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Speaker 3: Bill Belichick has officially taken the North Carolina job on
Speaker 3: a three year, thirty million dollar contract.
Speaker 2: Ten million dollars a year. Ken schools don't have money.
Speaker 4: They have money, they just have to figure out how
Speaker 4: to spend it and spread it out to different people
Speaker 4: and different players.
Speaker 5: And unc is you know, not cheap.
Speaker 4: They're a good school, great university, and they're getting you know,
Speaker 4: the all time great coach.
Speaker 5: So yeah, going to back to go. Well here here's
Speaker 5: the funny thing.
Speaker 2: He's seventy two, I think, yeah, right, uh, and they
Speaker 2: just let off their seventy four year old coach and
Speaker 2: people are trent and what's what's issue of the dilly
Speaker 2: thirty four thirty four? Yeah, so everyone's kind of thinking
Speaker 2: that young, that young coach. They you know maybe start
Speaker 2: going that way. No, I think we're gonna go with
Speaker 2: the seventy two year old unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that he's you know, like he's he's been doing
Speaker 4: a lot of stuff since he left the Patriots, doing
Speaker 4: a lot of media, on a lot of networks and
Speaker 4: getting some face time. But and then a lot of
Speaker 4: coaches have done that historically, they've kind of stepped away,
Speaker 4: and Trump get on television and you know, have a
Speaker 4: little bit of a reputation there. But Belichick, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I couldn't find a job in the NFL. That was
Speaker 4: interesting that nobody wanted him after he stepped away.
Speaker 2: You're going to see the last of the Belichick you
Speaker 2: just saw with last year.
Speaker 5: Funny clever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's gonna go back to being okay, Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: we didn't say that.
Speaker 5: We didn't do that. We should check with our friends
Speaker 5: in the media, North Carolina.
Speaker 2: You're right right excited about this, Yeah, no question, right right?
Speaker 5: How are those weekly news conferences is going to go?
Speaker 5: Will he?
Speaker 4: Will he be different in college where you know he's
Speaker 4: going to be ordered around a little bit by the
Speaker 4: by his athletic director. That maybe didn't happen when he
Speaker 4: was Patriots.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, probably not. And I'll use Greg Burns as
Speaker 2: an example. Who do you think around the program at
Speaker 2: right Arizona at Alabama?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I know, yeah, but I mean, isn't that like it's
Speaker 4: a lot of part of their con I remember, like
Speaker 4: looking at those guys contracts to college coaches, and isn't
Speaker 4: media obligations one of the big you know he's gonna
Speaker 4: is he gonna get affiliated with Nike? I mean there's
Speaker 4: things like that. Sure didn't maybe happen when he was
Speaker 4: a professional coach?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure no, because the media stuff is like a
Speaker 2: half a million dollars obligations for a postgame.
Speaker 4: Postgame do a coaches show? Can you imagine happened to
Speaker 4: do the the Bill Belichick coaches Show?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: He does what just does what Tommy does on the radio.
Speaker 2: Center's assistant to talk on the show. Right, he did
Speaker 2: that into Bahamas.
Speaker 4: Well supposedly to the story is he's going to bring
Speaker 4: his son to have the succession plan.
Speaker 5: Right we talked. Didn't we talk about that yesterday? I think? Yeah?
Speaker 5: His name is Steve. Yeah, he's with Jed right now, right,
Speaker 5: said d I thank you with with j in Washington.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, can I clear something up because I won't
Speaker 2: sleep tonight. Richard Haws my mistake. I thought it was
Speaker 2: Richard hawss as they we were talking with Pete Williams,
Speaker 2: it was Leon Wood, not Richard haw that's the referee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a referee for a long time. Parent
Speaker 5: Still is is he? Still? That's what?
Speaker 2: That's what Pete Sidney I said, it's Leon Wood and
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he played here briefly, I think, and then went
Speaker 4: to Fullerton and played the pros.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was his BF.
Speaker 3: Ohio State Representative Josh Williams introduced a bill on Tuesday
Speaker 3: that would classify flag planting at Ohio Stadium around Buckos
Speaker 3: football as a felony.
Speaker 2: Just don't lose a game, only if it's Michigan though. Right,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah that's what they seen. That's gonna beat him.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 2: By the way, guys, you know what are you What
Speaker 2: are you doing right now?
Speaker 5: Nothing? Sitting they're talking. I do that every day from
Speaker 5: three to five. You're tied to you? Are you gonna
Speaker 5: have the what happened to the quarterback? Monday night?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: Joe Brow?
Speaker 2: Because isn't that funny? This like Facebook Hey, I'm on
Speaker 2: I'm on a cruise in the Bahamas. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Go by the way, my house is empty.
Speaker 5: Go rob it.
Speaker 2: People are crazy when they post stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Well who else did Mahomes get his mahomes and Travis
Speaker 4: Kelson had their house his birthday case.
Speaker 5: They're figuring out. A good time to do it is
Speaker 5: when they're playing yells right right. I guess it's a
Speaker 5: big big league smart criminals. I'll tell you yeah.
Speaker 3: NCAA is looking into expanding March Madness to seventy two
Speaker 3: to seventy six teams.
Speaker 2: Here we go because the football, you know, white twelve
Speaker 2: goes sixteen, making it even and then eventually it's me
Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty four. But yeah, it was used to
Speaker 2: be thirty two or eighteen whatever. It was thirty two,
Speaker 2: and then it went to forty eight, right right, and
Speaker 2: then sixty four and then sixty eight, seventy city. Just
Speaker 2: invite everybody, what the hell, what's the special?
Speaker 4: Don't make the decision until after this season, but it
Speaker 4: could start next year. It could you know, in the
Speaker 4: twenty six season.
Speaker 2: Just put everybody in then you know, have it like
Speaker 2: three weeks before the season's over.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be fun for you know, travel and all
Speaker 4: these media guys. You guys get to go all over
Speaker 4: the place. And if you have an extra weekend built in,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you're employers gonna love.
Speaker 2: Are we talking about the new media? There's no money
Speaker 2: in media. They're covering the game from home, especially in
Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament. You know, could you get ahold of
Speaker 2: the coach after the game, just kind of write your story?
Speaker 5: I mean, that's just what it is.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 4: Anymore, we were even doing that ten years ago in television,
Speaker 4: Like there were some questions, hey, do we really need
Speaker 4: to go on these road trips?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we kind of do.
Speaker 4: But as it turned out, we probably could have gotten
Speaker 4: away with it because a lot of the news conferences
Speaker 4: that's all you want. Yeah, well then you set back.
Speaker 4: Everybody could get them. You can see them on satellite
Speaker 4: and use that.
Speaker 3: Arizona Volleyball plays Wyoming tonight at six pmm McHale in
Speaker 3: the Elite eight of the ni VC Tournament.
Speaker 5: Is there just one game, one team? It's one against one?
Speaker 5: Are the other teams here too? No, it's just one
Speaker 5: against one. Okay, So the winner this then makes the Semis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, maybe they'll play be on this after that.
Speaker 3: Arizona women's basketball defeated Bakersfield yesterday seventy six to thirty
Speaker 3: nine to improve to eight and four in the season.
Speaker 5: So, guys, we know that you can beat Bakersfield. They
Speaker 5: beat well, so they beat whoever they beat Seattle.
Speaker 2: See, so there's the Bakersfield and GCU they can't and
Speaker 2: you they can't.
Speaker 5: So there's somewhere in between there that they get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bakersfield does not want a game too. They're winless.
Speaker 4: I believe they're like going nine.
Speaker 2: That's all I got, It's all you got, okay, and
Speaker 2: he goes And then we talked about the transfer portal, right,
Speaker 2: and how many people are leaving. I'm sure there can be.
Speaker 5: More, more and more and more.
Speaker 2: Do you think what's the what's the give me some
Speaker 2: odds on Faffita. There was a report last weekend. I
Speaker 2: kind of been into it that he was gonna be gone,
Speaker 2: but not yet, if at all, you know, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, we've seen all these names come out here in
Speaker 4: the last couple of days. Is he's just kind of
Speaker 4: waiting to drop a bomb on us at the you know,
Speaker 4: today or tomorrow. Well, it wouldn't be surprising school's.
Speaker 5: Ending, right, He's going to have to make a call
Speaker 5: on that too. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yet, well school, what's that? Well, something they do outside
Speaker 2: of cashing checks and playing football?
Speaker 5: About what do you think Belichick is going to think
Speaker 5: of the transfer portal and all that stuff? Oh, it's yeah,
Speaker 5: it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, in fact, I was going to google because Colorado's
Speaker 2: going through the same thing too with all the people. Really, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're going through something.
Speaker 4: Because didn't hit me he turned over that roster that
Speaker 4: first year basically almost everybody was new, right.
Speaker 2: Well, no one's ever a happy David, whether it's snow
Speaker 2: or sun. You know, there's always greener pastors. But we
Speaker 2: were talking about I think we said this on the
Speaker 2: Earth about forty percent of the people who leave don't
Speaker 2: end up with teams. Wow, and guess what they turned
Speaker 2: into you and me with having to find real jobs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's hard. Yeah, you got to make the call.
Speaker 5: You know, you can't just go on instincts.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you got to think about where I'm going with situation, Like,
Speaker 4: is there really a chance I'm going to play right?
Speaker 5: You know, maybe do I go back? Is there room
Speaker 5: for me anymore.
Speaker 2: If anybody wants to call, we can't. Did oh you
Speaker 2: did you answer your question or fil'st question?
Speaker 5: Was Tommy look going to be a Sean Miller or Alutles? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I have that it's gonna be a Sean Miller. That's no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I said it's still gonna be.
Speaker 5: So you got to the tournament three years in, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Two eighty five, No eighty three, eighty four, No, two three,
Speaker 2: three eighty five six they lost to Auburn or Alabama
Speaker 2: Alabama Alabama first round lost to the Albuquerque.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then well they lost here too at first the next
Speaker 2: year to you tip right in eighty seven, right, and
Speaker 2: then went to the final four.
Speaker 5: It was a quick, quick rise.
Speaker 2: But I'll say more more loot of course, Well he's
Speaker 2: he's already kind of loot like in terms of a
Speaker 2: lot of wins right away. Uh, and not not ducking opponents.
Speaker 2: That's what he's not doing, right, Not that Sean did
Speaker 2: it purposely, but he is. Schedule was hardly that of
Speaker 2: ye of Tommy.
Speaker 5: That was the beauty.
Speaker 4: I thought of those early seasons with Looke where he
Speaker 4: would go back east and you go to Georgetown, where
Speaker 4: you go to you know, Villan over Duke or something
Speaker 4: like that. And not only was it great for just exposure,
Speaker 4: but you know, gave him a chance to be in
Speaker 4: those markets looking at players. And next thing you know,
Speaker 4: he pulls the guy out of New York, you know,
Speaker 4: cold reads because they were in Madison Square Guard in
Speaker 4: the year before, things like that. So it was a
Speaker 4: good excuse for him to get back into those big
Speaker 4: areas and a lot of coaches are afraid to do that.
Speaker 5: And he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Right well, now they talked about it. For football, you know,
Speaker 2: what's the purpose of getting tough schedules If you're going
Speaker 2: to lose him? That makes the playoffs, right, there's always
Speaker 2: that agenda for Arizona or for college basketball. You played
Speaker 2: the tough Look at now look at all the teams
Speaker 2: that have fallen in the last two weeks basketball wise. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's so fun. I think it's fun. At least you know,
Speaker 2: Tennessee's number one. Uh, some teams that you thought were
Speaker 2: gonna be good. We had cal Mike calla. Right, he's
Speaker 2: still he's still high on Georgetown, and he's still high
Speaker 2: on Gonzaga and they lost against Kentucky last week last
Speaker 2: weekend so it's gonna be a fun, fun term.
Speaker 4: You know Arkansas with with Cali Perry. They were on
Speaker 4: last night. They good game, they won barely. Yeah, So
Speaker 4: I mean there's a lot of shuffling, always is in
Speaker 4: college basketball this time of year, especially, you're not quite
Speaker 4: sure what you're gonna get. Then they settled into that
Speaker 4: in the conference season, and then that's where the mystery
Speaker 4: is this year for the U of A. Obviously with
Speaker 4: going into some new places and some new venues. You
Speaker 4: didn't answer his question, Oh, okay, Tommy, because because he
Speaker 4: reminds me of loot in what in just his demeanor
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 5: He's you know, he's kind of cool and calm and
Speaker 5: I don't know, I hope And like you.
Speaker 4: Said, we've seen some pretty good success here in the
Speaker 4: first three years, with a lot of wins and good players,
Speaker 4: and you know, they've kind of stayed above the line
Speaker 4: of of you know, good programs.
Speaker 5: They've been pretty solid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and people have overreacted. Well, I knew that he
Speaker 2: wasn't the guy. So he gives you three good years,
Speaker 2: pretty good years, fun years, and then now he's suffering,
Speaker 2: you know, a little heartache here on you he wasn't
Speaker 2: the guy. Yeah, you know, come on, people are people
Speaker 2: are crazy. People are crazy. There was something else I
Speaker 2: wanted to say. And we'll see, and we'll see how
Speaker 2: he gets out of this. Will he get out of this?
Speaker 2: But a lot of wins. You guys have enjoyed a
Speaker 2: lot of wins.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, Pete Williams is talking about it in
Speaker 5: the last hour.
Speaker 4: Just a little bit about the personnel and do they
Speaker 4: have the personnel to get out of get out of
Speaker 4: their own way sometimes and get down these breaks, these
Speaker 4: big streaks.
Speaker 5: I you know, I brought up to Ballis a couple
Speaker 5: of years ago.
Speaker 4: I mean he, you know, being a big guy, he
Speaker 4: could play inside, he grabbed the rebound, turn around and
Speaker 4: started leading a fast break. And they don't have that
Speaker 4: big guy who can do that anymore. No, I mean
Speaker 4: they're all our guys are what six six ' six
Speaker 4: and and below.
Speaker 5: They can do that.
Speaker 2: They should be they should be able to do that anyway.
Speaker 2: With Creevious maybe not, but Henry can do that. They
Speaker 2: just haven't, Like we said yesterday, with Milbok, he's they're
Speaker 2: not playing defense well enough, yeah, to be able to
Speaker 2: get on the breaks, get into lanes, and you know,
Speaker 2: move the ball ahead.
Speaker 4: And I mean, guys are good three point shooters pretty
Speaker 4: much everywhere around the country, so you have to expect
Speaker 4: that it's going to happen. But you know, that situation
Speaker 4: with the kid from West Virginia and the bambas was,
Speaker 4: you know, it's ridiculous. He's throwing up, you know, twenty
Speaker 4: five footers and yeah, you know, do you guard that
Speaker 4: far away from the basket.
Speaker 5: That's you know, that's the problem.
Speaker 2: I think you run into You got to just guard it,
Speaker 2: just stay on top of him, because they haven't been
Speaker 2: doing that either. Yeah, so we'll see, I mean UCLA,
Speaker 2: you said, Central Michigan under that. And then they play
Speaker 2: another not so great game right before they when's that
Speaker 2: Sandford game, Sanford game? Right we're aund Christmas time? And
Speaker 2: then they come back with TCU.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they come right back.
Speaker 2: And then and then it gets interesting with the big twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it should be fun. We got about a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take the break after this couple of minutes,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna get with the mountain of it
Speaker 2: and get his impression of what he sees from the
Speaker 2: transfer portal because it's happening. You know, it's like a
Speaker 2: telethon and the new number is the new number is
Speaker 2: changes by the minute.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's yeah. Let's let's check the total, check the totals. Totals.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they're doing that in the bat in the
Speaker 5: football offices today. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine just kind of like how distraught you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to read into, but distraught things could be.
Speaker 5: You should have done you should have.
Speaker 4: Done the show like live from outside, you know, in
Speaker 4: the Sands Club or someplace.
Speaker 5: Just coach, coach, you got a minute? Yeah, who's that?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I have not mistaken.
Speaker 4: Wasn't there a moment in time last year when Fafiita
Speaker 4: and t Mac and those guys there was some video
Speaker 4: I remember seeing of them like going into the coaches
Speaker 4: into that building, you know in the in the north
Speaker 4: end zone.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they're gonna go and they're gonna talk to
Speaker 5: the coach or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: Maybe it was when Fish left, Oh yeah yeah yeah
Speaker 4: at the end. Yeah, and they had that special meeting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's that's maybe That's what I'm thinking of. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean they're there. We could have done that. Hell,
Speaker 4: we got a second, we just we should send Henry
Speaker 4: out in the field and call in and say, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm standing outside the building and Noa is leaving.
Speaker 2: Just got word from his dad. Yeah right, we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens. We'll start some rumors. Yeah, we'll see what
Speaker 2: happens with all this, because it's kind of crazy. They
Speaker 2: have to get equal or more talented players that are leaving.
Speaker 2: And well if you even have talent players that didn't
Speaker 2: want to play for the coach, well, what the hell
Speaker 2: good are they?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Because you just don't want to be there. It must
Speaker 2: have been a tough you know. If any of them
Speaker 2: wrote a book or maybe I asked them to, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, could you tell me what what
Speaker 2: really happened? What really happened? You know how that is.
Speaker 2: We're in this business and I always say this, there's
Speaker 2: always more to the story. There's always more to the story.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure we'll hear that in the next ten
Speaker 5: years when well, when we're not doing this, we will.
Speaker 5: We will.
Speaker 2: Although I don't know many people that are close to
Speaker 2: these guys because we don't get close to them through
Speaker 2: but you know, you know, what really happened or what
Speaker 2: was the big disconnect. Yeah, letsco Henry kids, He's gonna
Speaker 2: call us here in about three minutes.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to One in the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve.
Speaker 5: You're Dave Silver. Now on the point we have Lamont
Speaker 5: love it too?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 2: Former you away football player? Radio play by play guy
Speaker 2: on another station, Lamont.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 14: I'm doing great? See how you guys doing fine?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Have you checked your eligibility left?
Speaker 5: If you have any?
Speaker 14: I'm pretty sure I'm out and I don't think they
Speaker 14: would want me if I had any.
Speaker 5: You're one of those guys, No, I don't think, so
Speaker 5: what the hell is going on here? Lamont?
Speaker 14: It's it's a new normal, you know. It's the funny
Speaker 14: thing is we were laughing at you know, Dion Sanders
Speaker 14: a year or two ago, we were making making fun
Speaker 14: of a su for how many guys they brought in
Speaker 14: in the portal, and it turns out they were actually,
Speaker 14: you know, ahead of the game, because you know, while
Speaker 14: everybody else is trying to do things the old fashioned,
Speaker 14: one of these guys were they they kind of got
Speaker 14: ahead of the curve. That's what really the new normal
Speaker 14: is everybody can jump in the portal. You hypothetically could
Speaker 14: lose everybody, you know in the season is if if
Speaker 14: you know, the right person comes to calling, or if
Speaker 14: they're not happy with the current situation or whatever, there's
Speaker 14: no there's no guardrail, so they can hop in the portal.
Speaker 14: You better be prepared. If you're not prepared, it's gonna
Speaker 14: be a long you know, it's going to be a long, long,
Speaker 14: long year for you.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, how long has it been since
Speaker 2: you played twenty.
Speaker 14: Oh my gosh, yeah, I think of the math. I
Speaker 14: graduated in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, thirty thirty one years thirty one years. So
Speaker 2: let me ask you, do you do you remember, because
Speaker 2: I'm sure it happened. Guys left, right because they leave,
Speaker 2: but not in the droves that they're going, but maybe
Speaker 2: three four guys.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, you would lose maybe one guy or two guys,
Speaker 14: maybe lose somebody that academics, or you may maybe one
Speaker 14: guy goes and backs in. It was so painful to transfer,
Speaker 14: you know, you didn't want to do that because I
Speaker 14: even thought about transferring at one point, but I just
Speaker 14: when I've you know, found out that I you know,
Speaker 14: I had to sit out a year and all of
Speaker 14: a sudden stuff and it's just like, you know what,
Speaker 14: I might as well just stick it out and just
Speaker 14: you know, kind of figure it out.
Speaker 11: It was.
Speaker 14: It was a different time, it was. It was way different.
Speaker 14: It was almost rare when you heard somebody transfer.
Speaker 4: Back in, and nowadays too. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 4: things influencing these decisions.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Money, I guess maybe at the top of the list
Speaker 4: or playing time. What do you think that what's the
Speaker 4: mentality of the current college player in your mind as
Speaker 4: to why so many are either unhappy or you know,
Speaker 4: looking for greenier pastors.
Speaker 14: I think it's the fact that there's no guardrails to
Speaker 14: be honest, is what makes it. It makes it easier
Speaker 14: to do. So if you get into an argument with
Speaker 14: your coach and you don't like him, you know you
Speaker 14: can hop in the portal. If somebody's tampering and talking
Speaker 14: to your family members and they think, like, you know,
Speaker 14: this guy could could really help us out, they may
Speaker 14: start going through back channels, talk to your high school
Speaker 14: culch or whatever, and then saying, hey, we're paying this
Speaker 14: much money, is he interested in coming? And that that's
Speaker 14: how a lot of things happen. It's not supposed to
Speaker 14: happen like that, but that's what's ended up happening. And
Speaker 14: then they're just guys who maybe want to find out
Speaker 14: what their value is, Like this is my last year
Speaker 14: and I'm probably not going to play in the pro
Speaker 14: so let me go get on the market and see
Speaker 14: like what I think I can probably make. And that's
Speaker 14: that's what's happening too. So there's a lot of reasons
Speaker 14: why people go into portal, but it's it's the fact
Speaker 14: that they can do it.
Speaker 15: They're just doing it.
Speaker 14: But the downside of that is a lot of people
Speaker 14: are going to go on the portal, I'm not going
Speaker 14: to have anywhere to go, right and if your spot
Speaker 14: is if you can't go back, guess what, you're out
Speaker 14: on the streets right now. And so that's that's the
Speaker 14: sad part. People are not going to lose lose your
Speaker 14: ability to get your education because you know, that's that's
Speaker 14: the one thing no one's talking about. It's just talking
Speaker 14: about how much money can I get? Now, well, we did,
Speaker 14: there's a lot.
Speaker 2: Well we just talked about that because I asked Dave
Speaker 2: about that and I googled it. So the most recent
Speaker 2: study says like fifteen to sixteen percent of the team
Speaker 2: eventually transfers, right, but forty percent of them don't find
Speaker 2: a place that's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 14: So you know, you should probably appreciate the fact that
Speaker 14: you're at a you know, a school, it's in a
Speaker 14: big twelve, it's in a power you know, a power conference,
Speaker 14: and you're getting an education there. And but you know
Speaker 14: what's the other part of that too, is now coaches
Speaker 14: are starting to do this thing now too, where they're
Speaker 14: telling guys, you know what, you've been here for two
Speaker 14: or three years and you're not really contributing. So why
Speaker 14: don't you hop in the go ahead and hop in
Speaker 14: the portal And so that's happening too. So it's like
Speaker 14: I said, it's a little bit of a wildlall West
Speaker 14: right there. So it's it's a lot of different angles
Speaker 14: that that you can go about this.
Speaker 5: What do you think life is like in the football
Speaker 5: offices this week?
Speaker 4: Where you know, all of a sudden, they you know,
Speaker 4: they bring in twenty high school kids last week and
Speaker 4: then optimism and they're losing thirty players in two days,
Speaker 4: I mean, and then they're looking to bring in play
Speaker 4: That's got to be crazy just trying to keep it all.
Speaker 5: I think it is. But it's you know, it's there.
Speaker 14: It's certain new reality though. I think that they've kind
Speaker 14: of been dealing with this for the last you know,
Speaker 14: a couple of years, because this is it's just a
Speaker 14: reality now. Needn't be all the things that they're worrying
Speaker 14: about now, we coaches never had to think about in
Speaker 14: the past. You know, the last thing you're thinking about
Speaker 14: is football right now. You're right now just thinking I'm like, shoot,
Speaker 14: I gotta get I got to turn this roster over
Speaker 14: and I got to get some people in there fast.
Speaker 14: It could be my job, and then these people that
Speaker 14: I bring in, I got to make sure that they're
Speaker 14: the right people or it could be my job. So
Speaker 14: it's it's it's probably a pretty stressful time for right now.
Speaker 14: But what I think is that probably just keeping their
Speaker 14: head down and just you know, just working, because that's
Speaker 14: not really all you can do at this point. If
Speaker 14: you don't have time to sit back and think about
Speaker 14: it or even have time to, you know, to feel
Speaker 14: sorry for yourself, You've got to be grinding it out
Speaker 14: right now and scouring the country and trying to find
Speaker 14: kids right away and then trying to get on them
Speaker 14: right away because everybody's going to be looking at the
Speaker 14: same kids and the portal. So of right, you gotta work.
Speaker 14: You gotta work hard.
Speaker 2: So not that you want to give away any secrets,
Speaker 2: not that you have them anyway, but but I'm going
Speaker 2: to ask you this question. So I think when you've
Speaker 2: been on a few times with us, which I appreciate totally,
Speaker 2: because you get you get your insights up. I said this,
Speaker 2: and I said this a number of times, and I
Speaker 2: continue to say this. I saw some disconnect I didn't see.
Speaker 2: I felt there was disconnect from the players and the coaches,
Speaker 2: because good teams don't get blown out by three four touchdowns,
Speaker 2: they just don't. There's something there because it's still had talent.
Speaker 2: And now this is at least me convincing me that
Speaker 2: I was right, because now they're going, now they're jumping.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, no, there's there's There was definitely some there
Speaker 14: there because there there was something missing, and I I
Speaker 14: think we alluded to it the last time we talked.
Speaker 14: I really think that the biggest mistake he made was
Speaker 14: on offense. That was his biggest mistake. I think that
Speaker 14: go you know, going into the season, if you think
Speaker 14: about Brittan, if you think about the places gone, he's
Speaker 14: kind of known his his reputation as a great culture builder.
Speaker 14: He's a guy that's known for, you know, developing this
Speaker 14: great culture and being that raw type of coach. But
Speaker 14: if you're going to do that and you're not you know,
Speaker 14: the x's and those guy you better make sure that
Speaker 14: your ex's and those guys are you know, bang on
Speaker 14: and they're really good. And you've got to make sure
Speaker 14: that there are people that you can not have to
Speaker 14: supervise and know that they're going to go out there
Speaker 14: and do a spectacular job, and you just you know,
Speaker 14: you got to give him an f for or his
Speaker 14: higher for offense this year because that just that did
Speaker 14: not work out. And they went from a team that
Speaker 14: really kind of leaned on their offense and lean on
Speaker 14: a production and they had some star players to an
Speaker 14: offense that could barely you know, get in the inzon
Speaker 14: and so that that those are the things, the types
Speaker 14: of things that can get you, you know, gone quickly.
Speaker 14: So you've got to make sure that you hit a
Speaker 14: home run this time around. But the you know, the
Speaker 14: damage has probably been done. But you know, like I say,
Speaker 14: you've got to keep your head down and keep working
Speaker 14: right now and just try to keep this thing together.
Speaker 14: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, as we were saying, besides the players,
Speaker 4: he does have to deal with with coaches and new
Speaker 4: coaches and a new culture. And yeah, that's gonna be
Speaker 4: again an interesting couple of months here.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, and yeah we're not even talking. One thing
Speaker 14: we didn't talk about was money. We did, but we did.
Speaker 14: That's the other part. You know, you gotta work, you
Speaker 14: gotta you gotta pay for all this stuff too. Is
Speaker 14: it's not free, you know, the players aren't just coming
Speaker 14: here saying I just want to play football too. They're
Speaker 14: they're saying how much you're gonna pay me? That The
Speaker 14: other piece to it to you, you've got to have
Speaker 14: some money. You gotta have a park full of money
Speaker 14: and that, and that's gonna determine, you know, maybe the
Speaker 14: level of player that you get. So you're gonna have
Speaker 14: to You're gonna have to some some serious uh negotiating
Speaker 14: going on here, and you got to figure out the
Speaker 14: right guys to come, and you've got to figure out
Speaker 14: a price, figure out who you can get, and then
Speaker 14: when you get them here, you got to get them
Speaker 14: coached up, and you got to get them coach up quickly,
Speaker 14: and you got to figure out how to bring that
Speaker 14: team together quickly. It's almost like, you know, having an
Speaker 14: all star team, and you've got to try to get
Speaker 14: those guys to play as the team really quickly in
Speaker 14: a few months. Because that's a new normal right now.
Speaker 14: And so yeah, it's it's a complicated deal right now.
Speaker 14: It's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: In fact, once we get you off the phone, I'm
Speaker 2: sure you're gonna get a call to uh yeah, mister Lovett,
Speaker 2: this is X from you. They we know you're an alum.
Speaker 2: You have a pretty good job. Could you help us
Speaker 2: out here?
Speaker 14: And I'll say, yeah, I would like to. I'm broke.
Speaker 4: But yeah, back in the old days, it used to
Speaker 4: be a I love usc. They got the great tradition.
Speaker 4: You have all these great players, they got you Tommy Trojan.
Speaker 4: Now it's like, well, how much can the Oregon pay
Speaker 4: me now? Or Ohio stage? I mean it really, it's
Speaker 4: it's an interesting decision process for these high school high
Speaker 4: schoolers who are looking to just get started and get this,
Speaker 4: you know, these big dollars at seventeen years old.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I was thinking to myself right now, and what's
Speaker 14: the sales pitch right now? You know, because really, you know,
Speaker 14: you got to be a great salesman, you know, because
Speaker 14: whatever it is, you're selling. So you know, when your
Speaker 14: team is great and you got a bunch of superstars
Speaker 14: on the team, you know, it's will come here and
Speaker 14: you know be part of the tradition and won championships.
Speaker 14: When your team is decimated and you just come out
Speaker 14: for a really poor season, it's hey, come in here
Speaker 14: and you be the next great guy. Come start here,
Speaker 14: you can start. There's a lot of you know, spots
Speaker 14: that you can you know, you there's a lot of
Speaker 14: playing time here if you can come this rustle And
Speaker 14: that's I'm pretty sure that's what they're selling right now. Well, look,
Speaker 14: we just turned off our whole roster. You guys can
Speaker 14: come in here if you're if you're if you're up
Speaker 14: to the task, you could come here, start right away.
Speaker 14: And that's probably what they're selling right now with somebody too.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the problem too, is you you tried to
Speaker 2: sell that to the people that already here. Look, you're
Speaker 2: still part of this team and you're part of you
Speaker 2: can be part of this legacy. Don't go because in
Speaker 2: hell they're championship anyway.
Speaker 14: Yeah no, it's yes, they sure are. But yeah, that's
Speaker 14: that's what you gotta sell. And that's what you gotta
Speaker 14: be good at selling. And it doesn't matter, you know,
Speaker 14: it doesn't, no one cares. It's like you gotta you
Speaker 14: got to sell these guys, and you got to get
Speaker 14: them ready to play in a few months. And so
Speaker 14: you got to get them in a waight program and
Speaker 14: you got to start making this team gel together. And
Speaker 14: you guys started doing it immediately and then so but
Speaker 14: I mean, do you imagine having to sign forty fifty guys,
Speaker 14: because that's what they're pretty much gonna have to do
Speaker 14: right now. I think the last time I checked, there
Speaker 14: was thirty. There were thirty people in the poor as
Speaker 14: I looked on the list today.
Speaker 4: So well, what about what about the re recruiting process too,
Speaker 4: because you know, they went through recruiting these guys just
Speaker 4: maybe a year or two ago.
Speaker 5: Now they got to do it again and go talk
Speaker 5: to the parents.
Speaker 15: And yeah, what a nightmare.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and you can it is a nightmare, and you
Speaker 14: know you can you know, you know, parents all talk
Speaker 14: to each other too, and so you do. You're recruiting
Speaker 14: the parents just like you're recruiting the kids. And so
Speaker 14: it's it's gonna be a whole new group of parents
Speaker 14: and a whole new batch of people, like all the
Speaker 14: parents were all close together. And it's probably has a
Speaker 14: lot to do with one of these guys are hopping
Speaker 14: in the poll and all leaving together too, you know,
Speaker 14: because it's like you start a new family again.
Speaker 1: And so it's.
Speaker 14: Well, I would not I don't envy this this position
Speaker 14: at all.
Speaker 2: So who were summer eleventh, right is that today? Today
Speaker 2: is so December eleven five? Hey, hey, Long can you
Speaker 2: come on the show today? Guess what we're gonna be
Speaker 2: talking about, same thing because you got to do it
Speaker 2: again next year. Because another the bats that just came in.
Speaker 2: Are we going to be happy because they came here
Speaker 2: and then want to leave?
Speaker 14: That's right? There will be a bunch of guys hopping
Speaker 14: right back in. And you know you got to think too,
Speaker 14: guys are you know, guys are in a portal too?
Speaker 14: Like you always have to ask yourself. Is it because
Speaker 14: they weren't good enough to play because they're unhappy? Or
Speaker 14: is it I mean, it's a lot of evaluation that
Speaker 14: you gotta or do they just want to get more money?
Speaker 14: Or are they uncomfortable? I mean, I don't know. There's
Speaker 14: a lot of reasons he's up in there. So it's
Speaker 14: you got to do some really quick evaluation and like
Speaker 14: I said, you got to make it come together really quickly.
Speaker 4: You saw the news this afternoon about Bill Belichick taking
Speaker 4: the North Carolina John Does he really know what he's
Speaker 4: getting himself into?
Speaker 14: You know, you know what, I think he's probably he's
Speaker 14: probably had a chance to look at it because his son,
Speaker 14: who was his defensive coordinator with the you know, with
Speaker 14: the Patriots, it's Jeff Fish's defensive coordinator, and he's been
Speaker 14: hanging around their program. You probably got a chance to
Speaker 14: you know, watch enough of it. And you know, with
Speaker 14: the way that man thinks, he probably was like, you
Speaker 14: know what, I could I could do this and I
Speaker 14: could probably come in and win this because this man's
Speaker 14: you know, he's done to it at the highest level.
Speaker 14: So you know, those competitive juices never it takes a
Speaker 14: while for them to leave, you know, and so I'm
Speaker 14: it's probably still got that itch. So and again they're
Speaker 14: going to pay them thirty million dollars to do it.
Speaker 4: True, But you know, you like Saban and Chip Kelly
Speaker 4: and some of these guys, have you know, just said no,
Speaker 4: I've had enough of this. I'm gonna be a defensive
Speaker 4: coordinator somewhere because.
Speaker 2: You don't know until you know, right, you don't know
Speaker 2: to you, you don't let me ask you. You don't
Speaker 2: have a son pain, but your brother does? Correct or did?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 5: So so two of them. So let's let's talk a.
Speaker 2: Real quick about that because we mentioned that earlier. Uh,
Speaker 2: now that you have the portal. Coaches aren't going to
Speaker 2: the high schools or I maybe they did now because
Speaker 2: they have to sign some people. But why go with
Speaker 2: a high school kid when you have a tested guy
Speaker 2: who has or hasn't played or has been recruited already.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well that's what that's what's happening. I mean, you
Speaker 14: you you have to think both long term and you
Speaker 14: have to think short term. And so the portal is
Speaker 14: supposed to be to fill in the gaps, but there's
Speaker 14: a lot of gaps now and sometimes they just use
Speaker 14: the portal to turn over their entire roster. But you
Speaker 14: still want to get like high school alignment and you know,
Speaker 14: start red shirting them and developing them too, but you
Speaker 14: don't know how long that's going to be. So yeah,
Speaker 14: you do have to try and get as many good
Speaker 14: players that are ready to go right now as possible.
Speaker 14: So you know, the portal is definitely that. But you
Speaker 14: got to scour everything. You got to scour the j c's,
Speaker 14: you gotta scour the f c s, the FBS, you
Speaker 14: got to you gotta look everywhere and not just you know,
Speaker 14: one place, and you got to probably be a little
Speaker 14: bit more creative when you're a programmers that there is
Speaker 14: on them because you're not going to go ahead to
Speaker 14: head with Alabama for players, must we just say they're
Speaker 14: going to Alabama and look, you know somewhere else.
Speaker 5: What about this and what about the scenario? Guys?
Speaker 2: You and Dave both Okay, So I'm Desray and you
Speaker 2: guys were Brennan I was saying, okay, you know Brenton's
Speaker 2: I'm not really happy with what happened. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: we need to get improvement here here and there. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give you another year. And you're brent saying okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: the guys are, the guys are gonna come back. We're
Speaker 2: gonna work hard, we're gonna do this. And now you
Speaker 2: realize they're not coming back because now you're under more
Speaker 2: pressure than you were two weeks ago when you said
Speaker 2: we're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And I think I heard an interview where he said, no, no,
Speaker 14: I feel pretty good about the guys coming back thirty
Speaker 14: players later. Yeah, that's that's one of those things.
Speaker 12: So I just never know.
Speaker 14: It's almost like you know, you got a leak in
Speaker 14: a in a boat and that you spring that one
Speaker 14: leak and then it just you know it starts to
Speaker 14: open up. That's kind of what happened.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what happened with Gilligan's Island, right, they
Speaker 2: didn't come back.
Speaker 4: You know, as you were saying too, I'm thinking maybe
Speaker 4: let's let's think positive. I mean, there's going to be
Speaker 4: a lot of attention to Arizona because there's going to
Speaker 4: be maybe forty openings, and the teams we're gonna maybe
Speaker 4: they're going to come looking here, players i should say,
Speaker 4: are going to come looking at Tucson in the UVA
Speaker 4: because they know there's opportunity, instant opportunity.
Speaker 5: So in a way it could work out, and I'd
Speaker 5: like it has it in Colorado.
Speaker 14: More absolutely, You're you're one, right, Dave. We're looking at it.
Speaker 14: You know a lot of people here, they're fans that
Speaker 14: are emotionally attached to it. We're looking at it as man,
Speaker 14: our whole team left. But you know some kid out
Speaker 14: there who was a hungry kid. Maybe you're in Juco,
Speaker 14: maybe you were overlooked by somebody, and you're like, look,
Speaker 14: there's playtime at Power for our school, powerful school in
Speaker 14: the Big twelve that's on TV and National TV every week.
Speaker 14: You know what I could go there and I could,
Speaker 14: I could play, I could make a name for myself
Speaker 14: right there, and that's that's what you're selling. Then a
Speaker 14: lot of these players, you know, they come see Tucson
Speaker 14: like I did when I came to Tucson. I was
Speaker 14: living in sunny southern California, but I came here in
Speaker 14: December and I saw these mountains and I saw, you know,
Speaker 14: the women out here, and I was like, man, I
Speaker 14: can see myself playing here. You know, it's all sunny
Speaker 14: and nice out here. And so Tucson still has a
Speaker 14: lot to sell to people. You know, you just got
Speaker 14: to sell it. That's the thing.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 14: You got to get kids here and let them see it.
Speaker 14: You know, when rich Rod was a coach here, he
Speaker 14: used used to always say, you know, Tucson is kind
Speaker 14: of in between. Yeah, you know, you know places. But
Speaker 14: he also knew that if he could get people on
Speaker 14: campus and to see this place and see that, he
Speaker 14: knew that he could sell them. But you just got
Speaker 14: to get him out here. And that's that's really the task.
Speaker 14: You know, get people out here right away and get
Speaker 14: to sell them because you've got to sell this place.
Speaker 14: But there's something to sell too. It's not just like
Speaker 14: you're going to some dreary you know, right, you know
Speaker 14: back in you know, Woods Place. Tucson's beautiful, and it's
Speaker 14: got a great campus and it's a great really it's
Speaker 14: a great education you can get here. So and he's
Speaker 14: got some tradition in football. And then you tell them
Speaker 14: you can be the next you know, you could be
Speaker 14: the next superstar here. So that's what they got to
Speaker 14: keep selling.
Speaker 7: We got to go.
Speaker 2: But thirty three years too late on the scenery, the
Speaker 2: women and the money and the money.
Speaker 5: Don't forget the money.
Speaker 2: Right right right, because you'll be living you liveing in
Speaker 2: the foothills, having a nice place, you have a pretty girl,
Speaker 2: and you know, playing football.
Speaker 5: Nothing better.
Speaker 14: Probably he could happen, It could happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta keep selling that. We've got to come
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rovera on Blox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to winning the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Brea, He's Dave Silberg. Got
Speaker 2: Henry in for the last thirteen minutes. Henry, you're taking
Speaker 2: off too. You have a York last show for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you get some break here. I hope you passed out
Speaker 2: your classes. You remain eligible for next semester.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope we get some have a full roster
Speaker 4: by the time. Are you in the portal yourself first?
Speaker 4: You know you can just have one more semester to go, right,
Speaker 4: that's it, one more transfer now.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gone through too much already, learned too much
Speaker 2: here at the Eye and the Ball. Well, he learns
Speaker 2: and knows more than me. Hey, anybody want to call?
Speaker 2: Please do five two oh four, one, six, seventy four, forty.
Speaker 2: We have some great callers. Uh, now is the time
Speaker 2: to call. We have lis yesterday you got some pretty
Speaker 2: good ones. Michael called. You know, a few few few
Speaker 2: of the people called. So thanks Rachel for coming. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're calling. We both went with Ludolfson right, still shot Sean.
Speaker 2: Sean had a nice run. Nice run.
Speaker 4: Did I ask you what he thought his legacy would be?
Speaker 4: I did, what do you think Sean's You really covered him?
Speaker 4: I didn't cover him.
Speaker 5: I wrote about it. You know, I got took some
Speaker 5: beat because I don't know what it would be.
Speaker 2: You know, he had early success that Yukon lost beat
Speaker 2: Duke pretty handily in the first three years I think
Speaker 2: it was. But at the end was not that great
Speaker 2: because the team was not that good. And then of
Speaker 2: course the NCAA stuff. Uh, the final four, that one
Speaker 2: shot away from the final four with Johnson and those
Speaker 2: guys in Wisconsin. Then a year later getting a little
Speaker 2: blown out. Yeah, so I don't I don't know. Success
Speaker 2: but not not great stuff, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously not getting the final four was that last hurdle.
Speaker 4: He never got there, and and e Maan ever and
Speaker 4: leaving you know, really under some suspect circumstances, whatever the
Speaker 4: real details were, it just it just wasn't a real
Speaker 4: clean exit for sure. So you know, it was a
Speaker 4: long run, and you know he did a nice job
Speaker 4: of following up you know, some of the some of
Speaker 4: the mess after loot, and you know, things are pretty
Speaker 4: stable for a number of years.
Speaker 5: This take the call.
Speaker 2: Hello, you're on the air. Who's this Hey, Steve, this
Speaker 2: is done, Dave, We're done. Hey.
Speaker 17: Well, all this talk with Lamont and everything, and uh,
Speaker 17: you know the pressure being on on Brennan, but I
Speaker 17: wonder well, the real pressure I think, or there should
Speaker 17: be some real pressure on Desiree because when I wonder, well,
Speaker 17: there's pressure on her, because you know that's the lynchpin
Speaker 17: of the of the department, and you know, I'm just wondering,
Speaker 17: you know, you ever work with that one person that's
Speaker 17: always in trouble and they always have to have that
Speaker 17: weekly meeting with the boss to make sure that everything's
Speaker 17: on the straight and arrow and all those those type
Speaker 17: of things, and I'm just you know, we're not gonna
Speaker 17: know what happened in their conversations that that Brennan was
Speaker 17: able to keep his job, And we're not going to
Speaker 17: know if you know, he has certain benchmarks that he
Speaker 17: has to hit recruiting wise, coaching, hiring wise, and all
Speaker 17: these other things that that that he's going to get because.
Speaker 5: Well he's not in a let me.
Speaker 2: Ask you before you before you because we got another call,
Speaker 2: But let me ask you this. Why do you think
Speaker 2: she kept him? Why do you think she kept him?
Speaker 2: And I have my thoughts, Just make it short.
Speaker 5: I think you can't. You got to give a guy
Speaker 5: more than a year. And I think it was. I
Speaker 5: think it was.
Speaker 17: It's been reported that the money was there to be
Speaker 17: able to replace him, but I don't know who. I
Speaker 17: don't know who reported that. The podcasters. But okay, you know,
Speaker 17: so you know that the money was there. No, I
Speaker 17: don't think so, because they still they're still in the red.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you, so you you I believe
Speaker 2: where you're going. This where I was going to take it.
Speaker 2: If she's on board and she came here to kind
Speaker 2: of get this thing settled financially, how are you going
Speaker 2: to justify paying a coach ten million, eleven million, whatever
Speaker 2: it is when you need more money to survive?
Speaker 5: Exactly? I mean, you got it.
Speaker 17: He has he has a record of being able to
Speaker 17: have success in a place that has no business having
Speaker 17: success that sends a state, so he can get a program.
Speaker 17: The thing is is he's got to get it. He's
Speaker 17: got to get it up and running. And this last
Speaker 17: year was whatever happened, happened and it's over. Yeah, but
Speaker 17: it's got to be fixed. And I'm sure that I'm
Speaker 17: sure that she's got him on a short lead, going, hey,
Speaker 17: no question, what's happening here, what's happening here?
Speaker 5: Why did this happen?
Speaker 17: You know what? Do we have to replace these guys
Speaker 17: or or or whatever.
Speaker 5: The case may be.
Speaker 17: And then the other thing is we have no idea
Speaker 17: about the position that the new president is going to
Speaker 17: have because we've had some presidents that were all about
Speaker 17: the athletic department, and we've had others that didn't seem
Speaker 17: to care.
Speaker 2: We gotta go, we gotta go down, Go ahead, Thank you,
Speaker 2: don for Collin, who's always go ahead.
Speaker 5: Thanks No.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say, the UFA is in
Speaker 4: no position and I don't know for sure to have
Speaker 4: to do a buyout. They don't want to do anything
Speaker 4: like So we got to give a guy eleven million dollars,
Speaker 4: not the coach, not under the current situation that they've
Speaker 4: been fighting here and trying to get back, you.
Speaker 5: Know, even maybe which is going to take a.
Speaker 2: Number of years to me, and maybe he catches lightning
Speaker 2: in the ball next year with a lower payout if
Speaker 2: he doesn't.
Speaker 5: Okay, we have another call. He's still on.
Speaker 2: Okay, Hello, you're on the air around the ball.
Speaker 15: How's it going today?
Speaker 5: What's going on you doing? Brian? This is this is Brian.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Hey, like the last caller said, it was more than
Speaker 15: eleven million to buy him out, because there's other coaches
Speaker 15: who are on along their term contracts in one year, right,
Speaker 15: so you were looking at almost twenty minute dollars and
Speaker 15: there's just no way the Athletic department. I mean they were.
Speaker 15: I mean she came in into a situation where she's
Speaker 15: basically it's there's no win situation for a few years. Right,
Speaker 15: this is going to take it's going to take four
Speaker 15: or five years to straighten all this out unless we
Speaker 15: have you know, unless Jay opens his wallet up.
Speaker 2: Well, Jay, Brian, Dave, Steve, everybody else contributes.
Speaker 15: Everybody's gonna Yeah, but Brian, here's the issue too. It
Speaker 15: still won't even be enough.
Speaker 2: No, no, And here's the issue that you know, you
Speaker 2: have a lot of people bitching on Twitter whatever social
Speaker 2: and they're not helping.
Speaker 5: You know, they're not helping, right, Well, they're not to be.
Speaker 5: They're not going to be the ones who are going
Speaker 5: to open their wallets.
Speaker 2: No, that's my point. They're the bitchers.
Speaker 5: They're not there.
Speaker 4: There's people there, and you know, having tried to raise
Speaker 4: money at the u of A, they they're still bringing
Speaker 4: in you know, three hundred and fifty million dollars a year,
Speaker 4: not for athletics, but sure the whole U of A.
Speaker 4: So there are alums you know, right sprinkled all over
Speaker 4: the world.
Speaker 15: People have Yeah, people have to look at that. This
Speaker 15: is the people are to complaining or whatever. You're not
Speaker 15: looking at the reality of what college football or college
Speaker 15: sports is today. I mean, it's basically every year is
Speaker 15: going to be the same thing, you know. I mean,
Speaker 15: he got like three thousand kids in the portal already,
Speaker 15: you know, And and and there's going to be more
Speaker 15: once the football season is over, right on all the
Speaker 15: on the playoff teams and all the bowl teams, because
Speaker 15: there's going to be people who aren't happy and they're
Speaker 15: going to want to leave too, right, And there's just
Speaker 15: going to be it's gonna be every year the same thing, right,
Speaker 15: People realize that I'm just waiting for when we have
Speaker 15: we have thirty kids who entered the portal something like that,
Speaker 15: and there's going to be more. We know that already,
Speaker 15: you know. And it's basically and I know he built
Speaker 15: the program at San Jose, but it's not the same
Speaker 15: building a program at San Jose as it is building
Speaker 15: it at Arizona.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 15: And I understand smaller conference there, but you're talking about
Speaker 15: before the Pac twelve and now the Big twelve, right.
Speaker 4: Before the portal and l really kicked in. I mean,
Speaker 4: he had a little of that there, which you know,
Speaker 4: was nothing compared to a pack.
Speaker 15: Twelve or but what's expected of you here? And it's
Speaker 15: not like you know, people don't want to have now
Speaker 15: that we had a ten win season or whatever the
Speaker 15: hell it was last year. Now everybody once at every
Speaker 15: year and it's just not going to happen. Arizona's not
Speaker 15: built that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go get another call, Brian, Thanks a bunch.
Speaker 5: Okay, appreciate it. Got to the call. Hello, you're on
Speaker 5: the air and I on the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 13: Yeah, thanks for taking my call. I need a little
Speaker 13: bit of enlightenment. Why is UH Snoop dog a good
Speaker 13: choice to be the face of the Arizona ball when
Speaker 13: I actually I saw him do UH some sort of
Speaker 13: presentation or song singing.
Speaker 15: At the end of the UH.
Speaker 13: Football and he was and the.
Speaker 15: Songs were full of vulgarity.
Speaker 13: And all I think of when I think of Snoop
Speaker 13: Dogg is him spoken a joint the side of the
Speaker 13: Cuban cigar. I just he must Yeah, Well, I mean
Speaker 13: why was he picked? I mean what why why was
Speaker 13: he picked? We didn't have anybody else?
Speaker 2: Well, good question, A fair question, I think, very fair,
Speaker 2: very fair question. I think that you're not alone in
Speaker 2: thinking this, but he's transformed himself into this iconic figure
Speaker 2: where it transcends you, me, the kids today and he's
Speaker 2: self made successful. But your question is is very fair.
Speaker 2: I personally don't have an answer because I don't know
Speaker 2: the answer we had Kim on on Monday. It's a
Speaker 2: tough question. I need a big story for Biz Tucson
Speaker 2: on this, and everyone, everyone, to a man and to
Speaker 2: a woman, said they love the thought of him doing this,
Speaker 2: and it's his company just sponsoring it. You know, how
Speaker 2: can you say no? But your question totally fair.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, I'm not going to the game. I mean,
Speaker 13: I'm not a fan of the man, and I love
Speaker 13: Arizona football, but I'm not going to go to support
Speaker 13: uh the Arizona Bowl this year.
Speaker 2: I think I think that you're not alone, and that's
Speaker 2: that's your prerogative, and then you have every right because.
Speaker 5: But it's a it's a good fair question, don't you think, David, Oh,
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 4: I mean they had a lot of trouble with Barstool
Speaker 4: being involved, you know, for a number of years, with
Speaker 4: their reputation, and I don't know how much cleaner it's
Speaker 4: going to get with with Snoop.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's going to be on the broadcast.
Speaker 4: He's got zillions of followers on Instagram and and those
Speaker 4: social media sites.
Speaker 5: And everybody's excited.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of what I think what they're counting on,
Speaker 4: and they're trying to maybe, you know, set aside his
Speaker 4: past a little bit and go with his Oh you know,
Speaker 4: he's a funny guy. He was on the Olympics, and
Speaker 4: he's got this reputation where now he's just kind of
Speaker 4: loosey goosey.
Speaker 2: And if it was good enough with the Olympics, why
Speaker 2: not here.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2: We got to go, got to take another call. That's
Speaker 2: not the right answer, but that is an answer.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Got one last call that we can get in.
Speaker 5: Who's on the air. Hey it's a JR.
Speaker 18: Hey No, that last call I actually kind of reaped
Speaker 18: my mind. I had an opinion about Snooping.
Speaker 14: I think he's the ticket to get a better.
Speaker 18: Coach for our football team. So what I envisioned was
Speaker 18: getting Snoop to come out with his connections with Martha
Speaker 18: Stewart and also Gronk, to convince Bill Belichick, who's hurting
Speaker 18: for a job, to go here instead of North Carolina
Speaker 18: and be in the same conference with Dion. So I
Speaker 18: imagine a Belichick versus Deon you know, matchup every once
Speaker 18: in a while. But I think that's the ultimate solution
Speaker 18: right there.
Speaker 5: Well, you're too late on that. Belichick got the job today.
Speaker 14: He did get it, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 18: Okay, but maybe Gronk and Snoop could talk him out
Speaker 18: of it.
Speaker 5: Maybe Gronk becomes a coach who knows that might be
Speaker 5: the best solution right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thanks, yeah, thanks. He's got the money.
Speaker 4: Who Gronk hand I don't have spent anything. It's want
Speaker 4: to hear he doesn't spendish too. He didn't spend his
Speaker 4: checks from the NFL, but he used all his endorsement money.
Speaker 2: Right and he's still doing that. He's still by Fox
Speaker 2: and things like that. Man talking about falling star to
Speaker 2: a nice place, not a full start. He's a great star.
Speaker 2: But you know, you fall, you fall down, or not
Speaker 2: even fall down. I mean, you play here and you
Speaker 2: become the star I playing football.
Speaker 4: You know, he'll be in the Hall of Fame soon
Speaker 4: a couple of years, I guess. Yeah, were ready to go.
Speaker 4: I wish that we got Okay, mentioned that rich Rod.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, last last second, going back to West Virginia. Yeah,
Speaker 4: my Arizona coach signs a deal with his old school,
Speaker 4: going back to the Mountaineers.
Speaker 2: Seventeen years later, my son went to school in West Virginia.
Speaker 2: He'd been and rich Ward was just coming here and
Speaker 2: he says, God, Dad, nobody here likes rich Rod because
Speaker 2: I tell him on premire, No one says that's what
Speaker 2: happens when you leave but town.
Speaker 5: And now he's going back. The prodigal Simon is going.
Speaker 4: He's there for seven years, one sixty, very successful, does
Speaker 4: the Michigan kind of I don't.
Speaker 2: Think there's any question that he was a heck of
Speaker 2: a coach. A little temperamental, but a heck of a coach.
Speaker 2: And then he just got caught up in a little
Speaker 2: few things at the end. Got him in some big
Speaker 2: Bowl games too. Yeah, he was at West Virginia, Georgia.
Speaker 4: Georgia had our you know, had a good run here
Speaker 4: with with Kadeem in twenty twelve, yeah, twenty fourteen, one,
Speaker 4: twenty fourteen as well. So good for him back at
Speaker 4: the big time and maybe we'll see him, you know.
Speaker 4: Coach in Arizona, we played West Virginia last year here,
Speaker 4: so maybe next year the uf A goes there.
Speaker 5: I haven't looked at the schedule.
Speaker 2: That'll be you know, he'll be for that one. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks everybody for calling. We'll be back tomorrow. I have
Speaker 2: another good show. Thank you Dave for this week. Sure,
Speaker 2: no problem, and we'll see you next. See you tomorrow.