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Speaker 3: Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
Speaker 3: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rovera. I
Speaker 3: have Henry with me running the show today and the
Speaker 3: band is back together for at least one day. I
Speaker 3: wanted to hear the bitching today. I look up Jacob Zalad. Well,
Speaker 3: thanks for inviting me.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how much bitching you're gonna hear from me,
Speaker 4: but you're gonna have a lot of them.
Speaker 3: So by trade, you're you're a writer. You've been a
Speaker 3: columnist way now and again I want you to write
Speaker 3: your lead and your nutcraft on what you've experienced on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Probably as disappointing a game, a football game from a
Speaker 4: as opposed to you know, being let down for like
Speaker 4: say that the game of ninety eight that there was
Speaker 4: a loss to UCLA incredibly disappointing, but you didn't feel
Speaker 4: bad about the program. You just felt you were disappointed
Speaker 4: that they lost that game because it was such a
Speaker 4: big game, and there have been other losses like that,
Speaker 4: this one, you know.
Speaker 3: With the with the Kevin Sumonlan lost right to seventy
Speaker 3: to seven, lost to Did they all fans in that game? No? No,
Speaker 3: no fans. Remember we had the show and then raced
Speaker 3: m and watched it. Right, No, but I went because
Speaker 3: I you went because you.
Speaker 4: Were covering it. I did not, you know, no, no
Speaker 4: fans of the game. So that one was anger and
Speaker 4: like you gotta you gotta figure something else out, okay.
Speaker 4: And then this one, this one was an incredible disappointment.
Speaker 3: I'm not angry.
Speaker 4: I'm not angry, very frustrated that that that this is
Speaker 4: how the season ended up.
Speaker 3: Did you okay, before the game started, did you have hope? No,
Speaker 3: so you knew something was they were gonna lose.
Speaker 4: Right going in, going to the stadium, You're gonna laugh,
Speaker 4: I said to myself, And I didn't say this to
Speaker 4: anybody else around me. I just said to myself, it's
Speaker 4: twenty eight to nothing. At halftime, I'm leaving, okay. And
Speaker 4: so then it got to be twenty eight to nothing
Speaker 4: and I still hadn't said anything with my wife. And look,
Speaker 4: we took my grandson to the game.
Speaker 3: Right, were there already hours before.
Speaker 4: Right, We tailgated, had a great time. But I never,
Speaker 4: I never for a second thought Arizona was going to
Speaker 4: win this game. My son tried to talk me into
Speaker 4: you know, if Arizona comes out and they score, and
Speaker 4: you know, make a couple things happen, Arizona's gonna be
Speaker 4: Ace's gonna get really tight and Arizona has a chance.
Speaker 3: And I said, no, they don't. But did he tell
Speaker 3: you this Thanksgiving Day? On Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 4: We're having a conversation, But did you tell him that?
Speaker 3: You said, did you tell me? You didn't tell him
Speaker 3: about the No? No, And I said, Adam, they're not
Speaker 3: going to win.
Speaker 4: Okay, there, you know, there's nothing that they you know,
Speaker 4: because of the way they've been beaten all year, Lawn
Speaker 4: got be really bad by bad teams. Right, this is
Speaker 4: a really good team. As much as we hate to minute,
Speaker 4: Ace is a really good team. And I just said, no,
Speaker 4: it's not. They're gonna lose, and they're gonna lose bad.
Speaker 4: And you know, when they raced down and scored touched
Speaker 4: on right away, okay, it's side Comingone starts to move
Speaker 4: the ball a little bit right on their first possession,
Speaker 4: I thought, okay, if they score here, it might get
Speaker 4: it might be respectable, but you might get.
Speaker 3: You And then they didn't spend the next time boom
Speaker 3: boom boom.
Speaker 4: So when when they got the ball, when A got
Speaker 4: the ball, it's like a minute and a half left
Speaker 4: in the half and it's twenty eight zep. That's when
Speaker 4: I turned to my wife and I said, if they
Speaker 4: score here, we're going home.
Speaker 3: And then they went and scored.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I made it thirty five days at half time and
Speaker 4: that's the first time you've done the first time ever.
Speaker 3: Ever. Yeah, when you texted me about that, I started laughing.
Speaker 3: And Bill will hope you're listening and you haven't abandoned
Speaker 3: me yet. That's what the fans are experiencing. And do
Speaker 3: you blame them for being upset?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not no. And that was and that's a bad day,
Speaker 3: even that kind of mediocre. They just still leave. But no,
Speaker 3: you guys, you guys are suffering. Okay, So last night,
Speaker 3: did you think or Saturday night, even yesterday, did you think? Okay,
Speaker 3: maybe because of the score circumstances, maybe if you decided during.
Speaker 4: The game as it was happening. All I said to
Speaker 4: you know, I'm on a regular text threat. It's it's
Speaker 4: a bunch of bunch of guys, mostly young guys. I've
Speaker 4: told you about them before on that text threat. I
Speaker 4: said he could be in trouble. I didn't say he was.
Speaker 4: I said he could be in trouble. What did that
Speaker 4: group young groups say agreed that this is this is
Speaker 4: bad enough that you would expect there to at least
Speaker 4: be a discussion of it, you know, in the u
Speaker 4: of a administration, And maybe there was, maybe there wasn't.
Speaker 4: Maybe Desiree just said all along, Look, no matter what happens,
Speaker 4: we're not going to fire the guy.
Speaker 3: One, we can't, right, That's that's an issue, and that
Speaker 3: was the number one issue. Okay.
Speaker 4: But two we shouldn't. He should not get fired. Okay,
Speaker 4: it was bad. It wasn't, Ben lindsay bad. And he's
Speaker 4: the only guy who's ever been fired like that after
Speaker 4: a year, right, But it was bad. It was bad
Speaker 4: enough to say, you know, God, should he But I want,
Speaker 4: like I said, you can't just financially you can't, but
Speaker 4: b you fire him. Who's going to come and fill
Speaker 4: that spot? Knowing that if they have a bad year,
Speaker 4: they can be fired after a year. You can't set
Speaker 4: that precedent at all, and he deserves another year.
Speaker 3: He just does.
Speaker 4: He should have another year and another opportunity to do this.
Speaker 4: So people who are saying you should be fired, I
Speaker 4: think are they're just not being realistic about what took place,
Speaker 4: why and what you do about it. They're just not
Speaker 4: And I know there's some media people who are saying
Speaker 4: that that he should be You just don't know everything.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, no question. I don't want to tell anybody
Speaker 3: how to spend their money. Arizona doesn't have very much
Speaker 3: of it, right because and there's other factors that you
Speaker 3: have to pay this guy, maybe more than ten million dollars,
Speaker 3: maybe twelve, I don't know what number. Whatever the number
Speaker 3: is assistant coaches, I think, I think they're obligated, and
Speaker 3: then they have to bring somebody new in, right, and
Speaker 3: then they have to pay their players. Right, who's gonna
Speaker 3: pulling up for that? Right?
Speaker 4: Look, it make it's no coincidence that we're here at
Speaker 4: the end of the regular season and there's only four
Speaker 4: openings in division or in FBS. Yeah, there's only four
Speaker 4: I think maybe a fifth, But there aren't a bunch
Speaker 4: of openings because you know, schools don't have the money
Speaker 4: to just cashier. Coaches pay off their pay off their things.
Speaker 4: They've got other things to do, so they're going to
Speaker 4: have to be more patient. And and you know there
Speaker 4: have been cases where maybe you should have had more patients.
Speaker 4: The guy gets fired at the school, you know after
Speaker 4: two years and three years later he's got his team,
Speaker 4: you know, you know, as a top ten program because
Speaker 4: you didn't wait right.
Speaker 3: Right, And and we'll see what happens on Saturday. When
Speaker 3: I wrote the story, just you know what you gonna do,
Speaker 3: what they're gonna do. All that stuff, here's okay, okay,
Speaker 3: So now you know the circumstances you went through your one.
Speaker 3: My whole thing is if they went through your one.
Speaker 3: And you know how we've talked about this a lot
Speaker 3: when you were with me every day. He is what
Speaker 3: he is. He's not as he as he's as he watching.
Speaker 3: He doesn't say a whole lot he's not. He's a
Speaker 3: good guy. And who's told you he's a bad guy?
Speaker 3: Probably no one? Right, no one? And did you read
Speaker 3: me yesterday? Did you read me? Okay? So I said
Speaker 3: that he's a good guy. We all know that. How
Speaker 3: many and I'm asking you a serious question, how many
Speaker 3: good guys are great coaches? Get very few, very few.
Speaker 4: There's more bad guy, there's more pain in the ass,
Speaker 4: paint in the ass, rough rough around the edges. Guys
Speaker 4: who are good coaches and some of the great ones,
Speaker 4: right Nick Saban comes to mind.
Speaker 3: They have they have they have an edge, Yes.
Speaker 4: They have an edge to him that that somehow translates
Speaker 4: into how they coach and what makes the great coaches?
Speaker 3: The only one I wrote that take a Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: let's do it. Hello, you're on the air and I
Speaker 3: on the ball. Who's this You're on the air, Yes, Brian, Brian, Hey,
Speaker 3: Jake comes on the show. You ca Okay, Brian, you
Speaker 3: need to start.
Speaker 7: I was shocked. Well, but he has he already has
Speaker 7: vacation time on his new job, god kind of job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Brian, there's there's a reason I did
Speaker 4: not respond to any of your text messages.
Speaker 3: I don't want to talk to you.
Speaker 7: It was ugly, Yes it was, And there's no way
Speaker 7: there was forty nine thousand people there.
Speaker 3: Why Brian, would you have fired him?
Speaker 7: No? Because no, no, because he was hired at a
Speaker 7: terrible time. Basically when all the good players in the
Speaker 7: portal were taken not much time to recruit, you know,
Speaker 7: and you have all your players, you have five players
Speaker 7: either graduating or leaving in the portal. It's you know,
Speaker 7: he was he was stuck. And then also too he
Speaker 7: put on all the injuries he had. I mean, you
Speaker 7: can't do much about that. I know that people say, well,
Speaker 7: you got to fight the injuries, when when you don't
Speaker 7: have a lot of depth, the injuries are going to
Speaker 7: kill you. And it showed him the defense. I mean,
Speaker 7: I give the guys a lot of credit for you know,
Speaker 7: sometimes I thought they played hard. Other times I thought
Speaker 7: they didn't. I thought there was some some really stupid plays.
Speaker 7: When the guy ran onto the field on the field goal,
Speaker 7: just stay out the just stay out the field, right,
Speaker 7: don't even go out there.
Speaker 3: You're right, you're right.
Speaker 7: And I can't believe the coach didn't grab a guy
Speaker 7: and say get back, get your ass back on the
Speaker 7: on the sideline. But you know, you have to give
Speaker 7: him a year. You have to give Hi another year.
Speaker 7: And plus we don't have twenty million dollars to buy
Speaker 7: everybody out.
Speaker 4: You're right, and that's the reasonable answer. Yeah, that's Brian,
Speaker 4: that's the reasonable answer. All these people seem fire him.
Speaker 4: Who cares nobody's gonna come to the games next year. Well,
Speaker 4: nobody's coming to the games next year no matter who you.
Speaker 4: Unless you go hire Nick Saban or Urban Meyer, you're
Speaker 4: not selling your more season tickets.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. And I asked one of the reporters earlier, says, Okay,
Speaker 3: the people bitching about firing him, how many of them
Speaker 3: reaching their pocket and say here's some money to do it?
Speaker 4: And how many of them have been bad at their
Speaker 4: jobs at some point and still got to keep their jobs.
Speaker 7: But you know what, Toy kind of said, Alabama goes
Speaker 7: but nine and three, and they want they want what
Speaker 7: that coaches head, I'm going, wow, you know we have
Speaker 7: nine and three, We have a parade.
Speaker 4: Ryan Day, Man, they don't want Tom over there anymore either.
Speaker 3: At Ohio.
Speaker 7: I know there is a lot of talk that he
Speaker 7: will be out after the college football playoffs win win
Speaker 7: or lose. Well, he's gonna have to win the national
Speaker 7: championship almost to save this job.
Speaker 4: You know what I You know, if I'm Ryan Day,
Speaker 4: I win the national championship and in the post game, uh,
Speaker 4: in the postgame interview, I throw the finger and state
Speaker 4: fans and drop the mic and that's what that's what
Speaker 4: I would do.
Speaker 3: But that's just I would know.
Speaker 7: You know, you can't. You gotta get fires and get
Speaker 7: all that.
Speaker 8: Extra money because I don't know how how.
Speaker 7: Long this contract is for. But yeah, we'll see, you know,
Speaker 7: make him pay you off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bri, Well, thanks that you didn't lose the phone number.
Speaker 7: Well, hey, you know I called. I called last Monday,
Speaker 7: but your phones weren't. Well, yeah, it showed busy all
Speaker 7: the time when I was out of town for a
Speaker 7: few days. Okay, so I do have time off like
Speaker 7: like Jay, not like Jays time off bankers and I
Speaker 7: retired and I have jas more time off.
Speaker 3: I get bankers hours. That's what it is.
Speaker 7: Thanks, very much better than bankers. Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 7: We'll talk later.
Speaker 3: You got a couple more minutes change, so we'll talk
Speaker 3: about this other subject on the other side. Okay, football
Speaker 3: sucks and then basketball basketball.
Speaker 4: You know, I was saying on the way in, remember
Speaker 4: remember when we're when you know, after Sean Miller got
Speaker 4: fired and after Kevin someone got fired, and we were
Speaker 4: talking about how the clouds parted, and there was a yeah,
Speaker 4: you signed around McHale.
Speaker 3: It's dark again. Yeah right, I don't care if it's
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifteen. It's dark.
Speaker 4: It's dark and cloudy again. And it's like, dang man,
Speaker 4: because that's what you know, everyone takes all about football
Speaker 4: bas basketball.
Speaker 3: Right, it was just a bad weekend. We'll figure out
Speaker 3: the basketball after we have our first guest. You know,
Speaker 3: we'll talk at football is obviously the priority. We have.
Speaker 3: Marquis Flowers, who you know, obviously outspoken about the program,
Speaker 3: was in it played in the NFL. Uh So he'll
Speaker 3: be on the first hour, and then Jason Barr will
Speaker 3: be on the four seventeen time slot.
Speaker 1: Up.
Speaker 3: He came up to me at the game. He says,
Speaker 3: you remember Steve that we talked about this as Jason,
Speaker 3: I know, we'll talk about it because he was skeptical
Speaker 3: about it. Real quick, if we have time for a
Speaker 3: quick call, if you've got it maybe maybe not so okay,
Speaker 3: that's our lineup, Marcus, Marquis Flowers, Flowers and then yeah, yeah, hello,
Speaker 3: you're on the air.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, hey guys, George here. Uh you know when
Speaker 6: what Jay is saying is uh not not sorry, Uh,
Speaker 6: what you guys are saying is you guys need to
Speaker 6: show up. But if you need to, if you want
Speaker 6: us to show.
Speaker 2: Up, you need to.
Speaker 3: You need to show out.
Speaker 6: On the field. And Jay was just saying, hey, if
Speaker 6: they score another touchdown, we're out of here. You know,
Speaker 6: like that there there's a lot of tail getting. That's
Speaker 6: a long day, man, Like, there is no like way
Speaker 6: that you want to spend your day just going to
Speaker 6: watch a loss. Like there's a whole reason we're fans.
Speaker 6: We're fans because we want to go see something.
Speaker 2: We want to go see a win.
Speaker 6: Like you're hopeful, You're like, there's that hope when you
Speaker 6: go like, ah, yeah, let's go, let's go. That's the
Speaker 6: whole reason you're doing it. But if if you're just
Speaker 6: going to keep seeing lots of we're not going to
Speaker 6: show up.
Speaker 4: And and fans get to do and fans get to
Speaker 4: make that choice. And I, for the first time ever
Speaker 4: made that choice. It was kind of like, to me,
Speaker 4: I'm changing the channel because I can't watch this.
Speaker 3: Did your wife say what really?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Well she is she kind of like really, And I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're out of here.
Speaker 3: I thought you'd never say this job, Yeah, no, we're.
Speaker 2: Out of here.
Speaker 3: George did you go. No, I didn't go.
Speaker 2: We we had it was, you know, right before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6: I had family and town and stuff, and so it
Speaker 6: was twenty one to zero and I was like nope,
Speaker 6: and I just turned the I changed the channel.
Speaker 3: YEP.
Speaker 2: So if that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna go tailgate all day to do that.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to spend my money to do that.
Speaker 2: So unless you're putting out a.
Speaker 10: Good product, you know, like, uh, there's a reason why we.
Speaker 6: Want Nike instead of Adidas.
Speaker 2: To brand Arizona.
Speaker 6: You know, you want that better brand, you want that
Speaker 6: that cooler thing. And if you're gonna not show us that,
Speaker 6: well then we're not gonna We're not gonn to be there.
Speaker 6: And it's been like that all season. Right, No, I'm
Speaker 6: not going. There's no reason to like, I can't be like,
Speaker 6: hey man, it's Thanksgiving, please come in town and I'll
Speaker 6: take you to a game to go lose twenty one.
Speaker 7: In the first quarter.
Speaker 3: No, you're right, you're right, George to do that. You're right, George.
Speaker 3: Here' you right, George. Thanks for the call. We got
Speaker 3: to go to the commercial. Thanks much. Thanks, No good, No,
Speaker 3: he's right. Everything that he made is right. Now, you
Speaker 3: don't blame them, I mean, come on, yeah, okay.
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Speaker 4: I was expecting that, and I was kind of expecting this,
Speaker 4: but I was like, that's you know, I just it
Speaker 4: was just frustrating.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xs and os. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to On the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, and today with me
Speaker 3: is Jay Gonzalez. Now in the fun we have Marquise Flowers,
Speaker 3: former you of a football player NFL guy, Marquis, how
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you fine?
Speaker 3: Thank you? I love your stuff on Twitter all weekend.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you're sensible or you're mad. I
Speaker 3: don't what are you.
Speaker 2: Bos? I'm a little funny guy. I remember I still
Speaker 2: use social media like like I used to when I
Speaker 2: was a kid back in the day. It's not that
Speaker 2: important to me. I don't take everything everybody's selling there's
Speaker 2: gold and hold everybody accountable off their social media account.
Speaker 2: So sometimes I'm just right up with it. They're saying
Speaker 2: exactly what it's on my mind turning in a funny way.
Speaker 2: It's about how you read it, how you respect on it.
Speaker 2: But it was a tough weekend for me.
Speaker 3: So what do you think, you know when you're at
Speaker 3: the game. Who are you at the game? I think
Speaker 3: you were.
Speaker 2: I did not go to the game. I did not.
Speaker 2: I just came back from California. Man, I was dapped out.
Speaker 2: I was not at the game. Plus you know, I'm
Speaker 2: glad I wasn't.
Speaker 3: So what did you think when you watched the game?
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, it was rough. It was tough to watch.
Speaker 2: And I'm not even gonna I'm not even gonna lie
Speaker 2: with tough to watch. I just think it was one
Speaker 2: of them things, you know, they hype the I didn't
Speaker 2: even realize that I was watching the Michigan Ohio State game.
Speaker 2: Big time rivalry in my opinion, not as bigger, bigger
Speaker 2: than ours, but you know, obviously two schools that the
Speaker 2: college football world really cares about. But the football that
Speaker 2: they were playing out there, with the technique, phenomenal, physical,
Speaker 2: harrorball game, how much is hoping it was going to
Speaker 2: be another one of those you know, it puts over
Speaker 2: right to the next game. And then after seeing us,
Speaker 2: you know, not even you know, you know, compete. It's
Speaker 2: just it was hard to watch man, And you know,
Speaker 2: I get it defensively, a lot of injuries, a lot
Speaker 2: of new guys in there. But I'm not more so
Speaker 2: the one kind of on the coaches on this one.
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta get it. I gotta look at
Speaker 2: the players, mass what are you doing to get better?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 3: Kazuster jakoinzal is good to talk to you again.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know you went through you went through a
Speaker 4: firing right, you were at the you were at the
Speaker 4: tail end of of uh.
Speaker 3: Mike up stoops U.
Speaker 4: You know Tenure, you know went into the Ridge Rod
Speaker 4: year during that sea he gets fired in the middle
Speaker 4: of the season. But was there a time when you felt,
Speaker 4: you know, that could have that it? Could you know
Speaker 4: that that maybe you were at a point where that
Speaker 4: needed to be done?
Speaker 3: And how could you.
Speaker 4: Tell versus it doesn't look like Brennan's lost the players
Speaker 4: in the locker room, How can you tell that it's time?
Speaker 4: And could you back then when they fired Mike, When they.
Speaker 2: Fired Mike back did I kind of knew what was coming.
Speaker 2: It was one of them things where we started I
Speaker 2: think We started off my freshman year like seven and
Speaker 2: one or seven six and one, and then we lost
Speaker 2: like five straight game. Right, We went into next season
Speaker 2: and started off like zero and five, Betty being the
Speaker 2: U of a team or sorry, you have an AU team,
Speaker 2: And I think that's when you know, you kind of
Speaker 2: you kind of feel the sense of man. I think
Speaker 2: we went into Oregon State and played Oregon State and
Speaker 2: they were they were bad that year, and I think
Speaker 2: we lost, and I think we kind of knew and
Speaker 2: that's when he kind of got fired. I just think
Speaker 2: it was a different situation. Yeah, obviously, you know when
Speaker 2: rich Roth first came and everybody goes on Rich Ross
Speaker 2: first year, we obviously had an absolute you know, monster
Speaker 2: at running back in court back in that Scott being
Speaker 2: red shirted, and then we had Kadeen Carry, so it
Speaker 2: was a it was a high tower offense, and it
Speaker 2: was like and they knew they we played together, they
Speaker 2: knew how to click. So when rich Rock came in
Speaker 2: and rich Rod is an offensive guru, now our defense struggled.
Speaker 2: We struggled so bad that year, but no one really
Speaker 2: noticed us because again we I mean the coaches know this.
Speaker 2: We noticed the DEFENSI players notice, but no one knows
Speaker 2: because he had like the top five offense, and we
Speaker 2: really should have won probably two three more games. And
Speaker 2: in my opinion, defense, we kind of we kind of
Speaker 2: gave up the play Oregon State and the couple or
Speaker 2: was it Oregon State Rich Rod's first year in my
Speaker 2: Oregon State and Stanford we lost in some games that
Speaker 2: we should have won. They would have put us in
Speaker 2: about ten wins that year. Now and Brennan's situation, it's
Speaker 2: a lot different man. He came in late in the season.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's lost the guys or the players.
Speaker 2: I just think he needs time. Obviously, we had high hopes. Yes,
Speaker 2: we got some very talented individual players and and mcmilly
Speaker 2: I call him mcmilly, and mcmilly and the and Fafida
Speaker 2: and you know, but we lost a lot of our
Speaker 2: defensive guys. And I think, you know, I'm a defensive guy.
Speaker 2: So I think last year a lot of ourselves is
Speaker 2: how our defense played, how they got how they forced
Speaker 2: turn us, how they can't getting the ball back to
Speaker 2: the offense. We just didn't have it this year. So
Speaker 2: so I don't think.
Speaker 3: That he lost it.
Speaker 2: I just think he has to go back, and we
Speaker 2: got to give him time. He needs more time. He's
Speaker 2: still working off of leaving the school Lafe, and he
Speaker 2: was already planning for a season with coming in, you know,
Speaker 2: scrambling getting everything ready for a season, and it didn't
Speaker 2: go as we plan. Hey, we we lost a lot
Speaker 2: of guys. He needs time and he's trying to recruit,
Speaker 2: he needs trying to to to to do a lot
Speaker 2: of things. So I think this season, we'll give him
Speaker 2: time and we'll see what happened.
Speaker 3: So I think early, unless I misheard you or misinterpreted you,
Speaker 3: kind of put this one on the players. Right when
Speaker 3: you're a former player, can you tell who is on
Speaker 3: If it's not the coaches, it's the players and vice versa.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, the players got to hold their self accountable.
Speaker 2: It's about do they want to? I think a lot
Speaker 2: of times in this landscape of college football now, back
Speaker 2: then it was easy to put all the coaches because
Speaker 2: the players didn't get paid. The players are getting paid
Speaker 2: now this is they're like many pros. They have to
Speaker 2: take You gotta have some accountability now.
Speaker 6: As a player.
Speaker 2: That's what happens when they bring the money in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you gotta have some accountability as a player, and
Speaker 2: they got to play better man, even if he is
Speaker 2: you know guys, Yes, he lost some guys on defense,
Speaker 2: but in my opinion, one of my favorite guys who
Speaker 2: came in and excuse me, I about BOST's names, I'm
Speaker 2: not do with the names right now, I knowing by
Speaker 2: their numbers, but number twelve on defense, Jesus Smith, I thought.
Speaker 7: He played well.
Speaker 2: This is a guy who came in after you know,
Speaker 2: obviously lost a gunner Montinado, another good guy from Chandler
Speaker 2: High School. I've been looking at I've been looking at
Speaker 2: him a little bit, studying them a little bit. I
Speaker 2: then a guy from Chyla High School who he's a
Speaker 2: starter and obviously hard to replace. But a guy comes
Speaker 2: in and he's playing, he's playing hard, he's making plays.
Speaker 2: But when you've got a whole bunch of guys coming
Speaker 2: in and then we're it just looks bad on defense.
Speaker 2: And it was hard because he's the blameing Dwayne and Quina.
Speaker 2: But these guys are practiced, these guys are doing what
Speaker 2: are they doing to get better? I'm looking, but they don't.
Speaker 2: We're not tackling. We're doing a lot of stuff. It's
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, it's not on the coaches. All the coaches,
Speaker 2: the players got their accountability too.
Speaker 3: Is kind of a weird question, but I'm asking anyways.
Speaker 4: You know, coaches never say everything, right, They never tell
Speaker 4: you everything that they're thinking in situations like this, right.
Speaker 4: It took us well twenty six years for us to
Speaker 4: find out, or twenty five years to find out from
Speaker 4: duayn A Keina that the reason that the ninety nine
Speaker 4: team was so bad after that great ninety eight season
Speaker 4: was because of some players that they lost, particularly Chris McAllister.
Speaker 4: They didn't tell us that back then, we're not going
Speaker 4: to be any good because we don't have Chris McAllister.
Speaker 4: But they knew they weren't going to be any good
Speaker 4: because they didn't have christ McCallister, and he told us
Speaker 4: that preseason. This year, what would the coaches be saying
Speaker 4: if they could say everything they need to say about
Speaker 4: what happened this year? What do you think they would
Speaker 4: be saying? Where would they where would they lay? I
Speaker 4: don't want to call it blame, but just what were
Speaker 4: the issues why they were so bad?
Speaker 3: If they could speak freely, what do you think that's saying,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I can't put nothing and nobody's nobody's
Speaker 2: I can't speak on what the coach came.
Speaker 3: Would if you're a you'll.
Speaker 2: Want to hear what I would say. I would say
Speaker 2: something because I don't know how to be a coach,
Speaker 2: but I would still take responsibility the coach. Coach is
Speaker 2: gonna take responsiblity. Good coaches, they're gonna take responsibility on them.
Speaker 2: But in how they're gonna talk. So you know some
Speaker 2: players and try to pick them up and go. Dwayne
Speaker 2: and Keen is a great guy. Like you said, I
Speaker 2: found out stuff about Dwayne na Keina this honestly this
Speaker 2: year when I went down to Tucson and saw him
Speaker 2: in the office. He talked to me about why he left.
Speaker 2: When about why the real reasons of why he left,
Speaker 2: which I won't share obviously he didn't ship, but the
Speaker 2: real reasons of why he left when he was a
Speaker 2: coach my coach for a day when we got excited
Speaker 2: my sophomore year, I thought we were gonna have Dwayne
Speaker 2: and Keena's URDB coach. And you know, so some some
Speaker 2: guys are good. They you know, they keep it in house,
Speaker 2: in with which you need because some some people just
Speaker 2: don't understand. You don't want to put it out there.
Speaker 2: Definitely don't put out there on Twitter if you're gonna
Speaker 2: put it out there, because some people are just gonna
Speaker 2: take it and twisted in their own words. But if
Speaker 2: they if they could say, they just say, we got
Speaker 2: to be better and then at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: that's all it is. You know, these teams trained too,
Speaker 2: they have all season two. They have goals too. We
Speaker 2: got feet, we went to the Big Swell, we got feet,
Speaker 2: We lost some close, we lost some games, we got
Speaker 2: some games get away from us, and once she started losing,
Speaker 2: it was just it's hard to just turn it around.
Speaker 2: And you know, college is about momentum, having momentusm we
Speaker 2: didn't have none this year. Okay, we we were getting
Speaker 2: hit that, we got hit with injuries, but it's not
Speaker 2: the end of the world. Some kids need this, they
Speaker 2: need this, honestly. That's why I don't like the transfer
Speaker 2: portal that much. Right now, they got to figure something.
Speaker 2: Now a lot of kids are going to run to
Speaker 2: the transfer portal when it was you know, I get
Speaker 2: it for the kids who didn't playing like they don't
Speaker 2: know your opportunity. But for the kids who was playing,
Speaker 2: you gotta get better. It's not just at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, that's just the end. Go You got
Speaker 2: to get better. You know that team, you know the
Speaker 2: team that we just played, they went to their rough
Speaker 2: waters last year, they went to their rough patches. Last year.
Speaker 2: They beat up on last year. You know, they got
Speaker 2: a couple of guys got there and now this year
Speaker 2: that's fine. We got to just put our head down work. Obviously,
Speaker 2: changes are going to be made when you haven't season
Speaker 2: light that we know, change are going to be made.
Speaker 2: I want Brandon to have time to put together something special.
Speaker 2: We don't know when it's going to be special. You know.
Speaker 2: We gotta let him work and let him try to
Speaker 2: get something special going. But it was just it was rough.
Speaker 2: It's over now, well I can, I can. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was rough. It's over now. A couple of shots this
Speaker 2: weekend got to hill the pain. But it's over now.
Speaker 3: To be fair, Brennan talked about it. It was tough. He
Speaker 3: was very honest. He said he hated it. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was miserable. Yeah. Right, So let me ask you, because
Speaker 3: you were a player at this level and the next level.
Speaker 3: And I said this all along after maybe the fourth week,
Speaker 3: and I said, I've covered enough teams to know that
Speaker 3: there's gotta be some disconnect between the players and the coach.
Speaker 3: The new guy, his personality seems just by looking at him,
Speaker 3: it's it's more nonchalant than it is fiery. I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's an issue or whatever, but there was
Speaker 3: to me a disconnected And I don't even know what
Speaker 3: other word to use, other than maybe he's not a
Speaker 3: motivator or whatever. Can you tell if a coach can
Speaker 3: be that guy or you know that guy, that fiery guy,
Speaker 3: even though he doesn't show it publicly.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he can't be.
Speaker 2: He honestly, he honestly can't be. I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know the connection between the players and the coaches. I
Speaker 2: don't even know if I believe in it all the way,
Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, you don't need
Speaker 2: no coaches to get you fired up or anything for
Speaker 2: a ribery game, or matter what your record is, for
Speaker 2: a team coming in here that you hate to play hard.
Speaker 2: A lot of times when I turn the TV on
Speaker 2: and watch you a this year, I put it on
Speaker 2: a player because to.
Speaker 3: Me, it was the effort.
Speaker 2: Well, it was the effort of some of the players
Speaker 2: on the field.
Speaker 3: And that has nothing just not specific to the issue game.
Speaker 3: This is when you were starting to get blown out
Speaker 3: early the Kansas State game, the other games, and then
Speaker 3: you see it they pay attentions. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: You don't get if you're halfway decent, you don't get
Speaker 3: beat by thirty, you don't get beat by twenty five.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You gotta exactly for the
Speaker 3: reason you said you're disappointed that the players didn't show up.
Speaker 3: That was just nuts. This last game. It was a
Speaker 3: lot of the games.
Speaker 2: In a lot of the games, and that's what it
Speaker 2: was hard to watch. But at some point the players
Speaker 2: got to play. I mean, he can't make the players
Speaker 2: give that for even if you get beating it, you
Speaker 2: getting blown out. Sometimes that happened, but it happens off
Speaker 2: of the players not executing the plays and whether they
Speaker 2: believe in it or not, whether they I don't know
Speaker 2: what needs to happen for them. They got to figure
Speaker 2: that out internally. Obviously new DC, new OC things like that.
Speaker 2: But if Brent Brennan, if they want to if I know,
Speaker 2: the fans, we're all gonna look at it like you said,
Speaker 2: because they're gonna keep it in the house, which they should.
Speaker 2: But it's just his first year. He had a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of guys that that he didn't recruit, that he
Speaker 2: didn't know they had to fill him out. I don't
Speaker 2: think the guys gave up on him. I don't. I
Speaker 2: would hope not after one year. I don't think they did.
Speaker 2: It happens. You know, we had a we we I
Speaker 2: went through a similar thing. Remember I told you we
Speaker 2: started off my freshman year seven and one really really
Speaker 2: hot beat in Iowa, and then we lost to Stafford.
Speaker 2: After that we lost out five straight games. But then
Speaker 2: going into next year, everybody back from Nick Foles to
Speaker 2: Jarron Kriner and then we're supposed to have a just
Speaker 2: great year and' hey man, we're gonna be even better.
Speaker 2: We're going to fix those losses we had and we
Speaker 2: start off owing by. So it happens. It happens, but
Speaker 2: no one's gonna help. They're going magic pill to take
Speaker 2: there's nothing. They got to get their bus in the
Speaker 2: weight room, they got to get they got to take
Speaker 2: it personal. They gotta go get better. They got to
Speaker 2: go when they step on the field. They gotta go
Speaker 2: change the way. The players gotta go change it. We
Speaker 2: can't just rely on the coaches. Now, these guys are
Speaker 2: getting paid money. Now they're they're getting they're literally getting
Speaker 2: deals in nil because this is what comes with it.
Speaker 2: Then that's just my opinion on it, not to not
Speaker 2: the players, because I will never knock a player, but
Speaker 2: to motivate them to get them. You guys got get
Speaker 2: your button.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: It's not just the coaches. You guys got to come
Speaker 2: and meet the coaches that way.
Speaker 4: That's a huge difference, right, the players are getting paid,
Speaker 4: that's a huge difference in terms of, as you said,
Speaker 4: the accountability that needs to take place. Say, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: before you were't getting squat you know, you're getting barely
Speaker 4: enough money. You know, you're getting an education, generally making
Speaker 4: enough money to buy pizza. Okay, you're making money now,
Speaker 4: you know, the standards are higher for you. And I
Speaker 4: don't know, maybe for some of those guys, that's you know,
Speaker 4: the pressure of it is is a little harder, it's
Speaker 4: a little different. It's maybe a little tougher. Maybe they're
Speaker 4: thinking about it on the field or something like that.
Speaker 4: But it's like, yes, but it hasn't been like that
Speaker 4: for these guys. So and that's and that's a big difference.
Speaker 2: And they and and and because at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, and I look at it like we can
Speaker 2: always talk about we could talk about coaching all day.
Speaker 2: We could talk about coaching coming in here, we can
Speaker 2: talk about this and that. The players, it's trying to
Speaker 2: start saying, hey, players, we gotta we got to be
Speaker 2: more accountable. And it's going to take a player in
Speaker 2: the locker room and say, hey, we got to be
Speaker 2: more accountable for ourselves. Because you win, more stuff comes.
Speaker 2: Put it that way, You win, more opportunity to run
Speaker 2: from man il does to everything when you win. So
Speaker 2: how bad do you want to win? The coaches they're
Speaker 2: gonna get They've always gotten there. We've always no coaches,
Speaker 2: not been getting paid coaches, the league coach, no penalty
Speaker 2: to coach. We always known that. But now that they're
Speaker 2: letting the players do it. Now the players can't just
Speaker 2: still sit back and say, oh, well, I'm into your
Speaker 2: in transferport could be lost. Half of the players who
Speaker 2: enter the transport is the players on the field is losing, right,
Speaker 2: So I just I don't understand it. Sometimes you just
Speaker 2: got to get back and you gotta work. It's been
Speaker 2: embarrassed to get is it?
Speaker 9: Is?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 2: I dill know no one. No one goes out there
Speaker 2: and expects, hey, we're not gonna make a bowl game,
Speaker 2: or hey we're gonna be so bad we're not gonna
Speaker 2: be ranked after coming off a season like that, no
Speaker 2: one expects. No one tries to, but when it happens,
Speaker 2: it's a reality shot, and it just tells you need
Speaker 2: to go get better. We got to go get better.
Speaker 2: And that's all. That's all I can say, because I
Speaker 2: don't I don't play for Brendain. I don't want to
Speaker 2: baden out none of the coaches. I like the coaches.
Speaker 2: I've been down there, I go down to U of A.
Speaker 2: I don't want to baden out there say anything. I
Speaker 2: speak my mind freely, and I don't. I don't like
Speaker 2: doing that because I played football for a long time.
Speaker 2: I played football for a very long time. I've been
Speaker 2: part of both wins and losses. Players got to help
Speaker 2: theirselfe more accountable.
Speaker 3: Let me screw one more thing. You're in Phoenix, aren't you? Yeah?
Speaker 3: How is life going to be for you. Now, why
Speaker 3: are you gonna wear that red shirt? Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna tell you this and win or loss.
Speaker 2: I always rep my my wildcat, but I talked a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff that whole season. I talked a lot
Speaker 2: of smack. So I got to just nod and say yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I got a lot of ASU fans. You know, they
Speaker 2: got their little time right now. But I still tell them, hey,
Speaker 2: they stink.
Speaker 7: It's still you know, I'm a wildcat.
Speaker 2: I'm not a guy who portal guy or none of that.
Speaker 2: I told you of A. I rock with U of
Speaker 2: A through wins and through lost, tough seasons and through
Speaker 2: good season. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: You and Jake Fisher need to go for a beer somebody.
Speaker 2: That's my guy, Man, that's my guy. Jay and Jake
Speaker 2: can tell you, yeah, we watch the game together to
Speaker 2: be crazy stuff. And beginning I do be very mad.
Speaker 3: Oh you gotta bubble up.
Speaker 2: TV.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 10: Any talk of getting Red Brennan is way premature. I'm
Speaker 10: sitting here looking at the football standings. New England three
Speaker 10: and ten, Jacksonville's two and ten, Las Vegas is two
Speaker 10: and ten, Giants are two in ten, Carolina is three
Speaker 10: and nine. There's all sorts of teams are terrible, losing records.
Speaker 10: And these are professional teams with professional coaches, professional players,
Speaker 10: and they can't win more than two games. We're asking
Speaker 10: running to come in and turn around, well, not turn around,
Speaker 10: but continue.
Speaker 9: The role that he had last year.
Speaker 7: Is asking a lot.
Speaker 3: How big of a fan are you? Oh?
Speaker 10: I go to a lot of the games?
Speaker 3: Did you go Saturday?
Speaker 10: I didn't go. I tried, but I waited too late
Speaker 10: and the tickets were insanely expensive and I couldn't find
Speaker 10: any with three seats together.
Speaker 3: You should, I would say, you should have called me.
Speaker 3: I had to. I had to. That didn't get used.
Speaker 4: So Gil, you know as a fan though, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: we're you know, I'm a fan. We're all upset at
Speaker 4: what happened, but you know, again, as you said, and
Speaker 4: then I completely agree with you, the reality of what
Speaker 4: happens if you fire a coach after one year.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous for people to even think about that.
Speaker 7: I think so too, Yeah, without a doubt. Yeah, well thanks, Yeah, and.
Speaker 10: Who's going to want to come? You're exactly I got
Speaker 10: one year the programmers.
Speaker 3: Even a coach. Yeah, absolutely, you're you're a good thinker. Gil.
Speaker 3: I like that. Gil thinks. Listen, Gil, I hope you
Speaker 3: listen to the show. We need more thinkers. Exactly. Thanks, kill. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you've got another call already. Hello, you're on the air
Speaker 3: nine the ball. Who is this?
Speaker 2: This is Michael Man? What's going on?
Speaker 3: Article? Another Voice of Reason?
Speaker 19: Hey, yay that voalace my brother from another mother.
Speaker 3: I love you because I'm a dodgor Jesus, I thought
Speaker 3: he got rid of the Dodgers fans.
Speaker 19: Hey, well, Steve checked this out. It don't make no
Speaker 19: sense to fire coach after one year. If he get
Speaker 19: a man three years, if he ain't making if it
Speaker 19: ain't changing after three years, then you might want to
Speaker 19: look at moving on from him. But you don't just
Speaker 19: fire guy after one year. We don't know what went
Speaker 19: on or what happened. I mean, I'm a USC fan, man,
Speaker 19: I've been a USC fan for a long time.
Speaker 3: I'm stuck with stinking Lincoln, and.
Speaker 19: Stinking Lincoln has got a longer, bigger, fatter contract than
Speaker 19: Bret Brennan.
Speaker 3: So these guys, they just need to be.
Speaker 19: Patient and see if this man can do something when
Speaker 19: he gets his own crew of people in here. So
Speaker 19: of course there's probably some coaching changes because I got
Speaker 19: the office was lousy. You can't do nothing about the
Speaker 19: defensive stuff where people got hurt. But after they lost
Speaker 19: Cross be married. The guy that wound up in Elgibo's
Speaker 19: not talk on his situation. That running game was nil,
Speaker 19: you know, as my dad would say, it was like
Speaker 19: basically slim to none and Slim just left child. So
Speaker 19: the bottom line is is, uh, they've just got to
Speaker 19: make some adjustments and do some things.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 19: I don't know if Fa FETI beback, but I know
Speaker 19: Tmac you should get the hell out of here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's been discussed.
Speaker 4: He's and he's yeah, he's gone, and he should be absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean he's you know, he's he's gonna be a
Speaker 4: top top ten draft.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna go to the Games next year? Are
Speaker 3: you gonna buy in? Well, let me ask it. Let
Speaker 3: me ask it this way.
Speaker 4: What needs to happen this offseason for you to consider
Speaker 4: being a season ticket holder next year.
Speaker 19: Well, you know, I like to I like to see him,
Speaker 19: you know, at least uh make some improvements in some
Speaker 19: different areas. Uh, you never know, because uh, fans don't
Speaker 19: know personnel. You know, we don't know personnel until we
Speaker 19: have an opportunity to see those guys on TV.
Speaker 2: But uh, you know, I heard.
Speaker 19: They've they've got some de commits and stuff like that.
Speaker 19: But they've got to go out and recruit their butts off,
Speaker 19: even if it's just three star guys, to get those
Speaker 19: guys in here, and hopefully those.
Speaker 2: Guys want to play.
Speaker 19: Hopefully they can convince them and some of the higher
Speaker 19: caliber players that you come here you get to play
Speaker 19: type of deal. So you know, uh, well we'll see
Speaker 19: what they do in recruiting.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, thanks for the call, as always, appreciate you.
Speaker 19: Yeah, you guys, have a great day. You guys put
Speaker 19: on a good program.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 4: You know, one of the things that you know, asked
Speaker 4: him that question because you know, one of the things
Speaker 4: that's out there is if they don't fire him, right,
Speaker 4: who's coming to the games next year?
Speaker 3: What you ask, and that's a fair question, free question.
Speaker 4: But on the other hand, if they do fire him,
Speaker 4: all right, who's coming to the games next year?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: And so I think I think in this situation, Arizona's
Speaker 4: in position where partly because of finances, partly because of that,
Speaker 4: they're just gonna have to bite the bullet and understand
Speaker 4: season ticket sales aren't going to be great next year
Speaker 4: before we and they're gonna have a tough time getting
Speaker 4: fans in the seats no matter what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because it's Arizona. Let me go before we
Speaker 3: get this call. One of the guys we know in
Speaker 3: our business, Arizona fans are so soft. That's the bottomne
Speaker 3: in period because they because their zonal fans don't think
Speaker 3: you should be fired. Well, they just so soft because
Speaker 3: of all the talk. You know, yeah, you know it's reactionary.
Speaker 4: So well, saying that guy should be fired after one
Speaker 4: year doesn't sound soft to me. That sounds like a
Speaker 4: damn hardcore ridiculous opinion.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's let's hold it there. We got a call. Hello,
Speaker 3: you're on the air and I on the ball. Hey, Steve,
Speaker 3: this is done John, another voice of crazy wisdom. Hell,
Speaker 3: are you done.
Speaker 9: I'm all right, uh kay.
Speaker 3: Yeah is it? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Hey, hey, nice to hear you again.
Speaker 3: We'll get blustered here, keep your mind.
Speaker 9: No, no, I just want to I just want to
Speaker 9: echo a little bit of what you've been saying about.
Speaker 9: You know, you can't fire the guy after one year
Speaker 9: on the short term, that's part's already been discussed me.
Speaker 9: For the long term is I'm tired of these carpetbagger coaches,
Speaker 9: these tenures that are three years, four years. You know
Speaker 9: that if if if you were to fire Brennan now,
Speaker 9: I mean, you're just restarting the clock because you don't
Speaker 9: know what you're going to get right this. You might
Speaker 9: get oh let's get this hot shot. Oh see that
Speaker 9: you know that was that Boise State. You know, well,
Speaker 9: calling plays at Boise State is going to be different
Speaker 9: than in the Big twelve. And then if you make
Speaker 9: you know, if he makes his bones in the Big
Speaker 9: twelve and the Big ten starts calling, you know, those
Speaker 9: guys are.
Speaker 3: Going to be gone.
Speaker 9: I'm hoping that that Brennan can can right the ship
Speaker 9: and get to those magic numbers that I've that I've
Speaker 9: mentioned in the past average between seven and nine wins
Speaker 9: a year and every once in a while get to
Speaker 9: ten and you know, and and and be here a
Speaker 9: long time.
Speaker 3: I want a coach who wants to be here.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 9: You know how many times did we almost lose loot Right?
Speaker 9: And we have a fan I've been thinking, I've been ahead, No,
Speaker 9: you go ahead.
Speaker 3: No, I've been.
Speaker 9: Thinking about it because it crossed my mind this could
Speaker 9: just be the curse of the loot Beino. I don't
Speaker 9: I don't remember which rally it was, if it was
Speaker 9: after the Final four of eighty eight or after they
Speaker 9: won the national championship in ninety seven, when lut said
Speaker 9: it was ninety seven because he was in the football state. No, no,
Speaker 9: that both rallies were in the football stadium.
Speaker 3: But he said.
Speaker 9: Arizona will always be a basketball school. And he said
Speaker 9: it in the in the in the football stadium. But
Speaker 9: I said it because because for a long time I
Speaker 9: detached myself from the basketball program, just trying to you know,
Speaker 9: wishing and hoping for the football program. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 9: I want I want Arizona to be what they were
Speaker 9: when Tomy was here and I just saw it. I
Speaker 9: couldn't believe it. It was fourteen years. It was a fourteen
Speaker 9: year tenure, and it was nobody wanted to play Arizona
Speaker 9: and nothing was left the week after they played Arizona.
Speaker 3: It was like last year.
Speaker 9: It was like last year's team where every every team
Speaker 9: that we played, win or lose, they were broken after
Speaker 9: they played Arizona.
Speaker 3: And that's what I want.
Speaker 9: I want Arizona to beat that wrecking ball, like you know, geez, Louise,
Speaker 9: these these guys are they're only seven and five, but
Speaker 9: they they steamrolled everybody that they played. They didn't, you know,
Speaker 9: nobody wanted to you know, there was nothing left to
Speaker 9: play afterwards. And that's that's what I'm hoping that that
Speaker 9: Brennan can you know, I know there's there's a lot
Speaker 9: of talk about his personality, that he's such a nice
Speaker 9: guy and everything else. I just hope he's a jerk
Speaker 9: behind closed doors.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, let me ask you, because I asked you
Speaker 3: this and I wrote about this on Saturday. How many
Speaker 3: good guys do you know? Are good coaches? Take your time?
Speaker 9: You know, a lot of a lot of people like
Speaker 9: to say lou was a good guy. But but but
Speaker 9: back in the day when you could go to Michale
Speaker 9: and during practice, he was he was hard. He was
Speaker 9: a hard guy.
Speaker 3: He was demanding. He was demanding. Everything was punctual. You
Speaker 3: you didn't cross him. You don't even know. Let me
Speaker 3: let me see this before thee the first couple of games.
Speaker 3: How many penalties they have all the all the time?
Speaker 3: A lot of penalties. Where does that come from? I
Speaker 3: mean it's like you don't care that that. No, that
Speaker 3: comes from bad players, That's what it does. A lot
Speaker 3: of that from.
Speaker 4: Bad players, Guys who can't cover and they hold and well.
Speaker 3: A pretty good player. It was like the late hits stuff.
Speaker 9: A lot of it is is disciplined and not having
Speaker 9: that accountability that Marquise was talking about. Those are guys
Speaker 9: that aren't being held accountable for them for the dumb
Speaker 9: mistakes that they make. I mean, there's a certain guy
Speaker 9: number zero that can't get on the field, and why
Speaker 9: is that. Like he's a super talent, but he can't.
Speaker 9: He can't play in a structure and he couldn't do
Speaker 9: it last year. He couldn't do it last year, and
Speaker 9: and and that carried over through this year. I mean,
Speaker 9: that's that's the thing is you got to have guys
Speaker 9: that are that are willing to They got to do
Speaker 9: the job, put their head down, do the job, run
Speaker 9: to play as it's planned.
Speaker 3: And go forward.
Speaker 9: You know, we had a lot of guys that from
Speaker 9: that were left over that came into this year. Like
Speaker 9: Noah last year, all he did was run the play.
Speaker 9: Was Was he a great leader? Was he a Tom Brady?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 9: He just ran They called the play and he ran
Speaker 9: the play and it was it was successful a lot
Speaker 9: of the time, you know, And and that's you know,
Speaker 9: the team has to be structured so the guys can
Speaker 9: you know, can can be successful and within that structure,
Speaker 9: do your job done.
Speaker 3: We gotta go, We gotta go, We gotta go through
Speaker 3: your job. Taking a break.
Speaker 10: Thanks for the call, you too, Jay, have we got on.
Speaker 3: Thanks, We got to go right, We got to all right. Thanks,
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