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Speaker 2: Good, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's
Speaker 2: Jagan Zawas. We have our guy Henry with us today.
Speaker 2: It's three o'clock. We got two hours. We got a
Speaker 2: big show today. I think we do. We have well,
Speaker 2: Dave Cosdro one of our guys we usually talked to
Speaker 2: at the beginning of every soccer season at PIMA. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to go for another national title. We'll start there
Speaker 2: at three forty five, right, moved in.
Speaker 3: Three forty I got it right at the second time
Speaker 3: around on our social media.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So we'll go ahead at three forty five.
Speaker 2: And then someone we've been trying to reach for a
Speaker 2: while now, or at least have on the show, Desiree Francois.
Speaker 3: D r f r F.
Speaker 2: That's that's what I'm trying. That's what you're going to say, right.
Speaker 2: You want me to remember one name. I can't remember.
Speaker 3: Three, don't forget the hyphen in the middle.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Desiree read francois the athletic director of Arizona, headed
Speaker 3: into her first season football season as the ad at Arizona.
Speaker 3: They've been doing a lot of stuff trying to talk
Speaker 3: about the you know, the game environment and the things
Speaker 3: that they're trying to do over there. So she'll be
Speaker 3: joining us and we'll talk about the season coming up
Speaker 3: that starts just in a couple.
Speaker 2: Of days, right, right, so she'll be about four to seventeen.
Speaker 2: We're looking forward to that. We've had some discussions with
Speaker 2: her already the last few months, so she's she's accommodating
Speaker 2: us today, which is right, thank you everybody.
Speaker 3: Boy. Fitting into her schedule is not an easy thing,
Speaker 3: but we got it and we're happy to We're happy
Speaker 3: to have a chance.
Speaker 2: A lot going on to mchael. So, yes, yes, you
Speaker 2: are correct, and we're what three days away from a
Speaker 2: big football game opening season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, gets closer every day, and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of different opinions about what gonna happen this week.
Speaker 3: I saw Pro Football Focus their twitter their Twitter page
Speaker 3: picked Arizona as the Big twelve champion.
Speaker 2: I saw, really, yes, really, what was the analysis on that?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't go into that. I just saw
Speaker 3: Arizona was on the graphic of the the four predicted
Speaker 3: UH powerful champions, and I saw the Arizona logo, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, man, see so that what is
Speaker 3: that they said they have? They have Arizona beating Utah
Speaker 3: in the championship game?
Speaker 2: Wow? Yeah, Okay, I wonder who wrote that.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I have to go back and see.
Speaker 2: You have to figure out the source and see what
Speaker 2: they're thinking exactly.
Speaker 3: But you know, and then you've got you've got others
Speaker 3: who don't even have Arizona in the in the top five.
Speaker 3: So who knows what, Steve, who knows what?
Speaker 2: Okay, No, that's interesting. That's the only one I've heard
Speaker 2: of I've seen that. You mentioned about Arizona winning the
Speaker 2: conference title. If that's the case, they have a chance
Speaker 2: to win the national title.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, you get in there, right, who knows what
Speaker 3: they are?
Speaker 2: You get a dream? Dream, big baby?
Speaker 3: Why not? Right?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 3: Why not? Look, we've said all along in whether it's
Speaker 3: the you know, the in the n cua A Basketball Tournament,
Speaker 3: you know, college football playoff. Just get in there and
Speaker 3: see what happens. Take your shot, shoot your shot, and
Speaker 3: and you never know, you just you just never ever.
Speaker 2: Along those lines, uh, because you were here, I was
Speaker 2: not here. In the mid eighties, Loot had finally cracked
Speaker 2: the correct the code to get him to the n
Speaker 2: Cuba A tournament The Lust in the first round to Bama,
Speaker 2: I think it was first time.
Speaker 3: First time, and then if they asked Alabama, Auburn.
Speaker 2: And then you and then you, okay, so three times.
Speaker 2: So when they got there in the first that I'm
Speaker 2: just bringing this because I'm just wondering, just get in, baby,
Speaker 2: right that was the What was the atmosphere when they
Speaker 2: got in and I asked, because okay, we're happy to
Speaker 2: be here.
Speaker 3: That was the that was that was the look. Okay,
Speaker 3: because they'd been so bad. That was the first time.
Speaker 3: The first time, okay, okay, Well the second one, it's
Speaker 3: kind of like, okay, we win a game, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Then the third time they get in and they're hosting
Speaker 3: they're hosting UTEP, and you're going, you know, Arizona's got
Speaker 3: a shot to make a little run. And then they
Speaker 3: lose and it was like, what the hell? And then
Speaker 3: then comes the final four year and you're going just
Speaker 3: don't lose four the year they went to the final,
Speaker 3: because that was the next year.
Speaker 2: That was that that philosophy or hope or whatever. When
Speaker 2: they got into the tournament, I was here at the time,
Speaker 2: it was like, they have a chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because they were a number one seed right
Speaker 3: there they were. They were they lost two games all year,
Speaker 3: they were a number one seed, and really you knew
Speaker 3: they were gonna beat the hell out of it. Why
Speaker 3: I remember these things deep. They played Cornell in the
Speaker 3: first round, beat the hell out of them, all right,
Speaker 3: I think the beaten by thirty forty or something like that,
Speaker 3: beat him by a ton. And then they're playing Seat
Speaker 3: and Hall, big beast out of the Big East, right,
Speaker 3: and you know, even I think it was I don't
Speaker 3: know if it was Billy Packer or Dick fight Tale
Speaker 3: or somebody said, you know, said watch out for the upset.
Speaker 3: You know, Arizona's got a history of first round losses.
Speaker 3: Yeahayat YadA, uh they you know, pack twelve pack ten
Speaker 3: basketball is different from Biggie's basketball. This game was a
Speaker 3: poly pavilion and there's you know, some people thought Seton
Speaker 3: Hall has got a chance, and they had a they
Speaker 3: had this big center. I don't remember his name, but
Speaker 3: he was a big dude. Oh, I know who you're
Speaker 3: talking about. I know you're talking about and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: just people said watch out, no, no, no, it was a
Speaker 3: big No, it wasn't a it wasn't a Latin player.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know. But anyways, then they beat them
Speaker 3: pretty bad twenty nine.
Speaker 2: You were right in the first game, twenty nine in
Speaker 2: the second.
Speaker 3: And then they go then they're playing Utah for a
Speaker 3: second time. No, I'm not Utah Iowa for a second time,
Speaker 3: because they beat in Iowa earlier in there at Iowa
Speaker 3: in the game where Steve Kerr famously was mouthing off
Speaker 3: to one of their guys at halftime and stuff like that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, and that was the game where famously went back home.
Speaker 3: Went back home.
Speaker 2: He was nervous.
Speaker 3: Right, They and they and they beat they beat they
Speaker 3: play Iowa beat the hell out of them. Right, So
Speaker 3: now it's okay, Now you got North Carolina to get
Speaker 3: into the final four. There's no chance, right. I know
Speaker 3: you're not the number one seed, but you're not being
Speaker 3: North Carolina, because North Carolina is the team that goes
Speaker 3: to the Final four all the time, and you don't
Speaker 3: you know, and this is the and Arizona's actually losing
Speaker 3: at halftime, then I think they've beaten by seventeen eighteen, right,
Speaker 3: And so all four of their games leading up to
Speaker 3: the Final four were blowouts. And it was after the
Speaker 3: North Carolina game where lut finally said, guys, we're pretty
Speaker 3: damn good. You know, you don't give us any credit
Speaker 3: because you think we play in a bad conference. We're
Speaker 3: pretty good. And then they went and lost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so no, that kind of goes the beginning of
Speaker 2: the beginning of the my theoria loot let them consider
Speaker 2: you not good enough, right, because that gives you some
Speaker 2: insective Let them Arizona has historically been good when people
Speaker 2: think they.
Speaker 3: Can let them, let them underestimate you, exactly. And then
Speaker 3: the next year they go in the number one in
Speaker 3: the country and they lose in the Sweet sixteen. Dude
Speaker 3: light team that even a really good one.
Speaker 2: I can't even remember how I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 2: If they had played the un l V the year before,
Speaker 2: I think they did because I went to a game.
Speaker 3: They played eighty six, eighty seven, No.
Speaker 2: Eighty eight, eighty nine. They did play un LV and
Speaker 2: beat them eighty six seventy five at home, and then
Speaker 2: they lost. I don't remember that eighty nine. I remember
Speaker 2: because I went to that game in Vegas. I went
Speaker 2: to a game then.
Speaker 3: In eighty nine that same Yeah, they lost, they lost.
Speaker 2: It's always notoriously it's we beat them already, Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: beat them again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if Arizona just played that role, because it plays
Speaker 2: it very well. Oh, no, one loves us. Everyone hates us.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go eat a worm. And they kicked the
Speaker 2: crap out of people. You've heard that saying, right, I
Speaker 2: heard that's saying, yeah, okay, they go. But if you
Speaker 2: start talking about, oh we are, we are who we are?
Speaker 2: Did they get their butt kicked?
Speaker 3: Yes? And that's and that's what happened.
Speaker 2: I gotta get a T shirt like that. Everybody hate us,
Speaker 2: so I can I can kick your ass?
Speaker 3: Yeah so yeah, so, but but uh, you know it's uh,
Speaker 3: you just you just don't know, man, you just don't know.
Speaker 3: But you know, good for Arizona. Look here again, and
Speaker 3: I've always said this, and I remember thinking this. I
Speaker 3: remember thinking this the first year that Mike Stoops had
Speaker 3: a pretty good team. I think was that two thousand
Speaker 3: the two thousand and five team that we were talking about,
Speaker 3: you know that the team that went to the the
Speaker 3: Las Vegas Bowl during that year during game day and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. What I what I like say, Arizona
Speaker 3: is part of the conversation. And that's all at Arizona
Speaker 3: we can ask for. You know, yeah, you love to
Speaker 3: be you know, people say you're you know, you're really good.
Speaker 3: But as long as you're in the conversation when people
Speaker 3: are talking about, you know, good teams, good programs and whatnot.
Speaker 3: So when I see somebody like this this uh, this
Speaker 3: prediction on Twitter, or someone is picking Arizona to win
Speaker 3: the to win the Big twelve championship, I'm happy to
Speaker 3: see that just because I just want Arizona to be
Speaker 3: in the conversation. And they are this year, you know
Speaker 3: with all the all the award nominations and stuff like
Speaker 3: that that they that they've gotten over the over the
Speaker 3: course of the off season.
Speaker 2: Right right there it is.
Speaker 3: It was p f F College, which is the Pro
Speaker 3: Football Focus, but it's their college version. The conference champions
Speaker 3: are Miami in the a CC Ohio State, Georgia and Arizona. So, Henry,
Speaker 3: are you somebody named Max Chadwick? You know, no, do not?
Speaker 2: So Henry, you you're a KG veteran of this program
Speaker 2: there because you have a school, you're you're kind of
Speaker 2: in tune. What's going on? What what? And you this
Speaker 2: is your senior year, right, so you've kind of been
Speaker 2: around what what's a general bravado if it that that's
Speaker 2: the right word about u A students at games and
Speaker 2: stuff is like your poop doesn't stink or or we're
Speaker 2: you know what it is. I think they're better off
Speaker 2: being the underdog. But just the student body.
Speaker 5: I think this is the first year where people actually
Speaker 5: I can tell people care about football. I I think
Speaker 5: last year I was kind of mad when we were
Speaker 5: actually starting to win that people want to show up.
Speaker 5: And I know basketball we always have had good attendance,
Speaker 5: so that's yeah.
Speaker 2: But the attitude is we're Arizona, don't mess with us.
Speaker 2: What what's the what's the vibe on students?
Speaker 6: The students?
Speaker 5: I think that's the vibe for basketball for sure, but football,
Speaker 5: I think we're still looking at ourselves as underdogs. Until
Speaker 5: we proved that we can win big game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the recipe to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see. And that's the thing, you know, regardless
Speaker 3: of how many you know, what the predictions have been,
Speaker 3: I'm sure the players are all the only things they
Speaker 3: see are people who don't believe in them, right right right.
Speaker 3: They're saying, you know, hey, that guy, that guy, that guy,
Speaker 3: that guy.
Speaker 2: They think, they think, in Dion's favorite words, I keep
Speaker 2: the receipts right right right, which you really don't have
Speaker 2: to have to do it. I'll even do is win exactly,
Speaker 2: just win and then everything will go away.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's going away part bothers
Speaker 2: anybody I know it. To me, it makes no sense,
Speaker 2: but but I guess people do. Yeah, well I proved
Speaker 2: you wrong, you know, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Well see here, and here's the thing, you know, the
Speaker 3: following the ninety three seasons win to ninety four and
Speaker 3: the Arizona football in the ninety nine season, both of
Speaker 3: those times Arizona got all full of itself, right, and
Speaker 3: look what happened. But then again, the end of the
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen season, there weren't there wasn't anybody saying, well,
Speaker 3: I think people thought that the PAC twelve South championship
Speaker 3: was a bit of a fluke, right, because because they
Speaker 3: were not you know, they were picked, if I recall,
Speaker 3: they were picked like to finished fourth or fifth in
Speaker 3: the league the next year. And I'm I'm as a fan,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, wait a minute. Their quarterback is back, their
Speaker 3: best player on defense is back. They've got a bunch
Speaker 3: of guys, they've got, you know, players pretty much the
Speaker 3: same team as last year. Why is Arizona not getting
Speaker 3: more run? And then then they it went to crap
Speaker 3: as well, they didn't go to crap. They were a
Speaker 3: bow team, but they weren't you know, near as good
Speaker 3: as as I at least as I was expecting coming
Speaker 3: off coming off a ten and at ten.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why, j you jinxed and you've said that,
Speaker 2: you know, come on, you've said it, you've agreed with that.
Speaker 2: Something just happens. Okay, they lost to UCLA the first game.
Speaker 2: They won the first three, you know, Okay, us so Texas,
Speaker 2: San Antonio, Nevada, and AU and go against UCLA lose that.
Speaker 2: Stanford lost that from fifty five to seventeen against Stanford. Yep,
Speaker 2: I'm sure they didn't recover after that, and.
Speaker 3: They didn't and again the team went but I think
Speaker 3: it went seven and five, got into a bowl game,
Speaker 3: won the game, and seven and six, seven and six, Okay,
Speaker 3: so they were six and six and then went to
Speaker 3: a bowl game. They won their bowl game, right, so
Speaker 3: you know it's kind of like didn't really matter. But
Speaker 3: you know, players, players don't like to be told that
Speaker 3: they're not very good. Oh, sure, there's low expectations.
Speaker 2: Especially especially there's Lute built a program on that theory
Speaker 2: right there. Yeah, because he didn't he wasn't like like
Speaker 2: Sean who went after five five stars, you know one
Speaker 2: and Donner's lut got guys who were very good, and
Speaker 2: then then they told him you're not any good. And
Speaker 2: they knew that. You know, you're gonna tell Richard Jefferson
Speaker 2: that he's not any good. You're gonna tell Gilbertinez you're
Speaker 2: ran any good. And that's kind of how they said, Well,
Speaker 2: you didn't recruit me, you didn't recruit me. And then
Speaker 2: they go out and play well November, December, January, February, and.
Speaker 3: Then March then then yeah, and then the talent levels
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff come come into play
Speaker 3: and you know, and people don't give a crap what
Speaker 3: what they think of you? There?
Speaker 2: That is and that's their kryptonite, right, that's exactly. You
Speaker 2: hit it on the head. You could pop it a
Speaker 2: puffy chest and blah blah blah. You can do whatever.
Speaker 2: You can walk the walk. But if some others guy says,
Speaker 2: I don't care Clemson, I don't care who you are.
Speaker 2: What do you think you are? Right, I'm gonna punch
Speaker 2: you in the mouth and then you're gonna like it
Speaker 2: and let's see how you handle that. And that was Clemson. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a lot of the school Princeton. That was
Speaker 2: you know. And I told you about the night that
Speaker 2: the first in the opening game against Priston, one of
Speaker 2: the guys didn't shake the Princeton kid's hands on the introductions.
Speaker 2: Oh and that that pissed them off.
Speaker 3: You might have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you don't start that way.
Speaker 3: You don't start that way exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go, let's go. We have a break here.
Speaker 3: We're gonna break, yeah, break and we're gonna be back.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Win on the Ball here Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roverta, He's jaygan Zaunce. Got a
Speaker 2: guy Henry In working on the boards. Give us a
Speaker 2: call five to zero four one six seven four four zero.
Speaker 2: We'd love to hear the first time listeners or first
Speaker 2: time colors. It'd be great. We have a few of those,
Speaker 2: Uh getting ready for the game. Are what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? Are you gonna go to the game? We're
Speaker 2: gonna have desiree here in about an hour or so
Speaker 2: talking about uh, maybe you're one of the new ticket.
Speaker 3: Holders, right. That sounds like there's a whole lot of them, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what what brought you to this point?
Speaker 3: And you know what brought you to this point? What
Speaker 3: brought him to this point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Whinnie, Yeah, we're hopeful of when yeah right, no,
Speaker 2: but but having won last year yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right here right now.
Speaker 3: That I think people feel they can, Okay, they can
Speaker 3: come to a game and have an expectation that they
Speaker 3: might actually win a game.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, and be part of it because.
Speaker 3: They think it said a million times every time I
Speaker 3: walked in THEIRS on the stadium last week last year.
Speaker 3: Until the Utah game, you didn't know I would, you know.
Speaker 3: I was kind of like, you know, I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't know how they're gonna win today. And then they
Speaker 3: kept winning.
Speaker 2: Who who are those games? Those games?
Speaker 3: Washington State? Because remember they yeah, remember no Washing State
Speaker 3: was out, they remember they ca Yeah, they came, they
Speaker 3: went and lost to USC, came back here, lost to
Speaker 3: Washington I think, right, it wasn't that the order? And
Speaker 3: then they then they went to Washington State.
Speaker 5: They lost, the lost to Washington, lost to USC, then
Speaker 5: beat Washington State on the road.
Speaker 3: And then Oregon State here because remember we had talked
Speaker 3: about the Washington State and Oregon State games being the
Speaker 3: ones that were going to determine if they were gonna
Speaker 3: have a wining season. They had to split correct those
Speaker 3: two games, so I didn't think they were gonna be
Speaker 3: Oregon State. Then they beat Oregon State right then U
Speaker 3: c l A comes to town and even though I
Speaker 3: was one had beaten U c l A, you still
Speaker 3: thought U c l A might be pretty decent. Chip
Speaker 3: Kelly was still the coach. And then they beat U
Speaker 3: c l A. You know, and now you know, now
Speaker 3: you're going along and you're you know, you're you're beating everybody,
Speaker 3: and you got yeah, they played, Yeah, they played Washington,
Speaker 3: then you sc then b Washington State came home and
Speaker 3: beat Oregon State. Then they beat U c l A.
Speaker 3: Go to go to go on the road and look
Speaker 3: like they're I mean, they had a tough one against Colorado, yeah, right,
Speaker 3: and then Utah's coming to town, and even though they
Speaker 3: didn't have cam Rise and was still pretty damn good
Speaker 3: defending Roosevelt Champs. And then all of a sudden they
Speaker 3: beating UCLA U twenty one to nothing in the first courting.
Speaker 3: You got, okay, this team is actually pretty.
Speaker 2: Good, right, right?
Speaker 3: And then they went and laid the wood to.
Speaker 2: Su got it. I don't remember them playing Washington before
Speaker 2: they played you. I thought it was the other way
Speaker 2: me too. I mean too, because that USC gave you game,
Speaker 2: gave you hope. That's the one that gave you hope, right,
Speaker 2: And that was after the Washington. Yes, I thought it
Speaker 2: was the other way way to Washington game.
Speaker 5: I remember there was like I think everyone kind of
Speaker 5: expecting them to Loseer really was a point in the
Speaker 5: game they're gonna win, whereas the USC game.
Speaker 2: They actually right, No, you're you're exactly right. That's why
Speaker 2: I thought it was at the other side of the schedule,
Speaker 2: because Washington they were just hanging on. They were just
Speaker 2: hanging out, and Washington was like playing with their food, right,
Speaker 2: they kind of just need to play a little and.
Speaker 3: Then all of a sudd they're an on side kick
Speaker 3: away from from having a chance to go into overtime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, no, and and that schedule. I guess
Speaker 2: what's it? What's the streak? Five six.
Speaker 3: Seven including oh that's.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, seven seven.
Speaker 3: I think it's the longest streak in college football. No, Michigan, Michigan.
Speaker 2: So you does it feel that way?
Speaker 3: No, because you're not used to it. Because you're not
Speaker 3: used to it, because Arizona never has seven game winning streaks,
Speaker 3: you know they you know.
Speaker 2: Well, come on, there were twenty three games removed three
Speaker 2: weeks aga, I know, whatever games it was.
Speaker 3: No, you know, no, I this is this is unusual
Speaker 3: and again being the being the the I don't know
Speaker 3: what the right word is for us, just the pessimists
Speaker 3: that we are. You're just waiting for it to crash, right,
Speaker 3: and and you hope it doesn't. You don't, you don't
Speaker 3: expect to, at least in these first two games. But
Speaker 3: then it's kind of okay, and here here comes Kansas eight.
Speaker 3: Arizona's going there. It's a Friday night game after a
Speaker 3: Saturday game, so one less day of prep. They're on
Speaker 3: the road. You right, what can go wrong?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can go wrong. But I think that the
Speaker 2: fact that they're gonna be underdogs, no one believes yaha,
Speaker 2: ya still doesn't believe, right, you know, that helps.
Speaker 3: I mean that it'll be interesting to see what because that,
Speaker 3: you know, there's so many good games every week. We're
Speaker 3: talking about that. But this game is on Friday, so
Speaker 3: it's gonna get a lot of run during the week
Speaker 3: and particularly on you know, on ESPN and whatnot on Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: here's a game.
Speaker 2: What is what's what's the twenty.
Speaker 3: You know, Arizona's got an Arizona's got a a winning streak.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be the twentieth Arizona's got that's not right,
Speaker 3: the thirteenth. Arizon's got a winning streak. But big to
Speaker 3: you know, it's a it's a big twelve matchup. Even
Speaker 3: though it's not a conference game. Kansas State people think
Speaker 3: is really good. There's gonna be a lot of conversation
Speaker 3: about it. And what you want is for Arizona to
Speaker 3: go in there and show well, you know, if they win,
Speaker 3: all the better. But as long as they go and
Speaker 3: it's a great game, maybe they lose in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 3: you're going in the fourth quarter with a chance to win.
Speaker 3: That's what you need and that's what you want. And
Speaker 3: if they do that, then then you go, Okay, you
Speaker 3: know we are where we are. Let's go to Utan,
Speaker 3: see what happens there.
Speaker 2: They could be in the top fifteen at that time.
Speaker 2: Who knows, you know, things go well.
Speaker 3: And depending on what happens elsewhere. Because there's said, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 3: games where you know, ranked teams against ranked teams. To me,
Speaker 3: one of the more intriguing games of this weekend is
Speaker 3: that LSU USC game because again, like Arizona, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of mixed opinion on USC and how good they're
Speaker 3: going to be in the Big Ten. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of people picking Oregon to compete in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3: There's even some who have picked Oregon to win the
Speaker 3: Big Ten. Nobody's picking USC to win the Big Ten.
Speaker 3: But because they're USC, and for no other reason than
Speaker 3: they are us C. There's people who say they're going
Speaker 3: to be competitive in the Big ten? Are they? Are?
Speaker 3: They not? They played They opened with LSU in Vegas
Speaker 3: or neutral Field. Let's see what that looks.
Speaker 2: Like, right right, We'll see It's gonna be fun. Those
Speaker 2: are There's like a handful of big games this weekend.
Speaker 3: That that that Texas A and M Notre Dame game.
Speaker 3: You know, new coach at new coach at Texas and M.
Speaker 3: The guy, uh yeah, alco from from Duke is there.
Speaker 2: He seems like he's a perfect fit there Texas.
Speaker 3: I never from I mean from the time he was
Speaker 3: at Florida State. I did not like Jimbo Fisher. I
Speaker 3: thought he was trying to be Nick Saban but just
Speaker 3: didn't have the Nick Saban chops in what way, just
Speaker 3: trying to be that kind of uh the kingpin, you know,
Speaker 3: the the dawn of the college football kind of guy.
Speaker 2: Him and Saban went at it because of that, like
Speaker 2: button heads.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. He kind of want It's kind
Speaker 3: of like he he was aspiring to be a Nick
Speaker 3: Saban type of persona in college football. Dude, you won
Speaker 3: a national championship, you know, and then and and part
Speaker 3: of laid that into a forty gazillion dollar contract at
Speaker 3: Texas and m and you sucked from the day you.
Speaker 2: Got there, right yeah, and then make a tunnel.
Speaker 3: You're not Nick Saban or anybody even close to Nick
Speaker 3: Saban and and and so yeah, so that was a
Speaker 3: that was a I mean, that just that was that
Speaker 3: went south right away right away. Yeah, And so you know,
Speaker 3: we'll see what Mike Alco does over there, you know.
Speaker 3: And then you got the the second year of the
Speaker 3: guy Notre Dame, right everybody liked last year. He's a
Speaker 3: great story too. Yeah, so we'll see. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: a tough one because you know, if you Notre Dame,
Speaker 3: they're they're trying to carve a path for you to
Speaker 3: get into the into the playoff, but your your opportunity
Speaker 3: is a lot thinner than say and even in Arizona
Speaker 3: because Arizona knows all along. All it's got to do
Speaker 3: is win the Big twelve, and there in Notre Dame
Speaker 3: does and have a conference, and so they got to
Speaker 3: be They got to be ranked in the top twelve
Speaker 3: in the College Football Playoff rankings to get in. And
Speaker 3: two losses probably means you're done. They might not. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you open with Texas A and M. At Texas
Speaker 3: A and M, your margin for air may get thin
Speaker 3: after week one, so you know.
Speaker 2: So I got an email or text from Victor uh show, Hey,
Speaker 2: Tany's bubblehead is tonight? Oh?
Speaker 3: I saw there was alright, then there was a line
Speaker 3: down the have you written Dodger Stadium. It's it's up
Speaker 3: on it's it's up on a hill parking. To get
Speaker 3: to the parking, you got to go up this. It's
Speaker 3: all the way down the shore.
Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, I saw he shoved Send me a picture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I got, I got, I got a new
Speaker 3: Geeks on Saturday. I got a are you a Lakers
Speaker 3: faand you're not Lakers fan? You're not Lakers fans? I
Speaker 3: got they it was it was it was Kobe Ryant
Speaker 3: day and because it was eight twenty four. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: So I got this T shirt with Kobe T shirt,
Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant t shirt.
Speaker 2: Well they together or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was it was like it had a camera.
Speaker 3: I think it had a bunch of the Laker old
Speaker 3: Lakers on the front of it or something like that.
Speaker 3: I haven't even taken it out of it. It's still
Speaker 3: in my suitcase, let me put it that way. But
Speaker 3: that's what I got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the the d sending me a text A big
Speaker 2: race this weekend. It's the classic. Remember we were there
Speaker 2: two years ago, two years ago. Oh, that's right, and
Speaker 2: we missed. We were ahead of the classic. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: that was a great weekend with us.
Speaker 3: We were calling, we were calling races on the show,
Speaker 3: on the show.
Speaker 2: This was a fun time. But it was only about
Speaker 2: one hundred degrees.
Speaker 3: On somebody that day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Bucks Bucks. But it was funny. That was
Speaker 2: already two years ago when we were until more's the show.
Speaker 2: We're getting old.
Speaker 3: Man, Yeah we are, we are. That's right. It was
Speaker 3: two years ago. Yeah. You know when when I was
Speaker 3: in San Diego last week, we were talking about how
Speaker 3: hot that weekend was, how crazy hot it was. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was. It was the worst. It was fun, you know,
Speaker 3: and and again that was where we first saw that
Speaker 3: jet Fisher jet Fisher jet Fish had actually maybe done something.
Speaker 3: You know, they beat San Diego State and on the road.
Speaker 3: You know, you know, you're getta think this is funny,
Speaker 3: because this is this is that whole look good, play
Speaker 3: good thing. When we got when we got into our
Speaker 3: seats and we saw Arizona in warm ups, and I
Speaker 3: saw Jade and de Laura for the first time, and
Speaker 3: I said, he looks like a quarterback, you know, just
Speaker 3: the the tape on the wrists and and the way
Speaker 3: he was wearing his shoes and his tape. And then
Speaker 3: he said, it looks like we have a quarterback. Okay,
Speaker 3: it went well for a while. They won five games. Look,
Speaker 3: he was better.
Speaker 2: Than what they had, no question, you know, no question.
Speaker 2: But he looked like a quarter yeah, and he and
Speaker 2: he does you know, the guy had some some U And.
Speaker 3: Then then I remember we were sitting in the end zone.
Speaker 3: Remember those a pass that t mac cat for a
Speaker 3: touchdown and he got drilled and he was out of
Speaker 3: the game for a little while. And I thought they
Speaker 3: already killed our receiver. But it was right in front
Speaker 3: of us, and I thought past Arizona receiver at least
Speaker 3: for the last several years, don't catch that pass and
Speaker 3: hang on to it. And I thought, there's something going
Speaker 3: on here, and there was, right, And then I had
Speaker 3: over two and a half wins and there was already
Speaker 3: one and one that was kind of unexpected, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna win my money and they did.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 3: I had that pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: That one time, that one time, at one time at
Speaker 2: band camp.
Speaker 3: So uh, you know, so you know that that was
Speaker 3: that was, you know, a good start, a good start
Speaker 3: after you know, the difficulty of the year before, and
Speaker 3: you felt pretty good leaving the stadium that that day
Speaker 3: as an Arizona fan. Of course, people are passing out
Speaker 3: all over.
Speaker 2: The place, right that was called Tuesday for them.
Speaker 3: I know. But it was a different kind of heat
Speaker 3: over there, Steed, it really, it was a very different
Speaker 3: kind of heat. That was a mugginess.
Speaker 2: That was the day they broke right into my drive
Speaker 2: back with the western window. I just hell with it.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to stay this down anymore. Drove back
Speaker 2: at two in the morning in the heat.
Speaker 3: It was it was fun.
Speaker 2: It was fun. Okay, Yeah, that was my trouble that day.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens here. I don't think many.
Speaker 2: I put out an alert home on Facebook if I'm
Speaker 2: any of my guys are going to come back from
Speaker 2: Albuquerque to see the game. But no one gives a
Speaker 2: crap already they should have never lost that game. The
Speaker 2: fans pair of Albuquerque is already. You know, what the
Speaker 2: hell Mendon Hall's first year, it's gonna be a nice rebuild.
Speaker 2: It's gonna have the big rebuild. And Arizona's a defensive guy.
Speaker 2: Gonzales is now here, is here, so you know there's that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. To me, it's it's about what this looks like.
Speaker 3: One one thing that you don't want to see is
Speaker 3: a lot of disorganization right in play calling and guys
Speaker 3: running the hunt and off the field, like like these
Speaker 3: guys know what you do? Because if I recall and
Speaker 3: then maybe I'm making it up because I hated it
Speaker 3: so much. I just recall watching the sidelines Kevin Someone's
Speaker 3: first game, thinking they're a mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, that that's that's they're a mess. And they
Speaker 2: proved to be a mess. Yeah No, it was just
Speaker 2: a different situation. You never got the sense in someone's
Speaker 2: time that they cared. Yeah, even though my booster, my
Speaker 2: friend Brewster who or boosters said he just has no
Speaker 2: just like no no caring. The check was still going
Speaker 2: to cash. It didn't matter, and it finally mattered at
Speaker 2: the end when they said goodbye, you know, for whatever reason. No.
Speaker 3: And then so that's one of the things, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, do things seem in order? Do they know
Speaker 3: what they're doing? Are they getting you know, they're getting
Speaker 3: uh delay of games because they're not getting plays in well,
Speaker 3: was a signal calling technology? Yeah, the the headset technology.
Speaker 3: Are they using that? Uh? Just just and then just
Speaker 3: kind of you know, when when guys walk on the field,
Speaker 3: are they do do they have a kind of a
Speaker 3: stride or a you know, a bounce in their step
Speaker 3: that says, you know what, guys were pretty good and
Speaker 3: you know you got no shot, which is what you know,
Speaker 3: you want to see guys who look and feel like that.
Speaker 3: And and and then they if they just kind of
Speaker 3: if they do whatever they want to do anytime they
Speaker 3: want to do it against a team that they should
Speaker 3: be able to do that against. Uh, you know, and
Speaker 3: I think it's uh, that's what you look for. On
Speaker 3: top of winning the game without a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, we'll see. We'll see what happens, right
Speaker 2: and then what it was a thirty point to favorite
Speaker 2: and a half. I can't remember last time, or maybe
Speaker 2: maybe it was you when they're in thirty point favorite.
Speaker 2: I don't know, because they they hadn't been favorite support.
Speaker 3: They weren't the favored by thirty points anytime before last year,
Speaker 3: if they were even last I don't think even last year,
Speaker 3: they would have been favored by that much any game
Speaker 3: last year. So yeah, I don't know, but uh, you
Speaker 3: know again, it's it's time to show it. So we'll see,
Speaker 3: all right. So I think we're at a break when.
Speaker 2: We're gonna you know already, Okay, Dave Cosgrove in here right, Well,
Speaker 2: we probably not after the break three forty five.
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Speaker 1: Slash Someday Steve Rivera and Jacob Salex they have their
Speaker 1: Eye on the Book on Tucson's sports station SAT Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eye in the Ball here at
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, You're Jay, and he's Andrey.
Speaker 2: You got eighteen minutes, just maybe no calls so we
Speaker 2: don't get it all missed up unless you want to
Speaker 2: do it for no No.
Speaker 3: Listen wells right now, Dave.
Speaker 2: Right. I don't want to run laps. Dave makes people run.
Speaker 3: Laps, still trying to call when it was the last
Speaker 3: lap that you were in. Oh dude, I mean literally
Speaker 3: had somebody say okay, go run go to that lap.
Speaker 3: High school forty two years ago. Yeah, high school forty.
Speaker 2: Two forty two. Yeah, yeah, no, baseball, baseball practice, baseball practice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those were and those were health I don't play
Speaker 3: the pe classes in college. It might have been there,
Speaker 3: but I don't actually no.
Speaker 2: No, So let me ask you, because you coached, and
Speaker 2: I played it for a long time and I coached
Speaker 2: a little. So so did you have to run? Did
Speaker 2: you play and you played ball baseball and you ran laps?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What was the purpose?
Speaker 3: I always thought it was just too you know, be
Speaker 3: in shape, you know, be conditioned.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, and I get that if you didn't
Speaker 2: run a lot, you know, we had to run a
Speaker 2: lot because that was our discipline. You know, whatever, run,
Speaker 2: But you know how you can become a better baseball player?
Speaker 3: You catch you you play ball? Yeah, you play ball?
Speaker 2: You practice? Yeah, So what the hell is running crappy?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but you know I made I made
Speaker 3: our guys run. We ran, Paul, Well, you also sometimes
Speaker 3: it was for discipline.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, you also beat at the danjor league
Speaker 2: play didn't better major league player as a coach. That
Speaker 2: tells me that your coaching ability shaky.
Speaker 3: Wow, you throw that out of you. I don't even
Speaker 3: know if you remember that you know, I know.
Speaker 2: You play, you play get better by playing.
Speaker 3: I knew. I knew in football and basketball you had
Speaker 3: to do that for conditioning. But baseball, yeah, because you
Speaker 3: just wanted guys to, you know, have have endurance and
Speaker 3: you know you get to the seventh inning and you're
Speaker 3: not tired and things like that. That's how I thought
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, but do you remember that the bases are
Speaker 2: ninety feet but not low. You're not going to run
Speaker 2: miles and stuffing that you get to run and keep
Speaker 2: them in shape. Blah blah blah. But I don't get
Speaker 2: that running.
Speaker 3: St Well, Well, one thing that we would do, uh,
Speaker 3: guys that make them run bases and time then yes,
Speaker 3: but make them do a bunch of them right and
Speaker 3: and and try and you know, not lose time as
Speaker 3: you get. Sure you go to be able to run
Speaker 3: close to the same time every time.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, and see see if they're able to steal
Speaker 2: bases or that guy you're trying to figure out, you know,
Speaker 2: who's your best base steeler stuff like that. But I
Speaker 2: didn't get that running. Remember he probably looked good.
Speaker 3: He probably looked good. Well, you know again, I remember
Speaker 3: I think it was a soccer class that I had
Speaker 3: pe class in high school that I had. For some reason,
Speaker 3: they made us run off campus this one time.
Speaker 2: No one came back.
Speaker 3: Well, no, we ran. We ran kind of close to
Speaker 3: my house, so mean another guy. We peeled off and
Speaker 3: went and hung out of my house. So they came
Speaker 3: back the other way until we got back in line.
Speaker 2: You remember that, uh October to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did that once. And because I didn't understand
Speaker 3: why we had to run that far for soccer. For
Speaker 3: a soccer pe e class, soccer you need to, but
Speaker 3: for a pea class. It wasn't for a soccer team.
Speaker 3: It was not for a peel Yes, you know we
Speaker 3: we when I was in eighth grade, we had we
Speaker 3: didn't have a track at our eighth grade h at
Speaker 3: my middle in my junior high school, but we had
Speaker 3: We had to run around the entire you know, school
Speaker 3: yard right, not including the building. We used to call
Speaker 3: it a scenic because you saw the you saw everything
Speaker 3: around the school. We called it said, okay, run three scenics,
Speaker 3: and each one I thought we were told it was
Speaker 3: like a half a mile. It was pretty far. And
Speaker 3: if you had to run three scenics, you felt you
Speaker 3: were running a mind.
Speaker 2: So how long did you see in the house before
Speaker 2: you cut up? They cut up to fifteen minutes? Ok,
Speaker 2: cut a little.
Speaker 3: It was stupid. It was a stupid risk for fifteen
Speaker 3: minut it break right. We did it not because we
Speaker 3: didn't want to run. We did it to see if
Speaker 3: we could do that and not get caught, which I
Speaker 3: did a lot of that as a as a high
Speaker 3: school Kuld. I just did stuff for the sake of
Speaker 3: of doing it, to see if we can pull it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why kids do their things that they do.
Speaker 2: Let's see if mom and dad could catch us, and
Speaker 2: if they did a little crap.
Speaker 3: Exactly and two. And the problem was that all too
Speaker 3: often I didn't get caught, so I kept doing stuff.
Speaker 2: Henry, you're not this guy a kid, are you? You
Speaker 2: wouldn't mess up? And just so you can pull your parents.
Speaker 3: That you need just cond it. It was a different day, Steve.
Speaker 3: It was a different day.
Speaker 2: Kids today still do it.
Speaker 3: You know, No, man, they're hanging out playing video games.
Speaker 3: They're not out there ringing doorbells and running. You're throwing
Speaker 3: throwing soap SuDS into into water fountains and things, not
Speaker 3: drinking right, you know, sucking sprinkler sucking water out of
Speaker 3: sprinkler heads. You did that, right, kids?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Kids, Well that's that's that's kind of fun. For
Speaker 2: that was fun back in the day.
Speaker 3: You know. Don't go back until the elementary school that
Speaker 3: was behind our house where we had we hung out, right,
Speaker 3: it was a it was an interesting building. It was.
Speaker 3: It was a square building, but like with a courtyard
Speaker 3: in the center, so basically it looked like a big
Speaker 3: like a big o, but square. We hused to put
Speaker 3: our bikes up there and and have races around on
Speaker 3: the roof around the top of the building because we could.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So anyway, that's another thing that my mom never knew about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you didn't get in trouble, so fun. We
Speaker 2: didn't a couple of things, but not that I'm aware. Fine,
Speaker 2: exactly exactly, and yeah, yeah, okay, we're expecting a call
Speaker 2: from cos Grove any moment. Now. There they were they
Speaker 2: were better tournament last year, right, Yeah, yeah, there as
Speaker 2: a host too, but it's been a couple of rough
Speaker 2: and I'm asking them about that because I'm close to
Speaker 2: him anywhere he comes, right, you know, is this Dave?
Speaker 4: Hey, how theyre going?
Speaker 2: Hey, Dave Cosgrove. I don't know if do you know
Speaker 2: you're the soccer coach and how are you?
Speaker 4: That's been the rumor for about twenty seven years.
Speaker 2: Yes, you you twenty seven years Does it feel much
Speaker 2: differently than seventeen years ago, twenty years ago?
Speaker 4: You know, it doesn't really. I mean we do things.
Speaker 4: I think we do things a lot better because I'm
Speaker 4: just I think older and more more mature. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think it's more about me than it is about the
Speaker 4: players of the school.
Speaker 2: And what have you learned about the kids they want
Speaker 2: to be coached more now or or what's the difference.
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard to generalize. I think individual kids
Speaker 4: are all different, and like the group we have this year,
Speaker 4: they're they're very they're very dedicated. They like the challenge.
Speaker 4: You know, we've had groups a couple of years ago
Speaker 4: or ten years ago that didn't like that, but this
Speaker 4: is one of those groups that really I think has
Speaker 4: big goals for themselves and want to be pushed.
Speaker 3: We were having a conversation minutego Dave about running laps? Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: for your conditioning over time? What have you learned about conditioning?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Do you make guys run laps? Do they run sprints?
Speaker 3: Do they do some of both? Because you know, Steve
Speaker 3: and I were trying to remember the last time we
Speaker 3: ran a lap, but we couldn't remember when that would
Speaker 3: have been. But you do that, I'm sure for condition.
Speaker 3: But what's the purpose and how do you do it?
Speaker 3: And what do you know about it that maybe you
Speaker 3: didn't know several years ago.
Speaker 4: Well, there's a lot more science to all that now
Speaker 4: than there used to be. There's a ton of information
Speaker 4: and unfortunate enough that I've worked with people who now
Speaker 4: have moved on and working at MLS and other places
Speaker 4: that provide really good information. But generally, the long running
Speaker 4: the laps, nobody does anymore. It's more short distance, you know, sprinting,
Speaker 4: especially for our sport. You know, we don't. We don't
Speaker 4: do a whole lot of two mile runs or anything
Speaker 4: like that. And the one thing I've learned is to
Speaker 4: moderate to get in and fit, you know, to not
Speaker 4: just jump in with both feet one hundred miles an hour,
Speaker 4: but over the course of a month two months, to
Speaker 4: gradually increase the workload, so you know, we don't overwhelm
Speaker 4: them in the first two weeks like I used to.
Speaker 2: Makes perfect sense, yes, yes, So let let's talk about
Speaker 2: this year's team compared to them, not compared to you.
Speaker 2: But let's get talk about the program.
Speaker 3: First.
Speaker 2: You've done very well recently, a national championship or two, right,
Speaker 2: How has that affected this this past? Not this past?
Speaker 2: How has your past affected your future?
Speaker 4: Well, I think there's a you know, over the last decade,
Speaker 4: this is a total different expectation, you know, whether that
Speaker 4: comes from myself, for the players, or honestly the school.
Speaker 4: You know, I think everybody just affects us that we're
Speaker 4: going to be one of the top five teams in
Speaker 4: the country in a challenge for our national championship, which
Speaker 4: is great. I mean, we put that pressure on ourselves
Speaker 4: by being so good and win a couple of national championships.
Speaker 4: But you know, I think people just jump to the
Speaker 4: conclusion that's gonna happen, and it doesn't. You know, it's
Speaker 4: a lot more work than people see and think. There's
Speaker 4: a lot a lot of time and effort from my
Speaker 4: coaching staff, from the support staff, from the school to
Speaker 4: make this thing happen year after year after year. So yeah, again,
Speaker 4: people just pick up the paper and sew, we'll ranked
Speaker 4: number five in the country. Of course Beeman's there all
Speaker 4: the time. But it's not that simple, yeah, is it?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I guess is there pressure, I mean
Speaker 3: actual pressure where? And if there is, where does it
Speaker 3: come from? Is do you guys just put it on yourselves?
Speaker 3: Can it come or does it come from outside?
Speaker 4: I think there's a little you know, I'll be honest,
Speaker 4: that's a little pressure from the school. Uh. You know,
Speaker 4: we've been one of the you know, top programs at
Speaker 4: the campus for you know, close to two decades, and
Speaker 4: you know, I think they feel like every year PEMA
Speaker 4: men's soccer should compete for titles. So there's a little
Speaker 4: bit of pressure. But I think, mostly, honestly, it's internally.
Speaker 4: I think the team. When I recruit the players, I
Speaker 4: tell him, you know, you know, we have kids who
Speaker 4: could play at any of the junior college and play
Speaker 4: a lot of minutes, who may not even get on
Speaker 4: our travel roster, you know, because of the expectations and
Speaker 4: the excellence we have within the program. So I think
Speaker 4: we put a lot on ourselves.
Speaker 3: And I know I.
Speaker 4: Certainly, you know, feel the pressure every year to put
Speaker 4: a good product on the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember talking to Dave. I don't know, twenty
Speaker 2: years ago, probably they had beaten yav A Pie. They
Speaker 2: they had crossed that obstacle. Finally they had done it
Speaker 2: more consistently, and he had crossed that Right now he
Speaker 2: was trying to become a better program, and now he
Speaker 2: became a national championship. You kind of created your own beast,
Speaker 2: you'd like, Mike Candrea and where you created this beast,
Speaker 2: now you have to feed it.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'll of course say that the fact
Speaker 4: that my name is mentioned in the same Andrea is
Speaker 4: maybe the greatest compliment I've ever had, So I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I'd like to think we're there, but I'm honest enough
Speaker 4: to know that we're not at that level, and especially
Speaker 4: with the amount of time over the years he did
Speaker 4: it that he was so good. But uh, yeah, we
Speaker 4: certainly have. But you know, I much rather be where
Speaker 4: the expectations are high and you know, we are chasing
Speaker 4: a national championship than where we were in the first
Speaker 4: ten years, where you know, we were finishing the year
Speaker 4: frustrated and almost they're almost you know, accomplished our goals
Speaker 4: but never quite got over the home. So it's a
Speaker 4: different set of expectations. But I'd much rather have these
Speaker 4: than what what we were dealing with when we were
Speaker 4: first starting the program.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you as a as a junior
Speaker 3: college program. So guys, you know coming and going every
Speaker 3: couple of years, does your team change, uh from year
Speaker 3: to year year to year a little bit a lot
Speaker 3: dramatically in terms of how you play or you know
Speaker 3: what you've got, or are you coaching to your style
Speaker 3: so that you kind of have the same kinds of
Speaker 3: players all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what a great question, and I'm not sure I
Speaker 4: can answer it quickly or you know, succinctly. But leafar,
Speaker 4: I was only having kids for two years. It changes
Speaker 4: quite a bit. You know, last year we were really young.
Speaker 4: This year we have a lot of second year players.
Speaker 4: So next year we're going to look completely different. We'll
Speaker 4: try to recruit the same quality players, and we'll try
Speaker 4: to recruit the same type of players that we have
Speaker 4: this year. But you know, the reality is, I don't
Speaker 4: think we're going to be able to find the amount
Speaker 4: of quality that we have this year next year. So
Speaker 4: you know, I think the job I have to do
Speaker 4: is going to be a completely different job next year
Speaker 4: versus the job I'm doing right now.
Speaker 2: The fact that you guys had played here I think
Speaker 2: the last two years, right for the national national Tournament?
Speaker 2: Is that right? Last two years?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: That's correct?
Speaker 2: Did that? Did that? I don't know? Was that an
Speaker 2: obstacle too, because there was more pressure on you guys
Speaker 2: to do well?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, I mean I think the right answer would
Speaker 4: be like, no, of course not. You know, we could
Speaker 4: go out and do the job. But but I did
Speaker 4: feel more pressure, and honestly, I feel like I let
Speaker 4: the school and the city down by not doing as
Speaker 4: well as we have in the past at the national tournament.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people put a lot of
Speaker 4: time and work into it, and we didn't perform as
Speaker 4: well as I expected us to. So you know, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, I think there were some distractions playing at home,
Speaker 4: and I'm not using that as excuse. I'm just probably
Speaker 4: use it more as I think. I don't did. I
Speaker 4: don't think I did a good job coaching them in
Speaker 4: the situation at playing at home.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't realize that you have a lot of
Speaker 2: returners back, so you'll expectations right here. You are your
Speaker 2: number five in the country. Is that right? You said that?
Speaker 2: What what are the expectations for this year, what do
Speaker 2: you hope.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, over the last decade, the expectations pretty
Speaker 4: much become the same. We start small. Why we want
Speaker 4: to be one of the best teams or the best
Speaker 4: team in our conference, which isn't easy. You know, we
Speaker 4: got a couple other nationally ranked teams in our conference.
Speaker 4: But you know, then we talk about if we can
Speaker 4: win that, then we want to progress to the regional
Speaker 4: and the national level. But ultimately, you know, we think
Speaker 4: we have a good group. If the coaches do a
Speaker 4: good job and the kids keep working hard, I think
Speaker 4: we can be in the mix at the end for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, so now you don't have the tournament here
Speaker 3: this year, So does that change things for your mindset
Speaker 3: going into the season, Not so.
Speaker 4: Much, as you know, I think, you know, if we
Speaker 4: do make it, if we're fortunate enough to make it,
Speaker 4: I think are will be our tenth out of the
Speaker 4: last eleven years.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: When we travel, you know, it's nice you can kind
Speaker 4: of seclude the kids. They're in the hotel, they're with us,
Speaker 4: you know, twenty four to seven, and honestly, it's pretty
Speaker 4: much soccer, study tables and sleep, you know, and you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes that's just the best thing to do to focus
Speaker 4: to kids and get them ready to play.
Speaker 2: So, how many starters you have coming back? Both?
Speaker 4: So we have eight of our starters, including two All Americans,
Speaker 4: four of our top five goal scorers are coming back,
Speaker 4: and then I think four of our top seven reserves
Speaker 4: are coming back as well.
Speaker 3: Well. So okay, that sounds like a national championship to me, Steve,
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, No pressure, don't worry about that.
Speaker 4: Thanks, guys, I thought we were talking about.
Speaker 2: So, how do you guys keep these how do you?
Speaker 2: Dave and I obviously known day forever he's catched my kids. Uh,
Speaker 2: you got to keep them motivated, and we talk about
Speaker 2: this with you way football. Sometimes the lofty expectations become burdens.
Speaker 2: How do you keep your guys motivated or or how
Speaker 2: to keep them ground ground is good work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, both both are good questions, you know. Uh, in
Speaker 4: terms of their motivation, I think the entire team and
Speaker 4: one of the reasons I think they all came back
Speaker 4: is they wanted to play with each other and improve
Speaker 4: on what we did last year. We actually had a
Speaker 4: really good regular season. You know, we finished number three
Speaker 4: in the country. But when we got to the postseason,
Speaker 4: we didn't perform well, and I think that leaves a
Speaker 4: bad taste in their mouths. And I certainly don't feel
Speaker 4: good about the way our season ended, and I think
Speaker 4: I I if I had to look at my own performance,
Speaker 4: I would I'm not very happy with how I performed
Speaker 4: in the postseason. So, you know, to keep the focus
Speaker 4: is very easy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: We we gotta get to the postseason and do a
Speaker 4: lot better than we did last year.
Speaker 2: Okay, real quick, Dave, we just have about a minute.
Speaker 2: Would you played this weekend? What's the situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we both the men and the women programs host
Speaker 4: Paradise Valley Saturday evening, so us you know, obviously the
Speaker 4: home opener for UFA football as well. But we're out
Speaker 4: at the West Campus at six and eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, Thanks Dave, Dave, thanks a bunch, best of luck.
Speaker 3: We'll talk again.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, guys. I appreciate all the support.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Dave Cosgrove. He's won a ton of
Speaker 2: games last.
Speaker 3: Year, and you know what, it's interesting to hear. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I get he's not satisfied with what they did last year,
Speaker 3: but you know what, he's still a really good coach
Speaker 3: and it's still a really good program.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe they didn't get where they were going to get,
Speaker 3: but they shouldn't be, you know, apologizing for anything, right.
Speaker 2: And let me say this, I don't know very I
Speaker 2: know a lot of coaches. I know they have egos
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. There are a few guys more
Speaker 2: intense than Dave Costgrove.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you talked about running by sense of PA.
Speaker 2: You found out it's not that important, but you run.
Speaker 2: It's like crazy who we played for you, We were
Speaker 2: born too. I just remember having to run.
Speaker 3: I remember my first my first freshman football practice, and
Speaker 3: how much we had to run that day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm like, there was no ramping up and you still remember, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I do remember. There was no ramping up that day.
Speaker 3: I'm like, look, and I don't know. Maybe part of
Speaker 3: it was they were trying to separate those who were
Speaker 3: in and those who were just kind of.
Speaker 2: Great point, because you're probably right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And there were some guys who didn't show up the
Speaker 3: second handle it.
Speaker 2: You can handle. If you can't, well you shouldn't be here, right.
Speaker 3: All right, we're at the top of the hour. We're
Speaker 3: gonna take a break, Henry's gonna be back with breaking news,
Speaker 3: and then we've got Desiree Reid Francois, the athletic director
Speaker 3: at Arizona, in the second segment in the next hour,
Speaker 3: so be sure to stick around for that