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Speaker 5: Happy Wednesday, everyone out there, yours truly mister goody two shoes, Mihitolindo.
Speaker 4: Going going into a quick look ahead.
Speaker 5: Women's basketball does play at Kansas State tomorrow five point thirty,
Speaker 5: looking to snap a two game losing streak.
Speaker 2: That that program and I know you don't cover that
Speaker 2: program one, but it's out a crossroads. It just is
Speaker 2: I mean, does it seem and like you can help
Speaker 2: me with this. Does it seem like a long time ago?
Speaker 2: They were in the championship game? Yes, and I was
Speaker 2: at that one and then not how old were you,
Speaker 2: like seventeen eighteen? And it seems like I'm about to graduate.
Speaker 2: It's been it's been good. It's been good, but not
Speaker 2: that good. Since then?
Speaker 5: No, I think you had one good year with Kate Reese.
Speaker 5: They made it look like a little bit of a
Speaker 5: tournament run.
Speaker 2: But since then, Yeah, it's a crossworlds.
Speaker 4: What do you think that is? What do you think
Speaker 4: is changed there?
Speaker 5: We've talked about culture almost all day, and I think
Speaker 5: something somebody switched it, doesn't They don't look like they're
Speaker 5: having fun out there most games, you know, they it
Speaker 5: takes a wild shot or something to get them going,
Speaker 5: and even then they might end up losing by twenty.
Speaker 4: Are you are you? You coached for how long? Fifteen years?
Speaker 2: So those fifteen are you a fun coach or a
Speaker 2: good coach or a penning You ask coach, what kind
Speaker 2: of coach?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Do you want to play for? Yeah? This has kind
Speaker 4: of some self evaluation there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you hope that your player will run through
Speaker 3: a brick wall because you would do it for them, right,
Speaker 3: And there looks like there's a there's a sense of disconnect,
Speaker 3: disconnect and I'm I mean, I know I don't want
Speaker 3: to get taken through the drag through the mud. On
Speaker 3: this but there looks like yeah, disconnection, dysfunction a little bit.
Speaker 3: You've got to create a balance. I think that's where
Speaker 3: you have to understand that you create a fat Dictoby's perfect,
Speaker 3: you create a family atmosphere.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 2: Sure, but let's also let's also say this about to
Speaker 2: tell me because I covered for three years, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: Arizona football. It's not I'm using the level here way
Speaker 2: high and it's not way low. It's kind of in
Speaker 2: the middle. But that's where Arizona football is and it's
Speaker 2: not always been. How do you like that spot? I
Speaker 2: mean we talked about this time. Yeah, that's where I
Speaker 2: want to be. I'm sorry you don't want to be there, Well,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be better than there. It's funny
Speaker 2: because before you answer that question, a friend of mine
Speaker 2: who's part of the program here maybe twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: he says, we got we got to Brennan, right, and
Speaker 2: we got Dick Tomy. They didn't tell us that we
Speaker 2: actually got Dic Toby. And now we're gonna be We're
Speaker 2: gonna be stuck in this malaise or muddle, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, or you'll have a good year maybe
Speaker 2: and then another bad year.
Speaker 4: I mean, is that what you want? I don't listen
Speaker 4: as a you have a football fan?
Speaker 3: Do I want? I want consistencies. We talked about this
Speaker 3: last time. But you're gonna strive. We're never sorry. I
Speaker 3: don't believe that we will be in elite program. You're
Speaker 3: not going to be in the top four.
Speaker 4: You're you're not.
Speaker 3: But we're looking at now, you're looking at in il
Speaker 3: we're not even the top you know whatever.
Speaker 2: So so both of you guys, because you're grat and
Speaker 2: you're gonna be whatever, seven and five and six and
Speaker 2: six and eight and four is good enough?
Speaker 4: Okay, Now this is a question.
Speaker 3: So every four years you have a six and six,
Speaker 3: an eight and five, a seven and three, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you win a conference.
Speaker 4: Well I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: You're stretching it there because part of that's going to
Speaker 2: be seven and four and seven.
Speaker 4: And yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: Fining just happened, right, So yeah, maybe I'm speaking out
Speaker 3: to side to my mouth.
Speaker 4: So what do you think? I mean.
Speaker 5: It just just where I've seen this program, you know
Speaker 5: it truly is the seven and five, six and six
Speaker 5: win a conference?
Speaker 4: Now? You're two and two and ten.
Speaker 2: That's been your life. Yeah, you've already become accustomed to it.
Speaker 5: When when I wrote preseason about what the skin what
Speaker 5: the fans should expect, I said, fans should expect to
Speaker 5: go to a bowl game because I still think that
Speaker 5: that team was good enough to make a ball if
Speaker 5: they were to get healthy. Sure the ball bounces their
Speaker 5: way a couple of times, and that that should be
Speaker 5: a stepping stone to what the standards should be.
Speaker 2: You haven't been that team since rich Al I left
Speaker 2: and then and then he left under his conditions. But uh,
Speaker 2: the festival a long time ago, ten years ago. Hey, basketball,
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry to remind you guys, and I did
Speaker 2: it to jail time.
Speaker 4: He hates me for it. Ninety seven we just talked about. No,
Speaker 4: you don't. I mean two thousand and one is the
Speaker 4: last time we went to the Final four, right, So
Speaker 4: I mean you even mentioned blue Blood in the conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're just thinking that that people think
Speaker 3: about that when you're thinking about the program. And then
Speaker 3: we talked about Miller's legacy. Miller gosked to three Elite eights, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a there's a start of a legacy.
Speaker 3: Again for us, that puts us back into that blue
Speaker 3: blood and I think Tommy's been able to carry that torch.
Speaker 3: But March is what matters, right, So for you a
Speaker 3: football what matters? Bowl games? Should you be competing for?
Speaker 3: My goal is seven and five every year and beating
Speaker 3: and beating a top twenty five.
Speaker 4: Teams, so or an issue?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you're seven and five for the next
Speaker 2: ten years straight years, what would be that legacy?
Speaker 4: I mean that's a great question, Steve.
Speaker 3: That's I mean, you know, I mean, what's what's been
Speaker 3: in the last ten years before this? Would you take
Speaker 3: the previous ten years or would you take the next
Speaker 3: ten years knowing you're seven and five you're being a
Speaker 3: top twenty five team.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's going.
Speaker 2: But I would side with the looking forward future, right
Speaker 2: because you already know the past.
Speaker 4: We talk about legacy.
Speaker 5: That would be ten winning seasons for Brett Brannan out
Speaker 5: of out of eleven, right, Yeah, that's pretty dang good
Speaker 5: compared to the history of Arizona football coaches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very bizarre because this is a good place.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've we've seen that it can be done
Speaker 2: basketball wise, and a lot of different areas.
Speaker 4: It just can't turn the corner for football. What other
Speaker 4: what other college town or city do you know that's
Speaker 4: our size and supports their college the way we do.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, but they're but they're they're they're loaded
Speaker 4: in yeah yeah, loaded in this town.
Speaker 3: But they have a lot organ sounds not a million
Speaker 3: and a half people. Yeah, well, you know that's what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: It's funny because we had Chuck Culpepper here, were you
Speaker 2: here with Chuck? Chuck well, very bright dude, and he
Speaker 2: talks about well, it's like listening to the Texas and
Speaker 2: lumps who think they've won five national titles or whatever
Speaker 2: it is, and they they they're not there. They think
Speaker 2: they're better than they are and they're not.
Speaker 3: But they're Texas football or Indiana basketball, right, the same things.
Speaker 2: Where who cares? And that was so long ago that
Speaker 2: no one really gets a crap. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 3: My uh, my cousin, so my mom's side of the
Speaker 3: family is from Cleveland area, Ohio Akron so uh they're
Speaker 3: die hard Ohio State fans, right, and so they lost
Speaker 3: to Michigan and again this year and they had a meltdown.
Speaker 3: My cousin's telling me it's more important than we beat
Speaker 3: Michigan than national championship. I said, you know we're talking
Speaker 3: to you're talking to you have a football fans out here,
Speaker 3: like you have no idea what you're now. You're probably
Speaker 3: going to end up winning a national championship. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: fire your coach, then get back to them. Are you
Speaker 3: still upset? You still said about to Yeah, that's what
Speaker 3: I mean, That's what I asked him. I said, yeah,
Speaker 3: so if you had a crystal ball, which one are
Speaker 3: you choosing? Well, if they don't win, it is a disappointment.
Speaker 3: You get to a national championship game. There's no disappointment.
Speaker 3: The game's there. Yeah, right, okay.
Speaker 5: And then of course men's basketball beat number twenty five
Speaker 5: Bailure last night, eighty one to seventy. We've talked about
Speaker 5: it for most of the show. Their next trip road
Speaker 5: trip to Lubbock at Texas Tech out of eight at noon,
Speaker 5: and then they're still on the road till through Tuesday,
Speaker 5: where they go to Stillwater, Oklahoma State seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a normal game. Time o'clock feels good, Cools good.
Speaker 5: Uh So, Arizona football got a pick up through the portal. Actually,
Speaker 5: I guess so you call it a rebound from the
Speaker 5: portal and defensive lineman Tia Savella coming back from Texas.
Speaker 2: Right, he was here for a couple of years, left
Speaker 2: to Texas. This is the perfect example. Is the shinier
Speaker 2: shining Your penny is is not always as shiny as
Speaker 2: you think it is. It's still a penny. Grass is
Speaker 2: never always greener. Sometimes, yeah, she's a pretty girl. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'll drop my girl and then go friend, And it's
Speaker 2: really the pain. I better come back.
Speaker 3: That was also a terrible sentence. I said, I never
Speaker 3: and then sometimes and it should never go in the
Speaker 3: same second.
Speaker 6: Yea, yea.
Speaker 5: The Phoenix Suns played last night. They faced the Hawks
Speaker 5: in Atlanta. They did lose one, one seventeen.
Speaker 2: If you want to talk about a city and whatever
Speaker 2: that desperately needs success, it's Phoenix. Yeah, because the Suns
Speaker 2: have been whatever for years. The Cardinals got to a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl maybe twelve years ago, whatever years ago, and
Speaker 2: who the Sons and then the Baseball Diamondbacks gave him
Speaker 2: the title in two thousand and one, and it was
Speaker 2: the you know.
Speaker 4: What I'm saying, It's just been kind of like the
Speaker 4: step child. Yeah, but the Diamondbacks are two years from
Speaker 4: going to the World Series. Yeah, but they didn't win.
Speaker 4: They didn't win close. Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 3: I mean we can point out other cities in the country,
Speaker 3: like Detroit two that are in that same boat.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 5: And so with that loss, they went out and got
Speaker 5: some help or try to get trying. They're gonna try
Speaker 5: and get some help. The Sons acquired Nick Richards from
Speaker 5: the Hornets. They're gonna trade Joshua Kogie and three second
Speaker 5: round picks.
Speaker 2: And you're talking Spanish to me, I have no ideayeah,
Speaker 2: but again you're talking about their big three.
Speaker 3: You make that trade to get Beasley in there, and
Speaker 3: now that Beasley's not even starting. So it's it's just
Speaker 3: they gave up so much and they have no depth.
Speaker 3: You're you're writing that same boat.
Speaker 4: And they've been doing that since they went to the finals. Yea,
Speaker 4: three four years whatever years ago. That another another four years. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's been it feels like forever.
Speaker 5: Jimmy Butler reiterated to pat Riley that he is demanding
Speaker 5: a trade. So maybe that's something to look out for
Speaker 5: for the you've been married.
Speaker 2: Divorced, I've never been divorced, okay, which I've been.
Speaker 3: Married three times, but never divorced. Just don't tell anybody. Okay,
Speaker 3: we've talked about that.
Speaker 2: It's like a it' said with a group of guys
Speaker 2: that was with this week playing talking about well we're
Speaker 2: going to counseling, blah blah blah. Once you go to
Speaker 2: calsor that's over, Baby's I've never known anybody to have
Speaker 2: something solved that way. They said, you know what, maybe
Speaker 2: it opens our eyes to say you say it's over
Speaker 2: like a black idea.
Speaker 4: You just say you don't. We've reached the point of
Speaker 4: no return, you know what I'm saying. It's Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2: Once, how many times can you say I want out? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just went out, give me out?
Speaker 4: Yeah I will.
Speaker 3: I will point to a very specific instance. The only
Speaker 3: time that I've seen that work is what it's like.
Speaker 3: Please tell me the Lakers piece of it with Kobe
Speaker 3: and no Phil when after that first sure they couldn't
Speaker 3: stand each other, and then Phil came back afterwards, and
Speaker 3: then they ended up mending that bridge, so they realized
Speaker 3: that they need realized each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna try to speed run through some of
Speaker 5: these because we're running out of time. The NBA has
Speaker 5: rescheduled nine games in due to the result of the
Speaker 5: wildfires and some of the ice storms. Looking at February's
Speaker 5: last March games, but they are being rescheduled. More than
Speaker 5: twenty four vehicles were broken into at a high school
Speaker 5: a lot during the Michigan basketball game. As nearby high
Speaker 5: school by the University of Michigan, twenty four vehicles were
Speaker 5: broken into. The Chargers head coach Jim Harbug is going
Speaker 5: to have a cardiac ablation and hip replacement surgery over
Speaker 5: the off season.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens with that.
Speaker 5: If anything does happen with that, wide received Deontae Johnson
Speaker 5: was waived by the Houston Texans and immediately picked up
Speaker 5: by the Baltimore Ravens this morning and go ahead some
Speaker 5: Texas as. The Texas players have declared for the NFL drafts,
Speaker 5: first being Isaiah Bond, probably their best receiver this year,
Speaker 5: as well as star starting quarterback Quin Yours.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, we get to see the manning. Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 5: excited for that. I think it'll be interesting see if
Speaker 5: he stays well. You never know what happens this offseason. Oh, so,
Speaker 5: do you remember that UNLV quarterback that had the whole
Speaker 5: drama with nil? He has chosen James Madison for his
Speaker 5: next stop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was not as the latter real move
Speaker 2: right now, he's just hoping to get paid.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Quarterback Cam Rising is no longer on the Utah football roster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which doesn't say what is high school? I think
Speaker 4: he's two years older.
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Speaker 4: I'm Steve Rivera. In with me today is Blake Eager.
Speaker 2: We got one at the controls now we have Michael
Speaker 2: lev of the Eros of Daily Star. How are you doing, Michael?
Speaker 2: Did you get some sleep after last night's Late night.
Speaker 14: I'm doing well. Thank you.
Speaker 15: Went to bed around one thirty, got up this morning,
Speaker 15: wrote a column, So all get good.
Speaker 2: No one talks about that part of the life, right, Oh,
Speaker 2: you go to games, you get to meet the players,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: No I gotta stay up till one thirty.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so literal, they're way they're way worse.
Speaker 6: Jobs.
Speaker 16: I was just gonna say that. Yeah, you were working
Speaker 16: on a roof here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, tar No,
Speaker 16: You're you're right. So what did you make of last
Speaker 16: last night's game? You asked some good questions last night
Speaker 16: of Tommy. Uh did you were you impressed with last
Speaker 16: night's game?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean definitely the first half they dominated.
Speaker 14: They played with great intensity, especially on defense.
Speaker 15: Really kind of shocked the Bears, I think with their physicality.
Speaker 14: Obviously, that was a big point of emphasis.
Speaker 15: Coming into the game after a poor rebounding performance against UCF. Also, Baylor,
Speaker 15: you know, one of the bigger, better front lines in
Speaker 15: the Big twelve, maybe even all of college basketball.
Speaker 14: So that was good. I think Tommy's looking for more.
Speaker 15: That was the kind of the theme of his postgame
Speaker 15: speech after that game against UCF, and he kind of
Speaker 15: got what maybe thirty I'm sorry, twenty five minutes of
Speaker 15: really good basketball in this game and fifteen minutes of
Speaker 15: you know, so so basketball. But it's a process, right,
Speaker 15: These are young kids. Can't expect perfection every time out.
Speaker 15: Bottom line looks really good. I mean, they're five to
Speaker 15: zero in the Big Twelve. You know, everyone thought they'd
Speaker 15: come into this league and have a tough time, and
Speaker 15: so far they really haven't. They'd been three ranked teams
Speaker 15: in the last four games.
Speaker 14: So yeah, that's all good.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I mean, and Michael, this is Blake. You know,
Speaker 3: we were talking about that. We've been talking about expectations
Speaker 3: so much, right, so you brought up a good point
Speaker 3: and that it looked like out of that forty minutes
Speaker 3: last night, maybe twenty five. You know, these are college athletes, right,
Speaker 3: These aren't professional athletes, even whatever you want to say
Speaker 3: from nil, they're not professional athletes. So what are our
Speaker 3: expectations with this team moving forward? Are we expecting thirty
Speaker 3: minutes a game of just full blown like we were
Speaker 3: in that first half yesterday? Is that what Tommy Lloyd's
Speaker 3: expect I mean, obviously his expectations are forty minutes, but
Speaker 3: realistic expectations. Are we thinking thirty maybe thirty five minutes?
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a lot to ask to keep present
Speaker 3: in that kind of game situation.
Speaker 14: Here's what I would say, when do you want to
Speaker 14: see this?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Yeah, but I think you have a fans want to
Speaker 15: see this in March, right, Like there have been a
Speaker 15: lot of really good November teams under Tommy Lloyd, and
Speaker 15: really good regular season teams and even teams that have
Speaker 15: won conference championship games, and then they don't have that
Speaker 15: really good solid performance when it comes to the to
Speaker 15: the NCAA tournament, which is what you're what you're measured by, right,
Speaker 15: So to me, you want to build up toward that,
Speaker 15: right And I think it helps to play a lot
Speaker 15: of really good opponents along the way. I think this
Speaker 15: difficult Big twelve league is going to really help them
Speaker 15: sharpen them up in a lot of ways. I think
Speaker 15: that the expectations have kind of gone up and down
Speaker 15: for the team overall over the course of the season.
Speaker 15: Very high going into it. Maybe they kind of dipped
Speaker 15: a little bit when they struggled some what during the
Speaker 15: non con and they are on the rise again and
Speaker 15: this is looking very much like a tournament team.
Speaker 14: It's a little bit of an unconventional team.
Speaker 15: In ways because the guy who was supposed to be
Speaker 15: their best player has really has not had a great
Speaker 15: season and might be the third best player in the team,
Speaker 15: maybe even the fourth best player in the team, which
Speaker 15: you know, doesn't speak well for the way things are
Speaker 15: going for Caleb Love necessarily, but I think it speaks
Speaker 15: well for the way.
Speaker 14: The rest of the team has developed around him.
Speaker 3: Michael, I was trying to think the last time I
Speaker 3: saw you've a team like this one where you started
Speaker 3: off this way. Our expectations weren't met early on, but
Speaker 3: in the last seven to eight games, it looks like
Speaker 3: we've taken a step forward in each one of those
Speaker 3: games and gotten better and gotten better, and that to
Speaker 3: me tells me that we are building towards March and
Speaker 3: that it's more of a team culture with this team.
Speaker 3: Do you think that we can make a deep run
Speaker 3: in March if we do make the turn without Love
Speaker 3: being Love?
Speaker 17: Ooh, that's a.
Speaker 15: Good question, because I was talking to a friend of
Speaker 15: mine before the game season ticket holder, and I commented
Speaker 15: to him before tip off, like, if Love has a
Speaker 15: three for twelve type of game, they're not going to win.
Speaker 15: Well he did, and they did. They won anyway. Henry
Speaker 15: Basar continued to be excellent. Jayden Bradley steady as he goes.
Speaker 15: I thought Casey Lewis had a really good game. I
Speaker 15: would say it would certainly help if Caleb Love was
Speaker 15: kind of in that PAC twelve Player of the Year form.
Speaker 15: But it's a good sign and in some respects that
Speaker 15: they have shown that they can win when he's not
Speaker 15: at the top of his game offensively.
Speaker 14: There was definitely a like a pattern of correlation.
Speaker 15: Before where if he didn't play well, they would almost
Speaker 15: certainly lose, and they've kind of broken out of that,
Speaker 15: So I think that is a good thing for the
Speaker 15: team as a whole. But to win it all, maybe
Speaker 15: you get like the performance you're getting out of the
Speaker 15: other guys, and Caleb Love is at the top of
Speaker 15: his game, then you're talking about a really, really good team.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I totally agree, And I still believe that he's
Speaker 2: going to have to come through for six straight games.
Speaker 2: If that's going to happen, he's got to come through.
Speaker 2: They're gonna need us scoring at some point along the line.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, I got a text from somebody
Speaker 2: this morning about the crowd and Tommy referred to it.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a very and you were there.
Speaker 2: It was a pretty It was maybe eleven strong, very
Speaker 2: loud for what it was worth. The top was empty.
Speaker 2: Kind of we expected this because it was such a
Speaker 2: late night. What do you what do you make about?
Speaker 2: And you've been here what six years? I think, Michael,
Speaker 2: where you know in my day it was always passed.
Speaker 2: It was always loud as old people still but they
Speaker 2: got loud now now you heard Tommy, but he still
Speaker 2: wants more, which, of course I don't disagree. What do
Speaker 2: you make of it? And I'm going to read you
Speaker 2: some notes that I got a text from.
Speaker 15: But what do you think, Well, I've been here almost
Speaker 15: ten years now, Steve, if you can't believe it really
Speaker 15: only covering basketball for a few of those mostly you know,
Speaker 15: football and baseball before that. But I thought a good crowd,
Speaker 15: I'd say, maybe like a b BB plus uh somewhere
Speaker 15: in there. I was impressed with how many people got
Speaker 15: the memo about wearing red. The redout worked. I thought that,
Speaker 15: like the non students were really into it. I kind
Speaker 15: of thought the student section was a little bit sluggish
Speaker 15: for what we're used to, but they'd be a little
Speaker 15: bit more fired up. And if anyone would be unaffected
Speaker 15: by the late start time, it would be the students,
Speaker 15: even though it was like an eve of the first
Speaker 15: day of classes today. But I think Tommy knows how
Speaker 15: big of a deal it is to have that home
Speaker 15: court advantage and that you're not in the Pac twelve anymore.
Speaker 15: Like in the Pac twelve, like Arizona clearly had the
Speaker 15: best home court of any team in the league. And
Speaker 15: as Scott Drew, the Baylor coach, said last night when
Speaker 15: he was asked about it, he was like, yeah, it's
Speaker 15: pretty much like everyplace else in the Big twelve, Like
Speaker 15: they're all like this, So you got to kind of
Speaker 15: step your game up if you're the fans. I think
Speaker 15: that Tommy has put out a very entertaining product during
Speaker 15: his time here, Like they play really fun, up tempo,
Speaker 15: offensive basketball. Nine o'clock is not an ideal start time,
Speaker 15: but you know, it's probably the exception rather than the rule.
Speaker 15: Most of the start times have been pretty reasonable. I'm
Speaker 15: gonna get a lot of Saturday games.
Speaker 14: With the way this shapes up to.
Speaker 15: Definitely a little adjustment for people. I think with the
Speaker 15: with the Tuesday game. You know, we had that whole
Speaker 15: conversation with my colleague Bruce Pasco about like Wednesday is
Speaker 15: Sunday now, that kind of thing, Like it's it's a
Speaker 15: very different pattern and feel to the to the conference
Speaker 15: season because of these Monday and Tuesday games.
Speaker 14: But I thought, good crowd, but capable of a little
Speaker 14: bit more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's not even close to what it
Speaker 2: used to be Underloon because it's just it's just.
Speaker 4: Not It's just not now.
Speaker 2: It's probably someone said it was maybe not even in
Speaker 2: the top five whatever over the Big twelve because we've
Speaker 2: seen those crowds are crazy. It just needs to get better,
Speaker 2: even though if it's late, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: even know what to solve is.
Speaker 14: I don't I don't know either. I mean I think
Speaker 14: it was a I think it was, like I said,
Speaker 14: a good crowd. Yeah, but I went but I think.
Speaker 15: I don't know if we talked about this on your show,
Speaker 15: but I went to the Kansas North Carolina game and
Speaker 15: Lawrence as a fan with a friend of mine and wrote
Speaker 15: about that experience that was different. Yeah, granted, I mean
Speaker 15: it was a very special occasion of North Carolina coming
Speaker 15: to Kansas for the first time in late sixty five years.
Speaker 15: But still, I mean you could just get a sentence
Speaker 15: for things that was different. I think it's different when
Speaker 15: it's a smaller college town. A Tucson is a college
Speaker 15: town and a good college town, but it's not like
Speaker 15: the only thing in town like in Laurence, Kansas, or Ames, Iowa,
Speaker 15: or love.
Speaker 14: It, Texas, you know where like that Dicks you know.
Speaker 15: I mean, it's a little bit bigger of metropolis, and
Speaker 15: I think that does hurt a little bit sometimes.
Speaker 3: I mean I was a getting I was, like the
Speaker 3: game last night. I can understand. We went to a
Speaker 3: couple on the road. Last year. We went to California,
Speaker 3: which was I mean, it's a big arena, but there
Speaker 3: was yeah, I mean I think there was two thousand fans.
Speaker 3: Right Stanford was a smaller area, and I thought that
Speaker 3: was a decent crowd. But we've been I mean, Michael,
Speaker 3: you said it earlier, the Pac twelve, We've we've been
Speaker 3: kind of Yeah, we've been very fortunate I think with
Speaker 3: dealing with that, and once you get to the Big twelve,
Speaker 3: I think it's a change of culture for not only
Speaker 3: the players, but also the fan experience.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: So so Michael, just sorry to mess really question because
Speaker 2: we're gonna run out of time.
Speaker 4: So there are fifteen more games right in the in
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 2: They're five to zero right now, and I've said this
Speaker 2: from a show this morning. They ask me, so what's
Speaker 2: the difference now? Well, they're playing better, and that's easy,
Speaker 2: that's how you know, what kind of evaluation is that.
Speaker 2: But they haven't really played anybody in the league yet.
Speaker 2: Wait till they start to play the league. So I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if you agree with that, But they have
Speaker 2: fifteen left. What do you think is going to happen
Speaker 2: in the next fifteen record wise?
Speaker 15: Well, I mean, you see that is pretty good first
Speaker 15: of all, and you see to attack this tack on
Speaker 15: the road. They just beat ASU and they handle them
Speaker 15: pretty soundly. And Baylor's pretty good too. Now, they're not
Speaker 15: the elite teams in the league. The elite teams in
Speaker 15: the league.
Speaker 14: Are probably Iowa.
Speaker 15: State, Houston, and Kansas Kansas. And I think they played
Speaker 15: Iowa State twice in Houston and Kansas. Went's a piece
Speaker 15: on the schedule in front of me. But hey, look,
Speaker 15: if you're if you can finish above five hundred in
Speaker 15: the Big twelve, that's a good season, that puts you
Speaker 15: in good shape for the NACA Tournament. But I think
Speaker 15: the expectation since we're higher now because they are five
Speaker 15: and oh, I mean if they finished eleven and nine
Speaker 15: after starting five and.
Speaker 14: Oh, that wouldn't be very good, right, So I don't know.
Speaker 15: Let's say they go eight and seven the rest of
Speaker 15: the way, thirteen and seven record in the conference something
Speaker 15: even that might not be good enough based on what
Speaker 15: people think right now.
Speaker 14: So I think this guy's a limit for this team.
Speaker 15: The way that they're playing. I love what Henry Basar
Speaker 15: is bringing to the table. We talked to him last night,
Speaker 15: asked him some questions that tell me some questions about him.
Speaker 15: He's that's a game changer. You can get a seven
Speaker 15: footer who can do all the different things that he
Speaker 15: can do. I think that really changes the outlook for
Speaker 15: this team. Hopefully he will continue to play at the
Speaker 15: level that he's played at over the last nine games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I don't disagree with that at all. Just
Speaker 2: move to football. Since we just have you for a
Speaker 2: couple more minutes now, you like what Brennan's doing did
Speaker 2: you yeah?
Speaker 6: Do you like?
Speaker 4: You? You must like given the situation.
Speaker 14: Well, I like the coaching moves for sure.
Speaker 15: Seth Bage was very impressive when we talked to him,
Speaker 15: the young new offensive coordinator. They needed to do something
Speaker 15: different on that side of the ball. They needed to
Speaker 15: hit the reset button, start over, and he's bringing fresh ideas.
Speaker 15: He seems very confident, he seems to have a plan,
Speaker 15: So I think they're going to have a better direction
Speaker 15: on that side of the ball. I think the move
Speaker 15: of bringing in Joe Salavea was a brilliant stroke. I
Speaker 15: think it's going to be great for recruiting. I think
Speaker 15: the play is going to improve along the defensive line.
Speaker 14: I did not think that.
Speaker 15: I mean it was particularly well coached last year, especially
Speaker 15: when it came to discipline against things that you know
Speaker 15: ran Joan Reid plays.
Speaker 14: The edge containment was poor.
Speaker 15: So I think Joe will improve those areas and he's
Speaker 15: going to bring people here too. He is a an established,
Speaker 15: an effective recruiter in the areas where Arizona needs to recruit.
Speaker 15: As far as the transfer portal goes, that to me
Speaker 15: is TBD. Like I like the idea of what they've done.
Speaker 14: They've got drought in.
Speaker 15: A lot of players who have produced at lower levels,
Speaker 15: but you never know how those players are going to
Speaker 15: translate onto the.
Speaker 14: Highest level of college football.
Speaker 15: So I'm kind of in waiting steam mode when it
Speaker 15: comes to the players. But they have done a good
Speaker 15: job of addressing most of the need that they had
Speaker 15: going into the offseason.
Speaker 2: Just real quick, we last question, and I don't think
Speaker 2: I've asked you this on the show yet, Michael, and
Speaker 2: disregard injuries, and I know that's going to be one
Speaker 2: of the things.
Speaker 4: How did how and why did it go south? Last season?
Speaker 15: Okay, well, I'll try to be to think about this.
Speaker 15: I think first number one.
Speaker 14: We all.
Speaker 15: Estimated the losses that they suffered to the NFL, the transfer,
Speaker 15: portal graduation, et cetera, especially when it came to depth
Speaker 15: on the offensive and defensive line.
Speaker 14: So that was the biggest thing.
Speaker 15: I think The second thing was hiring you know, Babers
Speaker 15: as offensive coordinator was a mistake that just did not
Speaker 15: work out. The system uh never fit the player's strengths.
Speaker 14: The offense never clicked.
Speaker 15: They weren't able to make adjustments over the course of
Speaker 15: the season to get that right. And then I think
Speaker 15: the third thing was the injuries they lost, you know,
Speaker 15: several of their best and smartest defensive players, and their
Speaker 15: offensive line was banged up the whole year, and it's
Speaker 15: really hard to operate when your offensive line is not
Speaker 15: functioning at its best. So those, I would say, are
Speaker 15: are the biggest factors. And you know, hey, they've been
Speaker 15: busy at work trying to fix all that stuff this offseason.
Speaker 15: I think they've registered some wins in that regard, so
Speaker 15: it feels like they're at least headed in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, the guy that you didn't mention was Brennan,
Speaker 2: so I guess he's done in the top three, which
Speaker 2: is good.
Speaker 15: Well, I mean, look, he's over he's overseeing all of it, right,
Speaker 15: I Mean he said it many times like that's the
Speaker 15: buck stops with him, you know, like he's responsible for
Speaker 15: the direction of the program. So you know, that's that's
Speaker 15: ultimately where the blame lies for everything that happened last year,
Speaker 15: and a little bit of credit for what's happened so
Speaker 15: far this offseason.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, Michael, So as always, thank you very much,
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 4: All right, take care.
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Speaker 1: Streamy Live on the iHeartRadio app is Eye on the
Speaker 1: Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Rivera. You're Blake?
Speaker 6: Did you?
Speaker 17: Did?
Speaker 4: You just did? What's my last name? Eager? You nail?
Speaker 2: My problem was I used my last name and I
Speaker 2: couldn't kind of and you're one because I never used one.
Speaker 3: Can I ask this question when we're on the air,
Speaker 3: so like when we have when you when you have
Speaker 3: when you have guests on, should I say hey, this
Speaker 3: is Blake Eager? Or should I just say hey this
Speaker 3: is Blake?
Speaker 4: No, that's fine? Yeah, yeah, whatever you decide. Yeah. Always
Speaker 4: may have like ten nicknames here, so I call you Jay. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 4: here we go, Yeah, Jami hit the window. Can you
Speaker 4: two shoes?
Speaker 2: If you guys want to call in and let us
Speaker 2: know if you went to the game, did you you know,
Speaker 2: stay for the whole thing with your experience. I think
Speaker 2: we talked off the air about, you know, the experience,
Speaker 2: it needs to be better. Fans help uh and and
Speaker 2: if it's the tickets are on the market, you want
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 4: Try to buy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we had this conversation, but we are
Speaker 3: we are more problem driven as two son ins. I
Speaker 3: think a lot because of the history we've had here
Speaker 3: opposed to solution. And that's we talked about this that
Speaker 3: we don't we don't know what the right answer is,
Speaker 3: but there's if we have a chance to go look
Speaker 3: at other programs that are doing things that we're not
Speaker 3: doing and implementing that. I think we need to do
Speaker 3: a better job of that, right And how do we
Speaker 3: get our community involvement, how do we create an experience
Speaker 3: it's like no other Yeah, and it's out there.
Speaker 2: It's another discussion for another time, probably not on the air,
Speaker 2: but my thoughts on that han't been there for a
Speaker 2: long time. But you're going to be busy here in
Speaker 2: the next two months, right less.
Speaker 4: Than two months, seven weeks.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, okay, and you're going to be here
Speaker 2: every now and again on the show. I'd love to
Speaker 2: be Yeah, this has been fun, This has been good.
Speaker 2: So tell me World Baseball Classic No March March second
Speaker 2: to the sixth.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So we've got double hitters March second, March third,
Speaker 3: March fourth, starting at eleven am and six pm. And
Speaker 3: then March six is kind of the championship playing game,
Speaker 3: so two teams will advance between Germany, Brazil, China and Columbia.
Speaker 2: So this might be a naive, dumb question. Fans from
Speaker 2: those places do they come?
Speaker 3: Uh, we're hoping. So how about that? You've got one
Speaker 3: point eight billion people between the four countries. We're hoping
Speaker 3: to get at least one hundred thousand of them here.
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 2: Oh, we got a call before I answer that question.
Speaker 2: You're in the air nine on the ball.
Speaker 4: Who's this?
Speaker 18: So forever I've been a big proponent of taking all
Speaker 18: the white hairs off the TV screen, like all the
Speaker 18: supporters of the illumni, the boosters get their old asses
Speaker 18: off the TV making that called Cameron has their You
Speaker 18: want to show off the kids, right, you don't want
Speaker 18: the white hairs. That's hout be fat people that sit
Speaker 18: in front fortunate fat guys that get good seats from
Speaker 18: time to time to sit down.
Speaker 4: Well alone there, mister, you're not alone. A few people are.
Speaker 4: And his name is Blocke. Is Blocke eager? Yes, I've
Speaker 4: seen that a couple of times. You're not alone.
Speaker 2: I know, Steve Union Denis who's gonna pay the bills?
Speaker 2: Who's gonna pay the bills? The kids aren't gonna.
Speaker 4: Pay the bills. I gut who pays the bills.
Speaker 18: But it's just it's been a theme for more than
Speaker 18: fifteen years, all the time. And we love we we
Speaker 18: we love see I guess Jim Klick and smoking Joe Morales.
Speaker 18: We love seeing you guys. No, we don't love seeing you.
Speaker 18: We want to see these energetic kids. Because you could
Speaker 18: always go back to the to the Iowa game on
Speaker 18: that Saturday night where our and this is football, our
Speaker 18: student section, the zoo was going off the chain and
Speaker 18: that made a good rep where if they would have
Speaker 18: showed the rest of the stadium it was empty.
Speaker 4: But in beast about we actually filled that thing up.
Speaker 18: Put the kids on, let the white hairs to you know,
Speaker 18: climb up the fourth row or make skyboxes for them
Speaker 18: or something. Mister mister Rivetta and mister Iger eager close.
Speaker 4: I'll take both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I understand, and you called for a purpose
Speaker 2: to to rant about that, but it ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 18: And it's something that i've you know that, you know,
Speaker 18: while even when they renovated, you know, I got I
Speaker 18: was too fat for the seats.
Speaker 4: But that's why I don't go to basketball. But like
Speaker 4: as always, bear down, Okay, bear down.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks Michael for listening and paying attention from this one. Hey,
Speaker 2: you're on the air and nine the ball?
Speaker 4: Who's this.
Speaker 17: Georgia. I'm not gonna follow that, Mic Man, come on,
Speaker 17: I'm not cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it makes sense. That will help.
Speaker 19: So I'm just saying, uh, you know, uh yeah, last
Speaker 19: time I was there, I was told to sit down
Speaker 19: when I was clapping.
Speaker 14: I don't want to go.
Speaker 4: Then, man, where were you?
Speaker 17: I was to the right hand side, kind of in
Speaker 17: the corner, next next to the student section, and I
Speaker 17: was told to sit down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, where are you at? That was probably my wife.
Speaker 4: I told him.
Speaker 17: No, but you know so then after a while you're
Speaker 17: just like, that's no fun. And then yeah, like now
Speaker 17: that I have kids, Like, I can't go in to
Speaker 17: school night. I got to get up at six am
Speaker 17: to start dinner or start breakfast for the kids and
Speaker 17: stuff and get them off to school at seven.
Speaker 18: You can't go.
Speaker 17: I live in Oral.
Speaker 19: Valley, man, that's an hour drive back after traffic.
Speaker 17: Not if there was like a rail system or something,
Speaker 17: you know, like like a tram.
Speaker 2: Do you guys want to friends toast and and all
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 4: Do you have tickets normally or no? You just get
Speaker 4: to get them randomly.
Speaker 20: No, I get them randomly for you know, I buy
Speaker 20: them my friends, or I get them from friends, or
Speaker 20: I buy them when it's like a big game, Like
Speaker 20: you know, we went to North Carolina, we went to Kansas,
Speaker 20: we did we do all that. But uh, we used
Speaker 20: to have a friend that they had season tickets and
Speaker 20: it was right on the halfway court, I think.
Speaker 17: It was row ten, And it was a right behind.
Speaker 20: That first bar, and you could put your feet up
Speaker 20: all amazing seats so eye level with the baskets.
Speaker 17: Have you been amazing, George?
Speaker 2: Have you been here all your life? Who want to
Speaker 2: raise So I have a guy in the building here
Speaker 2: with me who's been here all your life. I've always
Speaker 2: since said this, Tucson fans of uahans are a fickle
Speaker 2: You gotta one. You've gotta be winning. They got to
Speaker 2: care about you, and you've gotta be financially able to
Speaker 2: pull it off. That's a lot of ifs ands or
Speaker 2: butts right, And it's not like that a lot, especially
Speaker 2: the Finkle part. This team is kind of still there
Speaker 2: trying to figure you guys out, and if you're not
Speaker 2: any good, they ain't gonna go.
Speaker 4: That's not you. Yeah, yeah, you gotta be.
Speaker 17: I mean we want winners. We want somebody to the
Speaker 17: root for it. I mean nobody wants to go see uh.
Speaker 19: I don't know ten and twelve team or whatever, you know,
Speaker 19: like nobody wants to see that you want to go
Speaker 19: like when we're.
Speaker 17: Twenty and six's actually.
Speaker 3: But do you get to choose when you're you're a fan?
Speaker 3: I mean I'm a Cubs fan too. I don't get
Speaker 3: to choose when they're good. So I still follow them
Speaker 3: every I mean we watch every game I can, so
Speaker 3: I don't think it's fans.
Speaker 17: I watch every game, but that doesn't mean I show up.
Speaker 17: Do you go to every Cubs game?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not in Wrigley, so I'm not in Chicago,
Speaker 3: but then they're here, yeah, George, Georgia.
Speaker 19: Right, no, but you know what I mean, George, do
Speaker 19: you fly out? It's the same thing, do you like
Speaker 19: you don't fly out, and I don't drive down.
Speaker 17: It's the same thing, you know, like that.
Speaker 20: That's the car for me to go, come, but you don't.
Speaker 17: Go and come because it's a big costs.
Speaker 4: The same thing, George.
Speaker 2: If if this game had been at six o'clock and
Speaker 2: you have four tickets and you hit, would you have gone?
Speaker 17: I would have gone.
Speaker 19: I would have taken my kids, then my wife and
Speaker 19: I would have gone if it was at six, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think more people would have done the same thing. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna time with kids, Yeah no, but it's
Speaker 2: a reasonable time with kids on a school night.
Speaker 17: But like if it was a Saturday, you know, that'd
Speaker 17: be different. Like me and I could take a buddy
Speaker 17: and we could go, but on a school night you
Speaker 17: can't go.
Speaker 2: Do that, well, Georgie, g just what, There's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of late games eight nineties and thirties, So
Speaker 2: I'll see you in the in the Northwest Side somewhere.
Speaker 4: It's always been like that.
Speaker 17: We always play lates. That doesn't matter. We thought that
Speaker 17: ESPN was going to change the Oh we're gonna be on.
Speaker 19: Prime time, it's gonna be different every time.
Speaker 17: It's gonna be at five and six. No, we're still
Speaker 17: at nine o'clock at night, eight o'clock at night. Seven.
Speaker 17: It doesn't matter to Georgia.
Speaker 3: Why did this? Why did I mean they're both preseason
Speaker 3: top ten teams. Why did we get a nine pm
Speaker 3: game for Baylor? What happened there on a Tuesday?
Speaker 17: That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, I don't know the hell out of you.
Speaker 2: Thanks appreciate how much time we have. We take another coffee?
Speaker 2: You want two minutes? Well that's it already. Wow, that
Speaker 2: was quick to your point. Anything else you want to
Speaker 2: talk about with the WBC. So you said one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand people realistic?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm just yeah, listen, it was a quick turnaround, right,
Speaker 3: So this is one thing I will tell everybody. We
Speaker 3: we finalize the contract November twelve, So it's not like
Speaker 3: we've had this on our plate like being able to propose,
Speaker 3: but it is the first time we've had Major League
Speaker 3: Baseball players back in Tuson since two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3: Like it's the this is a big deal. Well another thing.
Speaker 2: If the people are going to bitch about it and
Speaker 2: say we want this, we want that, guess what prove it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, we can change if we have Mexican baseball
Speaker 3: of fest is a perfect example.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: It took them a long time to build this culture
Speaker 3: and we're feeding off that table right now. It's going
Speaker 3: to take this as a full culture aspect. If we
Speaker 3: want professional sports back in Tucson and we want to
Speaker 3: expand our professional sports, we need to find a way
Speaker 3: to support them. And a lot of it is a
Speaker 3: cost point right in price point. But when it's here,
Speaker 3: we can't bitching and plain when it goes away because
Speaker 3: we never went to game.
Speaker 2: Sure sure no, no, and two stun is not getting smaller,
Speaker 2: it's getting bigger. So the audience is helping, should should help. Yeah,
Speaker 2: absolutely right, We'll see what We'll see what happens because
Speaker 2: like you said, well we thought the times are going
Speaker 2: to be different. No, they're not going to be different.
Speaker 2: Things don't change. We'll see if it changes for your attendance. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's always gonna it's a well, we hope that
Speaker 2: does right. We hope we have great attendance. We hope
Speaker 2: we have a great process on the field.
Speaker 3: It's it's going to lead to things in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: six at Steve, you and I will be able to
Speaker 3: talk about you.
Speaker 2: Still lacking We got about a minute. Are you lacking anything? Sponsorships?
Speaker 4: You need? What do you need?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean we need everything right now. Right We're we're
Speaker 3: making our first hard push from a marketing standpoint starting
Speaker 3: next week, but we would love engagement from the community
Speaker 3: from a sponsorship side. If they want group tickets, we
Speaker 3: can set that up. We've got a lot of things
Speaker 3: there so they can reach out to me. So you
Speaker 3: can go to Southern Areazona Sports Tourism and Film Authorities
Speaker 3: website which is s A s t f A dot com.
Speaker 3: Or if you want tickets, you can go to World
Speaker 3: Baseball Classic dot com.
Speaker 2: And what would an event in two sound without having volunteers?
Speaker 2: You know, you have the Arizonable, we have the tour
Speaker 2: we have a lot of different things.
Speaker 4: You need those as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, So Steve, I'm gonna just I don't want to
Speaker 3: hijack this, but you have seven entities, right now working
Speaker 3: in the same direction on one project. So it's it's Sasva,
Speaker 3: It's it's Arizona Ble, it's visit Tucson, it's Pema County,
Speaker 3: it's Keino Sports Complex, it's Mexican Baseball Fiesta. There's so
Speaker 3: many entities working in that same direction. And a huge
Speaker 3: piece of this is, you know, we had Dan Schneider,
Speaker 3: who's you know, all American from you of eight, but he,
Speaker 3: him and Tom Tracy are have started this and working
Speaker 3: on with us. So these mentorships have lasted generate. It's
Speaker 3: generational and they're still involved in this community. Even though
Speaker 3: Dan lives in Oregon, he wants to see a succeed.
Speaker 3: So we just need everybody to kind of get on
Speaker 3: board for when we when we're able to pull events
Speaker 3: like this in.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, pull on on the same rope we
Speaker 2: got to go. Hey, thanks for joining me, Thanks for
Speaker 2: having me, Steve. I really appreciate you. Got it, buddy,
Speaker 2: one of these days we're gonna be luck. Yeah, thanks Bud.
Speaker 2: Thanks So we talk to you guys tomorrow. Thanks Jay,
Speaker 2: Thanks guys,