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Speaker 4: How are you doing it? Doing it another Wednesday? Halfway
Speaker 4: through the week, halfway to Friday.
Speaker 2: So you like kid? You like kid?
Speaker 5: Yes, it feels good.
Speaker 2: I don't think you'll screw it up. I could. I
Speaker 2: try not to. Hey, you know when you could be
Speaker 2: fifty percent right on a pick? Sure you do. I
Speaker 2: was truth, truth or you know whatever that phrases. I
Speaker 2: had the score right, I didn't have the winner right.
Speaker 2: H Someone pointed out today to me today eighty five
Speaker 2: sent me force my thought. I think, I said, but
Speaker 2: I had a b Are you winning?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: Could you watch the game? I did? Did you think that?
Speaker 2: And I know everyone's asked Steve Hayes the team.
Speaker 6: Did?
Speaker 2: Did BYU misshots in the second half or did Arizona
Speaker 2: defend them? Well a little bit of both.
Speaker 4: To start that second half, Byu started missing shots, right,
Speaker 4: But then it got to a point where Arizona wasn't
Speaker 4: allowing them to get good shots by you started to
Speaker 4: force because of the pressure that was applied.
Speaker 2: But that was more in the second late second half,
Speaker 2: the second.
Speaker 4: Half, and at that point there was nine point lead
Speaker 4: and I think they had taken the lead for a
Speaker 4: brief second. Kill Love hits a three, yeah, and the
Speaker 4: rest is history.
Speaker 2: Right. So I didn't write about last night story. I
Speaker 2: was too tired. I had meetings in the morning with
Speaker 2: my other job. But I would have said this. I
Speaker 2: think this was the most impressive game of the win
Speaker 2: of the year by Arizona, given it was on the road,
Speaker 2: tough spot, they were underdogs. I played pretty well, pretty
Speaker 2: well all things considered. Uh, the Iowa State game was
Speaker 2: pretty good, but that was a sample. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: a lucky shot wins it wins it for them or
Speaker 2: you know, gets them in overtime. But I think this
Speaker 2: was probably the most impressive win of the year.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I would say so, especially because b
Speaker 4: yu that they're gonna hit threes and then's what you
Speaker 4: did that first half. And when when you play a
Speaker 4: team like that, that's that's a scary team to face
Speaker 4: in March at that I think b YU will end
Speaker 4: up setting a top team.
Speaker 2: They don't play again, right, they don't play again?
Speaker 5: That don't they do?
Speaker 7: They do?
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think. We'll see what I
Speaker 2: do the later.
Speaker 5: Two Saturdays, three saturdays from now.
Speaker 4: Okay, six or eight, that's what it says right out
Speaker 4: of what March no. February February twenty second, oh two
Speaker 4: a second? Okay, cool, So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: They were a good shooting team day or you know
Speaker 2: whatever last night, but every want to play well from
Speaker 2: all all facets. Caleb Love had a pretty good game.
Speaker 2: Henry continues to do what he's doing. Jaleb Jayden Bradley
Speaker 2: again a nice, consistent, good, good everything.
Speaker 4: He started off a bit slow too, and then he
Speaker 4: found his way to the line and he ends up
Speaker 4: with the quiet seventeen.
Speaker 2: And they got to the basket a lot, you know,
Speaker 2: instead of the threes, they got to the basket a lot.
Speaker 2: Hit three throws again. Uh this maybe I can't remember
Speaker 2: the last time Amrazone was so good on the free throwing.
Speaker 2: They were like they only missed like three or four
Speaker 2: in the last two games.
Speaker 4: It's been a while, and even you don't want to
Speaker 4: jinx it because to start this season, they were horrendous
Speaker 4: at the line in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Well because what was going on, uh was grievous. Grievous
Speaker 2: can shoot free throws? Well I didn't, I didn't realize
Speaker 2: they were horrendous.
Speaker 4: But when you when you look at the score and
Speaker 4: you see the difference, and you're like, well, if we
Speaker 4: probably hit, if they probably hit a couple of more
Speaker 4: free throws, it's a closer game.
Speaker 5: Maybe they would they use momentum.
Speaker 2: It doesn't exist.
Speaker 4: No, But what going back to BYU, that's that's a
Speaker 4: dangerous team. You can lose a lot of confidence quick
Speaker 4: when they're hitting all those trees in the rackoeus great crowd,
Speaker 4: great crowd for a Tuesday night nine o'clock game.
Speaker 2: That's overstated because we don't know the lifestyle up there.
Speaker 2: We know there are more morments whatever, we don't I
Speaker 2: don't know. It's like, what do you know about Texas basketball?
Speaker 2: Not a lot exactly, We don't know, just because you know,
Speaker 2: we know that they're good or whatever, and that's all
Speaker 2: we know. B Yu. I've been to Provo a few times,
Speaker 2: it's always pretty good up there. What else is you
Speaker 2: gonna do right late at night in Provo and Tucson too.
Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons why Arizona is the best
Speaker 2: team because it's all they have. Yeah, especially especially when
Speaker 2: they're good.
Speaker 4: And I think one of the differences with this team
Speaker 4: right now is their mindset because yes, because uh, the
Speaker 4: game like last night. Uh, if you put at an
Speaker 4: early time elod team or even a sham Miller team
Speaker 4: into that game, it was confident. It's quick. They probably
Speaker 4: get blown out that night and they lose. But they said,
Speaker 4: so what, they're hitting threes, Let's just do our thing.
Speaker 4: Let's get to the line, let's let's get some easy baskets.
Speaker 2: And they did, they did, they did. Yeah, when they
Speaker 2: tied the halftime, that was a good indication. They blew
Speaker 2: like past the over under pretty easy when sixty whatever,
Speaker 2: one fifty something. Uh so yeah, no, they're they're doing
Speaker 2: really well. And again Tommy Lloyd is being hailed as
Speaker 2: this guru, which.
Speaker 5: He was supposed to be fired about a month ago,
Speaker 5: right by.
Speaker 2: People who on the internet, the Twitter Twitter experts, yep, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So like I see people, know, what do you mean
Speaker 2: by that. I don't know to follow that Twitter. Damn
Speaker 2: Twitter thing. Twitter is a joke doesn't exist anymore, not Twitter.
Speaker 2: It was more U uh yeah, because they want to
Speaker 2: know TikTok. They want to TikTok. That's a whole different story. Yeah, okay, so,
Speaker 2: uh there's that if you want to call in five
Speaker 2: to zero, four one, six, seventy four, forty. Today's big
Speaker 2: day was signing day at U of A or all
Speaker 2: over the country with college football. We talked to Troy
Speaker 2: Heidssen with Goisycats dot com about that they had a
Speaker 2: press convers at one. I did that out of tend
Speaker 2: because I was here, So we'll get the scoop. I
Speaker 2: think we'll play a little of Brennan about that regarding
Speaker 2: you don't know what he said, right, I have it
Speaker 2: on queue, so we'll probably listen to that at the
Speaker 2: second half of the hour.
Speaker 4: But I didn't realize is that Arizona brought in fifty
Speaker 4: three new players.
Speaker 2: Overall overall, overall transfers that they sit on their website,
Speaker 2: including the signings.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I said, fifty three players to the program
Speaker 4: during the twenty five recruiting cycle.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize the way of the world is now,
Speaker 2: because I think they had the same about last year.
Speaker 2: So you almost have your half, your entire roster is
Speaker 2: new placed. Yeah, way the world, way in the world.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. I was asking do you like it? Do
Speaker 2: you not care?
Speaker 4: I don't really care. I think I think at this
Speaker 4: point we just got to get used to it. It's
Speaker 4: not going everybody. Everybody is dealing with it. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: that's how you across. I mean, how many players from
Speaker 4: last year's basketball team were on.
Speaker 5: This We're on the roster last year.
Speaker 2: Jayden Caleb we sure didn't play uh kJ history.
Speaker 4: You have the bench, yeah, Martinez.
Speaker 2: About four or five four maybe, Yeah, So you know
Speaker 2: it's it's it's not a crapshoot, but it's a revolving
Speaker 2: door type of situation. It's just how good you're gonna
Speaker 2: coach them up. So we'll see what happens. Keept about
Speaker 2: two months left before the tournament starts. Two months, No,
Speaker 2: about two and a half. Two and a half, yeah,
Speaker 2: because that's gonna happen in Kansas City. And then the
Speaker 2: first round of the tournament. Are you gonna go to that? No? No,
Speaker 2: because the Big twelve they go this is the situation.
Speaker 2: They play at Iowa State, then they come home to
Speaker 2: play Issue, and then they go to Kansas, and then
Speaker 2: from Kansas they go to the tournament right to the
Speaker 2: total tournament. There's just too much moving parts there. If
Speaker 2: they if I go to Kansas to the Kansas game,
Speaker 2: I'm staying in Kansas City to go to that and
Speaker 2: that could be a one game, two game thing. Uh,
Speaker 2: and then you have to turn around and go back
Speaker 2: to the stably tournament. So we got to call, Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the air nine of the ball. Who's this? Hi, Steve?
Speaker 2: This is done? Don What do you got Hey? Man?
Speaker 8: I I just got off the phone with somebody else,
Speaker 8: and now I was telling me, I go, you know,
Speaker 8: I think I gotta admit that that this team is
Speaker 8: is pretty good, you.
Speaker 2: Know what done. I'm not gonna go as far as
Speaker 2: pretty good, but I'll say good because I didn't think
Speaker 2: that before. I didn't. I certainly didn't.
Speaker 8: And like last night, even though you know they had
Speaker 8: some they had some DEAFA sets or whatnot, but you know,
Speaker 8: it wasn't that long ago where they get a deficit
Speaker 8: and you could just see in the body language that
Speaker 8: this game is over. You know, and it's like fourteen
Speaker 8: minutes left in the game.
Speaker 2: What do you know?
Speaker 8: But last night it just did not seem that at
Speaker 8: any time that even though even though BYU was hitting
Speaker 8: shots early on, it just did not seem like, you know,
Speaker 8: it didn't seem automatic that this is going to get
Speaker 8: away from them.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you. I was asked this question.
Speaker 2: I really didn't know how to answer this. On a
Speaker 2: THO was of a talk show with Peaks, and they
Speaker 2: asked me what the difference was, and I said, I
Speaker 2: threw a smorgage board of stuff there. What do you
Speaker 2: think the difference has been from your not so good
Speaker 2: or good to being very good? I think I think
Speaker 2: the body language. Maybe there's a little bit more.
Speaker 8: I don't know if it's I don't know if it's
Speaker 8: confidence or it's more being comfortable with where they're at,
Speaker 8: Like nobody's pressing, nobody's throwing up, you know, trying to
Speaker 8: make a seven point you know, a seven point jump
Speaker 8: shot because one doesn't exist. It just seemed like it
Speaker 8: seemed like early in the season that you know, it
Speaker 8: was like, man, we got to get a shot up
Speaker 8: because we need points instead of let's, you know, let's
Speaker 8: run it through the offense, make the extra, make the
Speaker 8: smart pass, take the smart shot.
Speaker 2: And last night, more often than not, we were what's that?
Speaker 2: Are you referring to one person?
Speaker 8: I think the one person really stands out that when
Speaker 8: he doesn't when he doesn't have when he doesn't have
Speaker 8: his shot, or if he's not in his in his
Speaker 8: rhythm he's making, he's making a smart pass unless it's
Speaker 8: getting to the end of the shot clock, whereas hey,
Speaker 8: we got to get it up anyway. Well, doesn't matter
Speaker 8: who takes it.
Speaker 2: That might be your answer. I mean, how come things
Speaker 2: have changed? Maybe because Caleb has kind of settled into
Speaker 2: a nice role offensively and defensively. You know when did
Speaker 2: you think you'd say that or I would say that
Speaker 2: defensively And he's he's finding his overall role. I think
Speaker 2: so too.
Speaker 8: I think that, and it seems like it's rubbing off
Speaker 8: on other guys. I think it shows up more in
Speaker 8: Caleb because he's he's more the focus. But when like
Speaker 8: when Vasar goes in, like we know what we're going
Speaker 8: to get from him, he's going to be available for
Speaker 8: that pass to come in and if he's got a
Speaker 8: if he's got a crack. He's going to try to
Speaker 8: jam that thing in the hole, and he's gonna he's
Speaker 8: gonna make a statement that kind of more or less says, hey,
Speaker 8: you're gonna have to focus down here defensively against us,
Speaker 8: which only opens up the jump shots for us. And
Speaker 8: I think that I think there's there's an overall relaxedness
Speaker 8: of this of the team. Now you you know, I
Speaker 8: don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, go ahead. Do you remember off the top
Speaker 2: of your head he shot last night because he missed them,
Speaker 2: shocking Caleb One's looking at it up.
Speaker 5: He went six for.
Speaker 2: Six, six for sixteen. Okay, so here you go, six
Speaker 2: for sixteen, not brilliant, not great. But if he continues
Speaker 2: to do six for sixteen, are you gonna take that?
Speaker 2: I have my answer. We're gonna have to. I mean
Speaker 2: we have to.
Speaker 8: I mean we've been saying that since the Iowa State game.
Speaker 8: The way he goes, that's the way the team goes.
Speaker 8: Now you're gonna miss shots. He keeps shooting six for sixteen,
Speaker 8: As Miss d would probably say, he needs to get
Speaker 8: hit the road because those are those are increase of numbers, right.
Speaker 2: But but I mean.
Speaker 8: If he's doing other things if he's playing defense, you
Speaker 8: can you can accept a couple of those misses because
Speaker 8: he's not. He's not just six for sixteen and not
Speaker 8: playing defense.
Speaker 2: You know he is.
Speaker 8: Long as as long as the game is more complete,
Speaker 8: I think I think we're fine with it so so
Speaker 8: to because if you went six or sixteen and the
Speaker 8: team lost, I know, this hypothetical whatever, I don't think
Speaker 8: you'd accept that.
Speaker 2: It just it just depends.
Speaker 8: I mean, like last night last night, there was there
Speaker 8: wasn't anybody language from anybody on the floor that that
Speaker 8: that made it look like BYU really stood a chance.
Speaker 2: Well, don't you think the last night was more of
Speaker 2: a team win than anything else? I think it was.
Speaker 2: It was a complete win. I mean it was a
Speaker 2: it was a win.
Speaker 8: All around because a waka was balling, everybody was balling.
Speaker 2: And then who was it? Who was who were we
Speaker 2: talking about?
Speaker 8: Was it was it Lewis or Bradley? That somebody was
Speaker 8: saying that every game? You know, he gets this, you know,
Speaker 8: he gets a he gets a quick layup that like
Speaker 8: they're just barely little bit of light in the doorway
Speaker 8: and you go straight to the hole like out of nowhere,
Speaker 8: and he and he's it seemed like it seemed like
Speaker 8: he was doing that.
Speaker 2: He did it a few times last night. Don thanks
Speaker 2: for calling break right now. We gotta go, We gotta go,
Speaker 2: Thanks man, Thanks for this is always appreciate it. Hey,
Speaker 2: let's go take a break here for a few minutes,
Speaker 2: get ahold of Troy, talk about today's signing and more
Speaker 2: about today's or last night's basketball game.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I in.
Speaker 3: The Ball here on Fox Sports sporteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera. Today with me is one working the
Speaker 2: boards as well, and now on the fun we have
Speaker 2: Troy Hutchison from goazycatch dot com. Troy, how are you
Speaker 2: doing it? Are you okay? Back there? Do I need
Speaker 2: to cross somebody?
Speaker 18: And no, I'm glad. You know.
Speaker 3: I've just left another busy signing period, warriers on it,
Speaker 3: but I'm being good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, SOE made observation. You said, fifty three, fifty three,
Speaker 2: fifty three new guys coming in including this class.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, twenty eight from the twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: recruiting class. Fifty three total new players on the roster.
Speaker 3: Some of which have been with the Wildcats previously, like
Speaker 3: thais Iveya was there a couple of years ago. And
Speaker 3: you know that's not even including players that entered the
Speaker 3: transfer portal that returned.
Speaker 18: To the roster.
Speaker 3: I think that was about nine to ten players as
Speaker 3: well that entered the portal and then came back.
Speaker 2: So I asked you online, because I was on another show,
Speaker 2: where does this team rank into the recruiting class? What
Speaker 2: does it rank right now?
Speaker 3: On rivals dot com? We have them at forty second
Speaker 3: nationally and that moved up three spots after the signing
Speaker 3: of Peter Laney.
Speaker 2: So that's you know, honestly, having covered recruiting for a
Speaker 2: long time back in the day, that's pretty solid.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, back then and previously before Jet Dish,
Speaker 3: a lot of recruiting classes in Arizona where I would
Speaker 3: say about fifty five and above. Yeah, Mike stop added
Speaker 3: into the low twenty sometimes into the teams. I don't
Speaker 3: know about going back to the Dictoma era. Recruiting was
Speaker 3: very different back then. But you know, a lot of
Speaker 3: for having a down year, a lot of turnover on
Speaker 3: the coaching staff and trying to piece stuff together to
Speaker 3: come out at forty two nationally is not too bad.
Speaker 4: You know, we know some of those players that could
Speaker 4: come back, Dalton Johnson, Genesis Smith. Who are some of
Speaker 4: the newcomers either from the high school level or from
Speaker 4: the JUCO level that that Arizona should be Arizona fans
Speaker 4: should be looking out for you?
Speaker 2: Who are the crown jewels?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think the two crown jewels in
Speaker 3: my opinion of this recruiting classes, Peter Lady, it's like
Speaker 3: the cherry on top offensive lineman, you know, out of
Speaker 3: San Francisco. His brother is committed for the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: six recruiting class. But anytime you can get six foot six,
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirty pounds on your roster as a Frenchman,
Speaker 3: you feel in pretty good shape.
Speaker 18: Obviously he probably needs to.
Speaker 3: Trim down a little bit, but I think back to
Speaker 3: great ad for Arizona and then, you know, just going
Speaker 3: over some of these names here real quick. I've always
Speaker 3: loved Wesley Yarborough, four start back out of Texas kind
Speaker 3: of went under the radar, which is weird to say
Speaker 3: as a four star back out of Texas. But Houston,
Speaker 3: I think Oklahoma State and Arkansas were heavily involved in
Speaker 3: his recruitment at Arizona State. Steady on that and you
Speaker 3: know he broke records out there in the state of Texas.
Speaker 3: Do it all back, he's going to be really exciting
Speaker 3: for Arizona. And then really focusing on the offensive line.
Speaker 3: There's other Polynesian players like Goo and and today that
Speaker 3: are going to be really good for Arizona. And I
Speaker 3: think that was the main focus for this recruiting class,
Speaker 3: was stabilizing your offensive line, and not only you know,
Speaker 3: on the outside with the dackles, but the inside as well,
Speaker 3: because we all know that's.
Speaker 18: Where you win in college football is on the line.
Speaker 2: What do you think this class, you know, being forty
Speaker 2: two or whatever says about Brenton Now, does it kind
Speaker 2: of get some people off the back? Does it say okay,
Speaker 2: we'll wait and see what does it do?
Speaker 3: I think it's optimism. I don't think it gets people
Speaker 3: off his back by any any means necessary. If you're
Speaker 3: able to get a couple of guys that they're in
Speaker 3: play for and you end up in that top thirty,
Speaker 3: top twenty five, possibly, but I think it's a very
Speaker 3: good starting foundation for his first through recruiting class. You know,
Speaker 3: because he came in when Jetfish left and he had
Speaker 3: to piece together that recruiting class that I believe ended
Speaker 3: somewhere around.
Speaker 18: Fifty to fifty sixty.
Speaker 3: Didn't end very well, But that's always hard to put together.
Speaker 3: You look across the board, it's a lot of defense alignment,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of offense alignment.
Speaker 18: Showing up the secondary.
Speaker 3: It's all the little things that you need on the
Speaker 3: roster that Arizona's don't have previously last season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw a tweet from Justin Spears today that
Speaker 4: Arizona added the size of full, full grown Polar Bears
Speaker 4: in a one mid sized hippo. Is that something that
Speaker 4: comes with the new coaches such as.
Speaker 5: I'm blaking on his name right now, but.
Speaker 4: So Telavia, is that a product of him now on
Speaker 4: the coaching staff?
Speaker 3: You know, I think you're seeing a product of him
Speaker 3: on the coaching staff. Adding some of these transfers, like
Speaker 3: getting Tsavea back to Arizona from Texas. I think that's
Speaker 3: a huge Joe Salavea move right there. But you're seeing
Speaker 3: his impact more for the twenty twenty six they've offered
Speaker 3: a lot of guys that are four or five star
Speaker 3: players that Arizona both offensively and defensively. Minds you, in
Speaker 3: terms of being in the Polynesian community, that I don't
Speaker 3: think Arizona would be in play for that they didn't
Speaker 3: have Joe Salave on their coaching staff.
Speaker 2: So you've been doing this a while now. You're still
Speaker 2: a kid to me. You know that. So I'll give
Speaker 2: you ni L. I give you coaching, and I give
Speaker 2: you playing time and U ni L coaching playing time
Speaker 2: and individual individual and the school and the school? What
Speaker 2: give me the order?
Speaker 3: I will give me the.
Speaker 2: Order of importance to the kids.
Speaker 18: I will go number one. Uh, well, we'll go with
Speaker 18: playing time.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of opportunity both sides of
Speaker 3: the ball. We talked about an offensive line. There's gonna
Speaker 3: be a lot of opportunity there, and then defensively, there's
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of opportunity for freshmen and transfers
Speaker 3: to see the football field.
Speaker 18: So to me, that's number one. Number two, I'll go
Speaker 18: with coaching in.
Speaker 3: Terms of uh family environment and the people around the program.
Speaker 18: You bring into o Salava, you bring in you know,
Speaker 18: uh Seth Dougie and what he can do. A lot of.
Speaker 3: Texas kids in the sircruity class. So you saw that
Speaker 3: Texas influence. Uh so, a lot of familiarity in terms
Speaker 3: of coaching staff. And then lastly, you know the university.
Speaker 3: I think when you step foot on this campus and
Speaker 3: you know we're sitting here in February where it's supposed
Speaker 3: to be cold in most places and it's eighty six
Speaker 3: degrees and beautiful outside, Yeah, I think I would want
Speaker 3: to come to Duson or a police out west compared
Speaker 3: to being snowed in in the Midwest and back east.
Speaker 2: Was So, did you miss nil or did you put
Speaker 2: it in three?
Speaker 18: It's not on my board, it's.
Speaker 2: Not on your You know what. Kids love money, many
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 3: But I don't think Arizon has the NIL to sway
Speaker 3: these high.
Speaker 18: Level four star recruits.
Speaker 3: If Arizona is winning them over, nil is a part
Speaker 3: of it, yes, but it's not the major part.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, go good for them if they're not having
Speaker 2: to waive a lot of money around. They do have money.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get anybody wrong. They do have money,
Speaker 2: just not a whole heck of a lot of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have money, it's just you're you're shopping at Walmart.
Speaker 3: You're not shopping, you know, at at the high level.
Speaker 18: Stores in terms of not money.
Speaker 4: So okay, So so obviously Arizona doesn't have the Ohio
Speaker 4: State two million dollars roster money.
Speaker 3: Million.
Speaker 5: They got a lot, they got, They got more than.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say.
Speaker 18: I think it has the potential for the two million dollar.
Speaker 4: I don't know, But regardless of the money situation, it
Speaker 4: seems like they're going the route of billion the culture,
Speaker 4: as we saw with Dashrafia committeing. You know, that's a
Speaker 4: legacy of a family right there. Come into Arizona and
Speaker 4: we'll see if it, if it stays, or what happens
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 5: But what does what does that type of commitment mean
Speaker 5: for the program?
Speaker 3: In Bret Brennan, Yeah, you know, Dash is a linebacker
Speaker 3: that has a lot of work to do. The same
Speaker 3: thing could have been said for Noah when he came
Speaker 3: to the program as well. But just a solid, i'mbacker
Speaker 3: that you can build around. But it just goes back
Speaker 3: to the roots of Arizona football when Arizona went from
Speaker 3: a decent program to a good program underneath Larry Smith,
Speaker 3: underneath Tectomy, and that was recruiting the Polynesian community and
Speaker 3: going back to their roots with the poly kids. For
Speaker 3: Arizona football to be successful, they hack to recruit the
Speaker 3: Polynesian community.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: That's why you have Joe Salve on the on the
Speaker 3: coaching staff. That's why you have Duayne and Kenah on
Speaker 3: the coaching staff. That's why you have Brett Brennan that
Speaker 3: knows the background of that. When Arizona's add its bets, Uh,
Speaker 3: they are full fully ingrained in the Polynesian community and
Speaker 3: to a lesser extent, which you're seeing with this recruiting class,
Speaker 3: they're dipping their toes into the state of Texas.
Speaker 4: I know today's supposed to be about the signing and
Speaker 4: the kids, but yesterday we got the full schedule for
Speaker 4: the for the football team coming next season.
Speaker 5: What are some of those games that you're.
Speaker 4: Kind of keeping your eye and we got they got
Speaker 4: a trip to ames Iowa with the Big twelve runner ups.
Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, ames Isla.
Speaker 3: That's gonna always be a tough trip, not only because
Speaker 3: I always staying in Dan Campbell.
Speaker 18: They do a tremendous job there, but it's just a.
Speaker 3: Really tough place to play and it's a tough trip
Speaker 3: to make I'm sure it's not very comfortable.
Speaker 18: I don't know if you can.
Speaker 3: Fly directly into Ames, Iowa. Kind of going back to
Speaker 3: when Aaron's gonna have to fly to Pollman to play
Speaker 3: Washington State.
Speaker 18: You never flew right into Pullman.
Speaker 3: You flew into Moscow, or you flew into spoke In
Speaker 3: and drove up there. So that's always difficult. And I
Speaker 3: look at it in terms of this, for this schedule.
Speaker 3: Out of the twelve games, eight of them you play
Speaker 3: in the state of Arizona, seven home games and one
Speaker 3: in ten p So eight out of twelve games you're
Speaker 3: not leaving the state coming off of a down year,
Speaker 3: kind of RETOOLI and.
Speaker 18: Repiecing the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: I think this is the best schedule you could ask
Speaker 3: for where, yes, it's gonna be travel, but you're gonna
Speaker 3: limit your travel and you're not gonna stay very much
Speaker 3: of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes makes sense. O Gate, I was gonna
Speaker 2: ask you, but I'm gonna have you as my guest tomorrow.
Speaker 2: How uh, how optimistic are you for next year given
Speaker 2: the schedule, given the recruits, and you talked about freshman
Speaker 2: and if you're gonna rely on freshman, good luck with that.
Speaker 3: You know, they're they're gonna have some freshmen, but I
Speaker 3: think it's gonna.
Speaker 18: Be relying a lot on the transferportal.
Speaker 3: Uh, seeing if they hit on guys in the secondary,
Speaker 3: on the offensive line, and to show up some of
Speaker 3: the pieces, uh, the running back group. I think that's
Speaker 3: gonna be critical. The receiving core. They really revamped that
Speaker 3: receiving corps. I like the schedule for Arizona.
Speaker 18: I do like Joe Salava. I think the defense side
Speaker 18: of the ball is going to be tremendous with Dannigan
Speaker 18: Zalz as they get healthier from last year.
Speaker 3: I think last year could have been better if it
Speaker 3: wasn't for the health of the roster. Offensively, Let's see,
Speaker 3: you know, let's see how's how it's gonna go with.
Speaker 18: The new system.
Speaker 3: Only a second year offense coordinator, a very young guy
Speaker 3: out of Texas that is in the quote unquote air
Speaker 3: raid system, but loves to keep a balanced offense. So
Speaker 3: I look at Arizona what they have on the roster
Speaker 3: and think maybe somewhere between six and at most eight wins.
Speaker 3: I do think this is going to be a boll
Speaker 3: team getting to that six win mark. But if you
Speaker 3: can get to that eight.
Speaker 18: Win mark, that that would be a tremendous season.
Speaker 2: You uh, you saw last next game, right, I'm assuming
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 18: I've seen it up.
Speaker 2: Would you come out with that game?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 3: And previous years man, I heard Wan mentioned this, especially
Speaker 3: under Sean Miller. When they're hitting their three balls early
Speaker 3: in the game, the opponent usually you see Arizona start
Speaker 3: to struggle, start to tend sub they just played their game.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of the most composed games I've
Speaker 3: seen on the road in terms of a hostile environment
Speaker 3: for Arizona, because that BYU craft was tremendous.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 3: They kept on going inside, attacking the glass, dominated on
Speaker 3: the backboards, dominated in the PA, and down the rhythm
Speaker 3: offensively and got enough stops to win that game.
Speaker 18: And it looked like a team that has posed.
Speaker 3: For an Elite eight Final four run, just going about
Speaker 3: their business throughout the regular season against the high level opponent,
Speaker 3: but making it look like.
Speaker 18: An opponent where yeah, we should beat these guys.
Speaker 3: And there's no question about it, even though it's a
Speaker 3: tremendous game by BYU, just a very well composed game
Speaker 3: by Arizona.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said on the air, that we're gonna go
Speaker 2: after this, that that was probably their most complete good
Speaker 2: game of the season.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there wasn't a lot of slip ups.
Speaker 3: There were moments where I felt like they could have
Speaker 3: extended that lead. But sometimes the ball bounces weirdly and
Speaker 3: odd places that Byu was able to capitalize on that.
Speaker 3: But this is one of those games where it could
Speaker 3: have been a trap game as you look at Texas
Speaker 3: back and they just went on the road to care
Speaker 3: business in a hostile environment and they are coming back
Speaker 3: home to face the Red Raiders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 18: Thanks, see you guys.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: You're one, and we got about fifteen minutes. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: you've got a good amount of time today, Yeah, fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: We went on early nice, which is good. We're going
Speaker 2: to listen to some Brent Brennan stuff early in about
Speaker 2: a few minutes, Rick called. Maybe, Rick, if you want
Speaker 2: to call us back, We've got some time for you.
Speaker 2: I also want to let people know that we'll be
Speaker 2: back at the Casino Real Sports Book, Soul Sports on Friday,
Speaker 2: Jay and I. So if you want to go by,
Speaker 2: please do have a little fun before the game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: A lot of things going on. Obviously they can go
Speaker 2: bet bet the game Friday. I think I think it's
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Speaker 2: for a while, Yeah, I think it's I think it's
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Speaker 2: don't think it's probably gonna move at all. There's Workieman's
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Speaker 20: Okay, all right, welcome, It's good to see everybody. Obviously,
Speaker 20: this is as an exciting day for us. It's also, uh,
Speaker 20: it's the first time that we have a chance to
Speaker 20: talk kind of about what's happened since the initial sign
Speaker 20: day of high school and junior college players in the
Speaker 20: early December period. It has been an exciting and intense
Speaker 20: process for us.
Speaker 6: We feel great about the young people that we've added
Speaker 6: to our football program here at the u of A.
Speaker 6: And there's a lot of people that I got to
Speaker 6: talk about because I think it's important we understand what
Speaker 6: this was. Over the last you know whatever six weeks
Speaker 6: or eight weeks, we had fifty nine official visits in
Speaker 6: twenty five days, okay, which is just an insane amount,
Speaker 6: right That used to be what you would have in
Speaker 6: a calendar year for a single recruiting class. So really
Speaker 6: really intense, really really short windows. What we joked about
Speaker 6: as a staff is it like portal recruiting is like
Speaker 6: speed dating, but at the end of it, you're getting
Speaker 6: married and then the next group comes in. They were
Speaker 6: all one day visits. It was really really exciting. I think,
Speaker 6: you know, our staff did an incredible job, and I
Speaker 6: got to talk about some of them. Ben Deine is
Speaker 6: our chief of staff who was involved in conversations with
Speaker 6: everybody from parents to agents, to players to recruits to
Speaker 6: high school coaches. A ton of work done there, and
Speaker 6: all done at an extremely high level. Our recruiting team,
Speaker 6: Guiska Crowley, Fletcher, Kelly, Katie Joyner, and Kamalee Yaquina. The
Speaker 6: identification process of these people in the portal and how
Speaker 6: quickly those decisions had to be made was amazing and
Speaker 6: insane at the same time. When you think about our
Speaker 6: normal recruiting process for a high school player, you're thinking
Speaker 6: about twelve, eighteen, twenty four months. Well, this was sometimes
Speaker 6: five hours and we were making a determination on whether
Speaker 6: or not to bring the young person on campus. Our
Speaker 6: compliance Chris and Arquilla shoot. I think Ben was on
Speaker 6: the phone with her at midnight last night finalizing one
Speaker 6: of the letters of intent or not the financial aid
Speaker 6: agreement for one of the recruits that we signed today.
Speaker 6: She was always available, always on it. She was outstanding.
Speaker 6: Our academics, right, part of that. You bring in fifty
Speaker 6: nine players, they have to give the academic You know,
Speaker 6: our Cats program is incredible, right. We have a team
Speaker 6: GPA over a three point zero in the in the
Speaker 6: fall semester, which is something that absolutely has to be
Speaker 6: celebrated because that is very, very hard to do and
Speaker 6: I'm so appreciative of people over in Cats and so
Speaker 6: Andy Selgatto was the one that was giving all these
Speaker 6: presentations to these recruits to their parents, and it didn't
Speaker 6: matter what day of the week, because it was a
Speaker 6: seven day a week process. It wasn't like we took
Speaker 6: a day off in the middle of it. And then
Speaker 6: our training staff in our you know, Paul Smith and
Speaker 6: Cole and Carrol, our strength staff, you know both of them.
Speaker 6: Every recruit, every family wants to know how are you
Speaker 6: going to take care of our son or our brother
Speaker 6: or our grandson and how are you going to develop him?
Speaker 6: And so there was an incredible amount of work for
Speaker 6: both of those groups in strength and in the training room.
Speaker 6: Tobrook Blaine with Beyond Football, you know, I think that's
Speaker 6: one of the best things we do. We just had
Speaker 6: an incredible event with Lance Briggs and Paul Shields up
Speaker 6: there just talking about building your brand and life after football,
Speaker 6: and just Tobrook does an incredible job. And so for
Speaker 6: every one of these recruits, Tobrooke made a presentation about
Speaker 6: how she was going to help them build a meaningful
Speaker 6: life beyond the football field. The Sands and beardown kitchen crew, right,
Speaker 6: like Chef Danny and his crew, y'all need to come
Speaker 6: have lunch with us sometime up there. Like the juice
Speaker 6: that these people bring to work every day, the positive energy,
Speaker 6: like what they mean to our team, the relationships they
Speaker 6: have with our players and all the student athletes here
Speaker 6: at Arizona is incredibly special. And that's a lot of
Speaker 6: meals they had to prepare for all of us during
Speaker 6: these visits. Our creative team, Steven Zalez, Mackenzie Hamilton, Chris Hogan,
Speaker 6: and when you start seeing this stuff on social media, right,
Speaker 6: that's all these edits, the pictures that are taken, the
Speaker 6: videos that are produced, just an incredible amount of work
Speaker 6: from them, just a lot of fun. And then Lauren
Speaker 6: Bossler and Courtney Deathlison with our onboarding team. That's also
Speaker 6: a logistical nightmare, right because you have a super tight
Speaker 6: window trying to get all these players here in time
Speaker 6: for the start of school, which was I think January
Speaker 6: fourteenth or fifteenth, a really tight when and you have
Speaker 6: you know, Christmas break, and you're trying to accelerate this
Speaker 6: process for them you know, where are they going to live?
Speaker 6: You know, you know all these things. They got to
Speaker 6: get into school, they got to have all their academics situated,
Speaker 6: so they were incredible. And then also our athletic administration,
Speaker 6: Desiree read Francois and her team, you know, Tony Daniel,
Speaker 6: Rachel Blunt, and Bud Sasser, and they all had different
Speaker 6: roles to play in it. The really cool thing that
Speaker 6: I think everybody needs to know is that for almost
Speaker 6: every one of these athletes, Desiree made time for them.
Speaker 6: She came and met with them in our facility, and
Speaker 6: sometimes she'd address the group and sometimes if she had
Speaker 6: you know, she's a busy person, and sometimes it was
Speaker 6: just she came to lunch and would sit with the
Speaker 6: families and have lunch with the families and get to
Speaker 6: know everybody. And so her effort was outstanding. And then
Speaker 6: I think our coaching staff did an incredible job because obviously,
Speaker 6: like I've said, fifty nine official visits in twenty five
Speaker 6: days is like nothing any of us have ever experienced.
Speaker 6: And it was intense and it was exciting, and our
Speaker 6: coaches wives were involved, and we're so grateful for them
Speaker 6: because they're part of this right, They're part of the
Speaker 6: family vibe and how it feels around here. So them
Speaker 6: showing up to these official visits was so important.
Speaker 2: So we're e'sid him.
Speaker 6: Thirty three year, thirty three mid year enrollees, right, which
Speaker 6: is much different than we had a year ago because
Speaker 6: we missed the first portal based on when we were hired.
Speaker 6: And so now those players are here, and there's players
Speaker 6: that we've chosen to be here, and we can't wait
Speaker 6: to get going.
Speaker 2: So that's the stuff there. That was like six seven minutes.
Speaker 2: How long was that? What did you say?
Speaker 4: That was about seven minutes of a lot of thank you?
Speaker 4: But what I caught was that he invited the media
Speaker 4: to lunch.
Speaker 2: Oh I saw that.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty I'm pretty pumped about that.
Speaker 2: That ain't gonna happen. But I guess too, why not
Speaker 2: let's do it? What did he say?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: God, I really didn't tell. Obviously I would just say okay,
Speaker 2: but well, thank you everybody, let's go and questions what
Speaker 2: do you got?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it did say a lot by that's all. So
Speaker 4: just who he is, right, He is very appreciative of
Speaker 4: everyone that that was involved of the process.
Speaker 5: Uh, And he seems very passionate about this class.
Speaker 2: How do you say thank you in five thousand words?
Speaker 5: That's yes, and.
Speaker 2: That's that's four four words in Spanish. But you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, say thank you. What's what you got
Speaker 2: for questions? You know, we got about six minutes?
Speaker 5: Six minutes.
Speaker 2: Do two more minutes maybe because maybe you'll get a
Speaker 2: question or two in this because before it was like
Speaker 2: holy crab.
Speaker 14: Remember the question?
Speaker 21: Just so I think so, I think totally you have
Speaker 21: twenty two offensive and defensive lineman added correct this recruiting cycle.
Speaker 21: How important is it to add the size and get
Speaker 21: better in the trenches?
Speaker 6: Well, I think that you know, you guys have heard
Speaker 6: me say it before, but I firmly believe the games
Speaker 6: are one up front, both sides of the ball, and
Speaker 6: I think that's a place that we had a lot
Speaker 6: of room to grow last year. And so that was
Speaker 6: something from the start, as we spoke, you know, as
Speaker 6: a staff in here and and putting all the pieces together,
Speaker 6: we knew we had to address that we because it
Speaker 6: wasn't it wasn't just about first line players. It was
Speaker 6: about creating an incredible amount of competition in that space,
Speaker 6: so that that competition forces that to elevate, and so
Speaker 6: that's what we were focused on, you know, going into
Speaker 6: this thing. So twelve twelve offensive linemen, ten defensive linemen,
Speaker 6: and we're really excited about all those kids.
Speaker 11: Again, I think about a third of this recruiting class
Speaker 11: is from Texas.
Speaker 5: Clearly was a priority for you.
Speaker 3: Can you just talk about what you know it means
Speaker 3: to get more kids from that part of the country.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that's I think it's a natural because
Speaker 6: we're going to be you know, there's multiple teams in
Speaker 6: our conference that that you know, play in Texas, so
Speaker 6: for us to be able to go into that state.
Speaker 6: Obviously there's several coaching members on our staff that have
Speaker 6: deep ties to Texas, which is really really important. There's
Speaker 6: also a lot of really good high school football players there.
Speaker 6: The state of Arizona is always going to be our
Speaker 6: priority in recruiting, absolutely number one, right, but we're going
Speaker 6: to have to fill out other pieces of that. And
Speaker 6: given the proximity of Texas and also the high level
Speaker 6: of high school football there, and then on top of that,
Speaker 6: how many games that we're going to be playing there,
Speaker 6: it makes it a super easy choice for us. And
Speaker 6: because of all those things.
Speaker 14: Just wondering if you get talked about your philosophy on
Speaker 14: JUCO recruiting and maybe how it's overlooked, but you guys
Speaker 14: landed multiple players from Judos's cycle.
Speaker 6: Well, I think, you know, we are looking for people
Speaker 6: that we think best fit us. And that was one
Speaker 6: of the things that we talked about so much, is
Speaker 6: we're looking for people that are tough, love football, and
Speaker 6: want to be here at the University of Arizona. And
Speaker 6: there are a handful of junior college players that fit
Speaker 6: that and the positions of need, and so we were
Speaker 6: measuring that against what was available in the portal a
Speaker 6: high school player or a junior college player, and every
Speaker 6: program is going to be different that way, and every
Speaker 6: program has different needs. I think, you know, as we're
Speaker 6: looking across college football, I think it's going to be
Speaker 6: interesting to see what this looks like after this cycle,
Speaker 6: because when I'm anticipating people turning over forty to sixty
Speaker 6: percent of their roster every year, and so where are
Speaker 6: you going to get those players? And knowing if you're
Speaker 6: recruiting from junior colleges that play at a high level
Speaker 6: where you trust the coaching staff and you know those
Speaker 6: players have already had a good year two three years
Speaker 6: of development. Those are great places for us to recruit.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. We want to get a call here
Speaker 2: or two at least, you know, you answer the questions.
Speaker 2: Texas thing is obvious, right, Yeah. The chances for the
Speaker 2: guys going home to play in front of their family
Speaker 2: and friends obvious, which is good. And there's a lot
Speaker 2: of good players out there, I hope enough to go
Speaker 2: around because they're obviously going to Texas, Texas A and
Speaker 2: M and some of those schools. Yeah, TCU.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he answered a bit more to what this class
Speaker 4: is going to be.
Speaker 5: What this class is.
Speaker 4: I think you saw it with Camp Scataboo this season
Speaker 4: where kind of a Duke Co not Division one, smaller
Speaker 4: school product came and changed the entire team and entire culture.
Speaker 4: And maybe he's trying to Maybe he's trying to do that.
Speaker 4: We'll see, we'll see what happens. But they was a good,
Speaker 4: very good amount of you.
Speaker 2: Gotta have a you gotta hit a home run, uh
Speaker 2: side unseen. Right, I'm telling you, if you get these guys,
Speaker 2: you're hoping that they're good and they're good enough for
Speaker 2: Arizona and good enough to keep you competitive in the
Speaker 2: Big twelve when they're coming from a lower division, and
Speaker 2: we all kind of find the our Peter principle, right
Speaker 2: where as good as we're going to get at this level.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I think there's a lot of guys out there
Speaker 2: that that didn't get the chance to play at this level,
Speaker 2: but are very capable of playing this level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're gonna get this chance at Arizona. They're going
Speaker 4: to have a chance to become a fan favorite, which
Speaker 4: is easy to do. That Texas State kid, I think
Speaker 4: is going to be one of those.
Speaker 5: Guys running back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't let me see if I can find
Speaker 4: his Yeah, but uh yeah, this is going to be
Speaker 4: a very interesting year just to see what comes out
Speaker 4: of this recruiting fast but because this this is Brett
Speaker 4: Brennan's team for the most part, so it's not inheritance
Speaker 4: from Jed Fish.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then you guys got you have the guys
Speaker 2: who wanted to come back.
Speaker 4: So yeah, those are your for sure guys, Guys like
Speaker 4: Noah Dalton, even even Tia Savella coming back from Texas.
Speaker 4: You know, he signed on to be not only just
Speaker 4: to come back to Arizona, but to come to Brett
Speaker 4: Brennan's program.
Speaker 2: Soya coming back, and that was a big deal, the
Speaker 2: big time offensive coordinator. We're gonna have Seth on tomorrow
Speaker 2: as one of our guests, so that should be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. And then we have our Super Bowl
Speaker 2: show on Friday with Ricky Hunley and Glenn Parker.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean this is kind of a quiet
Speaker 4: time for football, but they're making the most noise that
Speaker 4: they can.
Speaker 2: Right. Here's here's the issue. It's a pretty good rating
Speaker 2: forty two. Think about it. There's a lot of teams
Speaker 2: ahead of them. Yeah, so it's next to patch yourself
Speaker 2: on the back. But now the work starts, you know,
Speaker 2: getting in better, fighting the spots, making sure that everybody
Speaker 2: is is good, good enough to play here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you kind of talked about it where you
Speaker 4: have these kids going into their Christmas break, yet they're
Speaker 4: making a decision.
Speaker 5: For next fall.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so their their work started right after the airs
Speaker 4: of the State game and they haven't stopped. We're beginning
Speaker 4: of February. It's about two and a half months of
Speaker 4: just constant work. And that's probably why he wanted to
Speaker 4: thank all those people.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, no question, A lot of things going on
Speaker 2: at ekay okay. Are we ready to go, sir okay,
Speaker 2: let's go come back, get breaking news okay. Great,