Speaker 1: Just then we got ready with breaking news.
Speaker 2: This is High on the Ball breaking News on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen to fifty.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, So, like like we've been talking about over
Speaker 3: the weekend, there's a lot of a lot of sports
Speaker 3: things that went on across different leagues and across different levels.
Speaker 3: First one, uh, the draft happened, and for the first
Speaker 3: time since two thousand and eight, there was four players
Speaker 3: drafted first, one obviously being t mac going to the
Speaker 3: Panthers with the eighth overall pick, and then Big Jonas
Speaker 3: Abnea going with the thirty seventh overall pick in the
Speaker 3: second round, and followed up by Tyler loop the outstanding
Speaker 3: kicker who tied tied.
Speaker 1: The record right with the sixty two yarder against the record.
Speaker 3: Okay, he broke the record. He got drafted in the
Speaker 3: sixth round. And then Jacory Krossky Merritt, who's going to
Speaker 3: be the next guest, drafted at two hundred and forty
Speaker 3: fifth in this seventh round to the Commanders. Tyler Lup
Speaker 3: went to the Raven Sorry I didn't forgot to mention that.
Speaker 3: And then we had Quality Conley as an undrafted free
Speaker 3: agent go into the Bengals. So that's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 3: Another interesting draft story that came out of the weekend
Speaker 3: was a South Point grad, Lathan Ransom, got drafted by
Speaker 3: the Panthers in the fourth round, played for the Buckeyes,
Speaker 3: and then you know, the big story was obviously that
Speaker 3: sha Door slide with everything, which I don't know.
Speaker 4: One of the things that came out. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of things that came out with the Shador thing that
Speaker 4: I've dealt with. You know, I haven't been really the
Speaker 4: day to day guy in forever, maybe fifteen years, but
Speaker 4: I've saw it a lot where the helicopter parent was
Speaker 4: there here a time or two. Not all the time
Speaker 4: because you wouldn't allow it, but they kind of became
Speaker 4: a nuisance. And what bigger nuisance than Dean Sanders with
Speaker 4: his boys, because that's who they had as a coach
Speaker 4: for all these you know, their lifetime really but it's
Speaker 4: also a thing of ego, and my poop doesn't stink.
Speaker 4: I'm going to ask you a question. You've come across
Speaker 4: those athletes, oh, for sure, Well, you know you've been
Speaker 4: you haven't been in the business long. I've been in
Speaker 4: a long time, and there's a point where you say stop.
Speaker 1: Being a jerk and know it's crazy. You see it
Speaker 1: not only in the big sports like men's basketball and football.
Speaker 1: You see it in softball, you see it in soccer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well guess what because they've been playing this all
Speaker 4: their time and their parents are telling you the next
Speaker 4: best thing, blah blah blah. And that's fine. If you
Speaker 4: need encouragement, that's fine. But at some point, guess what,
Speaker 4: you have to live the real life, and the real
Speaker 4: life is nothing like that, and it's a letdown of no,
Speaker 4: you know, to me, I'll.
Speaker 1: Say this realistic.
Speaker 4: When I was the paper, you know, I did a
Speaker 4: lot of different things, and when the paper was gone,
Speaker 4: I had to kind of say, what the hell do
Speaker 4: I do now? I have to reinvent myself because of
Speaker 4: the situation. Right, That's how athletes are after after this stops, now,
Speaker 4: what what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: And I've said this, I know a lot of great athletes.
Speaker 4: I've been able to meet a lot of great ones
Speaker 4: and good dudes, a lot of them, not so good
Speaker 4: dudes some of them, not a lot of them. But
Speaker 4: it's like when that runs out, some of the bad
Speaker 4: ones turn out to be good ones because they have
Speaker 4: no choice, but they have to be good ones. But
Speaker 4: some of them will have a hard time because they
Speaker 4: don't know how to.
Speaker 1: Be a good guy. Does it make sense? When the
Speaker 1: music stops, what are you gonna do? Yeah? And yeah,
Speaker 1: you wake up and the moment's over, and it's like, well, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm thirty, I can't play sports anymore, or twenty eight,
Speaker 1: I can't play sports anymore. I kind of screwed around
Speaker 1: my whole entire college career. And what am I going
Speaker 1: to do now? What am I good for? Well, in
Speaker 1: some cases, we've seen that turn into a bus player,
Speaker 1: waiter at a local restaurant, lipping burgers. Eventually they make it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but there's no harm, no foul with that.
Speaker 1: But but you know, yeah, it's a culture shock. Yeah sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: keep it going. Yeah all right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The tennis regionals got announced men and women, men and women. Okay,
Speaker 3: Arizona is gonna be playing Denver University, which men and women?
Speaker 3: The men's men's team is going to be playing, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Denver University. They're the tenn seed right now, so they
Speaker 3: should be playing here. And then the women are going
Speaker 3: to the Virginia Regional and they are set to play
Speaker 3: against Illinois in the first round. That's this week yeah,
Speaker 3: this weekend, okay, on Friday. Yeah, So it's been interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be here this weekend. But have you
Speaker 3: been to a tennis No, They's supposed to be pretty
Speaker 3: fun because.
Speaker 4: They just hoot and holler and just play, right. It's
Speaker 4: not like Wimbledon, go down down in front tennis collaps. Yeah,
Speaker 4: keeping that going Arizona. Former Arizona defensive lineman Isaiah Johnson
Speaker 4: committed to North Carolina.
Speaker 1: He's okay. His issue is he couldn't stay home, that
Speaker 1: he couldn't stay on the field, a little bit out
Speaker 1: of shape, can't play all three downs, decent, rotational d tackle. Well,
Speaker 1: he's going to play for Belichick, so his size is
Speaker 1: a premium though size of premium. Well, if you guys
Speaker 1: stay in shape, you guys stay in shape. Right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was interesting to me having been in that press
Speaker 4: conference and I didn't go too many with that night
Speaker 4: of the post. Right his name was mentioned. It was
Speaker 4: almost like they threw that out purposely so he could stay. Like,
Speaker 4: we acknowledge that you're going to be a good player
Speaker 4: without saying don't go don't go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Did you get that or no? No, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not shocked that he entered, but it's definitely a
Speaker 1: piece they would like to have. How many left for
Speaker 1: how did they have left in terms of the tackles?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, no left the program since the spring game about
Speaker 4: five or five? Okay, So surprised by any of them?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: And very marginal numbers. Yeah, very few? Right, Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think the one that I was kind of shocked with
Speaker 1: not because you want to play for an opportunity, just
Speaker 1: because I thought he was happy in this situation was
Speaker 1: justin flow. Now do I get why he did it? Yes?
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait okay, okay, so why because he wants
Speaker 1: to play? Is he any good? No? Okay, well there
Speaker 1: you go. Giving the level he's good at New Mexico. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's cool. So let me ask you how did he
Speaker 1: get to the places he got to? Well, he was
Speaker 1: a highly talented five start crew. Well that means you
Speaker 1: could play. He can play, but his problem is he
Speaker 1: goes a mile a minute. Yeah, he's a little in
Speaker 1: a game that isn't that way. It structured, Yeah, it's structured.
Speaker 1: You have to be a thinking linebacker. Had trouble reading coverages,
Speaker 1: and he was seaball hit ball type of dude. You
Speaker 1: saw it cost ume against USC when Jeed Fish was
Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty three, a couple of roughing the
Speaker 1: passer penalties. If you can't control yourself on the field,
Speaker 1: who you're gonna hit, you're not going to see the
Speaker 1: field very much. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just remember him all that, all the things you say.
Speaker 4: And the first time that we saw him, Jay saw
Speaker 4: him coming for the press conference, it was like, who
Speaker 4: is his dude? He was like a Donnis coming in
Speaker 4: and they don't get these dudes very often. But then
Speaker 4: he didn't play or he played, and he was just like,
Speaker 4: what the hell are you thinking?
Speaker 1: He had a couple of good games and then he
Speaker 1: was yeah, yeah the thallion and a half court twice,
Speaker 1: just like the mistakes, what are you thinking?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are you thinking? But Jamel eventually redeemed himself right, well,
Speaker 1: well he would have really reduced shot. But you know,
Speaker 1: for every good thing he did on the field, I
Speaker 1: think he had ten tackles in that USC game. You
Speaker 1: had to pass interference penalties or roughing the passer penalties.
Speaker 1: So it's like you did all this good and then
Speaker 1: you're then he takes it away. It takes it, do
Speaker 1: it Okay.
Speaker 3: Women's basketball team signed Daneya Trammel. That got announced today.
Speaker 3: She's come. She's six foot one from Cincinnati. So that's
Speaker 3: that's another one.
Speaker 1: We've got a few. They got a couple, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's another one I was gonna say, as well
Speaker 3: as a guard from Spain that used to go to
Speaker 3: SMU named Maria Jurado.
Speaker 1: I think she was a commit to SMU. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: was a committed she didn't go there.
Speaker 3: And and oh here's a cool one. The gymnast, the
Speaker 3: Arizona Jim Kats, their coaching staff got named co Coaching
Speaker 3: Staff of the Year by College Gym News.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 4: I mean that's huge because he's been he joked, he's
Speaker 4: been here a long time, here a long time, and
Speaker 4: he they're kind of finally breaking the door of at
Speaker 4: least knocking on the door for the you know, the
Speaker 4: right door.
Speaker 1: They've been a consistent program of always you know, knocking
Speaker 1: on that door. Top twenty five, top fifteen. Uh, you
Speaker 1: look in the Pac ten packed Paul of Era. Utah
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Yeah, Ucla was phenomenal. So it's hard to
Speaker 1: break through playing. Didn't they beat Utah? Didn't They did
Speaker 1: be the first time in forever in Oklahoma. Maybe not Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: but yeah, there was like, holy, holy crap, we can
Speaker 1: be a team. But he's done a tremendous shop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a good dude. We had him on not too Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think his assistants were named like Assistance of the
Speaker 3: Year or something like that as well.
Speaker 7: A couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I've always wondered, I mean, he does a great job
Speaker 1: of what he does. Does how do you coach like
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be going and slipping like oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah he watched me. Yeah you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like some some coaches like oh you move this way.
Speaker 1: But even then, even then it's like.
Speaker 4: Golf, soccer, and only it's more of motivational than it
Speaker 4: is show, you know, show or yeah no, but I
Speaker 4: agree with you. Once you're a coach, those maybe they
Speaker 4: have their own coaches, you know it kind of like
Speaker 4: sweet coaches and things like that.
Speaker 1: Maybe they have their.
Speaker 3: Own maybe from like a judge's perspective too, it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, you just moved a little bit too, a
Speaker 3: bit like on your landing or something like that.
Speaker 1: Hey, dude, I just try to get to my car
Speaker 1: without breaking the lift. There's step one to step five
Speaker 1: and six. Issues.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sometimes it's just safer to take the elevator here.
Speaker 1: But hold the rail, baby, hold.
Speaker 3: The Rail baseball team lost the series against Texas Tech
Speaker 3: over the weekend. They split the doubleheader on Saturday. After
Speaker 3: that Friday game got rained out or yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was ranged.
Speaker 4: Are they still on top twenty five? I think they're
Speaker 4: hanging in there at twenty four before? Yeah, because I
Speaker 4: was wondering. But then that's the new poll.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it got New Mexico State tomorrow at
Speaker 3: starting at six at High Corbett.
Speaker 1: I can't go anywhere near there. They still want my tuition.
Speaker 7: Oh man, running from the law, No from the school.
Speaker 1: Nothing. Lot.
Speaker 3: The softball team split the series against San Diego State
Speaker 3: at San Diego. They have their final series before the
Speaker 3: Big twelve Softball Championship.
Speaker 1: Where's the it's going to be in Oklahoma City? Oh,
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Stadia, Okay, nice A nice venue to
Speaker 1: see what happens there. I think it's it might be
Speaker 1: their last year where that's the venue? Oh really. I
Speaker 1: think the contracts coming up, and I would expect the
Speaker 1: SEC drive Oklahoma and Texas to try to jump in there.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah it makes sense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, interesting stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah.
Speaker 3: It starts on Friday going through Sunday, different times, different
Speaker 3: starting times throughout the series. Moving on to some of
Speaker 3: the NBA news over the weekend, Lakers lost last night
Speaker 3: by three points.
Speaker 1: No boy, Chris heals me twenty boocks.
Speaker 3: It was a good game, though I believe it was
Speaker 3: Luca had thirty seven.
Speaker 7: Is that what it says?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Probably both. All the teams played both really well. The
Speaker 4: first the second game and the third game were much
Speaker 4: alike where the Lakers couldn't hold on at the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they got beat.
Speaker 4: But that game was fantastic because I don't know, if
Speaker 4: you notice, I call it the shot making League because
Speaker 4: these shots were coming down from far.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And not only those shots, I mean there was a
Speaker 3: special camera angle that a lot of people said they
Speaker 3: haven't seen it. I don't watch the NBA too much,
Speaker 3: so I don't want to say that I've never seen
Speaker 3: it and speak like from a knowledgeable perspective like that,
Speaker 3: But yeah, I guess that ceiling cam had never been
Speaker 3: seen on that. It was like a late, late foul.
Speaker 1: But oh okay, yeah yeah, yeah above the backboard.
Speaker 3: No, it looks like it was straight down because you
Speaker 3: could see the hoop and which was was this it.
Speaker 7: Was when Lebron failed Anthony Edward.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, that one because he stepped him.
Speaker 1: On the wrist of Yeah, that was a huge play.
Speaker 7: I mean there was only like, I think ten seconds.
Speaker 1: Huge play, yeah, and gave them the ball.
Speaker 7: Right, and so it was just it was interesting to
Speaker 7: see that.
Speaker 1: Did you watch a bunch of the I watched the
Speaker 1: Nuggets game. I saw the ending of that dunk getting
Speaker 1: getting the ball off his finger at point one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Watched the Laker game kind of no friends, I was
Speaker 1: kind of watching just want to see what they would lose.
Speaker 4: And they're for Minnesota, so they did the thing that
Speaker 4: nobody really watched during the regular season because the Ragings
Speaker 4: were horrible. They're gonna start watching again now, which the
Speaker 4: games have been pretty good, right, But the one thing
Speaker 4: that people are telling me, it's so much more physical
Speaker 4: now than it was in the regular season. And two
Speaker 4: they still walked the hell out of that ball. Did
Speaker 4: you see Pritchard's basket the other last time, whatever it was,
Speaker 4: he started, he dribbled, dribble, dribbled, stopped, and then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just call the game the way you
Speaker 1: do in the playoffs, deficiating, you're gonna get more viewership. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta have some defense and it's more physical. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: it's yeah.
Speaker 4: But the regular seasons just like, yeah, just sit in
Speaker 4: the perimeter, get your shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In the Pacers in Bucks series, Pacers won. But the
Speaker 3: big swing that came out of that was that Damian
Speaker 3: Lillard tore his achilles right, So his twenty five, uh,
Speaker 3: the five and twenty twenty six season is going to
Speaker 3: be in jeopardy because of like the rehab and stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't play pick a ball. That's why
Speaker 1: I go take the elevator. They're done and they yeah,
Speaker 1: you could might see, honest a Manda trade after the season.
Speaker 4: Well, Milwaukee just a team that won the title a
Speaker 4: few years ago.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, yeah, unfortunately, unfortunately. I'm a Sun's fan. You may
Speaker 1: be another thirty years before you think so. I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Okay, Hey, I didn't think we're gonna be
Speaker 1: good this year, and we weren't. We're gonna read to it.
Speaker 1: We'll be fine. How many championships have you won in
Speaker 1: your lifetan, it doesn't matter. It's gotta happen, exactly, gotta happen.
Speaker 1: You don't sound like a Cowboy fan.
Speaker 4: It's gonna you born in ninety six five next, yeah,
Speaker 4: like the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: They've been to one NBA finals since I was born.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, because ninety three they went to the part
Speaker 4: I covered that. I covered that. That was fun, and before.
Speaker 1: That was against the Celtics. And you better, if you
Speaker 1: want success in your life, son, you better pick a
Speaker 1: better team. That's why I'm a Bronco fan. Even then,
Speaker 1: even why I'm a Bronco fan in a better area.
Speaker 7: You know, well, just wrap you gotta go.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah with the Rockets and Warriors started at seven tonight,
Speaker 3: and the Cavaliers and the Heat start in about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay, the scow we can get ahold of JR. Cory
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Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
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Speaker 4: today is Troy hutch us In. And then we got
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Speaker 4: Jacorey Crosskey Merrit from U of A via Albuquerque and
Speaker 4: New Mexico.
Speaker 1: Jacorey, how are you doing.
Speaker 6: I'm good, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: How you doing good? Congratulations? We're doing fine. What a
Speaker 1: what a Saturday it was for you? At least in
Speaker 1: my eyes, how'd you feel Saturday?
Speaker 6: It was amazing? It was it was the day my
Speaker 6: dream came true. And it's just beginning now. This again special.
Speaker 1: You know, Jaccorey, you have definitely had an interesting path
Speaker 1: to the NFL, being at New Mexico, then one year
Speaker 1: at Arizona and having you know, to work out and
Speaker 1: stuff like that and get ready for the draft. Just
Speaker 1: take me through that moment of hearing your name selected
Speaker 1: and just thinking about all that work you put in.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the previous in the previous stop to Alabama
Speaker 1: State as well, but just you know, all that work
Speaker 1: and the trials and tribulations that you went through this
Speaker 1: past season out of Arizona. To hear your name selected
Speaker 1: in the NFL.
Speaker 6: Draft, it was. It was amazing to see all that
Speaker 6: that work payoff after, you know, a different journey that
Speaker 6: I had to go on, especially missing my last year
Speaker 6: of college football due to lab It's it was. It
Speaker 6: was challenging, but my mindset was like just to stay
Speaker 6: focused and like trusting God, knowing something's good. It's gonna
Speaker 6: come from this and that's just that's the main thing.
Speaker 6: I trusted God. The whole process, family and coaches helped
Speaker 6: me out a lot. So I mean, it all just
Speaker 6: it all was a team effort and end up ended
Speaker 6: up happening it out in our favor.
Speaker 4: You know, it's good that you stuck with it, right
Speaker 4: because I'm thinking, let me just put you through this
Speaker 4: last year. Last season, when you become with the eligibility issues,
Speaker 4: you could have easily said, Okay, I'm done, I've had enough,
Speaker 4: YadA YadA. But then Troy was telling me you were
Speaker 4: on the field still being there as a teammate won
Speaker 4: and being kind of the opponent running back.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, for sure, I love the game. It was
Speaker 6: it'll be hard just to you know, just stop playing.
Speaker 6: I figured, well, I know I have a whole lot
Speaker 6: of more football le me, and I know it wasn't
Speaker 6: the end not being able to play my senior year,
Speaker 6: and I just I just got to, you know, think
Speaker 6: my coaches and teammates for like, just keep me focused on.
Speaker 6: They definitely helped me out a lot. So, I mean,
Speaker 6: it's it's a blessing.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you real quick, because I think a
Speaker 4: lot of people they saw you the first game. They
Speaker 4: loved you. I know I did you. I'm a New
Speaker 4: Mexico guy too. I came here from from New Mexico,
Speaker 4: and I think this guy is pretty damn good. And
Speaker 4: I'm thinking if this guy could just play more right,
Speaker 4: And I think were you hopeful that you would eventually
Speaker 4: come back?
Speaker 6: I definitely thought I would be able to come back.
Speaker 6: We was working the whole season. I mean every week
Speaker 6: we had the office trying to see what's going on
Speaker 6: with the what's the news? But uh, it never got
Speaker 6: back to then. I wish I could have played for sure, even.
Speaker 1: Good well, Troy and I talked about this just even
Speaker 1: before you came on to me. You were worth two
Speaker 1: or three two or three wins.
Speaker 6: Oh for sure. I definitely I definitely could have hlped
Speaker 6: the team out. It hurt me every Sunday not knowing
Speaker 6: that I couldn't be out there with those guys, especially
Speaker 6: like it's working hard during the summer, getting up early,
Speaker 6: just training hard. It definitely hurt me and it would
Speaker 6: have been special. I definitely could have helped out way
Speaker 6: more than year.
Speaker 1: You know, and you mentioned that the coaches and how
Speaker 1: they helped you along and the relationships you built throughout
Speaker 1: your time in college football. But I just wanted you
Speaker 1: to talk about that relationship with Coach Carter and what
Speaker 1: he meant to you this past season as the running
Speaker 1: back coach. And I know he is a guy that
Speaker 1: across the country, a lot of people look at Coach
Speaker 1: Cutter as one of the top running back coaches and
Speaker 1: just your experience getting to play for him and going
Speaker 1: through this time with him as well.
Speaker 14: H Coach Carter, he's.
Speaker 6: One and one man. He wants he wants you to
Speaker 6: be great on and off the field, happy, hope. I
Speaker 6: got the you know, run across the guy like that
Speaker 6: my last year and I mean, dude is just he's amazing.
Speaker 6: He helped me a lot with this, with this process
Speaker 6: as well, just making sure I was crispy on and
Speaker 6: off the field, like just getting me ready through the process.
Speaker 6: I mean with meetings, it's like knowing how they're gonna
Speaker 6: gonna roll out and you know, just taking my game
Speaker 6: to the next level. He's he's the type of coach
Speaker 6: that's gonna point out my bad stuff and we're gonna
Speaker 6: we're gonna work at it every day. So I mean,
Speaker 6: I'm blessed and have a coach like that my last year.
Speaker 1: So when you go, are you scheduled to be out
Speaker 1: in Washington anytime soon?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir? When you camp start next week?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, oh next week. So there's no press conference
Speaker 4: for the draftees.
Speaker 14: We had one over the zone.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, we had one over zone.
Speaker 4: So let me let me ask you because I said
Speaker 4: I used to live in now not Albuquerque, but I
Speaker 4: grew up in Santa Fe. So I'm from New Mexico.
Speaker 1: So when you eventually you know, two three years down
Speaker 1: the road, is Tucson going to be a home for you?
Speaker 4: Is Albuquerque is going to be a home for you
Speaker 4: in terms of you know, people you go see and
Speaker 4: go visit.
Speaker 6: I'm thinking more of both. I love Tucson. I'm thinking Tucson.
Speaker 6: It's my second home right now, so I'm liking Tucson.
Speaker 1: When you get there for camp, what what are some
Speaker 1: of your expectations next week heading into UH training camp,
Speaker 1: rookie camp, and just what are you mostly excited about
Speaker 1: UH to get to there.
Speaker 6: I'm excited about the staff, just seeing it in person,
Speaker 6: seeing what kind of value I can add to the team.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm mostly the site about just being able
Speaker 6: to go out there and make a name early for
Speaker 6: myself then making a team. So I'm just I'm just
Speaker 6: ready to go down, go down and work and and show.
Speaker 14: The coaches that they they got to go.
Speaker 4: So tell me you sit out last year, but you're
Speaker 4: still working out and you're doing your thing. How important
Speaker 4: or how crucial was that All Star Game? Because you
Speaker 4: were fantastic?
Speaker 6: That All Star Game helped me out a lot. Shout
Speaker 6: out to Air for inviting me, but definitely helped me
Speaker 6: out a lot. Had a chance to go out and
Speaker 6: play with, you know, some of the best guys across
Speaker 6: the country, even after seeing out of Yeah, it was
Speaker 6: it was good to show that I can I can
Speaker 6: still play with the best of them. I mean, I
Speaker 6: just had to take the I had to. I just
Speaker 6: had to. I just had to take the best of advantage.
Speaker 6: And like that's exactly what I did. That's something that
Speaker 6: I was hoping that I got a chance to do.
Speaker 6: And when I got that chance, it was no, it
Speaker 6: was no looking back. So it definitely helped me out
Speaker 6: a lot.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be having a chance to work with a
Speaker 1: guy like Jannon Daniels and that offense and just seeing
Speaker 1: what the Commanders did last season. Is such a young
Speaker 1: team with a lot of young players and you faces
Speaker 1: there just you know, have you gotten a phone call
Speaker 1: from any of the players on the team or or
Speaker 1: obviously you got the phone call from the head coach
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn.
Speaker 6: It's been a couple of guys followed me on the
Speaker 6: team that love. I can't wait to get out there
Speaker 6: and meet the guys. I mean, I know it's a
Speaker 6: good brotherhood out there and just ready to meet him
Speaker 6: in person.
Speaker 1: So what advice did once you got drafted? Did a
Speaker 1: guy like coach Carter or coach Brennan give you As
Speaker 1: you are making your way through this process and is
Speaker 1: starting to get prepared for training.
Speaker 6: Camp every day they're like, it's not it's not the end,
Speaker 6: Like you know.
Speaker 14: You're gonna have to be ready for this when you.
Speaker 6: When you get to the next level. I mean, like
Speaker 6: those guys believe they see like day want and that's
Speaker 6: that's that's huge to me. They was preparing me for
Speaker 6: the next level and those like every day and like
Speaker 6: it's just advancing that they they seen the talent, they
Speaker 6: knew what I was capable of and it's it was.
Speaker 6: It was amazing. Like those guys been with me from
Speaker 6: the starting. They definitely knew that I had the talent
Speaker 6: to go.
Speaker 14: To the next level.
Speaker 1: So who's your team growing up?
Speaker 6: I'm a Cowboys and in the Pittsburgh Stillers fan. Those
Speaker 6: were my team's growing up. But I mean that don't
Speaker 6: matter right now. Washington that's my team now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no questions.
Speaker 4: So did you you grew up watching the Cowboys because
Speaker 4: they were probably on.
Speaker 14: The love the Cowboys, but gave me so I'm definitely
Speaker 14: decided about going to Wash.
Speaker 4: So I give Troy a grief two here because he's
Speaker 4: a Bronco and I grew up with Cowboys fans because
Speaker 4: it was the only thing on TV back in the day.
Speaker 4: I gave up on them after the Super Bowl because
Speaker 4: it's been a tough life Corey since then. Hm, the
Speaker 4: Redskins have been almost a better just last year, right,
Speaker 4: a better run, Commander. So yeah, what I said, Riskins,
Speaker 4: do you have an old dude? Have an old dude? Yeah,
Speaker 4: they've had they had a great run last year.
Speaker 6: Uh, and we're looking forward to build on it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely looking for the build on it.
Speaker 1: Is there any as you go through this process and
Speaker 1: you get closer to the season, you know, preseason football.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody on that roster in terms of the
Speaker 1: running back room that you're excited to get to learn from,
Speaker 1: like a guy like Austin Eckler or Robinson there. I
Speaker 1: know they have a lot of backs there that that
Speaker 1: have gone through the grind of NFL seasons.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm definitely ready to get down to meet those guys.
Speaker 6: I mean, those are events in the game and I
Speaker 6: definitely respect them. Ready to get there and learn the
Speaker 6: small details, learn the ends and offs of the game,
Speaker 6: and we're just ready to to just see see how
Speaker 6: things are ran. Look, Force is just learning a lot
Speaker 6: and just just being pro early don't have the Ricky mindset, haven't.
Speaker 6: I'm kind of going in there where I am going
Speaker 6: there with, you know, the older guy mindset and like
Speaker 6: just still still respecting those guys, but like just coming,
Speaker 6: you know, to to get a spot. So I'm definitely
Speaker 6: ready to go and meet the guys and learn from them.
Speaker 4: So how long is the Is the camp maybe for
Speaker 4: a few days a week and then you get ready
Speaker 4: for the summer.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I think it's on a weekend and then
Speaker 6: we're going to another portion of the season.
Speaker 4: Okay, but Ja Corey, appreciate your time. Good luck to you,
Speaker 4: congratulations and all that, because, as Troy said, what a journey.
Speaker 1: To this point.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, you will, good luck out the good ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah to Corey, Corey, Kross, Gyme Marr.
Speaker 4: Yeah, getting I want to confuse the last two names.
Speaker 4: No cool, No, very cool. I still think two or
Speaker 4: three wins. There was one of those close games.
Speaker 7: Tech man, that's the one that comes to mind first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's kind of when they started to unravel
Speaker 1: West Virginia. If you're just able to run the ball
Speaker 1: in that game. Yeah yeah, I mean, imagine how much
Speaker 1: different the football season would have gone. Yeah. Maybe the honestly,
Speaker 1: maybe the Kansas State is different. The Kansas State game
Speaker 1: is different as a one possession game going into the
Speaker 1: second half and then it kind of imploded. Offense wasn't
Speaker 1: really clicking. You weren't running the football. So if you
Speaker 1: had that running back of stabilizing force.
Speaker 4: That's what you needed with this offense, because you would,
Speaker 4: you're exactly right, relieve pressure from the running the passion attack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think another to note is also like the relief for quality,
Speaker 3: because I mean, I mean he did great obviously, I
Speaker 3: mean signed with That's another thing. Yeah, is like having
Speaker 3: a one two like that and keeping them both. I mean,
Speaker 3: everybody's gonna get tired throughout a game, but like keeping
Speaker 3: them semi fresh. It's like, yeah, that wears on defenses.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean there you saw what they had in
Speaker 1: terms of the transportal, their mindset. Okay, Jacory kross Kimer,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be our number one back. Number two back
Speaker 1: is going to be Kaally Conley, but those guys are
Speaker 1: going to get the majority of the touches. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have a red zone back, I do it all back,
Speaker 1: and that's how we're gonna work this offense. And then
Speaker 1: it kind of.
Speaker 4: Just got I know, this would have been a question
Speaker 4: of an excuse to to Britain, But did he ever
Speaker 4: talk about his absence at some point in review season review?
Speaker 4: How how it would have been had he had I.
Speaker 1: Think he did make an I can't exactly remember the
Speaker 1: exact quote, but I think he's talked about kind of
Speaker 1: starting behind the eight ball at the start of the season.
Speaker 1: Only merit about Raymond Palito as well, having deal of
Speaker 1: offensive line issues and injuries on the line too. No,
Speaker 1: and it's very true. It's not an excuse.
Speaker 4: It's just something that happened, right, and you can't It's
Speaker 4: hard to overcome something like that. It's like, uh, I
Speaker 4: don't know, so maybe Tommy losing a Bradley.
Speaker 1: Yeah for a while that the whole season, Well, imagine Bradley. Well,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, imagine it was in a basketball
Speaker 1: without Tobyo Waka. Now nobody thought a Waka was gonna
Speaker 1: be great, but kind of that stabilizing toughness. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: take that away. How well did they do? They do
Speaker 1: very well without Tobio Waka.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, it would have.
Speaker 3: Been really interesting too, kind of like on that toughness part,
Speaker 3: because I mean, like everybody talks about like left tackles, right.
Speaker 7: Like being like the anchor of the line.
Speaker 3: And then you know, going into a big twelve that's
Speaker 3: kind of I feel like more known as like a
Speaker 3: pass happy kind of not too tough of a defense
Speaker 3: kind of conference. I mean, just being able to have
Speaker 3: a running game like that would have been probably would
Speaker 3: done wonders for the season.
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Speaker 7: Yeah that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, finish out your school year, just a
Speaker 1: few days left. Excited you panicky? No you don't. You're
Speaker 1: not graduating your You come back next.
Speaker 7: Year either way.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, and this is nothing.
Speaker 1: This is my break. Let a break. What a nice
Speaker 1: thing to do.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, if you want to call five two zero
Speaker 4: four one. It was good to talk to Corey. I
Speaker 4: didn't know that you hadn't talked to him before.
Speaker 1: No, we never got an opportunity to really interview him.
Speaker 1: He came late during the fall because the originally he
Speaker 1: went to Ole miss uh transfer to Arizona, played in
Speaker 1: that game and that was it. That was it, and
Speaker 1: then the eligibility things happened, and they're not going to
Speaker 1: put somebody out there that has the eligibility thing going.
Speaker 4: Right, And they kind of talked about it right then,
Speaker 4: until you stop talking.
Speaker 1: About saying, oh, we're still going to figured it out.
Speaker 1: We're still week by week by week, and then by
Speaker 1: a week nine you're like, yeah, this isn't gonna.
Speaker 4: Happen, right and still may have helped him at the
Speaker 4: final two games. Yeah, it's a very sad situation, but
Speaker 4: good for him now that he's able to move on
Speaker 4: and possibly at lantic spot.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think a very underrated back. I
Speaker 1: know this is a heavy running back draft class, but
Speaker 1: you get a guy like that in the seventh round
Speaker 1: and there have been Hall of Fame seven round running
Speaker 1: backs and I'm not saying he's going to be. That's
Speaker 1: a long way away from now, but I think it's
Speaker 1: a guy that could make an impact year one. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if some injuries happened, he comes out
Speaker 1: and plays and puts together five six hundred yards as
Speaker 1: a rookie. Just need a chance. Maybe I'll get a chance.
Speaker 4: Okay, And then you answered your own question first time
Speaker 4: Arizona went back to back your year on first round
Speaker 4: picks eight ninety eighty nine, ninety give me the answers
Speaker 4: eighty nine.
Speaker 1: I thought that it was ninety nine.
Speaker 7: Chris McCallister when he went to the Ravens, what.
Speaker 1: To number eleven?
Speaker 7: Ten?
Speaker 1: Ten? Went off?
Speaker 3: And then trunk candidate who went to the Saint Louis
Speaker 3: Rams at thirty one?
Speaker 4: Okay, and then in eight ninety I'm sorry, two number.
Speaker 3: Ones, yeah, and then yeah, ninety two number ones it
Speaker 3: was Chris Singleton and Anthony Smith in eight and eleven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris Singleton went to Miami Patriots, Patriots and Anthony
Speaker 1: Smith went to Oakland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So there's not a huge history of NFL draft, right,
Speaker 4: but but you know some pretty good players, very good players.
Speaker 1: Some guys that shine in the second and later round.
Speaker 1: Do you think that Brennan can continue what Jed started?
Speaker 1: Take your time. I'm trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: answer this, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say no. With
Speaker 1: the NFL players, I think it's going to be And
Speaker 1: that's not to say they're not going to be a
Speaker 1: successful program, but I think you're going to see more
Speaker 1: of the line lines and lines of Rich Rod where
Speaker 1: the recruiting might not be there, the NFL talent might
Speaker 1: not be there, but you're winning games. So let me
Speaker 1: ask you what did What was the secret saw for
Speaker 1: Jed NFL model and people bought into it, and people
Speaker 1: bought into it talking about being the thirty third That
Speaker 1: was his big mantra, being the thirty third NFL team,
Speaker 1: having an NFL mindset with the players, the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and just really hitting the ground running in terms of
Speaker 1: working hard and finding hidden gems that not a lot
Speaker 1: of people looked at, like Jonas Salvanaa was a gift. Really,
Speaker 1: it just happened at the right time. You're talking about
Speaker 1: a kid that played in a big program in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: But unfortunately for him during that time, he had COVID,
Speaker 1: so not a lot of coaches bibles to go over
Speaker 1: to Hawaii and make those trips, so that limited his recruitment.
Speaker 1: Arizona found him and started from week one, right, so
Speaker 1: people believed what Jed was saying for sure the two
Speaker 1: thirty three and I guess he came through because he
Speaker 1: found some guys and it was a lot of to
Speaker 1: do with playing time. We're going to play you right away.
Speaker 17: M hm.
Speaker 1: They loved the conversation about that. And he had guys
Speaker 1: on his staff including him, that have coached at the NFL.
Speaker 4: Right, so, perfect storm, perfect storm at a number of levels.
Speaker 4: Right with that, ex players or ex coaches, talented, talented
Speaker 4: players obviously coached them up, caught them well, and believed
Speaker 4: in the saying that we're the team thirty three.
Speaker 3: Do you think on the offensive side? I mean there
Speaker 3: were one of the stories that I remember. One of
Speaker 3: the things that I remember hearing was that said Dege
Speaker 3: he was at with Jackson Dart at his Do you
Speaker 3: think like that like more on the offensive side?
Speaker 7: It can? You know that can translate?
Speaker 1: Maybe? I just even like rich Rod was a highly
Speaker 1: talented offensive coach, offensive mastermind, but there really wasn't a
Speaker 1: guy you looked at and thought that's an NFL player,
Speaker 1: especially on the line. They had a kind of undersized line.
Speaker 1: Caleb Jones was probably the the receiver him in Austin
Speaker 1: Hill before Anstin Hill hurt his leg. But Caleb Jones
Speaker 1: wasn't a tetro Roman. Wasn't Caleb the guy from Texas? Yes,
Speaker 1: well Dan Buckner. Dan Buckner was here before, you know
Speaker 1: when Caleb was as well. Yea, yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: was a trouble in Texas. Yeah. And his brother was
Speaker 1: Zay Johnson that played at Eastern Carolina that got drafted
Speaker 1: in like the second and third round or something like that.
Speaker 1: But maybe a Nick Wilson before the injuries, maybe he
Speaker 1: would have been a draft pick. But there wasn't. Just
Speaker 1: there wasn't and there was very good college challenge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there wasn't tremendous enough with the Kadeen obviously. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Kadeen Okay, maybe a different coaching staff, maybe Kadeen got drafted.
Speaker 1: He was maybe, but maybe you're not running to the
Speaker 1: sound and he was punished a lot. He ran a lot.
Speaker 1: Forty fifty times a game, yeah, something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well the Oregon game two hundred and fifty yards and
Speaker 1: I think ninety forty nine carries or something something carries.
Speaker 1: So I think a different system, maybe Kadeen would have
Speaker 1: happen maybe more success than that. Yeah, yeah, so we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Yeah, No, I agree with you. That's where
Speaker 1: you reason.
Speaker 4: Actually, I don't think it's gonna happen much in this
Speaker 4: program under and there are two different people, right once
Speaker 4: a salesman, the other ones not. Uh, and we know
Speaker 4: which ones which. But at some point that you know,
Speaker 4: Brendan might have to get out of his box and
Speaker 4: become a salesman.
Speaker 1: They're you know, in terms of the recruiting field right now,
Speaker 1: a lot of the talented players of four or five stars,
Speaker 1: they liked this coaching staff, but their question is can
Speaker 1: they win in terms of being recruited here? In terms
Speaker 1: of being recruited here because they've talked to those high
Speaker 1: level skirts and the kids like them. They like Alonzo Carter,
Speaker 1: like Brent Brennan. They love the family atmosphere. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, are you going to put
Speaker 1: me in the NFL? And are you going to win games? Well?
Speaker 1: And wouldn't. How much are you gonna pay me be
Speaker 1: up there? Well, that's that's another aspect well, which is
Speaker 1: the which is the worst detractor? Pay me? I think
Speaker 1: can you win? Yeah? And I'm not saying you're gonna
Speaker 1: get like a Teto McMillan. Yeah, that was kind of
Speaker 1: a perfect storm you're talking for that to happen again.
Speaker 1: Tetro is a very interesting to you, highly talented. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he was a little different from your average five
Speaker 1: star recrew. He wasn't so arrogant, he wasn't so cocky.
Speaker 1: Well he also, yeah, that wasn't wasn't that the key
Speaker 1: that turned down. That was the one of the big ones.
Speaker 1: But Oregon also had a coaching switch where they hire
Speaker 1: their their current head coach right now, and he's a
Speaker 1: defensive minded coach, so he called all the defensive recruits
Speaker 1: making sure they were locked in, kind of put the
Speaker 1: offense to the side and second fiddle. So that was noticed.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's the reason, but it was
Speaker 1: noticed where Jed stayed focused. Hey, you know, we still
Speaker 1: love you out here. We have your teammates and da
Speaker 1: da dad. Oh they're ignoring you a little bit, you know.
Speaker 3: Sure, think on that article that ESPN like that, like
Speaker 3: where they talked about like his volleyball like history and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. I think they talk about I forget
Speaker 3: his name right now. But the Miami coach. They didn't
Speaker 3: even tell him that he was gonna Yeah. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: don't tell him that he was going to be going
Speaker 3: to Miami.
Speaker 1: Well, Mario Chris Paul and then Dan Lanning came in
Speaker 1: a very defensive minded coach, and it's you know, it
Speaker 1: kind of falls apart for them in that end. But
Speaker 1: then they get Elijah Rushian who hasn't panned out yet
Speaker 1: but hasn't had a lot of playing time, so they
Speaker 1: got theirs on that end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's just a it's a crap shoot. You
Speaker 4: get lucky or whatever, and then if you're good, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know. The best thing that happened to Arizona was
Speaker 4: t Mac and Noah.
Speaker 1: T Mac, Noah and Jonahs Salvnea. Jonah's one of those dudes,
Speaker 1: you know. Jordan Morgan was the first round draft pick.
Speaker 1: I get he went higher than Jonahs Salvaa. I think
Speaker 1: the most talent alignment I've seen at Arizona is Jonah
Speaker 1: Salvaea over Jordan Morgan. He's not a tackle, and that's
Speaker 1: why Jonah went in the first Jordan Morgan went in
Speaker 1: the first round because he's a tackle. But Jonah salvae
Speaker 1: is one of the hardest working guards in the country.
Speaker 1: He is a very good player.
Speaker 3: It's it's an exciting I mean, I'm always excited for
Speaker 3: football season.
Speaker 1: I didn't Yeah, I didn't realize that going to camp
Speaker 1: right away, like next for rookie camp, get together seven
Speaker 1: like a week two week period for some teams. Feel
Speaker 1: you feel yourself out kind of thing. You know, where
Speaker 1: you're at, blah blah blah, get you ready for Minnie
Speaker 1: camps and then you know, OTAs. Do you know how
Speaker 1: Manu's coming along? I have not seen anything from Washington.
Speaker 1: They keep kind of those practices closed off. I know
Speaker 1: he's loving it there. You know that coaching staff. Again,
Speaker 1: another gem that Jetfish was able to find. Nobody wanted
Speaker 1: to Manu was a high three star recruit, but not
Speaker 1: a lot of big time programs wanted him because of
Speaker 1: his size. But you watch him play. He plays with
Speaker 1: his hair on fire, so it's like, okay, just give
Speaker 1: him a shot. You know, he worked his way up
Speaker 1: from the practice squad to starting his freshman year, so
Speaker 1: you know, you just gotta have that opportunity to be
Speaker 1: given that chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I feel like that that's like one of
Speaker 3: the big things that like, especially right now, that's kind
Speaker 3: of probably one of Brennan's like selling points is like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're brand new program, you know, But for.
Speaker 1: Him right now, it's playing time, Like after going four
Speaker 1: and eight, how can you not offer playing time?
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, every position with obviously quarterbacks not open to discus us,
Speaker 1: but most positions, I'm assuming they're open. You want to
Speaker 1: come in and compete, you can play. Do you think
Speaker 1: we April? You get four months? They come back in
Speaker 1: a little less than four months. This team is going
Speaker 1: to be ready to compete at least play better than
Speaker 1: last year. I think they'll play better. I think I
Speaker 1: like the offensive system and the scheme better. No no
Speaker 1: offense to oh my god, his name is sleeping my
Speaker 1: mind right now. The offense coordinator what was his name?
Speaker 1: It slipped my mind from lust year babers, no offense
Speaker 1: to babies, babors. But he just wasn't very creative. You
Speaker 1: couldn't tell me what kind of scheme it was. The
Speaker 1: scheme was get the ball to Tiptoro McMillan, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're going to do from that. You
Speaker 1: know from there, there doesn't that. It wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of cohesion there and it didn't play to the player's strengths.
Speaker 1: Where Dagi, you know, he gets classified as the air
Speaker 1: raid coach. But to me, it looks a lot similar
Speaker 1: to what rich Rod ran where it's up tempo. Yes,
Speaker 1: you're running the wall pass him, but it's going to
Speaker 1: be very balanced. They're going to want to play fast,
Speaker 1: they're going to want to play up tempo and get
Speaker 1: the ball downfield.
Speaker 4: Better to watch, easier to watch, oh for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: which could help you know, selling tickets and all that.
Speaker 1: Selling tickets and when you're not sold on your offensive
Speaker 1: line in terms of being able to hold up at
Speaker 1: twelve games. Yeah, you mitigate a lot of that stuff
Speaker 1: by just giving the ball out quickly, right right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember, like during the games, that was one thing
Speaker 3: that Lamont would talk about like a lot that he
Speaker 3: he felt that there was like there was a lot
Speaker 3: of like long developing like kind of passing routes and
Speaker 3: like things like that. So he always wanted like he
Speaker 3: would always be like, man, I wish they would like
Speaker 3: pass it underneath it.
Speaker 1: A little bit more. Wait, you're sleeping with the other guys.
Speaker 7: No, man, you know, sleeping with twelve.
Speaker 1: Ninety you cheating on me, Actually, your kid actually sleep
Speaker 1: with me. You were with them first? Okay, never mind,
Speaker 1: I'm not involved in because he worked at twelve nine,
Speaker 1: he probably you can probably go back.
Speaker 7: He usually tells me like a couple of weeks before
Speaker 7: the Masters.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, before the ends or before it starts. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so remember where you're at right now. No but I
Speaker 1: think that's fair because he saw stepping back, you know,
Speaker 1: eight nine, twelve feet at times looking for somebody to
Speaker 1: get open, and a lot of it was deep balls,
Speaker 1: and Noah's weakness is his deep ball, so you're not
Speaker 1: playing to his strength. They kind of quit on the
Speaker 1: running game throughout times throughout the season where they just
Speaker 1: weren't running the football, and then you had the delay handoffs.
Speaker 1: I don't know, that was bizarre. We thought it was
Speaker 1: like just miscommunication. They're like, no, that's what we want.
Speaker 1: What was the purpose? They couldn't really give us a
Speaker 1: good reason behind it, to be honest, you know, never
Speaker 1: had a really solid reason for that. Yeah. And he's
Speaker 1: a smart dude too. I mean, he highly successful his
Speaker 1: first time at Arizona, was highly successful at Baylor, Texa,
Speaker 1: Sam and Syracuse too, So I was expecting more and
Speaker 1: it was kind of underwhelming. But no, this this system
Speaker 1: is very different from the previous system. And defensively, I
Speaker 1: think they're going to be a little bit more flexible
Speaker 1: than last year. Not lining up in the same for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I hope the school year is a better
Speaker 4: year athletically, basketball tournament to be okay, football, not so
Speaker 4: much women's basketball to ye if it's better because it
Speaker 4: was and we talked to who we talked to you
Speaker 4: last week.
Speaker 1: I can't remember, maybe Rocky.
Speaker 4: I can't remember what it was where this was rivaling
Speaker 4: the nineties where it was really good for a long time.
Speaker 4: And you have certain sports that are becoming that that level.
Speaker 4: But you know, some of the ones have to step
Speaker 4: up to make it competitive like it was back in
Speaker 4: the good old days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know when Jed was here and yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean basketball was going towards down direction. I kind
Speaker 1: of just fell apart in some areas. Yeah, and well
Speaker 1: just one that one program. Yeah, and women's basketball they
Speaker 1: weren't that good back then, but they were they were
Speaker 1: getting some steam right until it wasn't. Softball was missing
Speaker 1: the UH tournament, UH baseball getting knocked out in the
Speaker 1: first round.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, yeah, so we'll see I mean, it's
Speaker 4: so far, so good, at least in spring.
Speaker 1: You gotta go.
Speaker 4: Thanks guy, Let's see you everyone tomorrow. I'll be in
Speaker 4: Tomorrow's my last day of the week, so thanks