Speaker 1: And she also has like a full time job working
Speaker 1: for the Ringers.
Speaker 2: So again, if you go to that website, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to look her up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean their podcasts are terrific. I listened to them
Speaker 2: all the time, listening to one and they just varying topics. Bill,
Speaker 2: you know, Bill Simmons is kind of in charge of that,
Speaker 2: and he's he's a big basketball guy, of course, so
Speaker 2: he does I think three a week.
Speaker 3: Can we make money from that, Dave, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He probably does a lot of money. Yeah, they just
Speaker 1: got bought. They're owned by Spotify, believe.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, well they're gonna make it good.
Speaker 2: They got movies, you got TV, you got books, all
Speaker 2: kinds of politics.
Speaker 3: So anybody else's big name you talked about, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have a guy from El Paso. He writes a lot
Speaker 3: about college basketball, former coach in college basketball. Maybe tomorrow,
Speaker 3: maybe Thursday, go.
Speaker 2: For it and you have you have. There's a few others.
Speaker 2: Jack McCallum, we can see if we can get him.
Speaker 2: Melissa Ludkey wrote a book about being a you know,
Speaker 2: female sports writer in the seventies, which was tough, very tough,
Speaker 2: and you know, not allowed to go into locker room
Speaker 2: this kind of situations, and she wrote a whole book
Speaker 2: about that. I think there was a lawsuit, and I
Speaker 2: think she got awarded either money or at least access.
Speaker 3: Well, you remember, back just not too long ago, mid
Speaker 3: late eighties, early nineties, you and I are out there,
Speaker 3: Lisa Olsen, right, you know, you go into locker rooms
Speaker 3: and the guys don't treat you very well. Right of hell,
Speaker 3: they didn't treat some of the guys very well either.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It was I was surprised.
Speaker 2: I remember maybe the worst I don't know about for you,
Speaker 2: but for me was going into an NFL locker room
Speaker 2: where there was like hardly anything covered up if you will,
Speaker 2: you know, and there'd be women in there sometimes it
Speaker 2: just it wasn't really I think that's changed since since
Speaker 2: those years, but it was. It was kind of a rough,
Speaker 2: a rough look to go through that.
Speaker 3: Who did I can ask you this, whatever I said,
Speaker 3: who's your toughest interview and situation? I have mine? I
Speaker 3: definitely have mine.
Speaker 2: They were always the toughest, but they were it was
Speaker 2: just difficult just to slow them down sometimes at spring
Speaker 2: training and base ball with you with Major League players,
Speaker 2: and you know, you go, okay, God, I want to
Speaker 2: interview Reggie Jackson. He's walking right towards me, and you
Speaker 2: don't get him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't, right right, or he doesn't want to
Speaker 3: and he knows that you're gonna ask him, so he
Speaker 3: breezes right by you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, those were my tough ones too, even the sidewinders.
Speaker 3: For the guys coming down, they didn't want to be there,
Speaker 3: they didn't want to be there. And the guys going up,
Speaker 3: you know, we're good guys, but the guys coming down.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you got lucky though with the sidewinders or those
Speaker 2: teams when they would send a player down on rehab,
Speaker 2: like say, I remember Randy Johnson came down to Tucson
Speaker 2: and kurs shilling, and that was kind of kind of
Speaker 2: a neat situation where you could talk.
Speaker 3: About what about the toros. The tours were the toughest
Speaker 3: for me because I was still a young kid. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they were tough, Yeah, coming in late eighties, late eighties
Speaker 3: and early nineties, and it was like, you know, the
Speaker 3: not the quick visuos, but the kid kamenities those guys.
Speaker 3: It was like, oh God, to the park today. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it is what it is. Okay, let's go, oh
Speaker 3: don't work. You know, you know what we did. We're
Speaker 3: we blew over, So we're not gonna worry about it.
Speaker 3: We can keep going. Let's kick break we let's keep going.
Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna worry about it. That's funny. I
Speaker 3: even look at the camera. We're back. We're back, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna stay on queue here. I'm gonna just not
Speaker 3: miss so we're gonna miss a spot if you like
Speaker 3: to call. I'm not gonna go to uh to break
Speaker 3: the news, so we won't worried about that.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of stuff going on Tiger Woods.
Speaker 2: That's big news. Ruptures is Achilles tendon. I mean, didn't
Speaker 2: you say you saw him? He was on the virtual
Speaker 2: he was on that virtual golf thing, that tg L
Speaker 2: whatever they call it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have you seen some of that? Yeh, yeah, but not.
Speaker 2: I watched it for I don't know about you, but
Speaker 2: I'll watch it for maybe you know, ten minutes at
Speaker 2: a time and just sort of see what they're doing.
Speaker 2: I don't quite understand exactly what's happening there. Yea, But
Speaker 2: yet you have to score updates from the big call yeah,
Speaker 2: we can. We can look that up. Big twelve.
Speaker 1: So a issues playing starting at this moment.
Speaker 3: So have you paid attention to the other Pack twos
Speaker 3: or PEC ten's of the height of the the world?
Speaker 2: Little Washington State the other day and they were winning.
Speaker 2: They're in that West Coast Conference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got beat because I think tonight's gonna be.
Speaker 1: St. Mary's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Saint Mary's is the is the cream of the
Speaker 3: crop of that league this year or has been to
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the issue game is just underway.
Speaker 2: But earlier we had Cincinnati blasting Oklahoma States eighty seven
Speaker 2: sixty eight. They had a big lead in the first half.
Speaker 2: And one Oklahoma State was not very good this year
Speaker 2: fifteen and seventeen. And in the second game of kind of
Speaker 2: a surprise, Colorado was terrible this season at TCU sixty
Speaker 2: nine sixty seven. And yeah, that's those are the first
Speaker 2: two as we continue on until Arizona play sometime on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Late on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Did you see that your Marcus said that the seventy
Speaker 3: six teams for the tournament is the perfect mark seventy six,
Speaker 3: seventy six, and they're trombones. Seventy six trombones seventy six
Speaker 3: teams really up by eight. You just need to make
Speaker 3: it a number and then stick with it forever, because
Speaker 3: you know what team seventy seven and seventy eight are
Speaker 3: going to bitch about not getting in right, You're always
Speaker 3: going to have it. One hundred and two teams, one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirteen, one hundred and fourteen, we deserve to
Speaker 3: be in.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm looking at this article on ESPN.
Speaker 2: He's talking about the TV situation too. We have to
Speaker 2: figure out how how to work all that out with
Speaker 2: CBS and TNT. And when do you play those games
Speaker 2: your market?
Speaker 4: They?
Speaker 2: Yeah, weren't they saying, you know, let's just play them
Speaker 2: on Tuesdays and Wednesdays? Get it, get us started, play
Speaker 2: just like Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 1: Wind up being I don't know, for the tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they already played a couple of playing
Speaker 2: games at night, kind of like late in the afternoon
Speaker 2: and the early evening.
Speaker 1: Just have them all day up at nine am. Like
Speaker 1: the other people in Vegas.
Speaker 3: You go Vegas Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, long week long.
Speaker 3: People don't care. They'll just show up and drink and
Speaker 3: have fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is the uh.
Speaker 2: What they're saying, it's the fortieth brackets since they expanded
Speaker 2: to sixty four.
Speaker 1: It was in nineteen eighty five, so it's been a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really that long ago. I got you're old, I'm old.
Speaker 1: Do you remember? You don't remember this? But I do?
Speaker 3: Thirty two?
Speaker 1: Back sixteen?
Speaker 3: I think, you know, I don't remember. I remember thirty two.
Speaker 2: The only teams that got in were the conference champions.
Speaker 2: So that's why UCLA every year they the packed eight
Speaker 2: and likes the usc was for a second, they have
Speaker 2: to go to the n I.
Speaker 3: T right right, and there was one had some pretty
Speaker 3: good teams with Bob Elliott in the mid seventies. Month
Speaker 3: they lost to you lost to UCLA right in the
Speaker 3: lait eight. I think, so, uh and yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Did they finished shares on a finished like second or something?
Speaker 1: For did they know? Why would they get in the tournament?
Speaker 1: Tournament expands.
Speaker 3: It might have been thirty two. I think by that time.
Speaker 3: I think maybe if you're listening, Bob, give us a call.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, at least thirty two, seventy six, seventy five,
Speaker 3: in seventy five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and you know Marin's book kind of
Speaker 2: coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the Spiracle miraculous shot
Speaker 2: for Houston to win her friend and c State to
Speaker 2: beat Houston, and that was in your town, and.
Speaker 1: So her book came out. That's right, almost forty years
Speaker 1: to the day. He came. Was on that team, right, did.
Speaker 3: You ever watch that valve any Special Integrade Secrets? I
Speaker 3: love those shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Survive in Advance I think it was it was
Speaker 1: called right.
Speaker 3: No, it was a good one because a couple of
Speaker 3: guys had passed.
Speaker 2: Right, and weren't they looking for somebody like somebody that
Speaker 2: just couldn't find Benny something or other.
Speaker 3: He was on that Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know
Speaker 3: what you're talking about from Houston. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I want to they gathers Benny, Benny one of those guys.
Speaker 1: They were so good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So they were like Houston today, just talented and just
Speaker 3: just beat you and love beating him.
Speaker 2: And he had They had that coach, guy Lewis who
Speaker 2: you know, they're that that whole group of you know
Speaker 2: him and Tarcanian and you know, the Big East coach.
Speaker 2: The Big East was kind of coming into its own,
Speaker 2: the Carni Seca and you know Jim Beheim was young,
Speaker 2: and John Thompson.
Speaker 3: Of course, so is Myers and Meyer Meyer from DePaul.
Speaker 1: I think I was Ray Meyers his kid.
Speaker 3: Those are the good old days of old coaches, you know.
Speaker 3: In fact, I was seeing something. I was going to
Speaker 3: bring it here for us to discuss. We can talk
Speaker 3: about who do you think of the five most hated
Speaker 3: coaches today?
Speaker 1: Today? But today?
Speaker 3: But there's some There was a couple on the list.
Speaker 1: And you put that early brothers together.
Speaker 3: Actually they were not Actually that's a good pick, but
Speaker 3: they were not on the list. Uh no, Bobby Knight
Speaker 3: number two. You mean all time, all time, but it
Speaker 3: said today. But you know now how they're still thought of.
Speaker 3: That's funny partly brothers. They weren't on the list, but
Speaker 3: they could be. Dan Hurley's kind of kind of got
Speaker 3: a bad rep now because you've you've talk a lot
Speaker 3: of crap. You know, I'm the best coach out here
Speaker 3: who you talked to you?
Speaker 2: And I did not see the feature they did on
Speaker 2: him in sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: He was just one.
Speaker 3: I missed that too. I'm sure you can find that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I missed that too. But take a guess of who
Speaker 3: the the one that they hate the most right now
Speaker 3: or right now, but Bobby Night was number two. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take a call.
Speaker 1: Give me a hint.
Speaker 3: He's coaching now and he's not doing well.
Speaker 1: He will.
Speaker 3: Hello, you're on the are an eel the ball. Who's this?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Hi, my name is Ron Megdale Dover.
Speaker 1: Just Hi.
Speaker 4: I've listened you all the time, but I don't call it.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: My nephew, Howard Megdal is going to be here for
Speaker 4: the Festival of the Books on this weekend. Dave Silver
Speaker 4: just mentioned his name. I want him to know that
Speaker 4: he's a lot more well known that they may be
Speaker 4: aware of, in that he's written seven books on sports.
Speaker 4: His expertise is in the area of women's basketball. He
Speaker 4: just wrote a book about Caitlin Clark mechanic. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: it just that was his most recent book. Like I said,
Speaker 4: he's going to be in this weekend. I think he
Speaker 4: might pay. You might find him interesting for an interview
Speaker 4: or something along those lines.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, where's you based out of?
Speaker 4: He's mass that in New Jersey. I'm from New Jersey originally, Okay,
Speaker 4: and that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's definitely because he's going to be on one
Speaker 2: of the panels with Marin, so that's okay.
Speaker 4: Yes, he's given on one of the panels, and every
Speaker 4: day he has one or two sports, public sports, women's sports.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you call him actually because I'm
Speaker 4: the okay, but he has wondered it's not a podcast.
Speaker 4: Maybe he has a podcast too. I don't know everything
Speaker 4: that does.
Speaker 3: So he probably does like a newsletter or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, two of them actually every day.
Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, but it's all about survival for us writers.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like his book just came out. Is
Speaker 2: this I'm looking at his Twitter feed.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's the Kayden Clark one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic, the seventh book. You might see.
Speaker 4: There's other six other books that he wrote. Again, it's
Speaker 4: mostly on women's sports, but some other sports too.
Speaker 3: What's your first name again?
Speaker 5: Ron?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Ron, Thanks for listening, Ron, thanks for calling.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Yeah, thanks Ron.
Speaker 4: Are you did his phone number anything?
Speaker 3: No, we'll we'll find it.
Speaker 1: We'll get it.
Speaker 3: We'll get it. Thank you, thanks so much. Yeah, take care.
Speaker 2: That's great that he does have a bunch of but
Speaker 2: he wrote books about the interesting different connections, not just
Speaker 2: women's sports either, saying it was Cardinals, something about the Mets,
Speaker 2: Fred Willpond.
Speaker 1: I don't know, he'll have a lot to talk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you probably knew a lot of people, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's cool, thanks for calling us. Let us know, Uh,
Speaker 3: what were we talking about? Oh, most headed coach with Patino?
Speaker 3: He was like three, three or four. I think when
Speaker 3: I say it, you'll say, oh, yeah, okay, I say
Speaker 3: he's always the almost overrated coach of the last ten years.
Speaker 1: Oh well cal Peri, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Just because he got in trouble. Me you mask got
Speaker 3: in trouble Kentucky, you got in trouble, and this guy
Speaker 3: I got in trouble and still kind of having a
Speaker 3: hard time now in Arkansas. Yeah, he's just kind of
Speaker 3: not that guy. He's only won one title, but just
Speaker 3: not likable because he's you know, he's kind of like
Speaker 3: a I don't know.
Speaker 2: Kind of cocky and you know, he thinks he's great,
Speaker 2: and like you said, he had you know, some pretty
Speaker 2: good teams, great teams and great players that last a
Speaker 2: year in Kentucky and off they go to the NBA
Speaker 2: and who knows what.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to keep track of those guys.
Speaker 3: Right, there's been a few. I can't remember who the
Speaker 3: other Patinos won, Bobby Knight, Calipari, and there was two
Speaker 3: more on. I have to think about it for a second,
Speaker 3: but we'll see. Did you see did you see who
Speaker 3: got the Player of the year yesterday? We didn't talk
Speaker 3: about this, but in the Big twelve, who would you
Speaker 3: have picked?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: He was a fantastic player, fantastic player this year, former
Speaker 3: New mexicool guy. But he's only pid picked to maybe
Speaker 3: finish in the top twenty twenty five of the NBA.
Speaker 3: And he's talented as all hell.
Speaker 1: How big is he?
Speaker 3: Six eightish? I think wiery very talent had left handed. Oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, anybody, I don't know if you guys
Speaker 3: have listened to this. I played this for Dave earlier.
Speaker 3: There's a song out publicly, I guess, on YouTube by somebody.
Speaker 3: I don't know who it is. Someone sent it to
Speaker 3: me earlier today, and it's pretty funny. It talks about
Speaker 3: this this year's team that's not kind to this year's team,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of in the way of our song
Speaker 3: from many years ago, Wild about the Cats. It's it's
Speaker 3: almost like a bummed about the Cats. It's a minute long.
Speaker 3: If you maybe google it ante it's a minute and
Speaker 3: if you want to google it, google it. There's no
Speaker 3: title to it, just kind of maybe song on Arizona basketball.
Speaker 1: It's on YouTube.
Speaker 2: People definitely have their feelings, that's for sure, and they
Speaker 2: have their opinions, and this guy put her down.
Speaker 1: In music forms. Right. It's a little bit a little
Speaker 1: bit risky for us to play here on the air.
Speaker 3: Right right, too risky for us to play, but interesting. Nonetheless,
Speaker 3: anything else that we got to do before we gotta go,
Speaker 3: you gotta we got to go for a long time.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Asu getting getting beat already nine to
Speaker 2: one early on.
Speaker 3: I think we talked about this the number times. Do
Speaker 3: you think this is it for him? This could be
Speaker 3: his last game. I think it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: I mean, they just find the women's the women's coach
Speaker 2: after she was only there a couple of years, three years.
Speaker 3: Maybe let me ask you dumb question. So you've been
Speaker 3: in the business a long time. When you were in
Speaker 3: the business tape, how many gms did you go through
Speaker 3: at the TV station? Yeah? I asked for a reason.
Speaker 1: I was there twenty eight years I think we had
Speaker 1: it was four or five.
Speaker 3: Okay, and so you survived changes of the guard, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is that proud of that?
Speaker 3: I was gonna say you must have been, because it's
Speaker 3: tough with change, especially with the bosses coming in. They
Speaker 3: want their own guys.
Speaker 2: Right, in those years, they really weren't messing around too
Speaker 2: much with talent like me. I mean maybe the main anchor.
Speaker 2: News anchors sometimes got shuffled in and out if a
Speaker 2: new management came.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know it was I was lucky.
Speaker 2: I kind of like kept get my head down, kept working. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you know, right, just stuck around long enough to
Speaker 2: make make it through.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna take a break here, come back and
Speaker 3: talk to Brian Peterson on the other side.
Speaker 5: Steve Rivera, he's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 5: Tucson Sports Station yet Fox Swarts fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to I the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Dave Silver. I'm
Speaker 3: now on the phone. We have Brian Peterson from Azy
Speaker 3: Desert Swarm. Brian, how are you? I'm good?
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me back.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I am assuming you went to Tommy Lloyd's
Speaker 3: press conference.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was the one and only other than some
Speaker 4: TV and radio.
Speaker 3: Wa okay, nobody. I have to make a living, dude,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know this lifeline as you I had to
Speaker 4: play the role of Bruce Pasco today.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness.
Speaker 3: So that said, I was gonna say, who had the
Speaker 3: world with all the just know about the fans? So
Speaker 3: I'm kissing you did.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: It was ask though, and he gave up a pretty
Speaker 4: lengthy answer, and it was kind of what I suspected
Speaker 4: that it was more about the atmosphere, yeh, the game
Speaker 4: day atmosphere at McHale Center, as opposed to the fans.
Speaker 4: I don't think the fans are an issue. I think
Speaker 4: it's that nothing is expected of them to do anything
Speaker 4: other than to come to the games, and that just
Speaker 4: it leads to a you know, create your own energy
Speaker 4: type of environment. And you know, if you sink back,
Speaker 4: for all the years that we've gone to games, the
Speaker 4: atmosphere used to be a lot more involved, whether it
Speaker 4: be rest in peace, the ooh ah man or those
Speaker 4: three fans dressed as blind referees walking through the crowd,
Speaker 4: or different u of a chance. Aside from the stand
Speaker 4: up at the beginning of each half until the opponent
Speaker 4: scores and the occasional nice shot buddy from the student section,
Speaker 4: there really isn't much in terms of like organized things
Speaker 4: during the game. And I think he was noting just
Speaker 4: how involved everything was at Iowa State and Kansas and
Speaker 4: that that's not what he's seen there. And it's not
Speaker 4: that Arizona is terrible, but that it can be better,
Speaker 4: and now he's seen how it can be better, and
Speaker 4: he'd like it to be better. I think the fact
Speaker 4: that that's how he started his press conference, but that
Speaker 4: was also the first question that was asked, comes off
Speaker 4: as that's more important to him than the performance in
Speaker 4: the game. And I don't really think that's the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I totally agree with you, and we
Speaker 3: sit together and we noticed the crowd obviously up in
Speaker 3: the raptors and stuff. There was no question. It was
Speaker 3: not a knock on the fans. It was about the
Speaker 3: situation and that wasn't his first time. I mean, he
Speaker 3: wants it to be crazy. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 3: that's a lot to ask, yes, and.
Speaker 4: That's going to be on the administration the athletic department
Speaker 4: marketing all that to help create that with the input
Speaker 4: of coaches. There is this new fan council that has
Speaker 4: just been created, and I think the goal of that
Speaker 4: is to hear from people outside of the university who
Speaker 4: go to games and are and stands and involved in
Speaker 4: that way, what they want to see and how that
Speaker 4: can be realistically put into place. I mean, these things
Speaker 4: don't really cost very much. I know that there was
Speaker 4: a lot of also confusion about the postgame senior speeches
Speaker 4: from the ASU game and how those weren't announced until
Speaker 4: after the game. Part of that was a let's not
Speaker 4: jinxit and say this and then we're not going to
Speaker 4: do them after they lose. But also at Tuesday night
Speaker 4: at eleven thirty, even if you did announce beforehand, who
Speaker 4: knows how many people are going to stick around compared
Speaker 4: to having on afternon that's just bad luck having that.
Speaker 4: Maybe you do those before the game and you don't
Speaker 4: have to worry about that, but it seemed like they
Speaker 4: wanted to do as little as possible before the game
Speaker 4: because of the game itself. So there's a lot of
Speaker 4: disconnect and some communication issues that need to get fixed,
Speaker 4: not with this sport, with basketball. I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot more engagement in all of that on the women's
Speaker 4: side because they've put the effort to it. Maybe men's
Speaker 4: basketball has gotten to this complacency level that they just
Speaker 4: know people are going to come or expect them to come,
Speaker 4: and that's really all they need to do. And you
Speaker 4: need a little.
Speaker 1: Bit more of that.
Speaker 4: And now that Tommy has seen that coaching at venues
Speaker 4: he'd never been before. After seeing that in the in
Speaker 4: the Pac twelve, Arizona was probably the gold standard. And
Speaker 4: as as far as fan engagement now they're not anywhere
Speaker 4: near the top. What's it going to take to get there?
Speaker 2: Especially having a new athletic director and she's brought in
Speaker 2: a lot of new people too, So I would imagine
Speaker 2: once this is all over, say in a month or so,
Speaker 2: there's going to be some talk about how can we
Speaker 2: change things up. I remember going to football games like
Speaker 2: at USC, for example, and how they would honor the
Speaker 2: past every game. Every time I went to a uc
Speaker 2: USC game in the coliseum, they would trot out, you know, hey,
Speaker 2: this guy won a Rose Bowl in nineteen I mean,
Speaker 2: it was amazing and the U of A could do that.
Speaker 2: I think that I remember going to the Duke game
Speaker 2: this year, Remember everybody was there that one that one night.
Speaker 1: Well, they could do that both to both of you guys.
Speaker 3: Both we all know that just as not the lone
Speaker 3: ranger in sports that need to be fixed. Right, Football
Speaker 3: definitely needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2: And football, you could hear football here could do the
Speaker 2: same thing, you know. I mean, I know they bring
Speaker 2: in the guy to do the coin toss, but it's
Speaker 2: very quick and still it's really not much there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they could.
Speaker 4: Do things like that. Well, there's there's become a corporate
Speaker 4: environment at football and basketball, and you got to pay
Speaker 4: the bills, but there there are opportunities to do more
Speaker 4: than that. And and you know all these little things
Speaker 4: they do on the court during intermissions and all that
Speaker 4: to get it a little bit more engaged. It's just
Speaker 4: there's not enough involving the fans. And you know, I
Speaker 4: don't know what the answer is to that. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's not my my thing.
Speaker 3: I don't pay.
Speaker 4: Close enough attention to that as others smite. So there's
Speaker 4: definitely something that can happen there. And let's see what
Speaker 4: this fan council and and what the desiree read Francois
Speaker 4: and others. All these people she's brought in. What they
Speaker 4: can do, right, that's what they're here for.
Speaker 3: And they've come from other places, so they've seen other things.
Speaker 4: So m M.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. Now, let's go back to
Speaker 3: the game. Although I thought that stuff was overblown in
Speaker 3: what he said because he's said that before. People find
Speaker 3: he's just finally paid attention. What does he say about
Speaker 3: this team, because it's uh, now they're going to face
Speaker 3: a lot of the teams that they might face in
Speaker 3: the tournament, at least quality wise.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and it's very likely that they'll see Kansas
Speaker 4: again after just playing them, so uh, they you know,
Speaker 4: it's fresh in their minds and they're going to have
Speaker 4: to have a different approach to Kansas. I don't think
Speaker 4: they can get away with the same plan with not
Speaker 4: doubling Hunter Dickinson and just hoping he misses shots, because
Speaker 4: especially if you're guarding him with a Tobe Alaka who's
Speaker 4: six to eight, he's going to be able to get
Speaker 4: his shot off every single time. And Tommy had said
Speaker 4: a little bit today about you know, sometimes you have
Speaker 4: to have that. We'll live with that shot and that
Speaker 4: there's been a little too much of that lately. Well
Speaker 4: maybe they have to double him and risk an open
Speaker 4: three point shooter, whether that goes in too. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's the whole pick your poison thing. But what I've
Speaker 4: noticed in these last handful of games from the defensive end,
Speaker 4: because there's been these bad performances, something that's really stood
Speaker 4: out to me is as there a major downtick in
Speaker 4: the number of turnovers that Arizona is forcing, particularly from steals.
Speaker 4: There were only nine total turnovers by ASU and Kansas
Speaker 4: in the last two games, and one of those was
Speaker 4: Kansas turning the ball over from a shot clock violation
Speaker 4: with six tenths of the second left. At the end
Speaker 4: of the game. They had no steals against ASU, which
Speaker 4: hadn't happened in six years, and then they had three
Speaker 4: against Kansas. It's one thing to force a team into
Speaker 4: a bad shot and then hope it doesn't go in.
Speaker 4: It's another to keep them from getting a shot whatsoever,
Speaker 4: and that's just hasn't been there lately. And the whole
Speaker 4: defense to offense, that's the biggest way to do it.
Speaker 4: Get a steal, force them to knock it out of bounds.
Speaker 4: Travel whatever, so that it's an empty possession without any
Speaker 4: opportunity of scoring.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, do you have a question? What
Speaker 3: do you think ails this team? What do you think
Speaker 3: the need to fix right away stuff? And let me
Speaker 3: tell the statue as well. I think they're running up
Speaker 3: against better teams.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 4: Well, the last eight teams have been considerably better than
Speaker 4: the first twelve they played in the conference. And that
Speaker 4: was seen, that was known beforehand. I think, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe some people didn't expect BYU to be as good,
Speaker 4: but they're the hottest team in the conference. And the
Speaker 4: Kansas State game that was when Kansas State was playing
Speaker 4: its best of the season. But yes, you're playing Houston,
Speaker 4: you're playing Kansas you're playing Iowa State on the road,
Speaker 4: you're playing Baylor on the road. You're facing tougher teams.
Speaker 4: And it's not like they were losing to bad teams.
Speaker 4: I mean, what was their worst loss of this season.
Speaker 4: You could either say it was Oklahoma in the Bahamas
Speaker 4: and Oklahoma's a team that is on the bubble, or
Speaker 4: at Kansas State. When Kansas State was playing well. There
Speaker 4: was no losing at Oregon State, there was no losing
Speaker 4: at Stanford, there was no losing at home to ASU
Speaker 4: kind of things. And you know, the fact of the
Speaker 4: matter is that there are better teams in the league
Speaker 4: than Arizona And that is something I don't think the
Speaker 4: fan base realizes or it's gotten used to, that Arizona
Speaker 4: isn't the best team in the league. And it's okay
Speaker 4: to not be the best team in the league. Like,
Speaker 4: if you can carry over what you've learned from these
Speaker 4: games and then go deeper into to March, the best
Speaker 4: team from each conference doesn't go the furthest in March Madness.
Speaker 4: It's all about matchups and experience and all that. So, yes,
Speaker 4: they've played good teams. Now, if they get into the
Speaker 4: first round, then they lose to a twelve seed that
Speaker 4: is not a better team, that's a different story. But
Speaker 4: right now, I mean, they're just they're losing to good teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're going to be seen, you know as
Speaker 2: just as Steve said, good teams the rest I mean,
Speaker 2: and maybe accept it for Game one, depending on where
Speaker 2: they're seated, but you know, it's going to be a
Speaker 2: tougher situation for them. What about the Yeah, have you
Speaker 2: been able to watch I know the game's just started.
Speaker 2: But so what are you see from some of these
Speaker 2: early games in Kansas City and the environment, least from
Speaker 2: a TV standpoint.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the game going on right now involving
Speaker 4: ASU in Kansas State would probably have the best environment
Speaker 4: of the first day because it's involving a nearby team.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma State Cincinnati the first game, I don't think there
Speaker 4: was really many same with TCU Colorado. You're going to
Speaker 4: really see it tomorrow when Kansas plays and when Iowa
Speaker 4: State plays, because those are the schools, Like how Arizona
Speaker 4: would always still up in Vegas and to a lesser extent,
Speaker 4: Utah and you know, the LA schools because of proximity.
Speaker 4: And that's what it comes down to. Arizona, assuming they
Speaker 4: play Kansas on Thursday night, it's going to be an
Speaker 4: unofficial road game. There's going to be far more Kansas
Speaker 4: fans than there are going to be Arizona fans and
Speaker 4: just kind of have to accept that situation there. I
Speaker 4: think a weird thing is like Arizona's never played in
Speaker 4: this arena, so they have to and I don't think
Speaker 4: you'd get an opportunity to practice on that court anytime
Speaker 4: beforehand because there's all games all day today at all
Speaker 4: day tomorrow, so they don't really have any idea how
Speaker 4: to deal with any of the site lines and all
Speaker 4: that in there. It's not like in the NCAA where
Speaker 4: you get a practice day, and it's not like they
Speaker 4: played a tournament there earlier in the season or a
Speaker 4: non conference game like that like Arizona has done in
Speaker 4: Vegas beforehand. I don't know what, if any impact, that
Speaker 4: might have.
Speaker 3: What do you think to say? What other topics did
Speaker 3: did you guys ask for Tommy? People think, oh, he
Speaker 3: talked about this talk. No, the questions were asked, that's
Speaker 3: what he talked about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there were some stuff about different players
Speaker 4: and whether or not there would be any consideration of
Speaker 4: future lineup changes, like considering that Trait Townsend had one
Speaker 4: of his better teams, would he go back into the
Speaker 4: starting lineup and have more power coming off the bench.
Speaker 4: Same with whether or not since Anthony dell or So
Speaker 4: has been the one that's struggled the most out of
Speaker 4: the starting lineup if he's better off the bench, and
Speaker 4: Tommy has mentioned that, like basically everybody that's been in
Speaker 4: the starting lineup has had times where they've done well,
Speaker 4: and they've been important parts of of the rotation, and
Speaker 4: I don't think he's he really cares too much about
Speaker 4: the ones that start at the beginning of the ones,
Speaker 4: so who play at the end. There was also a
Speaker 4: mention I had asked about kJ Lewis and his struggles
Speaker 4: shooting from the perimeter, and he did admit Tommy that
Speaker 4: the wrist that's been taped up for about nine games
Speaker 4: was a legitimate injury that has affected him and he
Speaker 4: thinks it's getting better. But this past game, I mean,
Speaker 4: kJ Lewis shooting like eighteen percent from three point range
Speaker 4: is not something anybody expected. But he also shouldn't be
Speaker 4: tied for the most three point attempts on the team.
Speaker 4: I think that was definitely a situation at Kansas where
Speaker 4: he was he was kind of baited into the defense
Speaker 4: they were playing, and he fell into that trap. He
Speaker 4: is best offensively driving to the basket. He's shooting much
Speaker 4: better from two this year than he did last year
Speaker 4: because he's showing that aggression going to the basket, and
Speaker 4: that's his game. You had asked about like flaws. I
Speaker 4: just I think that there are a couple guys on
Speaker 4: the offensive end that aren't accepting what they are best at.
Speaker 4: Like Anthony Deloroso is best at catch and shoot, Why
Speaker 4: then is he dribbling into the lane and stopping and
Speaker 4: picking up his pivot foot. He shouldn't be doing that,
Speaker 4: but it keeps happening. kJ is better going to the basket.
Speaker 4: Why then is he dribbling around on the outside trying
Speaker 4: to take a shot. Same with Trey Townsend. Trey is
Speaker 4: best at being aggressive and going up immediately. Why then
Speaker 4: is he dribbling around. I can't get in their heads.
Speaker 4: I can't get in their heads. But you know, this
Speaker 4: is what happens in the heat of a game. Guys
Speaker 4: are not doing what you think art is what they
Speaker 4: should be doing.
Speaker 3: Ryan Peterson, I tell you to be in by eleven
Speaker 3: o'clock each day. You better be in by in at
Speaker 3: eleven o'clock each day. So if you haven't got it
Speaker 3: by now, yeah, there's only a couple more games. Yeah
Speaker 3: you never got.
Speaker 4: It exactly exactly. Yeah, you just at certain point you
Speaker 4: just have to roll the balls out and hope things go.
Speaker 4: There's not really a time for any sort of major
Speaker 4: tactical change. They're not gonna suddenly go to playing zone.
Speaker 4: They're not going to suddenly be bringing in a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of new plays. Though I will say this, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if part of
Speaker 4: at least the part of the game plan they had
Speaker 4: against Kansas was one where they knew that they were
Speaker 4: probably gonna play Kansas again in the Big twelve tournament.
Speaker 4: And it's one of those let's not put everything on
Speaker 4: film kind of stuff that maybe, like for instance, not
Speaker 4: doubling Hunter Dickinson, maybe they didn't want to show how
Speaker 4: they did that in this game with the intent of
Speaker 4: doing it a second time. And I don't know if
Speaker 4: that's the case, but we'll find out in a couple
Speaker 4: of days, because I'd be very surprised if they go
Speaker 4: the exact same route in that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they can't have Hunter Dickinson scoring whatever it was,
Speaker 2: thirty plus points.
Speaker 1: That's who's not gonna work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's the guy. Who's the guy not named Caleb
Speaker 3: Love that needs to really really show up.
Speaker 4: That haven't or just in general in.
Speaker 3: General, but he's not named Caleb Love. Who's the guy?
Speaker 4: I mean, Jaden Bradley has to continue doing the stuff
Speaker 4: that he's been doing. Lately. But I also think, and
Speaker 4: I discussed this with some other people, that maybe he's
Speaker 4: putting in so much effort on the offensive end lately
Speaker 4: that it's impacting his defense because he is a guy
Speaker 4: that was getting a lot of steals and he hasn't
Speaker 4: been lately. So you have to decide where he's most valuable.
Speaker 4: Beyond that, I mean, if Delorso is going to be
Speaker 4: playing meaningful minutes, he needs to be taking those shots. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he's not. And I don't know if it's that
Speaker 4: he is afraid to. I don't know what the situation is.
Speaker 4: But if you're going to get with eight guys, you
Speaker 4: need all eight of them to be contributing. Beyond that,
Speaker 4: I think that and that kJ needs to just do
Speaker 4: what he does best, which is being a great on
Speaker 4: ball in a vacuum defender and be aggressive driving to
Speaker 4: the basket and not try to be a do everything guy.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you.
Speaker 3: You asked, did you ask the question of Tommy about
Speaker 3: Kj's wrist or he brought that up?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: No, No, I asked.
Speaker 4: I asked him if he had any answers for why
Speaker 4: he was struggling so much from the perimeter, if it
Speaker 4: was the risk, and he said, yes, it's a legit injury.
Speaker 4: Thinks it's better, it's getting better, but that he is
Speaker 4: a better shooter than he's shown. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: he does so many other good things for us, so
Speaker 4: we're going to run with him, which is something he
Speaker 4: says about a lot of guys. But that would explain
Speaker 4: why they didn't refft him because they needed him for
Speaker 4: other things. But at the same time, there needs to
Speaker 4: be a reminder, Hey, your wrist is body, and you
Speaker 4: stop trying to take shots that it's going to affect.
Speaker 4: But there's only so much you can do as far
Speaker 4: as coaching that the players are the ones that still
Speaker 4: have to execute and make decisions.
Speaker 2: So often they're leading him and they know he's been
Speaker 2: struggling and they leave them open and he's, well, he's.
Speaker 1: Got to take that shot. Yeah, and how many can
Speaker 1: take hit that?
Speaker 4: He hit that one against ASU at the end to
Speaker 4: get his career high end points and that's the only
Speaker 4: one he's made in like the last three games. And
Speaker 4: I mean, and the shots aren't even good, like they're
Speaker 4: not they're not close. It's it's truly because whatever he
Speaker 4: needs to do with his with his shot that the
Speaker 4: rist is affecting it. And but that's that's a personal
Speaker 4: recognition thing. As much as the coaching staff says, hey,
Speaker 4: they're leaving you open for a reason, don't take that shot.
Speaker 4: You're wide open, and you're like, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 4: make this one, I mean, that's just that's the mindset.
Speaker 4: You don't want them to be unconfident, but they also
Speaker 4: need to recognize their own limitations.
Speaker 3: Right, quick quick prediction from you, Ben Dave Thursday. Thursday's game.
Speaker 3: Let's say Kansas just because I think they win, I
Speaker 3: think they win.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, in general, they have always done better the
Speaker 4: second time they've played an opponent than the first. And
Speaker 4: I mean even Houston was three years different, so those
Speaker 4: were very different teams. But they played well enough to
Speaker 4: win in that game. As long as they don't have
Speaker 4: the same kind of defensive breakdowns, yes, they win this game.
Speaker 4: And Kansas, while they're going to have that home crowd,
Speaker 4: they just aren't the same away from home as they
Speaker 4: are in Lawrence. So yes, I would expect Arizona to
Speaker 4: win this game.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's not going to be the student section
Speaker 2: like we saw in Kansas. Correct over the weekend, and
Speaker 2: you know it'll be similar to how Arizona had things
Speaker 2: going in Vegas. You know, big crowd and kind of
Speaker 2: spread out all over the place.
Speaker 3: And lastly, maybe what seed? What seed do you think
Speaker 3: they're going to get? Eventually?
Speaker 4: I think they're gonna end up as a five unless
Speaker 4: they were to make the title game of the conference tournaments.
Speaker 4: I think that just the there's gonna be too many
Speaker 4: other teams that are going to have a chance to
Speaker 4: move ahead of them or keep them behind. I don't
Speaker 4: think they drop to a six if they lose the
Speaker 4: first game unless a bunch of other teams below them
Speaker 4: have big weeks, and so they're gonna most likely end
Speaker 4: up in Denver or Seattle and playing potentially the winner
Speaker 4: of a first four game. In fact, ESPN today has
Speaker 4: a juicy possibility of assuming they win the first game,
Speaker 4: playing Xavier in the first round imagine which it would
Speaker 4: be so hilarious. It would also be very Sean Miller
Speaker 4: to lose that first four game and then it completely
Speaker 4: eliminates the possibility of it. But I mean the storyline
Speaker 4: just to beg Yeah, and just imagine how how this
Speaker 4: fan base would handle getting knocked out in the first
Speaker 4: round by the former coach they deemed wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 3: Let me lastly, how full is the bend wagon?
Speaker 4: The bandwagon is. It's still mostly full, but I think
Speaker 4: everyone is hanging off the edge of it to brace
Speaker 4: their fault. I just said to one of my passengers
Speaker 4: earlier today who is fairly new to Tucson, I said,
Speaker 4: you will be able to feel the depression in the
Speaker 4: air in Tucson when the basketball team gets eliminated, because
Speaker 4: that is the lifeblood. And then it's like, once basketball
Speaker 4: is eliminated, that means summer is right around the corner,
Speaker 4: and here comes one hundred and ten degrees. So yeah,
Speaker 4: that's we know. That's how it is here in Tucson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, pretty agree. Okay, thanks Brian. Yeah, that's how
Speaker 3: we used to look at it too. It was like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, what's what's next summer?
Speaker 2: We still got you the softball and baseball, right, we
Speaker 2: used to have the toros are the sidewinders. But yeah,
Speaker 2: as soon as basketball ends, it was kind of like
Speaker 2: when's football season start?
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Speaker 3: zero four one six seventy four to forty. What do
Speaker 3: you think about what Tommy said today? I think he's
Speaker 3: accurate in what he's talking about, is that it wasn't
Speaker 3: a criticism, it wasn't distract Yeah as well, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's it is interesting. You know, again, the UVA has
Speaker 2: fans who've been going.
Speaker 1: To these games. I've had my tickets for forty five years.
Speaker 2: I mean, people like that, so you know, it probably
Speaker 2: does get a little bit stale. That's not maybe not
Speaker 2: maybe not the right word, but people have been there
Speaker 2: and they kind of know how to act and that's
Speaker 2: what they're gonna do.
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Speaker 6: Hey guys, George, here man, George.
Speaker 1: That's what do you got?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 4: Who would you rather have?
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I walked out of the wind. Who would
Speaker 6: you rather have? Calipari or loud Olsen? Because they both
Speaker 6: have one national championship?
Speaker 1: Now yeah, not even no.
Speaker 6: But but but but Cala Pari, you know, like they're
Speaker 6: one and the same. But Cali Parti is now like
Speaker 6: chasing I don't know, pipe dreams in Arkansas or wherever
Speaker 6: you right now, I forget now, but you know what
Speaker 6: I mean? Like, who would like loot stage? But they
Speaker 6: kicked Cali. I'm just curious.
Speaker 3: Wait, you're trying to Are you trying to persuade us
Speaker 3: to go one way and not the other? But to me,
Speaker 3: and I've said this, George, George, I've said this for
Speaker 3: a little I've said this for ten twelve years. Cali
Speaker 3: Parti is the most overrated college coach in a long time.
Speaker 3: So if you're asking me about Lute and Cala Parti,
Speaker 3: I might be a little bassed. But lut was more
Speaker 3: of a basketball savant than Calu not a little more
Speaker 3: a lot more than than Cali Pari was a coach.
Speaker 3: If that makes any sense, Oh.
Speaker 1: I totally agree.
Speaker 6: But if you like, I don't know, like in the
Speaker 6: two thousands, let's just say, uh, if you wanted to
Speaker 6: go to the NBA, where did you go, Kentucky Calipari.
Speaker 3: Well, here's here's here's the issue, George. Those guys were
Speaker 3: already NBA ready. They just had to go somewhere for
Speaker 3: nine months and then get drafted. Cali Parti didn't teach
Speaker 3: him how to play the.
Speaker 15: Game, I mean, but did But Didlutlutlut had lout had
Speaker 15: dudes that stayed awhile and they became better ball players.
Speaker 3: The one thing, and I'm not trying to defend Lute
Speaker 3: at all, he didn't need my defense. But the one
Speaker 3: thing that the things at the end of the NBA
Speaker 3: people said that the things with the U of A
Speaker 3: guys when they would get to the NBA, they were
Speaker 3: NBA ready. They knew exactly what to do, how to
Speaker 3: do it because they did a lot of the concepts here.
Speaker 3: They were you know what I'm saying, Cali Party, those
Speaker 3: dudes were already one and done. Do you think they
Speaker 3: learned basketball to get better in nine months. They were
Speaker 3: already they were already good to go.
Speaker 4: I just.
Speaker 6: Before your last person or before your last guy, like
Speaker 6: I just when it came up. I was like, huh,
Speaker 6: I wonder because Luke and Colin Party each have.
Speaker 4: Won, yeah, one champion and sort to.
Speaker 6: Think about it, they just took different approaches.
Speaker 2: But also Lute was not really in the whole one
Speaker 2: and done era like Cala Perry to be.
Speaker 3: He was near the end, you know, to be. And
Speaker 3: then then Bayless Bayless, Bayliss was he didn't coach with
Speaker 3: the Bayless that he was out by that time. But
Speaker 3: you know, okay, George keep calling, Thank you man.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at Calipari's record is still briefing than George.
Speaker 1: You got fifty wins. Here we go.
Speaker 3: Someone tried to call in and we couldn't get you on.
Speaker 3: Hell you're on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 1: Who's this You.
Speaker 16: Better take the right of George to ever call again
Speaker 16: with that take. It's stupidity.
Speaker 1: That average that's.
Speaker 4: Apples to kick in.
Speaker 3: You know what, It's crap, It's crap.
Speaker 4: It was a crap take.
Speaker 3: It's just crap.
Speaker 1: Because the.
Speaker 16: Economic ramification that loude Olsen has had on this community.
Speaker 16: And this university is paramount. Nike is here, the Tucson
Speaker 16: is put on the map. Yes, Jojo left his herd
Speaker 16: and Tucson Arizona. It got California grass. Ludo said, put
Speaker 16: this place on the map. And for this dude, George too,
Speaker 16: to compare him to a slide ball like col A party,
Speaker 16: you could there was there was an instance or a
Speaker 16: point time where you could compare my my, my, my
Speaker 16: boy U dang before Lloyd Jinga I forgot to make
Speaker 16: Sean Miller to Cala PARTI for the way they were
Speaker 16: recruiting and recruiting when and does But you're you're talking
Speaker 16: about two different things and two different eras, and what
Speaker 16: Lou meant and what he.
Speaker 7: Did economically Califari could never say that he did that
Speaker 7: to Memphis or or he did that to Kentucky because
Speaker 7: Kentucky was established already.
Speaker 3: And you say, Lud the team, maybe we maybe we.
Speaker 1: Could talk about that.
Speaker 16: But to call a party, dude, I just shaking my
Speaker 16: head at this raid.
Speaker 1: How do you really feel his hair?
Speaker 3: Did you? Was it your birthday just recently and they
Speaker 3: gave you a thesaurus and you had to use those
Speaker 3: more good to hear from you, fat Mike. Good to
Speaker 3: hear from you, I hope pretty well. And he's gone.
Speaker 3: I think he's good. Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 1: Uh that was that was that was That was pretty
Speaker 1: good though. He actually made some pretty pretty strong points.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was not trying to compare him. He just
Speaker 3: who would you take, right color party?
Speaker 2: It's kind of interesting. Whould you take now? Like you
Speaker 2: know same you know forty years ago? You take a
Speaker 2: Lutelson because he's going to stick around, He's going to
Speaker 2: build something and he's going to be important to in
Speaker 2: the university.
Speaker 3: You're on the air.
Speaker 4: Who's this economic gradmafact?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? It means more students?
Speaker 3: What do you got t money? Go ahead, give me
Speaker 3: your imitations.
Speaker 17: Yeah, hey, I don't know if the FDC spokes banglish Man,
Speaker 17: you guys be in trouble. But uh no, I don't know.
Speaker 17: I just wanted to say economic gramarfic on the radio.
Speaker 3: Well, tell me tell me what you said you think
Speaker 3: about this team? Do they have a chance to win
Speaker 3: a few? I mean in the next two three weeks?
Speaker 17: You know, I think this this big twelve tournament on
Speaker 17: the most ugly court of all time is going to
Speaker 17: to tell us what what's gonna happen here? If they
Speaker 17: go in there and just stink it up in casey
Speaker 17: and come home like I'm done, Like I'll just watch
Speaker 17: the women's n I t I don't know, but like
Speaker 17: I was gonna think, these guys have to show some
Speaker 17: fire man, Yeah, to show some fire Caleb Love. Maybe
Speaker 17: he has to change his last name. I don't know
Speaker 17: what he gots to do, but it's on his shoulders,
Speaker 17: Like he has to get to the tin from the
Speaker 17: top of the key at will. He can't do that, then, uh,
Speaker 17: then it's going to be one hundred and ten degrees
Speaker 17: pretty soon.
Speaker 3: Did you? Did you take offense to what Tommy said
Speaker 3: so Saturday?
Speaker 17: No, I think that that multiple things can be absolutely
Speaker 17: true at the same time. Like I get it, but
Speaker 17: I also get that the Big twelve is protecting its
Speaker 17: own and and Kansas got to play us at home
Speaker 17: on at two o'clock on a Saturday, and we had
Speaker 17: our Saturday, our senior Day at nine o'clock at night on.
Speaker 1: A Tuesday, Like that is stupid.
Speaker 7: And I will beat that drum.
Speaker 1: I will beat that drum.
Speaker 17: The working man needs to bring his kids to the games,
Speaker 17: and and no where, no person in the right mind
Speaker 17: is going to be doing this Tuesday thing at nine o'clock.
Speaker 17: This is unsustainable and Sandra Bullet needs to address that
Speaker 17: with the big twelve centrable.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right to money, Thanks bunch, thanks so much,
Speaker 3: you got your words in. Thank you man.
Speaker 1: All right, that's very true, very true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really, haven't a senior night at really like what
Speaker 2: eleven thirty.
Speaker 1: At least yet least.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still you couldn't even hear the guys. I mean,
Speaker 3: the microphones in that building was bad. It was bad football.
Speaker 3: Do you you go fan and football? Those things are bad.
Speaker 4: You can't.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that until I was a fan. In
Speaker 3: for football, I would have never known. And in basketball too,
Speaker 3: it's muzzled. It's it's it's not you can't hear it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean again, you know, with a new regime,
Speaker 2: we'll see if there's feedback there and if the fans
Speaker 2: are complaining.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about this fan council.
Speaker 2: That, Yeah, no, I did not know. Get them on
Speaker 2: the show, Yeah, to get them on the who's there
Speaker 2: and what kind of advice they want to give to.
Speaker 3: The well, I think what you said to to Brian
Speaker 3: when you heard that, they're going to go back, take
Speaker 3: their notes and review the whole situation. Right probably after
Speaker 3: the season's finally done. We get them in May, maybe
Speaker 3: as long as they I think she has intentions to
Speaker 3: get things done and done differently. Right now, Let's see
Speaker 3: if it gets implemented, right, because what's the point of
Speaker 3: getting these surveys. You're not going to do anything with them.
Speaker 1: It's going to be it's going to be the two
Speaker 1: big sports.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's going to be something at football and
Speaker 2: they'll switch up and you know, let's see, she's had
Speaker 2: a year to watch games and different situations, different teams,
Speaker 2: different times, different times of the day. There's gonna be
Speaker 2: what some Friday games we know already for this next
Speaker 2: football season, that's gonna be another different dynamics.
Speaker 1: So I had a lot lot to think about, a
Speaker 1: lot to work on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm not from here. You're not from here.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people not from here. You have
Speaker 3: to please a lot of people because they're from Iowa
Speaker 3: or wherever. They're not their hometown, and you probably have
Speaker 3: to sell it because you were trying to sell you
Speaker 3: of a right to people who have no connections to you.
Speaker 3: Of a Yeah, well, I mean they were alums. Well
Speaker 3: you went to alums. But did you go to other
Speaker 3: people that didn't have time?
Speaker 2: Sometimes people with money, I mean people many people who
Speaker 2: give to Arizona are not alums that say live here,
Speaker 2: that want to buy their tickets or want to go
Speaker 2: to the shows, want to go to the concerts and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. So they're not always going to be
Speaker 2: Arizona grads. But but you're right. I mean, in general,
Speaker 2: you know, the fans expect to be entertained and I
Speaker 2: expected to switch up every once in a while. And
Speaker 2: you know how that fan experience that's always been something
Speaker 2: the UFA has talked about. We want to get people
Speaker 2: you know, home early or whatever, get them at home safely,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure they'll be you know, kind of looking
Speaker 2: at how the whole game days is set up.
Speaker 3: Right right that said, thanks day for coming on in.
Speaker 3: I'll see you Thursday, okay, probably with another author or two.
Speaker 2: Right, don't forget to Tucson Festival of Books coming up
Speaker 2: on Saturday, Sunday.
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday all day, right, all.
Speaker 2: Day ten o'clock until like five, So just head out
Speaker 2: to the campus.
Speaker 3: Right and every type of genre of book you want to.
Speaker 3: It's not just sports.
Speaker 1: You can't find a book the type there.
Speaker 3: Children's adult, Yeah, everything seriously, from children's to adults. Great
Speaker 3: people people watching plays. Two definitely yeah, Okay, thanks Dave.
Speaker 3: We'll see you guys tomorrow. From my end,