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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rovera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to four o'clock hour. I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: You're Tim Bentley, sitting in for my other co hosts
Speaker 2: who are not on Fridays, and we got one with
Speaker 2: breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, Breaking News on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Happy Friday to everyone out there, yours truly mister goody
Speaker 3: two shoes back on a Friday, first time in two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was, Like I said, I was the only last Friday.
Speaker 3: I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 4: You stayed in your dorm or you don't do it
Speaker 4: now I was.
Speaker 3: I was at home just crying myself to sleep. Honest,
Speaker 3: what should I do? Nothing to say nothing? I had
Speaker 3: to do breaking news to my dog.
Speaker 5: He just lolled over and confused.
Speaker 6: You told him your dog your picks and he's like, whatever,
Speaker 6: You're still gonna lose money.
Speaker 3: He told me that was a bad pick. But starting
Speaker 3: breaking news off with some Arizona athletics. The women's basketball
Speaker 3: team got off to another good start yesterday. Charlettan State
Speaker 3: came to town. They won. Arizona team won sixty two
Speaker 3: to thirty nine. They were helped a lot by their
Speaker 3: bench last night.
Speaker 2: Who who's the great the very good player? I don't
Speaker 2: say great that. I guess she did play much. I
Speaker 2: said that. Some people on Facebook or Twitter were asking
Speaker 2: why was she so down or something? Was it a
Speaker 2: dude of a short last name Montana do?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think she just she had gotten injured when
Speaker 3: she first came here. Sheoul supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Right good, right, right, She's like a highly recruited athlete. Yeah,
Speaker 2: didn't play much last year because of injury.
Speaker 3: Because because of the injury. Yeah, but I mean she
Speaker 3: scored her first ONEKAY with Arizona, right, Okay, so they
Speaker 3: were just happy to see that, you know, she coming
Speaker 3: off an injury. I think I think it was some
Speaker 3: sort of a c l M c O one of
Speaker 3: the one of those league injuries. So does your back
Speaker 3: scoring for the Rockist it was pretty good.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: That could be devastating, man, especially at that level, because
Speaker 6: you're coming into a program and you're you're you know,
Speaker 6: you're destined to be great in your mind, and you
Speaker 6: hope and then that happens, and it can just be
Speaker 6: crushing and then everybody's moving ahead of you and you feel,
Speaker 6: you know, it's just an uphill battle.
Speaker 3: Mean Ray Smith, right, Yeah, became to Arizona. He was
Speaker 3: supposed to be a really highly thought of player. Injury
Speaker 3: after injury and kind of lost in the shuffle, but
Speaker 3: fans still appreciated its. It was good to see.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean back in the day, I mean in
Speaker 6: our day, that Shawn Elliott, you know, blew out his
Speaker 6: knee and I thought that's it.
Speaker 5: Back in nineteen eighty well six or seven, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Steve Ker goes to the goes to Europe place
Speaker 2: forms or whatever it was, and and it gets hurt,
Speaker 2: gets you know, it gets hurt in Europe, and you think,
Speaker 2: you know, he's done. He's told he was done, I think,
Speaker 2: and comes back and kind of changes the course changed
Speaker 2: the course of Arizona basketball exactly.
Speaker 6: That was that was fortuitous timing. So yeah, especially at
Speaker 6: that level, you know, you those kids, they come in
Speaker 6: with high expectations and it can just be crushing.
Speaker 3: Two women's volleyball they play today number eight Kansas six o'clock.
Speaker 3: Arizona's lost four straight. They haven't want to set since
Speaker 3: their Thursday game at Utah last week.
Speaker 4: Is this a regular season game?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: So the tournament's coming up pretty soon, isn't it the postseason?
Speaker 2: In fact, I was going to try to reach out
Speaker 2: to the coach and maybe talk to the players or so.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize they had lost four straight because comparatively
Speaker 2: they had been they've been doing better last year, but
Speaker 2: now they're sliding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think a little bit of the
Speaker 3: confidence has been shot, trying to find their mode, and
Speaker 3: then they're going up against a good competition, you know,
Speaker 3: the last were going with today.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, what a second? Let me let me
Speaker 2: evaluate that statement of yours, because it hit me.
Speaker 4: You think they're.
Speaker 2: Confident is shot? And what confidence shot?
Speaker 4: They're playing? They're just playing a bit of better teams.
Speaker 2: Could you could you apply that to the ASOL You
Speaker 2: knew where I was going with this, to the Arizona
Speaker 2: football team. I mean, honestly, their confidence is shot and
Speaker 2: and they're just not not up to the task. But
Speaker 2: once your confidence is gone, it's gone.
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter sport. I mean, it's we've been talking.
Speaker 6: We're talking about you know, the basketball, We've been talking
Speaker 6: about running and football.
Speaker 2: But no one's no one said that. I mean till
Speaker 2: now you said it for over here. Why wouldn't applay
Speaker 2: overtly applies. You're exactly right. It's it's it's that that
Speaker 2: confidence is gone.
Speaker 4: It is gone.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're a coach now as a coach, and
Speaker 2: I heard this two weeks ago, and I thought it's brilliant.
Speaker 2: Aren't coaches problem solvers? It's like a parent. It's like
Speaker 2: a parent. Juan is suffering a problem. He's sick, he's ill,
Speaker 2: he's got guess who comes to the rescue mom? And
Speaker 2: dad isn't he Isn't the coach a problem solver?
Speaker 5: Problem solver? Uh?
Speaker 6: Psychologist? Yes, buyer of pizza when I was you know, all.
Speaker 2: The find a wa way. So now let's put those
Speaker 2: confidence to the football team. Shouldn't you have a problem solver?
Speaker 5: We used to.
Speaker 6: I don't know how you ap play this to football
Speaker 6: or but we used when I was coaching cross country track,
Speaker 6: we would after a bad race or something like that,
Speaker 6: we would I would design a specific workout that I
Speaker 6: knew that they would crush and I didn't tell them
Speaker 6: to get their confidence back, and you know, hit their
Speaker 6: times and all those things, and it's you know, if
Speaker 6: I was one of those coaches, I would have a
Speaker 6: workout where those kids could excel and feel great and
Speaker 6: design it that way. And I know that they're like, oh,
Speaker 6: these guys got to step up, these ladies got to
Speaker 6: step up. But sometimes you just got to take it
Speaker 6: right back down and let them, you know, crush something.
Speaker 3: Yea, yeah, I mean, uh five, four out of their
Speaker 3: last five games are gonna be going up against ranked teams.
Speaker 3: See if they can pull off the upset. Tonight. Looking
Speaker 3: ahead to tomorrow, Man's basketball takes on Old Dominion their
Speaker 3: second game of the season, two o'clock tip off. We'll
Speaker 3: see what they look like for a second game. Should
Speaker 3: be a good showing.
Speaker 2: This next stretcher of what they play Saturday, and then
Speaker 2: they wait again for Wisconsin right Friday, next Friday, and
Speaker 2: then and then next Friday.
Speaker 4: Duke. Yeah, where's the Duke game again?
Speaker 5: Well, you have tickets, you want to buy some?
Speaker 2: There're in the thousands right now that I'm married an
Speaker 2: arm and a leg, yes, artery.
Speaker 4: I don't want my arms my.
Speaker 8: Legs, that's yeah, sell your soul for tickets to Duke.
Speaker 8: Muh so, yeah, I mean see what they look like
Speaker 8: on Saturday, going to more college college basketball.
Speaker 3: There were sports today of Florida's head coach Todd Golden
Speaker 3: being investigated on certain violations and allegations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is he being investigated?
Speaker 2: They say that because I know that the school paper
Speaker 2: reported that he had done this, but there was no
Speaker 2: comment from either side.
Speaker 3: Uh, it does say he's being investigated, the from the
Speaker 3: alligator of the school.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I mean I see it. I see it on
Speaker 3: ESPN right now, so I'm sure I'm s legit at
Speaker 3: this point. We'll see what happens with that. There. There's
Speaker 3: seasons just getting off to the start. But even with
Speaker 3: the season getting off to start, you know, we got
Speaker 3: some big time matchups today. Number one Kansas taking on
Speaker 3: North Carolina five o'clock tonight. Good game right away, should
Speaker 3: be good.
Speaker 6: I love that I lived in Kansas for a bit.
Speaker 6: I'm from there and going to Allen Field House. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and I don't I don't know where that game is
Speaker 6: right now as it is, it is electric, but also
Speaker 6: just you know the sense of history that's there. It's
Speaker 6: amazing that crowd knows basketball. It's you know, you've ague
Speaker 6: Allen Field House. You know, Dookie's North Carolina those all
Speaker 6: those fans are are are well educated and in tune fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been there a few times, well, three times,
Speaker 2: a few, three times a few.
Speaker 5: One was for several at several there.
Speaker 2: For candy Gate, remember that candidated episode, and Sean and
Speaker 2: the leamst Myers, uh second half surgeon beat them up there.
Speaker 5: No, it's a it's a great place to Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: a great game.
Speaker 4: Where are you from, Kansas?
Speaker 5: Which talk Kansas?
Speaker 2: I love clean to me. It's a clean city like Tulsa.
Speaker 5: Tulsa right there in the Midwest.
Speaker 6: And then I was I managed cold as all hell.
Speaker 6: Oh it is, and it is. It is hurricane alley
Speaker 6: man and a tornado alley, and it feels like a
Speaker 6: hurricane sometimes, but tornado alley.
Speaker 5: And then I lived in Topeka. I managed TV station
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 4: What the heck are you do it a here?
Speaker 2: Well? And in fact I was going to play baseball well,
Speaker 2: recruit a little least small school out and I won't
Speaker 2: even say where. But it was the coldest I've ever
Speaker 2: been in those snow drifts. Holy moly, listen.
Speaker 6: I lived out there, and the first year I moved there,
Speaker 6: it's Topeka. It was the it was the one hundred
Speaker 6: hundredth one hundred year coldest winter, you know, one of
Speaker 6: those things. And then the next year beat that. And
Speaker 6: I was married and my wife said, we are out
Speaker 6: of here, and we came back here.
Speaker 5: So you can always come back, I promise.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just don't go where it's cold.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't mind the cold, to be honest. I like
Speaker 3: I like hoodies. I like the hides, the layers for me,
Speaker 3: so it works for me being in the cold. Uh So,
Speaker 3: New York Sports Book breaked in record two point three
Speaker 3: billion in bets in October. It was the record as
Speaker 3: far as month New York sports.
Speaker 4: New York sperts. Okay, so so Jay didn't have any
Speaker 4: contribution to that. It's New York. It's not like Draft King.
Speaker 3: It was just a new monthly record for any state.
Speaker 3: So if you were in New York, you're more than
Speaker 3: likely betting those.
Speaker 4: Jets J E. T.
Speaker 5: S Jets when I went.
Speaker 6: When I flew into New York, I was on Halloween
Speaker 6: and they were playing and I could see it when
Speaker 6: I was flying in, and I must have been.
Speaker 5: The good luck churn because oh yeah, you what was
Speaker 5: the other one?
Speaker 6: Minnesota Vice's ride the wave.
Speaker 5: When I show up, you know you mind going to
Speaker 5: Denver quick? I'm in, Let's go, Let's go.
Speaker 6: Half My college friends are from Denver and they just
Speaker 6: they're always like Bentley, you got to get up here.
Speaker 3: There we go, help us out there you go.
Speaker 4: It's San Antonio Spurs news.
Speaker 3: Victor wen Binyanima said that the Spurs should be expecting
Speaker 3: Great Papovich back soon. He's been dealing with the health issue,
Speaker 3: but as far as the Wemby and the Spurs go,
Speaker 3: they're not worried about anything. They should see him back soon.
Speaker 3: On the sideline, all the best to him. But even
Speaker 3: with Papovich being out, they are gaining a player in
Speaker 3: Devin Vassel. He's making his season debut Saturday. Very young
Speaker 3: player that they're high on and been marketing for San
Speaker 3: Antonio fans, making his debut on Saturday. Some injury news,
Speaker 3: Pelicans Jordan Hawkins to miss one to two weeks with
Speaker 3: the backstrain this seventy six Ers guard Tyrese Max he
Speaker 3: expected to miss a couple of weeks with a right
Speaker 3: hamstring injury. He'll be re evaluated in one week. As
Speaker 3: far as games, the goal last night The Bucks got
Speaker 3: their second win of the season against the Jazz. A
Speaker 3: little bit of a slow start for them. Spurs beat
Speaker 3: the Trailblazers, looking at four and five for them. But
Speaker 3: tonight got some good matchups the Warriors seven to one,
Speaker 3: going up against the Cavaliers who are undefeated. I know,
Speaker 3: Okay and Son's visiting the Mavericks. Pretty good rivalry right there.
Speaker 3: Six and row Sons won six in a row. They
Speaker 3: beat the Heat on Wednesday. I was actually got that game.
Speaker 3: So they look good.
Speaker 4: You went there. Yeah, we're fronting Featings.
Speaker 3: Yeah look good. Uh to the NFL.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Some injury updates here and there. A cornerback for the Commanders,
Speaker 3: Marshall Lottimore, won't play as well as their running back
Speaker 3: Brian Robinson. He said, did not practice in preparation for
Speaker 3: Sunday's game, so he's more unluckily gonna be missing the
Speaker 3: Sunday's game. The Jets are gonna start their third kicker
Speaker 3: in three games against the Cardinals. I'm not sure how
Speaker 3: much of an impact that will have. We'll see.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: They're going to beat the Cardinals and the Colts have
Speaker 3: ruled out Michael Pittman Junior with a back issue going
Speaker 3: up against the Bills this week. Lens are also ensure
Speaker 3: if Darius Smith will make his debut versus the Texans
Speaker 3: Sunday Night football, and the Jagguars will be without their
Speaker 3: starting quarterback trip for Lawrence. They're going to start Max
Speaker 3: Jones against the Vikings.
Speaker 4: Okay, another victory for your Vikings.
Speaker 9: It looks like they've been on a street since i've uh,
Speaker 9: since I kicked them kicked him off on that early September,
Speaker 9: So you know, I'm taking full credit for that.
Speaker 5: I want to tell you too, we've been talking about
Speaker 5: cross country.
Speaker 6: So the men and women uh competed last weekend at
Speaker 6: the Big twelve Championships. The men finished ninth and then
Speaker 6: women finished sixteenth. It wasn't a great day. It looks
Speaker 6: like some of the runners were out and a little
Speaker 6: bit injured. But next week they go to the regional,
Speaker 6: the NCAA Regional Championships up in Colfax, Washington.
Speaker 5: And if the men you know.
Speaker 6: Placed well cross country and some of those sports, you know,
Speaker 6: it's an individual effort, but they score it collectively. If
Speaker 6: you can get you know, five of your guys into
Speaker 6: the you know, into some good scoring ranges, in the
Speaker 6: top you know, fifty, you can make a run for
Speaker 6: the make it to the national championships. But BYU won
Speaker 6: both and they're they're just incredible. The by A cross
Speaker 6: country teams. They they are like the feeder system for
Speaker 6: the for the pros, the runners of all those guys
Speaker 6: Olympic teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, last thing I have. I like to just
Speaker 3: usually end on a little funky no fun note. Alabama
Speaker 3: LSU play. It's always a big time game usually for LSU.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have their live tiger back on the sideline
Speaker 3: this weekend.
Speaker 5: Isn't they really? That was against a lot. It was
Speaker 5: like animal cruelty.
Speaker 3: I believe so. But the Louisiana governor said it was
Speaker 3: good to go or the.
Speaker 5: Mayor proclamation, so it's not illegal for this one game.
Speaker 4: This game, I guess you you can smoke.
Speaker 2: But for this one time and be okay with it.
Speaker 2: We're not going to rest you.
Speaker 6: It's the exemption, as the got the reprieve from the governor.
Speaker 5: Yes, take the live tiger.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about live mask? Do you have
Speaker 3: any have no care to me? It's like uniforms. Ye,
Speaker 3: well they looked good.
Speaker 4: Shut up.
Speaker 2: They lost by twenty fifty. You know, oh you do
Speaker 2: know how I feel about that? Look good, play good. Well,
Speaker 2: they haven't played good, so they don't. It doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter how you look.
Speaker 3: I saw.
Speaker 4: I kind of felt that this season with Arizona. You
Speaker 4: know they yeah right right.
Speaker 3: I said, well, they've lost every game with any new helmet,
Speaker 3: so I.
Speaker 2: Don't think that batters, right. Yeah, that brings another point,
Speaker 2: Jay another all these guys, y know, you look good,
Speaker 2: play good, shut up, give me a gunny sack.
Speaker 6: Just play well, play well, play well, don't execute execute well.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't you rather have that than what you're seeing? Hey,
Speaker 4: let's go.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get ahold of Jush Pastner last time. We're
Speaker 2: got to like four minute break here.
Speaker 4: Yeah for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll get us to seventeen. We'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to WY on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, east Tim Bentley,
Speaker 2: you're Juan and I think I think we have mister
Speaker 2: Josh Pastor in in the show or on the phone. Josh, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's he's holdly. I think he had to get something done.
Speaker 2: We'll keep him there for a second. He can come
Speaker 2: in anytime, right, so I'll just text him right, just
Speaker 2: hold him there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Josh Passner is is a is a u of
Speaker 6: a legend. We were talking about it earlier and when
Speaker 6: I worked at the No.
Speaker 4: Don't, don't don't because we want him to.
Speaker 5: Don't don't don't You want you want me to remind him?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, what he says, Yeah, I remember because he
Speaker 2: like remembers everything.
Speaker 4: So we'll see all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 5: He was a fan favorite, you know if.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, great, Thank you, Josh. I hope you're doing well, Josh,
Speaker 2: one of my favorite guys. You know that. Uh you
Speaker 2: getting ready for hoop season?
Speaker 7: Yeah, right around the corner. I actually was doing a
Speaker 7: game last week and and you know, back.
Speaker 16: Back at it.
Speaker 7: We'll be back in the thick of things for this year,
Speaker 7: working for different networks ESPN, Turner, CBS Sports Network, NBC, Peacock.
Speaker 7: So yeah, excited to do it and hopefully next spring
Speaker 7: if see how things go, hope we get back on
Speaker 7: the sidelines to coach again.
Speaker 4: I know you're itching to do that.
Speaker 2: I know you're itching to do that, but you also
Speaker 2: have a nice gig what you're doing.
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean, I don't really have loved the television.
Speaker 7: Television has been outstanding. It's a great I've.
Speaker 16: Loved it, loved it every second of it. The people that.
Speaker 7: I've met, the preparation, and so it's a great gig.
Speaker 7: It's a great job. And that's why, you know, before
Speaker 7: I want to go back into coaching, it's got to
Speaker 7: be the right opportunity for me to leave the the
Speaker 7: awesome opportunities that I have currently. So we'll see how
Speaker 7: it happens in the spring. Just taking it one day
Speaker 7: at a time. But I do know this. The Cats
Speaker 7: had a great win on Monday. I know they play
Speaker 7: Old Dominion ODU tomorrow and their big contest will be
Speaker 7: next Friday night, which I'll be in studio, which is
Speaker 7: on Peacock, Arizona, Wisconsin, next Friday night, I'll be in
Speaker 7: studio for that.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 5: That's nice, Josh.
Speaker 6: This is Tim Bentley and you and I go way back.
Speaker 6: I was telling Steve the story. It might have been
Speaker 6: the first year you were coaching for Luke maybe night
Speaker 6: was that ninety eight or ninety nine when you were
Speaker 6: coaching down there. We did the Red Blue Game and
Speaker 6: you played with the coaches, the u of A coaches
Speaker 6: against the Tucson media teams John Jay and Rich and
Speaker 6: the team from the WB and you drained down probably
Speaker 6: like four or five threes and thirteen thousand people are
Speaker 6: going crazy.
Speaker 5: Do you remember that?
Speaker 7: I do remember that, and that was my playing the
Speaker 7: fame as I could shoot the ball. But if I
Speaker 7: was able to play against a Tucson media as my competition,
Speaker 7: I would have been playing in the NBA.
Speaker 9: The issue is.
Speaker 16: I was playing against high level players day in day out.
Speaker 5: Listen, I tell you I had.
Speaker 6: I had a triple single that night, Josh, I had
Speaker 6: like I had like five points, one rebound in six fouls.
Speaker 5: It's the highlight of my life too. So let me
Speaker 5: tell you it was an amazing night.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 6: You're you're talking about you're talking about coaching, and we've
Speaker 6: been talking about players leaving and you you were in
Speaker 6: the loudolcen era. Coaches on the UVA are players on
Speaker 6: the u A football team leaving in this nil era?
Speaker 6: You know what did what did players? What was the
Speaker 6: mood on the team? When players would leave. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's when you were in the Wildcats.
Speaker 7: Well you can't, you can't. You can't compare the time
Speaker 7: when I was playing at Arizona or coaching at Arizona's
Speaker 7: now and it's just totally different time period because because
Speaker 7: of the NIL, because of the transfer portal, things are
Speaker 7: totally different now. But but let me just say this.
Speaker 7: You know, look twenty years ago, a decade ago, fifteen
Speaker 7: years ago, what people were complaining about things within the
Speaker 7: college basketball game. And it's just to me, it's just
Speaker 7: a different form of complaining. There's just new things, if
Speaker 7: that makes sense. I still say the game's healthy as
Speaker 7: long as they only allow five players to play on
Speaker 7: the floor. They count twos is twos, threes is threes,
Speaker 7: every anything else. I mean, in the end, there's so
Speaker 7: many good players out there, you just had to go
Speaker 7: find them. But if you sit and complain and look
Speaker 7: at the negative aspects of things, you know, then it
Speaker 7: then you're not going to be able to thrive or
Speaker 7: survive in the profession. That's the reality of it. And
Speaker 7: so yes, it's a it's there's a lot of different things.
Speaker 7: It's totally different than it was. But I could tell
Speaker 7: you a decade ago, I could give you a list
Speaker 7: of complaints from people in the profession that was just
Speaker 7: it was just a different time period, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 7: But but I would tell you this both and to
Speaker 7: your listeners. It's not going backwards in terms of the
Speaker 7: n I L and or in terms of the transfer portal.
Speaker 7: That's that's done. So everyone has to accept it. The
Speaker 7: fans have to accept it, as in the terms of
Speaker 7: when I say accepted, meaning that this is the new
Speaker 7: reality of college sports that you're really trying to you know,
Speaker 7: have a team year by year. But I do think
Speaker 7: that transferring will stop a little bit as this house settlement,
Speaker 7: with the house settlement is is with this revenue sharing
Speaker 7: and you can pay players within you know, kind of
Speaker 7: within the athletic department, and you have contracts from within
Speaker 7: the athletic department, I think some of the transferring will
Speaker 7: slow down assuming that the house settlement all passes, which
Speaker 7: is which is April the seventh, is the is when
Speaker 7: the judge is when the judge makes the final determination.
Speaker 7: But you'll start having two to three year contracts for
Speaker 7: players with buyout options. So if a guy is gonna
Speaker 7: leave either he's going to have to pay the school
Speaker 7: back money or the school that he's going to is
Speaker 7: gonna have to pay the money. So it's not going
Speaker 7: to be maybe as much movement. Once that goes into effect,
Speaker 7: I think you're going to start seeing that more where
Speaker 7: there's gonna be longer term contracts with buyouts involved as
Speaker 7: you move forward in college athletics, based on especially at
Speaker 7: the high light like a school like Arizona that.
Speaker 6: That's such good insight, Josh, I'm curious your thoughts. You're
Speaker 6: trying to get back in the coaching game, and it's
Speaker 6: you know, what does a successful coach look like.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 7: At the well you got to be it's it's it's well, guys,
Speaker 7: it's it's a year at a time. It's no longer
Speaker 7: building the program for the you know, get old, stay old,
Speaker 7: see the long term potential. It's just one year at
Speaker 7: a time. And and and you just got to be
Speaker 7: able to deal with that, and you can't get negative
Speaker 7: about it. You got to just deal with it, and
Speaker 7: you got to be ready, and you know, you got
Speaker 7: to recruit your team every single year. That's what you
Speaker 7: gotta do. I mean, and you can't coach your team
Speaker 7: worrying about the team transferring.
Speaker 16: You've got to assume your.
Speaker 7: Entire team will transfer at the end of the season.
Speaker 16: That's what you've got to assume.
Speaker 7: So you got to you got to coach them hard,
Speaker 7: do the best you can to win, and then when
Speaker 7: March and April all around, you got to just hit
Speaker 7: the portal or try to keep the current kids and
Speaker 7: your students that you got and then go from there.
Speaker 4: You power.
Speaker 2: You also sympathized or empathized with coach Bennett, one of
Speaker 2: your cohorts, you know, in the league for a while,
Speaker 2: and what he decided to do because it's a changing game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I I mean, I think you're gonna
Speaker 7: see a lot of guys after the season maybe step
Speaker 7: down that had been in the game a long time
Speaker 7: and just say the older generation, uh, just based on saying.
Speaker 16: Hey, I I don't maybe want.
Speaker 7: To reha to re recruit my whole team again and
Speaker 7: go back in the portal and do all that. And
Speaker 7: and then guys like Tony Bennett, and you know, he's
Speaker 7: obviously I think he's gonna get back into coaching probably
Speaker 7: will be two to three or four years down the road,
Speaker 7: once things may be settled down and there's more of
Speaker 7: a clearer picture of what everything is. But but you know,
Speaker 7: it's different now, guys, I mean, and Steve would have
Speaker 7: a better feel than I would on this, but you know,
Speaker 7: and guys like lude Olson have paved the way. But
Speaker 7: you know, coach all since, probably even at the peak
Speaker 7: and pinnacle of his career, I don't know if he
Speaker 7: made a million dollars, I don't know. My point is
Speaker 7: is now these days coaches are making a whole heck
Speaker 7: of a lot of money, and so so guys have
Speaker 7: more of an opportunity, like a Tony Bennett who's made
Speaker 7: someone you could probably call it quits or retire or
Speaker 7: say I want to you know, leave at an earlier
Speaker 7: age or an earlier time period. And maybe the coaches
Speaker 7: in the eighties, nineties and early two thousands, and Steve,
Speaker 7: I don't know, you can maybe answer my question on that.
Speaker 7: I don't know what coach also made towards the end
Speaker 7: there or even when he was you know, because coaches
Speaker 7: weren't making like they were today, if that makes sense.
Speaker 7: So things are different even on the coaching salary. And
Speaker 7: part of that is the revenue of the TVs, you know,
Speaker 7: the TV revenue, and so the more they have. You know,
Speaker 7: one of the things that makes sports so attractive is
Speaker 7: because it's probably the last thing where it's the best
Speaker 7: reality TV. You know, you and and things are moving
Speaker 7: to streaming and everything else, but people still love sports
Speaker 7: and it's not And commercials are valuable because you're watching
Speaker 7: sports live, you know, where a lot of other shows
Speaker 7: you can end up just fast forwarding and doing things
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I remember, Josh, you're undefeated in the booth.
Speaker 2: Remember that, less headaches, less headaches, You're undefeated in the booth.
Speaker 2: I know you've got the itch and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Let's talk more about Arizona. I know you you're a
Speaker 2: fan of Tommy Lloyd. He's done very well, just his
Speaker 2: prospects and his team. It looks like he has all
Speaker 2: the pieces once again.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I really like his group. He's gonna be They're
Speaker 16: gonna be really good.
Speaker 7: Of course, they got an older group. They got Caleb Love,
Speaker 7: They've got who's going to be their leader of their team.
Speaker 7: But I think next Saturn or next season, next Friday
Speaker 7: is going to be their first test.
Speaker 3: See that.
Speaker 7: You got to really wait till they play next Friday
Speaker 7: versus Wisconsin. They're honoring the the final four team, the
Speaker 7: Wisconsin Final four team. Bo Ryan just got inducted in
Speaker 7: the Hall of Fame, one of the former coaches at Wisconsin.
Speaker 7: They're going to honor him there. It's going to be
Speaker 7: an incredible atmosphere. Think Wisconsin is down this year talent wise,
Speaker 7: but it's going to be a hostile road environment that
Speaker 7: will tell you the true test of how good Arizona
Speaker 7: could be this year. They're going to smash Old Dominium tomorrow.
Speaker 7: It's the test is going to be next Friday, and
Speaker 7: then once they play Wisconsin next Friday, and beyond that,
Speaker 7: they've got a heck of a non conference schedule, very tough,
Speaker 7: and then you go into a loaded Big twelve. So
Speaker 7: I mean, look, Arizona is one of the top ten
Speaker 7: teams in the country, but my point being is how
Speaker 7: good they'll be in which they're one of the best
Speaker 7: teams in the country. A lot of that will be
Speaker 7: determined the next next Friday night.
Speaker 16: As in terms of kind of there.
Speaker 7: You can you can see a lot next Friday. First, Wisconsin,
Speaker 7: You're not going to get a lot from tomorrow's game, I.
Speaker 2: Can tell you that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no question.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So Josh, what's your schedule look like in November December?
Speaker 4: When will you be here?
Speaker 5: Are you going to be in Tucson?
Speaker 7: Yeah? No, I you know, I had I had the
Speaker 7: time of my life being able to call the Arizona
Speaker 7: or Game organ game last year to end the history
Speaker 7: of the Arizona in the Pack twelve Pac ten. That
Speaker 7: was awesome. But you know my schedules, I'm going to
Speaker 7: be all over the place. If you turn on the tube,
Speaker 7: you'll see me. But I'll be in the studio at
Speaker 7: Peacock next Friday for the Arizona Orgon games, so you'll
Speaker 7: see me pregame halftime for that for certain. I'll be
Speaker 7: during different tournaments. I'll be on Feast Week to start
Speaker 7: Feast Week on ESPN and studio. You know, I'll be
Speaker 7: doing things during the Player's Era, Turner for that nil
Speaker 7: tournament and Turner. So I'll be all over. You turn
Speaker 7: on the tube, you'll find me somewhere.
Speaker 6: I can tell you that.
Speaker 2: You're you're you've been gone a while now, I don't
Speaker 2: need to remind you that, But how much how much
Speaker 2: you missed this place?
Speaker 4: And maybe the food.
Speaker 7: I love Tucson, absolutely love Tucson. And I was back
Speaker 7: this summer. I saw my in laws. I actually came
Speaker 7: down to saw Tommy's practice, which Tommy does a great job.
Speaker 7: Tommy Lloyd's a great coach. I watched him due workouts
Speaker 7: this summer and I love their team. But I love Tucson, Steve.
Speaker 7: I love Tucson. I love the people, I love the mountains,
Speaker 7: I love the food. I mean, I just I'm I'm
Speaker 7: one of the big sales people of Tucson, Arizona. You know,
Speaker 7: I am an advocate for Tucson. I'm gonna happy if
Speaker 7: the mayors listening, you need to put me on on
Speaker 7: your on your payroll.
Speaker 5: To health, We're gonna get you know.
Speaker 7: I can speak, I can speak from the heart and from.
Speaker 2: The passion on that sure, and then you're one of
Speaker 2: the favorite sons too, so that also helps you you
Speaker 2: get some love. Let me ask you a quick question. Everson,
Speaker 2: A football program has struggling a little with the new coach.
Speaker 2: Uh and everyone, everyone to a man says he's a
Speaker 2: great guy. Uh he he you know, speaks well all
Speaker 2: that humble guy. Uh, how difficult is it today? And
Speaker 2: you're part of this too, where you're you're a young
Speaker 2: coach and you want to do really well, and there's
Speaker 2: a fine line of being tough with the kids but
Speaker 2: not being tough with the kids.
Speaker 16: Well, well, Steve, let me just say this.
Speaker 7: I mean the he's going through a tough time period.
Speaker 16: There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 7: And that's just part of the nature of the Beast
Speaker 7: right now, because I mean he's obviously a very good
Speaker 7: coach Coach Brennan, I mean he's he won before he
Speaker 7: got there. But it's a tough deal. I mean Arizona
Speaker 7: lost guys to the NFL. I mean lost guys in
Speaker 7: the portal. That's my point when I told you guys earlier,
Speaker 7: this is not a situation where every years new you
Speaker 7: can't look at it what happened last year or two years.
Speaker 7: This isn't like you're building you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: It's just one year at a time. You build the
Speaker 7: pro you you try to win that year and then
Speaker 7: you're literally starting over in the spring or for football
Speaker 7: in January December. So you can't look at anything other
Speaker 7: than it's one year at a time. Based on how
Speaker 7: things are, based on the rules, of athletics now and
Speaker 7: what it is, and so that's just the reality of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then well the thing is now you have
Speaker 2: fans who don't know anything like that, right because it's
Speaker 2: it's the past.
Speaker 4: Well we should be good because we have players.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but that's my point is is, but hey, the
Speaker 7: coaches get paid a lot of money. That's part of
Speaker 7: the deal, and you're gonna you've got to deal with it.
Speaker 7: You got to take it. You know, social media changes
Speaker 7: where people where Steve you would I was there and
Speaker 7: at Arizona there was no social media, you know, I
Speaker 7: mean there was the internet kind of starting their route
Speaker 7: and things like that.
Speaker 16: But it was you know, I mean, things are just different.
Speaker 7: And so part of the pay that you get as
Speaker 7: a head coach is you gotta that's part of you
Speaker 7: can pay to deal with it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: And that's part of it. You got to deal with it.
Speaker 7: And so no one likes to go through it, but
Speaker 7: that you know, what I would tell people is that's
Speaker 7: the reality of the sports world that we're in. And
Speaker 7: whether it's football or college or basketball, you're you're you're
Speaker 7: you're just literally one year. And that's my point coach
Speaker 7: Fish had a great year last year. He leaves that
Speaker 7: the players leave, guys go to the NFL. You come in,
Speaker 7: you're trying, and it's just you're you're starting over, you know,
Speaker 7: and and and and so when after this year they go.
Speaker 7: The great thing about the portal is they can go
Speaker 7: into portal and depending on their nil and their evaluation,
Speaker 7: they can turn it around next year and win.
Speaker 4: The big twelves.
Speaker 7: That makes sense, you know what I'm saying, because because because.
Speaker 16: You can quickly, you can quickly lose it, but you
Speaker 16: can quickly.
Speaker 7: Regain it based on the rules. If you follow me
Speaker 7: on that, that's the difference where you it's not so
Speaker 7: much a build anymore. You can quickly recover within a year. Now,
Speaker 7: after two or three years you don't recover, then it's
Speaker 7: probably it's going to be hard. But you can recover
Speaker 7: so fast in college athletics after a down year in
Speaker 7: today's climate because.
Speaker 6: Of the wolves, it's it's just a new normal. It's
Speaker 6: just the way that it is. I like the way
Speaker 6: you say that. It's just what it is.
Speaker 7: But that's my point. Everyone can complain it, but this
Speaker 7: is this is the really, this is it. This is
Speaker 7: this is the deal. And Arizona football is having a
Speaker 7: tough season right now. But you can go in and
Speaker 7: and and legally go buy a bunch of great players
Speaker 7: in the spring, and all of a sudden, you know
Speaker 7: you're you're you're competing for a Big Twelve championship. I mean,
Speaker 7: that's how quick quickly things can can move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, every game is the season, or every
Speaker 2: season is the season, then you.
Speaker 16: Know pretty much yeah it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh, I think the world of you.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 5: Thanks for joining me, Josh, Thank you very much. Nice
Speaker 5: talking with you.
Speaker 7: Thanks, guys, appreciate it. Love love everyone there and too.
Speaker 7: On next Friday, I'm all beyond Studio Peacock. Arizona Wisconsin
Speaker 7: to be a heck of a game, great test for
Speaker 7: Arizona basketball. Again, they're they're really good. Tommy's got a
Speaker 7: great team. But but but based on their non conference
Speaker 7: schedule and of course the Big Twelve, which is there's
Speaker 7: no nights off, they'll really have a good test, which
Speaker 7: I don't think. I think Wisconsin is down this year.
Speaker 7: But but guys, this will be their first test because
Speaker 7: it will be a hostile road environment. It won't be
Speaker 7: an easy place to play and if they can come
Speaker 7: out of there, if they win, that really sets up
Speaker 7: nicely for Arizona as in terms of a big time
Speaker 7: resume win on the road, when you see it down,
Speaker 7: when you get a big picture for the institution, and.
Speaker 2: Don't you spoke and don't forget Duke coming in here
Speaker 2: in two weeks.
Speaker 7: You got Duke. I mean they got the Bahamas. I
Speaker 7: mean there's a loaded they got Ucla. They play Ucla
Speaker 7: of the thing, So I mean there's there's there's just
Speaker 7: no there's no messing around. And their scheduled credit credit
Speaker 7: to Tommy Lloyd to going out scheduling. But also on
Speaker 7: top of that, there's no nights off in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 7: I'm telling you that league is stacked and it's going
Speaker 7: to be fun for the fans, fun for Arizona basketball,
Speaker 7: and there'll be a test every single night home in.
Speaker 4: A road Thanks Josh, appreciate you.
Speaker 16: Okay, guys, Yeah, take care, Josh, Josh.
Speaker 4: You can tell he's in a hurry, he's or in
Speaker 4: a situation. Thanks a bunch.
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Speaker 6: Know, speaking of you know, insights, what what an insight
Speaker 6: from from Josh you know, Josh Passner, you know, talking
Speaker 6: about the new Normally it's a it's a one year
Speaker 6: and done every year. And you started to touch on it.
Speaker 6: You know, fans are in this three and four year
Speaker 6: cycle and we're not ready for this one year you know,
Speaker 6: one and done. It's you know, everybody talks about it.
Speaker 6: It's kind of cliche. It's the NFL model coming. But
Speaker 6: you know, you're gonna have to set your expectation, reset
Speaker 6: your expectations every year because you don't know, you know,
Speaker 6: you can say, you know, there's Justin was talking about
Speaker 6: the top top five recruiting class, Well, are they going
Speaker 6: to be here after the at the end of their
Speaker 6: first year?
Speaker 5: Are they going to be you know, hey, the grass
Speaker 5: is greener, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a player can strike gold next season,
Speaker 3: one of the new recruits and next year he's playing
Speaker 3: for the University of Alabama exactly.
Speaker 5: So you don't know. And so I like that perspective,
Speaker 5: and it was and I liked it. He's excited about it.
Speaker 5: He's like, you know what this is, this is great.
Speaker 6: You know, there's there's some money coming down the pipe
Speaker 6: from the from the ledgegislation that passed and that'll hopefully
Speaker 6: even it out. But you can tell he's excited to
Speaker 6: see what's gonna come around. And I like the fact
Speaker 6: too that he said some of these coaches are taking
Speaker 6: themself off the sideline right now and waiting for this
Speaker 6: to even out, and then they're going to come back
Speaker 6: in when it's more even And you know, Tony Bennett,
Speaker 6: you wait, wait and watch.
Speaker 5: I bet you, Joshua right.
Speaker 4: Which is a great observation.
Speaker 2: No, no, I agree, once it all settles, because all
Speaker 2: these kids, My thing is, these kids are gonna makeing
Speaker 2: a ton of money. And we've I've said this, this,
Speaker 2: these story, these shows become kind of redundant. Now where
Speaker 2: if you're if you're a booster or a money guy
Speaker 2: or money woman, given given the kids money and you
Speaker 2: have bad seasons, What the hell did I buy? What
Speaker 2: did I pay? What I what did I do? You
Speaker 2: know what, I'm not going to do this again. You know,
Speaker 2: if I get a bad service at an excess X
Speaker 2: restaurant or x uh X place, Target, Walmart or whatever,
Speaker 2: I ain't going back.
Speaker 5: I'm not exactly.
Speaker 6: So to Josh's point, every year you got to you know,
Speaker 6: at the end of the season we've been talking about.
Speaker 6: You recruit your players. You got to re up your
Speaker 6: spont the Tuson Medical Center. You know, we sponsor events
Speaker 6: every year they come and they got to reup us.
Speaker 6: You work at our tour, you know every year you
Speaker 6: got to you got to resell those sponsors. And so
Speaker 6: if the product isn't good sponsors, am I getting my value?
Speaker 4: R O I?
Speaker 6: Am I getting my ROI? And it doesn't have to
Speaker 6: return on and on your money investment. It could just
Speaker 6: be like, am I getting my the prestige or the
Speaker 6: value connection? The connection because it am I associated with
Speaker 6: a good product? Is you know all those things that
Speaker 6: come with that. You know, donors and business supporters look for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question, And here's your catch.
Speaker 2: Because you work at a place like this, uh, there
Speaker 2: are there are only so many of you out there.
Speaker 2: So so in Tucson's a great community. It's a giving community.
Speaker 2: But there's only you can only dig so deep in
Speaker 2: the in the pockets exactly.
Speaker 5: So you know, everybody says, oh, let's call Jim, click,
Speaker 5: let's call it.
Speaker 6: You know, like everybody says that, let's let's call the hospitals,
Speaker 6: let's call you know, you get down to about twelve
Speaker 6: or fifteen, and all of a sudden.
Speaker 5: You're well, who are we gonna call now? And there's nobody.
Speaker 6: So you know, it's not only has to be a
Speaker 6: good product, but it has to be a good return
Speaker 6: on investment, and it has to you know, it has
Speaker 6: to be a good product in terms of like entertainment
Speaker 6: and are my you know, TMC looks at it this way,
Speaker 6: is are we providing a value? Are they providing a
Speaker 6: value to us? And then are we providing a value
Speaker 6: to the communities. It's something that the community is excited.
Speaker 4: About because you are about community, We.
Speaker 6: Are about community health, and I think a lot of
Speaker 6: donors are. They're like, hey, I want my school to
Speaker 6: be successful. I want my my my investment to be successful.
Speaker 6: But if it's not providing a value, my my intended
Speaker 6: customers are not getting a good value. I don't want
Speaker 6: to be associated with that anymore.
Speaker 2: Even if it's a visibility more of a even ROI
Speaker 2: and visibility and connection connected.
Speaker 4: It's like what.
Speaker 2: I went to nau Au so personal question, did do
Speaker 2: you give money back? And not that you have the
Speaker 2: money to give back, but I was gonna go with
Speaker 2: with this. Eventually you got to find a job, right
Speaker 2: and in this business, good luck with that that you're
Speaker 2: not gonna make a ton of money.
Speaker 4: You knew that going in.
Speaker 2: They're going to be sending you letters now that you're alum,
Speaker 2: can you give to this or that? And you're thinking
Speaker 2: maybe down the road, But it'll be down the road,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: I get those letters from my place.
Speaker 5: I get it. And they found me too. I was
Speaker 5: off there, I was off the grid for a while,
Speaker 5: and they found me and I started.
Speaker 6: I started getting letters from the NAU alumni office like hey, Tim,
Speaker 6: welcome back to the family.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh man, what are you talking about.
Speaker 2: No, it's tough because they're they're chasing every rock, every
Speaker 2: every piece of morsels, nibble whatever, right.
Speaker 6: I the fundraising business, the sales gigs in this town,
Speaker 6: I mean, you're everybody's hustling for the same money, you know,
Speaker 6: the same pot of money. And if it comings from
Speaker 6: advertisers or donors, you know, there's only so much in
Speaker 6: this community that people can access, and so you really
Speaker 6: have to be on top of your game. And if
Speaker 6: it's the football team or the basketball team, it's got
Speaker 6: to be a good product and it has to make
Speaker 6: the community feel good. I really believe that, you know,
Speaker 6: it has to, you know, I want people want to
Speaker 6: be associated with something that makes them sure. Sure, don't
Speaker 6: have to be ten and one, ten and three, whatever
Speaker 6: it is, but you know, I want to feel good.
Speaker 6: I want to feel like there's you know, there's some return.
Speaker 5: On my investment too, because my investment is my time.
Speaker 2: Well one's my new Jay because he's paid attention since
Speaker 2: he was a kid, and those days have come very few.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can, you can. I've gotten I've been pretty
Speaker 3: fortunate from when I started watching and following for the
Speaker 3: most age of what twelve times twelve and that was
Speaker 3: like ten years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was the start of.
Speaker 2: And there was some success in there, but not a
Speaker 2: heck of a lot. There was the most consistent success. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so what do you make of it?
Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, two sons, a giving community. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so they want to see the little things. Obviously, they
Speaker 3: want to see the wins come. But if even if
Speaker 3: you're losing, they want to see the effort, They want
Speaker 3: to see the fight. They want to see a close game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've heard many times after a close loss a mix
Speaker 3: of we should have won that the other teams not good?
Speaker 3: What are we doing to day? That was a good game,
Speaker 3: had a good time too badly lost, but they made
Speaker 3: it a game. So it's it's you.
Speaker 4: Haven't heard that much this year. No, no, no, it's it's, well.
Speaker 2: Here's another guy issue, you guys, and you know this,
Speaker 2: Tim because you're one of you grew up here though,
Speaker 2: right yeah, but then you came back, so that doesn't
Speaker 2: apply to you. So people in that building, in that
Speaker 2: arena and building, uh, they're not from here. A lot
Speaker 2: of them are just going to watch good football or whatever.
Speaker 2: They're from. They're from Iowa, they're from Des Moines, they're
Speaker 2: from they're from they're from Nebraska. Uh. So they have
Speaker 2: no true connection to the u of A until they
Speaker 2: start feeling warm and fuzzy with them.
Speaker 6: In the eighties and the nineties, you know, the U
Speaker 6: of A basketball team and the football team. Larry Smith
Speaker 6: and then Dick tell me, you know, they could have
Speaker 6: those good teams. You want to see a good product,
Speaker 6: you know, no matter where you are, you want to
Speaker 6: go to a an elite game and activity want to
Speaker 6: see good performances, you know, So that's you know, it
Speaker 6: can't happen. I mean people we still saw we you know,
Speaker 6: we sold out some of the early games. People are
Speaker 6: excited to watch a good product.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, that's that was it for the early games,
Speaker 2: because they wanted to see that good product that was
Speaker 2: promised to them.
Speaker 5: Well, they sold last season tickets.
Speaker 2: You know, Well, I guess them at the next Well
Speaker 2: you'll probably see the next Friday.
Speaker 4: Yea Friday, we can guess them at.
Speaker 2: But twenty thirty five the University of Houston Friday night,
Speaker 2: justin talked about it.
Speaker 6: Does Houston travel, Well, no, not when you're three and five.
Speaker 6: My buddy Dave Odams is going to be there. I
Speaker 6: think he's a University of Houston grad. He'll be the
Speaker 6: only guy wearing the colors down there.
Speaker 5: Houston.
Speaker 3: Houston's four and four and five. You know, they turned
Speaker 3: the corner after a win against Utah. Went against Kansas
Speaker 3: State too. I well, Utah maybe not so big, but
Speaker 3: Kansas State was a big time win for them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're they're kind of looking down our barrel. We win
Speaker 3: a couple of games, we're gonna have a thirteenth game.
Speaker 3: I think there's a good chance we might see more
Speaker 3: Houston fans than Arizona fans. Well, I'm not saying that
Speaker 3: there's a lot of Houston fans, but less Arizona fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at thirty thousand people. Thousand people.
Speaker 5: I think you're right on the number.
Speaker 6: And if there's some Houston fans is because they live
Speaker 6: here and you know, they're in town and it's a
Speaker 6: fun thing to.
Speaker 4: Do, right right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, teams don't go they don't watch three and
Speaker 2: five teams. They just don't go see them. Arizona doesn't.
Speaker 2: I don't. They don't travel well, Arizona's never traveled. Well, no,
Speaker 2: there's football for basketball, they don't either. They have lums
Speaker 2: in those places that they travel off. San Francisco, Washington, LA.
Speaker 2: They're the lums are everywhere and they love the cheer
Speaker 2: Arizona back where they're from exactly.
Speaker 6: Now, we have an airbnb in our in our neighborhood,
Speaker 6: and I can always tell when there's a home game
Speaker 6: because there's people that fly in and rent the house
Speaker 6: across the street, you know, and I can tell that
Speaker 6: that's going to happen. So now I appreciate it Josh's
Speaker 6: perspective on that because it's it's it's it's sobering, but
Speaker 6: it's also the reality, and it's the way that it's
Speaker 6: going to be. And I think that if people can
Speaker 6: embrace that, you know, and find something that the team
Speaker 6: is it?
Speaker 5: Is it a a is it a key game? Is
Speaker 5: it a coach?
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 5: Is it something? Each season?
Speaker 6: And I think that's that's going to be the reality
Speaker 6: for these coaches, is selling that something to the to
Speaker 6: the fans. What is it going to be this season?
Speaker 6: Because you can't sell promise anymore. You can't sell the
Speaker 6: next three or four years. You can only sell the
Speaker 6: next season. You know, there's thirteen games next season.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: This is why it's going to be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens. We got about four minutes,
Speaker 2: maybe a last second call if you'd like. If not,
Speaker 2: that's cool. It's Friday. Uh, no games this weekend, no
Speaker 2: losses this weekend game on.
Speaker 5: What's what's the record with you and Jay? What's what's two?
Speaker 2: Thirty one? I have thirty one total points? He has
Speaker 2: twenty nine.
Speaker 5: And how many weeks you got after you do the NFL?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do NFL and college five five total?
Speaker 5: And then when do you when do you pay up
Speaker 5: your best? Well?
Speaker 2: Twenty weeks. I think we're about eleven weeks. Eleven weeks now,
Speaker 2: so you pay up in January. Yeah, the payoffs just
Speaker 2: super Bowl apples.
Speaker 6: So in February sometimes you got you want to put
Speaker 6: a bet on one? Who's gonna win? Who do you
Speaker 6: think you want to bet? Let's you and I bet. Now,
Speaker 6: I'll bet on these two. Not go ahead, Uh take
Speaker 6: a horse, let's go. Let's just straight up, let's go.
Speaker 4: I am in the room.
Speaker 3: You know what, you know what. I gotta stick with
Speaker 3: my guy Jay, ready to go. When you when you
Speaker 3: when you dress right, you play right. I gotta stick
Speaker 3: with it. I said it, So I got to stick
Speaker 3: with I said with my man Jay.
Speaker 5: No, I'm going with Steve. He's guys got bad. He's
Speaker 5: like me.
Speaker 4: Of course every year except for one he's.
Speaker 6: Got bad and hees like me, and he's you know,
Speaker 6: he and I walked up the stairs together today and
Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, this is these are my people.
Speaker 3: I'm confident I'm with.
Speaker 2: You're being nice if you if you were, this is
Speaker 2: a racing form, you were thinking this horse doesn't run
Speaker 2: because he hasn't run in a while.
Speaker 4: He's ready for the glue.
Speaker 16: This horse.
Speaker 3: I'm confident with my pick five and three on my
Speaker 3: who you picked this weekend and you said something, I
Speaker 3: was looking at Washington and Penn State.
Speaker 4: What's the number? I haven't looked at it.
Speaker 3: Bring back up, give me, give me with a seconds.
Speaker 6: This is your bye week too, with you and with
Speaker 6: you and Jay, So this is your own bye week.
Speaker 5: So this is good. You clear out your brain a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well we still pick. We still have
Speaker 2: to pick from a thing, but we still pick.
Speaker 5: You're just not doing it on the air.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he couldn't call in.
Speaker 3: So Penn State's favored by seventeen thirteen.
Speaker 4: At home, I've ticked Penn State. What are you doing?
Speaker 4: What do you saw my pick?
Speaker 3: Miami's favored by ten against Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4: Oh, so you're not going with the Penn State?
Speaker 3: Was no, I was looking at that one. I'm not
Speaker 3: going with that one just because I don't I don't
Speaker 3: trust Washington. I'm gonna choose Yellow Jackets. Upsetting the hurricanes
Speaker 3: upsetting outright. Wow, keep your one of your wallets. So Miami,
Speaker 3: they've had close calls, they're going on the road. Georgia Tech.
Speaker 4: I think that it's on the road to Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: At Georgia Tech, they've pulled off some magic over the
Speaker 3: last couple of years.
Speaker 6: At home, I think you're gonna get need to get
Speaker 6: a job, Jada Pitt I wanted to Hey, these pay
Speaker 6: these debts, buddy. I think you're gonna need to get
Speaker 6: a that job that that Steve's trying to get for you.
Speaker 5: You're gonna need it pay the debts.
Speaker 4: I gotta have fun, but you can't.
Speaker 2: Have a horse in the race without any money of
Speaker 2: the race. Hey, I think that's it right. We've got
Speaker 2: about time to go. Thanks everybody for listening to you.
Speaker 2: Good week, great week, Thanks for coming in, Tim, thanks
Speaker 2: for having me. Sure, thank you one. Of course, we'll
Speaker 2: see you on Monday.