Speaker 1: Breaking down all the exes at all. It's Steve Lavera
Speaker 1: and Jake and salads. This is I on the Ball
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back touring the ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve, He's Jay, and now we have one with
Speaker 2: breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, Breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: That was really loud.
Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, every Friday and everyone every Friday?
Speaker 3: Do you want? It's football season? Damn it?
Speaker 4: Yes, mister greedy two shoes is a happy matter right now.
Speaker 3: I am, I am, and you are too. Wait, who's
Speaker 3: Goody two shoes? You're me? He's Goody two. What do
Speaker 3: you call that?
Speaker 2: Because he was said something when you first got here
Speaker 2: that kind of shipped me.
Speaker 3: What would that be?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know what it was. It's
Speaker 2: lung ago. It stuck.
Speaker 4: You called me at once. I stuck with ith. Okay, well,
Speaker 4: mister Friday.
Speaker 2: You are you could not be called mister. There's not
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Speaker 4: Starting off breaking news with some unfortunate news the Columbus
Speaker 4: Blue Jackets winger Johnny Goodrye and saw him and his
Speaker 4: brother were killed in the car bike crash.
Speaker 3: The d u I thing.
Speaker 2: You oh, they were riding a bike.
Speaker 3: They're riding bikes and and uh and they got run
Speaker 3: over by a d d u I. It's an alleged
Speaker 3: d UI driver, which is like, throw the key away, man,
Speaker 3: if that's the case. I hate that. Zero reason for that.
Speaker 3: And the you know, guy might have guy, you know,
Speaker 3: incredible future, probably doing some good out there, and then
Speaker 3: you do that. I hate that.
Speaker 4: It's unfortunate. This is him, him and brother and his brother,
Speaker 4: his sister was about to get married.
Speaker 3: To thirty well you know young. Yeah, they're awful. That's
Speaker 3: just awful.
Speaker 4: To the NBA, the Indiana Pacers and the point guard.
Speaker 4: He's a McConnell former Arizona Wildcat, have agreed on a
Speaker 4: four year, forty five million dollar extension.
Speaker 3: We knew he was gonna get his dough right.
Speaker 2: He's got it twice a couple times down in the
Speaker 2: last few years.
Speaker 3: I mean, did I see a number that his earnings
Speaker 3: now we're approaching like eighty eighty million.
Speaker 2: Probably probably because he's this is a this is his
Speaker 2: tenth year, so he'll be up in the rafters with
Speaker 2: his and all this stuff and blah blah blah. Uh
Speaker 2: and who thought he was going to do this? Well, well,
Speaker 2: there's the only guy that I know is one no
Speaker 2: Sean Miller. Yeah, when he said that to us his
Speaker 2: senior years, she's gonna be in the NBA, we.
Speaker 3: All kind of said, okay, okay, Sean, he's done.
Speaker 2: That. Just goes to show you just be a good,
Speaker 2: smart basketball player exactly do the work, do the work,
Speaker 2: and kind of be a team player.
Speaker 3: Do the work, be a team player, do what they
Speaker 3: ask you to do.
Speaker 2: See how many dudes you think of the in the
Speaker 2: D League or have come through the last ten years
Speaker 2: thinking how better than him? How come I can't make it?
Speaker 2: A whole bunch yeah, and a whole talent wise wise, yeah,
Speaker 2: the whole bunch. But he does things that you say,
Speaker 2: how did he do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Or I don't want to do that or don't
Speaker 3: want to do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, you go for him.
Speaker 4: Since football season that's coming up. He was thea before
Speaker 4: in my.
Speaker 2: Opinion, Uh yeah, could you follow this? Yeah kind of Yeah.
Speaker 4: He was just this undersized but scrappy player and well
Speaker 4: you knew.
Speaker 2: How to and Kerr was the curve before mcnald was, yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I hear you. That's that's that's a good ud.
Speaker 3: Good way of put that.
Speaker 4: Uh to the NFL. The charge Los Angeles Chargers and
Speaker 4: Cameron Dicker, the Kicker, have agreed to a four year,
Speaker 4: twenty two point zero four million dollar deal.
Speaker 3: I should have been a kicker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you you had the size for it.
Speaker 3: I did you? Related to Das, Yeah, I could have.
Speaker 3: I could have been a kicker.
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 3: I was still very short.
Speaker 2: You couldn't kick.
Speaker 3: Eight when you're five to two. You only have so
Speaker 3: much leg.
Speaker 2: He's good for the ten yard.
Speaker 3: I was accurate though, Speaking of did you see that
Speaker 3: they've got a true freshman punter Arizona does this year.
Speaker 3: He's a true freshman. He's a homie too. I think
Speaker 3: Hispanic kid. I remember his name, but uh, true freshman
Speaker 3: and he's the holder for for for place kicking, which
Speaker 3: would be really interesting first the first time he gets
Speaker 3: out there doing that.
Speaker 4: Got his name right here, Michael, There you go, Michael.
Speaker 2: Okay, I love that man.
Speaker 4: It's a great name.
Speaker 3: I'm behind that guy right now, right now. I want
Speaker 3: that guy to succeed.
Speaker 2: He was like the guy the story that who was
Speaker 2: his name. He worked for the Cardinals through the Spanish
Speaker 2: radio Martina.
Speaker 3: Whose guy for the car?
Speaker 2: Yeah he was. We had him on the show. He
Speaker 2: did the play by player. He was the color analyst.
Speaker 2: He played here at ub.
Speaker 3: Oh got a what like Diego something or other? No, no, no,
Speaker 3: I know you're talking about. I can picture. He's no
Speaker 3: longer with the Cardinals. He's not let him go. What
Speaker 3: the hell?
Speaker 2: After a couple of years ago we had him on
Speaker 2: the show. Yeah, I talked to Francisco about it. He's
Speaker 2: no longer part of the I'm gonna look him out
Speaker 2: of theosition. I'll get his name, all right. He has
Speaker 2: a great story because his dad was like a wolf
Speaker 2: fighter back in Mexico. Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Sticking in the NFL, the Dolphins extended their head coach
Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel through the year eight, so seems like they're
Speaker 4: sticking with him, sticking with him.
Speaker 2: He's he's a he's a good story to a good
Speaker 2: character too, I guess because he doesn't doesn't.
Speaker 3: Fit the mold right. He totally doesn't fit the mold.
Speaker 4: Right, even just for being a the Miami Dolphins coach.
Speaker 4: He's just like that guy's the coach, right right, right,
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean they still haven't won a division
Speaker 4: championship yet with them, but it looks like they have
Speaker 4: the confidence in him, that they're they're going too soon.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm not a one hundred percent believer in in
Speaker 3: two of though. That he's just good enough to keep
Speaker 3: you paying him, but may not good enough to get you.
Speaker 2: Where you need to go. That I like him, I
Speaker 2: like I like Lefty. Yeah, but that's what the coach.
Speaker 2: I remember he talked about two weeks ago. He was
Speaker 2: his old coach used to rag him and rag him
Speaker 2: and tell him he wasn't worth anything and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: And I guess the coach, what's his name. He's Daniel No, no, no,
Speaker 2: the old coach before Brittennan who would rag him and
Speaker 2: rag him. And then he he said, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: I've changed. I don't flor Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know about right, by the way, the Cardinals especial language.
Speaker 2: Former farm Sorry, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: To the college football world. It was announced today by
Speaker 4: Pitt University at their leading restaurant. Rodney Hammond Jr. Was
Speaker 4: declared ineligible. Did not give a reason why how many?
Speaker 3: Well by who?
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming what would you first assume?
Speaker 4: Academic exactly?
Speaker 2: That's where I mine went to. I'm not sure where
Speaker 2: would you think he's ineligible? Could be taking money because.
Speaker 3: They're saying he's ineligible, not he's suspended.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ineligible. He's able to practice and be with the team.
Speaker 4: He's still a part of it.
Speaker 3: He just can't play. Yeah, I'm thinking academics, because who's
Speaker 3: academically ineligible?
Speaker 2: That's That's exactly where I was going to go with it,
Speaker 2: because we haven't heard that in forever, a long time.
Speaker 2: We haven't heard that in forever. Were people who have
Speaker 2: all these things available to them?
Speaker 3: Right? Interesting?
Speaker 4: Going off of last night's Thursday night game kicking off
Speaker 4: Week one, North Carolina survived off of he makes the
Speaker 4: field goal from Minnesota, but in doing so, their quarterback
Speaker 4: Max Johnson left the game with a broken leg.
Speaker 3: He will be off for the season.
Speaker 2: But what happened after that game?
Speaker 3: What do you mean after the game?
Speaker 2: After the game, you talked about it. I saw it.
Speaker 3: Oh, but when they miss it, Oh, in Minnesota missed
Speaker 3: the field goal, they set off the fireworks. Somebody hit
Speaker 3: the button thinking it was good and it wasn't and
Speaker 3: the fireworks went off and they had lost the game.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's something Arizona would have done by now,
Speaker 4: did you look, we haven't.
Speaker 3: Well had they did have cannon blow up many years ago.
Speaker 2: You remember that.
Speaker 3: Seventy six, seventy seven, they used to that in the Okay,
Speaker 3: in the in the corner, the north west corner, Okay.
Speaker 3: So so there used to be bleachers. So there was
Speaker 3: a grassy area, you know, to you if you're looking
Speaker 3: at the at the field from the bleacher, so you're
Speaker 3: facing south to the right, there was a grassy area. Well,
Speaker 3: they used to have this cannon there and and they'd
Speaker 3: fire the cannon into one of those big metal oil
Speaker 3: tubs whatever whatever came out of the cannon, they'd fire
Speaker 3: it into there. And every time he scored a touchdown,
Speaker 3: it was loud and it was cool blast his cannon. Well,
Speaker 3: one year the cannon blew up. I mean the cannon
Speaker 3: itself blew up, and a bunch of people got hurt
Speaker 3: and shrap and stuff like that, and you know, there's
Speaker 3: a big lawsuit in the end. That was the end
Speaker 3: of the cannon. Yeah, but I in fact, I believe
Speaker 3: again one of those stupid things that I remember. I
Speaker 3: think the cannon blow up during the Texas Tech game
Speaker 3: that airs.
Speaker 2: On a plate was this pre freetwood b uh.
Speaker 3: It's sort of been around the same time, right in
Speaker 3: mid you know, mid seventies, seventy five, seventy six, seventy seven.
Speaker 3: I'll have to look it up to see when the
Speaker 3: cannon blew.
Speaker 4: Up, hopefully tomorrow. That's something that's something that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: Just have a nice well.
Speaker 3: You know, you sets off fireworks off the roof of
Speaker 3: the I would be concerned that they're gonna like set
Speaker 3: the roof on fire with the fireworks, even like they
Speaker 3: announced that they're gonna there's gonna be more power technics works, but.
Speaker 2: I think the experience they're you're gonna try all they
Speaker 2: can to do things like that to make the experience better.
Speaker 2: I guess more cameras, more less commercial type of stuff,
Speaker 2: and we'll see yeah, more food. Yeah, yeah, he's ready.
Speaker 3: For I was looking at pictures of some of that stuff.
Speaker 3: The notches that they came up, and he got that
Speaker 3: big giant hot dog with the big onion rings then
Speaker 3: on it and stuff. Yeah, I'm all about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it should be should be good.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for your next doctor.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, listener. Listener. Bill was standing by the cannon
Speaker 3: when it blew up. He said one of his friends
Speaker 3: got some shrapnel, and he said he thought it was
Speaker 3: against Wyoming. Okay, see Bill and I man, we're we're like,
Speaker 3: we're like bros, except for the fact that he's a
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks fan.
Speaker 2: And it's just dumb.
Speaker 4: Another game that happened last night. We've talked about it
Speaker 4: a lot. Colorado, uh survived North Dakota State.
Speaker 2: Some people said that they got favorable treatment on the calls.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 4: At the end of the game and forth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't remember seeing it. I do
Speaker 2: know that the wide receivers fantastic. He came over that
Speaker 2: touchdown catch very tough.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what though. Uh you know they
Speaker 3: North Dakota State, they had a chant they throw a
Speaker 3: hail Mary at the end and they caught it, but
Speaker 3: it was short of the if the guy didn't have
Speaker 3: the arm to get it through the goal.
Speaker 2: Life.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know that that was a close call
Speaker 3: for Colorado. Yeah, and I'm not gonna lie. I was
Speaker 3: rooting for North Dakota stayed really hard.
Speaker 4: There was a miss targeting call the play before that,
Speaker 4: so give him the extra yard is Yeah, who knows
Speaker 4: what might have happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was rooting hard for Dion's not one of
Speaker 3: my I don't like him anymore. I don't like him
Speaker 3: that much to be but I really don't like him now.
Speaker 3: He's a big baby. Oh there was although that good
Speaker 3: Catholic guy. More proof he's not a good kill A
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 4: Uh. Cameron Rising made his return in Utah's opener through
Speaker 4: five tds in the first half.
Speaker 2: In the first half, you played Southern Utah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but still.
Speaker 4: Forty nine nothing victory for them. I think it's good
Speaker 4: for them. Their defense again, but.
Speaker 2: Has five touchdowns in the first half. I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure you want to see him in the
Speaker 2: same half.
Speaker 3: You probably won't, I would, you know, you know, you
Speaker 3: get an opportunity like that, dude, you play some guy,
Speaker 3: but yeah, you gotta take it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, stay, I got Week one college football. Some key
Speaker 4: matchups this week, Clemson Georgia, you got Notre Dame traveling
Speaker 4: to Texas A and m Penna State going to West Virginia.
Speaker 4: Just should be a fun opening weekend.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait get up
Speaker 3: in the morning and watch some game day. I'll change
Speaker 3: the channel when Pat McAfee comes on. You're not a fan,
Speaker 3: not a fan, not a fan of him at all.
Speaker 3: He brings just a World Wrestling Federation element to college
Speaker 3: game day that is not for me.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've seen him on the show
Speaker 2: at all. Maybe a little. I'm neither here nor there.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't mind, I don't care.
Speaker 3: I just don't feel like they needed that.
Speaker 2: You know, well, they needed your son to watch. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in that group to watch.
Speaker 3: And what those guys are playing video games until the games,
Speaker 3: but you know, I don't. They're watching soccer.
Speaker 2: That's said, that said. We're not their demogram. But but
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what I see. Do you watch it?
Speaker 2: Do you watch him?
Speaker 4: What do you show you?
Speaker 3: Both?
Speaker 4: I don't watch the show I watched.
Speaker 2: You don't watch you because.
Speaker 4: He's He's not for me, so which makes I'm not
Speaker 4: saying he's bad or anything.
Speaker 2: Well, your generation, that's what they love, and I don't
Speaker 2: know what that means. What do they love about it?
Speaker 2: He's just another dude who talks.
Speaker 4: But see I don't don't.
Speaker 3: I don't mind guys who talk. I don't like the
Speaker 3: way he talks. I don't like the loud yelling. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, just outrageous. Uh. I feel like it just
Speaker 3: brings a sort of a ridiculousness to game Day that
Speaker 3: does not it doesn't need it.
Speaker 2: I'll give you this, Who would you rather have of
Speaker 2: Courso or him?
Speaker 3: I feel bad for the course, well, and that's been
Speaker 3: for a while now. Yeah, no, I agree, But if
Speaker 3: you give him the choice.
Speaker 2: Give Holy moly, really you too? Are you a Gonzalez?
Speaker 2: Deep down?
Speaker 4: Where are you? Wrong's wrong with you?
Speaker 3: He might be.
Speaker 4: I've watched the show, so why why?
Speaker 2: Why? Why Corso win?
Speaker 4: I feel like there's just more authenticity to Corso, even
Speaker 4: though he's not the same, He's still trying to get
Speaker 4: his point across and not trying to. I think Nick
Speaker 4: Saban being on the show this year is going to
Speaker 4: balance everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I agree with that. I'm interested to
Speaker 3: see how Nick nick.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's gonna be good. You know he's good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The corsetial thing, I just you know, you need.
Speaker 4: To get him off, just get him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a while.
Speaker 3: That was like early when they kept rolling Dick Clark
Speaker 3: out for the New.
Speaker 2: Year's well and Bobby Knight too. Yeah eventually, Okay, we
Speaker 2: gotta go. Justin Spear is gonna be on the side.
Speaker 3: Holy cow, We're out of here, all right? Well ver back.
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Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacinzalez on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to myn in the ball here Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jagins Austin known
Speaker 2: if one. We have Justin Spears from the Arizona Daily Star,
Speaker 2: the beat writer for the football program.
Speaker 5: How you doing justin doing great.
Speaker 11: I'm just trying to figure out, h are the Dodgers
Speaker 11: going to be first place in the National League West
Speaker 11: by the end of the weekend or what of.
Speaker 3: Course they are They're gonna, In fact, they're gonna They're
Speaker 3: gonna win four in a row from those crappy Diamondbacks
Speaker 3: starting today.
Speaker 11: That's what I like to hear.
Speaker 2: He's always the I've never said this about you, Jay,
Speaker 2: but you're always the optimist.
Speaker 3: Well that's when it comes to arizon A football. I'm
Speaker 3: just waiting for the whole thing to come come crashing down.
Speaker 3: So all right, justin we're here, uh, game days tomorrow.
Speaker 3: You've been talking about this team, you know, since the
Speaker 3: end of the Alima Bowl. What's at the top of
Speaker 3: your mind about what you expect to see this season?
Speaker 11: Well, just the season as a whole. I mean, there's
Speaker 11: just so much newness to everything. You know, Arizona is
Speaker 11: going into year one under Brent Brennan. They're going into
Speaker 11: year one in a new conference, which you know, if
Speaker 11: you're an Arizona fan and you get out to the
Speaker 11: stadium tomorrow, you're going to see the Big twelve logo
Speaker 11: on the field, You're going to see the bigtal patches
Speaker 11: on the stadium, so that's going to be a little
Speaker 11: bit different. Plus you're also going to have, you know,
Speaker 11: some new teams that are coming into Tucson that are
Speaker 11: going to experience the West Coast, the Southwest for the
Speaker 11: first time ever. So you know, I'm very excited about
Speaker 11: those visitors from other Big twelve schools coming out here.
Speaker 11: But just with the the team itself, you know, this
Speaker 11: was a team that was you know, it conceivably could
Speaker 11: have been gutted, you know, and I wrote about this
Speaker 11: actually in my game advance that they have this this
Speaker 11: brotherhood and this loyalty that you don't really find in
Speaker 11: college athletics nowadays. And Brent and Brennan wore a loyalty
Speaker 11: shirt to his news conference on Thursday, which, you know,
Speaker 11: maybe it was a big coincidence, but I thought it
Speaker 11: was a kind of symbolic in some ways, because you know,
Speaker 11: that loyalty has generated a lot of excitement and a
Speaker 11: lot of optimism in Tucson, Arizona. And you know, like
Speaker 11: I said, the team could have been gutted, Jetfish could
Speaker 11: have easily taken all these guys and brought them to Washington.
Speaker 11: Noahlafeita and Titsero McMillan could have been a package deal
Speaker 11: to accept very large amounts of NIL money, whether it's
Speaker 11: in the SEC or other schools in the Big Ten.
Speaker 11: You know, they could have turned their back on Arizona.
Speaker 11: But they decided to double down on the magic that
Speaker 11: they created last year, going ten to three and winning
Speaker 11: the Alamobile. And I think it says a lot about
Speaker 11: their maturity and their dedication to the u of A.
Speaker 11: And no matter what happens this year, you know, if Arizona,
Speaker 11: let's sake, go seven and five, six and six, you know,
Speaker 11: let's say it's a very average run in the middle
Speaker 11: type of year, No, Fafeita and tamac are still going
Speaker 11: to be remembered as legends. You know, those guys are
Speaker 11: going to be remembered as the two guys who gave
Speaker 11: a lot of Arizona fans, the people in Tucson a
Speaker 11: lot of hope. A seven and five this year at
Speaker 11: Arizona is a lot different than going seven and five
Speaker 11: at a place like Washington. If you go seven and
Speaker 11: five at a place like Washington in one year, under Jetfish, Like,
Speaker 11: those guys are not going to be remembered the way
Speaker 11: that they're going to be remembered down here in Tucson.
Speaker 11: So legacy and the historical impact that these guys have
Speaker 11: that's very important to them. And I'm just really excited.
Speaker 11: You know, we're now at the point where we can
Speaker 11: no longer talk about the off season. Who blah, Like
Speaker 11: we're finally here and we can watch these guys take
Speaker 11: the field and step one will be Saturday night against
Speaker 11: New Mexico.
Speaker 2: How do you like this is your second year of
Speaker 2: covering the team?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Yes, how do you like covering Jet jetan? Because he's
Speaker 2: not full of hyperbole, right, he just kind of gives
Speaker 2: you the answer to the questions you have.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's actually one thing that I've noticed in the
Speaker 11: last month or so covering training camp. When I'm chopping
Speaker 11: up clips of you know, videos to post on Twitter,
Speaker 11: you know, Jed would give you this like two minute
Speaker 11: soliloquy in like this whole thing about whatever it is
Speaker 11: that you asked him about. If Brent is very direct,
Speaker 11: very to the point, and you know you're gonna it's
Speaker 11: rather than getting a minute and a half answer, you're
Speaker 11: gonna get a twenty to thirty second answer. Is it
Speaker 11: good for us media guys?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 11: But you know, I also think that you know Brent.
Speaker 11: You know, when we're comparing Jed and Brent as personalities
Speaker 11: and as coaches, you know, we're gonna see what kind
Speaker 11: of coach Brent is this year at Arizona. But as
Speaker 11: far as the personalities go, Brent is very He is
Speaker 11: very reserved. He is not a raw, raw guy. I mean,
Speaker 11: he's a very uplifting and positive person. You know, the
Speaker 11: positivity kind of oozes off him. But you know, he's
Speaker 11: not a guy who's going to be a showman for
Speaker 11: the program. He's not sitting there pounding his chest, you know,
Speaker 11: talking about Arizona football. We need your support, we need
Speaker 11: all that. And you know, some people, you know, could
Speaker 11: look at that as maybe a negative for Brent, that
Speaker 11: he's not, you know, truly marketing the program. Do I
Speaker 11: think that he could market the program a little bit better,
Speaker 11: or Arizona Football could market the program a little bit better.
Speaker 11: I think so, am My colleague Michael lev a pretty
Speaker 11: good story about that in the air one Daily Star,
Speaker 11: which has got a lot of a lot of interest online,
Speaker 11: a lot of people were commenting on that story, whether
Speaker 11: you're on one side or the other. But I just
Speaker 11: think that, you know, Jed needed to pound his chest
Speaker 11: and promote the program and try to get a lot
Speaker 11: of people to invest in Arizona football. Because Arizona football
Speaker 11: was stripped down of the studs by Kevin someone. It
Speaker 11: was a very bad program that needed to be rebuilt.
Speaker 11: And Jed was the ultimate advertiser, the the master marketer
Speaker 11: that you know, got people to buy into what he
Speaker 11: was building at Arizona. And I think with this year's team,
Speaker 11: there's just already so much organic interest, right because of
Speaker 11: no fa Fida and t Mac and JONASAVII and I
Speaker 11: and all these great players who decided to stay. The
Speaker 11: attention just naturally comes to this program. And I think,
Speaker 11: you know, that's something that you know, Brent doesn't have
Speaker 11: to worry about. And that's pretty much the biggest difference
Speaker 11: between Brent and Jed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean we noticed that out of the bet.
Speaker 3: Remember the first thing that Jed would come in and
Speaker 3: talk about was attendance at the at the upcoming game.
Speaker 3: And Brent had no idea, what you know yesterday, he
Speaker 3: had no idea what the attendance was going to be.
Speaker 11: Jed would say, like he would come into his Thursday
Speaker 11: press conference and he would have his routine little statement like, Okay,
Speaker 11: happy Thursday. It's going to be with all you today.
Speaker 11: We're at about forty eight thousand people ticket sold. We're
Speaker 11: hoping for a sellout. And Brent is like, listen, man,
Speaker 11: there's people that like, that's their job is to monitor
Speaker 11: ticket sales. I'm not going to get into any of that.
Speaker 3: You know, that wasn't Frank Coleando perfect, but that was
Speaker 3: the damn good impression of Jet Fish right there.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Thank you. I've been working on it. I've
Speaker 11: also been working on this like facial expression that he does.
Speaker 11: He kind of looks like the actor Pop Bobby conna Vale. Yeah,
Speaker 11: Jet Jeff one of a kind. That's for sure.
Speaker 3: That's for sure. Okay, So, you know, are we talking
Speaker 3: to fifty point blowout tomorrow or you know we're talking
Speaker 3: is New Mexico going to cover the thirty point spread with?
Speaker 3: What are we going to see? And I'm you know,
Speaker 3: he had you know, I remember who asked him. I
Speaker 3: think it was lev Or asked him. Ask Brendan, you
Speaker 3: know how much of the playbook. Are you gonna are
Speaker 3: you gonna show? And he said, We're going to do
Speaker 3: what we got to do to win. What are we
Speaker 3: going to see tomorrow?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think Arizona's going to keep the vanilla. You know,
Speaker 11: if you look at the Montana State bobcast that went
Speaker 11: down to Albuquerque and beat New Mexico last week, they
Speaker 11: had three hundred and sixty two rushing yards and almost
Speaker 11: six hundred yards of total offense. That's an FCS program. Now.
Speaker 11: I know that Montana State is good at the SCS level.
Speaker 11: You know, they're like, you know, in an upper tier
Speaker 11: program at the FCS level, but you know it's still,
Speaker 11: you know, giving up three hundred and sixty two yards
Speaker 11: on the grounds of Montana State, that does not bode
Speaker 11: well for the Lobos. And if your Arizona's offensive line,
Speaker 11: and if you're those running backs including former Lobo j
Speaker 11: Cory Krofsky Merritt, who you know was fifth in the
Speaker 11: nation in rushing touchdowns last season, you got to be
Speaker 11: looking at your chops thinking, you know, we can we
Speaker 11: can dominate these guys. I mean, we could just run
Speaker 11: the hell out of the football and dominate on Saturday,
Speaker 11: and I think that's what those guys are thinking. And
Speaker 11: you know, I think that this playbook, this playbook is
Speaker 11: going to be very vanilla, very basic. They don't want
Speaker 11: to show too much of their tricks because you know,
Speaker 11: they got Kansas State coming up here in a couple
Speaker 11: of weeks, which is a big, big time road game
Speaker 11: in Arizona talented to just keep things basic and run
Speaker 11: the hell out of the football, control time, possession, and
Speaker 11: I think Arizona's going to do just that. Do I
Speaker 11: think that they're going to cover that thirty point spread. No,
Speaker 11: As a matter of fact, I think, you know it's
Speaker 11: we're going to see a similar situation to that Colorado
Speaker 11: or North Dakota State game where North Dakota State scores
Speaker 11: a touchdown in the last minute and you know, beats
Speaker 11: the spread and to get on that back door cover.
Speaker 11: And I think New Mexico is going to get one
Speaker 11: of those touchdowns late, you know, when nofa fida and
Speaker 11: all those guys are out, and I'm gonna go with
Speaker 11: Arizona forty two, New Mexico fourteen, just barely beating the spread.
Speaker 2: So you I think you had a poll here maybe
Speaker 2: a week or two, maybe longer than that ago about
Speaker 2: is this the most hype season since What was the
Speaker 2: reaction from your readers one and two? What do you think?
Speaker 11: Yeah? I think honestly, this is the most hype season
Speaker 11: since twenty eighteen, Kevin Someone's first season at Arizona, and
Speaker 11: you know, no matter how much people want to forget
Speaker 11: about that time, people were super high on Kevin Someone
Speaker 11: because of what he was able to do at Texas
Speaker 11: A and M. And when you add that with mister
Speaker 11: I didn't come to Arizona around the triple threat and
Speaker 11: Khalil Tate, you know who kind of ran out Kenny Montalolo.
Speaker 11: I mean people were like, okay, you know Khalil Tate
Speaker 11: with Kenny Montalolo or Kevin Someone, maybe they can recreate
Speaker 11: some of that Johnny football magic. And then by you
Speaker 11: quickly put the gabash on that and then the Kevin
Speaker 11: summon era, which is kind of what it was. But
Speaker 11: just in terms of anticipation, remember people were putting Khalil
Speaker 11: Tate on the Sports Illustrated cover and talk about handing
Speaker 11: him the heisman. So that was a highly anticipated season.
Speaker 11: Of course, you know, you got to go back a
Speaker 11: couple of years before then, when Rich Rodriguez and Scooby Wright,
Speaker 11: a New Solomon and all those guys at college game
Speaker 11: Day come down to Tucson to play UCLA. But before then, man,
Speaker 11: I don't know. You know, Mike Steuss had a couple
Speaker 11: of good teams that people were looking forward to. But hey, guys,
Speaker 11: this is the highest preseason ranking for the team since
Speaker 11: nineteen ninety nine. So with that whole highly anticipated season,
Speaker 11: you know, how does it compare to other ones. I mean,
Speaker 11: you can make a case for anyone, but man, this
Speaker 11: is going to be a really, really good team.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 11: I am curious though, how the offense and defensive line
Speaker 11: is going to look. You know, because defensive line last
Speaker 11: year was so great, but they lost nine of those
Speaker 11: players from last year's team, and how do the replacements
Speaker 11: come in and maybe replicate what those guys did in
Speaker 11: terms of stopping to run and helping out linebackers and
Speaker 11: the DB's and the rest of the defense. So I
Speaker 11: think Arizona's success is all going to fall on the
Speaker 11: offense and defensive line, and if those two units can
Speaker 11: be a little bit of what they were last year,
Speaker 11: you know, I'm not expecting Rhino top of toe tie
Speaker 11: to be the next Jordan Morgan. But I think that
Speaker 11: you know, they have the pieces to have a really
Speaker 11: special season. But as you guys know, you can have
Speaker 11: all the pieces, you can have all the expectations, but man,
Speaker 11: it is very typical for Arizona football to just kind
Speaker 11: of fall flat on his face. I don't think that
Speaker 11: that's what's gonna happen with this year's team, but we
Speaker 11: shall see.
Speaker 3: Thank you for bringing that up. I do appreciate that
Speaker 3: they're justin because because I've been talking about that all
Speaker 3: summer that you know, Arizona fans are just waiting for
Speaker 3: something bad to happen, and you know, you just hope
Speaker 3: it doesn't. You don't get you know, the one thing
Speaker 3: that you know when you're an Arizona fan in this
Speaker 3: situation that you do worry about is a team like
Speaker 3: getting full of itself after what they did last year,
Speaker 3: you know, and maybe not doing the work, you know,
Speaker 3: reading it as they say, the proverbial clippings and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. What's your sense of all that
Speaker 3: in terms of what you've seen around the program and
Speaker 3: how they're handling the success they had last year.
Speaker 11: Well, I also think, you know, they still have a
Speaker 11: lot to prove. Because the college football playoffs expanded to
Speaker 11: twelve teams, they are not the preseason favored to win
Speaker 11: the Big Twelve, the new conference that they're in. So
Speaker 11: even though they're getting lauded and they're getting praised for
Speaker 11: what they did last year and what Brent Brannan and
Speaker 11: the players are able to do in the offseason, there's
Speaker 11: still a lot left on the table that they need
Speaker 11: to prove, and so I think they still have some motivation.
Speaker 11: I still think that this is a team that wants
Speaker 11: to go out and double down on what they did
Speaker 11: last year. You know it, correct me if I'm wrong, guys,
Speaker 11: but I don't think any U of a team has
Speaker 11: won ten games and back to back seasons. That's something
Speaker 11: that they're trying to do. And they can do that,
Speaker 11: but they have to stay healthy, they have to stay together,
Speaker 11: and you know there's going to be some games where
Speaker 11: you know, they get into some trouble. You know, I
Speaker 11: think that West Virginia game down here in Tucson in October,
Speaker 11: you know, that could be one hell of a game,
Speaker 11: especially if the Mountaineers the NWBT Penn State this week
Speaker 11: and then you go on the road and play U
Speaker 11: c F in Orlando. I think UCF is much better
Speaker 11: than what people think. And then of course those road
Speaker 11: games against Kansas State and Utah. You know, while Arizona
Speaker 11: schedule does favor them, that you have some some tough
Speaker 11: hurdles ahead. And I think if they can clear those
Speaker 11: tough games, and then when the games they should I
Speaker 11: E B, Y, U A, s U, Houston, maybe even Colorado,
Speaker 11: then then I think Arizona's gonna be in pretty good shape.
Speaker 11: But yea, like uh, you know, every two soon in
Speaker 11: that has watched Arizona football a lot, I am very
Speaker 11: cautiously optimistic about this year's Wildcats.
Speaker 2: You guys, are you guys there's a kickdog in the
Speaker 2: corner because you have no feelings. Steve, I know I'm
Speaker 2: not a cat pan because I haven't gone through covering
Speaker 2: the team for three years and I was used to
Speaker 2: the four, four and three in the seven and fours, in.
Speaker 3: The eight and fives.
Speaker 2: You guys are kind of spoiled, but not spoiled.
Speaker 3: We're not spoiled because we don't have anything.
Speaker 2: To be spoiled, right right right, That's the problem. And
Speaker 2: I think you said it very well. There's more expectations.
Speaker 2: They're hoping more after last year, right, which everybody should
Speaker 2: because they're going to be pretty good.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, you should be contending for a national championship.
Speaker 11: And you know now that it's that twelve teams that's
Speaker 11: right there. Yeah, arms reached and you know, the this
Speaker 11: is the an area that the program has never really
Speaker 11: been in. You know, we talked about, you know, some
Speaker 11: Arizona teams in the past being potential national contenders, but
Speaker 11: I mean this one, this right now is as close
Speaker 11: to a national championship as you're going to get for
Speaker 11: Arizona football. So time to capitalize. The cfp's exbmitted to
Speaker 11: twelve teams. All you got to do is just win
Speaker 11: the big twelve. Easier said to done. There's a few
Speaker 11: good team and the conference, but man, it's right there
Speaker 11: for Arizona.
Speaker 3: How many wins? J justin How many wins?
Speaker 11: Oh? Man, you're gonna tell me that with Steve right there?
Speaker 11: Are you serious?
Speaker 3: How many wins?
Speaker 2: He's happy to be here?
Speaker 11: All right, guys, ready for this.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go here.
Speaker 2: We go nine and three, that's not we're like eight
Speaker 2: and four, maybe ninety three. You they can sneak a
Speaker 2: Kansas State win or a Utah win. I think justin
Speaker 2: I think that's okay.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm in that nine and a half to ten
Speaker 11: range because I just think that, you know, those two
Speaker 11: games against Utah and Kansas State are gonna be tough.
Speaker 11: But honestly, I like the Wildcast going on the road
Speaker 11: and beating the other Wildcats in the Big twelve. In
Speaker 11: Kansas State, well, I think that's a winnable game for Arizona.
Speaker 3: Utah.
Speaker 11: Man, that's tough because Cam Rising's back, Bran Keith, He's
Speaker 11: back in tid End. He's one of my favorite players
Speaker 11: in the country. Arizona or they just signed Dorian Singer,
Speaker 11: who's you know, trying to revive his career after having
Speaker 11: a down season at USC. So you know, that's gonna
Speaker 11: be a big game for the youth and they're looking
Speaker 11: to back at Arizona for completely embarrassing them down here
Speaker 11: in Dutian. So Utah is gonna have no issue getting
Speaker 11: up for that game and they're going to really want
Speaker 11: to put the whooping on Arizona. So that's going to
Speaker 11: be a really tough game. And then that Central Florida
Speaker 11: game in Orlando. Yeah, man, I don't know if you
Speaker 11: guys to know about this, but the Space game, which
Speaker 11: is where they wear their you know, astronomy inspired uniforms,
Speaker 11: they are seven to zero and like have outscored their
Speaker 11: opponents by like two hundred points in the space game. Well,
Speaker 11: they do not mess around when it comes to the
Speaker 11: Space game. And of course that's the game that Arizona
Speaker 11: has to go down to Rolando. So Arizona's got their
Speaker 11: work cutout for him in a few road games. But
Speaker 11: I think, you know, this year, much like the PAC
Speaker 11: twelve last year, you're going to see some big twelve
Speaker 11: teams that are going to step up and surprise a
Speaker 11: lot of people. You see, f A is one of them.
Speaker 11: You know, Arizona currently only has two ranked opponents on
Speaker 11: their schedule. I think West Virginia is gonna be a
Speaker 11: little bit better Colorado, you know, if they figure out
Speaker 11: their line situation after getting those guys in the transit portal,
Speaker 11: they're gonna be pretty good. Texas Tech is better than advertised,
Speaker 11: So the Wildcat's gonna be in some pretty good this year.
Speaker 2: Justin thanks for being with us, all right, man, don't
Speaker 2: stay up too late tomorrow taking that taking that.
Speaker 11: Just happy to be here, guys.
Speaker 2: Well said justin thank you Van, take care and see
Speaker 2: you tomorrow. Uh, we already over, so we got to
Speaker 2: come back because I'm just waiting with baited breath for
Speaker 2: your picks.
Speaker 3: All right, Fab five Friday. I've got him. I've got him.
Speaker 3: I'm good now. I feel good about him, Steve, I
Speaker 3: think we're going to go in different directions. We are,
Speaker 3: and I'm okay with it. All Right, we're gonna be back.
Speaker 3: Fab five Friday. Picks coming right up.
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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and
Speaker 1: Jay Gonzalez sound Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Subscribe now to
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Speaker 2: On the Ball, Hey, welcome back to whying the ball.
Speaker 2: Here all Fox Sports Fortune fifty on Steve Rivera, he's Jacobsauce.
Speaker 2: We got about twelve minutes to get this over with.
Speaker 2: You're not taking any calls.
Speaker 3: What do you mean get this over with? What does
Speaker 3: that mean?
Speaker 2: Well, season starts, take your time, make sure you pick
Speaker 2: the right picks.
Speaker 3: All right, fab five Friday picks for those of you
Speaker 3: who've not partaken in this in the previous years. Steve
Speaker 3: and I are picking five games against the spread. This
Speaker 3: week it's all college games, but normally it's a thing
Speaker 3: where we pick to college, two pro. Then we get
Speaker 3: to you get to decide whether you want to make
Speaker 3: your fifth game of college or pro game. We have
Speaker 3: what's called a lock, which we can lock one game
Speaker 3: to add extra value to the pick, and then there's
Speaker 3: one game that's a special game that we both have
Speaker 3: to pick. And so there's a total of six points
Speaker 3: available each week and all the way you can you
Speaker 3: can if you miss them all and you get minus one.
Speaker 3: So Steve and I we play for five bucks a
Speaker 3: week on this and then for the season it's a
Speaker 3: sixty dollars because this is a pool that we're in
Speaker 3: and so that's the entry fee for the pool. So
Speaker 3: I had to pay Steve's entry fee this year because
Speaker 3: he kicked my butt last year. So that's what we're
Speaker 3: gonna do every Friday in this segment. So it's a
Speaker 3: fab five Friday picks and Steve, you're the champ, so
Speaker 3: I think you should have to go first.
Speaker 2: Okay, some interesting games, big games. I wasn't sure with
Speaker 2: it to take or not, but I'm gonna take them anyway.
Speaker 2: So my first big game is gonna be Georgia. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take Georgia minus thirteen and a half over Clemson.
Speaker 2: I think the debble will go zero one and get
Speaker 2: beat pretty badly.
Speaker 3: Charge getting people in his face about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Georgia at home? Right, it's at home?
Speaker 3: No, that's a. That's a. It's in Atlanta, right.
Speaker 2: Might as well be at home. Yeah, So I'm taking Georgia, well,
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 3: I I initially had that game down and I was
Speaker 3: gonna take Georgia too, which would have messed you up.
Speaker 3: But I did not take Georgia. Instead, I decided to
Speaker 3: take Georgia tech. I believe that what they did last
Speaker 3: week in beating Florida State in Dublin, which I had
Speaker 3: to ask on where that game was last week forgetting
Speaker 3: that it was that game in Dublin. I just I
Speaker 3: think Georgia Tech might actually be good and they're playing
Speaker 3: Georgia State giving twenty one, so I think they'll run
Speaker 3: the ball all over those guys. And I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I'm gonna take take another big game here.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Miami minus two and a half over Florida.
Speaker 2: I think this is the Jetfish watch and we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens. But I'm gonna take Miami. That's interesting.
Speaker 3: I I just hate I just hate betting on Miami.
Speaker 2: I hate those guys stuff well Stuf, but but crystal
Speaker 2: Ball has some time now. Yeah, that's the only reason
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a good game to watch.
Speaker 3: You know. I let my opinion of certain teams I know,
Speaker 3: shade whether or not even.
Speaker 2: Take well you and you run out of teams.
Speaker 3: I don't never, I don't ever. I just don't ever
Speaker 3: want to have to root for Miami. I don't. I
Speaker 3: just don't like them. I don't like their program. I've
Speaker 3: never liked their program. So so anyways, I so good
Speaker 3: for you my next game. You know, I've tried not
Speaker 3: to believe the hype, and then I couple of days
Speaker 3: I started to believe it. I think Texas is a
Speaker 3: national championship contender. I think they're gonna I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna make a run at it. I think they're really good.
Speaker 3: I think they know they're really good. They're one of
Speaker 3: those teams that has like a twelfth year quarterback coming back.
Speaker 3: And they're giving thirty two to Colorado State. It's at Texas. Uh.
Speaker 3: I think Texas gonna run all over them. I think
Speaker 3: you're gonna put a fifty spot on them and uh,
Speaker 3: and Colorado States is gonna have a tough time even scoring.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna take Texas and give thirty. It's a
Speaker 3: big spread for a season opener. Or I just think
Speaker 3: Texas is gonna want to get out and make a
Speaker 3: make a statement early. Look, we're really really damn good.
Speaker 3: They've got Alabama coming up. I think you're pretty soon. No,
Speaker 3: they gotta go to Michigan. They gotta go to Michigan.
Speaker 3: That's what it is. They're gonna, they're gonna, they're gonna
Speaker 3: ring it out. So I'm taking Texas giving the thirty
Speaker 3: two to against Colorado State.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go. Uh the Notre Dame Camisty is the.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that Dame in Texas. A and M on
Speaker 3: Texas and M giving three dinner day. That's our specials.
Speaker 3: So we'll pack that last. We both have to pick
Speaker 3: that game.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Penn State minus eight
Speaker 2: over West Virginia and that's gonna be my luck.
Speaker 3: I love that. You know why you picked it too.
Speaker 3: I'm taking West Virginia.
Speaker 2: Oh, you believe in the hype.
Speaker 3: I just believe that West Virginia's at home. This is
Speaker 3: a this is a game that it's a rivalry that
Speaker 3: that that I think, Uh, West Virginia thinks a lot
Speaker 3: of I think they're gonna be fired up. I think, uh,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of pressure. There's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of pressure on Penn State because they've
Speaker 3: kind of been on the edge, you know, of getting
Speaker 3: there all this time and no other thing. And okay,
Speaker 3: college football playoff is in play. We're gonna have a
Speaker 3: chance at this, and I think they're gonna go. We
Speaker 3: the bead on h on Sunday against West Virginia.
Speaker 2: Nothing makes me feel better in this competition when Isaac
Speaker 2: and he zags.
Speaker 3: And I'm being serious, you know, I should have said
Speaker 3: I should have said I'm gonna un locking Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: That was that was the first game that Okay, that's
Speaker 3: what I feel the best about. So Georgia Tech will
Speaker 3: be my lock.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so now the game that's not the big game.
Speaker 2: I don't think you have to convince me you got
Speaker 2: one more, no one more before the big one. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: So you don't have to convince me that that Richard
Speaker 2: is full of crap. I was saying Arizona's gonna cover wow,
Speaker 2: And I never you know this, I know the Arizona game,
Speaker 2: but I'm I'm you know, because I don't want to
Speaker 2: have a stake in the game. Blah blah blah. But
Speaker 2: I really think that New Mexico's gonna be the crap
Speaker 2: out of Arizona's gonna be the crap thirty And it
Speaker 2: has a lot of points. But but New Mexico is
Speaker 2: not any good Arizona. And here's the problem. I don't
Speaker 2: know the history of Brennan. Is he a guy that
Speaker 2: likes to score a lot of points and running up
Speaker 2: or not. I don't know his background, right, it would
Speaker 2: seem just by what we see is that he's not
Speaker 2: It's not that he's kind of he'll let let it,
Speaker 2: let it go. But there may be a chance where
Speaker 2: he just cannot avoid let it go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he may not be able to help it. Yeah right,
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not touching that game for a bunch
Speaker 3: of reasons. One, if something were to happen that people
Speaker 3: would blame me for it. Two, I could hear I
Speaker 3: could kind of not kind of exactly what Justin said.
Speaker 3: I could see Arizona being up big and giving up
Speaker 3: a score, you know, a backdoor cover at the end.
Speaker 3: You know if if if Brent Brandon doesn't you know,
Speaker 3: keep rolling up the score purposely or not purposely. So
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna touch that. But so my my fifth game,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go just listening all again all summer long.
Speaker 3: Uh about you know who from the group of five
Speaker 3: stands out as a team that's gonna that's you know,
Speaker 3: gonna find itself in the playoff. And a lot of
Speaker 3: talk has been about Boise State, and I like Boise State.
Speaker 3: This week, they're gonna they're at They're at Georgia Southern,
Speaker 3: and I don't even know who Georgia Southern is or
Speaker 3: where it is other than it's in Southern Georgia.
Speaker 4: Hopefully you think.
Speaker 2: This is a pick that he doesn't know anything, but
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: They're giving thirteen at Georgia Southern, so I'm gonna take that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I thought about locking it, but I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna take and I don't. I'm not locking Boise State
Speaker 3: just because I'm never gonna lock Boise State, but I
Speaker 3: like them. Uh So there you go.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now the big game, right, the big game. I
Speaker 2: waivered on this game a big time. I thought I
Speaker 2: was gonna take your A and M minus the three.
Speaker 2: I was gonna take it. That's at home, I think,
Speaker 2: right yeah, this is at Texas and the debut of
Speaker 2: the of the guy, the new coach, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take Notre Dame PUS three all right, for no other
Speaker 2: reason then I think Notre Dame has a favorable against
Speaker 2: the spread number.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm taking Texas A and M.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go perfect.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why. I saw a stat Oh no,
Speaker 3: that Notre Dame has not covered a road game where
Speaker 3: they are three point or more underdogs since twenty twelve. Okay,
Speaker 3: I like that stat or you would call that a.
Speaker 2: Trend trend, and I like to turnd there was a
Speaker 2: trend that they have covered a lot of the recent
Speaker 2: recent times. And he's a good coach, he's you know,
Speaker 2: and it's still young.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just I just think a Texas A and
Speaker 3: M home game a new coach, they're excited. Sure, it's
Speaker 3: arguably the hardest place to play in college football. Notre
Speaker 3: Dame's probably got better players right now, because I think
Speaker 3: that was one of the things about Tech what went
Speaker 3: wrong with the Texas A and M and what the
Speaker 3: house is named Jimbo Fisher is that he just didn't
Speaker 3: recruit as well as they had hope, But I just
Speaker 3: think it's going to be tough for Notre Dame to
Speaker 3: go in there and win that game on the road.
Speaker 3: If like, if that's out a neutral field, I'm probably
Speaker 3: taking Notre Dame. So I think I think Tech. I
Speaker 3: think the home field is worth a little more than
Speaker 3: three points at Notre Dame. I mean at Texas and now,
Speaker 3: so I'm taking one. I'm teching Texas NAM what do
Speaker 3: you think one for would you like any of those picks?
Speaker 4: I think I like the Boise State one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. You don't ever hear anything about Georgia. Southern Me
Speaker 4: and one are homies, so in southern Georgia, Yeah, you
Speaker 4: think it would be there.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that you went to Huan for your validation.
Speaker 2: You went through all your other international validations last year
Speaker 2: was Jason and he just nodded.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Jason was like, what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 2: You lost my eight team.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised when neither of you picked the Arizona State game.
Speaker 2: I think that's too ify because in my mind, I
Speaker 2: don't know how good an issue is. Even though should
Speaker 2: be able to beat Wyoming pretty easily, we don't know
Speaker 2: anything about Washington.
Speaker 3: There's an issue. Here's what you need to know about
Speaker 3: me on that one. I never play a SU you
Speaker 3: either take them or bad against them, because if I'm wrong,
Speaker 3: Let's say I take SU, I know they're gonna screw me,
Speaker 3: and then if I take the other team, I know
Speaker 3: AC's gonna screw me. So I don't want to feel
Speaker 3: I never play an ACU game. I just don't so
Speaker 3: that that that ace. You never even got into my radar.
Speaker 2: Kwan. Oh, you'll learn that over time. So today's August thirty.
Speaker 2: By mid November, late October, he will have abandoned every
Speaker 2: team that didn't cover, So his pool of teams to
Speaker 2: pick frump, he's gonna be very limited.
Speaker 3: Shit, it shrinks Wine.
Speaker 4: We're gonna hear about Boise State in a month or so.
Speaker 3: If Boise State hoses me, they're dead to be for
Speaker 3: the year. He's not joking. I know any of these perfect.
Speaker 3: If Texas screws me this weekend, they're dead to me
Speaker 3: for the year.
Speaker 4: Go back to the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: Right, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: But that's why I said, right all the stuff that
Speaker 2: he sets down, because next week it'll be totally different. Well,
Speaker 2: they're not good enough to win the national title.
Speaker 3: Okay, to recap Jay, who was just crapped himself all year,
Speaker 3: all season long. Last week locking Georgia Tech minus the
Speaker 3: twenty one, I've got Texas minus thirty two, Boise State
Speaker 3: minus thirteen. I'm taking West Virginia and eight points. And
Speaker 3: then in the special, I've got Texas A and M
Speaker 3: minus three. Steve is going Georgia minus thirteen and a half. Florida,
Speaker 3: Miami Florida minus two and a half, Penn State minus eight,
Speaker 3: Arizona minus the thirty and a half, and then taking
Speaker 3: Notre Dame plus the three. All right, Steven's football season.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Arizona. Oh you got it, you're taking there.
Speaker 3: I think Arizona covers, but not I'm not confident enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, make it. Okay, Hey, be sure to listen in
Speaker 2: tomorrow five o'clock at the station, Uh, myself and David
Speaker 2: Adams and Byron Evans for a pregame show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, should be fun. I'll I can't guarantee you that
Speaker 3: I'll listen to it, but you know you have to
Speaker 3: turn on the car or maybe I'll call. Okay, yeah, yeah, yah,
Speaker 3: you missed me. Yeah yeah, all right, okay, Hey, thanks
Speaker 3: everybody for being here all summer long. We're ready to
Speaker 3: start the football season. We'll be back next week to
Speaker 3: talk about it.