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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve. I'm Steve Rigna. He's Mike. Could I am
Speaker 2: a Henry? You got some breaking news? Yep?
Speaker 1: Well, this is I on the Ball breaking news on
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Speaker 3: Game three of the World Series is tonight at five
Speaker 3: oh eight pm. The Dodgers are leading the series two
Speaker 3: to nothing.
Speaker 2: I'll make my crack prediction. Yankies are gonna win and
Speaker 2: win it all. Yankees come back and win it all.
Speaker 2: The ATTORNI is not a quarter will get you to playing.
Speaker 2: Are you're gonna break that news? No, we could talk
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's uh, he's playing hurt his shoulder, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he sublected. I don't think you know, that's a scene
Speaker 2: that's come back pretty quick. Yeah. The uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I tell you know, they they they're they're bagging on
Speaker 2: Joe Been for doing so bad, you know. Reggie Jackson,
Speaker 2: mister October. I mean that series against the Dodgers, he
Speaker 2: was doing terrible until that last game, and he had
Speaker 2: three home runs and three pitches, and that's what everyone remembers.
Speaker 2: We'll see if Judge comes back and starts starts putting
Speaker 2: the contact in the right now he's looked horrible at
Speaker 2: the play. Yeah, goodness, judge, judge, Yeah, he's you paying attention. No,
Speaker 2: I'm actually texting. Oh, I'm sorry, I have an appointment
Speaker 2: for tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, no, you're you're right though, I
Speaker 2: mean everybody, all these guys and both. They'll go back
Speaker 2: home and see what happens. Yeah, that that game one
Speaker 2: was holy crap. Yeah, you unbelievable. Yeah, he had that
Speaker 2: game one and then he didn't. But we'll see. I'm
Speaker 2: not even a Yankee. I don't really care. But I
Speaker 2: thought they would win it before the series. But now
Speaker 2: that the odds are better to win it when not? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why now? Yeah?
Speaker 3: The Dodgers really only have two really good starting pitchers too,
Speaker 3: and they use them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they already used them. Yeah. Yeah, I do think
Speaker 2: the Yankees, well, I would take I'd certainly be taking
Speaker 2: the Yankees tonight. I think that they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 2: come back tonight and win Yankee Stadium, and that place
Speaker 2: canna be rocking.
Speaker 3: Arizona basketball will play their last exhibition game tonight at
Speaker 3: seven pm against Point Loma.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another exhibition before next week's first game, and we'll
Speaker 2: see how they do.
Speaker 3: Do we know if crevos's his status?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think he'll blay you until next week.
Speaker 3: The new college football rankings came out yesterday. The top
Speaker 3: four remains in the same order of Oregon, Georgia, Penn State,
Speaker 3: Ohio State, and Washington State, and and Colorado have entered
Speaker 3: the top twenty five for the first time this season.
Speaker 2: The uh, it's the coaches. It's a coach of pol
Speaker 2: that's the a people. Eight people. Yeah, the uh? I
Speaker 2: think I heard that Ohio State and yeah, Penn State.
Speaker 2: Ohio State flipped in another pool. I can't remember which
Speaker 2: bull that was. But the good thing they play this week,
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was gonna say they'll figure they'll certainly
Speaker 2: figure it out this week. It'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 2: I wonder if Ohio State was looking past Nebraska towards
Speaker 2: Penn State. Where's his game? Happy Valley? Right, it's in
Speaker 2: Happy Valley. Yeah, tell you what, there's a that's a
Speaker 2: hell of a hard place to play.
Speaker 3: Packers quarterback Jordan Love left yesterday's game against the Jaguars
Speaker 3: with a groin injury. However, the test today showed that
Speaker 3: there's no significant damage in the injury is not expected
Speaker 3: to be a long term one.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Niners running back Christian McCaffrey is expected to be practicing
Speaker 3: next week and we'll possibly be back for the game
Speaker 3: on November tenth against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 2: Watch out for the four to nine ers when he
Speaker 2: comes back.
Speaker 3: I think they've said I think they've started three and four,
Speaker 3: like three of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the NFC championship hiotographic and it's always good to
Speaker 2: play the say the Cowboys. Is you a little boost?
Speaker 3: The Cardinals improved to foreign four after a game winning
Speaker 3: field goal against the Dolphins yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're they're I don't even know how they win,
Speaker 2: but they're winning bad because Dolphins are el stingo grande.
Speaker 2: They you understand, you say, yeah, I spaniel, Yeah the
Speaker 2: gets better when I've had a few uh those heckues
Speaker 2: the uh yeah, Well Dolphins were terrible. They just couldn't
Speaker 2: they couldn't stop kind of Murray was just running around them.
Speaker 2: That's it looked like a bad game of tag. I
Speaker 2: mean it was terrible. That's a good way to describe it.
Speaker 2: There there is one Monday night football game this week.
Speaker 2: It is the Giants at the Steelers. The Steelers are
Speaker 2: six point favorites. Okay, are you kidding me? I'd rather
Speaker 2: I'd rather go mow the lawn. Yeah, it's like, I
Speaker 2: don't think that the the Giants are going to score
Speaker 2: six points. It'll be That's not yesterday's Washington game with
Speaker 2: with who they played the Chicago That was a great game,
Speaker 2: but it was it was a great ending, it was
Speaker 2: a great nding. But I mean it was it was game.
Speaker 2: It was horrible. It was horrible. The Yeah, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you anyway, it was something else. You know. It's like
Speaker 2: just Sanchez just doesn't look like he's ready. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: a team that Sanchez. Yeah, whom my thing Williams Chicago Williams, Williams,
Speaker 2: Mark Mark Sanchez. I'll tell you. I'll tell you he
Speaker 2: hasn't the butt fumble. Yeah, he hasn't a butt fumble.
Speaker 2: That's that's true. But I tell you, well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe the team will get better and he'll get better.
Speaker 2: We'll see. Daniels explain that dude, looks like the real deal.
Speaker 2: Only that's all I got. That's it. What else do
Speaker 2: we have going on? Anything with you? Of a related noah, okay, no, no,
Speaker 2: no breaking u of a news No.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: We'll see who plays tonight. I'm looking forward to I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm looking forward to them an exhibition game.
Speaker 2: We'll see how many people he weighs and how good
Speaker 2: they're going to be. Last week, when he talked about
Speaker 2: the game, the Pointland was is a pretty good, smaller school,
Speaker 2: pretty good basketball program. So we'll see. You saw yesterday,
Speaker 2: did you see this but a issue getting crushed by Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's by fifty something. Yeah. And then and then he
Speaker 2: was very candid. You know, we saw he used a
Speaker 2: few choice words, and they do. I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: they had a couple of good recruits coming in too.
Speaker 2: That's Arizona. Yeah, that's not Yeah, he's got a huge
Speaker 2: new Yeah, guess what good luck with that? Because you're
Speaker 2: not gonna be good, let's say about it. I mean
Speaker 2: it's like going you go after the money, It's like going, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: I got this great nil deal and I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: out there and get my butt kicked. Every game. It's
Speaker 2: like going, h hopefully they paid him in installments because
Speaker 2: he's my guess, by the end of the middle of
Speaker 2: the season, he's going to be putting forth about three
Speaker 2: quarter effort. That's the way they go. Yeah, yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: see what happened. What do you do? You gotta keep
Speaker 2: paying him, right, you don't, that's what happened to you.
Speaker 2: I think I think you brought it up creevous. Will
Speaker 2: see what if he comes in and maybe plays a
Speaker 2: few minutes, I don't know. I would assume they're gonna
Speaker 2: save him, but but we won't know until we're they're right, Yeah, exactly?
Speaker 2: Uh anything else? Where'd you get your stuff from? Breaking News? Wise?
Speaker 2: Usual place? ESPN? ESPN? Okay, well this is not good
Speaker 2: sounding radio. Well, I know the Jets. He didn't bring
Speaker 2: in the Jets, right, I didn't talk about Karon Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Knock me over with a feather that I'm surprised that
Speaker 2: the Jets suck and and and and Rogers is behind it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well it's you know, it's really surprising and that you know,
Speaker 2: they brought in Farvara and that didn't work out. Work well,
Speaker 2: So it's like going, okay, is there another old quarterback
Speaker 2: that we can bring in that's supposedly going to save us.
Speaker 2: The rest of our team is terrible. It's like going, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's then he's blaming the rest of the team. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, coming, that's what he does. I mean, I
Speaker 2: would I hate playing with players like that. Surround surround
Speaker 2: me with all good players, and I look really good. Right,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say that he's not a good quarterback.
Speaker 2: I mean, certainly, he is a Hall of Fame quarterback
Speaker 2: who's done some great things. But it's like still, it's like,
Speaker 2: come on, don't be blaming everybody else, right, I tell you,
Speaker 2: Salah's going to go out and he's going to take
Speaker 2: another job. Oh he's our head coaching Yeah no, well
Speaker 2: he's head but he's going to get a head coaching
Speaker 2: job again, and he's going to turn into great like Belichick.
Speaker 2: Belichick left the Jets and he turned into a great.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, we got to call who's this on the air,
Speaker 2: I says Jeff. I don't, Hey, Jeff, thanks for listening.
Speaker 7: Hey, I went at the game started with my grandson,
Speaker 7: and I went into the game with hope and every
Speaker 7: you gotta go in with hope and the players, I
Speaker 7: mean everybody. You start a game, you got to go
Speaker 7: in there and have hope. Right, one thing I was
Speaker 7: hoping for that didn't start the game is on side kicks,
Speaker 7: So I.
Speaker 8: Hope came true.
Speaker 7: I was hoping to see some competitiveness, and by in
Speaker 7: the fourth quarter, I gave us something to hope for.
Speaker 7: You know, it's showed that we were well, you were
Speaker 7: there fighting.
Speaker 2: And coming back you say you was going to say
Speaker 2: you were the one. I was the one. Yeah. There
Speaker 2: you go a couple of points.
Speaker 8: If people try to say, well we have injuries.
Speaker 7: That everybody has injuries. Football coaches know you're going to
Speaker 7: get injuries. That's why you have backups. And you have
Speaker 7: to haven't coached up ready to come in. And that's
Speaker 7: the coach the job. And you know, I lose them
Speaker 7: to you know under pe b y U and the
Speaker 7: Roads one thing, but listen to Home to Texas Tech
Speaker 7: into West Virginia.
Speaker 2: That's uh.
Speaker 7: Now, part of me feels like, you know, we're the
Speaker 7: point now where maybe we're better off lose them out
Speaker 7: and then they have to fire Brennan and move on
Speaker 7: to something else. Now, some people might say you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna fire Brennan after one year. Well, if you.
Speaker 7: Lose it out, maybe, I mean, you can just hope
Speaker 7: for that. There's some hope. But a lot of you.
Speaker 2: Have that you hate.
Speaker 8: You know, this is Tucson.
Speaker 7: You gotta be content with a second tier coach.
Speaker 8: You got to content with six and six.
Speaker 7: But isn't that a negative attitude, you know, to say, hey,
Speaker 7: it's two soon. You got to be you know, this
Speaker 7: is just us.
Speaker 2: Well that's kind of yeah, that's self defeating. Have you
Speaker 2: been have you been a fan for a long time?
Speaker 2: Are you a local guy?
Speaker 7: Have a four year I've been here for thirty years
Speaker 7: and four years since you take a holder?
Speaker 2: Okay, and you you why did you get them in
Speaker 2: the first place?
Speaker 8: And just a question, well just for for.
Speaker 7: For I unders see competitive football just entertainment. And I'm
Speaker 7: not alumni, so you know, I'm not dedicated that way.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to see. Yeah, you know, I'll go
Speaker 7: up to the front of it season football.
Speaker 2: Well, let me sit there, go there with your grandson.
Speaker 2: You're the same things. So I went with a friend,
Speaker 2: a friend of mine, and he has nice tickets sitting
Speaker 2: on the north side, and he says, you know, what.
Speaker 2: I just wish this team would show up and play
Speaker 2: a good game, you know, just like you said, Jeff,
Speaker 2: be competitive. My money's worth it. I'll see if they
Speaker 2: play well, maybe hang in there, maybe do well. And
Speaker 2: you know, you know the stuff that the mics or
Speaker 2: the microphones aren't any good, the speakers aren't any good,
Speaker 2: the entertainment's not very good. He say, All I want
Speaker 2: is to watch a good game, and then you don't
Speaker 2: even get that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, well, and I've said this before, if you
Speaker 7: have said it, you can I can just you can
Speaker 7: see how players play. I mean you can you can
Speaker 7: see when it you know, in any competitive sports, who's
Speaker 7: got a little bit of extra edge is given one
Speaker 7: hundred percent. And just sometimes you don't see the lot
Speaker 7: of the guys and that comes down to coaches, you know,
Speaker 7: getting them ready, even against any of you, and any
Speaker 7: of you came out, would you see you can see
Speaker 7: you saw a game hitting the field ready to play,
Speaker 7: you know, and I haven't you know, we'll seen a
Speaker 7: whole lot of the wildcats. And that's I mean, you
Speaker 7: can't blame you know, twenty one twenty year old kids.
Speaker 2: You gotta blame, you.
Speaker 7: Know, the adults that are coaching those kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you going to continue to hold on to
Speaker 2: those tickets?
Speaker 7: I you know, I'm I don't know, well I'm right
Speaker 7: now of course, you know, you get frustrated and you
Speaker 7: say no, but you know, if they can there's four
Speaker 7: games left, so Jeff, if they can get six and
Speaker 7: maybe you know, have another season, see what chance?
Speaker 2: I guess what does your grandson call you? You have a nickname.
Speaker 2: He calls your grandpa grandpa. But I love going to
Speaker 2: the game's grandpa. Yeah, it's like, you get my grandson's here?
Speaker 2: How old your grandson? He's he's gonna want you to
Speaker 2: take him again next year? I take him again next year.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, you know, it's tough to do. So
Speaker 2: so when you when you left, you showed up at
Speaker 2: the game with Hope. Do you think this is a
Speaker 2: did you leave with this season? Did you leave with
Speaker 2: the Hope? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you did?
Speaker 2: I mean what so this season? You know next year?
Speaker 2: Next year's you know, hope Hope Springs are new okay,
Speaker 2: because it would be it'll be a very different team.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I guess every every Saturday you got
Speaker 7: you know, your new Hope. You have to have hope,
Speaker 7: you know, and every I guess every season you got
Speaker 7: to have hope. But I just don't want. I don't
Speaker 7: like to hear people say, hey, this is Tucston. You
Speaker 7: gotta you know, be grateful what you got.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a good attitude. Are you are you?
Speaker 2: You are you from here? You're from here thirty years
Speaker 2: years okay? Yeah, yeah, Mike's from here, but not from here.
Speaker 2: He's been. But you know, if you've been listening to
Speaker 2: the show yeh with with Jay and I, and Jay's
Speaker 2: a long time guy, and you know he's depressed because
Speaker 2: he's seen it all and he's you know, there's always
Speaker 2: something that's gonna be loosey and you know she gonna
Speaker 2: pull the ball away from you. Something happens, and here
Speaker 2: you are. I mean that's I think that's what you're
Speaker 2: hearing because it happens all the time.
Speaker 7: Well I don't. I mean, like I said, I don't.
Speaker 7: You know, if you lose then overtime or something, or
Speaker 7: you're competing, you can you know, it still gives you
Speaker 7: so gives you hope. You know, Hey, we've be competed,
Speaker 7: you know, but when you're uh, it's just what you
Speaker 7: want to just see some better competition.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, and you're and you're paying good money for
Speaker 2: those seats.
Speaker 7: I mean yeah, for for a guy like me, it's
Speaker 7: a lot of money. And I say, a thousand dollars
Speaker 7: a year, you know, and another five pound dollars a
Speaker 7: year and abilliately buy. I mean, you have Arizona stuff
Speaker 7: all over our house, all over our cars. I got
Speaker 7: twenty shirts, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jeff, he's one of they gotta they gotta
Speaker 2: give you a good product, Okay, I mean, there's there's
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Sure the know. It's like I
Speaker 2: do have hope that we are going to be uh
Speaker 2: that next year is going to be a different year.
Speaker 2: I always due second year of a of a new
Speaker 2: coach as opposed to first year. Yeah, you kind of
Speaker 2: you hope, but you have expect you know. It's like going, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be you know, it may not
Speaker 2: be great, maybe a lot time, but you know, I'm
Speaker 2: I am looking forward to next year already what to do? Well,
Speaker 2: of course, I'm looking forward to next year already. I'm
Speaker 2: almost looking for next year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess you gotta give him another year. And
Speaker 7: you gotta, you know, see what.
Speaker 5: You can do.
Speaker 7: But I think, jem it's a different situation with jet Fish.
Speaker 7: Now we were totally paid with jet Fish. I had
Speaker 7: no problem with what he went through because he started
Speaker 7: from zero.
Speaker 2: Right, Wait, that's right. You know there's there's a lot
Speaker 2: to be said. Yeah, this guy, this guy started on
Speaker 2: second base and he got went back to first base. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: that's kind of the way it feels. Yeah, Okay, thanks Jeff,
Speaker 2: We got to take off. Thanks for the call, though,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, good call, good call. You
Speaker 2: guys have a lot of hope. Yeah, and I have
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to One on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Mike Quinn
Speaker 2: Henry with us. Now on the phone, we have Barrett Baker,
Speaker 2: former U of A football player for Football Captain ninety eight. Barrett,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 8: Steve? Always good to talk to you, appreciate the time.
Speaker 2: Thanks good on this end.
Speaker 8: Besides, just got to get a few more ws to
Speaker 8: make everybody happy and we'll definitely be in a better
Speaker 8: mood then.
Speaker 2: Yes. Just in fact, I was texting Calvin today to
Speaker 2: get him on as well, So save them for another day.
Speaker 2: You guys were co captains, right, I.
Speaker 8: Think that's yeah, just one of the best leader I
Speaker 8: think that I've ever been around. I think that you'd
Speaker 8: have one hundred and five guys that would unanimously say
Speaker 8: that really the magic behind the scenes when it came
Speaker 8: to chemistry and keeping everybody buddy doing exactly what we
Speaker 8: were supposed to be doing through twelve games.
Speaker 7: So he's an awesome individual.
Speaker 2: So that's where I wanted to kind of go with it.
Speaker 2: So you had him, he had you and maybe another
Speaker 2: captain too, totally totally different than you. Right, You're kind
Speaker 2: of like the diplomatic dude guy, and he's the force.
Speaker 2: He's the hammer I would have. I would venture to
Speaker 2: guess that Arizona would need two of you guys. Now, well,
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 8: Say that about myself. Kelvin was a special person, a
Speaker 8: special leader for sure, and he was our offensive captain.
Speaker 8: Chris McAllister was our defensive captain. And you know, when
Speaker 8: you play at the level that Chris played at and
Speaker 8: you are the best that there is a type of
Speaker 8: leadership that is involved with that. Right. He sets the
Speaker 8: standard so high. He played right one hundred percent of
Speaker 8: the time. He was just that good and and he
Speaker 8: was a great teammate. And in regards to that, there
Speaker 8: was no arrogance there. He didn't act like he was
Speaker 8: better than anybody else. I would say the component that
Speaker 8: I could bring to it is you're going to get
Speaker 8: one hundred percent one hundred percent of the time, and
Speaker 8: we're going to do things right one hundred percent of
Speaker 8: the time. And you know that. So again, there's just
Speaker 8: three different leadership styles. When you bring it all together,
Speaker 8: then there's accountability for all different aspects of what it
Speaker 8: takes when you're either winning or losing. When you're winning,
Speaker 8: it's easy, and when you're losing, you know it's tough.
Speaker 8: And so that's really when your leadership is tested. In
Speaker 8: that particular year, obviously we didn't lose very much, but
Speaker 8: again we kept the line at a very very high
Speaker 8: level and make sure that there was accountability, starting with
Speaker 8: each of us individually and then making sure we were
Speaker 8: getting that from our teammates.
Speaker 2: Barrett Hey, you mentioned two words that I think are
Speaker 2: critical and I want you to train and get an
Speaker 2: assessment on this team. You mentioned leadership in chemistry. What
Speaker 2: do you are you sensing either one of those from
Speaker 2: this team or lack of it? Or where do we
Speaker 2: go from here on that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't and I would say this, I can
Speaker 8: only say what we hear from the players, and I
Speaker 8: can only say that what we hear from the coaches.
Speaker 8: And I mean, we all know individual people, so I
Speaker 8: can talk to this person and they can confirm or
Speaker 8: this other person might disagree with that, but they've said
Speaker 8: that they're staying together. And you know, we don't see
Speaker 8: sideline fights, we don't see finger pointing in the interviews afterwards,
Speaker 8: and the chemistry portion of it, I guess I would
Speaker 8: just say to this, it's very difficult in the world
Speaker 8: that we live in today with the name, image, likeness,
Speaker 8: with the transfer portal and all of those things that
Speaker 8: quite frankly, they pull apart chemistry because when you have
Speaker 8: players on the team that in the days of old
Speaker 8: would have been there for five years, and now how
Speaker 8: many guys do we have that are new to the team,
Speaker 8: that you have to learn how to be a teammate.
Speaker 8: You have to learn what the level of expectation is.
Speaker 8: And then you know again, you know, Price ac leaves,
Speaker 8: Jonah Coleman leaves, some of those those guys that you
Speaker 8: were counting on to be leaders in that locker room
Speaker 8: after being here for three, four or five years, they're elsewhere.
Speaker 8: So it's a lot harder for I think programs to
Speaker 8: really button down how do you get that leadership? Now
Speaker 8: when you look at Jacob Manu and Trading and Gunner
Speaker 8: and Noah and that core group of leadership, that core
Speaker 8: group of guys, they're not splintering, and so I think
Speaker 8: that part of it still there is a belief that
Speaker 8: the team is together. And I'll tell you you take
Speaker 8: a guy like Josh Baker, He's been part of my
Speaker 8: language at the bottom of the barrel right when we
Speaker 8: were at the tail end of someone. Then you go
Speaker 8: to Mount Everest and you go to the top. Last
Speaker 8: year and obviously this year it hasn't lived up to
Speaker 8: what as a fan base, as a program, all those
Speaker 8: things what we wanted. But he's still out there busting
Speaker 8: is but every single play given his best as a
Speaker 8: team leader, as a captain, and that's what it takes
Speaker 8: to get out of a hole like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no quote, now that is that how you feel
Speaker 2: or what you know?
Speaker 8: I mean in talking to players, Yeah, I will tell
Speaker 8: you there again, there's not splintering now. I would say
Speaker 8: this is the same from the best team that we
Speaker 8: ever had in nineteen ninety eight, And I'm sure if
Speaker 8: I talk to the guys from nineteen ninety three that
Speaker 8: they would say the same thing. There's one hundred guys
Speaker 8: on that team, and how many do you think are
Speaker 8: truly happy twenty two? Because those are the starters, right,
Speaker 8: and when you're that backup, right, you always think that
Speaker 8: there's more that you always think you should be getting
Speaker 8: more of a shot. There's always you know, more and
Speaker 8: more and more. So that's the challenge and then you
Speaker 8: throw in, you know, kind of a sidebar here in
Speaker 8: all honesty, have you guys ever seen the amount of
Speaker 8: injuries that we've had on one side of the ball
Speaker 8: in one season and on the defensive side of the ball, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And critical ones. You really could tell me because West
Speaker 2: Virginia was was dominating over the middle. I mean, they
Speaker 2: were just making things happen over the mids, like yeah.
Speaker 7: And they're banged up.
Speaker 8: So you have people and they say, well, that's an excuse. Well,
Speaker 8: there's I would say this, there's reasons and there's excuses.
Speaker 8: But how many people in our fan base, and I'm
Speaker 8: a hardcore fan, how many people knew who Jack Latrell
Speaker 8: was before two games ago? How many people could tell
Speaker 8: you that he was a four star recruit and ended
Speaker 8: up going to Tennessee and then transferring here because of
Speaker 8: coach Akina had recruited him in high school. And so
Speaker 8: for the first five games of the season, we don't
Speaker 8: even know what number he wears. And I don't mean
Speaker 8: that as a shot against him, but he wasn't ready
Speaker 8: and so now he's thrust into playing a primetime role
Speaker 8: the last two weeks and obviously, moving forward, we have
Speaker 8: ten other examples of guys like that on this team
Speaker 8: that two years from now that's going to be a
Speaker 8: huge benefit to them. But right now, it is hurtful,
Speaker 8: it's painful. It causes the fan base to obviously call
Speaker 8: for the firing of ahead coach. I mean, it almost
Speaker 8: makes us insane with you know, anger and disappointment and
Speaker 8: all those things that you feel as a fan. But
Speaker 8: when you really break it down, it's just tough. Right now,
Speaker 8: there's so many guys that aren't ready to be playing
Speaker 8: and because of a myriad of reasons. Those are the
Speaker 8: eleven that we have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you're you're You're a guy I know who's
Speaker 2: always positive, always looking for the silver lining. I know
Speaker 2: a lot of people who aren't you and don't feel
Speaker 2: the same way, and I don't. I don't need you
Speaker 2: to go there, because you are who you are and
Speaker 2: that's great, and because you know, hell, I wish I
Speaker 2: were like you. Yeah, well, I'll say this.
Speaker 8: You know coach Brennan, I he has a positive demeanor
Speaker 8: to him, all right, and he gets hit for that
Speaker 8: oftentimes because people want to be more fire. I promise
Speaker 8: you that there is more fire. I've been to practices.
Speaker 8: I know that there's fire. He has already made the
Speaker 8: changes that you can make during the season. Correct, He
Speaker 8: is already made a change in the play caller after
Speaker 8: three or four games. Does that show that he's stagnant
Speaker 8: and that he's accepting the results? I would say no.
Speaker 8: Now we say, well, what else can we do? So
Speaker 8: when you see the motions and you see all of
Speaker 8: the various things that they are now trying to do
Speaker 8: to get the ball to tamac and some of those superstars.
Speaker 8: They're not sitting idly by. The challenge right now is
Speaker 8: the fact that between Riley and Jones and Burnett, you know,
Speaker 8: and some of those young guns that we were hoping
Speaker 8: were ready to take the next step, they had twelve
Speaker 8: catches between them last year, twelve And they're trying to
Speaker 8: replace Tanner McLachlin, who has more catches than any other
Speaker 8: tight end in Jule history, and Jay Cowing who's a
Speaker 8: fourth round draft pick, and unfortunately it just hasn't quite
Speaker 8: lived up to what we needed. And could you blame
Speaker 8: coach Brennan and the offensive staff. Absolutely, it's a combination
Speaker 8: of all of those things. But it's not just the
Speaker 8: fact that it's the head coach that somehow doesn't know
Speaker 8: how to coach. It's the fact that the players that
Speaker 8: were left here, all of those it all boils down together,
Speaker 8: and then you get into this death spiral where the
Speaker 8: offense is struggling and now you've got the defense that
Speaker 8: isn't what it was at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 8: and they're going to be giving up more points, and
Speaker 8: you know, how do you get out of it? I'll
Speaker 8: tell you how I get out of it. I go there,
Speaker 8: I make peace with it. I support the players, I
Speaker 8: support the coaches, and I hope that it works because
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, that's all you can
Speaker 8: do as a fan, you know, either support them or
Speaker 8: you don't. And my job, because they took care of me,
Speaker 8: is to support them through the good times and the
Speaker 8: bad times.
Speaker 2: So Bert, you got to I mean, I'm hearing you
Speaker 2: got a lot of hope going forward for these guys
Speaker 2: being able to put it together before we go there.
Speaker 2: Then so were we and everybody else unrealistic on the
Speaker 2: expectations coming in.
Speaker 8: Yes, but what we wouldn't have known that at the time.
Speaker 8: So it's not something that we can be blamed for.
Speaker 8: Right It's easy to see in hindsight that it's some
Speaker 8: of the those skill positions, some of those key positions.
Speaker 8: The productivity isn't there. Why is Jed Fish the offense
Speaker 8: of guru that was here and had us clicking on
Speaker 8: all cylinders four and four at Washington in his first
Speaker 8: season there he's got Does that make sense? In other words,
Speaker 8: we know that guy can coach offense, We know he
Speaker 8: has a superstar quarterback that was at the transferred into
Speaker 8: help him. He has Joanah Coleman, who's the top three
Speaker 8: rusher in the country. Why are they four and four
Speaker 8: Because there is a transition between staffs. There is a
Speaker 8: learning curve with chemistry and all those things, and we're
Speaker 8: suffering through that a little bit right now. But just
Speaker 8: this is what happens. And I'm sorry because I'm not
Speaker 8: trying to be negative. I've heard it a thousand times
Speaker 8: and I've seen online. Well, he inherited a Lamborghini and
Speaker 8: he turned it into blank. The Lamborghini was last year, correct,
Speaker 8: I mean truly, the Lamborghini was last year. This year was.
Speaker 8: It is not a Lamborghini. It is the Lamborghini's frame.
Speaker 8: It has different engine, it has different tires, and the
Speaker 8: engine and the tires from a productivity standpoint, they're not
Speaker 8: as good. Now. We didn't know that in game one
Speaker 8: because we still say, well, we have Keymac, you have Jonah,
Speaker 8: you have Wendell, you have Josh. But the left tackle
Speaker 8: is a red shirt freshman that no one knew his
Speaker 8: name until a week before the season. The right guard
Speaker 8: didn't start until the fourth game of the season. The
Speaker 8: offensive line didn't start the same combination of five players
Speaker 8: until the fourth game of the season. These things matter,
Speaker 8: and again, are those reasons, are the excuses they all have,
Speaker 8: they're all tied in together. And so when it kind
Speaker 8: of snowballs and we you know Texas Tech was the
Speaker 8: first time for me that was a big loss. That's
Speaker 8: you got to win that game. And when we were
Speaker 8: you know, really had the red zone inefficiency there, that
Speaker 8: not getting the fourth down, all of those things, and
Speaker 8: you lose the game you're supposed to win. It just
Speaker 8: started that terrible spiral. And then you go against BYU
Speaker 8: they're eight, and oh they're at eight, and oh, it's
Speaker 8: not like we lost to a bad team there, but
Speaker 8: you know, now we're getting banged up, and now you
Speaker 8: start pressing harder and harder. And so that's how those
Speaker 8: losing streaks kind of come to fruition. And now one
Speaker 8: game at a time, that's literally all you can do
Speaker 8: as a player and a coach and try to get
Speaker 8: that win. I mean, that's that's all you can do.
Speaker 8: And so I think that's where they're at right now.
Speaker 2: That's a great assessment there, Barrett. I'm going to go
Speaker 2: back to my question if if Steve allows me to
Speaker 2: I don't know where he calls me a co host. Well,
Speaker 2: he doesn't call it, call me a host very often.
Speaker 2: But let me let me try and squeeze this in.
Speaker 2: Do you you have hope going forward? I mean going
Speaker 2: forward like I'm talking about next season and beyond. You
Speaker 2: you think that they can put it together based on
Speaker 2: your discussion?
Speaker 8: Correct, Well, again, I will be guilty of it, and
Speaker 8: I think Steve referred to it. You have to be
Speaker 8: optimistic to be in a sport. If you have a
Speaker 8: loser's mentality and you're always doing in boom, you will
Speaker 8: never succeed. So our recruiting class as it stands right
Speaker 8: now is about fortieth in the country. Do you know
Speaker 8: that that's better than jet Fish's second and third recruiting
Speaker 8: classes that he finished up with. So does that give
Speaker 8: me hope? Yes?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 8: Do I know? When I watch practices and I see
Speaker 8: the competitiveness there, does that give me hope? Yes? Now
Speaker 8: is it going to be immediate? My hope for this
Speaker 8: year truly is to somehow come up with a win
Speaker 8: against UCF. I truly think that we can beat Houston.
Speaker 8: TCU is going to be tough, but TCU does obviously
Speaker 8: they don't look like they're world beaters this year and
Speaker 8: then asu I hate them. I hope the team hates them,
Speaker 8: and they always want to win and when you look
Speaker 8: at who they've beat on their schedule, there's no reason
Speaker 8: to think that we can't compete against them. Now, that
Speaker 8: is an optimistic and it's a miracle, but can it
Speaker 8: happen one game at a time. That's all you can
Speaker 8: do with that, and then moving forward. Yes, Coach Brannan
Speaker 8: is fully aware that there are issues on the offensive
Speaker 8: side of the ball, one hundred and five hundred thousand
Speaker 8: percent aware of that. You either think that he's going
Speaker 8: to do nothing or do you think that he's going
Speaker 8: to fix it. It's his name on it. He knows
Speaker 8: that it needs to be fixed and he'll fix it.
Speaker 8: And you either believe that or you don't. I always,
Speaker 8: you know, again a history of his coaching. He's going
Speaker 8: to fix it. And that's where I land on that one.
Speaker 2: All I know is when I passed, I want Barrett
Speaker 2: to write my obituary. It's gonna self what a great
Speaker 2: guy Steve wasn't.
Speaker 8: Yeah, never interrupted.
Speaker 2: Doing this exactly. Thank you, Brett. It's always appreciate you.
Speaker 8: Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great, great that was realistic too. I mean realistic.
Speaker 2: A lot of things have to tip that way favorably
Speaker 2: because he's thinking optimistic. Never see, well, I don't so
Speaker 2: I don't think that you know, you mentioned silver lining.
Speaker 2: It's like going, I don't think that he's pyeing the
Speaker 2: sky on this stuff. I mean one, I think he
Speaker 2: knows what it's like to play in a team. I
Speaker 2: think he knows what it's like to look at a
Speaker 2: team and going, Okay, I see I see where these
Speaker 2: holes are. I see what's happening here. So do I
Speaker 2: think that this season right now, do we have an
Speaker 2: optimistic shot? If you will, Uh, it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2: We've got Lee's hey, we've got we've got key injuries.
Speaker 2: It's like going, Okay, I got it. It's like everybody's
Speaker 2: got injuries. We've got some key injuries. We're playing some
Speaker 2: young people. Jed when when when he took over his
Speaker 2: first year, he's playing all these freshmen and sophomores. It's
Speaker 2: the same thing. I do think that we're moving forward.
Speaker 2: I'm optimistic. I love the way Barrett talked about I
Speaker 2: feel heck, I feel better about my you know myself,
Speaker 2: and you know the world outside after talking to Barrett. Okay,
Speaker 2: I must drink your whatever you've got. You're drinking a double. Yeah, double.
Speaker 2: Keep Garrett's Barrett's the phone number because if I do pass. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's writing, he's doing it. Yeah, yeah, Okay, He's take
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson Sports Station yet Fox Sports fourteen fifth day.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to my I on the ball here
Speaker 2: a Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Mike Quinn.
Speaker 2: You've got Henry taking us in, taking us home, yep,
Speaker 2: before we go to the basketball game. Yeah, see what
Speaker 2: happens today. Anybody else want to call in? Please do
Speaker 2: five two oh four, one, six, seventy four forty be
Speaker 2: like Jeff. I think that may have been Jeff's first
Speaker 2: time calling that. That was cool. It was good talking
Speaker 2: with him. Yeah, Jeff was good taking his grand kid
Speaker 2: to the games. Yeah, he's not gonna stop. Come on,
Speaker 2: no memories, take your memories, take you grand kid to
Speaker 2: the game anytime. So yeah, so we'll hit me with
Speaker 2: the baseball bat and I take my game. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens later today. See what Tommy Lloyd
Speaker 2: does here? Poor, that'st be interesting scenes. It's like, are
Speaker 2: they showing anything at these games? Steve? What do you mean? Well?
Speaker 2: I mean are they are they playing their players? Are
Speaker 2: they are they? Are we really getting out there and
Speaker 2: seeing the team? No? No, no. The first game was
Speaker 2: just you know, the Eastern New Mexico. You know your
Speaker 2: part talk come out. Sure, yeah, tonight might be a
Speaker 2: little bit better. We'll know more tonight. But there was
Speaker 2: lots to like. Henry looked plaid well. The shooters. They
Speaker 2: have shooters, the talents and kid played really well hit
Speaker 2: the shots. Don't expect that all the time, but at
Speaker 2: least you know you have somebody like that. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Caleb Love wasn't asked to do much, so he didn't.
Speaker 2: You know. The back court is going to be the
Speaker 2: start of the show. We'll see you. How's our front court? Yeah,
Speaker 2: we won't know until Crevius comes back. So there's that.
Speaker 2: But they're gonna be okay. I mean, I can't remember
Speaker 2: the last time I said Arizona's gonna suck. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what, I've never said it. Yeah, I never said it.
Speaker 2: I may have some skepticism when Sean was in the
Speaker 2: final years because they were they were. They were tough.
Speaker 2: I mean they were. It was tough to watch the
Speaker 2: coach they were. It was tough. It was just tough. Hey,
Speaker 2: we got a call here on on the ball. You're
Speaker 2: on the air, Nico. What's up?
Speaker 18: Hey, man, I didn't see you at the game, Steve.
Speaker 18: I don't know if he actually went with I did go.
Speaker 2: I did. I was in the north end. I don't
Speaker 2: know where exactly. Uh. I was on the north right side,
Speaker 2: so northwest side of it. One of my buddies who
Speaker 2: listens to the show is See invited me, so I said, okay,
Speaker 2: got there early, kind of just it was hot. Man.
Speaker 18: I think you're on the opposite end because I'm by
Speaker 18: the Zona Zoo on the north side.
Speaker 2: Zona Zoo on the north side. Oh you're oh yeah, okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I won the north side north of them. I want
Speaker 2: on your Sands Club, but just below the Sands Club.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it was in underneath it too, but I was
Speaker 18: like more towards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I was there. I was. I guess
Speaker 2: he since where the families of the of the players
Speaker 2: is at and I didn't want anybody, so I just
Speaker 2: kind of watch a game.
Speaker 18: Hey man, there wasn't much to watch.
Speaker 2: No are you you know you you go to the
Speaker 2: games with your pops and all that stuff. Where are
Speaker 2: you one optimism?
Speaker 18: Man? I was going in in a good mood because
Speaker 18: it's my dad's birthday, believe it or not. And I
Speaker 18: was like, hey, they might get a win for you dad.
Speaker 2: You know what did that dash? When did that hope dash?
Speaker 18: Like the middle of the third quarter?
Speaker 2: We left? Yeah, I left right after you. Then. You know,
Speaker 2: it was just especially when it's hot and you're well,
Speaker 2: it was nice. The weather was nice. Once that sun
Speaker 2: went down over the stadium.
Speaker 18: Man, once the sun went down, it was It wasn't bad, man,
Speaker 18: it was just right.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you real quick, because you go
Speaker 2: to the games, are you disappointed in what you see
Speaker 2: with the sound system or what you're hear with the
Speaker 2: sound system and just some of the the fun if
Speaker 2: you want to call it fun.
Speaker 18: Man, I'm more disappointed in the food. I'm gonna be
Speaker 18: honest with you, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting, And they changed that too, they said for
Speaker 2: the better.
Speaker 18: Man, I paid fifteen backs for the fancy nachos and they
Speaker 18: were terrible.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well did you do you do those services afety
Speaker 2: send out? I guess they do his love surveys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's for surveys for pretty much. You fill them out
Speaker 2: and Nico, I know it's a test.
Speaker 18: I delete those, man, I ain't got time for that.
Speaker 2: Come on, man, you're not gonna make any changes if
Speaker 2: you don't, if you don't input, come on, have you
Speaker 2: listening to show before Nico? Nico ain't taking any tests exactly.
Speaker 18: Hey, man, See the guy that you go to the
Speaker 18: game is right, man, Yeah, everything else could be crappy
Speaker 18: as long as the team.
Speaker 2: Is decent, right right, And you're not even getting that now.
Speaker 18: Hey, but I do have hope that last guess you had?
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, well yeah, I'll tell you what that
Speaker 2: can gives you hoping anything? Okay is growing up. He's
Speaker 2: not being such an We got another call. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: on the air line on the wall. Who's this? Hey,
Speaker 2: what Vic, what's up? You were there?
Speaker 19: Now? I stayed home watched a Dodger game. Remember I
Speaker 19: told you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you you were Who was your first text to meet?
Speaker 2: Its embarrassing exactly.
Speaker 19: You know what's more embarrassing. I had some guys in
Speaker 19: from LA and I think I talked to you guys
Speaker 19: a little bit about this a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 19: about the marketing. And we went to this little note
Speaker 19: hole in the wall bar and and uh, They're like, well,
Speaker 19: everybody in here as an Arizona hat, but you don't
Speaker 19: see nothing else outside of it. And Steve, you, I mean,
Speaker 19: we should be having Noah on your show and talking
Speaker 19: about it his dad and dad. People don't know. I mean,
Speaker 19: I know because I'm from California, but that you know
Speaker 19: that least runs the Orange County buck Eyes. And then
Speaker 19: we've been recruiting Jed started recruiting from there. And why
Speaker 19: aren't we having Noah and Tea Mac on your show?
Speaker 19: And and even Desiree whatever, there's no billboards with Noah
Speaker 19: and t Mac up there, and Jacob, there's nothing around town.
Speaker 19: I know why people don't go to the games, because
Speaker 19: if you don't really follow it, you're a casual guy
Speaker 19: you don't even know the damn team plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can't. You can't use those guys out
Speaker 2: there on the on the billboards anymore because you gotta
Speaker 2: you gotta pay him.
Speaker 8: Oh I guess man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's that same image and likeness. That's the
Speaker 2: whole idea. You can't. You can't put out somebody's likeness
Speaker 2: there to advertise your program unless you're paying them.
Speaker 19: So well, uh, my last singer is real quick. See
Speaker 19: I go play for this cat Barrett. But then I
Speaker 19: turn on the.
Speaker 2: What do you call the the.
Speaker 19: Interview with Brennan, and oh my god, I want to
Speaker 19: jump through the phone and just stock him. He has
Speaker 19: the personality with Porcupine. It's like, dude, I don't get it.
Speaker 19: He's not in the in out in the.
Speaker 8: City.
Speaker 19: He's not I mean. And like I told you, Steve
Speaker 19: Jed would send those little stupid dancing tomorrows when he
Speaker 19: signed somebody, and you kind of get a little excited.
Speaker 2: About it, like, oh, who is this?
Speaker 7: Who we got?
Speaker 8: Nothing comes from this dude?
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 19: I'll go play for Barrett, but I I on send
Speaker 19: my kid to go play for for Bread.
Speaker 2: And you don't know this until you know this, right,
Speaker 2: you know, you and I, You and I text back
Speaker 2: and forth and do our little analogies and blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and you don't know you know you like we, I
Speaker 2: think you made this rem public, just like you buying
Speaker 2: a beer for the for the lady at the bar
Speaker 2: and she leaves with somebody else. You don't know she's
Speaker 2: gonna leave with anybody else until you know that you
Speaker 2: did it happen.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Like I said, just
Speaker 19: listen at press conference today and drinking the water in
Speaker 19: between every I'm like, bro, stop.
Speaker 2: Well you've been You've been married, I've been married and everything.
Speaker 2: Why are you breathing? You know? You start thinking to
Speaker 2: you you nit pick for because you stopped that breathing? Please,
Speaker 2: why do you choose so loud? You just find ways
Speaker 2: about that? Now? Well, welcome to Mary in the marriage.
Speaker 2: Thanks Vic.
Speaker 8: All right, guys, take care, We'll.
Speaker 2: See you later. Buddy. Call great. Hey you're on the
Speaker 2: air and I on the ball. Who is this?
Speaker 8: Hi?
Speaker 5: This is Kathy?
Speaker 2: Yes, Kathy? How are you?
Speaker 5: I'm fine? Are you guys? You went to the game?
Speaker 2: See yes, thank you?
Speaker 5: Let me ask you, Steve a question, Yes, did.
Speaker 6: You feel like there was any energy in the stands
Speaker 6: after that time?
Speaker 2: No? No, let me it says my second time to
Speaker 2: go as a fan with the with the guy. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that. It's section thirty two. By the way, Nico,
Speaker 2: he texted me, so, no, I mean everything that I hear,
Speaker 2: because I usually in the press box and you hear
Speaker 2: everything nice and clear. And then what they what they
Speaker 2: say is you don't hear anything from the speakers, and
Speaker 2: they're right, Uh, it's not very Uh maybe they should
Speaker 2: go see other schools how they do it, because it's
Speaker 2: very blah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. One of the best times I ever had.
Speaker 6: I went to a Las Vegas I guess they're the
Speaker 6: Las Vegas as baseball game in the summer, hot as hell. Yeah,
Speaker 6: in Las Vegas outside facing west, no east, so it's cool.
Speaker 6: But still every time there was a break in the
Speaker 6: action between innings, there was something on the field.
Speaker 5: They were giving away this. They were doing the.
Speaker 6: Bat around, you know where you circle your head around
Speaker 6: the bat and then go run.
Speaker 5: For you know, a race.
Speaker 6: Kids were doing popping on stuff, and they were giving
Speaker 6: away prizes, right, and there was always something in the
Speaker 6: middle of the field and there was nothing. And it's like, guys,
Speaker 6: you're losing your fan base because there's no excitement for it.
Speaker 6: I know we were stuckling, but there is no excitement.
Speaker 2: No, did you do you go?
Speaker 6: Typically I'm a season pick at Homer for oh god fifteen?
Speaker 2: So sorry, So keathy? You should?
Speaker 8: You should?
Speaker 2: You already know this is status quo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's not getting any better.
Speaker 2: No. No, that's the whole thing. It's like, why you
Speaker 2: see it? We all see it. Why don't they see it?
Speaker 5: And we're in a different conference. Now, this is big
Speaker 5: time conference.
Speaker 6: This isn't PAC twelve, although I love PAC twelve, but.
Speaker 5: This is not Pac twelve.
Speaker 6: This is big time football, right, And to get that
Speaker 6: fan base, you've got to play big time football and
Speaker 6: entice those fans.
Speaker 5: To get the butts in the seat.
Speaker 6: To me, ask you, because without the butts in the seat,
Speaker 6: you're not getting anybody, no question.
Speaker 2: So you've you've had those six for fifteen years. At
Speaker 2: any point in the last fifteen and you've had a
Speaker 2: wild ride with a few halfways. Have you ever thought
Speaker 2: of saying, hell, I don't need these tickets anymore?
Speaker 5: No, because I go for the band. I'm so weird.
Speaker 5: I go for the Pride of Arizona. That's why I go.
Speaker 5: I watch the halftime. If it's a crappy game, I
Speaker 5: leave after halftime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well join the rest of it.
Speaker 6: And it was hot and we're down there three or
Speaker 6: four hours before kickoff. Yeah, right, practice with alumni band
Speaker 6: and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, more power to you. More power to you, because
Speaker 2: it's in any easy especially you want to be entertained
Speaker 2: on the field, off the field alls.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the food.
Speaker 6: The guy before me, he's right, it's not exciting, it's
Speaker 6: not interesting.
Speaker 5: It's you know, white claw and a bunch of not shows. Really. Well, God,
Speaker 5: I can get that at a bar for a lot cheaper. Well,
Speaker 5: and it's cool in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh then they'll see you at the bar. Okay,
Speaker 2: So what so what about the eight pm games? Whether
Speaker 2: like the Houston game starts at eight fifteen kickoff?
Speaker 5: Isn't that sucky?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be cooler. You can you can't, it'll be cooler.
Speaker 5: Night. What do you think people are doing on Friday night?
Speaker 2: Not drinky white cloud? White cloud? Yeah, it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: thanks for the call, we got to go problem. Thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was good. We've got to go already, preysue right, yep,
Speaker 2: we've done. Okay, thanks Mike for coming in Monday, your Day,
Speaker 2: Monday Mondays, what's happening tomorrow at least now? Yeah. Thanks
Speaker 2: to Carl Watson and to be Baker mister inspiration. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, thank you, great great guest today. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: thanks