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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Ion the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jagan Zawas.
Speaker 2: You got our guy, you goy? Ryan? Hey know, Ryan,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be asking you what your you better eat
Speaker 2: because you're like a You're like a buck twenty Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Jake. Guess what I'm hearing? Now there's more.
Speaker 2: There's more traction on people complaining about the fan situation.
Speaker 2: I heard exactly what we were saying yesterday. How did
Speaker 2: this happen? And did you see more of a clarification?
Speaker 2: I saw Brad Alice posted something that I guess the
Speaker 2: people who host it. I guess there was a host,
Speaker 2: like a foundation. I can't remember the foundation that they
Speaker 2: it's becoming expensive.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait the what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: The Friday Friday on Friday? So I guess was a
Speaker 2: foundation that hosts it? Oh, it was at the main
Speaker 2: Gate Foundation. Something like, yes, that it's it's become costly,
Speaker 2: which I guess while they.
Speaker 3: Set up like the band a bandstand in the whole bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's not free, right, yeah, that's not so
Speaker 2: so in in order for that to work, they decided
Speaker 2: to move to eliminate the first two and come back
Speaker 2: in October. As we kind of said yesterday after, it
Speaker 2: makes sense. I don't think it has anything to do
Speaker 2: with you of a penny bitching.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, well when when you when you uh uh,
Speaker 3: you know, recognize that it's a main gate event, right
Speaker 3: and main gated there. It's like there's an association and
Speaker 3: that's for the for the the businesses there. They probably
Speaker 3: do it to attract business down there Friday night and
Speaker 3: maybe you know, when it's hot and you know, really
Speaker 3: hot in September, maybe it's not worth sure the money
Speaker 3: and the effort.
Speaker 2: Sure no, no, and makes total sense. Yeah, and they
Speaker 2: might be there anyway, given given the traffic the first
Speaker 2: the first weekend, a student blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: I mean I've been down there on a Friday night,
Speaker 3: you know, before a game and it's it's hoppen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, so it doesn't need it, probably doesn't you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's cool to have because you have the band,
Speaker 3: do you get your players down there and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But again, there's some expense to it, as you said,
Speaker 3: because you know, I you know, if you go to
Speaker 3: the if you go to the bear Down Friday facebook page,
Speaker 3: you know, there's a photo and you see the band
Speaker 3: standing all that stuff. So yeah, there's there's got to
Speaker 3: be some expense to it. Again, if they're feeling that,
Speaker 3: you know, these two early September games it's gonna be hot,
Speaker 3: maybe people aren't inclined to be hanging out at you know,
Speaker 3: night over there. You know, they do a you know,
Speaker 3: a cost analysis and decided.
Speaker 2: Right, especially like after the last year of previous years
Speaker 2: you started saying, well is it really worth it? Yeada YadA.
Speaker 3: You know, people are still gonna be down there on
Speaker 3: Friday night, right, you know, because you know the general
Speaker 3: bans and and and and frogging and all those places
Speaker 3: good and people are hanging out and you know, it's
Speaker 3: pretty cool and it's a lot of fun. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I could see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, well we'll move past that. But okay,
Speaker 2: I think people were asking what what's uh what's Brendan doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and that makes sense. You know, that's a
Speaker 3: you know that that's a separate deal, you know, because well,
Speaker 3: the UFA would like to do all that stuff. They
Speaker 3: don't do it all, you know, you know, they have
Speaker 3: partners and stuff like that. You do those things and
Speaker 3: there along for the ride. So okay, makes sense.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, okay, let's let's move on. So I think
Speaker 2: we have a pretty good show today. We have We
Speaker 2: didn't have to scramble this morning, right because we told
Speaker 2: everybody yesterday. Who have a guy who's seen more football
Speaker 2: here than anybody on the road at.
Speaker 3: All, exactly, Brian jeff Brian Jeffries been here since the
Speaker 3: late eighties. Uh, voice of the Wildcats, getting ready for
Speaker 3: another year. So we'll talk to him about, uh, just
Speaker 3: his thoughts going into the season. Yeah, and he'd be he's.
Speaker 2: He's like you. You you've seen the teams since you were
Speaker 2: a kid. Uh you remember a little longer ago than yesterday.
Speaker 2: But you could kind of say the top ten teams.
Speaker 2: You could probably do it off the top of your head. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he's probably got that list where Okay, this team
Speaker 2: was pretty good, this team, where does this one say this,
Speaker 2: but going in, going in right, because we've seen teams
Speaker 2: going in they didn't go say they weren't the same
Speaker 2: team going in.
Speaker 3: And talking about it all summer's teeth. It's funny because
Speaker 3: you know, the closer we get to the game, the
Speaker 3: more nervous I am. Not about whether or not Arizona's
Speaker 3: going to lose on Saturday, because I don't expect it,
Speaker 3: but about what this season is going to be like,
Speaker 3: what it's gonna look like at the end, right right,
Speaker 3: eight and four, seven, and you know, seven and five.
Speaker 2: I think we've ten and two. You know, what's it
Speaker 2: going to be. I've talked about this at least in
Speaker 2: basketball and then asked Tommy this. I haven't brendan anything,
Speaker 2: but do you think that the first game or two
Speaker 2: kind of dictates the us to the season?
Speaker 3: It can? It can. It's certainly in nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 3: it did.
Speaker 2: And then you yeah, crap, yeah this is bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they can. I mean look for here here's
Speaker 3: you know, when we talked to Michael lev yesterday, we
Speaker 3: asked what do you expect to see? You said, I
Speaker 3: expect to see them dominate both sides of the line in
Speaker 3: this game on Saturday, and that's what you expect. You
Speaker 3: expect to see have see them dominate both of these games,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, forty something to to ten or
Speaker 3: you know something like that, right, forty you know, forty
Speaker 3: one to seventeen, and you go if if it's thirty
Speaker 3: five to twenty eight, thirty five to twenty four, you're
Speaker 3: gonna go, ah, you know, that doesn't sound great, you know,
Speaker 3: but then again, right you know the you know, last
Speaker 3: year they had that crap game against Mississippi State. They
Speaker 3: turned the ball over or four times in the first quarter.
Speaker 3: You got to the end of that gaming you thought,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, that wasn't such a bad game, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean the outcome. They could have won the game
Speaker 3: in spite of what they did. And then you thought, well,
Speaker 3: maybe this team has something. And then they nearly beat
Speaker 3: USC you know, and then they put up a fight
Speaker 3: against Washington. You thought, okay, what do you have? And
Speaker 3: then they went off and they haven't lost a game
Speaker 3: since then, So it can it you know for Arizona,
Speaker 3: no matter what happens, if they win big in these
Speaker 3: two games, you really don't know. But if they're close games,
Speaker 3: then you kind of.
Speaker 2: Go, uh yeah, well that tells me they have everything
Speaker 2: to lose, anything to gain.
Speaker 3: By these two games. Except well, yeah, these two games.
Speaker 3: They got to use these to get their feet underneath them.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a new new coaching staff, new things
Speaker 3: going on on the sidelines, play, the way plays are
Speaker 3: being called, how the players are getting into the game, substitutions,
Speaker 3: all these things that they got to work the kinks
Speaker 3: out on in games like these and at the same
Speaker 3: time not lose the game.
Speaker 2: So along those lines, Jay, guys, if they are up
Speaker 2: forty two to ten mid third quarter, fourth quarter, do
Speaker 2: you take the guys out nose and the team ex
Speaker 2: and let the second stream play because you get to
Speaker 2: see them too.
Speaker 3: This is their opportunity to play that. That's what you're
Speaker 3: looking for. Yes, you do want to see that. You
Speaker 3: want to see the second string quarterback. You don't get
Speaker 3: into a game. You want to see some of these
Speaker 3: other guys. Lineman. Yeah, you know you're you get up
Speaker 3: like that and you've got the game in hand. Now
Speaker 3: you want to see what these other guys can do. Uh, So,
Speaker 3: sure you do that because in the end, as you know,
Speaker 3: as Brent Brenna said, we're gonna you know, when they
Speaker 3: ask them, you know, are you gonna save some of
Speaker 3: the play because we're gonna call the plays we need
Speaker 3: to plug call to win the game. And that's what
Speaker 3: they're gonna do. And if they win the game handily,
Speaker 3: you know, if they're up, if they're at forty two
Speaker 3: to ten and give up a touchdown at the end
Speaker 3: and forty two to seventeen, I don't have any issues
Speaker 3: with that. I think forty points for this team and
Speaker 3: what this offense is supposed to be and both of
Speaker 3: these first two games is not an unreasonable expect.
Speaker 2: So you're looking for style points given in taking.
Speaker 3: You know me, I'm always looking for style points.
Speaker 2: I hopefully we're good, utiful and the uniforms look yeah,
Speaker 2: I wasna say good. Universe could not make it look pretty.
Speaker 3: Just don't break out the copper helmets. I hate the
Speaker 3: copper helmets. But now you know it's uh what you
Speaker 3: what you want to see? I think in these two
Speaker 3: games is you don't want to see anything bad happening.
Speaker 3: You don't want to be concerned about anything coming out
Speaker 3: of these uh at these first two games, you want
Speaker 3: you again, you want to see the lines, you know,
Speaker 3: both lines dominate. You want to see the defense play well,
Speaker 3: you don't. You don't want to see them turning the
Speaker 3: ball over. You want to see Fafee to be accurate
Speaker 3: where you know, with his throws and doing smart things
Speaker 3: with the ball, basic stuff, you know, getting the red
Speaker 3: zone and score touchdowns.
Speaker 2: And if you're a fan, a realistic fan, which you
Speaker 2: know some if you win forty nine to zero, let's
Speaker 2: not let's not leave the arena thinking, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 2: make the top twelve. Yeah, I mean, it'll be a
Speaker 2: little temper with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember that game that it was the Mike
Speaker 3: Stoops game, and I think it was the team that
Speaker 3: ended up going three and eight. Remember they beat Idaho
Speaker 3: or Idaho State or something like seventy to seven or
Speaker 3: something like that, and it was it was just a
Speaker 3: crazy and you thought. I remember walking out of that
Speaker 3: game thinking, wait a minute, not thinking how good Mike
Speaker 3: Scuds was. How bad was the team that that that
Speaker 3: they were playing. I can't I can't remember which year
Speaker 3: it was, see if you can see if you can
Speaker 3: look that up in the media guy there, but it was,
Speaker 3: you know, it was it was right after he got here,
Speaker 3: so it might have been, you know, two thousand, I
Speaker 3: don't know. Two thousand and four was that his first year?
Speaker 3: It was Idaho or Idaho State or somebody. Somebody liked that.
Speaker 3: They can't remember, but they you know, they crushed them stoops, yeah,
Speaker 3: Mike stoops. I don't know. It wasn't two thousand and four,
Speaker 3: might have been. I'm looking for it here. I don't
Speaker 3: see it. They crushed somebody's skull really bad. Not two
Speaker 3: thousand and five, thirty seven, No, forty four. I Hadahole
Speaker 3: ridea hostate look for them in there.
Speaker 2: Oh, here is he was two thousand and eight, two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight, seventy to zero, okay, seventy to nothing
Speaker 2: and that team went.
Speaker 3: Eight and five. Okay, oh that was a b what
Speaker 3: you oh? That was a team that went to the
Speaker 3: Las Vegas Ball. That was a pretty good team. But
Speaker 3: seventy to nothing. I thought, okay, this is just how
Speaker 3: bad Idaho.
Speaker 2: Guess who they lost to that year?
Speaker 3: They lost team or they went lost to New Mexico.
Speaker 2: I lost in New Mexico thirty six to twenty four.
Speaker 2: It was out on the road. I was at New Mexico.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember that.
Speaker 3: My brother was a kiss of death on that one.
Speaker 3: He went to that game.
Speaker 2: You guys always just stay home, stay home, but get
Speaker 2: a like bubble wrap, wrap yourself in bubble wrap. Not
Speaker 2: talk to anybody, you know that.
Speaker 3: I mean that that sun Ball at the ninety two season, right,
Speaker 3: their desert swarm and all that, and they go to
Speaker 3: the sun Ball against Baylor and lose like sixteen to
Speaker 3: thirteen or something like that. My brother on that more
Speaker 3: the morning of the game decided to go to the
Speaker 3: game and then they got beatty two.
Speaker 2: They were fun. There was that was a horrible that
Speaker 2: was a mediocre team.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh they lost. They lost the last three games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the USC and it was like a slugfest.
Speaker 3: Fourteen to seventy USC seven, six to a suah, and
Speaker 3: there was a sixteen thirteen or thirteen twenty twenty fifteen,
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen, something weird like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't remember our guests when you go over this.
Speaker 3: I do know our guest. We got Brian Jeffries today
Speaker 3: instead quist today today.
Speaker 2: Yeah right o, yeah, yeah, so Jeffreys, that'll be fun.
Speaker 2: And then Steve Quiesch. We just kind of realized yesterday
Speaker 2: he'll be doing some games. He said, not all of them.
Speaker 3: He'll explain he's gonna be a sideline reporter for the
Speaker 3: radio broadcast. So working with Brian Jeffers in the Mountain.
Speaker 3: Love it. So basically we've got in the span of
Speaker 3: a week, we'll have had the whole twelve ninety crew
Speaker 3: on the show. But we'll talk to Steve Quis. You
Speaker 3: know who's a you know Tucson guy a little bit
Speaker 3: listen san Diego. Now he was a he was a
Speaker 3: sports director at k well Dy here for a while.
Speaker 2: His son came to school here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's got some ties to Arizona and he'll
Speaker 3: be here doing the being the sideline guy, uh for
Speaker 3: the for the radio and then obviously ran Jeffery. So
Speaker 3: you know we're getting we're another day closer Steve. It's exciting.
Speaker 3: We'll get to Wednesday, it's hump Day tomorrow, and then
Speaker 3: we're kind of like on the down he'll slide towards
Speaker 3: the football season. So pretty exciting looking forward to it. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: I understand why you play a game that you're pretty
Speaker 3: sure you're gonna win, but you know it kind of
Speaker 3: would be fun to play, you know, an opponent that
Speaker 3: you feel like you know, a b YU or something. Oh,
Speaker 3: you know, right out of the Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I think a lot of fans would just say,
Speaker 2: let's I'm gonna be nervous.
Speaker 3: Let's let's get one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get one and then we'll figure it out,
Speaker 2: because you know, like you fans are kind of heb
Speaker 2: GB have seen because you guys have seen some you guys,
Speaker 2: have you qualified for HE because you guys have seen
Speaker 2: some stuff?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so I know. I'm just looking forward to
Speaker 3: seeing what it's gonna look like. Uh, you know, obviously
Speaker 3: one of the question marks me, Okay, how does t
Speaker 3: mac look out there? Is he comfortable? H you know,
Speaker 3: every time he gets hit or we're gonna you know,
Speaker 3: bringe and wonder if he's gonna get up, you know,
Speaker 3: with a bat with the foot and all that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. So we'll see what happens. I'm looking forward
Speaker 3: to this. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got at a minute that what time is it? Thirty?
Speaker 2: We got Brian Jeffers. You want to just go it
Speaker 2: gets to about three sixteen through seventeen. No, that's good.
Speaker 2: Anything else that we need to talk about, No, I
Speaker 2: think we're okay. Right, Football getting closure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Basketball don't have our big announcement. No, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: we heard that might be a several days now, it
Speaker 3: looks like it's uh, it's kind of dragging a little bit.
Speaker 3: So we'll hopefully have that have that soon.
Speaker 2: But right, I also want to talk to you on
Speaker 2: the other side of so someone posted yesterday this morning
Speaker 2: about uh, it was on a fan base of UA
Speaker 2: student section basketball. Andy Kats didn't have them in the
Speaker 2: top ten. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: You know, we'll talk about it more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know me, I'm the Zona Zoo both football
Speaker 3: and basketball.
Speaker 2: Overrated without questions. And it's all generated from in house
Speaker 2: right here, Tucson. You know what, because no one goes
Speaker 2: out to the other schools, that know, right, How do
Speaker 2: you know that? You know how Mercedes, If you go
Speaker 2: see the Wisconsin student section of a football game, you
Speaker 2: went to Ohio State, didn't.
Speaker 3: You No, but we did go to Wisconsin, you know.
Speaker 3: And that's just want to jump around at the end
Speaker 3: of the third quarter stuff like that. They don't have
Speaker 3: that here. Yeah, sorry, okay, all right, let's let's take
Speaker 3: a breakaway to come back. Brian Jeffries will be joining
Speaker 3: us so's stick around.
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Speaker 2: Well, Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Chickens Sauce.
Speaker 2: Down on the phone. We have the voice of the Wildcats,
Speaker 2: Brian Jeffries. Brian, how are you, gentlemen?
Speaker 13: Doing very well? It's a game week. It's always exciting
Speaker 13: every year when you get down to the last few
Speaker 13: days before kickoff. And I don't care what season it is,
Speaker 13: it's just the great anticipation and so I'm excited to
Speaker 13: always to see what the Wildcats look like on the field.
Speaker 3: Okay, Brian, you've been around nearly as long as me.
Speaker 3: I'm as a fan. I'm nervous because of all the expectations,
Speaker 3: and you don't want the you know, you don't want
Speaker 3: them to fall short of expectations. But we've all got
Speaker 3: a lot of expectations for this team. How are you
Speaker 3: approaching that and how will you talk about that as
Speaker 3: we head into the season.
Speaker 13: Well, you know, guys, I'm the forever optimist. I guess
Speaker 13: because I don't remember ever Arizona breaking training camp and
Speaker 13: not thinking they had a chance to be a good
Speaker 13: football team. But there's a lot of things that go
Speaker 13: into it. Injuries certainly, and players playing up to their expectations,
Speaker 13: defth you name it. I think this year is probably
Speaker 13: a little different because of the fact that coming off
Speaker 13: a ten and three season, they won seven straight to
Speaker 13: end last season. They've got some of their star players
Speaker 13: coming back this year, which bodes well. I think that
Speaker 13: the transfer portal has changed college football and really all
Speaker 13: college sports. But it allows like Brent Brennan, for example,
Speaker 13: to go out and refill some areas that they had lost,
Speaker 13: in particular the defensive line. And so you look at
Speaker 13: that and you say, Okay, they're not just bringing in freshmen.
Speaker 13: They're bringing in guys that have played college football for
Speaker 13: a while. And I think that you can instantly change
Speaker 13: the outlook of your team that way, and I think
Speaker 13: that's probably one of the big reasons there's so much
Speaker 13: optimism around this year's Arizona team is because again the
Speaker 13: star players returning and then the influx of talent that's
Speaker 13: going to fill some of those holes, and so it
Speaker 13: looks really good on paper, and I think the coaches
Speaker 13: are happy with what they've seen. But of course now
Speaker 13: you've got to play somebody else, and and you know
Speaker 13: everybody the other team wants to win too, And so
Speaker 13: that's the bottom line is how do you perform on Saturday.
Speaker 2: I won't ask this question now, but we'll get to
Speaker 2: it later. You've been through a number of seasons, obviously,
Speaker 2: give me some good ones ninety eight, right, ninety eight,
Speaker 2: ninety three and fourteen and the year after? Did you
Speaker 2: have the high hopes the year after? And then we
Speaker 2: kind of all know what happens. How do you go
Speaker 2: into this one?
Speaker 13: Well? Yeah, I think you always have high hopes after
Speaker 13: a good season. I don't think there's any question about that,
Speaker 13: because you feel like the program's in a really good place.
Speaker 13: And I think going into the season that's been in
Speaker 13: a really good place. But then you know, you go
Speaker 13: back to what nineteen ninety eight, it was one of
Speaker 13: the best seasons in school history. Cover Sports illustrated going
Speaker 13: into ninety nine, and look what happened. I mean, they
Speaker 13: weren't a bad team that year. They finished five hundred,
Speaker 13: but it certainly fell below expectation. So that's why I
Speaker 13: think you can't you can't put too much into the preseason.
Speaker 13: Like I said, the difference from nineteen ninety nine to
Speaker 13: two thousand and four is the ability to bring guys
Speaker 13: in in the portal. And I think that's why you
Speaker 13: can look at this year's team and say they've got
Speaker 13: a chance to be really good overtime.
Speaker 3: As you as you follow the team through camp, can
Speaker 3: you tell because I go to practices and I don't
Speaker 3: know what I'm seeing. Right, since you've been doing this
Speaker 3: for so long, and you go to practices and you
Speaker 3: see the team, can you see things that we don't see?
Speaker 3: And if you do, what have you seen that we
Speaker 3: don't see?
Speaker 13: No, I'm not going to lie to you and tell
Speaker 13: you that I'm some great football expert. My job is
Speaker 13: simply to paint the picture of the game. And that's
Speaker 13: why Lamont love it sits next to me because he's
Speaker 13: played the game and he knows the ins and outs.
Speaker 13: And so yeah, I go to practice, I watch and
Speaker 13: I see guys that to me, the naked eye tells
Speaker 13: me they could be a really good football player. But
Speaker 13: until the lights come on on Saturday night, sometimes you
Speaker 13: really don't know. And that's to me, that's kind of
Speaker 13: an exciting part of it. But I'm not going to
Speaker 13: tell you that I can point at a guy and say, hey,
Speaker 13: you know he's going to be in All American or
Speaker 13: All Conference or go to the NFL. But you just
Speaker 13: hope that everybody plays up to their expectation. This is
Speaker 13: major college football, and so everybody on the roster wants
Speaker 13: to be in the starting lineup. They want to exceed,
Speaker 13: and not only this season, but you know, maybe you
Speaker 13: get the pro football, which is tough. But I think
Speaker 13: that's the way I look at it, that if you
Speaker 13: see a lot of great effort out there, that probably
Speaker 13: counts more than anything. But no, if I went to
Speaker 13: an Ohio State practice tomorrow, guys and I watched them,
Speaker 13: I probably couldn't tell you any different if they had
Speaker 13: a bunch of you know, studs on their team that
Speaker 13: maybe somebody else didn't.
Speaker 2: So you've been doing this a long time. Sorry to
Speaker 2: tell you that, or happy to tell you that. But
Speaker 2: we covered the team in the late eighties for under
Speaker 2: Dictomy two or three years each and we've seen a
Speaker 2: lot of things come and go right. You've seen it,
Speaker 2: You've seen it all. We've had rich Tomy on, we've
Speaker 2: had some of the players on from that era, and
Speaker 2: we think that this is the closest we've we've seen
Speaker 2: since Dick Tomy. That coaching style, that the demeanor. What
Speaker 2: do you see from Brennan.
Speaker 13: Well, yeah, I think that you hit it on the
Speaker 13: head right there. And I mean he's you know, he's
Speaker 13: spent a lot of time with Coach Tomy, you know,
Speaker 13: as a GA as everybody knows you're Arizona and then
Speaker 13: of course at San Jose State, and I think he
Speaker 13: leans a lot on what coach told me, taught him.
Speaker 13: I did a radio show with Brent last night, and
Speaker 13: that's one thing I asked him, and he just he
Speaker 13: talked about all the things that you know, Coach told
Speaker 13: me has taught him over the years, and those things
Speaker 13: stick with you. And so I think, you know, Brent's
Speaker 13: got a great demeanor and I think he has a
Speaker 13: great His personality really fits I think Arizona Football and
Speaker 13: really our fan base as well, because he's he's a
Speaker 13: guy that's easy to like. He communicates extremely well, you know,
Speaker 13: he doesn't blow up. I mean I haven't seen him
Speaker 13: behind closed doors, but I have a feeling in TI
Speaker 13: talking to the players that he has a very good
Speaker 13: relationship with all the players, and so you know that
Speaker 13: counts a lot, and that goes back to you know,
Speaker 13: coach told me that's the way he was. I mean,
Speaker 13: he yeah, there's a couple of times he probably blew
Speaker 13: up at his guys, but it wasn't in an insulting fashion.
Speaker 13: It was just a motivational thing. So I see a
Speaker 13: lot of comparisons there, and that's why I think it
Speaker 13: was a great hire.
Speaker 3: And then you know that you think of the fit
Speaker 3: with two you know, veterans, you know, as coordinators. You've
Speaker 3: got you got Dino Babers has been around, you know,
Speaker 3: one hundred years. You've got you know, Duayna Keene has
Speaker 3: been around like one hundred and fifty years. These guys
Speaker 3: have been around a long time. And you know, in
Speaker 3: Brent's kind of young, but he's he's got confidence in
Speaker 3: himself to have guys like that, and then guys who
Speaker 3: have been in the program that people can get behind.
Speaker 3: I mean that that whole thing I think says a
Speaker 3: lot about Brennan and who he is and really what
Speaker 3: he thinks of himself.
Speaker 13: Well, I think the staff is always really important on
Speaker 13: every on every program, and this one is no exception,
Speaker 13: and Duyna Keino was what he was offensive coordinator here
Speaker 13: of course, and he's become a great defensive mastermind. And
Speaker 13: then Baber's was after him just a couple of years
Speaker 13: and has gone on to become a head coach and
Speaker 13: getting a Chuck Cecil and Bobby Wade coming back, and
Speaker 13: even though they're not on field coaches ranking Honley and
Speaker 13: Brandon Sanders being part of the program. I just that
Speaker 13: means a lot. You have that history and guys that
Speaker 13: know this program and know what the capabilities are. But
Speaker 13: I think those two coordinators you mentioned, those were the
Speaker 13: two best hires that Brent Brennan could have made because
Speaker 13: remember Duyna Keina was here and then he was gone,
Speaker 13: but he came back and in almost an instant, and
Speaker 13: I think that was huge. And to get Dino Babers
Speaker 13: and all the experience he has again a guy who
Speaker 13: was some history here in the West as well, that
Speaker 13: you feel very good, very confident about, you know, putting
Speaker 13: those two sides offensive defense in their hands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense, right, We'll see what happens. What
Speaker 2: do you think the fan base is going to be? Like,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of excitement kind of so we hear
Speaker 2: we anticipation angst. You see them throughout the years.
Speaker 13: Well, I think that the fans are always excited, and
Speaker 13: you know that's you know, just to put on my
Speaker 13: ticket selling hat. I mean, if I tell people this
Speaker 13: all the time and to go out and speak to
Speaker 13: groups that if you want Arizona football to be successful,
Speaker 13: you need to go to the game because that's the
Speaker 13: great recruiting tool. When they bring recruits into town and
Speaker 13: they're on the sidelines down there, if they see a
Speaker 13: full house, they want to play in front of that.
Speaker 13: I mean, all you have to do. You guys will
Speaker 13: know this all too well. One of the magics of
Speaker 13: McHale Center is the fact when a recruit comes to
Speaker 13: town and he sits in that building during the game
Speaker 13: and they look around and say, yeah, I want to
Speaker 13: play in this environment. And so it needs to be
Speaker 13: the same way for football, and you know, the fans,
Speaker 13: that's really kind of on them to do it. So
Speaker 13: you know, there's a lot of reasons to be there
Speaker 13: on Saturday night. I think that you know, you've got
Speaker 13: new coaching staff, You've got you know, some players, a
Speaker 13: handful of players that are up for national honor, so
Speaker 13: you know you've got some guys that you want to
Speaker 13: watch in person. I thought Brendan made a great comment
Speaker 13: the other day mentioning the smell of game day. Yeah,
Speaker 13: I've never heard that before, but I thought that was
Speaker 13: a great way of putting it that you've got to
Speaker 13: be in the stadium in order to really get, you know,
Speaker 13: a hold of it and really be able to understand
Speaker 13: what they're trying to do out there. So yeah, I
Speaker 13: think there's excitement like there is every season, and going
Speaker 13: into a new conference this year, I think people are
Speaker 13: excited to see what Arizona can do and excited to
Speaker 13: see some new opponents.
Speaker 3: We're talking to Brian Jeffers, voice of the Wildcats, but
Speaker 3: well you know that just because of the voice, right,
Speaker 3: so we have to say the.
Speaker 2: Only smell that Jay Here's smells as the nachos, Well
Speaker 2: we do not.
Speaker 3: Well, well, you come to our tailgate party, you'll smell
Speaker 3: the lucky wishbone, that's for sure. So you mentioned it
Speaker 3: going to the new league, Brian, I know you. I'm
Speaker 3: sure you've been, you know, working on this all summer,
Speaker 3: preparing you got you know, you've got a couple of
Speaker 3: games to work in before you get into the league,
Speaker 3: even though the Kansas State game isn't the league game taught.
Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about your prep for that
Speaker 3: and how you've gotten ready to deal with a whole
Speaker 3: batch of new teams.
Speaker 13: Well, that's it. I mean, after being in the Pac
Speaker 13: twelve for what forty six years, you know you kind
Speaker 13: of have a handle on the other schools. I mean
Speaker 13: they change personnel and occasionally coaches, but you still you
Speaker 13: kind of feel some familiarity when you see Oregon and
Speaker 13: USC and Washington and Oregon State, the whole list. Now,
Speaker 13: you know, playing schools that you've never seen before Kansas State,
Speaker 13: you know, Texas Tech, West Virginia, Central, Florida, et cetera.
Speaker 13: It's like, okay, it's like playing a full slate of
Speaker 13: non conference games because you know, doing homework on New Mexico.
Speaker 13: Even though the two schools have played before, it hasn't
Speaker 13: been on a regular basis s and so you kind
Speaker 13: of start from scratch when you go back and look
Speaker 13: at the history between the schools and get a handle
Speaker 13: on where the Lobos program is. And now it's going
Speaker 13: to be that way almost every week with the exceptional
Speaker 13: course of Utah in Colorado and ASU teams you see
Speaker 13: every year, it's just it's different. And like I said,
Speaker 13: I mean I like everybody else, I hated to see
Speaker 13: the Pac twelve come to an end, but none of
Speaker 13: us had a vote on that. So Arizona's headed to
Speaker 13: the Big twelve and let's embrace it and find out
Speaker 13: who the new rivals are going to be.
Speaker 2: Yep, if you haven't used your jacket in a wild
Speaker 2: now is the time you'll be in those cold places.
Speaker 13: No, no, no, no, no, this is the Wait a minute, guys,
Speaker 13: this is the if you know a Lamont love it.
Speaker 13: And Lamon grew up most of his life in southern California.
Speaker 13: He despises cold weather. I mean, if it's under seventy,
Speaker 13: the guy's freezing. And I looked at the schedule this
Speaker 13: year and I said, this is the Lamont loved schedule
Speaker 13: of all time because you go to Manhattan, Kansas in
Speaker 13: Septemberalt Lake City in September, BYU in October, Central Florida
Speaker 13: at TCU in November. There's not a single cold weather
Speaker 13: game on the docket this year. So he's got no
Speaker 13: worries at all.
Speaker 3: Must have talked to somebody, so you've got a new
Speaker 3: addition to the team for your for your broadcast, Steve
Speaker 3: Quis is going to be on the show in the
Speaker 3: In the second hour, U mentioned you've known him for
Speaker 3: a long time. Uh, you're you guys, do you have
Speaker 3: to do stuff together to you know, as the season
Speaker 3: gets ready, talk about how you're going to do things
Speaker 3: and that type of stuff, you know, especially bringing on
Speaker 3: a new guy.
Speaker 13: Well, you know, there are two ways to look at it.
Speaker 13: I mean, Lamon and I've worked together for about two
Speaker 13: decades now, and so we know each other very well.
Speaker 13: And you know, last week we sat up in the
Speaker 13: press box watching the scrimmage and just talking about things,
Speaker 13: and I just feel that, you know, we we understand
Speaker 13: each other. We don't need to you know, basically I
Speaker 13: bounced things off of him in terms of because he,
Speaker 13: like I said earlier, knows the game so well, and uh,
Speaker 13: you know, he keeps in great contact with the coaches,
Speaker 13: so I get a lot of information from him just
Speaker 13: about guys that have a chance to be a big
Speaker 13: part of this team, and particularly the ones you don't know. Uh,
Speaker 13: Steve's going to step in, He's going to do this
Speaker 13: first game for us, and so we're we're in search
Speaker 13: of a sideline reporter. He was available for this Saturday,
Speaker 13: and then after that it's kind of we've got a
Speaker 13: couple ideas there of what we're going to do going
Speaker 13: forward after that. But I've known Steve for a long
Speaker 13: time and that that role there is and I'm not
Speaker 13: taking anything away from him or it, but it's it's limited,
Speaker 13: and so it's when something's happening and you go to
Speaker 13: them so you don't have to in terms of the
Speaker 13: prep work. It's kind of like, Okay, here's some things
Speaker 13: to be looking for when you're on the sideline, and
Speaker 13: then you know, if need be, we go there. So,
Speaker 13: like I said, I don't want to diminish the importance
Speaker 13: of the role. But it's not the same as Lamon
Speaker 13: and I where we're on the air for ninety eight
Speaker 13: percent of the time and really have to kind of
Speaker 13: know each other's cadence and our you know, our timing,
Speaker 13: which is something that you know, Fortunately we've kind of
Speaker 13: got down pat after so many years together.
Speaker 3: Veteran you guys know, what's so what do you what
Speaker 3: are you most anticipating? What's the most anticipation. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if I'm asking this, you know, what's sort of
Speaker 3: the unknown for you that you kind of can't wait
Speaker 3: to see what happens, you know, this year, starting with
Speaker 3: these first first couple of home games.
Speaker 13: Well, on offense, seeing what the running game looks like,
Speaker 13: you lose three guys out of that backfield, which you know,
Speaker 13: those were three pretty special players, and now you're going
Speaker 13: to have to go again to the portal and and
Speaker 13: everything I've been told and seeing in practices they've got
Speaker 13: a chance to you know, fill those holes pretty well.
Speaker 13: And of course the crazy if you want to call
Speaker 13: it crazy, with cross Key Merritt coming in the new
Speaker 13: Mexico transfer, who's probably going to start at running back,
Speaker 13: but you'll see a lot of speedy Luke this year
Speaker 13: and a couple other guys. I think they're going to
Speaker 13: go about four deep at running back. Then on defense,
Speaker 13: just seeing that defensive line they lost all four starters
Speaker 13: off that line from a year ago and out filling that.
Speaker 13: You guys saw the depth chart yesterday and that's the
Speaker 13: first thing that jumped out at me. Fourteen players listed
Speaker 13: on the defensive line for the four positions, and so
Speaker 13: that tells me they got a lot of depth. Now,
Speaker 13: the question is, you know, how effective are they going
Speaker 13: to be? I know Dwayna Keen is really high on
Speaker 13: these guys. He thinks they're going to be a lot
Speaker 13: better than advertised. So those are my anticipations. Can AA's
Speaker 13: gonna run the ball effectively? And can that defensive front
Speaker 13: do what they need to do?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll see you on Saturday, see you
Speaker 2: too on Saturday. Thanks Brian, Okay, thanks guys. Appreciate appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Brian Jeffries. Of course, So that voice, we know who
Speaker 2: he is. Yep, let's come back and maybe kind of
Speaker 2: talk about a few things like this that we just did.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball. You're on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, he's Jagginsaw's got
Speaker 2: a guy Ryan with us. We had sixteen minutes. If
Speaker 2: you'd like to give us a call, we'd appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Five to two zero four one six seventy four forty
Speaker 2: Take the call, So Brian says, perfectly. I wanted to
Speaker 2: ask him because we don't get him all that often,
Speaker 2: and we talked to him once in a while. Maybe
Speaker 2: we even asked this question, how he stays because he's
Speaker 2: he's he's could very easily go wind sided with it
Speaker 2: right and'd be a big super fan calling the games.
Speaker 2: He doesn't do that right if at most he's a
Speaker 2: sixty forty fifty five forty five five, and and you
Speaker 2: know you hear him on them, you hear other people
Speaker 2: going bonkers. He's not a bunker's guy.
Speaker 3: He lefts that right, and and that's what I've always
Speaker 3: loved about the way Brian does games is that he's
Speaker 3: not I mean, you know, he's the u of a announcer,
Speaker 3: but you know he's not that he doesn't say, you know,
Speaker 3: if he thinks there's a bad call, he'll you know,
Speaker 3: he'll say it in a way that makes you think
Speaker 3: that might have been a bad call. He's not going
Speaker 3: to lose his mind over a bad call. Particularly, you know,
Speaker 3: I've got you know, I've got I got serious exam
Speaker 3: so I get to listen to game, you know, if
Speaker 3: there's a game I'm interested in, maybe I have a
Speaker 3: money on it or something like that. And I hear
Speaker 3: announcers from a lot of the other schools, the SEC
Speaker 3: announcers to a to a person, they lose their minds.
Speaker 3: It's like you violated them because there was a bad
Speaker 3: call or something like that. They just totally lose their
Speaker 3: minds and feel like the world is against them if
Speaker 3: something doesn't go their way, and like they've got a
Speaker 3: birthright to get every call. And it really bothers me.
Speaker 3: And there, you know, there's some other you know, assorted
Speaker 3: announcing teams that are like that. And That's what I've
Speaker 3: loved about about Brian Jefferson. Look, I'm not comparing him
Speaker 3: to Vin Scully, but what I'm saying is listening to
Speaker 3: Vin Scully growing up. You knew Vin Scully was the
Speaker 3: Dodger's announcer, but you didn't know because he just called
Speaker 3: the game, and he called it straight. He had stories.
Speaker 3: He got as excited for a Dodger home run as
Speaker 3: he did for a Pirate's home run because he was
Speaker 3: calling the game, you know. You know, his home run
Speaker 3: calls were the same, no matter who hit the home run,
Speaker 3: and he was just a guy who was just giving
Speaker 3: you a picture of the game. And in a lot
Speaker 3: of ways, Brian, Brian does that now, yes, Lamont, you know,
Speaker 3: but that's Lamont's kind of us job. You know, he
Speaker 3: gets excited. He's the guy who played there. He's going
Speaker 3: to be more excited.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I think he praised it perfectly, paints a
Speaker 2: picture of what's happening, you know, with every every word,
Speaker 2: the sentence.
Speaker 3: I mean that's why I you know, I take a
Speaker 3: radio into the games and I've got Brian and Lamont
Speaker 3: on because yes, I'm watching the game and I'm seeing
Speaker 3: what's happening, but I else want to hear what they're
Speaker 3: saying about what just happened.
Speaker 2: So I'm asking I think I may have asked you
Speaker 2: didn't Is it real time?
Speaker 3: Yes, if you take a radio, because if you try
Speaker 3: and listen to it on your phone, there's a delay.
Speaker 3: So I have one of the just a teeny little radio,
Speaker 3: just a regular radio, and I clip it on my
Speaker 3: belt with some headphones and I just put it in
Speaker 3: one ear so because my wife's on the other side.
Speaker 3: So I got to be able to be sure to
Speaker 3: get to hear what she talked to me. But I've
Speaker 3: got you know, I've got him on the outside and
Speaker 3: I'm hearing, you know, I want to hear you know,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you know, a key guy is
Speaker 3: not in the game. I want to know, you know
Speaker 3: who's not. Did somebody get hurt? Right? You know? I
Speaker 3: where's the most valuable is if there's a if there's
Speaker 3: a there's a replay review. Lamon's the first one to
Speaker 3: say this is you know, this is good? This is bad,
Speaker 3: you know. And then as I say, hey, look, I'll
Speaker 3: tell them the people sitting around, Lamon says, you know
Speaker 3: they're gonna overturn the caller or they're not going to
Speaker 3: overturn the call. So I listen to those guys. I
Speaker 3: don't sit there. I I'm hearing them. I'm not focused
Speaker 3: on what they're talking about unless there's something I want
Speaker 3: to know after what just so it's almost it's it's
Speaker 3: just like a fraction of a second delay. You hear
Speaker 3: the whistle on the field, and then you hear the
Speaker 3: whistle on the radio. It's it's close enough that it's
Speaker 3: not Yeah, doesn't make a big difference. I listened to
Speaker 3: those guys, and and I loveless. I love listening to
Speaker 3: them because I feel like, you know, I'm seeing the game,
Speaker 3: but they're also telling me some things that I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I've ever done that, which
Speaker 2: is obviously a novel thing to do when when you're
Speaker 2: you know, you're done into the game. Okay, anybody want
Speaker 2: to call please do five two o four one, six
Speaker 2: seventy four. Let's go back to the thing they were
Speaker 2: talking about before where Cats didn't have them in the
Speaker 2: top ten. I could probably find it real quick. It
Speaker 2: was a z loot type of thing. Yeah, and I've
Speaker 2: been to enough to say that this is not because
Speaker 2: they're talking student sections.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my issue with it with the Zona Zoo, Like
Speaker 3: they're loud when they're there, and they're into a big game, right,
Speaker 3: but they're just not always there. Correct, Correct, they're not there.
Speaker 3: You know the NAU game, you know, the ends of
Speaker 3: the Zona Zoo will be empty. Probably. I don't know
Speaker 3: about the New Mexico game, since it's the opener. Maybe
Speaker 3: with the teams with with the excitement of this team,
Speaker 3: you know, they might might be better. But I go
Speaker 3: back to that twenty thirteen Oregon game. Remember it was rainy,
Speaker 3: it was cold, of course, and the Zona Zoo was
Speaker 3: two thirds empty. Yeah, well then it filled up when
Speaker 3: they started winning. She tells me, I'm only going if
Speaker 3: they're gonna If I think they're gonna win. You know,
Speaker 3: other other really great student sections would have already would
Speaker 3: have been there.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is why Bill called you're generalizing. But you're
Speaker 2: not generalizing because that happened. That happened, and then it
Speaker 2: happened more than once. It's I think Iowa there was
Speaker 2: a game that they had no chance to win, and
Speaker 2: they won. It was a crazy game in the back,
Speaker 2: and then there was more people at the end of
Speaker 2: the game that there was at the beginning.
Speaker 3: Right seeing And to me, a great student section is there,
Speaker 3: come hell or high water for all quarters, all four quarters,
Speaker 3: right even you know, Nick Saban complained about, you know,
Speaker 3: students leaving their their games like what they always supposed
Speaker 3: to be. We're kicking ass and you're leaving. What are
Speaker 3: you doing? Maybe you know and and and you know
Speaker 3: and then again for the longest time, and I get
Speaker 3: the teams were bad, but the student section would empty
Speaker 3: out at halftime. That's not a great student section. No,
Speaker 3: you know, you want a great student section, go look
Speaker 3: at the Wisconsin student section. You know, every game they're there,
Speaker 3: even if they're there just because they wanted to do
Speaker 3: that thing at the end of the third quarter, but
Speaker 3: they're there.
Speaker 2: Well, I think what's gonna happen this year from the
Speaker 2: fan base? And I told you this example back in
Speaker 2: Vegas when Indiana played Arizona. Uh, they came and it
Speaker 2: was it was overwhelming Indiana and Arizona McHale North. Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe for the Pac twelve, but not for this game Indiana,
Speaker 2: and they were on that list they have and Indiana
Speaker 2: rightly so right right, Iowa State, They're gonna see a
Speaker 2: lot of these fan bases in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: Well, again, if we're talking to Zoner Zoo Michale, how
Speaker 3: many of those games against them, let's say the lesser
Speaker 3: non conference games, how many times is the Zona Zoo
Speaker 3: full for those games?
Speaker 11: Never?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna fill it up for Duke, They're gonna
Speaker 3: fill it up for you know Alabama, They're gonna fill
Speaker 3: it up for probably Texas Tech in Houston. Or are
Speaker 3: they gonna fill it up for you know, Western New Mexico. No,
Speaker 3: they don't. And again, great students sections do. So that's
Speaker 3: that's the issue I have with the Zona Zoo.
Speaker 2: Really, when I saw the story, I'm been thinking, well,
Speaker 2: I get it, and I believe Andy. I And then
Speaker 2: the the places that he mentioned I've been to, I said, yes,
Speaker 2: very easily, some scary places that he didn't even mention,
Speaker 2: l s U, Michigan State just crazy yeah, crazy good.
Speaker 3: Any slap student section can be great for the great
Speaker 3: games game, for the big Game, it's are you there
Speaker 3: for the other games too? And that's where I've got
Speaker 3: a beef with his own Zoo both in football ambassador.
Speaker 2: That said, I won't even go with the sections I'm
Speaker 2: talking about Michael when it's electric. It's electric.
Speaker 3: It's electric, and when the zoner Zoo is going nuts
Speaker 3: that it makes the whole place electric. But again, you
Speaker 3: know they where they do that? How many what a
Speaker 3: third of the games if that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, last year there was a few of them
Speaker 2: with the lights and all that. It was a very
Speaker 2: good game, so very good team too. So I just
Speaker 2: wanted to point ou out.
Speaker 3: Yah No, I'm not. I'm not surprised. I you know,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't I wouldn't put But again, I don't know
Speaker 3: how much attention I paid to student sections. I just
Speaker 3: know that as a student section, they're disappoint Well.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I went to Duke last year. Obviously
Speaker 2: had never been there, but I went to Stanford for
Speaker 2: twenty some years during the bouncy time with the bouncing cart.
Speaker 2: That place was Bunkers was Bunkers good. And the kids
Speaker 2: there are smart, they're funny, they're clever. Heck, the day
Speaker 2: the next game after Candygate and Kansas, one dude dressed
Speaker 2: as a candy machine that at Stanford and the floor bounced,
Speaker 2: not for just a little bit, the whole game, right,
Speaker 2: you know, when they beat him In two thousand and
Speaker 2: one when Arizona beat him in two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: Stanford was one of the better teams and Michael Wright
Speaker 2: hit that last second shot. The basket was movie yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's how crazy it was. But Duke is
Speaker 2: more of a made for TV sideline right, tight, tight quarters.
Speaker 2: Stanford was that a long time ago? If you remember
Speaker 2: the Robinson shot when the Tiger Woods was there with
Speaker 2: his wife on the side, I mean those I remember
Speaker 2: them because they were bonkers.
Speaker 3: Good right, No, they were yet. I mean I remember that.
Speaker 3: I was at the you know, the eighty eight game,
Speaker 3: the Todd Todd Lickley game where they beat Arizona was
Speaker 3: Arizona's only conference loss, and that place was absolutely nuts, crazy,
Speaker 3: and you know, they they rushed the court and I'm
Speaker 3: and it was like, I thought it was unsafe, you.
Speaker 2: Know, because we were sitting jumping right, we were.
Speaker 3: Sitting halfway up, you know, good seats, the press row
Speaker 3: seats weren't weren't on the floor. We were halfway up
Speaker 3: and they were jumping over us, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, well, I think I remember seeing pictures of the
Speaker 2: of the laptops being trying to be saved because they're
Speaker 2: going to step on the laptops.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my my she wasn't my wife yet, but she
Speaker 3: later became my wife. She she had come up to
Speaker 3: San Francisco for me for that trip, and she was
Speaker 3: at that game, and and and I'm like, I'm looking
Speaker 3: for her, like you know whoa you know, got to
Speaker 3: make sure she's not getting mauled somewhere. Right.
Speaker 2: So it's you know, if you don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people who are complaining
Speaker 2: about it or you know, poo poo in it, they
Speaker 2: just don't know about the.
Speaker 3: Other places, right, they don't exactly.
Speaker 2: Well, look it upstairs, upstairs up to Grand Kenyon, our
Speaker 2: guys school. Yeah, it's a notoriously good yeah, good student section.
Speaker 3: Have you been in that arena? No, it's a it's one.
Speaker 3: It's it's you know, how to remind you of you,
Speaker 3: to remind you of Maples. It's just a little place.
Speaker 3: They're sitting on top of the court, and it's.
Speaker 2: Loud to go crazy.
Speaker 3: It's really loud. I went to a good friend of
Speaker 3: my my son who played basketball, Saint Gregory Frankie Mabule,
Speaker 3: you know he you know, he was playing for Saint
Speaker 3: Edwards and they had a game there and even for
Speaker 3: Saint Edwards. Okay, we're talking a Division two school and
Speaker 3: that place was absolutely.
Speaker 2: And that was a long time ago. Now they're good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this was really good. This was ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Ten that's all for fifteen.
Speaker 3: I would assume no, no, because yeah, ok yeah, probably
Speaker 3: about ten years ago and that was nuts then?
Speaker 2: Yeah was it? Marley? Was he with Marley? They played
Speaker 2: against Martin?
Speaker 3: I think Martley would would have been the coach.
Speaker 2: That was just crazy because those those kids are crazy.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, look, you know what, Steve and I
Speaker 3: really do hope that that that the Zona Zooke does
Speaker 3: show this year. You know, every game, come to every game,
Speaker 3: stay for you know, state of the end. Be the
Speaker 3: ones that stay. I know, I know the general fans,
Speaker 3: a lot of Genner fans are gonna leave it a
Speaker 3: blowout and their quarter go home. You know, I want
Speaker 3: to get home. It's late, YadA, YadA, YadA. Stay and
Speaker 3: keep the keep the stadium buzzing till the end.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you do this because we've talked about
Speaker 2: it the last two years, and you've talked about it.
Speaker 2: We've got to get a Zona Zoo rep We've tried
Speaker 2: for the show to come in and say what's up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure they're frustrated too, trying to keep.
Speaker 3: You because the students who run the Zona Zoo, they're
Speaker 3: big fanatics. You know. They're the ones that show up
Speaker 3: and paint their bodies for game day.
Speaker 2: And that's change change year to year, right, right, So
Speaker 2: there's not like a stable force there trying.
Speaker 3: To they're the ones that but it's like the the
Speaker 3: outer edges of the Zone Zoo is what is where?
Speaker 3: You know, you just gotta have enough people that are
Speaker 3: going to go to every game and stay. So I
Speaker 3: don't know, and I don't know how you do that
Speaker 3: other than being really good, being fun, and maybe that's
Speaker 3: what that's what it's gonna take this year.
Speaker 2: And you're right, you got to be from from from
Speaker 2: game one to game thirty three, whatever the eighteen games
Speaker 2: are at home, just be good with it, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: bring it, bring it every game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because you know, I mean you go to
Speaker 3: uh at the Packed offf tournament in Vegas, you know,
Speaker 3: the Zona zoop you the students had got tickets and
Speaker 3: sat in the student section at those games were Arizona
Speaker 3: was always the best one. Yeah, you know it was.
Speaker 3: I think it was I think last year. I think
Speaker 3: it was Oregon State last year. There were six, six people,
Speaker 3: six students were there. We're in the student section.
Speaker 2: I won't ask, but you tell the purposely we.
Speaker 3: Did carry We literally counted. I think I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: it was Oregon's day. We said they were brought They
Speaker 3: brought six people.
Speaker 2: Did you see how Oregon State played last year?
Speaker 3: They were not very good. They must have been home
Speaker 3: for the weekend or something, because they they were there
Speaker 3: and that that's how many were there. So and look,
Speaker 3: you know, Zona Zoo's good, not great.
Speaker 2: Right good. They're not a blue blood.
Speaker 3: They're not a blue but they're not a blue blood.
Speaker 3: Not a blue blood. I agree, they don't.
Speaker 2: And people and and this is the thing they talked about,
Speaker 2: Well they're separated. They're they're not separated there. It's just
Speaker 2: that there in the end zone, there's too many people
Speaker 2: in the sunlightes. That's never gonna change, guys, that's not
Speaker 2: gonna change.
Speaker 3: Stop stop asking for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's gotta they gotta pay the bills, exactly,
Speaker 2: and the students are gonna pay the bills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I got, I got word, I'll be I'll
Speaker 3: be going to work up work the Red Blue game
Speaker 3: up in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Okay, so so we gotta go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, happened me going. We're probably yeah, we're probably not
Speaker 3: gonna have able to have a show that that's it's
Speaker 3: on a Friday, eleventh eleven, something like that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I just got told told today that they're gonna yeah
Speaker 3: for that game.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, cool, And that's gonna be up in Glendale,
Speaker 2: right yeah, right, not to stay Overdale. It's it's far
Speaker 2: the Diamonds right across the street. Half oh yeah, without traffic.
Speaker 2: You've been the fields, Yeah lately six million people, six
Speaker 2: million people there for a game. No, I we'll see,
Speaker 2: we'll see. But good, you got it. You have to go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: welcome to my world. Welcome to my world.
Speaker 3: It'll be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be fun.
Speaker 3: I'm glad they're doing that. Really.
Speaker 2: I think it's a smart move.
Speaker 3: Smart move again, you know, get get a game up
Speaker 3: there for the fans to go up to up there.
Speaker 3: I bet they'll you know, there'll be ten thousand people there.
Speaker 2: I think at least eight eight ten. Yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people up there. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: their one chance to see him like this. I just
Speaker 2: need to make it more interesting, you know, come.
Speaker 3: On, yeah, you know, I get no, it's yeah, I
Speaker 3: feel like it has. There has to be more of
Speaker 3: a game.
Speaker 2: More of a game, and more not more entertainment, but
Speaker 2: but more cohesive entertainment, because I'm sure Richard and and
Speaker 2: Channing are gonna be up there doing theirself. But it's
Speaker 2: got to be because it's usually when you watch a
Speaker 2: TV like if you watch something on the Final Four
Speaker 2: and you've been there for the dunk contest. Also, it
Speaker 2: takes a long time to get it set up right,
Speaker 2: and it's made for TV, not for being there right now,
Speaker 2: for being there exactly.
Speaker 3: No, I hear you, now I do. I do. Hope
Speaker 3: they do something cool with it, but you know, I
Speaker 3: already talking basketball made october Man.
Speaker 2: We get to get the first game out of the
Speaker 2: way here and then second game, and then you know what,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be gone for a long time.
Speaker 3: A month, yeah, a month yeah, after after the two games,
Speaker 3: four weeks until the next game, because they've got a
Speaker 3: two road games and a bye week in there. So yeah,
Speaker 3: but that'll give it time to cool down and you'll
Speaker 3: get to made October. It'll be it'll be nice.
Speaker 2: There's an eight thirty game.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what could be worse. It could be
Speaker 3: Florida State. Right now, they're just they're ready to jump
Speaker 3: off of bridges over there, over that last to Georgia
Speaker 3: Tech on the weekend. Okay, they're losing their minds.
Speaker 2: Well, we won't jump off a bridge, but we'll come
Speaker 2: back here in about five minutes, four minutes and get
Speaker 2: breaking news from Ryan and then talk to Steve Quist
Speaker 2: after Ryan