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Speaker 3: Good show Today pulled the one out of my You
Speaker 3: know what. Today we have Khalil Tate, mister Colorado in.
Speaker 3: He just has to answer his phone and will be good.
Speaker 3: I hope he does. Uh So, Khalil Tate, the guy
Speaker 3: who made it famous coming off the bench right and
Speaker 3: having this spectacular game and then kind of just didn't
Speaker 3: see the bench again until it was senior year or
Speaker 3: whatever it was and something came in. But we won't
Speaker 3: go there right now. I'll talk to him about the
Speaker 3: good old days, what he's up to now, things like that. Cool,
Speaker 3: And then in the other one, we're gonna talk to
Speaker 3: Pima's Basketball women's basketball coach Todd hold House, pretty good coach,
Speaker 3: obviously very good coach hack. In fact, the start their
Speaker 3: season here this weekend, I think in terms of maybe
Speaker 3: a exhibition game or two. What's going on with you
Speaker 3: of a there, mister Troy Hutchison. Yeah, you know, they
Speaker 3: got Colorado coming in this weekend, so very fitting. Khalil
Speaker 3: Ta going to be the tip off coin toss alumni
Speaker 3: that represents Arizona this weekend. And you know, seventy degrees
Speaker 3: in Tucson one o'clock tip, well gets better than that.
Speaker 4: Seventy degrees here in Tucson.
Speaker 3: Seventy degrees. I thought it'd be seventy five, and that's
Speaker 3: even better or just whatever, but it's gonna be nice. Man. Finally,
Speaker 3: finally something has broken, and maybe he stays there. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure it'll come back. Today's actually pretty nice too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, a beautiful day, and maybe it's a
Speaker 5: sign of things to change, for it was in all
Speaker 5: their lock out there on the football.
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Speaker 3: forty again. Kalil Tate will be here at three fifteen
Speaker 3: and then Todd hold House will be here at four fifteen.
Speaker 3: So looking forward to both of those. So big game
Speaker 3: right sold out. Still not sure if I'm going to
Speaker 3: go probably righte about it later. I'm not sure. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I've given up on this team. I
Speaker 3: was a little a little snarky over the weekend with
Speaker 3: my story because you know, last year was last year
Speaker 3: and now this year's this year, and it doesn't look good.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, you know when you go on the road to BYU, Yes,
Speaker 5: BYU was the favorite, but I know a lot of
Speaker 5: people out there that thought, you know what, maybe they're
Speaker 5: chance could give them some trouble BYU's offense then looked
Speaker 5: great going into the game, and yeah, after that's that
Speaker 5: first half and went all downhill in the first three
Speaker 5: minutes of the second half, and it seemed to spiral
Speaker 5: out of control. And when they panned over to Brett
Speaker 5: Brennan after the fumble where it made it twenty four
Speaker 5: to seven, there was.
Speaker 4: A look of what do I do?
Speaker 3: That's what his look was.
Speaker 4: That's what it was, very like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: What do I do? You know?
Speaker 3: What's a plane? Leave?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: When are we getting out of here?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well that's kind of the looks I've seen. I
Speaker 3: didn't I missed that one, but the looks I've seen
Speaker 3: the previous week with Texas Tech and then the one
Speaker 3: at Kansas State, it was like, you know, we showed up.
Speaker 3: The players looked like this, the players shut up, grew
Speaker 3: up by seven, were down by twenty. Does get the
Speaker 3: hell out of dodge?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it not only spiraled out of control,
Speaker 5: but man, you got to go back to the play calling.
Speaker 4: A lot of passing.
Speaker 5: There's that what was a first intent on the Arizona's
Speaker 5: one yard line with under two minutes left in the game,
Speaker 5: down thirty four to nineteen. Yeah, let's pass on first down.
Speaker 5: Let's pass on second down, third down, fourth down, pick six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, run the ball. You're not winning in the game,
Speaker 4: do you.
Speaker 3: I've asked my guests previous this week, what are the
Speaker 3: top two or three things that are wrong with his team?
Speaker 5: I think number one is the offensive play calling. Rather
Speaker 5: it be Matt Akinstino Baber's. The scheme just isn't working.
Speaker 5: I don't think the scheme fits the stringths noa fa fida.
Speaker 5: And they kind of mentioned that that they got to
Speaker 5: put them in a more successful situation. And when they
Speaker 5: see that during this week, when Matt Atkins was up
Speaker 5: there on the stand.
Speaker 8: Wouldn't they have stuck this three weeks ago? You would
Speaker 8: think by other situations. But when a coach has his
Speaker 8: scheme that again has helped out with the players. They
Speaker 8: said it was a collaborative scheme together. Uh, some coaches
Speaker 8: are stubborn. You know eventually it'll work. When does eventually
Speaker 8: not come?
Speaker 3: So we had a caller yesterday, I think it was
Speaker 3: colored Don who said Okay, they did last they did
Speaker 3: well last year with their pay calling blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Why didn't they go to the did you hear this conversation?
Speaker 3: Why don't they go to the players at the beginning
Speaker 3: of the year saying, Okay, give me a few plays
Speaker 3: that worked. We'll go with those. You guys are comfortable
Speaker 3: with them, and we'll see how it goes. You were
Speaker 3: telling me that maybe that happened.
Speaker 4: That's apparent.
Speaker 5: According to Brett Brennan and Dino Babers, that's exactly what
Speaker 5: took place. They took a little bit of what Jed
Speaker 5: Fish and his staff did at Arizona previously and what
Speaker 5: they wanted to do here at Arizona and made it
Speaker 5: a collaborative playbook.
Speaker 4: I don't see it. I don't.
Speaker 3: You haven't seen the place.
Speaker 5: I have not, obviously, I have not seen the playbook.
Speaker 5: But I haven't seen anything similar to what we saw
Speaker 5: last season.
Speaker 3: What would you look for? What would you look for
Speaker 3: in terms of plays or maybe they're doing the plays,
Speaker 3: they just not good at it.
Speaker 5: I think the short yardage situation in terms of getting
Speaker 5: no ifafia in the right situation, and that is the
Speaker 5: six yard routes the seven yard routes. Yeah, getting guys
Speaker 5: open quickly, getting the ball out of his hand like that.
Speaker 5: There's too many for verts. There's too many deep posts
Speaker 5: in the offensive playbook right now, because when you look
Speaker 5: you look at a deep post, you look at a
Speaker 5: four vert and maybe one short yardage pass. There's not
Speaker 5: a lot of short yardage opportunities for Noah out.
Speaker 3: There right I'm sure you've heard this a time or two.
Speaker 3: He's too short. He can't see over his line. He
Speaker 3: had the same issue last year. He was short last
Speaker 3: year and he could see over sign or you'd assume
Speaker 3: that White's the difference this year.
Speaker 5: I think the difference again is there's a lot of
Speaker 5: passes inside fifteen yards that were there for him, and
Speaker 5: right now it's a lot of arn bombs and a
Speaker 5: lot of deep balls. And I don't think hythe necessarily
Speaker 5: is the issue there. But his deep ball isn't his strength.
Speaker 5: He has a little bit of a flutter to that
Speaker 5: deep ball. He can get it there, but it's not
Speaker 5: as sharp as a short game.
Speaker 3: And his trajectory directory is totally different, I think than
Speaker 3: last year because he is sure he has to get
Speaker 3: it in the air a little farther.
Speaker 5: Up, and then you have to heat onto the ball
Speaker 5: a little bit longer, which causes havocan the ball.
Speaker 3: And he's doing that, right, I think I saw we
Speaker 3: had Michael Live on yesterday. I don't know if we
Speaker 3: talked to him about this time. Last year it was
Speaker 3: two point five in and out of the pocket getting released,
Speaker 3: and now it's a little over three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you're having cases where he's stepping back
Speaker 4: ten feet.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's that looks weird. Yeah, yeah, he steps
Speaker 3: back ten feet maybe more and kind of sometimes running
Speaker 3: for his life. He's had protection, but then when he
Speaker 3: gets hit it's start good.
Speaker 5: No, And then you have the delayed handoffs, which I
Speaker 5: know callers have been mentioning about that that that is
Speaker 5: a scheme situation there. I don't think necessarily No f
Speaker 5: Vida is sitting back there at Saint Juan. I'm not
Speaker 5: going to handle the ball off yet. That is one
Speaker 5: hundred percent their scheme. We saw that in spring and
Speaker 5: spring practice. We saw that in training camp. The delayed
Speaker 5: handoffs is part of their offensive scheme.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was another question that I had for you
Speaker 3: brought up yesterday. We talked about the backups and oh
Speaker 3: the backup. Yeah, okay, so another guy calls in, maybe
Speaker 3: you've been somebody else maybe not done, So okay the guy,
Speaker 3: the guy hasn't been playing, well, why not bench him?
Speaker 4: I think you lose the team if you do that.
Speaker 5: I think it's one of those situations where fans want
Speaker 5: to say, well, you're gonna lose the team if you
Speaker 5: don't bench this player. No, it's completely opposite all that.
Speaker 5: This team is so closely knit and a lot of
Speaker 5: these guys came back for no McMillan. Yeah, if you
Speaker 5: bench him, you're going to lose the locker room. And
Speaker 5: to be Frank, you don't have the talent behind them.
Speaker 5: Two benches starting quarterback that just won Pack twelve Freshmen
Speaker 5: of the Year.
Speaker 3: Well, Frank, I think you're right because last year they
Speaker 3: brought they came together because of those two. Uh you know,
Speaker 3: Dolora was in struggling, blah blah blah. They brought in
Speaker 3: And I said this on the record, you know the
Speaker 3: Stanford game. I think all of a sudden they started
Speaker 3: playing harder for Noah. At least it appeared that way
Speaker 3: to me. Some people are a couple of people are
Speaker 3: poo poot on me, but a lot of people said
Speaker 3: that's true.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, they did, and it was clear as day.
Speaker 5: And I don't think they're not playing hard. I think,
Speaker 5: to be honest, I think it's the opposite of that.
Speaker 5: I think they're over trying well. I think, especially Noah,
Speaker 5: where he's forcing the situation where in the past he's
Speaker 5: been a highly intelligent football player that makes the right reads.
Speaker 5: The right reads aren't being made because he's thinking, you
Speaker 5: know what if I don't score right here, or if
Speaker 5: I don't get this ball down field, what what is
Speaker 5: that going to be in terms of put us in
Speaker 5: the position right right?
Speaker 3: No he and he is one of those guys. He's
Speaker 3: part of the guy who studied a lot in school
Speaker 3: very well because he didn't want to fail. And I've
Speaker 3: been guilty this. So you try so hard, then you
Speaker 3: fail because you're worry about it too much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, Dino mentioned it in one of
Speaker 5: his prest conferences previously. It's like a golfer when you
Speaker 5: go out there and saying I'm going to rip one.
Speaker 5: I'm going to rip it right down the middle, hit
Speaker 5: at three point fifteen, and then you know, you clank
Speaker 5: it to the left or flink it to the right
Speaker 5: where you just go out there and you take a
Speaker 5: nice easy swing three hundred right down the fairway.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, yeah, we'll see. I mean, another test. I
Speaker 3: think it's going to be just a tough test here
Speaker 3: that it was on the road the last couple of
Speaker 3: weeks or a week last week. Colorado's kind of deceivingly
Speaker 3: good or deceptibly good to a degree.
Speaker 5: I mean, you have a lot of offensively offensive you
Speaker 5: have to question, you know, the opponents they played. Yes,
Speaker 5: they played Kansas State very well at home, lost a
Speaker 5: close game. But when you look at this Buffs team,
Speaker 5: the one thing that still remains the same. No offensive
Speaker 5: line should lays been on the ground several times throughout
Speaker 5: the season, and there's been a I don't want to
Speaker 5: say a hesitation to run the football, but they haven't
Speaker 5: shown the ability to have any type of ground game,
Speaker 5: so they rely heavily on the passing game.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's a very frustrating time of year for
Speaker 3: Arizona fans. I'm not so sure for people who cover
Speaker 3: the team, because it's none of their business to just
Speaker 3: cover the team. Yeah, that's it, you know, I should
Speaker 3: be at least, you know, no, no fist pumping underneath
Speaker 3: the table.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, stuff happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, stuff happens. And now there are three
Speaker 3: and three, right, everyone's pointing to them being three and
Speaker 3: three last year and that's when it took off. Okay,
Speaker 3: if that's what you're gonna hang.
Speaker 4: Your hand, hand on, it's a it's a different three
Speaker 4: and three though.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, no, no, no, this this is this
Speaker 3: is me trending with weight on my back, waiting my
Speaker 3: gut when I when I was at this weight and
Speaker 3: I was losing weight instead of gaining weight, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: last year it trended nicely. This weight, it's not training
Speaker 3: nicely well.
Speaker 5: And you know you mentioned that perfectly because last year
Speaker 5: you had the Mississippi State game.
Speaker 4: It's like, whoa, what's going on?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 4: Then you have the Stanford game.
Speaker 5: He wins that game, Okay, you bring in Noah, they
Speaker 5: lose a close one to a top ten USC team
Speaker 5: that they probably should have won. They lose a very
Speaker 5: close one to national runner up Washington, and you're feeling
Speaker 5: good about yourself this this three and three. You choked
Speaker 5: the game against Texas Tech that you should have had.
Speaker 3: Well, let's start the beginning. Played kind of weird against
Speaker 3: New Mexico.
Speaker 5: Yeah, played weird against New Mexico, played weird NAU, struggled
Speaker 5: against Kansas State, got the good win against Utah, yeah
Speaker 5: though their quarterback wasn't there, right, And uh then you
Speaker 5: choke away a game against six is deck and you
Speaker 5: get blown out against YU.
Speaker 3: It's a different feeling, right, No, Inconsistent is not a
Speaker 3: good thing to have because it starts with complacency and
Speaker 3: apathy and all that stuff. Never mind that it's a
Speaker 3: it's a sold out stadium, and I hate to pooh
Speaker 3: poo it, but but it's not because there came to
Speaker 3: watch Arizona or they're going to watch Arizona.
Speaker 4: No, it's not a sold out crowd.
Speaker 5: Back because I look at back in the mic stoop
Speaker 5: stays in terms of when I really could remember watching games,
Speaker 5: those crowds were intense. They were into the game, no
Speaker 5: matter right what the score was. That Iowa game was insane. Right,
Speaker 5: That's not the type of app I'm swear I'm expecting
Speaker 5: this weekend.
Speaker 3: No, No, this is gonna be Hey there's Dea. Hey,
Speaker 3: well there's Dea. Yeah, you know this is more of
Speaker 3: a curiosity sold out and to.
Speaker 5: Be honest, all eyes on Tetroo McMillan and Travis huenter
Speaker 5: one v one U twenty scouts.
Speaker 3: Do we think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Dion being a former corner and being
Speaker 5: very confident in himself. I'm sure he has the same
Speaker 5: confidence in Travis Hunter and believes he's the best corner
Speaker 5: in the country.
Speaker 4: You're gonna see him one on one.
Speaker 3: I hope to see it. It should be a good,
Speaker 3: good matchup. I hope it happens more than a few times.
Speaker 3: That was all the time. Let's see Dey'll test their
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Eye on the Ball hero Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera and Today's Troy Hutchison
Speaker 3: and with us on the phone is Khalil Tate, the
Speaker 3: original Colorado Slayer. How you doing, Khalil?
Speaker 6: I'm going well about yourself?
Speaker 3: Fine? Thank you? I mean, sure you're like mister popular
Speaker 3: this week because Colorado's coming into town and you're gonna
Speaker 3: be the designated captain, the honorary captain. How do you
Speaker 3: feel about all this?
Speaker 6: Man, it's a really good you know, whenever I get
Speaker 6: a chance to go down to Tucson and you know,
Speaker 6: soak in everything about what's going on down there, it's
Speaker 6: always a blessing and I'm always on there.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, what a great time, What a great time. I
Speaker 3: texted you this morning of this afternoon and I said
Speaker 3: one of the things I wanted to talk to you
Speaker 3: is I think, and you could disagree with me, that
Speaker 3: your your path to becoming the starter and becoming who
Speaker 3: you were here is a lot like Noah. You were
Speaker 3: on the bench, the quarterbacks gets hurt, you come in
Speaker 3: and do what you do the c little magic, and
Speaker 3: Noah did the same last year. Do you see a similarity.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's just like any other university. You know,
Speaker 6: whenever you have a starter, you know, you have a
Speaker 6: backup as well, right, and it's always important that that
Speaker 6: backup be ready to go in whenever because they already say,
Speaker 6: you know, you're one chap away. So it's it's definitely
Speaker 6: a lot of similarities. You know. I think he's doing
Speaker 6: a great job, and I think obviously he's going to
Speaker 6: continue to grow and develop and get better. But I
Speaker 6: think I see a lot of similarities for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you were, yeah, you know, kind of going back
Speaker 5: to Arizona Colorado in that matchup. What was it about
Speaker 5: the buff slogo that made you turn it on every
Speaker 5: single time, because not only was the first game, but
Speaker 5: then you did it to them through the air the
Speaker 5: next time around.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean it's it's pretty interesting because whenever
Speaker 6: we played them, it was always i guess like towards
Speaker 6: the middle of the season, you know, it always was
Speaker 6: a very ours was a big test and you know,
Speaker 6: us figuring out where exactly we stood, you know, in
Speaker 6: the conference, in the Pac twelve as it was, so
Speaker 6: it was always a big deal. You know, it was
Speaker 6: always important for us to make sure that, you know,
Speaker 6: we got this game because you know, this game determined
Speaker 6: a lot and how the season would go on for us.
Speaker 3: Could you take us back to that first time you
Speaker 3: came in you had a few runs, Just that moment
Speaker 3: of or that feeling of kind of elation or what
Speaker 3: was going through your mind when you're going through all
Speaker 3: those runs.
Speaker 6: Really, I mean a lot of people don't remember, but
Speaker 6: it was a really close game. You know, Philip lindsay
Speaker 6: he actually want to say rest for like two eighty.
Speaker 6: So it was whenever we scored, they scored. Yeah, So
Speaker 6: it was never It wasn't a situation where you know,
Speaker 6: we were just blowing them out at the gate. It
Speaker 6: was you know, as soon as we scored, they went
Speaker 6: on a you know, fourteen play drive and you know
Speaker 6: took a lot of clock and we had to score.
Speaker 6: So at the time, I was just trying to you know,
Speaker 6: do what I could to help my team and you know,
Speaker 6: put us in the best position to you know, put
Speaker 6: boys on the board. And that's kind of how it happened.
Speaker 5: You know, through all those big runs and all those
Speaker 5: big scoring plays, the one that stands out to me
Speaker 5: is the end of the game where arizonnderneath of the
Speaker 5: first down on third, I believe in five, third, and six,
Speaker 5: and you ran right through the Colorado defender to pick
Speaker 5: up that first down. What was that moment like for
Speaker 5: you to be able to celebrate that win with the
Speaker 5: team and really lock the game down there in the
Speaker 5: final drive.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well it's super big.
Speaker 16: You know.
Speaker 6: I think whenever you go into an hostile environment, as
Speaker 6: in an away game you know, bout to Colorado, which
Speaker 6: I love dearly, it's always important to you know, really
Speaker 6: at the tone. And I think you know, throughout that
Speaker 6: game we held our own and I think towards the
Speaker 6: end of the game, you know, Coach Fritchard, he caught
Speaker 6: on my number and I had to you know, knew
Speaker 6: not to let my team down and really had to
Speaker 6: bear down and you know, get to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question. Uh, it's funny. I'm sure I heard
Speaker 3: the story that you were you had been jumping at
Speaker 3: the bit to get in all season and obviously took
Speaker 3: an injury for you to have had to happen. Would
Speaker 3: you've gunn in anyway at some point?
Speaker 6: I mean I don't think so. I mean, you know,
Speaker 6: like I said, I was the backup, so you know,
Speaker 6: whoever started, usually they stay in the game until you.
Speaker 3: Know something until otherwise.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So unfortunately you know my good friends still to
Speaker 6: this day, Brandon, he got injured, so I was the
Speaker 6: next man up, and you know, I knew I had
Speaker 6: to hold my own for a quarterback room, but as
Speaker 6: the team as.
Speaker 3: Well, right, Yeah, no question.
Speaker 5: You know, Steve brought up the point with you and
Speaker 5: uh sharing a lot of similarities in terms of being
Speaker 5: once a backup and taking over that starting role and
Speaker 5: the energy of the team kind of shifting. But you
Speaker 5: also share a similarity where you know, you have this
Speaker 5: highly successful per season and high expectations. You go into
Speaker 5: the next year with a new coaching staff and you
Speaker 5: kind of have to maneuver and figure out, you know,
Speaker 5: their system along with what you can do. What would
Speaker 5: be your advice to a guy like Noah Fafida who
Speaker 5: is going through that similar situation of learning a new
Speaker 5: offense and learning a new staff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean I think it's a learning curve,
Speaker 6: you know. I think obviously, when when you are thrown
Speaker 6: onto the scene whatever, you're able to hold your own
Speaker 6: like Noah did or he's doing this year and as
Speaker 6: well as last year, it's always a big deal, you know,
Speaker 6: but also is high expectation, you know, So him having
Speaker 6: a year he had last year. You know, I definitely
Speaker 6: think he's he's in the works of, you know, getting
Speaker 6: back to the origins of you know, what really works.
Speaker 6: And I think that, you know, just being able to
Speaker 6: lean on your teammates. Obviously, it's a long season, you know.
Speaker 6: I think right now we're in the middle of the season,
Speaker 6: so it's not definitely not over. A lot of things
Speaker 6: can can change, which I feel like will and I
Speaker 6: also did last year. But yeah, so I think he's
Speaker 6: doing well. I think that the more he's able to
Speaker 6: lean on his teammates, which I think he has, I
Speaker 6: think this game would be a very big game. And
Speaker 6: then turning that page and getting over that hump.
Speaker 3: Have you guys met each other?
Speaker 17: Have you kind of you know, said hello, Yeah, we
Speaker 17: have a.
Speaker 6: We have a pretty cool relationship. You know, we talk
Speaker 6: actually maybe like a few times a week, maybe once
Speaker 6: a week. We talked pretty often.
Speaker 17: Yeah, he's a he's a so call guy like myself.
Speaker 6: He went to stay right and I went to share
Speaker 6: and got a dinner. So we're un familiar with, you know,
Speaker 6: the area that he's gone up in as well as
Speaker 6: you know, just having a relationship with him. And like
Speaker 6: I said, we speak often obviously, you know, our friendship
Speaker 6: is is uh, you know pretty it's private, so a
Speaker 6: lot of people wouldn't know that, but yeah, we speak.
Speaker 6: He speak pretty often.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So you had a big role obviously front and
Speaker 3: center being the quarterback. We had We had George bul
Speaker 3: Ulu from back in the day. We had really two
Speaker 3: Tima back in the day a few days ago. Uh,
Speaker 3: can you talk to the pressures that it is being
Speaker 3: the quarterback one and two? Maybe if it's different than
Speaker 3: being the quarterback here?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I think that for one, you know, what
Speaker 6: you always hear when you go to u of A
Speaker 6: is you know, even being a just a college fan
Speaker 6: in general, you know, whether that be any sport. We're
Speaker 6: quote unquote a basketball school, right, so whenever our football
Speaker 6: team does well, right, the first person that we usually
Speaker 6: look look at is the quarterback, right, So there is
Speaker 6: some expectation, you know, it's very high. I think that
Speaker 6: the people that have been in position have all done
Speaker 6: well for you know, what they had to work with.
Speaker 6: I think that, you know, being a quarterback at the
Speaker 6: u of A is a very precedious honor because we
Speaker 6: think about it, you know other than you know, back
Speaker 6: in you know PAC ten and pack A Pac ten
Speaker 6: and Pac twelve, whether than UCLA, USC on the West
Speaker 6: coast really, which which I would consider our actually you know, Utah, etc.
Speaker 6: But you know, other than California, Arizona is like, you know,
Speaker 6: a premier West Coast state, right, So it's a lot
Speaker 6: of eyes on the West Coast, a lot of eyes
Speaker 6: on Arizona, and it's always a big deal to be
Speaker 6: able to lead that team out there and you know,
Speaker 6: be deciding quarterback at the U of A.
Speaker 5: You know, you mentioned the close relationship with with no
Speaker 5: if Afida there. It really has shown with coach Brennan
Speaker 5: and coach Jetfish over the last several years, the ties
Speaker 5: and bringing back former alumni and former players and getting
Speaker 5: them to talk to current players and getting those relationships
Speaker 5: on their way. How important is that for a football
Speaker 5: program to embrace its history like Arizona has over the
Speaker 5: last several years.
Speaker 6: I think it's a big deal. You know, I think
Speaker 6: whenever you have a university alumni is kind of what
Speaker 6: keeps it going, you know, having that having those alumni
Speaker 6: that are able to you know, stand for those pillars
Speaker 6: that whatever university you go to, it's a big deal
Speaker 6: to have and be able to speak highly of the
Speaker 6: university that they attended, you know, because alumni is kind of,
Speaker 6: in a sense, what keeps the program going because you know,
Speaker 6: without alumni, you don't have any past, right, so it's
Speaker 6: a big deal. I think they they've been doing a
Speaker 6: pretty good job at you know, keeping the all the
Speaker 6: alumni upbeat up to day. You know, they send various
Speaker 6: emails throughout the week and they always keep us intact
Speaker 6: on what's going on. We also have you know, different
Speaker 6: different meetings throughout the year that we that we partaking.
Speaker 6: And I think they're doing a great job.
Speaker 3: So so let me ask you this, because we have
Speaker 3: Rich trod every now and now and then on the show,
Speaker 3: we all know his personality. Did do you still talk
Speaker 3: to him at one and two?
Speaker 6: Do you did you?
Speaker 3: What was your your your career with him? What you know,
Speaker 3: how did that go? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well I still talked to Rich Trold. Actually, I think
Speaker 6: last time I talked to him was maybe earlier this season.
Speaker 6: I think I may have wished I think I wished
Speaker 6: him a good luck. He in my former coach role Smith,
Speaker 6: my quarterback coach. But no, our relationship was really cool.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, whatever. You know, you're a quarterback
Speaker 6: of the team. If we don't have a relationship with
Speaker 6: the with the head coaches, it's probably not gonna work
Speaker 6: out more times than that. So, yeah, me and him,
Speaker 6: we had a really great relationship. With me obviously early
Speaker 6: on it was it was a little tough, you know,
Speaker 6: because I was like, you know, I came into college
Speaker 6: at seventeen years old, so I went through my landing
Speaker 6: curves and also too, you know, he went through his
Speaker 6: landing curves and learning how to have a super young quarterback, right,
Speaker 6: So it was it was a learning curve for the
Speaker 6: both of us. But you know, I mean I love
Speaker 6: that guy. We speak often.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, you bring up the relationship with
Speaker 5: Rod Smith, and a lot of people always look at
Speaker 5: quarterback coach in terms of head coach relationship. Not a
Speaker 5: lot of people talk about quarterback quarterback coach relationship. But
Speaker 5: you know how important was Rod Smith to you in
Speaker 5: your career here at Arizon and really getting you here
Speaker 5: in Tucson.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, well, Rob, he's such a great guy.
Speaker 17: He just helped me.
Speaker 6: He helped me maintain my confidence. Like I said, you know,
Speaker 6: I came into it was when I was seventeen. You know,
Speaker 6: I turned seventeen in October like now, and then I
Speaker 6: left high school in three years, three and a half.
Speaker 6: So when I got to Tucson in January, right, I
Speaker 6: was only I was the first seventeen. I did seventeen
Speaker 6: for maybe what two or three months. So he did
Speaker 6: a great job really just making sure that I was
Speaker 6: I never got down on myself, you know, because obviously
Speaker 6: going from high school to college is a big deal,
Speaker 6: but you know, doing so at the age of seventeen,
Speaker 6: you know, it's it's an even bigger deal, you know.
Speaker 6: So he did a great job and really just manufacturing
Speaker 6: you know, my play manufacturing you know, everything that we
Speaker 6: talked about off the field, and really helped it. Did
Speaker 6: a great job and you know, grooming me and becoming
Speaker 6: a man.
Speaker 3: And I am sure no question when you look back
Speaker 3: at your career here, what do you think? What do
Speaker 3: you think? How would you write that story in a
Speaker 3: sense of what is the what is the question if
Speaker 3: you look back at your career, how would you write
Speaker 3: your story kind of reflecting of your career here?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean personally, I think I did great
Speaker 6: for you know, what I had to work with yeah,
Speaker 6: I think that. Obviously I wanted it to go better.
Speaker 6: I wanted things to you know, go better, and you know,
Speaker 6: and maybe differently, but with what I had to work with,
Speaker 6: I think I did well. You know, I think I like,
Speaker 6: I take a lot of pride in not putting a
Speaker 6: finger at anybody. I think I've always had a lot
Speaker 6: of character and you know, even you know, like I said,
Speaker 6: being being so young and being thrust into that into
Speaker 6: that line light, you know, whether it be the sports
Speaker 6: regustrative cover magazine or you know, just winning you know,
Speaker 6: different awards and preseason awards, whatever, it was a big
Speaker 6: deal for me, you know. So I think that, you know,
Speaker 6: my time at Arizona was was lovely out of great times.
Speaker 6: I always had a lot of family and fans come
Speaker 6: to the game. I think I brought a lot of
Speaker 6: a lot of energy to the Tucson community. And I
Speaker 6: think I brought a lot of memories to them as well.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, no question, and one of them a
Speaker 3: lot of them weekends Colorado and other games too. So
Speaker 3: let's just talk. You're what are you after now? You like, Denzel?
Speaker 3: What's up with that?
Speaker 6: I mean, I do a little bit of everything, but Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm currently working in Hollywood. So I've been on the
Speaker 6: show All American that's on the CW, been on bel Air,
Speaker 6: which is on Peacock, and a few other shows that
Speaker 6: I've been you know, trying to put my put my
Speaker 6: foot in and you know, really just make sure that
Speaker 6: I'm doing everything that I can do to you know,
Speaker 6: continue to push my push my name out there.
Speaker 3: How did they find you?
Speaker 6: I mean really just you know, I got in from
Speaker 6: you know, obviously being a football player, and you know
Speaker 6: my name is uh it rings a little bit of
Speaker 6: bet sometime. So they had like an open tryout and
Speaker 6: I win, and they liked me a lot. They already
Speaker 6: knew who I was. So it was more so of like,
Speaker 6: you know, we love to work with me. You know,
Speaker 6: I love to bring you on. So I've done work
Speaker 6: with them a lot, you know a lot of things
Speaker 6: to game changing films. Who's like our third ds, Like
Speaker 6: they're like a third party consultant. They work with different
Speaker 6: different TV shows, different movies, you know, whatever they need athletes,
Speaker 6: whether that be football, baseball, basketball, tennis, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 6: They're they're the ones to go to. So yeah, that's
Speaker 6: what that's what I've been up to.
Speaker 3: Uh as a late and uh, you were about five
Speaker 3: years too short on the n I L stuff. You
Speaker 3: would have cried, you would have crushed it.
Speaker 6: I heard about it. I hear about it often a
Speaker 6: lot of people. A lot of people bring it up
Speaker 6: to me. But you know, and your reparations are coming soon.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, maybe last last year there was one thing.
Speaker 3: Oh you still you're still trying to get out on
Speaker 3: a field, right, I guess you had some workings over
Speaker 3: the summer for sure.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I just did a camp. I did mini camp
Speaker 6: with the Commanders this offseason in May, which went well,
Speaker 6: you know, this is my first time I have received
Speaker 6: full time so uh signs and I signed with them.
Speaker 6: They brought me in. I did camp, got to you know,
Speaker 6: be out there with guys like Jay and Daniels, who
Speaker 6: you know I played against when he was at NSU,
Speaker 6: and also too, we recruited at the U of A,
Speaker 6: which we actually we kind of almost would have had
Speaker 6: him if everything would have worked better. But yeah, he
Speaker 6: was when he went on his visit on his recruitments
Speaker 6: to sign, I met his family, so yeah, we had
Speaker 6: a bit of rapport and yeah, when I got out
Speaker 6: to Washington, he was he was going to me a
Speaker 6: lot on different you know, different concepts, different routes and whatnot,
Speaker 6: and you know we continued our friendship that we do have.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm still out there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I think it's just a matter of time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: I think for myself coming out during COVID obviously, you know,
Speaker 6: I couldn't change anything about that. But coming out there
Speaker 6: in COVID definitely did not help anything. But I've been
Speaker 6: I've been chomping away since then. I've spent time in
Speaker 6: Philadelphia with the Eagles, I'll spend time in Canada and
Speaker 6: the CFL and Toronto and Edmonton now Washington. So I'm just,
Speaker 6: you know, just waiting on the opportunity.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: I like to think that it's just like when I
Speaker 6: was at the U of A, Like a lot of
Speaker 6: people thought whatever about me before I started playing, and
Speaker 6: then once I started playing, it was like, oh, this
Speaker 6: guy is actually pretty good. So it's the same situation.
Speaker 6: I think in due time, once I get an opportunity
Speaker 6: in the NFL, it'll be the same thing like, oh
Speaker 6: where did this guy come from? And you know, I'm
Speaker 6: glad to glad to have a conversation with you guys,
Speaker 6: because you guys are my firsthand and you guys can
Speaker 6: even use the sound bite going forward like he did
Speaker 6: tell us.
Speaker 17: So it's a matter of time, you know.
Speaker 6: Obviously it's a lot that goes into you know, getting
Speaker 6: picked up and you know, making an active roster and
Speaker 6: practice squad, et cetera. But I know in due time,
Speaker 6: when I get that opportunity, it'll it'll it'll all make
Speaker 6: sense and it'll you know, be even better for my story.
Speaker 5: You mentioned Jen and Daniel's recruiting visit to to soon.
Speaker 5: I'm just curious, was that post as U or before
Speaker 5: he commit to you? What time frame was that with
Speaker 5: Jaden Daniels in Arizona?
Speaker 6: So this just when he was in high school and
Speaker 6: he was coming out of high school. Yeah, this one,
Speaker 6: well we had Rich Rod obviously as our head coach
Speaker 6: in Rod Smith and our Rest of Peace coach McGee
Speaker 6: as well. Yeah, he will to visit and he was, Yeah.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 6: He was edging on coming to U of A. Like
Speaker 6: I said, I know that was his I want to say,
Speaker 6: going into his senior season. Like I say, you know,
Speaker 6: I met his family, which are great people, and you know,
Speaker 6: he's a great kid himself. So yeah, I was, I
Speaker 6: want to say, going into his junior year. I going
Speaker 6: to his senior year, so I had to be of
Speaker 6: my math's like maybe twenty twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, twenty seventeen, so.
Speaker 6: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, yeah, we almost had him. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, how thing things change when he's doing get them. Okay, Hey, Khalil,
Speaker 3: appreciate your time. Have fun this weekend in Tucson on
Speaker 3: people here love you, so enjoy it all right, thank
Speaker 3: you guys, have a nice one. Yeah YouTube be well,
Speaker 3: thank you. Good luck with your acting career too. Well,
Speaker 3: what a cool thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Great great Khalil Tate. Let's take a break here and
Speaker 3: come back.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to the ball hero Fox Sports fourteen
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Speaker 3: our guy Ryan with us today Thursday, and already Thursday,
Speaker 3: a couple of days before the game. Hey, the game
Speaker 3: was going to be halftime body by now in two
Speaker 3: days hopefully, hopefully yeah, hopefully who knows what these games
Speaker 3: takes a long good to talk to Khalil, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: hadn't really talked to him much when he was here
Speaker 3: outside of the time when he was here for the
Speaker 3: for the for my paper or for my publication. So good.
Speaker 3: I think that the Daniels thing came as a surprise
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, shocking. You know, Arizona was in on
Speaker 4: the recruitment for that.
Speaker 5: Rich Rod obviously, Uh what am I trying to say
Speaker 5: did a lot with a little in terms of players
Speaker 5: on the field, So being in line for a high
Speaker 5: profile player which was a five star recruit at the time,
Speaker 5: little shocking, you know.
Speaker 3: H yeah, well imagine what could have been? How do
Speaker 3: you come here? Whatever? But we all make decisions and
Speaker 3: in that system, if Richard was here in that type
Speaker 3: of system, right right, right right, and we all know
Speaker 3: how it all went right, it went to pretty badly.
Speaker 3: But good for Kalol. He's doing well outside of you know, football,
Speaker 3: doing with this with his acting and all little stuff.
Speaker 3: Maybe he has still had a chance in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Never lived without a dream, chip and chair, you know,
Speaker 3: chipping and chair. What are you talking about? Like the
Speaker 3: court choker poker. Yeah, okay, of course, I'm so great
Speaker 3: at it. Courtships. Yeah, anybody want to call, here's your chance,
Speaker 3: because I don't want you to get shut out at
Speaker 3: the end of the end of the hour of five
Speaker 3: to two four one forty. If I heard uh, I
Speaker 3: think it was Team Money trying to call in yesterday
Speaker 3: McGill try to call it yesterday. We couldn't get to
Speaker 3: you because it was too late. So if you're listening
Speaker 3: and you want to call, please do what's your thoughts
Speaker 3: on tomorrow on Saturday's game?
Speaker 4: Give it?
Speaker 3: Let us know, give us a call. That'll be fine. Uh,
Speaker 3: which have been up to you? You've been writing it
Speaker 3: all for for your what was your latest kind of.
Speaker 5: The latest, you know, going on the message boards and
Speaker 5: uh writing a little bit of stuff there in terms
Speaker 5: of breaking down the offense and what's going on, what's
Speaker 5: the offense and how Arizona could go about fixing it,
Speaker 5: you know, so, uh, a lot a lot of chatter
Speaker 5: on the message boards.
Speaker 3: So I'm not a chatterboard guy. I don't really give
Speaker 3: a crap of all that stuff. That's like this stuff
Speaker 3: you at the bar, you know whatever. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of that. Huh oh, for sure, you know, and that's
Speaker 3: where the funn is.
Speaker 5: Well, there's a lot of fans that already want a
Speaker 5: head coaching change, clearly already want an offense coordinating change,
Speaker 5: and how do you go.
Speaker 4: About fixing it is the biggest question with your offense.
Speaker 3: But geeks, hey, you're gonna call You're on the air
Speaker 3: and I and the ball. Yeah, this is James James.
Speaker 3: What's up? James?
Speaker 17: Not much looking forward towards the game tomorrow and a
Speaker 17: nice win the game on Saturday, Tyler, Yeah, I guess
Speaker 17: on Saturday. I guess I was wrong on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, No, you think they're gonna win?
Speaker 17: I think they have a great chance. I think the
Speaker 17: crowd is gonna be out, have a good atmosphere, and uh,
Speaker 17: I think the Cats are gonna pull off a victory.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, what what's gonna be the difference?
Speaker 17: Uh, the offense is gonna come back together and look
Speaker 17: better like they did the first week versus the last few.
Speaker 3: Okay, well that's what I think that needs to happen.
Speaker 17: Yeah, and then I think the defense is gonna get
Speaker 17: to get to uh Shador Sanders and uh good sacks
Speaker 17: and create havoc back in the in the in the
Speaker 17: back in the field with them, and I think they're
Speaker 17: gonna take care of business.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 5: To me, that's the key to this game is the
Speaker 5: front line and Arizona's ability to get to shut door
Speaker 5: because Colorado's offense line has been terrible this season. So
Speaker 5: if they're able to create pressure, get to him and
Speaker 5: put him on his back and force Colorado to do
Speaker 5: something different, that that could be successful for Arizona.
Speaker 3: James, do you you always go to the games, don't you?
Speaker 3: You're a ticket holder?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, well how would.
Speaker 1: You watch me?
Speaker 17: I bought season tickets last year, but I protested last year.
Speaker 17: This year I have season tickets though.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, you protested Astyr Why because I.
Speaker 17: Wasn't a fan of the DeLaura staying at QB.
Speaker 3: So I love that's right, I remember that. Yeah? Wait
Speaker 3: because of his situation, right correct? Yeah? I may remember
Speaker 3: that now now and.
Speaker 17: Then if you notice now he's not playing in college anymore.
Speaker 3: No, no, he didn't. They didn't want him at Texas State.
Speaker 4: No, they said goodbye at Texas State.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I thought you of a would have done that, but
Speaker 6: they didn't.
Speaker 3: Right, No, there was a lot to that story, and
Speaker 3: there had to be Uh So okay, no, James, thanks
Speaker 3: for calling. I always called, always called. The women's basketball
Speaker 3: season starts share pretty sure. I know you're big with that,
Speaker 3: and of course Tom, we're always I'm.
Speaker 17: Super excited for the women's team this year. I think
Speaker 17: they are going to have a good squad and they're
Speaker 17: gonna give the Big twelve a lot of havocs.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna write that down. Keep calling, keep calling.
Speaker 3: Ja good to hear from you, Yeah, yeah, yeah, anybody
Speaker 3: else will call. We have a we have a few minutes.
Speaker 3: We got my name in is ten minutes. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so you've got to call. Please do five two zero, four, one, six,
Speaker 3: seventy four forty Uh women's basketball. It's kind of under
Speaker 3: the radar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, under the radar. A little bit of a quiet
Speaker 4: off season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, which might be good for Arizona energy of Barnes,
Speaker 5: because the last several off seasons have been very out there,
Speaker 5: very in the open and chaotic.
Speaker 3: Right, no question, And we'll see how the season starts.
Speaker 3: Uh starts here because she doesn't. It's not a big bench, right,
Speaker 3: so short roster, very.
Speaker 5: Short roster very much like Tommy Lloyd in terms of
Speaker 5: you know, nine scholarship players. I don't know if it's
Speaker 5: that exact number for airs on women's basketball, but uh,
Speaker 5: you know you have Jada Williams returning, you have a
Speaker 5: couple key returners.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's some talent there, but it needs developing.
Speaker 3: And in basketball, I know you went to a media
Speaker 3: day if that's what it's called last week. I could
Speaker 3: make it, and I know I asked you for some things.
Speaker 3: What were your impressions?
Speaker 5: You know, I think it's a team that's hungry, a
Speaker 5: team that's looking to be physical in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 5: And that's really the overarching theme when talking to players
Speaker 5: is the physicality of the Big Twelve conference and needing
Speaker 5: to get prepared to play that physical brand of basketball.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you, there's one thing to say
Speaker 3: it there's nothing to do it, and another thing to
Speaker 3: be capable of doing it and sustaining it, right right
Speaker 3: over over four or five months? Right, Yeah, I was
Speaker 3: gonna fit that bill or we will know.
Speaker 4: We'll find out, Yeah, we'll find out.
Speaker 5: I think there's gonna be ups and downs, and that's
Speaker 5: for every Big Twelve team you have five teams in
Speaker 5: the top ten.
Speaker 4: You're gonna take your lumps along the way.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have losses where you scratch your head and say,
Speaker 5: how did they lose by fifteen twenty points there?
Speaker 4: And you're gonna have to be okay with it.
Speaker 3: Right, They're gonna have to because you have no choice.
Speaker 3: And it's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be crazy good,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is the most exciting basketball conference since
Speaker 5: the early days of the Big East of Mind.
Speaker 3: Man, Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be fun. Look at the
Speaker 3: top ten, top eleven, whatever was Cincinnati was in there
Speaker 3: at number twenty. Yeah, it's gonna be crazy good. And
Speaker 3: I wouldn't doubt last year at this time. I guess
Speaker 3: maybe in early November, right, you and I went to
Speaker 3: see him a duke and we were kind of came
Speaker 3: away like wow. But in my mind not surprising because
Speaker 3: every year that I've covered the team, and it's been
Speaker 3: a number of years now, they own November. They own
Speaker 3: no December. We guess what happens. Nothing happens in November December.
Speaker 5: But the difference is in terms of Big twelve and
Speaker 5: Pac twelve. And from that point on you're playing the
Speaker 5: pack whole conference, which was soft throughout the past fifteen years,
Speaker 5: where the Big twelve, you're gonna be tested weekend and
Speaker 5: week out.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, and I think that. You know, we had
Speaker 3: Bruce on a well back a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and he makes a great point. Okay, they played this schedule,
Speaker 3: the Big twelve was used to that schedule. How many
Speaker 3: Big twelve teams really survive it be outside if your
Speaker 3: name is not Kansas. Maybe Baylor did a few years
Speaker 3: ago when they played in the title game Houston kind
Speaker 3: of maybe. You know, they get beat up to uh
Speaker 3: so you have to be extremely good to get through
Speaker 3: it all and last till late March.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know they've had success in terms of Kansas, Houston, Baylor,
Speaker 5: but most of those teams, that sweet sixteen mark has
Speaker 5: been the mark and you get past.
Speaker 3: That well Arizona too, Yeah, you know, and Tommy and
Speaker 3: Tommy as much as everybody likes him, and I like
Speaker 3: Tommy too, I like him a lot. He's the perfect
Speaker 3: guy post Sean Miller. Uh give, given the state of
Speaker 3: the program, given the reaction of the kids to play
Speaker 3: for him, that he's he's going to be getting up
Speaker 3: against it. Where is Tommy the guy? If he is
Speaker 3: the guy who's going to be the guy, it doesn't
Speaker 3: make any sense because if he gets stuck at the
Speaker 3: sweet sixteen for another two years, you can think, Okay, Tommy, okay, Tommy.
Speaker 5: Well we've talked about this, that the animal that loop built,
Speaker 5: the feeding the fire and feeding the flame. The expectations
Speaker 5: are Elite eight and on at the very least the
Speaker 5: lead aid and on. And if you're not able to
Speaker 5: get the get to that point in the next two
Speaker 5: three years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, two thousand and one, what's that? Twenty three years
Speaker 3: ago was the last final four? You were five ish,
Speaker 3: I was six six issue. You were just out of diapers,
Speaker 3: running around to pull ups. Yeah, I would hope the shortiest,
Speaker 3: but but you know it's that long. I mean, come on, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's not it's not any You were born ninety seven,
Speaker 3: eighty eight, ninety five, ninety five, Okay, so look my
Speaker 3: oldest kid. So you were two when they won the title. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean that's a long.
Speaker 5: Time and a lot of elite eates where man, they
Speaker 5: were so close, so close, You're so close to getting
Speaker 5: over the humping.
Speaker 3: You can't get there, right, and that tells you how
Speaker 3: difficult it is, how magical it has to be, lucky
Speaker 3: and good and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: And meanwhile, you have teams like North Carolina State and
Speaker 5: so on and so far I that have been to
Speaker 5: final fours that have made these magical runs, but Syracuse
Speaker 5: Butler that have been ten to eleven seeds getting into
Speaker 5: the final four, and Arizona fans are wondering, well, where's ours.
Speaker 5: We're better than those teams.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you got to be better in March. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you just have to. I mean, come on, you guys
Speaker 3: have been through it long enough to know that it
Speaker 3: matters in March. It matters in March, after the Big
Speaker 3: twelve tournament, after the Back twelve tournament, all that tournament,
Speaker 3: because that's when the season begins.
Speaker 5: I think one of the keys and interesting points to
Speaker 5: this season is going to see Caleb Love without the
Speaker 5: ball in his hands. Jaye and Bradley's going to be
Speaker 5: the guy with the ball in his hands and the
Speaker 5: true point guard of the team.
Speaker 4: How does he succeed scoring without the basketball?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I agree with you, because you know how I
Speaker 3: feel about both of them. There's only one ball, there's
Speaker 3: two of them and you have the better guy kJ
Speaker 3: Lewis without the ball too, But yeah, how is love
Speaker 3: going to feel that that spot of not having the
Speaker 3: ball all the time. And Jayden Bradley who loves the
Speaker 3: ball all the time. Yeah, and now he pays going downhill?
Speaker 3: And how does he developed in the passing game? I
Speaker 3: think the passing game and then prieve Us with the
Speaker 3: toughness is the biggest thing. Give me the times that
Speaker 3: you and I looked at each other sitting next to
Speaker 3: each other on press road, thinking, there's Jayden going down
Speaker 3: to the basket, no pass?
Speaker 5: Oh no, I mean we did, like in one game,
Speaker 5: I think we counted like six seven times that he
Speaker 5: didn't pass the basketball.
Speaker 3: Head down, man, head down, go down, get to the basket.
Speaker 3: And a lot of times it worked, But a lot
Speaker 3: of times he could have been a better option.
Speaker 5: Better option, easier scoring method. And really it when you
Speaker 5: do that, it softens the defense and creates more options
Speaker 5: for yourself in the long run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, two fat guys talking about basketball
Speaker 3: helped Colors players. This is what the world has come to.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with it. You know, what the hell do
Speaker 3: I know? But but I know what I know. I
Speaker 3: mean this team, excuse me, has to share the ball,
Speaker 3: the big guys underneath. I really think Anyry's going to
Speaker 3: play an impact. I like the way he's played in
Speaker 3: the past. Who knows about Crevius's injury, the seriousness of it,
Speaker 3: he's been out for a while. Did you talk to him?
Speaker 5: I did, and you know he was very uh previous,
Speaker 5: like very land very do not understand English.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I asked him, did you did.
Speaker 5: You ask any advice from Henry Vassar who went through
Speaker 5: an injury last year and had to be benched for
Speaker 5: a long period of time.
Speaker 4: He goes, no, No, I didn't.
Speaker 3: Who's that was?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the end of the conversation, right.
Speaker 3: The who's Who's this guy you speak of? Henry?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know, uh, And I think that's just uh, you know,
Speaker 5: the European style of play, where you know, you just
Speaker 5: go out and play.
Speaker 4: Man, it's just basket. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The interesting is going to be the other guys that
Speaker 3: the four and five, four spot, three spot, four spot,
Speaker 3: you know, those big dudes, like the physical that you
Speaker 3: think that would be physical.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Townsend is going to be a physical player.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's played in big twelve games before going
Speaker 5: on the road to Oklahoma State, on the road to
Speaker 5: Baylor and then Toby a Waka. I think that's going
Speaker 5: to be very key for Arizona. Can he stay out
Speaker 5: of foul trouble and give it. He's the bigger dude, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: bigger here dude.
Speaker 4: So and he give them that.
Speaker 3: You know, they don't need points from him, they just
Speaker 3: need six rebounds. Yeah, same with Creevous. I don't grievous
Speaker 3: maybe you know, twelve points, eight rebounds because the guys
Speaker 3: on the perimeter are going to be the scores.
Speaker 4: Honestly for this type of conference.
Speaker 5: You know what type of center would be perfect, Caleb
Speaker 5: TARZOUSI give me eight points, twelve rebounds.
Speaker 4: Just rebound the.
Speaker 3: Basketball right right, and then that could very well happen.
Speaker 3: He's that type of guy. Yeah, I think he's better than.
Speaker 5: Offensively, I think he's better, But I think Zeus was
Speaker 5: a little bit more ahead defensively at this point.
Speaker 3: End as a sophomore. Yeah, I'll agree with that because
Speaker 3: we I just remember him as a junior and senior
Speaker 3: because we see what we remember what we see last, right,
Speaker 3: But Caleb was not a pro which just wasn't an
Speaker 3: NBA guy. Beatle Stiff did his job, good guy, fundamentally
Speaker 3: sound right right? Are we good? We're good to go.
Speaker 3: Let's go and then come back with breaking news and
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