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Speaker 3: I'm Steve Rivera. You're Troy. I just Sin fromgoysycats dot Com.
Speaker 3: You're Ray from the U A in a restaurant, local
Speaker 3: restaurant because see my boy Ray, Yep, you have to
Speaker 3: go play Easter eight Hunt and try to find him.
Speaker 4: I got good games on usually.
Speaker 5: You know. That's the best part about being a bartender
Speaker 5: is like you know when you're like, go to like
Speaker 5: a restaurant or something like that, and it's like they
Speaker 5: never have the right game.
Speaker 2: So how many games do you have behind you?
Speaker 4: Just too?
Speaker 6: I mean to two TVs T TVs. Okay, you just
Speaker 6: need ESPN one and two.
Speaker 4: Yeah really sometimes most of the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, cool, it's a midtown one because you
Speaker 3: have a little bit like I don't know if I
Speaker 3: should say.
Speaker 4: It, you can you say it's just King Fisher.
Speaker 6: King fish is good, good food, good fish, good drinks,
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Speaker 2: Friendly bartender. How you doing?
Speaker 7: We did hut.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome to Monday Show. A lot of drama over
Speaker 3: the weekend. H Mistery's game. I would tell Ray, you
Speaker 3: weren't here, Troy, And I'll tell this to Lev who's
Speaker 3: one of the guests on the side.
Speaker 2: It must be terror to be a UA baseball fan.
Speaker 3: Because no leaders say, no, you don't know what the
Speaker 3: hell's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: You don't score enough runs.
Speaker 3: Over the last month or so I watched when I
Speaker 3: started paying attention, it was like every game was like that.
Speaker 3: You know, it's two runs enough, it's one run enough,
Speaker 3: it's ten running off.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it wasn't enough. They rode the wave of
Speaker 6: that holy and then and they found the way to win,
Speaker 6: right until they didn't until reality yeah well yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, things just fell apart, you know, and just kind
Speaker 3: of freaky freaky things. First game they lost, they hit
Speaker 3: the you know, the line or whatever, a couple of
Speaker 3: fluke hits, they lose. And then yesterday was another one
Speaker 3: of those you didn't score enough, a couple of good
Speaker 3: flukey hits and.
Speaker 6: They lose in a massive eighth in and collapse in
Speaker 6: both games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not unbelievable, but believable and sad for them
Speaker 3: because they had a pretty good year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's a building season. You know, you
Speaker 6: get to the College World Series, nobody expected you to
Speaker 6: be there. Now they're I don't want to say expectations
Speaker 6: to do it every year, because he can do that,
Speaker 6: but expectations of at least, you know what a team
Speaker 6: should be having it wrong to get in the postseason,
Speaker 6: and whatever happens happens, and you know, one out of
Speaker 6: every four years, that's that's a good ratio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see if that continues. But a very good year.
Speaker 3: We'll talk more about that with Michael liv at four
Speaker 3: seventeen he did not go, but he was still writing
Speaker 3: off She covered the games every game here and then
Speaker 3: at three seventeen, who we have and.
Speaker 6: Oh Noah Flafida Arizon a quarterback and entering his third
Speaker 6: season as the starter. Fourth season overall. So Redchard Junior
Speaker 6: was up to good get by you. Great to have
Speaker 6: him on the show. Just I want to you get
Speaker 6: to talk football, talk a little football, well, to talk
Speaker 6: more about just him as a person, because I like
Speaker 6: kind of getting behind the scenes for that. So that'll
Speaker 6: be a lot of fun where they're at what they're
Speaker 6: doing right now in this one hundred and thirty thousand
Speaker 6: degree heat.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on saying, oh people, it's hot. It's Tucson.
Speaker 3: Since since the age of time, since it created this,
Speaker 3: it's been that way.
Speaker 2: Can even we're saying, God, it's not.
Speaker 6: Basically from mid June all the way till I'll say September,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be this way.
Speaker 2: Well I know, and in fact it was probably October last.
Speaker 3: I was like, and I thought I was getting old,
Speaker 3: because you know, I've been here a while. Now I'm
Speaker 3: think I'm getting I get take this grab, but I
Speaker 3: could take this crap. This is a great place to
Speaker 3: And here you are again, another show, another summer show.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be ready out of people. Ray, my guest
Speaker 2: is Ray. I'm here for it. Get two TVs. We
Speaker 2: do the show from Kik Fisher. She's gonna start pulling regular.
Speaker 3: Yay Lily champion twelve year old Jimmy that's right, Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm laughing out what that might be happening.
Speaker 2: Temmy the hostess, yeah, or the waiter on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: how you doing. He's been here for seven years, seen
Speaker 2: it all before.
Speaker 3: Were you from Schenectady. Uh, no, you can tell it's
Speaker 3: one hundred ten because I'm delious. No good, Okay, So
Speaker 3: what else did you see this weekend?
Speaker 2: Anything else?
Speaker 6: Uh? You know Arizona football a couple of big time
Speaker 6: recruits over the weekend. R J.
Speaker 2: I think it's r J Moss receiver coming in from Texas.
Speaker 2: I saw that.
Speaker 6: So getting a three star receiver from the state of Texas. Uh,
Speaker 6: they had a couple of today. I think it was
Speaker 6: Griffin Forgets the last name on the top of my head.
Speaker 2: But I raised crying over here because you're taking some of.
Speaker 6: His breaking Nuice Mosley, thank you, I said, yeah, mostly.
Speaker 6: But you know, anytime you can get three star kids
Speaker 6: out of Texas, four star kids out of Texas, you're
Speaker 6: sitting party and this is what they want to do.
Speaker 2: He went to Texas or he's just from from the
Speaker 2: state of Okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know, this is what this coaching staff
Speaker 6: wanted to do, is get in there, get their footing
Speaker 6: in there. Did a very good job last season of
Speaker 6: doing that. So this is a continuation of that.
Speaker 3: Didn't you ask last time you were on the show,
Speaker 3: you asked about going to Texas and doing what.
Speaker 2: Was the situation. We're talking about softball. Softball, Okay, softball
Speaker 2: when you get going there and.
Speaker 6: Take going there, going to the south and softball something else.
Speaker 6: We're talking about softball. Just how to expand the recruitings
Speaker 6: outside of the backbusters in Orange County.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so okay, if you feel it's good, it's it's
Speaker 3: good enough for me. We'll see what we'll see what
Speaker 3: happens in in the fall. Is he gonna play win?
Speaker 6: Well, he's going to be the twenty twenty five six
Speaker 6: cold reclass. So you know, this time next all three hopefully, Yesky,
Speaker 6: hopefully this time next year they are on campus because again,
Speaker 6: until National Signing Day happens and everybody signs, you could
Speaker 6: be committed, but it really doesn't mean.
Speaker 2: Much right right these days anymore? Right? M hm? Okay?
Speaker 3: Anything else of the UA baseball?
Speaker 2: Nothing happy. Did you spend some time with your dad?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we went and saw Indiana Jones and Raiders of
Speaker 6: the Lost Arc in theaters on Sunday. We went and
Speaker 6: saw that the first one, final, first one. Yeah, are
Speaker 6: you joking?
Speaker 2: No? Oh, your first one? Okay, that's what I was saying.
Speaker 2: That said. Have you seen Johns lately?
Speaker 6: No? I mean, I love Indiana Jones and so it dies.
Speaker 6: He so, you know, watching the classic movie and the
Speaker 6: Galaxy was cool. Fun, went to breakfast and diningbacks, took
Speaker 6: two out of three from the pottery.
Speaker 2: He went to the horrible one. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wait till he takes you to Barberella. You'll be fascinated. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was, It was okay, it wasn't okay.
Speaker 6: Game.
Speaker 3: He was seventy two degrees inside one hundred and fourteen outside.
Speaker 6: So I was, okay, it's a jungle out there.
Speaker 2: It's a concrete jungle.
Speaker 4: Dude, it's just man, the air like it feels like oven.
Speaker 2: Yeah hot, but I call it. I call it blood
Speaker 2: her bull dryer. Yeah, you know, I just got like
Speaker 2: a holy crap. It's no different.
Speaker 6: It's just two degrees differently, five degrees different when you're
Speaker 6: when you can be cooked at medium rare or just medium.
Speaker 6: What's the difference. You know some people really might take
Speaker 6: offense to that.
Speaker 5: I know, man, I've met chefs that it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: you don't want your your steak medium rare?
Speaker 2: Okay, get off. Okay, I was wondering what happened.
Speaker 3: I got that, I got that light look you got
Speaker 3: to dalk what I like.
Speaker 2: He appreciate it, good color te.
Speaker 3: Uh, okay, well looking forward to Noah, Yeah, we don't know.
Speaker 3: We're gonna try to get some other people obviously, uh,
Speaker 3: women's the baseball basketball coach down the road here pretty soon.
Speaker 2: You have some feelers for other people too, I think,
Speaker 2: don't you.
Speaker 6: Potentially we're trying to get the athletic director directory. She
Speaker 6: was on the road, but she's been on the road
Speaker 6: dealing with a lot of administratives and stuff, obviously the
Speaker 6: hiring another new track coach and so on and so forth.
Speaker 2: It's a busy time of year or an athletic director.
Speaker 2: I had a conversation with her maybe two three weeks ago.
Speaker 2: I've do it.
Speaker 3: I did a story on her profile, one of the
Speaker 3: top ten I think his women in Tucson or son
Speaker 3: of Aris on her and Kim Adare so, you know,
Speaker 3: just profiling what they're up against, you know, how they
Speaker 3: became who they became, stuff like that. So, yeah, she's
Speaker 3: pretty busy. But she was very good, very honest about
Speaker 3: her situation here. You know, you're in now. I had
Speaker 3: to turn turn around a lot of things, a small
Speaker 3: deficits still, but you know what, it's a small deficit,
Speaker 3: not it's not massive one, not a massive one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And actually we had doctor Robbins.
Speaker 3: On I don't know, last year sometime and I quoted
Speaker 3: him in the story and he said, eighteen months ago
Speaker 3: he had had hoped or his his goal was to
Speaker 3: have it eradicated by now.
Speaker 2: And pretty much it pretty much is. It's on track.
Speaker 3: It's on tracked, and it looks very small. I mean,
Speaker 3: the next few months it should be.
Speaker 6: Done because I mean we were talking about what it
Speaker 6: was over one hundred million I think overall, yes, but
Speaker 6: forty five in the forty five in the athletic department. Yeah,
Speaker 6: if you can get it down to like, let's say
Speaker 6: fifteen twenty range.
Speaker 2: Don't you think that's that's just a massive number. That's
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 6: And you know what though, compared to other universities, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's not bad.
Speaker 2: That's a funny thing about it.
Speaker 3: When we talked to doctor Robbins back then, and I'm
Speaker 3: saying everyone knew about there was one situation no one
Speaker 3: knew about other peoples because it was a universal type
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 2: Everybody was going through it. It just said this happened
Speaker 2: to be public. Well like call Athletic Department.
Speaker 6: Last time I heard there, I think over three hundred
Speaker 6: million dollars in that because of the the stadium renovations,
Speaker 6: everything going on, moving conferences and YadA YadA YadA. As
Speaker 6: their stadium was built on a fault line, so all
Speaker 6: those renovations that they had to make for it to
Speaker 6: be feasible for fans to be in there, extremely extremely expensive.
Speaker 2: They're number one in debt and.
Speaker 3: And everybody's going through it except for the except for
Speaker 3: the high hoy twenty ones who already have more money
Speaker 3: than God inside their programs.
Speaker 2: Oil money, oil money. I saw that. I saw that.
Speaker 3: It was the Beverly Hillbillies. They found it in the back yard.
Speaker 3: He got some gold, gold with liquid gold.
Speaker 2: It was gonna start shooting around the backyard and see
Speaker 2: it oil.
Speaker 3: I tried to come up with the uh I always
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was with you.
Speaker 3: Where Arizona has its liquid gold, it's called Alabera, But
Speaker 3: I don't know anybody who owns any You know, you
Speaker 3: got some of the backyard, you just go cut that
Speaker 3: cag just put it in my burd right here.
Speaker 6: It would be fine. I don't know if that's gonna
Speaker 6: save the University of It. It'll just save my injury.
Speaker 6: That's all. That's all I care about. It was spoiled.
Speaker 6: I'm just it's up later. What else, ray anything?
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 6: I don't waste your don't waste your break your news
Speaker 6: bullets and yeah.
Speaker 2: We gotta what time is he calling us? Are were
Speaker 2: calling him?
Speaker 6: I was assuming he's calling us? Three three seventeen seventeen. Okay,
Speaker 6: we got about a minute then before we before we
Speaker 6: wait for.
Speaker 2: Him to call.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it because I haven't never really
Speaker 3: spoken to him when I won. I did maybe two
Speaker 3: years ago. Uh maybe maybe not because Laura was still here.
Speaker 3: Uh and NOTO but team team. Yeah, so so we'll see.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it. A good family. Have you
Speaker 3: talked to them, to them.
Speaker 6: On and off, you know, around training camp in spring football?
Speaker 2: So she's out there.
Speaker 3: You can just tell they have a good family. His
Speaker 3: dad's on Twitter a lot right reposting stuff. So okay,
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the ipsys and os. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 3: Come back to Eye on the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera. You're Troy Hutchison from
Speaker 3: Goisycats dot com and now you have noet You a quarterback?
Speaker 2: You all know him? Noah? How you doing.
Speaker 7: I'm doing good. How you guys doing.
Speaker 3: We're doing fine. What are you guys up to? June fifteenth.
Speaker 3: June sixteenth, it's hot as hell out there.
Speaker 7: Yes, they just work outs today, lift running a player
Speaker 7: run practice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how's that going.
Speaker 15: It's going well.
Speaker 7: Extremely excited for the future.
Speaker 6: So for fans that don't like understand the player run practices,
Speaker 6: and all that because obviously the coaching staff can't be
Speaker 6: out there. How does that come about? And how does
Speaker 6: that day work when you have these player driven practices
Speaker 6: And is it just a couple of guys taking charge, Hey,
Speaker 6: we're going to do this is and this just kind
Speaker 6: of detailed that for us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it is put definitely player ran a lot
Speaker 7: of NCAA rules that even I don't know, But all
Speaker 7: I know is that the coaches aren't allowed to be there,
Speaker 7: So we control the drills, we control the the competitive periods,
Speaker 7: and it's it's just a great opportunity for the team
Speaker 7: to come together.
Speaker 15: It's a great.
Speaker 7: Opportunity for the leaders to be able to kind of
Speaker 7: control the environment so that when the coaches do come
Speaker 7: we're already firing on off cylinders.
Speaker 3: I would assume that this is where a lot of
Speaker 3: the chemistry is coming coming up, you know, because you
Speaker 3: guys can be with your with yourselves on your own,
Speaker 3: uh and you get to you know, kind of build
Speaker 3: that uh pass catch type of chemistry.
Speaker 7: REPS class is so important, but at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, the reps is on the field is where
Speaker 7: you build timing and you build confidence and rhythm with
Speaker 7: your guys, So this is June and July are incredibly
Speaker 7: important for the for the season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not only you know, in terms of reps and
Speaker 6: stuff like that is an important for it, but you
Speaker 6: guys are breaking in a new offense with Seth Day's offense,
Speaker 6: and obviously defenses are making tweaks too.
Speaker 2: Dan A. Gonzalez taken over. I mean, is it is
Speaker 2: it kind of.
Speaker 6: Like class room study time during the off season with
Speaker 6: the playbook and now that you're not in spring football
Speaker 6: and you're kind of gearing up for training camp and
Speaker 6: getting prepared with this new playbook and just knowing the
Speaker 6: ins and outs and the details of it all.
Speaker 15: There's really everything June and July are are.
Speaker 7: Like I said, it's super important because this is kind
Speaker 7: of we're the only people really in Tucson of most
Speaker 7: of the students, most of the schools back home for summer,
Speaker 7: so it's really just us out here. So we get
Speaker 7: to spend a lot of time with each other inside
Speaker 7: the facility and outside. But also a lot of us
Speaker 7: are enrolled in one class. Maybe some have to, but
Speaker 7: for the most part, we spend most of our day
Speaker 7: at the facility, whether that's workouts, runs, lifts, whether that's
Speaker 7: PRPs or even just extra work. We will do often
Speaker 7: to walk throughs a couple of times a week, just
Speaker 7: the players, and then we'll watch the film together. So
Speaker 7: with it being just us here, you get to build
Speaker 7: that chemistry, you get to build that culture and that
Speaker 7: family as a team. But you also get to build
Speaker 7: your knowledge in the new playbook and building the confidence
Speaker 7: in there so that once we get to No.
Speaker 3: So, I don't know how you want to respond to this,
Speaker 3: but let me say this. I've been here a long time,
Speaker 3: way older than you've been alive, you know, thirty seven
Speaker 3: thirty eight years, covered some great basketball teams and some
Speaker 3: pretty good football teams.
Speaker 2: And I'll start with this.
Speaker 3: Over the last few months, your coaches, Daigie and even Gonzales,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure Brendan from time to time has raved
Speaker 3: the hell out of you just as a person, as
Speaker 3: a leader, as a dude, as a dude. You know,
Speaker 3: and coaches do that, you know, with their players, but
Speaker 3: this is different to me. I just sense that they
Speaker 3: raised the hell out of you. The person you are,
Speaker 3: the leadership qualities you show, just the concern you have.
Speaker 3: I don't know how that sits with you. To me,
Speaker 3: it's just amazing because and I know we live in
Speaker 3: a different time with coaches and student athletes, but I
Speaker 3: mean maybe Steve Kerr back in the day, maybe back
Speaker 3: you know, when they raved about stuff like that, but
Speaker 3: not since then.
Speaker 2: In my mind, how does that sit with you?
Speaker 3: Because you get a lot of a lot of praise
Speaker 3: for the coaches just off the field.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 15: It's a blessing for sure.
Speaker 7: I'm super appreciative of all the coaches, especially Coach Deggy.
Speaker 7: He's been kind of my my leader since he's been here,
Speaker 7: and we've been able to build a great connection since
Speaker 7: since the day he signed his contract. So I'm super
Speaker 7: excited to be able to play for him. But definitely
Speaker 7: the compliments and the and the love that they show
Speaker 7: it doesn't go unnoticed, and I'm super appreciative of it.
Speaker 7: But at the same time, I don't take it for granted.
Speaker 7: I know that I have a long way to go
Speaker 7: in terms of being a leader, and Coach Deggi's helped
Speaker 7: me and help me make great strides in in that aspect.
Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, the only thing
Speaker 7: that truly matters is is winning football games. So that's
Speaker 7: where that's where my mindset is, and I know Coach
Speaker 7: Degi is the same way, which is why I feel
Speaker 7: like we get along and every person.
Speaker 15: In the offensive and the offensive room is ready.
Speaker 3: To go to war for him and if I can
Speaker 3: follow up. This doesn't have I mean, it doesn't open
Speaker 3: over years. Uh when did your leadership calls start to me?
Speaker 3: I feel maybe you were eight years old and you
Speaker 3: were in your group of friends or whatever and they
Speaker 3: said this, dude, this is pretty good, you know, as
Speaker 3: an eight year old, and you're thinking, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: lead you guys, and.
Speaker 2: We're going to be good together. Do you remember when
Speaker 2: this started?
Speaker 7: Not exactly, I think. I think you're getting a lot
Speaker 7: of confidence as you get to as you have more
Speaker 7: and more success playing the sport. And have been extremely
Speaker 7: blessed to be able to play the quarterback position and
Speaker 7: play football suntil I was five years old, so I've
Speaker 7: seen a lot of blessings come my way, and I
Speaker 7: think that that breeds confidence. But also most of my
Speaker 7: role models are are alphas. My father, my grandfathers, both
Speaker 7: my grandfathers, and then obviously my uncles that I've talked
Speaker 7: about so many times at the end of the day,
Speaker 7: they're alpha males and just kind of being raised by them,
Speaker 7: seeing seeing the way that they act, especially when adversity hits.
Speaker 7: They're always the ones that stand up. They never they
Speaker 7: never shy.
Speaker 15: Away from anything.
Speaker 7: And I see the same things in Kachdegi, So I
Speaker 7: think that's why I got so much respect for him.
Speaker 7: But I would say just the people that raised me
Speaker 7: and the experienced guys is blessed me with you know.
Speaker 6: No looking at it, you're coming up on your junior
Speaker 6: red shirt season. You started the your sophomore season. You know,
Speaker 6: you got the starting role after a while. Last year
Speaker 6: you had the year that you did, and you talk about,
Speaker 6: you know, wanting to get the program back on track.
Speaker 6: But I want to ask you, and especially in a
Speaker 6: day of the transfer portal NIL and player movement, we
Speaker 6: see it all the time, you're one of the rare
Speaker 6: players that has stuck.
Speaker 2: With the program.
Speaker 6: You you know, you have the opportunity to leave when
Speaker 6: your former coach to Jetfish left, you chose Arizona at
Speaker 6: that moment, and then the season you guys had last year,
Speaker 6: it would have been very easy for a lot of
Speaker 6: guys just to leave and look for a better opportunity
Speaker 6: in terms of right away, you know, not wanting to
Speaker 6: work things out. Why is it for you that you've
Speaker 6: chosen to pick Arizona again and again and and want
Speaker 6: to be a part of this program and a part
Speaker 6: of the solution.
Speaker 15: That's just how I was raised.
Speaker 7: I was raised to be loyal to the loyal to
Speaker 7: you in Arizona, and the city of Tucson has been
Speaker 7: so good to me and my family, so I got
Speaker 7: so much love for to see a Tucson. But also
Speaker 7: it's not just me. You have guys like Genesis Smith,
Speaker 7: you have guys like Chris Hunter, and then even guys
Speaker 7: like Chris Hudson who decided to come here. It really
Speaker 7: is a is a team effort, it's a family. We
Speaker 7: all decided to come here, we all want to be here.
Speaker 7: And at the end of the day, I want to
Speaker 7: be a part of the team that that brings Tucson
Speaker 7: a winning football program.
Speaker 15: And that's been my dream.
Speaker 7: That's what I told my family was gonna happen when
Speaker 7: I came here, and I'm not shying away from that.
Speaker 7: That's that's just kind of how.
Speaker 15: We were raised.
Speaker 7: We try to keep our promises, and I feel like
Speaker 7: this is where God wants me to be. So I
Speaker 7: love the city of Tucson.
Speaker 15: I love this.
Speaker 7: Football program, and I'm excited to go play for a
Speaker 7: team and a family.
Speaker 15: Who is locked in and all in on bringing.
Speaker 7: A championship back to Tucson Football Championship.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that said, you're one of the more recognizable
Speaker 3: players that's not a basketball player, because right we see
Speaker 3: their faces. You're in commercials now and you've been here
Speaker 3: a while. How has Tucson not responded to you? But
Speaker 3: I'm sure that when you go out publicly and little
Speaker 3: kids see you or even parents see you, you must
Speaker 3: not so much be overwhelmed, but kind of like I
Speaker 3: don't know, no, no, I signed this, and no, no,
Speaker 3: you're great, and maybe how you influence the little kids?
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, it's definitely a blessing that I've looked forward
Speaker 7: to for a long time. I remember when I was
Speaker 7: young and we would go to our my dad would
Speaker 7: take our football teams to UCLA or usc spring games,
Speaker 7: and my dad always told me, like, don't forget that
Speaker 7: you were the little kid asking for autographs and asking
Speaker 7: her pictures.
Speaker 15: I'll never forget where you came from.
Speaker 7: So It's definitely something that my dad's been preaching to
Speaker 7: me when I was young, and now that this year,
Speaker 7: I'm extremely grateful for it, especially the little kids because
Speaker 7: that's the next generation. So it's always great to show
Speaker 7: love back for all the all the support that they
Speaker 7: give us.
Speaker 3: You, Uh, go ahead, I was gonna say, do you
Speaker 3: have a Do you have a funny story of some
Speaker 3: little kid coming up to you and you know, saying, hey,
Speaker 3: could you sign this or whatever?
Speaker 7: Maybe not me, maybe not a funny story about me,
Speaker 7: but uh, mister Arms.
Speaker 2: Is somewhere that we go a lot.
Speaker 7: Shout out Chris to shep over there.
Speaker 15: He's the one that takes care of us.
Speaker 7: So we've been going to mister Arms very often. But
Speaker 7: I do remember we went. It was me, t Mac
Speaker 7: and then one of our boys in Nela.
Speaker 15: Who's on who's on our team? And we walked in
Speaker 15: the whole, the whole kind of restaurant.
Speaker 7: There was a table full of college kids and it
Speaker 7: was I think it might have been right after t
Speaker 7: Mac got drafted, So uh, they gave Ta Mac a
Speaker 7: chant and they started chanting you oway the rest of
Speaker 7: the night. So that's that was an interesting night for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you talk about Tea Mac getting drafted,
Speaker 6: and obviously two are very close and you've grown up
Speaker 6: together throughout your football career. Uh, just seeing him being
Speaker 6: able to go through OTAs and live his NFL dream
Speaker 6: and get drafted, what does that mean to you? As
Speaker 6: one of his closest friends. And I've been parsing that. Yeah,
Speaker 6: getting to be a part of that, that experience with him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the whole process was amazing, all the way through
Speaker 7: from the pro day to seeing him at a combine
Speaker 7: to obviously draft weekend. Draft Day was I.
Speaker 15: Can't really put into words because.
Speaker 7: This is just someone that that I've grown up with
Speaker 7: and I've seen him do everything that he's done, and
Speaker 7: I've also seen him just kind of not not conformed
Speaker 7: to the patterns of the world and not do what
Speaker 7: the world says is right and what the world thinks
Speaker 7: is the only way he really made his own path.
Speaker 7: And yeah, he's the best player in Arizona history. But
Speaker 7: his his personality and the type of guy that he
Speaker 7: is is is why he's so special. So tired of
Speaker 7: seeing him just go through this whole process and not
Speaker 7: lose o to who he is going too his draft
Speaker 7: party which was ridiculous. It's been it's been awesome to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So now maybe the undred thousand dollars question is how
Speaker 3: is life going to be without him? Because you know
Speaker 3: you have to find a buddy or two to kind
Speaker 3: of fill that role.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but people have stepped up in a in a
Speaker 7: big way.
Speaker 15: And you give.
Speaker 7: Credit to coach Deggy, coach Bobby Wade as well as
Speaker 7: Kayleb Moore who've reamped that receiver room.
Speaker 2: From the returners who.
Speaker 7: Are so special in their own right, Chris Hunter, Devin Hyatt,
Speaker 7: Brandon Phelps has come along. Then you have the freshman
Speaker 7: who came in, Gio Richardson and Isaiah Mizelle, Jeremiah Patterson
Speaker 7: still here, and then the guys that we brought in
Speaker 7: from Chris Hudson to trace Biby new New Wattlee.
Speaker 15: So that room is is so special.
Speaker 7: That room has everything that that we need to be great.
Speaker 7: And I've told I've told so many people how excited
Speaker 7: I am because because of the type of people they are,
Speaker 7: and then obviously we've seen what they could do on
Speaker 7: the field. We have every attribute, We have every attribute
Speaker 7: in that room that we need.
Speaker 15: To be successful.
Speaker 7: And realistically, if you write them all down on paperwork,
Speaker 7: eight to ten hevers deep.
Speaker 15: All guys who can win what they're one on ones, all.
Speaker 7: Guys who are competitive, and all guys who can play.
Speaker 7: So I'm so excited about that room and this offense
Speaker 7: and this team in general.
Speaker 6: You know, I know there's a lot of new faces
Speaker 6: on the coaching staff with the new offense, Cordinair, new
Speaker 6: defense coordinaire, a couple of new coaches on the defensive
Speaker 6: end as well. But as compared to this time last year,
Speaker 6: as you're gearing up for a season with a whole
Speaker 6: new staff, a new head coach, and Brennan now he's
Speaker 6: in year two, is there a sense of, I don't
Speaker 6: want to say calmness, but a little bit better understanding
Speaker 6: of yeah, stability, a little bit better understanding of what
Speaker 6: the expectations are with Brennan, and just kind of gearing
Speaker 6: a little bit easier transition, gearing up for year two. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't say anything about last year. I'm not like
Speaker 7: not comparing any last year, but just in general, there's
Speaker 7: definitely a confidence and an understanding of what the standard is,
Speaker 7: and our leaders have definitely roast the occasion. Our leaders
Speaker 7: have definitely become more vocal. Some guys have emerged as
Speaker 7: leaders who've kind of helped take this team to the
Speaker 7: next level. And obviously, like I said before, it doesn't
Speaker 7: matter what happens in June and July. At the end
Speaker 7: of the day, it matters what happens on the field,
Speaker 7: and this is all the process to get to it.
Speaker 7: So we all trust the process. We all trust coach Brennan,
Speaker 7: we trust coach Carroll, are straight the conditioning coach, and
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, we trust the process.
Speaker 7: So as we continue to go through that process, as
Speaker 7: we continue to work to get ready for the season,
Speaker 7: there's a definitely stability in terms of we understand what
Speaker 7: the expectation is and we understand what this seems capable
Speaker 7: of as long as we're all bought in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question.
Speaker 3: Let me throw you on an odd question just because I
Speaker 3: covered JJ Taylor. I don't know, five, six, seven years
Speaker 3: ago when rich Rod was here, a shorter running back,
Speaker 3: a very dynamic, speedy guy. You're on the shorter side
Speaker 3: for a quarterback, but and people to ask him, how
Speaker 3: do you do this because you're shorter? So this is
Speaker 3: all I know, This is who I am and for you,
Speaker 3: same thing. You're more You're very athletic and talented, but
Speaker 3: you're also crafty, and I'm sure that has play a
Speaker 3: part in who you are in terms of getting to
Speaker 3: do things that other people can do.
Speaker 7: Does that make sense, yes, sir, And I think one
Speaker 7: thing that I don't talk about my dad a lot,
Speaker 7: but one thing he's always kind of preached to me
Speaker 7: is because I lacked size and other things, I got
Speaker 7: to make up for it in other ways. And I
Speaker 7: always found pride in my preparation.
Speaker 15: I always found pride in doing it short.
Speaker 7: Work more than anybody else in the world. And those
Speaker 7: are all things in my control. My work ethic and
Speaker 7: my consistency and my disciplines all in my control. So
Speaker 7: I think great pride in that. And then at the
Speaker 7: end of the day, God's always provided everything that I've
Speaker 7: needed at every level. He's always allowed me to be
Speaker 7: the height that I needed to be successful. He's always
Speaker 7: kept me safe. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 7: my faith is definitely gives me confidence.
Speaker 6: As you guys get ready for training camp, I believe
Speaker 6: starts at the end of July beginning of August, depending
Speaker 6: on the schedule there. But what are some things that
Speaker 6: you want to see, not only yourself, but maybe the offense,
Speaker 6: the team as a whole, work on that you want
Speaker 6: to improve, maybe from spring football, and just get ready
Speaker 6: for that first game against Hawaii.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just playing for each other, playing to the standard.
Speaker 7: We know what our standard is as a team, We
Speaker 7: know what our standard is offensively, and as long as
Speaker 7: we live live by that, as long as we buy
Speaker 7: into each other and play with each other, as long
Speaker 7: as we do our job, I believe we could play
Speaker 7: we could be anybody in the country. So that's that's
Speaker 7: the expectation. That's that's what we're expected to do. So
Speaker 7: that's what that's what goes Deggie, and that's what goes
Speaker 7: Rent and our.
Speaker 15: Stressing to us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, fantastic, Thanks for being on and gudes
Speaker 3: to your parents. You know, I've been doing this a
Speaker 3: long time, like I said, and people always ask me,
Speaker 3: what's the difference between a jerk athlete and a non
Speaker 3: jerk athlete a good guy, And it's the parents and
Speaker 3: how they're raised and how they treat people. And that's
Speaker 3: obvious that your parents have done a great job with you.
Speaker 7: Thank you, And I talk about my dad a lot
Speaker 7: so I want to thank my mom too, because that's she.
Speaker 7: Nothing will be possible without her. Especially she's the one
Speaker 7: that controls my dad, my mom, my mom, and me
Speaker 7: and my brother's hero. She's helped us in so many ways.
Speaker 7: She's always the one that is behind the scenes, behind
Speaker 7: the camera, and when it's her time to shign, she
Speaker 7: she always tries to shed it to us. So, Mama,
Speaker 7: we love you, and you're you're ore, You're our y.
Speaker 6: Yeah to totally totally get it here, you appreciate it, Noah,
Speaker 6: be well, we'll see.
Speaker 2: You in uh in camp. Thank you.
Speaker 15: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Take care from you A good good dude. You can
Speaker 3: just tell you good dude. I brought this up. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you were here, you probably may be
Speaker 3: listening to whatever. Uh and Jay and I, you know,
Speaker 3: agreed to disagree. And I said when he came in
Speaker 3: and filled in for for Stanford to me, to me,
Speaker 3: after covering all these camps for a long time, I said, God,
Speaker 3: these guys have a step that they didn't have with
Speaker 3: with Jayden right and he pulled off the win right
Speaker 3: and it says and Jay was like, that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: And then LaMotte Honey said they don't play harder. I
Speaker 3: guarantee you they were playing harder.
Speaker 6: I think they were playing harder to First of all,
Speaker 6: I don't think that they win that game without them
Speaker 6: exactly because he had the turnover bug that Jayden and
Speaker 6: Laura had at that time. And no, it was kind
Speaker 6: of a calming presence in that game. But I think
Speaker 6: we're really started to take shape where it was a
Speaker 6: realization of you can't switch, you can't go back. This
Speaker 6: is It was their loss at USC, the loss against
Speaker 6: Washington at home, they kind of kept it close and
Speaker 6: got it closer than it was at the very end.
Speaker 6: But on the road at USC, they they played them
Speaker 6: for five percent of that game. If it was in
Speaker 6: for a couple penalties on defense, a couple of missopportunities offensively,
Speaker 6: they probably would have won that game, and maybe a
Speaker 6: few coaching decisions in.
Speaker 2: That game too.
Speaker 6: But you left that game even with the loss, thinking, oh,
Speaker 6: I think Arizona found something and they see I think
Speaker 6: they're to be okay.
Speaker 3: Despite Fish and Fish saying that, well, we don't know yet,
Speaker 3: right yeah, started Yeah, and we all kind of knew
Speaker 3: who it was.
Speaker 2: I think at that point you're just trying to keep
Speaker 2: both sides sure. Do you never know when you'll need
Speaker 2: the other guy?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Okay, let's take a break, come back on
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Speaker 6: From go he's the Cats dot call and you're ready
Speaker 6: from the ball. Edit the ball good way.
Speaker 2: Last time, Mono. I thought it was gonna say King
Speaker 2: Fisher after Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, end the ball. He's a regular now he's he's
Speaker 3: my guy. He's this show doesn't go without him. So
Speaker 3: I'll see you tomorrow. Uh, actually not tomorrow. Don't ask
Speaker 3: me at King Fisher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to go for a drink.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 3: Anybody want to call, please do five to two oh four, one, six,
Speaker 3: seventy four forty. You can call by the game yesterday,
Speaker 3: the weekend games. A chip is taking some heat, you know.
Speaker 2: Although I'm not sure how much heat you can take.
Speaker 2: I mean, they just kind of fell apart.
Speaker 6: I think the only thing you could really criticize in
Speaker 6: the last two games. You gotta have a quicker hook
Speaker 6: to pull out a pitcher. Don't let it get to
Speaker 6: a very tough situation. After a guy's what he was
Speaker 6: at ninety two pitches yesterday and then I think it
Speaker 6: was a single, and then another single. It's runners on
Speaker 6: third and first at ninety two. Pitch, Well, maybe you
Speaker 6: should have taken him out after the first base hit.
Speaker 3: This was so difficult because you have to second You
Speaker 3: can second guess yourself at any time. He was running
Speaker 3: pretty well, three to one, three to two lead. They
Speaker 3: just didn't score enough. It was just sometimes the baseball
Speaker 3: guys yep are against you. I mean, look, apples to apples.
Speaker 3: They should not have been there. They should not have
Speaker 3: been there. That error by the second basement in North
Speaker 3: Carolina got you there. Help you get there in reality
Speaker 3: that's true and not reality. You're there and you try
Speaker 3: to work some more magic than the magic handed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it just happens that way. Come on, there was one.
Speaker 3: It was one of ninety seven and something I go
Speaker 3: to all the time. Who in the right mind would
Speaker 3: have thought they win the title? Okay, I get that
Speaker 3: argument because of the city that they were. But if
Speaker 3: Miles Simmons doesn't get suspended, where were they have been
Speaker 3: seen there? No, let's go there after this call? Okay, okay, hello,
Speaker 3: you're on the air and nine.
Speaker 20: On the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this hey Vi Vic, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Any petitions to have anybody fired today?
Speaker 19: Ah? Man? I after that that Debaco yesterday, I Chip
Speaker 19: was on the list for a half hour, and.
Speaker 2: Then you calm down, took a little shot.
Speaker 19: Why just a little bit. I thought of you, and
Speaker 19: I got walked off the lid.
Speaker 2: So I thought you were going to jumped or something up.
Speaker 19: Yeah, after that, after that run, after that rundown, I
Speaker 19: was ready to Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know why they didn't run him back
Speaker 3: other than your back.
Speaker 19: Oh my god, yes, cardinal rule, right.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Chip admitute that.
Speaker 3: Chip admitted that there was some you know, some uh
Speaker 3: some bad fundamental plays and that was one of my
Speaker 3: mothers boy.
Speaker 7: And and I just my heart goes out to May.
Speaker 19: Say, God darn it. The careers they had and then
Speaker 19: they ended.
Speaker 7: Like that was was that was pretty tough man to take.
Speaker 19: But uh but no, I I still got them high
Speaker 19: on the list. They uh had a heck of a year.
Speaker 19: And uh, I guess I'm gonna go to the Morrow
Speaker 19: victory thing and say, you know, it's.
Speaker 7: I was just happy to be there.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I should I don't know if
Speaker 7: I should return the T shirt. It'll be delivered in
Speaker 7: a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: So use it as a washclout. That's okay, you can wash,
Speaker 2: you wash your car.
Speaker 1: You go.
Speaker 19: But that was the heck of an interview you guys got.
Speaker 19: Damn see, I ain't lying, man, You've been doing great.
Speaker 19: I'm telling you, man, you're gonna turn into the Walter
Speaker 19: Crow kind of truth on sports radio.
Speaker 3: That was that was a Troy get for me. Uh
Speaker 3: with Noah. But it's been fun last week. It was
Speaker 3: a fantastic Greek.
Speaker 19: Of Oh my gosh, wasn't it?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 19: And and I'm gonna tell you, I'm glad you got
Speaker 19: Troy on there because when DeLaura was starting, I used
Speaker 19: to see Troy and we scored our favorite little watering
Speaker 19: hole and I told him, Noah needs to start. Noah
Speaker 19: and this is way when he first came.
Speaker 2: So you know that, right, I know that, and I
Speaker 2: still hold that.
Speaker 7: You'll fight with me sometimes.
Speaker 6: Well, you were saying that Noah's freshman year. I just
Speaker 6: said Noah needs some seasoning, and he got that season
Speaker 6: in and you know, worked through some training camps and
Speaker 6: he was ready for the moment.
Speaker 3: So let me ask you, Vick, because you know the family,
Speaker 3: And you heard me talk about the parents, and I
Speaker 3: think I don't even know them. I've never spoken a
Speaker 3: word to them, but you could tell they raised a
Speaker 3: very good kid and probably more kids than that. What's
Speaker 3: the difference with him?
Speaker 19: It get and I've been around a lot of kids
Speaker 19: and this year and softball wise, I'll tell you I
Speaker 19: was around some of the other side of that that.
Speaker 7: Sense, and you could tell.
Speaker 2: And it's those I.
Speaker 19: Hope no one's listening, but it's those ones that only
Speaker 19: take pictures of their kid or video of their kid
Speaker 19: and get on the fence when their kid's hitting.
Speaker 7: Or whatever, and you're like, God, dang it, root.
Speaker 19: For the whole team. There's nine guys out there, you know,
Speaker 19: and you can just kind of tell. And and I'll
Speaker 19: just say, you know what, I'm a two son high guy,
Speaker 19: but I was at Micah Mountain for my cousin playing ball,
Speaker 19: and it's a group of parents that are all together.
Speaker 19: The kids don't know me. I'm just some fat guy
Speaker 19: that goes to see his cousin and they all come
Speaker 19: and hug me and shake my hand. I'm like, you
Speaker 19: got to do that. So you definitely can tell the
Speaker 19: difference the Noah's and the Lasses how they raise their
Speaker 19: kids and that's.
Speaker 15: The cool thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe they think your center.
Speaker 7: Yeah there, you're I better start stop wearing red.
Speaker 2: Huh No, No, thanks for thanks for the call. I
Speaker 2: totally agree with you.
Speaker 19: You got it, and I'm gonna try you, Steve, and
Speaker 19: then I'm not I'm lying because I've been taling everybody
Speaker 19: the past couple of weeks. Your show has been fantastic.
Speaker 2: Brother, Well, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 19: Yes, and I and I'm gonna say real quick before
Speaker 19: I hang up. You know what, man, it's listening to
Speaker 19: you and Troy and Dave and some of the other
Speaker 19: guys Blake, it's like, uh, it's like being at the
Speaker 19: Wooden Nickel and talking sports with the guys.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you. Nexton we'll play some darts.
Speaker 7: You guys have great Take care and stay cool.
Speaker 2: Out there, man, Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Around, play some pool, play some darts, shoot the breeze.
Speaker 6: Can use the word I want to use nothing better
Speaker 6: than that. Yeah you have you don't have anything like
Speaker 6: that that the King Fisher. No strictly eat food and
Speaker 6: watch some TV. There's no no regulars at the bar.
Speaker 2: Of Kingfisher.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there are Yeah, what's the what's her names?
Speaker 2: They won't be coming back exactly. Anybody else want to
Speaker 2: call it, We'll get back to the night.
Speaker 3: Just please do five, six, seventy four, forty Oh we
Speaker 3: got another call. You're really keep your topic with you
Speaker 3: with that. Se Hello, you're on the air. Nine on
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 2: Who's this.
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 6: Steve?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 3: Troy?
Speaker 2: This is done than doing what's the word done?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 20: I agree with what you just said, Steve. Not that
Speaker 20: they shouldn't have been there, but they're pretty lucky to
Speaker 20: be in Omaha this week. And the thing is is
Speaker 20: they showed flashes during the season of being this good.
Speaker 20: I mean, they are this good. The only thing is
Speaker 20: is this season was a was a roller coaster, lots
Speaker 20: of up and ups and downs, not a lot of consistency.
Speaker 20: They played their butts off to get to Omaha. You know,
Speaker 20: after that Utah series and that first loss against Houston,
Speaker 20: they really started putting it together. But that was only
Speaker 20: going to go for so long.
Speaker 3: Well, isn't the last two games the microcosm of the season?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 2: Even ups and downs within the game.
Speaker 20: Pretty much? I mean, because our starting pitching both games
Speaker 20: was great, you know. And I told you last week
Speaker 20: I was really concerned about Kremkowski and getting his start.
Speaker 20: And what did he go? He went six innings on
Speaker 20: on Friday. He would he was and he was dealing.
Speaker 20: And that's what we saw from him most of the season,
Speaker 20: even though his record was like two and two or
Speaker 20: two and three or whatever. You know, he got into,
Speaker 20: he got in. He got us into a good spot
Speaker 20: in the game in games to get to you know,
Speaker 20: into the bullpen. And you know, I think that on
Speaker 20: the whole, I think the program, I think gets in
Speaker 20: good hands with ship Pale. Here's what I want for
Speaker 20: Arizona because a lot of these podcasters, you know, the
Speaker 20: ones that don't bathe and stuff like that, they think
Speaker 20: that every every loss should be the end of that
Speaker 20: coaching regime. They think that, you know, And the thing
Speaker 20: is is, this is Arizona in the Power Conference. We're
Speaker 20: a mid major.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 20: We we do not have and I and I'm throwing
Speaker 20: the men's basketball program in this. We do not have
Speaker 20: a program that is in line to compete for a
Speaker 20: national championship.
Speaker 2: We do not.
Speaker 20: Until they do it, we don't. We're we're at that place.
Speaker 3: I don't distribute with you, Troy kind of you know,
Speaker 3: did hend In had? But okay, I totally disagree. You
Speaker 3: know what.
Speaker 2: You said? No you said, yeah, don't I agree?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I agree? Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 20: They well, because a lot of these podcasters, they think
Speaker 20: the basketball like, oh, you know, if Carter Bryant would
Speaker 20: have stayed, this is a legit top five team, And
Speaker 20: I don't agree with that until they get until they
Speaker 20: play that, you know, I don't. I've been here too
Speaker 20: long and I've seen it too much. What I want
Speaker 20: is good competitive programs that compete for the conference championship.
Speaker 20: I'm not saying I want five and five football teams.
Speaker 20: That's not what I'm saying. I want to be competing
Speaker 20: for the conference championship that we're in, and that every
Speaker 20: few years we have one of those great teams, We
Speaker 20: have one of those nineteen ninety eight teams that goes
Speaker 20: twelve and one, and they get in line and maybe
Speaker 20: and get into the playoffs, and now that it's expanded,
Speaker 20: maybe win a game and whatever. I've got no rose
Speaker 20: colored glasses that think that Arizona's going to compete for
Speaker 20: a national football championship.
Speaker 3: Okay, hold on, Hold on t Okay in that thought
Speaker 3: that he says, how many of the fans.
Speaker 2: Are disillusion about what sport? Well football, the one he's
Speaker 2: talking about. I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think anybody thinks they're going to be competing
Speaker 6: for championships.
Speaker 3: Well I think I do think though, because he went
Speaker 3: into the Big twelve, they have a better chance, they
Speaker 3: have a better footing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean there's no USC, Washington, Corgan. You know
Speaker 6: that you're competing with, so there's less teams to get
Speaker 6: ahead of it in terms of consistency.
Speaker 2: Okay, no basketball, because you kind of win, you kind.
Speaker 6: Of win well basketball. It's a gauntlet of a conference.
Speaker 6: I mean you can name like six teams that have
Speaker 6: a legitimate shot of making a Final four each and
Speaker 6: every year in that conference.
Speaker 20: How many made the Final four though?
Speaker 6: No, I get that, but they also won a national
Speaker 6: championship not too long ago as a conference, and I
Speaker 6: get Arizona wasn't there, But it is a strong conference.
Speaker 2: You're not going to do it every single year.
Speaker 20: And I'm not I'm not saying it isn't and I'm
Speaker 20: not saying that Arizona is a less than program. But
Speaker 20: what all I'm saying is there's a lot of people
Speaker 20: out here and especially on socials and other you know,
Speaker 20: podcasters and types, that I think that Arizona in basketball
Speaker 20: is further along than they are. And then, like we
Speaker 20: talked a few weeks ago about the softball team, I
Speaker 20: want I want the softball team to be competitive for
Speaker 20: the conference and for them to every once in a
Speaker 20: while be in that national limelight where a lot of
Speaker 20: people think they belong and we just we're just not
Speaker 20: that type of school until until they get some sort
Speaker 20: of windfall and can start doing what Texas Tech seems
Speaker 20: to be doing right now because they're they're spending a
Speaker 20: ton of money and that's what it's going to take.
Speaker 3: We we gotta go, We gotta go. But let me
Speaker 3: say this's done. I don't know what you're drinking, but
Speaker 3: it's called being pragmatic. Drink some more of it. Well otherwise,
Speaker 3: you know, I can believe you're a good call today.
Speaker 2: What's up? That's good?
Speaker 20: Well, I'm always a good call. You just don't always
Speaker 20: agree with it. And you know, I just want I
Speaker 20: want Arizona to be competitive. I want Arizona to be
Speaker 20: in every game. I don't want I don't want anybody
Speaker 20: to say, good, we got we got Arizona this week,
Speaker 20: and that's across the board in any sport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that happens all if we're.
Speaker 20: In a good place for.
Speaker 2: That, Yeah, I don't think that happens.
Speaker 3: I totally agree with everything you just said, which makes
Speaker 3: me want to go to see my doctor tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you dog.
Speaker 20: No, no, you're fine.
Speaker 7: You're fine, he.
Speaker 2: Alight, take care. Don Thanks for the call. I appreciate it.