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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to playing the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. Now we have one
Speaker 2: with breaking news.
Speaker 3: Well I'm not sure why it's playing, why it's not playing,
Speaker 3: but welcome to breaking news. Whatever you want to have
Speaker 3: for the intro music today, but starting breaking news off
Speaker 3: with some stuff for the baseball fans out there. Yankees
Speaker 3: right hander Garrett Cole will undergo Tommy John surgery. The
Speaker 3: team just announced about maybe an hour ago, ending his
Speaker 3: season before it even got started. Yeah, Okay, Into some
Speaker 3: Arizona athletics. The women's tennis team lost last Friday to
Speaker 3: Iowa State, but rebounded with a win Sunday against Kansas
Speaker 3: four to two. They are now eleven and five on
Speaker 3: the season. The men's team, who is fourteen and one,
Speaker 3: beat NAU on Friday four zero and then beat Toulsa
Speaker 3: yesterday five to two. The women's team for softball twenty
Speaker 3: three and four on the season, did lose back to
Speaker 3: back games to start their UCF series three to nine
Speaker 3: and then four to five, but finished it with a
Speaker 3: ten to one run rule on Sunday. And today they
Speaker 3: beat Utah State eight zero and six innings. They are, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they are twenty three and four. Kind of surprising that
Speaker 3: first those first two games against UCF the way they
Speaker 3: had been looking. And I use the word just because
Speaker 3: I don't have any other word for it, but momentum
Speaker 3: they were there. They're having a great season. They are
Speaker 3: having a great season, but a little bit of surprise
Speaker 3: with UCF those first two. Then they were making a
Speaker 3: lot of mistakes that they usually don't. The baseball team
Speaker 3: got a series sweep over the weekend against Pepperdine, including
Speaker 3: a twenty one to two win on Saturday, came back
Speaker 3: down three zero to win five to three.
Speaker 2: Yesterday at High Court bit yep.
Speaker 3: The women's basketball team played their first game in the
Speaker 3: Big Twelve Tournament against number this ninth seed Colorado.
Speaker 2: They lost fifty eight sixty one.
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe maybe a little bit of a shocker, maybe not. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's we'll see what happens. We'll see yeah, dot dot Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then as we talked about, Arizona lost on the
Speaker 3: road Saturday at Kansas seventy six to eighty three. Right
Speaker 3: today they announced some of the Big Twelve honors. Caleb
Speaker 3: Love earned the first team a Big Twelve honor, Tobeyo
Speaker 3: Walka and Henry Vassar got honorable mention.
Speaker 2: I didn't pay attention to the rest of the group
Speaker 2: because they just pushed. Caleb was the only guy listed,
Speaker 2: although two guys were on honorable mention. You'll say Henry
Speaker 2: and Toby, Toby, nobody else, right, and they finished third
Speaker 2: in the league. That feels a little slighted, maybe, but
Speaker 2: here's a game to my naive. But I didn't really
Speaker 2: pay a whole lot of attention to the other teams
Speaker 2: because other teams have good players too, right, and people say, well,
Speaker 2: our guys, well, you guys weren't good enough.
Speaker 3: Doesn't make sense statistically, And that's what some of these
Speaker 3: voters and the people that do this they look at, right, Statistically,
Speaker 3: Caleb Love.
Speaker 2: Kind of they're kind of not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Basar, I'm surprised wasn't even a second team.
Speaker 2: But here's the here's the funny thing to me, do
Speaker 2: you think Caleb would have been first team? Let's say
Speaker 2: they went ten deep on the first team, which of
Speaker 2: course that's not really your first team. That's you know,
Speaker 2: two teams plushed together. Do you think it's capable of
Speaker 2: being the first team if it was only five? No? No,
Speaker 2: not even close. Right No. When he said he was
Speaker 2: the first team, I said, I had to look at
Speaker 2: the list. Oh, I get it. There's ten people, one A,
Speaker 2: one B.
Speaker 3: He's uh I A would say one B yeah, right,
Speaker 3: and one B spot number ten?
Speaker 2: And he and he had a How would you describe
Speaker 2: a scale of one to ten?
Speaker 3: Why would you rate this season on its own? I'd
Speaker 3: give it a seven.
Speaker 2: I would say maybe seven and a half seven, But
Speaker 2: I'm right with you, okay? And he had a seven?
Speaker 2: And they finished what they finished, right, Yeah, third in
Speaker 2: the conference in a tough conference, especially the way that
Speaker 2: season the season started, right, he had a huge impact, right,
Speaker 2: good and bad? So more power to him. He did
Speaker 2: he did? Okay? Is he is he great?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Is he bad?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: But he's a seven last year he was like a
Speaker 2: nine in the PAC twelve and the PAC twelve? Right,
Speaker 2: same player, same player.
Speaker 3: It's it's saying like a Tucson seven is in New
Speaker 3: York three?
Speaker 2: Right? Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, But regardless, a lot of people go off of
Speaker 3: last season. Yeah, pac twelve point of the year, but
Speaker 3: this is in the past twelve. Welcome to the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: And then of course the new Top twenty five came out,
Speaker 3: Arizona fell out.
Speaker 2: Accordingly, they were still in the top twenty five at
Speaker 2: the USA Today Bowl. I don't even pay attention to
Speaker 2: that poll because no one really does. But I guess
Speaker 2: for twenty four five, I'm thinking, okay, but you know
Speaker 2: who votes with those coaches? Yes, I D'Sa the coach
Speaker 2: is too busy to vote.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, BYU sits at seventeen. So likeing, just looking
Speaker 3: at some of the Big twelve teams Iowa State at
Speaker 3: number twelve, Texas take at number nine, and UH Houston
Speaker 3: at number two.
Speaker 2: We knew this was gonna be a tough conference right
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the year. Was like four or
Speaker 2: five in the top twelve. There was only included that
Speaker 2: you had to play the games now, and there was
Speaker 2: only better than BYU. Maybe maybe that depends on the day,
Speaker 2: and they're what ten twelve?
Speaker 3: Would I BYUS number seventeen? Seventeen? Okay, So Arizona, Arizona's
Speaker 3: good enough. They just aren't there.
Speaker 2: I mean right now, But we talked about the net,
Speaker 2: which is kind of more weight. They're fine, Yeah, they're fine.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens over this week with the Big
Speaker 3: twelve tournament. They'll they'll take on the winner the first
Speaker 3: in the first round of Baylor and Baylor in Kansas,
Speaker 3: the winner of the state Kansas state, right, and then
Speaker 3: they'll take on whoever wins that game, the winner between
Speaker 3: that team and Kansas more than likely looking at another
Speaker 3: Kansas rematch.
Speaker 2: Well, who's who's that root? Because that's a four?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Is that a four? The one below? Yes?
Speaker 3: I think it might because I don't have the thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because it's one.
Speaker 2: It's one, three, four, three, four, right, one plays the four,
Speaker 2: one would play the four, and the two would play
Speaker 2: the three.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'll try to look it up right now. But you're
Speaker 3: gonna look at more tough games raper for the tournament.
Speaker 3: Who rest, guess what the rest of the way. The
Speaker 3: rest of the way, they're playing tournament teams. Yep, this
Speaker 3: will determine how good you're gonna be when you play
Speaker 3: tournament teams. I was seeing some and you know, you
Speaker 3: went off or whatever. The teams that were qualifying for
Speaker 3: the tournament those are pretty good teams that are hitting
Speaker 3: threes like crazy. And what's one of Arizona's achilles heels.
Speaker 2: Three point defense? Three point defense.
Speaker 3: So a, it goes the number four seed, number one,
Speaker 3: number two, number three, so you're possibly looking at another
Speaker 3: Kansas rematch.
Speaker 2: It's UCF and Utah.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, that winner plays Kansas, and that winner between
Speaker 3: those two plays Arizona.
Speaker 2: Okay if they if Arizona, Kansas State or whomever.
Speaker 3: Right, So, so U c F Utah play, they play
Speaker 3: the win they they whoever wins that game goes on
Speaker 3: to play Kansas. Yeah, and then that that winner plays
Speaker 3: Arizona more than likely looking at another Kansas rematch and
Speaker 3: then possibly looking at a Texas Tech rematch.
Speaker 2: And they split the regular season series.
Speaker 3: So uh probably probably looking at the season series when
Speaker 3: if you want to call it that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So let me ask you, Uh, if they played
Speaker 2: Kansas in Kansas City, is that a neutral court? Absolutely not?
Speaker 2: You don't think so. Uh So when Arizona plays in
Speaker 2: the in Vegas is that a neutral court? Absolutely not?
Speaker 2: Because of the crowd yep, but that's the I'm trying
Speaker 2: to court that crowd. And you've witnessed this thousands of
Speaker 2: times when Arizona plays an Anaheim plays in Anaheim. Is
Speaker 2: it a neutral court?
Speaker 3: I that one. I do think so it's a neutral court.
Speaker 3: I would think so. Using your just you're launching my
Speaker 3: my experiences because Arizona has been to Anaheim in the
Speaker 3: tournament three times in my in what I've seen and
Speaker 3: right right, not not not as it used to be.
Speaker 3: It's gotten to be a neutral court and that maybe
Speaker 3: that's because more teams travel, but it's not. It wasn't
Speaker 3: that uh Nick Johnson year when they were in there
Speaker 3: and what eighty percent of the crowd was Arizona.
Speaker 2: See, you're telling more crowd I'm tighting in court because
Speaker 2: it hasn't been successful to them. No, in a long time,
Speaker 2: if ever, if I can remember correctly, and all the
Speaker 2: fans always want Anaheim.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's stupid because they don't do well at
Speaker 3: this point, it doesn't matter. Just you should be able
Speaker 3: to go and win a sweet sixteen lead eight game,
Speaker 3: regardless if you're a blue blood, right, if you're exactly,
Speaker 3: if you're you're taking notes, I'd like it.
Speaker 2: I try. I try to be good at what I do.
Speaker 3: Continuing breaking news, Stephen Curry accepted an assistant GM role
Speaker 3: for Davidson Basketball.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I believe.
Speaker 3: He's the first active US major professional sport to take
Speaker 3: on an administrative job.
Speaker 2: How is he gonna do it when he's I couldn't
Speaker 2: tell you. I didn't tell you.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a it's a virtual job. Maybe maybe maybe
Speaker 3: when he's in the off season it becomes an in person.
Speaker 3: Well I'm not sure. I'm not I'm truly not sure.
Speaker 3: I was surprised when I saw it. Maybe he's just
Speaker 3: setting himself up for post NBAC. He needs the money,
Speaker 3: who put everyone? Who better to do it?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 2: Shawn Elliott come in and says, yeah, I'll be your GM.
Speaker 2: Do we have one? Though? It's does every want to
Speaker 2: have one? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think you do. Name He's not He's not a
Speaker 3: Stephen Curry. No, they are not. It's like Richard Jefferson
Speaker 3: doing it or somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh So the Rockets star Amen Thompson is gonna be
Speaker 3: out ten to fourteen days. We'll see how much that
Speaker 3: impacts them. They're a top team in the Western Conference.
Speaker 3: Another top team, another top two team. Uh The Lakers
Speaker 3: Lebron James expected to miss one to two weeks with
Speaker 3: a groin injury similar to one he had a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago, but they said that it wasn't as bad.
Speaker 2: He didn't hear a pop this time. He did not.
Speaker 2: He did not.
Speaker 3: And then, of course today a little bit of free
Speaker 3: agency havoc in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Just going over some of the highlights.
Speaker 3: Sam Darnold going to the Seahawks and three year, one
Speaker 3: hundred and point five million deal. Yeah, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: if that's a step up step down. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Yah Cooper Cup is going to be released by the
Speaker 3: Rams if no trade happens by the beginning of the
Speaker 3: next league year.
Speaker 2: He'll find some place, no question right, who is the
Speaker 2: best fit.
Speaker 3: Someone should be able to trade for him or pick
Speaker 3: him up, depending on when stuff happens. The Jets reached
Speaker 3: a two year for forty million dollar deal with Justin Fields.
Speaker 2: That shows you they are cursed. It's like in a
Speaker 2: player to be named later or something. Because what he
Speaker 2: didn't even start at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: He started for the first four or five games and
Speaker 3: then they said, oh, our real starter is ready to go,
Speaker 3: and the Steelers were five and oh, I believe they
Speaker 3: doesn't make any sense. But it's not my money, not
Speaker 3: my money, not my problems, not my team. The Eagles
Speaker 3: are trading former first round pick can He Pickett to
Speaker 3: the Cleveland Browns for twenty twenty five fifth round pick
Speaker 3: and quarterback Dorian Thompson. Robinson's former UCLA Who's who's you
Speaker 3: with the Eagles? He was He was fantastic, I mean
Speaker 3: college specifically.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 2: He was a hometown kid. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We went to Pittsburgh drafted by the Steelers. That didn't
Speaker 3: work out for reasons, and now he's in Cleveland. The
Speaker 3: Commanders are going to be trading for Texans offensive tackle
Speaker 3: Laramie Tunsel. The Houston will get a third and seventh
Speaker 3: rounders in twenty twenty five, second of fourth rounders in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. The Cardinals got a boost in their
Speaker 3: pass rush by a Green to sign ex Eagle Josh Schwet,
Speaker 3: a pretty big part of that Super Bowl winning team,
Speaker 3: so the Cardinals are looking to upgrade uh And then
Speaker 3: the Broncos agreed with Telenoah hufunga former forty nine er,
Speaker 3: on a three year, forty five million dollar deal, twenty
Speaker 3: million guaranteed at signing. Okay, is it that's all I
Speaker 3: got on a Monday Mannic Monday.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna get Tavia Morales from All Sports shutuan
Speaker 2: dot com. He's he was doing some of the stuff
Speaker 2: on the internet too, with the fans and defending Tommy.
Speaker 2: And it's not that I'm defending Tommy. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to be realistic. But what I see and what I know,
Speaker 2: I go to the games. You go to the games,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of people posting who don't go
Speaker 2: to the games? No one who's a friend of mine
Speaker 2: was posting. I don't know if he listens. He said
Speaker 2: that there's a reason why he ever wont to travels Well,
Speaker 2: they don't travel well. They don't travel well. They really
Speaker 2: never have. They just have they do for final fours.
Speaker 2: Who doesn't travel well for final four? Exactly? Who does?
Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen was kind of spars last year. I can't
Speaker 2: remember where do we go? Boise? So last year? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I mean that wasn't that great. And they lose
Speaker 2: in the first round because everybody was waiting for Friday
Speaker 2: for the lead a game right there.
Speaker 3: And they were saying, who's Clemson. Yeah, but people know
Speaker 3: knew Clemson, so they don't travel, and they have to
Speaker 3: Arizona's benefit. They have a lot of the lums in places,
Speaker 3: especially in the West coast when they went to Oregon
Speaker 3: or or you know, Ucla that's now not so much
Speaker 3: in the Midwest, but they don't travel.
Speaker 2: Well, how do I know. I went to those games,
Speaker 2: so I saw, but they had a lot of people
Speaker 2: there from that area.
Speaker 3: I think, between you and me, what Tommy said is
Speaker 3: what we've been saying for a couple of months now,
Speaker 3: and ever since I joined the show, we've been saying that.
Speaker 2: For me, it was kind of a surprise in as
Speaker 2: much as it's like he's been saying this and now
Speaker 2: you're just listening. It's all of a sudden it took.
Speaker 3: I took a loss at Kansas, a team you thought
Speaker 3: you should have beat. But realistically, I'm speaking as a fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah they're a great team. They were a top twenty
Speaker 3: five team. Yeah they ran to the Big twelve. Who
Speaker 3: about who you? Yeah, yeah, they ran to the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: And now everyone's kind of questioning, what is Arizona basketball?
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Speaker 2: who know, and you don't listen to the people who
Speaker 2: don't know. It's like you know I have two kids.
Speaker 2: One I have two kids. It's like me telling you
Speaker 2: about pregnancy. What the hell would I know about pregnancy?
Speaker 2: But I have two kids. You have two kids?
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, Lake at the go.
Speaker 2: We have one at the controls.
Speaker 3: Now we have have you morales of all sports twosun
Speaker 3: dot com on the phoney guys doing.
Speaker 2: We're doing fine? Are good? Thanks?
Speaker 10: Hey?
Speaker 2: Uh, let's go. Let's go with just updating us on
Speaker 2: the championship years of just the recent spring sports for
Speaker 2: high school stuff. And then I want to get into
Speaker 2: it with you because you've been following this stuff about
Speaker 2: UA fans and things like that. You two were a
Speaker 2: homegrown guy into a lot of the games. You know,
Speaker 2: you and I traveled a few a couple of years
Speaker 2: covering the basketball program. Just I don't know if you're
Speaker 2: going to set the record straight, but at least you
Speaker 2: get some insight home and away, right, So let's go
Speaker 2: locally first, And what did you see the spring?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Cell Point boys and girls when they're
Speaker 4: there are soccer championships and their conference for a they
Speaker 4: both lost in the Open Division. But the good thing
Speaker 4: about the open Division is if you lose in the
Speaker 4: first two rounds, you get you get to go down
Speaker 4: your conference. And they've dominated in the in those two brackets.
Speaker 4: And Cliff Gang Weber, as I heard your interview with
Speaker 4: him and Kelly Pearce also doesn't get any better than
Speaker 4: that really in Southern Arizona coaching in any sport. And
Speaker 4: so you know, you wish said the Wolfgang couldn't coach
Speaker 4: for another let's say, like five years or so, but
Speaker 4: I he mentioned me after that. In reality, it's probably
Speaker 4: gonna be a year or two, and that's going to
Speaker 4: be a big difference because he's been there for forty
Speaker 4: three years I think forty two or forty three years.
Speaker 4: So he's just a living legend and it was an
Speaker 4: honor to be there and covering the game and being
Speaker 4: there around the players with him. Who are you know what,
Speaker 4: they're about sixty years younger than he is, right, So
Speaker 4: it's that that was the delight. And then bush Ridge
Speaker 4: came out of nowhere. They were six and this is
Speaker 4: some talking about the basketball team, the boys basketball team.
Speaker 4: They won the three A championship. They were six and
Speaker 4: ten in lost eight out of nine games, and then
Speaker 4: they went on to win thirteen or fourteen games and
Speaker 4: ran through the pre A tournament. That that's unheard of,
Speaker 4: you know, that would be like somebody that's low seed
Speaker 4: in the the Big twelve tournament going all the way
Speaker 4: and then winning the FACA championship. Did yeah close? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I mean that's six and ten los eight a
Speaker 4: nine that they're actually that. The last loss they had
Speaker 4: and that's that string was that against Paul Verdy at
Speaker 4: home and they ended up winning thirteen or fourteen. They
Speaker 4: beat Paul Everty by twenty points in the championship game.
Speaker 4: So Steve Slida, that's another interesting thing about that is
Speaker 4: the second year as the head coach. Overall, he was
Speaker 4: an assistant at a Jesuit school in Aurora, Colorado for
Speaker 4: like fifteen years. His wife retired from teaching, so they
Speaker 4: wanted to go to a warmer climate and wound up
Speaker 4: in Tucson. He became Pusher's JV coach three years ago
Speaker 4: and then the ad there hired hired him to be
Speaker 4: the head coach last year, and then they won the
Speaker 4: championship this year. So that's kind of it's a storybook
Speaker 4: and you know, it's it's crazy. That's that's just something
Speaker 4: that doesn't happen. Ye, that's what happened during the during
Speaker 4: the winter, the winter sports.
Speaker 2: That's the highlight of it.
Speaker 4: I mean, of course the wrestling with Sunnyside Boys and
Speaker 4: girls winning the championships Sunnyside thirty eight chanponships. Now the
Speaker 4: boys and the girls won their first and they're probably there.
Speaker 4: They're gonna applyvate run. Also just because of their they
Speaker 4: they all train together. They're in the same room. Uh,
Speaker 4: the coaching staffs are. They don't train to get each other.
Speaker 4: They trained together, you know, and they they had their
Speaker 4: own spots in the room, but their coaches all work
Speaker 4: together on each.
Speaker 2: Team, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So it's like one big, one big family there. And
Speaker 4: what this is about the girls, they didn't win an
Speaker 4: individual championship they went, but they won the state championship
Speaker 4: because each girl plays high enough in each of the brackets,
Speaker 4: so uh, you know, and then see im sorry Mountain
Speaker 4: Mike and Mountain won their first championship girls wrestling first time.
Speaker 4: When they want a championship.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you something when you're talking about
Speaker 2: the boys. Yeah, yeah, the boys wrestling at Sunnyside, what
Speaker 2: a well, I don't even know how to ask it.
Speaker 2: It's just the success. I mean, can anything stop that success?
Speaker 2: Because if you've established this for so many years decades now,
Speaker 2: it seems like, you know, they have to implode or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been forty years around there may even longer
Speaker 4: than that, like towards the seventies that they've had a
Speaker 4: good program there. And I think it's just the it's
Speaker 4: a way of life, you know, it's it's it's what
Speaker 4: they do, it's what it's what they bring a lot
Speaker 4: of young to say, start young. A lot of kids
Speaker 4: in that wrestling club are like third or fourth grade.
Speaker 4: They start them young. And in his families, you know,
Speaker 4: there's there's relatives of old times state championship russers who
Speaker 4: are now wrestling you know, nephews, the nephews and now
Speaker 4: nieces cousins. It's just like a big family and it's
Speaker 4: wrestling as a way of life there. That's that's it's
Speaker 4: going to be hard to crack for any team in
Speaker 4: the States really to to break up that job juggernaut.
Speaker 4: I don't see how it could happen because it's it's
Speaker 4: it's in place, the systems are in place there and
Speaker 4: it's not going to go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well nice, good for them, So a lot of
Speaker 2: success in southern Arizona.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 2: It was good to probably talk to the euro Push
Speaker 2: Ridge guy sometime this week just because obviously these champions
Speaker 2: deserve all the recognition they get. Let's let's move. Let's
Speaker 2: move to u A basketball. You covered the team in
Speaker 2: the late nineties with me at the start when I
Speaker 2: was at the sistant obviously, Uh. And you've seen teams
Speaker 2: come and go, obviously on the road here and there.
Speaker 2: But I think over the weekend you were kind of
Speaker 2: speaking of your mind to people who were really down
Speaker 2: on Tommy's thoughts.
Speaker 4: I think, well, Tommy Lloyd's a competitor. I think you've
Speaker 4: seen in post post in conferences, press conferences. Is here
Speaker 4: more than more than any other time. He's kind of
Speaker 4: let it his his emotions show, because I think he
Speaker 4: knows he can get more out of his team and
Speaker 4: he just hasn't seen it yet. And I think he
Speaker 4: can get a lot, he can get more out of
Speaker 4: the fans than he hasn't seen yet. And I think
Speaker 4: that he just has that mentality. He has a useful
Speaker 4: demeanor about him. He's gonna speak his mind, especially after
Speaker 4: going to Kansas and seeing what the atmosphere is like there.
Speaker 4: And you know, I don't think he not once he
Speaker 4: said that Tarizona's fan base is not not good or
Speaker 4: not supportive. I think he said the opposite, that they
Speaker 4: had been great, but they have work to do to
Speaker 4: kind of match what they what they've seen at Iowa
Speaker 4: State and Kansas and Texas Tech. And I don't think
Speaker 4: there's anything wrong with saying that. And it doesn't really
Speaker 4: matter when he says it. Really he's just he's he's
Speaker 4: a he's a competitor, he's you know, as a fan,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want my coach to think that way, to
Speaker 4: want to get better at any possible instance with with
Speaker 4: the program, and I think that's he was just letting
Speaker 4: his opinion come out at the time where they just
Speaker 4: played Kansas. There was a senior dat night and they
Speaker 4: had people speaking, you know, and I the only the
Speaker 4: only accepts that I would make for some of the
Speaker 4: fans have been critical is they say that there's the
Speaker 4: nine o'clock game, it's late. They have they have worked
Speaker 4: the next day.
Speaker 2: I get that.
Speaker 4: I don't think per se Tommy was like targeting fans
Speaker 4: that didn't stick around after the senior or after the
Speaker 4: game for Senior night. I don't think he was specifically
Speaker 4: doing that. He might have might have come across. It
Speaker 4: was just in general about the fan involvement. You know,
Speaker 4: people forget that Ludelson and Sean Ludelson and Sean Miller
Speaker 4: didn't have to never had this save things that Tommy
Speaker 4: Bloyd said about the crowd because Arizona was the best
Speaker 4: in the Pac twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was. It wasn't at the end of
Speaker 2: Seawn's time because they started to That's when it started,
Speaker 2: when they started winning enough and blah blah blah. I'd
Speaker 2: see Twelvey twelve and a half and maybe less and
Speaker 2: you can kind of see it in they were advertising
Speaker 2: the ticket stand and uh, it's kind of continued. It's
Speaker 2: got a little better obviously, but it's still there, right.
Speaker 4: I mean in our time when we were when I
Speaker 4: was covering the team with when You're when you're when
Speaker 4: you were when we were both covering the team. Obviously
Speaker 4: Stanford had Maple Pavilion.
Speaker 2: That was the time.
Speaker 4: Fantastics really good, fantastic, Matt Cort was really good, harmon arena,
Speaker 4: Army Jim was was really good. But those things came
Speaker 4: and went. Mchel's always been good, so loot And and
Speaker 4: Sean for the most part, have not had to say, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, we need our fans need to have work
Speaker 4: to do to do this or that, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. Tommy sees these other programs in the Big
Speaker 4: twelve now where they have been involvement. I was looking
Speaker 4: at listen to your summ your show earlier. It doesn't
Speaker 4: matter who they're playing. It could be Morehead State, Murray State.
Speaker 4: The fans are the same for those games as they
Speaker 4: says they are for any team that comes in there
Speaker 4: to their to their arena. That's not the case that
Speaker 4: areason it and I think can it happen? I don't
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe not, but Tommy wants to try as much
Speaker 4: to see if it can approach that level. And I
Speaker 4: know there's some people at the U of A or
Speaker 4: trying to get ideas and put things in place where
Speaker 4: maybe they can they can, you know, make it more
Speaker 4: of an atmosphere that Tommy Boyd wants. Yeah, but what's
Speaker 4: what's I don't I don't understand the fan outrage. He's
Speaker 4: just expressing himself that he wants Michael's crowd to be
Speaker 4: on the same part with some of the big twelve crowds,
Speaker 4: and I don't see.
Speaker 2: Anything wrong with that too. He took a shot, he
Speaker 2: took a shot at them, and they were one. They
Speaker 2: weren't ready, which of course they should have been, because
Speaker 2: he said that before. He said this three times before.
Speaker 2: In fact, I got a text from one of my friends,
Speaker 2: the same guy text me about this. He started in
Speaker 2: the Red Blue game when he first got here, and
Speaker 2: this year it just it is what it is because
Speaker 2: he's telling you the truth.
Speaker 3: He just is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he has to waive the crowd to stand up
Speaker 4: during a game. Yeah, I mean, if the head coach
Speaker 4: has to do that, then there's something going on that
Speaker 4: he's he's he's wanting more, he's expecting more, and you know,
Speaker 4: Luke lou I remember when Luke started out, he said,
Speaker 4: you guys better get your season tickets now because there
Speaker 4: will be a hard ticket to sell if there was
Speaker 4: social media back then. When he said that, I guarantee
Speaker 4: you that if I'd be some fans like when you know,
Speaker 4: you show us like prove prove it to us. You
Speaker 4: know you probably hear read some comments and social media
Speaker 4: back but there was no social media back then. There
Speaker 4: is now, and people at the touch of their fingers
Speaker 4: or at the keyboard can sell whatever they want. And
Speaker 4: it comes out that all these people are upset with
Speaker 4: him for saying that, and he I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: I don't fall through for saying it. And it doesn't
Speaker 4: really matter when he said that, it's it's what he thinks,
Speaker 4: and the fans are going to be there for Arizona.
Speaker 4: It's not it's not like Arizona's in a bad situation
Speaker 4: with Michael Center. It's no matter of fact, it's the opposite.
Speaker 4: It's one of the top three for arenas in the
Speaker 4: in the Big Twelve, but he wants to be even better,
Speaker 4: and you want your head coach to be.
Speaker 2: Like, it's funny because if I know you read my
Speaker 2: book with lut and I talked to Mike Montgomery about
Speaker 2: He says, well, I asked him about the arena. I says,
Speaker 2: you know, how difficult was it coming here to play
Speaker 2: in this atmosphere, just as it was like you mentioned Stamford,
Speaker 2: and to me, Stanford beats Duke back in the day
Speaker 2: hands down, hands down because of the craziness that we
Speaker 2: witness with the bouncing floor of the students. How clever
Speaker 2: they were more for students for the area, if that
Speaker 2: makes any sense. But I said, how difficult was the company?
Speaker 2: Says Steve Montgomery says, to me, you think it was
Speaker 2: about the crowd. Those guys had very good talent. You're
Speaker 2: not worried about the crowd. You're worried about the Richard
Speaker 2: Jefferson's the Gilbert A Rena says. Those guys who are
Speaker 2: who are good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they saw tickets themselves and you know everyone
Speaker 4: to Sill have talented players. The thing about the crowd
Speaker 4: and now is that it seems like it's more reactionary. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was gonna make a couple of baskets. Then they
Speaker 4: stand up and start making noise instead of being you know,
Speaker 4: getting them get up and like getting them going, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. Yeah, that's what That's what I
Speaker 4: see anyway, right, So, I mean I think this is
Speaker 4: a good thing. I think I think eventually there's gonna
Speaker 4: be something. They're gonna work on things to get the
Speaker 4: fan involvement a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Well they should, you know, get things going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think this is a good thing.
Speaker 4: It's not a bad thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I think with uh, with des right here, she's
Speaker 2: been here a little more than a year. She's got
Speaker 2: to get the full full effect of it. If she
Speaker 2: and she talks about doing these surveys blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: If she doesn't get the football situation improved, that's on them,
Speaker 2: that's on her. And if they don't get this basketball situation,
Speaker 2: and and and do you hold on the last time
Speaker 2: when they're doing their.
Speaker 3: Speeches at the end, can you hear the speakers the
Speaker 3: players know, you usually hear Tommy, but the there's a
Speaker 3: lot of mumbling, and you know, they move the Mica
Speaker 3: Ali and you can't you can't really control that because
Speaker 3: they don't.
Speaker 2: They aren't made to make speeches. They're made to play basketball. Sure,
Speaker 2: but even the system, the sound system football like the
Speaker 2: football exact games. You can't hear stuff. I wouldn't realize
Speaker 2: that until I was affected by it and I went
Speaker 2: as a fan. Everyone who talks about the system is right, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's something that has to be worked out.
Speaker 4: And I know they've had challenge of the football stadium
Speaker 4: even when Greg Byrne was there about the the you know,
Speaker 4: the music and the audio, the level of the noise,
Speaker 4: and that's.
Speaker 2: That's been It's been seven years now something like that
Speaker 2: and it hasn't been fixed. So someone's dropping the ball.
Speaker 4: Right hopefully there you know with the desiree there that
Speaker 4: she'll she'll put all this into account and make something happen.
Speaker 4: She's had that kind of attitude where she wants to
Speaker 4: make things happen.
Speaker 2: Well, well, it's like me asking your opinion and and
Speaker 2: not doing something about it. Have you, I mean, if
Speaker 2: you have if you have these if you have these
Speaker 2: uh forms that you fill out and suggestions and then
Speaker 2: throw them in the trash, what's the point of having
Speaker 2: these these requests?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't take the convenient way out to do what
Speaker 4: you have to do and make sure it happens. To
Speaker 4: get some more fans in there. Because I heard I
Speaker 4: heard you say earlier that they're only averaging about ten
Speaker 4: thousand tickets. Says it's sell. You know, it's sell. It's
Speaker 4: sold out, right, and then they have to they have
Speaker 4: to sell five thousands each game, about four four to
Speaker 4: five thousand. Yeah, that's unheard of. That's that's that's uh.
Speaker 4: That didn't happen ever since Littleton's third year, probably right right,
Speaker 4: second or third year.
Speaker 2: So people who say there's no tickets their tickets and
Speaker 2: know their tickets, right, yeah, yeah, all right, huff, thanks
Speaker 2: for safe travels, safe travels.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm I was gonna stay really quick up. I'm
Speaker 4: like stirring outside my window right now at the Caliber
Speaker 4: and there's there's the MGM Grand right there and the
Speaker 4: T mobile, and it's just it's just sad that there's
Speaker 4: no pastball tournament. It's just a weird, weird feeling.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, this would have been been This would
Speaker 2: have been well in fact, in fact, because you went
Speaker 2: to a few of them, right, You went to a
Speaker 2: few of them like us, because you lived out there
Speaker 2: and you travel up there. Here here's the issue. So
Speaker 2: mckill north, right, and I won't say anything otherwise because
Speaker 2: it was mckail north. But a lot of the fans
Speaker 2: didn't go to the games. They were out for the party.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, that was obvious. Yeah, but now I
Speaker 4: don't know what's what it'll be to see what the
Speaker 4: fan of all would be like in Kansas City. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll think about what brief pass as to
Speaker 4: let's say, right about Brian Jeffries and so forth, see
Speaker 4: what the atmosphere is like.
Speaker 2: I'm glad. The funny thing is, I've been doing this
Speaker 2: for a long time and obviously you guys know that
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that going. I'm not. I'm not you know, Vegas. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's an issue with Kansas City. Yeah, yeah, I'm okay
Speaker 2: with this. Yeah, I hear that. Yeah, Okay, thanks Helvier,
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to finding the back here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fortune fifty on Steve Rivera, Blake is gone. We
Speaker 2: have one with me, so you want to call one.
Speaker 2: Will be on the trigger here for the calls. Five
Speaker 2: two oh four, one six forty. I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: real quick again. I get the same kind of messages
Speaker 2: from my guy about about you, fay. Okay, I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna continue. Uh. Tommy has been bitching about the fans
Speaker 2: ever since he got here, starting with the first Red
Speaker 2: Blue game. The people to blame for this is the students.
Speaker 2: There's fifty thousand students at u of A and less
Speaker 2: than ten percent of ten sporting events, and the ones
Speaker 2: that do go spend the whole game on their phone.
Speaker 2: You can correct me a fin. Nope, there's nothing to correct.
Speaker 2: There's it's it's fine, Okay. Tucson is a very transient
Speaker 2: town and now over one million people. It's not like
Speaker 2: those fourth or fifth generation towns in the Midwest or
Speaker 2: you know. And that's true. That's true. College athletics is
Speaker 2: not the same as it used to be with players
Speaker 2: having to be paid. I think there is just a
Speaker 2: lot of resentment to what athletics has become. Accurate, Right,
Speaker 2: that's all pretty accurate. Yeah. Also, TV partners constantly screw
Speaker 2: the fans by giving us late games, and if you
Speaker 2: want to tape a game, you miss most of the
Speaker 2: first half because the game.
Speaker 3: Had already started. Yeah, all of that is so accurate.
Speaker 3: I've experienced almost all those firsthand. It's so hard to
Speaker 3: be a fan nowadays one because of the nil stuff.
Speaker 3: You want to see the return on investment. But at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, these are twenty max what
Speaker 3: twenty two year olds? Yeah, here's the issue. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you're gonna get callus once you get your degree, but
Speaker 3: can you help I make X? I make X amount
Speaker 3: of money? Right, I don't make figures and I'm not
Speaker 3: a u a grat.
Speaker 2: So this applies if they called me and I'm paying
Speaker 2: ex player who's a star and he's making half a
Speaker 2: mile farnament. You think I'm gonna go reaching in my
Speaker 2: pocket and pay somebody who makes a lot more than
Speaker 2: me to live a life or have a good life
Speaker 2: when I don't make that much money. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And isn't tusund that It's exactly that.
Speaker 3: It's You've said a bunch of during the show, a
Speaker 3: bunch of spoiled people who had it nice for a
Speaker 3: good twenty years and to this day still have it
Speaker 3: pretty nice. Like I've said, you know, last four years,
Speaker 3: sixteen seven at home. Yeah, it's not enough, it's not enough.
Speaker 2: But do you think those people who are completely who
Speaker 2: are riching, you know, the charity calls, right, he's and
Speaker 2: I all listen to him because he's in the house.
Speaker 2: He's that calls from me from inside the house. He's
Speaker 2: witnessed it. And I get the thing that they're upset
Speaker 2: with Tommy. I get it. But Tommy's not talking about
Speaker 2: the people inside the house. He's talking about the people
Speaker 2: you likely are tweeting and doing all this stuff that
Speaker 2: don't go to the games exactly.
Speaker 3: And it's just why aren't you just giving those tickets
Speaker 3: to anyone else if you're not going to go.
Speaker 2: Just anyone else. But as I said, there's only ten thousand.
Speaker 2: There's only you know, it's not fifteen thousand or the
Speaker 2: five thousand to give the tickets to. Those are tickets
Speaker 2: not being used or you know, people trying to find
Speaker 2: them or people buying them.
Speaker 3: There's it's a tough it's a tough issue at it's
Speaker 3: probably gonna need multiple solutions.
Speaker 2: Not sure where to I'm not even sure where to
Speaker 2: start with it. Well, I'll give you a guess. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we know the situation, it's too expensive to go
Speaker 2: to the games, or you go to the games, but
Speaker 2: it's too expensive. Supposedly Okay, supposedly, listen, super sincond they
Speaker 2: cut the prices in half. You think for a second
Speaker 2: that's going to solve the problem. Absolutely, not absolutely. If
Speaker 2: you cut the prices, they'll come. That's a you're exactly right.
Speaker 3: It's all sunshine of rainbows when you're eating a two
Speaker 3: dollars hot dog at home, when you're still not going
Speaker 3: to the game. Well, we solve your problem with the prices.
Speaker 3: Well there's another issue. There's another issue. There's always another issue.
Speaker 3: How about you just go be a fan and and
Speaker 3: I've want to get to this point. Be passionate. Yeah,
Speaker 3: don't be the one to sit down and get the
Speaker 3: other people around you in that section to stand up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and don't don't wait until it's a ten to nothing.
Speaker 3: Run to stand up and cheer when they're down five ten,
Speaker 3: get them back into the.
Speaker 2: Game so people see, people see the craziness, Kansas. You
Speaker 2: saw the game, you saw it, you saw it, you
Speaker 2: know in a great place.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: So all those they're not all students right now, because
Speaker 2: how they're going to support that program. If they're all students,
Speaker 2: they won't be able to right. So percentage wise, maybe
Speaker 2: you can tell young and old maybe seventy five twenty
Speaker 2: five regular people, the twenty five percent students ours. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in Michale here, now, what is it? You have the
Speaker 2: student students right, Uh, maybe eighty twenty maybe seventy five,
Speaker 2: twenty five. Yeah, that's a good those are.
Speaker 3: That's a good range around and that twenty or even
Speaker 3: the twenty five percent fifty showing up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, depends on the game, right, depends on who's playing
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and like you said, like the text
Speaker 2: on their phones really engage or or screaming stupid crap. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in my my three years, it was hard to go
Speaker 2: and be that fan.
Speaker 3: When you have you try and Arizona makes a great play,
Speaker 3: you turn around, you're trying to get figh fives, and
Speaker 3: they're taking a selfie or worrying about what they're gonna
Speaker 3: do after the game. Look what's in front of you, right,
Speaker 3: you have the moment future NBA prospects that just did
Speaker 3: a windmill dunk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're worried about where you're gonna.
Speaker 3: Go eat afterwards because the prices, the prices in this
Speaker 3: the renard too much. Right, just watch the game, yell, scream,
Speaker 3: be part of it. Be upset in a in a
Speaker 3: in a responsible way. Have you been what other places
Speaker 3: have you been to? Did you go to Issue? I
Speaker 3: went to the Issue game this year as as a
Speaker 3: media member. I was supposed to go freshm year. I
Speaker 3: did it, but I went to the only the only
Speaker 3: experience outside of McHale was Tommy's first year in San Diego.
Speaker 2: At the in the tournaments. Oh, in the tournament. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's a neutral situation. You ain't had some fans
Speaker 2: there too. It's totally different other places. Like I was
Speaker 2: telling Blake, you don't know until you know. You got
Speaker 2: to go and see. Oh, this is what it means.
Speaker 2: You talked about the SEC and football. That's how it is. Oh,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how cool this thing could be and
Speaker 2: how different we are. You've seen it. And even when
Speaker 2: you play football. And I'll use this bad example, but
Speaker 2: you see Arizona suit up, right, you see Arizona suit
Speaker 2: up and play and then they're smallish. You go to
Speaker 2: Ohio State, how can we huge?
Speaker 7: Huge?
Speaker 2: And you're thinking that's college football? Wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 3: And and Arizona and and I think under Jed Fishes
Speaker 3: last year and maybe last year and a half.
Speaker 2: They lived up to that.
Speaker 3: They looked like one of the college football programs of Alabama,
Speaker 3: Ohio State. But you're not going to listen to it
Speaker 3: because it's touson Arizona. It's the Arizona football team. Who
Speaker 3: is this team? Who's Jaden the Lord, who's no Fafida? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's uh, it is what it is. It's problem.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be so seasons already over here. It
Speaker 2: has been over for two months. Yeah, well, it depends
Speaker 2: what you talk to, right, but it's not gonna I
Speaker 2: guess we'll hear it at the beginning of the next
Speaker 2: year's is what do you mean about the fans? What
Speaker 2: are you expecting from the fans? Because now it's all
Speaker 2: neutral court and travel and we'll see how well they
Speaker 2: do travel. They won't, you know why, because people think
Speaker 2: they suck exactly. You know, the people who are loyal
Speaker 2: will do it because that's what they are. That's the past.
Speaker 2: The ones at the game. Correct, They're not the ones tweeting.
Speaker 2: They're not the ones of facebooking or messaging or calling
Speaker 2: or whatever. It's the ones who who don't go or
Speaker 2: don't they just don't know, they don't understand what it
Speaker 2: means to be a fan. They know what it means
Speaker 2: to be a critic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now established critic or even the critic with background,
Speaker 3: and uh, I'm looking for the way.
Speaker 2: I can't find it.
Speaker 3: But credibility, credibility, they're not that. Well, you're not on Facebook,
Speaker 3: That's why I asked. And then you're on Twitter maybe
Speaker 3: a little yep, and and integra. I see it, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you see it. God, my thoughts are all over the place.
Speaker 3: My question to one of the callers, I think it was, Oh, Carls,
Speaker 3: what does it mean? Steve? Steve writes this and says
Speaker 3: that this sucks, They suck, Caleb can't hit shots, blah blah.
Speaker 2: We all see, we all see what you see. What's
Speaker 2: the need for you to tell people this exactly? We
Speaker 2: all see it. You don't need to open up the
Speaker 2: computer or the phone and write this. This team sex
Speaker 2: because of this happens. What's your point? What's your point?
Speaker 2: We all see it? You are you in that analysis?
Speaker 3: Again, it goes to the issue of we not we
Speaker 3: fans are more let's look at the problem instead of
Speaker 3: let's find solutions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's and that's just it starts. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: what's like, you have what you are. You are who
Speaker 2: you are, Salim Stoda mar is not coming through the
Speaker 2: to the locker room to save your your three point shots. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have what you have.
Speaker 3: And at that point it comes down to the practice.
Speaker 3: It comes within the team itself, whether they're making shots
Speaker 3: or do you think executing right or let me ask
Speaker 3: you to do you think that the players read that
Speaker 3: stuff the Facebook? I think some of them do at
Speaker 3: a certain point. It's all kind of the same. And
Speaker 3: what do you think they think?
Speaker 14: See?
Speaker 3: I don't believe that they do. I don't think they care.
Speaker 3: I believe they see it. I don't know if they
Speaker 3: take it in. It just kind of they scroll, they
Speaker 3: see read it maybe for a quick second, and then
Speaker 3: it leaves their mind.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's gonna inspire them? No? Has it
Speaker 2: inspired them to this point, not at all.
Speaker 3: Since Caleb Love hasn't really shot any better because you
Speaker 3: send out that tweet or the message.
Speaker 2: Right right right, hold on, I'm on the bench. I
Speaker 2: just got a notification someone's bitching about my shots.
Speaker 3: I better fix this. I better fix it. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: start hitting them now. Oh my goodness, I feel so
Speaker 3: much better.
Speaker 2: No, not at all. My point is just go scream
Speaker 2: outside your house because it's this falls on the same
Speaker 2: death fears. Although I'm talking about it now, I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: who do these people think? You know, what do they think?
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you. I really couldn't. And I'll be honest.
Speaker 3: I was one of those fans that used to criticize
Speaker 3: and say why and they shooting better?
Speaker 2: At this point? What age were you? Fifteen, sixty? Ok
Speaker 2: I was a real young adult. Yeah, okay, And now
Speaker 2: you realize it's just a game.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day. These kids, they they
Speaker 3: they this is their life and it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it goes in, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you sometimes
Speaker 3: you make a run to the national championship in ninety seven,
Speaker 3: and sometimes you lose to Princeton. Yeah, that's that's just
Speaker 3: the game of basketball and any other sport, any other sport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but some people live and die with it, which
Speaker 2: more power to you, and I guess that's what the
Speaker 2: fan is. But it makes no sense to me.
Speaker 3: There just needs to be overall better support for the
Speaker 3: players when they're having bad, bad games, bad days, bad seasons.
Speaker 2: So it was with somebody over the weekend and it says,
Speaker 2: how was Arizona going to survive or not be Arizona
Speaker 2: with this nil stuff? Because you can't. You're not the Alabama,
Speaker 2: so you're not that high of states. Yes, I still
Speaker 2: you're going to be Arizona. You've always dealt with this,
Speaker 2: always under any there's not a lot of money in
Speaker 2: this town, but there's a lot of support, or could
Speaker 2: be a lot of support. You just got to kind
Speaker 2: of band because you've always never You're never going to
Speaker 2: be that guy, and under any circumstances, they just kind
Speaker 2: of even made the playing field even less level if
Speaker 2: that other place was level, because it wasn't level.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this a that you have on your letter, make it,
Speaker 2: make it mean something otherwise it'll fall into it be
Speaker 2: a Colorado state or exactly.
Speaker 3: And what people don't realize is that at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, they choose to wear the Arizona across
Speaker 3: their chest on their helmets. It's not just uh, I'll
Speaker 3: do it because there's nothing else to do. No, these
Speaker 3: players want to be Arizona Wildcats. Yeah, we gotta go, Yep,
Speaker 3: we gotta thanks. You're taking a break for a couple days,
Speaker 3: a few days. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Good great
Speaker 3: show today. I think at least we'll see tomorrow