex
Speaker 8: they win in pretty easily, I think, or at least similarly,
Speaker 8: you know, three three possessions or so, I think they
Speaker 8: can do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, Brad has always thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Okay, I love being on all right.
Speaker 3: Thanks man, appreciate it is Brad Allis on ws R
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back everybody to iron the ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera in with me
Speaker 3: today's one and Ray running the board. Got about fifteen
Speaker 3: minutes if you'd like to call five two zero for
Speaker 3: one six seventy four forty. Sorry, key Money, I didn't
Speaker 3: ask your question. I just faced it.
Speaker 2: So maybe maybe you.
Speaker 3: Can call him ask it and maybe he'll listen. Anybody
Speaker 3: else want to call in, please do five two zero four,
Speaker 3: one sixty. I thought he said pretty interesting things, insightful
Speaker 3: things right about the fans.
Speaker 2: They have flaws.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he pretty much touched on, uh, the differences between
Speaker 7: me and Ray now of the delusion and the reality
Speaker 7: or whichever way you want to look at it, And uh,
Speaker 7: it's it's it's interesting truly to what the concept of
Speaker 7: being a fan.
Speaker 2: How realistic are you? How delusional are you? Right?
Speaker 7: Because realistic, realistic fans know that there's a there's a
Speaker 7: strong chance Arizona gets knocked out in the first round,
Speaker 7: given the history and given this team. Yeah, maybe a
Speaker 7: little bit of lousional fans. Yeah, don't expect to lose.
Speaker 7: They go to they expect to go to the final four.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll ask you a question. Maybe we're going to
Speaker 3: call a couple of calls on us. They played thirty games,
Speaker 3: twenty nine whatever, How many times did did they disappoint you? Like?
Speaker 2: They clearly really played like crap but good amount. Really,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna really I can't.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, you know what, go ahead tell me, well
Speaker 3: just just bahamas, Bahamas.
Speaker 2: Of course I'll get you those. Uh. Duke, I thought
Speaker 2: they played two Okay, those two are three?
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 2: Duke's pretty good though, Yeah, Duke. Credit to Duke. I.
Speaker 7: I thought Arizona could have played a little bit better,
Speaker 7: a little bit more smarter shots.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, but it was early and you didn't know
Speaker 2: how good Duke was. It was one of the first tests. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you're you're disappointed, but you're not at the same time.
Speaker 2: So that's three.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: The the u.
Speaker 3: C l A okay, the way they ended that, and
Speaker 3: that's what scares you because it could be leading well
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 2: Screwing it up. Yeah, it's that's four. Uh.
Speaker 7: I thought the game at Texas Tech I don't even
Speaker 7: remember that one. I thought they were in it for
Speaker 7: the most part, and then uh kind of kind of
Speaker 7: similar to this last Houston game where they were in it.
Speaker 7: They played a great thirty five minutes and then Texas
Speaker 7: Tech ends on I think of twelve nothing run. They're
Speaker 7: pretty good too, though, Yeah, credit to Texas Tech. I
Speaker 7: just it's a thing of when is there going to
Speaker 7: step up against the Texas Techs against the Houstons.
Speaker 2: When it's a game where you.
Speaker 7: Where that I'm going to use it and you may
Speaker 7: not like it, but momentum is going back.
Speaker 2: And forth.
Speaker 7: Where you're you're seeing maybe Houston pulls away now, maybe
Speaker 7: Arizona pulls away now, and yeah it's still a two
Speaker 7: point game, but then they end up those last five minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See, that's why I don't like the word momentum going back.
Speaker 3: Either you have it or you don't have it. That's
Speaker 3: why it doesn't perfect example. Yeah, either you have it
Speaker 3: and you can run through it, or you don't have it.
Speaker 3: Maybe just they have it, you have it whatever, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've stopped using the word momentum. I
Speaker 7: use it very rarely now. When I when I can't
Speaker 7: find another word for it and it does feel like
Speaker 7: I have to use the momentum, I'll use.
Speaker 3: It right right, Oh that's an obvious word. But like
Speaker 3: over the weekend, I use the word run. I said,
Speaker 3: I want to say that they had they had a
Speaker 3: good run. You know, I can't even say it anymore.
Speaker 3: So we'll see anybody calling, no calls, Okay, no manic Monday.
Speaker 3: No no panic Monday. No panic Monday. Find a game
Speaker 3: later in the week. If they got through this, they
Speaker 3: go back to well, they go to New Jersey and
Speaker 3: they go Thursday Saturday.
Speaker 2: So short week next week.
Speaker 3: If they get past them, I'm not one to look
Speaker 3: forward to because I've seen it too many times right
Speaker 3: where you think you're going to be there and it
Speaker 3: doesn't happen exactly. To his credit, Tommy doesn't do that
Speaker 3: at all. He doesn't go there at all. Is not
Speaker 3: it's not even obnoxious about it. He just doesn't go
Speaker 3: there much. Whenever that questions asked him.
Speaker 7: If he thinks about a potential organ matchup, he shuts
Speaker 7: it down pretty quickly, pretty bluntly.
Speaker 3: It's your hypothetical thing. I don't deal with hypothetical. No hypotheticals.
Speaker 3: Twos on right, and he's been pretty good. He jumped
Speaker 3: on Bruce a couple of times over the weekend. But
Speaker 3: they have this little love hate relationship or he does,
Speaker 3: Bruce does it, he does, and and they're friends and
Speaker 3: they're gonna obviously you have to be it's pretty cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 3: Word, because it's not it's not what people think it's
Speaker 3: just like two dudes playing off each other.
Speaker 7: People on the outside looking in, I think that think
Speaker 7: that Tomy Lloyd hates Bruce. Yeah, no, it's not the case.
Speaker 7: It's genuine. Yeah, I'm gonna push a little bit. I
Speaker 7: want you to push me back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And the only way Bruce can because he's
Speaker 2: a good dude.
Speaker 7: He just asked questions. And that's the way it should be. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's the way it should People should be able to
Speaker 7: ask questions. Maybe you get a little push back, but
Speaker 7: you know, well did you that's our that's our job.
Speaker 3: Did you see the interview with the Bruce Pearl after
Speaker 3: they lost and someone asked me, are you freaking out
Speaker 3: about I can't remember what the word was freaking out about?
Speaker 3: Not maybe losing the number one? See did you see that?
Speaker 3: And he really, I'm glad you asked that question, but
Speaker 3: a dumb quest about a softball question, and he got
Speaker 3: here snippy.
Speaker 2: I didn't see this. I'm not surprised.
Speaker 3: This is the time when coaches who make five ten
Speaker 3: million dollars a year get snippy. You make five ten
Speaker 3: million dollars, there's no need for you to get snippy.
Speaker 3: You guys, you guys are paid to win, uh, and
Speaker 3: guess what the reporters are asked to do. To ask
Speaker 3: the question questions, to ask the questions, whether you like
Speaker 3: it or not.
Speaker 2: This is still gonna happen. And the and the and
Speaker 2: the good ones paid get paid.
Speaker 7: Good amount to ask those hard questions, whether whether the
Speaker 7: coach likes it or not.
Speaker 3: It's like Bruce, but you know, I kind of got
Speaker 3: into the time or two with Sean, but for with Bruce,
Speaker 3: it's it's, you know, he's laugh smiles and then kind
Speaker 3: of moves on to things and you'll ask another one
Speaker 3: that's annoying, and and brew and Tommy goes out of
Speaker 3: him against I'm not going to answer that, you know,
Speaker 3: in however he answer that.
Speaker 2: But that's just part of the game. It's part of it.
Speaker 3: You know, you get paid a lot of money to
Speaker 3: answer questions. You don't have to answer him if you
Speaker 3: choose not to, but if you don't, ye, Bruce said
Speaker 3: he paid as you know exactly. I think Brian did
Speaker 3: that today too in a good way because Coach Brennan
Speaker 3: asked him about there's kids, there's coaches here, you know,
Speaker 3: how are you handling the new coaches byh blah blah.
Speaker 3: Well they're here if you want to talk to him,
Speaker 3: says well, I need you to tell me.
Speaker 2: You know your perspective.
Speaker 7: I want your that's what I'm asking for, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 7: your thoughts on them.
Speaker 2: I don't need their thoughts on it.
Speaker 7: And none of it was mean, and yeah that's the
Speaker 7: way it should be, right period.
Speaker 2: Anything else, anything else, guys don't know recalls.
Speaker 3: We got about eight minutes. Oh let's talk about football though,
Speaker 3: So that's where we're there. So Brennan talked to us
Speaker 3: about fifteen twenty minutes of spring but practice starts here tomorrow.
Speaker 3: There's a big game, not even a game, just a
Speaker 3: presentation on April nineteenth.
Speaker 2: I think it is.
Speaker 3: I believe that we can. It's not going to be
Speaker 3: a spring game. I think they're going in the direction
Speaker 3: of a lot of schools. Although he did it last year,
Speaker 3: they didn't have really much of a scrimmage.
Speaker 2: Like everyone else is.
Speaker 3: They're afraid of losing their players to people who watch
Speaker 3: these guys play. The thing about it is you already
Speaker 3: know who the players are exactly.
Speaker 7: Everyone in this day and age has some sort of
Speaker 7: film or highlights of someone, So it's it's impossible to
Speaker 7: hide it perfectly.
Speaker 2: Sure. Sure.
Speaker 3: And if you know X guy is doing well here
Speaker 3: or there, or you already lost out on him, but
Speaker 3: you still want him, there's that portal, and there's always
Speaker 3: the portal. And they were talking about people today, you know,
Speaker 3: going to people players, going to schools, not even attending
Speaker 3: the schools, but getting the NIL deals and then leaving.
Speaker 2: Exactly I'm assuming that they have to pay that money back.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure. It's a dicey area.
Speaker 7: Is a very gray and dark area of the world
Speaker 7: right now.
Speaker 2: And uh, well you just showed me something. Uh and
Speaker 2: did you read more about it? Yes? I tried to.
Speaker 7: I really could understand it because it sounds was nothing
Speaker 7: changed headline.
Speaker 2: Still, yeah, I'm gonna pull it up right now. Uh
Speaker 2: give me one second.
Speaker 7: So the NCAA is going to let athletes negotiate an
Speaker 7: I deals before enrollment.
Speaker 3: To me that they're already doing that, I mean, because
Speaker 3: if hey, what are you gonna pay me to go there?
Speaker 3: Isn't that the same thing? Yeah, they want to know
Speaker 3: before they say yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well as any as anyone would, right.
Speaker 3: Sure, that's I'm sure that's been happening already. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: wasn't illegal or legal. But if you want me to
Speaker 3: go there, how much you're gonna pay me two hundred thousand,
Speaker 3: Well then I want to go. You mean to tell
Speaker 3: me they get to the school and then they negotiate
Speaker 3: the price. Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense, not at all. But uh,
Speaker 3: they're gonna let them know if they weren't before, these.
Speaker 2: Aren't crazy times. These are crazy times.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean this is weird too, to like see
Speaker 6: that they're I mean, schools are hiring other people like
Speaker 6: as in a GM role.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's kind of been slowly happening. But
Speaker 2: when you hear it.
Speaker 3: I know that Brennan talked about a GM twice today
Speaker 3: or three times, and I'm thinking this wasn't the case
Speaker 3: back in the day.
Speaker 2: It was just like an assistant to the assistant, right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, now and now you have.
Speaker 3: To to go because well Belichick, right, he's got this system.
Speaker 3: Everybody has a system, but now his just is more
Speaker 3: pronounced because it came from the NFL. That's how it's run.
Speaker 3: I don't want to deal with this stuff. The coach says,
Speaker 3: let the GM handle all that.
Speaker 4: I think that's the right way to go too.
Speaker 6: I mean, you want your football coach worrying about football stuff, right,
Speaker 6: like just having like financials and stuff like I just
Speaker 6: completely out of their head.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, knowing that the coach knows
Speaker 3: everything that goes on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he has to. He has to. Right, College
Speaker 2: football is becoming.
Speaker 7: NFL number two with the GMS the players to play contracts,
Speaker 7: and I'm.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that hypothetically.
Speaker 7: It's not official words or anything, right, it's just very
Speaker 7: similar now and that's the way players coaches wanted to be.
Speaker 6: I think something else that's gonna be interesting too going
Speaker 6: into it, is like, you know, if there are like
Speaker 6: contracts that get signed and stuff like, are you gonna
Speaker 6: like is there a year cap?
Speaker 4: You know, can you like hold someone? Are you gonna
Speaker 4: be able to trade them?
Speaker 2: Well, here's the big thing.
Speaker 3: What if they become and then this has been talked about,
Speaker 3: they become employees. Oh so you're making X amount of money, right,
Speaker 3: you send this contract, but you're you're not living up
Speaker 3: to the employee part of it.
Speaker 2: You get fired. Yeah, that's a tough one.
Speaker 4: I mean, do you hold game checks if they don't play,
Speaker 4: you know, like.
Speaker 3: I think the players don't want I would assume if
Speaker 3: power player, I wouldn't want that.
Speaker 4: No, not at all.
Speaker 3: But but in order to save something, I mean from
Speaker 3: the NC DOUBA or the employer V or otherwise, you
Speaker 3: need something like that because if Ray you suck, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna pay you man, you know, uh huh truly
Speaker 3: why would I Why would I want to? Of course,
Speaker 3: you're making two hundred thousand dollars a year anything, Ray,
Speaker 3: you're playing like a thirty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what the hell am I doing?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 2: You see my money on you?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It makes it tough for sure. And I don't know.
Speaker 6: I feel like right now it's just like it's it
Speaker 6: sounds weird to say, but like I feel like nil
Speaker 6: is a sweet spot.
Speaker 4: I think the transfer portal is like, what's really.
Speaker 2: Oh it's all yeah, it's all messed up. Okay, Ray?
Speaker 3: So you you you're a player, you make half a
Speaker 3: million dollars. Your coach happens to make four fifty. How
Speaker 3: tough is that? Why listen to the coach?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I make more money than you. Here's the problem.
Speaker 3: Though, if you don't continue to listen to the coach
Speaker 3: and you become.
Speaker 2: Benched, you ain't gonna make.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, yeah, I can still bench you, and they're
Speaker 3: not gonna be People who are paying you now aren't gonna
Speaker 3: want to pay you later because you're not playing, because
Speaker 3: you're not living up to your expectations.
Speaker 6: And I think uh kind of thrown into like the
Speaker 6: NFL a little bit. You saw that when when Sean
Speaker 6: McVay got hired. You know, he's just like this young
Speaker 6: guy and like Andrew Whitworth has like two or three
Speaker 6: years on him, and everyone's like, why am I going
Speaker 6: to listen to you?
Speaker 2: But you know they said that I can't remember but
Speaker 2: I said that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, like in twenty sixteen, because it's like I
Speaker 6: don't know if they like really said that, But it
Speaker 6: was like one of those questions that came up kind
Speaker 6: of like just how you put it, It's like, why
Speaker 6: would I if I have more experience exactly right?
Speaker 2: And what happened? I mean, would with Worth get traded?
Speaker 4: No, I think.
Speaker 6: Retired like with the Rams. But it was just one
Speaker 6: of those things that you know.
Speaker 3: Well, it's hard to say, is one of you have
Speaker 3: those young guys. And also when you don't have experience
Speaker 3: that you played that you have you know, if you
Speaker 3: can listen to people like like like if you played
Speaker 3: in the league and you're a coach, you have that
Speaker 3: respect for the players because they you've been there, been there,
Speaker 3: done that. But like Jetfish, when he was here, he
Speaker 3: didn't play football, and there was how's the guys played
Speaker 3: tennis coaching football? Know what?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 7: Know that he had to go and earn that trust
Speaker 7: and the respect. And some coaches are successful that way
Speaker 7: because they're good at being managers and the analyticals. It's
Speaker 7: the the game plans and the attentions and details.
Speaker 3: But you still have to have the respect for the players.
Speaker 3: It's like, you guys are kids. You guys are parents.
Speaker 3: If you guys don't respect your parents, But are you okay?
Speaker 3: Sure being by eleven?
Speaker 2: Sure dad?
Speaker 7: Sure mom gets in by twelve one o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 7: right right, right, cars half busted.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you have I'm sure you have friends like that.
Speaker 7: I try to stay away from those friends, but I
Speaker 7: do I'll be honest, of course. And the reason is
Speaker 7: I try to care and point them in the right
Speaker 7: direction at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: It's their decision, right right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know you try to give him an arm's
Speaker 6: length because you know you don't want to you don't
Speaker 6: be involved.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't want to get mixed in with the
Speaker 4: wrong crowd too.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 7: He's a funny guy, great guy, but he's he's he's
Speaker 7: a warrant for him.
Speaker 3: He's my guy. Yeah, yeah, I know whether arms like
Speaker 3: to you? Right, Okay, Thanks guys, thank you for getting
Speaker 3: me through today. Tomorrow will be yere, Wednesday will be here,
Speaker 3: and then Thursday Friday won't be for the games and
Speaker 3: I'll be on the road.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 7: Ray, Thanks, we're coming in. Thanks, We're coming in. It
Speaker 7: should be fun here. It should be fun on Wednesday.
Speaker 7: Maybe look at the previewing some of the games. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that'd be great.
Speaker 4: Okay, next Monday is going to be really fun.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys,