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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to win the ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Andy Brown. My
Speaker 2: guess now we have one with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Happy Tuesday to everyone out there. You're truly missed a
Speaker 3: good two shoes. Starting off with a Mihitolino, Mihitolindo, whatever
Speaker 3: you want to call me nowadays. Uh not onload management
Speaker 3: right now, starting off breaking news with some NFL coaching news.
Speaker 3: Las Vegas Raiders have fired Antonio Pierce after first full season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about that yesterday right where the chances
Speaker 2: were pretty pretty good.
Speaker 4: I would have never hired in the first place. No, no, no,
Speaker 4: probably not, because I've said this before.
Speaker 2: It's tough to be the substitute teacher getting to become
Speaker 2: the teacher in the same class.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you were a substitute teacher and you were
Speaker 4: friends with everything. Yes, so now your friend is now
Speaker 4: your coach and you don't get it. You don't listen
Speaker 4: to that guy. Yeah, who wants to listen to your friend?
Speaker 4: Like he tells you what to do, Like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: I know you. Yeah, you've shared the same you. You
Speaker 4: weren't just jerked before last year. Used to be my buddy.
Speaker 4: And I think the biggest thing that coach rosbro I
Speaker 4: was coach said to me after a coach I coached
Speaker 4: the summer league or a summer I coached the kids
Speaker 4: a camp. After the first week, he goes, you realize
Speaker 4: you had to be meaner than what you thought, right,
Speaker 4: And I go, yeah, these kids are terrible, Like they're horrible.
Speaker 5: They don't listen. I gotta yell at him.
Speaker 4: He's like, yes, so yes. You can't be a friend
Speaker 4: and then be a coach.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: I talked Junior high a few years ago after the
Speaker 4: paper clolls, just to help a friend out. It was
Speaker 4: the most minal time I've ever had work. They don't
Speaker 4: give a crap. They don't give a crap.
Speaker 2: I won't say where it was, but they don't give
Speaker 2: a crap. And one and I.
Speaker 5: Told this to some people.
Speaker 4: It says, miss Steve, as long as the building is
Speaker 4: not on fire.
Speaker 5: You did a great job. A great job, amblance wasn't called.
Speaker 4: Right, you're not in trouble for your good and the kids.
Speaker 5: Know that you have to be mean. Man, you do
Speaker 5: have half the sense of seanness about it.
Speaker 2: And the thing is, once you're a substitute teacher, you're
Speaker 2: not mean because you just kind of want to survive.
Speaker 4: And then you become the teacher. You gotta put your
Speaker 4: fist down and yeah, right, who do you think you are?
Speaker 4: You weren't that guy? Well, then you have to follow
Speaker 4: through too, So maybe it's not meanness. So some of
Speaker 4: the great coaches, they develop a personality, but you have
Speaker 4: to be you have to be stern, you have to
Speaker 4: be fair.
Speaker 5: Right. So yeah, not to take away from once. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 3: Gonna ask, do you think we'll see a change with
Speaker 3: Brett Brennan where he was kind of that substitute teacher
Speaker 3: with this team. Now he has his own students, his
Speaker 3: own class.
Speaker 2: Great observation. I'm sure Andy has his thoughts on this. Uh,
Speaker 2: he'll have to, he'll have to and he has a
Speaker 2: new audience to do it with. Right, Maybe there's some
Speaker 2: still people who stayed and probably have.
Speaker 5: That doesn't have to coddle anybody and correct correct.
Speaker 4: Guys like the point Brian May was, these guys are
Speaker 4: coming in to play for him, Yeah, and he's not
Speaker 4: having to keep them right. So there was a group
Speaker 4: of guys that stayed together because they thought they could play,
Speaker 4: but they didn't necessarily trust the coach or you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: it is what it is. But he's got Now, he's
Speaker 4: got guys that he can he can be himself with well,
Speaker 4: and that's the whole thing. Can he be tougher himself
Speaker 4: because we saw what he is, he can be him.
Speaker 4: Maybe he had to be a little extra nice this
Speaker 4: last year, extra accommodated, yes, to keep them. So now
Speaker 4: he can be more himself and his the coaching style
Speaker 4: he wants to get it, which means being a little
Speaker 4: more stern.
Speaker 2: Do you in your estimation, both of you? Does he
Speaker 2: have one year? This is his one? You're you better
Speaker 2: do it or else?
Speaker 5: No? I really he's got to really unless it really
Speaker 5: goes bad.
Speaker 4: If we're ohing a and yes, what if you're two
Speaker 4: and nine and yes, what if you're yes, what's really bad?
Speaker 5: Is really bad? Okay? Anything better? Is okay? Anything better?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 5: I think he's got one.
Speaker 3: Just with the pace of college football nowadays, you can't
Speaker 3: wait around for to see a product.
Speaker 5: You gotta see it right away, right. We saw that.
Speaker 4: We saw with the issue Colorado too. Colorado got two years, right.
Speaker 4: His first year was so so, but you have two
Speaker 4: to three wins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was a different dynamic because he got
Speaker 2: what's in the seats and that kind of you can
Speaker 2: people poo poo a lot of that stuff, but he
Speaker 2: got people coming to watching.
Speaker 4: But you also have to put up the wins, right,
Speaker 4: So this year he put up the wins. And you
Speaker 4: can't not I mean, you can't say that guy hasn't
Speaker 4: been successful everywhere.
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, what are you measured on? Wins?
Speaker 5: Baby wins, just wins.
Speaker 3: Continuing breaking news with some Arizona Athletics women's basketball plays
Speaker 3: tomorrow at home their first h second conference game at
Speaker 3: home against the Baylor Bears six o'clock.
Speaker 5: Baylor Bears.
Speaker 4: Man the program from historically a good time historically.
Speaker 5: Are they that good anymore?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. But they're still pretty good. I'm sure.
Speaker 4: I'm sure because they're the dirt coaches at LSU whatever
Speaker 4: her name is, right, she left the LSU. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 4: see what happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and of course the big time matchup in men's
Speaker 3: basketball at number twenty one West Virginia.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've got the start.
Speaker 4: Right after the show, I was thinking this and I'd
Speaker 4: have to go back, and I didn't see the notes
Speaker 4: today for tonight's game. This could be the longest and
Speaker 4: maybe Sean's end of his coaching career here the longest
Speaker 4: they've been out of the top twenty five in a
Speaker 4: long time, because they've been almost a month without being
Speaker 4: in the top twenty five.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In my time, they were then very rarely out of
Speaker 2: the top twenty fo right if it's been a month, yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's a long time for Arizona to be not
Speaker 2: you know, to twenty five. Wow, come on, you were
Speaker 2: They were never not in the top twenty five. No,
Speaker 2: we were always in the top yeah, top fifteen, whatever
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 5: They were always in the top.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you know when you and you guys
Speaker 2: maybe weren't that high before you went to Hawaii lost
Speaker 2: to continue, right, and then you guys, but you guys,
Speaker 2: you get surprised on the people. Yeah, and then you're
Speaker 2: in the top ten for a long time.
Speaker 5: Was that signature game?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: I think every season has one. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 4: as Arizona had that game yet signature game, No signature
Speaker 4: game would have it would have been last last game
Speaker 4: had they continued, both have because that was easily the
Speaker 4: best half the first time.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I think that that combination when we played was
Speaker 4: that kind of Kentucky loss and then followed it up
Speaker 4: with that Michigan silacking. All yeah, yeah, the fat point
Speaker 4: that was that week. That was almost that time period
Speaker 4: of like we're in yeah, we know we're good, right
Speaker 4: and you had a guy two guys in the damon
Speaker 4: and then clips.
Speaker 5: We have a really good bench. Really have to end
Speaker 5: with the best one coach?
Speaker 4: Can I get you the popcorn and hat some water
Speaker 4: coach was a gum guy, blue gum or red gum.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've heard that story. Yeah to Arizona football.
Speaker 3: Former Arizona cornerback to Carlo Davis did commit to Washington.
Speaker 3: He's gonna join Jet Fish along with some other Wildcats.
Speaker 4: Imagine imagine the the stories being told from from the
Speaker 4: people who left here to go there.
Speaker 5: When they get there, what really happened, what happened last year?
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 4: Go ahead, you can tell me, right, you know, was
Speaker 4: it again, yeah? Or the vice versa, Hey, is it
Speaker 4: really that good up here? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right right? How was it last year? That would be?
Speaker 4: That would be I should write this book, but you know,
Speaker 4: I'd have to get the people, okay, to tell me
Speaker 4: what really happened here, really, because there's always more to
Speaker 4: the story. That kind of split the team, right steam split?
Speaker 4: I'm sure, but you know, maybe one of these days
Speaker 4: I'm actually about it. It's not changing anytime soon. I
Speaker 4: think kids are going to be bouncing around for years
Speaker 4: until they figure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that was one of the thing they had twenty
Speaker 2: seven people leave Washington. I think that was when I
Speaker 2: had thirty ish, kind of like, no one's ever happy anymore.
Speaker 5: No, no, and you don't have to sit out, so
Speaker 5: why not? Why not test it?
Speaker 4: And I like Gino Gino said, He's like, let's get
Speaker 4: these kids on contracts. Yeah, let's do some kind of
Speaker 4: contract where you have to commit for whether it's two
Speaker 4: years or three years or something with.
Speaker 5: Coaches have to go to the same thing. Sure, coaches
Speaker 5: have contracts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they break the hell out of those contracts, right,
Speaker 4: But there's buyout clauses and everything. So now is there
Speaker 4: a buyout clause or the kids change. Yeah, yeah, do
Speaker 4: I change my nd il money?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: And losing to Cargo, they added a different cornerback, Juco
Speaker 3: transfer Elijah Brown from Comuno College Communic You've said it
Speaker 3: like Communal College.
Speaker 4: So you saw the kids went to New Mexicoo was it, Thomas?
Speaker 5: I didn't see that. Yeah, I'll have to find it.
Speaker 5: I think it happened. Yeah. Brown. It stands at six
Speaker 5: foot two, one hundred and eighty four pounds. Uh.
Speaker 3: He had seven pass breakups, three eight tens, ever covered
Speaker 3: a fumble, and his team was seven and four seven
Speaker 3: and two. Women's basketball South Carolina Ashlyn Watkins toward her
Speaker 3: acls will be out for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 3: That is the game cox leading rebounder ouch big time
Speaker 3: lost for them. Like we said, Arizona pays West Virginia.
Speaker 3: There's some other good matchups out there. Tonight, Tennessee visits Florida.
Speaker 3: They had a pretty good matchup that should be fun
Speaker 3: with the first time. Yeah, So, I mean Florida just
Speaker 3: lost for the first time. We'll see if they can
Speaker 3: reverse that. Does he have to spend on that?
Speaker 4: They have Florida by two and a half. I would
Speaker 4: take Florida. It would take Florida on the road at home, Okay.
Speaker 3: And then Michigan goes to UCLA poly Pavilion Las favorite
Speaker 3: by two and a half as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michigan's good new with a new coach from Florida.
Speaker 2: From Florida, right right.
Speaker 3: Like Howard said, the Sons did play. Bradley Bill scored
Speaker 3: twenty five off the bench, and it prompted the Suns
Speaker 3: trade talk to silence for now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, the guy's name was Dorian Thomas. Dorian Thomas. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he went to mix. I didn't see that.
Speaker 4: So the guy throws up twenty five and now he's
Speaker 4: off the trading blocks. Well, talk to talk like, oh,
Speaker 4: maybe we keep him. Yeah, so does he know he's.
Speaker 5: On the chime blacks. Well he's got.
Speaker 2: Oh it doesn't matter. Yeah, we'll see. I wouldn't mind
Speaker 2: seeing the butler go to go to uh go to
Speaker 2: to Golden State.
Speaker 5: Golden State. People are giving me hand sights on the
Speaker 5: other side of the okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, no, I think is between the Memphis
Speaker 3: Golden State and Phoenix for.
Speaker 4: Other I would would like to see. But the Golden State,
Speaker 4: what a Homer.
Speaker 5: One, last one, last one, last chance.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Green's the problem to me? What do I know?
Speaker 3: Okay, So next season in the NBA, Prime UH Prime
Speaker 3: Video is going to have a studio show for the NBA,
Speaker 3: and there there's talks that Dirk Dewhisky and Blake Griffin
Speaker 3: are going to be some of the analysis analysts UH
Speaker 3: for that show. Derek Derek was the other name, he said,
Speaker 3: Blake Griffin, Oh, Blake Sure.
Speaker 5: And then to the.
Speaker 3: NFL, the Dolphins GM said that Tyrek kill didn't ask
Speaker 3: for a trade in their meeting.
Speaker 5: He did not. He did not?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Did he just assumed that he was unhappy or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but he wants to go to a winner. Well, he said,
Speaker 4: I'm out. Oh he did? He said he was out.
Speaker 3: I guess in a meeting today with the GM, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they said.
Speaker 5: Did he did not ask for a trade? Wow?
Speaker 4: But certainly didn't sounded like he wanted one, didn't he. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 4: we'll see.
Speaker 3: I also thought Antonio Pearce was going to stick around,
Speaker 3: So we'll see. The Lions are expecting riding back David
Speaker 3: Montgomery to be ready for the playoffs. He had us
Speaker 3: mcl injury in week fifteen when they lost the Bills.
Speaker 3: Has been idline for the last two games, but they
Speaker 3: they are expecting him back. The duo between him and
Speaker 3: Jimior Gibbs.
Speaker 5: Yeah to.
Speaker 3: The Chargers added Zekiel Elliott after he was dropped. The
Speaker 3: Cowboys'll be ready to go for their postseason run. The
Speaker 3: Chargers do play the Houston Texans.
Speaker 4: Chargers have let me down. All this down your team?
Speaker 4: How you squad the Charger No, no, I've been picking them.
Speaker 2: When I picked it, it's just good and then not
Speaker 2: so good, not so good and not so good, very
Speaker 2: very insistent.
Speaker 5: Got some college football dues.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Boise State running back Asking Gent officially announced that he's
Speaker 3: entering the twenty twenty five NFL Draft.
Speaker 5: Okay, as he should, as you should.
Speaker 4: The games are Thursday, right, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 5: Yes, Thursday and Friday. Kind of weird. He had the
Speaker 5: FCS championship last night.
Speaker 3: North Dakota State extended its FCS dominance won their tenth
Speaker 3: championship in fourteen seasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's the team that Fish played right
Speaker 4: two three years ago, they beat them. They beat him
Speaker 4: a few years ago, a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 4: then the day way. They're pretty good those Uh they
Speaker 4: started off well, I mean they were slacking Mountana State
Speaker 4: for a minute and then the final score was pretty close.
Speaker 3: So final Yeah, yeah, do you see them moving up
Speaker 3: at all?
Speaker 4: I don't know what their coaches are leaving, really they
Speaker 4: leaveing they took the job at Temple.
Speaker 5: The assistant coach is not the head coach. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh so, Uh, Northern Illinois is going to be joining
Speaker 3: them out in West as a football only school in
Speaker 3: twenty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty I got a you know, because I grew
Speaker 2: up in the West and all that, and people are saying, well,
Speaker 2: Mount West is going to crap because you know it's
Speaker 2: not the same.
Speaker 5: They're splitting it up, right.
Speaker 4: Half of them are going to back the pack whatever,
Speaker 4: pack eight pac nine, whatever it's going to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't make me cry for the pack to the
Speaker 5: good old days.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: What's your favorite trip? Favorite trip besides Maui? You guys,
Speaker 4: no conference conference? You got these detailed Steve favorite trip?
Speaker 5: Mind's easy? Oh I don't know.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: Favorite one was probably l A l A Really. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you go to uh stay on the beach, Uh go
Speaker 4: to cheesecake? What did you get? These kids will go
Speaker 4: to ent it. We went to cold places. Lowry's was
Speaker 4: a nice Yeah, you would always go to the fancy places. Yeah,
Speaker 4: co Italian places literally cared that you guys did want
Speaker 4: you want? Hamburger's not steaking, No, it is seafood Marker.
Speaker 4: One night we did uh aunt Kizzy's back because he's back.
Speaker 6: I remember that.
Speaker 5: I remember it was a nice spot.
Speaker 4: I think those I liked the whole l that we
Speaker 4: played in the old Forum trip, so that was kind
Speaker 4: of cool. That's what I liked about it. I think
Speaker 4: the most beating U C, l A and Polly and
Speaker 4: then going in Schillac and USC in the old Forum
Speaker 4: and it was just as dingy as you thought.
Speaker 2: You didn't like my favorite place all time, Black Court.
Speaker 2: It was just like he was gonna collapse at any moment. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and just crazy downstairs on it. It's just crazy. The
Speaker 2: block rooms were like that, locker rooms like this.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You basically the shower was in the rafter of the
Speaker 4: room and you had the duck to get into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah that place. No, I didn't like that place either. Yeah,
Speaker 2: no or a good okay, good perfect time. We'll take
Speaker 2: a break here, get a hold of friend here and
Speaker 2: talk a lot about college basketball.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to E on the Ball. Here all
Speaker 2: Fox for fourteen fifty. I'm Steve River in for today's
Speaker 2: Andy Brown. Now on the phone, we have ESP and
Speaker 2: basketball analyst friend Freshlla.
Speaker 5: How are you, coach, Steve.
Speaker 15: I'm doing phenomenal. I'm in Waco, Texas. I'm gonna watch
Speaker 15: a little hoop tonight without working. Cincinnati and Bail were
Speaker 15: here in about two hours.
Speaker 5: Nice. Nice.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something having been I'm a New
Speaker 2: Mexican native.
Speaker 4: I grew up in Santa Fe. Had the tickets at
Speaker 4: the Mazzazine area in the Lobos. You are the coach.
Speaker 2: Let me remind people, you are the coach that had
Speaker 2: loud Olsen lout as we all know him hatingmuse Steuben.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, you know what's funny about that game. It
Speaker 15: was it was my first year Steve at New Mexico
Speaker 15: and I was really, you know, I was. I was lost,
Speaker 15: really an East Coast guy in New Mexico. But we
Speaker 15: went out there right before Christmas. And of course coach
Speaker 15: Coach Olson a great man by the way, he had
Speaker 15: a terrific team, six NBA players on that team.
Speaker 6: And I told my team before.
Speaker 15: The game, they're gonna go on Christmas break without out
Speaker 15: telling Coach Olsen.
Speaker 6: In other words, they might not take it. They might
Speaker 6: not take us seriously.
Speaker 15: We won on a tip in at the Buzzer, and
Speaker 15: I do believe we broke a long home streak, and uh, unfortunately.
Speaker 6: For me and you, you would appreciate this.
Speaker 15: Being a New Mexican That game, I believe was on
Speaker 15: the twentieth or twenty first of December, and two days
Speaker 15: later we had to play New Mexico State in the
Speaker 15: pit in another very emotional game. We lose that game
Speaker 15: after beating number two Arizona and I had a miserable Christmas.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The funny thing, though, coach you were you were spot
Speaker 2: on Arizona historically under Loot was Yeah, it was that
Speaker 2: Christmas game.
Speaker 15: Oh nothing worse, but uh we made his Christmas miserable
Speaker 15: and then the coach Henson and the Aggies made my
Speaker 15: Christmas miserable. So but anyway, uh, great, great, really great memories.
Speaker 15: You know, three years in Albuquerque, great fans and quite frankly,
Speaker 15: and this is a tangential point, Richard Patino's doing a
Speaker 15: great job there because he's already been fired once that
Speaker 15: he doesn't take the job seriously.
Speaker 6: And I don't mean in a negative way.
Speaker 15: I mean he's loosey goosey about being a coach in
Speaker 15: New Mexico. They have a terrific team, and I think
Speaker 15: the fans for the most part, they love them today
Speaker 15: and tomorrow, if you know what I mean, depending on
Speaker 15: the next.
Speaker 6: Game, no question.
Speaker 4: Well let me see, I'm gonna Aggie. I'm a lobo,
Speaker 4: So I understand what Zach wiches. There you go, you
Speaker 4: and you the funny thing, yep for you. You finished
Speaker 4: in two thousand and two, I think, and you haven't
Speaker 4: returned to coaching, which makes you a very smart man.
Speaker 4: Smart man given the circumstances of today being a coach
Speaker 4: in Nil and all the bs, we're bat.
Speaker 6: Well, no question, you know.
Speaker 15: Actually I was forty three years old and I had
Speaker 15: been to eight post seasons in nine years as a
Speaker 15: young head coach. And I had two little sons at
Speaker 15: the time, nine and six, and I my wife's from Dallas,
Speaker 15: and I said.
Speaker 6: Let's move to Dallas.
Speaker 15: I think I'm going to do a little ESPN then
Speaker 15: I'll go back to coaching. And I've been blessed honestly
Speaker 15: because I love what I do. I take it seriously,
Speaker 15: you know how much I You know, I'm associated with
Speaker 15: the Big twelve simply because we lived in Dallas forever
Speaker 15: and quite frankly, when BYU comes into the league or
Speaker 15: this year Arizona, and of course I know all these coaches.
Speaker 15: I've known coach Lloyd a long time. I try to
Speaker 15: treat Arizona as good a program as it is. It's
Speaker 15: a blue blood like they're no different than any other
Speaker 15: Big twelve team in terms of, you know, the exposure
Speaker 15: and so you know, for example, Saturday was a great
Speaker 15: win for them. Was happy for them, but I love
Speaker 15: what I do and I never did go back to
Speaker 15: coaching because the great Jimmy Valvano said, don't mess with happy.
Speaker 6: And I've been undefeated now for twenty two years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no question about that. You found your niche
Speaker 4: and you do a great job. In fact, I was
Speaker 4: listening to the game.
Speaker 2: I covered the team home home at least forever. Now
Speaker 2: you hit a couple of points with Henry, I feel
Speaker 2: the same way you are. He's kind of like a
Speaker 2: young deer in the headlights. He was that way too. Yes,
Speaker 2: when you first got here. He's maturing now into his position.
Speaker 15: Yes, And I'll tell you, you know, you hate to
Speaker 15: say it this way, but it's additioned by subtraction.
Speaker 6: Not that they don't miss Moe Krebas, because.
Speaker 15: They certainly will, But will you take away a guy
Speaker 15: that unique with his size and the way the way
Speaker 15: you play him? Obviously, Carter Bryant and now Henry are
Speaker 15: getting opportunities as necessity is the mother of invention here
Speaker 15: and quite frankly, I think both of those guys not
Speaker 15: only were brilliant on Saturday, but I think the long
Speaker 15: term prognosis for this season is that they're going to
Speaker 15: get better and better. I know Henry suffered from a
Speaker 15: lack of confidence early in his career prior to red shirting,
Speaker 15: but what he did on Saturday shows me that when
Speaker 15: he's a junior and senior, he's got a chance to
Speaker 15: be a beast.
Speaker 6: And of course Carter Bryant.
Speaker 15: As you know, and Wildcat fans know, I think they've
Speaker 15: been waiting for this kind breakout game from him, and
Speaker 15: you can see why NBA teams are excited about him,
Speaker 15: you know, both in the near term but really more
Speaker 15: importantly in the future. I don't think he's ready for
Speaker 15: the league by any stretch, and well, I would hope
Speaker 15: he stays around for a few years, but he obviously
Speaker 15: has NBA level of talent as long as it comes
Speaker 15: out the right way, which I think coach and the
Speaker 15: staff will do right.
Speaker 2: Right you You, I think before in most people, most coaches,
Speaker 2: you have an eye for the Euros, right, the international players. Yes,
Speaker 2: why don't other coaches do that? You know, Tommy does that?
Speaker 2: Why don't you think other people?
Speaker 15: Yeah, Well it's changing, Steve, Tommy was ahead of the
Speaker 15: curve quite honestly, what he did at Gonzaga for twenty years.
Speaker 15: You know, I'll tell you why it's changing, because for
Speaker 15: many many years in European basketball, particularly in the countries
Speaker 15: that were serious, Sir, the former Yugoslavia, Spain, Italy, those
Speaker 15: kids when they were fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, they were really
Speaker 15: quasi professionals.
Speaker 6: You know, Ricky Rubio, Luka Doncic.
Speaker 15: Tommy at Gonzaga found the kids that he could convince
Speaker 15: to come to Gonzaga, like a Ronny Turioff as you
Speaker 15: remember from France, and then they just they he found
Speaker 15: a niche.
Speaker 6: Well what's happened in recent.
Speaker 15: Years with nil, with the economies and the various pro
Speaker 15: leagues in Europe and the kids don't get the bonus
Speaker 15: money they used to. You know, a kid from Spain
Speaker 15: or Serbia's I don't want to say stupid, but would
Speaker 15: be passing up an incredible opportunity to come to a
Speaker 15: place like Spokane or Tucson to play college basketball. I mean,
Speaker 15: I think about you know, the great Duson residents. You know,
Speaker 15: when Dues came over, it was rare that a Serbian
Speaker 15: kid left to go to college because they.
Speaker 6: Usually turned pro.
Speaker 15: And I say great, and I say that jokingly, but
Speaker 15: I know Dues, I talked to him about it. Amazing
Speaker 15: experience in four years at Arizona, and I think that's
Speaker 15: the norm now, that's becoming the norm, whereas twenty years
Speaker 15: ago it was very hard to get European kids to
Speaker 15: come to the States because the pro teams had their
Speaker 15: arms around them.
Speaker 2: Right, is there a is there? Do you coach these
Speaker 2: kids differently or you know, are they the same?
Speaker 15: Well, it's interesting, that's a really good question. I think
Speaker 15: depending on where they come. First of all, the average
Speaker 15: European kid, unless he grew up in Paris, they think Buffalo,
Speaker 15: New York is like Hollywood or Las Vegas. Okay, they're
Speaker 15: just they're just glad to come to the United States,
Speaker 15: you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So, and oftentimes they've.
Speaker 15: Been really well and hard coached as young players, so
Speaker 15: they're used to coaching, they're used to discipline, they're use
Speaker 15: they're great teammates, you know, buying of large they come
Speaker 15: out of a great team oriented system, which is why,
Speaker 15: by the way, almost twenty five percent of the NBA
Speaker 15: are kids born outside of the United States.
Speaker 6: Because when you think of all the kids that are.
Speaker 15: In the league now from around the world, they're all
Speaker 15: they fit in great because they're all great teammates to
Speaker 15: fundamentally sound. So I don't think he coached them any different.
Speaker 15: You can get on them and get him to go
Speaker 15: hard and they love it. And again when they get
Speaker 15: an opportunity to come to a place. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 15: think about you and I if we grew up in
Speaker 15: Europe and we can come.
Speaker 6: To Tucson, Arizona as a six.
Speaker 15: Foot nine, eighteen year old, you don't think it would
Speaker 15: be like Nirvana?
Speaker 6: No, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Eighty four degrees, eighty four degrees, pum trees and cute girls,
Speaker 4: so oh no.
Speaker 5: And a scenery.
Speaker 15: I was gonna say, I was gonna mention the scenery,
Speaker 15: you know. And I'm not talking about the Sonaria desert
Speaker 15: eve though.
Speaker 5: You're exactly right, exactly right.
Speaker 4: So you you did the UCLA game, and you did
Speaker 4: last week's skin in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: You've been into the times like this. I'm sure, what's
Speaker 2: up with the leads? They can't hold the leads? And
Speaker 2: how do you prevent stuff like that?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 15: I just think it's a matter of you know. I Well,
Speaker 15: first of all, think about it.
Speaker 6: You're playing good teams.
Speaker 15: You know when you play when you played Mick cronin
Speaker 15: which you know Arizona has done forever. You get up
Speaker 15: thirteen and they just didn't know how to put Ucla
Speaker 15: away that day.
Speaker 6: You know, we know that, right, They really gave that
Speaker 6: game away.
Speaker 15: I mean, but I also think given the crowd, which
Speaker 15: was awesome on Saturday at Cincinnati, given the fact that
Speaker 15: Cincinnati made this furious comeback, you know, the Wildcats had
Speaker 15: a little bit more left in the tank maybe than
Speaker 15: they did when they played Ucla in Phoenix. And that's
Speaker 15: how you grow up and win close games. And I
Speaker 15: got to tell you, as we were scrambling out of
Speaker 15: the building, we went out past where the Cats were
Speaker 15: heading to their locker room. And I've had this experience
Speaker 15: as a head coach. There's nothing like a road win
Speaker 15: because they're so hard. So I would say they learned
Speaker 15: a good lesson on Saturday based on what they did
Speaker 15: in Phoenix, and it'll serve them well. I do think
Speaker 15: I have a lot of hope. See and I'll say
Speaker 15: this because this is the first year Arizona's in the
Speaker 15: Big twelve. The league is down compared to where it
Speaker 15: normally is. We know how good the SEC is this year.
Speaker 15: The Big twelve has been the best league in the
Speaker 15: country according to Ken Pom nine of the last eleven years.
Speaker 15: But it's not a normal year for Kansas. Arizona took
Speaker 15: some hits, losing, you know, some really good players. They
Speaker 15: were lost Eve Mecie to the NBA a year earlier.
Speaker 15: Now he may be Rookie of the Year. So it's
Speaker 15: a it's a it's a down cycle for the league,
Speaker 15: which means they're they're they're not They're not going to
Speaker 15: drop lower than second or third among all the best
Speaker 15: leagues in the country. But I expect that the league
Speaker 15: will upturn here, uh you know, next year. But having
Speaker 15: said that, there's still seven or eight or nineteenths that
Speaker 15: that are going to be in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's some question about Arizona, but let me
Speaker 4: let me say this because we talked about this before
Speaker 4: they got into the league and they started playing. So
Speaker 4: we know the reputation of the Big twelve, and you
Speaker 4: just mentioned how good it's been so so arisonly in
Speaker 4: the Pac twelve, you know, kind of runs away with
Speaker 4: it maybe every now and again, nine out of ten
Speaker 4: times they don't get really tasted until the tournament and
Speaker 4: then they'll phase out. So we're thinking, Okay, now they're
Speaker 4: gonna have to play tough for the twenty game schedule,
Speaker 4: but they're gonna beat each other up and by the
Speaker 4: time March comes, they're tough.
Speaker 15: Well that that that, you know, I've seen that happen
Speaker 15: through the years. And I know I was in the
Speaker 15: Big East two different times, and I was there during
Speaker 15: the golden era of you know, Beaheim and Thompson and
Speaker 15: in Massamino and you know, as a as an assistant
Speaker 15: at Providence for Rick Barnes. We got, we got cooked,
Speaker 15: we got we got cheated one year out of Michale
Speaker 15: uh when we brought a good, good Providence team out there.
Speaker 6: But I'm just joking about that. I was a young
Speaker 6: coach with Rick Barnes. But I think Richie Bowdenserios actually
Speaker 6: did the game, so I might be half right about that.
Speaker 5: But you're right, No, I'm joking. It was hard.
Speaker 6: It was hard to win there.
Speaker 15: But no, I think you know, Houston started last year
Speaker 15: one and two in the league, but they were so
Speaker 15: good they ran off ten straight games. I would say,
Speaker 15: this isn't what I tell all the new coaches that
Speaker 15: come into the League. Now, Tommy's been around forever and
Speaker 15: he's you know, obviously all that time a Gonzaga. But
Speaker 15: I told Mark Pope this last year, Tommy, the key
Speaker 15: is win your home games. Because when you've got a
Speaker 15: great home court like the Marriott Center or the McHale Center,
Speaker 15: you know, I think Arizona's got a great chance to
Speaker 15: go eight.
Speaker 6: And two, nine and one at home. And if they
Speaker 6: do that, Steve, and let's.
Speaker 15: Say you go four and six on the road or
Speaker 15: five and five right and all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 15: fourteen and six or thirteen and seven and you're cruising
Speaker 15: into the NCAA Tournament. So despite the crazy tough losses
Speaker 15: in Atlantis, there's a lot of quantum one opportunities left
Speaker 15: and there aren't a lot of teams in my opinion,
Speaker 15: that are gonna beat Arizona at McHale. And that's the
Speaker 15: key to the Big twelve is defending your home court advantage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've traveled a lot doing your job now and
Speaker 2: not as coach because you've been out a while. But look,
Speaker 2: Arizona played on Thursday. You did that game. Now they
Speaker 2: have to wait five days to play this one and
Speaker 2: be away and all that stuff. What do you think
Speaker 2: of the new system with the conferences, because it's crazy, Well,
Speaker 2: it is crazy.
Speaker 6: It's unfortunate.
Speaker 15: I mean, I'm a sport I'm a football fan, and
Speaker 15: the PAC twelve last year was the best football conference
Speaker 15: in the country. You know, when you think about it,
Speaker 15: I think top to bottom was you know, you had
Speaker 15: all those great quarterbacks and obviously the Wildcats were good,
Speaker 15: and you know, there were a bunch of teams Oregon,
Speaker 15: Washington State, Washington was really good. And it's unfortunate. I mean,
Speaker 15: the adults have ruined college athletics. You know, you and
Speaker 15: I have been have been watching this for a long time,
Speaker 15: and I think that's a fact, you know. And the
Speaker 15: realignment stuff is just ridiculous, you know. And you and
Speaker 15: I both know the great you know, the great late
Speaker 15: Bill Walton and how sick he was about the PAC
Speaker 15: twelve kind of going by the wayside.
Speaker 5: So I don't like it.
Speaker 6: It's the new normal.
Speaker 15: And you know, like like for example, to your point,
Speaker 15: at least Arizona gets a long road trip out of
Speaker 15: the way, you know, early in January.
Speaker 6: Without school being in sessions.
Speaker 15: So and I give him a good chance tonight if
Speaker 15: they win this game and come home three, and oh,
Speaker 15: I mean, I think it bodes well for them. And
Speaker 15: I get back to what I said earlier somehow crazily
Speaker 15: without Mo Crevas, this team actually might be better now
Speaker 15: because everybody knows their role. You know, Henry knows he's
Speaker 15: going to play twenty minutes, Carter Bryant's gonna probably play
Speaker 15: twenty minutes, Tobey's not going to be in found trouble,
Speaker 15: you know, the guard, the way kJ is accepted coming
Speaker 15: off the bench. There's a lot of positives going on.
Speaker 15: I think that come out of the early season disappointment.
Speaker 15: And I saw a Houston team last night that lost
Speaker 15: three games in November, which hadn't happened forever.
Speaker 6: You know, they don't usually use lose their third game
Speaker 6: until February in recent years.
Speaker 15: And that Houston team, I believe is gonna get better
Speaker 15: because they got knocked on the head early on. And
Speaker 15: I think the same might be true for Arizona. They're
Speaker 15: not the most talented team in the country, but there's
Speaker 15: enough pieces there, especially when Caleb is on, and they're
Speaker 15: getting good guard play from Bradley, and you know, kJ
Speaker 15: and Deli's figuring out how to play high major basketball.
Speaker 5: I like where the.
Speaker 6: Team is headed. And as I said earlier, keep in mind,
Speaker 6: they're gonna be favored in every home game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the last question, you know, in your prep
Speaker 2: for Thursday and maybe even last week or when you
Speaker 2: played UCLA maybe two weeks ago, did you have a
Speaker 2: chance to speak to any of the players We all
Speaker 2: know Tommy, but maybe with kyleb or Jayden and get
Speaker 2: the sense of who they are.
Speaker 6: No, it was tough, you know. I didn't trying to think.
Speaker 15: You know, I know the staff well, Renbachamiss and coach
Speaker 15: Murphy and those guys.
Speaker 4: I did it.
Speaker 15: And you know what's unusual about that, Steve is when
Speaker 15: I lived in Dallas and I live in Colorado Spury now,
Speaker 15: but I could drive within four hours of like eight
Speaker 15: Big twelve schools. Yeah, so I would see these kids
Speaker 15: in September and October at practice, and you know, for example,
Speaker 15: Buddy Healed.
Speaker 6: I got to know Buddy really well through four years
Speaker 6: at Oklahoma.
Speaker 15: Or you know, the kids at Bail or the kids
Speaker 15: at Texas back then, and so I really do get
Speaker 15: to know them well.
Speaker 6: This group not as much.
Speaker 15: And I know every one of these guys from reputation,
Speaker 15: watching them USA basketball, things of that in nature, but
Speaker 15: not yet getting to know them the way I normally
Speaker 15: get to know these kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, maybe last question. So I've known of you
Speaker 2: and Reiportation for a long time, obviously having been at
Speaker 2: New Mexico and you coach for a long time. How
Speaker 2: do you keep those competitive juices going? Now everyone has that, Well.
Speaker 6: You know, it's funny, it's a good question.
Speaker 15: I've been around basketball every day of my life since
Speaker 15: I was fourteen, literally going up in New York.
Speaker 6: I do something with basketball every day of my life.
Speaker 15: And now, granted I'm in the playground of life, and
Speaker 15: this is you know, I have a lot of I
Speaker 15: have a lot of useless information in his head that's
Speaker 15: you know, basketball related. But my competitiveness, quite honestly, is
Speaker 15: to be able to tell the fan I want him
Speaker 15: to say, I want I want an Arizona fan to say, wow,
Speaker 15: it's the first time I've heard friend, you know, on
Speaker 15: Arizona games and he really knows my team. And the
Speaker 15: worst thing that someone could say to me a coach
Speaker 15: in the league is fran didn't do his homework. So
Speaker 15: I still treat the games. If you remember on Saturday.
Speaker 15: I was talking about fouling the young. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 15: like we found when I was with Rick Barnes in
Speaker 15: the nineties early nineties. We used to found Stevie Thompson
Speaker 15: in the first half when we got into the bonus
Speaker 15: because Stevie was a thirty two percent foul shooter. So
Speaker 15: I try to take all my coaching knowledge and then
Speaker 15: all the stuff I you know, all the stories and
Speaker 15: try to weave him into a broadcast.
Speaker 6: So that people can say, you know what.
Speaker 15: I don't always agree with him, but he certainly does
Speaker 15: his homework right, and that's my competitive juices.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were talking about Zeke cuts and cuts to
Speaker 4: the bat and what the hell you were talking about.
Speaker 4: But I understood it.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, No, it's what I It's what I love,
Speaker 15: and I'm blessed to be doing this. This is my
Speaker 15: twenty second year and uh, I got to raise two sons,
Speaker 15: be home with them a lot ones with the Washington
Speaker 15: Wizards right now, young coach, and my other son played. Yeah,
Speaker 15: the other son played at Harvard, was a billing over
Speaker 15: for five years and he's back coaching at Harvard.
Speaker 5: Great.
Speaker 2: Great, We will thank you a bunch. I hope to
Speaker 2: talk to you again as we move forward.
Speaker 15: Thank you, happy to do it anytime, and uh we'll
Speaker 15: catch up soon. And hey, by the way, you're an
Speaker 15: aggie go Lobos.
Speaker 6: Sorry about that.
Speaker 5: Are you coming down here?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna be here at Are you coming any
Speaker 2: games again?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 15: Okay, yeah, we've only we've only got our schedule till
Speaker 15: February third, but I right now I'm scheduled to big Monday,
Speaker 15: Iowa State Arizona.
Speaker 6: In a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Great super game. We'll see you then.
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Speaker 4: It was just when it's a good show. One one
Speaker 4: with us as well. Uh, brand was good. I like
Speaker 4: that that guy could talk. Yeah, and he knew what
Speaker 4: he was talking about. I mean, he's been doing this
Speaker 4: a lot of time, unlike us. Yeah, he's a professional
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Speaker 4: Isn't it cool? I don't know, isn't it cool? But
Speaker 4: you have an option? What would you do if you
Speaker 4: didn't do what you do? Because like he has, he
Speaker 4: was a coach and he said, hell with this crap
Speaker 4: almost about to hit my buzzer, Yeah, help with this
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna do this and enjoy it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He took a time off for a take a hobby
Speaker 2: and then turned into just like you know, you know
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Speaker 4: Right now. Yeah. Just and he's good at he's a talker,
Speaker 4: he's informative.
Speaker 5: You know, why deal with what's your crap? No, what
Speaker 5: would you do with you? What would you man?
Speaker 4: I have a couple of hobbies that i'd like to count.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So that's one of my things, is fishing in the
Speaker 4: where it's warm. Yeah, once in a while. I had
Speaker 4: to ask her when in the summertime. But that would
Speaker 4: be a fun thing for me to do. I'd love
Speaker 4: to do a little guide fishing and stuff. Cool. I
Speaker 4: don't know if I want to on a boat per se. No,
Speaker 4: maybe I just broke her the deal. Those are just headaches, yeah,
Speaker 4: like pools.
Speaker 15: No.
Speaker 4: I saw I met a guy down in Cabo this
Speaker 4: last couple of years and he's like, no, I used
Speaker 4: to own a boat for thirteen years.
Speaker 5: He goes, Now, I just broke her the deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I make the deals with the hotels, I
Speaker 4: make the deals with the captains, I make the deal
Speaker 4: with the fish processing he gets and then I make
Speaker 4: a cut I transportation I want.
Speaker 5: So then he makes a deal. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well we talked and I kind of joked with you,
Speaker 2: but you might be going to the uh the America's
Speaker 2: was what I say, Golf of America.
Speaker 4: Golf of America, right head down the Golf America. Yeah,
Speaker 4: to go fishing. That's the best to get out unplugged.
Speaker 5: What a life? What a life, miss Brander. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you work hard and you gotta play hard. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you're still a young man. Yeah, fifty one of
Speaker 4: my fifty two. Oh yeah, you're definitely young.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Getting up there though, Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. Anybody
Speaker 4: want to call and you can take some calls. Five two,
Speaker 4: zero for one, six seventy four forty. Who's gonna win tonight?
Speaker 4: Did you believe anything that Franz said? I totally believe.
Speaker 4: I think Henry is the guy. Maybe not auditioned by subtraction,
Speaker 4: but the team looks different and it has a flow
Speaker 4: to it. I think now he's playing Henry's playing. He
Speaker 4: got he knows he's not coming out right. When you
Speaker 4: know that you can play and not have to look
Speaker 4: over your shoulder, then you're gonna play better. And you're
Speaker 4: constantly looking on his coach gonna take me out? Or
Speaker 4: am I coming out? Or he's just playing with more confidence?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then he's nice to see him play like that.
Speaker 2: I really liked him when he was a freshman. I
Speaker 2: can remember doing a story on him just because he
Speaker 2: looked the part. He was thin as all hell. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: remember he was real thin.
Speaker 4: Now my wife calls him the Skinny Minies, but they
Speaker 4: were skin skinny minies. They were so skinny, skinny minnies.
Speaker 4: And then Special K. We call krevious Special K.
Speaker 5: And he came back. He was like a seven foot five.
Speaker 5: He came back big race. Seem like he did Big Kid. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but now we'll have to know.
Speaker 4: Never they have problems with their feet though, you Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean Walton had those problems to it's just once
Speaker 4: they got them, they they don't never seem to go away.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you let me ask you a dumb question. I
Speaker 4: was gonna ask this a friend, have you watched any
Speaker 4: of Indiana basketball. They're not any good.
Speaker 7: They're not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, have you have you have you seen some games?
Speaker 4: You've seen some games. Yeah, he wouldn't have been any
Speaker 4: different this year with this team.
Speaker 5: Yeah. No, he wouldn't have helped them either way.
Speaker 4: No, I think it would have helped them on early
Speaker 4: on a couple of those big games where they needed
Speaker 4: a presence inside, but they needed a rebounder. I think
Speaker 4: now the team knows they have to rebound better.
Speaker 5: I don't. They just needed that big body.
Speaker 4: And when you do those early games when you're not
Speaker 4: up and down, everybody's not quite in shape yet where
Speaker 4: you can just PLoP them down in the middle.
Speaker 5: And that's what he was, and that's what he was.
Speaker 2: He was seeing a lot of grief from a lot
Speaker 2: of people that he was out of shape and they
Speaker 2: hadn't seen him. He was a plot He's a plotter. Yeah,
Speaker 2: plotter is not very going up and back. And I
Speaker 2: guess he did something. He had a couple of good games.
Speaker 2: Was I watched he put in eighteen points and eleven rebounds.
Speaker 5: Yeah he did. Last game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they beat They upset somebody on the road, and
Speaker 4: that what it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he looked like he was plotting again, like
Speaker 2: really slow for whatever, and then he was suspended before
Speaker 2: that for doing whatever he was doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was just curious if you thought. And
Speaker 4: in another addition, subtraction, I don't think he would have
Speaker 4: done any better. No, no, And people were talking about
Speaker 4: wish No, don't don't wish that, you know, be careful
Speaker 4: what you wish for, Be.
Speaker 5: Careful what you wish for.
Speaker 4: I think in the short run he might have done
Speaker 4: it better at the first couple of games, but as
Speaker 4: you see, as teams get into shape and other people,
Speaker 4: he'll get here to get left behind. But I think
Speaker 4: he's in the perfect conference, the Big ten, where you
Speaker 4: just sit and bang all day long. I think you
Speaker 4: found the right conference to be in.
Speaker 2: You did you find this interesting where he said the
Speaker 2: Big twelve was down, and I agree it's not.
Speaker 5: With Kansas.
Speaker 4: Everything kind of automatically goes down with Texas and right well,
Speaker 4: and what Kansas Kansas. It's like when when the football
Speaker 4: in Pac twelve, when you USC and Washington and Oregon
Speaker 4: are not good, or US he is not good, you
Speaker 4: think the league is not.
Speaker 5: That good at least the perception. The perception is Yeah. No,
Speaker 5: I think they're down for sure.
Speaker 2: Irish States pretty good, Ioway States good, Houston pretty good.
Speaker 5: They're all going to be good. I just looked at
Speaker 5: the top. They're all good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yeah, even the guys on the bottom
Speaker 4: that are owing two right now in the conference, like Cincinnati's,
Speaker 4: Like wow, these guys played hard. He talked about it
Speaker 4: was on going nine to one in league play here
Speaker 4: at home, right, Yeah, nine and one.
Speaker 2: If you can go five and five on the road
Speaker 2: in the league, that's fourteen. That'll get you in.
Speaker 4: Maybe he is a six seed, five seed right in
Speaker 4: a pretty good conference, right, But can they pull off
Speaker 4: five and five? I mean, this is a huge game
Speaker 4: if they do pull it off. Sure, I think there's
Speaker 4: some games out there you're gonna steal. They have to
Speaker 4: and you can't lose any here. Maybe one, maybe one
Speaker 4: if if that. But come on, I'm excited just all
Speaker 4: these new teams coming in and playing new teams. Well,
Speaker 4: you have seats, right, you have seats.
Speaker 2: I for the first time in a long time, I've said,
Speaker 2: whoever has seats, be happy that you have seats, because
Speaker 2: you're going to see some fantastic basketball.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you might go away home upset because you've lost.
Speaker 4: But you're going to see some good basketball. Yes, even
Speaker 4: though you have to go at eight o'clock, nine o'clock
Speaker 4: to go watch the games.
Speaker 5: Those are going to be brutal. Eight eight thirty nine o'clock.
Speaker 5: It seems like there's more this year than there were
Speaker 5: last year. And don't you remember last year? Did you
Speaker 5: hear this?
Speaker 2: Oh, at least we're gonna get favorable schedules, all right,
Speaker 2: you know, Oh, we're moving to a better conferce.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get better times. Everybody thought that football as well.
Speaker 4: Never assume, never assume. Oho, I like the football season
Speaker 4: this good? This year was good.
Speaker 5: The game times we had were pretty good. How about
Speaker 5: the games there? Games were well? Talk about the game
Speaker 5: times were good? Uniforms are good? Yeah right, how'd that go?
Speaker 11: How for you?
Speaker 16: Good?
Speaker 5: Play good? That's don't matter anymore, It doesn't matter. It
Speaker 5: was tough.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens whatever football, basketball tonight. Women play tomorrow.
Speaker 4: You said with Baylor, Baylor's twelve and three in the
Speaker 4: and the overall, and there, I think they are just
Speaker 4: ahead of Aeras two and one. They're both to and one,
Speaker 4: but they're slightly ahead. We got I'm sure point differentials
Speaker 4: or something. Yeah, just they alphabetical. It should be should
Speaker 4: be good. You know, she has uh, she has a
Speaker 4: lot of idea, has a lot of power, a lot
Speaker 4: of power in her in her presence right, a lot
Speaker 4: of following, that loyal following. So let's see what she
Speaker 4: can do with that now. Yeah, moving forward. I'm excited.
Speaker 4: I think we also. I got the softball schedule today
Speaker 4: as well, they email to me. So people starting to
Speaker 4: think about spring sports already. Yeah, up, but that well,
Speaker 4: it's gonna start.
Speaker 2: Baseball starts here in about a month, February the first
Speaker 2: the softball US softball, and those are the big.
Speaker 4: I know the track because our office is down there
Speaker 4: by the track, and I see all those kids are
Speaker 4: all showing up. They're starting to run around them neighborhood.
Speaker 4: So spring the sports are around the corner.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did you ever get out to those? No, not as
Speaker 4: much as I wish I could. You know this this
Speaker 4: thing here Olympics sports.
Speaker 2: Well, I wanted to get some season tickets to the
Speaker 2: softball team, because you want to have them and go
Speaker 2: when I could, because they're not very expensive. No, they're
Speaker 2: not very expensive, and I was hoping that'd be pretty good,
Speaker 2: but I don't have time because of this show and
Speaker 2: then other sports you know, going on, and then I
Speaker 2: just I still might do it.
Speaker 5: I don't know. That's a nice fast pace.
Speaker 4: They've got to How can I see this? I didn't
Speaker 4: do it with Candread because I was, you know, covering
Speaker 4: the team and it was all that stuff. But they've
Speaker 4: got she's got to get them a little bit better. Yeah,
Speaker 4: does that make sense? Yeah, not for me to buy,
Speaker 4: but just see me. Because Arizona is softball, you know,
Speaker 4: whether it's coming gone, and it could be true, but
Speaker 4: it is still If you want to talk about blue blood,
Speaker 4: blue blood and they haven't played well, really, it's already over.
Speaker 4: Holy crap. That was fast.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: If it's talking about blue blood, they're blue blood, whether
Speaker 2: they've done recent green Yeah, okay, we gotta go cats
Speaker 2: by four tonight. Wow, that's the line. Thanks for coming in, Andy,
Speaker 2: as always, Thank you one.
Speaker 5: Thank you see tomorrow one. Yep, all right, thanks one