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Speaker 3: Happy Friday to everyone out there, yours truly. Mister goody
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Speaker 3: Starting off breaking news going straight into Arizona Athletics. The
Speaker 3: volleyball team won last night at Cincinnati three to one.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: They're gonna play West Virginia on Sunday ten o'clock in
Speaker 3: the morning.
Speaker 2: Okay, there we go. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: To women's basketball, they are coming off a win on
Speaker 3: Tuesday against.
Speaker 2: UNLV seventy five to sixty six.
Speaker 3: They're traveling to Chicago to face Chicago State tomorrow at noon.
Speaker 2: There should be another test. They got to just you know,
Speaker 2: stay the course play. Well, you're not covering them, right,
Speaker 2: I follow them.
Speaker 3: Okay, they battled against UNLV unlvs. Yeah, good team. Uh,
Speaker 3: they showed up in the fourth quarter. Lawrence Swan had
Speaker 3: had a good performance overall. So we'll see what happened
Speaker 3: on Saturday. To men's basketball, some of the stuff going
Speaker 3: on tonight. Uh, they go to Wisconsin, seven o'clock tip off. Uh,
Speaker 3: just a good should be a good game. First test
Speaker 3: for the men's team. What would you think if if
Speaker 3: they lost? I don't think they're gonna lose, but what
Speaker 3: would you think if they lost?
Speaker 2: It depends on how they lose. Okay, so they lose
Speaker 2: in a close one, it's it's their first road test.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's something we haven't seen in a
Speaker 3: while where they go on the road to face someone
Speaker 3: and it's not neutral, it's it's a true, true away game.
Speaker 3: If it's a close loss, I think that I think
Speaker 3: there shouldn't be too many, too many.
Speaker 2: Complaints, complaints kind of the world is ending type of situation.
Speaker 2: It's it's only November, right, Uh? Yeah, and exactly.
Speaker 3: I think regardless now that you say that it's it's November,
Speaker 3: I don't think there should.
Speaker 2: Be too much panic. I think I think if if they.
Speaker 3: Lose, it should show just how much better a team
Speaker 3: Wisconsin is.
Speaker 2: That we think they are. I'll call my shot now,
Speaker 2: they're going to be Duke next week. Wow.
Speaker 4: Write that down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, write that down. I'm not gonna have a show Friday.
Speaker 4: By the way, what's that guy's name is? Uh, Chris Now?
Speaker 4: The Duke guy? That the savior guy, Guy Shire who
Speaker 4: from Duke.
Speaker 2: Oh the flag? The flag?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Have you guys seen him play?
Speaker 6: Ye?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw him on Mondayentucky. He was good, very good,
Speaker 2: and then he wasn't At the end twenty in the
Speaker 2: final minute he gave up two turnovers and they lost.
Speaker 2: We all don't walk on water son, No, don't walk.
Speaker 4: He yes, I if it's on the internet, it must
Speaker 4: be true. I'm excited to be excited to watch him play.
Speaker 2: Talented, very very well rounded.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: A friend of mine used to cover him in Maine
Speaker 4: before it moved.
Speaker 2: Yeah. His brothers are good too, Yeah, they're.
Speaker 4: They're all good. His parents' mom was a great basketball player.
Speaker 2: Of course. I mean, you got to get it from somewhere.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, they go to Wisconsin tonight, come back home
Speaker 3: next week to Duke should be a big, big time.
Speaker 2: This biggest game in twenty some years.
Speaker 3: I think since the Gonzaga game where they had tz
Speaker 3: McConnell's final year.
Speaker 2: That was and I don't even remember that one.
Speaker 4: Well, cover the ball and you're you know, you can
Speaker 4: probably think OF's some big games in the in the
Speaker 4: late eighties and nineties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you just sell that. Do you remember my
Speaker 2: book The Blue One one of the best games in
Speaker 2: the history of the program. This is, you know, fourteen
Speaker 2: years old now, but yeah, the Duke. When Duke came
Speaker 2: here for you to Bowl Classics and Michigan State here,
Speaker 2: came here depending champs and Yukon and obviously North Carolina.
Speaker 2: But this one, this one has this different. This one's
Speaker 2: gonna be different for.
Speaker 4: Duke, for the duke, and just for the fans to
Speaker 4: see a big game like this.
Speaker 2: And this might be and this might be a dumb question.
Speaker 2: I don't think you have tickets. You don't have season tickets.
Speaker 4: I do not have season. I did have season. Remember
Speaker 4: the year that the ninety seven, when they want I
Speaker 4: had season tickets. I bought them off somebody, and they
Speaker 4: weren't very good. I mean they finished like fifth in
Speaker 4: the Tech or something, and they were like, oh, that's okay,
Speaker 4: and they went on the run. Yeah, and we try
Speaker 4: to buy those tickets again the next year and they
Speaker 4: went up like four hundred percent.
Speaker 2: If you want them, you gotta payprocase. You said they
Speaker 2: weren't very good. The seats, no, the team, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: I was like thirteen rows behind the visitors and they
Speaker 4: were great seats. But you know, they weren't very good
Speaker 4: the year they were like twenty two and ten or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exciting stuff for men's basketball coming up. They're gonna
Speaker 3: be showing the first half at the football games, not
Speaker 3: against Houston. We'll see how many how many fans of
Speaker 3: that draws right. You just said you heard rumors about Kale.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 4: Well, I I talked to your friend and they were
Speaker 4: talking about showing the game. So I think they were
Speaker 4: talking about I heard Stickkale. But yeah, so it's the stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah that makes sense. Seven o'clock tip off.
Speaker 2: We want Peacock. Yeah. It should be fun, should be good,
Speaker 2: good game.
Speaker 3: Speaking of that football game, Arizona football does play Houston
Speaker 3: tonight eight fifteen. Yeah that if any fans forgot, they
Speaker 3: do play Houston. It's community night or community day at
Speaker 3: night whatever. Well, which would mean well, I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess appreciation for the city of Tucson. Back at you, baby,
Speaker 3: We'll see if the football team returns.
Speaker 4: The I need your sneaking appreciation. Please know this is badges.
Speaker 2: We don't need your badges.
Speaker 4: We would appreciate it. If you didn't invite us, that's
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: We got other things to do, like the Tysons, like
Speaker 2: the high school games.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, Gary laid it all out, man, I wrote
Speaker 4: it all down.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Gary kind of did the first way
Speaker 2: to ten minutes.
Speaker 4: I needy Gary come run the board for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So some other events going around around, going on around
Speaker 3: Tucson Pro bull Riding starting tonight six forty five at
Speaker 3: the Tucson Arena.
Speaker 2: It's their start of their season. It's the weekend. Is
Speaker 2: it this weekend?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 2: Or just going going to Saturday? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'll be covering that tomorrow for a class project.
Speaker 3: Oh you so okay? Okay, Yeah, they got I got
Speaker 3: some immediate credential. They've been very nice with how they
Speaker 3: they've been dealing with them. So yeah, that's the start
Speaker 3: of their season, at least the Beast. Last season, Sage
Speaker 3: Deal kim Z was the champion of that season, with
Speaker 3: the bull champion being Red Red Demon, Red Demon.
Speaker 2: They always have those names. I like the name. Second
Speaker 2: place was man Eater, their place was Big Bank. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: To high school football, Gary kind of mentioned some of
Speaker 3: the stuff happening here in Tucson. Williams Fields travels to
Speaker 3: South pointeth Point hosts them seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: What seed did they say? What seeds? I don't see
Speaker 2: any seeds here.
Speaker 4: Some points division their Division three, right.
Speaker 2: But there might be in the open division. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe open. I have them here down to six A.
Speaker 3: I know that usually means they go by uh the
Speaker 3: suit population school sizes, but think it might be a
Speaker 3: little bit different from football. However, Sienaga does go to
Speaker 3: Tucson on high school. Yeah, should be a good one.
Speaker 3: Last like intercity matchup. We like to like to see
Speaker 3: those going to women's college basketball. USC's Juju Watkins reaches
Speaker 3: one thousand points uh than anybody? Yeah or no, I
Speaker 3: think the fourth fastest in her thirty eighth game.
Speaker 2: Okay, she's fantastic. She is, she is should be one
Speaker 2: of the what she could break I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: she could break getting the talks record.
Speaker 3: It'd be tough if she stays. Oh that's right, she
Speaker 3: can leave to the w n B. A. She's she's
Speaker 3: one of the top prospects right now. Yeah, so congratulations
Speaker 3: to her. That's a that's a that's a feat that
Speaker 3: how many people reach, Like we said, some stuff going
Speaker 3: on tonight Mike Tyson Paul.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the money, the money. I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: smart money, but I know the money is going on
Speaker 2: mic because they like, like I know, a first name
Speaker 2: basis like Tyson because they just wanted him to beat
Speaker 2: the crap out of Jake Paul.
Speaker 4: I'll bet I just I bet five bucks if I
Speaker 4: said that yesterday, just do it, just to have some
Speaker 4: interest in it.
Speaker 2: That's what we were at the casino yesterday and we
Speaker 2: were talking about that, and that's where the juice is
Speaker 2: going to Mike, and I said, yeah, I'd put fifty
Speaker 2: bucks you win like seventy five and just hope that
Speaker 2: it happens, you know whatever.
Speaker 4: You know, fifty bucks to you know, just to watch. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and did you ever do this?
Speaker 2: I did this once twice maybe so Bafford had a horse.
Speaker 2: It was Warrim. It was American parrel that won the
Speaker 2: Triple Crown right the second time he did it. So
Speaker 2: I had somebody buy me a ticket from where they
Speaker 2: had the race, maybe his brother. And it was a
Speaker 2: two dollars win ticket and I don't cash it, don't
Speaker 2: cash it and have Bobby sign it nice.
Speaker 4: It was like, what's the word, like seven dollars.
Speaker 2: It might be like he was a favorite, so four dollars,
Speaker 2: but it's worth more to me than four dollars.
Speaker 4: Now, that's a cool that's a memento.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you ever done some of that? It's kind
Speaker 2: of like, you.
Speaker 4: Know, well, every time I wont four dollars, I cash.
Speaker 8: I take it.
Speaker 4: I need the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that phrase? Did you tell me? The phrase?
Speaker 2: Is somebody else told me? Because I know Kirk, some gabbers,
Speaker 2: you know all I broke even last night. It's because
Speaker 2: I need the money.
Speaker 3: I mean, temper's already flying. Yeah, the stare down. Mike
Speaker 3: Tyson did slap take Paul?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was that was a little brew haha.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's something to just get the fans going, right,
Speaker 3: maybe as last second eyes, Yeah, Jake probably.
Speaker 2: Said give me a nice little hit.
Speaker 4: Mike Tyson is fifty eight years old. Yeah, I'm fifty
Speaker 4: eight years old and my back hurts just thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but you're you know, everyone's talking about that,
Speaker 2: and I'm sixty and I'm thinking that if you were
Speaker 2: on the south side, you and the north side wherever,
Speaker 2: and some young punk came up to you and and
Speaker 2: you had to stand your ground, Oh sure, you're gonna
Speaker 2: stand up and do whatever you can to stand your ground.
Speaker 2: And and the dudes in shape, you've seen his workouts.
Speaker 2: Do you want to be a punch of bay to
Speaker 2: this fifty eight year old?
Speaker 8: Do?
Speaker 4: I hope Jake Paul can move around?
Speaker 2: I'm sure maybe because I'm saying it's an old dude.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if age is the problem here
Speaker 2: because he's he's a dude.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: Here's what I've the clubs I've seen Jake Paul. Jake
Speaker 4: Paul likes to go in and just hit as hard
Speaker 4: as he can. He doesn't ever box, He doesn't move,
Speaker 4: and I think Mike Tyson's been watching him and say, okay,
Speaker 4: here you go, knuckle ahead. I see that you lead
Speaker 4: with you. I'm gonna hit you with my let and boom?
Speaker 2: What's that? What's this? His saying? His family saying everyone
Speaker 2: has a plane until you get in.
Speaker 4: The get hitting the mouth.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I don't know. I like my chances and
Speaker 2: guess what would happen? A rematch, a rematch like we
Speaker 2: haven't seen those before in the boxing match.
Speaker 4: Let you're fifty dollars ride man ride.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it should be an entertaining night.
Speaker 8: Was it?
Speaker 2: Gary gonna watch it?
Speaker 3: I think he said so? He said there was a
Speaker 3: there was a fight before that too, that you're.
Speaker 4: Gonna watch it for the thirty seven seconds before night.
Speaker 4: Mike Tyson knock himunt.
Speaker 2: He didn't bite. He didn't bite. On my own invitation
Speaker 2: through his house today.
Speaker 4: Gary did not. He moved right past it.
Speaker 2: I think he didn't hear me.
Speaker 3: To the NBA, there's serious talks right now about the
Speaker 3: tournament style All Star Game where you get eight players
Speaker 3: and the winner the winners of the.
Speaker 2: The Rising Star Game. You got four teams.
Speaker 3: You want team one face, Team three, two, four, and
Speaker 3: then those winners go and play in the championship for
Speaker 3: the All Star Game. We'll see see if it happens.
Speaker 3: Is they're they're talking about it for this season NBA. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the NBA, I'm a fan.
Speaker 4: I think they're trying to you know, I don't blame them.
Speaker 4: You know, they're losing ground to the NFL's taking their
Speaker 4: days coming up around Christmas time, so they're just saying, hey,
Speaker 4: we're trying to generate interest before Christmas. They used to
Speaker 4: wait till Christmas and remember the NBA on NBC at
Speaker 4: Christmas time. So I don't blame him. Whatever they can
Speaker 4: do to get eyeballs.
Speaker 3: Are you talking about the top players in the NBA
Speaker 3: with with I think there's a little bit more meaning
Speaker 3: to it now if you add that.
Speaker 2: Okay, you guess certain matchups. I'm too old school to
Speaker 2: give a crap. I know you do it.
Speaker 4: I don't either. I wait till the playoffs, wait till
Speaker 4: the second round of like, Okay, this is gonna be you.
Speaker 2: Like everybody most everybody else. You guys like Kwan, you
Speaker 2: know they know well. You know, Katie has this and
Speaker 2: he shoots from the left side. Okay, who won the game?
Speaker 2: And did they dress well or did they look bad?
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 4: And that's highlights. I like to watch the highlight. I
Speaker 4: like to know who's playing well. But man, good for
Speaker 4: you one knowing all the all the good stuff.
Speaker 2: You gotta do what I can. You got to know
Speaker 2: everything nowadays. Yeah, to happen. Put that on the resume,
Speaker 2: job jobete the resume.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, Nicole yo kids for the Nuggets is gonna
Speaker 3: be out tonight. It's uh for the against the Pelicans. Uh,
Speaker 3: he says, for personal reasons. The Nuggets have won five straight,
Speaker 3: I believe, and the Pelicans have lost six street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't Williamson whatever his name is, Williamson, he
Speaker 2: got hurt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think he's also. So they probably
Speaker 3: think we don't need you tonight, just probably not. They
Speaker 3: didn't specify. Does it just personal reasons? So we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: It is the kind of a start for the NBA Cup.
Speaker 3: The group played starting tonight, got some good matchups. The
Speaker 3: Lakers going against the Spurs, Son's going against the Thunder.
Speaker 3: I know they're out with chet Holgroom he's been out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's been pretty good too.
Speaker 2: And then India, you know, yeah, he's been fantastic. Had
Speaker 2: a fifty point night the other night. That was fun
Speaker 2: to watch. I didn't see it for sixteen from the
Speaker 2: three points. Oh really. Yeah, and they're not just at
Speaker 2: the line.
Speaker 4: It's a couple of steps there, just from half court on. Sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the new the new Steph Curry in terms of
Speaker 2: the guy you want to watch. But yeah, yeah. To
Speaker 2: the NFL some injury news.
Speaker 3: Lions have ruled out their Titan Sam Laporta for their matchup.
Speaker 3: It's the Jaguars, not necessarily surprising given that the Lions
Speaker 3: are on top of the division.
Speaker 2: Jackguars kind of spiraling. We'll see what happens there.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is having knee surgery, but
Speaker 3: he is expected to be back within the season, so
Speaker 3: hopefully they get him back. The Bills tight end Tlton
Speaker 3: Kincaid has been ruled out for the Sunday matchup against
Speaker 3: the Chiefs. Kind of a big headline. The Bills do
Speaker 3: use their tight end a lot. We'll see what happens. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll see. Okay, Hey, we gotta go, do you anymore?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Uh not really? Okay, we gotta go because jakesonill
Speaker 2: call us some about three minutes. Let's go. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to Jake Fisher, get his thoughts on the game. I'm
Speaker 2: sure he'll be on Pollyanna mode and goodie too.
Speaker 8: Show.
Speaker 2: Lets go, Jake, Yeah, we'll come back.
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Speaker 1: Don sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Wind the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera eas Tim Bentley got
Speaker 2: a plan with us behind the desk. Now we have
Speaker 2: Jake Fisher on the phone. Jake, how are you? Jake
Speaker 2: doing wonderful?
Speaker 5: How are you? Guys?
Speaker 2: We're doing well. So you have a lot of viewing
Speaker 2: choices tonight. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: I'm probably gonna either watch the basketball game or I'm
Speaker 5: gonna watch Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. I just don't
Speaker 5: know if I can watch another Arizona football game. Guys,
Speaker 5: I mean, the last couple of losses they've been lost.
Speaker 5: You know, it's very very unfortunate, obviously. I you know,
Speaker 5: you read the d leaves, you know what's going on
Speaker 5: behind the scenes with uh you know the potential coaching deal,
Speaker 5: and you know, the fact of the matter is, you
Speaker 5: know Jetfish comes.
Speaker 2: A few years ago.
Speaker 5: You expected them not to be good the first year,
Speaker 5: maybe even the second year. But with the guys that
Speaker 5: came back, even though we lost a little bit of
Speaker 5: our death, you were going to anticipate going into a
Speaker 5: league where you didn't have the top. You know those
Speaker 5: Titans that the PAC twelve or now the two that
Speaker 5: left to the SEC. You know, we just thought that
Speaker 5: we fare a little bit better. So who knows.
Speaker 2: Wow, my lucky you a pull over the guy.
Speaker 4: Take a minute, mister.
Speaker 2: Paul Yanna has jumped ship. How in the world. But
Speaker 2: you you know, I was on the show yesterday with
Speaker 2: with Jay and I told him, you know, the last
Speaker 2: few games have been disheartening to me. You get beat
Speaker 2: by twenty thirty points. You you know, the guys not
Speaker 2: that they've given up, but to me, it looks like
Speaker 2: it's kind of given up.
Speaker 5: Of the guys look like it. And the fact of
Speaker 5: the matter is got so many injuries. I mean, you'd
Speaker 5: think if you were a two, or you knew you
Speaker 5: were coming back next year, or someone that's gonna be
Speaker 5: fighting for playing time, you think that they give a
Speaker 5: little bit more of a of an effort. But I mean,
Speaker 5: it just goes back to it reminds me of my
Speaker 5: junior year where I sat out because of my knee.
Speaker 5: Where the first few games, you know, we played against
Speaker 5: some good teams and it was spirited. You know, the
Speaker 5: guys came out to play. They were they were flying
Speaker 5: around even though they hadn't played before, and you know,
Speaker 5: by probably the seventh or eighth game, you know, even
Speaker 5: after Soups got fired and after a coach Kish took over,
Speaker 5: there are a couple of games where it's like, uh,
Speaker 5: you know that team over there is not as talented
Speaker 5: as us, and you know, we just give up. And
Speaker 5: you know, it's just one of those things where again
Speaker 5: I might be wrong, you know it. Maybe you know,
Speaker 5: another week, uh, you know, some of these guys getting
Speaker 5: some pt on the field, it might help us. Maybe
Speaker 5: some of the behind the scenes stuff that might help us.
Speaker 5: But you know, the fact of the matter is maybe
Speaker 5: I'm just.
Speaker 7: You know, maybe it's just because I watched the games.
Speaker 5: That I'm disappointed. I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. I was gonna say something. Oh, I
Speaker 2: really don't want to go here, but I'm gonna ask you.
Speaker 2: You're talking about tea leaves behind the scenes. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you're kind of referring to Twitter and the internet. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's very diplomatic, to tell the truth. Jay and I
Speaker 2: talked about this yesterday. He doesn't feel that they'll let
Speaker 2: him go. I don't either, that's just kind of too premature.
Speaker 5: I feel like you have to give another year. But
Speaker 5: the fact of the matter is you have three guys
Speaker 5: on that team that could potentially that are like first
Speaker 5: round grades, right, guys that can legitimately get drafted in
Speaker 5: the first round. I don't remember a team in a
Speaker 5: league that's as wide open as the Big Twelve that
Speaker 5: has had three guys that could potentially be a first
Speaker 5: round draft pick that has been this bad.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 5: I know that we're in an nil era. I know
Speaker 5: we had a lot of guys because of the coaching change.
Speaker 5: I know we have a lot of guys injured. But
Speaker 5: it's just one of those things where it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: how did that happen? And the only thing I could
Speaker 5: think of, aside from you know, like, obviously you have
Speaker 5: the effort. You look at some of the effort, you're like, eh,
Speaker 5: but you still have a lot of guys that are
Speaker 5: working hard. But then you look at the play calling.
Speaker 7: Man, I mean, the.
Speaker 5: Fact of the matter is you have that many guys
Speaker 5: on defense that are out you only are putting up
Speaker 5: what twelve eighteen points a game. I mean, that's that's coaching.
Speaker 5: And another thing comes back to where there are a
Speaker 5: lot of teams this year that were supposed to be
Speaker 5: decent or good that after Week three let go of
Speaker 5: an offensive coordinator, a defensive coordinator. You know, I don't
Speaker 5: want to get rid of Duayna Kina. I'm talking more
Speaker 5: of the offensive side of the ball here. But you
Speaker 5: look at them and it's like, you know, these coaches
Speaker 5: are like, you know, I want to be here for
Speaker 5: another year. I want to make sure these guys get
Speaker 5: to where they want to go, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 5: They like they let go of the guy. You know
Speaker 5: what about us? You know, our play calling has been
Speaker 5: disastrous the entire year, and we have not let go
Speaker 5: of anybody on offense. So again, it just goes to
Speaker 5: show that probably a lot of players, former players agree
Speaker 5: with me. What are we doing different? They're not going
Speaker 5: to call it different. Offense. You have a great quarterback,
Speaker 5: You have an actual decent line. I know we got
Speaker 5: some injuries again, you have the best receiver in college football.
Speaker 5: You have a really good running back room. Why are
Speaker 5: we only scoring twelve to eighteen points a game? Aside
Speaker 5: from the New Mexico game this year, we haven't been
Speaker 5: able to score the ball.
Speaker 4: So Jake, what I hear you? You know, and we
Speaker 4: talk sometimes about this era of nil and Josh Passers said, hey,
Speaker 4: this is just a new normal. But you know, at
Speaker 4: what point do these kids start to look, you know,
Speaker 4: when I ahead next season? Like you said, there the
Speaker 4: play calling is is not great, not putting me in
Speaker 4: the best pet the best place for success. If you
Speaker 4: have NFL aspirations, is this the place for you to
Speaker 4: be in the next year? Do you want to be
Speaker 4: a part of that? What do you what do you
Speaker 4: think some of these guys are thinking, Well.
Speaker 5: What's the name of the kid that transferred a couple
Speaker 5: of years ago, went to SC He had a really
Speaker 5: really good year Singer, the wide receiver, the name singer?
Speaker 2: Singer.
Speaker 5: You want to have a good enough offense to where
Speaker 5: you have guys that could actually go to a bigger
Speaker 5: program this year. Who the hell would want them? Honestly,
Speaker 5: there's only a few people on that offense. I'd be like,
Speaker 5: I want that guy.
Speaker 2: You're exactly right, Jason, you know links to the subject
Speaker 2: that we've talked about this, Okay, we talk about nil
Speaker 2: and you're trying to get some money to get you know,
Speaker 2: help you get through school or whatever. And I'm just
Speaker 2: going to pay you if you haven't shown up well.
Speaker 5: And you know, it's it's a two way street here, right.
Speaker 5: It's like some of these guys they've had an opportunity
Speaker 5: to make a play, right. But then again, the play calling,
Speaker 5: in my opinion, I couldn't do a better job. I
Speaker 5: haven't been around the game in over ten years whatever.
Speaker 5: But the fact is, all you do is call plays,
Speaker 5: work with the offense day and night. You watch film,
Speaker 5: you run, you know whatever you need to do, and you've.
Speaker 7: Got some pretty damn good tight ends that you don't use.
Speaker 5: Again, the only receiver that can potentially get the ball
Speaker 5: open or get open to get the ball is t
Speaker 5: Mac and you've got a good quarterback that's proven that
Speaker 5: he could be an All American caliber guy. So again,
Speaker 5: half of it, I'm gonna go ahead and say more
Speaker 5: than half of it has to do with the play call.
Speaker 2: No, I agree.
Speaker 4: What's what's the one? What's what's one switch that you
Speaker 4: just see like that's that's obvious to you, maybe some
Speaker 4: of us that are watching from the silence, but you
Speaker 4: played your in locker room. What's one switch you know,
Speaker 4: either on the field or in locker room. That could
Speaker 4: happen today.
Speaker 5: I mean, shoot, run a couple of trick plays. Get
Speaker 5: these guys imagination going. I mean, listen, you know before
Speaker 5: the snap. I mean shoot, I was sitting here with
Speaker 5: my wife and you know, my brother in law, and
Speaker 5: I'm literally calling every one of their damn plays before
Speaker 5: they run it, like, you got to do something. You
Speaker 5: got to make sure that the defense is going to
Speaker 5: go ahead, and you know they're going to think twice
Speaker 5: about running a certain blitz. You've got to make the
Speaker 5: defense think that. You know, you're not going to run
Speaker 5: the same damn play in the same formation you've been
Speaker 5: running for the last six or seven games. So get
Speaker 5: their imagination going. Throw a couple, you know, whether it's
Speaker 5: a hooking ladder, you know, just mix it up a
Speaker 5: little bit. I mean, and these delayed handoffs, I mean,
Speaker 5: this isn't the NFL.
Speaker 6: We don't have.
Speaker 5: Three interior offensive linemen that are all going to be second, third,
Speaker 5: fourth round draft picks. So these delayed handoffs, you know,
Speaker 5: just not being able to get other guys involved in
Speaker 5: the passing game. There are a lot of different things
Speaker 5: that you can do. Just do something to get these
Speaker 5: guys open uh, you know, get noah a few completions
Speaker 5: and then go deep. Just get creative with it. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's so it's such a boring offense. You know. During
Speaker 5: the offseason, all I heard was, Hey, this playbook is
Speaker 5: going to be awesome. They're doing this, They're using their
Speaker 5: tight ends, They're doing a bunch of shifts, they're doing
Speaker 5: a bunch of motions. They're doing this, this, this and that.
Speaker 7: And it's like, did you put too much into.
Speaker 5: The playbook right away? Are we just going away from it?
Speaker 7: Like I just don't understand.
Speaker 2: It's very disjointed.
Speaker 5: I guess it's the best way I can say, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's a good word. That's a good word. There you
Speaker 2: go with the emotional side of it. What do you
Speaker 2: think is going on emotionally? Because maybe I already mentioned
Speaker 2: this with you. Once you start losing and it compounds
Speaker 2: and you're saying, what the hell am I doing here?
Speaker 2: I got to go to practice Tuesday, I gotta go
Speaker 2: to Wednesday, and you know, I really don't want to
Speaker 2: be here. Is that some of it? You know? Because
Speaker 2: you know, you know you played it hell on? Who
Speaker 2: am I telling you? But that emotion plays a huge
Speaker 2: part of sports athletics at this level.
Speaker 5: Well, it would be one thing if you're losing these
Speaker 5: games by ten points or less, right, I mean I
Speaker 5: think they've lost what four games by over like twenty
Speaker 5: yes here exactly. I mean that's you know, you have
Speaker 5: a lack of focus. You know, you have a lack
Speaker 5: of coaching. I mean to be honest with you, like
Speaker 5: sometimes when that happens and you see pretty deep some
Speaker 5: players just not playing hard, that could be a lack
Speaker 5: of respect. You just you don't know, you know, we're
Speaker 5: not in the locker room with these guys. We're not
Speaker 5: at practice with these guys. We're not in the conversations
Speaker 5: in the locker room with you know, guys that we
Speaker 5: can confide in that we talked to on a daily basis,
Speaker 5: whether it's during the list, practice, after the game, whatever.
Speaker 5: So you know, I would like to know as well,
Speaker 5: you know, what is it? Is it the coaches don't
Speaker 5: know what they're doing. You know, we have guys out
Speaker 5: partying like what, I don't know what it could be.
Speaker 5: We're not there to you know, figure it out. So
Speaker 5: the only thing that I know is the guys just
Speaker 5: aren't playing up to their ability do you.
Speaker 4: Is there a tell you know you're on the field
Speaker 4: in locker room? Is there a body language tell that
Speaker 4: you can see on the field, Is there is there
Speaker 4: something you see?
Speaker 2: I honestly think he's onto something. I've said it kind
Speaker 2: of hinted this way, but he's onto something.
Speaker 4: What do you know?
Speaker 7: I think they just it's either they're not respecting the process.
Speaker 5: Or they brought in the wrong guys via transfer portal
Speaker 5: or recruiting. I mean, you have guys that literally mess
Speaker 5: up the exact same responsibility multiple times a game for
Speaker 5: you know, two three, four games in a row. So
Speaker 5: that is on the players first. Obviously, it's the coaches.
Speaker 5: You know what they used to do to us when
Speaker 5: we mess up just the same thing two times in
Speaker 5: a practice, you would either wouldn't practice. They'd throw you
Speaker 5: into you know, like live ball situations, uh, you know
Speaker 5: where you have to tackle or you get you know,
Speaker 5: your ass kicked. They make you run, they make you
Speaker 5: do extra stuff in the weight room. It's almost like
Speaker 5: they're just not holding these guys accountable.
Speaker 7: And they got to remember these are.
Speaker 2: Still young men.
Speaker 5: It's not like these guys are professional and they're getting paid.
Speaker 5: You know, a few MILLI year just to be a
Speaker 5: second you know, a second string guy. And even at
Speaker 5: that point, you mess up one or two times in
Speaker 5: a game as a second stringer, if you're not like
Speaker 5: a ball to the wall, you know, uh, special teams player,
Speaker 5: you're gonna get cut.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, Well, Jake, we're at a different
Speaker 2: time now because the kids are being paid. They won't
Speaker 2: be cut, and they're already getting paid. They're already getting
Speaker 2: paid some money. And what the hell, what do I
Speaker 2: have to prove I'm already getting paid?
Speaker 5: Well, the guy the guys on the field that sucks, See,
Speaker 5: they're not getting paid and they shouldn't be. What the
Speaker 5: NIL is supposed to be is for guys that are
Speaker 5: literally gonna go out there make a name for themselves.
Speaker 5: They're gonna absolutely go balls to the wall. They're gonna
Speaker 5: do everything that they can in order to succeed. If
Speaker 5: you have a guy that is that good, you know,
Speaker 5: if you have a guy like even a guy like
Speaker 5: you know, let's go ahead and let's you know, let's
Speaker 5: go a guy from Tucson, right, So, a guy like
Speaker 5: a Brooks Read or a guy like a kadem Kerry.
Speaker 5: Those guys worked their tails off, they performed on the field,
Speaker 5: they got to the next level. Those guys, give them
Speaker 5: as much nil money to stay here as you possibly can,
Speaker 5: because it's gonna put butts and seats, gonna drive ticket sales,
Speaker 5: they're gonna perform on the field, they're gonna be good,
Speaker 5: and you know they're going to the next level.
Speaker 7: Then the other guy that's out of.
Speaker 5: Town, a guy like DeAndre and who comes in, he
Speaker 5: kills it. Well, allow that guy to go into a
Speaker 5: Jim Klay commercial, Allow him to do whatever it is
Speaker 5: that he needs to do in order to send money
Speaker 5: back to his family, to feed his kid, whatever it
Speaker 5: might be. If you have a guy that literally goes in,
Speaker 5: he's a second stringer, and the only reason he's a
Speaker 5: second stringer is because we can't figure out somebody else
Speaker 5: that's as good as he could potentially be at that
Speaker 5: particular situation. And he sucks. And it's not that he's
Speaker 5: not athletic, it's not that he's not a good athlete,
Speaker 5: it's not that he's not a good ballplayer, it's not
Speaker 5: any of these other things. But the fact of the
Speaker 5: matter is if he comes out, he sucks, and he
Speaker 5: completely just shuts down when he gets on the field,
Speaker 5: Who the hell would want to give him money? I agree,
Speaker 5: it's a meritocracy. If he does well, give him money.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't, don't give him money. And it might
Speaker 5: make him think twice about getting back in the weight
Speaker 5: room and working out and getting better.
Speaker 4: And Josh Passers said last week that he's looking forward
Speaker 4: to the legislation that's gonna even out the money spread
Speaker 4: around money for the players contracting. So these kids, you know,
Speaker 4: they'll be committed to stay and the coaches only they're
Speaker 4: making some real money. It's and it's that they'll stay
Speaker 4: for a little bit longer you can build your program.
Speaker 2: Jake, see what you created.
Speaker 7: I didn't create anything.
Speaker 5: I did this so that the people that actually worked
Speaker 5: hard and you know, study film and didn't complain about
Speaker 5: having crediting out of bed. I can't run for crap
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 2: Good luck with that. Your knees are cranky. I can
Speaker 2: hear him this real quick. One last thought basketball tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you like this team. I like them a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what, I really love what they're doing
Speaker 5: with the big man position. I mean the fact that
Speaker 5: everyone wrote off Basar last year.
Speaker 7: After you know that freshman year that he was going to.
Speaker 5: Be, you know, like a first round draft pick. And
Speaker 5: I mean Tommy says it all the time. Big men
Speaker 5: they figure it out kind of on their own timeline.
Speaker 5: It might take a couple of years. You know. There
Speaker 5: are some guys like you know, for example, a Waka
Speaker 5: comes in and he's just a bruiser. And then you
Speaker 5: have you know, seven foot two Mo Krebs, who I
Speaker 5: mean that little turnaround, uh what do you call the
Speaker 5: little turnaround over the left shoulder kind of baby hook
Speaker 5: that he had last game and he's getting every damn
Speaker 5: rebound that he gets anywhere near theysar who can stretch
Speaker 5: the floor. But then you have guys like Townsend who
Speaker 5: he might be a little bit smaller, but they're able
Speaker 5: to blitz some of these screens now because you have
Speaker 5: you know, a quicker foot four and a quicker foot five.
Speaker 5: And but then the guards, man, I love how they defend.
Speaker 5: You get a guy like Jane Bradley who it seems
Speaker 5: like his hand is on the ball every damn time
Speaker 5: he's guarding somebody. kJ Lewis, who can match anywhere from
Speaker 5: one to three. I mean, he can guard guys up
Speaker 5: to six eighty six nine that are wings. You know, obviously,
Speaker 5: Caleb Love he's a plus defender. I mean he's he's
Speaker 5: slowed it down. He's not trying to go and you
Speaker 5: know Jack up.
Speaker 7: Three do all this other stuff.
Speaker 5: He's planning to come to him. But then you got
Speaker 5: guys like Carter Bryant. I think he's going to be fantastic.
Speaker 5: I think by the end of the year he'll probably
Speaker 5: be the first guy off the bench. I just think
Speaker 5: he has that much potential. And you know, he's not
Speaker 5: trying to he's not trying to push himself like you know,
Speaker 5: he's not trying to get in front of some of
Speaker 5: the older guys. He's literally kind of taken it as
Speaker 5: it comes, and he looks comfortable doing that. But then
Speaker 5: you know guys like del or So, I you know,
Speaker 5: even Conrad has looked good, you know, but zero turnovers
Speaker 5: over the first two games. So I don't know if
Speaker 5: they're going to tighten up the bench a little bit
Speaker 5: normally Tommy does. But I think.
Speaker 7: Defensively this is going to be his best team.
Speaker 5: I think overall, you know, literally he can go dine deep.
Speaker 5: I'm just looking forward to it, you know, I think
Speaker 5: they're going to be really good this year.
Speaker 2: I think that you've been watching my scouting report because
Speaker 2: I like the team too, for all those reasons, For
Speaker 2: all those.
Speaker 4: Reasons, No I was gonna say, he's subscribing to your
Speaker 4: your your your scouting service. I think they're going to
Speaker 4: play more. I think they're going to feel the way
Speaker 4: through the Big twelve and see what's going on. And
Speaker 4: in terms of the rotation, and and you know, Jake same,
Speaker 4: I play up to nine players. I believe that.
Speaker 2: Too, Jake. Thanks, we gotta go, We gotta take a break.
Speaker 4: Jay nice times. Anybody, thank you, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to any in the Ball hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Tim Bentley, and
Speaker 2: get one with us. I was very surprised that Jake
Speaker 2: could kind of not give it up, but he was.
Speaker 2: He was very nearly like me on this team.
Speaker 4: I hope he pulled over and was in a safe
Speaker 4: space because he was really kind of in the dumps. No,
Speaker 4: but I just I think that's the state of the
Speaker 4: union for a lot of fans here totally agree. And
Speaker 4: and he's the number one fan. I mean, he played,
Speaker 4: you know, he's he you know, wildcat through and through,
Speaker 4: and so it's frustrating because you want to We've talked
Speaker 4: about this. You want to have a good product, even
Speaker 4: if they break your heart on occasion. You don't want
Speaker 4: them to crush your heart right right.
Speaker 2: Well, he was the one that picked them to win
Speaker 2: nine games last year, to do very well, and I'm
Speaker 2: thinking you crazy, and guess what they did it They
Speaker 2: did exactly what he said he was optimistic about this year.
Speaker 2: But I'm with him on this because I've said this
Speaker 2: numerous times. There's something going on because teams don't get
Speaker 2: beat by twenty thirty points because they just don't, especially
Speaker 2: teams with talent.
Speaker 4: Right, And you heard him say that he could sit
Speaker 4: at home and call their plays one after another.
Speaker 2: They're just not sad.
Speaker 4: They're not changing anything up. And to his point, he said,
Speaker 4: just shake it up a little bit. And to the
Speaker 4: beginning of the show where he said, hey, just do
Speaker 4: something that gets these kids excited. You know, the Houston
Speaker 4: kids are excited, they're on a win streak. Do something
Speaker 4: to break the ice and get the the u of
Speaker 4: a kids excited on the field. Have a big play,
Speaker 4: have a trick, play, whatever it takes. I mean, what
Speaker 4: do you have have to lose except another game?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, no, I know what do you have
Speaker 2: to lose? Right? Absolutely nothing, right, because you're already in.
Speaker 4: The already you know, like what are you playing for.
Speaker 4: You're playing for the end of the season, maybe you're
Speaker 4: playing for a scholarship or you know, to Jake's point is,
Speaker 4: you know, none of these kids probably have an eye
Speaker 4: on a on an upgrade on the nil to another school,
Speaker 4: But you still want to be part of the mix.
Speaker 4: Next year you win, in whatever happens with the coach
Speaker 4: or the coaching situation, you want to be in the mix.
Speaker 4: I tell people all the time, Steve You, we talk
Speaker 4: sometimes about business, and I said this to one is
Speaker 4: be essential. Be a part of the team. Reason maybe
Speaker 4: you're playing for a scholarship or you know, to Jake's
Speaker 4: point is, you know none of these kids probably have
Speaker 4: an eye on a on an upgrade on the nil
Speaker 4: to another school. But you still want to be part
Speaker 4: of the mix. Next year you win, in whatever happens
Speaker 4: with the coach or the coaching situation, you want to
Speaker 4: be in the mix. I tell people all the time,
Speaker 4: Steve You, we talk sometimes about business, and I said
Speaker 4: this to one is, be essential. Be a part of
Speaker 4: the team. What can I do? Let me get after that?
Speaker 4: What can I do? And it's just it just doesn't
Speaker 4: seem like a lot of folks are doing that over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, be essential, or be to a situation where now
Speaker 2: you have to re recruit the players so they don't go.
Speaker 2: They get this money, just keep them. You're extremely happy.
Speaker 2: You're this happy, go lucky, good guy, good coach. Now
Speaker 2: you sit down with them and you're relieved that they're
Speaker 2: gonna stay there. You're not your friends. I don't know
Speaker 2: how your parents are with you. One. I know how
Speaker 2: I was with you have kids. You don't have kids,
Speaker 2: Lucky lucky you. Because it's a very difficult job. You
Speaker 2: have to be tough with them, but not too tough
Speaker 2: with them. So now these kids, uh, these student athletes,
Speaker 2: kids are your their friend almost to a point of
Speaker 2: they had to re recruit you. Your life is their
Speaker 2: life is dependent on you, back and forth, right, and
Speaker 2: there's gotta be some respect one kind of like the
Speaker 2: a parent student. Right, they don't respect you. Guess what
Speaker 2: they're gonna do. They're gonna f around and do stuff
Speaker 2: that you that you don't want them to do. How
Speaker 2: much control are you going to have over that? You
Speaker 2: know where I'm going with this and the and the
Speaker 2: student athletes. I was kidding, what's he gonna do? Yelling us, Oh,
Speaker 2: big deal, I'm getting paid fifty one hundred thousand, Big deal.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that that's happening, but that's the theory
Speaker 2: of mine.
Speaker 4: Well, and I think it's it's wise. You're you know,
Speaker 4: you're at the games you're you're listening, No, this is.
Speaker 2: This is what I get. I've covered these games a
Speaker 2: long right time, and and they you don't want to
Speaker 2: pay you know what Luke did so well. He was
Speaker 2: a demanding coach and he respected the hell out of
Speaker 2: the guy. And this is the what I use all
Speaker 2: the time. It was like paying for your grandfather. Who
Speaker 2: do you not want to disappoint most your grandfather or
Speaker 2: your parents exactly?
Speaker 4: So I think, I hope it's not true. What you
Speaker 4: know kind of the what that the internet buzz. I
Speaker 4: don't think we could take that again. I liked what
Speaker 4: Jake said is is get after it. You know, doesn't
Speaker 4: feel like some of these kids are being held accountable.
Speaker 4: And I know you can, you can tell the story
Speaker 4: about injuries and stuff like that, but man, second and
Speaker 4: third guys, string guys, you should be hustling. You should
Speaker 4: be thankful for the opportunity and you know, be essential.
Speaker 4: And it's it's it's tough when even Jake, the number
Speaker 4: one fan, played the game the school and this, yeah,
Speaker 4: is a little disappointed. And I just think that that
Speaker 4: sums up the mood of Tucson. And we heard it
Speaker 4: early in the show Joseph Duarte, the U eight U
Speaker 4: of H fans, my buddy Dave Odom that lives here
Speaker 4: in Tucson that went to University Houston. They are fired up,
Speaker 4: they're excited, they're excited for this game, and they're excited
Speaker 4: to end the season on a high note.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, it's not the case in Tucson, Arizona. I think
Speaker 3: I think for to Arizona fans, it's it's the anticipation
Speaker 3: for the Duke game. There's a lot more of that
Speaker 3: for then then a Houston game tonight.
Speaker 4: The amount of ent enthusiasm I've been hearing from even
Speaker 4: Joseph Dorte is talking about you have a you have
Speaker 4: h and you have a basketball and how exciting that is.
Speaker 4: Jake's all excited about it. We're all excited about it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: That's it's it's the It's sadly it's it can be
Speaker 4: the U of A fans uh Seasonal malays here is
Speaker 4: we get all excited for football and then we get
Speaker 4: to be, you know, three and six, we're like, well,
Speaker 4: let's when does basketball start.
Speaker 2: We're talking about games in February.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3: And so you talk about second stringers why why not
Speaker 3: go out there and have them say, Hey, where's the
Speaker 3: Friday night game tonight?
Speaker 2: And we're gonna put on a show for you. So
Speaker 2: let me say, I have a bingo card here the
Speaker 2: word malaise on this is the g You're the first
Speaker 2: person to use.
Speaker 4: The word malays I'm gonna I'm gonna take credit for them.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, John Pena.
Speaker 4: John texted me, texted me, texted me the.
Speaker 2: Very Hello, you're on the air and I on the ball?
Speaker 2: Is this chat?
Speaker 8: Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: Chat? How are you you up to reach? And I
Speaker 2: guess saw my How are you? Well?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we just played a little phone tech.
Speaker 2: I'm doing okay. How are you today? Fine? Fine, You're
Speaker 2: gonna have to kind of fill in our listeners of
Speaker 2: what you guys just accomplished, A big accomplished and you're
Speaker 2: busy tonight, I think right.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
Speaker 16: We are the thirty fourth band ever to win the
Speaker 16: prestigious Sudler Trophy award, which is the highest award a
Speaker 16: college marching band can can earn. It It's been called
Speaker 16: the Heisman Trophy of college marching bands, and in fact,
Speaker 16: the trophy is made by the same company that designs
Speaker 16: then makes the Heisman Trophy, So we're really excited about it.
Speaker 16: Were only the fifth band west of the Mississippi, and
Speaker 16: you can only win this award once in your entire
Speaker 16: program's history.
Speaker 8: And it's a great honor as.
Speaker 16: Somebody who got both my degrees at u of A
Speaker 16: and was a member of the marching band. To be
Speaker 16: able to accept this award on behalf of generations of
Speaker 16: members of the part of Arizona and the University of Arizona,
Speaker 16: it's extra special being an alum.
Speaker 4: Hey, Chad, quick question, So congratulations by the What does
Speaker 4: the trophy of what is it? Is it a? Is it?
Speaker 4: What's Oh, it's.
Speaker 16: It's a it's a traveling trophy because you can only
Speaker 16: win it, you know once, it's every two years. It's
Speaker 16: a football stadium and then a drum major on top
Speaker 16: with a mace. Uh So there's there's a at the
Speaker 16: bottom of the stadium. There's a little football field. It's
Speaker 16: it's over one hundred pounds. The thing is just heavy
Speaker 16: as all can be. It's twenty two and a half
Speaker 16: inches tall, which is our standard eight steps to five yards,
Speaker 16: which is.
Speaker 8: Common in marching bands.
Speaker 16: So they made it a specific height for that reason,
Speaker 16: which is really neat and uh but yeah, it's it's
Speaker 16: going to be unveiled tonight and presented to the university officially.
Speaker 16: We'll have President Garrimela down there and Dosiree read Francois,
Speaker 16: along with previous directors of the Pride, uh and some
Speaker 16: other distinguished guests.
Speaker 8: So we're really really excited.
Speaker 4: Oh, I was just gonna say, you had how many
Speaker 4: people in a band there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Qu So we're we're right around two ninety.
Speaker 4: And where does the biggest in history?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Where do they?
Speaker 4: I mean we talk about you of a kids, the
Speaker 4: football players on scholarship basketball, they get recruited. How do
Speaker 4: you get two hundred ninety kids in the band?
Speaker 16: Well, it's really it's really one of the most representative
Speaker 16: groups on campus. We have over one hundred different majors
Speaker 16: in the Pride of Arizona, So any major that you
Speaker 16: can take at the school, we've got somebody in the
Speaker 16: Pride that is in that degree track, which is pretty
Speaker 16: pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2: We have.
Speaker 16: You know, the part of Arizona is not only the band,
Speaker 16: but it's the palm line, the toilers, the color guard,
Speaker 16: the drum line. Those are all auditioned spots and so
Speaker 16: that you know, every every place that the University of
Speaker 16: Arizona gets, students from all over the world really are
Speaker 16: represented in the Pride of Arizona, so it's it's truly
Speaker 16: a university of university.
Speaker 4: On are they tryouts? Do you recruit kids? Is there like, oh,
Speaker 4: there's a tuba player at Mike Mountain? We got to
Speaker 4: get I mean, how do you get kids follow you
Speaker 4: or how do you find the kids?
Speaker 8: We definitely recruit.
Speaker 16: We host a We do some recruiting in the spring
Speaker 16: with my leadership class that I teach for the students
Speaker 16: that go to be section leaders and work within the
Speaker 16: in the band.
Speaker 8: So we go out to schools and talk about what
Speaker 8: it's like to be in the organization.
Speaker 16: We go up to Phoenix, we make trips, and then
Speaker 16: we host an event called band Ay every year. This
Speaker 16: year it was a couple of weeks ago November second,
Speaker 16: We hosted forty seven high school marching bands and the
Speaker 16: Pride performs twice.
Speaker 8: So it's a chance for those bands to get.
Speaker 16: To play in the cathedral that is Arizona Stadium and
Speaker 16: also get to see the Pride, and that's usually pretty
Speaker 16: impressive for them, and that works as a big recruiter
Speaker 16: as well.
Speaker 2: I want you to solve the world's problems. Jay Jay.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you listened to the show, but
Speaker 2: Jay and I kind of started the show. Jay had
Speaker 2: the question for you. He texted it to me. He
Speaker 2: wants the band to do this, to do a band
Speaker 2: entrance at the beginning of the game instead of just
Speaker 2: walking on the field and starting all the Greek bands
Speaker 2: do Wisconsin, Ohio State usc kel Does it a band
Speaker 2: entrance to get the crowd fired up? Possible?
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 16: No, I respect his idea, and we used to do
Speaker 16: that very thing when the stadium was accessible from all
Speaker 16: four corners. It was a very famous interest. It's where
Speaker 16: we would come in from all four corners. Because of
Speaker 16: the way the stadium was redesigned, we actually have to
Speaker 16: condense down into a tiny tunnel space and then come out.
Speaker 8: Of that area and reopen back up.
Speaker 16: It's almost impossible for us to do an organized entrance.
Speaker 16: I would love for us to come out of the
Speaker 16: football tunnel in the center, just like those bands that
Speaker 16: he's talking about. It it wasn't an artistic choice, I
Speaker 16: can I can promise you that it was definitely a
Speaker 16: logistics choice. That's a bit of a struggle for us
Speaker 16: because we have photographers. The visiting team comes in right
Speaker 16: that way, and then they have a bunch of dignitaries
Speaker 16: and VIPs in that north end zone that make it,
Speaker 16: i mean, almost impossible for us to do any sort
Speaker 16: of organized entrance. So that's why we play that hype
Speaker 16: video at the beginning. We're hoping everybody's watching the screen
Speaker 16: seeing some highlights and some cool things to build everybody's
Speaker 16: attention while we load in, so that when that video ends,
Speaker 16: we step off and we're often running on our pregame show.
Speaker 8: I totally appreciate it. When I was in the Pride,
Speaker 8: we came in from all four corners and it was awesome.
Speaker 2: Chad. We appreciate you, cal we gotta go. Well, so
Speaker 2: thank you, Chad. Congratulations will be the Sea tonight.
Speaker 8: Appreciate yes, sir, thank you, appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: All right, I appreciate it. Good good call. We gotta go, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we gotta go. We have the eight Team show right
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 4: Thanks all right, Jeeve