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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eye on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: pod Sports fourteen. Because beyond Steve Rivera, he's Dave Silverton.
Speaker 2: Now we have Henry with breaking news.
Speaker 1: Well, this is I on the Ball breaking News on
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Speaker 3: The all WNBA teams were released. The first team was
Speaker 3: Caitlyn Clark, the FISA Collier, Breonna Stewart, Asia Wilson, and
Speaker 3: Alyssa Thomas. And Caitlin Clark became the first rookie to
Speaker 3: be on the first team since Candice Parker in two
Speaker 3: thousand and eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well a lot of people watched her play, that's
Speaker 4: for sure. No surprise.
Speaker 5: I mean, she's it's been like NonStop Kaitlyn Clark news
Speaker 5: ever since the basketball season college basketball season, so and
Speaker 5: her not being in the Olympics was a big story,
Speaker 5: and it just continued into the playoffs and you know,
Speaker 5: the playoffs are almost over, but she's still brought a
Speaker 5: lot of eyeballs to the w n b A this year.
Speaker 3: The Game three of the w NBA Finals is between
Speaker 3: the Links and The Liberty is tonight at five PM.
Speaker 3: It is a best of five series. In the series
Speaker 3: is currently tied at one game a piece.
Speaker 4: H Okay, I think fewer people are watching it, but
Speaker 4: it's still popular.
Speaker 5: They're still getting pretty good rating ratings, though I think
Speaker 5: maybe not what they would have gotten with some of
Speaker 5: the bigger names, but they're still.
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago. Well yeah, way more.
Speaker 3: New Jets receiver DeVante Adams is expected to play Sunday
Speaker 3: versus the Steelers and make his Jets debut.
Speaker 2: My guess is they'll finally win a game there. Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers will be happy. Yeah, and that's a difficult thing
Speaker 2: to do, Dave, to get him happy, to make him happy.
Speaker 2: Those eye rolls. Those eye rolls are classic. Well, oh,
Speaker 2: who's his other receiver? Wilson. He's pretty good. Went to
Speaker 2: Lozarno lot the other day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, tizard, it's got some got some players.
Speaker 5: So if I don't know if Davante's he's gonna learn
Speaker 5: the playbook.
Speaker 2: He's not that fault either. I mean he's at fault
Speaker 2: too because he makes some bad decisions sometimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's not everybody's fault.
Speaker 3: Bulls guard Lonzo Ball will be playing in his first
Speaker 3: NBA game in over a thousand days today during the
Speaker 3: Bulls preseason game tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Wow, wow, he's been out for almost three years.
Speaker 4: I think it was January of twenty twenty two, twenty two.
Speaker 4: Well did you ever deal with that family? No?
Speaker 2: No, but no, no, even at ucill I know, I
Speaker 2: don't even know where to city.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, I mean it was just kind of
Speaker 5: they were like in your face.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure. Didn't he think he could beat Jordan,
Speaker 2: he could beat the dad?
Speaker 4: Yeah? He thought he was great. Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: Do they still sell shoot, they still sell shoes.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: I think they got out the business. They got sued
Speaker 2: or something. Oh really, yeah, and the kids don't world.
Speaker 3: Game three of the NLCS between the Dodgers and the
Speaker 3: Mets is today at five o eight pm. The series
Speaker 3: is tied at one.
Speaker 4: Is that Neilly? It's in New York.
Speaker 3: They moved two two three two actually played three in
Speaker 3: New York.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: They've got to win at least one of those to
Speaker 2: have a chance, and they're the favorite to do it, right.
Speaker 4: Dodgers. Yeah, the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Yep, I actually got a starting pitcher of pitching tonight
Speaker 5: Walker Bueller, so they did that bullpen game kind of
Speaker 5: backfired on him the other night, so.
Speaker 4: We'll see ye Buehler.
Speaker 5: Buehler kind of cool last night seeing Aaron Judge finally
Speaker 5: hit a postseason home run. This year, big Yankees cruising.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I was just gonna say.
Speaker 3: The Yankees defeated the Guardian six to three to go
Speaker 3: up in the LCS two nothing, and Game three is
Speaker 3: tomorrow in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: You you sound like you've have bad frequency voice, like
Speaker 2: tunnel which sets is fine. I know you're sick kind,
Speaker 2: but you sound like a like a radio guy with the.
Speaker 5: I hate to you know, I'm I've we had the
Speaker 5: Cleveland baseball team here in Ducsan, so they're kind of
Speaker 5: like people remember them here. But I think baseball is
Speaker 5: just dying not for Cleveland to win, right, because look
Speaker 5: at the World Series. It's going to be, right, Yankees
Speaker 5: or the Mets or the Dodgers, that's going to be
Speaker 5: a big time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be football season in the middle of football season,
Speaker 2: Cleveland and New York the Mets make it right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everyone's waiting for the Dodgers and the Yankees. That'd be fine.
Speaker 2: You know the two big dudes. Yep, the two big
Speaker 2: dudes going against each other. Seventy six what all of
Speaker 2: a sudden you you're sound right.
Speaker 3: Seventy six Ers forward Paul George has a bone bruise
Speaker 3: and his knee and he might be out for the
Speaker 3: regular season opener next week.
Speaker 4: Of course he might have a board bruis. What about Kawhi?
Speaker 4: Are we ever going to see Kawhi come back? I
Speaker 4: don't think he's also playing the opener. No, he was.
Speaker 5: East hasn't played a game yet either. I don't think
Speaker 5: it's already loads management time.
Speaker 2: It's nice to make a ton of money, does not
Speaker 2: have to worry about we're getting paid or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the eighty two games.
Speaker 4: It's a long the long season.
Speaker 5: But still I just feel bad for the fam and
Speaker 5: plus their new arena that the Clippers Arena is opening.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, be into it dome or whatever, so
Speaker 5: that that looks amazing. I haven't obviously haven't been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we were in LA recently. I think I
Speaker 2: don't know what for I remember seeing the start of it. Yeah, Clippers,
Speaker 2: Clippers new home. It's going to be pretty good. Steve
Speaker 2: Balmer's you know. Yeah, mister Microsoft. So the high you
Speaker 2: you grew up with the Clippers, right, were they not
Speaker 2: there where in San Diego?
Speaker 4: Oh no you were?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay they were no longer they were no
Speaker 2: longer there. They were, they were there, they were the Okay,
Speaker 2: so you kind of there're still the Clippers. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: still the Clippers. I remember in ninety seven, ninety eight, Uh, Bibby.
Speaker 2: Bibby was, uh, you know, possible number one draft guy.
Speaker 2: We're in Vancouver for the draft, and I wrote a
Speaker 2: column they'd be stupid, that they'd be not right to
Speaker 2: to not draft Mike Bibby, best guard in the in
Speaker 2: the in the country at the time, only a sophomore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yea.
Speaker 2: And he went to and they got the guy from Stockton,
Speaker 2: the big dude, why Michael Olo Condo.
Speaker 5: Yes, I remember that moment when they said drafts Michael
Speaker 5: and we oh yeah, what oh.
Speaker 2: God, you know what day you can't teach hyped? Thanks llu,
Speaker 2: you can't teach hype and what the hell? Yeah you
Speaker 2: made it was a bad decision, but they always made
Speaker 2: bad decisions.
Speaker 4: Yep. They were just they were not good. No, it's
Speaker 4: just never been really good. They had terrible ownership for
Speaker 4: one hundred years. Right. Did you ever see that series
Speaker 4: that Sterning. I just I've not seen it, but I'll
Speaker 4: probably watch it.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I ran into somebody who was the secretary.
Speaker 2: I have to I have to recall who it was
Speaker 2: in town here that they used to work for me,
Speaker 2: and he says everything that's on the show is true.
Speaker 4: He was. He was a strange dude.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean, they just they just couldn't couldn't
Speaker 5: find the right players, couldn't find the right coaches. Never,
Speaker 5: you know, trying to compete in the shadow of the
Speaker 5: Lakers playing in the same building. It was hard hard
Speaker 5: to get past all that.
Speaker 3: Arizona State quarterback Sam Leave It is out this weekend
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati. Backup Jeff Simms will be starting. What happened,
Speaker 3: he had rib injury.
Speaker 4: Okay, they're pretty close to being Bowl eligible, aren't they.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, who would have thought that they picked the finish
Speaker 4: at the end of the league or the conference and
Speaker 4: then here they are. That's all I got.
Speaker 2: So you got You mentioned something, Dave about the International
Speaker 2: series with the Bambos a Tuson Mexican baseball Pista. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have something here in about two weeks, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's when the stories were seeing on Tucson dot
Speaker 5: com just talking about that. Having games on November verse
Speaker 5: through the third Quino Stadium, A couple teams from the
Speaker 5: Mexican Pacific Winter League Liga Arco Mexicana del Pacifico or
Speaker 5: lamp as they're called. We'll play a regular season series
Speaker 5: here against let's see the Yang, the Yackys, the Obragone.
Speaker 4: One of the popular teams. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So of course, you know, Mike Vaders had the Mexican
Speaker 5: Baseball Fiesta for a number of years.
Speaker 4: And they just had it in the last weeks.
Speaker 5: So this is kind of almost a continuation of that
Speaker 5: with these teams playing three games on a Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 5: and Sunday.
Speaker 2: And maybe you want to talk about the the Oregon
Speaker 2: rule change.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, too many men on the field rule change. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he kind of in the post game, I
Speaker 2: guess he kind of hinted that, yeah, he did it purposely,
Speaker 2: but without really saying I did it purposely, which was
Speaker 2: a kind of sly smart slime move.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, the NCAA had to actually make some ruling
Speaker 5: on what he did by kind of trotting out an
Speaker 5: extra player. Then it was either going to be a
Speaker 5: penalty or or time taking off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so well imagine how it not worked, you know,
Speaker 2: would be talking about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ten seconds to go, right, calls time out, puts
Speaker 5: a twelfth player on the field.
Speaker 2: So right, it prevents a big play. Ye loses, they
Speaker 2: lose four seconds. But now, what's the new rule? I
Speaker 2: know it is, so so you get, you get you
Speaker 2: have the choice of taking the penalty or of putting
Speaker 2: the time back. So have they been at the thirty
Speaker 2: five you're taking the five, right, you're taking the five
Speaker 2: and kicking the field goal. But this happened like at
Speaker 2: the forty five or fifty, so you need the time
Speaker 2: to get to the thirty five. So it's you have
Speaker 2: the choice now either or yeah.
Speaker 4: It'll be a penalty.
Speaker 5: So it's interesting, I mean it was. It was funny
Speaker 5: how instantly in just two days they got a ruling
Speaker 5: on that right, just to make sure it doesn't happen again,
Speaker 5: or it doesn't happen the next the next game.
Speaker 2: So you know, you know, things can be done right away, right, No,
Speaker 2: we gotta wait.
Speaker 4: The autopsy has to wait about six months. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they gotta figure out anything else, anything else.
Speaker 3: No, there's a volleyball game I think at six Yeah, Colorado.
Speaker 5: Okay, So again, they're gonna be starting playing these games
Speaker 5: on Tuesdays and stuff.
Speaker 4: That's how the schedules are breaking out.
Speaker 5: I know that with basketball, it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 5: of yeah, weird days that we're not used to.
Speaker 4: We'll see. It's gonna be fun. All the traveling.
Speaker 2: They're gonna take their lumps because of the travel, which
Speaker 2: makes no sense to me because they're young guys. But
Speaker 2: the travel on the road for the Big twelve is
Speaker 2: gonna be huge. It's gonna be huge.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 4: Are they ever gonna get to class? Are you know?
Speaker 4: That's a good question. I mean, a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: is online as it is anyway.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, and you can agree with me,
Speaker 2: David or not. I'm not too sure they cared about
Speaker 2: class before. I know some did. Some do obviously very
Speaker 2: smart ones. But now it's like we got paid already.
Speaker 5: What the hell? Yeah, I guess you could look at
Speaker 5: it that way. They have a lot of help. Oh,
Speaker 5: no question. I'm assuming they have tutors on the road
Speaker 5: even if we if they need they I know they used.
Speaker 2: To let me say this dave to you and and
Speaker 2: then you know, to dig in the head of yours.
Speaker 2: It was the last time you heard about a player
Speaker 2: not making it eligible.
Speaker 4: That was almost a yearly thing.
Speaker 5: There's somebody who would like, maybe make it through the
Speaker 5: first semester and then come.
Speaker 2: January is not on the roster any right, right, right,
Speaker 2: So now not be the case now it's yeah, and
Speaker 2: maybe the money anything is an issue because I get
Speaker 2: paid if I don't if I don't play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So they and I, especially in Arizona, we know
Speaker 5: that they built a whole facility just for student athletes.
Speaker 5: Yah to uh, you know, have a place to go
Speaker 5: where before in the old days they'd be in the
Speaker 5: dungeons of McHale. Sure in that little area tutors. Now
Speaker 5: they have their own building, which is nice. Jenny clements, right.
Speaker 5: And then the A D is there too, right, the
Speaker 5: A D is she's over there. She moved over there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I wonder how that's going.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but she wants wanted to be kind
Speaker 2: of among the people owned.
Speaker 4: The students and to kind of see.
Speaker 5: Well, even back in the day, not long ago, is
Speaker 5: when the president of the U of A moved into
Speaker 5: Old Maine because for years they were in the Administration
Speaker 5: building most of the years I was around in Tucson,
Speaker 5: and then just in the last I don't know if
Speaker 5: it was might have been Anne Hart before Robbins, so
Speaker 5: they could be amongst the students.
Speaker 4: Shelton was in one thing.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't know where I went, but I went to
Speaker 2: see him a couple of times because during the Bobby
Speaker 2: the Loot stuff. Uh, I talked to him a lot
Speaker 2: because about you know, situation.
Speaker 5: So now they would I think it was might have
Speaker 5: been President Hart when she was in show. Are you
Speaker 5: well you did you work for them? It was around
Speaker 5: the Duchess then, so yeah, it was a big they did.
Speaker 5: You know, they did a big renovation to begin with
Speaker 5: of Old Maine where it was it was condemned and uh,
Speaker 5: it was either gonna be destroyed or fixed, and they've
Speaker 5: you know, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna ask you a question.
Speaker 2: You can tell me shut the hell up. So you
Speaker 2: worked at you worked to develop an office for all
Speaker 2: time you worked and then what you went to Journalism.
Speaker 4: College of SPS SBS.
Speaker 2: Okay, were you surprised what came of the program athletically
Speaker 2: and the school being down so much money. And let
Speaker 2: me say this just to Alibiu real quick, A lot
Speaker 2: of the schools, many of the schools are in the
Speaker 2: same situation Arizona's in. It just hasn't become public you
Speaker 2: mean universities around the country.
Speaker 5: I think everybody was really surprised at least because we just,
Speaker 5: first of all, we just really aren't in that world
Speaker 5: where we're like keeping track.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Maybe the deans kind of had an idea, but I'm
Speaker 5: not going to speak for them either, because it's it
Speaker 5: kind of came out as everybody was just kind of flabbergasted.
Speaker 5: The university had just announced a big capital campaign literally
Speaker 5: like that week, maybe even the day before the news
Speaker 5: came out, so everyone's on a high. We're going to
Speaker 5: raise four billion dollars and da da da da, and
Speaker 5: next thing you know, this news breaks and think for
Speaker 5: all I know they were they were holding that news
Speaker 5: to get the celebration out of the way, and then
Speaker 5: that thing happened.
Speaker 4: So it was pretty shocking.
Speaker 2: Did the did the four billion campaign end? No, it's
Speaker 2: still going, still going, And that's separa and that's separate
Speaker 2: from this, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean people this, Yeah, definitely separate. I was
Speaker 5: talking to somebody too.
Speaker 2: It's just about how does how does this school, any
Speaker 2: school survive these things with nil and then trying to
Speaker 2: raise money like you did for other other portions of
Speaker 2: the school journalism for one thing, you know what I'm saying, uh,
Speaker 2: and how many wells can you go to?
Speaker 4: Well? I mean.
Speaker 5: We would tell people as if as that thing was happening,
Speaker 5: you know, don't worry about if you're going to make
Speaker 5: a gift that's going to where you're where to go.
Speaker 4: I mean that's the rules.
Speaker 5: I mean, they signed basically a contract and we're taking
Speaker 5: money to go to be spent where they want it intended.
Speaker 5: That was very important. Sure, and we again positions I
Speaker 5: was in. I wasn't making those calls, you know, like
Speaker 5: why are we spending so much money on that building?
Speaker 5: I mean some of those things they I think didn't.
Speaker 5: Wasn't it like labeled as like a moonshot by Robbins
Speaker 5: Like he was just going for big things and it
Speaker 5: was maybe just too much. Like we build a brand
Speaker 5: new you know, science builder, new engineering building. All these
Speaker 5: buildings are coming up, and like who's paying for this? Right, well,
Speaker 5: we know we get some money from the state, but
Speaker 5: the rest of it is coming from donors and people
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 2: Right right, Okay, let's take a break here and come
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eying the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Dave Silver. Now
Speaker 2: on the phone, we have Michael lev from the Arizona
Speaker 2: Daily Star. Michael, how are.
Speaker 9: You pretty good? How are you guys?
Speaker 2: We'll find your inner mister baseball today your official football normally.
Speaker 4: What's going on? You're busy?
Speaker 9: I'm not that busy. There was a little bit of
Speaker 9: base There was a little bit of baseball news today.
Speaker 9: There's gonna be a like official regular season series from
Speaker 9: the Mexican Pacific Winter League at Keno Stadium, which is
Speaker 9: pretty cool. That even implied or hinted in the in
Speaker 9: the news release that you might try to get an
Speaker 9: expansion team here or there could be future games here.
Speaker 9: And we've always heard little rumors and conversations here and
Speaker 9: there about like professional baseball coming back here and maybe
Speaker 9: that's the form that it will take.
Speaker 2: Who knows right, right, no question, how we hear the
Speaker 2: same rumors. Uh so that's kept you busy today. Hey,
Speaker 2: by the way, never say you're never busy in this
Speaker 2: climate of the media, right who knows?
Speaker 4: Who knows?
Speaker 9: Good? Point? Extremely busy.
Speaker 5: How important was the success of the Mexican Baseball Fiesta
Speaker 5: to just getting these games? You think, I mean, you
Speaker 5: think Tucson is shown that they can support something like.
Speaker 9: This, Well, I think it's definitely kind of paved the
Speaker 9: way they wouldn't you know, this would not be happening
Speaker 9: if that hadn't been a success. Obviously, there's a large
Speaker 9: Hispanic Mexican American population here in southern Arizona, a lot
Speaker 9: of people who love the sport of baseball, so in
Speaker 9: some ways it's a natural fit. I mean, obviously, you know,
Speaker 9: if they were to do this, you know, you you
Speaker 9: have to cross the border multiple times, and that, you know,
Speaker 9: could post some challenges. But you know, there's Canadian teams
Speaker 9: in Major League Baseball and and the NBA, and they
Speaker 9: make it work. So I would say that, you know
Speaker 9: it's at least possible.
Speaker 4: So let's go to football real quick.
Speaker 2: I thought you were there yesterday, heard your voice asking
Speaker 2: a couple of great questions. One the last one was
Speaker 2: the one I wanted to hear, and you gave it.
Speaker 2: I think you'll have to remind you what you said
Speaker 2: before this. But you asked them about the fans and
Speaker 2: what you know, what would you tell them? And he
Speaker 2: had a great answer. Yeah, I feel for them and
Speaker 2: I and I want to win just as much as them.
Speaker 2: What were your thoughts on just the reason why I
Speaker 2: think it needed to be asked right?
Speaker 9: Yes, well, I mainly I asked it because I know
Speaker 9: that the fans are really frustrated. They've grown there, They're
Speaker 9: incredibly impatient with the new regime, like they're just there's
Speaker 9: really no honeymoon. Period is over. And I think it
Speaker 9: ended at Manhattan Kansas probably on that Friday night and
Speaker 9: maybe even the week earlier. I don't know. Like the
Speaker 9: NAU game did not go the way that people had hoped.
Speaker 9: It was kind of an ugly offensive game. They were
Speaker 9: favored by like thirty and they won by twelve. You know,
Speaker 9: scored only twenty points on offense. The offense really hasn't
Speaker 9: been the same since. So, yeah, that's why I asked.
Speaker 9: I wanted to. Sometimes you just throw out these questions
Speaker 9: because you're just curious what the other person might say.
Speaker 4: No question.
Speaker 9: I thought he gave a good answer. I thought it
Speaker 9: was it was genuine. I I know that he cares
Speaker 9: a lot about this program and this place and wants
Speaker 9: to do a really good job, and right now he
Speaker 9: and the team are struggling a little bit.
Speaker 2: Me let me ask you, because I think we talked
Speaker 2: about this, Dave. You can go to many different ways
Speaker 2: and why they're struggling. But what do you think maybe
Speaker 2: you are the top three?
Speaker 9: The top three, Okay, I would say number one. The
Speaker 9: offense just out of sinc They don't really have any
Speaker 9: kind of regular rhythm or consistency to what they're doing.
Speaker 9: I don't you know. I think their plan coming in
Speaker 9: was a little bit flawed. You know, Dino Babers, it's
Speaker 9: going to be the offensive coordinator. He hasn't done that
Speaker 9: job in a really long time. But then they're also
Speaker 9: kind of trying to, you know, position him as a
Speaker 9: mentor to Matt Adkins to take over the job eventually,
Speaker 9: and then ends up happening after three weeks of the season,
Speaker 9: which I really don't think was their intent from the start.
Speaker 9: So that would be probably the number one reason. Number two,
Speaker 9: I think we underestimated collectively the losses that they incurred
Speaker 9: in the offseason. It's a lot of really good players
Speaker 9: in NFL players, you know. I mean we've lamented for
Speaker 9: years and years Arizona never has any NFL draft picks. Well,
Speaker 9: they had three NFL draft picks this last year, and
Speaker 9: a couple of guys who are NFL caliber players as well.
Speaker 9: So significant losses, and almost all of them on the
Speaker 9: offensive side of the ball. And then I guess number
Speaker 9: three is this staff did not have the opportunity to
Speaker 9: really replace those guys because of the timing of everything,
Speaker 9: you know, they took. You know, Brent Brennan became coach
Speaker 9: on I don't know, January fifteenth or seventeenth or something
Speaker 9: like that, six weeks after the first transfer portal window opened,
Speaker 9: you know, so it's not like the shelves were fully
Speaker 9: stocked at that point in time. It's so extremely challenging
Speaker 9: to fill holes on the roster. They basically lost almost
Speaker 9: an entire recruiting class so even though there was a
Speaker 9: lot of top end talent coming back, you know, the
Speaker 9: depth now wasn't what it could have been if if
Speaker 9: Jed Fish had stayed here, And we're starting to see
Speaker 9: the effects of that now with so many guys banged
Speaker 9: up on defense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was gonna just say the injury bug is
Speaker 5: I mean, just came on hard in the last couple
Speaker 5: of weeks, losing a handful of guys on defense.
Speaker 4: I mean, how do you replace that.
Speaker 5: You've got a lot of a lot of young talent
Speaker 5: who have not even had a chance to play yet,
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden they're in the middle of
Speaker 5: a big game.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think the timing is especially bad this week with
Speaker 9: almost all of the injuries being in the secondary, and
Speaker 9: you're facing a Colorado team that has maybe the deepest
Speaker 9: wide receiving core in the country, that plays four wides
Speaker 9: all the time and loves to just chuck the ball
Speaker 9: all over the yard. How do you replace those guys?
Speaker 9: I mean, it's it becomes more and more difficult the
Speaker 9: more guys who are unavailable. You know, sophomore Genesis Smith
Speaker 9: has done a great job as a as a sub
Speaker 9: who's basically came into the season as a sixth starter
Speaker 9: just as pretty much as good, with maybe a higher
Speaker 9: upside than a lot of the other guys. And he's
Speaker 9: done a wonderful job. But there's a you know, there's
Speaker 9: a cumulative effect when you you're missing Gunnermaldonado, you're missing
Speaker 9: trade in stukes. I mean, this is a lot of starts,
Speaker 9: a lot of experience guys with super high football IQ's.
Speaker 9: And then Tacario Davis got banged up in the last game,
Speaker 9: and I think Marquis Groves Killerbrew got banged up. So
Speaker 9: I mean, that's a that's a lot. You know, I'm
Speaker 9: Duyna Keen is probably looking around h at practice in
Speaker 9: that secondary, going like like where all my guys you know,
Speaker 9: and a lot of them are unfortunately or in you know,
Speaker 9: in the trainer's room.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a weird question. You've been doing
Speaker 2: this a long time. I've covered teams for a long time.
Speaker 2: What do you make of Brennan just just him, his demeanor,
Speaker 2: his personality and all that. And when you're at USC,
Speaker 2: what coach did you cover?
Speaker 9: Okay, well, I'll answer the second question. First. I got
Speaker 9: on a USC beat in two thousand and eight, so
Speaker 9: I had two years of Pete Carroll, okay, and then
Speaker 9: his successor was Lane Kiffen, and then I also then
Speaker 9: I was off the beat for a little bit and
Speaker 9: then back on it. And when I was back on it,
Speaker 9: it was Steve Sarkisian, and then he had his whole
Speaker 9: situation happen. Then it was Clay Helton.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 9: So let me have about half a season of Clay Helton.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So if you had a variety and I didn't realize
Speaker 2: it was that big of a variety in my history,
Speaker 2: is is that good guys, good guys are good guys,
Speaker 2: and they're fun to cover because they're good guys. But
Speaker 2: good guys really don't make it in this business because
Speaker 2: when they're good guys and they don't command respect. And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's the case here, is just my interpretation.
Speaker 2: I'm not good every day like you, what do.
Speaker 4: You think of him? And and is that is that
Speaker 4: maybe a fault?
Speaker 9: Okay? So I'm glad you brought up like the guys
Speaker 9: that I've covered in the past, because I would say
Speaker 9: that Brennan is kind of a cross between Pete Carroll
Speaker 9: and Clay Helton. The Pete Carroll. Part of his personality
Speaker 9: is he's from California. He's very laid back, he's chill
Speaker 9: kind of guy who says cool and awesome a lot,
Speaker 9: you know, which is the types of things that Pete
Speaker 9: Carroll would do. And then Clay Helton, I think the
Speaker 9: biggest criticism that people had about him was that he
Speaker 9: was two nice, you know, and people say that about
Speaker 9: Brent Brennan too, and you know, I'm not, but I
Speaker 9: don't see what goes on behind the scenes. Sometimes they
Speaker 9: put out videos where you can see how he's kind
Speaker 9: of firing up the troops. I thought he you know,
Speaker 9: the video they put out after the Utah game, like
Speaker 9: that message really resonated, you know, like play for the
Speaker 9: guy next to you and you know that that can
Speaker 9: play for your teammates. That kind of thing worked really well. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I've heard a lot of things from various people about
Speaker 9: like what the demeanor of a coach should be, what
Speaker 9: works and what doesn't. You know, like Tony Dungee was quiet,
Speaker 9: probably never swore one single time in his life, and
Speaker 9: was calm, and he did really well. I mean why
Speaker 9: did he do really well? Maybe he did really well
Speaker 9: because you know, he had paid many. You know that
Speaker 9: that could be a reason. But and then you know,
Speaker 9: there's the opposite end of the spectrum, right, there's like
Speaker 9: Rich Driguez type who very fiery on the sidelines, and
Speaker 9: he gets really mad and he has a short temper, demanding, yeah,
Speaker 9: and demanding. I don't know, like the way things are
Speaker 9: now with the transfer portal, right, and with the way
Speaker 9: that society has changed and evolved. I mean, I don't
Speaker 9: know if you can be that coach who's you know,
Speaker 9: throwing I'm asking everybody and getting into spaces in the job.
Speaker 4: Of the coach too.
Speaker 5: It's just the job of the coach has changed so much.
Speaker 5: I mean, look at the ones who have walked away.
Speaker 5: I mean, look at Nick Saban. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: at the height of this success, the job has changed,
Speaker 5: the transfer portal, the nil, Right, There's is just so much.
Speaker 5: These teams are hiring general managers to kind of run
Speaker 5: the show behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: Well, what you're telling when I'm listening to you, Michael's
Speaker 2: really no right or wrong answer.
Speaker 4: But I agree with you.
Speaker 2: You can't f this or f that with the guys
Speaker 2: because you're afraid they're gonna hit the portal. Right, But
Speaker 2: but there's still like a fine line of they gotta
Speaker 2: play hard for you, and Adam not sure that's the case.
Speaker 2: Here he says they're playing hard for him. You see
Speaker 2: it more than I do. I don't know.
Speaker 9: I think they're playing hard. I just don't think they're
Speaker 9: playing well. And on offense, I don't think they're playing smart. Now,
Speaker 9: some of that I think is that Noah Fafida is pressing.
Speaker 9: He's trying to do too much. Yeah, he came into
Speaker 9: this season feeling like he had to carry the program,
Speaker 9: and I don't think the coaching staff has done a
Speaker 9: good enough job of taking that burden off of him.
Speaker 9: You know, Like I think this week, with all the
Speaker 9: injuries they have on defense and what Colorado's weakness is,
Speaker 9: like they got to run the crap out of the ball, right,
Speaker 9: I don't. I haven't seen a game this year where
Speaker 9: they have really committed to something like that. You know.
Speaker 9: That's part of the kind of the aimlessness of the offense,
Speaker 9: Like they're still searching for that identity. I mean, like
Speaker 9: why not run the rock? Yeah, and you know, use
Speaker 9: play action and gets your offensive lineman moving forward instead
Speaker 9: of backward. In Kansas State, I don't know how many
Speaker 9: yards they finished with last game, but I was there,
Speaker 9: and you know they have they obviously have a very
Speaker 9: good system. But you can impose your will on this
Speaker 9: Colorado defense. And I think that would be something that
Speaker 9: they could do this week to to take some of
Speaker 9: the pressure off of Noah Fafida, who's made a lot
Speaker 9: of you know, decisions that he didn't make last season
Speaker 9: when he I think he was just more playing within
Speaker 9: the system instead of trying.
Speaker 4: To do too much.
Speaker 2: Wasn't real quick? Was that your second? The other question
Speaker 2: that we're going to talk about. I think those two
Speaker 2: questions I thought you brought up to him, right, and
Speaker 2: he said, And I thought his answer about Nolan was
Speaker 2: pretty good too. That no one wants to win so
Speaker 2: much too, and he's that kid, he's that kid, and
Speaker 2: that might be an issue too.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, he said, Yeah, he said, he like, no
Speaker 9: one tries harder, no one prepares harder, no one cares more.
Speaker 9: And you love all of those things, right, but when
Speaker 9: you're out there on the field, you know, you have
Speaker 9: to manage the game. You have to manage your emotions.
Speaker 9: You know, they quoqually say you got to take what
Speaker 9: the defense gives you. Right, and I think sometimes he's
Speaker 9: tried to take what isn't there, and that's why he
Speaker 9: had those interceptions in the end zone. So many of
Speaker 9: these drives that you know, it just not ended the
Speaker 9: way that you would hope they would. You know, they'd
Speaker 9: ended with three points instead of seven, or sometimes zero
Speaker 9: points in seven, and that's why they're averaging only eighteen
Speaker 9: point six points per game since the New Mexico game.
Speaker 5: It's going to be our first time to see the
Speaker 5: Dion Sanders show in Tucson. What what's the scouting report there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he was out, he was in Colorado.
Speaker 9: Michael was, I was, Yeah, So I mean Hunter being
Speaker 9: around yeah, being around Dion a little bit like I was.
Speaker 9: You know, I was only there for the postgame presser.
Speaker 9: I wasn't like inside the program or anything. But that
Speaker 9: experience was different than I think a lot of people
Speaker 9: would have guessed. He was super polite, cordial, and courteous
Speaker 9: with everybody, and I think maybe he's a little more
Speaker 9: combative when they win than when they lose. You know,
Speaker 9: it's sort of like he can do that kind of
Speaker 9: I told you so sort of thing. He was very
Speaker 9: humble in defeat, but that I was impressed with how
Speaker 9: they played in that game. I mean, they lost Travis
Speaker 9: Hunter in the first half, they lost Jimmy Horn in
Speaker 9: the first half, their receiving corps was kind of decimated,
Speaker 9: and Kansas State is really good, and they kept fighting,
Speaker 9: and they kept battling until the very end and they
Speaker 9: almost won. So this is not an opponent to be
Speaker 9: taken lightly. I don't really understand why Arizona's favored in
Speaker 9: this game. I'm surprised to see that. I think it
Speaker 9: should probably be the other way around. I think it's
Speaker 9: gonna be really tough, especially with the potential absences that
Speaker 9: Arizona had in a secondary.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming we had one more question. I hope, Michael.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you went there for a reason. Are you
Speaker 2: going to do a story? Have you already done the story?
Speaker 2: Maybe a profile?
Speaker 9: I hit it. Yeah, it's up today, it's up today.
Speaker 9: It was a personal or family slash work trip. We
Speaker 9: went to Colorado for a fall break, and my older
Speaker 9: son is going to be going to college in a
Speaker 9: couple of years, so we wanted to go see some
Speaker 9: schools up in that area of the country, and it
Speaker 9: just so happened that Colorado was playing Kansas State in
Speaker 9: this very high profile game, and then Colorado's coming here
Speaker 9: the following week, so it made sense to kind of
Speaker 9: combine the two things, go to the game and write
Speaker 9: a little something paper.
Speaker 2: Okay, so give us a gifts like the preview because
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go log on for people who want to loe.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 9: It was basically like, it's my observations from spending three
Speaker 9: and a half days or so in Boulder, Okay, like
Speaker 9: walking around, what the campus life is like, what the
Speaker 9: PEP rally was like, what the game was like, the
Speaker 9: post game, and sort of trying to tie it into
Speaker 9: the quote unquote prime effect that you know, Dan Standers
Speaker 9: has had on that school, in that program, and Boulder's fantastic.
Speaker 5: That's I have a son that lives in Denver too,
Speaker 5: so we get to go up there as well. And
Speaker 5: I've been to Boulder a bunch of times. I've been
Speaker 5: to one game at CU and it's it's it's such
Speaker 5: a beautiful, beautiful setting for sure.
Speaker 9: Well it's a great setting, and that place was it
Speaker 9: was a scene.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you, well, maybe I was wont to
Speaker 4: connect that scene loud.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, East Sound is enthusiastic as me when I say, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see Thanks Michael, as always.
Speaker 9: Hey appreciate it, guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. Michael Evska Gho Rita's column. I guess today,
Speaker 2: right today on the Colorado thing'll go go to break.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson sports station Fox Sports Sports een fIF day.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Dave Silver.
Speaker 2: We have Henry with us. I have my eye on
Speaker 2: the ball. I just kn't of remember the names in
Speaker 2: the back of the jerseys. Yeah, which ball, bitchball. So
Speaker 2: if you listen to if you listen to Mike Michael,
Speaker 2: his story is up. Just kind of go on Tucson
Speaker 2: dot com, go to Wildcats and it's there. It's been
Speaker 2: talks about his days, his days there right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: In Colorado is picturesque. The school's pretty. It's I think
Speaker 5: it's called Pearl Street. Is the down the downtown Boulder area,
Speaker 5: so it's a it's a fun place ye visit and yeah,
Speaker 5: fun place.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens this weekend.
Speaker 2: Everyone that needs to Henry, they need to win, yeah
Speaker 2: or nothing.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think these two next games are going
Speaker 3: to be probably their most difficult remaining and then the
Speaker 3: schedule gets a little easier. But yeah, I think the
Speaker 3: fans have kind of like started this rivalry with Colorado,
Speaker 3: so they've become more amped up for this game, especially
Speaker 3: because of the Prime effects. I think this is if
Speaker 3: they win this game, I think a lot of fans
Speaker 3: will be back in on the team.
Speaker 2: Everybody has this bival with Colorado just because of Prime, right,
Speaker 2: whether do you like it or not?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Know he's playing prime time this past weekend against Kansas State.
Speaker 5: That was a big moment for the program and for
Speaker 5: just to be on TV.
Speaker 2: And they had that game. I mean, they didn't have
Speaker 2: that game. They had the game and they lost the game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but they've also won a game like to be what
Speaker 2: it was a Baylor, Yeah, Taylor game they won on
Speaker 2: the helm there when they should have never won that game,
Speaker 2: and they won that exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we've already got them. We've got like
Speaker 5: Big twelve. There's a Big twelve game on Friday. So
Speaker 5: you got at Oklahoma State and BYU at home. Oklahoma
Speaker 5: State by use at home. That's gonna be a Oklahoma
Speaker 5: State has kind of been. If dere's three and three, right,
Speaker 5: I'm a man, I'm a man, Gundy. Yeah, just want
Speaker 5: to call it.
Speaker 2: Get us through the afternoon here five two oh four, one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty. Would like to hear from you, just
Speaker 2: your thoughts on whatever. Jim was already called in. He says,
Speaker 2: see another guy saying run the ball, run the ball. Well,
Speaker 2: Colorado's run defense.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: If you guys looked at the stats, they they're usually
Speaker 5: not too good. So this could be a good chance
Speaker 5: for Arizona no more. Look at the history just in
Speaker 5: the last five years of the Koalil Tate game, we've
Speaker 5: we've been talking about and I think even going back
Speaker 5: to Kadeen Carrey, he had big games against Colorado. A
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of good running numbers put up
Speaker 5: by Arizona against that school.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, no question, we'll see, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: It should be high scoring, whether it is or it is,
Speaker 2: and I don't know. Arizona has to hold up its
Speaker 2: end of the bargain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we talked about the injuries and things like that,
Speaker 5: so that's going to be really interesting. As Michael was
Speaker 5: mentioning how they go for wide and you know, Arizona's.
Speaker 4: DB's have been struggle.
Speaker 5: They look good the first couple of games and then
Speaker 5: they just kind of noe apart and got hurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a call. You're on the air. Who's this? Hey, Steve?
Speaker 4: This is done?
Speaker 1: Don?
Speaker 4: How are you done?
Speaker 17: I'm doing better now, but it's Wednesday.
Speaker 4: It's still early in your week's.
Speaker 17: It is it is Hi, Dave.
Speaker 2: Hi, Henry, let me don let me see I give
Speaker 2: I give h Gabe. I asked Gabe if I'm going
Speaker 2: to get the cranky Gabe or not? And am I
Speaker 2: going to get the cranky done or not?
Speaker 17: No? Well, I just I still have questions. I think
Speaker 17: listening to Michael before the break was was pretty telling.
Speaker 17: But what I don't get, and this is what new
Speaker 17: coaching staffs don't do, is last year, no was most
Speaker 17: successful passing on time. It was three strip drops and
Speaker 17: the ball was out yea.
Speaker 4: And what they do?
Speaker 17: You know, Brennan didn't bring I guess he didn't bring
Speaker 17: all his staff from San Jose, which he would have
Speaker 17: had a ready made offense with him. He brought Babers
Speaker 17: out of retirement or wherever, and he put this staff together,
Speaker 17: and you know, it seems like what they could have
Speaker 17: done was meet with the returning players, what are some
Speaker 17: plays that you really really like that you know, and
Speaker 17: have them submit the plays that they like, the ones
Speaker 17: they want to keep running, and involve that into the
Speaker 17: development of this offense. Because here in a couple of years,
Speaker 17: it's going to be Brad Brennan's team, and it's going
Speaker 17: to be whatever type of quarterback he wants it to be.
Speaker 17: If he wants to go back to the wish and
Speaker 17: shoot or whatever, then that's the type of team we're
Speaker 17: going to have. And right now he's got, you know,
Speaker 17: the offense is half of Jetfish's and whatever was left over.
Speaker 17: But it just it just seems like my biggest gripe
Speaker 17: is like everything every play offensively takes so long, Yeah,
Speaker 17: to develop. Running plays are taking forever to develop, and
Speaker 17: we've got mall, We've got an offensive line it's still
Speaker 17: built to run over whoever's in front of them. I mean,
Speaker 17: if you if like like what Michael was saying about
Speaker 17: this game, we need to run the ball and you know,
Speaker 17: you know, then then running with dives, quick hitters, and
Speaker 17: and and just smash the guy in front of you
Speaker 17: and keep the clock moving. And I think the biggest
Speaker 17: thing with with Noah was was that, you know, last year,
Speaker 17: he was right on time. Everything was timing, timing, he
Speaker 17: didn't have to like this year, it's drifting back, drifting back,
Speaker 17: He's looking looking, looking, looking for guys that aren't getting open,
Speaker 17: you know, Michael, I mean.
Speaker 2: Michael brought this point up last week, I think did
Speaker 2: the press conference. Last year he got the ball out
Speaker 2: in two point five two point five five seconds. This
Speaker 2: year it's a little over three seconds. I thought in
Speaker 2: my mind, And I'm probably wrong with this. Guys, I
Speaker 2: know I'm wrong with this. They would seem that the
Speaker 2: more time you have, the better off you are, but
Speaker 2: that's not the case here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it just seemed like some of the receivers it's
Speaker 5: just taking too long for the receivers to get open,
Speaker 5: and the timing like like it seems like every time
Speaker 5: Noah is going backwards.
Speaker 4: But you know, as he's throwing.
Speaker 5: He just isn't like getting a quick snap and making
Speaker 5: a quick decision. And maybe that's the routes. Maybe that's
Speaker 5: the run of the guy's you know, running the wrong routes.
Speaker 5: Who knows the design of the play, but you know
Speaker 5: it's gonna take.
Speaker 2: Time to think that we.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 17: We're missing Jacob Cowing so much. Yes, yeah, because last year,
Speaker 17: who was really the number one receiver? I mean it
Speaker 17: was like one in one a yeah, and it just
Speaker 17: kind of dependent at the end of the game. And
Speaker 17: it just it just seemed like to me that Leamonious
Speaker 17: Craig was in, you know, in prime position to step
Speaker 17: up and to become the solid number two. I mean,
Speaker 17: he had twenty eight catches last year. I think it
Speaker 17: was three or four touchdowns. I mean, he was he
Speaker 17: was fairly productive, especially being in the shadow of Cowing
Speaker 17: and McMillan.
Speaker 4: So what do you what do you do? What do
Speaker 4: you chuck this up?
Speaker 2: I asked, I asked Michael this two top three reasons
Speaker 2: why they're not doing well?
Speaker 4: The number one maybe two.
Speaker 17: I think it's I think it's the coaching part of it,
Speaker 17: is the coaching staffs not not into rating some of
Speaker 17: the past offense with with what they want to do.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 17: But and this goes through almost any sport, any teams.
Speaker 17: You know, it's always the new coaching staff.
Speaker 4: This is the way we do things here.
Speaker 17: And I was like, well, we're built to do this.
Speaker 17: This guy's really good at doing this.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 17: It's almost like if if we had a defensive coordinator
Speaker 17: this year that wanted to play primarily zone, and here
Speaker 17: you got, you know, we got dbs that're really good
Speaker 17: in man and they don't know how to play zone,
Speaker 17: the defense would look the defense would be.
Speaker 4: The problem if that was the case.
Speaker 17: But our defensive team stayed the same and guys got
Speaker 17: to stay playing the same I think that's a big problem.
Speaker 2: Dog, give us, give us a callback on fighting. Let
Speaker 2: me know who you're going to pick. You got another call?
Speaker 9: Ok?
Speaker 4: Good one. Hello, you're on the air and eye on
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 14: All right, guys, this is Robert just calling in talking
Speaker 14: about Noah Flafida. Why why didn't Brennan? Why do you
Speaker 14: think Brennan didn't bring in tannin bomb for the last
Speaker 14: five minutes of that b y U game? Fffiita. Six
Speaker 14: interceptions in two games is horrible and somebody on one
Speaker 14: of the other station said, well, the other quarterback doesn't
Speaker 14: have experience, Well, who cares? Yeah, giving somebody a shot,
Speaker 14: I mean, cannon bomb. They have to recruit these guys
Speaker 14: to score for a reason. If they can't play, why
Speaker 14: would they recruit him? And Frafida needs to be benched
Speaker 14: because I don't know, it seems like he went colorblind
Speaker 14: this year because he can't go it to the right jersey.
Speaker 14: And we got to get that dumb first up, first down,
Speaker 14: every single first down play at the one or two
Speaker 14: yard game up the middle, and it puts us in
Speaker 14: a hole right off the bat. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, go ahead, I was gonna say, I definitely
Speaker 5: agree on taking the quarterback out and those in those situations,
Speaker 5: there's no no point in having a chance with him
Speaker 5: getting hurts, and we've seen that so many times in
Speaker 5: the past. But you're right, he should have been He
Speaker 5: should have been out and somebody else give him the
Speaker 5: last you know, couple series and see what he can do.
Speaker 14: Yeah, because I mean, you got to give the guy
Speaker 14: a shot somewhere. If the lawyer hadn't gotten hurt, for
Speaker 14: Fida wouldn't have played last year. I don't know if
Speaker 14: it came in over confident or what.
Speaker 4: It is this year.
Speaker 9: I just I don't.
Speaker 14: I don't know. This team just doesn't seem to have
Speaker 14: it be clicking at all, and they don't they're not
Speaker 14: fired up. It seems like they're not playing with any
Speaker 14: sense of urgency, right, Like a previous caller said, they're
Speaker 14: played take forever the guy. Butafita gets the ball on
Speaker 14: a hand up and he stands there for like two
Speaker 14: seconds before the running back takes the ball and goes
Speaker 14: up the middle. It's like that's never gonna.
Speaker 2: Work, right, and that's consistent. You're right, Robert, You're right
Speaker 2: right on all those levels. The change of quarterbacks. I'm
Speaker 2: with you, guys. You and Dave, why not? You know
Speaker 2: what do you have to lose? Right, even though the
Speaker 2: game's over, Q Himpson are shot? Yeah, And you're right.
Speaker 2: The Lord not gotten hurt. Noah, Noah would just be Noah.
Speaker 14: And if we get off I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 4: No no, no, go ahead, you go.
Speaker 14: If we get off to another slow start on Saturday,
Speaker 14: we have three points, Brandon's gonna have to do something
Speaker 14: with a Feita and if he doesn't, he's gonna little
Speaker 14: respect of his team, I think, and now and uh,
Speaker 14: I wish he'd take that dumb layoup that he's wearing
Speaker 14: every week. I don't know, but that's already old. I
Speaker 14: could see the first game or whatever, a couple of games,
Speaker 14: but I have no idea why he's wearing it. It
Speaker 14: might be a good reason, but I I okay, I
Speaker 14: hope we have a good showing and beat Colorado's.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks for the col Robert, We appreciate it.
Speaker 14: Thank you, guys.
Speaker 4: Thanks for Shilah Sanders. I mean, not Shiloh.
Speaker 5: What's the quarterback Shader Sanders seventeen touchdown passes already.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then go deep. I mean they take chances.
Speaker 2: They take chances. They're gonna they're gonna fling it a lot.
Speaker 2: It could be it could get ugly early. Yeah, who
Speaker 2: get ARISONA is not a team to catch up.
Speaker 4: They're gonna have to keep it close.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have to kind of leep it, keep it
Speaker 5: respectable in the first half and don't get you know,
Speaker 5: don't get down like twenty one to three like that.
Speaker 2: And if you you and I both have been at
Speaker 2: the University stadium for a long time, it's not that
Speaker 2: much of a home field advantage, just not even sellout crowd.
Speaker 2: They're there for a reason there, they're to watch Colorado
Speaker 2: and Dion.
Speaker 4: Honestly, unless it's a day game.
Speaker 5: Well, it turns out it's a day games that worked
Speaker 5: out well, right, it'll be a different atmosphere.
Speaker 2: It will, but it'll be a different if they stay
Speaker 2: close or they have the lead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's if they don't.
Speaker 2: Guys like Henry are gonna leave it a halftime, go
Speaker 2: to gentle bits hit Am I wrong?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I've seen some pretty good games that usually they're later
Speaker 5: in the afternoon, not at night, like at four o'clock starts.
Speaker 4: Those are pretty pretty rowdy sometimes.
Speaker 5: But one o'clock if the weather's nice, you know it's
Speaker 5: gonna be sunny on the student side, seventy five degrees.
Speaker 5: See how many can stick around for the second half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to go, right, Henry, we gotta go. Hey, thanks,
Speaker 2: we're done.
Speaker 4: That was quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thanks day for coming in today, Henry, Thanks
Speaker 2: for coming in, and we'll see you guys tomorrow.