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Speaker 2: Is Tim Bentley becoming a regular? Tim? What's up with that?
Speaker 3: I like this? This is good.
Speaker 4: I mean I get to come in and we talked
Speaker 4: a little sports, a little cross country.
Speaker 2: A little tracks country. I did that last time.
Speaker 3: I'm slowly turning you all to the dark side over here. No,
Speaker 3: they you heard two weeks ago, I was two xs ago.
Speaker 3: You were on your way to the Breeders' Cup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you were on your way to New York.
Speaker 3: New York City. I went and watched the New York
Speaker 3: City Marathon.
Speaker 2: How'd that go?
Speaker 3: Vote for one thousand people?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Nico Montanez, from sant Agustin Catholic High School, what, one
Speaker 4: of the top rated marathoners in the United States, did
Speaker 4: not have His best race finished at two twenty four
Speaker 4: two hours twenty four minutes, which is super fast, but
Speaker 4: he had been hoping to get close to two ten.
Speaker 3: I met with them afterwards, he's disappointed.
Speaker 4: But he has a path forward and is going to
Speaker 4: rally to the Houston half Marathon.
Speaker 2: Are you The only thing I run to is the kitchen,
Speaker 2: So fourteen minutes, what would prevent that?
Speaker 3: You know, It's New York City is a tough marathon anyway.
Speaker 4: The renovation profile and the bridges and all that stuff
Speaker 4: can really beat you up, you know, but those athletes
Speaker 4: like you know, we talk a lot about these elite
Speaker 4: athletes in college and pros, these runners, and we have
Speaker 4: a ton of elite athletes runners that live here, Abdy
Speaker 4: and Bernard that live here. You know, there's such fine
Speaker 4: tuned athletes, just like football players and baseball players and
Speaker 4: basketball players that an off day, you know, something wrong
Speaker 4: with your diet, or you know you're right out of
Speaker 4: your training cycle, you miss your training cycle by a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks, and you peak a little earlier, a
Speaker 4: little late. So it was an amazing experience. Fifty thousand
Speaker 4: people running. I know lots of my local runners ran
Speaker 4: the race. I saw several people pr and BQ bostin
Speaker 4: qualifying time. So sounds of fun. How was the horse race?
Speaker 4: I'm sure you talked about.
Speaker 6: It about it.
Speaker 2: I had Bob Baffort on the show on Wednesday. He
Speaker 2: was fantastic. He was great. Saw him there on Friday,
Speaker 2: right before the locals had their race with the two
Speaker 2: year olds. Who that was the kind of preview of
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby for some horses from all over the world.
Speaker 2: So it was fun. It was a bucket list. Would
Speaker 2: I do it again? Yes? Would I do it differently?
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you how because I don't know, but
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 7: It was nice.
Speaker 2: It was the weather was fantastic. Friday. Well, if you're
Speaker 2: in San Diego, right umar fantastic. You couldn't ask for more.
Speaker 2: Saturday it was a little cloudy, but it was still
Speaker 2: in San Diego, so you were fine. I'd do it again.
Speaker 2: I do it again. It was nice. About thirty five
Speaker 2: thousand people there. I did Friday.
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't pick my nose on Saturday, and I tried.
Speaker 2: I tried. I couldn't do anything on Saturday. Those are
Speaker 2: the big races.
Speaker 3: Do you do you? How do you how do you
Speaker 3: bet the horses? What's your style?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm a Nickel and Time guy. I win place
Speaker 2: and show, maybe go up to some try to pack.
Speaker 2: This Friday was good, not great, but good.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: I was able to split for a hat with my winnings,
Speaker 2: you know, which is fine. I'll take a thirty five
Speaker 2: forty dollars win any day. Saturday was not that said.
Speaker 2: It was my horses were you know, fourth or fifth.
Speaker 2: It was nineteen to ones, thirty to ones. It was
Speaker 2: a big money day for people that were hitting further.
Speaker 3: And that's not you.
Speaker 2: I'm a chalk dude. If much shock comes in, I'm
Speaker 2: happy with it. I just got to get that shot.
Speaker 4: Cards perfect us for me, I know. So, as my
Speaker 4: grandmother would say, you can't put a price on fun.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and did well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that was that was cool. So I'll
Speaker 2: do it again at some point. Well it did s
Speaker 2: back at dunbar at you, so I'm definitely nice. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's cool. Henry. You know, Henry, you're jue, sir
Speaker 2: one and done? What's going on? How are you doing good?
Speaker 8: I miss I missed you last Friday.
Speaker 4: Yes you damn.
Speaker 8: I was kind of lost on a Friday.
Speaker 2: You did you didn't know what to do. I don't
Speaker 2: know what to do from three to five last Friday, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you and yeah, sure, what it was there a football game?
Speaker 2: They were on the road. Yeah, they played bad. How
Speaker 2: bad was that?
Speaker 3: Listen?
Speaker 4: I was in New York City and I said, let
Speaker 4: me turn on this game, and I was. I was
Speaker 4: in my little hotel room, and then I turned it
Speaker 4: on and I turned it right off.
Speaker 2: By that time they were down, it was already fifteen.
Speaker 2: So so we talked about this with you, Juan, because
Speaker 2: you you're writing about the games all the time. Any
Speaker 2: more evaluations from them. I still stick with my thoughts
Speaker 2: on what's going on. They just got to look to
Speaker 2: issue at this point. I don't no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: But what do you think is going on in the team.
Speaker 2: There's something going on. You don't play like this for
Speaker 2: fight consecutive weeks without something going on.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think we talked about last time. I didn't see
Speaker 9: the defeat in the right I saw it that Saturday.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's a little bit of a mixture
Speaker 9: of They're all pretty new to each other. This is
Speaker 9: the first this is the first quote unquote time playing
Speaker 9: with each other in real live action. So the trust
Speaker 9: level might not be there right with each other or
Speaker 9: the coaches with each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See, And I still think there's a disconnect between
Speaker 2: the players and the coaches that it's uh And you
Speaker 2: know you're a coach, Tim. If the kids don't want
Speaker 2: to play for Tim Bentley, guess what? Or run for Tim?
Speaker 2: But guess what they're gonna do. They're not gonna run
Speaker 2: for Tim Bidley.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna run if they're not gonna run. No,
Speaker 3: you can see.
Speaker 4: You know, when when kids start to especially you know
Speaker 4: when we're talking about kids, when they start to get beat.
Speaker 3: Up, you know, on a weekly basis, Man, it takes
Speaker 3: the fun out of it.
Speaker 2: You're talking physically and mentally, yeah.
Speaker 4: And emotionally, you know, and it's you know, they're they're
Speaker 4: not you know, yes, there's nil but I mean there's
Speaker 4: still eighteen, nineteen twenty year old kids and it's not fun.
Speaker 3: I mean you can watch it and to your point
Speaker 3: and you can see it right in their eyes. It's
Speaker 3: not fun.
Speaker 4: And it's a slog and they had to fly all
Speaker 4: the way to Florida to get their butts kicked like that.
Speaker 4: And you know, thank goodness there's a bye week because
Speaker 4: you know, nothing bad can happen this week, right, you
Speaker 4: cross your fingers.
Speaker 3: Nothing bad.
Speaker 9: I saw a post said Arizona or the bye week
Speaker 9: is favored against their.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take the bye week. I think you need to
Speaker 3: make your money back.
Speaker 2: Take ye, take the bye week plus one ten. I
Speaker 2: should do that. Yeah, no, that's funny, that's funny. Well,
Speaker 2: here's another chance to get healthy for whatever whatever. Uh,
Speaker 2: get ready for another game. It's just the last season.
Speaker 2: It just is, especially when you thought they're gonna go
Speaker 2: eight three if seven, you know, seven five whatever.
Speaker 4: You were sitting here in August, I listened to Jac's
Speaker 4: talk about the you know what when when we're five
Speaker 4: and one.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well that goes to
Speaker 2: show you you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 8: I should have been laughing. I said the same thing too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Who didn't. I mean, I don't know anybody realistically said, uh,
Speaker 2: they're gonna go four to three or three or five
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. No, no, no, I did say.
Speaker 9: At the beginning, there was an article by Desert Swarm.
Speaker 9: My prediction said, or the expectations should be we should
Speaker 9: be satisfied with the bowl game.
Speaker 8: It was two years ago. We were on losing that
Speaker 8: long losing streak, right, Okay, so.
Speaker 9: If the season got to that, the fans should have
Speaker 9: been fine with the bowl game going to a bowl game.
Speaker 8: Now, even if we if they if they made you.
Speaker 2: You're still a student.
Speaker 8: I'll give you they made a bowl game. I'm not
Speaker 8: sure how satisfied the fans would be.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, let me let me throw this theory at you,
Speaker 2: and I think it's okay for me to say talk
Speaker 2: about this. So you're you're Brent Brennan. You come on
Speaker 2: the scene for the first time. You did fairly, fairly
Speaker 2: well at the Santurse State mediocreally well if that's a phrase. Okay,
Speaker 2: So you come here, your dream job, and you have
Speaker 2: this potential with some pretty good players, not all, but some.
Speaker 2: A good group, right, a good group. So now you're
Speaker 2: tasked to keep them, try to keep the best guys
Speaker 2: you can. You know you're gonna lose some what you did,
Speaker 2: but you have Noah, and you have t Mac, and
Speaker 2: you have some other ones that you're you're you're almost
Speaker 2: desperately trying to keep them and keep the core group playing. Okay,
Speaker 2: So now he did that, He did that, and the
Speaker 2: expectations remained the same or if not more. Whatever from
Speaker 2: Austria do you think it may have been a beneficial
Speaker 2: This is I know people are going to say I'm
Speaker 2: full of it and I'm okay with that. They've done
Speaker 2: that before. Let's assume for a second Brennan does not
Speaker 2: get these guys and he's going through what he's going through. Now,
Speaker 2: it'd be fine because you kind of expected it, right,
Speaker 2: would he have been better off?
Speaker 4: You know a lot of times when new coaches come
Speaker 4: in there following somebody who really screwed up.
Speaker 3: You know, that's a place most of the time, most
Speaker 3: of the time.
Speaker 4: So so he's coming in off off of a high
Speaker 4: our coach went, you know, gets recruited up up the chain.
Speaker 4: So he's not entering bad expectations. So that's against him.
Speaker 2: You know who's that, Brennan?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So there's you know, so he's not
Speaker 3: entering it's where he has to rebuild. Everybody's like, we're
Speaker 3: already built. Let's go.
Speaker 2: But people were they they were built, but maybe not
Speaker 2: to the extreme that people thought.
Speaker 4: Right, well, but the expectations after the season, let's go,
Speaker 4: Let's assume that everything to good place. We're ready to go,
Speaker 4: whereas it probably was a little bit more of a
Speaker 4: rebuilding season or.
Speaker 3: A restocking season where I have.
Speaker 4: A little downtime and so one game after another loses
Speaker 4: and it's you know, from last year to this year.
Speaker 4: People are like, that's not good, let's get him out
Speaker 4: of here, when it's really he should be given the
Speaker 4: same expectations as a as a as a new coach
Speaker 4: come in to a to a rough or a flat.
Speaker 2: You be are you being I was gonna say, are
Speaker 2: you being kind to? So I'm gonna say, are you
Speaker 2: gonna ask are you being kind? Realistic or what are
Speaker 2: you being? In that statement?
Speaker 4: Well, I think I'm being kind because the expectations were high. Sure,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm unfairly a little bit. I think for him,
Speaker 4: I think a little unfairly, you know. I mean look
Speaker 4: at the uvased track record. I mean the year before
Speaker 4: one just said, you know, we were yeah, so so
Speaker 4: is it a My feeling was he should have been
Speaker 4: given you know, this year to his in print, but
Speaker 4: we didn't give him that with expectations what you know,
Speaker 4: Bowl game eight and three, nine and two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he came in at a bad time, I
Speaker 2: mean right before recruiting or right during recruiting, and he
Speaker 2: couldn't get any of his guys, and we don't even
Speaker 2: know how good those guys are going to be moving forward,
Speaker 2: because Tim, you're a you're a three star, four star
Speaker 2: guy in Kalamazoo and you're thinking about Arizona. They're three
Speaker 2: and five? You want to come here? When you when
Speaker 2: after initially after saying I want to go there, but
Speaker 2: now you're seeing this and you're thinking, what are you thinking?
Speaker 4: And do you I don't know, I mean maybe here,
Speaker 4: but was was was Brian recruiting those guys in California
Speaker 4: at his other place and they're like they're.
Speaker 2: Well they're not. No, Well that's the whole thing want
Speaker 2: and you you know this, Are they Arizona good? Or
Speaker 2: they Satose Stay good? Or are they are they Utah good?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, there's always that good. It's
Speaker 2: like it's the kid from the South Point. Who's the
Speaker 2: kid from south Point Atlanta? Everyone said, oh he's so
Speaker 2: is he Arizona good? No, he's Texas good. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, He's not gonna come here. He's Texas good?
Speaker 2: Why would you come here?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 2: So now it's well, sounds a state good or Arizona good?
Speaker 2: Am I saying anything that you haven't already heard.
Speaker 9: I mean, there's just that expectation going into the season
Speaker 9: of Yes, he was he was given the expectations unfairly,
Speaker 9: but I feel like the team wasn't.
Speaker 8: As a whole. I feel like a lot of the
Speaker 8: players have underperformed.
Speaker 2: Sure, I totally agree, totally.
Speaker 9: Regardless of play calling, who you are going up against,
Speaker 9: play play design, whatever, They've been playing this their whole.
Speaker 2: Life, so so the criticism and I'm not I'm not
Speaker 2: going to alibi anybody. They make a lot more money
Speaker 2: than me. They don't need my alibi. So you have
Speaker 2: these plays, whether they're whether they're crazy plays or just
Speaker 2: dink and dunk plays or just mundane plays. They're not
Speaker 2: even doing those well. But wouldn't you think because of
Speaker 2: the athletes they have, they should be doing those well,
Speaker 2: even the simplest plays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to your point, the execution, the fire is not there.
Speaker 4: It's Lackaday's aical. They're they're not really excited. You can
Speaker 4: just see it on the field. They're not. And then
Speaker 4: you know when when they drop a pass or it's
Speaker 4: a miss, put their head down, walk back.
Speaker 3: They don't seem fired up.
Speaker 2: Right, And that's why. That's why I say there's a
Speaker 2: disconnect between the players and the coaches because if you
Speaker 2: if you're on these kids as a coach, you have
Speaker 2: parents you had. If they're on you, you put your
Speaker 2: clothes away, hang your clothes out, blah blah blah. How
Speaker 2: many times you need to hear that? Make it happen? Tim?
Speaker 2: You you you employ people? Hey, can you get this corrected? Son?
Speaker 2: Or can you get this corrected? Betty? You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they need to be on a ninety day work plans?
Speaker 2: Well just what they are? No, No, Tim, Tim, good point.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you August, September, October, November, December. That's
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty day plan. Because now they're getting paid.
Speaker 2: It's like what do you call that? The not fur
Speaker 2: little but it's called the probation. When you hire somebody,
Speaker 2: you get six months or three months. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Because guess what if they don't like it, guess what
Speaker 2: they're gonna do. Boom they're gonna go.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna see a lot of people leave.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's no, I have no doubt about that.
Speaker 4: I mean I really think that you know, with these kids,
Speaker 4: even a few dollars, there's a lot of money and
Speaker 4: they're looking at one eye.
Speaker 3: What's over there? Where's the grass green? Where can I play?
Speaker 4: I gotta get out of here. This wasn't my coach,
Speaker 4: This wasn't my guy. And now we like, like Tad
Speaker 4: Prescott says.
Speaker 11: We.
Speaker 2: Said no, no, no, And I've said this with you,
Speaker 2: just said elaradly this week. He's not my coach, he's
Speaker 2: not my guy. He didn't bring me here. What do
Speaker 2: I need to prove to him?
Speaker 5: You know? Right?
Speaker 4: You know, when kids used to have to stay three
Speaker 4: years or you know it's a four year, transferring was hard,
Speaker 4: you know, and now that it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 4: like open enrollment. You can go wherever you want and
Speaker 4: you can you know, you can get fifth, sixth year,
Speaker 4: you know, exemption and you can go and these kids.
Speaker 3: But that might be good.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: Then it's his team and it's his guys, and he
Speaker 4: can say, look, this is what I'm building.
Speaker 2: We've got to go. We'll talk more about this. We'll
Speaker 2: talk more about this, and we'll actually talk to it
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Speaker 2: Tim Bentley? Get one with us on the boards Now
Speaker 2: we have Justin Spears from the Arizona Daily Star.
Speaker 6: Justin.
Speaker 2: How are you? Can you hear me?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Hey? How are you good? To talk to you?
Speaker 10: Justin?
Speaker 2: Not much? How are you? Are you busy and busy?
Speaker 2: How was the week off for you? Or not week off?
Speaker 2: But at least the bye week?
Speaker 5: Not not really a week off? Still still got some
Speaker 5: bye week stories that I'm tackling right now. I'm actually
Speaker 5: doing a story looking at the transfers who left Arizona
Speaker 5: and seeing how some of these guys are doing. And
Speaker 5: you know, for some hey, it turned out well for them,
Speaker 5: but for many players, the grass a always dream on
Speaker 5: the other side, and they certainly found that out. So yeah,
Speaker 5: still staying busy during the bye week, and yeah, then
Speaker 5: we'll get cranking on Monday for what is Houston Week
Speaker 5: aca A the Kevin summon Bull.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you if I could real quick,
Speaker 2: because you did that story. Is there a story coming
Speaker 2: up or is it already published for the transfers.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm putting it out right now. Okay, story some
Speaker 5: of the stories that I have been working on. It's
Speaker 5: just kind of like what Brent and Brennan discussed during
Speaker 5: his Monday press conference. I've also you know, I'm taking
Speaker 5: a look at some of the guys that they have
Speaker 5: committed for twenty twenty five. The coaching staff right now
Speaker 5: is on the road. They're going all over the country.
Speaker 5: They're going to Texas, they're going to California, they're going
Speaker 5: into some other states, just trying to you know, check
Speaker 5: in with the twenty twenty five recruiting class, which you know,
Speaker 5: I know Arizona fans don't want to hear about it
Speaker 5: because you know, they are so disappointed with this year's team.
Speaker 5: But you know, even though they are struggling, Arizona does
Speaker 5: have a top five recruiting class in the Big Twelve,
Speaker 5: which ranks just inside the top forty. So recruiting wise,
Speaker 5: Arizona's got some really good prospects coming in now. The
Speaker 5: thing is, as we're approaching the month of December here,
Speaker 5: when you got the early signing period coming up, you
Speaker 5: know you're going to have to really hold off on
Speaker 5: hold off the other schools that are going to be
Speaker 5: trying to poach some of these recruits. You know, we've
Speaker 5: seen in many years past teams come in right at
Speaker 5: the finish line, they make an offer that the player
Speaker 5: just simply can't refuse, and then they end up jumping
Speaker 5: ships super late, even when this kid has been committed
Speaker 5: to Arizona since the summertime. So they just want to
Speaker 5: make sure that the recruiting class stays intact, and they're
Speaker 5: going out across the country and visiting the current commits
Speaker 5: while also looking at, you know, some guys that they
Speaker 5: could possibly add as well.
Speaker 4: Hey, justin this is this is Tim Bentley, good to
Speaker 4: talk to you. I have a question, you talk about
Speaker 4: recruiting out in the field, what do you see the
Speaker 4: coaches have to do in this day and age of
Speaker 4: the NIL to recruit on their own team?
Speaker 3: Are there are those coaches doing anything to keep some
Speaker 3: of those players?
Speaker 5: Who?
Speaker 4: Do you see them making run on our own team
Speaker 4: to make sure that they don't jump ship at the end?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, that that that's honestly a really good question.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And that's something that college coaches got to deal with
Speaker 5: every single season. You know, even Jetfish if he was
Speaker 5: still the head coach at Arizona, that would have been
Speaker 5: something that he had to worry out when he was here.
Speaker 5: Is you know, players or teams coming up to his
Speaker 5: players and making some pretty sweet NIL deals. You know,
Speaker 5: we saw that with Dorian Singer.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I talked to Caleb Williams who's now playing for Chicago Bears,
Speaker 5: and I talked to him at Paktwell Media day last
Speaker 5: year and I asked them like, is you know what
Speaker 5: made Dorian Singer the you know, the player that you
Speaker 5: wanted to come to USC And he said, well, when
Speaker 5: we played against Arizona down in Tucson and he was
Speaker 5: just going off on us. You know, I kind of
Speaker 5: looked over at one of my assistant coaches and said, hey,
Speaker 5: we're gonna go after this guy. And and like I
Speaker 5: think he Williams was like obviously joking, But I think
Speaker 5: there is a little some truth to a scenario like that,
Speaker 5: where you know, teams that have deeper pockets can you know,
Speaker 5: go get after players and pretty much force them to
Speaker 5: jump ship. And then you know, of course, you know
Speaker 5: with revenue sharing and and the way that the rosters
Speaker 5: are going to be changing here in the near future. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's something that Brent and Brennan has to worry about, is,
Speaker 5: you know, can he keep some of the players that
Speaker 5: he has on his roster right now? Can he keep
Speaker 5: them for next year? Because you know, even though Arizona
Speaker 5: struggling this year, they have some really good players, right,
Speaker 5: like Genesis Smith. I think that the defensive back that
Speaker 5: you have to keep on your team with Trade and
Speaker 5: Stokes at Gunnarmalonado. You know, those guys have only played
Speaker 5: four games this year, so they could red shirt and
Speaker 5: come back for another season and preserve another year of eligible.
Speaker 5: But the thing is, like those guys I think are
Speaker 5: different Cats. I think that those guys are probably gonna
Speaker 5: stay at Arizona rather than jump ship. But you know,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of players right now that could be thinking,
Speaker 5: you know what, this coaching staff ain't what it cracked
Speaker 5: up to be. And I think I'm ready to move forward.
Speaker 5: But you also have to worry about you know, like
Speaker 5: I said earlier, you know, the grass ain't always greener
Speaker 5: on the other side. You know, I'm looking at, you know,
Speaker 5: some players that jump ship last year and they're not
Speaker 5: doing as well as maybe they would have that they
Speaker 5: stayed at Arizona right Like I'm looking at, for instance,
Speaker 5: Jacob Kendeica, a defensive tackle who is a pretty key
Speaker 5: contributor to Arizona over the last couple of years, and honestly,
Speaker 5: he could be starting right now for the Wildcat but
Speaker 5: he's only got to think, like six tackles in just
Speaker 5: a few games this year, had not really been you know,
Speaker 5: as key of a contributor as the key contributors that
Speaker 5: we thought he would. But I think that Arizona right now,
Speaker 5: they have some really good players that they have to
Speaker 5: keep moving forward and I think they will.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: The fortunate part for the coaching staff that is currently
Speaker 5: in place, is that they have the opportunity to go
Speaker 5: into the transfer portal and really address some of the
Speaker 5: issues like the offensive and defensive line. You know, Arizona
Speaker 5: lost nine scholarship defensive linemen last year. That's really tough
Speaker 5: to replace. And heck, even the two you know, three
Speaker 5: hundred pounders that they have in the middle, and Isaiah
Speaker 5: Johnson and Shruba May you know, those guys have really
Speaker 5: been in and out of the lineup. So Arizona's lost
Speaker 5: a lot of size on the defensive line. They need
Speaker 5: to go in and get you know, some size up
Speaker 5: front on there. And then you know, offensive line. No
Speaker 5: one expected Raymond Pledo to step away for personal reasons.
Speaker 5: No one expected lath Magnuson to be out for the
Speaker 5: season with concussion. You know, right on, Tapato Tai was
Speaker 5: supposed to be like a backup tackle. It was supposed
Speaker 5: to be groomed by Jonas Savi and Aya and also
Speaker 5: ring the Polito. But then he's thrust it into this
Speaker 5: leadership position and he's actually not doing so bad, and
Speaker 5: the next thing you know, he's suffering a season ending
Speaker 5: leg injury. So now you got to shuffle the deck.
Speaker 5: You got to put big Jonah over on the other side.
Speaker 5: You got to bring in Michael Wooten, a transfer from
Speaker 5: Oregon who's just really isn't ready right now, but hey,
Speaker 5: you got to get baptized by fire man. There's you
Speaker 5: got to be able to develop under the live bullets.
Speaker 5: And right now, that's what Michael Woten is doing, and
Speaker 5: that's what Arizona's doing. You're starting to see it.
Speaker 2: Right No.
Speaker 5: Fafida is pressured a lot. He's got to, you know,
Speaker 5: get the ball out quick, but he can't because receivers
Speaker 5: can't get open and the protection is not as good
Speaker 5: as it was last year. And so you look at
Speaker 5: you know, Arizona losing and you know they're just simply
Speaker 5: just getting bullied on the offensive a defensive line. Now,
Speaker 5: going back to my original point about the first transfer
Speaker 5: portal wave, that's when you can really get those caliber players,
Speaker 5: like those high caliber offensive defensive linemen, because there's so
Speaker 5: few of them in the portal and the coaching staff
Speaker 5: last year they got here after that first wave. They
Speaker 5: got it after it was closed, and the only players
Speaker 5: that they could get were the players that were affected
Speaker 5: by the Nick Saban coaching chain. You know, the the
Speaker 5: Washington's of the world, the San Jose States, Right, So
Speaker 5: it was slim pickings for Arizona and you can't get
Speaker 5: really good offensive defensive linemen during that time. So I
Speaker 5: think now that they're here for that first period, they're
Speaker 5: going to be able to really go after some high
Speaker 5: quality linemen on both offense and defense.
Speaker 4: Hey, justin you know, you're talking about you know, some
Speaker 4: some future wins. What can we do for next year?
Speaker 4: Already we're looking ahead, like what are we doing in
Speaker 4: the portal? What does this team need to do other
Speaker 4: outside of beating ASU to end then the season on
Speaker 4: a high note and make sure sure that the fans
Speaker 4: are staying engaged.
Speaker 3: What can they do? What can the team do outside
Speaker 3: of beating ASU?
Speaker 5: Well, I think ASU is priority number one because as
Speaker 5: much as Arizona fans probably disagree with me, you know,
Speaker 5: ask them about that twenty sixteen season. Do they remember
Speaker 5: Arizona going three to nine or they do they remember
Speaker 5: Arizona beating ASU in the Territorial Cup and running every
Speaker 5: single play in the second half. They probably remember the
Speaker 5: latter part. They don't remember that got awful three and
Speaker 5: nine to you. So I think ASU is priority number
Speaker 5: one beating them, And you know what, if you can
Speaker 5: somehow in the process of beating ASU, you can get
Speaker 5: to a bowl game. Because right now it's do or
Speaker 5: die time for Arizona. You know, they have three opportunities
Speaker 5: to get three wins, and if they get a lost,
Speaker 5: then they're not going bowling. But I think if you
Speaker 5: can win that last game, you can somewhat restore the
Speaker 5: good vibes. But I think right now they got to
Speaker 5: figure out a way to get to a bowl game.
Speaker 5: But I'm not optimistic. You know. I thought maybe they
Speaker 5: could do it against West Virginia, which was also struggling.
Speaker 5: Maybe they could do it to UCF, which was using
Speaker 5: their fourth quarterback, their fourth starting quarterback of the season,
Speaker 5: and then you know, he ends up throwing for how
Speaker 5: many yards I forgot it was, but you know, and
Speaker 5: also had a couple of big runs too, and UCF
Speaker 5: just had their way running the ball with r. J. Harvey.
Speaker 5: You know, I thought that, you know, there were some
Speaker 5: opportunities for Arizona to find their mojo and get things
Speaker 5: back on the winning track, but that has not been
Speaker 5: the case. And I think a big part of it
Speaker 5: has to do with the injuries on defense and offense,
Speaker 5: also dealing with a couple of injuries, and and also
Speaker 5: you know the running back situation too. You know, no
Speaker 5: one expected Jacory Krosky marrit to be dealing with eligibility issues.
Speaker 5: No one thought that ray Shawn Speedy Luke would be
Speaker 5: red shirting and being out for the year after four games.
Speaker 5: And so your top or I wouldn't say top two,
Speaker 5: but two very important running backs that are part of
Speaker 5: that rotation they're not available now. So Arizona's been kind
Speaker 5: of dealt a very difficult hand, like it's a it's
Speaker 5: a hard hand to come out of, man, But like,
Speaker 5: I really feel like this team right now, with the
Speaker 5: leadership of no Fafita and Tenor Roll McMillan, like they're
Speaker 5: not dead in the water just yet. You know, even
Speaker 5: when Arizona was, you know, down by five or six
Speaker 5: touchdowns against UCF, you could see the two leaders and
Speaker 5: noahen Tmac, they were fully engaged on the sidelines on
Speaker 5: the tablets, studying the plays and doing all that. So
Speaker 5: I think, you know, by week we'll do this team
Speaker 5: some good. You know, I don't know how we're going
Speaker 5: to see them look against a really tough Houston team,
Speaker 5: because you know, while Houston is is down this year,
Speaker 5: they're also really well coached and they play tough and heck,
Speaker 5: they almost went to Oklahoma and pulled out a win
Speaker 5: early in the year, So you know, this is not
Speaker 5: gonna be a total pushover. Like, this is still gonna
Speaker 5: be a tough game for Arizona. And on top of that,
Speaker 5: like how many people are going to show up to
Speaker 5: this game because judging Twitter and looking at the timeline
Speaker 5: of that game on against Houston on the same night
Speaker 5: as the road basketball game against Wisconsin, like, there's not
Speaker 5: gonna be many people there. It's also on a Friday
Speaker 5: night too, so you've got high school football playoffs going
Speaker 5: on in southern Arizona. There's other things to do on
Speaker 5: a Friday night than to, you know, potentially waste your
Speaker 5: money and watch Arizona get smacked around. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: really don't think that there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 5: people at this game coming up here on Friday. But
Speaker 5: you know, the Wildcats need to do whatever they can
Speaker 5: to figure out a way to win because that game
Speaker 5: against TCU on the road, even though TCU is a
Speaker 5: little bit down this year, like that is still going
Speaker 5: to be a really hard game on the road, but
Speaker 5: right now it's one week at a time, which is
Speaker 5: a total cliche, but you know that's where Arizona's at
Speaker 5: right now, because yeah, if they again, uh, they're going
Speaker 5: to be not going to the postseason. But yeah, I
Speaker 5: think priority number one, you know, is win against Houston,
Speaker 5: win against TCU. If you lose either of those things,
Speaker 5: your priority shift just beating Agacy for the Territorial Cup.
Speaker 2: So let me make an observation justin real quick, because
Speaker 2: you know, you know, are kind of close not kind
Speaker 2: of close competitors in a sense, but not really You're
Speaker 2: like in your five of your profession, right, pretty much
Speaker 2: of your of your real world.
Speaker 3: Deals in your adult life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, about five years, let's say five years probably pretty much, right,
Speaker 2: You're like twenty eight, twenty nine, maybe seven, how how
Speaker 2: many years? Let me try to make it my point,
Speaker 2: So so you have a good advantage of well, I
Speaker 2: don't want to couch this thing. So I was here
Speaker 2: doing this in the paper business for like twenty three
Speaker 2: twenty four years. I never had to cover a losing,
Speaker 2: losing team. Even now I can't remember losing team. Maybe
Speaker 2: the tough tennis for the Sean Miller times and maybe
Speaker 2: the loot End years. But I think that this year
Speaker 2: has kind of benefited you because you've had to become
Speaker 2: a better reporter. I don't. I'm just assuming because these
Speaker 2: are tough times. So now you have to be asking
Speaker 2: tough questions you around the guys that you have to be.
Speaker 2: For me, it was easy. Hell, I you know, how
Speaker 2: was the win? Today's coach? You know whatever? You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, you're probably better than than what what
Speaker 2: many think because because tough times, you have to ask
Speaker 2: tough questions. Did you did you? Did you tough questions?
Speaker 1: Did you that question.
Speaker 5: You cut out there at the last part?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no no. So I'm sure that this whole
Speaker 2: year has kind of made you better at what you're doing. Oh.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. And you know it's even last year. You know,
Speaker 5: I was dealt with a little bit of a verby
Speaker 5: because the whole Jaden DeLaura situation. Right, so you know
Speaker 5: I'm coming, I'm coming through court documents and doing all that.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, you're one of the beat Like here
Speaker 5: we go going through, uh, you know, court documents for
Speaker 5: a sexual assault case. And then it went into the season.
Speaker 5: Like I look at really the last year or so
Speaker 5: year plus in the calendar year and think about, like
Speaker 5: how much I've had to do as a reporter covering
Speaker 5: Arizona football between you know, the spring ball, preseason, training camp,
Speaker 5: Jaden Dolora's case, the season itself, the really the transition
Speaker 5: between Dayden Delora and Noah Fafida, right, because Jed wouldn't
Speaker 5: just come out and say that Noah was the starter,
Speaker 5: but we so we had to keep acting like what's
Speaker 5: the quarterback situation? And he never really acknowledged it, but
Speaker 5: just kind of let it organically happen. And then no
Speaker 5: Fafida became the starter and then they went on the
Speaker 5: winning streak and everything was all great, and then you know,
Speaker 5: I get a phone call from an agency saying that, yeah,
Speaker 5: Jeff Fish is entertaining offers and you know he's looking
Speaker 5: at maybe going to the NFL. I know that the
Speaker 5: Tennessee Titans are interested in potentially adding here, and hey,
Speaker 5: this Washington thing is legit, like they are really serious
Speaker 5: in Jed. And then in just a couple of days,
Speaker 5: Jeff Fish is the head coach in Washington. And then
Speaker 5: they started the coaching search and all that and that
Speaker 5: really benefited my career. And then next thing, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, Brent Brennan be able to keep Temac and
Speaker 5: No Facida and a lot of these starters to come back,
Speaker 5: and you think, hey, the vibes are good. You know,
Speaker 5: they have a really good team. They have the nucleus
Speaker 5: of players that took them to ten wins last year
Speaker 5: in the Alamo Bowl. Like maybe the Brent Brennan Arrow
Speaker 5: will get off to a great start and they can
Speaker 5: have another magical year. And then, like I said, that
Speaker 5: bad hand that they were delves just has contributed to
Speaker 5: what has been a really disappointing season. And you know,
Speaker 5: you do have to ask those tough questions because you know,
Speaker 5: I hear Arizona fan I understand their observations and everything
Speaker 5: like that. So you know, I got to ask about,
Speaker 5: you know, what the offensive identity right now? What's the
Speaker 5: deal with the long developing plays? You know, why are
Speaker 5: you guys struggling right now? Why are you guys failing
Speaker 5: to score points during this time? Like it it's really hard,
Speaker 5: and you know I know that the coaching staff, you know,
Speaker 5: they don't want to be in this position right now.
Speaker 5: Peck I don't want to be asking why Arizona stuck
Speaker 5: every single week, right, Like, I love writing the stories
Speaker 5: about the Polynesian influence on Arizona football. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: writing a story this weekend about Genesis Smith and his
Speaker 5: foundation around the Holidays that he's creating. You know, I
Speaker 5: do like writing about the the players on the team
Speaker 5: because I think there are a lot of great stories.
Speaker 5: But yeah, no doubt about it, Steve, Like, this year
Speaker 5: has really helped me grow as far as writing about
Speaker 5: the struggles and the hard times, because you know, that's
Speaker 5: the unique part about sports is yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 5: of winning, but you know what, there's also going to
Speaker 5: come to stretch where there's also some losing too, and
Speaker 5: and how you want to navigate through that. That's definitely
Speaker 5: something that's been interesting.
Speaker 4: Hey, justin quick question, you talk about tough times and struggling.
Speaker 4: You know we're talking about specifically with on the football team.
Speaker 4: Is the tough times in the athletic department overall budget
Speaker 4: and turmoil there is that affecting this team? And is
Speaker 4: it Is it coming down from the top and making
Speaker 4: things awkward for the team and tough for the team?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: No, I would I wouldn't say that. I know that
Speaker 5: some Arizona fans are you know, over here talking about,
Speaker 5: like how can Arizona figure out a way to let
Speaker 5: go of Brent Brennan, which is just not realistic, you know,
Speaker 5: with his buyout money, the fact that Arizona has to
Speaker 5: pay two athletic directors, the fact that the university has
Speaker 5: to pay two presidents. Like there's there's just a lot
Speaker 5: of uh financial kink that's going on right now with
Speaker 5: with Arizona and and also the athletic department. You know,
Speaker 5: but I think that you know, they've stopped everything that
Speaker 5: I've heard from Brent Brennan that Desree refrancois the new
Speaker 5: a D. She's doing a really great job of getting
Speaker 5: together a revenue sharing model because you know, with that
Speaker 5: that case, that settlement that just happened with the MC
Speaker 5: double A, now there's gonna be revenue sharing in collegiate
Speaker 5: sports and each school is going to get roughly, you know,
Speaker 5: twenty two million dollars. And so you have revenue sharing,
Speaker 5: you know, but how can you also you know, boost
Speaker 5: up your your nil And she recently just hired Bud Sasser,
Speaker 5: who came over from Missouri was actually a former Missouri
Speaker 5: Tiger football player who was supposed to play in the
Speaker 5: NFL but had I think like a heart condition or
Speaker 5: something like that that kept him from playing. But you know,
Speaker 5: he specializes in contracts, he specializes in the money, the
Speaker 5: money side of collegiate athletics, and and she just hired
Speaker 5: him to help out with NIL and also revenue sharing.
Speaker 5: So there's a plan in place. You know, Arizona's trying
Speaker 5: to make sure that they stay afloat and they stay
Speaker 5: they keep up with the Joneses when it comes with
Speaker 5: you know, college athletics and college money. But you know,
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, there are just there
Speaker 5: are certain programs that just have deeper pockets that Arizona
Speaker 5: just can't compete with. And these coaches know that. Now
Speaker 5: he is just to find that the players that are
Speaker 5: willing to I guess not play for the largest paycheck,
Speaker 5: but also you know kind of keep their eyes on
Speaker 5: the prize and come down to Tucson and train practice
Speaker 5: and become an NFL player. It's a weird time in
Speaker 5: college sports because you know, what does an athlete value.
Speaker 5: Does he value the paycheck or does he value what
Speaker 5: he's ultimately playing this sport for well.
Speaker 2: We know the answer to that.
Speaker 5: We do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, be sure to ask the Daily Star for more
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, justin thank you, justin you need
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xys and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Blox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to wyn the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Tim Bentley. Got
Speaker 2: one with us today. So a lot of the stuff
Speaker 2: that Justin kind of was talking about was exactly what
Speaker 2: we were kind of talking about, especially the transfers. I
Speaker 2: said this with coach Lopez yesterday. The kids who transferred
Speaker 2: during the loot time, and that's the team, the team
Speaker 2: I know wish they had not transferred because their success
Speaker 2: was not very good somewhere else, thinking that more time
Speaker 2: would make them better. Well, here you'd stay and develop,
Speaker 2: you play against better players and you become pros down
Speaker 2: the road. But kids today, I'm sure kids twenty years
Speaker 2: ago want it now.
Speaker 3: They want it now, you know.
Speaker 4: And we've been talking about coaches, and you know we're
Speaker 4: talking about San Jose Goad Texas.
Speaker 6: Good is.
Speaker 4: You know, people wanted to play for Luke because they
Speaker 4: knew that they were gonna be good, They're gonna play
Speaker 4: in big games, are going to.
Speaker 3: Be on TV.
Speaker 4: You know, so those folks that left, you know, obviously
Speaker 4: didn't get the benefit of loot. I wonder about these kids,
Speaker 4: you know, do they not see that in this coach?
Speaker 5: Is this?
Speaker 3: Do I need to hook myself to this guy? Or
Speaker 3: can I go someplace else?
Speaker 4: Because you know his story justin story is going to
Speaker 4: be about the kids that left and then they're not
Speaker 4: doing as well. But I guarantee you every one of
Speaker 4: these kids that leaves thinks, well, that's not me. That's
Speaker 4: not going to happen to me.
Speaker 2: Right well, kind of like everything else with me, I'm
Speaker 2: in denial of my health. I'm denal my of my abilities.
Speaker 2: You know, we're all at denial.
Speaker 3: Of something now. I'm an old guy too, man like nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could chase twenty five year old women. Yeah right,
Speaker 2: you know what, I can't.
Speaker 3: Chase anything right now, Like I like my bad back
Speaker 3: and my ankle is angry. I can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, barely have you looked at you both? I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of me. Have you seen yourself in the mirror? Late?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, I was listening to coach Lopez yesterday. I'm
Speaker 4: neither a one nor a three right now. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm like an eight right now?
Speaker 2: Did you did you listen to the dad? He was good,
Speaker 2: He was so good, he was so goolf was fantastic
Speaker 2: to me because it's I love that stuff, that philosophy,
Speaker 2: and and everybody thinks they're a one or a three,
Speaker 2: and you're mostly a two, thinking you're you're you're a one.
Speaker 4: I laughed hard and I thought, God, I'm I'm probably
Speaker 4: like an eight chasing a five, trying it hard to
Speaker 4: be a three.
Speaker 3: Y're nowhere near that. But I mean, what a good philosophy.
Speaker 4: And it's it's this team building, you know, and it's
Speaker 4: it's recognizing in kids and and you know, and and
Speaker 4: finding those kids. And you know, we live in a
Speaker 4: in a given to me now uh era, And it's
Speaker 4: been like that, but in this age of you know,
Speaker 4: I can see my stats, I can see my I
Speaker 4: can be immediate.
Speaker 3: These kids want immediate stuff. That's why they leave.
Speaker 4: Nobody invests, you know, what's what's the next game, what's
Speaker 4: the next season, What's where am I going to be next?
Speaker 4: Nobody wants to invest in that time and that that's
Speaker 4: you know, we've been talking about this, you know, we're
Speaker 4: talking about jobs. I mean it's it's you know, these
Speaker 4: these young kids, they're like they're like, what's what's next?
Speaker 4: And they have a four or five year window to
Speaker 4: try to hit So no, Coach Lopez, I I admired
Speaker 4: that guy from Afar for a long time and then to.
Speaker 3: Hear his philosophy yesterday, it was perfect. You know, three
Speaker 3: or four ones, a bunch of threes and then you know,
Speaker 3: get the twos out of town.
Speaker 2: Right right? Did you listen to it? You should? You
Speaker 2: should have so fantastic.
Speaker 5: I've been.
Speaker 8: I've been. He's booked all week.
Speaker 2: So you get class, you get class places, you.
Speaker 3: Don't have to do homework. I'm telling you, it's all right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I wish I believe that.
Speaker 3: That's what I was in college for eight years.
Speaker 2: You don't have to do homework.
Speaker 6: I had to.
Speaker 8: Do a bunch of stuff for the for the election
Speaker 8: this week for classes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, doing those things.
Speaker 9: Yeah, is just practicing, like putting news packages together and
Speaker 9: stuff like that.
Speaker 8: So that's that's taking up most of my week.
Speaker 9: And if I'm if I'm not in class, I'm working,
Speaker 9: and if I'm not doing either.
Speaker 8: I'm sleeping, trying to sleep.
Speaker 2: And you know what, they say, it's the best time
Speaker 2: so their lives in college.
Speaker 6: Listen.
Speaker 4: If I could go back, I would. I was living
Speaker 4: like a king back then. I didn't know what I
Speaker 4: was anxious to get out. I was working at a
Speaker 4: radio station and a pizza place. I was eating free
Speaker 4: pizza in the radio station. Gave me a free ski pass.
Speaker 4: I was a king, I'm telling you, man, and I
Speaker 4: left young.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I remember talking to Luke Walton his
Speaker 2: fourth year I think it was, and he had rich
Speaker 2: for the year because of his foot, and he says,
Speaker 2: you ready to leave. I could stay here, Steve another
Speaker 2: six years. I'd stay.
Speaker 3: Weald Man.
Speaker 4: That guy knows exactly what's going on, you know, and
Speaker 4: it's it's we all say it. If you could go back,
Speaker 4: he would, you know. He didn't know how good you
Speaker 4: had it, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, without question, because the bill suck, real life sucks,
Speaker 2: mortgages suck, and teams you cover sometimes, so.
Speaker 3: No, it's yeah, so enjoy your time.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: It's uh, you know, I know that.
Speaker 2: He's almost done. I know, trying to get him a job.
Speaker 8: Very scary right now, Ye scary hours at the witching hour.
Speaker 3: Are you done in December?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Man, hopefully is your LinkedIn updated? Let's go, let's get
Speaker 3: it out there right now.
Speaker 2: They've been trying to. But you guys don't make funny everything.
Speaker 2: And you understand this. And I say this because I
Speaker 2: teach other people. Uh, you're you're not just going against
Speaker 2: Joe Bob. You're you're looking for jobs with everybody else
Speaker 2: that are coming out of school. And I think today's world,
Speaker 2: and you're different because you've been doing it here with
Speaker 2: me and with other people. Uh, going to school and
Speaker 2: you know this, Tim, Just because you go to school
Speaker 2: and get a degree, that's nothing. You have to have experience.
Speaker 2: You have to already have a networking group. You have to, man,
Speaker 2: I mean you you know you well your eight years
Speaker 2: ship at you a lot. But I started when I
Speaker 2: was a freshman knowing that eventually I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: find a job. And I have to get these jobs
Speaker 2: in the summer to make sure that the people know me.
Speaker 4: We're Tejuana is you know, get in when you can
Speaker 4: be essential? Uh, when you ask you to do something,
Speaker 4: say you got it, I'll be there. What time you're
Speaker 4: going to be there, And that's that's a good lesson
Speaker 4: for anything. It applies to jobs, and I know you're
Speaker 4: looking for a.
Speaker 2: Job, make sure with three and you.
Speaker 3: Know I'll take it.
Speaker 4: I'll take a team of threes and a couple of ones,
Speaker 4: you know. But that applies to sports too. Is you
Speaker 4: know what time is practice? I'll be there a little early.
Speaker 4: You know, it's cliche to say, but you know, those
Speaker 4: are the kids that you're looking for, and you want
Speaker 4: that excitement and that enthusiasm even when times are tough. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I coach kids and we get our butts
Speaker 4: kicked in September and they put their heads down and
Speaker 4: I go, do you want to win September or do
Speaker 4: you want to win at state in November?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, and I think that's that's kind of right.
Speaker 4: The short side of this that can happen with these kids.
Speaker 4: I didn't win this week. We're horrible, and it's a perpetuate.
Speaker 2: You'll get better later. Yeah, no question. Hey, we're not
Speaker 2: going to take calls now, but we'll take calls on
Speaker 2: the other side. We're not going to have a J
Speaker 2: Roberta session. Jay's ill, so he's going to keep his kip.
Speaker 2: What's the phone number his keep his picks to himself?
Speaker 2: Which is better off for you guys. Phone number is
Speaker 2: five two oh four one six seventy four forty. We
Speaker 2: can take calls. We have some breaking news on the side.
Speaker 2: You may or may not take the whole time, right,
Speaker 2: And then at the mid four fifteen for seventeen hour,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Josh Pastner, who doesn't know
Speaker 2: Josh former U of a football, football, basketball player and
Speaker 2: coach all over the country. So we'll talk to him
Speaker 2: about the college basketball season and his his love for Arizona.
Speaker 2: Well sounds action to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll share that connection. See if he
Speaker 3: remembers me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're you're trying to stop me, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: He could only hope to contain me. I'm Johnny Man.
Speaker 2: It was a a misery just twenty five years ago, probably.
Speaker 4: Oh it's longer than that, only twenty seven years Red,
Speaker 4: Red Blue, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, how much some we are? We ready to
Speaker 2: go many? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, Well, it sounds like Jay is going to have
Speaker 3: a good weekend.
Speaker 4: There's the Dodgers one right, he's good, and there's no
Speaker 4: U of a football to drive Hi crazy.
Speaker 2: He won't lose, he will be Okay, yeah, he called
Speaker 2: me something life.
Speaker 3: Living life, living the dream baby.
Speaker 5: Good job.
Speaker 2: Talk about living the dreams. He's living it well. After
Speaker 2: twenty years he had to give a real job. I
Speaker 2: guess he was living in it before this real job. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's just go. We can go and then come back
Speaker 2: with your ackness.
Speaker 6: Is there