Speaker 1: Steve Rivera and Jacin Salles. They have their eye on
Speaker 1: the ball on Tucson Sports State yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to wind the ball. Here on Fox
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Speaker 2: today's Dave Silver. Now we have Henry with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the ball, breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Utah State will officially join the PAC twelve in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six. Five Mountain West schools have now joined the
Speaker 3: PAC twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about this whole week or so ago. Right,
Speaker 2: it's the merger of lipstick on a pig. It's still
Speaker 2: techt Uta say it was in the Mountain West. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't keep track anymore. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: It's not the Pack to They just changed the name.
Speaker 2: He's changed the name should be like the Pack twelve
Speaker 2: West or something. Actually, Oregon State and Washington State have
Speaker 2: joined the Mountain.
Speaker 4: West right right right, New alb next, probably New Mexico pass.
Speaker 5: Just do it enough.
Speaker 4: Somebody mentioned too recently that the TV situation was obviously
Speaker 4: played a big part and everything that this is going
Speaker 4: to be perfect for like the TNT world because they're
Speaker 4: losing the NBA. Basically, this is going to give them
Speaker 4: programming for less money and they're going to you know,
Speaker 4: it'll be less than what everybody else is getting, but
Speaker 4: they're going to want to take this whatever it's called
Speaker 4: Pac twelve.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 3: The Mets and Braves game today and tomorrow has been
Speaker 3: postconed because of a hurricane, and they will play a
Speaker 3: double hudder on Monday. Both teams are fighting for the
Speaker 3: final two wild card spots with the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that what's today Wednesday. We won't know what's
Speaker 2: going to happen until the weekend probably right with all
Speaker 2: the fallout or whatever it.
Speaker 3: Happens, there's a chance they might not even play those
Speaker 3: that double hudder because because many games too, they could
Speaker 3: eliminate themselves.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Diamondbacks are going backwards. So well then how
Speaker 5: did they get in last year?
Speaker 4: Did they kind of how did they back door in
Speaker 4: or did they because they were like so they're a
Speaker 4: wild card, they wound up playing through the wildcard right situation. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but they kind of got barely got into right. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but they've definitely stumbled the last couple of weeks they
Speaker 4: were playing so well in the later part of the summer.
Speaker 3: Show, Hey O, Tony's fiftieth home run ball will be
Speaker 3: auctioned off in the beginning. The bidding war will begin
Speaker 3: on Friday.
Speaker 2: And the beginning the bidding war is five hundred k right,
Speaker 2: initial one, yes, five hundred k. And what it was
Speaker 2: the asking price four point five yes, if you buy
Speaker 2: it right now at the going rate of four point
Speaker 2: five million. And I was I was coming with the
Speaker 2: guys to the show today, and I'm thinking, at what
Speaker 2: point is too much money and greed and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: We talked a little about that a couple of days.
Speaker 2: What do you do with the ball? I mean through
Speaker 2: the guy? Yeah, what do you do if you win?
Speaker 4: I mean you put it on display someplace and you're
Speaker 4: if you're, if you're, if you're the.
Speaker 5: Guy did and win the show?
Speaker 4: Hit?
Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, No.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's the The Dodgers want the ball obviously, right,
Speaker 2: because it's part of the found their history. Now, I
Speaker 2: don't know, it's just like everything else, like Elvis's belt
Speaker 2: or or his vest or whatever.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have stuff, but I just keep it on
Speaker 4: my wall, but you don't have shown.
Speaker 5: No, I don't have. I don't have. I don't have
Speaker 5: anything worth more than ten bucks.
Speaker 4: I had a chance to go to Dodger Stadium this
Speaker 4: summer and the bhad no no, I don't know. That
Speaker 4: was pretty funny too, the babblehead when the dog line
Speaker 4: and the line well for the show show me. I
Speaker 4: was like, lines, yea forever they are they have are
Speaker 4: really cool. I never knew about this, but my son
Speaker 4: and I had a chance to go into the upper
Speaker 4: right field area. Dodger Stadium have a great Dodgers museum
Speaker 4: up there, all kinds of stuff all the way back
Speaker 4: to Brooklyn and all the stuff as they made their
Speaker 4: move to Los Angeles. So that's probably where the ball
Speaker 4: will reside if they get it, if they can. I
Speaker 4: mean there's tons of stuff there. I mean they have
Speaker 4: Cofax jerseys and things like that.
Speaker 2: If they if they like say, if they get the ball,
Speaker 2: I mean, if they pay for the ball or somebody
Speaker 2: else gets the ball and then down the road. They
Speaker 2: said it was gonna be worth lot more money, right
Speaker 2: if you kept it longer.
Speaker 4: I don't know its memorabilia, Yeah, four and a half
Speaker 4: million is that what they think.
Speaker 5: It's that's what he's saying. That's what he's saying.
Speaker 2: You could start to bind at five hundred thousand, but
Speaker 2: if you want it now it's four point.
Speaker 5: Three, you can have it for four point five. It's
Speaker 5: a really fifty bucks, right, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3: The Liberty and Aces both won Game two of their
Speaker 3: series yesterday and have now advanced to the second round
Speaker 3: of the w NBA.
Speaker 5: What were the Aces? What were they seated? Two? Three?
Speaker 5: Did they play a higher seat or lower seat?
Speaker 6: They played a lower seat? I can check exactly, because
Speaker 6: they weren't.
Speaker 5: They didn't have a great year.
Speaker 6: They did not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't have the best, but were the four
Speaker 3: and they beat the five seeds.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, so that's that's okay. So that's now. We'll
Speaker 5: see what happens because they're good, but they're not.
Speaker 3: They're kind of coasting in the regular season. Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: Clark plays tonight, Yeah they played thirty.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Some guy was saying, and this might be for for Matt.
Speaker 2: Some dude last than in the radio was saying that
Speaker 2: if you if you're a gambling man, bet over, bet
Speaker 2: everything over. She's gonna get she's gonna play pissed because
Speaker 2: of the black eye.
Speaker 3: I just feel like, yeah, she's not gonna have two
Speaker 3: terrible games in a row, and the refs are gonna
Speaker 3: after that black eye.
Speaker 2: Okay that's what are my gambling guys say.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, but insiders.
Speaker 3: It was reported today that Arizona will start Basketball Conference
Speaker 3: play on December thirtieth verse TCU, and we'll end play
Speaker 3: versus Kansas on March eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so March eight they go to Kansas and then
Speaker 2: the week later, I don't know what date in March
Speaker 2: eight is. It mightbe a weekday and then they play
Speaker 2: in the in the Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 2: They can just hang out, just hang out. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about. If I go, I'm just gonna stay
Speaker 2: in the area.
Speaker 5: Kansas City is great too. Yeah, people.
Speaker 2: I don't think people here because they're so spoiled that Vegas, right,
Speaker 2: and you've been there a few times, it's it's it
Speaker 2: is sodom and gomorren Vegas. When Arizona fans go up there,
Speaker 2: it's kind of crazy. It's you know, yeah, debauchery.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be interesting to see what type of crowds.
Speaker 4: We get there if we can, If we can, good
Speaker 4: luck somehow get in that arena. Good luck three thousand.
Speaker 4: It ain't gonna be Vegas. It's not gonna be Vegas
Speaker 4: because they're not gonna go to Kansas City. Maybe a
Speaker 4: select few will, right, And the conference has rabbit fans too,
Speaker 4: if not more so. Yeah, every every every one of those,
Speaker 4: especially the big the big schools.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: I do think it's gonna be It's gonna be different,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be fun. And people out in the Big
Speaker 2: twelve were saying, you guys had fun in Vegas.
Speaker 5: We're having fun here, don't you wear you'll be You'll be.
Speaker 4: Okay, come in and eat our barbecue. They right, great food.
Speaker 4: It'll be a little colder, yep, but you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Arizona Baseball got a twenty twenty six commit yesterday left
Speaker 3: handed pitcher and outfield their crew Collige. They're up to
Speaker 3: now six commits for the twenty twenty six class.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's baseball, right, Yeah, yeah, baseball? All right? Didn't
Speaker 5: they this year's team?
Speaker 4: If I was reading correctly, I thought Greg Hanson maybe
Speaker 4: mentioned something about them being able to keep a couple
Speaker 4: of those top recruits that could have been drafted or
Speaker 4: were drafted. So the pitching whatever, the roster will have
Speaker 4: some players who could have gone pro but they're instead
Speaker 4: gonna come here.
Speaker 2: For that, which is fantastic because you're always worried about that. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to wait a while before they decide what
Speaker 2: they're gonna do.
Speaker 5: And that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chip ails, he's doing a good job. Depends. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: that's all I got. Okay, cool, anything else? I know
Speaker 2: that the swimming schedule you a screaming schedule. I just
Speaker 2: got that in an email. They've announced their swim meets
Speaker 2: for five Anybody interested to just go to the website.
Speaker 2: I haven't gone to. Did you go to Easy Desert's
Speaker 2: form at all today? Because I wonder if they have
Speaker 2: some quotes from Tommy Lloyd. Yeah, just enthusiastic about playing
Speaker 2: or getting ready for this year's season.
Speaker 5: You know, Tommy's being Tommy's cool.
Speaker 4: He's totally different than Sean much. Yeah, he's got a
Speaker 4: lot of loot in him, but not to the extent
Speaker 4: of that loot. Loot was kind of you know, lut
Speaker 4: walks in throughom you knew loot was Tommy walks into
Speaker 4: a room, You're thinking, hey, dude, what's up? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: and you wouldn't say that to Loot. It's I'll throw
Speaker 4: in one more, one more little news items, just personally. Okay,
Speaker 4: this is the the end of the run for the
Speaker 4: Oakland A's. Oh yes, is there? Tomorrow is their last game?
Speaker 4: So is that stateium gonna be ready? They're gonna go
Speaker 4: to Sacramento, Okay for maybe a couple of years. And
Speaker 4: I don't even think the Vegas thing has even been.
Speaker 5: So that's your Triple A team, right, It used to
Speaker 5: be it's the Giant's Triple A team. But it used
Speaker 5: to I guess he used to. It was for a while.
Speaker 4: But I was watching the game last night and they
Speaker 4: had a you know, they don't draw at all, but
Speaker 4: they had a good crowd last night.
Speaker 5: You from the Bay, Why don't they draw?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 5: Just it's always just been a tough sell. What do
Speaker 5: you mean by always?
Speaker 4: Even back in this I was a kid in the
Speaker 4: seventies when they were really, really good.
Speaker 5: You could go get a ticket and sit as close
Speaker 5: as you'd want with Rudy right and then Jackson? Yeah,
Speaker 5: really is it?
Speaker 4: Why I don't know, you know, there's a stigma, stigma
Speaker 4: about going to Oakland, and you know it just didn't
Speaker 4: have the glamour of San Francisco and they were always
Speaker 4: in their shadow. Well, the Warriors are in that terrible ownership.
Speaker 4: Okay maybe, but everybody's left Warriors and the Raiders and
Speaker 4: now the as. This is the end of a city's
Speaker 4: professional sports.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, teams.
Speaker 4: So that's going to wrap up tomorrow, So that'll be
Speaker 4: that'll And I think it's sold I know.
Speaker 5: It's sold out.
Speaker 4: So that one time I heard, yeah, I heard the
Speaker 4: tickets were going for like seven hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 4: or things like that. So they saved all their money
Speaker 4: these stealing chairs, you know, out of thee for the
Speaker 4: last game of the season so they didn't have to
Speaker 4: go during the season. Yeah, and there's one hundred games
Speaker 4: out from the playoffs. I don't know, they're not that bad. Well,
Speaker 4: Chicago's are really bad in white Sox.
Speaker 6: Right, Okay, I forgot too.
Speaker 3: Men that Arizona volleyball will be kicking off Big Twelve
Speaker 3: Conference play today at five at Baylor.
Speaker 2: Eleven and oh right, yeah eleven and oh and we
Speaker 2: talked about this before yesterday. Think goes right. You got
Speaker 2: to learn how to win. They're learning how to win.
Speaker 2: You see how it does in the Big twelve.
Speaker 5: Is that going to be I wonder if they're gonna
Speaker 5: be televised.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I'm asking that question openly here,
Speaker 4: but I know a lot of games are going to
Speaker 4: be on ESPN Plus.
Speaker 6: That's what it says. This game is there, you go.
Speaker 4: So I know that some of the home games, home
Speaker 4: matches were on ESPN Plus. So that's my cueue to
Speaker 4: everybody who's listening. If you're a Wildcat fan, you need
Speaker 4: to get ESPN Plus. Yeah, and I'll be getting a
Speaker 4: check from them now. But no, it's because that's what
Speaker 4: we're gonna have a lot of It's going to be
Speaker 4: just like the PAC twelve network basically. I think that's
Speaker 4: where the games are going to show up. M hm,
Speaker 4: that's cool. Yeah, it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be much better than what we were used
Speaker 2: to the last few years with PAC twelve. Right, you
Speaker 2: didn't know you're going to see it or not, and
Speaker 2: then if you did, you have to pay all the
Speaker 2: extra yeah, extra prices.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of ESPN Plus. Honestly, there's a
Speaker 4: lot on there. Yeah, okay, I watch it for UC
Speaker 4: and bo Box.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean if you if you're just bored, you want
Speaker 4: to watch an old thirty for thirty or somebody. All
Speaker 4: their documentaries are on there. Yeah you guys watched thirty
Speaker 4: for thirty.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I used to watch a bunch of them, just as
Speaker 6: we have.
Speaker 2: We have minutes here, we have like four or five minutes.
Speaker 2: Your favorite one?
Speaker 3: Oh, I really like the the Bad Boy Pistons one.
Speaker 5: That one was okay, yeah, yeah that was That was
Speaker 5: a few years ago.
Speaker 3: The problem is the ones that I really enjoyed were
Speaker 3: like like anti against my team, like the one about
Speaker 3: the Red Sox coming back against the Yankees. That's an
Speaker 3: enjoyable one, even though I'm a Yankees fan, And like
Speaker 3: the Reggie Miller against the Knicks one. I like that
Speaker 3: one even though I'm Knicks.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, all been pretty good years.
Speaker 4: D Oh god, I love the one about that one
Speaker 4: date like it was June sixteenth, nineteen ninety four when
Speaker 4: the ojh oh yeah.
Speaker 5: That just came on.
Speaker 4: That just recently showed it again because it was this
Speaker 4: is like the thirtieth Ani. Sure you had that, but
Speaker 4: it was like Arnold Palmer's last US Open, the OJ thing,
Speaker 4: the NBA Finals, Soccer World Cup.
Speaker 5: I think they're all going on like they do. You
Speaker 5: remember where you were?
Speaker 2: You remember where because I know where I was that day,
Speaker 2: I mean working There was a boxing match.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know how boxing in this time is wherever
Speaker 2: they go on a venue, they put up rink. And
Speaker 2: which one was this? This was at Congress. It was
Speaker 2: an outdoor event. I was just dating my then wife Linda,
Speaker 2: and it was a boxing match outside on Congress, just
Speaker 2: the right there on the corner of the freeway in Congress.
Speaker 2: And uh, I had to watch a couple of fights,
Speaker 2: and I was in the car listening to what was
Speaker 2: going on of the chase.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm thinking this couldn't be.
Speaker 4: I think I'm pretty sure I was at the TV
Speaker 4: station because it was all in the opening, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: everybody everybody used It was probably it was like six
Speaker 4: o'clock something like that, and then the NBA game was
Speaker 4: going at the same time.
Speaker 5: But that was a great thirty For thirty, there's so
Speaker 5: many good ones. Yeah, this might be enough. I loved them,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: Of course the Michael Jordan ones and all that, but
Speaker 2: the marketers do pre the guy who never was or whatever?
Speaker 5: It was Oklahoma, Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: What about you?
Speaker 5: What do you about?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 5: Bet you remember? Did you watch me?
Speaker 4: But who are you know? There? There were good There
Speaker 4: was one Bill soccer player at Columbia the goal the
Speaker 4: death threats, Escobar. His name was Escobar.
Speaker 2: She was just like, yeah, no, he had death threats
Speaker 2: and all that. Oh yeah, well did you did you
Speaker 2: watch the Bill Woton stuff?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. It was fantastic for a.
Speaker 2: Guy that kind of knew him and then obviously knew
Speaker 2: Luke and and then talked to Bill a lot. It
Speaker 2: was like, this is the guy nobody knows. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: everybody who criticized him, you need to watch this because
Speaker 2: he was a human being.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was wonderful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I mean I've you know, I go back
Speaker 4: to his U c l A days, even when I
Speaker 4: was in college. I'm thinking, because he was from San Diego,
Speaker 4: he'd already gotten too U c l A.
Speaker 5: By the time I got to college.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so he was always kind of in I
Speaker 4: in my mind all these years, and it was it
Speaker 4: was great to see that.
Speaker 2: Right, No, and not too you about ten years younger
Speaker 2: than He's not an old guy. He was like seventy two,
Speaker 2: seventy three when he passed. Yeah, very sad, yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: very sad at the end, but a good, good guy.
Speaker 2: I thought he took a too much heat, especially in
Speaker 2: this town. And I did a big story for Fox
Speaker 2: a few years ago, ten years ago or something. How
Speaker 2: obviously he was polarizing, but I said, erizone, fans need
Speaker 2: to give him a pass. His son played here, yeah forgot,
Speaker 2: his Sun played here, and he loved the universe.
Speaker 4: I love talking about Tucson too. I mean they put
Speaker 4: a mural of him up upon the building by the
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the exes at Alls. It's Steve Rivera
Speaker 1: and Jagin Salves. This is I on the pall on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Ian the Bay. Here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty, I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today
Speaker 2: is Dave Silver. We got Henry with us and Matt.
Speaker 2: Now we have KVOA TV's sports director, Jenna.
Speaker 5: I think, Jenna, how are you good?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 15: Thanks for having me on?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, busy, busy must be for the sports director
Speaker 4: at a station when there was a lot going on.
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, we're not complaining, right, football, high school football, volleyball, basketball,
Speaker 15: It's almost crossover season already.
Speaker 7: Kind of feels like it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no question.
Speaker 2: I guess crossover officially starts when when Tommy Lloyd starts
Speaker 2: coaching on the court and Dia Barnes, right, I don't
Speaker 2: think I saw you today at Tommy, but did you
Speaker 2: go to Adias a couple of days ago?
Speaker 15: I was also not at that one, but I've listened
Speaker 15: to both of them and had a chance to hear
Speaker 15: what they had to say.
Speaker 2: And what did you gain from Let's let's start with
Speaker 2: Ada first and then we'll kind of circle back to football.
Speaker 5: But what was her message?
Speaker 15: I think her biggest thing that stood out to me
Speaker 15: was kind of what we had even been talking about
Speaker 15: last year with how important it was to have the
Speaker 15: core fresh then freshman group back now, so Jada Williams,
Speaker 15: Braya Cunningham, having Montea do in this year after she
Speaker 15: was out from injury last year. So having the core
Speaker 15: of them, Skyler as well Jones back and having all
Speaker 15: the experience that they did as a freshman going into
Speaker 15: the Pac twelve tournament making a run to the quarterfinals,
Speaker 15: having the experience playing in the NCAA tournament, and now
Speaker 15: they're back as sophomores and they've added, you know, pieces
Speaker 15: around them. I think that makes this group exciting to watch.
Speaker 15: And I think that she really emphasized that idea that
Speaker 15: they are stronger, they're more confident, they've become leaders of
Speaker 15: this team even as sophomores, and now that she's excited
Speaker 15: to see what they can do on the core.
Speaker 7: That was one of the biggest things that stood out
Speaker 7: to me.
Speaker 15: I think that was something that she even emphasized last year.
Speaker 15: You know, it might be tough last year with you know,
Speaker 15: playing with seven players, playing with freshmen, four freshmen starting,
Speaker 15: three freshmen starting, but now it's going to pay off
Speaker 15: in her mind.
Speaker 4: Going to be fun to see them go into a
Speaker 4: new conference too, don't you think after having this deal
Speaker 4: in Stanford all these years and you know, USC and UCLA, Washington,
Speaker 4: I mean, one after another. What do you know about
Speaker 4: the Big twelve women's basketball? Have you even researched it yet?
Speaker 7: A little bit?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 15: I know that's kind of the thing with with locals.
Speaker 15: It's hard to look too far ahead because you're you're
Speaker 15: dealing with dealing with the present. But I think that
Speaker 15: was something that he always said last year. Oh thank god,
Speaker 15: we don't have to play Stanford anymore. I think it's
Speaker 15: not quite as as strong as Pac twelve basketball, but
Speaker 15: I still think that there is.
Speaker 7: You know, it's it's kind of the unknown, right.
Speaker 15: They don't know how Arizona might necessarily stack up against
Speaker 15: the other Big twelve teams in certain terms of their
Speaker 15: style of play and all that kind of stuff. I
Speaker 15: think that I haven't fully done you know, research on
Speaker 15: that quite yet, but it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 15: they kind of fit into the new conference. But I
Speaker 15: know Adia has said multiple times that she is happy
Speaker 15: not to play Stanford and Juju Watkins and USC anymore.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, And that's the siety because we won't get
Speaker 2: to see Juju Watkins.
Speaker 5: She's being a privavate player in the year.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, she's fantastic. That she's fantastic. So, so, what did
Speaker 2: you get from Tommy Lloyd today? I was there as
Speaker 2: him a couple of questions. What did you get from
Speaker 2: what he said?
Speaker 15: Also, you know, I thought it was interesting the you know,
Speaker 15: one thing that Adea has talked about under the recent
Speaker 15: couple of years is finding the right roster size, and
Speaker 15: that was something that you know, Tommy Lloyd only has
Speaker 15: eleven scholarship players this year, he has nine walk ons
Speaker 15: to kind of help, and he was talking about how
Speaker 15: that kind of seems to be benefiting their team in
Speaker 15: practice so far, which you know, obviously it's so early,
Speaker 15: you know, practice is kind of all we have, you know,
Speaker 15: to talk about at this point. They haven't even had
Speaker 15: the red blue suitcase yet. But I thought that was
Speaker 15: interesting his approach to the roster size and you know,
Speaker 15: having eleven and then having nine walk ons, and he
Speaker 15: talked about like the Green team, their their practice team
Speaker 15: really benefiting the guys, and I thought that was something
Speaker 15: that stood out to me. I didn't know, you know,
Speaker 15: he's mentioned there's enough for two green teams, two practice squads,
Speaker 15: which I thought was I thought was interesting. And I
Speaker 15: think it's good that they have, you know, the core
Speaker 15: guards coming back this year as well, and Jaden Caleb
Speaker 15: and kJ as well.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna look a little Dave here that
Speaker 2: that they're gonna look a little like ninety seven maybe
Speaker 2: ninety eight three guard lineup with with Brad Lee, kJ
Speaker 2: and love where you had Bibby Simon and Terry Terry
Speaker 2: or Michael Dickrison, I should say, because cag is a
Speaker 2: lot like Michael Dickerson.
Speaker 7: HM, well, I've paid off. I paid off that year, So.
Speaker 4: It it's gonna be. They're gonna have to extend the bench.
Speaker 4: How are they gonna do twenty players? They're gonna loop
Speaker 4: around the.
Speaker 2: Dave I I when he was talking about that and
Speaker 2: we saw the photo of everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's like an entourage.
Speaker 2: You know where they gonna put him on the They're
Speaker 2: gonna have to buy tickets for the guys in the.
Speaker 5: Back to put him somewhere.
Speaker 4: Well, you got the you got the athletic director's son,
Speaker 4: you got the coaches son.
Speaker 5: Who else is on this team?
Speaker 4: Garrett mister Whiteman's son son? I mean, come on, are
Speaker 4: you on the team?
Speaker 5: Do you have no? I have no more eligibility? Okay,
Speaker 5: well we just challenge just checking on the green team. No, no, okay,
Speaker 5: I remember we asked.
Speaker 4: I was with something at an event with Jack Murphy
Speaker 4: last week and one of the guys asked, well, how
Speaker 4: big is the rostering? He goes twenty players? I don't
Speaker 4: know has that ever. No, No, I mean no, they've
Speaker 4: had fifteen.
Speaker 2: No, it's like it's like, oh brohly you getta you
Speaker 2: gotta see you get to see you to see him.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see how that goes. But you know, well,
Speaker 4: are they gonna they're gonna travel And that's no. I
Speaker 4: don't think it's gonna bigger outplane. That's private plane. Last
Speaker 4: I heard it was gonna have to cut costs. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So so we'll see.
Speaker 2: So how so what else did you go from Tommy's Commy.
Speaker 2: Tommy's Tommy, right, he wants to give you stuff, but
Speaker 2: he doesn't really give you stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 15: Talking about Caleb Love and how he kind of hinted
Speaker 15: that he wanted him to maybe even make some more
Speaker 15: changes to his game, I mean, he came in from
Speaker 15: North Carolina where he shot the ball a ton and
Speaker 15: you know, took kind of change that a little bit,
Speaker 15: didn't shoot quite as much last year, and so maybe
Speaker 15: you wonder, you know what what that might look like like,
Speaker 15: you said, though he did not give anything away in
Speaker 15: terms of what those conversations were like. Understandably, you know,
Speaker 15: wanting to keep that internal, which you know at this
Speaker 15: point in this season, hasn't even started yet. Makes makes
Speaker 15: perfect sense, but you know, it's interesting that he kind
Speaker 15: of suggested that, Okay, maybe we might see a shift
Speaker 15: in the way Caleb was playing this year.
Speaker 5: Right, I asked him.
Speaker 2: I asked him exactly that, because I was the first
Speaker 2: guy to asking about Caleb. And then he followed up
Speaker 2: with what he I said, what do you mean by
Speaker 2: work or changes? Then he became more evasive. You know,
Speaker 2: can you explain? No, not really, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: tell you. But you know, I think if you if
Speaker 2: you're a coach and you have Caleb and we know
Speaker 2: how good he is, and we also know he can
Speaker 2: get into funks and at the final in the final month,
Speaker 2: he went into a funk.
Speaker 4: Do you want him to shoot more? Do you want
Speaker 4: to shoot less?
Speaker 2: If you're the guy that's going to tell him, what
Speaker 2: do you want to tell him?
Speaker 7: Oh? Wow, good thing.
Speaker 15: I'm not the coach, but I think I think shooting
Speaker 15: not necessarily less than last year, but certainly less than
Speaker 15: he did at North Carolina.
Speaker 7: I mean that was a benefit.
Speaker 15: You have other playmakers, you know, on team who can
Speaker 15: step up and make those those shots as well. I
Speaker 15: don't know exactly what I would tell him maybe I
Speaker 15: don't know. Luckily, I don't have to be the one
Speaker 15: to tell him that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna It's always fun this time of year
Speaker 4: two when we're sitting there thinking about the future and whatnot.
Speaker 4: But there's something special about when the season begins and
Speaker 4: really seeing who these guys are and what they are.
Speaker 4: And you can sometimes his spot right from the very beginning.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, this guy's got you know, he can
Speaker 4: shoot from wherever, or this guy's a great rebounder. That
Speaker 4: seems to be the way UFA basketball is operated for years.
Speaker 15: They had a press conference introductory press conference with Toby
Speaker 15: a Waka from Tennessee last week or two weeks ago.
Speaker 15: I was really impressed with just his his composure and
Speaker 15: the way he approaches the game and the way he
Speaker 15: kind of he seemed very you know, methodical in his
Speaker 15: approach to the game, but when he gets on.
Speaker 7: The court, it's it's very physical.
Speaker 15: You know, he is passionate about rebounding and the defensive
Speaker 15: side of the ball. So I thought, you know, just
Speaker 15: hearing him talk about the game and the way he
Speaker 15: approaches it was very interesting, and you know, he's just
Speaker 15: one of a couple of turnsfers coming in, so I
Speaker 15: think it'll be exciting to see how those news guys
Speaker 15: come in and make an impact as well.
Speaker 2: No, in fact, I know you asked the question about
Speaker 2: uh about reading.
Speaker 5: And he did.
Speaker 2: He did come off as a special player about that,
Speaker 2: very very intellectual, very uh forward thinking, talked about his
Speaker 2: mom and how he became a reader and he was
Speaker 2: a philosophy guy. And I saw your story. I thought
Speaker 2: it was very very good because it was a non
Speaker 2: basketball story and you know, and yeah, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you agree with this. And I've been here a
Speaker 2: thousand years, you've been.
Speaker 5: Here a little over. We don't get to talk about
Speaker 5: those things very often.
Speaker 15: That's the that's the beauty of preseason type of things
Speaker 15: like that, because I'm not asking him about the book
Speaker 15: he's reading when we're.
Speaker 7: When he's about to play duke, you know.
Speaker 15: Like when they're in the season kind of you know, uh,
Speaker 15: in this in the season grind. I guess I could say,
Speaker 15: I think, you know, preseason is a really.
Speaker 7: Great time where you get to kind of learn.
Speaker 15: These little things about I mean, he said he wants
Speaker 15: to read the Myth of Sisipus, which I had never
Speaker 15: even heard of until he said.
Speaker 7: That, and then I went and looked it up.
Speaker 15: So I think it's, you know, just really cool to
Speaker 15: learn these little things about each of the student athletes
Speaker 15: that kind of makes them them off the court in
Speaker 15: addition to them, you know, just knowing how many rebounds
Speaker 15: per game he had last year at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: So general, before Dave says, you've been here a little
Speaker 2: about eighteen months, almost two.
Speaker 5: Years whatever, Yeah, about a year and a half. We'll
Speaker 5: get to that in a second.
Speaker 2: But Dave and I have been here for since since
Speaker 2: nineteen hundred. But before all that, that far, before before
Speaker 2: all this were they only brought two players in and
Speaker 2: you don't get to talk to blah blah blah. We
Speaker 2: got to spend a lot of time with the guys,
Speaker 2: and those were our stories we did, you know, they
Speaker 2: the things that they didn't do during basketball, and it
Speaker 2: was fantastic we were able to tell their stories. I
Speaker 2: wish that would come back. I know, I'm Pollyanna here, right,
Speaker 2: But no, good job because you did something that isn't normal.
Speaker 4: No, that is good because you know, back in our day,
Speaker 4: back in the old days, you know, we used to
Speaker 4: get everybody basically they.
Speaker 5: They don't wanted.
Speaker 4: Like on a Tuesday or whatever, the weekly news conference,
Speaker 4: you'd get to Coach Olsen would come up and talk
Speaker 4: and then he'd sometimes come over and talk to you
Speaker 4: individually as well, and then you get to go in
Speaker 4: the locker room.
Speaker 5: So things have changed.
Speaker 4: But it's good that you can pull a story like that.
Speaker 4: You know, in front of every did everybody get to
Speaker 4: hear the same answers?
Speaker 5: Sure? Sure, but that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets to hear your question and then run with
Speaker 2: the story or not right, right, So there you have it. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's move on to football and the team that's making
Speaker 2: your life tough because even though they're two and one,
Speaker 2: it's you. You got to say they're two and one
Speaker 2: and probably not playing well.
Speaker 15: Right, it doesn't feel like the two and one that
Speaker 15: I don't think if you had said at the beginning
Speaker 15: of the year that they'd be two and one at
Speaker 15: this point in the season, I don't know how surprised,
Speaker 15: right many fans, many people.
Speaker 7: Would be, but I think it's just the way that
Speaker 7: they're two and one. Right. You had the big win
Speaker 7: over New Mexico.
Speaker 15: But then you had the shaky, shaky win over and
Speaker 15: a where it was like, okay, you know, people expected
Speaker 15: it to maybe be a bigger win than.
Speaker 7: It actually was. And then Kansas State they came.
Speaker 15: Out looking fantastic in the first drive and then nothing
Speaker 15: after that. So you know, it wasn't as close of
Speaker 15: a loss in that instance as maybe people were expecting
Speaker 15: in the top fifteen matchup, the top twenty matchup at
Speaker 15: the time.
Speaker 7: So I think, yeah, you know, there's been a lot of.
Speaker 15: Increased expectations surrounding this team, just given you know, where
Speaker 15: they were last year and how many star players have
Speaker 15: come back. I think, you know, people's expectations are higher,
Speaker 15: and that's why there's kind of this uneasiness maybe perhaps
Speaker 15: surrounding the program so far as they get ready for
Speaker 15: another you know, they get ready for conference play.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't help to have the week in between,
Speaker 4: an extra week to think about it, so right, and
Speaker 4: talking about this for two weeks now, so right.
Speaker 7: Everyone can just talk about it more.
Speaker 15: But I think, you know, in their in their media
Speaker 15: availability this week, you know, I think they've at this
Speaker 15: point at least seen the benefit of having the bye week,
Speaker 15: you know, especially injury wise, it sounded like, you know,
Speaker 15: there were some more players banged up than maybe even
Speaker 15: we knew about, you know, tight Ends, especially you know
Speaker 15: Baber's mentioned that today or yesterday that you know tight
Speaker 15: Ends maybe a little banged up. That's why they haven't
Speaker 15: been used as much, so specifically Kean Burnett.
Speaker 7: So that could be interesting to see.
Speaker 15: Hopefully maybe they get a little bit more usage against
Speaker 15: Utah and you know, just having the time to get healthy,
Speaker 15: time to tweak some things, you know of Fafita talked
Speaker 15: about that as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm not sure if you know Dave at
Speaker 2: all or Dave was a TV guy. Uh, like you're
Speaker 2: you're you're a TV person here in town. But he
Speaker 2: had help, he had two or three people, right, Uh,
Speaker 2: And I was, you know on newspaper. Everyone knows that
Speaker 2: you you are a one man band? How how is that?
Speaker 2: How is that?
Speaker 15: Thankfully I've had the experience of doing this before and
Speaker 15: in my first job, I was also one person department,
Speaker 15: a smaller you know, I wasn't covering power.
Speaker 7: For athletics like like the U of A.
Speaker 15: But I have the experience of kind of running it.
Speaker 15: But no, you just do the best you can, you know,
Speaker 15: I cover. I try to cover as much as I can,
Speaker 15: but I also recognize can't to everything, and so that's
Speaker 15: that's just kind of.
Speaker 7: How I approach it.
Speaker 15: I just I just do the best I can, try
Speaker 15: to cover you know, obviously U of a everything, but
Speaker 15: also you know, we still value, you know, still cover
Speaker 15: high school. We have our Friday Football Fever show every
Speaker 15: Friday night with high school football, which is a blast,
Speaker 15: and yeah, just kind of try to spread it out
Speaker 15: as much as possible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the land the landscape of local television has definitely changed.
Speaker 4: I mean I've I've been out of it now for
Speaker 4: a while. But you know, we were lucky back in
Speaker 4: the day. Sometimes we even had three or four people
Speaker 4: just doing sports, even in Tucson. But times changed, budgets changed,
Speaker 4: you know, priorities change.
Speaker 5: But it's good that they're you know that you're.
Speaker 4: Continuing to do what you do and the guys on
Speaker 4: nine and thirteen are doing the best they can too.
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot to cover here. I mean
Speaker 5: there really is.
Speaker 15: That's kind and that's not a bad thing, and that's
Speaker 15: not a bad thing, was a great thing.
Speaker 2: Is that why you chose Tucson or you know, went
Speaker 2: back in the day or a couple of years ago.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean Tucson is great. I mean my sister,
Speaker 15: My sister, we joke, you know, got here first. She's
Speaker 15: she's currently at the University of Arizona. She's a senior,
Speaker 15: so you know, we like to joke that she kind
Speaker 15: of followed you know, I kind of followed her here,
Speaker 15: but that was part of it having her here. And
Speaker 15: just yeah, I mean great athletics. I mean, you know,
Speaker 15: when you think of great college, especially basketball, University of
Speaker 15: Arizona's you know, top of mind.
Speaker 7: So I think that was great.
Speaker 15: And you know, for me, I I went to school
Speaker 15: in Syracuse University and Upstate New York, so I wanted
Speaker 15: nothing to do with the cold weather anymore. So I've
Speaker 15: been very happy here in Tucson with the weather as.
Speaker 2: Well, even when it's one hundred and two in October
Speaker 2: or yeah, this is a.
Speaker 15: Little a little jarring in late September, still over one
Speaker 15: hundred degrees. But I'm telling you, anything is better than
Speaker 15: negative ten and not being able to feel any you know,
Speaker 15: your hands or anything as you're walking to the grocery store.
Speaker 7: Or anything like that. So definitely you prefer the heat.
Speaker 5: Over the cold.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, because we have two interns
Speaker 2: in studio now. We have one from LA one from
Speaker 2: New York as well, and we talk about them coming here.
Speaker 2: So why would your sister come here, you know from
Speaker 2: I guess where, Dallas or the New Yorker.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Dallas, Dallas as where we're from.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so she wanted to She also did not want
Speaker 15: to go anywhere cold. She also isn't isn't interested in journalism.
Speaker 15: She's studying to be a teacher, so totally different field.
Speaker 15: So that's part of you know, she wanted to do
Speaker 15: kind of her own thing and stay in the warmth,
Speaker 15: which I understand. Well, that's what appealed to her.
Speaker 5: Well, she'll have a job for life if she likes
Speaker 5: teach right, we have a lot of alumni.
Speaker 4: Arizona has a lot of alumni from the Dallas area too.
Speaker 4: There's a big group in Dallas, and there's a lot
Speaker 4: of students yeah here now, so she's probably found that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure she has. I'm sure she has.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, thanks for joining us, Jenna, Good luck, good
Speaker 2: luck out there. I know you do a good job,
Speaker 2: and we'll see you at our next press conference, our game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, see see you around. Thank you. So much for
Speaker 7: having me.
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Speaker 4: k Gun back now that I think about it, when
Speaker 4: Kaygun was still showing Monday night football on a regular basis,
Speaker 4: and we would do a show at one of the
Speaker 4: casino I think it was might have been Desert Diamond,
Speaker 4: but it was one of the casinos in town.
Speaker 5: It was fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of course, Mooney, Sean Mooney and I did
Speaker 2: a show there. I don't know, it's still about fifteen
Speaker 2: sixteen years ago. Every day it was fun going out
Speaker 2: there and sitting in the bar and kind of just
Speaker 2: doing what we're doing now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just you know, shooting there and.
Speaker 4: You're seeing, especially even in Vegas, there are a lot
Speaker 4: of radios set up in the casinos, right.
Speaker 2: Sure, right, And I know you're talking about the fan
Speaker 2: Duel and things like that where they're sponsoring shows like
Speaker 2: this and it's it's everything about them right.
Speaker 4: Well, they're you know, they're getting insiders, you know, like
Speaker 4: the like the who's the guy that just left? Adrian
Speaker 4: Rojarowski from ESPN and Adam Schefter and people like that.
Speaker 4: That job is kind of gradually moving to the casino
Speaker 4: world where you can be the insider for you know,
Speaker 4: draft Kings or whatever.
Speaker 5: So that's kind of an interesting career.
Speaker 2: And people listen like Jay because you need more insight
Speaker 2: that you have, right, so you have the experts telling
Speaker 2: you what to do or to where to play.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anybody you want to call, please do five two
Speaker 2: zero four, one, six, seventy four forty love to hear
Speaker 2: from you. Maybe your thoughts on the UNLV thing. Could
Speaker 2: it happen here? I'm sure it could happen here. Who
Speaker 2: knows if it haven't hasn't happened here because of playing time? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know we're talking to Matt and to to Henry
Speaker 2: here that it could very likely happen anywhere if you
Speaker 2: promise something and don't deliver. Yeah, I've seen it where
Speaker 2: you know, people say, oh, they promise you playing time
Speaker 2: and I'm now I'm out.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, look at I hate I don't think you
Speaker 4: could even think about it. But I mean as far
Speaker 4: as basketball, I got twenty players on the team, how
Speaker 4: many can be out there?
Speaker 2: Well, the walk counts are here because they want to
Speaker 2: they want to play, or they want to be part
Speaker 2: of a possible great team, right, Okay, good, good luck
Speaker 2: with that, and they're not asked to do too much,
Speaker 2: just kind of help the other teams out to get better.
Speaker 4: It's not I mean, that's probably not fair to even
Speaker 4: to bring that up. But I mean in terms of,
Speaker 4: you know, Tommy has his core of I'm sure eight
Speaker 4: or nine players. He knows they're all going to be
Speaker 4: there and they're all all going to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna quiz you guys down that basketball
Speaker 2: is kind of officially started to everybody, how how how
Speaker 2: well do you think the basketball team will do in
Speaker 2: the Big twelve Conference and beyond and beyond in March
Speaker 2: to what everybody first?
Speaker 5: You did me first?
Speaker 4: Yeah, from what I've read, you know, they're picking Arizona
Speaker 4: to be fifth, fifth, right, Yeah, I wouldn't say third
Speaker 4: or fourth, and I don't I haven't really looked at it.
Speaker 4: I thought there was some type of story last week
Speaker 4: that came out said that y was picked around third
Speaker 4: or fourth.
Speaker 5: Third or fourth, yes, but do you said fifth? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Well, let me say there's top twenty five. They're in
Speaker 2: the top twenty five, but they could be the fourth
Speaker 2: or fifth best team in the conference.
Speaker 5: Yea, in the top twenty five.
Speaker 4: Well again as even as we were talking with Jenna,
Speaker 4: there's you know, there's the great mystery of what some
Speaker 4: of these guys are going to really turn out to
Speaker 4: be right, how much that they changed between their first
Speaker 4: year and second year here. Luke used to always talk
Speaker 4: about that for the second year was the big improvement year.
Speaker 4: They've been through the program, they been through the waits, Tom.
Speaker 2: We talked about that today because Alwi has a love
Speaker 2: back for a second year, kJ comes back for a
Speaker 2: second year and Bradley comes back, so they're more seasoned,
Speaker 2: they're more more knowledgeable what to expect from him, and
Speaker 2: all three I didn't have to to kind of adjust
Speaker 2: their games. Kleable will definitely have to, Yeah, And with Bradley,
Speaker 2: who I think is probably too bald dominant, he carries
Speaker 2: that ball a lot and he doesn't pass a lot
Speaker 2: in my mind, and that'll have to change a little.
Speaker 2: And kJ is probably the best NBA talent on the.
Speaker 4: Team, right I think, Yeah, And he's gotten bigger, I
Speaker 4: think from what I've heard and read.
Speaker 5: And mature.
Speaker 4: You know, they've been through the Wars, they've been through
Speaker 4: the Pac twelve, they've been through road games or you know,
Speaker 4: now they're going to be on a different stage.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back to you in a secon because
Speaker 2: you've been here, Henry. What do you hope to see
Speaker 2: from the basketball team?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: No, Big twelve.
Speaker 3: First, I think they're obviously going to be worse in
Speaker 3: the Big twelve than they were in the Pack twelve.
Speaker 3: But I think the positive is it's going to prepare
Speaker 3: them for the actual tournament that matters exactly. I think
Speaker 3: that experience in the Big twelve games. You know, there
Speaker 3: wasn't really a Pac twelve environment that mirrored that. So
Speaker 3: sure playing in those big games is going to get
Speaker 3: them ready for March more than any Pac twelve game could.
Speaker 2: So now I'll go to the NCAA tournament. So now
Speaker 2: it prepares them to go to the tournament, which they'll make.
Speaker 2: You know, we won't have to argue that anything less
Speaker 2: than what would be a disappointment.
Speaker 3: I gotta see how the team plays first, because I
Speaker 3: mean it's new pieces.
Speaker 5: You're in Arizona, Henry.
Speaker 3: They don't they don't have a proven point guard right now.
Speaker 3: They got we gotta see how that goes. Okay, So
Speaker 3: that's your key position. I want to say it's my
Speaker 3: key position. But they definitely need Bradley or Caleb to
Speaker 3: step up as the playmaker of the team because last
Speaker 3: year it was Pella and Boswell and Caleb really weren't
Speaker 3: the playmakers that they were brought in to be.
Speaker 6: So that's a big thing they need.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, so you're waiting to see what about you, Matt,
Speaker 2: What's what's your thought?
Speaker 18: Yeah, the same thing, honestly, gotta see. I think anything
Speaker 18: less than a Elite eight probably be a little disappointing,
Speaker 18: but you.
Speaker 2: Know, and that's been the case definitely last three years.
Speaker 2: But since you guys have been here, right, because they
Speaker 2: got beat by Houston and with a pretty capable team
Speaker 2: exactly and not muscle, and then against Prince and I
Speaker 2: think they were just over confident in.
Speaker 6: That game, right, so again got to see got a
Speaker 6: wait and see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then last year they got they got to
Speaker 2: maybe a little over confidence and you know it was Clemson.
Speaker 2: Well we can get Clemson, and Clemson kind of outplayed them,
Speaker 2: not kind of, they just didn't did yeah.
Speaker 5: And got Houston.
Speaker 4: You just mentioned, you know, they were the number one
Speaker 4: seed last year, you know, so they're gonna be dealing
Speaker 4: with some pretty good book competition.
Speaker 2: And when we know that the venues that they're going
Speaker 2: to be going to fantastic.
Speaker 4: They're all michaale like and they're all going to be
Speaker 4: looking for Arizona and you know we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 4: be a big draw.
Speaker 2: Hey, you think you're the poop in the in the West,
Speaker 2: come in, Come on in, We'll show you what we are.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, b YU, that's gonna be a
Speaker 4: fun game. It's gonna be a good rivalry in all sport.
Speaker 2: Well, the last time I was at b YU for
Speaker 2: a game with him, it was gene Edgerson game. I
Speaker 2: don't if you remember that where he hit the guy
Speaker 2: in the back of the head.
Speaker 5: And uh knocked him out.
Speaker 2: And remember they knocked him out and he had to
Speaker 2: apologize in a letter to the guy because it did
Speaker 2: affect him.
Speaker 4: He was didn't Arizona play them in the tournaments? Was
Speaker 4: it in Salt Lake City? You're talking along, Sean Bradley.
Speaker 5: Sean Bradley you nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they just haven't played BYU many times.
Speaker 2: Tires that kind of stuff, right, Well, this is this
Speaker 2: is the thing I remember about the Sean Bradley thing.
Speaker 2: It was like nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety and ninety
Speaker 2: one maybe where he played and they played and got
Speaker 2: Arizona one, and Lut never did did this, at least
Speaker 2: not what the players when he was a coach. Sean
Speaker 2: Bradley came and gave him a hug and Lut hugged
Speaker 2: him back. It was like what wow, Well, yeah, exactly wow,
Speaker 2: because it didn't you never saw that ever. You know,
Speaker 2: you saw when the kids or the players left, and
Speaker 2: he had a different relationship after they left, right, but
Speaker 2: very rare did you see him show that emotion. But
Speaker 2: it was for another place. It was for another dude
Speaker 2: coming to hug him, to say hello and thank you. Know,
Speaker 2: I've been following you for a long time.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be fun, Arizona when they played by you
Speaker 4: in the Las Vegas Bowl, like in ninety two thousand
Speaker 4: and seven, stoops here tons of b YU fans.
Speaker 5: Well, they just got a lot of fans. Anyway.
Speaker 4: B Yu travels like no, especially to Vegas. I remember
Speaker 4: one time, how much time do we have left? I
Speaker 4: was in Boise of all places, doing work for the
Speaker 4: U of a UH and Boise State was playing BYU
Speaker 4: and football like on Thursday night, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: and now I'm at this hotel, you know, just kind
Speaker 4: of away from campus.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, I swear like ten buses came
Speaker 5: up and.
Speaker 4: It was the BYU, the band, the team, the families.
Speaker 5: They all have a lot of kids in that group.
Speaker 5: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 4: It was quite a contingent for like a you know,
Speaker 4: they all drove from Provo, Yeah, up the.
Speaker 5: Freeway, right yeah, no que, no question.
Speaker 2: Great fans, great fans, great fans, and they're going to
Speaker 2: be the same in Iowa State, Houston, Baylor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's gonna
Speaker 5: be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: And I can I agree with Henry to one hundred
Speaker 2: percent that it's going to prepare them for for and
Speaker 2: if they don't do well in the tournament, that's a
Speaker 2: that's on them.
Speaker 5: Yeah exactly. You know.
Speaker 2: And as an athlete, Matt, you you get better by
Speaker 2: playing better people.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, it's just you know, kind of getting back
Speaker 5: to the TV thing.
Speaker 4: I just caught up a story just a few minutes
Speaker 4: ago about CBS signed up a deal with the Big twelve,
Speaker 4: So there's gonna be an additional twenty men's basketball games
Speaker 4: per season on CBS regular CBS, So.
Speaker 5: That would be good. I'm sure Arizona will be involved there.
Speaker 2: Sure, it's and Tommy talked about this today and this
Speaker 2: is not a shock. It's the it's the best league
Speaker 2: in the country. Oh yeah for basketball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean right now they have six six games
Speaker 4: and they're gonna go to twenty. So they know that
Speaker 4: there's teams here, Yes, in TV markets like you know,
Speaker 4: Salt Lake City, Sure, Denver, things like that.
Speaker 2: Sure, and be on the lookout for the schedule tomorrow
Speaker 2: for for for the basketball program, the men's basketball. I
Speaker 2: think maybe even the women's but we talked about that
Speaker 2: today at the press conference.
Speaker 4: It's it's it is just a different feel for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean today I was listening to something. All they're
Speaker 4: talking about, you know, Colorado is playing Central Florida. I mean,
Speaker 4: these games, which is they don't make any sense right now,
Speaker 4: but that's the way it's.
Speaker 5: Going to be, right.
Speaker 2: So you guys, I brought this question up to Tommy today.
Speaker 2: One of the guys that's been lost in this whole
Speaker 2: roster thing was Henry. Henry you know, the international guy.
Speaker 2: He played a little as a freshman. I thought he
Speaker 2: was fantastic. He's a different he was a stretch for
Speaker 2: kind of and then it gets hurt last year in
Speaker 2: a freak accident or whatever, and then he has to
Speaker 2: sit out. And now I think that he's going to
Speaker 2: be a guy that no one's talked about because no
Speaker 2: one's seen him in a while. In fact, I saw
Speaker 2: when I was leaving Michael, he was squalking down the
Speaker 2: you know when you're underneath the it's the stairway or whatever.
Speaker 2: Big a little more thick because he was really thin.
Speaker 2: I think that he's going to help creeve us a lot.
Speaker 2: And he was versatile. He could be a stretch for. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, and they play and here it's point guard
Speaker 2: you right or whatever that name.
Speaker 4: But the fourth the four is pretty key. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's interesting. Yeah, that's that'll be good. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: he definitely showed something a little bit when he played,
Speaker 4: you know, with Tabellas. Didn't need much help right as
Speaker 4: a back for a backup, but any of growing paints
Speaker 4: what freshman does it? Yeah, especially when you're a big
Speaker 4: good Yeah. So we'll see you guys, have a favorite player.
Speaker 3: I would say Caleb just because I like I like
Speaker 3: when players get doubted. That makes me kind of like
Speaker 3: them more. And I think coming from North Carolina, people
Speaker 3: are doubting them. That made me a player I'm excited
Speaker 3: to see is definitely Trade Townsend. See the versatility that
Speaker 3: he brought at Oakland. That's his scoring is going to
Speaker 3: be big.
Speaker 2: And they have a few of those players yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: like the one Jenna talked about exactly Townsend, you know,
Speaker 2: and they're what three fourths, they're kind of.
Speaker 3: Three three four He's gonna probably play the four because.
Speaker 5: He's a banger, Yeah, bigger body. Yeah, what about you bet?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 18: No, Kayla is my favorite player for sure because just
Speaker 18: overall scale scale. I just like him as I like
Speaker 18: watching them. I think that's what makes me a fan
Speaker 18: of my watch. He's not afraid that he's not afraid exactly.
Speaker 2: He's at that word the thing about if you he's
Speaker 2: a writer died, dude, Yeah, he's a writer died, which
Speaker 2: scares the.
Speaker 5: Crap out of me. But well, in the last month
Speaker 5: he died a lot.
Speaker 18: Yeah, come from from last year. I didn't think he
Speaker 18: was coming back. If I'm being honest, I actually made
Speaker 18: a bet with a friend, like saying, no, he's not
Speaker 18: coming back, but he actually, well that's.
Speaker 5: The key, because well that's not the key.
Speaker 2: That's the interesting thing, because they were telling him you're
Speaker 2: not ready for the NBA, right, if you're not ready?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, all right, how much time we can be
Speaker 5: ready to go?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks everybody, Thank you Dave, thanks you guys for
Speaker 2: coming in. Tomorrow's Thursday. I don't know what we're gonna do,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna have a show.