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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball here
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jacob Zaus.
Speaker 2: Got a guy Ryan in today. Welcome to Tuesday. We've
Speaker 2: got a pretty good show slated for you, at least
Speaker 2: to think that, because we haven't had a full slate
Speaker 2: the last.
Speaker 3: Few days in a while. But you've got a couple
Speaker 3: of fun guys that we've had on the show before.
Speaker 3: Local media guys that you know are doing some of
Speaker 3: the stuff we're doing. We can get some thoughts from them,
Speaker 3: but these guys are fun. Damian Alameda from Channel thirteen
Speaker 3: kol Day will be joining us. He's the sports director there.
Speaker 3: He's always a good fun conversation. And then Brett Farra,
Speaker 3: the sports editor at there some daily Star. We'll talk
Speaker 3: to him about how they going to cover the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: You know, what's that going to be like for those guys?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know he's been busy he's been covering the
Speaker 2: Little League team, at least writing about that team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: from Wilcox. They're playing this afternoon, I guess.
Speaker 3: Okay, but uh, you know again a couple of good
Speaker 3: guys that uh, you know, they bring you the you
Speaker 3: know stuff as well as well as well as we do,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, we'll see what they've got on
Speaker 3: their minds as we head into this season coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very busy, very busy for everybody locally as we
Speaker 2: start the new season here pretty soon.
Speaker 3: It is, right, it is busy. Uh, I'm big. I
Speaker 3: don't know by us. I'm busy as hell with you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah I am.
Speaker 3: It's you're you're, you're You're headed down the home stretch
Speaker 3: with uh tour a little bit right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, well we started a lot of stuff next month
Speaker 2: with the with the loop the loop, and then uh
Speaker 2: and then two months later it's it is uh and
Speaker 2: then with your busin Tucson stuff and then you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of little things going on and just kind
Speaker 2: of complete the one thing, right, Yeah, all these little
Speaker 2: things completed one thing. So yeah, yeah, busy, but it's
Speaker 2: good busy. It beats the alternative, Yes exactly. I'd rather yeah, busy,
Speaker 2: rather be that didn't wondering, Jay, you have anything for me?
Speaker 2: You do anything today?
Speaker 3: I mean not saying here trying to squeeze in a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of you know, interviews for this stuff I've
Speaker 3: got to do, and it's like I'm running out of time,
Speaker 3: you know, I know.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's uh, it is like I said, it
Speaker 2: beats you al sortive. So here we are good. So
Speaker 2: we have those two guys on tomorrow. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: be here on Friday.
Speaker 3: Will not be here on Friday. So I'm trying to
Speaker 3: get a film more more, call it kid duty, call
Speaker 3: it whatever you want. But I've got, you know, trying
Speaker 3: to get a father of the year points. That's no,
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to get father at your points. I'm
Speaker 3: just trying to be a father, that's all. And survive it.
Speaker 3: Got to go to San Diego and help my daughter
Speaker 3: find a an apartment. She's gotten a job at San
Speaker 3: Diego State. She's an ASTech.
Speaker 2: Nice exciting, great place, great place, siting for in fact,
Speaker 2: our girl, our girl d is there this summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, working for Delmore, working at del Mar.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's she's becoming this uh nice uf uh TV
Speaker 2: girl candle on TV for her. Yeah, so that's great,
Speaker 2: that's great. And I don't know about the other guys.
Speaker 2: You know, some of the other guys that are down there,
Speaker 2: ye Ryan, our girl what's your name? Analise atleast is
Speaker 2: doing some stuff in l A. I think for Fox.
Speaker 2: So so they're out there doing some good stuff. Okay,
Speaker 2: So today we're gonna talk about whatever you guys want
Speaker 2: to talk about calling us in uh, we'll talk what else?
Speaker 2: The football? Football? I didn't see what went on today.
Speaker 3: I you know, I haven't even looked at one thing
Speaker 3: related there on a football today.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I went to the dentist and my face was all.
Speaker 3: And I had I had a doctor appointment where they
Speaker 3: told me, okay, you need to drop some weight.
Speaker 2: But they've told you that every thought you were doing.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm I'm better. I don't need to drop as
Speaker 3: much weight as they told me the last time because
Speaker 3: I get some of those Look, it's the standards, you
Speaker 3: need to drop ten pounds. And I'm like, okay, you know,
Speaker 3: what does this happen to you? This is done?
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a scale in our in our.
Speaker 3: Bathroom, and I usually weigh myself, not always, but a
Speaker 3: lot of times the womens are gonna get out of
Speaker 3: the shower when I'm just you know, yeah, no towel,
Speaker 3: no closure. I put on five pounds from Saturday to yesterday.
Speaker 2: Did you do it all at the same time in
Speaker 2: the mornings. Yeah, yeah, okay, I usually usually well, no,
Speaker 2: I take about okay.
Speaker 3: I waived myself uh uh Saturday afternoon after I got
Speaker 3: home from golf, and then I weighed myself yesterday morning,
Speaker 3: and I was I put on five pounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So you waited so after golf so that
Speaker 2: you walked a lot, you probably sweated some water weight, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 2: and then you had a Tamulian boom. I meet loaf.
Speaker 2: So what's your question to me? Does that happen to me?
Speaker 3: Do you do you?
Speaker 2: Does your weight fluctuate that much just a few days?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a day or too. Yeah. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: that's why I.
Speaker 2: Do it in the morning. Do it the morning, the
Speaker 2: same time, same time. I don't do that because it's
Speaker 2: consistent with because you lose weight over overnight, right, I
Speaker 2: don't know how much you just.
Speaker 3: Do five pounds is a lot.
Speaker 2: Doesn't it seem like five pounds? But the five pound
Speaker 2: meat loaf that you had me.
Speaker 3: Corn on, the cop potato smothered and butter without a
Speaker 3: visit to the rest, and then the snicker bar that
Speaker 3: I just had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So your doctor obviously didn't stay away from
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Well he see, he made he made the fatal mistake
Speaker 3: of saying you're doing pretty good. Oh yeah, I took
Speaker 3: that equity to the h tea over there, got myself
Speaker 3: a snicker bar. But he did get a nice tea
Speaker 3: instead of a fantom, a nice tea with so sweeter. No, no,
Speaker 3: that's unsweet tea.
Speaker 2: So instead of one cheat day, you get two. No,
Speaker 2: I'm the same way. You know, take men and it
Speaker 2: might be taco Tuesday to night at my house. Six
Speaker 2: with five pounds went to six pounds. Yeah, but I
Speaker 2: think that everybody goes through that, you know, unless you're
Speaker 2: walking in I don't think you walk. I don't think
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 3: I haven't. I haven't since the weekend because after moving
Speaker 3: my daughter, everything was sore for three days. Today is
Speaker 3: the first day that I haven't been really sore from
Speaker 3: the move. On set Friday, Did you do it before
Speaker 3: you move to your daughter. What what Yeah, I walked
Speaker 3: through three times a week from your car. No, like
Speaker 3: like walk walk, okay, like I don't know how far
Speaker 3: it is, but you know it's a walk. You know,
Speaker 3: it's a I still haven't got on the bike though.
Speaker 3: My bike is still you're going to be. I'm sure
Speaker 3: the tires are flat. You're going to be.
Speaker 2: And there's only ninety five to one.
Speaker 3: Hundred days left, I know, but it's also one hundred
Speaker 3: and five degrees. I you know, I left the house
Speaker 3: at six o'clock this morning for this breakfast meeting that it.
Speaker 2: Was already hot.
Speaker 3: I'm really hot, not like I mean, there was no
Speaker 3: crispness to us whatsoever.
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't realize Phoenix got tow one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixteen just last weekend or something like that. I
Speaker 2: told you my story about moving there right when I
Speaker 2: was a kid, so from Santa Fe, obviously a small
Speaker 2: town kid going to go to school issue enroll. One day,
Speaker 2: Friday night, I was out there with my with my
Speaker 2: people who took me, and the bank said, you know
Speaker 2: when the banks had.
Speaker 3: Temperatures yeah, oh yeah yeah, and it said like one.
Speaker 2: Hundred and ten o'clock, and I think that's physically impossible.
Speaker 2: That's physically impossible. I want the hell do I know?
Speaker 2: I'm a kid from the mountains of New Mexico. And
Speaker 2: it was and it was like yesterday it happened. I said, no,
Speaker 2: it's not it's not physically possible. I deal with it
Speaker 2: now every day I think, how in the world does
Speaker 2: that happen? One hundred and ten? It is ten o'clock,
Speaker 2: especially Phoenix because it's all concrete jungle here not so much,
Speaker 2: but still one hundred would you say hundred at seven?
Speaker 3: Well, I looked at my watch and it was I
Speaker 3: think it was mid mid to high nineties, but it
Speaker 3: was muggy, like muggy muggy.
Speaker 2: Well today you sell the temperature things on Facebook, some
Speaker 2: people posting that was gonna be tornadoes and stuff, and
Speaker 2: the fake news things people posting yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: Well we wasted the ten minutes, thank you very much. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about a lot of things going on
Speaker 2: in the city through TV's eyes and the paper's eyes.
Speaker 2: Right our eyes obviously, And like I said, you didn't
Speaker 2: pay attention to football.
Speaker 3: Watched a lot of today the last couple of days.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, did you did you watch the high jumper?
Speaker 3: Yesterday? I missed the high jump.
Speaker 2: That was pretty exciting.
Speaker 3: But today I watched the women's two hundred meters final
Speaker 3: US Gabby Thomas. Gabby Thomas won that by a lot.
Speaker 3: She smoked. And watched some of the USA basketball. They
Speaker 3: were when I left out there beating the hell out
Speaker 3: of Brazil. I was watching the gold medal game. Now
Speaker 3: in the gold medal game, I watched the women's soccer.
Speaker 3: Who's got no? The men were in the quarterfinals. Basketball
Speaker 3: is in the quarter final. Women women women are in
Speaker 3: the gold medal game. They beat Germany. When I when
Speaker 3: I watched, uh, when I watched that reply replying. When
Speaker 3: I watched that, it was row zero and then I
Speaker 3: went to the doctor and I came back and they
Speaker 3: one zero. And so what else did I see? Oh?
Speaker 3: The fifteen hundred meters did you see that? Upset? What
Speaker 3: a race? I mean that guy uh, I can't remember
Speaker 3: his name, Oscar or something like that hawker he was
Speaker 3: it looked like he was coming back. Then he got
Speaker 3: he got screened out, he got blocked out on you know,
Speaker 3: on the on the on the straightway. But you know
Speaker 3: on on the inside and then the guy makes a
Speaker 3: mistake and just drifted out a little bit and gave
Speaker 3: him room to get by him, and he got by
Speaker 3: him and won the race. And actually, the way I understood,
Speaker 3: one of the favorites didn't even meddle. The guy who
Speaker 3: was didn't even medal. He finished fourth. Everybody passed him,
Speaker 3: and the US one golden bronze in that one. So
Speaker 3: a lot of good stuff. That's the track. The track
Speaker 3: and field finals are what I love. What you know,
Speaker 3: those are the best. That hundred meters race.
Speaker 2: It's like the one I think it was the four hundred,
Speaker 2: was the four forty forty or the No. Four hundred,
Speaker 2: whichever it was with Netherlands one there with the girl
Speaker 2: bowl bo l coming back and beating the American uh,
Speaker 2: the United States personnel two three days ago, just that
Speaker 2: she came out of nowhere. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: pretty excited. So uh and then the finding the gymnastics
Speaker 2: is over right, Yes, I felt bad for the for
Speaker 2: the woman from I can't don't remember where she's from,
Speaker 2: but she was she had bronze. And then they they
Speaker 2: readjusted the scores and the US got the bronze.
Speaker 3: Right, that's got it suck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you know you've done it for them. And
Speaker 2: then also no, I didn't.
Speaker 3: Know, I didn't. Yeah, and you're gonna always wonder, wait,
Speaker 3: what happened? Yeah, you know, right, what happened? They hope
Speaker 3: there's a good explanation that allows her to you know,
Speaker 3: understand what happened and why and why.
Speaker 2: And the boxer continues to roll uh a leaf for
Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, she continues to win this this,
Speaker 2: this the well, I guess every every Olympics has it's controversies, right,
Speaker 2: that's why obviously one of the bigger ones. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: some of the other scores and points of the team
Speaker 2: team USA basketball, if they don't.
Speaker 3: Win it, yeah, well they're killing people now, right, it's
Speaker 3: kind of like, okay, it's time to get serious. And
Speaker 3: they just living douchie out of right out of Brazil today. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're in the semifinals now, semifinals. Oh again. This morning,
Speaker 3: when I was getting ready for my breakfast meeting, I've
Speaker 3: got the and so we're talking five thirty this morning.
Speaker 3: I've got the Serbia, France, Serbia, France, uh no, Serbia, Australia, Serbia,
Speaker 3: Australia game on basketball. Yeah, looking for Josh Green. You
Speaker 3: know I didn't see ever in the game. He must
Speaker 3: have played, because I even looked, said, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: is he on the roster and he's on the RUSI
Speaker 3: but and I watched Australia going to twenty to nothing
Speaker 3: run they're up by twenty four, and I left and
Speaker 3: I come back and Serbia beat him by five.
Speaker 2: Well it's good of look at nbagain. Hahing matters into
Speaker 2: the fourth court.
Speaker 3: I guess not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't see that. Well, I guess we'll see
Speaker 2: it tonight or a little today. No, they don't play.
Speaker 2: They don't play. They just us say stuff in Channel four.
Speaker 2: Yeah you might.
Speaker 3: You might be able to see that on Peacock if
Speaker 3: you want to. But uh, you know, uh it was
Speaker 3: it was. It was one point game. Uh y makes
Speaker 3: a turnaround jumper to go up three and then they
Speaker 3: go down. Don'tet a shot, make a couple of free
Speaker 3: throws versus Yeah, oh that that Are they in the
Speaker 3: same bracket?
Speaker 2: Well isn't I thought you said this is the gold medal?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, the each other today with quarterfinals games.
Speaker 2: Okay, so semi finals. So yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Then of course Germany the other the other one okay,
Speaker 3: And of course I know you want to know this
Speaker 3: that the Dodgers beat the Phillies last night.
Speaker 2: No until Phillies going to until Phillies go to. Uh
Speaker 2: they're going to Phoenix this weekend?
Speaker 3: I think, are they? Yeah? You know, okay, why that
Speaker 3: makes sense if they're you're playing the Dodgers. But the
Speaker 3: Philly smoked them in three games up in Philadelphia. Uh uh,
Speaker 3: I think right after the All Star Breaking, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't even want to see this.
Speaker 3: I turned it on. They're down to zip and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I know, I don't want to see this, but I
Speaker 3: left it on and they came back and beat him.
Speaker 2: Bill, that was your daily. There you go, Bill, Daily
Speaker 2: Dodger updates. Get the Voodoo Doll back out because the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are back. Send send Jay you know not me completes.
Speaker 2: Go to the book.
Speaker 3: And after taking two out of three from the A's again,
Speaker 3: they lost the first game to the A's. Then they
Speaker 3: won the next year. So Dodgers are on a roll.
Speaker 3: They went three in a row.
Speaker 2: Didn't do we take all your breaking news? No, no, okay,
Speaker 2: because I go, uh, the Chicago White Sox didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: twenty three one, I'll go yeah, okay, so yeah, you'll
Speaker 2: tell us they've lost twenty one in a row.
Speaker 3: Oh. Never, that's hard to do it. Wow, there's another
Speaker 3: part to it.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, cool, okay, Hey, listen, let's take the
Speaker 2: break and we'll get to Damien here. He's gonna call
Speaker 2: it three seventeen and we're good to go.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to win the ball here Fox Sports
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Speaker 11: After that tactic, I need that introduction every time every time.
Speaker 2: Okay, you all right? Your anything you want me to
Speaker 2: be positive about, just let me know.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, yet guess like extendose extend those consonants, kod
Speaker 11: I like that.
Speaker 3: D Yes, How busy are you? Are you?
Speaker 2: How busy are you? Because everything's going to ramp up?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 11: We know what right now? I'm pretty I'm pretty swamp.
Speaker 11: I'm pretty swamp, which was okay because you know, you
Speaker 11: guys know how to is like July is the quiet
Speaker 11: dead period, or at least for me, it is anyway
Speaker 11: where you got to like try to, i don't know,
Speaker 11: take a breath, regain focus, and then get mentally prepared
Speaker 11: for August when training camp kicks in, which of course
Speaker 11: I am never ever ever mentally ready for. It just
Speaker 11: kind of happens, and you just kind to throw yourself
Speaker 11: into the fire every single year and just kind of
Speaker 11: roll with it.
Speaker 3: You know, well that fire now is burning in the
Speaker 3: Big twelve? Damien, how much extra preparation research work is
Speaker 3: involved for you to you know, get ready to cover
Speaker 3: the Big twelve? Learning about the teams that the all
Speaker 3: the programs, right, I mean, because we have some familiarity
Speaker 3: with them, but now we're knee deep in it with them.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, it's it's basically going back to the classroom,
Speaker 11: right because for so many years, and as I've mentioned
Speaker 11: before on the show, you know, I'm a PAC twelve
Speaker 11: kid through and through, and just knowing the history and
Speaker 11: the relevance and just you're just the simple locations of
Speaker 11: each program with something I took for granted, and so now,
Speaker 11: like I said, yeah, going back to the classroom and
Speaker 11: figuring out just the outlay of the Big twelve in
Speaker 11: this conference and uh and why we should care. I
Speaker 11: will say this though, on the first day of fall
Speaker 11: camp for the Wildcats, when I showed up and saw
Speaker 11: the Big twelve logo on the signage that is up
Speaker 11: against the fence on the tell Me practice fields, I
Speaker 11: had to stop, do a double take, take a real
Speaker 11: deep breath, and then just keep myself going.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming, I'm assuming. I don't know the situation
Speaker 2: that CA will do right now, but I'm assuming you
Speaker 2: took your vacation July, your family and travel and all
Speaker 2: that stuff, and now you're back at it. Uh. I
Speaker 2: know you're gonna be big. Are you still a one
Speaker 2: man band?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 2: How's that working?
Speaker 11: Yeah? No, No, it's it's me myself and I on
Speaker 11: on certain days depending on what is going on in
Speaker 11: the news cycle. Sean Mahoney, who is our weekend news
Speaker 11: anchor and then our typical weekday news reporter. He also
Speaker 11: uh does sports reporting on the side for us when
Speaker 11: when I have an opportunity to or actually when the
Speaker 11: when the bosses basically have that door open for him.
Speaker 11: He's going to take it. But for the most part,
Speaker 11: it's still me myself and I so trying to balance
Speaker 11: everything out. But hey, I mean, and again I've said
Speaker 11: this to you guys before too, It's like, I don't
Speaker 11: mind it because I've I'm at the point now where
Speaker 11: I just do what I can do and balance as
Speaker 11: best I can not feel too guilty about missing things
Speaker 11: that I just have to miss.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Yeah, okay, sort of on
Speaker 3: that note, are you Are you the dean of the
Speaker 3: local sports directors who who's been here longer? You were?
Speaker 3: Jason Barr?
Speaker 11: Yeah, a lot since July July third was my eighteenth year.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, eighteen years Damien. You're like, OK, you're
Speaker 3: only like twenty five years old.
Speaker 11: I make it look good, don't I?
Speaker 3: He do you really do? That's exactly what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: you can eat you know, fight porst meals and he's
Speaker 2: look at him, he's like twenty.
Speaker 11: Wait wait, wait, I'm gonna I'm gonna pump the bricks
Speaker 11: on that for a second. I'll be honest with you guys,
Speaker 11: all right, So like sheer fans barrency, huh. After this
Speaker 11: past March madness, when I got home from the Salt
Speaker 11: Lake City, Los Angeles road trip, I checked myself out
Speaker 11: and I was like doing some calculations in my head
Speaker 11: looking at the scale. Stuff is like, all of a sudden,
Speaker 11: it all hit me all at once that I am
Speaker 11: no longer in my late twenties, like all of the
Speaker 11: and you guys know how did man like action ends,
Speaker 11: especially on the West Coast. Like super late at night,
Speaker 11: you're starving, but all that's left on the on the
Speaker 11: tables inside the arena are like bananas, But you eat
Speaker 11: all the bananas you can. And then when you get
Speaker 11: back to the hotel, depending on the time you go
Speaker 11: hit that Denny's actually have the pancakes. You get the
Speaker 11: Rudy too, d fresh recruity two times over. You know,
Speaker 11: two in the morning. You're not feeling great the next morning,
Speaker 11: but that's okay, you got to go to work. You
Speaker 11: just deal with it. Yeah, all of that caught up
Speaker 11: with me late March early April and now I'm regretting
Speaker 11: some of my life decisions.
Speaker 3: That's too funny.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, and then you would and worked for
Speaker 2: a walk and you lost it all.
Speaker 3: Exactly, if only exactly. We're talking to Damien Alameda from
Speaker 3: kl D k wel D. There you go, Amy, Hey, Okay,
Speaker 3: so going into the Big twelve, what's I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't want to call it the biggest challenge, but
Speaker 3: you know what's most on your mind about what you've
Speaker 3: got to do to cover this conference that we really
Speaker 3: are just starting to get familiar with them. Well, what's
Speaker 3: most you know, kind of on your priority, I guess
Speaker 3: for how you want to bring this to your viewers.
Speaker 11: Homework through my homework and making it clear that I
Speaker 11: have some sort of semblance of what I knowledge and
Speaker 11: then what I know what I'm talking about, because right
Speaker 11: now I'm like at like step negative six, right like
Speaker 11: and this goes back to like even just the simplicity
Speaker 11: of knowing where schools are on a map. Right now,
Speaker 11: I could not tell you where Manhattan, Kansas is. I
Speaker 11: know where Kansas is, right I couldn't tell you where Manhattan,
Speaker 11: Kansas is? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 11: So it's just like those little details right there that
Speaker 11: back in March two we did a when we did
Speaker 11: a special for men's basketball, actually men's and women's basketball
Speaker 11: heading into their respective tournaments. We did do a piece
Speaker 11: on the expansion into the back Big twelve, and we're
Speaker 11: able to speak to a handful of sports directors in
Speaker 11: those markets to kind of give us a sense of what,
Speaker 11: you know, Wildcat fans can expect going there, and so
Speaker 11: that was really cool, very very interesting to hear and
Speaker 11: if nothing else, to hear their excitements knowing that a
Speaker 11: reputable brand like the Arizona Wildcat was entering their frey
Speaker 11: and how much anticipation there was for the Cardinal and
Speaker 11: Navy to make trips to you know, their home turf.
Speaker 11: So that was really cool to hear and to see.
Speaker 2: I think one of the things that we're excited about
Speaker 2: is the difference. Now it's a new thing, and you
Speaker 2: like driving a new car, right, you get to see
Speaker 2: new things, talk about new places, players, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're in the same way where Okay, we're
Speaker 2: gonna miss the Pac twelve, but.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's the biggest thing. It's like,
Speaker 11: because I don't have history with these programs, and this
Speaker 11: conference doesn't mean that I don't. I'm not excited about
Speaker 11: figuring out what the future holds in this con you
Speaker 11: know what I mean. Like I saw on Friday when
Speaker 11: Arizona Athletics started tweeting out all of those messages from
Speaker 11: past athletes welcoming them former Wildcats, you know, Loreno, Chola, Francona,
Speaker 11: all these folks saying, hey, we're excited for you going
Speaker 11: in to the Big twelve. Yeah, there is some excitement there.
Speaker 11: I just have to get out of my own head,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean. Like I am and this
Speaker 11: is this is gonna like dating big time, But I
Speaker 11: am like John Wayne and the searchers standing in that doorway,
Speaker 11: like refusing to move forward as the rest of the
Speaker 11: world like passes me by. So I got to get
Speaker 11: myself out of that right and and like get into
Speaker 11: this this new group here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Well, and that's what we've talked about a
Speaker 3: little bit, Like Okay, well, we all love the PAC
Speaker 3: twelve and the history of it and all that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. It's kind of okay, it's in the rear
Speaker 3: view mirror, right, Let's you know, let let's move on.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, uh, we've got to stop talking
Speaker 3: about what was and just you know, just go forward.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be fun. I hope that. I
Speaker 3: hope the newness of it lasts for a while, right,
Speaker 3: it'll last. It'll take us through through basketball season, for sure,
Speaker 3: but then after that it's kind of like, okay, let's
Speaker 3: see unless you see what happens from here. Let's you know,
Speaker 3: let's talk as of football. What you know, what are
Speaker 3: you seeing out there? What do you what are some
Speaker 3: of your impressions of what you've seen so far?
Speaker 11: I mean, it's it's fun. It's fun getting out there
Speaker 11: to camp. There's an energy that I'm not saying was
Speaker 11: missing from last season Underfish, but Brent Brennan's regime has
Speaker 11: has has definitely sunk its teeth into the identity of
Speaker 11: this program. Everything from like the music selections, the variety
Speaker 11: of music selections on their loud speakers, and just how
Speaker 11: they all interact with one another. You know, that whole
Speaker 11: sense of love and family that Brennan preached over and
Speaker 11: over ever since day one, since he's been here in
Speaker 11: the desert.
Speaker 3: There is.
Speaker 11: A sincerity to that that you really do feel out
Speaker 11: at camp As far as observations of the team, you know,
Speaker 11: we're we're going into it with question marks across the board,
Speaker 11: but at very specific position is the defensive line, defensive ends?
Speaker 11: Who are the big boys are going to step up
Speaker 11: and uh make a name for themselves? At wide receiver?
Speaker 11: You know you have t Mac obviously still rehabbing, but
Speaker 11: who are you know, Montana Malachi? Are they the guys
Speaker 11: that are going to be your dependables?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 11: When you know Themack gets tripple covered? No, Freda's got
Speaker 11: that ship locked down. But who's going to back him
Speaker 11: up if in case anything happens? So it's all pretty
Speaker 11: much your normal fall camp training camp questions. Just the
Speaker 11: elephant in the room is how does it all fall
Speaker 11: in line with Brent Brandon's vision?
Speaker 3: Right? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No question?
Speaker 3: Are you what if?
Speaker 2: And this is hypothetical because I don't know anything any better?
Speaker 2: Uh with t Mac? Uh what if he takes longer
Speaker 2: than you think? What does that mean to the team?
Speaker 11: That's that's that's a kick in the gut for sure.
Speaker 11: And I was actually just talking about this with Sean
Speaker 11: last week. It's like, you know, you got a kid,
Speaker 11: how many how many times have we heard coaches say
Speaker 11: you can't coach size one, right, and then you take
Speaker 11: that size and multiply it by infinity. With the ability
Speaker 11: that he has if he does take longer then anticipated
Speaker 11: come back from this fake injury, who can come close
Speaker 11: to even replicating just his mere presence on the field, right,
Speaker 11: That has yet to be seen, which is where all
Speaker 11: of the you know, the six foot two, the five
Speaker 11: foot ten's Jeremiah Patterson, a kid whose name you're probably
Speaker 11: going to be hearing quite a bit about come come
Speaker 11: this fall as a potential you know, Jacob Cowing replacement.
Speaker 11: Maybe all of these different names in a room that
Speaker 11: is pretty loaded with decent and really good talent are
Speaker 11: going to start surfacing up. It's just that you can't, like,
Speaker 11: let's let's admit it here, came back to.
Speaker 2: A unicorn y.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly know that and that yeah, and that's the
Speaker 3: thing and he you know, and you can say the
Speaker 3: same thing about Nola fa Fida. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: he's just there's just there's something different about him that
Speaker 3: that you know, we got to see last year. And
Speaker 3: then you wonder, okay, and shouldn't he be better than that?
Speaker 3: You know, this coming year. And as you said, you
Speaker 3: know Steve who's always looking for something bad to talk about.
Speaker 3: It's like, what happens without Nola Flafida?
Speaker 11: So do you know what I was? I was having
Speaker 11: that same conversation too, what happened? How big of a
Speaker 11: drop off is that if Noah goes down? Never mind
Speaker 11: never mind the ability because obviously the ability's there, Imagine
Speaker 11: what they lose in terms of sheer presence, right because
Speaker 11: remember you guys like Fida is a red shirt sophomore.
Speaker 11: He had his you know, red shirt freshman year, his
Speaker 11: first year in the program, so when he took over
Speaker 11: for Dolora, it's not like he was completely unknown. He
Speaker 11: already had had a full season to get his name
Speaker 11: in the mix and more importantly, get his leadership quality established,
Speaker 11: so that when it was his time to take over,
Speaker 11: there was no question who the leader was in that huddle,
Speaker 11: right right, that's not the case anymore. Yeah, No, it
Speaker 11: goes down, you know, Yeah, transfers and you got freshman
Speaker 11: like it'll be interesting to see the chess moves there.
Speaker 2: So tell Jay, it's not just me thinking about this,
Speaker 2: because that's a possibility.
Speaker 3: It could happen, whether it happens. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You know, we're checking all our boxes.
Speaker 11: I mean, and that's the way you got to have
Speaker 11: to play it, right, I guarantee you that's the way
Speaker 11: the coaches are playing it.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 11: Sure they got to make the game every day.
Speaker 3: Right, they got to make sure somebody else is ready
Speaker 3: and there, you know, and that's that's a that's all
Speaker 3: a part of it defensively. So I'm trying to think
Speaker 3: eighteen years so as it was. I don't think a
Speaker 3: Keena then was here? Is that the time you've been?
Speaker 3: But what what do you think of in there?
Speaker 11: Uh middle of and then took back off my my
Speaker 11: first year here was u Antoine Casons last year perspective.
Speaker 3: So just your thoughts on him out there on the field.
Speaker 11: I want, like again dating myself with the Winne Harry
Speaker 11: Mitts Valley reference, but I want to have whatever he happened,
Speaker 11: like in terms of the energy level that he brings
Speaker 11: to the field day in and day out, whatever diet
Speaker 11: he is on, right, whatever supplements he is taking. I
Speaker 11: need I need to have to ask him about that,
Speaker 11: because there's something to that man that that guy, that
Speaker 11: guy could outlast me my hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what I think, that's what makes him special.
Speaker 2: One and two of the kids want to play for him.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely. I mean the mere fact that you know
Speaker 11: that defensive secondary what four out of five so loyal
Speaker 11: and stay with him and stuck with him. Uh, that
Speaker 11: that's says a lot about the kind of guy he
Speaker 11: is and if nothing else, how he can relate to
Speaker 11: his players right.
Speaker 2: Real quick too, because we talked about this last week
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry to go negative with you, Jake, but
Speaker 2: Raymond Palito, the impact of that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's big literally exeguratively right, and you know Againcy
Speaker 11: right now, they're they're keeping the light lips very tight
Speaker 11: as far as what that situation is, right, but he
Speaker 11: will not playing the season if ever again for the
Speaker 11: Carloan Navy. Who knows but Rhino. They're leaving the rep
Speaker 11: shirt freshman. Uh, big big boy who again you cannot
Speaker 11: coach size who. A lot of folks in and around
Speaker 11: and away from the program are very excited at the
Speaker 11: potential he's got at that left tackle spot. We'll see
Speaker 11: what kind of drop off there is there, but I mean, yeah,
Speaker 11: time will tell pretty much.
Speaker 3: The bottom line, We're gonna have fun this year and Damien,
Speaker 3: you know, whatever happens, I mean, unless it's just completely
Speaker 3: go south. But I think there's gonna be a fun
Speaker 3: football season for a lot of reasons, right, not just
Speaker 3: the fact that Arizona might be good, but but for
Speaker 3: the fact that it's all brand new and lots of
Speaker 3: stuff and teams coming in that we don't ever see
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: And mostly because Arizona might be.
Speaker 3: Good, and mostly because the zone might be good.
Speaker 11: And I'll say it right now, like the Big twelve thing,
Speaker 11: the changing the conferences, will fully think, and the moments,
Speaker 11: at least for football, the moments that ball is kicked off,
Speaker 11: you know. Yeah, I was gonna say, kid to stay,
Speaker 11: but technically at home against Tech Tech and uh then
Speaker 11: we'll get the ball rolling for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome, Damian.
Speaker 2: As usual, thank you very much for keeping contact.
Speaker 11: Always see Thank you guys, Jack appreciate it.
Speaker 3: They have a double burger on me.
Speaker 11: Done and done.
Speaker 3: David.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good dude that like me like a lot. And
Speaker 2: you know what he's not. He's not your typical TV
Speaker 2: guy and you can take that whatever that means. He's
Speaker 2: just a normal dude who does that job.
Speaker 3: Who does Yeah, who does TV. Yeah, but again he's
Speaker 3: still done. Looks like he's about twenty five years old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, skinny, little business.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, that was fine.
Speaker 2: Whose doctor doesn't televison go drop someway day.
Speaker 3: Have a bury? Good? Nobody does.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's like like, like my boy, Ryan, here's
Speaker 2: growing boy.
Speaker 3: Ok I hear you brought it the other day, Ryan,
Speaker 3: you did? All right? Okay, I guess we take a break.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the exes at Oh, it's Steve Leavera
Speaker 1: and Jagin Salax. This is I on the Bark on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Winying the Ball. You're a Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. He's Jay. You got a
Speaker 2: guy Ryan with us today. Get fifteen minutes in this
Speaker 2: next hour if you want to call us to Zuo
Speaker 2: five to two oh four one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 2: I'm curious, maybe a caller or two could call us.
Speaker 2: Where do they get their news get their news? We
Speaker 2: have Brett Farah coming in. Did you I didn't doing
Speaker 2: the story for business Son on the Game the Woman.
Speaker 2: How people get their news, it's not the newspapers, but
Speaker 2: it's like the bottom people get their news from wherever
Speaker 2: they want to get their news right right, or from.
Speaker 3: People that they feel like they can trust or agree
Speaker 3: with them.
Speaker 2: True, And in this situation, it's it's the local TVs,
Speaker 2: you know, KD kV way. But I was surprised. Just
Speaker 2: and we used to be in the business, right right
Speaker 2: we we we grew up wanting to be in the business.
Speaker 3: Well, I you know, I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 3: you do. I follow all those guys, you know, followed
Speaker 3: Jason Barr, I followed Damien I follow uh what's channel four? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What can I think of her name?
Speaker 2: Because she's been on the show.
Speaker 3: I'm so madam, I'm sorry, but you know I followed
Speaker 3: you know, Brett Fair, I followed Justin, I followed lev
Speaker 3: you know, all these all these guys, but also getting
Speaker 3: used from you know, I follow all the you know,
Speaker 3: there's certain national guys that I follow. I feel like
Speaker 3: they're reputable, they're actually journalists. But you know, we've follow
Speaker 3: the guys like you know, we follow Brian Peterson and
Speaker 3: and and uh and uh, Troy Hutchison, Jason Sheer have
Speaker 3: all those guys. We get our you know, we get
Speaker 3: our news from all over the place, and then you
Speaker 3: kind of compile it and you feel like, okay, you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like I know, you know, I like I
Speaker 3: follow the airs one Daily Star. You know, sometimes I
Speaker 3: get too much stuff because I get all the car
Speaker 3: wrecks and all those kinds of things. But you know
Speaker 3: that that's what people do. And but like a newspaper
Speaker 3: is just a piece of it. I don't read there's
Speaker 3: a Daily Star every day anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, In fact, I was at the doctor s, like
Speaker 2: I said, they have the doctor get it every day,
Speaker 2: and I had it.
Speaker 3: It was on the counter.
Speaker 2: I read it. It's not it's totally different, obviously, right,
Speaker 2: because it's we get it instantaneously and have for twenty
Speaker 2: years now, and then you get it and you if
Speaker 2: you will already know this, all right, and we'll already
Speaker 2: know this.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I already know this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I still have my I still have
Speaker 3: my ritual. You know, I don't need breakfast every day,
Speaker 3: but eat breakfast on Sundays, all right, So that's what
Speaker 3: you get the paper. And on Sunday, you know, I
Speaker 3: pull out my iPad, I get the the electronic version
Speaker 3: of the newspaper, so not the links, but just the
Speaker 3: actual newspaper what they deliver, and I get that on
Speaker 3: my iPad. I sit there with my my eggs and
Speaker 3: treatise or whatever, and I and I read the paper.
Speaker 3: But I'm like you, I find that I've read so
Speaker 3: much of that already. You're on the course of the day,
Speaker 3: you know, I look for Hanson's column, like even if
Speaker 3: I see the link come up for Hanson's column on
Speaker 3: Sunday night or Saturday night, which it often does. I
Speaker 3: won't read it on Saturday because that's part of my
Speaker 3: Sunday ritual to read Greg Hanson's column, to read the
Speaker 3: sports page and the features that they have on a
Speaker 3: Sunday when I'm having breakfast. But a lot of the
Speaker 3: news I've read that news, I've seen it.
Speaker 2: Do you I said this before because I was shocked,
Speaker 2: But do you when you pay for the Daily Star online?
Speaker 2: If you watch it, you pay for that subscription? Yeah, whatsurprice?
Speaker 2: He thinks like twenty bucks a month? That's yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 2: When I went to a Sunday paper is like five
Speaker 2: six plucks.
Speaker 3: Well that's to get the actual newspaper, right, I don't
Speaker 3: get Yeah, I don't get the hard copy newspaper. I
Speaker 3: was even on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I almost fell down. I'm thinking, well, tell yeah, having
Speaker 2: a bottle paper.
Speaker 3: I held the newspaper in my hand for the first
Speaker 3: time and probably two years when I was getting my
Speaker 3: car worked on it at a Jack Furriers, uh you know,
Speaker 3: and there was the newspapers in there. I hadn't held
Speaker 3: the newspaper in my hand and how long, I don't think.
Speaker 2: Kids, when was the last time you held the newspaper. No, no,
Speaker 2: And that's why I wanted to thanks for answering the question,
Speaker 2: because it's exactly what I'm saying. Any buddy under thirty five.
Speaker 3: Right, no, Right, you get your news from wherever you
Speaker 3: choose to get.
Speaker 2: Your people our age. Do what you do on Sundays, right,
Speaker 2: get up in the morning. They hold it, they feel it,
Speaker 2: they you know, want to see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like like I'll you know, I've taken a walk
Speaker 3: around my neighborhood early in the morning, right, it needs
Speaker 3: to be you walk your neighborhood in the morning paper
Speaker 3: and there were more houses that had a newspaper than didn't.
Speaker 3: Now you see one, two, maybe three newspapers in the
Speaker 3: whole neighborhood, right, that are thrown on the driveway, And
Speaker 3: that's what it's. But you know, like I said, I
Speaker 3: don't get it anymore. Uh, you know, I just I
Speaker 3: read it on my iPad. You know, I see all
Speaker 3: the coupons and all that.
Speaker 2: But you're an aberration too. You're an aboration I am,
Speaker 2: I think I am because you're sixty. You're over sixty,
Speaker 2: and you would get it on the right.
Speaker 3: I want to see the actual newspaper, not only that
Speaker 3: I'm over six, you know, a lifelong journalist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's what makes you you. You don't get
Speaker 2: it physically right, which is surprising. Yeah, but you still
Speaker 2: get the news. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Just sorry that but no, it's an interesting question because
Speaker 3: it tells us where we are with you know, with
Speaker 3: with with gathering the news, with you know, with people
Speaker 3: get the news. And because we have Brett, I mean
Speaker 3: you mentioned, you mentioned we're gonna have Brett Faarroff and
Speaker 3: he's covering Litle League baseball or Lily League, soofotball.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Sports editors didn't used to write, or maybe they'd write
Speaker 3: a column a month or something like that just to
Speaker 3: just to be able to say something because they wanted
Speaker 3: to say something. But now you know sports editors are
Speaker 3: they're they're writers as well.
Speaker 2: Well they have because the staff is so because the
Speaker 2: staff is so small, yeah, and everybody's busy doing their
Speaker 2: own things. Yeah. Now' it's an interesting we just ask him,
Speaker 2: you know, his thoughts on that, because uh, they're trying
Speaker 2: to keep the readers that they have right and try
Speaker 2: to get new ones.
Speaker 3: And trying to right more and they have to do
Speaker 3: things in all kinds.
Speaker 2: Of different way the paper might. The citizens been gone
Speaker 2: fifteen years. You were impacted on it. I was impacted
Speaker 2: on it. And uh, you know, just trying to skin
Speaker 2: a new cat, right, trying to figure out how to
Speaker 2: keep things rolling. And and then and the business is
Speaker 2: not getting any better.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And no.
Speaker 2: Fault of the journal has been Uh it's the plight
Speaker 2: of the advertising plate, of the sales all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I I yeah, I mean it's it's
Speaker 3: a it's a weird thing that where we've come to
Speaker 3: with all of this. But uh, you know, I I'm
Speaker 3: still interested in the news though, you know, and I'll watch,
Speaker 3: you know, I'll watch Damian, I'll watch uh you know,
Speaker 3: Jason Barr and in her you got to look up
Speaker 3: her name. Come on, let's go, right, go get go
Speaker 3: get her name. Uh. This is so bad. It feels
Speaker 3: so terrible about this. But you know, I because I
Speaker 3: want to know what are they talking about? Right And
Speaker 3: you know, I find because I think I watched them
Speaker 3: not so much to get my news from them, but
Speaker 3: like what's the conversation right now? It has more to
Speaker 3: do with that, you know, you know, what are they
Speaker 3: talking about out there? What do our listeners want us
Speaker 3: to talk about you know, what are they hearing continue
Speaker 3: to talk? Yeah, I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2: Uh. Oh god, well I know I'm gonna. I just
Speaker 2: gotta yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh hold on, come on, man, j Jenna fankhy Jenna.
Speaker 3: Sorry about that. Man, We're so bad. We're so awful.
Speaker 3: She's really good. It's just like, you know, she's relatively
Speaker 3: a year and a half or something, a little like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I was supposed to remember her.
Speaker 2: No, it's been it's been crazy. The thing about it
Speaker 2: with that, too, is some the Moonies of the world
Speaker 2: are Shawn Mooney's, the the Lupitos who just retired, uh,
Speaker 2: the older the Bud Foster's. You know, you don't see
Speaker 2: those people in there. They're just out of college.
Speaker 3: Or I mean someone like Pat Parris, who you know
Speaker 3: at at k GUN. You know, local guy went to
Speaker 3: high school here. He's been around and you know, he's
Speaker 3: been here for quite a long time. And he does news,
Speaker 3: but he does some sports. He was at the he
Speaker 3: was at the Brent Brennan press conference the other day.
Speaker 3: He's got a lot of interest in sports. He and
Speaker 3: I did the Sugar Skulls together for three years, two
Speaker 3: years I can't remember. And uh, you know guys like
Speaker 3: that who are around that you didn't see around right
Speaker 3: around sports, right they were the news or they were
Speaker 3: sports one or the other. Now yeah, so many people
Speaker 3: doing you know, do them both, as Damien talked about.
Speaker 3: So it's a matter of how do you how do
Speaker 3: you absorb your sports? Where do you get it? You know,
Speaker 3: who are all the things you follow? You know, we
Speaker 3: follow Wilner, John Wilner, we follow uh, you know, the
Speaker 3: people at the Athletic and Sports Illustrated. Well, I tend
Speaker 3: to follow specific writers as opposed to reading everything that's
Speaker 3: in the athletic because they do so much right. And
Speaker 3: the same thing with Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 2: You see Ari Washerman is no longer with the Athletic
Speaker 2: use now I guess I was told you one to
Speaker 2: the recruiting place twenty three or whatever on three oh.
Speaker 3: Three.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, he's left and he's one of the
Speaker 2: issue gets. I mean you Vegas, you're a Vega guy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, it's uh, it's an interesting thing about
Speaker 3: how you're how you're doing that now and again it's
Speaker 3: to the point where I go on Twitter and find
Speaker 3: stories to read. That's how I do it. You know,
Speaker 3: I'll see a story by Pat Forty on something, or
Speaker 3: there's a couple of breaking news things that we're going
Speaker 3: to have on developments, uh in in college athletics that
Speaker 3: you see that you know, Okay, that's a story I
Speaker 3: have to read. That story will be in the airzon
Speaker 3: a daily start tomorrow. But I've already read it, right,
Speaker 3: those kinds of things. Uh, you know, APM, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: you know we I I follow AP sports to get
Speaker 3: you know, their rankings and various stories follow yeahoo sports.
Speaker 3: I follow, as I said, the New York Times, Washington
Speaker 3: Posts and some of those places that you got your news.
Speaker 2: So I'm watching Twitter now that you say this, I
Speaker 2: guess Jim Rome had ren and I didn't see it.
Speaker 2: I just saw the quote from it from Rome. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So I had no idea what an amazing human being
Speaker 2: he is. I think a lot of people are gonna
Speaker 2: find that out right because he speaks so well. He
Speaker 2: speaks highly of his teammates, and again I had Lamont.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to tease Lamont last week because he's
Speaker 2: much bigger than me and he could crush me about
Speaker 2: the guys playing hard for him when he came in, right,
Speaker 2: and I said, what are you talking about? Is no,
Speaker 2: it was very obvious to me and eventually to you,
Speaker 2: right right, yes, because they have that much respect for him.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, you saw it. You saw it as the
Speaker 3: season went on, Right, guy's talking and stuff. He's they
Speaker 3: are more committed to know off of feed and then
Speaker 3: they're saying things about him that they didn't say about
Speaker 3: Jayden DeLaura. And I'm not saying that as at a
Speaker 3: criticism of Jaden DeLaura. It's just that you follow guys
Speaker 3: that you feel are on the same page.
Speaker 2: And it was a different feel, right, It was just
Speaker 2: and it was very apparent to me right away. Stuff
Speaker 2: like that doesn't just happen because.
Speaker 3: Like like within like within the the Alamo Bowl, remember
Speaker 3: there was from in the second and third quarter they
Speaker 3: were done was getting the hell beat out of him.
Speaker 3: He was getting the hell beat out of him, and
Speaker 3: you almost thought they got on the sidle and said, look,
Speaker 3: our quarterback is getting the crap beat out of him.
Speaker 3: We need to play better for him or he's gonna
Speaker 3: get killed. And then they did and then they won
Speaker 3: the game. Yeah, well they changed the scheme, a little
Speaker 3: right scheme, and they but all of a sudden, some
Speaker 3: some switch came on that they were all sudden blocking
Speaker 3: better for him, and he got he was able to
Speaker 3: do that, and he responded by doing the things to
Speaker 3: help them win the game. When you do that, that's
Speaker 3: how these things became. I'm special, right, And that's and
Speaker 3: and you know, and that's a word that people are
Speaker 3: saying about this what.
Speaker 2: We we're gonna have. We're gonna have Kevin Lehman on tomorrow.
Speaker 2: You missed the U the uh she was? She was fun,
Speaker 2: she was a lot of fun. I think you probably
Speaker 2: have done this. We've all probably done this. You work
Speaker 2: for a boss either you like or you don't like.
Speaker 2: And if you don't like, you don't, whether it's internal
Speaker 2: or whatever, you kind of say hell with you. I
Speaker 2: was gonna say about the word you know.
Speaker 3: You don't say the extra hour, wrap or work or whatever.
Speaker 2: Right, and then then running through wall things. It's a
Speaker 2: thing if you like the dude and you say I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make this thing work, I'm gonna stay a little
Speaker 2: longer or whatever I can do to help.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And when when you say that that that running
Speaker 3: through walls thing. I don't know if you ever if
Speaker 3: you've ever seen it, but Dana Dana Cooper produced a
Speaker 3: video of the eighty eight basketball team okay afterwards called
Speaker 3: uh I can't remember the name of it, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's just a recap of the season, and they interviewed
Speaker 3: you know, the play and and Sean Elliott on that
Speaker 3: in that video. It always stuck with me. That's how
Speaker 3: I can bring it up. How he said that that
Speaker 3: season they all would have run through a wall through Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why that's that team was special. Right. If Brent
Speaker 3: Brandon could capture any of that with this team, or
Speaker 3: if no Fafita has captured that with his team, that's
Speaker 3: how these teams make the leap from maybe not being
Speaker 3: the most talented team on the field every time to
Speaker 3: being able to beat somebody because even though they aren't
Speaker 3: the most talented team on the field. Yeah, every time,
Speaker 3: you feel like those teams that Dick Tomy had that
Speaker 3: were really good, every team that those players would do
Speaker 3: that where even if they went seven and four, if
Speaker 3: they weren't didn't feel like that, maybe they would have
Speaker 3: gone five and sure.
Speaker 2: No, and that's what makes them special. We won't know
Speaker 2: about this one until it happens. But last year you
Speaker 2: could see it less you can see it after that.
Speaker 2: And who talked about it? Maybe it was a Keendom
Speaker 2: that that day we were sitting with him. We talked
Speaker 2: about the us US seeing in the Washington game where
Speaker 2: they didn't win them, but they played hard. Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: they saw some they saw something and then they didn't
Speaker 2: lose after that.
Speaker 3: They didn't lose after that the Washington game. They haven't
Speaker 3: lost since Washington game last year.
Speaker 2: And that doesn't just happen by Actually it's just things. Yeah,
Speaker 2: right there, we won't see what. We will see what
Speaker 2: happens this year. If there's some thing, Hey we saw
Speaker 2: it under something there was no thing, and it works.
Speaker 3: It works. It can work opposite, Yeah, it can work
Speaker 3: the opposite.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's funny because my doctor, who's well the doctor I
Speaker 3: saw today, he's filling in for his daughter, who's actually
Speaker 3: my doctor and she's out on maternity but huge sports fan,
Speaker 3: and uh, we got to talking and he was asking
Speaker 3: me about Brent Brannan and we were having this conversation
Speaker 3: about you know, is he a guy that this team
Speaker 3: will really get behind and and be you know and
Speaker 3: do those things? Right? Do they love him to the
Speaker 3: point where they're gonna, you know, run a little harder, tackle,
Speaker 3: a little harder, you know, die for a ball, all
Speaker 3: those things. And I said it looks like it, as
Speaker 3: you say, we won't know until we know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think though that he's got a lot
Speaker 2: of Dictomy and him. They did the same thing for
Speaker 2: Dick Tomy right after the first couple of years. Sometimes,
Speaker 2: I don't know what would you attribute some of the
Speaker 2: things that didn't.
Speaker 3: Go well that those years, Steve. They just didn't have
Speaker 3: the talent that, for instance, they have this year, right,
Speaker 3: just their talent level. And you look at first a
Speaker 3: look at the string of quarterbacks that Dick, that Dick has.
Speaker 2: Well, well we can't. We gotta go now. We talked
Speaker 2: about the Penn State. You're right, yeah, And what do
Speaker 2: you tell you we lost it in.
Speaker 3: The lost They lost it the minute Keith Smith got
Speaker 3: his face coat.
Speaker 2: Well, guess what if you lost it? It's hell to
Speaker 2: get back.
Speaker 3: Right, It's hard, Yeah, it's hard. All right, let's take
Speaker 3: a break at the top of the hour. Ryan, It's
Speaker 3: gonna come back. Sorry, Ryan, Look, I couldn't remember Jennifer's
Speaker 3: name right, Ryan were breaking news. There's lots of it,
Speaker 3: so stick around.