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Speaker 2: today is Dave Silver. We have Henry and that with us.
Speaker 2: We're on the board. Welcome everybody to Wednesday's show. We've
Speaker 2: had three different people? Was my co host this week?
Speaker 3: Dave?
Speaker 2: You were at the game on on Saturday Saturday. Yes,
Speaker 2: it was like last year Saturday already. What did you think.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 4: We kind of went in with some high hopes, some expectations,
Speaker 4: and it didn't really pan out too well. I managed
Speaker 4: to last through the first half, and I know many
Speaker 4: fans got up and left maybe in the third quarter,
Speaker 4: miss the probably the most exciting part of the game
Speaker 4: of the fourth And I'm one of those, so mean,
Speaker 4: I hate to say it, but I did get up.
Speaker 4: It just wasn't really a lot of fun to watch
Speaker 4: and went went back home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I missed the last part of it, like you.
Speaker 2: I got to the car was halfway home and they
Speaker 2: had already kind of caught.
Speaker 4: Up, and I think there was a World Series game onto.
Speaker 4: It's one of those one of those situations too where
Speaker 4: it's like, what would I rather do watch watch this
Speaker 4: in person that's going to take you know, four hours
Speaker 4: to get through, or maybe you know, get home and
Speaker 4: check out baseball and flip around and watch watch games
Speaker 4: all night.
Speaker 2: Uh did from that that experience or the one you missed,
Speaker 2: does that give you hope moving forward?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 4: It was good to see some of the things happening,
Speaker 4: especially you know tem Mac that that great play he
Speaker 4: made in the first half, and he you know, he
Speaker 4: racked up the yardage again, which was great to see.
Speaker 7: I'm sure he had.
Speaker 4: More yards in that one game than he had in
Speaker 4: the last like four probably, so it was good to
Speaker 4: you know, kind of get back statistically for him. And
Speaker 4: you know, Noah was was much more efficient, and they
Speaker 4: just you know, they were just having trouble you know,
Speaker 4: on defense again, especially in the first half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no question. What if I told you probably
Speaker 2: came up against the second or third.
Speaker 4: Team, Well yeah, I mean a lot of those guys
Speaker 4: are just getting their first taste of college football, I'm sure,
Speaker 4: and they've had all the injuries, so you know what
Speaker 4: do you do, and you got to put him in
Speaker 4: and that's kind of the way football goes. It's you know,
Speaker 4: I remember Dick Tomy always was talking about, you know,
Speaker 4: next man up, doesn't matter who it is, he's gonna
Speaker 4: have to come in and do the job. That's kind
Speaker 4: of the attitude most football coaches take. And Arizona unfortunately,
Speaker 4: just doesn't have the depth or the experience depth just yet.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, no question. So we'll see what happens or
Speaker 2: what comes of it. Now in their trip to Florida,
Speaker 2: this was before the year started. I think that this
Speaker 2: was considered a loss before they started, because when you
Speaker 2: look at the team, well that's a loss, and I
Speaker 2: don't know, I'm not sure why. But we'll see. This
Speaker 2: is another winnable game, I think, well, you know, they're
Speaker 2: stuck in a five game losing straight too. UCF is.
Speaker 4: They've got a coach who's been around the block, that sure,
Speaker 4: Gus Malzan.
Speaker 7: People have heard about him. He's taken over this program.
Speaker 4: So let's see how they can do their you know,
Speaker 4: this is unfortunately, it's a battle of two teams who
Speaker 4: are pretty much at the bottom of the Big twelve.
Speaker 4: One of the new places you know, obviously for the
Speaker 4: for the U of A to go and try to play,
Speaker 4: and it's gonna be one of those West Coast to
Speaker 4: East coast game time situations. I know it's at twelve
Speaker 4: thirty our time in Tucson, so it's not gonna be
Speaker 4: that drastic for them to play a game, you know,
Speaker 4: early in the day there.
Speaker 7: But let's see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see what happens against all odds.
Speaker 8: Do you know what to spreader is, guys, you can
Speaker 8: check right now. Okay, it's gonna be yeah, I mean
Speaker 8: both teams three and five, both teams one and four,
Speaker 8: the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: Minus six. Oh wow, well well it was all of
Speaker 2: those favored by six. I think against against I think
Speaker 2: the SAS game.
Speaker 9: The betting guys are taking the time zone too much
Speaker 9: into effect because u CF was favored against b YU
Speaker 9: last week.
Speaker 2: Oh my, that was in really yeah? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: took by. That was an easy game. Yeah, exactly, did
Speaker 2: you see? I thought they Yeah, they played them last
Speaker 2: week and was favored.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: And they've got a good running back. They've got a
Speaker 4: guy who leads the leads the Big twelve in rushing yards,
Speaker 4: r J. Harvey over a thousand yards rushing.
Speaker 7: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: The Wildcat defense has just not been good in too many,
Speaker 4: too many areas.
Speaker 2: In recent times. I mean, that was the that was
Speaker 2: the saving grace to this point because it's kept them
Speaker 2: kind of relatively low. But the offense was the one
Speaker 2: that's giving them trouble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the consistency on the off one on the Wildcat
Speaker 4: offense has been not there. No, not at all better
Speaker 4: this last week, So maybe there's some hope. With what
Speaker 4: four more games to go.
Speaker 2: All they're doing is they're teasing you, and they're teasing you,
Speaker 2: and yeah, teasing.
Speaker 4: Well, they want to try to get to that December
Speaker 4: forotball game, which would mean they'd have to win you know,
Speaker 4: a few more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get back to to we'll get back to that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have Jay Gonzalez here in about ten fifteen
Speaker 2: and ten minutes probably to talk about stuff like this. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, he's my co host every now and again.
Speaker 2: He was for two three years, so he'll be back.
Speaker 2: And then at the other side, we're gonna have coach
Speaker 2: what did I tell you about what's his name? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's from Walden Grove. They have a big game against
Speaker 2: Mikey Mountain and we'll talk to him at the four
Speaker 2: seventeen hour a big high school game. Let me ask
Speaker 2: you you guys, you met you and I knew Dave
Speaker 2: because you're the one that's kind of alerted me of this, Henry,
Speaker 2: what the what the hell kind of student are they
Speaker 2: growing up at you of a what kind of students
Speaker 2: they molding out and then moving to New York and
Speaker 2: acting like crazy people? Oh you got to ask the
Speaker 2: hockey program?
Speaker 7: Yeah, what have you talked about this on the air about?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, this is just the first of this
Speaker 4: was all kind of revealed, I guess, well obviously in
Speaker 4: the last twenty four hours, where you know, Mookie Betts
Speaker 4: is interfered with on that fly ball down the right
Speaker 4: field line.
Speaker 7: At Yankee Stadium last night, and some.
Speaker 4: Fans down there, you know, you know, they're they're there
Speaker 4: and they're gonna they'll get in the way occasionally. But
Speaker 4: this guy was like pulling off Mooky's glove or trying
Speaker 4: to put his hand inside Mooki's glove.
Speaker 7: Lo and behold, he's a u of a guy.
Speaker 2: You would know this, who's the who's the kid? Twenty
Speaker 2: years ago? Now I guess Jeffrey Mayor, Jeffrey Mayor does
Speaker 2: that name south But that's.
Speaker 4: A long time agin that light in the mid nineties
Speaker 4: of a Bultimore kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, this guy the CEO sub company.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this guy Austin Coba Coba Bianco something like that,
Speaker 4: a former U, a student U, a student U, a
Speaker 4: hockey player.
Speaker 2: And good friend of Gronkowski infend.
Speaker 4: Of Rob Gronkowski, and Gronkowski goes on this show this
Speaker 4: morning and describes him and you know, talks about the
Speaker 4: hockey hockey team and the.
Speaker 7: Group of players that he knew when he was here.
Speaker 4: And the guy's been banned from going back into Yankee
Speaker 4: Stadium at least for the World Series, well at least
Speaker 4: for tonight, since it's the last game that'll be there.
Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, we've got all these you know,
Speaker 4: kind of local connections with Austin Wells playing at the
Speaker 4: U of A and Alex Verdugo growing up in Tucson,
Speaker 4: and then we have this to talk about now, So
Speaker 4: how fun is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Austin Wells had a big home run. Yes you
Speaker 2: you uh, I want to talk to you, you New Yorkers.
Speaker 2: What's up with you New Yorkers Henry. I don't know
Speaker 2: if was that guy from New York. I think so.
Speaker 2: I think so I was wearing a Yankee yet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well he's a fan for sure. Yeah, why else would
Speaker 2: be going to that game? He's you might have got
Speaker 2: that in Tucson.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I went to Yankee Stadium this year too, and
Speaker 4: we were really we felt like we were in a
Speaker 4: different world because well, we had five we had five
Speaker 4: of six of us and you're not in any Yankee
Speaker 4: stadium and it was a Friday night and weather, it
Speaker 4: was no game. Yeah, you know, we were all wearing
Speaker 4: different uniforms from our favorite teams around the country, and
Speaker 4: we were just as a group going in there, and
Speaker 4: we got we got heckled, taunted, and you know, we
Speaker 4: would turn around because these guys are just just screaming,
Speaker 4: you know, profanities and whatever, not at us, but just
Speaker 4: in general. And you know, it got to the point
Speaker 4: where a few of us just kind of just like
Speaker 4: turn around and gave them like somewhat of a dirty look.
Speaker 4: And that's about as far as it went, because they
Speaker 4: shut us down.
Speaker 7: I was I was not going to get into it.
Speaker 4: With them, just let them go, And eventually they left
Speaker 4: before we did, so maybe we scared them off. But yeah,
Speaker 4: the Yankee fans can be interesting. And have you been
Speaker 4: to a game there?
Speaker 2: I have not. I've never been to Yankee Stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's older. Was just the Medicines Squre Garden a few times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's there's something special about that crowd. And every
Speaker 4: one says that even the old Yankee Stadium was much worse.
Speaker 4: But this, this group, even that on that you know,
Speaker 4: non non consequential night in May was was was ready
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 2: So, Henry, you're from New York in the heart of
Speaker 2: Manhattan and you're you're quiet, mellow dude. I'll set it
Speaker 2: up lately. Uh, what's the difference between people in New
Speaker 2: York and the people you've come across in Tucson? Be honest,
Speaker 2: be honest. People in New York. I don't know.
Speaker 9: There's both communities are really passionate about certain things. I
Speaker 9: think people in Tucson can kind of give up easier.
Speaker 9: I will say that I think it's maybe New York
Speaker 9: people definitely more feisty.
Speaker 2: That's a wordy and and uh that no from LA
Speaker 2: to Tucson.
Speaker 10: Yeah, man, I might sound like a Tucson hater, but
Speaker 10: I promise I love this place. But I mean people
Speaker 10: from LA just you know, cooler, just more soag I
Speaker 10: don't know, you know, bigger city, yeah, I love stuff
Speaker 10: to do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And Tucson, Oh yeah, for sure, Nouson Tuson.
Speaker 10: You know you got passionate people, you know, uh, hard working,
Speaker 10: dedicated people. I guess you know that love their community.
Speaker 10: So with that being said, that's a plus for them.
Speaker 10: But I don't know. I've just LA's faster the spot, yeah, true,
Speaker 10: everything everything's good about La and the people, the food, everything.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: I hope you get a job over a lot of
Speaker 2: people here. All right.
Speaker 4: So Austin is from Connecticut. It's thirty eight, so I
Speaker 4: will he's got to be. He's kind of the same
Speaker 4: generation s Fronkowski. I'm just reading a story here from
Speaker 4: the International Business Times where you know, he says, we quote,
Speaker 4: we always joke about what we do if a ball
Speaker 4: came our way, if it's in our area, we're going
Speaker 4: to go for it. Someone defend, someone knocks the ball,
Speaker 4: We talk about it. We're willing to do this. So
Speaker 4: this was like dream come true for him. Probably it
Speaker 4: was coming right am down the right field line there
Speaker 4: and there they were, right, So he's with his buddy
Speaker 4: and they knew.
Speaker 7: They were in trouble. He says, boys, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2: Oh and then oh his brother was there too, apparently
Speaker 2: but not involved.
Speaker 4: Uh no, but yeah, there were like three of them there.
Speaker 4: And then Mooky, you know, Mooky afterwards just said it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter. We lost the game.
Speaker 7: I'm fine with it.
Speaker 2: He's got it wasn't out right, it was out not
Speaker 2: a home run.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but then they got pummeled, of course.
Speaker 2: So they're gonna win it? Who's gonna win it?
Speaker 5: Who?
Speaker 4: The Dodgers and Yankees still still think the Dodgers. They've
Speaker 4: got a three to one lead, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no team has ever come back from a three
Speaker 2: zeroly in the World Series, right, and only four have
Speaker 2: come back and won in the second game. Yeah, no
Speaker 2: team's ever forced a game six, right?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: And who do they face? Cole's right, Cole versus Flairty.
Speaker 4: You know that's later today, And yeah, obviously then they'll
Speaker 4: get a day off if they have to go back
Speaker 4: to Dodger Stadium and play on Friday and then wrap
Speaker 4: it up Saturday if there's a game seven. So I
Speaker 4: think I'm sure TV is hoping for at least one
Speaker 4: more game after this, right, and because it really hasn't
Speaker 4: been great. I mean, I'm sure the ratings are good,
Speaker 4: but you know, the competition and the results haven't been
Speaker 4: what Fox wants it's wanted to be sure.
Speaker 2: Sure, so you guys were there on who did you
Speaker 2: guys go to watch basketball game on Monday? You didn't,
Speaker 2: Henry right now, I don't think Matt did.
Speaker 4: No, Dave watched it on TV because there's probably baseball.
Speaker 4: There's been some really difficult nights lately of you know,
Speaker 4: multiple multiple games of baseball and basketball and football all
Speaker 4: the same time.
Speaker 7: Literally, So that was a I did not I did
Speaker 7: not go.
Speaker 2: What was your viewing pleasure on that game?
Speaker 4: I think what everybody else has said. You know, they
Speaker 4: look they look pretty strong. They obviously have the depth,
Speaker 4: and they've got this, you know, a couple of good
Speaker 4: young players that are getting a chance to kind of
Speaker 4: shine right off the bat, like Carter and Uh. I
Speaker 4: think it's gonna be fun. I think, you know, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of potential. You know, as we've talked about
Speaker 4: the times I've been here, we just don't really know
Speaker 4: what to expect when when they get into the conference.
Speaker 4: But they've got some you know, good tune up games
Speaker 4: obviously the Duke game and the Bahamas trip where they're
Speaker 4: going to be going going up against some better competition.
Speaker 4: But they definitely have depth, they've got experience. There's it's
Speaker 4: like one of those there's no excuse type of years.
Speaker 4: There's nobody. No, we don't have a guard. Well, yeah,
Speaker 4: they got like six they could play right our center's way.
Speaker 4: We got like three now, yes, if when Crevius comes back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's a question of they have a Martinez,
Speaker 2: right who who's pretty good. Whether he gets some time
Speaker 2: or not. He might get five or six minutes given
Speaker 2: the situation, but they're that deep. He's the fourth guard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean every it seems like everybody can kind
Speaker 4: of shuffle into the you know, the shooting guard spot
Speaker 4: or point guard position. Even Caleb, you know, seems willing
Speaker 4: to do whatever it takes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, outside of the obvious with Caleb and kJ and Bradley,
Speaker 2: who who would you think be a star now?
Speaker 4: Well, I guess Bryan's I mean I hope to see
Speaker 4: him play a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Obviously has the talents. What do you think, uh, Brian.
Speaker 2: I was very impressed with him, no question. The guy
Speaker 2: that I wonder how he's gonna do well. Henry. I've
Speaker 2: always been a Henry guy two years ago before he
Speaker 2: got the injury last year through fluke injury, injury. I
Speaker 2: really like how he plays a stretch four, stretch five.
Speaker 2: We'll see how he plays. But there's a kid tomorrow
Speaker 2: that's going to be on the press conference with Tommy Delorso.
Speaker 2: De Yeah, he can shoot it. I mean did you
Speaker 2: see the shot he had. It was just a simple
Speaker 2: catch and catch and shoot. Very nice, nice presence, kind
Speaker 2: of like how Philip would have been last year or
Speaker 2: was you know, he just didn't play well enough, but
Speaker 2: just a smooth dude who can and they haven't had
Speaker 2: that dude in a while.
Speaker 4: But the best part of his game was when he
Speaker 4: stared down the opponent. Remember that, did you could you say,
Speaker 4: you know when you were listing, so you know he uh,
Speaker 4: there was some tussle apparently beforehand and the guy took
Speaker 4: a shot and Delorso got in his you know, got
Speaker 4: in his way a little bit and the guy went
Speaker 4: down and also standing over him looking on looking at him.
Speaker 4: It's right in front of you of a bench and
Speaker 4: Tommy's like, oh, don't do that. He took met him
Speaker 4: up and pulled him out. But it was it was
Speaker 4: you know, I guess maybe it was a sign of
Speaker 4: some toughness and uh, you know, just some attitude that
Speaker 4: maybe we didn't know about him, and you know, he's
Speaker 4: trying to prove himself too.
Speaker 2: Right, right, we got to go. Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 2: Henry waving me down. Let's go. We'll talk to Jay
Speaker 2: and to say.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Fortune fifty. I'm Steve, You're Dave Silver, Do, Henry,
Speaker 2: will Us, Matt. Now we have Jay Are you what beach?
Speaker 2: Are you on today?
Speaker 3: What am I on?
Speaker 7: What beach?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, you know, what's same. We used to always say that,
Speaker 3: you know, doing the radio show, and he probably still
Speaker 3: they said, it's not really work. I mean it is,
Speaker 3: but it isn't. I'm working now and this kind of sucks,
Speaker 3: but it is what it is. It doesn't suck.
Speaker 7: I'm happy.
Speaker 3: I'm having a great time, but it's work and I'm working.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure you're not saying that from the office
Speaker 2: right now, because they'd hear you.
Speaker 3: No, I'm in my car and I'm hoping they're not listening.
Speaker 2: Dave knows, Dave's been retired. Really what easy, easy stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 4: To not have to necessarily go in every day and
Speaker 4: do that. So it's it's fun to be here. It's
Speaker 4: fun to be here.
Speaker 2: So you you were enjoying. We we haven't taught you
Speaker 2: since the Dodgers did what they did on Game one
Speaker 2: another three and one, so just let's get some let's
Speaker 2: get some Dodger talk out here, to get out of
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, certainly, you know, going to Game one
Speaker 3: and witnessing, you know, what happened there and seeing it
Speaker 3: with my you know, with my son, who's as big
Speaker 3: a Dodger fan, if not more than I am, you know,
Speaker 3: experience of a lifetime, right. We both agreed, you know,
Speaker 3: we had a long, long drive home the next day
Speaker 3: and talked about it a bunch and both agreed that,
Speaker 3: you know, we don't think we'll ever have another sports
Speaker 3: moment as great as that. And I'm talking about even
Speaker 3: you know, going to a rose bull or whatever. I mean,
Speaker 3: partly because this was historic from a Major League Baseball standpoint,
Speaker 3: not just a fan standpoint.
Speaker 5: For us, it was I mean, it's huge, and so being.
Speaker 3: Able to see that just, I don't know, there's other
Speaker 3: way to describe it. Just an incredible experience to to
Speaker 3: to be there when that thing happened, and then, you know,
Speaker 3: and then following up with a couple of wins when
Speaker 3: the Dodgers on the verge of winning the world carry right.
Speaker 2: Okay, So so you went from this great high, you
Speaker 2: get in the car, you have to drive maybe six
Speaker 2: seven hours back and immediately go to see the UA play.
Speaker 2: No no tailgate, no fun, and then you see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was awesome. It was so on fun. Actually
Speaker 5: ended up.
Speaker 3: Getting there a little late.
Speaker 5: It was the middle of the.
Speaker 3: First quarter, but they were already down. They were down
Speaker 3: three to nothing and it was just before they scored
Speaker 3: the touchdown to go up ten to nothing. You know,
Speaker 3: and frankly, Steve and I hate to admit this, we
Speaker 3: left early.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, we left, yeah, you and everybody.
Speaker 3: I had my well, part of it is we had
Speaker 3: our grandson with us, and it was his first game,
Speaker 3: first time in the game, he was starting to get
Speaker 3: a little restless.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 3: I was not happy it and we didn't leave because
Speaker 3: they am, though I'm telling you I probably would have
Speaker 3: left anyway. At thirty one to thirteen, I said, this
Speaker 3: is awful. I don't want to see this anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm tired, you know, because we drove back and you know,
Speaker 3: went to the game and I just didn't want to
Speaker 3: see anymore of what I was seeing anymore. It was very,
Speaker 3: really frustrating. And I don't leave games. I don't and but.
Speaker 5: This one.
Speaker 3: It was such a listless effort. The crowd was dead,
Speaker 3: the team was dead, and it was unfun. Well, you're
Speaker 3: you're guilty of that. I'm guilty of that too, Dave.
Speaker 4: I was there too, and I think I think you know,
Speaker 4: we were all brought up to stay to the end.
Speaker 4: We had to stay to the end, no matter what
Speaker 4: we were recovering and how the game was going.
Speaker 7: That was kind of our thing to do.
Speaker 4: But yeah, now that we're a little bit removed from
Speaker 4: the business, we have other priorities in our in our lives,
Speaker 4: and sometimes it doesn't include sticking around all night long
Speaker 4: to watch that.
Speaker 3: But well, here, here's how I thought of it on
Speaker 3: that day, at that time, that team was no longer
Speaker 3: worthy of my attention of.
Speaker 5: Me being there.
Speaker 3: And look, I'm saying this not because I think Brent
Speaker 3: Brandon should be fired.
Speaker 5: Or a guy you know that that that.
Speaker 3: I don't think the team has got putting everything into
Speaker 3: it or whatever. It's just that what I was seeing,
Speaker 3: I felt like they haven't earned my commitment to stay
Speaker 3: through the whole game because that's how bad they were playing.
Speaker 3: And it was this is the third game in a
Speaker 3: row that they were playing like that, and so it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: that's all I can get.
Speaker 5: From you, This is all you get from me.
Speaker 2: So that's what you can give to them, your attention,
Speaker 2: your ticket price, blah blah blah. Imagine imagine how you
Speaker 2: spent I don't know, five ten thousand dollars for a
Speaker 2: collective back in whatever and said, what the hell did
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, now, let me tell you this.
Speaker 5: I'm still in full support of this football team.
Speaker 3: I really am. I'm in full support of Brent Brandon,
Speaker 3: I'm full full support of the players. I don't think
Speaker 3: they quit. I don't think they're not trying none of that.
Speaker 3: It's just at that time they didn't deserve my attention anymore.
Speaker 3: And part of it because I was so being tired and
Speaker 3: was on such a high from the baseball game that
Speaker 3: I just didn't want.
Speaker 5: To watch that anymore.
Speaker 3: I came home and I said, well, I did come home,
Speaker 3: and I did watch the rest of the game on TV,
Speaker 3: But it was just that, you know, I didn't want
Speaker 3: to be there anymore, and that's why I left. And
Speaker 3: you know, I was believing it was crowded leaving. The
Speaker 3: ramps were full of people. You know, we weren't the
Speaker 3: only ones leaving. And you know what that you know,
Speaker 3: I hope the team looked at it in a way
Speaker 3: of you know what, the they deserved, They had the
Speaker 3: right to do that, and I hope that that's something that.
Speaker 5: Maybe motivates them down the road.
Speaker 3: You got to play better for you to get the
Speaker 3: fans support that you need.
Speaker 5: They were playing terrible.
Speaker 3: Now they nearly came back. They gave themselves a chance,
Speaker 3: and that kind of restored some of my beliefs in
Speaker 3: the team. But this is you know, as we all said,
Speaker 3: this is highly unexpected that this, Wow, I shouldn't even
Speaker 3: to have an effected team here and there as on
Speaker 3: a fan you need this, I'm.
Speaker 7: Gonna right, No, it's true.
Speaker 4: I mean you know it's it's it's entertainment dollars and
Speaker 4: we're spending money and time to go out. It's like
Speaker 4: going to a movie. If the movie is not good,
Speaker 4: to get up and leave me. That's just the way
Speaker 4: it is. There's no reason there, and we're not obligated
Speaker 4: to stay.
Speaker 2: Here's the problem Jay talked about that they've lost this
Speaker 2: way for three three games. They've looked listless, lifeless.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 2: In my view of Jay is that there's some there's
Speaker 2: gotta be some disconnect between the players and the coaches
Speaker 2: because they're just not on the same page. Uh. And
Speaker 2: here's here's my issue.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 2: I don't see it being fixed anytime soon.
Speaker 5: No, I don't need it. I was reading some stuff
Speaker 5: this week too, Go ahead.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say I was reading some stuff
Speaker 4: about yeah with tam Mac and his body language was that?
Speaker 4: Was that a story that came up at one of
Speaker 4: the news conferences this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they asked him about that. I guess his family
Speaker 2: and those friends it's been saying that he looked like
Speaker 2: it was he was being different, so he made it
Speaker 2: a point not to be that way anymore.
Speaker 7: Okay, I just I didn't know where that he is.
Speaker 2: I didn't question even came you had seen that too,
Speaker 2: maybe the first few weeks.
Speaker 3: Sin't you well to me, though, Steve, it's that that's
Speaker 3: team act.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's good or bad.
Speaker 3: I think his personality is he he comes back to
Speaker 3: the huddle, he's kind of low key and needy. Then
Speaker 3: he gets up to the line and he does something,
Speaker 3: and a lot of times it's something special. So I
Speaker 3: just think that I don't think it's uh uh necessarily
Speaker 3: a bad thing. I just think that that's who he is.
Speaker 3: There's guys like that. I mean, remember, they's just say
Speaker 3: who was he was an NFL player who was kind
Speaker 3: of the same that who would go back to the
Speaker 3: huddle and look like he was hurt and looked like
Speaker 3: he didn't want to play anymore, and then he'd tear
Speaker 3: off an eighty yard run, you know. So I just
Speaker 3: think that he's kind of that guy. I don't have
Speaker 3: a problem with it as long as he's performing when
Speaker 3: the time comes to perform, and I don't think he's
Speaker 3: not performing. I think he's I think the team as
Speaker 3: a whole is not performing.
Speaker 2: They used to say the same thing about DeAndre Agent.
Speaker 2: Hey you know DeAndre Aden, but look how that turned out.
Speaker 2: He was just kind of like he was just playing whatever.
Speaker 2: You were going to say something before Dave said something though, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know you forgot already, You're forgot already. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: he was talking about that. I was talking about the
Speaker 2: listeners and and this how it can because then I
Speaker 2: don't think it's going to be corrected in the next
Speaker 2: four weeks. You know, how how can it be when
Speaker 2: it could have been done three weeks ago?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, well that's well, that's what Oh, that's what
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say. Was I think I still think this
Speaker 3: is a thing that can can click right, It can
Speaker 3: turn on a dime. They can all of a sudden
Speaker 3: get it. You know other teams have done that. You
Speaker 3: know that team, that team last year did it right.
Speaker 3: They you know, we heard going to Kiena said all
Speaker 3: of a sudden after.
Speaker 5: The us USC game.
Speaker 3: There was this belief now that the thing about that
Speaker 3: was it happened early enough in the season for them
Speaker 3: to make it a special season.
Speaker 5: They're beyond that point right now. Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: You know, they're beyond that point right now. And so look,
Speaker 3: they can still I mean they can still win seven games. Now,
Speaker 3: a seven and five season based off what's happened so
Speaker 3: far isn't going to make the fans, you know, particularly happy.
Speaker 3: But I think that if they can, you know, relop
Speaker 3: some wins, let's say they let's say they close.
Speaker 5: Out with four wins. Do you feel good about the.
Speaker 3: Season or not. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel yeah, No, I feel better that something happened
Speaker 2: that clicked and they turned around. And it's quite it's possible.
Speaker 2: I won't say quite possible because we know what they're
Speaker 2: Well maybe maybe we all had it wrong at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the year and we said, Okay, this team
Speaker 2: on papers can look good and they have all the tools,
Speaker 2: and do we're just a bunch of fools.
Speaker 3: Well, okid, we just didn't know.
Speaker 2: We just didn't hold that they had to fill Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of guys left, the coaches obviously, the
Speaker 4: coaching chef is coaching staff has turned over completely.
Speaker 2: So I still believe that's a big issue. For However,
Speaker 2: it rolls out with the coaching staff and they have
Speaker 2: to the kids have to buy in. And if they
Speaker 2: don't buy in, there's that. Okay, we're here. But you
Speaker 2: know what, I would make a prediction that there's going
Speaker 2: to be a lot of dudes leaving.
Speaker 7: Dudes doav maybe some coaches getting.
Speaker 18: Well.
Speaker 5: I think if dudes leave, it's.
Speaker 3: A good thing because if dudes are leaving because they
Speaker 3: don't want to be a part of this, then I'd
Speaker 3: rather they be gone.
Speaker 2: And I've always said, yeah, you've always said that, Yeah, what, Well,
Speaker 2: depends who those dudes are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if if if t Mac doesn't go
Speaker 3: to the NFL and and Fafita leaves and Monaly and
Speaker 3: yeah they're not, that's a bigger problem.
Speaker 5: But I think those guys are.
Speaker 3: You know, I would expect that those guys are committed
Speaker 3: to this, and maybe they're not. I you know, look,
Speaker 3: has Temac done enough to go to the NFL and
Speaker 3: be drafted you know where he wants to be drafted
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, you know it's funny because Jay and I said
Speaker 2: this with you a number of times. I thought, if
Speaker 2: he had the season that he could have, he'd go
Speaker 2: down as the best player to ever play here. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna addit that and change that because that's not the
Speaker 2: case this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I just.
Speaker 3: To me, it's like, you know, get your stuff together
Speaker 3: this year. Let's see, let's see what you guys are
Speaker 3: gonna do this year. Finish off this season, do something good.
Speaker 5: And then start talking about what you're going to do
Speaker 5: next year.
Speaker 4: Because most of the people are ranking him obviously a
Speaker 4: first round pick. And you know, it's one of those
Speaker 4: situations too, where the big difference between say, you know,
Speaker 4: the seventh pick and the twenty fifth pick, right, but
Speaker 4: I'm sure he's you know, I'm sure he's thinking of leaving.
Speaker 4: Why why wouldn't you? Yeah, but guaranteed. But you know,
Speaker 4: this is like this is like the NBA.
Speaker 2: These guys come out of know where, they can jump
Speaker 2: out of the gym, and the games didn't really count
Speaker 2: you're ability or your future ability. They buy on the
Speaker 2: ability of the future, right on the potential. And he's
Speaker 2: got all that. Yeah, the guy is unbelievable. He's got
Speaker 2: all that, so he'll he'll be fine. You know, it's
Speaker 2: hard to feel sorry for the guy. Before we leave, Jake,
Speaker 2: what are your thoughts on the basketball team? You were
Speaker 2: there for the last couple of exhibitions, whether you have
Speaker 2: a chance it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I said, we're sitting up in the
Speaker 3: corner with you guys, and so it's a it's certainly
Speaker 3: different different view front there. But you know there's some
Speaker 3: guys on the press by right, But you always have
Speaker 3: to hold your thoughts because of who they're playing. I
Speaker 3: like Trey Townsend. He looks like, you know, he can
Speaker 3: do something. You know, he can shoot, he rebounds, he
Speaker 3: looks like a physical dude.
Speaker 5: I like him a lot.
Speaker 3: Carter Bryant, I don't know that we've seen enough of him,
Speaker 3: but he looks like a guy who can play. You know,
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of pieces there. I think
Speaker 3: there's a lot of pieces there that are.
Speaker 2: They fit. I think they fit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's shit, right.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of options. You don't feel like, Okay,
Speaker 3: if Caleb Love has a bad shooting day, they're gonna lose.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I think Jayden.
Speaker 3: Bradley runs the team very well. I like his aggressive this.
Speaker 3: I know you you kind of harp on him a
Speaker 3: little bit about his always playing downhill and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: but I do feel like he's running the team pretty well.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's hard to tell.
Speaker 5: But I like what I see so far. I'm wondering
Speaker 5: about Mo Crevius. What's the deal with them?
Speaker 2: Right, they're probably being cautious. Let me ask you what
Speaker 2: both guys. Uh, there's the kid that the del Orso
Speaker 2: kid who you know, he had one shot. He was
Speaker 2: a catch and shoot guy. I think maybe I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of role or how many
Speaker 2: minutes he's gonna play. But you've been searching for that
Speaker 2: shooter for a long time, you know, you know, a
Speaker 2: long time. I mean Salim Steve Ker. Of course, they
Speaker 2: haven't really had that guy. I'm not gonna say he's
Speaker 2: in that category, but he's he's a catch and shoot dude.
Speaker 2: Just I like him so far.
Speaker 3: I like him so far. That's what And that's what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. They've got some options that maybe they haven't
Speaker 3: had so much in the past. Uh, with guys like that.
Speaker 3: Like I said, Tray Townsend is the guy that we
Speaker 3: haven't seen in a while. Right, I'm not gonna put
Speaker 3: him in the category of of a of a Shawn Elliott,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna say that he's a He's a tall,
Speaker 3: physical guy who can shoot from outside.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know that in that So maybe that was
Speaker 5: a bad.
Speaker 3: Bad you think maybe maybe more of a you know,
Speaker 3: a Ben Indict Mather and or something like that. But
Speaker 3: just somebody who's got side who's hard to guard outside
Speaker 3: and who can and who can you.
Speaker 5: Could do some things out there that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be more like a Ray Ohs or
Speaker 2: a Judd Buchler. Yeah you know what I'm say.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, mind those are better comparisons.
Speaker 6: Good nigh.
Speaker 4: It looks like he's good defensive players who possibly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, well again an aggressive guy who who went on,
Speaker 3: we got ten rebounds the other night, so you know
Speaker 3: he's going to be able to do that as well.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, and get back to whatever you're doing, because
Speaker 2: I don't want to say. I don't want to say work.
Speaker 2: You're not working. No, I'm home now, but oh I
Speaker 2: was winning. Maybe had a baby at the.
Speaker 3: Well, No, he's right here at my grandson. He's hanging
Speaker 3: out with us.
Speaker 2: They take your grandson to work today. Okay, thanks Jay, All.
Speaker 3: Right, guys, good to talk to you too.
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Speaker 1: I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Ying the Ball here on fox
Speaker 2: Spot fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Dave Silver. We
Speaker 2: got Henry and met with us today winning the show
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. Good to talk to Jack, don't it's
Speaker 2: easier to not disagree with him here he's in the room.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he's such a a good fan too,
Speaker 4: and smart about it, like you know, he's been around
Speaker 4: the u of A for years, and it's kind of offended.
Speaker 4: I guess it sounds like by having to go to
Speaker 4: the games and and sit.
Speaker 2: Through some of the well you're kind of that guy now, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean yeah.
Speaker 7: And then we you know, we we had to stick around.
Speaker 4: We no matter what happened in our you know, with
Speaker 4: whatever job we were doing at the time, we had
Speaker 4: to be there till the end.
Speaker 7: And so now it's kind of like, eh, you.
Speaker 2: Know what, right, Well, I stopped writing my callum about
Speaker 2: it because well, and I probably will return, But I said,
Speaker 2: how many times can I say this team's horrible?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, hopefully the good thing about football it
Speaker 4: can switch from week to week drastically and they turn
Speaker 4: things around. You know, in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: we won't be talking. We've got to he's got a subject. Hello,
Speaker 4: you're on the air and I on the ball.
Speaker 2: Who is this?
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Speaker 2: know you try to get in a couple of days ago,
Speaker 2: but you were calling it the weirdest times because we
Speaker 2: couldn't get you in. But the thanks for calling back.
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Speaker 17: Let's talk about Arizona. I still believe that during the
Speaker 17: off season Arizona's athletic Directinese needs to pressure Brent Brennan
Speaker 17: to change the offensive death coming going into the off season.
Speaker 2: I think that's that hasn't a game, I think, I think,
Speaker 2: I think you're you're, you're spot on. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that she needs to do it because maybe he's
Speaker 2: already determined to do it because what's happened to this
Speaker 2: point is not working as we all know.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I agree with you. I'm not I'm not a
Speaker 17: party in regards to firing by Brennan because it's really
Speaker 17: too soon. But his offensive is inconsistent right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the coaches they know what's going on, and
Speaker 4: you know, whether it comes from you know, Desiree or
Speaker 4: his own other people on the staff who can.
Speaker 7: Say, hey, you know, maybe we should do something different.
Speaker 4: I think it's pretty common. It happens a lot, happens
Speaker 4: even during the season in some cases. We've seen that
Speaker 4: this year already in some different programs. So whether or
Speaker 4: not jobs are on the line over the last month
Speaker 4: or so, who knows. I mean, that could be something
Speaker 4: that they're they're looking at from you know, managerial standpoint
Speaker 4: with the athletic director and then maybe sure, you know,
Speaker 4: everybody gets to talk to the boss at the end
Speaker 4: of the season, so they'll probably have that sit down
Speaker 4: as well and discuss, well, what can we do to
Speaker 4: make things better?
Speaker 3: Ja Jay thought, well, we just yeah, we just had
Speaker 3: them on.
Speaker 2: We just had him on. He's disappointed like everybody else.
Speaker 2: You know, he went to the game last week. I
Speaker 2: didn't stay for the whole thing, you know, which is
Speaker 2: a surprise because he always does. Uh. But he's like
Speaker 2: everybody else who spends money and goes to the games
Speaker 2: and they want better, better game for their money.
Speaker 17: Let me ask you this question. Is this the quickest Yes,
Speaker 17: it's the quickest.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 17: The point that Arizona basically turn on a coach.
Speaker 2: Yes, I knew you were going to go there. I
Speaker 2: think it's him, maybe Macvic and then someone because I
Speaker 2: think they were going to try to be fishing with
Speaker 2: someone and they said, what the hell, ain't work and
Speaker 2: we gotta go.
Speaker 17: Someone basically spend all his time at the I mean
Speaker 17: getting drunk.
Speaker 2: As with that. With that, we gotta go, gab. Thanks,
Speaker 2: we got another call. I always call. Don't forget the
Speaker 2: call taking someone online one. Yes, he's attorney. Hey, you're
Speaker 2: on the air line. The ball who's this this, Brian?
Speaker 19: How's it going?
Speaker 2: Brian? Good to hear from you. What's the word?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: How? How hopeful or pessimistic are you today?
Speaker 19: I'm not I'm not optimistic at all. I mean, it
Speaker 19: was a fun fourth quarter, you know, but I don't
Speaker 19: know it was. I stayed for the whole game, and
Speaker 19: I stayed only for one reason. I didn't want to
Speaker 19: fight the traffic in the third quarter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, smart man, smart one. Hey, right by the way,
Speaker 2: you got you got one good quarter and you mentioned it.
Speaker 2: I didn't even think you this. So over the last
Speaker 2: sixteen quarters, how many good quarters have you gotten?
Speaker 5: A couple?
Speaker 19: Maybe?
Speaker 2: Maybe? Yeah?
Speaker 19: I know that for it, I mean, yeah, it was.
Speaker 19: It was just so. I mean the defense in the
Speaker 19: second half played great. But one problem too, I think
Speaker 19: the defense was having they're on the field so darn much,
Speaker 19: you know. And I know it wasn't hot or anything,
Speaker 19: but still you get worn out, and you know, the
Speaker 19: first half it was like three and out, three and out,
Speaker 19: three and out, you know, or they would make some
Speaker 19: dumbass mistakes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what to tell you. I can't
Speaker 2: even I can't even you know, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of realistic about all this stuff and I
Speaker 2: can't even give you give me if you can give
Speaker 2: me a positive.
Speaker 19: We only have five more games.
Speaker 2: I don't think you've been serious too. I think you've
Speaker 2: been serious, Oh I am.
Speaker 19: I mean it's we're not going to a ball game.
Speaker 19: I mean there's nothing that I've seen where we have
Speaker 19: shown any type of improvement in what we're doing. I mean,
Speaker 19: like last year, we started off slow. We got better
Speaker 19: and better and better, and unfortunately, but unfortunately for one
Speaker 19: of the players, Uh, that injury turned everything around for
Speaker 19: the UV under Laura. You know that's right, And we
Speaker 19: never would have known about Feta. If De Laura is
Speaker 19: healthy the whole season and we have an average you know,
Speaker 19: six and six season, we would never know about it.
Speaker 19: But it just happened that the injury happened, and everything
Speaker 19: changed from there. And I mean we lost a lot
Speaker 19: of players. I mean losing losing Coleman as a running back,
Speaker 19: and losing the defensive line and half of our offensive line.
Speaker 19: And I think what twenty kids graduated in fifteen went
Speaker 19: transferred out after Fish left. I mean it's not easy
Speaker 19: to build a program from that. I mean everybody, of course,
Speaker 19: had high expectations of what was coming back. But you know,
Speaker 19: a couple injuries here and there, and we're done in
Speaker 19: which we are we have no depth. Unfortunately. I hope
Speaker 19: for next year that Brennan has more time to recruit.
Speaker 19: We are going to lose, you know, like you said
Speaker 19: earlier in the show, We're going to lose people and
Speaker 19: it could be a scary exodus of what we have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. You don't know. It could be
Speaker 2: and maybe not, but it could very well be.
Speaker 19: Well, it's just the nature of football now, whether it
Speaker 19: would be Brennan or Fish. People are leaving all these
Speaker 19: programs all the time. It's not just Arizona, It's going
Speaker 19: to be everywhere. It's always going to be the grass
Speaker 19: is greener, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's so much turnover in college football. There's so
Speaker 4: many programs kind of in the same boat as the
Speaker 4: U of A. When you look at like Washington and
Speaker 4: even USC and some of the Florida State, Florida State,
Speaker 4: some of these teams that were you know, you kind
Speaker 4: of expect they're going to have winning, winning records and
Speaker 4: bowl games in their future.
Speaker 7: But I think it's the nature.
Speaker 4: I think we're seeing the transfer portal at play here
Speaker 4: in the nil situation and players leaving early and going elsewhere,
Speaker 4: so there's.
Speaker 19: No I also, I think the fans. The fans are
Speaker 19: fed up with the whole thing. Yeah, okay, if we
Speaker 19: have a bad team, we have a bad team. But
Speaker 19: what's bad about it? You know, we don't have the
Speaker 19: same bad players two three years in a row like
Speaker 19: before because people didn't transfer out, and now we have
Speaker 19: to go out and we have to find somebody else's
Speaker 19: bad players, you know, to get them to come here,
Speaker 19: and you know, and in this transfer portal, you don't
Speaker 19: know what you getting. Yeah, And that's the hardest part
Speaker 19: about all this. And it's hard for the Yuba fans
Speaker 19: because you turn around, it's it's like, okay, we got
Speaker 19: a brand new roster every year in all the sports,
Speaker 19: and it's it's hard to you can't identify with anything
Speaker 19: that goes on. And that's everywhere, not just this.
Speaker 2: You got into the call. Thanks, Brian continued to thank
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, program after program, I mean USC and some of
Speaker 4: these teams that you know, East Carolina, Southern miss they
Speaker 4: were all supposed to be really good this year and
Speaker 4: they're right, not who.
Speaker 2: Got a call? You're on the air and I on
Speaker 2: the ball. Who is this?
Speaker 3: U A fan but not a football fan.
Speaker 18: I was sitting in the fourth row on that on Monday,
Speaker 18: behind Polomo, right behind the bench, And when I saw
Speaker 18: in the first half, I noticed they went Steve because
Speaker 18: you told.
Speaker 3: Me nine scholarships that they give one of the walk ons.
Speaker 18: One because Henry not being there. That meant only eight
Speaker 18: scholarship player players are playing in two walk on that
Speaker 18: that emmanual guy who's not very good. He must be
Speaker 18: a walk on.
Speaker 2: No, No, he's got he's a scholarship guy.
Speaker 18: He's got to be a so the big guy Martinez
Speaker 18: and both don't have him, Delloso or Martinez, one of them,
Speaker 18: I probably doesn't doesn't. One of them for sure doesn't
Speaker 18: have a scholarship.
Speaker 2: No, I think one. I'm not too sure. I thought
Speaker 2: you're counting. There's nine, maybe ten.
Speaker 18: Waka Walker's better than Emmanuel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Waka has as a transfer from Tennessee. Yeah he's good,
Speaker 2: he's starting.
Speaker 18: Yeah, he's better than a manual. That number thirty four,
Speaker 18: who's only six ten, but they list him in seven
Speaker 18: foot he played.
Speaker 3: He sucks. That's why I think he's a walk on.
Speaker 2: No, he's also going to be a red shirt. He's
Speaker 2: okay whatever.
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying I sat behind the bench. Five
Speaker 3: guys had.
Speaker 18: Their jerseys off. That meant two people were walk on
Speaker 18: because Henry Courses in the street clothes.
Speaker 2: No, you still have with Cress street closs, I mean Crevius.
Speaker 3: I like, I'm a Henry guy too, But you know,
Speaker 3: and so that two of those guys have to be
Speaker 3: either a manual or Martinez and Deloso.
Speaker 18: Both both be because they had two red shirts playing.
Speaker 18: I mean that two walk ons.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know who those walk ons were. I
Speaker 2: don't I can't remember now between.
Speaker 3: Martinez, No, they're both sitting behind the pad. Five guys with.
Speaker 18: Their jerseys showing, and five guys playing.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't.
Speaker 3: No, there's only eight scholarships playing.
Speaker 2: What's your point that there's only w What are you
Speaker 2: trying to say?
Speaker 18: Yeah, what I'm trying to say is they were we
Speaker 18: were good in the first half, because then I left
Speaker 18: to watch the real game of suns and we played
Speaker 18: pretty good except for that Emmanual guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's played pretty good.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a red shirt freshman so don't
Speaker 2: worry about Emmanuel for another year or two.
Speaker 18: I'm not. It's funny because I was watching Brian. He
Speaker 18: had two they had three fouls on him, but then
Speaker 18: they took one off for two. But then he made
Speaker 18: two great offensive plays of steel going down that are dunk.
Speaker 18: What I noticed about him he is quick.
Speaker 2: Do you do you, Henry? I mean, Howard? Do you
Speaker 2: have the tickets or what?
Speaker 3: No? My wife works at the Foundation. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 3: know where Glenn Parker does. And we were sitting in
Speaker 3: the President's seats, six of them. So we had a
Speaker 3: couple of friends. Yeah, who wouldn't want to go to
Speaker 3: that game. So we were right behind five seats behind
Speaker 3: the bench and I could see everything.
Speaker 18: But I left to go to see the Suns. Oh
Speaker 18: and I'll make a comment about the World Series, you know,
Speaker 18: I'm for I'm a West Coast guy, you know, even
Speaker 18: though it was Bunch Concker. But I definitely want to
Speaker 18: see the Yankees extended, and I think they will after
Speaker 18: their performance last night.
Speaker 2: Well thanks thanks for going to the casino Thursday to
Speaker 2: see us.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we'll see you guys later.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I've sat in those Foundations seats before. What I've sat
Speaker 4: in the president's seats once. Somehow you have a.
Speaker 2: Good day recruiting people to give money.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we were right across from the visiting bench. It's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wonder if the new president going to have those
Speaker 4: same seats that Robins had. I want to over the
Speaker 4: middle one on the one, like right across from the bench.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bench, he's sit in the middle now. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: he moved, but for many years he was right he
Speaker 2: had like those are the Terry frankcnas Those are great seats.
Speaker 2: I had basketballs in my lap and stuff.
Speaker 7: It was great. Yeah, brunting players jumping right over you.
Speaker 2: You're yeah, you're you're beyond the fan, You're this beyond
Speaker 2: all that. Sweat on me, Please sweat on hello.
Speaker 4: One of my greatest memories, if we're going to talk memories,
Speaker 4: is Brian Williams. I think it was against Duke. It
Speaker 4: was one of those great games. And you know when
Speaker 4: he was here and then.
Speaker 2: He dove into you, jumped over me.
Speaker 4: I was on press row back in the day when
Speaker 4: we had to sit on the press show. Was right
Speaker 4: across the Arizona bench and I'm looking and he's coming
Speaker 4: right at me. He took like one step and literally
Speaker 4: jumped over me into the second or third and Luke.
Speaker 2: Says, he's we got about a minute right now, like okay,
Speaker 2: he Ben Williams is probably the best athlete he'd ever
Speaker 2: coached here. Of course there was Kenny Loft and there
Speaker 2: were others, but he was selmost seven foot who could
Speaker 2: run like a gazelle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was great. I mean he literally jumped like
Speaker 4: hurdled over all of us. Whoever was a strange dude,
Speaker 4: but the tech of a player. Yeah, yeah, okay, let's
Speaker 4: go