Speaker 1: Breaking down all the UXes and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to tying the ball here a Fox
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Speaker 2: we have Henry with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Spurs head coach Greg Popovich is now home and well
Speaker 3: after being taken to a hospital after a medical incident
Speaker 3: Tuesday night.
Speaker 4: How old is he, like, like one hundred and five,
Speaker 4: mid seventies.
Speaker 5: Yes, Smith's seventies.
Speaker 2: I mean he's This year has been very difficult, right,
Speaker 2: He's just at some point you got to say, Okay,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: They say what the medical incident was, No, the heart attack.
Speaker 3: They said, well, you had a stroke broke in here.
Speaker 3: That's why you kind of coach. So they're saying it
Speaker 3: was most likely a result of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: You know, he's one of those guys too that he's
Speaker 6: been around forever, but you never thought of.
Speaker 4: Him as really old, right right right? Right?
Speaker 7: Ye?
Speaker 4: Like Jerry West. I mean Jerry West was older than dirt,
Speaker 4: but he never looked old. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The NBA playing tournament tonight, the Heat at the Hawks
Speaker 3: and the Mavericks at the Grizzlies, and the playoffs will
Speaker 3: officially start tomorrow tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Who's so? Who's so?
Speaker 2: Who are the Golden State? Who's playing Whome? They gotta
Speaker 2: wait for these two.
Speaker 3: Golden State plays the Rockets Winter. Yeah, the one in
Speaker 3: the east is the Calves, one in the west is
Speaker 3: the thunder so Winter.
Speaker 4: Those will play those, We'll play the two winners from tonight. Okay.
Speaker 3: The Arizona Spring Showcase is tomorrow at six pm.
Speaker 6: It's a it's a party. Yeah, it's a party. It's
Speaker 6: a fan it's a fan event. I just you know,
Speaker 6: my son's a big part of all of what they've
Speaker 6: put together for this. They're gonna show a kids movie
Speaker 6: on on the on the big screen after it's all over,
Speaker 6: so kids can stay and hang out on the field
Speaker 6: and watch a movie. Which I'm guessing we're going to
Speaker 6: be there because my grandson will be there and so
Speaker 6: you know, we'll go on.
Speaker 4: I'm feeling have fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm sure that it went well. I'll guess
Speaker 2: we'll hear from Justin. Do you remember to meet the team?
Speaker 2: Thing that they used to do, you know.
Speaker 6: I but before they signed up, I've been advocating for
Speaker 6: stuff like that, to do that again, and I know
Speaker 6: they pretty much stopped doing it in the stoops years.
Speaker 6: They did a few times and then it kind of
Speaker 6: it kind of waned, and I'm like, again, guys, you
Speaker 6: got to have a connection to your fans, like no
Speaker 6: connection to the community.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and my I don't want to pat him on.
Speaker 6: I know there were a lot of people had something
Speaker 6: to do with doing this event, but you know, my
Speaker 6: son had a lot to do with this because he
Speaker 6: was There's a great picture we have of him and
Speaker 6: I'm sure I put on Facebook.
Speaker 4: You know, he's like he would have been.
Speaker 6: Two years old, two years and changed, Adam two years
Speaker 6: old and change walking on the field and meet the team.
Speaker 6: And we tied a balloon to his to his outfits
Speaker 6: so we would know where if he got away from us,
Speaker 6: and there's a great picture of man. Now that he's
Speaker 6: been a big part of the putting this event together,
Speaker 6: it's just kind of worms heart a little bit that
Speaker 6: you know, somebody's out there listening that fans need to
Speaker 6: have stuff like this. If they don't know your players
Speaker 6: don't give a crap about your players. It's hard to
Speaker 6: sell them tickets, sorry to sell give them an il right,
Speaker 6: I mean exactly. By the way, can I get into
Speaker 6: your breaking news real quick?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: This just in Jay has a heart breaking news and
Speaker 2: it's not all black, and it's warm.
Speaker 4: It's warm.
Speaker 5: Don't enjoy too far, too far.
Speaker 4: But I think it's very cool. You go out there
Speaker 4: and have fun.
Speaker 5: Well to the points of the nil. How are you
Speaker 5: gonna give how are you gonna give money to people.
Speaker 4: You don't know?
Speaker 2: You don't know, you don't know, especially like in the media,
Speaker 2: we don't And I've been atlickball, I haven't been there,
Speaker 2: and we try to get players on t on TV
Speaker 2: here or whatever. We used to tell their stories. No
Speaker 2: kind of nobody really tells their stories.
Speaker 6: And especially in football because you know, mostly you see
Speaker 6: those guys that've got their helmets on, you don't really
Speaker 6: sometimes you don't even what they look like. I mean,
Speaker 6: how many people would know no fafied if you walked
Speaker 6: it knocked on their door, right, just because you don't.
Speaker 6: You don't see these guys all the time, like you
Speaker 6: see basketball players. You see them up close, you're in
Speaker 6: the arena. You know what they look like you see
Speaker 6: them on TV. You see their faces. Football players not
Speaker 6: so much. And it's so important to have that connection
Speaker 6: or you are going to have trouble getting money for
Speaker 6: these guys.
Speaker 4: What you're gonna need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Arizona women's tennis lost to number four Baylor in
Speaker 3: the Big Twelfth Tournament earlier today and will now wait
Speaker 3: to see if they qualify for the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 4: They're pretty good. They're ranked.
Speaker 5: Yeah, do they have a record.
Speaker 4: I think they're nineteen to ten.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, so yeah, and they're ranked they're a top
Speaker 6: twenty five teams, so I would imagine they get in.
Speaker 4: Just guys see where.
Speaker 3: Lakers have signed general manager Rob Polinka to a contract extension.
Speaker 5: Okay for the stealing of Luca.
Speaker 8: Definitely helps to the theft of Luca. That's fair, you know.
Speaker 8: I just keep seeing stuff about if you're a man
Speaker 8: Ricks fan, just how do you feel about all of that?
Speaker 8: And it's not good over there? No, not good.
Speaker 3: Ole Miss quarterback Jackson dart Would announced he will not
Speaker 3: be attending the NFL Draft in Green Bay next week.
Speaker 3: He is the sixteenth ranked player on Mel Kuiper's Big Board.
Speaker 4: Sixteenth interesting, hmmm, you know.
Speaker 6: I I just remember that year that Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 6: sad and sad and sad and said.
Speaker 4: There were a couple of others. Why do you think
Speaker 4: he did that? What do you think?
Speaker 5: Just no one knowing what you know?
Speaker 2: Why Jackson Dart No, no, no, no, why Rogers sat
Speaker 2: and sat and sat Maybe feel that he was a
Speaker 2: turn that's given the facts now what we know now. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he said why would you want to deal with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And then he had to sit it right for a
Speaker 2: number of years before before Barbara. Yeah, and he probably was.
Speaker 2: He's just annoying. I saw him yesterday on the show
Speaker 2: with the with the McAfee and it was.
Speaker 4: Like, God, why were you watching at McAfee? Oh?
Speaker 2: Because I don't mind watching it. I don't mind watching it,
Speaker 2: and I don't couldn't tell you why I want to
Speaker 2: listen to that. I don't watch it all the time
Speaker 2: because I just don't.
Speaker 4: I just don't.
Speaker 6: I feel like I feel like if my TV comes
Speaker 6: on and it was on ESPN and he's on, I
Speaker 6: feel like I lose brain cells in the three seconds
Speaker 6: before I tan to, Well.
Speaker 5: What I do listen to?
Speaker 4: I said?
Speaker 2: I kind of wish we could use those words that
Speaker 2: they use on their show. Eventually, all that's going to
Speaker 2: come to promotion. I think we'll be able to cuss.
Speaker 2: We had one yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what was it you? No? No, no, it is
Speaker 4: one of our guests.
Speaker 3: Six Arizona teams are ranked this week, Men's tennis at
Speaker 3: number eleven, softball at number thirteen, women's golf at number nineteen,
Speaker 3: men's golf at number twenty, men's track and field number
Speaker 3: twenty one, and the baseball team at number twenty two.
Speaker 6: Goes back to go ahead, how about softball beating the
Speaker 6: million dollars?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, are you're going to have that? Were you
Speaker 5: going to have that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean you could talk about it. Yeah, Well go
Speaker 2: ahead and describe it more. Just there was going to
Speaker 2: beat Texas two to one, and the million dollar baby pitched.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Arizona handle.
Speaker 6: Her Devon and Arizona's picture not only you know, Devin
Speaker 6: Nets pitches five innings, Chelsea hits the two run homer
Speaker 6: that wins the game, and it was really right, first
Speaker 6: first inning, right.
Speaker 4: And it was a bomb. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well that's if you are you covering someball. No, there's
Speaker 2: your lead, baby, there's your lead to do a story
Speaker 2: over her.
Speaker 4: It was a bomb too.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, the million dollar, the million dollar, She's like,
Speaker 6: I saw the records. She's seventeen, she's seventeen and four.
Speaker 6: And the million dollar, Uh pictures seventeen and five.
Speaker 4: That's what's that's what. Yeah, that's all I got. Okay?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Was I I had one?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 6: Do you see the Lee Corso They've announced he's he's
Speaker 6: going to do the the first game day of the
Speaker 6: season next year and then call it a day.
Speaker 5: Uh you j I forget your name already.
Speaker 4: Jay.
Speaker 2: If you get to the point where you don't make
Speaker 2: any sense, which is coming close.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't make any sense sometimes and I'm right here,
Speaker 2: please say goodbye, you know.
Speaker 6: Good for him though, and I'll tell you what I like.
Speaker 6: Pat forty, you know, was a gift of our shows.
Speaker 6: Did a great piece both about him and Dick vital
Speaker 6: and how, in spite of how ESPN has handled talent
Speaker 6: over the years, you know, just getting rid of people,
Speaker 6: you know, good people and people that are beloved and whatnot.
Speaker 6: That he really applauded them for not doing that to
Speaker 6: either Lee Corso or Dick Vitale, and a lot of
Speaker 6: us wouldn't have minded if they.
Speaker 4: Just you know, he's did into the sunset.
Speaker 6: But that they let them he's into the sunset on
Speaker 6: their terms. Well if I tell is still around. But
Speaker 6: the Lee corso, you know, they didn't just one day
Speaker 6: send out a news release that he won't be on
Speaker 6: game day anymore. They're gonna let him, you know, his
Speaker 6: have his thing and he'll be on the show and
Speaker 6: on the first game day of next season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, there's a couple more stuff real quick, No,
Speaker 2: I agree with you. Yesterday was talking about the end game.
Speaker 2: He was eighty nine. He'll be ninety by the time
Speaker 2: that show at some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, having had a stroke that he seriously affected it.
Speaker 5: Well, does the end game come?
Speaker 4: It comes now?
Speaker 6: And yeah, but good for him, you know, good that
Speaker 6: he'll be able to go out, you know, in a
Speaker 6: good way.
Speaker 2: Just to add a couple more things of Burke, of course,
Speaker 2: the coach. Burke has got a new couple of new
Speaker 2: players coming in today. I think they just got a cue,
Speaker 2: a couple of more transfers. And then they hired and
Speaker 2: assistant another assistant, James Ewing, coming coming from Buffalo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know she's put put in a
Speaker 6: staff together, she's got players.
Speaker 4: It's going to be interesting, you know.
Speaker 6: And look, a big piece of how of how all
Speaker 6: this coming out is how they play it. And Arizona's
Speaker 6: playing it really well.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: From a marketing standpoint, you know, getting you know a
Speaker 6: lot of information out there, letting people know, getting trying
Speaker 6: to get people excited for this because you know what
Speaker 6: they're really up again in terms of are they gonna
Speaker 6: be able to sell his many tickets next year?
Speaker 2: I think that last year, what's this honeymoon? Or they
Speaker 2: hate honeymoon? Where's off? People will be excited again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're gonna see the new coach. And they might struggle early,
Speaker 2: but this fan base showed that it loves winners, and
Speaker 2: and they'll probably here's what they find, and here's what
Speaker 2: they want. Here's what they want.
Speaker 6: I think they want to know that they've got a
Speaker 6: team where the girls like each other, want to play
Speaker 6: for each other, okay, don't hate each other, and and
Speaker 6: and look like they're together out on the court, which
Speaker 6: you can argue has been missing three years.
Speaker 2: You gave me four things, and any of them legit
Speaker 2: for the last few years. Yeah, yeah, all four they
Speaker 2: were not legit in since there was a problem.
Speaker 6: Those those were probably all four years last maybe like
Speaker 6: like the last three years.
Speaker 4: We just felt like there was nothing going on out there.
Speaker 4: Here's the here's this thing.
Speaker 2: Because you've been in the business, do you think eventually
Speaker 2: the story will come out? And I don't know what
Speaker 2: the story is, but but we kind of know. You
Speaker 2: just mentioned things that have been said, right. Well, it's
Speaker 2: just it was a feeling. I mean, it was a
Speaker 2: feeling that you got from from all of this.
Speaker 6: When you talk players leaving, you know, things like that
Speaker 6: last press conference where ICE's base said, well I'm not
Speaker 6: going to miss everybody.
Speaker 4: I'm going to miss a few people or not everybody.
Speaker 6: You know, Ada said the things that she's you know
Speaker 6: that she said and kind of left in a bad
Speaker 6: way after really having an opportunity to have a you know,
Speaker 6: a Larry Smith Dick told me kind of legacy here
Speaker 6: or and or Mike Candre or you know whatever. So
Speaker 6: I think that what what happens is that, you know,
Speaker 6: the next one that comes along, maybe they're not up
Speaker 6: against it like they might have been had Ada continued
Speaker 6: on and then sure somebody had.
Speaker 2: You don't want to follow that person. Now, you don't
Speaker 2: follow a person.
Speaker 6: I think I think, I think the new coach has
Speaker 6: an opportunity to set her own.
Speaker 4: Mood.
Speaker 6: Culture, yeah, culture, mood, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 6: for the program and let fans get Look, what Adia
Speaker 6: did was great, seven thousand fans at these games often, Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know when leading, leading.
Speaker 4: Attendance and all that kind of stuff in the league.
Speaker 6: All great stuff, but it was it was fizzling, and sure,
Speaker 6: you know, but that foundation is still there. You'd like
Speaker 6: to think that this new coach can come in and
Speaker 6: hold it together.
Speaker 4: And if she wins some games.
Speaker 6: Early or at least, people people want to feel that
Speaker 6: they want to look good, right, You wanted to look
Speaker 6: like they're all they're all on the same page.
Speaker 4: And if it does, I think they'll stay. The fans
Speaker 4: will stay.
Speaker 2: Well part of the whole thing. And you talked to
Speaker 2: here what you were on last two weeks ago she
Speaker 2: was the coach. You were pretty candidate in what you
Speaker 2: were feeling and her not feeling appreciated, Yeah, not feeling
Speaker 2: not not that she wasn't feeling wanted, but appreciated. Money
Speaker 2: money situation. Probably have to take a pay cut, but
Speaker 2: not doing well. The last few years, not living up
Speaker 2: to the million two that she was getting paid, so
Speaker 2: many different things. Now this is a fresh start. And
Speaker 2: we've said this before, you, me and a number of
Speaker 2: other people out there. It had to happen, and it's
Speaker 2: the marriage is over and things like that have an ending.
Speaker 4: They do, they do, and it's just you just don't
Speaker 4: feel like it should have though.
Speaker 6: You know, you were kind of hoping that idea would
Speaker 6: be that person that lived on forever on here. And
Speaker 6: I think I'm not gonna say she's gonna be forgotten
Speaker 6: because she did some great things, but it's not going
Speaker 6: to be like a.
Speaker 5: Good well, I'll give you this. So what's her legacy?
Speaker 4: I don't know yet.
Speaker 5: Really she's gone.
Speaker 4: I know you what are you waiting for?
Speaker 6: Waiting to see if, as you say, stuff comes out?
Speaker 5: Oh okay, you want the more complete story.
Speaker 4: Right, We don't. I don't think we know the whole story.
Speaker 5: I know, there's no question.
Speaker 6: We don't know why it went from here coming out
Speaker 6: of that National championship game to where it finished. For
Speaker 6: you had a coach and a player saying we didn't
Speaker 6: give a crap about that last game.
Speaker 4: How did you get from there to there whether we need.
Speaker 6: To know that, right, people want to know that so
Speaker 6: they can make up their mind about what does the
Speaker 6: Dia Barnes mean to us in ten years?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Right, and and right rightfully showed that she had her
Speaker 2: supporters who we support, I think the world of her.
Speaker 2: Uh at the then now, h there's the butt though.
Speaker 4: There's the butt, right, a big butt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's where we go with the right.
Speaker 6: The fourth thing is especially what I'm saying, we don't
Speaker 6: you know, where the legacy is not set. You know,
Speaker 6: if it comes back that she really was and I'm
Speaker 6: saying we know anything about this, but let's say it
Speaker 6: comes back that she really was an abusive coach, right,
Speaker 6: then that changes things. Or it may be she wasn't abusive,
Speaker 6: but she gets she recruited all these players who were
Speaker 6: just Prima Donna's and just didn't want to play.
Speaker 2: Right, right, Eventually, let's go, we got to go. We
Speaker 2: can get a hold of Justin Spears and talk about football.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Why on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and today is
Speaker 2: jagon Zaus. Now on the phone, we have Justin Spears
Speaker 2: from the Arizona Daily Star and the radio show in
Speaker 2: the mornings.
Speaker 5: How are you doing, Justin Man?
Speaker 16: Just like old time, we got Jay back at studio.
Speaker 16: I'm talking to you guys about football.
Speaker 4: Feels good. The band is back together.
Speaker 5: Man, oh bye, yeah baby cool by. Yeah you been busy?
Speaker 4: Have you been busy just a little bit?
Speaker 16: You know, it's that time of year where you know,
Speaker 16: even though it doesn't really you know, it's not football season,
Speaker 16: there's still lots going on with this u A football program. Right.
Speaker 16: We got the Red Blue Spring Showcase to which is
Speaker 16: free for fans, and we can get into, you know,
Speaker 16: kind of why it's modified the way it is. But yeah,
Speaker 16: you got spring football coming to a close. The transfer
Speaker 16: portal just opened up a couple of days ago, and
Speaker 16: then you got the NFL drafts coming up here, and
Speaker 16: you know, a few airs on a wldcats are expected
Speaker 16: to hear their names called. So, yes, it is April,
Speaker 16: but still a very busy time for you at football.
Speaker 6: So so, what has has spring practice looked different the same?
Speaker 4: Can you tell anything?
Speaker 6: Are you gleaning anything from from what it looks like
Speaker 6: in terms of, you know, comparing it to last year
Speaker 6: when you think of, okay, this is what it was
Speaker 6: last year and this was the outcome.
Speaker 4: What have we seen this year now? How are things different?
Speaker 4: How are they the same.
Speaker 16: Well, I think, you know, last year, we really couldn't
Speaker 16: you know, take too much away from the offense. But
Speaker 16: you know, after seeing the offense last year during the
Speaker 16: season under Dino Babers and Matt Atkins and the previous
Speaker 16: you know play calling, you know, and looking at the
Speaker 16: offense this year in the spring, it looks like the
Speaker 16: offense is just playing with more intent. There's more speed,
Speaker 16: it's no huddle, it's it's up tempo. And you know,
Speaker 16: if you if you're gonna play in this Arizona offense,
Speaker 16: you're gonna have to be in really good shape. Now,
Speaker 16: they did go through some growing pains, right like it's
Speaker 16: it's not expected to be perfect because you have a
Speaker 16: whole new scheme. I mean, I'm telling you, I think
Speaker 16: this Arizona offense is pretty much ripped down to the
Speaker 16: studs and they started from scratch. But this new offensive
Speaker 16: coordator is Seth Dagi, and he's a guy that just
Speaker 16: recently plays college football, like a little over a decade ago,
Speaker 16: so he's not, you know, too far removed from the game.
Speaker 16: And he played quarterback under Mike Leach at Texas Tech
Speaker 16: and is an air raid disciple, so he's kind of
Speaker 16: like a second quarterback out there when you factor in
Speaker 16: the fact that they got the the coach, the player communication.
Speaker 16: So Seth Dagi is like an additional quarterback with no
Speaker 16: Flafida in the ball just seems to get out of
Speaker 16: his hands in a quick manner. You know, last year
Speaker 16: there were just so many long developing plays and the
Speaker 16: route concepts just seemed so difficult, and these guys struggled
Speaker 16: to get open. And when your struggle to get open,
Speaker 16: no Fafida is running around to your life and he's
Speaker 16: either gonna, you know, make a bad throw or or
Speaker 16: he's gonna throw it out of bounce. You know, no
Speaker 16: Fafita led college football and throwaway last year. So the
Speaker 16: offense just did not work. And I think with this
Speaker 16: new guy in Seth Dagi, uh, he's pretty much designing
Speaker 16: the offense around Noah Fafida. You're you know, we got
Speaker 16: no Fafida now rolling out more. You know, when he
Speaker 16: was rolling out last year, it was because a play broke,
Speaker 16: trying to c something out of nothing. This time, he's
Speaker 16: they have designed rollouts for him and just I think
Speaker 16: the tempo to speed, it's perfect for Noah. And yes,
Speaker 16: losing a generational talent like Tedtoroa McMillan. It hurts, but
Speaker 16: I think collectively Arizona's receivers are much better than last year.
Speaker 16: And I think, you know, you're gonna see a handful
Speaker 16: of guys really contribute. I love what I see out
Speaker 16: of the transfers. I think Javon Wattley get to know
Speaker 16: the name now because he is uber fast and just
Speaker 16: really quick and really take the top off the defense.
Speaker 16: You know, you know Dalton Johnson, he is arguably Arizona's
Speaker 16: best defender maybe outside of Genesis Smith and Dalton Johnson,
Speaker 16: you know, really struggled to guard Javon Wattley in one
Speaker 16: on one drills. So this this guy is really fast,
Speaker 16: really twitchy. Luke wisong to transfer from New Mexico. He's
Speaker 16: a really tough wide receiver who's also really fast and
Speaker 16: a guy that's going to contribute at this special teams guy.
Speaker 16: I love Chris Hudson to transfer from Washington State. I
Speaker 16: think he's going to be a great receiver. And then
Speaker 16: you know Chris Hunter. You know he's going to be
Speaker 16: your your leading returner and going to be the leader
Speaker 16: in that group. But you know, a lot of people
Speaker 16: are wondering, you know, how, how is Arizona going to
Speaker 16: replace t Max?
Speaker 4: And they have two guys that I think.
Speaker 16: Can carry the load at that position this upcoming season.
Speaker 16: Tray Spivey, who was the son of former Arizona diamondback
Speaker 16: and Tucson sidewinder junior. You know, yeah, Spivey man, Trey
Speaker 16: Spivey is a big body and he's probably going to
Speaker 16: be your starting X receiver. But there's another guy that's
Speaker 16: really ascending this spring and his name is Bredon Phelps
Speaker 16: and he was a redshirt freshman last year, had a
Speaker 16: career at American Leadership Academy up in Phoenix, actually ended
Speaker 16: his high school career as the state record holder for
Speaker 16: career receiving yards, career receptions, and career touchdown. Like he is,
Speaker 16: like quietly has probably the best resume out of a
Speaker 16: high school receiver in Arizona high school football history. But
Speaker 16: he read shirted last year, and you know, I was wondering,
Speaker 16: you know how he would eventually fit into Arizona's offense.
Speaker 16: And man, he's been an absolute playman too this year
Speaker 16: or this spring. So, like I said, you know, losing
Speaker 16: Tmac hurts, but I think the wide receivers overall are
Speaker 16: going to be much better for the Wildcats. But the
Speaker 16: key is can you protect no Fafida? Can you keep
Speaker 16: him up right in the pocket so he can make
Speaker 16: those throws and make those right and make those decisions.
Speaker 16: Because when he's got the protection and everything's working, No
Speaker 16: Fafita is a great quarterback. But you know, if you're
Speaker 16: not protecting him, then it things can go south very quick.
Speaker 16: But I think Seth Dag's mindset of getting the ball
Speaker 16: out quick, I think can somewhat combat before protection if
Speaker 16: there is If that is the case, so I think
Speaker 16: that's probably the biggest difference, just the up tempo and
Speaker 16: the pace of the offense for Arizona.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody spends more time with Brent Brennan
Speaker 2: than you do. I could be wrong, but I'll say that.
Speaker 2: And Brent doesn't come off as a guy who worries
Speaker 2: much or doesn't look by appearance. Do you think he's
Speaker 2: under pressure to make this work?
Speaker 4: Oh totally.
Speaker 16: And you know he had pressure last year going into
Speaker 16: his first season because usually first year head coaches they
Speaker 16: have a lot of room to grow because they still
Speaker 16: got to recruit, they got to get their guys in
Speaker 16: and usually you know guys that are coming in, you
Speaker 16: know they're taking over a program that is rebuilding. And
Speaker 16: what Brent Brennan endured last year was, Okay, I got
Speaker 16: to keep the band together all this momentum that they
Speaker 16: generated under Jetfish. I got to figure out a way
Speaker 16: to just kind of keep everything here. And I really
Speaker 16: think that this staff last year really struggled to really
Speaker 16: coach up the guys and really show them exactly who
Speaker 16: they were as coaches, because they were kind of afraid
Speaker 16: to maybe lose a player like Takaria Davis. Like Takario
Speaker 16: Davis was one foot in once without last year, he
Speaker 16: was in the portal during the spring, and so you know,
Speaker 16: how can you coach up a guy and really, I
Speaker 16: guess kind of get into him during the spring when
Speaker 16: you know, if you piss him off or you say
Speaker 16: one bad thing and going to the portal immediately after that.
Speaker 16: So that's a really tough dance that you have to do.
Speaker 16: And so I think now that Brent Brennan has been
Speaker 16: here for a year, the players who are here from
Speaker 16: last year's team, they know how the program has ran,
Speaker 16: they know the culture. Are here because they want to
Speaker 16: be here and they like the coaches, and then the
Speaker 16: newcomers that they've got here, they were recruited by this staff.
Speaker 16: So I really feel like, you know, other than Brent
Speaker 16: Brennan just kind of carrying the torch from Jetfish, I
Speaker 16: really feel like this is truly his team. And you know,
Speaker 16: Brent Brennan also understands the amount of pressure that he's
Speaker 16: got on his shoulders right now because this fan base
Speaker 16: they want wins and they want to see Arizona get
Speaker 16: to a bowl game. And when you look at Arizona schedule,
Speaker 16: the first half five of those games are at home,
Speaker 16: so the schedule is set up for Arizona to at
Speaker 16: least get to that sixth and sixth March. And I
Speaker 16: just think that there's a lot of pressure on Brent Brennan,
Speaker 16: and I think he understands that, and you can kind
Speaker 16: of see it in the way he's recruiting guys out
Speaker 16: of the portal. Like if you look at a majority
Speaker 16: of these players that they're getting, they're not guys that
Speaker 16: got three years of eligibility. These are guys that are
Speaker 16: all going into their last season, guys that are seniors,
Speaker 16: so they're going all out. They understand the importance of
Speaker 16: this upcoming season. And you know, Brent Brennan will be
Speaker 16: the first one to tell you nothing I say will
Speaker 16: get Arizona. You know, get those disgruggled fans to be
Speaker 16: on my side. They're going to go ahead and wait
Speaker 16: for the results. But when you look at the off
Speaker 16: season for Arizona, with the impressive additions that they made
Speaker 16: in the transfer portal and then the additions on the
Speaker 16: coaching staff, like Seth Dagi at offensive coordinator, getting big
Speaker 16: Joe Salavea back, I mean, we've talked about him possibly
Speaker 16: being a defensive coordinator for Arizona. To get him as
Speaker 16: a defensive line coach, I thought it was probably one
Speaker 16: of the biggest wins of the offseason. So I like
Speaker 16: the direction of this team. I think the players that
Speaker 16: they have here they can keep this together. I think
Speaker 16: that this could be definitely a six and six ball
Speaker 16: club at.
Speaker 6: Least when when you see the coaching staff, and you know,
Speaker 6: we all know the presence said a guy like Dwayn
Speaker 6: mckena had in all the years that he was at Arizona,
Speaker 6: and that that's gone. But what does the coaching staff
Speaker 6: look like in terms of their communication how they're working
Speaker 6: with each other, how they are with the players on
Speaker 6: the field. How different does that right now? Does it look?
Speaker 6: Does that look a lot different? Does it look better?
Speaker 6: I guess yeah.
Speaker 16: I wouldn't say it looks better just because Duayna Quina
Speaker 16: is the defensive back's godfather and losing a guru like
Speaker 16: that is definitely gonna be a hit to your staff.
Speaker 16: But you know, over the last few years, Dwayna Kina
Speaker 16: has mentored Brett Arci, the current safeties coach, who was
Speaker 16: coaching Nickels backs last year, and so I think RCI,
Speaker 16: I mean, he's already got experience. I mean, he coached
Speaker 16: at Dori Jackson and a couple others while he was
Speaker 16: at USC, But he's still a young, up and coming
Speaker 16: coach and the players respect him a lot. So I think,
Speaker 16: you know, learning from Duayna Quina over the last couple
Speaker 16: of years has definitely helped him, and I think RCI
Speaker 16: is ready for that next step, I guess, to really
Speaker 16: take on a chunk of the defensive secondary. And then
Speaker 16: I like Chip Binney a lot at cornerbacks as their
Speaker 16: quarterbacks coach. Just a young guy who can relate to
Speaker 16: the players, but man, he's mature beyond his ears.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: He is.
Speaker 16: You know, if you talk to him, you wouldn't even
Speaker 16: think that you were talking to a young person. You
Speaker 16: would think you were talking to a guy that's been
Speaker 16: the coaching session for forty years. So yeah, I like
Speaker 16: the way that these these coaches kind of work together.
Speaker 16: And Danny Gonzalez, the new defensive coordinator, who was a
Speaker 16: linebackers coach last year. I like the defense that he's implementing.
Speaker 16: It's going to be a lot of linebacker blitzes, is
Speaker 16: going to be aggressive, a lot of disguise blitzes too.
Speaker 16: You know, you're going to see defensive backs coming into
Speaker 16: the backfield and linebackers, you know, trying to get back
Speaker 16: there as well. And you know, he brought in a
Speaker 16: linebacker's coach by the name of Josh Bringale who played
Speaker 16: for him at San Diego State. So this guy who
Speaker 16: is coaching the core of Arizona's defense, that linebacker played
Speaker 16: under Danny Gonzales and is now coaching for him. So
Speaker 16: he understands exactly what Danny wants and the message is
Speaker 16: definitely getting sent across the defense. But if I were
Speaker 16: to have a scoreboard for the spring, I would honestly
Speaker 16: say the defense is a little bit ahead of the offense,
Speaker 16: which isn't really a total surprise because, like I said,
Speaker 16: the offense is completely starting from scratch. But the defense, man,
Speaker 16: I think, if they can stay healthy and again big
Speaker 16: war here, if they can stay healthy, because you know,
Speaker 16: last year they dealt with all sorts of injuries and
Speaker 16: things got south or things turn south. So I think
Speaker 16: if they can stay healthy, this can be a unit
Speaker 16: that can really really turn some heads this year. Because
Speaker 16: I love the additions. I think that the defensive secondary
Speaker 16: that they have right now with Genesis Smith on the
Speaker 16: back end, is nice. But if you look at the
Speaker 16: defensive line, Tia savea at your defensive tackle spot, a
Speaker 16: lot of people are really going to know who Deshaun
Speaker 16: mc knight is, the transfer from UT Martin. I mean,
Speaker 16: he's been probably one of Arizona's best defensive players this spring.
Speaker 16: So they made some nice additions. They have some solid
Speaker 16: players coming back. And going back to your point about
Speaker 16: just kind of how the staff is working together, I
Speaker 16: think the defensive staff, you know, they have a nice camaraderie,
Speaker 16: and then the offensive staff there's just a great level
Speaker 16: of respect all across the board. Seth Dage respects Bobby
Speaker 16: Wade as a wide receivers coach and as a matter
Speaker 16: of fact, Bobby Wade with a big reason why, said
Speaker 16: Davey came to the u of A and said day
Speaker 16: being a quarterbacks guy. He has learned so much from
Speaker 16: Brent Brennan from Bobby Wade in the wide receivers front.
Speaker 16: So it's definitely been a good camaraderie the spring for Arizona.
Speaker 2: So I'm seeing something just pumped into my email. I'm
Speaker 2: assuming this is you to avoid injuries and puaching the
Speaker 2: players Arizona modified spring football game.
Speaker 4: Was that you?
Speaker 2: And can you talk about what's going on for tomorrow's stories?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 16: So, I mean when people go out to the spring
Speaker 16: showcase tomorrow night, they're going to notice it's going to
Speaker 16: be a very interactive event. Seventy five yards out of
Speaker 16: the field will be used for the spring game or
Speaker 16: spring practice part of it. There will also be an
Speaker 16: Easter Day hunt proceeding the spring game here, and there's
Speaker 16: going to be a beer garden on the field. There's
Speaker 16: going to be live music set up, and the reason
Speaker 16: why they're kind of going away from the trad spring
Speaker 16: game where they split the teams up and then just
Speaker 16: have a normal scrimmage is because one, they want to
Speaker 16: make sure that the players are healthy. With revenue sharing
Speaker 16: the NL, I mean, the players are essentially employees of
Speaker 16: the school of the football program, and so they want
Speaker 16: to make sure that these players that they are paying
Speaker 16: to be on their team, they want them to be
Speaker 16: available for the fall. You know, while it would be
Speaker 16: nice to see Arizona football go live and have this
Speaker 16: intense football game in April, they want to make sure
Speaker 16: that these guys are available in September, October, and November
Speaker 16: when it really matters. And then the second part of it,
Speaker 16: which is a huge reason why so many teams are
Speaker 16: either canceling their spring games altogether or not televising their
Speaker 16: spring games, is they don't want to share the goods.
Speaker 16: They don't want to share the product the great players
Speaker 16: that they have on their team. Because there are agents,
Speaker 16: there are nil collectives that are constantly monitoring games all
Speaker 16: across the country, and then they go into these players'
Speaker 16: DMS or they figure out a way to contact them
Speaker 16: backdoor kills. They say, hey, I'm actually getting at Arizona
Speaker 16: because you know, we can give you more money at
Speaker 16: this school and maybe even more playing time. And so
Speaker 16: these kids they get so I guess enamored with financial opportunities.
Speaker 16: Then I also I understand where they're coming from. You know,
Speaker 16: if someone had told me, hey, Justin, this job is
Speaker 16: paying you an additional two hundred thousand dollars to play
Speaker 16: it here, there's a good chance, then I'm gonna go
Speaker 16: and lead for that place.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 16: So what schools are doing all across the country is
Speaker 16: that they're making sure that they are not displaying their
Speaker 16: best talent because they don't want anybody coming in and
Speaker 16: poaching players. So it's a problem all across college.
Speaker 6: Oh, I think we lost Thank you. We were about
Speaker 6: to rana. He did that to us one another time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Justin, thanks a bunch for taking your time
Speaker 2: with us. We got to take a break. Thanks a bunch,
Speaker 2: because now at least we're updated on what's going on, right,
Speaker 2: So we'll take a break. He's still there. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: we're good. We're good.
Speaker 4: We got to go.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Justin. I appreciate it. Appreciate it, munch, see
Speaker 2: you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Thank you, guys, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: I'll read Justin tomorrow on the daily Star and now
Speaker 2: obviously afterward until six o'clock start tomorrow, and it's free,
Speaker 2: so that's important. Let's take the break and come back.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xys and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back to I in the Ball here on
Speaker 5: Fox Sports futeen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're ja goozalzep
Speaker 5: gnnery in the controls taking your calls five two zero
Speaker 5: four one six seventy four forty. We take the calls
Speaker 5: to the end of the week. So Jay Jay, one
Speaker 5: of the things that we know from history.
Speaker 2: But let me say this, with the nil happening, the
Speaker 2: kids making a lot of money, a lot of money
Speaker 2: beyond what we ever thought was possible, right, do you
Speaker 2: think the money's making them soft? And I'm if you
Speaker 2: start waiting for yours. And let me say this too,
Speaker 2: because now they're not even hitting each other very much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think for a lot of reasons, Steve.
Speaker 6: Because of that one, the coaches are being more careful
Speaker 6: with them, right right, which you kind of already were.
Speaker 4: So so it's been a while since spring games were
Speaker 4: the spring games that we remember.
Speaker 2: Sure, so let's remember also back in ninety eight, you
Speaker 2: would know this part of me, Dick didn't want to
Speaker 2: go to Penn State beating up, right, so he didn't hit,
Speaker 2: they didn't hit, right.
Speaker 4: And what the hell happened? Well, Steve.
Speaker 6: And it's but really, the game itself, whether in the
Speaker 6: NFL or at the college level, is softer.
Speaker 4: It's not the it's not football like we grew up
Speaker 4: watching football. You know.
Speaker 6: You see these clips, you know, on social media that
Speaker 6: say when football was football, and they show these incredible
Speaker 6: hits and these people just out there killing each other
Speaker 6: and that's not the game anymore.
Speaker 4: And so it is softer. But I don't think it's
Speaker 4: entirely because of nil.
Speaker 6: But certainly the money that these that the that the
Speaker 6: college athletes are getting is really yeah, you, I mean,
Speaker 6: you just don't see the incredible hits that you used
Speaker 6: to see well back in the day.
Speaker 5: Just from listening to Justin.
Speaker 2: They're paying these kids a lot of money and they
Speaker 2: don't want to see them get hurt, right right there,
Speaker 2: that's how it translates to me, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, that that's that's how fully the truth.
Speaker 6: But the question is is the game softer?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: We got a call although you're on the air andine
Speaker 5: on the ball.
Speaker 4: Who's this.
Speaker 15: This?
Speaker 20: Brian?
Speaker 6: How you do it?
Speaker 4: Brian?
Speaker 20: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Jay?
Speaker 4: What's up? Man? I'm here.
Speaker 20: I know, I'm shocked. But you get a day off,
Speaker 20: another vacation day.
Speaker 5: He's like the postals, you know, don't be like that.
Speaker 20: No, no, we never got that many days off as
Speaker 20: Jay got.
Speaker 6: Hey, you know what, you know what you were a
Speaker 6: mail carrier. You got all kinds of time off. You
Speaker 6: get every freaking holiday known demand.
Speaker 20: The holidays.
Speaker 16: We had to.
Speaker 20: We had to work for a living, figure out what
Speaker 20: you you know, like you wind up working for a week,
Speaker 20: took some time off on the new job, and go, man,
Speaker 20: this guy's got the best job in the world. Is
Speaker 20: that what you called? I'm just calling out the softness thing.
Speaker 20: I think also to maybe the game is a little
Speaker 20: softer because the way players are treated now. But I
Speaker 20: don't think the players are mentally.
Speaker 4: Tough as they used to be.
Speaker 5: I agree with that.
Speaker 20: I agree with that, and I think that makes a
Speaker 20: huge difference in how the game is played. You know,
Speaker 20: it's like the players are always trying to not all players,
Speaker 20: but a lot of players are trying to find an
Speaker 20: out of doing anything. Okay, I don't like it here,
Speaker 20: it's too tough for me. I'll go somewhere else.
Speaker 3: I can make some more money, and I know i'll
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 20: Off easier because they're paying me more money to be
Speaker 20: here and they're not going to push me around.
Speaker 5: So, Brian, before you go there.
Speaker 2: And I don't know your family history or whatever, whether
Speaker 2: you have kids or not, but wouldn't you say this,
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna get off, Get off my long guy. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's the generation that we have going on.
Speaker 20: Oh you bet. I mean I see it. My son
Speaker 20: coaches in high school baseball, and I see it differently
Speaker 20: from the time when even in the time thirteen fourteen
Speaker 20: years ago, when Jay and I coached the kids, the
Speaker 20: kids there were much mentally tougher than the kids are today. Yeah,
Speaker 20: it just yeah, it just seems, you know, we just
Speaker 20: made it too sop, too easy for the kids. There
Speaker 20: is no I you know, I have to sacrifice as
Speaker 20: much as I did before.
Speaker 6: Well, well again, I think you said it a little
Speaker 6: bit ago, Steve, that you know, you're you're in a
Speaker 6: situation where if you yell at a kid too hard,
Speaker 6: he'll just say I'm leaving.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, and he can right.
Speaker 5: Well, you guys can deal with it.
Speaker 20: You guys been in high school too.
Speaker 5: Well, in high school, you guys coach. You guys coach
Speaker 5: the kids.
Speaker 2: Let me say this, I think in the generation that's
Speaker 2: maybe a little after us became more helicopter parents. Uh,
Speaker 2: they didn't want to see the kids fail, so they
Speaker 2: kind of took over control. You're not gonna fall down,
Speaker 2: because if you do, I'll pick you up right away
Speaker 2: and dust you off. Back in our day, our desk hosts,
Speaker 2: get the hell up and back there, and you put
Speaker 2: dirt on it.
Speaker 4: And get up and do it right.
Speaker 20: Yeah, ret some dirt on and get back out there.
Speaker 16: You know.
Speaker 20: But also one thing too, you talked about high school kids.
Speaker 20: You know, high school kids too now can transfer out
Speaker 20: and go somewhere else. Yeah, it's you know, it only
Speaker 20: gets it maybe maybe only moves reepore games. They can go,
Speaker 20: you know, decide to go another high school.
Speaker 6: And but you know what that's and that's across all
Speaker 6: sports too, that's not just football or basketball or whatever.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you, right, Brian, So how old are you?
Speaker 5: Can I ask you that?
Speaker 4: Like one hundred and five?
Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm seventy I'm seventy second.
Speaker 5: Oh so you're you you are one hundred and five.
Speaker 5: Let me see this? At what point? So I'm sixty
Speaker 5: and Jay sixty five?
Speaker 20: So at some point there was seventy five in real
Speaker 20: life he walks with it.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you.
Speaker 2: Was it the thirty year olds today? Is it the
Speaker 2: forty five year olds today?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: At what point did it happen nineteen seventy nine eighty two,
Speaker 2: Because it happened somewhere.
Speaker 20: I think, well, it's hard for me to tell because
Speaker 20: I you know, I was one of those parents and I,
Speaker 20: like you talked about okay, get up, brought some dirt
Speaker 20: on to get back in there. And my kid played
Speaker 20: like that. And I know Adam Jay's son played hard.
Speaker 20: You know, he didn't you know, he was out there
Speaker 20: breasting his ass all the time. I think parents now days,
Speaker 20: the younger parents, they treat the kids differently because all
Speaker 20: of them seemed to think that we got a shot. Okay,
Speaker 20: if I joined this club team and I do that,
Speaker 20: my kid will get a college scholarship and figure out
Speaker 20: a way to get to the NFL, NBA, major League
Speaker 20: Baseball whatever. You know, they had these unachievable expectations.
Speaker 4: No, they I think there was a parent that came
Speaker 4: shortly after us.
Speaker 6: Steve right there was shortly after us, because you know,
Speaker 6: my dad and your dad, I think we're you know,
Speaker 6: and Brian were the same guy and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: But there was kind of a next level of parent
Speaker 6: that I dealt with as a as a coach, as
Speaker 6: a little league coach, and as a as a high
Speaker 6: school coach that didn't treat their kids the way I
Speaker 6: treated my kid.
Speaker 4: And so there was some kind of a transition to that.
Speaker 6: To the point of, you can't talk to my son
Speaker 6: like that, right right right, you can't talk to my
Speaker 6: daughter like that, and and that, and it changed, and
Speaker 6: that's become the expectation. And now you're in college where
Speaker 6: the chains are off in terms of being able to
Speaker 6: and you can go anywhere you want to go if
Speaker 6: you don't like your coach, and there's no consequence to that,
Speaker 6: you know. I was just reading there's a study commands
Speaker 6: This is in the context of other stuff, but there
Speaker 6: was a study recently done that said that sixty percent,
Speaker 6: I take back, a third of football players that entered.
Speaker 4: The transfer portal did not find a place.
Speaker 6: No played at at least three schools, and they just
Speaker 6: kept going and going and going until they found somebody
Speaker 6: or somewhere that they like or they ran out of time.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if you're used to divorcing, you guess you
Speaker 2: keep getting forced.
Speaker 5: No big deal.
Speaker 4: I'll just go on to the next Yeah, all right, Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's Brian.
Speaker 20: Okay, seventy doul.
Speaker 5: That's what I learned from that.
Speaker 4: And he looks like a hippie now, he's got long
Speaker 4: hair and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's why I ask you and Jason justin
Speaker 2: talked about this work. You don't want to get these guys.
Speaker 2: We're paying a lot of money for him. It's like driving,
Speaker 2: buying a nice car and keep it in the gruge, right.
Speaker 4: You don't want to you don't drive it because you
Speaker 4: don't want to reckon. That's the purpose of buying the
Speaker 4: damn car. I hear you. Uh, you know.
Speaker 6: But but a lot of it goes hand in hand though,
Speaker 6: with the fact that the game has has changed to
Speaker 6: the point where you can't even fall on the quarterback anymore.
Speaker 5: Well, that's right, because you're paying them them a lot
Speaker 5: of money.
Speaker 6: The league is recognized, well were those guys are getting
Speaker 6: paid a lot of money. They mean a lot to
Speaker 6: the league, so we're not gonna let them get hurt. So,
Speaker 6: you know, there's a whole bunch of factors in the
Speaker 6: fact that you know, yeah, these players are I guess
Speaker 6: you would say they've got it easier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, well, do you play any high school football? Little? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean think about your practices, right, your thought if
Speaker 4: they people will die? Yes, you know, you know you
Speaker 4: thought people could die.
Speaker 6: From this, and it's looking back yeah yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 6: they just don't practice like that anymore.
Speaker 2: No, let me ask you, there was something. God, I
Speaker 2: just missed it, and it'll come back to me. Maybe,
Speaker 2: I hope we have time. Maybe we only got three
Speaker 2: minutes before the next call or before the show ends
Speaker 2: just about playing time in our generation.
Speaker 4: Well load management, oh another thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right. So this is the perfect example.
Speaker 2: You you were at the the volleyball thing and your
Speaker 2: daughter was playing right and the women behind you were saying, oh,
Speaker 2: my daughter.
Speaker 5: That was softball. Yeah, my daughter is going to be this.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of the players, to Brian's point,
Speaker 2: is that they think the kids are going to be
Speaker 2: their bank roll. There's that because now with the with
Speaker 2: the with the collective, the two hundred. Yeah, now you
Speaker 2: don't have any wait for your kid to get to
Speaker 2: the pros to make money.
Speaker 5: They're making it.
Speaker 6: You know again that the Tennessee kid you know who
Speaker 6: got an eight million dollar deal coming out of high school?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what the hell is that?
Speaker 5: And that's a one off? I mean those are these
Speaker 5: are one off.
Speaker 4: There's others though, I mean, how much did Cooper flag you?
Speaker 5: But you know what I'm saying, there are these are
Speaker 5: not these are rare exceptions.
Speaker 4: But they're letting they're becoming less and less exceptions. Steve.
Speaker 6: These guys are coming out of you know, high school
Speaker 6: kids are coming out and going out and trying to
Speaker 6: find their best deal and marketing themselves like a first
Speaker 6: round draft pick, the end going into.
Speaker 2: A proch So, so you know why I'm not a
Speaker 2: big fan, right. Does this sour you on your fandom? No,
Speaker 2: because the.
Speaker 4: Games are still fun. The games are still fun. I
Speaker 4: still love going to a college football game. I still
Speaker 4: love watching a college basketball game.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you in two years. No. No, no,
Speaker 5: because this is still fresh.
Speaker 6: Because I still think the games mean something, and that's
Speaker 6: that's what's important to.
Speaker 5: The kids, are, to you, to me. Okay, but now
Speaker 5: you kind of know how the how the.
Speaker 4: Cake is made. I know, but I've accepted it.
Speaker 5: You know that the cake is not as nice as
Speaker 5: it used to be.
Speaker 4: The cake doesn't taste as good as it did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent agree with you on that, but
Speaker 6: I'm I'm the type of person that is willing to
Speaker 6: say that's what we're dealing with.
Speaker 4: So I still want to have fun with this.
Speaker 6: I still want to throw some money down on this,
Speaker 6: and so I'm still trying to have fun with these games,
Speaker 6: even though I know that this wide receiver that Arizona
Speaker 6: got this year, next year, he may go off somewhere else.
Speaker 4: You know, I let me put it this way. I'll
Speaker 4: tell you what it is.
Speaker 6: I'm not getting attached to players, right, I'm not getting
Speaker 6: attach the players. I'll thinking about this because over the
Speaker 6: weekend if I'm not. Oh yeah, Ron Guardeen, he was
Speaker 6: a guy played in Arizona. Yeah, and he was there
Speaker 6: in sixty eight and sixty nine. I'm nine and ten
Speaker 6: years old. He was my first U of a football hero.
Speaker 4: He passed. That's what he was.
Speaker 6: He was my first U of a football hero and
Speaker 6: it took me back to a time when those guys
Speaker 6: were like my heroes.
Speaker 4: I don't have any of those anymore.
Speaker 5: No, no, of course, not because we're older too, but
Speaker 5: not just because.
Speaker 6: The world, but because I don't attach myself to players anymore.
Speaker 4: You know, even Dodgers I don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you don't know if they're going to be
Speaker 5: around it. Well, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm not a fan, because mine was I
Speaker 2: stick to the team and I'm gonna love this team.
Speaker 2: And then now it's free agency blah blah. Yeah, you're gone, gone,
Speaker 2: but you love Oani. Okay, we gotta go. Thanks everybody
Speaker 2: for the week. Thank you Jay for showing up. Thank
Speaker 2: you Henry