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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to ying the ball. Here on Fox
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: Now we have Kobe with breaking.
Speaker 4: News, breaking news from Sports Today. Alleged Kaelin Clark stalker
Speaker 4: disruptive in court hearing.
Speaker 3: Did you can you hear?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's he That's a strange story
Speaker 2: just to begin with. You know, here's this old dude
Speaker 2: stalking this young woman, acting like a fool.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the world. I'm not surprised. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, you who knows where di did this
Speaker 3: all happen in Indiana? Athletes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's from Texas and yeah he got he
Speaker 2: got goofy in the courtroom too.
Speaker 5: Ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we'll see what happens with him. I'm sure
Speaker 2: he's not gonna it's gonna be serious, yeah said good face.
Speaker 2: Up to six in prison and a ten thousand dollars? Fine,
Speaker 2: what's the game?
Speaker 3: What's the game? And even the attention is stupid?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Really, this is what you're known for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, Dad.
Speaker 4: Sam Darnold sacked nine times as the Vikings were defeated
Speaker 4: by the Rams twenty seven to nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that one sided affair. Very QUI very much. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you said you gave it up about Oh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't see probably three of those sacks. I
Speaker 6: think when I turned out, every time he turned around
Speaker 6: he was he was had somebody in his face. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that was a tough one to watch. You're a Vikings
Speaker 6: fan because they had such a really good year and
Speaker 6: his story was really cool, and you know he kind
Speaker 6: of sputtered the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: No good, good point. I was just going to say
Speaker 2: that he didn't look good last through three weeks. Did
Speaker 2: you see that graphic? Well you probably didn't because you
Speaker 2: didn't see it. They hadn't scored a touchdown twenty one
Speaker 2: straight uh drives. Yeah, twenty one straight drives. I's like
Speaker 2: three is hard to do. Yeah, you almost have to
Speaker 2: fall down every time not to score.
Speaker 4: After letting Mike McCarthy walk deon Sanders and Jerry Jones
Speaker 4: meant to talk about the Cowboys head coach vacancy, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The circus comes to the circus maybe just if they
Speaker 3: need I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I think. I still think it
Speaker 2: makes sense and it could work. It could work if
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones lets some coach or becomes uh he's eighty two,
Speaker 2: lets him coach or lead or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you know how good of a coach he is, though, Dylan? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have no idea. And and do you think that
Speaker 2: the twenty eighty nine, thirty year old guys who are
Speaker 2: making millions are gonna say, oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shut up. I don't know. I think that.
Speaker 6: He's yeah, because what is he He's got to be
Speaker 6: close to sixty, right, Yeah, So his reputation, you know,
Speaker 6: he is still Dion, he's still prime time and people
Speaker 6: know him. And he got you know, some great publicity
Speaker 6: with Colorado, so they know that.
Speaker 3: But I don't know what his I don't know what.
Speaker 6: His long term goals are to come back and coach
Speaker 6: in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Here's here's the rub Dave. Who else is is there? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean there's all these assistants and all these coordinators
Speaker 6: that they every year is the same group of different
Speaker 6: you know, the same type of coach that's coaching waiting.
Speaker 6: You know, he's just thirty five year old guys been
Speaker 6: the offensive coordinator, YadA, YadA, So he must be the
Speaker 6: next great thing.
Speaker 2: If Jerry Jones got out of the way, hired somebody
Speaker 2: maybe like young, and just got out of the way
Speaker 2: and let them coach, I think they'd be Okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well in a few cases, I mean in many cases,
Speaker 6: those that I was just talking about have worked out.
Speaker 6: You know, these guys that have been assistant coaches for
Speaker 6: you know, for Andy Reid or for some of the
Speaker 6: other coaches who've had you know, great success, and next
Speaker 6: thing you know, they're at the top of the list.
Speaker 6: It's Ben Johnson guy everyone's talking about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Arizona softball receives preseason recognition.
Speaker 2: What kind of what was it? What was it? I
Speaker 2: believe Let me see.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure, but I'm sure they're I think they're
Speaker 4: definitely ringed in.
Speaker 3: The top twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll look that up. Just okay, Okay, what's next?
Speaker 4: We got two top fifteen matchups today for college basketball
Speaker 4: as number in Kentucky takes on number eleven Texas A
Speaker 4: and M and number fifteen Mississippi State takes on number
Speaker 4: one Auburn.
Speaker 3: Okay, Auburn has been good. Yeah, they've been very good.
Speaker 2: There was an interesting story in the athletic I think
Speaker 2: it was about their offensive coordinator, some young dude who
Speaker 2: kind of just fell into the job and it was
Speaker 2: just guru of offense. And now they've turned into this
Speaker 2: jugging out of offense with their coach, which is tell
Speaker 2: me his name way which Alburn Alban Uh we all know,
Speaker 2: I see his face. A good coach. Yeah, I know
Speaker 2: this is horrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Bruce Pearl, Yeah yeah, I think you're talking football person.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, Auburn, Bruce Pearl, who you could win it all?
Speaker 2: I don't know. A SEC is killing each other. It
Speaker 2: is going to be very good by the time the
Speaker 2: season's coming around. You know, Tennessee is was good, Soil
Speaker 2: they got, Florida's good, Toda was good, Kentucky's good.
Speaker 3: They've all lost.
Speaker 2: The only team that's not good is Arkansas, which is Okay,
Speaker 2: cal Perry.
Speaker 4: That's all we got today for breaking news.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what about the big news that so your
Speaker 2: thing with the softball there's a few of the players
Speaker 2: that are featured in the Top one Herd players. Uh
Speaker 2: Dakota Kennedy thirty fourth to best player, Reagan Shaki fifty ninth.
Speaker 2: Uh some other watch this freshman Emma Cavanaugh, third baseman
Speaker 2: Jenna Sniffin and pitchers Sarah Wright made a lot of
Speaker 2: the rookie teams, so we'll see what happens with them.
Speaker 2: They need to get some pitching. Well, that's the name
Speaker 2: of the game. That's the name of the game. I mean,
Speaker 2: if they don't have pitching, right, all right, and we
Speaker 2: you know, we've been there, we've seen it all. If
Speaker 2: you don't have if you don't have the Jenny Finches
Speaker 2: of the world, you gonna win.
Speaker 3: Right, You're not going to be competitive, I should say so.
Speaker 6: If they get going, their season starts pretty soon, right,
Speaker 6: always starts like.
Speaker 2: In yeah, February baseball a million home games, got to
Speaker 2: get hurt and I got to get Tom chip Hale
Speaker 2: on the show before things get crazy. Yeah, okay, and
Speaker 2: there's tickets, right, Did you just pop something up we
Speaker 2: talked about yesterday with with Mike Quinn. I wanted to
Speaker 2: get tickets to softball? Did you have tickets to anything?
Speaker 2: You just have friends.
Speaker 3: I have friends.
Speaker 6: But you know, again, not to harp back so much
Speaker 6: on the past, but again, loots first years or so,
Speaker 6: we got season tickets. He gave to the media because
Speaker 6: there were a lot of people there. Really we would
Speaker 6: get we had I think either two or four from
Speaker 6: at the TV station from.
Speaker 3: From from him. Oh maybe that maybe just so they
Speaker 3: could fill the place up. Every time I walk.
Speaker 6: It's like section eight, I want to say, which is
Speaker 6: like the end zone every time I go to Michale
Speaker 6: and I go, I had tickets in that yeah spot.
Speaker 2: And the and the TV's had no problems with it,
Speaker 2: apparently not or maybe they had to pay a little
Speaker 2: bit of a conflict there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, years, but who knows, maybe we paid for him. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you might have been a sponsor.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it sounds more like yeah, yeah, now that I
Speaker 2: think about it, Yeah, why did we get those?
Speaker 6: But that was always the line that gave us. It's like,
Speaker 6: well you just need to give mkail looking like there's
Speaker 6: people in there.
Speaker 2: Well you you were here when he first guy says
Speaker 2: you better get your tickets now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 2: And then he had to almost, you know, beg people
Speaker 2: to show up and watch games.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so we did.
Speaker 6: I remember, I I don't know why I was able
Speaker 6: to go to a number of games, you know, just
Speaker 6: that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the can canceled. Uh yeah, The Greenberg Show, Mike Greenberg.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, the radio show. Yeah yeah, this radio gig?
Speaker 3: What can have? It is tough?
Speaker 2: It's tough. Yeah, I know it is tough. Well you
Speaker 2: saw what happened like with our guy Jody Taylor. He's
Speaker 2: not playing our other guy, my other guy.
Speaker 3: Can god?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: He was here, he was here and then he moved
Speaker 2: to Phoenix from the Vegas. Mike, I want to see
Speaker 2: it'll come to me. Don't get over eventually here you
Speaker 2: I'm driving home. This is what the hell does it
Speaker 2: do me? Now?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 3: How was your break, Goby? How was New York? It
Speaker 3: was good?
Speaker 4: It's went Home's awesome. Family actually went to Miami for
Speaker 4: a week.
Speaker 2: Though, did you pretty people convention Miami?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Cool?
Speaker 4: Nice?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 2: Okay, what time is it? We got a lot of time.
Speaker 2: Not anything else you want to talk about? Hey, maybe
Speaker 2: take a call to five two zero four one six
Speaker 2: seventy four forty if you guys want to call.
Speaker 3: Are you guys going to the game tonight?
Speaker 2: That you have any special memories of the the blind
Speaker 2: mice that have.
Speaker 3: Been three blind mice that have been there?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: Did you talk about the man? Right?
Speaker 2: You talk about these guys. I can't remember any other characters.
Speaker 2: If you sat real right behind the opposite of the
Speaker 2: score tape before we used to sat right in the bottom.
Speaker 2: The guy I want to say, damns, but it's nothing.
Speaker 2: It's Mike something. Uh oh he does his yell at
Speaker 2: the refs. Oh yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 3: I do remember.
Speaker 2: He's a friend of mine now because he sat right
Speaker 2: behind it and he's like, oh God, don't embarrass Everyone
Speaker 2: looks over here and he's just yelling all constantly.
Speaker 6: Wasn't there a guy that used to sit kind of
Speaker 6: behind the scorer's table that either he used to just
Speaker 6: there still does us still help the visiting team?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he still does. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was down there because Mike had seats down there
Speaker 2: maybe a month ago, and I went to sit with
Speaker 2: him for like maybe five minutes, and he was there
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, God, i haven't been on this close
Speaker 2: to the to the court, and he was right next
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Some of the other top fans remember, there's well, there's Phyllis.
Speaker 6: She's still there. Still, she's still dancing away.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know.
Speaker 6: Obviously when Lutes and Bobby were around, Bobby always waved
Speaker 6: the crowd when she walked in with everyone.
Speaker 3: Say that, what kind of wait for her? Bobby, Yeah, little.
Speaker 6: Man, bless his soul, he was. He was great. He
Speaker 6: used to see him at Blockbuster Video. He lived up
Speaker 6: near us.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, other characters. I mean, there's that's kind of been
Speaker 6: a fit.
Speaker 2: Well, there's just a thing Doug is. I don't know
Speaker 2: if Doug existing, but Doug is painted face.
Speaker 3: Doug.
Speaker 2: He's the one with who infas infamously had the vindicated
Speaker 2: sign for Sean. Remember the remember the photo the vindicated.
Speaker 3: Maybe if you see, if you go, if you.
Speaker 2: See it after you know Sean has come back and
Speaker 2: all the kind of news died down.
Speaker 6: Doug and I sat next to each other a couple
Speaker 6: of years ago with the PAC twelve Baseball championship game
Speaker 6: in Scottsdale. I just happened to sit down and there's
Speaker 6: this guy sitting next to me and he was like.
Speaker 3: Leading the leading the chairs. Yeah yah yeah the entire game,
Speaker 3: and the crowds like.
Speaker 2: Look at who is this an older guy? Yeah, not
Speaker 2: older older but older guy and he gets smart dude. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was face painted and all that. I don't think
Speaker 2: he was painted, but I mean he was just loud
Speaker 2: and the guy with the horns. Don't forget the guy
Speaker 2: with the horns. You see him the football games. Yeah,
Speaker 2: bigger guy, horns painted face as well. We're power to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: What che fIF Steve Rivera, your Dave Silver and right
Speaker 15: now like we have Bryce Cherry from the newspaper of
Speaker 15: the Waco Tribune.
Speaker 2: How are you up?
Speaker 3: Bryce? You there? Bryce?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 3: Hear hey Bryce? How's it going good? How are you good? Good? Good?
Speaker 6: We are looking forward to the game tonight Baylor in Arizona.
Speaker 6: Two teams that have had pretty good seasons and obviously
Speaker 6: Baylor's in the top twenty five U of A is
Speaker 6: trying to get into it. What can we expect from
Speaker 6: this this matchup here late tonight here in Tucson.
Speaker 16: You know, there was a lot of games last year
Speaker 16: where Scott Drew came into the post game interviews and he.
Speaker 7: Said, typical big twelve game.
Speaker 16: I mean he said that so many times it just
Speaker 16: became almost like a running joke, and that's kind of
Speaker 16: what I expect tonight. It's a typical Big Twelve game.
Speaker 7: Now Baylor. What I mean by that.
Speaker 16: Is obviously Arizona's new to the Big Twelve, but you know,
Speaker 16: last year, I think Baylor's first ten Big Twelve games
Speaker 16: were decided by a single digit with three of those
Speaker 16: going to overtime. This year, it's been a little different
Speaker 16: for Baylor. They have had three blowouts, I would say
Speaker 16: in their first four you know, Big twelve games, with
Speaker 16: Arizona State being you know, the exception to that.
Speaker 7: But you know, they they start.
Speaker 17: Off with a blowout at home over Utah, and then
Speaker 17: you know, go to Iowa State, which is notoriously a
Speaker 17: tough place to play, but Baylor just.
Speaker 16: Did not shoot the ball very well that day. Had
Speaker 16: had some good looks. They had like fifteen uncontested threes
Speaker 16: in that game, but just weren't able to hit them.
Speaker 7: I mean, they just could not hit anything.
Speaker 16: And then they come back home and they blow out Cincinnati.
Speaker 16: So I mean their first three games were sort of
Speaker 16: atypical for the Big Twelve because you know, a.
Speaker 7: Lot of times this league is just you know, coming
Speaker 7: down to the last possession.
Speaker 16: And then of course Baylor gets off to a big
Speaker 16: lead against Arizona State and let's the sun Devil's back
Speaker 16: into it. It goes to overtime, but the Bears pull
Speaker 16: it out. I you know, I think Arizona's probably better.
Speaker 7: Than Arizona State I had.
Speaker 17: I've had the Wildcats in the top twenty five in my.
Speaker 16: AP ballot the last couple of weeks, and so yeah,
Speaker 16: I expect to, you know, down to the wire kind
Speaker 16: of tussle.
Speaker 3: So I know you're a voter in AP.
Speaker 2: So if you had Arizona in the top twenty five
Speaker 2: probably May twenty four to twenty five, where did you
Speaker 2: have Baylor or where did you have Arizona?
Speaker 16: Ambuler, Boy, I have to look at my poll, but
Speaker 16: I know I had Arizona one spot above Baylor, and
Speaker 16: I think they were around seventeen eighteen basically.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, So I mean, I you.
Speaker 16: Know, I'm probably given giving them a little more respect
Speaker 16: than the rest of the country is. But you know,
Speaker 16: and obviously the Wildcats took some lumps in the non
Speaker 16: conference season, but clearly they're on a pretty good run now.
Speaker 16: Six in a row with you know, four of those
Speaker 16: in the Big Twelve, which has been a really good
Speaker 16: basketball conference, and I think, you know, they're starting to
Speaker 16: figure it out.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think they deserved the rank.
Speaker 2: So Bryce, Dave and I have covered this team for
Speaker 2: a long time in different capacities. Dave's a TV guy,
Speaker 2: I'm a newspaper guy now a radio guy. Uh and
Speaker 2: we've covered it for a long time. We know historically
Speaker 2: Arizona has this reputation of being a basketball school blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. Baylor is this school too, now that's coming
Speaker 2: on as a basketball school with with with drewe.
Speaker 3: Uh are we are?
Speaker 2: We now at the point where it doesn't matter if
Speaker 2: they're good or bad.
Speaker 3: Everyone just assumes they're good because of who they are.
Speaker 16: I mean, there's probably a certain you know, truth to that.
Speaker 16: I think the brand names are always.
Speaker 7: Going to give a little bit of the benefit of
Speaker 7: the doubt, whether.
Speaker 16: It's in the minds of AP voters, whether it's in
Speaker 16: the minds of.
Speaker 7: You know, fans that you know are tuning into those games, or.
Speaker 16: How they pick their brackets when it comes down to
Speaker 16: March madness or whatever. I mean, I think you know,
Speaker 16: you expect the Dukes and the Kentucky's and you know,
Speaker 16: the Arizona's and Baylors. I mean I think you expect
Speaker 16: them to be there year and in year out. Now,
Speaker 16: obviously we know covering these teams that you know, every
Speaker 16: year is different and it's all cyclical and uh, you know,
Speaker 16: and I think it's you know, it should be even
Speaker 16: more apparent to people now with you know, the transfer portal.
Speaker 7: I mean I've compared it to junior.
Speaker 16: College basketball, where essentially you're turning your roster over completely
Speaker 16: and you know, every season. I mean, that's that's how
Speaker 16: it is now in in D one college basketball with
Speaker 16: the with the portal, you know, Baylor, Arizona Boat you know,
Speaker 16: have a lot of new guys. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 16: that that to me is something these coaches are having
Speaker 16: to navigate because you know, and I've.
Speaker 7: Actually heard Baylor fans who've complained like, oh, you know,
Speaker 7: we uh, you know, we.
Speaker 16: We need to start like getting some different kind of
Speaker 16: recruits that we can keep around for a few years
Speaker 16: instead of.
Speaker 7: Like the one and done type guys.
Speaker 16: And and I'm like, oh, man, I mean you start
Speaker 16: turning down one and done, you know, really high talented guys.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure that's the way to go. What you have,
Speaker 7: what you need to figure out.
Speaker 16: How to do is to you know, speed along that
Speaker 16: sort of chemistry building process where you know, these these
Speaker 16: guys are figuring out how to play together. And truthfully,
Speaker 16: when Baylor lost to Clemson in the second round the
Speaker 16: NCAA Tournament last spring, I don't think it was because
Speaker 16: they hadn't played together long enough. I think it was
Speaker 16: because they couldn't make free throws and they didn't get
Speaker 16: the most important rebounds.
Speaker 7: Of the game. I mean, you know, sometimes.
Speaker 16: We overthink these things, and you know, I mean sometimes
Speaker 16: you just have to go out and make a play.
Speaker 6: Right, And you had to replace what four starters from
Speaker 6: last season, and they, you know, again they went into
Speaker 6: the portal, I guess and got what Jeremy Roach and VJ. Edgecombe.
Speaker 6: How have they fit into this this season so far?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean they got some good transfer with Nord
Speaker 16: shadow Mere who came over from Miami, and then as
Speaker 16: you mentioned, Jeremy Roach who came from Duke. Now VJ
Speaker 16: is a freshman who you know should be a one
Speaker 16: and done guy.
Speaker 7: V J. Edgecombe and he's he's he's special. Like, Scott's
Speaker 7: had some pretty good freshmen the last few years.
Speaker 16: You know, I think they've had I want to say,
Speaker 16: four of the preseason Big Twelve Freshmen of the Year
Speaker 16: in a row, and three of them won the Postseason.
Speaker 7: Award as well. And yeah, I mean they've been good players.
Speaker 16: I mean, Keyshawn George is playing you know, point guard
Speaker 16: for the Jazz now and Jacoby Walters playing you know
Speaker 16: somewhat for the Raptors, and you know, I mean they've
Speaker 16: had really good freshmen to come through here. I'm not
Speaker 16: so sure that DJ is not more talented than all
Speaker 16: of them, Like, I actually think he will end up
Speaker 16: when it's all said and done, and being Scott Drew's
Speaker 16: first NBA All Star.
Speaker 7: He's never had an All Star.
Speaker 16: But DJ, to me, he reminds me a little bit
Speaker 16: of Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves.
Speaker 7: And that's high praise obviously with what that guy is doing.
Speaker 7: But and he's got a long long way to go.
Speaker 16: I mean, I'm just gonna put that out there too.
Speaker 16: His jump shot is a work in progress, to say
Speaker 16: the least. But he's just hyper athletic. I Mean, the
Speaker 16: guy can dunk over anyone and just really hustles and
Speaker 16: gets after it and impacts the game even when his
Speaker 16: shots not falling. So yeah, but the transfers, I mean,
Speaker 16: obviously Jeremy Roach had been to a final four with
Speaker 16: Duke nor Chat o'mere had been to a final four
Speaker 16: with Miami. So when you get that kind of experience,
Speaker 16: I think that that plays.
Speaker 7: You know, that's what you want.
Speaker 2: So what do you guys know about Arizona. Well, let's
Speaker 2: go with this first. What's the secret formula for the
Speaker 2: Big twelve? You know, you know in the Pac twelve,
Speaker 2: it was kind of like Arizona could go seventeen and three,
Speaker 2: sixteen and four, whatever and kind of finish first or
Speaker 2: second and make a good seed in the tournament. Now
Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, you got to hold court and you've
Speaker 2: got to at least win half in the in the
Speaker 2: conference on the road.
Speaker 3: Is true?
Speaker 16: Yeah, Yeah, I think that's absolutely true. I mean I
Speaker 16: think that's actually asked Scott Drew something to that effect recently, and.
Speaker 7: You know, after he I wouldn't say, hmmed it.
Speaker 16: Hat a little bit, but just basically said, look, we're
Speaker 16: trying to win them all, you know, Da da da
Speaker 16: da dada, but at the same time, you know, is
Speaker 16: that the formula you know, holden holding court at home
Speaker 16: and then obviously win in you know, stealing some.
Speaker 7: On the road. And you know, like you said, if
Speaker 7: you can, if you can maybe go five hundred on
Speaker 7: the road and Big Twelve.
Speaker 16: You're doing something. I mean, because it's tough, it's really tough.
Speaker 16: There's really good environments.
Speaker 7: All over the league. You know, not many teams going
Speaker 7: to Lawrence, Kansas.
Speaker 16: And come out with a win, and that kind of
Speaker 16: thing is really you know, the case all over the league.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think I think that's it. And I
Speaker 7: think if you have a five hundred or better record.
Speaker 16: In the Big Twelve, you've got a pretty good shot
Speaker 16: of making an NCAA tournament. I mean, you know, this
Speaker 16: has over the last you know, I don't know what
Speaker 16: you want to say, eight ten years, it's been, if
Speaker 16: not the best basketball conference in the country, you know,
Speaker 16: right there.
Speaker 7: At two maybe. I think I wrote a column just
Speaker 7: a week or so ago.
Speaker 16: Where I think the SEC has probably supplanted the Big
Speaker 16: Twelve at least for this year. But my thesis of
Speaker 16: that column also was, you know, let's check back in March,
Speaker 16: because that's.
Speaker 7: Where you really prove you know, you know who you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say too.
Speaker 6: You know, Steve and I have always talked about this
Speaker 6: on the show, But just Arizona fans, I don't think
Speaker 6: they know much about these venues. What else should we
Speaker 6: be paying attention to? You know, as we're watch, as
Speaker 6: we're maneuvering through the Big Twelve. We know I always
Speaker 6: state it's good. Kansas obviously is good, Arizona's played in
Speaker 6: full times Houston.
Speaker 3: Who else should be maybe?
Speaker 6: Like, maybe is there somebody we're not thinking about that
Speaker 6: we should be aware of.
Speaker 16: I mean, Kansas State is not an easy place to
Speaker 16: go and play either. I think they have great crowd
Speaker 16: support in Manhattan. And I think Jerome Tang, even though
Speaker 16: they're not doing just a bang up job this year, he's.
Speaker 7: Done a good job there now in his third year.
Speaker 16: Obviously, Baylor fans are very familiar with Jerome Tang, as
Speaker 16: he was Scott Drew's right hand man for.
Speaker 7: You know, two decades. Uh, you know, and if.
Speaker 16: You want a kind of a little scouting report of
Speaker 16: what to expect in wakego, I mean I would say,
Speaker 16: you know, Baylor fans are an interesting group.
Speaker 7: I mean, they're a little bit of front runners.
Speaker 16: I mean, I mean, I'm you know, I'm not breaking
Speaker 16: news here. But at the same time, you know, if
Speaker 16: if they have a successful team.
Speaker 7: They will turn out.
Speaker 16: And Baylor did a smart thing when it opened up
Speaker 16: its new arena, the Foster Pavilion, which opened up just
Speaker 16: about a year ago. I think January third of twenty
Speaker 16: four was was when it opened, kind of the middle
Speaker 16: of last season. It downsized, you know, which is not
Speaker 16: a It's been a trend. I think in certain places.
Speaker 16: The old arena is right at about you know, eleven
Speaker 16: thousand capacity and this one's you know, seventy five hundred.
Speaker 16: And the nice thing about that is, you know they'll
Speaker 16: fill it up and it becomes a pretty good environment.
Speaker 16: It's really really loud. I took a lot of heat
Speaker 16: for write a column last year where I basically said
Speaker 16: it was too loud and what I ad met by
Speaker 16: that because you know, there were all these people saying,
Speaker 16: you can't have it too loud. Well, what I meant
Speaker 16: and what I said in the column if they actually
Speaker 16: read it. You know, sometimes people read a headline, you
Speaker 16: know how that is.
Speaker 7: But uh uh was some of the base and some
Speaker 7: of the you know, canned noise.
Speaker 16: The manufactured stuff was you know, was just insanely loud.
Speaker 7: But the fan noise, I mean, yeah, you want it
Speaker 7: to be loud.
Speaker 16: That's what you h That's what you want to cause
Speaker 16: basketball games. So that I'm saying, you know, sure, make
Speaker 16: that as loud as you want. But some of that
Speaker 16: artificial stuff that they pump in, you know, you could
Speaker 16: you could dial down some of the wolfers on that,
Speaker 16: but but no, it's become a good home court advantage
Speaker 16: for Baylor, I think, and you know, Scott Drew has
Speaker 16: it going there.
Speaker 7: I mean it was Baylor fans were sweating it out.
Speaker 16: A little bit last year when Louisville and Kentucky came,
Speaker 16: you know after him, trying to get him to, you know,
Speaker 16: to be their head coach. And he made a lot
Speaker 16: of people in Waco happy by sticking around here.
Speaker 2: I was gonna just say that in the transition before
Speaker 2: you mentioned his name, his legacy must have totally changed
Speaker 2: or just enhanced once he won the titles a few
Speaker 2: years ago, and Waco is probably loving him for it.
Speaker 2: It's like loot winning here changes the trajectory of the
Speaker 2: program and kind of puts the program on the map.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt, there's no question about it. I think
Speaker 7: you can see it.
Speaker 16: You can see it in I think the level of
Speaker 16: expectation that everybody has now for the program.
Speaker 7: I think you can see it in the level of recruit.
Speaker 16: That they've been able to get since winning the National Championship.
Speaker 7: They didn't used to get.
Speaker 16: One and done guys like Scott was more known for
Speaker 16: getting the guys like Touring Prince and Royce O'Neill and
Speaker 16: Corey Jefferson and these guys that he would sort of
Speaker 16: they would come in as sort of less regarded prospects
Speaker 16: and they get better while they were with you know,
Speaker 16: coach Drew and coach Tang and those guys, and you know,
Speaker 16: then they get it, end up getting drafted and you know,
Speaker 16: doing well on the next level. But now he's getting
Speaker 16: the one and done guys and all of that is
Speaker 16: like you said, it's it all changed when he won.
Speaker 7: The National Championship. They've been, you know, somewhat close before.
Speaker 16: They had a really tough loss to the in the
Speaker 16: Elite eight to Duke back when Coach k was there,
Speaker 16: and that was you know, it was kind of a
Speaker 16: controversial game, but that was probably a team that Baylor
Speaker 16: thought could get to the Final four that like maybe
Speaker 16: twenty ten.
Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, it definitely and probably put him in
Speaker 7: the Hall of Fame, honestly. I mean, I think.
Speaker 16: Most coaches that win at least won national championship end
Speaker 16: up there with with his record, you know.
Speaker 7: That he's got and uh, you know.
Speaker 16: Will they ever win another one? Who knows, But I
Speaker 16: mean it's hard to do.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 16: But I think at the same time, he's got this
Speaker 16: program going at a.
Speaker 7: Pretty good level.
Speaker 3: What's the nil situation there at Baylor for for basketball?
Speaker 7: Yeah, they've bumped it up. I mean I couldn't give
Speaker 7: you the exact.
Speaker 16: Numbers just because Baylor is a private school and they
Speaker 16: hide behind that, you know, so uh but at the
Speaker 16: same time, they they've definitely bumped it up, and I think,
Speaker 16: you know, it has helped them get some guys like
Speaker 16: a like a.
Speaker 7: Jeremy Road or a North Jeto bere.
Speaker 16: And and and they do look for guys that like
Speaker 16: kind of like you know, quote unquote fit their culture.
Speaker 7: I know that's sort of a cliche that coaches like
Speaker 7: to use.
Speaker 16: But with I mean, you will absolutely hear Scott at
Speaker 16: some point tonight, if you're in the postgame interview, say
Speaker 16: something about culture of joy.
Speaker 7: That's their I mean, that's their catchphrase that they.
Speaker 16: Kind of hang their whole program around, is this culture
Speaker 16: of joy. And you know, Scott's a Christian and he
Speaker 16: really hangs on to that, and I think, you know,
Speaker 16: I did a feature on North Chead just the other
Speaker 16: day and was talking to him about, you know, why
Speaker 16: did you leave Miami? You know, they had been to
Speaker 16: a Final four there, and he was like talking about how,
Speaker 16: you know, there was a lot of reasons, but one
Speaker 16: of the things was, you know, I felt like I
Speaker 16: was kind of getting away from the Lord. And you know,
Speaker 16: He's talked to Scott and he felt like, you know,
Speaker 16: this was the place for him. So I think Baylor
Speaker 16: uses you know, the fact that it's a Christian school
Speaker 16: to its advantage with you know, a certain type of
Speaker 16: recruit that wants that, and that has worked well over
Speaker 16: the year for them, So you know, I think they
Speaker 16: obviously they're gonna.
Speaker 7: Use nil to their advantage, but at the.
Speaker 16: Same time, they're gonna use kind of that the fact
Speaker 16: that they're a Christian school, a smaller school, you know,
Speaker 16: a good academic school.
Speaker 7: I think they're gonna try to use those things to
Speaker 7: their advantage too.
Speaker 2: And so before we go Bryce, you have Arizona ranked
Speaker 2: a little ahead of Baylor.
Speaker 3: But what do you predict.
Speaker 16: I say, Wildcats get it done in a close game tonight.
Speaker 16: I don't know the score, but let's say, you know,
Speaker 16: three or four point games something like that coming down
Speaker 16: to the wire.
Speaker 7: I think it would be really, really tough.
Speaker 16: For Baylor to make this two game swing through Arizona,
Speaker 16: the state of Arizona, and and.
Speaker 7: Come out to and Oh. I mean, I you know, I.
Speaker 16: Think you could hope for a split when you're doing that,
Speaker 16: but who knows. I mean, part of the key will
Speaker 16: be for Baylor, Uh, if they want to try to
Speaker 16: knock off the Wildcats. Will Langston Love play?
Speaker 7: Will Jalen Celestine play?
Speaker 16: Those are two guys that have been out the last
Speaker 16: three or four games with ankle injuries, and Baylor's had
Speaker 16: to kind of shorten up its rotation because of that.
Speaker 16: I mean, it basically been going with six seven guys
Speaker 16: the last few games. If those two guys play, I
Speaker 16: like Baylor's chances a little bit better. But at the
Speaker 16: same time, I'll take the Wildcats and Nicole get a close.
Speaker 2: One before before one quick thing.
Speaker 3: I thought that might be the last question.
Speaker 2: But we talked about this with Bruce Pasco a number
Speaker 2: of times, and I covered the team for like twenty
Speaker 2: five thirty years.
Speaker 3: Directly when it came into the league.
Speaker 2: There was some thought that this is gonna help Arizona
Speaker 2: because one, they'll have to get tougher. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: to face these teams to get them ready.
Speaker 3: For the tournament.
Speaker 2: Okay, But then the second thought is, okay, yeah, they do,
Speaker 2: but they're gonna get beat up by the time they
Speaker 2: get to March and get tired. I'm sure you've seen
Speaker 2: that with Baylor. Have you seen other teams with that.
Speaker 2: Kansas recently has just kind of like sputters come March.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 16: No, I think that's a real thing, and I do
Speaker 16: think that that has been, you know, kind of an issue.
Speaker 16: And I also think that it's why a lot of
Speaker 16: those coaches like Scott and like you know, Bill self,
Speaker 16: if those seasons where they have had you know, pretty
Speaker 16: good years and they know they're gonna get a high
Speaker 16: seed in the NCAA Tournament, they're not real concerned about
Speaker 16: what happens in the big twelve tournament, because it's like,
Speaker 16: do I really want to play three games and three
Speaker 16: days or whatever? Yeah, because you've already gone through this
Speaker 16: just juggernaut of a Big twelve schedule and now you're
Speaker 16: having to you know, play some more games, you know,
Speaker 16: in a short window of time on top of that.
Speaker 7: So I know, like Baylor's never won the Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 16: And I don't think Scott I don't want to say
Speaker 16: he doesn't care like they But at the same time,
Speaker 16: if you've got a good seed locked up, I think
Speaker 16: they look at it like, you know, a few extra
Speaker 16: days of rest might not be a bad Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 16: I think that's a real thing.
Speaker 7: And I do think.
Speaker 16: You know, there have been times where you can say, well,
Speaker 16: maybe those teams were a little beat up because of
Speaker 16: what they went through through the.
Speaker 7: Big twelve, you know, but it does you know.
Speaker 16: Other conferences are tough too, and so it can be
Speaker 16: a little bit.
Speaker 7: Of an excuse to fall back on. So, you know,
Speaker 7: I think in the end of the day, you just.
Speaker 16: Got to step your game up in March and and
Speaker 16: like I said, make plays.
Speaker 3: Well, Brice, We'll appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: We'll probably get to you again on the return ship
Speaker 2: later this year.
Speaker 7: Okay, thanks a good appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Guys, well, thanks, thank you.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Welcome tying the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera or Dave Silver and we have our
Speaker 2: guy Kobe Ian working on the board. So if you
Speaker 2: guys want to call, we'd appreciate it. You got about
Speaker 2: twelve minutes or so five two zero four, one six
Speaker 2: seventy four forty five two oh four one seventy four
Speaker 2: forty good to talk to the opposing guy. We really
Speaker 2: didn't talk much about Baylor, uh, but we know the
Speaker 2: situation right. I think they're five point underdogs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: That's about That's about right, And what the hell do
Speaker 2: I know? Everyone has to just play better?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they just have to play their game
Speaker 6: and you know, use the crowd to their advantage. It's
Speaker 6: gonna been you know, national TV late start.
Speaker 2: You're not going, right, I asked you my guest is
Speaker 2: still going to be about two thousand seats empty?
Speaker 3: Think?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's been and it's it hasn't been full
Speaker 2: the last couple of games, right, because they've been late,
Speaker 2: and it's you know, you know, the crowd there. You know,
Speaker 2: we joke about it, or people have joked about it
Speaker 2: since I've been here, Protty, since you've been here. The
Speaker 2: blue hair and the gray hairs, Well, guess what those
Speaker 2: people are dead when we first here. Right now, it's
Speaker 2: a new group of great haired blue hair. Does that
Speaker 2: make sense?
Speaker 6: Everybody's got something to complain because, you know, the other
Speaker 6: day because the game wasn't televised exactly on time. Then,
Speaker 6: you know, and how many years are we going to
Speaker 6: go through this? That's just the way it's going to go.
Speaker 6: Tonight's game will not be shown on ESPN at nine o'clock.
Speaker 6: I can almost guarantee you.
Speaker 2: Well, it was a funny post the other day just
Speaker 2: recently that wors it all in ESPN plus it sucks
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. I hate this. I hate that. I
Speaker 2: hate that.
Speaker 3: And people says, all you guys do is pitch, all
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 2: Do is pitch enough. I mean, it could be about anything,
Speaker 2: And I said, that's the greatest post ever, because it's true.
Speaker 2: It's all they do is bitch. But in this case,
Speaker 2: it's a nine o'clock game. I don't think it's going
Speaker 2: to be as packed as it could be. It should be.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong, but we've seen it before.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think this is one of their
Speaker 6: marquee games of the season. I would hope that people
Speaker 6: kind of circle this one, you know, maybe just make
Speaker 6: make plans to you know, drink some coffee early seen
Speaker 6: it in and just wait.
Speaker 3: Up for this one.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's just the way we got to deal
Speaker 6: with with the scheduling sometimes. I mean, looking at their schedule,
Speaker 6: you know down the road, there's gonna be geving o'clock starts.
Speaker 2: I think so, right, Yeah, I think we had seen
Speaker 2: there's a few eight o'clock eight thirties, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, nine o'clock. Here, there's an eight thirty against Iowa
Speaker 6: State on a Monday night. Okay, you know at nine
Speaker 6: o'clock against BYU on the road, so you know, get
Speaker 6: used to it. Nine o'clock against a issue in March.
Speaker 6: So there's gonna be some late starts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're on the air and Ie on the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's this? You're on the air? Ane on the ball?
Speaker 3: Who's this?
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 3: Are they salling?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: I was gonna say that, you know, U of a
Speaker 6: fans kind of have to get used to this, and
Speaker 6: especially with the scheduling the days being much different than
Speaker 6: what we're used to with the usual weekend situations with
Speaker 6: a Thursday Saturday games or a Thursday Sunday, I mean,
Speaker 6: that's obviously out the window right now. So got to
Speaker 6: get used to some of these games in the middle
Speaker 6: of the week on a Tuesday day or Monday or Wednesday.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be a little bit different way to watch
Speaker 6: watch basketball. And obviously with the ESPN and the way
Speaker 6: they schedule things, they kind of put these two hour
Speaker 6: windows together, which they've always done. And Arizona plane at
Speaker 6: nine with a seven o'clock game, I'm sure before it. Uh,
Speaker 6: there could be some delays there, so we'll have to
Speaker 6: look forward somewhere else. ESPN News or some of the
Speaker 6: other espns. We'll pick it up. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: There we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe Howard Howard, here's go ahead and the game
Speaker 2: at the at they.
Speaker 5: Hear the radio.
Speaker 2: I can hear you.
Speaker 5: I can hear you very quietly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so here here we are. How are you good?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: Dave is exactly right. Nobody in the nobody on the
Speaker 5: East Coast is going to be watching the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah start, No, you're right, Well, some people in the
Speaker 2: bars will Yeah, the people. Yeah, Arizona team, that's pretty scrappy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the bars are closed. No, live in New York
Speaker 6: and mind you're right.
Speaker 2: So it's still it's not even last call.
Speaker 3: By the end of the game, it will be last call.
Speaker 3: Arizona has a lot of alumni on the East Coast.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I'm just looking forward to the Iowa stayed
Speaker 5: in the Houston game. I got tickets that Iowa stayed already,
Speaker 5: pretty good ones. Yeah, of course Hanson was wrong. He
Speaker 5: said nine. I haven't got my actual tickets yet, but
Speaker 5: the little thing my wife got him. It says eight
Speaker 5: thirty start, but I guess that could be changed.
Speaker 3: Oh, I say, no, I think you're right. Schedule.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like to part out Greg, who I love
Speaker 5: he said nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, there's gonna be a What do you make
Speaker 2: of the late starts? I mean, everyone saying, oh great,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get good time slots.
Speaker 5: Now, no, right, we're not gonna still, no one's going
Speaker 5: to be seeing anyone except fro on the Midwest and
Speaker 5: the West coast to see our catch our games.
Speaker 3: Right, anybody, what do you think they're gonna win tonight?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're gonna win tonight and and then then then
Speaker 5: they go on a road trip to winnable games.
Speaker 2: I think, right, uh, well you think I don't know
Speaker 2: this road games are going to be very difficult. I
Speaker 2: was surprised that they swept over the weekend, but you know,
Speaker 2: I didn't think that upon further review, Cincinnati or West
Speaker 2: Virginia were any good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know me, I'm really peeked when both
Speaker 5: the Wildcats and the Sun's around the same day. But
Speaker 5: we we get early starts because around the East coast
Speaker 5: five thirty to night in Atlanta, Okay, and we have
Speaker 5: we've been make or break. We got to go minimum
Speaker 5: before went on this road trip, easily doable.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, also the exposure situation, not having the
Speaker 6: PAC twelve network anymore kind of hurt everybody. But every
Speaker 6: game is going to be on basically ESPN or at
Speaker 6: least ESPN Plus. Some of the games haven't even been
Speaker 6: scheduled for TV, but you know they'll be on.
Speaker 2: So have you, Dave, have you watched David Howard? Have
Speaker 2: you watched the games on ESPN Plus? I've watched a
Speaker 2: couple and I don't have it.
Speaker 5: I don't have ESPN. I don't I don't cover it
Speaker 5: if a lot of I don't listen to the radio,
Speaker 5: I don't have that live feel. I also just follow
Speaker 5: it on my phone to scores, so now I know
Speaker 5: how everyone scores. And I think, Steve, we're gonna be.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be We're gonna be rewarded because Henry Vasser's
Speaker 5: he's like one of my favorite players and he's going
Speaker 5: to be doing it.
Speaker 2: Dave, you what you have?
Speaker 3: It so has been a pup No, it's been good.
Speaker 6: I think other people have mentioned some problems with it,
Speaker 6: but basically it's you know, if you close your eyes
Speaker 6: and just you know, think about what you're experiencing. It's
Speaker 6: basically just like an ESPN game. Yeah, it's got a
Speaker 6: lot of the same broadcasters we're used to hearing, so,
Speaker 6: I mean, Corey, Matt Milbach, Darren Sutton, some of the
Speaker 6: guys we've always been listening to.
Speaker 3: So it's pretty familiar.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, Howard, thanks for the call.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks guys.
Speaker 3: Later, Okay, we've.
Speaker 2: Got about uh we got about another calingists if you
Speaker 2: guys want to do that five two zero, four one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four to forty. I'm here with Dave, uh Kobe.
Speaker 2: So we got you know, about five minutes left before
Speaker 2: the big game.
Speaker 7: Four.
Speaker 2: I wasn't four What are you going to do to
Speaker 2: prepare for this nine o'clock start? I was gonna check out.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna relax.
Speaker 3: That's today. I'm not gonna write after the game. I don't.
Speaker 2: I won't nine o'clock. We'll probably get it.
Speaker 3: You don't.
Speaker 2: And the games aren't two hours anymore. They're like two
Speaker 2: twenty because of the TV.
Speaker 3: Timeouts or longer.
Speaker 2: It's it's just you know, upon for the review, we
Speaker 2: gotta go to the tape blah, blah blah. So it's
Speaker 2: like two twenty by the time they have now that
Speaker 2: you don't. Now they have the opposing coach going into
Speaker 2: the press. Commerce is he going first? He goes in first,
Speaker 2: so that takes about ten minutes after a ten minute
Speaker 2: cool off, so that's twenty minutes, and then Tommy comes
Speaker 2: in and gives his ten minutes and then we get
Speaker 2: the players like for four or five. So now you're
Speaker 2: talking about twelve, which is I'm not complaining about it,
Speaker 2: and I'm not complaining about this is what I love
Speaker 2: to do. I wouldn't do anything else, but but that's
Speaker 2: just what it is. And then guess what happens after that.
Speaker 2: That's when the work starts, right because then you have
Speaker 2: to write a story. So I'm not going to do
Speaker 2: it right after. I want to do it tomorrow, you know,
Speaker 2: as a as a as a not a recap but
Speaker 2: as an evaluation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and your stories these days are more columns, like
Speaker 6: you're not like going to play by place.
Speaker 3: You're doing no.
Speaker 2: Did you did you did you read me? Did you
Speaker 2: did you read in my last one? Because I don't
Speaker 2: know if I came across Tommy's how was it sarcasm.
Speaker 2: It was just his rant. Yeah, you know, did you
Speaker 2: get a feel that he was upset? And I even
Speaker 2: kind of joked that you never see this from him
Speaker 2: and how can you take him seriously?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you're right, and I think maybe there just
Speaker 6: comes a point in the season where he had.
Speaker 3: To do something without just say something.
Speaker 6: You know, how many times are we going to lose
Speaker 6: a fifteen point lead and come back this time and
Speaker 6: you know, you know, got away with it, But there's
Speaker 6: been what three or four of these this this season
Speaker 6: already and some big games ahead.
Speaker 3: You don't want to have that become a habit.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you make of the Cronin situation?
Speaker 2: They want lost again last night? I didn't see any
Speaker 2: tweets today about you know, his postgame interviews because the
Speaker 2: last couple have been like holy crap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what is his problem is at
Speaker 3: this point?
Speaker 2: Well, the players, well after the one two weeks ago
Speaker 2: or whatever time it was, Uh, you'd see, how did
Speaker 2: these guys get to play for this guy?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: And they've kind of lost four straight. I think now
Speaker 2: they may not be playing for this guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's tough.
Speaker 6: I mean, we don't We're not on the court with him,
Speaker 6: but just as a fan watching the way he just
Speaker 6: reacts and handles himself during the game, It's like, I'm
Speaker 6: not sure I want to play for him. I mean,
Speaker 6: he's up, he doesn't have a seat. I don't think
Speaker 6: on the bench, he's never he never sits down. He's
Speaker 6: always barking out something some play like, you know, every
Speaker 6: single possession he seems to be trying to orchestrate it.
Speaker 6: I don't know how the players feel about that.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if he the mutually decided to
Speaker 2: part ways because it's just a non situation, especially at UCLA.
Speaker 2: You know, you have this legacy, you have a pretty
Speaker 2: good coach. I think you know he's done a pretty
Speaker 2: good job. Outside of these things. Are a four game
Speaker 2: losing street. They four five of last six, and his
Speaker 2: comments have been very vocal. You're on Twitter, maybe do
Speaker 2: some UCL eight of search as guys. I don't know
Speaker 2: that Ben Bolt didn't tweet any of his interviews with him,
Speaker 2: and maybe he just didn't do one.
Speaker 3: It was it's been kind of crazy.
Speaker 6: I mean, really, some of their wins are not exactly
Speaker 6: no high powered teams well, Arizona. It was on I
Speaker 6: hadn't had it not faded. They lost to Carolina by two.
Speaker 6: They lost to Gonzaga by three, and that's kind of
Speaker 6: when it started.
Speaker 3: Then they started losing to Nebraska. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: They beat Gonzaga by three, but after that it started
Speaker 6: wiped out by Michigan and Maryland and Rutgers. And they're
Speaker 6: playing Iowa at home on the seventeenth when the seventeenth
Speaker 6: on Saturday maybe Friday, so they have problems, yeah.
Speaker 2: And that that we're by. We just find it kind
Speaker 2: of interesting because of his his uh, his rants and
Speaker 2: the guy's playing for him or not playing for him.
Speaker 2: For Mick, yeah, because once you get berated and braided
Speaker 2: and Tommy didn't do that. Tommy, Tommy was different.
Speaker 3: He didn't He didn't specific specifically talking about anybody. He
Speaker 3: just kind of said in general.
Speaker 2: They need to do this, and they need to do this,
Speaker 2: and this is our season and we got to pay
Speaker 2: attention to you know, we don't play stupid and we're
Speaker 2: playing stupid or dumb or whatever the well.
Speaker 6: You know, he can say that and then the next
Speaker 6: day they all look at the video and they, yeah,
Speaker 6: we know who's talking about here, right.
Speaker 2: It's funny because that's when I asked the kids, because
Speaker 2: I needed a transition to go with a story, because
Speaker 2: in my head I already had it written, right, what
Speaker 2: do you think is gonna happen in your first practice back?
Speaker 2: And if I would have asked that to the to
Speaker 2: the lout's kids, they would have said, we're gonna run,
Speaker 2: We're gonna it's not gonna be fun because after losses
Speaker 2: for loot, we're not fun.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: They they got it, you know, they got it because
Speaker 2: he was a fundamental guy.
Speaker 3: He would come back the next morning. Sometimes I think after.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, it was you know when on the road
Speaker 2: it was like your holy crap, really, oh yeah, it
Speaker 2: was fun.
Speaker 3: You take his walk.
Speaker 6: And then I think football does did the same way
Speaker 6: back in those years. Oh yeah, they were just like
Speaker 6: they lose a game on a Saturday night late and
Speaker 6: uh okay, be on practice field the next morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when Dick first got out, yeah, when they got
Speaker 2: beat early, when he first got here, That's how it was.
Speaker 2: I remember that. Hey, thanks for joining me, Dave Price
Speaker 2: to you later this week, maybe hope. So okay, great,
Speaker 2: Thanks to Kobe for coming in. Thanks everybody for listening,
Speaker 2: and we'll see you guys tomorrow