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got Chris Cartman on theline. Chris, how you.

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Speaker 2: Living doing great? Just wrapped that football practice. It's pretty

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hot out here, but that's that's pretty normal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah man, Well we're March twenty six. How hot is

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it down in Arizona right now? How hot is it

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in Tempe?

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Speaker 2: We just had five days in a row that were

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one hundred degrees and that's never happened. There's never been

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more than one day of one hundred degrees in March

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in history, So we're setting records out here.

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Speaker 1: Is there an idea that like springball could be moved?

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I know the Cardinals used to you know, do their

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their their camp up and flag Staff. Has there been

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any talk about moving ASU's springball up to flag Staff

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and have it like remote now?

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Speaker 2: They do go to Pace in Arizona for about a

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week in August to get out of the heat. They've

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been doing that for since the late fifties. But they

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also have an indoor facility where they have the ability

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to go if it gets too high.

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Speaker 1: When was the indoor facility built for football?

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Speaker 2: Around two thousand and eight or two thousand and nine

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is when it opened.

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Speaker 3: It's a it's an.

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Speaker 2: Inflatable but it's but it's climate controlled. They're actually going

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to build a permanent indoor structure that's right next to

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the stadium that's going to start being built next year,

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so that's going to be in use in like a

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Speaker 1: When So, what was the cost for the IPF, That

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new IPF that you guys are going to be a building?

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Do you know the number?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's it's it's like forty something million dollars

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uh for the indoor But they're also going to have

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as part of that a new volleyball facility like a

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practice and offices and stuff. So that's also several million

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of the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: It's a it's a huge it's a huge.

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Speaker 2: Building, one hundred and seventy yards. It's going to be

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the biggest one other than Texas A and M that

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I've seen in the country.

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Speaker 1: Crazy times. Look, they there's a lot of buzz positive

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buzz down there. How would you describe the momentum right

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now for ASU football with your coach being extended? Dillingham

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is a is an ASU alum. He seems bought in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 2: The they sold out every game last season, which is

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the first time that that's happened in decades, like five decades.

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So the disappointment of a season for eight wins is

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kind of tells you what the expectations are now for

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high profile transfers that have looked good through the first

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several days of practice. So a lot of positive momentum

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going love that.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk some basketball news. Big moves on the head

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coaching front with Hurley essentially stepping down and new coaching

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staff being hired. Give us the latest. Who's the new

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head coach and what's the buzz like around the new

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head coaching.

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Speaker 2: High Yeah, Randy Bennett decided to come back to the valley.

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Speaker 3: Raised in Mesa.

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Speaker 2: His dad was a pretty famous junior college coach, six

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time Coach of the Year in Arizona and and Randy Bennett,

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after twelve instable A appearances in twenty five years of

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Saint Mary's all time winning as coach, one of the

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best coaches in West Coast Conference history, decided he wanted

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to come back home. Sixty three years old, his parents

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are getting up there in age now, and in the

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opportunity to be close to them in this latter stage

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of his coaching tenure was very appealing and a pretty

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Speaker 3: A If you've given what Bennett was able to accomplish.

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Speaker 2: And also considering that if he really hasn't been that

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successful in basketball since Ned Wolke, which that was got

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Speaker 1: What type of impact do you think Randy Bennett's going

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to have on this ASU program? Do you think it's

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going to be able to He's going to be able

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to kind of build them up and get them into

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a competitive mode and maybe even compete for a big

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total championship.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the goal. Obviously, you got to have realistic aspirations.

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significantly outspent on its roster compared to a lot of

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the operational on Big twelve teams. Ben At Saint Mary's

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team this this year.

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Speaker 3: Had six or.

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Speaker 2: Seven losses only on the season and was at number

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seven seed in the NBA Tournament and only had one senior.

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one of whom already entered the transfer portal. Probably others

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Speaker 3: It's a safe bet that some of.

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Speaker 2: These guys will probably end up following Randy Bennett to ASU.

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who have the ability to decide whether or not they

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Speaker 3: So I think the key thing with.

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Speaker 2: Randy Bennett is a very high floor, Like you know,

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you're gonna play great defense, and you're gonna be well coached,

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all of a sudden be able to play in that

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pop tire in the Big twelve? Well, probably not, although

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maybe you know, some nights they will. And I think

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overall the goal is just.

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Speaker 3: Trying to get to more NCAA tournament appearances. To days

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who's been able to accomplish in recent decades, it seems

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like it's on average been like a once every three

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to four year thing, And the goal will be to

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try to make that more, like, you know, better than average,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And just to go along with that maybe a

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little bit and put this in a maybe a BYU

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type of perspective, YU and Arizona State start to get

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a little bit of a rivalry on the football field

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with Kenny Dillingham and bau fans obviously have some experience

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against Randy Bennett teams and there was a rivalry there

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between Bay and Saint Mary's for a few years. Could

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you see this coaching move producing more of a rivalry

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on the basketball court between BYU and Arizona State. With

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the history between BYU and Randy Bennett.

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Speaker 3: I think so.

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Speaker 2: Already there were a ton of BYU fans in my

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comments on my social media posts about the possibility of

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Randy Bennett getting hired and then eventually him being named

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the coach. So yeah, I think I think there's going

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to be more attention to this. And as you know,

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you know that the Arizona and the Valley have the

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second highest percentage of LDS population of anywhere in the

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in the country. So there's already a lot of b

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that that rivalry between as U and and b YU

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both at proximity the bordering states, you know, and the

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latter the experance connection, and now you got Randy Bennett's conection.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm intrigued by this hire and I think it's

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an awesome hire. Actually, b YU fan do not like

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Randy Bennett one bit. Like he is enemy. He was

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like public enemy number one in the West Coast coinars.

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he coached, They didn't like his like tirades on the sideline.

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double double machines. They did not like. They do not

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like Randy Bennett. And if so, if any of these

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these Saint Mary like teams are coming to Provo with

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a little bit more nil behind them, there's maybe fear

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Speaker 3: I gotta know about fear.

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Speaker 2: I mean, YU really got it rolling and a lot

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of money on the roster this year with you know,

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arguably the top player in college basketball or one of

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the top two. I just think that, you know, the

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Big twelve is ultra competitive. Everybody understands that the teams

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that haven't done as well are trying to improve their

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standing and.

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Speaker 3: Compete in this ultra challenging conference. And you can see

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that AFU has not really had that much success.

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Speaker 2: Under Bobby Hurley in the Big twelve in two years

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and wanted to go a different route.

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Speaker 3: His contract is basically ending in June, so not even

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a need to fire him or anything. It's just, hey,

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we're going to go in a different direction.

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Speaker 2: Randy Bennett is the type of guy who's gone to

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war against you know, Gonzaga and and BYU and other

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Isantapira and other teams and over the years, and now

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he's ready to do that at.

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Speaker 3: As you.

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Speaker 1: So, I mean there's going to be a rebuild of

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the roster, right, this is going to be a completely

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revamp brought Do you do you think there's going to

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be any retention. Will there be a point of creative

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strategic retention on this roster at all? Any key players

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that that that Randy's going to really try hard to retain.

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Speaker 2: Well, So a FU has one of the top big

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men in the country who's a freshman Masamba job.

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Speaker 3: I think what ultimately, you know come.

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Speaker 2: Down to is the money. I've heard the job is

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probably worth two million or more if he decided to

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transfer or look at transferring. So you got to make

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decisions based upon how much money that you have available

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to give the players.

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Speaker 3: Now there's a positive thing, which is that they have

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the same agent.

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Speaker 2: Randy Bennett is repped by the former Washerman agency, so

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is Masamba job so that might be able to help them.

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Speaker 3: And then there's some other players that I.

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Speaker 2: Think as you that would like to probably keep with

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Randy Bennett. Noah Mayhusen was a good guard six to five, versatile, skilled, smart,

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a lot of a lot of positive attributes. And Santiago

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lot of double doubles, somebody who's probably one of the

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best rebounders and compete on the defensive ends. And Andreas

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the floor as a stretch four man or five man.

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that will be on the roster from the season to

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next maybe three or four, and then I wouldn't be

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surprised at all if there were even more.

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Speaker 3: Than that who transferred from Saint Mary's.

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Speaker 2: To ASU or at least that many, and then probably

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you've got to go out and get a third of

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your roster from the transfer portal. They already got a

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switch of a commitment or at least a signee. Jay

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rob Croy, he's a four star recruit from California who's

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a combo guard six foot five. Because he's ranked in

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the top twenty combo guards in the country. He already

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announced be switching from Saint Mary's as so, but yeah,

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just say that a lot of them are going to

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probably be from Saint Mary's. Remember Kurt Signetti when when

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he when he you know, it's crossport analogy, but when

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he was at.

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Speaker 3: JMU, he went to Indiana.

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Speaker 2: He brought like thirty guys on his roster and that

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was a huge part of what jump started his success there.

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And you wouldn't be surprised to see Randy Bennett lean

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on his former players bring him over.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I want to just stick here with the

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transfer port discussion. There's a familiar face that entered the

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transfer portal from Arizona State that that by fans would

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recognize and and Marcus Adams junior and or Marcus Adams

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and and we'd like to keep track a little bit

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of players that transfer away. But I mean, say he

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transfers to a new school and he sticks in the

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transfer portal, that'll be his fourth school in four years.

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Is there anything that you any insight that you have

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on why it's been hard for him to find a

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place to stick around and really make his impact.

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Speaker 3: Well, he was kind of unlucky at ASU.

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Speaker 2: He had an injury that sidelined him for like the

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months or more than a month before the season started,

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and then even into the season for several weeks, and

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then he wasn't really in great basketball shape. When he

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finally you know, kind of got up to speed, then

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had another sort of a thing where he got dinged up.

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at what happened in his three prior years. Obviously, he

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what enabled him to.

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Speaker 3: Be a higher profile guy, one of the two high

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profile guys that was added. So I no, no, we'll

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have to see what happens.

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and basketball. State of the athletic department. How you feeling about?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 1: Feeling about the trajectory of the athletic department overall?

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, things are a lot better than they've been

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in in years. If you went to a really bad

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demoralizing time with the and Souble investigation in the Foo

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for recruiting violations that occurred during the covid UH period

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that led to eventually the athletic director and head coach leaving,

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really leaving in disgrace. And the synergy that's happened in

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the first two years with Graham Rassini as the athletic director,

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coinciding with this success of Kenny Dillingham and Molly Miller

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and basketball making the NA Tournament in her first year,

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one of the best turnaround jobs in the country. ASU

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Baseball is now ranked twenty second nationally and having what

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maybe it's best season under Willie Bloomquiss in his first

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four years. And now you got Randy Bennett, which I

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think most people would agree is a somewhere between a

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good and a excellent hire. So you know, generally speaking,

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you have more fan buy in to what's.

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Speaker 3: Going on right now in the flex department than anytime.

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Speaker 2: In a number of years. Probably got to go back

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to when Todd Graham had things really rolling in the

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twenty fourteen twenty fifteen a time frame probably the best

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overall state of the program in about a decade.

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Speaker 1: Chris, we appreciate you talking ball with us. It sounds

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like ASU is trending in the right direction. Can't wait

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to see what they bring to the heart with this

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next season with Randy Bennett. Thanks so much for hop

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best way to support you? What you do, how you

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best way to support you? What you do, how you

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there you go. That's Chris Carman twenty four seven Sports.

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Make sure you're following him and reading off his content

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at twenty four seven Sports. By the way, some news

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on the twenty four seventh Sports Front. I don't know

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if you guys saw this or not, but on three

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making some moves, they were able to require Brandon Hoffman,

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longtime insider for all things recruiting, and so twenty four

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seven made sure to solidify Blair and Guloh nice move

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from them, Adam Steinkop pointing it out, we have signed

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twenty four seven Sports national recruiting analysts Blair and Gulo

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to a multi year extension. Blair is a rising star

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in the industry and his in depth coverage of the

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and the best teammate anyone could ask for. So there's

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been a lot of moves kind of in the recruiting

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department and between on three in two four seven, uh

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and so uh still some competitive environments there, but shout

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out to two four to seven.

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Speaker 2: Rivals also take twenty four seven's Greg Biggins as well.

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Speaker 1: Over Yeah, I think Greg Greg Biggins, Yeah yeah. Rivals

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on three took Greg Biggins over, who had been a

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long time twenty four seven guys as well, So definitely

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making some moves right now. A lot of competition in

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