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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to the ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Iss you didn't know?
Speaker 5: Now we got Henry with breaking news.
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Speaker 6: Former Arizona running back to Cory krossky Merritt was named
Speaker 6: offensive MVP for the Shrine Bowl yesterday after racking up
Speaker 6: ninety seven rushing yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Yeah that was interesting, did you guys you watch it? No?
Speaker 3: I saw some highlights. I saw the highlights. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's pretty pretty interesting, pretty cool.
Speaker 6: Kind of like what if if you actually got to play?
Speaker 4: Where did he go? Where did he wind up playing? Well,
Speaker 4: he was at New Mexico.
Speaker 6: Now he played, he was played only one game for us,
Speaker 6: because there we still don't know what has.
Speaker 7: Is it that the kid from that went to the bail.
Speaker 7: There was there was a there was a kid.
Speaker 4: That went to New Mexican.
Speaker 5: Anyway, that's what he was from New Mexico, right, That's
Speaker 5: what we're talking.
Speaker 3: About, and and he played here for a game or
Speaker 3: two and then and then you think, all of this
Speaker 3: guy is going to be pretty good, and he was
Speaker 3: supposed to be very good, and then he mysteriously couldn't
Speaker 3: play anymore. And and and let me tell you, Henry
Speaker 3: and you party by agree that that could have been
Speaker 3: a big maybe a two or three game difference.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well, uh.
Speaker 4: Play with them. So yeah, he was telling me about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had a lot of nice moves and obviously
Speaker 5: he did well.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, me too, is going to be a first
Speaker 4: round draft pick?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: No, come on.
Speaker 4: Of the shrine ball.
Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you now that you're here, now
Speaker 3: I see the talking about draft. What about your boy Davis?
Speaker 4: Listen, hey, who wants to take a bet? He's not
Speaker 4: going first round? Se he's not not even he's at Washington.
Speaker 4: He transferred. Who are we talking about?
Speaker 5: Oh, that's that's the guy though eventually, did he change
Speaker 5: your mind at all because he transferred?
Speaker 8: He yeah, he's not Washington. I mean that's good for him, honestly.
Speaker 8: But that's what they were talking about. When you first
Speaker 8: became an intern here you were talking about You didn't
Speaker 8: see it.
Speaker 4: I see it.
Speaker 8: He's he has a size, he has a size he
Speaker 8: has But I don't know. I just they were talking
Speaker 8: first round. When I was hearing that, I was like,
Speaker 8: whoa on, let's relax, he's first round. I go out
Speaker 8: there and do a little bit.
Speaker 2: You're just looking for it.
Speaker 6: I la Arizona Women's tonight travels to Utah for a
Speaker 6: game at six thirty.
Speaker 4: Okay, I want to go to a basketball game for
Speaker 4: the one is too.
Speaker 5: Okay, you can go do that. You can do that,
Speaker 5: that's no problem.
Speaker 4: You can probably get a ticket. You can free. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and know somebody, you just got to show your tech card.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure waits free. I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe if it's not like all your game. But
Speaker 6: Arizona Gymnastics will host Denver tonight for a meet at
Speaker 6: Michael Center at seven.
Speaker 5: Pm last night. Okay, I've never been to. I don't
Speaker 5: think I could do whatever there.
Speaker 7: I think those those gymnasts, you know, they compete at
Speaker 7: a super duper high level, and there are one or
Speaker 7: two levels below those, those athletes that are the Olympic
Speaker 7: Trials athletes, but they are just as talented and and
Speaker 7: you know it's you know, we had the golfer.
Speaker 4: We talked in golf last hour, and.
Speaker 7: You know it's it is millimeters you know of of
Speaker 7: points that are awarded in gymnastics.
Speaker 4: That's the difference, right right, right right, This could be
Speaker 4: over four days.
Speaker 3: Would I get the gymnast coach here, I'm gonna ask that,
Speaker 3: how what's the difference between very good good? Just can
Speaker 3: you tell the difference? You know, I'm just watching you thinking, oh,
Speaker 3: that was pretty good.
Speaker 7: They all look like great athletes, and it's who I
Speaker 7: would like to hear that.
Speaker 3: Because you know, what's the difference between like runner, Hey
Speaker 3: he finished in three whatever and four.
Speaker 7: It's pretty straightforward with running and you know some of
Speaker 7: those in basketball because.
Speaker 5: You're not judged. Yeah, yeah, this performance based okay.
Speaker 6: College basketball this weekend number five, Florida at number eight,
Speaker 6: Tennessee unranked, North Carolina at number two, Duke number twenty five,
Speaker 6: Yukon at number nine, Marquette, and John cal Powery returns
Speaker 6: to Kentucky to take on number twelve Kentucky.
Speaker 4: Where's he coaching? Like Alabama's state Arkansas.
Speaker 3: They're struggling, which is no shock because he's the most
Speaker 3: overlated college play. But North Carolina may not even make
Speaker 3: the tournament and they're headed to Duke this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's in trouble. They might be a double digit losses.
Speaker 5: Yes, in the paper you think that. Yeah, but they
Speaker 5: always played Duke, Well.
Speaker 4: That is true. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The NBA All Stars came out last night. Sons guard
Speaker 6: Devin Booker did not make it, which really yep, And
Speaker 6: he came out after and said he supports the idea
Speaker 6: of the NBA expanding the rosters to more people.
Speaker 5: How many you are on the Russian now it's.
Speaker 6: Twelve from each conference, twenty four total.
Speaker 5: Of course you need to make it, you want to expect.
Speaker 5: But wow, yeah that was a little surprising.
Speaker 4: Yeah, surprise.
Speaker 7: Is it set up where the top five or six
Speaker 7: are voted in by the public and then the rest
Speaker 7: of picks playing the fifty because it's a popularity contest.
Speaker 6: At some point, I think the fan vote is fifty percent,
Speaker 6: the coaches is twenty five, and then the players is
Speaker 6: twenty five.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well okay.
Speaker 6: Texas quarterback Arch Manning has opened as the early favorite
Speaker 6: for the Heisman Trophy next season at plus seven to fifty.
Speaker 5: That's about right, that's about right. I don't want you
Speaker 5: put money on it. No, I mean it'd be fa
Speaker 5: hang it on right, DraftKings, what's my password? Now?
Speaker 7: I'm excited for the season because they've been hyping this
Speaker 7: guy for twelve years, that chance, ever since he was
Speaker 7: a freshman in high school.
Speaker 4: So I'm curious to see what he what he can do.
Speaker 4: That's all I got.
Speaker 5: Okay, anybody else? Anything else? Do you have thing to
Speaker 5: say there? Tim? With your running, with your running and stuff.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, it's but it is a running season,
Speaker 7: by the way, track high school track starts next Monday,
Speaker 7: the tenth, So super excited about that. I don't coach anymore,
Speaker 7: but I know that it's a fun time for the
Speaker 7: kids because it's it's it's all of the endeavors, you know,
Speaker 7: from sprinting all the way up to distance running.
Speaker 4: Then there's jumping and pole vaulting. So that's an exciting time.
Speaker 7: Kids coming together from football and basketball and cross country
Speaker 7: to make a team.
Speaker 4: So let's go track.
Speaker 5: Well you talked about this before the before the breaking
Speaker 5: news and maybe last hour the investigation into the NBA
Speaker 5: and the college. Yeah, anything more of that, I didn't.
Speaker 6: I haven't seen anything that it sin's like yesterday morning, Well.
Speaker 7: I found it interesting, and it's it's not point shaving
Speaker 7: so much anymore. That used to be kind of the
Speaker 7: the bad words is point shaving, and now it's you're
Speaker 7: betting on maybe till shots by props, and that's that's
Speaker 7: the I would imagine that some of these draft kings
Speaker 7: of the world are they're gonna do something.
Speaker 4: They have something or either not make it or it's sure,
Speaker 4: or they're they're going to have a legal way out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll see. I guess the Cowboys hired the
Speaker 3: Cardinals offensive court.
Speaker 4: No, I think that just came out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's a lot of changes, a lot of
Speaker 3: cool things going on. Otherwise, when's the Lstar Game NBA? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think a couple of weeks. Yeah, okay, halfway marking
Speaker 3: a little more than halfway the season. The Warriors they
Speaker 3: gonna make the tournament playoffs.
Speaker 5: I should say, right now, there's a right on the outside. Right,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to stop wearing my Warriors.
Speaker 7: You got your Warrior's shirt on right now, I'm quit
Speaker 7: gucching them. You're you're guching them right now every.
Speaker 5: Time I wear it. Get my next purchase.
Speaker 3: Okay, anybody want to call, you can five, two oh four, one, six,
Speaker 3: seventy four forty give us your thoughts on whatever tomorrow's
Speaker 3: game is perfect, we'll see what.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question. You know we've talked
Speaker 4: about this as a reporter.
Speaker 7: Would you rather have like a big exciting game like
Speaker 7: Iowa State over time, but it's at it ends at midnight?
Speaker 7: Or would you like a nice eleven o'clock in the
Speaker 7: morning game probably gonna be round of the mill.
Speaker 4: What do you want as a record?
Speaker 3: That's a good question. I just want the story. So
Speaker 3: if the if the the late night stuff is not tough,
Speaker 3: it's just like a long day, right. I got out
Speaker 3: of the off, out of the arena twelve that night.
Speaker 3: I got to home about twelve thirty. I didn't write
Speaker 3: till the next day because who's going to stay up
Speaker 3: a wait for what I have to say?
Speaker 5: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think the casual thing at eleven the day's pretty
Speaker 3: much done by three o'clock. I hope to be done
Speaker 3: with three o'clock in tempy so that that sounds appealing
Speaker 3: for this. For the game, I hope it's a good game,
Speaker 3: because then there's a lot to write about. Hurley will
Speaker 3: pop off and and Tommy will be Tommy and it'd
Speaker 3: be great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were talking about it last hour.
Speaker 7: Is your brain's probably going one hundred miles an hour
Speaker 7: to pull on threads, and you probably don't write half
Speaker 7: the stories you think about.
Speaker 3: No, you're right, And by the time or I think
Speaker 3: a lot about the game and my story during the game,
Speaker 3: and by the time I sit down, all that crap
Speaker 3: has gone out the door and I have to come
Speaker 3: up with something else because I don't. Sometimes I'll write
Speaker 3: it down and say this would be perfect for this
Speaker 3: and then things change, right.
Speaker 4: I was just going to ask that.
Speaker 7: So, like you, I know you didn't write till the
Speaker 7: next day, but you know do you probably had that
Speaker 7: story written to the end U of a came up
Speaker 7: short and then ye what did.
Speaker 5: You read it? Did you read me? You read me?
Speaker 3: And it was more about Caleb love than and all
Speaker 3: the points he scored and how important that three point
Speaker 3: was two him in his career in the grand scheme
Speaker 3: of things.
Speaker 7: Yeah, now that that's you know, it's just to be
Speaker 7: different a it's and it's it's at a third rated
Speaker 7: school at the time.
Speaker 4: So it's a big deal. Yeah, yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 4: a big deal and it probably extends.
Speaker 3: Well, my importance is being different, being different than you know,
Speaker 3: just saying, you know, Lelove hit a fifty five foot
Speaker 3: shot to win the game. Everyone saw that. Everyone saw that,
Speaker 3: you know, But what does it mean? What does it mean?
Speaker 3: The grand scheme things? Just like the surgeon saying, how
Speaker 3: was the operation?
Speaker 5: Pretty good? Did he live? Nobody was the hell of
Speaker 5: an operation?
Speaker 4: I looked really good. I liked really good.
Speaker 7: So let me ask you this. If if we beat ass,
Speaker 7: if we beat as you Tomorrow's, who's the we? Oh nay,
Speaker 7: you Lumberjacks. Come on, if the UVA beats as You
Speaker 7: tomorrow decisively by twelve fifteen points, what are we ranked.
Speaker 3: As they should? Oh yeah, I think, yeah, good question.
Speaker 3: In the top twenty sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, Yeah, in the
Speaker 3: top twenty five. They've been out of the top twenty four.
Speaker 3: They have been the longest, remember, I think, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah no, But I'm talking about the longest stretch. Yeh
Speaker 3: here in a lot. I could be wrong, maybe Sean's
Speaker 3: time at the end, but they I can't remember this
Speaker 3: long of a time.
Speaker 5: But they have not been the top twenty five.
Speaker 7: Maybe Javier will textas yeah, yeah, I have no way
Speaker 7: to find out even though they're these Yeah, I think
Speaker 7: the idea if they went if it's week, they're probably
Speaker 7: twenty one, twenty two.
Speaker 4: But if it's yea, they made them pretty good seventeen.
Speaker 5: And people watched not watch the game on Monday, but
Speaker 5: they saw.
Speaker 7: They saw the highlights lights. Yeah, I mean people were
Speaker 7: talking about it in the National.
Speaker 5: They won ten out of ten out of eleven, eleven.
Speaker 4: And eleven out of thirteen or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something, So they're they're doing okay, and that's what people,
Speaker 3: at least the reporters. You have to give them those
Speaker 3: numbers because they're not going to pay attention to those numbers.
Speaker 5: So we'll see. And what does that mean? Okay, so
Speaker 5: the ranked nineteen, what does that mean?
Speaker 4: Well, I think I think you want to end the season.
Speaker 7: You want to be you know, you want to make
Speaker 7: a run for one of those top four spots in
Speaker 7: the in the in the field, right, you want to
Speaker 7: be in the in the top.
Speaker 5: Four with the rankings something.
Speaker 4: Nothing to do that, well, I know that, but you
Speaker 4: want to be considered that. So it's you want to
Speaker 4: be in the mix. You want to be.
Speaker 7: You want to you want to have a strength, you
Speaker 7: want to be playing well at the end. Make that
Speaker 7: top four, two three, Sure you know.
Speaker 5: Right now, I think they're in the top henry.
Speaker 3: You might know this top fifteen, sixteen in the important schedule,
Speaker 3: in the in the kind of the metrics that matters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they were fourteen last time, So you
Speaker 4: want to be right in there.
Speaker 3: So they're they're among that because they've played a tough schedule.
Speaker 3: Not that they succeeded that tough schedule, but but.
Speaker 7: The algorithm helps them. So I think you want to
Speaker 7: be in that so that you can be in that
Speaker 7: top three, four.
Speaker 5: Five eventually and then we can put somebody on this Matt.
Speaker 5: If you're if you're inclined, where what seed will you
Speaker 5: be in two months or six weeks?
Speaker 6: I would say, I feel like a lot of it
Speaker 6: depends on how they do in the big Self tournament.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but that doesn't really well, I'll let you.
Speaker 6: If they win it, then then they couldn't matter. But
Speaker 6: I would say five six.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's six six at the worst for me.
Speaker 4: The worst, we're going to be a fifth seed in
Speaker 4: the East. Okay, fifth seed. Write it down with everyone else.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, because what could they do to improve themselves
Speaker 3: outside of beating Houston and Iowa stayed in Kansas? Okay,
Speaker 3: So then you're looking maybe in the top three, top
Speaker 3: four were maybe with that first.
Speaker 6: I mean if you if they win the Big Twelve tournament,
Speaker 6: they could be a three.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, in addition to winning those games exactly right,
Speaker 3: and guess what those games were on the road Kansas,
Speaker 3: Iowa State and they can't flub anything else.
Speaker 5: Good luck with that.
Speaker 4: Well, they know how to win big games well, and.
Speaker 5: That'll make them win the regular season of the Big Twelve.
Speaker 7: Right well there where they were there? Second and the
Speaker 7: Big Twelve right now right?
Speaker 5: Second or third?
Speaker 4: Second? Houston's eight and oh nine, eight and one, so
Speaker 4: they're second still that third howay States and third? They
Speaker 4: got two losses.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we'll see. I mean, this is a long stretch.
Speaker 5: We got half the season left with the Big Twelve.
Speaker 7: Right, but I think that they're positioned well. They got
Speaker 7: an ice streak, gone confidence.
Speaker 5: Where's this we stuff?
Speaker 4: We we us in this room though, we have a
Speaker 4: good streak.
Speaker 5: They we you and I know we.
Speaker 4: Where'd you go to college?
Speaker 5: Where'd you go to Mexico?
Speaker 4: State, Mexico State, Northern I don't talk about that much.
Speaker 4: Northern Arizona chasing me down for tuition.
Speaker 7: They're gonna start finding them get hold of him.
Speaker 4: He was just funny and a you finally found me.
Speaker 7: They got ahold of my address, and all of sudden
Speaker 7: I start getting the alumni news letter.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yes, hey, by the way, you have a
Speaker 5: nice job. Could you support us.
Speaker 4: For they do?
Speaker 7: So, they've they found my address and and I'm forever found. Yeah,
Speaker 7: those those are those alumni. So when you guys are
Speaker 7: Arizona alums, you know, so you you will get to
Speaker 7: say we we get to Yeah.
Speaker 4: But there were already.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been probably schooled at a time or two.
Speaker 3: Have you. No, No, I haven't schooled you. You don't
Speaker 3: say it here.
Speaker 4: I don't say it here. I say my dad kind
Speaker 4: of does.
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, okay, well his money is going to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He's a wee too.
Speaker 4: He's a week he gets a letter from the alumni.
Speaker 5: Damn, Henry, I can when do you get out? And
Speaker 5: I have the paper that of education abuse. Okay, let's
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to One on the Ball here at
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty of Steve Rivera, your Tim Bentley,
Speaker 3: and we got Henry at the controls.
Speaker 5: We can try to reach the show. Trying to have
Speaker 5: a Calleray, Michelle is a shoe yep, I'm here. Hi, Hi,
Speaker 5: just entire thank you.
Speaker 3: We just introduced you, Michelle Gardner from the Arizona Republic.
Speaker 3: How are you doing? You're getting ready for tomorrow's game?
Speaker 3: Is it a big game?
Speaker 5: You think?
Speaker 19: I think it is more so for ASU than Arizona.
Speaker 19: Obviously it's a rivalry, so it's big for both teams.
Speaker 19: But you know, ASU is one of those teams that
Speaker 19: in the projections right now are just outside of the bubble, so.
Speaker 2: They need some they need some quality wins.
Speaker 19: To play their way back into the picture.
Speaker 2: And the good thing about the Big Twelve is there
Speaker 2: are plenty of those quality wins out there.
Speaker 19: To be had, so it's just a matter of them
Speaker 19: getting the job done.
Speaker 3: No, I totally agree with you, and I've said this
Speaker 3: on the air last couple of days. Arizona has gone
Speaker 3: into a tempee with better teams, and ASU has been
Speaker 3: able to pull those games off. So tomorrow it could
Speaker 3: very well happen.
Speaker 2: You never know. I think a big thing with ASU
Speaker 2: is going to be.
Speaker 19: The availability of their key players. I mean, he's got
Speaker 19: Hurley's got eight players basically that he uses, and two
Speaker 19: of those didn't play the other night. Or you know,
Speaker 19: Freeman played for four minutes and then was out for
Speaker 19: the game, so in essence, he didn't play. But so
Speaker 19: I think the availability of those players is going to
Speaker 19: be huge. I don't think you beat a team like
Speaker 19: Arizona with six players.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, very tough.
Speaker 7: That is tough, Michelle. I like asking this question. You
Speaker 7: watch all the games. What's your tip off for that
Speaker 7: how the game is going to go when you are
Speaker 7: watching court side?
Speaker 4: What's the tell for this team for you?
Speaker 19: I think there are two keys.
Speaker 2: One again is the available.
Speaker 19: Personnel, and the second thing for ASU is going to
Speaker 19: be turnovers. They are just ungodly bad with the ball.
Speaker 19: And it's hard to believe that a team with Bobby
Speaker 19: Hurley as the coach, one of the greatest point guards
Speaker 19: of all time, has guys that throw the ball all
Speaker 19: over the gym. And it's almost appalling because the guy's
Speaker 19: throwing the ball all over the gym or their seedon
Speaker 19: veteran players. It's not like it's their younger players.
Speaker 2: So I think that you can get beat.
Speaker 19: Colorado with eighteen turnovers. You're not going to be a
Speaker 19: really good team with eighteen turnovers. So key personnel being
Speaker 19: healthy and able to play and cutting down the turnovers,
Speaker 19: to me, are the two factors for a su that
Speaker 19: they need to, you know, if they're gonna have any
Speaker 19: chance in this game. Those are the two.
Speaker 5: Things I'm looking at.
Speaker 3: Have you been like many or at least today, the
Speaker 3: Tommy Presh Conference is the big story. At least the
Speaker 3: question is glory about Sonon. Have you done your feature
Speaker 3: on him? I'm sure you have, and just the type
Speaker 3: of player he is, you know, it's.
Speaker 19: Hard to say because he was hurt for five games
Speaker 19: and he was out of the mix, and he hasn't
Speaker 19: looked the same since he's been back.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a matter.
Speaker 19: Of, you know, hopefully he plays his way back into
Speaker 19: a rhythm. But he's only been back for two games,
Speaker 19: and the two games that he's been back, he hasn't
Speaker 19: been great. He's been okay, but he hasn't been the
Speaker 19: impact player that he was before he got hurt. I mean,
Speaker 19: when I'm watching this, this young man before he got hurt,
Speaker 19: I've never seen a guy shoot, you know, a guy
Speaker 19: in an ASU uniform shoot the way he shoots. And
Speaker 19: Hurley even said he's the best shooter he's ever coached,
Speaker 19: and that's saying a lot. But again, he had so
Speaker 19: when you look at this team, they haven't really had
Speaker 19: a chance to be going on, you know, all cylinders
Speaker 19: with all their guys kind of healthy. I mean early
Speaker 19: in the conference season they did and we saw what
Speaker 19: they could do against some quality teams in the non conference.
Speaker 19: But really, since Big twelve place started, they really haven't had,
Speaker 19: you know, all their guys available. If you look at
Speaker 19: Sanna and having five games, he missed and Jaden Quainteain's
Speaker 19: missed the last one and Freeman missed a lot, so
Speaker 19: you know, they really just.
Speaker 2: Since conference play started, I haven't had all the.
Speaker 19: Guys that they need to beat good teams.
Speaker 3: Real quick, how do you say his last name properly?
Speaker 3: Because I heard it today differently? Which one.
Speaker 19: It's Sanon? It's Sanon differently.
Speaker 5: Earlier today at the UFA, right, Henry, Yeah, at the
Speaker 5: press conference.
Speaker 3: Okay, so, uh, what do you think about Arizona. I'm
Speaker 3: sure we've seen him enough times.
Speaker 19: You know, it's a team that you know, quite frankly,
Speaker 19: early on, like everybody probably in Tucson, through the non
Speaker 19: conference play, I was wondering what the heck's going on
Speaker 19: and looking and looking at the non conference schedule, and
Speaker 19: they literally didn't beat a power conference school in the
Speaker 19: non conference play, but they down their stride.
Speaker 2: And again, when.
Speaker 19: You've got a veteran player like you know, Caleb Love,
Speaker 19: he's going to get he's going to rally the troops
Speaker 19: and he's going to get guys going in the right direction.
Speaker 19: And I was literally sitting in my hotel room in
Speaker 19: Denver watching that game the other night, and.
Speaker 2: When that ball went.
Speaker 19: Through the hoop, I'm like, well, Okay, that's shades of
Speaker 19: Desmond Cambridge Junior two years ago. I think probably everybody
Speaker 19: in Arizona was sick.
Speaker 5: Of the same thing, almost the same.
Speaker 2: Thing, exactly.
Speaker 19: I know it was uncanny. I was just having flashbacks,
Speaker 19: but you know, I just think that he's a veteran player,
Speaker 19: and he's got good talent around him, and it was
Speaker 19: only a matter of time before they were going to
Speaker 19: hit their stride and and they're they're a dangerous team
Speaker 19: right now.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 7: Tom Tommy puts his people in place to be successful
Speaker 7: towards the end of the season.
Speaker 4: I think that's his his his calling card.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Big twelve.
Speaker 7: We've been talking a lot about our U of A
Speaker 7: and then as U entering into the Big twelve. What's
Speaker 7: the what's the vibe, What's what's going on with the
Speaker 7: crowd scene in a su what's going to be like
Speaker 7: for our folks that are coming up tomorrow, What's what's
Speaker 7: it like in the stadium there.
Speaker 19: You know, I mean there were they had a couple
Speaker 19: of games when kids were out of school in January
Speaker 19: and with the where the crowd wasn't great.
Speaker 2: But they've been drawing pretty well. I mean Iowa State.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many.
Speaker 19: People they brought to Tucson, but they have bought a
Speaker 19: half of a lot of people here when they played
Speaker 19: when they played up here in Tempe.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a it's.
Speaker 19: An interesting dynamic with the crowds because I think I've
Speaker 19: seen I think it looks to me like big twelve
Speaker 19: crowds travel like they travel, you know, whether it's Kansas
Speaker 19: or Baylor or like. I've really been impressed with the
Speaker 19: crowds that have come from the visiting schools and especially
Speaker 19: Iowa stated. I think Arizona's going to travel well, and
Speaker 19: they're playing well right now, so you know, I expect
Speaker 19: a place.
Speaker 2: To be pretty packed, and I'm.
Speaker 19: Sure that Arizona's going to have a good share of
Speaker 19: people there, and we'll just see, well, I.
Speaker 3: Think it's going to probably it's always kind of like
Speaker 3: sixty forty depends how good Arizona is. Seventy thirty sixty forty, right, right,
Speaker 3: But I thought you were observation about Iowa State because
Speaker 3: I didn't know that about that. But they they were easily,
Speaker 3: in my mind, and I could be wrong, the best
Speaker 3: traveling team in my history of the cover of the
Speaker 3: team in thirty some years, because they were there and
Speaker 3: they were loud.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 19: And Bobby Hurley said the same thing like.
Speaker 2: He said that he has.
Speaker 19: He even went back to when Kansas played here in
Speaker 19: twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: He said Iowa State had more.
Speaker 19: People here than Kansas did when they came here. So
Speaker 19: he said that in his tenure it was easily easily
Speaker 19: the biggest visiting crowd that he's had so before he
Speaker 19: said it wasn't even close.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I don't doubt that at all. So you
Speaker 3: experienced fog Allen, I've been there a few times. Have
Speaker 3: you been to Houston yet? Have you been to any
Speaker 3: other place that kind of maybe impressed you?
Speaker 19: You know what, I haven't done a lot of the
Speaker 19: Big twelve rogue. First of all, I was busy with
Speaker 19: football till January second, So I was.
Speaker 2: Supposed to go to Kansas on January.
Speaker 19: Eighth, but I came down with a whole I came
Speaker 19: down with a horrible flu because it was the end
Speaker 19: of football and I always get sick at the end
Speaker 19: of football. So I was supposed to go to Kansas,
Speaker 19: did not, So I haven't made a lot of these
Speaker 19: Big twelve trips yet, so I didn't make the West
Speaker 19: Virginia Cincinnati road trip. This is really tough, and I've
Speaker 19: talked to my supervisors.
Speaker 2: About trying to schedule the road trips. We got spoiled in.
Speaker 19: The Pac twelve when it was a Thursday Saturday, and.
Speaker 2: You could go to.
Speaker 19: UCLA and USC, or you can go Stanford, cal or
Speaker 19: you can go.
Speaker 2: Oregon Oregon State. But now with all these standalone games
Speaker 2: on a Tuesday, you know, and I hate to say it,
Speaker 2: but with ASU, and I know that your beat.
Speaker 19: Writer there travels to every game, But with ASU, it's
Speaker 19: not one of those things where we're going to go
Speaker 19: to every single game and every far out location. It
Speaker 19: just doesn't make sense. So we're kind of picking and
Speaker 19: choosing which games were going to Super Bowl Sunday. I'll
Speaker 19: be in still Water because ASU play is Oklahoma State
Speaker 19: and that game is at noon, so the game being early,
Speaker 19: I have a good chance to get a.
Speaker 2: Game story in pretty soon. But then after that they
Speaker 2: go to Lubbock.
Speaker 19: And they play Lubbock on a Thursday. They played Texas
Speaker 19: Tech and Love on a Thursday. So what am I
Speaker 19: going to do? Go from one to the other and
Speaker 19: then three days in a hotel.
Speaker 2: So that that doesn't make sense, or or I go
Speaker 2: to Stillwater, come home and then a day later flight
Speaker 2: to Lubick and then so I.
Speaker 19: Don't know about you, I missed the PAC twelve in
Speaker 19: the convenience or the.
Speaker 2: Chaos. And the other thing is that that's.
Speaker 19: Another thing I think ASU has struggled with is and
Speaker 19: I don't know if Arizona has had the same issues.
Speaker 19: But you know, when they went to Kansas, they played
Speaker 19: Kansas on a Wednesday, and they got home at four
Speaker 19: o'clock in the morning Thursday. So now Thursday, your players are.
Speaker 2: Pretty much wasted. That's a wasted day, and.
Speaker 19: Then you play I think they played Baylor the next Saturday,
Speaker 19: so they basically.
Speaker 2: Had one day to prepare for Baylor.
Speaker 19: So the schedule and I think everybody this is so
Speaker 19: new to everybody. Everybody's working out the kinks and seeing.
Speaker 2: What works best in the way of travel.
Speaker 19: And when they played Cincinnati. I mean that game was
Speaker 19: an early game. I believe it was an eleven o'clock
Speaker 19: game or a noon game.
Speaker 2: And they flew in the day before.
Speaker 19: But that's a very early game. So I think that
Speaker 19: they've struggled a little bit with the travel issues.
Speaker 2: And when you look at.
Speaker 19: The advantage teams have here coming the team's coming to
Speaker 19: play ASU in Arizona, they've got a benefit because it's
Speaker 19: such an easy trip. So ASU and Arizona don't have
Speaker 19: the home core advantage that a lot of schools have
Speaker 19: when teams have travel issues and they're going there.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, no question. Let me said, you talked about
Speaker 3: football a little. Obviously, they had a great run and
Speaker 3: it was a fantastic to watch it. Even the bars
Speaker 3: here were full because there's a lot of a issue
Speaker 3: of lums down here or people still going to school
Speaker 3: up there.
Speaker 5: Tell me about nil.
Speaker 3: If if the nil is an issue or was a three,
Speaker 3: I'm assuming that it's maybe not pouring in, but at
Speaker 3: least more beneficial.
Speaker 2: Now, Oh, it's.
Speaker 19: It's pretty good. I mean, Kenny Dillingham's got this train
Speaker 19: rolling in the right direction. And I think the one
Speaker 19: thing that's indicative of where ASU stands, and this is
Speaker 19: probably shocking in the current climate of college sports. ASU
Speaker 19: did not lose a single player to the transfer portal
Speaker 19: that was on the too deep roster.
Speaker 5: Think about that. That's amazing.
Speaker 4: Girlfriend did not leave you.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 19: So so that says two things.
Speaker 2: That says one the nil is now.
Speaker 19: Competitive because you can't tell me, but teams didn't come
Speaker 19: after Jordan Tyson or Sam Levitt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 19: And then the second thing that tells me is people
Speaker 19: want to play for Kenny Dillingham and people want to
Speaker 19: be here.
Speaker 2: So I think when you look at that, the fact.
Speaker 19: That they literally didn't lose.
Speaker 2: Anybody that's they could return.
Speaker 19: They are set to return eighteen starters, So I think
Speaker 19: you're looking at the favorite. You're looking at the favorite
Speaker 19: I think in the in the Big.
Speaker 2: Twelve next year. And I think the whole question is
Speaker 2: how will ASU.
Speaker 19: Do when they're the hunted and not the hunter.
Speaker 2: It's easy to play the worthy underdog.
Speaker 19: Everybody thinks we suck, you know, we're the misfits, we're
Speaker 19: the losers, and it's easy to play that card all year.
Speaker 19: But now when you're the defending champion and you have
Speaker 19: everybody shooting at you, it's a different ballgame. And we
Speaker 19: all know that ASU teams that have had high expectations
Speaker 19: have never fared very well. So to me, that's the
Speaker 19: whole storyline will be following next year when it comes
Speaker 19: to football. That that and who's going to replace campsk.
Speaker 2: Out of you?
Speaker 18: Right?
Speaker 3: And that's gonna be tough. But you know what, I
Speaker 3: watched the game against Texas.
Speaker 5: That was a horrible call. Horrible call, and uh.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: What let me ask you because I covered Loot for
Speaker 3: a long time and I didn't never cover the losing team,
Speaker 3: and covering it is different than you know, not a grad.
Speaker 3: But admittedly it was a fun time because they want
Speaker 3: a lot. It's easy to write a winning story, right.
Speaker 3: Locker rooms are fun. You must have had a fun time,
Speaker 3: you know what.
Speaker 19: This team was fun just because I think they just
Speaker 19: obliterated expectations and it was really a.
Speaker 2: Good group of players to be around. And you could genuinely.
Speaker 19: Tell how much they liked playing together. I mean, and
Speaker 19: it was very evident even in the postgame press conference
Speaker 19: after the Peach Bowl where Sam Levitt sat next to
Speaker 19: Scat and they're just clutching hands and just talking about
Speaker 19: how they're so in tune with each other and how
Speaker 19: much they're going to miss playing with each other, and
Speaker 19: they're you know, Levitt's crying and Scats trying not to cry,
Speaker 19: and I mean, you could just literally tell how much
Speaker 19: this team really liked playing together. And I think that
Speaker 19: that was indicative. And I think the only way you
Speaker 19: exceed expectations the way ASU did in football this year
Speaker 19: is to have a.
Speaker 7: Team like that, right, So does that culture then start
Speaker 7: to creep through to the basketball and maybe some of
Speaker 7: the other notable sports there that culture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 19: Bobby Hurley went to the Big twelve championship game in Dallas,
Speaker 19: he was sitting there with the team. I think it
Speaker 19: does to a degree.
Speaker 2: The entire You'll get a kick out of this.
Speaker 19: The entire football team came to the game against Iowa
Speaker 19: State and they were all seated in the in the
Speaker 19: behind the tunnel where the student section is obviously where
Speaker 19: the visiting team enters and leaves the floor. And of
Speaker 19: course they got the Big Twelfth Trophy and they're wave
Speaker 19: in the trophy, you know, and of course you know,
Speaker 19: Ioways State can't miss it because they have to go
Speaker 19: through that tunnel.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 19: So that was kind of a fun little dynamic. It
Speaker 19: was interesting, it was cute, it was it was quite
Speaker 19: the moment and two of the players jumped out of
Speaker 19: the curtain of distraction in the second half.
Speaker 2: So I think that there is I don't know if.
Speaker 19: The momentum plate.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if.
Speaker 19: Basketball, you know, can feed off of that, but I
Speaker 19: think the players do, if that makes sense.
Speaker 7: Sure of course, and they're all friends and they are peers,
Speaker 7: and then you know they they're they're getting each other out.
Speaker 3: Of specifically that game issue played. Ioway stay pretty well
Speaker 3: until that run. But Michelle, we got to go. Thanks
Speaker 3: a bunch. I'll see you there tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, good talking to you.
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Speaker 1: Tucson Sports Station yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to My on the Ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Tim Bentley,
Speaker 3: and we have Henry and Matt with us. It's funny
Speaker 3: that ad I have my on the ball, I just
Speaker 3: don't remember where I put it.
Speaker 7: Well, you know it's I love that it's all encompassing,
Speaker 7: you know, it could be you know, we're talking about
Speaker 7: Eye on the Ball, so or there's sports.
Speaker 4: There's all kinds of good stuff that we can talk about.
Speaker 5: Uh, Henry, you're not going up to the game. No, No, okay.
Speaker 4: What time are you leaving tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Steve? Oh? God? Too early seven thirty?
Speaker 3: Because one you never know, it starts eleven, right, get there,
Speaker 3: hope to get there by ten, seven thirty. So, because
Speaker 3: you never know when you go to Phoenix, what travel.
Speaker 4: What's going to be on fire, what's what's going to happen?
Speaker 3: Yes, and as you're getting Poser to Phoenix, the traffic
Speaker 3: just kind of stops, you know, once you.
Speaker 8: Get to near helos So. And that's always it's never.
Speaker 4: Narrows down to that one half playing.
Speaker 5: Bridge the bridge and they're working on the bridge.
Speaker 4: I know they're gonna start.
Speaker 3: Expanding that area now. So I wanted to go tonight,
Speaker 3: so I just kind of be there, wake up and go.
Speaker 5: But that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 7: So what So then you get up there at ten
Speaker 7: ten thirty? What's your pregame?
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 3: Just get to my seat and bes with the guys
Speaker 3: and then watch the game.
Speaker 4: Are you are you? Do you get snacks? What do
Speaker 4: you do?
Speaker 5: No? I don't think. Maybe they have a drink or two.
Speaker 7: Maybe do they the media get anything? Is there like
Speaker 7: a media table like like Flag or anything like that?
Speaker 5: No one does that anymore?
Speaker 7: What's wrong with I just cover the Cardinals When they
Speaker 7: played up in Flags those days, I was like lobster,
Speaker 7: like all my friends wanted.
Speaker 5: To be mine that kind of But now they charge,
Speaker 5: Oh they don't change.
Speaker 3: At least the Suns did at least the last one
Speaker 3: of the Sun's games, I covered, you know, five bucks,
Speaker 3: it's very cheap whatever seven So yeah, it's been a
Speaker 3: long time.
Speaker 5: A rezon. I used to have stuff like that. That's
Speaker 5: not fancy stuff. But you the sandwiches, yeah, and stuff
Speaker 5: before the game, but not anymore budget cuts. Man, they're
Speaker 5: forty five million in hole. They can to recover from
Speaker 5: forty five million in the hole.
Speaker 4: They're not. I don't know.
Speaker 7: We keep talking about this, this additional funding that's coming
Speaker 7: in April. I think it'll help stabilize a little bit
Speaker 7: for you know what what what are you talking about?
Speaker 7: The settlement money that's coming. I think it'll help with
Speaker 7: the athletes.
Speaker 5: Oh, what's settlement money?
Speaker 4: But the April money that's coming for all the NCUA A.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, No, that's just if they get
Speaker 3: it approved. Hasn't really been, It hasn't been. But but
Speaker 3: all schools across the board. No, that's that's another issue.
Speaker 5: You need.
Speaker 3: They need to come up with that twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 3: What's in your pocket? Another here? Oh you have another pocket.
Speaker 7: My friends that work in the in the in the
Speaker 7: department down there. It is it's tough time right now.
Speaker 7: It is tough here times here too.
Speaker 5: I mean you remember they have a new ad.
Speaker 4: I know, it's tough times.
Speaker 7: And and locally right here and then in the Tucson
Speaker 7: at the U of A, it's it's tough, you know,
Speaker 7: it's you know, she didn't come in to start spending
Speaker 7: a ton of money.
Speaker 4: She came in to find money and to save money.
Speaker 5: To find money, to save money.
Speaker 3: And have you been part of an organization like that
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Speaker 5: I going to be capped?
Speaker 4: Listen?
Speaker 7: I spent a lot of time at working for TV
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you saw that like Channel four they're changing
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Judy Taylor, who's a friend of the program and who's
Speaker 3: a big name here in Tucson, having done this show
Speaker 3: here was let go from my heart in.
Speaker 5: Phoenix and Phoenix because it's a budget cut.
Speaker 3: Wow, And he just landed a real job with the
Speaker 3: Fire depart in the Spider department, he's the p IO.
Speaker 7: I think, well, so yeah, so I you know, I
Speaker 7: work for TMC and you see a lot of the
Speaker 7: media folks.
Speaker 4: Come over, you know for p IO or.
Speaker 7: Or media have a specialist something because they want to
Speaker 7: live in the market where they where their families are,
Speaker 7: and they want where they want to stay.
Speaker 5: So they Tuston's a nice place.
Speaker 4: It's not a bad place to live.
Speaker 5: I never left because of that.
Speaker 3: I mean, they covered one of the best teams in
Speaker 3: the country, whether it's fantastic, not too far from California.
Speaker 4: And you talked about it.
Speaker 7: You covered Loot for forty years and all the u
Speaker 7: of A sports So there's there's good stories.
Speaker 4: There's winning, there's championships.
Speaker 7: Right, you know, you get to tell good stories and
Speaker 7: you get to live in a good place.
Speaker 3: Right and get to do this with the guys. So thanks,
Speaker 3: beat it. Cant beat it.
Speaker 4: Is it too early to start talking about the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3: No, you go go ahead, right ahead. But these guys
Speaker 3: are talking about it. They know who they're going for. Philly, Philly.
Speaker 3: I thought, did you think that who would you picked?
Speaker 3: Last week?
Speaker 5: Uh? Buffalo or Casey?
Speaker 6: I know I was going for guys, said Buffalo but
Speaker 6: I pulled everybody Buffalo.
Speaker 7: Nobody believed my mom picked the can't say chiefs.
Speaker 5: Well, she's a diehard shesus.
Speaker 7: She's she's diehard Kansas, She's the land of Oz. Come on,
Speaker 7: let's go. No, it's it's gonna be a week of
Speaker 7: I I kind of like this week. I you know,
Speaker 7: when I listened to the radio, I like all the
Speaker 7: drop ins. I know that those athletes do it, they're
Speaker 7: all making hits on different products.
Speaker 4: But I kind of like it.
Speaker 7: I like the the big time neess of it.
Speaker 4: I like to listen to the Dan Patrick Show and
Speaker 4: all the shows on this.
Speaker 5: Dude, well, I had Buffalo. I bet Buffalo.
Speaker 3: I thought that was Kansas City's time to end, because
Speaker 3: all year they've been.
Speaker 5: On the edge.
Speaker 4: They were not good.
Speaker 5: They were not good, but they'd win.
Speaker 4: Get a field goal?
Speaker 5: Just what they did that your young eyes?
Speaker 3: Did he get the first down on the fourth and inches?
Speaker 3: Did he get that first You didn't didn't get it?
Speaker 5: Of course he got it. He crossed the ball.
Speaker 4: I can't. It was too close to the younger generation.
Speaker 4: They're just the younger generation.
Speaker 5: All right, spring break? You got that first down?
Speaker 4: Totally got it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, man.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let me there was something on the field
Speaker 3: of sixty eight this morning on Twitter.
Speaker 5: I thought it was fantastic.
Speaker 3: A lot of people thought it was foolish, but they
Speaker 3: they had coaches, you know, uh coaches and who would
Speaker 3: play them in in you know what star would play them?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: If you you are Twitter much, ye, sixty eight fantastic. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: we're gonna start with that. Who's playing you on on
Speaker 3: the big screen. We gotta find something kind of looks
Speaker 3: like you, not just you know, you know.
Speaker 4: Okay, that could be Jordan's.
Speaker 5: I don't even know. I don't know who would pick you, but.
Speaker 4: Who would uh, who play you? Henry?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you're thinking what he's thinking.
Speaker 4: I don't even I got to think, who's the dude?
Speaker 5: Are you kind of know who?
Speaker 4: I was thinking about this the other day? Was it
Speaker 4: the dudee?
Speaker 7: This is the guy that the Entourage guy, the leader
Speaker 7: of the Entourage.
Speaker 5: What about the dude that just played the movie the movie.
Speaker 4: With the singer cub Oh, Timothy Shallo? May over there.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: This is played Bob Dylan, David Schumer, what's his name?
Speaker 4: Shwimmer from Friends? He will play you kind of David
Speaker 4: Shimmer is sixteen two years old. They can't play I.
Speaker 5: Mean, like, okay, okay, well back in the Friends days.
Speaker 7: In the Friend's Day, No, Timothy Chalamey just played Bob Dylan.
Speaker 7: Yeah he's dating this Kardassron. There you go, Henry. Who's
Speaker 7: gonna play you? Timothy Challamay, Oh he's I don't know
Speaker 7: which one there's there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well you become a star. Who's playing you?
Speaker 3: I know the guy, but I can't remember his name. Uh,
Speaker 3: one of the Italian looking.
Speaker 4: Guys from the Sopranos or something like that.
Speaker 5: I'd have to kind of google. I can't even remember
Speaker 5: his names.
Speaker 4: Nate Parker, was he with?
Speaker 5: Who's he with?
Speaker 7: Who Nate Parker? It's all right, you can people tell
Speaker 7: me that Nicholas Cage for me.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, kind of like that.
Speaker 7: And I'm like crazy Nicholas Cage or like cool Nicholas
Speaker 7: Cage with the hair and Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 5: You know, it's great. When was he ever a good
Speaker 5: dude on the movie?
Speaker 4: Uh? What was the pretty not pretty in Pink? But
Speaker 4: the long time ago he was and conn Air he
Speaker 4: was a good guy.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, come on, that's all right. I love he
Speaker 5: was a good bad guy or was he a good guy?
Speaker 7: He was a bad guy, but he turned into a
Speaker 7: good good guy. But you know he's been in like
Speaker 7: nine hundred movies because he just does everything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you tell me who am I I know
Speaker 5: it's one of those. I'll come up with it one
Speaker 5: of these next time, next week, next.
Speaker 4: Week, we'll figure it out. Valley Girl was the movie
Speaker 4: that Nicholas Cage was.
Speaker 5: Valley Girl.
Speaker 7: And you know his name is Nicholas Coppola. He's ready
Speaker 7: Francis Ford's nephew.
Speaker 5: Okay, the wonder you had it made nepotism stuff.
Speaker 4: Changed his name because he didn't want to do it.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah he was Uh Henry, you got no that.
Speaker 5: That's a good one on there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen a commercials bro. It looks like hen.
Speaker 5: With more hair. Henry has more hair. That's about it.
Speaker 4: Uh, David Shimmer or Tim Shadow May Swimmer?
Speaker 3: Yeah, have youer sent me a note? Let me just
Speaker 3: read that real quick. It was talking about the rankings.
Speaker 4: Oh you were talking about how many lasts in a row.
Speaker 3: But ever was going to finish twenty three and twelve
Speaker 3: in twenty eleven, twenty twelve, it was only ranked three
Speaker 3: weeks and wasn't ranked after November twenty first. It has
Speaker 3: been ranked four weeks this year and hasn't been ranked
Speaker 3: since November twenty fifth. So twenty eleven, twenty twelve, that
Speaker 3: was I want to say, Sean's first or second year,
Speaker 3: second year second and they were very good, unless it
Speaker 3: was I think after the block, after the block of Williams,
Speaker 3: right right, right, yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't remember that. That's the long time ago.
Speaker 5: It was a long time. I don't either, because I
Speaker 5: kind of blocked out all that, all that twelve to
Speaker 5: twelve years of show.
Speaker 3: But I get it that it's been a while since
Speaker 3: they've been ranked. And what doesn't matter, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: It doesn't it's you know, it's the strength of schedule.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for them to be.
Speaker 3: Arizona is still Arizona ranked or unranked. That's like when
Speaker 3: they failed.
Speaker 5: What did you guys think about them not getting the
Speaker 5: arenas yesterday?
Speaker 6: Uh, we'll see if they can get cod Peede in
Speaker 6: that the other guy. If they can't get them, then
Speaker 6: it's kind of I.
Speaker 7: Heard your guys saying yesterday they run out of run
Speaker 7: out of people to handle the ball.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's their big name.
Speaker 7: I would have liked Gilbert's kid to come here, but
Speaker 7: it would have been a legacy thing.
Speaker 4: It would have been cool.
Speaker 3: It would have been cool. It would have been more
Speaker 3: chaos Ronni's team, Ronnie's.
Speaker 4: I mean, it would have been fine.
Speaker 7: I mean Ron said, and I think when you're when
Speaker 7: you're in Arizona, you want to be in the national
Speaker 7: You want to be and you want to you know,
Speaker 7: so to lose that, I think fans are like, man,
Speaker 7: you know, like we deserve that.
Speaker 4: Or we you know where Arizona.
Speaker 7: You know what I worry about is, you know, not
Speaker 7: right now, but you know North Carolina, you know you're
Speaker 7: talking about they may not make the tournament, you know,
Speaker 7: and so think about.
Speaker 5: Where they were Arkansas Wdy.
Speaker 4: You know. So it's like, do you want to roll
Speaker 4: into that or do you want to be in the mix.
Speaker 5: Well that's the whole thing, didn't I tell you last
Speaker 5: week or two weeks ago?
Speaker 3: Comparing the a fan sending some text if Arizona was
Speaker 3: not better basketball wise, it could turn into a Colorado
Speaker 3: State or or do you Mexican? Because the fans need
Speaker 3: to be better. Tendis needs to be better. Things need
Speaker 3: to be better, nil needs to be better, or it'll
Speaker 3: turn into something that you don't want it to turn into.
Speaker 7: I went you, you know you're living on forty years,
Speaker 7: so I mean it's it is that the time is
Speaker 7: coming right, you know that's well you can no longer
Speaker 7: live on being Arizona.
Speaker 4: And you say with North Carolina you see with sure?
Speaker 5: Well that did you? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Tell me why just because well football has always been
Speaker 3: that though. It's you know, they'll have a year or
Speaker 3: two every now and again. But basketball you can't afford
Speaker 3: that because what else does it have?
Speaker 5: Right? And you guys came here for that? Why did you?
Speaker 5: Why did you come here?
Speaker 4: I see this is too cold and man.
Speaker 5: Oh you could have gone anywhere that's not cold.
Speaker 4: The sports was definitely part of it. Yeah, mostly basketball.
Speaker 5: Why didn't you get a sue?
Speaker 4: Too many kids, too many students?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just felt I mean, the campus is really nice,
Speaker 6: it just felt like too much.
Speaker 5: Did and you went there? Did you?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: And you senor met again?
Speaker 4: I had a source.
Speaker 3: A oh really, so get the mic, get the mic completely.
Speaker 3: So that was the reason for you years ago or
Speaker 3: five years ago whenever he came.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So unfortunately, my senior year was during COVID, so I
Speaker 8: didn't have a football season, but like at all at all,
Speaker 8: Like they gave us two games, but it was it wasn't.
Speaker 5: Nothing, and you were the starting running back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and corners. So my film.
Speaker 8: I didn't like how my film looked, but I also
Speaker 8: didn't want to go juco so because I thought that
Speaker 8: would have been like a waste of my time, especially
Speaker 8: in LA. So I was like, you know what, let
Speaker 8: me just go try out. And the person that filled
Speaker 8: me in on the thing was Derek Holmes.
Speaker 4: And his son played here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if you remember him.
Speaker 8: No, he was running back, sure, short guy, yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 8: his some play here. So he had contact with a
Speaker 8: few coaches and the coaches told me they would have
Speaker 8: a try out, so you know, took a chance.
Speaker 4: And came here.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: What a what a misfit? What a misfit for? Sorry
Speaker 3: about that, but are you gonna do the education?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: No, I liked it.
Speaker 3: I met some great people here. Okay, with that story,
Speaker 3: we gotta go. Yeah, we'll talk about that more next week. Thanks, Henry,
Speaker 3: We're done.
Speaker 5: Great