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Speaker 5: You have year.
Speaker 6: BigGAN Zalla Binger's in here at Del's home. You know
Speaker 6: I'm here, I can I can show up once a month.
Speaker 5: And brought along Greg Hanson from the daily start from
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty two and today.
Speaker 6: You know, I was thinking, I mean, this is like
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty years of Tucson sports knowledge sitting
Speaker 6: at this table right here.
Speaker 5: That that and two dollars will give us a two
Speaker 5: dollars Is that?
Speaker 6: Is that a compliment or is that a well?
Speaker 2: The guy that puts us over the edge is Greg
Speaker 2: forty five, but my thirty eight year forty two. That's right.
Speaker 6: So we're here at casino. Del sold the sole sports
Speaker 6: sports book. We've got Greg Hanson joining us for the
Speaker 6: two hours. Greg obviously got nothing better to do with
Speaker 6: his life than hang with us for a while.
Speaker 2: Right, you can't use the mile. You can't do miles
Speaker 2: on this trip here for your taxes. Yeah, okay, but.
Speaker 6: We're gonna be here for a couple hours leading into
Speaker 6: the first college football semi final tonight Notre Dame and
Speaker 6: UH and Penn State. There's also another game tomorrow and
Speaker 6: then the NFL playoffs get started this weekend. So if
Speaker 6: you're inclined to come and hang out watch the big
Speaker 6: screens here, put a little wager down. This is a
Speaker 6: great place to do that. It's a it's a great venue.
Speaker 6: I love it here. Might stick around for a little
Speaker 6: while after the show. Yeah, that's that's a smart move.
Speaker 6: It starts at five thirty. Yeah, the game starts at
Speaker 6: five thirty.
Speaker 2: Starts a five thirty, so you know, you might linger
Speaker 2: and have some fun of a cocktail. And we have
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Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: I don't have that anyway, but there's some UFC stuff
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Speaker 6: watch your uh uh watch your game win. So but
Speaker 6: we are gonna be here for a couple of hours
Speaker 6: as we are once a month, and then we're gonna
Speaker 6: do this again one more time as we head into
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl next next month.
Speaker 2: So yeah, sure, a lot of fun. Hey, a big
Speaker 2: day to day at you A right? U A football
Speaker 2: kind of they're trying to save save the future, so good,
Speaker 2: good moves, guys. What do you think I mean? I
Speaker 2: think so oh.
Speaker 5: I thought it would be a stand up double if
Speaker 5: they hired the Boise State defensive coordinator who I thought
Speaker 5: was in the in the pitcher and they end up
Speaker 5: getting Joe Salavea is there assistant head coach and elevate
Speaker 5: Danny Gonzalez to defensive coordinator former head coach in New Mexico.
Speaker 2: Right, I think it's more like a home run. I agree,
Speaker 2: And here's here's the things that, you know. I've come to.
Speaker 6: The realization that, you know, the football offseason, people want
Speaker 6: to get caught up in who's getting recruited, who's in
Speaker 6: the portal, who's coming out of the portal, who are
Speaker 6: they getting who are the recruits. You're not going to
Speaker 6: know anything about this team until you see them on
Speaker 6: the field in September. Don't you think, I mean anymore,
Speaker 6: you can't. You can't even glean anything from spring practice.
Speaker 6: You think you got good guys, and you don't know
Speaker 6: if you like the guys. I mean, who thought as
Speaker 6: he was going to be good last year?
Speaker 2: Not me, not you?
Speaker 5: Right, So that's the best example. Nobody knew they were
Speaker 5: going to be good because they're a picked last right.
Speaker 5: And that's so.
Speaker 2: Do you think if you win the portal? If you
Speaker 2: win the portal and what winning means, I don't know? Right, Well,
Speaker 2: that's the question. You win, You win the portal, and
Speaker 2: then you win in September. Yeah, I mean, but here's
Speaker 2: the thing. You don't know if you've won the portal, Well,
Speaker 2: you don't know, you know. I Mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 6: I remember when Bill Bill Norton left, Okay, guy came
Speaker 6: from he came in from Georgia, had a great year
Speaker 6: with a you know, on the defensive line. I saw
Speaker 6: camp Scataboo make a format out of him in you know,
Speaker 6: in the in the bowl game or in the playoff
Speaker 6: game last week.
Speaker 2: You know at Texas. How many plays did he play?
Speaker 2: Maybe eight? Ten plays? Sure he's get he played about
Speaker 2: five plays per game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know, I'm sure he got a bunch
Speaker 6: of money to do that. But you know, Arizona loses
Speaker 6: a guy and how good was he? He was great
Speaker 6: for Arizona, but was he Texas good? Apparently not? So
Speaker 6: you don't know, Steve, I think I think, you know,
Speaker 6: Arizona maybe getting all these guys. There's the receiver they
Speaker 6: got yesterday from Chattanooga, you know, an All American FCS guy.
Speaker 6: He might be Jacob Colling, or he might be we
Speaker 6: don't know, somebody else. And that's the weird thing is
Speaker 6: that we're not going to know. Do we see these
Speaker 6: guys on the field?
Speaker 2: Greg, would you happen to know, and I don't know
Speaker 2: if you want to disclose, but would you happen to
Speaker 2: know what the the NIL budget? If there is a budget?
Speaker 2: And what would you guess? All right here?
Speaker 5: I talked last week to Gary Bernardi, head recruiting coach
Speaker 5: here for like seven years. His son's now the offensive
Speaker 5: line coach at West Western Kentucky. Western Kentucky Kentucky came
Speaker 5: after one of their alignement. Gary said they offered him
Speaker 5: three hundred thousand and he turned it down. He was
Speaker 5: going to stick with his buddies. They appealed to him.
Speaker 5: Two weeks later, Kentucky offered him five hundred thousand, and
Speaker 5: he left. Wow, I believe that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 7: We can Play's going to tell you that because his
Speaker 7: son told him that, you know, you got our first gem.
Speaker 7: All right, So if Kentucky's paying five hundred thousand for
Speaker 7: a Western Kentucky offensive lineman, right, it's outrageous.
Speaker 2: Messed up, It's just messed up. Yeah, who's going to
Speaker 2: go for what? Right? I saw yesterday in a story
Speaker 2: where he is eleven. I guess from the issue the
Speaker 2: quarterback his estimation is three million, three million for him?
Speaker 5: Who who in Phoenix is going to give him three
Speaker 5: million dollars.
Speaker 6: Or if it's three million, he's going to go if
Speaker 6: that's his market price in ASU doesn't give it to
Speaker 6: him and somebody else does.
Speaker 2: That's where he's going to go. That's what his value is.
Speaker 2: And he's staying so so he's just one man. He's
Speaker 2: just one guy.
Speaker 5: How did he get so out of whack so fast?
Speaker 5: I don't know the price of winning has gone to.
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean what I mean, everybody, we all heard,
Speaker 6: whether it's true or not, that cam Ward got two
Speaker 6: million dollars in Miami. I mean, what's a what's a college?
Speaker 6: I look, we're doing get off my lawn kind of
Speaker 6: stuff here. But it's amazing that that the market is at.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, we had Mberto Lopez on when
Speaker 6: you know it started, when when all this you know
Speaker 6: came fruition with you know, uh Team AC and all
Speaker 6: those guys staying and Umberto had you know, signed a
Speaker 6: contract with him with Team Act to do stuff for him.
Speaker 6: He didn't disclose how much he got, but you had
Speaker 6: to be it had to be in the hundreds of
Speaker 6: thousands of dollars.
Speaker 5: In the same with right, That's why he's still here. Probably, yeah,
Speaker 5: well this is this is this thing.
Speaker 2: And you know them, Greg, I know a few of them,
Speaker 2: the people with the money.
Speaker 5: Shouldn't you or wouldn't you have buyer's remorse. Oh and
Speaker 5: if you got to renew it this coming year, it goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, are you saying I paid this for
Speaker 2: that and you asking for more? And what if they're
Speaker 2: not any good? That's it. You know.
Speaker 6: Let's let's say you entice a guy from Chattanooga to
Speaker 6: come here, say okay, we're gonna give you X.
Speaker 2: Then he comes here and he socks. You know, what
Speaker 2: do you think about that investment?
Speaker 6: And what do you think about that investment the next
Speaker 6: time you get asked to make it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I hey, I'm god, I don't have any money.
Speaker 2: No one's calling me, no one's calling me.
Speaker 5: His performance was not worth one hundred thousand dollars that
Speaker 5: last year, Probably got paid more, probably get more of
Speaker 5: this coming year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you hope that the new the new
Speaker 6: offensive coordinator you know, can can fix that. And you know,
Speaker 6: you like to think that, you know, a youthful guy
Speaker 6: with a youthful look at how offenses worked, that might
Speaker 6: get Fefeeda's value back up. But then again, you know
Speaker 6: what about what happens after that? And and and if
Speaker 6: you were if you were the one, whoever it is
Speaker 6: in Tucson, that's paying nor Fefeita. You know, he's got
Speaker 6: the tuss on in your National Airport ad that he's
Speaker 6: doing and stuff like that. Uh, you know, if you're
Speaker 6: paying no Affida, you know, are you paying him again
Speaker 6: this year based on what he did last year? I mean,
Speaker 6: as a businessman, you'd think that wasn't a good investment.
Speaker 6: But on the other hand, if you think he's got potential,
Speaker 6: then maybe they maybe it is.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking Arizona's budget for NIL football isn't that huge
Speaker 5: because the players are getting are from low level schools.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mercy, Yeah, Chattanooga. Yeah. You just hope that they're good.
Speaker 2: You just hope that they're good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, and and and you know, you hear
Speaker 6: you hear coaches talk about the fact that I'd rather
Speaker 6: have a kid from a winning group.
Speaker 2: Of four an FCS program.
Speaker 6: He's got two years under his belt than a high
Speaker 6: school kid that we think we think might be good
Speaker 6: but as yet to be hitting the mouth in the
Speaker 6: college game. And that those guys, you know, you'll they'll
Speaker 6: take that experience over over somebody brand new, And you
Speaker 6: take your chances with those guys.
Speaker 2: Gif you do both this, Okay, so you got this
Speaker 2: team and you're the coach. Now, I'm curious, Greg, if
Speaker 2: a coach or to pastor president from other schools are
Speaker 2: here have told you I don't like coaching in this situation.
Speaker 2: The kids will making one fifty fifty add more, and
Speaker 2: here I am having to yell at them and tell
Speaker 2: them and by blah blah, and they're probably saying in
Speaker 2: their mind, shut the hell.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how does the UCLA basketball players bringing in two
Speaker 6: fifty think about what Mick Cronan said about him last night?
Speaker 2: Exactly, you don't want me to play for you even more?
Speaker 2: Ad there. I would have fired him yesterday. But his
Speaker 2: payouts too much? Is it? Really?
Speaker 6: Who would come to play for him? We've been saying
Speaker 6: that for years, Greg, but they keep coming.
Speaker 2: There are averaging fifty nine points a game at UCLA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're averaging fifty five hundred fans per home game.
Speaker 5: And if he hadn't inherited Homi Hawky has and Tyger Campbell,
Speaker 5: he would have been fired already.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. That was crazy. So I got
Speaker 2: off the subject there, but you know, but agree, Steve.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is it's turned everything upside down, and
Speaker 6: we know that, and and that's the way it is.
Speaker 2: But you just wonder, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe we'll see, we'll see things figure themselves out when
Speaker 6: the whole revenue sharing things starts, you know, in the
Speaker 6: in the fall or in the summer.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: And that's what a lot of people are saying, is that, Okay,
Speaker 6: when everybody's paying out of their coffers, you know, how
Speaker 6: does it change and how important does nil come?
Speaker 2: Is it still going to be important?
Speaker 6: Are you still going to have to go get nil
Speaker 6: money for guys on top of what the school is paying.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no question that's going to probably be the case. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think of Ohio stand and all those linemen. They're
Speaker 5: paying five hundred thousand dollars age. I mean in the
Speaker 5: coach we were paying.
Speaker 6: He said two million, he said yeah, he said they
Speaker 6: had no twenty million, twelve twelve something, you know, multiple
Speaker 6: millions you know for for uh in nil for that team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense when you're trying to buy a
Speaker 2: championship and you may not even buy the championship, Well,
Speaker 2: you still got to win some games. Win some games.
Speaker 5: That's the other thing to get the players guess what
Speaker 5: they still have to be coached. Yeah, don't end me
Speaker 5: the coaches, and you better be damn good if you're
Speaker 5: a coach, because guess what, your your your length of
Speaker 5: stay is not good unless you're winning. That was the
Speaker 5: case before, but now it's now it's quickly.
Speaker 6: Well, let me throw this out there from a from
Speaker 6: a basketball standpoint, at a UFA basketball standpoint. You know
Speaker 6: the top that I have with, you know the you
Speaker 6: know the people that I hang with and stuff. A
Speaker 6: lot of discussion about how Arizona has suddenly flipped a
Speaker 6: switch or something and that and what it and the
Speaker 6: way the way we're diagnosing it is that you know,
Speaker 6: the three guards out there, love love, Bradley and and
Speaker 6: uh and kJ Lewis just didn't seem to be on
Speaker 6: the same page. And all of a sudden something happened,
Speaker 6: and maybe Tommy Lloyd said if I'm Tommy and said, Okay,
Speaker 6: I don't know how much money you guys are making,
Speaker 6: or maybe I do know how much, but you're not
Speaker 6: going to keep making that money if you guys don't
Speaker 6: get your stuff together and start playing together better. Right
Speaker 6: your you know your NBA stock and you guys are
Speaker 6: trying to It looked to us like they're each one
Speaker 6: of those guys was trying to get his own and
Speaker 6: that seemed there was just a lot of dysfunction in
Speaker 6: the way they they ran around.
Speaker 2: That's what your group is like, call it just came
Speaker 2: up and that's what we came up with.
Speaker 6: And that and and that each was trying to get
Speaker 6: his own, whether it was to get in the NBA,
Speaker 6: whether it was to make more money or whatever, and
Speaker 6: it wasn't working there they're four and five, and maybe
Speaker 6: Tom got to them and said, guys, whatever you think
Speaker 6: you're doing, it's not working.
Speaker 2: And something happened.
Speaker 6: That's how we've diagnosed what's happened with this team over
Speaker 6: the last several games.
Speaker 2: I have a different thought, But what's your thoughts. You
Speaker 2: can't take the money away from them, right, you can't
Speaker 2: take it away from them.
Speaker 6: But if you're crappy, you're not going to make a
Speaker 6: bunch more money next year because if you're Caleb Love,
Speaker 6: you're not getting get drafted or kJ Lewis or whatever.
Speaker 6: And if you stay, who's going to give you money
Speaker 6: if your team doesn't make NC double a tournament?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean kJ Lewis next year would be in New.
Speaker 6: Mexico right right that And so I'd like to think
Speaker 6: that somewhere along the line, whether it was Tommy or
Speaker 6: somebody else, said, you guys got it.
Speaker 2: You guys got to work this out. So the group
Speaker 2: that you hang with a few of them ten maybe
Speaker 2: I was give you ten have said this team has
Speaker 2: gotten better, Yes, the better. See, in my thoughts, maybe
Speaker 2: they played teams that they're just better than bingo bingo,
Speaker 2: and guess what they'll They'll play the next two teams
Speaker 2: better than they are. You know, they're better than But
Speaker 2: when the teams like Iowa State in the Houston's an
Speaker 2: not that come in, you're gonna say, well, they're not
Speaker 2: as good. Well, they're just they're playing better teams. But
Speaker 2: the teams okay, West Virginia, West Virginia kicked a living
Speaker 2: crap out of them, though there was a one off
Speaker 2: I could have been a one off, but that's one.
Speaker 6: But that's my point, Steve, is that they were playing
Speaker 6: like crap during all that time. But you know, you
Speaker 6: know Wisconsin and and and uh and you see, I
Speaker 6: mean you see Las turned out to be not a
Speaker 6: very good team.
Speaker 2: That they that they.
Speaker 5: Lost for Michigan is a pretty damn good play team
Speaker 5: as well. I don't know you were going to agree
Speaker 5: with me for a Right before the Cincinnati game, I
Speaker 5: went down their schedule and went, I wish I was
Speaker 5: a place where I could bet, because they're not any good.
Speaker 5: They've beaten nobody. Yeah, they've beaten nobody. So I wasn't
Speaker 5: surprised when Arizona pounded them. Yeah, and I looked at
Speaker 5: West Virginia's and I know they didn't have their guy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they didn't have their guy, and that to me, it
Speaker 5: was a big difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well yeah, I don't know, but they but Steve, it's
Speaker 6: still looks better.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no question. It looks better what they're
Speaker 2: doing there.
Speaker 6: There seems to be you know, I remember last time
Speaker 6: we talked about this, you know, I said that it
Speaker 6: looks like chaos over there, and and and it just
Speaker 6: looks better now.
Speaker 2: No, it does look better. They're playing better together, at
Speaker 2: least part the Naked eye or whatever. But we gotta go.
Speaker 2: We gotta go. Before we go, we're gonna have Greg
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Speaker 5: Weber number one? Really okay?
Speaker 2: V John Robinson number two? Okay? And the Laney Snell Okay, okay, Wolfgang?
Speaker 2: Because did he he didn't win another one?
Speaker 18: Did he?
Speaker 2: Four in a row?
Speaker 3: Plus?
Speaker 5: Okay, I got seven hundred and seventy four wins. He's
Speaker 5: taking that aparts. Is one more than Dick McConnell in basketball,
Speaker 5: and McConnell plays so many more games.
Speaker 2: Plus you know soccer. See, yeah, that guy's a he's
Speaker 2: the he's the grandfather of soccer and Tucson. He's about
Speaker 2: eighty something seventy eight seventy eight, okay, almost as old
Speaker 2: as you. That was cheap. I'm sorry you walked to Julian.
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Speaker 2: Noted Dame in Penn State. But I you know, I
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to read it. Are we in it?
Speaker 2: In what top one hundred. Like you said, what I
Speaker 2: was just receiving. There's a different list for you. J
Speaker 2: there's a different list you quit.
Speaker 6: So I look, dude, I'm in my third or fifth
Speaker 6: year of stat keeping. It doesn't that count for something?
Speaker 6: Wait till the Pima College Sports Hall Fame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so we're talking to football obviously. Let me
Speaker 2: ask you a question. This is here question gree Uh,
Speaker 2: you're still doing columns for the Star and doing kind
Speaker 2: of the profiles Wendy just on Sunday, how would how
Speaker 2: would you have handled this year's football season? Critical?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: Insight? How would you have handled it? Because they were
Speaker 5: not any good? They were bad? I mean they were
Speaker 5: historically and you can lie to me here, but but
Speaker 5: I'm asking you a serious question. I'm glad I wasn't
Speaker 5: on it regularly because I really liked Dino Babors. Anybody
Speaker 5: who's been around him, Yeah, that guy's the first smart,
Speaker 5: smarty and he just mailed it in. He did buy out.
Speaker 2: Babors came in and did Kevin someone and I I
Speaker 2: didn't have.
Speaker 6: To write about that, and I and I that's how
Speaker 6: I kind of felt like, any man, this is the
Speaker 6: offense you ran in the you know, in the late nineties,
Speaker 6: and it doesn't work anymore. That's not how it works anymore.
Speaker 6: And and and the thing was that they persisted with
Speaker 6: that the whole nothing changed from game to game.
Speaker 2: You know, he had not called play since two thousand
Speaker 2: in a two Wow.
Speaker 5: Suddenly twenty two years later he's calling plays here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's not good.
Speaker 2: That's not good. Whose feet do you put that at
Speaker 2: Brendan's feet?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 6: For doing that and thinking that Babers was gonna good
Speaker 6: or did Babers convince him I can do this?
Speaker 5: Well maybe a little bit about it. The Babors called me,
Speaker 5: I would said wow, I would have thought, yeah, how
Speaker 5: could we get a better guy than this Syracuse head coach?
Speaker 5: And then if you look at his background, though Syracuse
Speaker 5: was off looks at one ear, he did well bowling
Speaker 5: Green and they did well this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah without his hand, wins without him. So so you
Speaker 2: talk about Babors, what about Brennan though you know him,
Speaker 2: you've done it for a long time. He came in
Speaker 2: and he was not dynamic. I mean, that's no better
Speaker 2: where I could find. It was just non dynamic. How
Speaker 2: would have that been?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: He had no edge to him. He had no presence.
Speaker 2: This is my opinion. Yeah, of course, now you're you're
Speaker 2: I think you're right.
Speaker 5: TV cameras a few times they showed him. He looked
Speaker 5: just like a spectator. How often do you see a
Speaker 5: head coach who are just standing there and okay, so
Speaker 5: that's what he's done this year. Don't you think, against
Speaker 5: whatever odds, that he has to change that. If you
Speaker 5: can't be that again, the.
Speaker 2: New athletic director, she's not gonna let that go on again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, yeah, you can't be Mike Stoops. But
Speaker 6: you there's today. In today's you know, college sports world,
Speaker 6: appearances are more important than they used to be. You
Speaker 6: can't be Dick Tomy on the sidelines anymore, which is
Speaker 6: what Brent Brannan was.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would see Dick, you know, get fired up
Speaker 6: a time, you know, and we can see Brent Brennan
Speaker 6: get fired up once in a while. But you're right,
Speaker 6: Dick would walk the sidelines and you say, who's doing
Speaker 6: the coaching right? And now they were good and you
Speaker 6: know a lot of times and so you thought, okay,
Speaker 6: he's got guys. But in this case, you know that
Speaker 6: the offense was so terrible, and you just didn't feel
Speaker 6: like Brennan was in control of that.
Speaker 2: For some reason.
Speaker 5: To me, he looks more like a head football coach
Speaker 5: and Jed Fish, but Fish would hold a play calling
Speaker 5: sheet up in front of his face, he put on headphones,
Speaker 5: he'd wear Advisor, and suddenly he looked.
Speaker 2: Like a coach. People thought he was doing something when
Speaker 2: he was thought he.
Speaker 5: Was calling, didn't have earphones on, nothing, to the point
Speaker 5: where people were getting pissed at his wearing those lays.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, so if it's not I'm Brent, and he
Speaker 2: has to have assistance who are very capable, right, who
Speaker 2: are the if he's the CEO, if you will, because
Speaker 2: that's what Jed kind of was or whatever, so we
Speaker 2: thought that his assistants had to be carrying the shimp.
Speaker 5: The one thing I would say about Brandon how he's
Speaker 5: changed since the season ended, is he fired the defensive
Speaker 5: line coach, Joe Simalo, who'd been with him for seven
Speaker 5: years at San Jose State, and it's about the nicest
Speaker 5: man you've ever met. He had to fire him in
Speaker 5: the last couple of days so that he finally had
Speaker 5: to do a real, real hard thing. Instead of just
Speaker 5: riding it out with his.
Speaker 6: Boy and realizing that he can't just come here and
Speaker 6: load up with his friends and coach in in in
Speaker 6: in the FBS at the FBS level, at the Power
Speaker 6: four level. You know that maybe those guys and and
Speaker 6: I think you know he said this a couple of times,
Speaker 6: maybe this coaching staff got in over its head. Now
Speaker 6: you hope that in the year, the year of experience
Speaker 6: that they have, that they've they've figured some of those
Speaker 6: things out. But that's what it seemed like to me,
Speaker 6: like they were in over their heads and didn't realize
Speaker 6: just like players do. Right, You come from high school
Speaker 6: and you're playing at the U of A and you
Speaker 6: realize the holy hell, you know, so.
Speaker 2: How do you how do you overcome that? If that's
Speaker 2: who you are, that's the thing that's my question.
Speaker 6: Like everybody else, you grow into your job, you know,
Speaker 6: Brent Brandan, it's not too old to learn and grow
Speaker 6: into a job.
Speaker 2: And but the question is can he and will he
Speaker 2: do that?
Speaker 5: Look at the look at the unchangeable guys, Rich Rodriguez, right,
Speaker 5: didn't hasn't changed, won't change.
Speaker 2: So it'sohn Brannan. You can't be like Rich Rodriguez. Right,
Speaker 2: it's certainly, I mean for thinking this.
Speaker 6: He's been told this, yes, sure by somebody, whether it's
Speaker 6: the ad, whether it's been a booster, a supporter, or
Speaker 6: whatever it said. Brent, you got to look like you're
Speaker 6: in the middle of all of this, and the way
Speaker 6: you look last year isn't going to work anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is not just about him too, though.
Speaker 2: Now you have kids who are here to play for you,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, this is strange. This is
Speaker 2: a different guy that wasn't here last year. You know,
Speaker 2: your parents. You just either you're a good parent or
Speaker 2: you're a bad parent. And you come in the next
Speaker 2: year and think, all of a sudden you have the belt.
Speaker 2: You have the belt. The belt. Okay, but let me
Speaker 2: ask you.
Speaker 6: Were you a better parent from the time you went
Speaker 6: your kids were born to when they were ten, they
Speaker 6: were fifteen, to they were twenty or were you the
Speaker 6: same parent the whole week?
Speaker 2: Probably the same parent. Yeah, I thought I grew as it.
Speaker 2: I didn't know crap about raising kids. No, I thought
Speaker 2: I did. I was came from the school of my dad.
Speaker 2: Give him a look and that fixed thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, see I came from the school of my dad
Speaker 6: too and said, you know, I'm not going to that
Speaker 6: school as a parent, right and and so you do
Speaker 6: you do things differently. And you know what, It's funny
Speaker 6: because I'm different as a grandfather to that little course,
Speaker 6: to that little rat.
Speaker 2: That we've got that I woke to Mike. That kid
Speaker 2: can get away with anything. That's that's the obvious book.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your parents, your kids were saying you never
Speaker 2: did that bus Yeah wait wait wait, I did that
Speaker 2: and I got in trouble. No, you didn't get in
Speaker 2: trouble that. You never got in trouble. You. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: show you trouble. I'll show you trouble. To my point is,
Speaker 2: it's a different dynamic. How is he going to change
Speaker 2: when you have another fifty forty guys who stayed here
Speaker 2: and have and played for you. Now they have to
Speaker 2: play different because the different coach. Uh, he's up against it.
Speaker 2: I just think he's up against it. Sure, he's up
Speaker 2: against it. But I have a good example. Rich Rodriguez
Speaker 2: Hard twenty twelve. Jose Alive is on the leftover staff,
Speaker 2: I mean an icon and football. Rich Rod tells him
Speaker 2: to buzz off didn't hire him, brings in his own guy,
Speaker 2: sixty six year old Bill Krolic, remember coach a defensive line.
Speaker 5: He was awful, He wouldn't recruit. I saw him at
Speaker 5: the Tucson Airport one night, just randomly. He everything was
Speaker 5: an f bomb. Just got back from f and Frozno,
Speaker 5: what a waste of eff and time? Sent me out
Speaker 5: there to recruit somebody. And then rich Rod fired him
Speaker 5: finally four years later, but by then Salive was a
Speaker 5: star at Oregon.
Speaker 2: So at least.
Speaker 5: Brannan now brings back Salive, a guy when he's, you know,
Speaker 5: an industry standard and has to fire his buddy.
Speaker 6: Yes, And I think that I think that says a
Speaker 6: lot about again, your growth, as you know, in a
Speaker 6: job like that, where he's come to the realization that
Speaker 6: I got to get guys who can coach, not guys
Speaker 6: who are just my friends.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a loyal to. He'll have to And
Speaker 2: I think I said this arrest us to the guys
Speaker 2: in the studio this week. How many wins minimal does
Speaker 2: he have to win this year this coming year? Seven
Speaker 2: minimalis that's a that's a tall task, Jake.
Speaker 6: He's still got players he's still got the most important
Speaker 6: position that you have to have, and that's a quarterback
Speaker 6: who who has shown that he can be really good.
Speaker 2: I think he's I mean maybe it's six. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: getting to a bowl game.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: I think you're probably right though, But is he is he?
Speaker 2: Is it gonna happen? Seven? Oh? It can.
Speaker 6: But you know I and I say that only because
Speaker 6: a SU you're just right using them. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 6: their case study. They were because because year before last
Speaker 6: they were not only not good, they were really, really
Speaker 6: really bad. You look at what Arizona did to them.
Speaker 6: I mean that was that was you know, determine that
Speaker 6: we using my kids. That was Saint Gregory against Greenfields
Speaker 6: right in basketball, you'd beat him eighty to four. That's
Speaker 6: what that That's that's who as U was. And then
Speaker 6: they flipped it in one year. So it can be done.
Speaker 2: Give me a number.
Speaker 5: You know, they played Kansas State and that third game,
Speaker 5: I win the first two. If they can beat Kansas
Speaker 5: State here, that would give them three, and I think
Speaker 5: they could win three more to get into six. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't go beyond six right now. I mean I've been
Speaker 5: in this room once when Arizona's in Vegas as are
Speaker 5: one and a half, and my buddy put a lot
Speaker 5: of money on Arizona winning.
Speaker 2: Two and we didn't get it. Don't say anything that
Speaker 2: seven seven is a tough time. Well, I think the
Speaker 2: way he posts the question is what what do I
Speaker 2: think fans will be? Okay? Well, no, no, no, I
Speaker 2: don't care about fans. I'm telling you, Desiree, she's the
Speaker 2: way I think.
Speaker 6: I think if he wins six and it's a good six, right,
Speaker 6: maybe they have a surprise win, right. Uh, you know
Speaker 6: some you know, I don't want to cause a statement
Speaker 6: when we thought the Utah game was a statement win
Speaker 6: last year and it turned out to just be what
Speaker 6: should have happened. Right, But you know, you you beat uh,
Speaker 6: you know, you beat b y u or and then
Speaker 6: you beat as here or whatever. I think six wins
Speaker 6: will work. Seven wins might not be enough if it's
Speaker 6: a bad seven, right. So, but I think if they
Speaker 6: get to a bowl game, we're coming off of four
Speaker 6: of a four and eight year, you know, he gets
Speaker 6: more time.
Speaker 5: The key component here is Desiree. Yeah, because she didn't
Speaker 5: hire him, m hm, you don't know what she thinks
Speaker 5: of him. Maybe she has a guy in mind. She
Speaker 5: loved Marcus Royal, she hired at U and OLV and
Speaker 5: has no issues coordinator. Maybe she's just not gonna Maybe
Speaker 5: she won't be willing to go to the next actually
Speaker 5: are to them, and she has yet to make the
Speaker 5: mark with something like that. Well again, and I agree that.
Speaker 5: I mean, if he has a losing season next year,
Speaker 5: he's gone. I would I mean he was almost gone
Speaker 5: this year, right after one year.
Speaker 2: There's some there's some questions about it. Yeah, so we
Speaker 2: got to go right Yeah, where we are we do?
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Speaker 3: I bet good time. Yes it was.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, you had that that postponement of the of
Speaker 6: the night game that day. How did that affect things
Speaker 6: or did it just get you more in the book
Speaker 6: of since they played it the next day.
Speaker 4: Well, our house rules state that football games must be
Speaker 4: played on the date.
Speaker 3: Uh and scheduled venue.
Speaker 4: So actually, anybody that bet that up until the post
Speaker 4: bone and just had no action on that game, so
Speaker 4: they have to re buy it exactly and then and
Speaker 4: then the uh uh the corrected date went up at
Speaker 4: about noon.
Speaker 3: On New Year's Day, and everybody that betted after that
Speaker 3: of course had action.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, how are you gonna settle out?
Speaker 6: You got a similar thing coming up right with the
Speaker 6: possibility that that rams uh uh, the Rams Minnesota Minnesota
Speaker 6: game might have moved to Phoenix.
Speaker 2: What happens there?
Speaker 3: I heard about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Rams Rams uh many might get moved uh
Speaker 4: to Monday and possibly a change of you. So uh again,
Speaker 4: if you you bet it and and uh what Sunday
Speaker 4: is the is the date. If it gets postponed, it
Speaker 4: will be no action. But that's just the way it
Speaker 4: happens sometimes.
Speaker 2: Is that rules here or everywhere?
Speaker 3: That's rules here.
Speaker 4: Each individual sportsbook will have their own uh house roles
Speaker 4: on that one. But if they do change the venue,
Speaker 4: I would expect the points spread on that one to change.
Speaker 4: Right now, You've got Vikings a one and a half
Speaker 4: point favorite. They go to a neutral site, you might
Speaker 4: see the Rams getting two and a half possibly even
Speaker 4: three of the dog favorite or something like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, So how how has the action been on
Speaker 6: on the playoffs? Has that been a boon for you
Speaker 6: guys for the college football playoffs for you know, more
Speaker 6: more interest, more activity on on those particular games as
Speaker 6: opposed to bowl games in the past.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Now that we're down to the final four, we're getting
Speaker 4: a lot of action on on on on all sides,
Speaker 4: all four of those teams.
Speaker 3: We're getting bets on them.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: And tonight's game, we have Notre Dame slight favorite over
Speaker 4: Penn State and they're about a one point favorite and.
Speaker 3: The total is forty five. So I can tell you
Speaker 3: the sharp money on the under in that game I
Speaker 3: heard tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of that.
Speaker 6: It's forty five and a half or something like that.
Speaker 4: Went from forty five, it came back to under forty
Speaker 4: forty five. And I'm here in Notre Dame's looking to
Speaker 4: run on the ball. So there's some smart money on
Speaker 4: that side. But you know, forty five is alone enough totally.
Speaker 4: It can go over that just by accident. So that's
Speaker 4: why that's why they call it gambling. That Texas game
Speaker 4: was under the other day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure this place was pretty packed for the
Speaker 2: ESHU game given the situation.
Speaker 4: Oh that was crazy. That was an insane game. And
Speaker 4: what a comeback by Asu they had. They were down
Speaker 4: sixteen with about eight and a half left touchdowns to
Speaker 4: to two point conversions.
Speaker 3: Then too missed.
Speaker 4: Field goals right by a Texas kicker, and and then
Speaker 4: uh and then it looks like they had it.
Speaker 3: It was fourth a SU had it. It was fourth
Speaker 3: and thirteen and.
Speaker 4: Not just probably a probably a four to five to
Speaker 4: one favorite at that point for fourth and thirteen and
Speaker 4: and and they got the protection the kid through a
Speaker 4: touchdown pass and then the first play after that it
Speaker 4: was another twenty five yard pass and then that was it.
Speaker 5: This might be a dumb question just pertending to that specifically.
Speaker 5: We know there's a lot of issue people here to
Speaker 5: go up to tempted to go to school, so the
Speaker 5: action is different than the Wildcats. Then with the issue,
Speaker 5: how is it different?
Speaker 18: There is it?
Speaker 3: Oh? It was, it got It got pretty heated in here.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of you know, Texas fans and
Speaker 4: a SU fans, and uh, yeah, it got it got
Speaker 4: pretty crazy and for a.
Speaker 2: Little bit security, Now do you guys do live betting
Speaker 2: here in the games? Absolutely game betting.
Speaker 4: You do absolutely in game betting, uh, even while while
Speaker 4: the balls and you know what, while there's a drive
Speaker 4: going on, and of course during the commercial breaks as well,
Speaker 4: there's uh the lines constantly getting updated.
Speaker 6: Well, let me ask you about that, and if you
Speaker 6: in mind, I ask him the question on this, do
Speaker 6: you guys monitor here and do you change do you
Speaker 6: decide whether you change a line or not? Or do
Speaker 6: you follow somebody out there that you know? Do you
Speaker 6: just do you keep an eye on all of it?
Speaker 6: I mean, what what would cause you to change a
Speaker 6: line on a game? Uh that you're doing here?
Speaker 4: Well, we have somebody handling the uh the line part
Speaker 4: of it, moving the lines. I will call them to
Speaker 4: adjust the line based on on on my experience and
Speaker 4: and uh what I know about a game and what
Speaker 4: other lines are out there. Sometimes I'll call and I'll
Speaker 4: have them adjust the line, and uh I control the
Speaker 4: uh how much we take on it? It's uh gambling
Speaker 4: is the formula is edge times volume and the edge
Speaker 4: that that has to do with uh the spreads we
Speaker 4: offer and the markets on these games, and then the
Speaker 4: volume that's uh that's how much good bets. So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna control the volume part most part, and uh.
Speaker 2: That didn't go out on the air. So so just
Speaker 2: you talk about all that stuff. I wanted to ask
Speaker 2: you about the thing that Jay was so intrigued about
Speaker 2: last time we were with you, is the lines that
Speaker 2: don't involve teams playing against each oldren I forgot, like
Speaker 2: you can bet order Dame against Ohio State.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cross game matchups, yes, you know, yeah that that
Speaker 4: we have those and as well as all kinds of
Speaker 4: player props in uh the pro sports. We can't offer
Speaker 4: player sports in college of uh player props in college
Speaker 4: of course, but yeah, we.
Speaker 3: Were taking some taking some plays on the on that
Speaker 3: RAMS game.
Speaker 4: It's uh gonna be very interesting this weekend with the
Speaker 4: the two l A teams because uh, personally, when I
Speaker 4: when I see teams that have something extra to play for,
Speaker 4: like these two l A teams and they're gonna be
Speaker 4: playing with their town in mind, and uh that's uh
Speaker 4: that's a very formidable uh force to go up against.
Speaker 4: And uh usually they're playing those teams or I won't
Speaker 4: play it.
Speaker 6: You know, we all hear about these massive bets that
Speaker 6: get put put down in you know, some of the
Speaker 6: Vegas casinos and whatnot. Uh what what size of a
Speaker 6: bet would it take for you to say, Okay, we've
Speaker 6: got to move a line, you know, based on one bet?
Speaker 2: Is is there a number?
Speaker 3: It's not how much we take that moves the line,
Speaker 3: it's who we take it from that moves the line.
Speaker 9: I might what does that mean?
Speaker 4: It means if a person is uh generally sharper, okay,
Speaker 4: and you know who they are, Yes, sir, Now.
Speaker 3: Your customer, that's another customer.
Speaker 4: I mean, we might take one hundred thousand dollars bet
Speaker 4: on a halftime total and not even move it.
Speaker 6: So so if Steve walks in right throws one hundred
Speaker 6: g's down on a bed, you're not going to do anything.
Speaker 2: You're okay, We're gonna take your money. That's Stay, that's.
Speaker 3: That Stave will take a hundred large from it. My
Speaker 3: friend Stayed.
Speaker 4: This other Steve I know will take about five hundred
Speaker 4: from me because he's one of the sharpest guys.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The funny thing is you know who these people are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an important part of the process.
Speaker 2: Sure, I'm bad, I bet. Yeah. You get nervous when
Speaker 2: games like big games happen when you get that this
Speaker 2: is what you do. But do you get nervous?
Speaker 4: I mean it's exciting, you know, and you want to win.
Speaker 4: I get emotionally involved. Then again, heck, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't call it nervousness. I call it excitement. And
Speaker 4: then uh, and sometimes I get disappointed and and and
Speaker 4: I can get upset, but uh, I let that last
Speaker 4: for about ten to fifteen minutes, and then I'm and.
Speaker 2: I just gas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thousands and thousands, as.
Speaker 2: We say, you know, take the next bus, that's.
Speaker 3: What you gotta do. Yeah, but sometimes they just disappoint us.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Does it ever feel to you like it's your money
Speaker 6: that's going in and out of here?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 6: I mean you're managing the business, so you know, your
Speaker 6: job and all these things rely on you know, you're
Speaker 6: doing a good business here.
Speaker 2: Do you ever see it that way?
Speaker 6: As you know, I know it's not your money, but
Speaker 6: do you feel like it may be, you know, because
Speaker 6: you have a stake in it?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, what what other way is there to
Speaker 4: feel about it? I want to do the best uh
Speaker 4: for the book and the uh Paskwayaki tribe. They brought
Speaker 4: me in here to do to do a job, and
Speaker 4: I take it very seriously. Yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 2: How many times in a year and there's thousands of
Speaker 2: game that you want to turn all that stuff you
Speaker 2: see after the game he said, you know what, guys,
Speaker 2: that was just a bad line and we kind of
Speaker 2: knew it, but we couldn't do any with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you can't force the public to bet
Speaker 4: a certain way that that you want on a game,
Speaker 4: and you just, uh, but a sports book is gonna
Speaker 4: hold the percentage they deserve at the end of the
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, through thousands and thousands
Speaker 4: of decisions, yeah, you know, and you're gonna be heavy
Speaker 4: on all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: Rarely are you actually balanced on a game.
Speaker 4: But it's, uh, it's the thousands and thousands of decisions
Speaker 4: that that just even things out.
Speaker 2: Okay, So as a I know sometimes gamble, I guess
Speaker 2: you would call me. Yeah, that's what I would.
Speaker 14: We we all.
Speaker 6: We always hear about you know. We obviously don't take
Speaker 6: this advice, but you know, we we get told all
Speaker 6: the time. The parlays are the sucker bets, you know,
Speaker 6: but people like those because it's like, okay, make one bed,
Speaker 6: I got two games and stuff like that, as opposed
Speaker 6: to just betting X amount on X game or x
Speaker 6: over under whatever.
Speaker 2: Is that a true statement?
Speaker 3: No, it parlays.
Speaker 4: Actually, you can beat a joint pretty good with the
Speaker 4: parlays if you have edges and all the selections on
Speaker 4: the parlays, because the parlay increases volume. So if you're
Speaker 4: winning at a high percentage, actually, uh, once you reach
Speaker 4: a certain percentage of over fifty percent, your parlays will
Speaker 4: bring you a better return than straight that's well, because
Speaker 4: you're increasing your volume because of the money.
Speaker 2: Snow, well the number would be like fifty five percent, right,
Speaker 2: if you're you're picking fifty five to fifty six percent.
Speaker 4: Straight bets, if you want to break even, you got
Speaker 4: to hit about fifty three percent, that's right.
Speaker 3: But if you're hitting a higher percentage than that, parlays
Speaker 3: can be pretty can work out for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be living with the If you're kind of
Speaker 4: splitting out, you know, then yeah, straight bet may might
Speaker 4: might be the way to go.
Speaker 5: But so so here we are in the playoffs with
Speaker 5: the college and we have the playoffs with the NFL
Speaker 5: the next few weeks, maybe a month or whatever.
Speaker 2: Before the Super Bowl? Is this the best time of
Speaker 2: year with.
Speaker 4: It's it's certainly is one of the best times as
Speaker 4: far as UH, betting interest and and and fan interest goes.
Speaker 4: And this this this year in college football, this, this
Speaker 4: is gonna be a great. Uh, it's gonna be a
Speaker 4: great next couple of weeks. You know, you got Ohio
Speaker 4: State six tomorrow over Texas, and then uh, they're going
Speaker 4: to play the winner over the Notre Dame Penn State game.
Speaker 4: I saw projected lines for all the matchups, and uh.
Speaker 3: This looks like the best.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: Texas looks like the best chance to get Ohio State
Speaker 4: out of there this week as a five and a
Speaker 4: half six point dog, because they're projecting Ohio State to
Speaker 4: be seven and a half over a Notre Dame and
Speaker 4: an eight and a half point favorite over Penn State
Speaker 4: if they match up.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be Yeah, teachers, looks fantastic. I already gave the point. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, don't tell me what you picked.
Speaker 6: All right, we're here with Jeffrey Lennheimer from the manager
Speaker 6: of the Soul Sports sports book here at the Casino
Speaker 6: Del Sold.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey, we all we love the knowledge. Man.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it makes me a better gamber,
Speaker 6: but I love the knowledge. And I don't know if
Speaker 6: you sleep. But do you sleep, because you're probably here
Speaker 6: all the.
Speaker 3: Time, all means by all means, do I sleep? Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: my second favorite past.
Speaker 6: All right, we can't let you get away with that
Speaker 6: asking about your daughter and her baseball team.
Speaker 2: How's that going?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, fantastic. In fact, they were they were out
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. Uh, she was out there with their
Speaker 4: ball girls in a tournament and that was a New
Speaker 4: Year's Eve. And then it's crazy to think that, Uh,
Speaker 4: what's happened?
Speaker 3: Right left?
Speaker 2: Then awful stuff over there right Well, Jeffer, thanks for
Speaker 2: being with us again as always, appreciate it, man, and
Speaker 2: thanks for having us here. We love it. We love
Speaker 2: being here. There's a lot of fun, my pleasure, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Good to see you, bless you on your listeners, Thank you,
Speaker 2: Thanks you.
Speaker 6: Jeffrey Lennheimer from the Soul Sports Sports Book. Uh, we're
Speaker 6: about to go to break with this. If we've got
Speaker 6: another hour here. Our buddy Vic is over here, all
Speaker 6: geared up in Arizona gear old school a block a
Speaker 6: over there on on.
Speaker 2: Uh, just good question. Good question. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So, and Greg Hanson is going to be back after
Speaker 6: the break, we're gonna talk some more about you know,
Speaker 6: some football break break. I'm a working mon dude. We
Speaker 6: already talked about it exactly with some breaking you. So
Speaker 6: stick around here, Soul Sports Sports Book. If we got
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Speaker 6: us for a little bit, we'll be here. Greg Hanson
Speaker 6: is going to get back with us, and uh we'll
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