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Speaker 3: In there, just their second year as a program, the
Speaker 3: Arizona triathlon team is national champions after winning on Saturday.
Speaker 1: That was amazing. I'm trying to get the coach on
Speaker 1: here in the next day or so because when you
Speaker 1: first became a sport, or when they first became a sport,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, oh, what are they doing? And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they win a national title. I guess
Speaker 1: a issue is pretty strong, and we know the NAUS
Speaker 1: usually a pretty good strong team. But they win in
Speaker 1: their second year, which is amazing.
Speaker 4: I was, you know, I was just looking at the
Speaker 4: roster because I looked at that before. They have almost
Speaker 4: all their rosters from his foreigners.
Speaker 1: International people. Yeah, international people.
Speaker 4: They have people from Slovakia, from South Africa, Brazil, Canada, Hungary.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like a Tommy Lloyd passport. You baby,
Speaker 1: support you.
Speaker 4: So I mean, so the coaching staff really gathered these
Speaker 4: these pri athletes? Really, I mean that's Wes Johnson. Is
Speaker 4: that that's the person you're gonna have on trying to Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: those guys did a great job gathering that talent.
Speaker 1: Good to do that. Guess what have you? We know
Speaker 1: this coaches as a as a salesman or coaches. Whatever
Speaker 1: you win, you sell ten cars in the month of December,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in January? You need to sell eleven?
Speaker 1: And then he didn't. From eleven, you gotta go to twelve.
Speaker 1: So two years in he wins a national title. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where do you go from here? Exactly?
Speaker 4: You know that's Uh, That's the thing about coaching is
Speaker 4: if if you have immediate success, that's going to be
Speaker 4: expected of you, right, So who knows? The thing about
Speaker 4: it is it's not as a it's not a high
Speaker 4: demand like fan demand sports. He can he can operate
Speaker 4: without having a fear of losing his job.
Speaker 1: And guess and guess what if he doesn't like Tucson,
Speaker 1: guess what's going to happen next? He'll go to somewhere
Speaker 1: where they the triathletes are go right right, and do
Speaker 1: they transfer it? Yes?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah. But I mean I don't know the gentleman.
Speaker 4: I would look forward to hear him on your show.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: I don't know what his background is, so maybe he
Speaker 4: maybe this is the spot for him. Maybe this is
Speaker 4: like bren Brennan Worth, this is where this is his.
Speaker 1: Destination, like a cadre, or like as or someone who's
Speaker 1: Did you listen to the Lopez interview? I did? I always,
Speaker 1: I always love fantastic. He's fantastic. Anybody who hasn't listened
Speaker 1: to the podcast from Thursdays and and lops, please do it.
Speaker 1: It was very good. Not because of me, it's because
Speaker 1: of him. I can listen to him for an hour
Speaker 1: right right. I wish he was talking the story. No
Speaker 1: disrespect to you have I wish he was sitting next
Speaker 1: to you right now. No disrespect taking Henry Europe.
Speaker 3: NFL Week ten was yesterday. The Cardinals defeated the Jets
Speaker 3: thirty one two six to improve the six and four
Speaker 3: and stay in first place in the NFC West.
Speaker 1: Henry, you're my NFL guy because I watch a little,
Speaker 1: but not a lot. Are they really good.
Speaker 3: I think they're decent. They play well. They play fundamentally
Speaker 3: good football. They don't Kyler's been playing really well. What
Speaker 3: is defense is really good? The run games really good.
Speaker 1: What does decent get you in the playoffs or does
Speaker 1: it get you in the playoffs? It gets you in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We got to see how the team plays in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But they have a formula that can win in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: They have a good run games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that that San Francisco game I think
Speaker 4: was a turning point for them when they went up
Speaker 4: to San Francisco, because I actually they win that. I
Speaker 4: picked San Francisco in that game. Who went in the Cardinals, right?
Speaker 4: They they and they dominated the forty nine ers, which
Speaker 4: I think that was kind of like a eye opening
Speaker 4: and I think they fall through since and they might
Speaker 4: have lost a game or two, maybe a game sense
Speaker 4: then they should have, But overall they've been what they
Speaker 4: won like four last five games something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's six and three. Do you know any fans Cardinals? Yeah,
Speaker 1: A couple from here, your friend buddies from like Phoenix, Sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know any do you?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: I see I see Cardinals license plates, some cars and
Speaker 4: stuff like that, but I don't really know anybody. Probably
Speaker 4: I know a lot of San Francisco forty nine er fans, Yeah,
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys or Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: I don't know any good good for them, because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know very many. If I do, I don't.
Speaker 1: They never said, hey, what Cardinals fans, Well maybe you
Speaker 1: should be a Cardinals fan. No, no, sorry, what you
Speaker 1: have one good year and then turned into the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs beat the Broncos sixteen to fourteen to keep
Speaker 3: their undefeated season alive.
Speaker 1: Great game, crazy game, how they want it. They're they're
Speaker 1: they're due. Yeah, that's they're they're they're on the cliff
Speaker 1: here kind and doesn't really matter. Sometimes you you need
Speaker 1: that lost, right.
Speaker 3: The Eagles beat the Cowboys thirty four to six. The
Speaker 3: Cowboys are now three and six.
Speaker 1: I'm shocked. I'm shocked.
Speaker 4: Okay, give me a give me the odds on Deon
Speaker 4: Sanders becoming the Cowboys coach. Now, what are the odds?
Speaker 4: What would you what odds would you place on that?
Speaker 4: Because I know you're a las Vegas guy.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, Las Vegas, New Mexico guy. Oh god,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's and only because that's a crazy notion,
Speaker 1: although realistic too. I don't know. I'm not a Cowboy
Speaker 1: fan anymore, so I don't care. It would be interesting.
Speaker 1: It would pay for Yeah, he paid for a lot
Speaker 1: of teams. No, it could be it's an upgrade. McCay's
Speaker 1: not the guy.
Speaker 4: No, And and it would create such a but I mean,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys have a high level of crazy interest and
Speaker 4: craziness anyway, But that would create such a buzz of
Speaker 4: him being the coach there, maybe even his son being
Speaker 4: the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Dak Dak. Thatk isn't a guy either.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, they just signed him to a lot of two
Speaker 4: hundred and forty million dollars, which is kind of a
Speaker 4: you know, amazing to me because he is he has
Speaker 4: been injury prone.
Speaker 1: Before, and he hasn't been good before.
Speaker 4: And he hasn't got them far to the playoffs, for
Speaker 4: far into the playoffs. So yeah, that was kind of
Speaker 4: a head scratcher.
Speaker 1: But your money ain't my money. To go ahead and
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 4: Well, both of Dion's suns are going to be gone.
Speaker 4: From Colorado right after this year, So I think part
Speaker 4: of the reason why he went to Colorado's he can
Speaker 4: coach them there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see, Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: The lines improved to aiden one with a twenty six
Speaker 3: to twenty three win on Sunday Night football over the.
Speaker 1: Tops at any point last night's game and I watched
Speaker 1: it all, Did I think they were going to lose
Speaker 1: that game? Not at all.
Speaker 4: You felt like they were going to find a way
Speaker 4: good teams do. Yeah, not to sound cliche, And they've
Speaker 4: got a quarterback that's a that's a tough dude. Did
Speaker 4: you hear his halftime?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I hate those. I hate those because you usually
Speaker 1: don't get anything from him. But he said exactly what
Speaker 1: you did because you don't quote him. I mean, who's
Speaker 1: going to quote him, right, You just get information. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he was spot on. He was spot on. It
Speaker 1: was with authority, and they did what he said they
Speaker 1: were going to do. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a great coach. That's something we were talking
Speaker 4: about before. He demands respect. When you walk in the
Speaker 4: room like Loot. Everybody talks about when Lou walks in
Speaker 4: the room that you knew. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 4: kind of coach you want, yeah, Dan.
Speaker 3: Campbell, Yeah right, We've got Monday night football tonight at
Speaker 3: six fifteen, the Dolphins will be playing at the Rams.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have the Rams. That's they're going to save
Speaker 1: me from going over this week.
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 4: This has been one of my worst years whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, it's been so bad. I just kind of
Speaker 4: like like it's almost like you don't want to look
Speaker 4: at it.
Speaker 1: He kind of peak at it and then you turn away.
Speaker 1: I was there. I can't afford any bad weeks, and
Speaker 1: I had one this weekend.
Speaker 3: The Utah Athletic director Mark Harlan has been fined forty
Speaker 3: dollars for his postgame comments about the Big twelve officiating
Speaker 3: after the loss to By.
Speaker 1: So have you what? We know him?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 6: Yeah? You know him.
Speaker 1: I know him. I've seen him a number of times.
Speaker 1: I covered him back in the day when he was
Speaker 1: at GA I think it was undertow me back in
Speaker 1: the day. A good dude, smart dude. What would give
Speaker 1: him the reason to do what he did?
Speaker 4: He almost became like a fan instead of a well
Speaker 4: I think it's yeah, how many times let me ask
Speaker 4: you this, dud, because you've been in like more press
Speaker 4: conference than we can play count. Have you ever seen
Speaker 4: an a d after after just a normal game. I've
Speaker 4: seen ads in press conference is like attend you like,
Speaker 4: I get like watching it from the far in the room.
Speaker 4: But if you ever seen an AD sit and you know,
Speaker 4: take questions or he didn't even take since it just
Speaker 4: made a statement.
Speaker 1: Right, No, I can't remember that, huf, but you right.
Speaker 1: The thing about it is sometimes and you know how
Speaker 1: under tough situations the ads there. So after the press conference,
Speaker 1: the reporters go to talk to him, yes, to get
Speaker 1: a reaction to whatever, but no, not like this. I
Speaker 1: think that he had to be just kind of trying
Speaker 1: to defend his team and his coach because of how
Speaker 1: pissed he was and whether he knew that he was
Speaker 1: going to get I'm sure he had to have known
Speaker 1: all this stuff because this is not just a simple thing.
Speaker 1: This was a big deal and it is taking a
Speaker 1: lot of heat on the internet for it. Yeah, too bad.
Speaker 4: Somebody there could have been like, hey, maybe you shouldn't
Speaker 4: go up there, just just wait till after the game,
Speaker 4: maybe sent out a statement or or get in touch
Speaker 4: with the Big twelve directly. Because what he did is
Speaker 4: he is embarrassing. And we, like I said, we know,
Speaker 4: and I remember seeing him at functions outside the u
Speaker 4: of A, just like I get people's weddings or stuff
Speaker 4: like that. He's a really good guy. He's really down
Speaker 4: to earth. This in this case, he just he lost
Speaker 4: control and uh yeah, you know, the replay show that
Speaker 4: there could have been defensive holding, but.
Speaker 1: Could have you know, I thought it was well yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know the.
Speaker 4: Referee was right there and he and he called it,
Speaker 4: so he can't. I mean, is it was it a
Speaker 4: blatant miscall? No, it wasn't. So somebody had somebody had
Speaker 4: to get into his ear before he went up to
Speaker 4: that podium, but nobody did, and that's what happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the week two ap Poles come out for basketball,
Speaker 3: Kansas is still the number one team after win versus
Speaker 3: North Carolina, Gonzaga and Auburn have moved into the top five,
Speaker 3: and Arizona's moved up to number nine.
Speaker 1: They've moved up to number nine from number ten.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, They've looked very good obviously, but they haven't played anybody,
Speaker 1: so you know, maybe Wisconsin will give him a better test.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how good they are,
Speaker 1: but in two weeks when they play Duke, that'll be
Speaker 1: the test.
Speaker 4: I remember I heard Josh Passnernders show, I think it
Speaker 4: was on Friday, right, Yeah, he was saying that Wisconsin
Speaker 4: is not not as good as they have been before.
Speaker 4: But this is that Wisconsin and they're I don't know
Speaker 4: if they're doing this on purpose, but they're they're commemorating
Speaker 4: the final four team that beat Arizona, that went to
Speaker 4: the Final four. Yeah, so I think I think that
Speaker 4: that's gonna be a tough environment to play in.
Speaker 1: Sure, and what's your style? Of their style is what?
Speaker 4: I don't think it's as slow down as before as
Speaker 4: they when they had the other coach. But for Josh
Speaker 4: Paston to say that he knows a lot more about
Speaker 4: college bassetla and I do, so maybe Arizona can go
Speaker 4: in there and take care of business. But yeah, this
Speaker 4: is as you know, this is Arizona's time of the season.
Speaker 4: I mean, if the championship, if the Nancy tournaments in November,
Speaker 4: they'd be they probably about ten or tall championship right
Speaker 4: at least.
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Uh. And for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I do have my theories, but I don't need to
Speaker 1: say him now. Yeah, last year we saw it. They
Speaker 1: went to Duke and they beat Duke and Duke like
Speaker 1: a year ago now, and you're thinking, well, the Arizona
Speaker 1: fans are thinking, oh, final four or bust, right right,
Speaker 1: and we saw what happened there. Tommy's got to make
Speaker 1: some inroads though in March. He's got to. He has
Speaker 1: to get them to.
Speaker 4: I think he has to get them to the final four,
Speaker 4: especially if they play like this throughout the season. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like if they if they get to thirty wins and
Speaker 4: then they lose in like the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 1: You let me have sit back, relax, don't fall off
Speaker 1: your cherrier.
Speaker 4: You don't they play in the Big twelve, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's right, you know, thanks for thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 4: It's more like twenty twenty three wins. But yeah, if
Speaker 4: they play well though through the Big twelve and they
Speaker 4: don't go deep in the tournament, and then it's going
Speaker 4: to be like a cloud over m Yeah. But I
Speaker 4: don't I think this team has like that kind of
Speaker 4: persona that some of those really good Ludolsen teams had
Speaker 4: where they they they can beat you in so many
Speaker 4: ways with some really good guards.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you do or you don't. I do, I do? Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. In fact, you you covered this
Speaker 1: team with me alongside me, the Bibi Miles dickers in
Speaker 1: group where they had the three guys. Uh. And now
Speaker 1: these guys have three guys and Martinez is a fringe guy, right,
Speaker 1: But you know to me, kJ and Michael Dickerson a
Speaker 1: lot of like athletic can do a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: There's no bibby. I mean there's no biby. There's no
Speaker 1: matter what. Jayden plays a different way, right, and and
Speaker 1: Caleb is not Miles, and Miles is definitely not Caleb.
Speaker 1: But they have three guys, three options, and and you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: one goes bad, the other two will be okay. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah.
Speaker 4: Well, the tournament's built for guard play, and they have
Speaker 4: it now where they can have they can beat you
Speaker 4: in different ways now at the guard position, whereas before
Speaker 4: the shooting wasn't there from the guards.
Speaker 1: But all it takes is one bad yes game. No, Well,
Speaker 1: you and I were there in ninety eight, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: one bad game is utah and those same dudes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't look like the same team because of
Speaker 4: Utah's defense are triangling to whatever they did, and they
Speaker 4: just looked out his sword. So you never know that,
Speaker 4: Like you said, you've you've said it before. It whatever
Speaker 4: happens that day, you know, it's what it's how you
Speaker 4: play that day that matters.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Former Arizona basketball player Benedict Matherne set a new career
Speaker 3: high in yesterday's game versus the Knicks with thirty eight points.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The dude, the stud, the dude, the stud.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's yeah, he's he's got everything there, right, He's
Speaker 4: he's got a team that he's in the right team
Speaker 4: because he can fit in so well there and a
Speaker 4: lot and he's getting the ball a lot and he's
Speaker 4: taken over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's he's he's a telling everybody to hear it.
Speaker 1: Knows that. I mean, he got he's the one that
Speaker 1: beat Arizona beat TCU without him, Yeah, without him. In fact,
Speaker 1: did you listen to arguments with Jay and last year
Speaker 1: when he talked about he said Caleb was better than
Speaker 1: Ben And I said, what the hell are you thinking?
Speaker 1: There's not even close? Right? No, Yeah, And if Jay,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, I'll bring out the tape just to
Speaker 1: show you. That's all I go, That's all we need
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to whining the Ball here on Fox Sports.
Speaker 1: Steve Rivera. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Huger Morrell. You're Henry
Speaker 1: Now On the pohone we have Tjeskwitz, the executive director
Speaker 1: of El Tourta Tucson. My guess is TJ. My guess
Speaker 1: is that you're pretty busy right now. A little bit, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 6: You've got a few people coming to town and uh oh,
Speaker 6: just about ten days or so.
Speaker 1: So of the you give me a number of the
Speaker 1: people that are coming into right though. Of that number,
Speaker 1: how many are from out of town?
Speaker 6: Well, we're shaping up to pretty close to ten thousand
Speaker 6: people this year, which is which is fantastic, And about
Speaker 6: forty percent of those people are from outside the state
Speaker 6: of Arizona, a whole lot of it, or from outside
Speaker 6: Tema County. I would say, prob about eighty five percent
Speaker 6: or from outside of Pema County that are coming in
Speaker 6: for ail to to Tucson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice, which of course means that probably visit Tucson
Speaker 1: loves you. Other Yes, others love you because they've got
Speaker 1: to stay at least two days.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, if they're coming in for you know, a bike
Speaker 6: ride that takes off at seven o'clock in the morning, Uh,
Speaker 6: they're they're for sure coming in and getting a good
Speaker 6: night's sleep, having a great dinner, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: The next morning they ride and you know, they're probably
Speaker 6: a little bit tired.
Speaker 1: They might have you know, a.
Speaker 6: Beer or an ice cream after the ride, so they'll
Speaker 6: probably want to say a second night, maybe a third night.
Speaker 6: So but there's so much to do in town. Just
Speaker 6: a great weekend overall for sports in Tucson. So why
Speaker 6: wouldn't you come in for ail to to Tucson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is your third or fourth year, I think right,
Speaker 1: third to fourth year. Sure, fourth, you're coming from Iowa.
Speaker 1: What have you? What has struck you the most in
Speaker 1: being the new guy? It's just an amazing community.
Speaker 6: And you know, I really didn't feel it until a
Speaker 6: year or two into the job. And uh, and I
Speaker 6: haul at a job, but it's really it's really just
Speaker 6: a whole lot of fun. But you know, I came
Speaker 6: here during COVID and I really didn't get to know
Speaker 6: the community. But now that I've kind of been immerson
Speaker 6: in the community, just getting to know the folks and
Speaker 6: what makes this town tick. And you know, business leaders
Speaker 6: and bike leaders and just nonprofits throughout town. There's just
Speaker 6: so many people that until you really, you know, start
Speaker 6: to get involved in this community, it's hard to understand
Speaker 6: just what a great community this.
Speaker 4: Is, right right, you see, what's the most challenging aspect
Speaker 4: of what you do?
Speaker 1: And do you sleep the day before, the night before
Speaker 1: the all tour?
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, actually this time right now is more of
Speaker 6: a crunch time. Just you know, there's people calling up
Speaker 6: and left and right, just asking questions, trying to get information.
Speaker 6: Uh so this is more stressful by the time we
Speaker 6: get to you know, the night before. I mean, if
Speaker 6: it's not done by that point, you know, the race
Speaker 6: is going to happen no matter what we do. So
Speaker 6: it's it's here and there. So so the stressful time
Speaker 6: is right now, just get making sure we've got all
Speaker 6: our eyes dotted and t's crossed, all all that kind
Speaker 6: of stuff that that pre ride prep that goes into it.
Speaker 6: So you know, like I said, by the time we
Speaker 6: get to you know, the uh that weekend before it's
Speaker 6: it's go time at that point and uh yeah, I'll
Speaker 6: sleep for about two or three hours on Friday night
Speaker 6: and uh I'll sleep real good Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it is. So, you know, one of the things,
Speaker 1: or maybe maybe it's overlooked a little about the locals
Speaker 1: you have. This is kind of a turned into a
Speaker 1: star studied type of ride, and and not so much
Speaker 1: with the top finishers, but the people involved, the people
Speaker 1: who are here to either help or bring some name
Speaker 1: value to it. Yes, oh for sure.
Speaker 6: And if you look back at the history of El
Speaker 6: Tour to Tucson, some of the some of the nation's
Speaker 6: top riders have come and ridden this this event that
Speaker 6: have gone on to ride in the Tour de France
Speaker 6: and gone on to the you know, bigger and better things.
Speaker 6: So this year we probably have I don't know, at
Speaker 6: least twenty people that have either been on an Olympic
Speaker 6: cycling team or been in the Tour de France. And
Speaker 6: I mean just just today just heard of an Olympian
Speaker 6: from Mexico that's coming up to ride, a couple other
Speaker 6: former l to War champs. I think we're probably gonna
Speaker 6: have five or six former El Tour champs that will
Speaker 6: be riding this year. We have a Danish Olympian that's
Speaker 6: that's coming over and riding, and of course we have
Speaker 6: this year Chloe Digert who won a gold medal and
Speaker 6: I believe a silver medal in Paris for the United
Speaker 6: States Olympic Cycling team. So yeah, we got some starts
Speaker 6: other once. But you know what, we don't just focus
Speaker 6: on them. I think it's from the from the world's
Speaker 6: best to the world's worst and everything in between. That's
Speaker 6: what really makes out toward a Tucson tick.
Speaker 1: Well, the world's worst. I think Jay's going to ride
Speaker 1: in it, so you're right, maybe the world's worst just
Speaker 1: gonna I think the last I heard.
Speaker 6: I didn't say that.
Speaker 1: You said I said that like he can't do it
Speaker 1: about me. He's the longer on the show that offense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you know, I mean, we really do have
Speaker 6: something for everyone. And if people that don't want to
Speaker 6: ride a bike they want to come, we've got a
Speaker 6: five k as well and a fun walk. So if
Speaker 6: people want to just come out and you know, walk
Speaker 6: to three miles with friends and family. They can do that.
Speaker 6: You know, if you want to ride the thirty two miles,
Speaker 6: sixty three mile or one hundred and two miles, feel free,
Speaker 6: you know, those are those are just you know, some
Speaker 6: of the events that they can do that. Saturday, November
Speaker 6: twenty third.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know this event's been like you said, it's
Speaker 4: been going out of like forty years, right and forty
Speaker 4: one and you mentioned all the riders that are from
Speaker 4: different parts of the world coming here. Where do you
Speaker 4: think this race is as far as being perceived by
Speaker 4: or or known by writers all around? How this, how
Speaker 4: this this uh you know race compares to others or
Speaker 4: where where is it on that that hierarchy of where
Speaker 4: guys or girls want to come and ride in this?
Speaker 6: Well, first and foremost, it is the largest race in
Speaker 6: the United States. Because anything that you know, put up
Speaker 6: a clock and shoot a gun and you have a
Speaker 6: winner and a podium and stuff like that, it's a race.
Speaker 6: So with that of doubt, it's the largest, you know,
Speaker 6: getting ten thousand people, uh this year, that's that's for
Speaker 6: sure the largest. So anytime that is thrown around the
Speaker 6: largest in the world. It's always a good thing. Uh,
Speaker 6: it's been put just for forty one years. We've had
Speaker 6: people that again that have come and you know, they've
Speaker 6: towed the line with with some of the best, you know,
Speaker 6: especially when they were younger in their career. But I've
Speaker 6: seen names that you know, have gone on to you know,
Speaker 6: be Olympians and gone on to represent various teams of
Speaker 6: the Tour de France. So a lot of them have
Speaker 6: you know, just really used this as as a great
Speaker 6: training tool as they prepare for some of those big
Speaker 6: European races. So it's got a great it's got a
Speaker 6: great name throughout the world. We keep getting these European riders.
Speaker 6: It's got more and more publicity. But we've had some
Speaker 6: of these European champs that have come over and ridden
Speaker 6: and they go back home and talk about this great
Speaker 6: event with h you know, seventy degree weather in the
Speaker 6: middle of November, where it's snowing in other parts of
Speaker 6: the country. So you know, what's not to like about that.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that we try to do,
Speaker 1: or else tries to do, is alert the people of
Speaker 1: the community, especially the route along the route of the delays,
Speaker 1: road closures and things like that, and what to expect
Speaker 1: that day. So it's kind of advise them to watch
Speaker 1: our Facebook, watch our website, stuff like that, right and.
Speaker 6: Take a look at the route, especially if you've got
Speaker 6: something you've got to be at that day, if you've
Speaker 6: got you know, a wedding to get to or a
Speaker 6: flight to catch, take a little bit more time that morning.
Speaker 6: If you're especially in the in the those areas. Pretty
Speaker 6: much all of El Tour lately has been south of downtown.
Speaker 6: So if you're up in the foothills, or if you're
Speaker 6: up in Morana or a valley, you're not going to
Speaker 6: be affected by El Tor to Tucson. But if you're
Speaker 6: down by the airport or Hotton Road or soa rita
Speaker 6: Green Valley, take a look at those those maps, see
Speaker 6: where El Tor is, and you know, just maybe take
Speaker 6: a little bit extra time that morning if you need
Speaker 6: to get out, or you know, just just a vie
Speaker 6: a different route. Just keep in mind there's a lot
Speaker 6: of people out there riding there. A lot of those
Speaker 6: people are our friends and family, A lot of people
Speaker 6: are out there raising money for some great charities throughout
Speaker 6: the throughout the community. So you know, just just take
Speaker 6: a hecks for a few minutes and you'll get there safe.
Speaker 1: What if what if you have nothing else to do
Speaker 1: and there's it's a nice Saturday either way, nice nice
Speaker 1: weather and all that. It's a party. It's more than
Speaker 1: a bike ride on Saturday, well, Thursday, Friday, Saturday really
Speaker 1: pretty much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we got great bands. It's all free, so
Speaker 6: come down to the TCC got bands throughout the day
Speaker 6: pretty much from noon to about eight o'clock on Thursday
Speaker 6: and Friday, there's a beer garden by draw June that'll
Speaker 6: be serving some tasty beers. And then Saturday, pretty much
Speaker 6: from seven o'clock in the morning, we shoot. We shoot,
Speaker 6: the cannons off and the riders take off first. Riders
Speaker 6: will probably get back just before eleven o'clock. They're moving,
Speaker 6: just to give you an idea, probably about twenty seven
Speaker 6: to twenty eight miles an hour, and they sustain that
Speaker 6: for one hundred and two miles, so it's just unbelievably
Speaker 6: fast how they go. But even though you know, not
Speaker 6: just those, there's other people that are riding, say the
Speaker 6: thirty two miles. One of the highlights this year We're
Speaker 6: going to have some riders from a wounded warrior about
Speaker 6: forty wounded warriors that'll take off at the end of
Speaker 6: the thirty two mile ride together as a pack. You know. Obviously,
Speaker 6: today's Veterans Day, so we love having veterans throughout the
Speaker 6: country come and join us for our tour.
Speaker 1: But that's going to be something special, you.
Speaker 6: Know, especially when they ride along, you know the airplane
Speaker 6: Bone Yard go around Davis Mosson. It's a special group
Speaker 6: of riders that are going to be joining us this
Speaker 6: year for that thirty two mile ride around the community.
Speaker 1: Right, let's go if we can real quick. Lastly, it's
Speaker 1: not just a cycling ride or a bicycle ride of
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two, thirty two or twenty eight
Speaker 1: what you you have a running event, run walking event.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so they can do a five k which is
Speaker 6: about three point one miles, and we'll probably have about
Speaker 6: a thousand people that line up for the five k,
Speaker 6: and that's in the second year. It was happening many
Speaker 6: many years ago, so we brought it back for the
Speaker 6: fortieth anniversary. People loved it, so we decided to do
Speaker 6: it and make it a staple and so pretty much
Speaker 6: after the one hundred mile goes off, we slipped in
Speaker 6: a five k and also a fun walk. We have
Speaker 6: a lot of parents that come out with their kids,
Speaker 6: a lot of families that will go out and do that,
Speaker 6: or even people that are there for you know, their
Speaker 6: spouses might be riding one hundred miles, so they just
Speaker 6: want to get in some exercise and they could do
Speaker 6: the five k, or they can do the.
Speaker 1: Fun walk right right, And there's going to be maybe
Speaker 1: eight hundred nine hundred thousand.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think right now we're probably training to be
Speaker 6: close to one thousand. So you know, when you add
Speaker 6: up the number of cyclists, you add up the number
Speaker 6: of people that are on the run, that's where we're
Speaker 6: going to have probably about ten thousand participants in the downtown.
Speaker 6: And then you top that off with probably about an
Speaker 6: equal number of spectators that are out and about probably
Speaker 6: about two thousand volunteers between law enforcement officers and just
Speaker 6: so many people that are out there, you know, hanging
Speaker 6: out water and fruit to the riders. I mean, there's
Speaker 6: just thousands of people to get involved with the Eltwort
Speaker 6: to Tucson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no crazy time, busy time. That all happened
Speaker 1: the twenty third of November, beginning at seven in the morning,
Speaker 1: so be prepared, and it goes to about four point thirty.
Speaker 6: Right, yep, yep, then they'll be off the road. So
Speaker 6: you know after that, you know, it gets dark this
Speaker 6: time of year. It's sign up is right at seven
Speaker 6: o'clock in the morning. That's when we start the first
Speaker 6: ride by five about five fifteen, and it starts getting dark.
Speaker 6: So we want all the riders to get in safely,
Speaker 6: you know, and then go go have a good time
Speaker 6: after that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well thanks TJ. Appreciate your time. All right,
Speaker 1: guys right here you will. I was gonna give him
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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back toining the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, sure hope youre Morales, You're Henry.
Speaker 1: I need to talk real quick about the about our
Speaker 1: Thursday show. We're going to be at beck at at
Speaker 1: Casino del Sol all here. You gotta come and see us.
Speaker 1: I will Is this the last time? No, this is
Speaker 1: the third time. We got three more after this, Okay,
Speaker 1: but we're hoping to get a couple of great guests
Speaker 1: come by and see us. It's fun. Jay joins the
Speaker 1: show again, and we talked about obviously everything goes on there,
Speaker 1: a lot of things going on there. Yeah, it's I
Speaker 1: like their sports book there. Yeah, it's nice, comfortable. I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say that it's it's nice. It's comfortable.
Speaker 1: You can bet on pretty much anything, you know, any
Speaker 1: ragers from whatever to whatever, and it's comfortable. A lot
Speaker 1: of couches, a lot of TVs. Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 4: It's not like the sports book sports books we know
Speaker 4: in Las Vegas. I know there for seventeen years. But
Speaker 4: for what it is, it's a good Oh yeah, sports
Speaker 4: book with a bar there, right, are there?
Speaker 1: Some big screens are in there, right, and the can
Speaker 1: of self serve kiosks there, and then you can go
Speaker 1: to talk to a live person when you make the bet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then uh the great restaurants Hume and uh and
Speaker 1: Mobi's movies and then uh p y Steakhouse uh there
Speaker 1: as well, and you can obviously we talked about the betting.
Speaker 1: The golf Swallow golf course, so a lot of fun
Speaker 1: at a lot of fun casual. If you don't gamble,
Speaker 1: you can al us have a good time. Dance floor
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yeah, do you dance, No, Okay, no,
Speaker 1: that's that's not important.
Speaker 4: Do you watch people dance. I'm not a watcher of
Speaker 4: that either, hope player. But they do have do they
Speaker 4: have they have concerts there? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a great college.
Speaker 4: You did have boxing matches the hope that comes back, right,
Speaker 4: that hasn't happened in a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, great stuff as ava and then they
Speaker 1: have it now nowadays nowadays because of the weather which
Speaker 1: is not bad, they have it in the convention Center. Yeah. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you have a chance to go out there maybe Thursday.
Speaker 1: We love the guests. We have put you on the
Speaker 1: air if you if you're there with a good question,
Speaker 1: you can come on the air. You have some knowledgeable
Speaker 1: guests too. Yeah. Yeah. In fact, call if you guys
Speaker 1: want to give us a call, call us now five
Speaker 1: two zero four one six seventy four forty. Henry is
Speaker 1: waiting for your call. We haven't heard from certain people.
Speaker 1: Gabe has not been restless because they haven't played. Nico
Speaker 1: hasn't called in because they haven't played. Victor is always,
Speaker 1: you know, taking his selfies.
Speaker 4: I see I see him at a lot of high
Speaker 4: school events. He's a super fan, he's a he's he
Speaker 4: must be retired because he's like he's everywhere every every
Speaker 4: time every softball or baseball game I went to in
Speaker 4: the spring, I swear to god he was.
Speaker 1: He was at each game.
Speaker 6: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice to be doing nothing, Donnie. If you want
Speaker 1: to call it this week, what do you think is
Speaker 1: gonna happen this week? But the Houston game?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't want to sound like a home
Speaker 4: or any like that, but I think given a given
Speaker 4: a week off, and they said that they were going
Speaker 4: to assess everything in the program, which meant they probably
Speaker 4: had to do a lot of reset some of the
Speaker 4: what's going on there, I think they have a good chance.
Speaker 1: Houston's playing better. Though.
Speaker 4: Houston beat Kansas State and there was a lots of
Speaker 4: Kanas State, so yeah, it's not gonna be easy. There's
Speaker 4: not gonna be a lot of fans there. But I
Speaker 4: think Arizona's gonna play well. Looking back, they the way
Speaker 4: they took text Tech to the end, that was actually
Speaker 4: a quality game where they should have won that game
Speaker 4: because they made a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 1: That game could have transfixed or done a lot if
Speaker 1: that's not where I worked right to the season.
Speaker 4: The win that game, the trajectory changes. They were they
Speaker 4: in the Texas Tech you know, territory like ten times
Speaker 4: that game and only scored like a touchdown out of it,
Speaker 4: and they missed the field goal. Yeah, he fumbles the wall,
Speaker 4: right McMillan. Yeah, So, but looking back, like how good
Speaker 4: Texas Tech is now? And they did lose the Colorado
Speaker 4: but that was that was a quality, quality game. And
Speaker 4: then meeting Utah, even though they haven't shown to be
Speaker 4: quite the team that they were before at the beginning
Speaker 4: of the season, that was still a quality went there. So,
Speaker 4: I mean, they have some things that to go back
Speaker 4: on and say, this is what we did here, let's
Speaker 4: work on it. The thing, I just think there's the
Speaker 4: amount of players out, the belief system isn't there right now,
Speaker 4: the confidence that it's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 4: how they come out after a week after that that
Speaker 4: horrible performance against uc.
Speaker 1: Everybody who listens to me on the show, and I
Speaker 1: know you do a lot. I kind of put things
Speaker 1: in a percentage type of thing. One hundred percent. Uh,
Speaker 1: what's the biggest culprit of the one hundred percent? What's
Speaker 1: the biggest issue with the football team. The biggest issue
Speaker 1: is personnel and being in Fefita being able to do
Speaker 1: what he's able to do. And I think there is
Speaker 1: some a lot to do with the play calling and
Speaker 1: the way he's his interaction with Baber's and Atkins. It's
Speaker 1: a lot different than fish or fish kind of like
Speaker 1: ran things. Uh, there's I think there's some disconnect there
Speaker 1: and I think sometimes Fefida probably just does it because
Speaker 1: this is what he thinks he should do. I've mentioned
Speaker 1: this before, like I think he brought us back way
Speaker 1: too much.
Speaker 4: He's not a drop back passer. He needs to fill
Speaker 4: the the rush and move forward, not backwards, move forward
Speaker 4: to the side and think quick.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I don't see that a lot. Okay, So
Speaker 1: that you just said of the one hundred percent, what percentage?
Speaker 1: Is that a problem? Offensively?
Speaker 4: I think that's a huge That's that's my I would
Speaker 4: think about eighty percent of the problem. Yeah, because because
Speaker 4: it's it just seems like he's not the same quarterback
Speaker 4: as he was. Of course, he doesn't have the same
Speaker 4: line blocking for him. Okay, he doesn't have a Jacob
Speaker 4: Cowing to pass to other than McMillan.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now let me give you this. You only
Speaker 1: have twenty percent left. What's the other twenty percent? Just
Speaker 1: the the makeup of the team. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: the it's I don't think it's a quality team like
Speaker 1: a you know, the team aspect. See. I would thought
Speaker 1: I thought you would have gone this way, and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to change your mind because this is your
Speaker 1: your opinion. So I would have thought you'd go like that.
Speaker 1: Thirty forty injuries, Uh, twenty five thirty percent coaching, that's
Speaker 1: what that's sixty percentage. I didn't think about numbers. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then what you just said, maybe another twenty five
Speaker 1: and then give about ten to fifteen percent to other factors. Well,
Speaker 1: coaching is involved with that, with the way the way
Speaker 1: that offenses. We're talking about head coaching. Oh, head coaching. Oh.
Speaker 4: The percentage of what's the problem they're at head coaching
Speaker 4: is well, is just being able to communicate what he
Speaker 4: needs to be community exactly. I don't there's it just
Speaker 4: seems like there's not that that bond or that there's.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't you know.
Speaker 4: It's ironically, if if fafeed in, those guys left and
Speaker 4: nothing was expected of Arizona, Brandon might have actually been
Speaker 4: in a better position because you and I because he's starting,
Speaker 4: if he's starting from scratch, and everybody's gonna be sympathetic
Speaker 4: for him.
Speaker 1: And did I did I say this on the air
Speaker 1: last week? Because I said this on the air, and
Speaker 1: as we guessing you again, I didn't listen. I listened
Speaker 1: to you a lot, but I didn't hear that.
Speaker 4: But that's but you know what if he came in,
Speaker 4: if those guys left, if it was kind of like right,
Speaker 4: he would nobody would. They wouldn't be as as on
Speaker 4: him as they are now. Questions, no question, And the.
Speaker 1: Thing is, you can't change that. But but what you're saying,
Speaker 1: I said that exact same thing on Friday, Uh, talking
Speaker 1: to a couple of people that did right. Maybe the
Speaker 1: worst thing that happened to Brendan was he got these
Speaker 1: guys to come back. Yeah, and all the expectations that
Speaker 1: came with it. Had they left, he would have had
Speaker 1: covered kind of bear and then he'd have to build
Speaker 1: his own people. He'd be exactly what you're saying now
Speaker 1: is exactly what I said last week. I don't know
Speaker 1: who you're talking to.
Speaker 4: He would have more of his players that have brought
Speaker 4: in he did bring in a couple of quarterbacks, brought
Speaker 4: in a quarterback from centers, he stayed. He brought in
Speaker 4: the quarterback from any you probably would have played them.
Speaker 1: And I want you to be honest with me in
Speaker 1: this dumb question about life. So you you're a father
Speaker 1: of one, father of a daughter. Where in your time
Speaker 1: did she ever not listen to you? Sometimes? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: no great, Sometimes it's good you don't remember, not all
Speaker 1: so okay, right? But sometimes so what did you do
Speaker 1: to make that not happen again? Although it probably happened again.
Speaker 1: I'm a father of two sons. Did they not necessarily
Speaker 1: be a lot? But they also knew that if they
Speaker 1: didn't long term I'd be pissed. And I'm still the
Speaker 1: guy who pays the mortgage on this house.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, my daughter knows about you know, how to
Speaker 4: interact with me and what streams not to I mean,
Speaker 4: you can ask any dad it has a daughter, especially
Speaker 4: like we're my daughter's ages. You're going to get a
Speaker 4: lot of oh come on, dad, or I can't believe
Speaker 4: you're do like.
Speaker 1: You know, why are you doing that type of thing?
Speaker 1: But there were times when you had to yeah, and and.
Speaker 4: But but there was that, you know, there was a
Speaker 4: good bond there, There was a good uh he always
Speaker 4: had She always respected and knew that I was her dad,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know the communication part, the relation part
Speaker 4: that was always there. Wasn't like or she just totally
Speaker 4: did not listen to me. Uh so and he got
Speaker 4: the same thing. For her sons, obviously, they they they're
Speaker 4: young guys, they're they're you know, they're doing their thing.
Speaker 4: They probably didn't listen to everything you said, but they
Speaker 4: know that you're there, You're their dad. You know, these
Speaker 4: guys know that Brent Brennan's their coach, but we're are
Speaker 4: they where's that respect line?
Speaker 1: Uh? With them? With him?
Speaker 4: They say that coach you know, I heard after games
Speaker 4: this is Coach B's team where we're here for coach B.
Speaker 1: But how much is that happening now? How?
Speaker 4: How how how how engrossed are they in him? Sure,
Speaker 4: you know, and I don't mean to take anything away
Speaker 4: from feed because he's a heck of a person and
Speaker 4: a heck of a player, But it just seems like
Speaker 4: there's that the chemistry, the the you know, the the.
Speaker 1: Common bond is not is not there yet all the players,
Speaker 1: even if even if they deny it or whatever. It's plausible,
Speaker 1: very plausible, right or possible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you brought this up before about N A
Speaker 4: L And I all these guys are getting paid already,
Speaker 4: so where where is there some of their motivation They
Speaker 4: got a big payday, probably be for the year to
Speaker 4: stay here. So hey, we lost a couple of games.
Speaker 4: Let's let's try to write it out and get better.
Speaker 4: But there's not like a do or die.
Speaker 1: A carrot, although there is probably a carrot because I guess,
Speaker 1: what if you want to get paid next year? Okay,
Speaker 1: where's your resume? And what did you do to get
Speaker 1: paid next year? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And I'm again, well that sounds like they're putting on
Speaker 4: the players a lot on both Yeah. They they there,
Speaker 4: they came back. I mean, that's that's who Who would
Speaker 4: have thought that those guys would come back and during
Speaker 4: coaching change, And then we can get into more about
Speaker 4: their relationship with Fish and might be why that that
Speaker 4: didn't happen where they went to Washington where I think
Speaker 4: there's something to that, where there were some there was
Speaker 4: some disconnect with him in a personal level with those guys,
Speaker 4: that's an that's the reason why they didn't follow him there.
Speaker 4: But for them to come back in that situation is
Speaker 4: is and we heard it from the national media. They
Speaker 4: got they kept on getting these questions, what made you
Speaker 4: decide to come back? What why did you return? It
Speaker 4: was a big thing. But you know, you got to
Speaker 4: applaud them for that. But where it's you know, you
Speaker 4: could sense because you've been around a lot of teams,
Speaker 4: you've been aroun a lot of coaches, you can sense
Speaker 4: that the mentality is not always where God, we got
Speaker 4: to win this game. This is like where's where's the
Speaker 4: where's the uh the drive the most.
Speaker 1: That's why, That's why I've been saying that I've seen
Speaker 1: too many of this. You know, I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1: I'm playing one on the radio, but I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1: But I know what I'm doing here because I've seen
Speaker 1: enough surgery. I've been through enough surgeries to know that
Speaker 1: this the diagnosis exactly is kind of what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, the u c F game was like
Speaker 4: the low point. And we've seen Arizona in past years,
Speaker 4: like I can always remember the games, like some of
Speaker 4: the games of Washington where they got blown out. Yeah,
Speaker 4: even even with toy and some of his teams. But
Speaker 4: they they always but they always came back, you know,
Speaker 4: they always tried to They had some resolve. That's why
Speaker 4: I want to see Friday is to see some resolve
Speaker 4: from these guys and to show that hey, we're gonna
Speaker 4: we're gonna, you know, win a game. We're going to
Speaker 4: try to do what we need to do with the
Speaker 4: coaches involved. Make smart plays, don't don't make silly penalties.
Speaker 4: You know, some of the penalties that they they had
Speaker 4: against UCF were just like mind boggling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they had those at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: your two yeah in victories, and you're thinking, what what accountability?
Speaker 4: You know, if you're if you're gonna make a mistake
Speaker 4: like that, you're out of the game. But do they
Speaker 4: have enough depth to do that too? Do they have
Speaker 4: enough to say, you know, you got to go sit down?
Speaker 4: But I don't I just anything on a sense, on
Speaker 4: a sense, if you do something where you shouldn't be doing,
Speaker 4: you're gonna you're gonna sit You're gonna be pulled.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why I wanted to go with this because
Speaker 1: I mentioned your daughter and my two sons. If you
Speaker 1: didn't establish that early and they're already older. Right, how
Speaker 1: are they going to buy into what you're trying to
Speaker 1: tell them outside of you know, putting your fist down.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Because you've already been the nice
Speaker 1: guy for a long time, right, You're trying to be
Speaker 1: a mean guy. Is not gonna work because we know
Speaker 1: that's not you.
Speaker 4: Right, And you brought up the teaching part in the
Speaker 4: in the school, if a teacher doesn't set the ground
Speaker 4: the ground rolls from the beginning firmly, then the students
Speaker 4: aren't going to respond to that. If it happens later,
Speaker 4: you're like, whoa you You let us do this and this,
Speaker 4: and now you're doing this. There's not going to be
Speaker 4: a you know, respect factor. There's not going to be
Speaker 4: a belief factor in that teacher. But if you set
Speaker 4: the ground rules from the beginning firmly as it goes on,
Speaker 4: then you can kind of open up to them more
Speaker 4: and they can see you as a person who wants
Speaker 4: to set you on the right path.
Speaker 1: But if you let them.
Speaker 4: Run loose and and not have a you know, you know,
Speaker 4: a strong hand, and then they're going to be loose
Speaker 4: for a long time.
Speaker 1: There's no question that that they want Brennan to do
Speaker 1: well or they're trying to or whatever, but not to
Speaker 1: the degree that they have to I think. And there's
Speaker 1: no question that he wants to succeed too. Obviously he's
Speaker 1: getting paid a lot of money. He wants to he
Speaker 1: wants this place to do well. There's just a disconnect.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have used that word a thousand times.
Speaker 1: You did today, And whether it stops I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I would say that it won't even a victory
Speaker 1: or two. You will say, okay, maybe maybe, maybe not.
Speaker 1: But as they say in our culture, have your I mean,
Speaker 1: what's what's the point now? Yeah, although the point is
Speaker 1: to win, but you know what I'm saying, the damage
Speaker 1: has been done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's been a lot of damage unfortunately, but they
Speaker 4: do have three games left. If they will look at
Speaker 4: the brider side, they do it. They have three games
Speaker 4: against teams they can beat, even even ASU, who's playing
Speaker 4: really well. And you've got to give Kenny Dillingham a
Speaker 4: lot of credit for how he's been able to uplift
Speaker 4: that program from HERM Edwards disaster.
Speaker 1: But they have I mean, they haven't.
Speaker 4: Really played a very good to They're gonna be playing
Speaker 4: BUYU in Kansas State coming up, so we'll see if
Speaker 4: a issue is competitive that or beats one of those teams,
Speaker 4: then I'm a firm believer in Kenny Dimmon dealing now.
Speaker 4: But they haven't really beat anybody in the Big twelve yet.
Speaker 4: That is a good team, a winning team. Thank you
Speaker 4: have you for coming on in, Thank you Henry for
Speaker 4: coming on in. And we'll talk to you guys tomorrow