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Speaker 2: May good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Eye on the Ball
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Speaker 3: Look we have here today, d Welcome back to your
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Speaker 4: Can we call it education or can we just call
Speaker 4: it home?
Speaker 3: You could call it well you feature your possible future home.
Speaker 3: Who knows? You're your station now in Los Angeles. The
Speaker 3: big city has a big city.
Speaker 4: The Big City secks.
Speaker 3: It does suck. Okay, hey yellen, it's.
Speaker 4: Very loud and very state.
Speaker 3: How does it take you to go to work? Just
Speaker 3: as a commute, So.
Speaker 4: For reference, I live less than ten miles from our
Speaker 4: production studio in LA and it can take me anywhere
Speaker 4: from twenty minutes to an hour.
Speaker 3: Oh, there are you downtown?
Speaker 4: No, so I am a little further south. So our
Speaker 4: studio is like right next to the Lax Airport, so
Speaker 4: I'm just south of that. But no, it can take
Speaker 4: me upwards of an hour sometime.
Speaker 3: Yeah at l A l A. And we have one
Speaker 3: today one, yes, sir, good to see you. Again. Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: it feels good to be back. This is my fourth
Speaker 3: straight show.
Speaker 2: Yes, Friday, Friday, Thursday, Friday, well, yesterday, you're going to
Speaker 2: put you.
Speaker 3: On the clock.
Speaker 4: I remember those days.
Speaker 3: Yes, we need you guys, I need you guys. Good
Speaker 3: to have you back. What are you here for?
Speaker 4: My brother's graduation on Thursday. Whole family's coming into town.
Speaker 4: It's a very big deal.
Speaker 3: My boy, Doug, he's probably listening right now. Doug, you've
Speaker 3: ignored me.
Speaker 4: He's probably at work because he's an hour behind. He's
Speaker 4: an hour bind.
Speaker 3: Okay, specific time, so we won't get any tweets about anything.
Speaker 3: And my mom she's doing okay, she's all right. She's good.
Speaker 3: MENI you or you're the mini to her? Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah sorry you last at the Breeders Cup. Had a
Speaker 3: great time one Friday, lost Saturday, so it's still a
Speaker 3: great time.
Speaker 4: That's okay. I lost Friday and one Saturday.
Speaker 3: You you must have done well Saturday because all the
Speaker 3: long shots would coming. I did okay.
Speaker 4: On Saturday. I laid off the Japanese horses and decided
Speaker 4: that they weren't it this year, and made some other
Speaker 4: decisions and it worked out well.
Speaker 3: For me hit crap Saturday day.
Speaker 4: Just had to be on the correct Bafford horse to
Speaker 4: even it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well and that was he finished first, third
Speaker 2: and fourth right, and he in the Juvenile Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: which was.
Speaker 3: Which is great.
Speaker 2: And one of the horses from Tucson are owned by
Speaker 2: Tucson finished third, so I think he's going to.
Speaker 3: Be the Derby.
Speaker 4: Well and Gaming just ran in the Lost Alamitos Futurity
Speaker 4: this past weekend. He did not run fantastic.
Speaker 3: What did he finish?
Speaker 4: I believe it was third. He was beat by Journalism,
Speaker 4: who is named Michael McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Really, that's the name of the horse.
Speaker 4: Journalism, Yeah, texted me.
Speaker 3: I would have been all over. Both of those horses
Speaker 3: were one.
Speaker 4: First went off at like five to two.
Speaker 2: Journalism, Journalism, it's never been that favorite.
Speaker 3: Journalism is now ten to one in the world.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, lots of good stuff coming along. Bob
Speaker 4: Baffort had three of those horses in the Los Ale
Speaker 4: Futurity and he's won it the last leg. He had Journalists, No,
Speaker 4: Michael McCarthy had Journalism, he had Mel Baffert had Mellencamp,
Speaker 4: Gaming and get Away Car.
Speaker 3: Okay, and he didn't do fast second third, Gaming ran
Speaker 3: third and that was his best horse probably.
Speaker 4: In that race.
Speaker 3: That's not good.
Speaker 4: Well, Bowls back on the worktab. Barnes is on the worktab,
Speaker 4: so I mean he's very flushed with two year old
Speaker 4: soon to be three year olds. And if I had
Speaker 4: to guess, he's gonna pull out a three year old
Speaker 4: that we haven't seen yet, I'm running for that Derby
Speaker 4: trail now that he's back in Well, we had him.
Speaker 3: On the show right after the dirt, after the the
Speaker 3: the the what you call it cup, That's what I.
Speaker 2: Call it, Yeah, the Beach Cup, and he was fantastic.
Speaker 2: So I haven't gone on again. Party of March April
Speaker 2: as we prepare for the for the Derby.
Speaker 4: If I had to guess, he's going to have at
Speaker 4: least two contenders in the Derby this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, no, super, we're gonna we might cut to
Speaker 2: the Sean Miller I down the dum.
Speaker 3: J got Tommy Lloyd. Well, everyone on the internet is
Speaker 3: talking about what.
Speaker 2: You have, Sean. This is Sehn Miller's offense, same exactly,
Speaker 2: it's same. It's not good. It's not good, Tommy. He
Speaker 2: needs to go back to what he's doing. But again
Speaker 2: I say, this is not about Tom.
Speaker 4: What is he doing? What does he need to go
Speaker 4: back to doing?
Speaker 2: He's a running movement to move the ball around to coach,
Speaker 2: and if if if I can, if I'm very good
Speaker 2: at transition points, running and and all that moving around,
Speaker 2: what are you trying to prevent all that?
Speaker 3: Right? All the teams are doing exactly that.
Speaker 4: But was he good at that because of who he
Speaker 4: had two to three years ago?
Speaker 2: Or is he just I hate you the hatred discussion
Speaker 2: you're making me think now controversial topics, yes, no, you're
Speaker 2: You're exactly right. I think they're not as good as
Speaker 2: the ones in the past, but they're still damn good.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: It seems like it's just stagnant, right, Yeah, the of
Speaker 3: standing around waiting for the ball, that's.
Speaker 4: Like number one role in basketball. Elvis has left the building.
Speaker 4: You can't be standing up right, exactly right?
Speaker 3: Okayleb loves guilty number one.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You see it almost every game.
Speaker 6: If he doesn't have the ball, he's waiting for the ball,
Speaker 6: not creating anything else anyone else.
Speaker 2: Right, Right, So that's probably one A or A one
Speaker 2: and b whatever. Then there's one of a thousand when
Speaker 2: yesterday we talked about all of them if we could.
Speaker 3: There was so many, so many, So we'll wait for that.
Speaker 2: Right, there's nothing yet five after so we'll go to that.
Speaker 2: So I think we have a pretty good show. D
Speaker 2: Thanks for showing up visiting in town. I might you
Speaker 2: might see me.
Speaker 4: A couple of times, right, Yeah, we might be back.
Speaker 3: Saturday, Friday, Monday. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure we might get a call from your admirers.
Speaker 3: From the past.
Speaker 4: That's okay. Maybe maybe I bring Collar Doug with me
Speaker 4: one day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought that if we.
Speaker 4: Do it Friday, I can bring Collar Doug with me.
Speaker 3: He does, he doesn't have an opinion and a lot
Speaker 3: of different things. He his Seahawks are.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a very sad situation up in Seattle
Speaker 4: right now. There's currently a saying going around called a
Speaker 4: Gino Special, whereas you're getting on a drive and you
Speaker 4: get down in the red zone and you throw a
Speaker 4: pick in the end zone. It's now called a Gino Special.
Speaker 3: Gino Special. So that's all. Yeah, he didn't have. He
Speaker 3: didn't look good. I had. I had. Who did they play? Oh?
Speaker 3: Green Bay?
Speaker 4: Green Bay?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I had green Bay.
Speaker 4: That was one of my pick I told people that
Speaker 4: it was not going to be an easy game, and
Speaker 4: that was not a game I would have bet for Seattle.
Speaker 4: With Seattle, it was the inconsistent. Nope, they looked soft
Speaker 4: and asleep.
Speaker 3: That's Arizona football.
Speaker 6: That's Arizona right now, right right, the whole except for volleyball,
Speaker 6: right So we're going to keep our eye on that.
Speaker 3: We're going to have Michael.
Speaker 2: Lev here in the first hour about three seventeen, get
Speaker 2: caught up with what's going on with football, all the
Speaker 2: transfers and all that stuff, and then at the end
Speaker 2: of basketball situation get his view on it and probably
Speaker 2: maxes us or that doesn't and uh. And then in
Speaker 2: the second hour, we're gonna have oh, Pat Nuchen, who
Speaker 2: just retired after a great career at all over the
Speaker 2: place in town at the high school level. So we
Speaker 2: got some stuff. It's three seven, let's go for like
Speaker 2: five minutes and just see what he says.
Speaker 8: Come on you, you can't have a thirteen point lead
Speaker 8: with ten minutes to go. And then I mean, maybe
Speaker 8: maybe you might lose it, but it better because they
Speaker 8: hit a bunch of threes and a couple bunch of
Speaker 8: crazy stuff happens to better not because.
Speaker 5: You don't score, and and we just you know, couldn't score.
Speaker 8: So you know, I was, you know, pretty frustrated with
Speaker 8: myself that, you know, I just wasn't able to give
Speaker 8: maybe a little more certainty on how we wanted to
Speaker 8: attack their pressure. And you know, the frustrating thing. I
Speaker 8: think we were in the bonus at the fourteen minute mark.
Speaker 8: I mean, just hey, run into somebody, fall down, get
Speaker 8: a couple of free throws. But but you know, just
Speaker 8: just none of it came together and it kind of
Speaker 8: unraveled in front of us.
Speaker 5: And you know, when you're when you're a team with a.
Speaker 8: Little bit of a fractured psyche, you know, you you know,
Speaker 8: you the belief probably isn't where you'd want it to be.
Speaker 8: And that's what we got to fight for. We got
Speaker 8: to fight to get there. And what an awesome challenge.
Speaker 3: Did What did you think specifically against their defense? And
Speaker 3: you'll it sounds like you'll have a.
Speaker 5: More extreme version of it, was what Samford does?
Speaker 3: Do you think that you exposed Anything's.
Speaker 8: Just they just they took the ball from us like
Speaker 8: fifteen times. I mean, these turnovers weren't like crazy passes.
Speaker 8: They just literally came and took the ball out of
Speaker 8: our hands, like you know, and just you know, hey,
Speaker 8: and and they're ballhawks. I'll give them credit. But but
Speaker 8: we got to be tougher than that. I mean, we
Speaker 8: got we gotta have a little more toughness, you know.
Speaker 8: I mean it's you know, that's one of those things.
Speaker 8: You know, you can say the scheme, the you know,
Speaker 8: the concepts, whatever. The dudes got to hold onto the
Speaker 8: ball and you know that that's where that's their responsibility
Speaker 8: and they're accountable for that.
Speaker 3: And we didn't do a great job of.
Speaker 9: It six minutes stretched there in that second half when
Speaker 9: the league was going away, where you didn't make any
Speaker 9: sort of subs.
Speaker 5: Looking back on it.
Speaker 8: Was a choice for well, I don't think there was
Speaker 8: a lot of dead balls, for one. I mean, I
Speaker 8: think that probably played into it too, because I know
Speaker 8: Murph and I were talking.
Speaker 5: You know, hey, should we do this, should we do that?
Speaker 5: And you know this is just you.
Speaker 8: Know, only having that one time out, you know, I
Speaker 8: mean obviously, I mean, if you're asking me, in hindsight,
Speaker 8: I should.
Speaker 5: Have called it. You know, that's easy in hindsight.
Speaker 8: But also you know, I could have called it, and
Speaker 8: we get to the last minute of the game and
Speaker 8: we don't have a timeout, and you guys could be
Speaker 8: saying we.
Speaker 3: Wasted all your time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: So like you just never know with that what what's
Speaker 8: going to sway it one way or the other. And
Speaker 8: you know, traditionally, I'm a guy who likes to have
Speaker 8: a timeout, and you guys know I usually like having
Speaker 8: a couple.
Speaker 5: Of timeouts the last minute or two of a game.
Speaker 8: But you know, we lost those two timeouts when guys,
Speaker 8: you know, we're trying to save possessions, and I'm not
Speaker 8: faulting them for that. You know that that's what they did,
Speaker 8: and that's what they did and their instincts told them
Speaker 8: to do in that moment, we saved the possession and
Speaker 8: and we just didn't have any timeouts down the stretch
Speaker 8: to maybe you know that we would have liked to
Speaker 8: have or you know, maybe I should have used that one,
Speaker 8: but but I didn't.
Speaker 9: You regularly talked about how you give your players a
Speaker 9: lot of freedom. Is there such a thing as too
Speaker 9: much freedom? Maybe that they they are able to freelance
Speaker 9: so much that it goes out of assist.
Speaker 3: Me listen, it's not it's not freelancing like you think.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's definitely concepts we play within and and
Speaker 8: but but there there needs to.
Speaker 5: Be when we're doing it right.
Speaker 8: There's a randomness to it that that maybe to the eye,
Speaker 8: but there's structure from within and and I mean it's
Speaker 8: just it's the same concepts. You know, we've we've we've
Speaker 8: drilled for years, but you know, we we just got
Speaker 8: to keep hammer and we've got to keep hammering. And
Speaker 8: part of it is just trusting that you know, if
Speaker 8: you get the body of your hands and that's something
Speaker 8: that's gonna happen for someone else or it's going to
Speaker 8: come back to you. And we just got to have
Speaker 8: a little more trust in the game moments of that,
Speaker 8: and and and we're working for it.
Speaker 10: The cultivates the kind of taughtness that you feel may
Speaker 10: not be whacking with these guys right now.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think you got to challenge guys, you know,
Speaker 8: you you got to teach them what winning plays are,
Speaker 8: and you got you got to hone in on those things,
Speaker 8: and then you try to hold them accountable for it.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's not really much more complicated on that
Speaker 8: than that I didn't think our effort, you know, for
Speaker 8: the most part, was lacking, you know. I mean, I
Speaker 8: think in a lot of these games, the guys have
Speaker 8: played hard, you know, like like like really hard, and
Speaker 8: just maybe this a little bit of our our execution
Speaker 8: and and and and making things a little bit easier
Speaker 8: for each other could could be better, you know, at
Speaker 8: both ends of the floor. So I mean, I I
Speaker 8: don't I'm not like, you know, questioning the toughness overall,
Speaker 8: but but you know, just we just got to get
Speaker 8: a little bit better at you know, some of the
Speaker 8: you know, late game execution, you know, and hey, you're
Speaker 8: looking at some of these games like that game, I
Speaker 8: think we out rebounded of my ten, which is you know,
Speaker 8: that's pretty good against UCLA, but just there were timely
Speaker 8: rebounds down the stretch that you know, you're just like that,
Speaker 8: we're just backbreakers and and those are those are the
Speaker 8: winning plays you got to fight for. You know, if
Speaker 8: you win by ten on the glass, but you give
Speaker 8: them two or three offensive rebounds down the stretch, you know,
Speaker 8: it's almost like undoing all the positive you did. So
Speaker 8: so we we got we can get better in those areas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's go so d if I can remember this,
Speaker 3: and it's been two a.
Speaker 2: Couple of years, right, since you've been a couple of years,
Speaker 2: so so, and I don't think one we had to discussion.
Speaker 2: And I've said this all the time, can you teach tough?
Speaker 3: Right? I think we talked about this.
Speaker 4: We talked about this so many times in Tommy's first
Speaker 4: season here at the u of A, and they didn't
Speaker 4: have it, and they didn't have it then and I'm
Speaker 4: hearing that they still don't have it. Mentally tough versus
Speaker 4: physically tough is something that's incredibly different. And you can
Speaker 4: train mentally tough, that's something that you can train, but
Speaker 4: you cannot train physical toughness. Like if these guys are
Speaker 4: going to get pushed around, the other team's going to
Speaker 4: know it and they're going to take advantage of it.
Speaker 4: And that's what other teams have done and they've figured
Speaker 4: it out. They walk all over us because they start
Speaker 4: throwing elbows, they actually box out, they get a body
Speaker 4: on someone, and you get cry babies crying for a
Speaker 4: foul because they don't know how to take it.
Speaker 3: I think I think you can.
Speaker 6: Kind of leak that into from mentally tough to physically tough.
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, they're upblowing you. So what go on
Speaker 6: to the next play, Go and make a play on
Speaker 6: the next one.
Speaker 4: And I think that's a huge thing is because they
Speaker 4: get in the lax mind if they get stuck. You
Speaker 4: should have Ted Lasso said it best. You need to
Speaker 4: have a memory of a goldfish. Ten second. It's got
Speaker 4: to be done. You get back up, you get pushed
Speaker 4: on the ground like that's it. It's done. You have
Speaker 4: to get up and go make a play. The other
Speaker 4: thing that I really want to capitalize on is what
Speaker 4: Tommy said is time management. His time management has not
Speaker 4: been what it's been in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: He has not controlled the game as much as he
Speaker 4: has in the last couple of years, and they suffered
Speaker 4: in that UCLA game, they suffered in the Duke game
Speaker 4: because of time management.
Speaker 2: Well, they've never been in this spot this early, and
Speaker 2: so we've never really had to kind of call him
Speaker 2: on it, call him on the carpet on it, because
Speaker 2: the last three years it's been an eight to nine
Speaker 2: and one.
Speaker 3: Everybody's happy and giddy.
Speaker 4: But while they were winning those games and they had
Speaker 4: winning seasons the first half of the game. They'd always
Speaker 4: be asleep. They'd always put themselves in a hole. They'd
Speaker 4: let teams stick with them, and then in the second
Speaker 4: half they'd come out and they put them away and
Speaker 4: they would do what Arizona's supposed to do.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I have to fact check you,
Speaker 3: because I'm not sure about that either from a student's perspective.
Speaker 4: I want to back me on this one.
Speaker 6: I've been going to almost every game since I got
Speaker 6: into the UVAIL. It's been that case, even from every student,
Speaker 6: like why are they within ten? Oh, I see what
Speaker 6: this is.
Speaker 4: Within ten They let teams stick around when they shouldn't
Speaker 4: be like to stick around.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and no.
Speaker 2: In fact, he said this yesterday, and he said this
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. They want to have enough
Speaker 2: wiggle room, get out to the fifteen point lead, have
Speaker 2: enough wiggle rooms so they won't catch up. They won't
Speaker 2: if they go on a run. They were not going
Speaker 2: to catch up. Well, that proved otherwise Saturday, right, it
Speaker 2: proved otherwise against Princeton. Remember Princeton, they had a double
Speaker 2: digit and they came back and won that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it goes to the mental toughness that you're talking about.
Speaker 2: It goes to the physical toughness that you're talking about Arizona.
Speaker 2: I don't if they're lacking And I didn't even put
Speaker 2: this in the in the scenarios yesterday of what they
Speaker 2: needed or lacked was toughness, because that was kind of
Speaker 2: just assumed.
Speaker 4: But if they don't have your teams walk all over
Speaker 4: them and they have four years, that's what Tommy said.
Speaker 6: I mean almost fifteen times on during the UCLA game,
Speaker 6: they just got the ball taken away.
Speaker 3: From them, which was very odd, just very I mean,
Speaker 3: just you can slap it away and then they come
Speaker 3: up with the ball and and then.
Speaker 4: You get butt hurt and then you're stuck in a
Speaker 4: hole and you can't re rally to be able to
Speaker 4: put something together. Yeah, it's never, it's never any cycle.
Speaker 3: I think I had to put the old butt hurt
Speaker 3: on the old zapper. So I'll do. Let go, So
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's go and talk to Michael Levan, see what he
Speaker 2: says about this team and the football program. Where we're
Speaker 2: at with it right now.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: You're an Eye on the ball. You ared, welcome back
Speaker 2: to AM And now we have Michael lib from the
Speaker 2: is an Early Star on the phone. Michael, how are you?
Speaker 19: I'm doing fine? How are you?
Speaker 12: Guys?
Speaker 3: We're doing fine? Thank you? Are you?
Speaker 2: This is a tough time. You've been here about eight
Speaker 2: years give or take. I really don't know. Uh, this
Speaker 2: is probably the toughest time for Arizona Athletics that you've
Speaker 2: been here.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know about that.
Speaker 19: I know there's a lot of doom and gloom because
Speaker 19: football didn't have a good season and basketball is not
Speaker 19: having a good season men's basketball, that is. But you
Speaker 19: have to remember, I mean I covered a football team
Speaker 19: that lost twenty games in a row. There was also
Speaker 19: that little thing called the FBI investigation. There have been
Speaker 19: off the field and off the court situations that have
Speaker 19: come up that are kind of worse than any losing streak.
Speaker 19: So I don't know, I don't know if I can
Speaker 19: go that far.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, I think that put me in my reality check.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It is it is, But I don't know
Speaker 2: if they happened all simultaneously though, But I'll give you
Speaker 2: that because you're right, there's been other things that have
Speaker 2: been worse. Let's start with football. And first, because we
Speaker 2: haven't talked to you since all the portal and all
Speaker 2: that stuff, what did you make of the number, the
Speaker 2: rash number of thirty whatever it was, or thirty who left?
Speaker 2: Was it because they just didn't want to play year
Speaker 2: because the coach or they just you know, said okay,
Speaker 2: I'm tired.
Speaker 3: Movie on.
Speaker 19: It's a lot of reasons, right. Some of it is
Speaker 19: this is an opportunity for a lot of these guys
Speaker 19: to make money that they might not get at any
Speaker 19: other point in their lives, to capitalize and monetize their
Speaker 19: football playing ability. So that's one thing. Another is the
Speaker 19: last season didn't go very well, and it doesn't look
Speaker 19: like next season is you know, they're going to be
Speaker 19: championship contenders, right, So if you got one year left
Speaker 19: and you want to play in a bowl game or
Speaker 19: want to compete for the college football playoffs, Arizona might
Speaker 19: not be the best place to do it. I also
Speaker 19: think that, you know, last year was kind of like
Speaker 19: viewed as the last ride for some of these guys.
Speaker 19: You know, like, hey, let's give this new coaching staff
Speaker 19: a chance. We got most of our roster back, let's
Speaker 19: make a run. And if it doesn't happen, you know,
Speaker 19: if I have eligibility left, I will pursue some other possibilities.
Speaker 19: There's a couple guys you know who weren't supposed to
Speaker 19: have any eligibility anymore. I think normaldonado Is only has
Speaker 19: another year because it got injured. I think that's I
Speaker 19: think it's the same for trade and Stukes. So you know,
Speaker 19: those guys, if they hadn't gotten hurt, they wouldn't have
Speaker 19: been back here anyway. It it feels a little bit
Speaker 19: different from a fan perspective if you know someone's eligibility
Speaker 19: expires versus they're leaving voluntarily to go play someplace else,
Speaker 19: but I think it is many many.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you how pitch on the spot? Do
Speaker 2: you work with jet kind of a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we saw him.
Speaker 3: Good coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was always inspiring his players. I cannot speak
Speaker 4: to what Brent Brennan says at practices. I'm obviously not there,
Speaker 4: but Jetfish was always inspiring. He was inspiring and meetings,
Speaker 4: he was at practices and he pushed those kids to
Speaker 4: be the best that they could be every day. And
Speaker 4: Gutrimal Nado and Trade Stukes were guys that I worked
Speaker 4: with when I was at the UFA, in that training
Speaker 4: room and at practices and on games, and so those
Speaker 4: those are guys that I hope they find good landing
Speaker 4: spots and they have a bright future because I've seen
Speaker 4: them through some bad times.
Speaker 2: So, Michael, I've said this, and probably you were on
Speaker 2: the show a time or two when we said this
Speaker 2: to me, and you can see it, at least in
Speaker 2: my mind three games in four games in that there
Speaker 2: was a disconnect when the players that he got, you
Speaker 2: know that they were here, and that it was almost
Speaker 2: like a disconnect that he couldn't get to them or
Speaker 2: they couldn't play for him or didn't want to play
Speaker 2: for him. I know that kind of saying a lot
Speaker 2: in extreme, But did you sense that at all?
Speaker 19: Not really, No, just because it's hard to, you know,
Speaker 19: psychoanalyze these guys sometimes hard. It's hard to get into
Speaker 19: their minds and maybe you could, maybe you could see
Speaker 19: it out on the field. In certain games, it felt
Speaker 19: like they were really discouraged. The UCF game is I
Speaker 19: think one example of that, and the last game as well,
Speaker 19: where they just kind of had nothing left in the tank.
Speaker 19: And it's also hard because you know, they say all
Speaker 19: the right things every time you talk to them, you know, oh, yeah,
Speaker 19: we love coach Brennan, we're buying in et cetera. So
Speaker 19: it's difficult to say that, but I do understand where
Speaker 19: you're coming from. It's also just hard for any new
Speaker 19: coach who comes in to you know, conform a perfect
Speaker 19: connection with the team that he's inheriting. You know, like
Speaker 19: every you know, when all these coaching dominoes happened, like
Speaker 19: every team that was impacted by it was worse the
Speaker 19: next season. You know, we expected Washington to fall off
Speaker 19: because they lost most of their NFL guys, and they
Speaker 19: were really kind of in a rebuilding mode. But they
Speaker 19: went from whatever, like fourteen and two or whatever the
Speaker 19: record was last year.
Speaker 3: To six and six.
Speaker 19: Alabama make the College Football Playoff, they expanded College Football Playoff,
Speaker 19: went nine in three. Arizona went from ten to three
Speaker 19: to four and eight. So it is difficult. There are
Speaker 19: exceptions to that, of course, like Kurt Signetti, you know,
Speaker 19: went to Indiana and right away they're good. But he
Speaker 19: also was able to, you know, execute a plan in
Speaker 19: early December of last year and bring a lot of
Speaker 19: his best players with them from James Madison. So every
Speaker 19: circumstance is different. But I do think in general that
Speaker 19: it is hard to form that connection between a new
Speaker 19: coach and his players. And Brent Brennan he tried. I mean,
Speaker 19: he put a lot of effort into it. During the offseason.
Speaker 19: He was able to, you know, coax a lot of
Speaker 19: guys into staying at least for one year, and then
Speaker 19: when that one year didn't go great, a lot of
Speaker 19: them changed their minds and decided to be with.
Speaker 4: So Michael, with the transfer portal evolving and we've lost
Speaker 4: so many guys, where is it important for Brent Brennan
Speaker 4: to go after new players? Is it in recruiting we've
Speaker 4: had early signing day. Does he need to go back
Speaker 4: to the transfer portal? California has always been a huge
Speaker 4: poll for Arizona to be able to bring in players.
Speaker 4: Does he go back to California? Does he look elsewhere
Speaker 4: for talent? Where's where's he going to go?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 19: I think right now, account of incoming high school slash
Speaker 19: junior college recruits is twenty two and you don't count
Speaker 19: on many of those players, you know, being really good
Speaker 19: right away. They're all almost all three stars, maybe one
Speaker 19: or two four stars in that mix. Unless you're a
Speaker 19: five star high four star player, you know you're not
Speaker 19: generally coming into college and dominating right away, or you're
Speaker 19: not ready to play right away. So I think they
Speaker 19: have a lot more work to do in the transfer portal,
Speaker 19: and I think that they will announce more and more
Speaker 19: signs here in the coming days. Out of the portal.
Speaker 19: They've lost I think it's thirty one thirty two players.
Speaker 19: Some of them could come back, I doubt many of
Speaker 19: them will, so they need replacements. They need replacements for
Speaker 19: twenty twenty five. And the best thing that Arizona has
Speaker 19: going for it as a selling point right now is
Speaker 19: playing time, right Like, come here and you will play
Speaker 19: right away. If you're good in the Big twelve against
Speaker 19: really good competition, you will get a lot of good
Speaker 19: tape if you're hoping to become a professional football player someday.
Speaker 19: So I think that most of the starting lineup next
Speaker 19: year will be players that they are pulling out of
Speaker 19: the transfer portal over the next few weeks.
Speaker 2: So you kind of already hinted that you don't expect
Speaker 2: a team to do well next year given the circumstances.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you, I just kind of threw that
Speaker 2: in there. But the nil, how much do you think
Speaker 2: that's going to play a part here? Given the state
Speaker 2: of the finances at Arizona.
Speaker 19: I think an il plays a part. That part might
Speaker 19: be slightly reduced when revenue sharing kicks in. Just you know,
Speaker 19: throwing some numbers out there. If the figure is twenty
Speaker 19: million dollars that is going to be shared with athletes,
Speaker 19: and let's just say that football is getting sixty five
Speaker 19: percent of that, that would be thirteen million dollars that
Speaker 19: could then be you know, distributed to one hundred and
Speaker 19: five players. I think that comes out to what about
Speaker 19: you know, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars per player.
Speaker 19: So that's not nothing, right, I mean, obviously there there
Speaker 19: would be taxes and then all that kind of thing,
Speaker 19: but still that's something. It's more than I make, so
Speaker 19: I think it'll be lesson to an extent. But then, okay,
Speaker 19: how do you know if everyone is getting that and
Speaker 19: those figures are roughly the same, there's still going to
Speaker 19: be a market out there for the top players, you know,
Speaker 19: some sort of inducement to bring them to your school.
Speaker 19: And that could be culture, That could be the head coach,
Speaker 19: that could be NFL development, or it could be an
Speaker 19: NIL package right which include could include money, could include
Speaker 19: you know, use of an apartment or a car or something.
Speaker 19: So I do think it will continue to be a factor.
Speaker 19: I don't think that Arizona is in the upper tier
Speaker 19: when it comes to that, but I think that the
Speaker 19: revenue sharing piece will kind of level the playing field
Speaker 19: overall a little bit for everybody.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck with all that, right, see what happens
Speaker 2: with that. Let's go to basketball real quick while we
Speaker 2: have you your thoughts, your thoughts on what Tommy's dealing
Speaker 2: with right now. He's just finished his press conference. He's
Speaker 2: owning up to all this, you know, good and bad.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's not that good. What do you think
Speaker 2: the issues are?
Speaker 19: Well, I think if you're gonna question anything about what
Speaker 19: Tommy has done, yeah, I think you have to look
Speaker 19: at roster construction, which he's obviously intimately involved in that process.
Speaker 19: You know, he couldn't really do anything about Pella Larson
Speaker 19: and Keisha Johnson running out of eligibility and going to
Speaker 19: the NBA. It seemed like there was a mutual parting
Speaker 19: of the ways with Lumar Balo. So okay, how do
Speaker 19: you replace these guys?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 19: And they brought in Tred Townsend from Oakland where he
Speaker 19: was one of the best mid major players in the country.
Speaker 19: But different system, different role. Not an outside shooter either,
Speaker 19: So is that, you know, necessarily the best fit for Arizona.
Speaker 19: Tobeywaca very good rebounder, not a post presence though on offense,
Speaker 19: like Ballow was someone who could throw in the ball
Speaker 19: and he might be able to get your old baby
Speaker 19: hook or get dunk or whatever. When you look at
Speaker 19: this team, they don't shoot the ball from the outside
Speaker 19: very well. They are last in the Big twelve and
Speaker 19: three pointers made and three point percentage despite being in
Speaker 19: the upper half in scoring. So it is really hard
Speaker 19: to win in modern basketball if you can't shoot the three.
Speaker 19: I think we've seen that with the women's team quite
Speaker 19: a bit over the last few years. They have not
Speaker 19: had a lot of outside shooting, so you have to
Speaker 19: rely on other stuff going inside, defense, rebounding, transition game,
Speaker 19: all of those things. But man, that three pointer. It's
Speaker 19: a great equalizer. And because they don't have a great
Speaker 19: shooting floor, spacing has suffered in a big way. If
Speaker 19: you watch that UCLA game, which I'm sure most of
Speaker 19: your audience did, like, the spacing was terrible at times. Now,
Speaker 19: some of that is because of the way Mick Cronin
Speaker 19: coaches and how hard they play on defense and how
Speaker 19: they tax you in that way. But it helps if
Speaker 19: you can spread the floor. Throw some guys in the
Speaker 19: corners who can you know, hit a spot up, hit
Speaker 19: a spot up jumper. They don't have a lot of
Speaker 19: guys like that, and it's making it really hard for
Speaker 19: them to do the things that were used to seeing
Speaker 19: them do since Tommy Way came here.
Speaker 6: So we've talked about the miss cues both offensively and defensively,
Speaker 6: but there's there's a lack of performance from key players
Speaker 6: like Caleb Love, Carter Bryant, who's someone that should be
Speaker 6: stepping up maybe from the bench outside of kJ Lewis,
Speaker 6: who's gets gets significant minutes, Who's someone that should and
Speaker 6: probably could step up.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 19: I wrote a column today about Caleb Love that might
Speaker 19: be online right now. If you're a subscriber to the
Speaker 19: Arizondao Star, you can check it out. Just trying to
Speaker 19: analyze what has gone on with this guy. Really inexplicable
Speaker 19: decline in his play that really started after they clinched
Speaker 19: the Pac twelve Regular season tournament or Pack twelve regular
Speaker 19: season title last year against UCLA. Just has not been
Speaker 19: the same guy. That's a very strange situation. He's one
Speaker 19: person who has to step up, for sure. I don't
Speaker 19: have great expectations, you know, this year for Carter Bryant,
Speaker 19: because he's a true freshman. Physically, he's not fully developed yet.
Speaker 19: I do think he has a great skill set and
Speaker 19: could be utilized as both a spot up shooter and
Speaker 19: you know, someone who could maybe help you with the
Speaker 19: press defend multiple positions. I think Anthony del also needs
Speaker 19: to play more, even if he is a liability on defense.
Speaker 19: He does provide that shooting that the team is lacking.
Speaker 19: So I think those are some of the pieces let
Speaker 19: me to step up. And then, of course there's the
Speaker 19: whole situation with Mo Crebus. We don't know what's going
Speaker 19: on with his foot, how long he's going to be out.
Speaker 19: I don't know if Tommy gave an update today. I
Speaker 19: wasn't over there, but he was supposed to be a guy,
Speaker 19: you know, like a first round type of talent. He's
Speaker 19: seven foot two, he's very skilled. Clearly was you know,
Speaker 19: hampered by missing time in training camp, hasn't really been
Speaker 19: right since then, and now he's out again and you
Speaker 19: just don't even know what you're going to get out
Speaker 19: of him. So those are some of the Those are
Speaker 19: some of the many pieces that are kind of in
Speaker 19: flux right now and some of the reasons that this
Speaker 19: team is struggling.
Speaker 2: So last question, Michael, before before we go, I asked
Speaker 2: these guys yesterday, do they make the tournament?
Speaker 3: I think he was fifty to fifty split or something
Speaker 3: like that. Do they make the tournament?
Speaker 19: I would say I'm probably in that same territory, you know,
Speaker 19: maybe fifty five percent. Yes, because you know, still have
Speaker 19: faith in Tommy's ability to figure it out and turn
Speaker 19: things around. They could make the tournament with a record
Speaker 19: like seventeen and fifteen. It's not inconceivable. They will have
Speaker 19: one of the highest strength of schedules by the end
Speaker 19: of the season. But I think if you're going into
Speaker 19: that Big Twelve play at six and five, which is
Speaker 19: the best their record can be, Like, you got to
Speaker 19: go above five hundred in the Big Twelve to even
Speaker 19: get to that point, So that means going, you know,
Speaker 19: it will red worst eleven and nine. If you do that,
Speaker 19: what's your record then seventeen and fourteen. Then maybe you
Speaker 19: win a game or two in the Big Twelve tournament
Speaker 19: and you're in good shape. But if they don't, you'll
Speaker 19: get above five hundred in a very tough league, and
Speaker 19: right now it's hard to say that that's gonna happen.
Speaker 19: Then they probably won't make it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I agree, I'm all with the same percentage.
Speaker 2: It's got to step up. Obviously. No one needs to
Speaker 2: tell us that because it's all it's obvious. Okay, Michael,
Speaker 2: thanks bunch.
Speaker 19: You will, thank you, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you. They're good insight. I think we all kind
Speaker 3: of on the same page, right, I mean, who can't
Speaker 3: see it.
Speaker 2: Tommy's got to figure this out. I mean, the thing
Speaker 2: is he can't change his roster, and I don't know
Speaker 2: if Mo's absence is going to mean anything now.
Speaker 3: He regardless, they needed to find presence downbow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Henry could maybe do that, make better decisions
Speaker 2: at WAKA and Hey, to me, it's the front the
Speaker 2: backcourt who can't hit shots. He said that, he said
Speaker 2: that they're the highest scoring team, but they're beating conacious
Speaker 2: and in no dominion and all that. That's where the
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to iyan about here on Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: In with me today is guest House D from our past,
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Speaker 3: I know someone tried to call during the interview, right,
Speaker 3: so we couldn't go to that question. But if you
Speaker 3: want to call back, that'd be great. We have some time.
Speaker 3: We got about fourteen minutes, so that'd be great. Uh.
Speaker 2: One, it'll be on the tip here or whatever he
Speaker 2: got his hands on the horns on the horns.
Speaker 3: So I'll just give his quick call.
Speaker 2: Any disagreements with Lev or me or d or Juan,
Speaker 2: I mean, did you agree with him there'd be worst times.
Speaker 2: I don't think there'd been worse time together together.
Speaker 4: Yes, we've combined programs of them like trying to mimic
Speaker 4: each other. Almost like it looks it's bad from a
Speaker 4: fan standpoint. There have obviously been such larger problems per program,
Speaker 4: but nothing I think has happened at the same time.
Speaker 6: Right And I think it's it's real bad right now
Speaker 6: because it doesn't look like there's any hope right now. Sure,
Speaker 6: you know, if this was a four and five Arizona
Speaker 6: basketball team heading into Pac twelve play, you feel all right,
Speaker 6: you're going to.
Speaker 4: Have I guess what this isn't the Pac twelve, This
Speaker 4: was the Big twelve. This is a basketball conference. It
Speaker 4: is time for them to put on their big boy
Speaker 4: pants and start playing.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the whole thing. Do they have those pants?
Speaker 4: I think Lev made an interesting comment about, you know,
Speaker 4: the Tommy's bigges struggle right now is his roster, which
Speaker 4: I find kind of ironic because he picked these guys.
Speaker 4: These were his guys. That he brought in. And so
Speaker 4: how do you go from picking your own guys and
Speaker 4: thinking that that is going to get you to the
Speaker 4: top level. So all of a sudden, now you are
Speaker 4: less than five hundred on the season and that's your
Speaker 4: biggest struggle as your roster.
Speaker 2: Well, I was I don't know about you, one, but
Speaker 2: I was guilty of it two because I talked to
Speaker 2: an assistant coach I don't know, a month ago, maybe
Speaker 2: three weeks ago. I really like this team because they
Speaker 2: were put together. You thought, okay, they went to have crews.
Speaker 2: They have a waka who's a big guy inside, a
Speaker 2: bully guy, Talenton who was halfway decent, you know, with
Speaker 2: what we saw, all the pits, the pits, all the
Speaker 2: pieces fit to me.
Speaker 4: But yet the team doesn't fit.
Speaker 2: No, but you know what, I think, that's just it
Speaker 2: fits in theory, but not in talent because because the
Speaker 2: I may have been wrong and over evaluated what I
Speaker 2: saw earlier, because the talent is probably not there.
Speaker 4: You have to have talent that compliments each other. And
Speaker 4: I don't think they have that same kind of complimentary
Speaker 4: talent that we saw three years ago when Tommy first
Speaker 4: came in. No, No, no, they don't have that same kind
Speaker 4: of mojo on the court.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's been his knocking. I'm sure you've seen it,
Speaker 2: you know, because they were Sean's guys.
Speaker 19: Yea.
Speaker 6: I was just about to mean that his most successful
Speaker 6: season right now was with Sean Miller's guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And let me see, there's more to it
Speaker 3: than just Sean Miller's guys.
Speaker 2: Sean had those guys, and how did he do with them?
Speaker 2: So so so right, so, and I've said this and
Speaker 2: I've written a few magazine stories about a couple of
Speaker 2: magazine stories about it.
Speaker 3: With Tommy.
Speaker 2: He was the perfect guy to come in and take
Speaker 2: over for Sewan because Sean they're two totally different coaches.
Speaker 2: And at the time that he came in, they needed
Speaker 2: that guy because because Sean was a tough dude.
Speaker 4: But they had a leader on the court in Nathron.
Speaker 4: They had someone that they could go to. They had
Speaker 4: so many people within there that could lead an offense
Speaker 4: or lead a defense. They don't necessarily have, as lev
Speaker 4: led into. They don't have one particular person that can
Speaker 4: lead them to say, hey, this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: Right right, So let me before we start changing the
Speaker 2: history of the course of college basketball or uba basketball.
Speaker 3: Where did they go? How far did they go?
Speaker 4: How far do they go?
Speaker 3: I'll give you again, I have the answer to this
Speaker 3: is the quiz.
Speaker 4: I don't think they make the tournament?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, how far did they go? Back?
Speaker 4: Then they got a limited and they lost to Houston.
Speaker 3: Right in the sweet sixteen. Yes, So so, okay, was
Speaker 3: that good enough?
Speaker 2: I mean my point, My point is, okay, he had
Speaker 2: these good guys and they played well, but they get
Speaker 2: to the sweet sixteen and no further.
Speaker 4: But it's the same problem that they're having now, mental toughness,
Speaker 4: physical deftness, Like it's the same problem.
Speaker 2: With good guys, even with good guys. So so now
Speaker 2: these guys have to step up too at some point.
Speaker 6: I think this is very similar to some of that
Speaker 6: talks we had over the summer about the Sun's team
Speaker 6: last year where it just didn't look like it clicked.
Speaker 6: It kind of feels like that right now, Yeah, so
Speaker 6: clicked in what way? They didn't look together on the court. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it was just kind of let Katie go out there.
Speaker 4: So what has to happen for this U of a
Speaker 4: basketball team for them to click is it bringing in
Speaker 4: somebody else new, Is it someone stepping up? Like what
Speaker 4: has to happen for the pieces to all of a
Speaker 4: sudden click like they did on paper.
Speaker 6: I think it's it's going to be something to the
Speaker 6: extent of kJ Lewis having to step up. Yes, he's
Speaker 6: coming off the bench, but he needs to be that
Speaker 6: vocal leader.
Speaker 2: But he's not coming off the bench anymore because Crewis
Speaker 2: didn't he start Laska, because Creamis didn't start, right.
Speaker 3: Is that right? I'm not sure. I think he's back
Speaker 3: in the start line because Crewis is not starting.
Speaker 4: But you need that six person on the bench to
Speaker 4: change the energy. We had Pel Larson who would come
Speaker 4: off the bench and change that energy that you could
Speaker 4: still have a point guard, you could have a shooter.
Speaker 3: So so d uh, Pelle Larson and mister Johnson are
Speaker 3: not coming through that locker room.
Speaker 4: I know it makes you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so they have what they are who they are,
Speaker 2: and they're not as good as we thought, at least
Speaker 2: I thought they are. And they need they need at
Speaker 2: the very least, they need Caleb Glove to start playing
Speaker 2: like we've seen Caleb Bloke perform. Okay, that will help,
Speaker 2: Maybe kJ lewis kind of spark. We've seen Jayden Bradley
Speaker 2: and maybe it's Jayden Bradley in the chemistry in the backcourt,
Speaker 2: because Jaden's more of a bass specific handler who likes
Speaker 2: to attack. And guess who else is to Caleb Love?
Speaker 2: How many Tony balls around the court at the same time?
Speaker 3: Once? Okay, one? And who has that ball?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Hey? Well, hello, thanks for going. You're in the air.
Speaker 21: Hi, It's Howard Howard.
Speaker 3: What do you got?
Speaker 21: What I got? Is nice to hear her d and
Speaker 21: then but it's said in the guests it said something
Speaker 21: like Delilah or something.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, Delena is my full name, but I do
Speaker 4: d Yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 3: Say Delena because I forget her name.
Speaker 21: I was confused. Anyway, all three of you are spot on,
Speaker 21: and lev he was really an eye opener. We have
Speaker 21: such a good strength of schedule. But if they could
Speaker 21: get it together, you know they can, But i'd hope.
Speaker 21: I'm sure Tommy has at least a five hundred record
Speaker 21: in the in the tough Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got to have at least at least.
Speaker 21: I would take a better But okay, who are the
Speaker 21: four big boys obviously Kansas and Iowa State or two
Speaker 21: of the real big ones. Oh yeah, us, I always
Speaker 21: forget Houston, and then who else. Baylor's good, Baylor's sometimes
Speaker 21: they're Yeah, they have a good coach. They have one
Speaker 21: of the Homer Homer coaches, right of that big family.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so those are four.
Speaker 2: Those are three four Texas Tech, and there's another one
Speaker 2: Kansas State maybe possibly, but.
Speaker 21: Yeah, but that's I think that Kansas State is more.
Speaker 2: And don't forget where good and don't forget what's Virginia
Speaker 2: already beat them?
Speaker 21: Well, yeah, West Virginia. But the four big ones, I
Speaker 21: would think of Ohio, Iowa State because they're coming to Tucson.
Speaker 3: Right, so Howard right now? Okay, yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 21: Oh and as far as I think, they're just goause
Speaker 21: the guards are gonna have to play a lot better.
Speaker 21: And it's obviously point guard by committee because the Sons were.
Speaker 21: That's why they're so much better because they have a
Speaker 21: really good point guard. Yeah, and you know, I don't
Speaker 21: they have a bunch of shooting guards and combo guards
Speaker 21: with Arizona.
Speaker 2: Ariza doesn't have a point guard or a shooting guard.
Speaker 2: I mean, do they am I missing something.
Speaker 21: No, No, you're right, you're right. But someone's gonna have
Speaker 21: to set the table. That's the that's the bottom. Why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's not Martinez. Martinez doesn't.
Speaker 21: They got to be Timmy on the court and that's
Speaker 21: not possible, right, right, Okay, hen all right, you talk
Speaker 21: to you guys later.
Speaker 2: Take some more calls. If you'd like to give us
Speaker 2: a quick call. Five two zero four one six Sety Rick,
Speaker 2: I didn't understand your text to me. If you want
Speaker 2: to give me a quick call, and I'll take the call,
Speaker 2: because he said eighty one eighty two that was a
Speaker 2: long type ago.
Speaker 3: When they were that bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were that bad back then, but still eighty
Speaker 2: two eighty three with Ben lindsay, I don't know, we're
Speaker 2: not going to solve the world problem here, but but
Speaker 2: guess what, the next two games they'll get right, the win,
Speaker 2: win big, get right.
Speaker 3: That's my point. And then the win, the point totals
Speaker 3: will get older. They can still score blah blah blah. Well, no,
Speaker 3: they're not playing against teams that are going to be
Speaker 3: in the tournament.
Speaker 4: What's the point the point you got to sort these
Speaker 4: things out against those kind of teams. That you can
Speaker 4: still get the win against. You have to get your coordinations.
Speaker 4: You've got to get it sorted out in those easy
Speaker 4: cupcake games to make sure that you can get those wins.
Speaker 3: Well, they can't screw those cupcakes exactly. Yeah, you're on
Speaker 3: the ar and I on the ball. Who's this Hi
Speaker 3: the Frank, Frank, give me your wisdom, Frank.
Speaker 7: Okay, here you go get it. Getting your way from
Speaker 7: football and basketball for a little bit. I'm really happy
Speaker 7: and excited with the women's volleyball team that you of
Speaker 7: a yes, ten k winning streak. So I'll be heading
Speaker 7: out again this evening to see if they can win
Speaker 7: this championship.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Did you listen to our conversation yesterday with the
Speaker 3: coach Stubbs?
Speaker 7: Unfortunately not, I spent three hours three hours of the
Speaker 7: deathless chair.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you should have listened to us.
Speaker 21: Yeah, just a.
Speaker 7: Short comment that you know, Uh, the one thing that
Speaker 7: that is lacking is more fans out of the stands.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's pretty ridiculous in these first three games
Speaker 7: that there's been no support from more fans. Of course,
Speaker 7: they have a loyal very.
Speaker 3: Small Are you talking about Who's volleyball?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, volleyball.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yesterday we talked to the coaches. She said
Speaker 3: she's hoping for four thousand tonight. Is it tomorrow? Tonight? Tonight? Tonight? Yeah,
Speaker 3: so four thousand.
Speaker 2: I wasn't aware of that that there was a small crowd.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're acquired taste and people don't know. But yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see tonight. Because what was it she's hoping for
Speaker 2: for tonight? What did you see the last couple of games?
Speaker 3: Uh? A few hundred really few hundred?
Speaker 7: Wowah, I think they said seven hundred for something, but
Speaker 7: then maybe that maybe you know, tickets that they that
Speaker 7: they give away and so and so forth. But in
Speaker 7: the stands, it's just, uh, you know, a few hundred.
Speaker 3: So okay.
Speaker 7: I hope that the fans will go out there and
Speaker 7: support them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, makes sense. Well, let's see, she hoped for four thousand,
Speaker 3: maybe she can get three. Yeah, okay, thanks Frank.
Speaker 7: All right, so get out there, Wildcat fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you, Frank. Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: I think that really plays too.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: The Olympic sports are really good. Yeah, we get stuck
Speaker 4: so many times on football and men's basketball, but we
Speaker 4: forget that we have other really incredible.
Speaker 2: Sports teams here too, So no question we got another call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this sick call. Hello, you're on the air and I
Speaker 2: on the ball.
Speaker 3: Who's this shave?
Speaker 22: It's Rick?
Speaker 19: Rick?
Speaker 3: What's the word?
Speaker 22: Well, I was thinking of right at the end where
Speaker 22: Tony Mason and he got busted for giving out money
Speaker 22: out of the back of his car. And then you
Speaker 22: had Ben Lindsay.
Speaker 3: Now I could have had the I see, I see
Speaker 3: what you're saying during that era.
Speaker 22: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean Arizona.
Speaker 3: Lindsey was eighty eighty.
Speaker 22: Three, Okay, but we had the residual I think Larry
Speaker 22: Smith and Er did scenario where Arizona was penalized a
Speaker 22: probation or whatever they had whatever they called it.
Speaker 3: Get your point, I get your.
Speaker 22: Yeah, it was very very a very unrestful scenario here
Speaker 22: in Southern Arizona Coronic game to Arizona. Now, having said
Speaker 22: that Arizona baseball was teaking along with Frank Cush up
Speaker 22: there or not Cush the coach up at a s
Speaker 22: U Arizona and area A s U had great baseball?
Speaker 3: Was it Brock? Who's Who's Who's the baseball coach? I
Speaker 3: should know this.
Speaker 22: And what it might have been Brock. We had Larry Uh,
Speaker 22: Jerry Candle, Jerry Stitt was the hitting coach, Jim Wing
Speaker 22: was the pitching coach. That was a great Arizona team.
Speaker 22: He had Bosburg. I want to say that was his
Speaker 22: might have been his freshman or sophomore year. I mean
Speaker 22: Arizona was that was a tough, tough baseball team and
Speaker 22: really enjoyable a lot. So but anyway, there goes there
Speaker 22: goes my sports illustrated moment.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well thanks Rick, thanks for the call. I
Speaker 2: don't disagree with you in the eighty two eighty three
Speaker 2: kind of but still not that same moment in time
Speaker 2: horse exactly the same, because it's not it's like the book.
Speaker 2: There's a cloud over this program.
Speaker 22: Oh Steve, We've been through this how many times over there?
Speaker 22: I've been going here for over sixty years. Since I
Speaker 22: was a kid, Arizona football.
Speaker 3: Was up and down and up and down.
Speaker 22: Arizona basketball was almost nonexistent until Freddie de Fox Snowden
Speaker 22: showed up and you brought in. You had Pete Fleming,
Speaker 22: you had you know, he was a little bit later.
Speaker 22: You had Bob Elliott. You had Corneil, Norman, Eric Money.
Speaker 22: I mean, you had some serious basketball talent, and those
Speaker 22: three guys actually all went to the NBA. So Freddie
Speaker 22: Stoden put Arizona basketball on the map, and that was
Speaker 22: probably part of the reason that Luke came here because
Speaker 22: he had some of the talent left over from Fred Snowden.
Speaker 17: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, so I just got an email from eighty one
Speaker 2: two with stones last year, Smith's second year, and Jim
Speaker 2: Brock was the issue of baseball coach.
Speaker 3: So we knew that. We knew that Snowden's last year
Speaker 3: was eighty one.
Speaker 22: Eighty two, yeah, so it was so it was eighty
Speaker 22: eighty one whatever, So all right, buddy
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, well, yeah, thank you for We gotta go, right,
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