Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jacob Salads. They have their eye on
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Down the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Jagan's Allas for the day. Steve is up,
Speaker 2: he will be back tomorrow. I've got Ryan Dunn, good friend,
Speaker 2: a good friend of the show here as a co
Speaker 2: host with me. And I've got Henry and Henry's loaded
Speaker 2: up with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is on the ball breaking news on Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: Sean Elliott is recovering in a San Antonio hospital last
Speaker 3: night after his Apple Watch detected and regular heartbeat, which
Speaker 3: resulted in an atriolation procedure that was successful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he Which is funny because I wear an Apple
Speaker 2: Watch and I didn't know that they would alert me
Speaker 2: to that. I do know that if you if you're
Speaker 2: wearing an Apple Watch and you fall, you'll you'll get
Speaker 2: a notification on your watch and last it'll say because
Speaker 2: this happened to my sister this morning, it'll say, it
Speaker 2: appears you have fallen. Do we need to call nine
Speaker 2: one one? And I'm like, okay, that's kind of cool,
Speaker 2: because you know, I don't get on a ladder anymore,
Speaker 2: but if I did, and now I know if I
Speaker 2: go down, I got it. But yeah, Sean Elliott his
Speaker 2: his according to his wife, Claudia posted on Instagram that
Speaker 2: the watched and detected an irregular heartbeat. They checked him
Speaker 2: out and it turned out he had to have surgery.
Speaker 2: So he's in uh, he's in hospital in San Antonio
Speaker 2: recovering from That's crazy stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean, how awesome is technology. Sometimes sometimes it's a pain,
Speaker 4: But right in that situation, I mean, that's something he
Speaker 4: probably may have never found out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he never would have known. And the post, the
Speaker 2: post and the stories that you've read afterwards actually said
Speaker 2: that it had been going on for like a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks and then finally they paid attention to it
Speaker 2: when it got him checked out, and the next thing,
Speaker 2: you know, he needs surgery. And the danger of that
Speaker 2: when you've got atrial fibrillation, it can oz you know,
Speaker 2: issues with your heart and lead to a stroke. So
Speaker 2: pretty lucky guy. I when I first read that he's
Speaker 2: in the hospital, I thought, oh ope, this doesn't have
Speaker 2: something to do with his kidney, because maybe had to
Speaker 2: have a kidney transplant. He got a kidney from his brother.
Speaker 2: I was hoping it wasn't related to that. Uh, there's
Speaker 2: a picture of him. He's smiling. He's in the hospital.
Speaker 2: H So, you know, good luck to him, and I'm
Speaker 2: glad they caught this because you would hate to see
Speaker 2: something happen to him. He's had, you know, enough health issues.
Speaker 2: Has had a great career. He's an announcer for the
Speaker 2: for the Santa Kutin Spurs. He was on the show
Speaker 2: just a couple of months ago, and we were looking
Speaker 2: to get him on again pretty soon. So we'll we'll
Speaker 2: let him rest and recover and then we'll get back
Speaker 2: with him. So thank you.
Speaker 3: The Arizona Duke game of his next season has been
Speaker 3: pushed a week earlier to Friday, November twenty second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kept on the twenty ninth. That was
Speaker 2: gonna be a fun weekend. It's still gonna be a
Speaker 2: fun weekend. But when it was originally scheduled, it was
Speaker 2: gonna be the night before the ACU football game here.
Speaker 2: I mean, what great weekend that that would be. Probably
Speaker 2: wear a lot of fans out. But man, if you
Speaker 2: can say I'm going to the Duke game tonight, them
Speaker 2: going to this U game tomorrow, but they've pushed it
Speaker 2: or backed it up a week so it's the night
Speaker 2: before Arizona goes on the road against TCU.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just gonna mention, Yeah, for those for
Speaker 4: those following Arizona football, is that TCU that that same weekend?
Speaker 2: And also that's the night before l TOTY Tucson, which
Speaker 2: I'm still I'm still haven't started my training, but I've
Speaker 2: committed to going thirty two miles in that thing. So
Speaker 2: we'll see. But I'll be working the Duke game the
Speaker 2: night before either way. But just you know what, better
Speaker 2: than them saying, you know what, we had to change schedules.
Speaker 2: It's not happening. Play whenever you want played it, you know,
Speaker 2: three in the afternoon on a Wednesday. I don't really care.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 3: Noah Fefida and t Mac have been named to the
Speaker 3: preseason Maxwell Award watch list.
Speaker 2: That's one of those awards that's for the best player
Speaker 2: in college football. So you know, it's not the Heisman,
Speaker 2: but it's kind of like.
Speaker 4: And there's no surprise there, right, No, right, those two guys,
Speaker 4: certainly there's no surprise that they're on the list.
Speaker 2: Right, They're getting a lot of attention. You know, a
Speaker 2: lot of debate. Is no feat of the best quarterback
Speaker 2: in the Big twelve. They've got some good quarterbacks. You know,
Speaker 2: we just talked about Cam Rising, the quarterback at Kansas
Speaker 2: State's supposed to be really good. The quarterback at Kaan's
Speaker 2: supposed to be really good. A lot of discussion of that.
Speaker 2: And you know, Team Mac arguably one of the best,
Speaker 2: if not the best receiver in the country going in
Speaker 2: at least, so yeah, I'm not a surprise to see
Speaker 2: them nominated for the Maxwell Award.
Speaker 3: The Team USA Women's defeated Japan one hundred and two
Speaker 3: to seventy six in their first Olympic game Asia. Wilson
Speaker 3: had twenty four points and thirteen rebounds.
Speaker 2: That was ugly. I had that on and I was
Speaker 2: watching it, and then I was really upset at myself
Speaker 2: for not taking the ladies minus the twenty points. But
Speaker 2: you know, they're really good. They've just got better play
Speaker 2: and everybody else.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Again, they're you know, similar to the men. I
Speaker 4: mean from top to bottom that they should be favored
Speaker 4: in every game they play. That just because of their
Speaker 4: depth and definitely showed in round one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting comments by Don Staley. She was on the
Speaker 2: in the studio show down if you saw that yesterday
Speaker 2: after the men's game, and they started talking about the
Speaker 2: women's team. She had an interest anything to say. She
Speaker 2: said that at the time that they that they put
Speaker 2: the team together, she didn't think Caitlin Clark should have
Speaker 2: been on the team, But she said today, based on
Speaker 2: what she's seen since then, she feels like maybe she.
Speaker 4: Has a strong possibility. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe she should have been on the team, or
Speaker 2: at least could have been on the team. I thought
Speaker 2: that was really interesting for her to say that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, she could have totally avoided that question, right,
Speaker 4: but yeah, she was very honest of me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, you know what, she's what twenty two years old,
Speaker 2: maybe twenty three, she'll have some Olympics to playing.
Speaker 5: This is.
Speaker 2: Diana Tarassi's fourth, sixth, six, sixth Olympics. Twenty four years
Speaker 2: of Olympics.
Speaker 4: Come on, that's crazy, but really cool.
Speaker 2: Henry wasn't born when she played in her first Olympics.
Speaker 2: That's crazy stuff I heard. I'm like, wait, I'm doing
Speaker 2: the math. I'm like six Olympics twenty four years. I
Speaker 2: can do that. Six times four is twenty four nuts
Speaker 2: to think that she's been in that many Olympics and
Speaker 2: she's forty two forty four yeah, so you know she's
Speaker 2: very young when she played in her first one. But
Speaker 2: holy cow, I think this is her last one, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you would you would, you would think
Speaker 4: think so.
Speaker 2: You would think. But they were, they killed them, so
Speaker 2: it's gonna be. Well, they've won what eight straight, so
Speaker 2: I think eighth straight Olympic Olympic Golds is where I
Speaker 2: think they are. So the expectation is that they'll win
Speaker 2: this thing. But they look pretty damn good and they
Speaker 2: again players all over the floor, sabria I and Escu.
Speaker 2: You know, I watched her a bunch. She was really good.
Speaker 2: So Kelsey plumb, you know, jacking it up from all
Speaker 2: over the place. Britney grinder. Nobody's got. Nobody else has
Speaker 2: a Brittany grinder?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: What is she?
Speaker 2: Six? Eight?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I believe so yeah, come.
Speaker 2: On, man, that's not even fair. That's not even fair.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: What else?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Just an overall metal update usas and first with twenty medals,
Speaker 3: Francis and second with sixteen medals, in Japan is in
Speaker 3: third with twelve medals.
Speaker 4: But the last count I saw US does not lead
Speaker 4: in gold medals yet right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I watched there was a man's race I
Speaker 2: believe it was one hundred meter or maybe two hundred
Speaker 2: meter freestyle, and a US guy was leading the whole
Speaker 2: way and they ran him down in the in the
Speaker 2: in the stretch and he finished third behind a Romanian
Speaker 2: guy and then a Canadian guy.
Speaker 4: Speaking of swimming is awesome to watch in the Olympics,
Speaker 4: and to me, it's because of Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gains.
Speaker 4: Those guys are so good together and they make it
Speaker 4: so exciting. Obviously Dan Hicks with his tuc Son ties,
Speaker 4: but I just think those two guys are just so
Speaker 4: good together on the broadcast that it just makes it
Speaker 4: even more exciting.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 2: They add to the event, they really do with their calls,
Speaker 2: and they I mean, you feel like you're watching, you know,
Speaker 2: the most exciting thing that's ever happened, right, And it's
Speaker 2: every race. I mean, they've got to they make those
Speaker 2: calls for every single race and they're great, and that
Speaker 2: one was incredible because you know, with the technology that
Speaker 2: they have now, you can see how far ahead they are.
Speaker 2: You can see if somebody's gaining, you see their times,
Speaker 2: and and as as they're going along, and about halfway
Speaker 2: on the about halfway down on the last lap, so
Speaker 2: the last twenty five meters, you thought they're going to
Speaker 2: catch him. And then they did, and you and you know,
Speaker 2: he got the bronze. He hit the wall and he
Speaker 2: looks up and he was you could tell he was
Speaker 2: not I can't I don't even know his name, but
Speaker 2: you could tell he was not happy. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And it was a similar thing yesterday in the in
Speaker 4: the men's hundred breast three finishers, two guys tied for silver,
Speaker 4: which they touched the wall the exact same, exact same time,
Speaker 4: which it was unbelievable. There were six guys I mean
Speaker 4: with within you know, that could have won.
Speaker 2: The race, right, incredible. The swimming, the swimming is great.
Speaker 2: I love I love watching that. What are your favorite Olympics?
Speaker 4: Watching the Olympics, Yeah, I mean swimming to me is
Speaker 4: especially like the speed races, like one hundred meters, fifty meters,
Speaker 4: stuff like that. I mean that's that stuff is a
Speaker 4: lot of fun. But uh, you know, I I like
Speaker 4: a lot of it. I mean, I like watching softball
Speaker 4: when there's softball in the Olympics. I like watching track
Speaker 4: and fields some of those events against to me, the
Speaker 4: speed events are really fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Well, I was being speaking of speed events. I was
Speaker 2: telling you off there. I watched some table tennis on Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was yesterday morning or Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: It must have been. I don't know, but I'm watching
Speaker 2: those guys and I'm like, that's how do you play that?
Speaker 2: How do you play like that? Right? I mean we
Speaker 2: were making fun of their serves and stuff because they're
Speaker 2: just so so precise. But that's an unbelievable sport.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and is that along with badminton. I watched some
Speaker 4: highlights of badminton last night when I was catching up
Speaker 4: on the coverage, and uh, some of those rallies, I mean,
Speaker 4: guys diving and keeping it in play and just going
Speaker 4: back and forth, and it's it's incredible, some of those
Speaker 4: rallies in both table tennis and badminton.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think beach volleyball has become one of my favorite sports,
Speaker 2: both the men's and the women's. I think to me
Speaker 2: that that looks like as grueling a sport as there
Speaker 2: can be, because you got you got two people trying
Speaker 2: to cover a volleyball.
Speaker 4: Court, and you kind of mentioned it earlier. But you
Speaker 4: don't have to sit there for three hours, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: it's it's quick. I mean you can get a match
Speaker 4: in in forty five minutes. You know, you've had your
Speaker 4: fill of action, and it's pretty quick.
Speaker 2: And it's quick, all right, Henry.
Speaker 3: The MLB trade deadlines tomorrow at three pm Pacific. There
Speaker 3: was a three team trade between the Dodgers, Cardinals, and
Speaker 3: White Sox earlier, where the Dodgers got Tommy Edmund and
Speaker 3: Michael Kopek, the Cardinals got Eric Fetty and Tommy fam
Speaker 3: and the White Sox got prospects Miguel Vargas, Alexander Albertis,
Speaker 3: and Jerrol Perez.
Speaker 2: Oh, the Dodgers sent Miguel Vargas over Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: I've not never even heard of the two guys they got,
Speaker 2: so all I know is that the Dodgers bullpen is
Speaker 2: the pits. I think I could pitch for the Dodger
Speaker 2: bullpen because they were just they got they got obliterated.
Speaker 2: Saturday night. They had they were beating the Astros like
Speaker 2: four nothing or five nothing lost it in the last
Speaker 2: and well the extra innings. It gets into extra innings
Speaker 2: and then the relief pitcher comes in the bottom of
Speaker 2: the tenth, throws one pitch. Bregman hits it out of
Speaker 2: the park and game over. And they blew a game
Speaker 2: that they should have won. Did come back and win yesterday,
Speaker 2: but that one was dicey two. Uh a close. Came
Speaker 2: into the into the ninth inning, got some guys on base,
Speaker 2: and they and they, the Leavers did what they needed
Speaker 2: to do. Dodgers lost two out of three to the Astros,
Speaker 2: and I hate the Astros. We've talked about grudges all
Speaker 2: last week, and they're one of mine. I've evalvated that
Speaker 2: to a personal grudge against Jose Al Twove. He's with
Speaker 2: all my other grudges like girlfriends and stuff like that
Speaker 2: that I have. So watching the Astros do what they
Speaker 2: did to the Dodgers over the weekend, really just the
Speaker 2: Saturday game. Dodge beat him up on Friday five zip,
Speaker 2: I mean the Astros did. Dodgers had him on Saturday,
Speaker 2: blew the game. At least they came back and got one,
Speaker 2: so I was okay with that.
Speaker 3: The Mariners acquired Justin Turner from the Blue Jays for
Speaker 3: to be named later prospects.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah. My wife he was a big is
Speaker 2: a big fan of Justin Turner. And I say that
Speaker 2: proudly because of the fact that she's a fan of
Speaker 2: a baseball player. Uh, and he was with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: for lot of years, went to the Red Sox. We
Speaker 2: actually got to see him when we went to a
Speaker 2: Red Sox game at Fenway last year. And uh, then
Speaker 2: he got traded to the Blue Jays. My wife said,
Speaker 2: I'm not buying a Blue Jay's T shirt. And now
Speaker 2: if he's over at the Mariner, so I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to break the news start to night sometime.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: Last aga, Jonathan Vegas won the three M Opened yesterday
Speaker 3: and it was seven years since his last ggas were winning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was cool. I mean that's a guy that
Speaker 4: he's a guy that you don't expect to win at
Speaker 4: this point in his career, all right, and that was
Speaker 4: you know, he's not a guy that you see competing
Speaker 4: towards the top of the leaderboard weekend and week out,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know three M Open, Uh you know,
Speaker 4: catches fire and gets a win.
Speaker 2: Do you catch you into that. Did you see the
Speaker 2: last hole? His last hole, he had like a seventy
Speaker 2: foot putt that ninety nine feet is that what it was?
Speaker 2: Ninety nine and he had the two putt to win it,
Speaker 2: and then he lays one up there like three. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a pro right, only they can do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's one that you probably don't practice a
Speaker 4: whole bunch, but you know, he may have dropped one
Speaker 4: down in the practice rounds on that green and hit
Speaker 4: a couple from that distance. But yeah, pretty.
Speaker 2: Cool, now, it was very cool. It was great to see.
Speaker 2: I was happy with my guy, Sahi Thigala, who finished six,
Speaker 2: although he bogied the last hole and cost me a
Speaker 2: couple of points in our pool. But I'm still up there,
Speaker 2: so but I was, you know, I was. I was
Speaker 2: okay with him. He did all right, He hung in
Speaker 2: there all weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had Tony and he was top fifteen, so
Speaker 4: you know, can't be disappointed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he did all right. So all right, we're
Speaker 2: gonna take our next break. Nice job, Henry. We're going
Speaker 2: to come back. We've got Greg Hanson getting ready to
Speaker 2: join us. We're gonna talk some Arizona football. Greg's been
Speaker 2: doing some work on some of the big twelve teams
Speaker 2: around the league, trying to help us get familiar with them.
Speaker 2: So and then we've got practice starting a day after tomorrow.
Speaker 2: There's a a Brent Brandon press conference tomorrow, so we'll
Speaker 2: get some of Greg's thoughts as football season is here,
Speaker 2: so stick around.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to vaull you know, Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm jagon Zalez, your host for the day. Steve Rivera's
Speaker 2: out until tomorrow, you'll be back. I've got Ryan Dunn,
Speaker 2: I'm a good friend of the show here joining us today.
Speaker 2: Henry's on the board, just finished up with breaking news.
Speaker 2: And on the phone. We've got Greg Hanson, the Lovable
Speaker 2: should we call you Lovable Dragon? The long time, I'll
Speaker 2: just say long time. The sports columnists at the Airzon
Speaker 2: Daily start semi retired, hanging out up in Colorado where
Speaker 2: snights and cool and playing all the golf he can stand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to know how the golf game is.
Speaker 5: Today. I was awful, so unfortunately I'll get to go
Speaker 5: back tomorrow. Try again.
Speaker 4: But it's not one hundred and five degrees where you're
Speaker 4: at exactly.
Speaker 5: Oh it was my furness came on this morning. Really
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 2: Wow. Well, I played in a furnace on Saturday. I
Speaker 2: played at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon at El Rio
Speaker 2: and it was so hot and so muggy. I told
Speaker 2: I told Ryan. I was grinding at the twelfth hole.
Speaker 2: Usually it takes me. Usually I get to fifteen before
Speaker 2: the grind comes on. I got to twelve and I
Speaker 2: thought I might not finish, but then I did, So
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? It was fun?
Speaker 5: But hasn't there been a terrific month soon?
Speaker 4: It's been awesome yeaheah Yeah.
Speaker 2: A lot of rain, a lot of rain here. The
Speaker 2: courses are in great shape. I played so Wilo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we played so Wilo together and it was.
Speaker 2: We played the two week two saturdays ago. It was awesome.
Speaker 4: It was in as good as shape for a summer
Speaker 4: golf course in Tucson that I probably have ever seen
Speaker 4: since I've lived here.
Speaker 5: I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very cool. Well, Greg, so we wanted we
Speaker 2: want to get you on to talk about you know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of like, okay, here's the Big twelve. Arizona's
Speaker 2: in it. I know it's a few more days before
Speaker 2: they're you know, technically in the Big twelve, but they're
Speaker 2: in the Big twelve. They're getting ready for a Big
Speaker 2: twelve season. Practice starts this week. A lot to learn
Speaker 2: about who the Big twelve is. Uh, you guys at
Speaker 2: there's on daily Star, are are doing you start doing
Speaker 2: what you're you're calling a big twelve blitz to kind
Speaker 2: of give readers a sense of who all these programs
Speaker 2: are in the various sports. You talked about this thing
Speaker 2: with Kansas State where we almost got Jack Hartman as
Speaker 2: the coach here back in eighty two instead of all
Speaker 2: Sadden all those things. I mean, there's some history, but
Speaker 2: then there's not. Right, you're kind of your thoughts right
Speaker 2: now on Arizona in the Big Twelve. What I mean,
Speaker 2: what does it feel like to you?
Speaker 5: I've done research on the schools for about the last
Speaker 5: three weeks, and you talked about no history. You know,
Speaker 5: Arizona's never played West Virginia, never played Central Florida, never
Speaker 5: played Cincinnati, only played Baylor once, only played TCU twice.
Speaker 5: There is no history except with PC, except with Texas Tech.
Speaker 5: And stun met to find out that Texas Tech has
Speaker 5: the best record against Arizona than any opponent in history.
Speaker 5: They are twenty five and four against Arizona. Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: So it's both good and bad, and I think it's uh.
Speaker 5: I think the fans are going to be caught a
Speaker 5: little off guard at how good the Big Twelve is
Speaker 5: in football. The remaining Big Twelve teams and how how
Speaker 5: into it they are because if you look, if you
Speaker 5: look at their attendance capacity last year, ninety seven percent
Speaker 5: or more. Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State,
Speaker 5: Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, and Central Florida all had
Speaker 5: ninety seven percent or more capacity at home. And that
Speaker 5: is not the Pac.
Speaker 2: Twelve, not at all that that's crazy. We've talked about that,
Speaker 2: you know, we had We've talked to, you know, some
Speaker 2: of the former play Arizona players who we ask them,
Speaker 2: is it harder to go play where the stadium is
Speaker 2: full and they're on top of you and they're yelling
Speaker 2: at you and it's loud and you can't hear, Or
Speaker 2: is it harder to go play like at you know,
Speaker 2: with twenty thousand people at the Rose Bowl or twenty
Speaker 2: thousand people at Stanford, And unanimously they prefer to go
Speaker 2: play where the place is nuts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like the Big they remain in Big twelve. There's
Speaker 5: no Horseshoe, there's no Big House, there's no Happy Valley.
Speaker 5: But every single school except Houston has one of those
Speaker 5: places like Utah fifty two thousand packed, right, and that's
Speaker 5: that's gonna be a weekly thing. Yes, I didn't realize
Speaker 5: it was gonna be that tough.
Speaker 2: And then think about the other way, right, their fans
Speaker 2: are gonna travel, They're gonna come here, right because they
Speaker 2: you know, first of all, Tuson's new to them. They're
Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna come and and you know, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you're gonna be at a state, you know,
Speaker 2: the state. Remember that Iowa game. How many Iowa fans
Speaker 2: were at that Iowa game in the Mike Stoops.
Speaker 5: Years fifty seven thousand and Tucson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was that was nuts. I remember
Speaker 2: that or the that I think when when Arizona played
Speaker 2: Ohio State and Dick Tomey's last year, all how Steak
Speaker 2: fans were buying Arizona season tickets so they could have
Speaker 2: tickets to the game.
Speaker 5: It's Arizona sans are going to have to step up
Speaker 5: to match what they're going to face. You were to
Speaker 5: remember this one, Jay. Didn't you go to the Texas
Speaker 5: Tech game in nineteen eighty nine?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You and I went to that.
Speaker 5: Yes, remember it wasn't very impressive then. Remember it was.
Speaker 2: No Yeah, it's kind of a rinky station.
Speaker 5: And it was a dumpy Town, right. Well, I went
Speaker 5: there about twenty years later when Stoops was coaching Oklahoma
Speaker 5: to do a store on Stoops maybe becoming Arizona coach.
Speaker 5: And it was completely redone fifty seven thousand, as good
Speaker 5: as any stadium in the PAC twelve. And I looked
Speaker 5: it up the other day. Every they've had one hundred
Speaker 5: percent capacity for fifteen straight years. That's I mean, that's
Speaker 5: going to be wicked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if you're you know, you brought
Speaker 2: up Texas Tech in the record against Arizona. Texas Tech
Speaker 2: when they're a zone was was in the whack, so
Speaker 2: we're talking. You know, in the seventies, Texas Tech was
Speaker 2: Arizona's big game. Every year they would play them, and
Speaker 2: Texas Tech was there was the USC right that, you know,
Speaker 2: they're Texas Tech. They're in the Southwest Conference, you know,
Speaker 2: and then the Comunian and kick Arizona's ass every year
Speaker 2: except one that I remember where Arizona was down like
Speaker 2: I think I think we were down twenty eight to
Speaker 2: three at halftime or something like that, and they came
Speaker 2: back and won the game. It was one of the
Speaker 2: greatest games I've ever seen. But that was the big game.
Speaker 2: If you could beat Texas Tech, you're somebody. That's how
Speaker 2: it was here at Arizona when they were in the
Speaker 2: whack and it took.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they tried to get in the Big twelve for
Speaker 5: like twenty five years and they finally let them in
Speaker 5: like what nineteen seventy seven or so, And you and
Speaker 5: A fans have no idea how tough they are. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean Mike Leach went to didn't Mike Leach go
Speaker 5: to nine straight Bowl games in Texas Tech?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, they're they're they're they're they're good and they're tough,
Speaker 2: and we we you know, there's A played them a
Speaker 2: couple of times since then. Didn't they play them during
Speaker 2: the Sunland years? Right? Then there's I think there's on
Speaker 2: to beat them here? Didn't they Ryan?
Speaker 4: You know, I'm thinking back at that, I.
Speaker 2: Think colil te Uh.
Speaker 4: But didn't we get drilled at Texas? Yes, that was
Speaker 4: the one that we got just annihilated right from the beginning.
Speaker 2: Right Or was that Houston?
Speaker 4: But that may have been that may have been Houston.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they haven't played Texas Tea.
Speaker 2: I thought I've got a confused with Houston played them here?
Speaker 4: Well, I still you know.
Speaker 2: One of the great stories I tell Greg about that
Speaker 2: that eighty nine game was when you and I walked
Speaker 2: out of the stadium and we were going through after
Speaker 2: they got just blasted. Remember James Gray ran for like
Speaker 2: five hundred yards. Yeah, And we were walking out of
Speaker 2: the stadium and we were we were going through Arizona schedule,
Speaker 2: and we ended up with them at three and eight.
Speaker 2: And and then the next week they beat Oklahoma here
Speaker 2: remember that.
Speaker 5: That's six to three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like, how the hell does that happen?
Speaker 2: Because they they looked awful in that game against Texas Tech,
Speaker 2: and we were surprised. We thought, oh, it's Texas Tech.
Speaker 2: You're going to go over there and beat them. And
Speaker 2: then they got they got killed, and we walked out
Speaker 2: and I think one of us said, they're going three
Speaker 2: and eight.
Speaker 5: That was probably me. You were probably joked to the
Speaker 5: Remember you had to drive up to the border of
Speaker 5: the county to buy a beer.
Speaker 2: To get a beer, That's another one of the great
Speaker 2: stories that I loved telling them about going to Lubbock
Speaker 2: is that you had to you had to go to
Speaker 2: the county line to get beer. That was funny. So
Speaker 2: we got enough to fill up a bathtub, is what
Speaker 2: I recall.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 5: One thing I found out about the Big Twelve of
Speaker 5: the last few weeks. You know, in the last five years, Cincinnati,
Speaker 5: Central Florida, and TCU all have had a thirteen whim
Speaker 5: season them.
Speaker 2: Wow wow wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's incredible.
Speaker 2: That's scary.
Speaker 5: Actually, I was thinking Cincinnati would be the one thing
Speaker 5: you could probably win. But they had one hundred and
Speaker 5: five percent capacity at a home game last year. Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and Arizona doesn't even get Cincinnati this year.
Speaker 2: And yeah, well, you know lucky. Steve and I were
Speaker 2: Steve and I were running through the schedule the other day,
Speaker 2: and we can't we mark Central Florida as a loss.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, well they're tough, you know, we
Speaker 2: we don't know how good they're going to be. But
Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of questions about them. But
Speaker 2: one traveling over there, and that's another place that just
Speaker 2: they packed the house. They packed the house. That's stifling
Speaker 2: heat over there. But that's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they call it the bounce house. So they must
Speaker 5: have one of those things going like Wisconsin, does you
Speaker 5: know how Wisconsin?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, twenty.
Speaker 5: Thousand students go crazy. I think Central Florida has something similar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what is there a team this year? Let's
Speaker 2: not counting the Pac twelve teams that have moved over
Speaker 2: to the Big twelve. Of the Big twelve teams that
Speaker 2: you know from last year, who's the most intriguing team
Speaker 2: to you that maybe that's on Arizona schedule, or it
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be on Arizona schedule, But who's the
Speaker 2: most intriguing team to you?
Speaker 5: You know, it might be the state because of course
Speaker 5: it's been thirty years. Remember Sports Illustrators did a story
Speaker 5: on cover story Kansas State. The headline said, futility you
Speaker 5: worst team in college football for thirty years. Since then,
Speaker 5: believe it or not, they've finished in the top twenty
Speaker 5: five twenty one times. Kansas State. I had no idea. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're tough every single year. How do they do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's got to be a I mean
Speaker 4: it's got to be a very tough place to recruit
Speaker 4: players too. But you know, they're not reeling in top
Speaker 4: twenty five classes recruiting classes every year, but they have
Speaker 4: their way of identifying the right kids.
Speaker 5: I think they're the number one school in the country
Speaker 5: at recruiting solid, contributing junior college players. And we remember
Speaker 5: how good that philosophy is because Dick Tomey milked it
Speaker 5: right in Kansas to Bill Snyder, the coach Kansas State.
Speaker 5: They named the stadium after him. That guy's a Hall
Speaker 5: of Famer life almost nobody else. He rebuilt the whole thing.
Speaker 5: And plus they hired a really good coach replace and
Speaker 5: they hired this was it, the North Dakota State coach Klinman,
Speaker 5: A good one like poor national titles. And that's working.
Speaker 5: And you know that's going to be a long afternoon.
Speaker 5: Well there was on a place there right in mid September.
Speaker 2: Well, they had to State in a non conference game.
Speaker 2: It's a non conference game. It's the third game of
Speaker 2: the season, and it's on a Friday night. It's a
Speaker 2: seven o'clock game. Their time, five o'clock our time. I
Speaker 2: was gonna ask you about that. So we're talking to
Speaker 2: Greg Hanson from the Arizona Daily Star. Greg, that game
Speaker 2: it's a non conference game, so in the in the
Speaker 2: sense it doesn't matter for the conference race, that's a
Speaker 2: game that matters though. That's what we're gonna find out
Speaker 2: a little bit, maybe a lot, about this Arizona football team.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, because they are battle tested year after year. They
Speaker 5: haven't had their ups and downs like Arizona does. And
Speaker 5: they average fifty seven thousand at home, I mean fifty
Speaker 5: Arizona can now only draw fifty thousand. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: it's gonna be that's gonna be one of the hardest
Speaker 5: games of the year. That's not gonna be like going
Speaker 5: to cal or Stafford or even a su Right, and.
Speaker 4: Not to mention, Arizona has to go and play Utah
Speaker 4: in their next in their next game, which is their
Speaker 4: first Big twelve game, so on the road.
Speaker 5: I mean b YU averages sixty five thousand fans at home. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but that's going to be a war.
Speaker 2: I don't like those guys, I know, And look, I've
Speaker 2: got history with those guys, okay, I you know, went
Speaker 2: through the whack years with those guys. I've never liked
Speaker 2: b YU.
Speaker 4: You remember Kevin Someone's Was it the first game of
Speaker 4: his of his second year here.
Speaker 2: Right up in Phoenix, wouldn't that? Wasn't that the game
Speaker 2: to play? I'm talking about the one we're here in Tucson.
Speaker 4: Was it? Was it his first year where we opened
Speaker 4: with b YU here and kind of laid an egg
Speaker 4: and uh, I just remember there was tons of b
Speaker 4: YU fans here. Everybody, everybody on Arizona's side was very
Speaker 4: excited for Khalil Tate and Kevin Someone, and it kind
Speaker 4: of was, uh the beginning of of of some bad
Speaker 4: things to come.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 5: Well, so I will I will say this now. I'm
Speaker 5: guessing b YU has one of the top ten stadiums
Speaker 5: in the country home stadiums, and people in the West
Speaker 5: always say, no Husky Stadium to a beautiful lake right there.
Speaker 5: But Jake and I remember walking off the field the
Speaker 5: Husky Stadium one year and it was pouring down and
Speaker 5: we both said, who would ever want to live there?
Speaker 5: B YU doesn't have that. B YU has those gorgeous
Speaker 5: mountains right behind the stadium. I think BYU Stadium is
Speaker 5: better than Husky State.
Speaker 4: It is. Yeah, it is beautiful.
Speaker 2: Your your your your memory is correct, Ryan. Uh. It
Speaker 2: was actually Kevin Someone's first game. Yeah yeah, b YU
Speaker 2: here got b twenty eight twenty three. Uh, and then went.
Speaker 4: To Houston and then we opened in Vegas against b
Speaker 4: YU and Jed fishes first.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, But then they got obliterated by
Speaker 2: Houston at Houston and then I'll have I'll it just
Speaker 2: went to hell in a hand basket from that point on,
Speaker 2: and it was awful. Hey, Greg, thanks a bunch, you know.
Speaker 2: I know, well, I'm gonna say stay warm right because
Speaker 2: your furnace is coming on in the middle middle of summer.
Speaker 4: What is it about seventy degrees.
Speaker 5: For the high seventy.
Speaker 2: I literally I literally melted on Saturday afternoon. I got
Speaker 2: home and okay, this is the sign. I came home
Speaker 2: from God and I didn't even take off my golf shoes.
Speaker 2: I left my golf shoes on until I got in
Speaker 2: the house, threw myself on the bed and kicked them off.
Speaker 2: That I just left my golf shoes on there. They're
Speaker 2: in my closet now instead of out with my golf
Speaker 2: with my golf bag. It was that bad. So oh man,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 5: Man, at least you're not going to every day, you know.
Speaker 2: I almost miss campco Cheese. I think, if you know,
Speaker 2: if they were down in campco Cheese, i'd go down
Speaker 2: there for maybe do a radio show or two. That
Speaker 2: would be fun. I didn't know that of the year
Speaker 2: I had fun down there. I know I did. I
Speaker 2: got to go once, but I had a blast.
Speaker 4: I'd love to go down there. I think it'd be great.
Speaker 2: It was so cool. It was so cool and Greg,
Speaker 2: Greg was a legend down there in Douglas hanging out
Speaker 2: over there.
Speaker 5: It was disbey.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're going to Bisbee as well. Hey, thanks again, Greg.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, well we'll catch you on the rebound a little
Speaker 2: bit and enjoy the rest of your summer and we'll
Speaker 2: see you in a sometime soon. Thanks a bunch. Thanks
Speaker 2: see Greg, that was fun. Greg Hansen from there is
Speaker 2: on a Daily Star again. We're talking. We're starting to
Speaker 2: talk Big twelve football like it's here, right, So this
Speaker 2: is this is very cool. The Kansas State game. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that's that's gonna be huge.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a big game. Obviously, it's not a
Speaker 4: conference game this year. However, you don't want to go
Speaker 4: down there and get beat like a drum. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: know that that could uh be the precursor for some
Speaker 4: bad things the rest of the season. Right.
Speaker 2: I think it's an important game for the psyche of
Speaker 2: the team, but also for the psyche of the fans.
Speaker 2: Right If as you said, if they go out there
Speaker 2: and get blasted with all the expectations that Arizona has
Speaker 2: right now, it's gonna and then, as you said, then
Speaker 2: you gotta go to Utah. So you know, the ideally,
Speaker 2: if you want, if you're looking for what you hope for,
Speaker 2: the best from that is for Arizona would be three
Speaker 2: and one in its first four games. Split those two games,
Speaker 2: split Kansas State and Utah, as hard as that might be.
Speaker 2: But don't be surprised if they're two and two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question. I mean, certainly from my perspective, you'd
Speaker 4: want to win the Utah game since it does done
Speaker 4: as a conference game. But right so, if you had
Speaker 4: to pick one, which one is harder? I think Kansas
Speaker 4: State's going to be harder, you think, personally? Yeah, absolutely, Okay.
Speaker 2: Well, well know and now we're we're not that far
Speaker 2: away from that. Okay, we're going to take our last break.
Speaker 2: We'd love to hear from you five two zero four one,
Speaker 2: six seventy four forty uh, if you've got some thoughts
Speaker 2: on on you know, the Big twelve, what it's going
Speaker 2: to be like, what you expect to see from their
Speaker 2: fans coming here? Are you signing a road trip somewhere
Speaker 2: in the Big twelve. Would love to hear that. Give
Speaker 2: us a call five to two zero four one six
Speaker 2: four forty.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and
Speaker 1: Jacobzalez on Fox sportsporteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to On the Bogging Out Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Jacob Zalez, sitting in for Steve, who
Speaker 2: is normally in this CT. He'll be back tomorrow. I've
Speaker 2: got Ryan Dunn, one of our great friends and a
Speaker 2: friend of the show, and uh we got Henry running
Speaker 2: the show. So you know, I promise you will talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about your business. Uh you got TGA
Speaker 2: Premier Sports. Uh, you got after school and summer programs
Speaker 2: for kids. Just tell us a little bit about what's
Speaker 2: going on now. Your school's getting ready to start. How
Speaker 2: can kids, you know, sign up for your for your programs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're we're starting the grind. So today we were
Speaker 4: at a couple of schools for their back to school events.
Speaker 4: Our registration is now open for most of the schools
Speaker 4: that we're going to be in. So uh, people are
Speaker 4: are registering right now. They're kids for for after school programs.
Speaker 4: And so if if your kids are in one of
Speaker 4: the schools that we're at, take a look at our
Speaker 4: website PLAYTGA dot com, slash Tucson and uh, all the
Speaker 4: information is there and what schools we're currently at, and
Speaker 4: uh we're always looking to grow and and add some
Speaker 4: more schools.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a huge proponent. I mean I you know,
Speaker 2: I grew up at a time when there were after
Speaker 2: school programs I put on by your school, elementary school.
Speaker 2: We had we had flag football, we had basketball, we
Speaker 2: had softball and baseball, and we had not baseball, probably softball,
Speaker 2: we had kickball. Right where you would just stay after
Speaker 2: school for an hour hour and a half, you know,
Speaker 2: and play sports and you were on teams and you know,
Speaker 2: all the elementary schools in our in our I was
Speaker 2: in the Sunnyside School District or I think there were
Speaker 2: six elementary schools at the time. We had leagues, you know,
Speaker 2: and you had you had you know, district championships in
Speaker 2: the whole bit, and it was like it was so
Speaker 2: cool and and so often now you go to school
Speaker 2: and you go home, or you go to school and
Speaker 2: you go to the babysit or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's and our program is nice because you get
Speaker 4: to leave your kids at school for you know, that
Speaker 4: hour hour and a half and uh, you know, schools,
Speaker 4: especially elementary schools, get out so early that you know,
Speaker 4: I know, parents have a difficult time of picking their
Speaker 4: kids up. So our program is nice because you could
Speaker 4: leave your kid at school for for that extra time
Speaker 4: and you know they they're doing and something active, they're
Speaker 4: playing sports. We bring all the equipment. You don't have
Speaker 4: to buy any equipment. You don't have to send your
Speaker 4: kid with anything. So it's really nice that you know,
Speaker 4: they can learn something, especially the younger kids that haven't
Speaker 4: participated in any organized sports, right, the kindergarteners, the first graders,
Speaker 4: and they're kind of just getting their feet wet and
Speaker 4: some of that stuff. So it's it's our program's really
Speaker 4: good for that stuff to kind of get get those
Speaker 4: kids involved somehow.
Speaker 2: What sports do you offer? What sports can they can
Speaker 2: they come and be a part of.
Speaker 4: So golf, tennis, pickleball, cheerleading, flag football, floor hockey, lacrosse,
Speaker 4: ultimate frisbee, and volleyball.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, a lot of fun stuff. And again, just
Speaker 2: get out and get active, right, I mean, that's that's
Speaker 2: really what it is. Just get out, get active, do
Speaker 2: some stuff, meet some other kids, play, you know, play
Speaker 2: these things with kids, because those were things that we
Speaker 2: naturally did growing up, whether we went to an after
Speaker 2: school program or we met after school somewhere. You know,
Speaker 2: I lived literally right outside the gate of an elementary
Speaker 2: school and that was where we did. We played baseball there,
Speaker 2: we played basketball there, we played football there. And there
Speaker 2: were neighborhood kids that went and did this. This is
Speaker 2: kind of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And uh, you know another thing is you know
Speaker 4: we hear from parents all the time that you know,
Speaker 4: parents are so busy, you know, most most of the time,
Speaker 4: both parents are working, and you know, they don't want
Speaker 4: to have to take their kid from school and then
Speaker 4: have to take them home and then have to take
Speaker 4: them to another practice. And you know, it's just a
Speaker 4: revolving cycle. So our our program is nice because you know,
Speaker 4: really it's just you get that extra time as a parent,
Speaker 4: your kids learning, your kids participating, and you know you're
Speaker 4: not having to drive them all over the place.
Speaker 2: All right, give us a website again.
Speaker 4: It's PLAYTGA dot com slash Tucson.
Speaker 2: All right, go on there, and you know, find find
Speaker 2: something for your kid to do, cause it's it's just fun.
Speaker 2: And even if they're in a you know, you know,
Speaker 2: oh we play little league, we play soccer whatever, but
Speaker 2: you know, do other stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely. Uh. You know, we just started pickleball last
Speaker 4: year and uh that's quickly becoming one of our most
Speaker 4: popular sports. I mean, it's really taken off. So we're
Speaker 4: offering more pickleball this year at some schools. We'll probably
Speaker 4: have some some camps. We've done some summer camps this
Speaker 4: year and they went really well.
Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, all right, So okay, so we were talking
Speaker 2: about road trips, right, You mentioned off fair you've got
Speaker 2: a couple of road trips in mind for yourself and
Speaker 2: your family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, going to Utah and going to b YU. So
Speaker 4: the two Utah trips we've got, we've got our stuff
Speaker 4: booked and we're we're heading on those on those two trips.
Speaker 2: What have you been to those places already?
Speaker 4: Before I've been to Utah, I've been to b Yu.
Speaker 4: I've been in the stadium. I have not been to
Speaker 4: a game. So you know, both great places, both nice stadiums,
Speaker 4: both really really nice backdrops with the mountains and everything.
Speaker 4: So uh yeah, b y U is really nice.
Speaker 2: Well, and we have seen you know how b YU
Speaker 2: fans are. You know, they've come here and they come
Speaker 2: here in in loads. We you know, we had Arizona
Speaker 2: play them up in Phoenix one time. Arizona fans were
Speaker 2: out numbered there. Played you know Jed Fish's first year
Speaker 2: they played in Vegas, Vegas. Yeah, totally outnumbered there. You know, again,
Speaker 2: as as Greg said, Arizona fans are gonna have to
Speaker 2: step it up with the joining the Big twelve because
Speaker 2: every stadium in Arizona goes to it's going to be
Speaker 2: like that. And then so you got to make it
Speaker 2: like that. When they come here as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean looking up and down the schedule, you
Speaker 4: look at the Big twelve games. Obviously the Kansas State
Speaker 4: game counts as a non conference game, but you expect
Speaker 4: that game to be sold out, Right, they go to Utah,
Speaker 4: you expect that game to be sold out. B YU,
Speaker 4: you expect that to be sold out. And then a
Speaker 4: few weeks later at UCF, I know they have a
Speaker 4: big promotion going on that night and it's always full anyways,
Speaker 4: so you expect that to be sold out, and then
Speaker 4: you close it out a few weeks later at TCU,
Speaker 4: and you know they historically have to.
Speaker 2: They were in the National Championship two years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's going to be in. It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: tough road again. Players love that, right, they'd rather do
Speaker 2: that than go to the Rose Bowl and there's twenty
Speaker 2: five thousand people there, those kinds of things, and but
Speaker 2: it's still gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard for
Speaker 2: them to go play at those places.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, And it's a it's gonna be a different
Speaker 4: brand of football. It's uh, you know, I think a
Speaker 4: lot more offense that you're going to see in the
Speaker 4: Big twelve. And you know, you always hear about guys
Speaker 4: from Texas and high school football in Texas, and there's
Speaker 4: gonna be plenty of plenty of guys from Texas on
Speaker 4: all these rock Riders, and uh, you know, even even
Speaker 4: a guy that's a three star player from Texas is
Speaker 4: typically a lot better than some of the some players
Speaker 4: from other places, right may be rated higher.
Speaker 2: Well, And again, you know, I don't know that I
Speaker 2: don't want to sit here and downplay expectations because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of huge expectations pars on a football. Uh people,
Speaker 2: you know, we should win ten games and those kinds
Speaker 2: of things. This is going to be hard, and every
Speaker 2: game on the road is going to be hard. You
Speaker 2: should almost expect to lose when you go on the road,
Speaker 2: just because of how hard it's going to be to play.
Speaker 2: But on the other hand, you know, you're good enough
Speaker 2: now where you should be able to defend what you've got.
Speaker 2: And there's some good teams coming in here. We talked
Speaker 2: about Texas Tech's got to come here, who.
Speaker 4: West Virginia, Colorado?
Speaker 2: Who knows what the hell Colorado is going to be, right,
Speaker 2: But you know they weren't very good last year. In Arizona,
Speaker 2: you know, beat him at the buzzer last year. So
Speaker 2: you know that's not good. That's not gonna be an
Speaker 2: easy game. You know for Arizona. They've got guys remains
Speaker 2: to be seeing what they're going to look like. But
Speaker 2: that's not going to be easy. I you knows, as
Speaker 2: much as I hate to say it, you know, Kenny
Speaker 2: Dillingham and what they're going to be better than they
Speaker 2: were last year. I know Arizona obliterated him last year.
Speaker 2: I wish it had they had beat him seventy to seven.
Speaker 2: They didn't, but they knocked the crap out of them,
Speaker 2: But you can't expect that again this year. His his
Speaker 2: program is getting better.
Speaker 4: Yeah that that game to me is always kind of
Speaker 4: a coin flip too. No matter who's good and who's bad,
Speaker 4: you always you know, last year, I went to the
Speaker 4: game in timp and I was certainly nervous for that game,
Speaker 4: even though they weren't very good, right, you just never
Speaker 4: know they're gonna pull out all the stops, no matter
Speaker 4: how good or bad they are, to try to beat Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I expected, you know, to be a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. But you know, Arizona fans have to understand
Speaker 2: it's winning eight games, okay, is going to be really hard. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: just as even giving the you know, the two that
Speaker 2: they should win at the beginning with New Mexico and
Speaker 2: NAU at six more games you got to win to
Speaker 2: get to eight.
Speaker 4: Who were I would call eight wins a really good season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's gonna be some people who are They're
Speaker 2: gonna say eight wins isn't good enough?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean Steve and I went through the schedule. We
Speaker 2: came up with eight, and that's counting we had them
Speaker 2: losing all the road games. No, I think we had
Speaker 2: him beating by U, had him losing at Utah, had
Speaker 2: him losing at at Central Florida, had him lose in
Speaker 2: Kansas State, and I think one more might have been TCU.
Speaker 2: Uh probably Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean when you look at the schedule, it's on
Speaker 4: paper somewhat favorable at home. I mean, so you you
Speaker 4: should win the majority of your home games. You should,
Speaker 4: you know, there shouldn't be more than maybe one loss
Speaker 4: at home two with the most because you're you're not
Speaker 4: obviously you're not gonna win all your road games, right,
Speaker 4: You're going to You're gonna slip up somewhere on the road.
Speaker 2: West Virginia's got to come here, and we have no
Speaker 2: idea what Virginia is gonna be.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 2: All I know is that they've been in a national
Speaker 2: championship game. You know, I know it was years ago,
Speaker 2: but they have been Their program has been that good
Speaker 2: at times. You know, this is not you know, a
Speaker 2: bad cal program or a bad Oregon State program. This
Speaker 2: is a this is a program that's been good over
Speaker 2: the years. They're trying to get you know, they've got
Speaker 2: a history and they're you know, they're trying to get
Speaker 2: back to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think that's one of the
Speaker 4: teams that you look at and you're just not real
Speaker 4: sure with the transfer portal and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 4: exactly what some of these teams are gonna have. But
Speaker 4: you know, you've heard about some of these programs adding
Speaker 4: some good players here and there, and so you never
Speaker 4: really know.
Speaker 2: Well, that was one of the interesting things that we
Speaker 2: talked with talk to Brad Brannan about because I asked him,
Speaker 2: I said, you know, does somebody have an advantage do
Speaker 2: they do? Do you have an advantage over because the
Speaker 2: Big twelve schools don't know you guys won your new
Speaker 2: coach here. But two, they don't they haven't played the
Speaker 2: only the only team that Arizona's played in there, Uh,
Speaker 2: you know outside of the you know the Pac twelve teams,
Speaker 2: b YU a couple of times, and then Oklahoma State
Speaker 2: years ago, Texas Tech. It's been a long time. Okay,
Speaker 2: Houston back when the summering years, there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of familiarity. I said, who does that help? And said
Speaker 2: doesn't help anybody? Said, one, you know, we don't know them,
Speaker 2: but they don't know what's either, so it's kind of
Speaker 2: a wash. Said the second, you can go look at
Speaker 2: film from last year and a lot of those guys
Speaker 2: aren't even there anymore because of the transfer portal. You know,
Speaker 2: it's it's added a whole new element to trying to
Speaker 2: get ready for a season. He said, Yeah, we're looking
Speaker 2: at their film to see the kinds of things that
Speaker 2: they do, but we know the person that is going
Speaker 2: to be different, So you just don't dig in deep
Speaker 2: until you start getting film of them this coming year.
Speaker 2: He said. By the time we play Kansas State, we've
Speaker 2: got a couple of Kansas State games to look at.
Speaker 2: She said, So, yeah, we've looked at some of their
Speaker 2: stuff from last year, but not as in depth as
Speaker 2: you might think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you look up and down the schedule.
Speaker 4: It's it's that way for many of these teams. I
Speaker 4: mean we talked earlier about Utah and how many really
Speaker 4: good players they had get drafted, yeah, this past year,
Speaker 4: so they're going to look completely different. But you know,
Speaker 4: if Cam Rising is healthy and you know, they got
Speaker 4: some pretty good weapons around him, they're going to be good.
Speaker 2: And they're always a physical team, always an incredibly physical team.
Speaker 4: And same about the same thing regarding by you. I mean,
Speaker 4: they're a team that's always very physical. They usually have
Speaker 4: some older guys, and they're not really being talked about
Speaker 4: very much right now. So that's, you know, another scary
Speaker 4: game on the road.
Speaker 2: YEP. One of the things that I think does does
Speaker 2: play Welfare ZONEA and its schedule is that they've got
Speaker 2: Kansas State on that Friday night. Then they've got a
Speaker 2: week off, right, so they can if they get beat
Speaker 2: the hell beat out, and I mean if they get
Speaker 2: physically beat up or they got injuries and you know,
Speaker 2: nicks and things like that, they've got some time to
Speaker 2: get over all of that before they go they go
Speaker 2: play Utah. But that two game stretch, he's gonna tell
Speaker 2: us a lot about this team. Again, I think if
Speaker 2: they can split those two games, they're on their way
Speaker 2: to at least a nine win season.
Speaker 4: And then you got another bye leader in the season.
Speaker 4: So it's nice that it's the buys are split up nicely.
Speaker 4: So there's a between the November second game at UCF
Speaker 4: and the November fifteenth, Friday night home game against Houston.
Speaker 4: So again that's that's a by that comes out a
Speaker 4: pretty good I'm as you're nearing the end of the season.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the schedule, I think, when, well, we
Speaker 2: gotta get going. But I think Steve and I picked
Speaker 2: them to lose Kansas State, Utah, Central Florida, and TCU
Speaker 2: all road games, and that gets them to eight wins.
Speaker 2: Eight's the over under, well seven and a half for eight,
Speaker 2: depend on where you go. So I you know that
Speaker 2: those two I mean, I think they can still lose
Speaker 2: those two games and they'll be fine. Fans got to
Speaker 2: stick with them if they do. But if they don't,
Speaker 2: if they win one of those year, you might be headed.
Speaker 4: Towards a really fun season. Absolutely. It just depends on
Speaker 4: people being healthy, right, exactly. The quarterback has to be
Speaker 4: healthy exactly.
Speaker 2: Hey Ryan, thanks man for being here, Thanks for having
Speaker 2: I know this went fast, but it was great having
Speaker 2: you again.
Speaker 4: TGA sports PLAYTGA dot com. Slash Tucson is the website.
Speaker 2: It's a website for Ryan's youth program. So Steve will
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow, so we hope you'll be back here too,
Speaker 2: So we will see you tomorrow.