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Speaker 3: Fox, breaking news from the sports World.
Speaker 4: Saints hire Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore as new head coach.
Speaker 4: Say that one was also for home. Yeah, the Eagles
Speaker 4: oc Saint's head coach.
Speaker 3: Okay, good luck with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, okay, that the the reaping the rewards right
Speaker 2: of the success.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Arizona's Tobyo Waka named Big twelve Newcomer of the Week
Speaker 4: of the week.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think we I think we had this yesterday.
Speaker 2: I can't remember, but yeah, no, we did because we
Speaker 2: teased some of the awards that they give Coomer of
Speaker 2: the Year and and Mike said, everyone's a newcomer. Yeah
Speaker 2: on the team, so no cool, good for him. He
Speaker 2: put out of his mind too. Another I think he
Speaker 2: had a double double. No, No, he didn't have a
Speaker 2: double double. He had like eight rebounds or nine rebounds
Speaker 2: to go with this fourteen points. I think it was no.
Speaker 2: Another monster game, another monster effort. He's just I hate
Speaker 2: to get away of that dude. It's just a big dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a beast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. He's a beast. And I asked that
Speaker 2: question of him. You know, what do you think Henry
Speaker 2: is if you is he a beast? Henry more skilled
Speaker 2: like these different He's.
Speaker 3: Kind of like a jolly green giant.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I call him stretch armstrong because he has those long arms.
Speaker 2: He's dunk from far. You know what I'm saying. He
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be on top of the basket. He
Speaker 2: can just stretch out and dunk it. Just a just
Speaker 2: a gifted guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Clayton Kersaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to
Speaker 4: terms on a new contract that will bring the three
Speaker 4: time League Saw Young Award winner back to the team
Speaker 4: for an eighteen season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw that. See how long he lasts. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: he's not as durable as he was in the past.
Speaker 2: It should be a farewell tour, rocking chair tour. Yeah,
Speaker 2: brandon ingram agresa three year, one hundred twenty million dollar
Speaker 2: extension with the Toronto Raptors.
Speaker 3: Who brandon Ingram Okay? Yeah, okay?
Speaker 4: And then ex Ohio state coach Jim Trussel nominated as
Speaker 4: Ohio governor.
Speaker 2: I think it's lieutenant governor. Lieutenant Yeah, lieutenant governor. Okay,
Speaker 2: what else.
Speaker 3: Do a d at b yu? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Tom Holmo is resigning or leaving his office of ED big, big,
Speaker 2: big replacement because he has been pretty good there for
Speaker 2: twenty years.
Speaker 4: That's weird because they just got the new high score recruit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the number one Yeah, number one guy?
Speaker 2: Uh and I yell, I'm sure that's going to be
Speaker 2: affecting a lot of people because they don't want to
Speaker 2: deal with this stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's just a crazy time that we live in with
Speaker 2: these athletes getting this money and YadA.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why Chip Kelly didn't want to be head coach.
Speaker 3: U c l A. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then he wins, helps win the national title and
Speaker 2: then leaves there to go to the Raiders. Who's your team?
Speaker 2: The college football? The Jets Rogers is gone happy with that.
Speaker 4: I'm actually not I thought they should have kept him
Speaker 4: for one more year because because what else are they
Speaker 4: going to do?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 4: I guess I would have kept Rogers one more year,
Speaker 4: drafted a quarterback and let him sit.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian Peterson had this good tweet last night or
Speaker 2: this morning, I can't remember who it was. Uh, Houston
Speaker 2: played Baylor, and we know both teams are pretty good.
Speaker 2: Uh and Baylor shot thirty eight percent I guess from
Speaker 2: three and they shot I have to get that. I'll
Speaker 2: have to get the tweet. But they shot unbelievably from
Speaker 2: the floor. Let me see here. I'm sorry, everybody, Houston
Speaker 2: has some defense.
Speaker 3: Right right?
Speaker 2: Um, they shot crazy bunkers and they still lost. Oh,
Speaker 2: Baylor shot fifty eight percent from the floor, sixty percent
Speaker 2: from the three point line and lost to Houston by eleven.
Speaker 3: Wow, so huge numbers and they still lose. Crazy.
Speaker 2: Think it was at Houston too, So just shows you
Speaker 2: how that how tough it is to win the road.
Speaker 2: And Houston's really good, even though Baylor's really good too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Houston's defense. Sustan's very good team. Yeah, okay. Chapel today
Speaker 2: at this press Comin said that he's got about twelve
Speaker 2: players who are capable of being starters this year.
Speaker 3: They're supposed to be pretty good.
Speaker 2: They're in the top twenty, top twenty one if I think,
Speaker 2: and maybe last I checked with twenty one.
Speaker 3: Baseball u A Baseball.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, they're gonna be great with
Speaker 4: the softball team too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've done very well so far.
Speaker 2: And then opening weekend at the Kendrea Classic, beating in
Speaker 2: Alabama and beating Washington. But they lost in Washington. But
Speaker 2: they beat Washington again and they have another big game,
Speaker 2: a big weekend of softball coming up here.
Speaker 4: Kaya Altmeyer wins the Big twelve Player of the Week
Speaker 4: for softball. She was what did she do? A Big
Speaker 4: twelve Player of the week, you know, but what were
Speaker 4: her stats? She let up with the home run. She
Speaker 4: had a home run in a single.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. And then that was in a six one victory.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was thinking right here, Oh yeah, those who
Speaker 2: know college basketball over the years here at Arizona. Jason
Speaker 2: Sheer tweeted that Ted Valentine will be on the call
Speaker 2: tonight refereeing wise, he's kind of like one of those
Speaker 2: ref that really likes the camera. Yeah, so he makes
Speaker 2: you know, allegedly makes a lot of calls that he
Speaker 2: gets on the camera. Longtime ref had been out for
Speaker 2: a little while on his back and for all cancers,
Speaker 2: a pretty good ref. We'll see what happens should be
Speaker 2: like again, it should be a good game at Kansas State,
Speaker 2: real physical, crazy Bunker's crowd, So we'll.
Speaker 3: See what happens. I don't know. I'm still still debating
Speaker 3: those three and a half points. Yeah, it's a it's
Speaker 3: an interesting spread.
Speaker 2: If it was five, I think I would take or
Speaker 2: take Kansas State. Three and a half is kind of small.
Speaker 2: I don't know, even though it's only a point and
Speaker 2: a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder what the money is. Who the money
Speaker 3: is on? Yeah, the wise guys with the money line,
Speaker 3: with the money? What do you have? What the money
Speaker 3: line is?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see right now there's a lot of
Speaker 2: minus won sixty six for Arizona. Yeah, so if they win,
Speaker 2: you have to win. You have to put down one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five to win one hundred.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sixty five percent of the bets are on Arizona.
Speaker 3: So there the money is on Arizona. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's obvious because the people think that
Speaker 2: Arizona's playing very well at this time, and they are realistically,
Speaker 2: but you know, I don't think they're paying enough attention
Speaker 2: to Kansas State.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially at home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't realize how big home court advantage was
Speaker 4: in college basketball.
Speaker 2: It's been that way forever. Yeah, it was when I
Speaker 2: covered them with with Luke. I mean, it was easy
Speaker 2: to tell. And Arizona's the biggest game of one of
Speaker 2: the biggest games of the year. For those guys, they
Speaker 2: want to prove that they're capable, you know, for every
Speaker 2: same for the same reason Arizona goes into Kansas or
Speaker 2: to Duke or wherever, proving that they could play.
Speaker 3: With these guys. Yeah, yeah, say it works the other way, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Anything else, I think that maybe it okay today break
Speaker 2: if anybody else wants to call, you can call in
Speaker 2: five two zero, four one, six, seventy four forty. We'd
Speaker 2: like to hear from you, just to spout off about
Speaker 2: tonight's game.
Speaker 3: Who do you have? Why do you have them?
Speaker 2: I'm sure that no one's gonna call and say they
Speaker 2: have Kansas, especially people here in Tucson, although they have
Speaker 2: to be aware.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And in fact, sal Bookman from P and x
Speaker 2: P and x X that talked about this, where he says,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're thinking it's going to be an
Speaker 2: easy game, you're totally wrong because they play so well
Speaker 2: and they have been playing so well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see anything else. Let me see, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna kind of looking through my phone for stuff.
Speaker 4: Dion Sanders said, if should door Sanders doesn't go first,
Speaker 4: that why would.
Speaker 3: He be mad?
Speaker 2: Oh that he wouldn't be mad if it it didn't happen. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: uh kushah blah blah blah eh. I think that's pretty
Speaker 2: much it, right, Yeah, okay, if you want to call
Speaker 2: the last chance to give us a quick call before
Speaker 2: we take the break and get a hold of Errand
Speaker 2: at four seventeen, because I think we're going to go
Speaker 2: about four thirteen. We got about six minutes here. Again,
Speaker 2: what else is going on? It's a big schedule of
Speaker 2: college basketball today too. I think that Arizona's games. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'll call it the schedule. Kentucky and Tennessee are playing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Kentucky and Tennessee. That's the first of the BEG game.
Speaker 2: Florida Mississippi State at Mississippi State I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 2: I saw an Upstate there upset there, Auburn at Vanderbilt, Auburn's,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously the number one team in the country.
Speaker 2: Purdue number seven, at number twenty, Michigan another good game.
Speaker 2: I would take Michigan at that at home. I always
Speaker 2: stayed at UCF. I would state a number ten now
Speaker 2: after a couple losses here last week, Arizona Kansas State
Speaker 2: three and a half over ANOTHERS one forty nine five MHM,
Speaker 2: Georgia at Texas A and m Bama at Texas.
Speaker 3: Another great game. So we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 2: So a slew of very very good games, I think
Speaker 2: Arizona's games on ESPN Plus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a call. Okay, cool, Hello, Hello, you're
Speaker 3: on the air.
Speaker 7: Hey Steven is Doug.
Speaker 8: How you doing?
Speaker 3: Hey Doug, Doug, what do you think about tonight?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: You know, I'm excited. It could be seen as a
Speaker 7: trap game. I guess when you look at some of
Speaker 7: the bigger main games up ahead on the schedule. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we've still got to play Houston, Baylor, Iowa State, and
Speaker 7: Kansas and three of those away from home. Right, But
Speaker 7: but I've watched hands State over the years under Jerome Tang,
Speaker 7: and they're they're really good at home and obviously winning
Speaker 7: at games. They're pretty good on the road. This you
Speaker 7: know at this point now as well, So I know
Speaker 7: they're going to get our full attention. And uh yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean I like us tonight. I think we'll be
Speaker 7: all right. You just never know when, you know, everyone
Speaker 7: just goes cold once or the other team just catches fire.
Speaker 7: Because when when Kate State was going, you know, I
Speaker 7: think they lost nine out of ten games at one
Speaker 7: point this year. Uh, they've found their shooters since then,
Speaker 7: you know. Yeah, And that that center that they paid
Speaker 7: two million dollars to get from milanois, oh my god,
Speaker 7: he's coming on.
Speaker 8: So you just never know.
Speaker 7: But I mean, you have a I mean, you can't
Speaker 7: be in a much better position than we are right
Speaker 7: now going into a road game like this. I mean,
Speaker 7: we've got a lot of confidence. We've got contributions from
Speaker 7: you know, up and down the rotation. You never really
Speaker 7: know who's going to go off on a given night,
Speaker 7: which which can sometimes drive fans crazy, but it's also
Speaker 7: tough to defend if you're the opposing coach and you're like, well,
Speaker 7: is Carter going to go off tonights? Henry is the
Speaker 7: Deli going to go off for you know, six threes tonight.
Speaker 7: And I like that about this team.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, what's the most favorable thing you
Speaker 2: have about this team.
Speaker 3: It could be anything, Well.
Speaker 7: What I just said, which is the versative play, because
Speaker 7: we've had we've had a lot of teams where you
Speaker 7: could just focus on shutting down Jared bayliss right, or
Speaker 7: just focus on Derek Williams or like somebody else just
Speaker 7: mentioned him, or whoever it might have been through the years,
Speaker 7: and this year, you know, or DeAndre or whoever it
Speaker 7: might be, and this year it's you know, obviously Caleb
Speaker 7: is the focal point of of the offense. But you know,
Speaker 7: Bradley's gonna drive it on you, Deli's gonna pull up
Speaker 7: and shoot. Vsar is gonna pick and roll, a walk
Speaker 7: is going to get a lot of put back, you know, rebound,
Speaker 7: you know put backs. You just don't know where it's
Speaker 7: gonna come from. kJ Lewis is. I mean, he's hot
Speaker 7: and cold, but he's still his his efforts always going
Speaker 7: to be there, and you don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 7: I mean, he had fifteen points last game, you know.
Speaker 7: So that's that's what I really like about the team.
Speaker 7: And I think people are under selling Towns and I
Speaker 7: know a lot of people are down on him, but
Speaker 7: I still think that he's an important piece because we're
Speaker 7: already without Crebus for the year, so you still need
Speaker 7: some you know, some bulk in the middle. And so
Speaker 7: I just like that about this team. The versatility and the.
Speaker 3: Job that Tommy's doing.
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, I mean, you know, the grit. If he
Speaker 7: had gotten that for his first year's team to play
Speaker 7: with this right this fire, right we we we would
Speaker 7: have definitely at least competed against Houston better. In that
Speaker 7: three sixteen game. You wouldn't have seen you wouldn't have
Speaker 7: seen the Princeton effort, right with the way where they're
Speaker 7: playing right now, sure that the way we played against Princeton,
Speaker 7: right yeah. Or last year against Clemson, I mean I
Speaker 7: think we were we were something against a really good
Speaker 7: team that played played lights out. But I just I
Speaker 7: just like the the intensity that, you know, especially defensively.
Speaker 7: I think that's what he's most proud of, is the
Speaker 7: defensive effort. So yeah, I mean, there's a lot to
Speaker 7: like about it. I'm not saying that we're that we're
Speaker 7: just destined for the final four, we're just going to
Speaker 7: walk through everybody, or that we're not gonna, you know,
Speaker 7: take some more losses down the stretch here in the
Speaker 7: Big twelve, because the schedule is definitely backloaded.
Speaker 2: Right right, No, No, you're really more than realistic about
Speaker 2: this team, because I feel the same way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so far, so good. Right.
Speaker 2: Uh, let me ask you this because I asked Michael
Speaker 2: v with this yesterday. Anything short of a blank would
Speaker 2: be a disappointment.
Speaker 7: Well, it depends on when you're asking me. If you
Speaker 7: ask me on Christmas, I would say anything short of
Speaker 7: a tournament did, right, But now that we've shown who
Speaker 7: we can be, I'm going to go back to sort
Speaker 7: of the traditional Anything short of the Sweet sixteen would
Speaker 7: be a disappointment. And you know, gone are the days
Speaker 7: of winning those second round games by thirty nine points,
Speaker 7: you know, like we used to do in the late eighties.
Speaker 7: Second round games. Now you're playing another top twenty five team. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and that's that's usually a coin toss game. I mean,
Speaker 7: I guess whould we play last year Dayton Maybe in
Speaker 7: the second round?
Speaker 6: Yea.
Speaker 7: And so you know, the higher the seed you get,
Speaker 7: maybe you can get like a Dayton instead of Ohio
Speaker 7: State in the second round. But if you're playing Ohio State, Michigan,
Speaker 7: you know, Louisville or someone like that in the second round,
Speaker 7: your season can easily come to an end. So I
Speaker 7: don't like to have, you know, like these ultimatums. Oh,
Speaker 7: if they don't do this, I'll be disappointed. So for me,
Speaker 7: I will be the the point if we don't make
Speaker 7: it the second weekend, and I'm just just living for living,
Speaker 7: for surviving long enough to see another Final four. Right,
Speaker 7: it's getting.
Speaker 2: Old, ident it because you fans have gone through a
Speaker 2: lot and it's like Jay, when did you get the
Speaker 2: rose bud?
Speaker 3: Well, Well, you know what happened there?
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, for sure. One other great topic. I just
Speaker 7: saw a headline come through that the Rio Nuevo District
Speaker 7: is going to be partnering with the U of A
Speaker 7: for a lot more like joint marketing, and and I
Speaker 7: like that idea because it's going to make basically gonna
Speaker 7: put a lot more U of A signage around the
Speaker 7: downtown area. And of course Rio Nuevo is going to
Speaker 7: be advertising downtown businesses at U of a games too.
Speaker 7: But I've been I've traveled all around the country. I've
Speaker 7: been to like two hundred campuses, and there there are
Speaker 7: certain cities where you'll see, you know, Richmond signs all
Speaker 7: over the city of Richmond, not just around the campus.
Speaker 7: And you'll see that in you know, You'll see that
Speaker 7: in Tuscaloosa.
Speaker 5: Or you know, wherever you go.
Speaker 7: And I I, like, I've never really stopped to think
Speaker 7: about that, But when I go to downtown Tucson, there
Speaker 7: are a lot of bars and restaurants and stuff, but
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 8: Really see a lot of you of a signage, right,
Speaker 8: And so I do like, I do like that idea.
Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to see you.
Speaker 2: That's good, A good point. Good point. Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, guys, thank you.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera, you're Kobe.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna get a call here any moment
Speaker 2: now from Aaron Crowley, the tournament director at the Color
Speaker 2: Guard Classic. Actually I had him call here in about
Speaker 2: a minute or so, So anytime now. We're gonna talk
Speaker 2: about the big tournament here in about three weeks, as
Speaker 2: we get closer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, what else he else?
Speaker 2: Those good calls big game here in about a little
Speaker 2: bit little more than ninety minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeh two hours, no oh yeah, two hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a six thirty star, no six o'clock,
Speaker 2: six o'clock by about six ten. Yeah, we gotta go. Okay, Hello,
Speaker 2: you're on the on the air and I on the
Speaker 2: Ball is this eron it.
Speaker 5: Is how we doing?
Speaker 3: Guys? Bye? Right on time trying. How are you doing
Speaker 3: over there?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Living the dream? Baby, living the dream? How you guys doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing? Okay? You got about what three weeks?
Speaker 15: Yeah, just under three weeks? Uh three four the little
Speaker 15: over threeks for the tournament play starts, but we go
Speaker 15: full throttle in about two and a half weeks on properties.
Speaker 2: So tell me what's the like Tuesday? In three weeks?
Speaker 2: You have a pro am, right, we do?
Speaker 15: So we actually have our first event that we start with,
Speaker 15: which is pretty cool. It's sold out right now, is
Speaker 15: the amms. We have an Amateur Bramble that takes place
Speaker 15: on Sunday, okay.
Speaker 5: To play the tournament course.
Speaker 15: And then Tuesday evening we start our our pro am
Speaker 15: pairings dinner event, and.
Speaker 5: Then Wednesday morning, bright and.
Speaker 8: Early seven thirty shotgun.
Speaker 5: Start for our pro am days.
Speaker 15: We got seven thirty shotgun, one pm shotgun and then
Speaker 15: same thing on Thursday, so two full days of pro
Speaker 15: am excitement.
Speaker 2: So so who are the amateurs? Are they some of
Speaker 2: the survivors or people who paid in?
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's yeah, there's the mix.
Speaker 15: So the the am am stuff is actually just it's
Speaker 15: a great kind of charity golf tournament, as you would
Speaker 15: say with just kind of anything around Tucson. So it's
Speaker 15: a lot of community involvement. There's a few survivors that
Speaker 15: play on the AMM and then the program days a
Speaker 15: mixed bag, so it is part of our title sponsors.
Speaker 15: We've got individuals, we've got corporations that buy in, and.
Speaker 7: Then we also give.
Speaker 5: Slots for the survivors.
Speaker 15: So that kind of that's a big thing for color
Speaker 15: Guard that week as they bring out they're trying to
Speaker 15: hit I think four hundred and fifty survivors and advocates
Speaker 15: for the week, which is which is a pretty amazing thing.
Speaker 15: So and they guests to participate in that as well,
Speaker 15: which is really cool.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, if you had a chance,
Speaker 2: and maybe off the top of your head, could you
Speaker 2: give us a survivor story one, but you have what
Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty options?
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's you know, We've got actually one of and he.
Speaker 8: Participated last year, Jim by the name.
Speaker 15: Of markt And he's actually with Barshool Sports is who
Speaker 15: he works for, and he's gosh, I want to say,
Speaker 15: he's thirty one or thirty two and he right now,
Speaker 15: it's his his cancer is is uh is what's what's.
Speaker 5: The word I'm looking for?
Speaker 8: Mission mintmans mission mission.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So he's stage four.
Speaker 15: Colon cancers when he was diagnosed with a year ago,
Speaker 15: a little over a year and a half ago now,
Speaker 15: And so that's one of many stories that again it's
Speaker 15: a little different for us because of the Tucson Conquistadores
Speaker 15: and you know, our primarily focused within youth sports within
Speaker 15: the southern Arizona community. Getting to partner with Color Guard
Speaker 15: and have that interaction with some of their survivors and
Speaker 15: and what this.
Speaker 5: Tournament means to them.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it is kind of breathtaking that we get to
Speaker 15: be a part of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think you're on the show two weeks ago
Speaker 2: after the big press conference and I said this to you,
Speaker 2: and I still believe this. In fact, I took this
Speaker 2: back to our people all tour. Uh that you guys
Speaker 2: uh coll of Guard and you guys do a great
Speaker 2: job of marriage because it's like it's like a marriage
Speaker 2: that you know that Color Guard's involved, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. They're that in tune with the thing and
Speaker 2: their name is out there not a little, a lot, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 5: Think the part too.
Speaker 15: And it's been an evolution, right, you know, you know,
Speaker 15: all of our marriages have gotten better over the years.
Speaker 15: You know, starting off the beginning, I think it was,
Speaker 15: you know, a song and dance of trying to figure
Speaker 15: out where where our mission fits, where their mission fits,
Speaker 15: and and their mission within the PGA Tour champions the
Speaker 15: age demographic was perfect and we really needed a title sponsor.
Speaker 5: And now we're finding that synergy and.
Speaker 8: Connectivity with them and their mission and our mission and bringing.
Speaker 15: Them together and and really now right now, at least
Speaker 15: in my opinion, when when I see color Guard, I
Speaker 15: think of what we're doing in southern Arizona, and hopefully
Speaker 15: when those around think of the tucsonkan Ki stores, they're
Speaker 15: thinking of what color Guard's doing on a on a
Speaker 15: global basis.
Speaker 3: Right, no question.
Speaker 2: And you I'm sure you'd see this when you're out
Speaker 2: and about in your normal world, and I see it,
Speaker 2: the color Guard hats, and where.
Speaker 3: Did they get them? Of course at the tournament.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 5: An of them think my dad has four.
Speaker 3: Right, right, so I think he knows.
Speaker 8: Somebody, Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 2: So okay, so you gave that stitch for Tuesday, Thursday,
Speaker 2: and then Friday it starts right yep.
Speaker 15: So Friday we've got play will begin at ten am.
Speaker 15: We have our opening ceremonies on Friday, and I think
Speaker 15: that's around nine. We'll open the gates a little bit
Speaker 15: earlier than normal, and we're changing locations. So last year
Speaker 15: we did our opening ceremonies on the fifteenth Green because
Speaker 15: of just the the local We've got our Survivor Central,
Speaker 15: so color Guard put together a really big hospitality tent
Speaker 15: for their survivors and advocacy.
Speaker 5: Groups to attend, and so we use that. But this
Speaker 5: year we're actually.
Speaker 15: Doing right behind the clubhouse and so I think it'll
Speaker 15: be easier from a spectator standpoint, So if you want
Speaker 15: to come out early, we're gonna have a pretty cool
Speaker 15: flyover that the folks at DM fifty have helped us
Speaker 15: coordinate and put together, and.
Speaker 8: We'll have a national anthem sung and then a.
Speaker 15: Few remarks fire title sponsor by the PGA Tour and
Speaker 15: US as well, just welcoming everyone of the tournaments. So
Speaker 15: it should be a beautiful opening ceremony always gives me chills,
Speaker 15: and watching some pretty cool aircraft fly right over the
Speaker 15: top of Bla Paholma and hit the cattle in the
Speaker 15: mountains and break off is pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, because you're right up there against the
Speaker 2: mountains here near my office right now. But let me
Speaker 2: ask you, I think one of the biggest things when
Speaker 2: they move from the Omni to here, you thinking, well,
Speaker 2: how do you can to accommodate for parking and what
Speaker 2: are they gonna do with that? You guys did a
Speaker 2: fantastic job. Can you tell people not to worry about
Speaker 2: that because you have it covered?
Speaker 15: Yeah, what you experienced last year. We are fortunate enough
Speaker 15: to get all of our partners back involved with securing
Speaker 15: lots and our bussing and the routes and and our
Speaker 15: entire you know a dot and everyone else in traffic
Speaker 15: that we work with to make sure that you.
Speaker 5: Know, for those that aren't attending that happened to be
Speaker 5: around in.
Speaker 15: The area, that you're not bombarded by what's happening ATLAPO women,
Speaker 15: because that area is rather tight. But parking is gonna
Speaker 15: be really like I said, rinse and repeat.
Speaker 5: So for those that utilized.
Speaker 8: Our general admissions parking, which.
Speaker 15: Will be located out with our partnership with the University
Speaker 15: of Arizona out towards the Accenter right there off of
Speaker 15: Campbell and Roger, and then we've got some other preferred
Speaker 15: parking VIP parking for more of a higher hospitality structures
Speaker 15: will be closer to property that they get to.
Speaker 5: Walk right on.
Speaker 15: So a pretty seamless event from the parking side, which
Speaker 15: is what we always hope for.
Speaker 5: So it's good to get that feedback.
Speaker 2: Can they can they find that out at the website
Speaker 2: or where? How can they find that out?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 15: Yep, so col guard classic dot com is where you
Speaker 15: can locate all the parking venues and layouts and also
Speaker 15: hospitality ticket offerings, general admission ticket offerings, and where your
Speaker 15: designated parking would be. So we've got all that secured.
Speaker 5: Yeah, enough on the website.
Speaker 2: Okay, So uh, I mean Steve Rivera wants to go Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 2: but he only wants to go one of these days.
Speaker 2: Does you go to the website to get tickets? What's
Speaker 2: the easiest way? Because you know that's you were in
Speaker 2: Tucson and it's always like a drive up.
Speaker 3: What do you want to do? Mildred? Well, what do
Speaker 3: you want to do? Let's go it? The game?
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, right, Yeah, it's exactly which
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 5: This is definitely not a drive up.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 15: If you don't know what you want to do, but
Speaker 15: you want to go and you just want to buy
Speaker 15: ticket at the venue, our general admissions, we do have
Speaker 15: available ticket purchase at the gate, so you just park
Speaker 15: it to our general admission parking if you don't want
Speaker 15: to buy a ticket ahead of.
Speaker 8: Time, but if you do, which I would recommend.
Speaker 15: Just secure it, get it done so you have it.
Speaker 15: Color guard Classic dot com. On the ticketing offerings, you
Speaker 15: can buy single day, you can buy the entire week,
Speaker 15: and you can specifically if you're looking for hospitality venue,
Speaker 15: so we've got per ticket items. Trophy Terras Club sixty
Speaker 15: two are our two main hospitality daily ticket offerings. Those
Speaker 15: are going to sell out in the next week. We
Speaker 15: are at capacity from a build structure standpoints won't be
Speaker 15: adding any more space.
Speaker 5: Too, so I would recommend going a SAP if you
Speaker 5: want that.
Speaker 15: If you just want to get on property to as
Speaker 15: a general admissions and walk around and see it, We'll
Speaker 15: have plenty of available tickets either at the main gate
Speaker 15: or online as well.
Speaker 2: And Sunday I think the finals, the final like leg
Speaker 2: a little up to two to thirty, you know, you
Speaker 2: get there like ten.
Speaker 7: Enjoy the day, yep, yep.
Speaker 15: So we have generally around four thirty four forty five
Speaker 15: is when that last putt drops, you know, dot on
Speaker 15: would we don't have a playoff.
Speaker 8: Those are always a little uh, a.
Speaker 15: Little tough to navigate extra holes.
Speaker 8: But yeah, so I mean if you're wanting to come.
Speaker 15: Out and quite frankly, depending on who you want to follow,
Speaker 15: we'll have our pairing sheets post it so you can see.
Speaker 5: Who goes off when and where we go split teas.
Speaker 15: So we go off of one and ten both days.
Speaker 15: So plenty of golf going on, and if you're looking
Speaker 15: to catch the last leg of it up there by
Speaker 15: the clubhouse, you know, coming around nude one o'clock and
Speaker 15: hang out for three or four hours isn't a bad
Speaker 15: way to spend your Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2: So I'm talking to Aaron Crawley, the tournament director here
Speaker 2: at the Color Guard Classic. So if Mildred and I
Speaker 2: want to go break a hip, we have our chance
Speaker 2: to do that to Friday and.
Speaker 15: Saturday, you absolutely do. So you can make your way
Speaker 15: around around the golf course.
Speaker 5: So this year.
Speaker 15: We had found more patrons, more mildred and you work
Speaker 15: their way on the north side of Sunrise to watch
Speaker 15: the first.
Speaker 5: Nine holes of competition.
Speaker 15: And so we're gonna have a little bit more concession
Speaker 15: area so you know, refreshments along the way. And it's
Speaker 15: a hike. So I mean it's you know, quite frankly,
Speaker 15: if if you've done it before and you have followed
Speaker 15: golf before, even if it's a omni, that's still kind
Speaker 15: of a hike, right, I mean, you're still walking a
Speaker 15: good a good few miles around.
Speaker 5: This one's got a little bit more elevation change. But
Speaker 5: we were surprised to see how.
Speaker 15: Many bodies we had out there following golfers on the
Speaker 15: on the front.
Speaker 2: Nine, no question, because I was thinking of somebody else.
Speaker 2: You didn't take my bait. It was the ice ice
Speaker 2: baby routine.
Speaker 7: That was yeah, I got you.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 15: If you really want to break a hip on a
Speaker 15: Friday night, come out to Relief Tho Park. We've got
Speaker 15: Vanilla Ice rob based Tone Look will be our Friday
Speaker 15: night concert show and you can get those tickets at
Speaker 15: r o c qfest dot com or cool guard Classic
Speaker 15: dot com. You can go either either spot for the
Speaker 15: Friday night general admission tickets. There are some VIP tickets
Speaker 15: available as well, and then Saturday is going to be
Speaker 15: Ah know I'm putting out there right now. I have
Speaker 15: not seen co weepsle live myself. I have watched some
Speaker 15: videos of his live performance and some of the feedback
Speaker 15: that we've gotten from his team and also some publications.
Speaker 15: You will not be disappointed in the show. He puts
Speaker 15: on a phenomenal show, plays hard for the hour and
Speaker 15: a half two hours that he's up on stage, which
Speaker 15: will be a really good show on on Saturday night,
Speaker 15: same place, same time.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl has nothing on the Color Guard Classic when
Speaker 2: it comes to entertainment.
Speaker 15: Nothing nothing that what I what I will tell you
Speaker 15: is it won't be a blowout after the first quarter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thankfully. Yeah, Yeah, Mildred and I will be happy.
Speaker 2: We'll be happy on Friday sun.
Speaker 15: So you'll get you get that's right, you'll get your
Speaker 15: full you'll get your full ticket value out of it.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 2: Great, We'll talk to you one at least one time
Speaker 2: before you guys who will have you in talk more
Speaker 2: about this and then maybe get a golfer a bo
Speaker 2: Thanks man, appreciate Arin would love it.
Speaker 8: Thanks you, guys, do we appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Aaron Crawley from The Color Guard Classic. A lot of fun,
Speaker 2: good times, good easy casual time to be walking around
Speaker 2: the golf course.
Speaker 3: Let's go. Maybe we'll get to some.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I'm the ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Kobe. Kobe.
Speaker 3: You don't have a car here, do you? No, I don't.
Speaker 3: Do you have a car at all? Probably not?
Speaker 2: Yeah in New York? Okay, you know, purposely don't have
Speaker 2: me here to drive? Yeah, yeah, right, so far. So
Speaker 2: I just saw that Arizona or Tucson is the number
Speaker 2: one city in the country for worst drivers. Really, Barstool
Speaker 2: Sports just put it up. I think I can believe that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: tell me to tell me why you believe that.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it's not that it's just hard to drive here.
Speaker 4: I feel like because all the intersections.
Speaker 2: Okay, the year, the mile mile mile, all you know
Speaker 2: on the square. Yeah, yeah, the worst one of all them.
Speaker 2: Did you imagine that? Let me just see here. Let
Speaker 2: me let me see if I can name off some
Speaker 2: of the other ones.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: Albuquerque was there, Phoenix was like number seven, you know,
Speaker 2: New York. No, no, no, no, no, Phoenix, Memphis, Albuquerque.
Speaker 2: But Tucson was number one. At least we're number one
Speaker 2: in something. Yeah, not pretty, not pretty. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get the list here. Barstool Sports published it, and I
Speaker 2: just saw it and I said, well probably. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they've never been to Taos, New Mexico. That yeah, horrible,
Speaker 2: but that's a small town.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: He got to go through some winding roads to get
Speaker 2: out of town. But it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the.
Speaker 2: Game starts here in about ninety minutes, right, see what happens.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Townsend is gonna play or gonna start.
Speaker 2: Probably not, so we'll see.
Speaker 3: Do you think Carter Bryan will go to the NBA
Speaker 3: after this? Good question?
Speaker 2: I'm seeing some of that on the on the the
Speaker 2: old Twitter and the X.
Speaker 3: I don't think he will.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's ready, but that doesn't mean he won't, right,
Speaker 2: But he's capable of playing one more year and then going.
Speaker 3: Because he's that good.
Speaker 2: But he's he has he has so much potential, right yeah,
Speaker 2: but but and that's but that's what the NBA is
Speaker 2: all about, the potential.
Speaker 3: But do you want to see him get the potential
Speaker 3: there or here? You know?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure he's making some nice coin here, yeah,
Speaker 2: and probably to stay even more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was probably I saw like mock draft pick
Speaker 4: number twelve. Really yeah, but who was the source? I
Speaker 4: don't I don't remember, but it was a few weeks ago.
Speaker 4: But if he can go number twelve, like I would
Speaker 4: think if I was him, I would go. But I
Speaker 4: don't think he could. I did not think he would
Speaker 4: be a top twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and those things are hitting mess right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It depends what twelve year old is putting those things together,
Speaker 2: or some twenty five year old or what forty year
Speaker 2: old guys doing it. But is he capable, no question.
Speaker 2: Is he one of those top players?
Speaker 3: Yes? Is he a number twelve? I don't know.
Speaker 2: And should he stare or should he go? I think
Speaker 2: he should stay at least another year. I agree, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we've seen that happen. But for you don't come
Speaker 2: on Dale and Terry was nowhere to be found, and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden he's being drafted in the
Speaker 2: first round.
Speaker 3: So who's to say, So we'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We talked a lot of night about the about the
Speaker 2: Lakers game. I'm seeing some of the video now, mhm'.
Speaker 2: He doesn't to me, he doesn't look fat. He's just
Speaker 2: a big dude. He's just how he's built. He's kind
Speaker 2: of like SpongeBob. Yeah, do you think it's good that
Speaker 2: he's in a big market. Well, you know, he's in
Speaker 2: a good, big market that will bring some some some
Speaker 2: hope again to the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I'm not a Lakers guy, so you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy they go from Lebron now they get Luca.
Speaker 3: Well, they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Once Lebron leaves, Luke will be the face of the
Speaker 2: of the face of the program or the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw some reports on my Luke that Bobby
Speaker 2: Hurley may not come back or likely not to come back.
Speaker 3: Really, we'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm always gonna get a lot of grief here when
Speaker 2: he comes here on March fourth. Oh yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. How do you get tickets? How soon can
Speaker 2: you get tickets? You as a student?
Speaker 4: Well, I have Zona Zoo, so it's you sign you
Speaker 4: sign up for I have it, and it's like Saturday
Speaker 4: at ten am.
Speaker 3: You had to get them.
Speaker 4: But I didn't get them in time because it's very
Speaker 4: hard for the Houston game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, did you see that? I think college Basketball report,
Speaker 2: I think I saw it this morning. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get them on the show and they don't respond because
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's a if it's a bot
Speaker 2: or whatever, that Arizona. Hear this, No, some of the
Speaker 2: big games today. We talked about that, right, some of
Speaker 2: the bigger games today. Yeah, Kentucky Tennessee should be a
Speaker 2: good game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: College basketball rankings eight wins, six So I'm just thinking again,
Speaker 2: pigs are here.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: I'm getting scam calls already.
Speaker 3: Uh God, I've just lost it.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: College Basketball Week fourteen by category. Uh, Florida is the best. Uh,
Speaker 2: Arizona not in there. Some of the best Arizona probably, Okay,
Speaker 2: teams that currently fit ken Pom's National Championship criteria.
Speaker 3: Could you throw me? Throw me some names.
Speaker 4: Auburn, Tennessee, Alburn, Tennessee, Iowa State, Florida.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Of those ones that you mentioned, i Aowa State, in Florida,
Speaker 2: and Auburn are and are the only ones that you mentioned. Illinois,
Speaker 2: Iowa State, Maryland, Houston, Texas Tech, Arizona, Duke, Florida, and Auburn.
Speaker 2: And it's the teams that currently fit the Ken Palm
Speaker 2: National champion Criteria, which is twenty six percent of National
Speaker 2: champions Champion champions since two thousand and one, have had
Speaker 2: top twenty one ken pomp offensive pre tournament, so they're
Speaker 2: in the top twenty one percent offense and combine that
Speaker 2: with ninety one percent of the top thirty one defensive
Speaker 2: in the before the tournament. So just these six teams
Speaker 2: or nine teams. Yeah, is Duke on there?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Duke is there? Duke? I think Duke would be
Speaker 3: my pick. I like Duke and Alabama.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Alabama's not here, So it's Illinois, I Alway State, Maryland, Houston,
Speaker 2: Texas Tech, Arizona, Duke, Florida and Auburn.
Speaker 3: If you had to pick one team, who would you pick?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put picked Duke because I think that the
Speaker 2: pressure gets to them too. Well. I think it's Chockey.
Speaker 2: It's Auburn, but Houston could be there too. Last year,
Speaker 2: remember did you watch last year? Remember they got their
Speaker 2: guy got hurt in the final minutes. I think he
Speaker 2: hurt his ankle. They were very tough, very good, and
Speaker 2: then he got hurt and there I think I picked
Speaker 2: them last year to win it the problem Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then they got hurt, so then their chances got beat.
Speaker 2: So I think Houston and Kelvin, maybe d uh Arizona
Speaker 2: Arizona gets to the final four. That's way, this would
Speaker 2: be fantastic season. We can beat anyone, but you can
Speaker 2: also lose to anyone. Correct, Correct, it's just how they
Speaker 2: get up that day. And in fact, after losing to
Speaker 2: Cramp Leaps and last year, Arizona was labeled as the
Speaker 2: worst team to lose to lower seeds all time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because they've been higher seeds most of the time they've lost.
Speaker 3: Definitely. Yeah. How was that for you.
Speaker 2: Last year when they lost? Were a freshman here, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was awful. Definitely expect to be Clemson. Yeah, not
Speaker 2: as bad as the Prince loss. Yeah, well you were
Speaker 2: just you were coming. You were not even here yet. No,
Speaker 2: it was you were senior in high school. Did you
Speaker 2: want to change schools after Yeah? I know, right, but
Speaker 2: you didn't.
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, had you already committed? Are you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Committed like a few days prior to that game.
Speaker 2: Oh did you not committed? But you were already determined? Yeah,
Speaker 2: not like you're a student athlete. Yeah, Illinois. I don't
Speaker 2: see what Illinois has, but you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah they boswell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then ESPN has in their bracketology, they're already
Speaker 2: has Arizona's a three seed moving up. Yeah, that that'd
Speaker 2: be like over the top.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: So, in fact, Sunday they're going to announce the bracketology
Speaker 2: through the CBS, you know, an announcement where they are
Speaker 2: at this point in the season on Sunday. Yeah, not
Speaker 2: this point, but on Sunday's point. So that means that
Speaker 2: they would have to win tonight and then again on
Speaker 2: Saturday m against Houston to do very well to be
Speaker 2: in the consideration of top sixteen teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah. To think that there would be in this position
Speaker 3: during Christmas.
Speaker 2: Way yeah, no, way, even even now. I mean, they've
Speaker 2: beaten the best teams they've beaten They've beaten Baylor, but
Speaker 2: they play them here. They've beaten Texas Tech where they
Speaker 2: play them here right here? What other games then, and
Speaker 2: I would stayed here here right So three big games
Speaker 2: all here. Yeah, so the back end of the and
Speaker 2: we've talked about this, I bang you and I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to you know, pooh pooh, what's happened to this point,
Speaker 2: But realistically they have to go on the.
Speaker 3: Road against these teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and Kansas they have issue here and I
Speaker 2: can't remember the top of the top of my mind,
Speaker 2: who else is left?
Speaker 3: Because they have what eight games?
Speaker 2: About eight games and then we just mentioned Iowa stayed
Speaker 2: on the road, Kansas on the road issue at home,
Speaker 2: Houston here, Kansas State. So some other one or two
Speaker 2: games left, probably on the road. Just got to play
Speaker 2: up to the potential. I mean it's easy to say, right,
Speaker 2: tough to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they have the talent.
Speaker 4: They can and they've always had the talent. Yeah that
Speaker 4: that's never been a question, right.
Speaker 2: I think the time he's got them playing well at
Speaker 2: this time. I don't know if it's the right time.
Speaker 2: Everyone talks about peaking all that. Everyone's peaked at the
Speaker 2: right time for a number of years and nothing really
Speaker 2: came out. Yeah that's how you play that day. I
Speaker 2: don't know where you watching the game with your with
Speaker 2: your brothers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at the house. It's good. It's not a late game,
Speaker 3: h right, right, because you gotta study.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't help you guys study you fret guys.
Speaker 2: Uh you what you follow Saint John's Yeah.
Speaker 3: New York. Yeah, they're having great season.
Speaker 2: Patino's a heck of a coach. Yeah, he's a heck
Speaker 2: of a coach. He might me in my mind is
Speaker 2: probably the best coach of college with college basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: To put a program like that that's done nothing and
Speaker 4: then two years be top ten team is very impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, we'll see what happens here in the
Speaker 2: next few weeks. Uh, Saint John's some of those teams.
Speaker 2: You know, we don't know how good Kansas is. Sometimes
Speaker 2: they look good, sometimes they don't. Houston always looks pretty
Speaker 2: good so far. Florida looks fantastic from time to time.
Speaker 2: They could get me tonight, Great games tonight, Yeah, great
Speaker 2: games tonight.
Speaker 3: Yukon's unranked plays Xavier two. You never know.
Speaker 2: For Sean Miller, he's played hot and cold this year
Speaker 2: with his group of guys. Are they ring They're not ranked, No,
Speaker 2: So we'll see what he comes up with. I think
Speaker 2: they'll make the tournament, though. New Mexico has played pretty
Speaker 2: well under Richard Patina Rix Rix.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They coached against each other. Yeah, yeah, he he.
Speaker 3: I think Richard parties. This is his last year in
Speaker 3: New Mexico. He'll probably be plucked.
Speaker 2: Somewhere to go better school, better, Yeah, bigger basketball school.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of Indiana's one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, although although who's the already up who's the
Speaker 2: guy at Indiana who's going to be the place? Oh?
Speaker 2: Maybe a beard from Mississippi State. Yeah, that should be
Speaker 2: a part miss I'm yeah. And he's a heck of
Speaker 2: a good coach. So is the guy in Mississippi. When
Speaker 2: he was at New Mexico State, did wonders there and
Speaker 2: then left to go to Mississippi. Mississippi State, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. Who has the most points?
Speaker 2: Who who has to show up and play well?
Speaker 4: I think Bradley shows up and plays well. And I
Speaker 4: think Caleblove he's a hot and cold games. I think
Speaker 4: tonight's one of his hot games.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, look I asked you that question almost two
Speaker 2: hours ago, and you did not change your mind. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that. I don't don't. I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 2: I think Jane. Jane's kind of been the the steady straw,
Speaker 2: the consistent guy that's get him, does exactly what he does,
Speaker 2: assists a few turnovers, score some points. Uh, he just
Speaker 2: needs help, obviously. I think walk is gonna do well.
Speaker 2: Underneath he's been doing well.
Speaker 3: Why not? Why not think otherwise? Henry has been amazing.
Speaker 2: But Henry too has run caught and cold ye, although
Speaker 2: he's been running hot lately again. I think Caleb, Caleb
Speaker 2: needs to show up with better shooting percentages and they'll
Speaker 2: need him in March.
Speaker 3: Why not start now? Yeah? Right, okay, we ready to go.
Speaker 2: How much you got about a minute thirty seconds?
Speaker 3: Well, thanks for coming in joining me. Dave was out.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna have Blake tomorrow and then we'll
Speaker 2: have Jay's being on Friday, and we'll see what we
Speaker 2: have on Thursday. So thanks everybody for the calls, saving
Speaker 2: me for the day and hope we were insightful. Thank
Speaker 2: you Reggie Geary, thank you Aaron Crowley from color Guard.
Speaker 2: And we gotta go talk to you guys tomorrow