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Speaker 2: apparently the word is you made the cut, Tim Bentley.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: I made the cut. I feel like I'm I made Varsity.
Speaker 3: You've been ready to go.
Speaker 2: Let's go. Don't screw it up because JV is just
Speaker 2: around the corner.
Speaker 4: Those guys are nipping at my heels.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: Let's let's let's make it a good show today.
Speaker 2: By the way, we're all day to day. So I'm
Speaker 2: also of JV's next next week, and we have our
Speaker 2: guy want sir, well, welcome back, thank you, uh good
Speaker 2: you having good? You have you back on a Friday.
Speaker 2: What was your pick last week?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, I gotta do that. We gotta do our pic.
Speaker 2: Jay's on the road. Jason headed to the game. We
Speaker 2: as we all know, the Dodger game. So he's gonna call.
Speaker 2: He's gonna either text me his pict you'll be Jay,
Speaker 2: good luck, good Dodgers.
Speaker 3: So he guessn't wanted to call on because the last
Speaker 3: time we called in they lost that game five.
Speaker 7: So oh okay, yeah, probably six. Yeah, one of those
Speaker 7: games last week we talked to him. Yeah yeah, okay.
Speaker 7: So here we are welcome to Friday, Tim Bentley. We're
Speaker 7: gonna talk a lot about a lot of different things. Right,
Speaker 7: we'll even talk about some cross country. You're you're kind
Speaker 7: of bread and butter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: The u A cross country team one don't have an
Speaker 3: update for us, but they are positioning themselves well for
Speaker 3: the Big twelve championships. It's a big week in high
Speaker 3: school championship sports, not just cross country, but swimming, cross country, volleyball,
Speaker 3: They're all regional championships are this weekend, followed by state
Speaker 3: next week. So it's a big sports weekend here for
Speaker 3: high school athletes.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, cool? How popular is it? And I say
Speaker 2: that because you know what it is. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: blow smoke with you. Minor sports are after thoughts, but
Speaker 2: they're important after thoughts.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm a big believer.
Speaker 3: I high school for a long time and I coached
Speaker 3: cross country and track, and I'm a big believer in
Speaker 3: participation at the high school.
Speaker 2: Totally, totally agree.
Speaker 3: Whether it's whether it's studil or whatever it is, you
Speaker 3: need to wear a uniform of your school and represent
Speaker 3: represent your school doing something else other than school. Right,
Speaker 3: And then that way, you know, you're you're getting on
Speaker 3: a bus, you're sharing pizza, you're you know those memories
Speaker 3: that we generate as kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me say this, And you've seen the
Speaker 2: ads of Navy, Army, whatever it is. Good teammates make
Speaker 2: good employees, make good teammates, right exactly.
Speaker 3: High school is so pivotal. And I love watching these
Speaker 3: high school kids. They're they're finding themselves. They're learning what
Speaker 3: it means to work together as a team, how to
Speaker 3: push yourself, how to make friends, how to talk to
Speaker 3: adults and aren't your parents all those things that you
Speaker 3: learn fourteen, eighteen years old in high school. You know,
Speaker 3: whether it's on the football field, the cross country course,
Speaker 3: or you know, drama or chemistry or the you know,
Speaker 3: the science teams, you know you are building character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question, And you know how to deal
Speaker 2: with people, whether you like them or not. Because your team,
Speaker 2: your team, and successful teams obviously are people who work
Speaker 2: together or not individual standouts, and that at that.
Speaker 3: Level, probably that's the first person that's not your parent
Speaker 3: that you start to listen to.
Speaker 4: That's that's given you instructions and telling you what to do.
Speaker 3: Kids have coaches younger, but this is like you are
Speaker 3: becoming a young adult and here's a coach or a teacher,
Speaker 3: you know, telling you what to do.
Speaker 4: You have to believe them.
Speaker 3: Somebody that cares about you that's outside of your family,
Speaker 3: that's not your aunt.
Speaker 4: Your parent.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, we talked about this, or you have kids,
Speaker 2: no kids, no kids, so and you might appreciate this though,
Speaker 2: because me, I've been in sports all my life. I
Speaker 2: played them, I write about them. Now we talk about
Speaker 2: them and my kids. I'm the dude who pays the mortgage, right,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just a dude. I'm just a dude.
Speaker 2: Dad's you a home? Oh crap? Uh? But then they
Speaker 2: have friends who like sports, or your dad does this,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they're older. Now your dad,
Speaker 2: your dad gets to do these things. Now I'm a
Speaker 2: cooler dad, exactly.
Speaker 3: You're on the floor and Juve Wildcat's Hey, dad, what
Speaker 3: do you what do you know about this?
Speaker 2: Can you give me?
Speaker 4: Can you give me a ticket.
Speaker 2: Before though, Oh you know, he's the guy that pays
Speaker 2: for soccer.
Speaker 4: I think I get my dad to give me a ride.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, But you know I'm not the only
Speaker 2: guy on that boat. It's every dad.
Speaker 3: Well, it's every day and every parent and I you know,
Speaker 3: when when I would see the parents, you know, they're
Speaker 3: they're basically shutting their kids and there they would say,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm just a I'm just a taxi driver, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, you're giving this kid an experience.
Speaker 3: You're giving your kid an experience that they won't appreciate.
Speaker 3: We were all knuckleheads. Do you remember that sixteen to
Speaker 3: twenty five? I want to apologize to my mom right
Speaker 3: now that I was such a goofball back then.
Speaker 4: You know, but in that.
Speaker 3: Timeframe one, it's not he's not and he's like, are
Speaker 3: you he's still in that places?
Speaker 4: Call your mom right now? You know it's it's uh.
Speaker 3: You're you're providing a base for your kid to do something,
Speaker 3: and a coach, a teacher at that high school level.
Speaker 4: Can really make the difference in that kid's life.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the doctor, Phil Hour. You do.
Speaker 3: See if you want to, you want to go through
Speaker 3: some things this hour, Brennan.
Speaker 2: If you have a chance, give me a call. I'll
Speaker 2: solve all your problems. I'm like crazy, I'm like Fraser Crane.
Speaker 2: I say this all the time. We can solve everybody
Speaker 2: else's problems, but I can't solve my own.
Speaker 3: I'm right there with you, man, Let's go. But I
Speaker 3: love this time year for the high school kids. It's exciting.
Speaker 3: You know, there's there's it's uh. They're getting ready for
Speaker 3: their their's state championships and then football is a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks away too, so that's also exciting. And I
Speaker 3: was listening to your to the show the last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks our the last couple of days this week.
Speaker 2: Silly, Yeah, we had Jeff Skirt. How'd that go? You
Speaker 2: like it?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 2: He was great.
Speaker 3: I I went to Sabina High School before coach did,
Speaker 3: and and he turned that school around.
Speaker 4: And and you.
Speaker 3: Know, there's a lot of life lessons that he teaches,
Speaker 3: not only kids but coaches and how to be a
Speaker 3: good mentor to kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got this reputation. And I'm being joke, jokingly
Speaker 2: saying this and seriously saying this.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: He he was the he was the modern day Moses
Speaker 2: of local football. He won. Wherever he's gone, he's won,
Speaker 2: and he's a winner. I mean, if you can criticize
Speaker 2: him however you want to, but guess what, he's won
Speaker 2: a lot of games and a lot of championship and.
Speaker 4: I love that he could go in.
Speaker 3: It's small schools, big schools, right, and you know Santa Rita,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a call about that.
Speaker 4: That was so cool.
Speaker 3: And you know, and I coached at a small high
Speaker 3: school and there's no reason to be afraid of those
Speaker 3: big schools, you know up the road and Phoenix, I
Speaker 3: heard you talking about Marana. There's no reason to be afraid.
Speaker 3: We you know, play sports just like you. Let's go, Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's go. Don't be afraid. We'll prove it to you.
Speaker 2: And any any day, some dog has his day, right
Speaker 2: or give any given day. Yeah, no, he's done well.
Speaker 2: And then you listen. I thought, yesterday show, did you listen?
Speaker 2: I did, Yeah, and very insightful. We have have Lamont
Speaker 2: on tomorrow for the A Team show at noon, so
Speaker 2: we listened to that for the pregame show. Just very candid,
Speaker 2: very candid, and he's always been candid with me about
Speaker 2: this team. You know, his brother's in the house, in
Speaker 2: the house. The college called coming from inside the house,
Speaker 2: and he was very critical. He's disappointed like everybody else.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, not only for the for the
Speaker 3: football and alumni that played for the U A Wildcats.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's the it's the this this
Speaker 3: community is so desperate to rally around this team. And
Speaker 3: I mean, you do one little thing right and we
Speaker 3: will be your favorite, will be your fans forever.
Speaker 4: But man, it is tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You're a native, right.
Speaker 4: I moved here when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: I mean, so you're pretty much a native. I mean,
Speaker 2: you you like Jaye and she's been here all his life.
Speaker 2: It's it's the Lucy Charlie Brown thing or who's the
Speaker 2: one that kicks? Is it Charnie Brown? Yeah, yeah, you're
Speaker 2: you're Charlie Brown and she pulls the football.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about this when I was listening, you
Speaker 3: know yesterdays heard Lamont's mad, you know, and and you
Speaker 3: know Tom Tonnecliff tried to put a nice spin on
Speaker 3: it last week, and you know, these these alums are disappointed, right,
Speaker 3: and so it's you know, We desperately want to back
Speaker 3: him in it.
Speaker 4: And I was thinking about this.
Speaker 3: You know, lude Olsen came in and changed the culture
Speaker 3: and you you can't talk about the top ten or
Speaker 3: twelve programs in the country without Arizona coming up for
Speaker 3: a lot of people. And we desperately want that for
Speaker 3: the U A football team. We crave it, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: no question.
Speaker 2: You want to embrace them, but they they're a they're
Speaker 2: your jilted lover. I'm sorry to tell you, and it's
Speaker 2: it's they can then guess what's gonna happen next year
Speaker 2: or in the next few years. Tim come over. I
Speaker 2: didn't mean to tell you any bad things the last
Speaker 2: few years, and then you'll fall in love again and
Speaker 2: then she's gonna leave you again.
Speaker 4: We're sorry about that. On side kick. We didn't really
Speaker 4: mean it.
Speaker 2: That was just we weren't thinking. What was I thinking?
Speaker 2: It won't happen again, and then it happens again, right
Speaker 2: because you you you guys have been and I don't
Speaker 2: blame you for being you know that, the callous heart
Speaker 2: and whatever, because it's it's it's a bitch being in
Speaker 2: love with a team that doesn't love you back.
Speaker 3: Well and that's why you see you know, I mean we're,
Speaker 3: like I said, we're desperate for it, you know. That's
Speaker 3: why that's why tailgates are always packed. We're ready, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're ready for it.
Speaker 2: Oh they also want to have fun.
Speaker 4: Well, true, but.
Speaker 3: We're ready for just you know, give us seven and five,
Speaker 3: give us, give us eight and four something, you know,
Speaker 3: And it's it's they tease they you know, last year,
Speaker 3: they tease us a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if one's old enough to remember, we're
Speaker 3: on the cover of you know, Sports Illustrated, you know,
Speaker 3: all these things.
Speaker 4: Boom see you next year, buddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's usually one is like two years old
Speaker 2: and he's already gone. His young life has already been torture.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I mean just think about the twenty fourteen season.
Speaker 9: It's very very similar right now, between that season and
Speaker 9: the fifteenth Yeah, the fifteen eighteen.
Speaker 2: I mean we had a lot of injuries that year.
Speaker 2: They had a lot of injuries that year. Yeah, every
Speaker 2: every No, if you heard the show yesterday with Lamont,
Speaker 2: I'm saying Lamont, because I believe that this team is cursed,
Speaker 2: this program is cursed with football way And did you
Speaker 2: ever read they find like wildcats. Ye okay, So I
Speaker 2: read it because I want to do another book like that,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to come back with the right after that.
Speaker 2: So he did a great job up until like seventy
Speaker 2: two Show Me one. I wanted to follow it through.
Speaker 2: And I believe this program is cursed. What I read
Speaker 2: from the book, it seems like they are. And no one,
Speaker 2: maybe Lama yesterday, didn't want to believe that it's cursed.
Speaker 9: It's cursed four times ten wins or more, four.
Speaker 2: Times a year after it's been that. It's been the fourth,
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, the twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Well, nineteen ninety seven, eighty nine, Right, yeah, this is.
Speaker 4: The therapy show. Let's just let's let's just bring up
Speaker 4: all the hurt right now.
Speaker 2: Hey, Kevin Nieman, if you listen to me, give us
Speaker 2: a call.
Speaker 3: Let's just bring up all there. Let's just get it
Speaker 3: over with. Let's talk about it and.
Speaker 2: Then we can I don't have pepto bismoll outside.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to pay somebody about it.
Speaker 2: That's twenty five.
Speaker 4: Dollars an hour.
Speaker 2: No, I have good insuran, good, good good.
Speaker 4: I work at a hospital, So get your.
Speaker 2: Guy on the phone right now, right therapist. No, but
Speaker 2: you know you gotta love them, you gotta love them.
Speaker 2: Here's the here's the catch, though, you're going to get tomorrow.
Speaker 2: What do you have? You have hope that this will
Speaker 2: be the start of a run here to get it
Speaker 2: to the end, because this place, if they have anything,
Speaker 2: they have hope.
Speaker 3: Listen, if we went tomorrow, we're wanting, We're we're one
Speaker 3: game winning.
Speaker 2: Streak as well, we're way to the college football playoffs.
Speaker 3: I think we can make a bowl game. We went tomorrow,
Speaker 3: I think we're going on. I think we're gonna win out.
Speaker 2: That's what they're gonna talk about because and realistically, we've
Speaker 2: been talking about this all year one. Right, if they
Speaker 2: can get past the Kansas State game, the the Utah
Speaker 2: game and whatever whatever else was the big game, they're
Speaker 2: gonna be great because the back half of the season
Speaker 2: is gonna be winnable, very winnable, easily to win. And
Speaker 2: then you get what you get and then you know
Speaker 2: you win. Are you ever gonna win a game?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Exactly.
Speaker 3: And you talk about Camp State and that's kind of
Speaker 3: the thread that runs through it. West Virginia lost to
Speaker 3: Case State, a couple of weeks ago, I think they
Speaker 3: lost forty five to eighteen. So last week we played Colorado,
Speaker 3: they had barely lost a case. See we lost the case.
Speaker 3: So Case State's kind of this benchmark. We'll see what
Speaker 3: happens with that with that case State. But I love
Speaker 3: that West Virginia's coming new uh, new fans, new colors.
Speaker 4: New Yeah, excitement.
Speaker 2: Tim. If two people from West Virginia come to this game,
Speaker 2: I'll be shocked.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to go mountain theirs.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 9: They're here, here, they're here. I worked a shifted the
Speaker 9: wreck today. Had a bunch of West Virginia families rolled in.
Speaker 2: Well because they mustn't want to get out of that place.
Speaker 2: They were excited.
Speaker 9: They were excited. They said, the beautiful weather. I said, where.
Speaker 2: It's only one hundred ninety seven degrees. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: get it. You're excited. Yeah, yeah, sure. My son went
Speaker 2: to West Virginia, so I'm aware. Let's go, let's let's
Speaker 2: let's get it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I love that for the fans taking us home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that for the fans. It's you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's starting. I wasn't that. I know, it was disappointing.
Speaker 3: From them when the PAC twelve split up. In that
Speaker 3: there's lots of oh yeah, but I love this, you know,
Speaker 3: fresh new faces, it's fresh, it's exciting.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, let's let's start with this quick or end
Speaker 2: with this. In the first segment, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: a lot about the Arizona Bowl. They had a big
Speaker 2: function yesterday, I think it was La Paloma talking about
Speaker 2: their bowl game here in about two months. So we'll
Speaker 2: talk to Eric Rhodes about that and all the excitement
Speaker 2: going on. I guess the ticket sales are going well.
Speaker 2: And then at four fifteen, be enlightened by the candidness
Speaker 2: and humor of David Adams. I don't even know how
Speaker 2: else to describe what he says. He's usually my guy
Speaker 2: on the eighteen on Saturdays, so he'll be back today
Speaker 2: and we'll see what he thinks. He's really real, real,
Speaker 2: realistic of what's going on, but he's still trying to
Speaker 2: be as positive as you can be, knowing that it's
Speaker 2: very difficult to be positive.
Speaker 4: I agree. We talked about this too.
Speaker 3: Is you know, we're way past college agent, so you're
Speaker 3: still talking about you know, in eighteen, nineteen, twenty two
Speaker 3: year old kids, and so we can look at it
Speaker 3: critically in that way, but we need to understand that
Speaker 3: still kids.
Speaker 4: I love David's take. Last week we had Tom ton kleft.
Speaker 3: You know these guys is that you know thirty forty
Speaker 3: years ago, know what it takes, and I like their
Speaker 3: perspective on the twenty twenty four game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so let's go. Why not go? And they'll
Speaker 2: get ahold of Eric on the other side.
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Speaker 1: Today streaming live on the iHeartRadio app. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: And welcome back to Eye on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Bavera, and today with
Speaker 2: media is Tim Bentley, TMC, the former radio guy. And
Speaker 2: now we have another guy who's been in the media,
Speaker 2: Eric Rhodes, TV guy, now the PR guy, VP of Communications,
Speaker 2: Eric Rhodes.
Speaker 13: I got we just kind of circle around, don't we. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 13: a little TV with a little radio tweet out some stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Eric, row around.
Speaker 2: This is on my two stone survival. It's called survival exactly.
Speaker 8: I mean, I feel the steam. I feel like I
Speaker 8: thought a posts for you.
Speaker 13: The other night that you are going on, you're like
Speaker 13: four hundred covering Arizona basketball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, feel four hundred. But this is your thirty four,
Speaker 2: your thirty four. I feel like that that old lady
Speaker 2: on the Titanic is eighty four years.
Speaker 8: But never as old moment. You've seen some of the
Speaker 8: best stuff and hopefully some good stuff to come this.
Speaker 2: Year, and some of the worst. Eric, let's not forget those.
Speaker 2: Let's not forget those. Yeah. I was there for the
Speaker 2: n Buck now right right, Hey, Yeah, you got a
Speaker 2: big thing going on. How was yesterday's event? Man?
Speaker 8: We just could not be more pleased.
Speaker 13: I mean, our community has always rallying around the Ears
Speaker 13: on a bowl, which were so grateful for but I
Speaker 13: mean you bring on Snoop and everything just elevates. I
Speaker 13: mean I've been around, you know, since day one of
Speaker 13: this things. This is our tenth game this year, which
Speaker 13: is a little crazy to say, but the buzz around
Speaker 13: this year.
Speaker 8: Is just different. It's just new. It's exciting.
Speaker 13: We had about nine hundred people out of La Polomi yesterday.
Speaker 13: It was really great to hear from Lieutenant General Rich Clark,
Speaker 13: the executive director of the CFP. I had some really
Speaker 13: funny things to say. My favorite part was when he
Speaker 13: compared to his first call telling somebody they didn't make
Speaker 13: the playoffs to some of the combat.
Speaker 8: He saw silent.
Speaker 13: He said, yeah, there's gonna be some upset people, and
Speaker 13: I think I'm more nervous to make that call than
Speaker 13: I want to try to shoot a plane down. So yeah,
Speaker 13: I mean, great to have Lieutenant General Clark out there.
Speaker 13: We had a chance to honor Terry Francona, who was
Speaker 13: going to be with us in person. But speaking of
Speaker 13: circling around, that guy just can't stop coaching, right, So
Speaker 13: he's the office Cincinnati to revive. Man, that's a talented
Speaker 13: team and with Tito up front, that could you know,
Speaker 13: if you happen to be a person who bats, maybe
Speaker 13: you look at the Reds a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, right. No, and I'm a Reds guy. I don't
Speaker 2: bet on baseball, but yeah, no, I think those fans
Speaker 2: will get a treat because he loves he's a competitor.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean he's there's so much talent on that team,
Speaker 13: in young talent. I think he's a great fit for that.
Speaker 13: But yeah, so, I mean it was great to have
Speaker 13: him involved. He received our take Tomy aerson a strong award.
Speaker 13: So Rich Tomey and Nancy were on hand to help
Speaker 13: handle that out, which is always amazing to see Rich
Speaker 13: like for those of us, like it sounds like the
Speaker 13: three of us who've been around this town a long
Speaker 13: time in sports, like you know, we all played summer
Speaker 13: baseball with the Tonys that at a Reed Park and
Speaker 13: all of that. So it's really fun. We keep growing
Speaker 13: bigger and bigger, and we have national scale attention, but
Speaker 13: it's I think one of the successful Thigs Steve and
Speaker 13: Tim is that we kept a small town deal and
Speaker 13: somehow we're going to try to keep that magic in
Speaker 13: a bottle of a small town game with a big
Speaker 13: time audience.
Speaker 3: Hey, Eric, this is Tim Bentley. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3: A Rich You're right, rich Tony, all those all those
Speaker 3: names have been around. I remember when Rich was he
Speaker 3: managing the sidewinders there for a while, or he was
Speaker 3: doing marketing and advertising anyway.
Speaker 13: Out he was definitely he was on staff out there,
Speaker 13: and we all spent a few summer nights out there.
Speaker 3: I do and I and I and so I'm just
Speaker 3: I'm so thrilled for you. I love your small town
Speaker 3: atmosphere comment, but you must be just over the moon
Speaker 3: thrilled to see the love for Snoop in the Olympics
Speaker 3: and the commercials. I mean, what built in advertising and
Speaker 3: branding awareness you're going to get.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I.
Speaker 13: Use a third party service to sort of quantify what
Speaker 13: we would be paying to get the attention we're getting
Speaker 13: for a snoop and it's there's a lot of zeros.
Speaker 8: A lot of zeros the go.
Speaker 13: But I'll tell you it's the most exciting part for
Speaker 13: us is how excited him and his team are to
Speaker 13: do this right. You know, they they're very communic kids
Speaker 13: with us. They want to make sure that we're doing
Speaker 13: things in the community. You know, we're doing the nil
Speaker 13: deal with the players. A couple of goals are go
Speaker 13: do that, but we're certainly one of the forefront leaders
Speaker 13: of that. And then just bring a game to experience.
Speaker 13: You know, we're talking about the old sideliners. We've all
Speaker 13: been around sports long enough to know like a big
Speaker 13: piece of its entertainment. Right if you're taking the kids
Speaker 13: in the family, whoever it is, your buddies, you know,
Speaker 13: especially to a game where you may not necessarily have
Speaker 13: a horse in the race man, You've got to be entertained.
Speaker 13: It's very gladiator, right, are you not entertained? And I
Speaker 13: don't think anybody will lead there. There was on a
Speaker 13: stadium in twenty eight not entertained.
Speaker 2: You don't have a horse in the race, but you
Speaker 2: have a dog in the race. So that's funny. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there you go a bo double G. And I'm sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sure because there's been a lot of hints. I
Speaker 2: saw some stories and maybe when came from you or something,
Speaker 2: the hints, Okay, he might, he might perform. He's gonna
Speaker 2: be here, you know, why not? Maybe dre Maybe there's
Speaker 2: a hint, and then I hint. Then I hear that
Speaker 2: the ticket sales are going so well they could be
Speaker 2: a sellout.
Speaker 7: Is uh?
Speaker 2: Can I put you ye?
Speaker 8: I mean where you can? I mean we are.
Speaker 13: I will say that it's like we're way ahead of
Speaker 13: where we've ever been in ticket sales at this point
Speaker 13: in the year, which is which is awesome. To the
Speaker 13: point where we are kind of considering opening that upper deck.
Speaker 13: We're not quite to that point right now. I think
Speaker 13: if we're able to get that forty thousand, which is
Speaker 13: the lower ball at Arizona, stadium and call that our
Speaker 13: cellout if you don't open the upper deck. That's a
Speaker 13: really great start. So this three year, three year deal,
Speaker 13: and I'll be really honest, you know, send those STEADI
Speaker 13: a long time. We we don't know if he's going
Speaker 13: to perform at halftime, like he's a very busy guy.
Speaker 13: So there's there's a little bit of back and forth
Speaker 13: on what that's going to look like. Who there's gonna be.
Speaker 13: But I will tell you, no matter what it is,
Speaker 13: you will see a lot of snoops here in Tucson,
Speaker 13: and it's going to be uh truthless name the snoop
Speaker 13: dogg Arizona Field. Here's the scoop I'll give you guys.
Speaker 13: I'll give a little eye on the ball. You will
Speaker 13: not recognize Arizona Stadium. You will you will see an
Speaker 13: experience on that field that has never been seen before.
Speaker 13: And if you didn't know where you were, you would
Speaker 13: not know you're you're sitting at Arizona Stadium. So it's
Speaker 13: gonna have a look, it's going to have a feel
Speaker 13: that that Tucson has not seen before.
Speaker 8: And we're very excited for that.
Speaker 2: Is it all? It's all sure? What is it? It?
Speaker 3: Is it is all it's gonna be all grass?
Speaker 8: We're a bill it with dirt. Yeah.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, speaking of the game, you know that you've
Speaker 3: got a great entertainment venue around the game. How does
Speaker 3: the new twelve team playoff affect you know, the teams
Speaker 3: that are available to roll into your game?
Speaker 4: Is it is it? Is it a Game of Thrones?
Speaker 4: Is it changed?
Speaker 1: Is it the same?
Speaker 8: Oh? Great reference to him, we're president in the Game
Speaker 8: of Thrones. Reference. I like that. Who will sit on
Speaker 8: the iron throw of the years a little?
Speaker 13: You know, I think it's a great question to him
Speaker 13: because it does affect us, you know, having the number
Speaker 13: two pack in both of our conferences in American and
Speaker 13: the Mountain West, especially on that Mountain West that today
Speaker 13: is a big day.
Speaker 8: Guy.
Speaker 13: Boise State plays U and LB in Vegas tonight and
Speaker 13: that's a big game in the Mountain West because Boise State.
Speaker 8: You know, for for all pundits and.
Speaker 13: Experts have locked up that that group of five did
Speaker 13: as the highest rank group of five. And I'll tell
Speaker 13: you they've earned it to this point. I mean, if
Speaker 13: you haven't seen gents play, that guy is generational. I mean,
Speaker 13: he is an outstanding outstanding running back doing stuff that
Speaker 13: I haven't seen since Reggie Bush, like just highlights every day.
Speaker 8: I mean, very similar, you know.
Speaker 13: To make a comparison here in Tuson, remember when Cole
Speaker 13: Payton that October you just fell him. Every time he
Speaker 13: touched the wall, he could break it. That's genty every
Speaker 13: game all gay. I think he's already like thirteen hundred
Speaker 13: yards and just cruise it and I'll tell you the
Speaker 13: best part of it. I've met him a couple of
Speaker 13: times and I've seen he's a very humble kid, like
Speaker 13: he just gets his work done. He's very complimentary.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 13: There was Travis Hunter came out after last week and
Speaker 13: basically said, and I think Travis deserves a lot of
Speaker 13: validity to this is you know, I don't know how
Speaker 13: anybody else will touch me in the Heisman.
Speaker 8: Is doing what I do.
Speaker 13: And that's certainly true. But he kind of specifically mentioned
Speaker 13: Dent about like, you know, a lot of yards are
Speaker 13: a lot of yards, but it's not against great a
Speaker 13: grant gives great competition, which you know, I think GenZ
Speaker 13: might argue that his two hundred yards against Oregon was
Speaker 13: pretty good competition. So and Gentry's response was like, Hey,
Speaker 13: Travis Sunster is a phenomenal football players and I'm doing
Speaker 13: amazing things this year, and he's really fun to watch,
Speaker 13: and I'm just gonna keep trying to do my thing.
Speaker 8: So uh yeah.
Speaker 2: And he probably could have said, and I'm doing it
Speaker 2: a minimum wage exactly right.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm not doing it with the Colorado wheel of experience.
Speaker 13: But say they answer your question and a long way
Speaker 13: it does affect us. Tonight will affect us because if
Speaker 13: Boise State goes, you know, if they don't, right now,
Speaker 13: we're looking at a Boise State or you and I'll
Speaker 13: be coming to Tucson, which is huge.
Speaker 8: That's great.
Speaker 13: They're both phenomenal football teams this year, you know, getting
Speaker 13: national attention. However, if Boise State goes, then that bumps
Speaker 13: our whole order. And now UNLD goes to the number
Speaker 13: one take in the LA Bowl and we're to the
Speaker 13: third church was still gonna be a great football team,
Speaker 13: not less as good football. But long answer to a
Speaker 13: short question, yeah, that's the fee really does affect us
Speaker 13: all the way down. So we'll be watching tonight with
Speaker 13: great anticipation.
Speaker 2: Before you go to just who got the short straw
Speaker 2: on going to Vegas for the night.
Speaker 8: You know I was.
Speaker 13: But after our launch him yesterday, we all we all
Speaker 13: kind of called it and said, now we're gonna we're
Speaker 13: gonna take a trip to the Midwest and the Maxim.
Speaker 13: You know, we do a phenomenal job of getting out
Speaker 13: to all of our venue as we go every year,
Speaker 13: Uh to several football games. This one seemed like Vegas.
Speaker 13: But I'll tell you what the you and I both know,
Speaker 13: of all the media, we end up in Vegas a lot. So, uh,
Speaker 13: my couch looked really Yeah, my couch looks a lot
Speaker 13: better than a quick Southwest flight. And uh, you know,
Speaker 13: a great football game, but you know, Vegas is Vegas,
Speaker 13: just Vegas is and you know, my my house and
Speaker 13: couch looked a lot more comfortable to watch that game tonight.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 8: You know, you don't even have to tell people. Everybody knows.
Speaker 4: Man home on Friday night. It's Monday night, eight o'clock.
Speaker 8: I got to do my hair, the good things.
Speaker 2: You still have hair? You're okay, Yeah, I'm roll over.
Speaker 8: I don't care if you're grades as long as it's
Speaker 8: still there.
Speaker 2: So you got two months, you got two months left.
Speaker 2: What's the what are the priorities.
Speaker 13: Really just doing as much as we can to make
Speaker 13: sure that you know, there's still somehow pockets of.
Speaker 8: Tucson while I kind of tell people what I do
Speaker 8: and they're.
Speaker 13: Like, oh, I'm not familiar with the Arizona Ball and
Speaker 13: I'm not sure how that happens. And that's that's kind
Speaker 13: of my, uh my crusade every day, if you will,
Speaker 13: is I just want to make my dad does a
Speaker 13: great job of letting me know every time he meets
Speaker 13: somebody that doesn't know what.
Speaker 8: The Arizona bull.
Speaker 13: That was a nice little reminder from Pops, like, oh,
Speaker 13: here's one more. All right, I got to do a
Speaker 13: better job. But I say a priority is you know,
Speaker 13: we're doing great on ticket sales. We're certainly gonna have
Speaker 13: a lot of attention, but like we really need our
Speaker 13: community to rally around this because you know, as you
Speaker 13: mentioned off the top, both of you and I'm saying, like,
Speaker 13: there is no year like this year for Snoop with
Speaker 13: the Olympics, with the boys, like he is America's mascot,
Speaker 13: and you know that's going to be just this year.
Speaker 13: He's certainly going to be one of the most recognizable
Speaker 13: faces in the world always, but this year the Yron
Speaker 13: is hot and we really need to take full advantage
Speaker 13: of that. So really need to rally the community around
Speaker 13: to make sure we have as many seats bills in
Speaker 13: that stadium as possible to win him with him and
Speaker 13: his team. And I'll tell you we're bringing a lot
Speaker 13: more national sponsors than we ever have when they're here
Speaker 13: in Tucson. You know, it's a chance to show off
Speaker 13: our community. It's a chance to show off what's great
Speaker 13: about Tucson, how they rally around things, even if it's
Speaker 13: not the University of Arizona.
Speaker 8: Just to make sure that this town is on the map.
Speaker 13: So that's that's probably my priorities to making sure there's
Speaker 13: no stone left unturned. I know about the Snoop Dogg
Speaker 13: Arizona Ble presented by Gin and Jeuds by Dry and
Speaker 13: Snooth Boys.
Speaker 3: Hey, I know you're working on the next two months
Speaker 3: until the game. But you know, I've been in this
Speaker 3: business long enough and you have too. Is you've got
Speaker 3: to keep an eye on the next fifteen months and
Speaker 3: then you know at the end, So like what sort
Speaker 3: of work is you are you and your team doing?
Speaker 4: Looking ahead?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: Not yead what are you doing to look ahead?
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I mean you can't in our business, right Tim.
Speaker 8: I mean it's such a.
Speaker 13: Such a valid point, like you can't just rest on
Speaker 13: the next two months, because if you start planning next
Speaker 13: year or two months for about three months late. So
Speaker 13: you know, Steve mentioned a few minutes ago that you know,
Speaker 13: you have with Snoop comes Dre and Marcus Stewart and
Speaker 13: some of those other people, and so you know, we
Speaker 13: have we have a three year contract with Snoop and
Speaker 13: his team, and so we want to make sure we're
Speaker 13: providing a unique experience every year, like we're One of
Speaker 13: the things that's a little odd to say, is like
Speaker 13: we're trying to be a little careful this year to
Speaker 13: make sure we don't do everything in year one, you know,
Speaker 13: so people come back next year you're like, oh, I
Speaker 13: thought I saw it.
Speaker 8: It's not like but you know, with.
Speaker 13: This team and and the people that he brings, I
Speaker 13: think I might have mentioned this is.
Speaker 8: The most interesting question I.
Speaker 13: Got in my in my ten year history of doing this,
Speaker 13: with how many private planes this year airports faith, That's
Speaker 13: a question that probably hasn't been asked a lot in TUSA.
Speaker 13: So you know that's the sandbox we're playing in.
Speaker 8: And so to your point, Tim, like we are, we're.
Speaker 13: Looking at next year and we're looking at like, Okay,
Speaker 13: what can we do this year, but what can we
Speaker 13: also do next year to keep people coming back, to
Speaker 13: keep it fresh, to keep it one of those bull
Speaker 13: games you just have to watch, even if you're not
Speaker 13: interested in the two teams, like you just got to watch,
Speaker 13: I mean, just just to see what's gonna happen, who's
Speaker 13: going to be on the field. I mean, I remind
Speaker 13: everybody last time Snoop was on a field with the
Speaker 13: microphone and saying at a football game was the super Bowl?
Speaker 13: That was there's a couple of zeros in the people
Speaker 13: and how to watch that too. So you know, we're excited,
Speaker 13: but I want to make sure we're not blowing it.
Speaker 4: I love the way that it shows off Tucson.
Speaker 3: You know, we were talking about how long we've lived here,
Speaker 3: and it really does show off Tucson and and how
Speaker 3: proud we are to live here. And so it's it's
Speaker 3: an amazing job. What what what kind of seats are available?
Speaker 3: What seats are left here for our local Yes.
Speaker 13: They're going quick, you know, We're a partner with seat Geek,
Speaker 13: so it's a really easy platform to use. They have
Speaker 13: seat views from every seat in the stadium. I will say, Tim,
Speaker 13: it's a great question because with having just the lower
Speaker 13: bowl for sale right now, there's not a bad seat.
Speaker 13: You know, you're you're not gonna be up high anywhere.
Speaker 13: If you are, we're probably in a really nice luxury area.
Speaker 13: But if you want to be up close to the
Speaker 13: action and see the snoop, you know from not far away.
Speaker 13: There's a few of those tickets, but they are going.
Speaker 13: I mean it's great. I pop on the tepeek every
Speaker 13: few days just to check and it's cool to see.
Speaker 13: The one thing I will say is with dynamic pricing,
Speaker 13: the pricing is going to go up because the as
Speaker 13: things happen and more people buy tickets.
Speaker 8: You know, it's it's.
Speaker 13: That kind of market in this economy that you know,
Speaker 13: my son like all the time in this economy. But yeah,
Speaker 13: I mean, it's still a very affordable ticket. It's great
Speaker 13: for a family for we have tons of food, beverages
Speaker 13: or tailgate is free to everyone. Even if you're not
Speaker 13: going to the game, we're going to try to talk
Speaker 13: you into going to the game. But there's gonna be
Speaker 13: some really exciting stuff at the tailgate.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 13: Again, like we have one day to put an imprint
Speaker 13: on the rest of the nation of Tucson. And you know,
Speaker 13: the biggest thing we keep telling people is you could
Speaker 13: have gone anywhere, not just college football, Like he could
Speaker 13: have gone anywhere.
Speaker 8: But he picked Tucson. So Tuson better stand up and
Speaker 8: make sure that he knows that was the best decision.
Speaker 2: In fact, that's that's kind of highlight what you do,
Speaker 2: what I do. You have some pretty cool cycling jerseys
Speaker 2: out and available to people. I was asking, Yeah, you
Speaker 2: should put that stuff on a T shirt.
Speaker 8: Yeah, actually we're looking at that stude. You know, you're
Speaker 8: you're always ahead of the game.
Speaker 13: But you know, one of the great things I love
Speaker 13: about Tucson and Tim you know this in your world
Speaker 13: at TC as well, is one of the things I
Speaker 13: love here is we don't really have competitors, like we
Speaker 13: have friends who do the same thing and we want
Speaker 13: all of them to be successful. So you know, we're
Speaker 13: great partners with the Rogunners and we sponsor each other
Speaker 13: to make sure that people are going to see the Roadgunners. Uh,
Speaker 13: you know, we're obviously sponsored with you of A and
Speaker 13: we're making sure that everything is going well all there.
Speaker 13: But the tour to Twoson is another one of those
Speaker 13: national eves on Tucson, you know, I mean it's Steven
Speaker 13: the team have done an amazing job making it one
Speaker 13: of the top seedings.
Speaker 8: Correct me on this number.
Speaker 13: I think it's top five races in the country. So,
Speaker 13: like we we wanted to be a part of it.
Speaker 13: We've been out. We have several people involved with us
Speaker 13: that want to ryde and so we created a jersey
Speaker 13: with Tour to Tuoson this year. I mean, TJ is awesome,
Speaker 13: he's you know, a friend of everyone. Uh So you
Speaker 13: can get an Arizona Bowl jersey. It's a really nice
Speaker 13: looking kit and then Marquez was sporting it on stage yesterday.
Speaker 8: It's a luncheon.
Speaker 13: Go to our website, the Arizona Bowl dot com and
Speaker 13: you can find it. But we are looking to make
Speaker 13: some runner shirts because the tour also has that five game,
Speaker 13: which is is a great opportunity. Like you know, I
Speaker 13: go every year and it's just it's an amazing opportunity.
Speaker 8: Like it's just so cool. It's one of those things
Speaker 8: that I don't.
Speaker 13: I don't ride anymore because I'm like you mentioned, I'm old,
Speaker 13: my knees are shot. But you know, I still love
Speaker 13: to go out and just be there and support at
Speaker 13: that starting line. And it's just a cool thing that
Speaker 13: our community and you know again have the visitors from
Speaker 13: all over the nation and really the world.
Speaker 3: You're right, exactly. So we talk a lot about to
Speaker 3: be a part of that. We talk a lot about
Speaker 3: healthy communities and that that's what you know, You're right,
Speaker 3: small community, We value each other, we take care of
Speaker 3: each other, we support each other, you know, because you know,
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Speaker 4: So well done, this is this is exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 13: I mean, thank you, Tim. We're trying to be a
Speaker 13: part of everyone else. Just on the boat with everyone
Speaker 13: on the boat.
Speaker 2: We've got to go, we've got to take off sor
Speaker 2: but me to you, Eric, I can't wait for the
Speaker 2: media gift. I will surprise us.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's it's on the top of my list. Man,
Speaker 13: I've been asking.
Speaker 3: And when Snoop's on the phone and you just you
Speaker 3: want to call in, we're here.
Speaker 4: We're here.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna steal your show name for
Speaker 13: a minute, and you know, keep your eye on the bowl.
Speaker 2: Yes, you tas you teas. Thanks man, Thanks.
Speaker 13: Yer, all right, thanks guys, I appreciate I have a
Speaker 13: great afternoon.
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Speaker 1: Tucson sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here at
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. You're Tim Bentley.
Speaker 2: You're one. We're almost three quarters of the week to
Speaker 2: our first hour here. We'll have breaking news about you,
Speaker 2: right sir, A couple of the hour, and then at
Speaker 2: four fifteen or four seventeen, we'll have David Adams talking
Speaker 2: about you a football See what be us he can
Speaker 2: do us.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to talk to him. I he was he
Speaker 3: was he is still, I'm sure, but he was a
Speaker 3: talented high school athletes Sundaysote High School.
Speaker 4: That was an era of just amazing athletes.
Speaker 2: You were young, you're younger, you're young.
Speaker 3: I'm a couple of years younger than him. But I
Speaker 3: remember watching those guys at uh, you know, track meets,
Speaker 3: in football games. It was just you know, Vance Johnson
Speaker 3: was around, David Adam, all those guys. It was just
Speaker 3: an era of high school sports. And you know, it's
Speaker 3: not that it was the best era, but it was
Speaker 3: an era and it happens in Tucson every six or
Speaker 3: seven years.
Speaker 4: There's just a group of kids that are great athletes.
Speaker 2: So Tim, so when we get him in here, I
Speaker 2: want you because you know, he's kind of an insecure gentleman.
Speaker 2: He doesn't really think highly of himself. So why don't
Speaker 2: you bring him back to his high school days because
Speaker 2: you know he'll probably perk him up a little.
Speaker 4: I want to ask him who broke his long jump record?
Speaker 4: Maybe he'll maybe.
Speaker 2: No, No, that's stuff. David didn't do it. I think
Speaker 2: it was that. And of course, like Pois, because David,
Speaker 2: there's no more there's no one more confident than David
Speaker 2: Adams than I've ever met.
Speaker 3: You know, but think about it. You know, some of
Speaker 3: the best athletes. Jan and I were talking some of
Speaker 3: the best athletes. You know, they this this confidence that
Speaker 3: they carry with them. You know, you and I were
Speaker 3: talking about, you know, the sports and participation in outside
Speaker 3: activities preparing you for life. You know, some of the
Speaker 3: confidence that you gain as an athlete, as as a
Speaker 3: competitor and even as a participant at stuff is it
Speaker 3: just does wonders in your life.
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to talk to David.
Speaker 3: We can talk a little track if you want to
Speaker 3: ask him why didn't go out for cross country?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm a speedster. Don't mess with me, man. Uh No,
Speaker 2: we'll talk to him. I'm looking forward to that. Okay,
Speaker 2: if anybody wants to call, you have about ten minutes
Speaker 2: here with us a five to zero four one six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty. We'd love to hear from you. I
Speaker 2: talked about the game and all that for this weekend.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow afternoon. Are you gonna go. It's gonna be like
Speaker 2: ninety seven tomorrow. I think in late October you're gonna
Speaker 2: be there, right, But I'll be in this guy so
Speaker 2: I won't be too hot.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna be in the stands kind of watching
Speaker 2: just as a fan to see what I see.
Speaker 3: We asked this last week, what what What's going to
Speaker 3: make you feel good tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Even a close game?
Speaker 5: Do we do?
Speaker 4: We do we crush them? Do we do we hold on?
Speaker 2: Let me ask you did we make predictions last week?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 2: I want to leave. So I didn't think they'd win?
Speaker 2: Did I? No? Did you guys think? What'd you guys predict?
Speaker 4: We we wanted a good game. We were we thought
Speaker 4: there are gonna.
Speaker 3: Lose, okay, but we want to I turned on the
Speaker 3: game like three minutes in and it was we were down.
Speaker 2: By seven, seven right right right? Damn?
Speaker 4: You know I it's like you know one you're gonna
Speaker 4: be there.
Speaker 3: You go to the uved I think you know we
Speaker 3: were talking earlier in the in the in the segment
Speaker 3: we want to you know, we we desperately wanted something.
Speaker 4: So we want to see some fight.
Speaker 3: We want to see a couple of good plays, some
Speaker 3: sustained drives, you know, people making making plays. I think
Speaker 3: if you can show us that and it's a close
Speaker 3: game and we either we have a chance at the end.
Speaker 2: You know, let me ask you this. You're bringing up
Speaker 2: the things that they introduced. So they're through six games,
Speaker 2: seven games already, seven weeks of this. If they haven't
Speaker 2: done it to this point, what gives you, guys hope
Speaker 2: that they will in the next two weeks.
Speaker 3: It's because we've lived in Tucson for forty five years
Speaker 3: and we have hope, We hope.
Speaker 2: We talked about that earlier. How much hope do you
Speaker 2: have in that reservoir.
Speaker 4: Is getting low?
Speaker 3: But I think, you know, honestly, you know, we talked
Speaker 3: about it last week. Is you know, let's let's beat
Speaker 3: as U, lick our wounds and come back next year.
Speaker 3: But you know, I can live week to week. Let's
Speaker 3: you know, we got a chance.
Speaker 9: It's I mean, for me, it's it's the demeanor of
Speaker 9: the players. I don't think they've given up on the season.
Speaker 9: You okay, let's go to this professor. What what how
Speaker 9: do you what? How do you see the demeanor? What?
Speaker 9: What do you see? Because I see I don't see that.
Speaker 9: I don't I don't see that they've given up. Okay,
Speaker 9: a little bit less motivated in their walk or their
Speaker 9: talk or what. Okay, just just by the look of them. Okay,
Speaker 9: let me just counter that real quick. Okay, and I
Speaker 9: don't I'm not gonna argue there. But here's my problem.
Speaker 2: They haven't been competitive the last few games, and to me,
Speaker 2: that's part of the demeanor of wanting to be there
Speaker 2: because they haven't been competitive. Colorado that was a boring game.
Speaker 2: Kansas State that was a debacle. The BYU game another one.
Speaker 2: So to your point, where do you see it? Because
Speaker 2: I don't. Maybe it's old eyes.
Speaker 9: So just going back to the BYU game, they competed
Speaker 9: for that first half. Things kind of spiraled out of
Speaker 9: the control in that second half. You know, it got
Speaker 9: away from them. Colorado, it was pretty much over after
Speaker 9: that first kick. You know, they get that first kick,
Speaker 9: they steal a drive, and now they're motivated and now
Speaker 9: they there's a potential potentially go move the ball down
Speaker 9: the field, score touchdowns. But that that that game also
Speaker 9: got away from the pretty quick.
Speaker 2: You know they they they but they did. If you're
Speaker 2: motivated long, if you're motivated and good, If you're motivating
Speaker 2: good and you want to win at least try to win,
Speaker 2: you don't let it get out of your way, get
Speaker 2: out of hand. You just don't. Am I talking not.
Speaker 4: Through exactly right? You know, you want to see some
Speaker 4: fire on the field.
Speaker 3: And we're maybe joke about it a little bit with
Speaker 3: this false hope, but you want to see some fire,
Speaker 3: you want you want to believe.
Speaker 2: Have you seen that?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: And I know not since the early mid September. I mean,
Speaker 3: it just feels ah crud as shucks.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: It's you want to see some fire, you want, you
Speaker 3: want to get fired up to, you want to be
Speaker 3: you want to believe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm with you, Steve. It's it's a little
Speaker 4: tough to see. I want to meet your day to
Speaker 4: day and I don't have a.
Speaker 2: Dog, you know, I don't have a dog or horse
Speaker 2: or whatever in the race because I just know what
Speaker 2: I know. And it's and I could be totally wrong,
Speaker 2: which of course half the time I am. But it's
Speaker 2: when you're getting beat like that, then you wonder what's
Speaker 2: the problem. What because there's got to be there's got
Speaker 2: okay one time, mistake, second time, okay, three times. Then
Speaker 2: you're thinking, you know, your wife tells you three times
Speaker 2: and bring them up home. All I forgot it. Second
Speaker 2: time you bring it, don't bring it out and your
Speaker 2: third time. Now you have an issue. Right, you're no
Speaker 2: longer married.
Speaker 4: You're having a talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you're having a talk. Right.
Speaker 4: I'm wondering what kind of talks? What are they talking
Speaker 4: about in the locker room? I mean, new coach? Is
Speaker 4: it is he? Is he trying to gather as people together?
Speaker 4: Are the players?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: I don't know if you heard anything on you know,
Speaker 4: are there? Are the players? Are they what are they
Speaker 4: doing to motivate each other?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 3: That's that's the question I have as as a as
Speaker 3: a former coach, like what is happening inside the locker room?
Speaker 2: You may know this last week I thought I saw
Speaker 2: a tweet somewhere maybe there was a team meeting. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you saw that or didn't see that,
Speaker 2: or I didn't say anything like that. Yeah, so usually
Speaker 2: when that happens, you know, you're kind of at the
Speaker 2: desparate rope area. And uh, that's a good thing that
Speaker 2: they know that there are issues and they got to
Speaker 2: get them fixed. I don't know if it's come to that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought I may have seen it
Speaker 2: or read it or something. I just don't know if
Speaker 2: that's a factor.
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 9: I think right now, you know, you don't want to
Speaker 9: blame a lack of winning on one specific thing, but
Speaker 9: the injuries are getting.
Speaker 2: To no question, and that's a factor.
Speaker 9: So so going going back to the things get out
Speaker 9: of hand and things things start to tip towards the
Speaker 9: other team that that defense was doing okay during Colorado,
Speaker 9: but then you lose someone like Jacob Manu off of
Speaker 9: a freak injury, and a lot of a lot of
Speaker 9: that will and hope just kind of goes away. You
Speaker 9: kind of wait for someone to step up, but you
Speaker 9: rely heavily on that person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get so that's gone now, I get it again.
Speaker 2: And there's a few, Like you said, I think how
Speaker 2: you're talked about the just sent a tweet earlier today about, uh,
Speaker 2: there's only like four or two for last year's from last.
Speaker 9: Year as of right now, depends on to Caryo Davis status.
Speaker 9: He has been unable to finish the last two games.
Speaker 9: Dalton Johnson is the only starter from last year's defense
Speaker 9: still playing.
Speaker 2: There must be another player or two on the offensive side,
Speaker 2: so there aren't aren't very many. And I get that
Speaker 2: that this team is decimated.
Speaker 4: But you still want to see.
Speaker 3: You know, there's still the second string guy that you
Speaker 3: still want to see that fire.
Speaker 2: Well, they talk about that, right, the next man up.
Speaker 3: Let's go your your collegiate football players today double A
Speaker 3: Division one. Yeah, you know, I understand your your you know,
Speaker 3: you're young guy. But let's step up, you know, let's
Speaker 3: let's get fired up. And that's what I think you
Speaker 3: want to see. Even if they're losing, you know, and
Speaker 3: they're but they're fighting.
Speaker 2: And that's it. They're losing, but they're fighting, and and
Speaker 2: maybe they're they're fighting and I've just not seen it
Speaker 2: because thirty seven to eight and all those numbers that
Speaker 2: they're doesn't really show it. Does that make sense?
Speaker 9: And that's the only thing I wasn't gonna do that
Speaker 9: last week you saw it go away a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I don't see that they've given up, right, And
Speaker 2: guess what, no one's gonna admit it.
Speaker 3: No, they never do. Nobody ever admits that I've given up.
Speaker 3: But they're my eye on the future.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Now, these kids can move around quite a bit. You
Speaker 4: know what's next for me?
Speaker 2: So so Tim, you're in the you're in the give business,
Speaker 2: at least for TMC, not you, but the organization. So
Speaker 2: you guys give money to organizations you feel worthy. No,
Speaker 2: that's called the nil. People are giving money to players
Speaker 2: who think they are worthy. Right, how do you how
Speaker 2: do you if you're a kid, how do you sell this?
Speaker 2: If you're a if you're a giver, how are you
Speaker 2: going to be convinced that we're going to be better?
Speaker 3: You know, you have to talk about return on investment and ROI. Baby,
Speaker 3: let's go. And you hate to think about it with eighteen,
Speaker 3: nineteen twenty year old kids, but you know there's there's
Speaker 3: a return on investment. People want to give to a
Speaker 3: product that you know provides an ROI, whether that's wins
Speaker 3: or value to.
Speaker 4: The community, value to them, value to the donor. You
Speaker 4: need that back.
Speaker 3: And so maybe these kids, you know, with that I
Speaker 3: what's next?
Speaker 4: There's not a value right now? And I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's all playing out in real time.
Speaker 2: And guess what, I'm Missouri, and what's the model you
Speaker 2: got to show me? First? Well, here's your chance exactly?
Speaker 3: These these kids and who it's like I'm saying, it's
Speaker 3: it's so brand new kids are moving for a bigger contract.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's collegiate NFL.
Speaker 3: Type stuff, right, So kids are leaving for the next
Speaker 3: contract and get a deal over here.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 3: You can't say that these kids have an eye on
Speaker 3: what's next. But you know the reality is is season
Speaker 3: to season, it's it's it's game to gain, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean we talked about it last week. Coaches are
Speaker 3: recruiting kids after each game. Hey man, a tough game.
Speaker 3: I know we lost, but man, you're part of my team.
Speaker 3: I need you here through the end of the season
Speaker 3: and I need you next year. You know, I mean
Speaker 3: the recruiting each each game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, coach put up. Hey man, I'm running
Speaker 2: a little low on this and il.
Speaker 4: Money right, you know.
Speaker 3: I just saw where you know, somebody just you know,
Speaker 3: showed me some money in Missouri, you know, And I'm
Speaker 3: in that same league.
Speaker 4: So who knows what I can? You know, my agent,
Speaker 4: I vote for sale.
Speaker 2: About for sale, it's a fire sales. Speaking of showing
Speaker 2: them show me the money. I got something coming up
Speaker 2: for you. Got to go right too, right where already?
Speaker 2: That was a quick segment