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Tim Healey, voice of the Arizona Sun Devils. Tim, how
you living well?
Speaker 1: It's the Arizona State sun Devils.
Speaker 2: I know, I got I apologize, Arizona State sun Devils.
How dare I? And I'm from the great state of Arizona.
I messed up? I apologize.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's surprising how many UH reporters on
the national scene do the same thing. I mean, it's
it's mind boggling over the years, because the funny thing
to me is that you never hear people different, you know,
call them the Michigan Spartans or the Michigan State Wolverines,
but boin nationwide, even on ESPN sometimes you have you know,
commentators talking about the Arizona sun Devils or the Arizona
State Wildcats, and you know, just one of those things,
I guess, but you have to fight for your own
respect and ongoing process. For the sun Devils, obviously, they.
Speaker 2: I apologize that sickening is maddening, but I will say
this is Arizona State team is well coached, and they
are talented. And look, I would say, you know, the
combo of football and basketball right now, I feel like
it's on the rise in Tempee. How are you feeling
about it?
Speaker 1: Well, I'd say, yeah, football definitely is on the rise
under Kenny Dillingham. A Big Twelve championship that came out
of nowhere last year. I mean, we were picked to
finish what sixteenth last in the Big Twelve, and they
end up winning the conference championship and coming within a
fourth and thirteen stop in the Peach Bowl of beating
Texas and advancing to the quarter to the semi finals
of last year's College Football Playoff. And this year they
backed it up with what I thought was a really
solid eight win season. Solid when you consider the fact
that they were missing some key players for a good
chunk of the year, including their best receiver, Jordan Tyson,
who is onto the NFL and their star quarterback Sam Levitt,
who's in the transfer portal and to the best of
my knowledge, still looking for a landing spot there. But
the Devils had an eight win season, and I thought
put on a really good show in the Sun Bowl
last week, even though they were missing thirty five players.
They put up six hundred and nineteen yards of offense
against the defending or the current Atlantic Coast Conference champions
in Duke before falling in a high scoring game at
the Sun Ball. So football on an upward trajectory basketball,
it's been you know. The season got off to a
nice start for Bobby Hurley's team. The Sun Devils won
nine of their first eleven games, put on a great
showing at the Maui Invitational Thanksgiving Week, advanced to the
championship game in Maui before losing to USC in the
title game. Had some really good quality wins in the
non conference over Texas, Oklahoma, Washington State, a win at Hawaii.
Rallied from nineteen down in the second half to beat
a good Santa Clara team in a neutral site game
in Henderson, Nevada. But the last three games they've taken
a step backward. They've lost their last three in a
row have the Sun Devils, including two losses in their
last two games in what I thought were highly winnable
home games against Oregon State right before Christmas, and they
lost at home to Colorado Saturday and their Big twelve opener.
And among the challenges for the team the last three games,
they've suddenly gone dry from three point range. They were
a pretty a good three point shooting team for most
of the season up in the I don't know, thirty
eight to thirty nine percent range, But in the last
three games they're shooting nineteen percent from outside the arc,
and they're getting good looks, they're just not shooting them well,
and a lot of it I think it's just a
confidence issue. And you know, hopefully tonight they can get
a few to fall early, because I think that makes
a difference. And in conjunction with that, another problem is
that the Devils have gotten off to very slow starts.
Their last three games. They've basically fallen behind by double
digit margins in the first half of each of these
last three games, and not coincidentally, they've lost. So basketball
is you know, you know, football, I think very much
on an upward trajectory. Basketball challenges await to. Certainly, the
Big Twelve is the I think the best basketball conference
in the country, and the Sun Devils tonight start an
unbelievably tough stretch where they play three of their next
four games on the road, all of the road games
against top ten ranked opponents. They have BYU tonight, they
have Arizona in Tucson next Wednesday night and Arizona's number
one in the country. And then on Sunday, January eighteenth,
the Devil's go to Houston and the Cougars are ranked
seventh in the nation. So that's that's a gauntlet right there,
and challenges dual weight.
Speaker 2: Arizona state net ranking ninety four. They're nine and five
on the season, ze one in conference play. But I
look at their Quad one, Quad two opportunities. They're competitive
in all these games, I mean, sixty five seventy, So
we know Gonzaga is a very good team. You were
on a you were at home. Maybe that's why he
kept it close, but neutral game versus Southern California seventy
five eighty eight, you gotta win versus Oklahoma on a
neutral court, that was a nice dub. The UCLA loss
lost by thirteen, that was in a way setting. So
how competitive has ASU been in these Quad one Quad
two games? You guys are three and one in Quad
two opportunities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been, you know, competitive in most of their games.
They really don't get blown out of any games. All
three of these games that they've lost, they've been in them.
You know. Even they lost by thirteen at UCLA, And
if they had just had a bad shooting night from
three point range at UCLA, they might have won. They
only made four of twenty six three point attempts in
that game. If they had made eight of twenty six,
that wouldn't exactly be lighting it up, but it would
have made a huge difference and they might have been
able to win the basketball game. And another problem is
not only are they not hitting threes, but their opponents
these last three games have been ASU has not been
good defensively these last three games, giving up an average
of eighty eight points in the last three games, and
their opponents are shooting I think something like forty one
forty two percent from three point range the last three games.
So it's been kind of a double edged sword for them.
But yeah, they're competitive in all these games. You know,
they lost, as you said, by twelve at home to
gun Zaga. They were in that game all the way,
but Gonzaga kind of had control of that game most
of the way. But they're you know, Gonzaga is a
great basketball team. In the USC game, I think the
Sun Devils just ran out of gas, you know, playing
their third game in three days at the Maui Invitational,
and as luck would have it, I don't know why
they did it, but this year at Maui, the championship
game on the day before Thanksgiving was scheduled for nine
to thirty in the morning Hawaii time, So the Sun
Devils had very little turnaround from their Tuesday evening one
hundred to ninety four went over Washington State in the
semi final to get rested and ready to play USC.
But they just kind of ran out of gas in
that game. And these last three losses, as I said,
they've they've been competitive, but these last two games home
games against Oregon State and Colorado are games that you know,
the Sun Devils just have to figure those are games
they need to win, and they just could not get
it done.
Speaker 2: The Big twelve Gauntlet. I've described the Big twelve as
the g League with university logos on it. You've seen
a lot of ball in the Pac twelve, in the
Pac ten. You've been doing this for a long time
and wanted to get your overall eval of the transition
from Pac twelve play in both football basketball and going
in coming into the Big twelve football and basketball. Give
me your synopsis, maybe eval talent coaching product. Obviously the
destinations aren't as beautiful, you know, but you know there's
some really good football, really good basketball being played right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we were in the Pac twelve for a
long time. This is my twenty eighth year doing the
radio for ASU. So obviously twenty six of those were
broadcasting in the Pac twelve. Plus I did Arizona State
on television for ten years prior to becoming the radio voice.
So it's actually my thirty eighth year broadcasting Sun Devil
sports and all the two of them in the Pac twelve.
And you know, like anything that you've been a part
of for a long time. You miss it when it's gone.
It was actually kind of neat, even though we lost
the games to reconnect with, you know, going to UCLA,
going to Pauley Pavilion the week before Christmas and having
Oregon State come to our place on December twenty first,
and then actually seeing you. Although I didn't get to
do the Maui Invitational this year because of football commitments,
the Sun Devils hooked up with another Pac twelve opponent
in usc and actually they're zero to three this year
against their former Pac twelve rivals. But I miss it,
you know. And on the other hand, the Big Twelve
is you know, it's been great. You know, there's more.
One thing I like is that there's a lot of
college towns in the Big Twelve. The PAC twelve was
a mostly urban conference, and there are some beautiful destination
cities Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle obviously, Salt Lake City,
and the Denver Boulder area as well, but you know,
it's mainly an urban conference, whereas the Big Twelve has
a lot of college towns like games Isowa, Lawrence and Manhattan, Kansas,
and Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Waco, Texas. And Morgantown, West Virginia,
and it's really been fun to experience those places for
the first time. And the quality of the competition is terrific.
You know, say what you will about the Big Twelve
as a football league, but I think it was a
tremendously and has been the last two years, a tremendously
balanced league. A lot of really good teams in the
conference and basketball. I don't think there's a better league
in the country than the Big Twelve, but I think
it's pretty self explanatory for anyone who follows college basketball.
And the baseball is very good too, some really nice ballparks.
A lot of schools in the Big Twelve put a
lot of emphasis financially and otherwise on baseball and getting
to go to parks like Baylors and last year we
were also Cincinnati has a very nice ballpark right on campus.
You know, West Virginia has become a really solid program
in baseball. It's a heck of a good baseball league.
So the competition has been really good. The people have
been very welcoming. As soon as we joined the Big Twelve,
I was invited into a text message chain of all
the radio play by play announcers in the Big Twelve Conference,
and you know, it's all been very welcoming. And I'll
never forget last year in twenty twenty four when we
played our first football game at Kansas State in late November,
when we were starting to make our run toward the
Big Twelve championship, and we're walking into the stadium in Manhattan,
and we had about four or five different fans k
State fans who stopped us on the way in to
just say, Hey, great to see you guys in the
Big Twelve, Welcome to the Big Twelve. Great to have
Arizona State in the league, that sort of thing. So
it's all that's been really really good. And you know,
the quality of the competition and the quality of the
basketball is just you know, phenomenal, and the coaching, you know,
it's just primo the best league in the country in
my opinion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I feel the same way. It's been.
It's been, Uh, it's kind of been fun to watch
this uh, this conference morph and meld together with the
some of the old Pac twelve teams, et cetera, in
some of the the AEC teams that they picked up
as well. So the future of the Big twelve. How
does it look? Does it look promising to you? Does
it look like the power force structure will stay intact?
Kind of how do you? How do you feel about that?
You know, the next five to ten years, as conferences
begin to renegotiate their their TV deals and their structures.
Speaker 1: Well, the feeling I've always had, and it's not men
in any way as a slight to the Big Twelve,
but I've I had the feeling when this all first
went down a couple years ago, and I still kind
of maintain that feeling, is that at some point in
the next three or four years, I just have a
feeling I wouldn't be surprised if administrators and the people,
the powers that be have a sort of, as I
would call it, a come to Jesus moment and realize,
you know what, we really need to get a West
Coast based sports league college sports league back up and
running and almost kind of like get the Pac twelve
bunch back together. I just don't know how sustainable the
model is. Like when we were at UCLA back in
late December, I was looking at the Bruins schedule in
basketball and this month I think the Bruins opened Big
Twelve play with games at I think it was maybe
Minnesota and Iowa. This week, they're home to play one
game this weekend, and then next week they go back
on the road, I think to play Maryland in Ohio state.
I mean, you're talking about transcontinental trips, you know, very
very frequently during the course of the year, and for
all of their sports teams. I just don't know how
sustainable that model is for all these schools based on
the West Coast to be playing conference games and opponents
almost an entire continent away. I mean, think about it
from a Cal and Stanford perspective. How first of all,
how ludicrous is it that two schools in the Bay
Area are part of the Atlantic Coast Conference. I think
it should be the ACC really should be renamed the
All Coast Conference, because that's what it is right now.
And you know, you talk about tough models for you know,
Cal and Stanford sports teams. You know, so many of
their trips are of a trans continental nature, and I
just don't know where the money's going to come from
to keep teams traveling you know, that far that frequently.
So we'll see what happens. But I tell you what,
when all this went down, Arizona State was very fortunate,
I think, to have found a landing spot as solid
and as competitive as the Big twelve conference, because the
sports competition has been great, the schools, the venues, the towns.
It's been a good experience. You know. I told people
two years ago about how bittersweet it was. You know.
The bitter part was that last year in the Pac
twelve and making the rounds, like our final baseball series
of the year was at Stanford, and as luck would
have it, Arizona State went up there and swept the
three game series against Stanford and what was our final
Pac twelve series ever. And I remember interviewing Stanford's baseball coach,
David Esker, who's been a friend for a long time,
during that series, and he was just lamenting how just
it just didn't seem right for the Pac twelve to
be going away, and and and so forth. But the
sweet part came the following year when we started making
our first go through of the Big twelve, and again
how welcoming everyone's been and the new experiences that we've
been able to enjoy as a part of a tremendous conference.
Like the Big Twelve, and you know, we'll see what happens.
And you know, my theory could be wrong. Maybe maybe
this is the future of college athletics go in this direction.
But it does seem to me that they're you know,
they're they're just I don't know, just it's it's a shame,
you know that there isn't a major power conference based
on the West Coast like there was for so many
years in the Pac twelve conference.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've been asked this question before. You've been
doing this a long time, and you know, I truly
it's unfathomable that the Conference of Champions no longer exists.
I mean, that kind of exists, but it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 2: We tend to, you know, after games, you know, when
big events care we tend to delve into not a
blame game. But I look at it more as like
a PI chart of accountability, because I don't know if
it's any one thing that that uh loses you a
game or you know, contributes to a conference that's been
around for one hundred years or whatever disappearing overnight. Have
you ever pie charted you know, a kind of a
from an accountability sense, how the heck this happened. Like
we talked about Larry Scott, we talk about, you know, overspending,
We talk about maybe internal consultants. You can talk about ESPN,
Fox TV, people maybe making certain decisions overvaluations of oneself,
the hubris of maybe overvaluation, usc U, c l A.
When you're asked, how did this happen? What's your response?
I guess is what I'm getting at with your pie
chart of accountability?
Speaker 1: Well, I would say my response is you pretty much
gave the response because you pretty much included everything there.
I mean, no need to.
Speaker 2: Mbil is there is there a bigger piece of the
pie though, that somebody needs to.
Speaker 1: Eat, don't I don't think so. I think I think
it's all of that's intertwined. It all kind of came
together in a sad amalgamation of factors. And it's just
just the way the sport has involved and how money
and television and all that is just kind of taken
taken root as the predominant factors these days. It seems
in college sports, you know, so many people lament you know,
the transfer portal, for instance, and how it's such a
different day and age, and it really is I mean,
it's like it's not like your grandfather's college sports. You know,
following that years ago, the line between amateurism and professional
sports has been truly blurred. I think, you know, for
the foreseeable future. Although intellectually it's very difficult for me
to argue, you know that these kids they deserve to
be compensated. I mean, the athletes are the ones who
make college sports exciting. They're the ones that go out
there and risk injury and put on these performances. And
you know, you're going to have seventeen or eighteen thousand
fans at the Marriott Center tonight there to cheer on
their BYU team, and they're there to cheer on the players.
They're not there to cheer on the television network that's
covering the game, or the announcers or the administrators who
will be there watching. They're there to watch the players perform,
and you know they're the ones that you know deserve
to be compensated. But it's just it's just such a
different world now, and you just wonder to yourself how
sustainable the model is moving forward year in and year out.
Schools through their various means generating all the revenues that
will be necessary to compensate all the student athletes and
all the different sports and so forth. That's that's the
way we are now. But it's it's just interesting to
see how sustainable the model is going to be moving forward.
But you know, like you said an answer to the question,
you know you really did very succinctly. I think, you know,
dish out all the different characters in this saga, this drama,
if you will, that have led to this. But you know,
you can sit here and wallow and you know, you know,
organizational self pity, you know, thinking I wish we could
be back in the old PAC twelve of old, or
you can accept the change and move on and see
what the future holds. And I think that's what all
the teams that have come from the PAC twelve to
the Big twelve have done. I think they're all very
excited about being in the league with the other schools
from the Big twelve, and hopefully the schools from like UCLA, USC,
Oregon and Washington feel the same about their experiences in
the Big ten and CAL and Stanford and the All
Coast I mean the Atlantic Coast Conference. But yeah, I
mean it's just to say the least, to say the
very least, it's a new day and age in intercollegiate
athletics for sure.
Speaker 2: Let's talk ASU, b Y, you're going to be on
the call, and a issue has got a great opportunity
to just create a more robust resume right now. If
they were to knock off the Cougars, it would be
tremendous for their resume. And they're a talented team. They've
been competitive. Give me a breakdown of who ASU is
on the hardwood briefly, and then let's talk scoutt report.
What you've been hearing about this bo basketball team.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the Sun Devils do have some good players,
you know, fun to watch our point go mo odom as,
a transfer from Pepperdine who is second in the Big
twelve and assists. While still he scores nearly seventeen points
a game. He's coming off a twenty one point twelve
assist game against Colorado this past Saturday. I think Moe
really needed the thirteen day Christmas break that the Sun
Devils had because his shooting had tailed off in a
couple of games prior to the Christmas break, but he
was on the all tournament team. He put on quite
a show and the Maui Invitational had thirty six in
the Sun Devils opening when he literally carried them single
handedly to victory over Texas in their first game in
Maui and just had a phenomenal tournament. Made the All
Maui Team. He was fourth in the nation and assists
at Pepperdine a year ago, and he's I think in
the top fifteen nationally in assists this year. Another guy
that they brought in, a seven foot freshman from Senegal,
Masamba Jop been just a terrific player in the low post.
He is first in the Big twelve, eleventh nationally and
field goal percentage coming off his season high of twenty points,
as well as seven block shots against Colorado on Saturday.
The seven block shots the most by a Sun Devil
in eleven years. And he's been a real find. I
think he is a future NBA player. In his first
season at Arizona State, It'll be very interesting to watch
him and aj De Bonsa go at it in the
low post tonight. I mean, I don't have to tell
you how great a player Debonsa is and Masamba Jop
just oozes potential. He's not as he doesn't rebound as
much as you would think a guy of his seven
foot size would averages about five a game. But he
is a potential rim protector, scorer, has a nice shooting
touch from the outside. He's a very good free throw shooter,
and he's averaged seventeen points over the last five games
in his shooting seventy one percent from the field in
those last five games as well. And then a guy
that I think you'll enjoy watching is Anthony His nickname
is Pig. We call him the pig Man. Pig Johnson
a transfer from a small school in Kentucky, the University
of the Cumberlands, where a year ago in the NAIA
he was I think the number four scorer nationally NAIA basketball,
and his game has translated to the major college level
at Arizona State. He's averaging fourteen points a game. Excellent
free throw shooter, he gets to the free throw line
more than any other Sun Devil and is intense on
the defensive end of the floor and not afraid to
drive the ball into traffic into bigger, taller players underneath
the hoop. Just so much fun to watch. And you
also have a former BYU Cougar on this team in
Marcus Adams, who was with BYU two years ago. Fortunately,
Marcus won't play tonight. He suffered a back injury and
practice Monday and he's I don't think he's on the trip.
I haven't seen him at practices, so unfortunately he won't
get a chance to take the floor at the Marriott
Center tonight. Another good player that had his best game
Saturday as Colorado is Alan Mukaba, a six eight, two
hundred and fifty pound forward transferred from Oakland University in Michigan,
where he was an All Horizon League player a year ago.
And I wish I had a body like Alan Mukaba's.
That guy is ripped and he could play tight end
or be an edge rusher, I think on any college
football team he wanted to. And he had season highs
against Colorado's Saturday sixteen points, six rebounds and had the
play of the day on Sports Center's Top Ten with
an in your face dunk on Colorado's Sebastian ron Cheek
that just brought the house down at our arena, Desert
Financial Arena on Saturdays. Those are some of the players
that you'll be seeing tonight for Arizona State. The key
is that if the sun Devils can make shots. I
mean they for most of the year were pretty good.
They were like in the thirty eight to thirty nine
percent range as a three point shooting team, but that
shooting percentage has dipped to thirty five percent heading into
tonight's game. They're fourteenth and out of sixteen teams in
the Big twelve and three point shooting percentage, and they've
just got to be able to knock down the open
looks when they get them to have any remote chance
to pull off the upset here tonight.
Speaker 2: What percentage of the roster was retained from last year
to this year?
Speaker 1: They're an a issue. Sun Devils have one returning scholarship player,
Trevor Best Guard, who probably will not see a lot
of action. We'll play a little bit. And Trevor joined
the team last year at mid season. He went to
the same high school in North Carolina as a SU's
star recruit from a year ago, forward Jaden Quaintance, who's
now at Kentucky. But Trevor is the only returning starting player.
They do have one walk on guard, a kid named
Quentin McCoy. Who's back with the team this year, but
every other player I'll just go down my score sheet
here for Arizona State, they're top rotation players. Moe Odam
transfer from Pepperdine, Bryce Ford, a guard from the Phoenix
area by the way, transfer from Toledo. Masamba Jop comes
over from Senegal. Santiago Truet. Their leading rebounder is a
transfer from the University of San Diego, Andrea Grebovich, who
is a six to eleven Serbian wing or. He's from
actually Montenegro. He is a European in his first year here.
Pig Johnson a transfer from the NAIA. They have a
freshman guard from Belgium named Noah Mayhusen who's a pretty
solid all around player. Alan mckayba I told you about
from Oakland University. Marcus Adams last year bridged sixteen points
a game at cal State Northridge, and he has been
slowed by injuries this year and we're still waiting for
him to become the player that he was a year
ago at Northridge. And they also have a true freshman,
Cash Polk, who won't play tonight because he is injured,
and a couple of other newcomers but like I said,
it's almost an entirely new team that Bobby Hurley's had
to put together, and it just seems to be an
annual ritual, you know, where you're just almost reconstructing a
roster year in and year out. And it's not just
Arizona State. It's a lot of schools in college basketball
right now. But yeah, one one returning player from a
year ago. BYU fans might actually remember the name Trevor
Best because Trevor actually scored eighteen points against the Cougars
in Tempe last February twenty sixth, which still ranks as
his career scoring high, you know, in that game against
BYU at our place a year ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just wonder like I was stocked with coaches,
like many of the coaches that coach ball, right, football, basketball,
they get into it because, you know, they love to
get back to the kids, they love the sport, all
those things, and then you get through it, right and
something's changed about the business of it. For a play
by play guy like yourself, I imagine you've grown fond
over the last almost thirty years of getting to know
the players year in and year out, developing relationships long
term relationships with these guys, re interviewing them pregame, post game,
seeing them develop, et cetera. We're losing a little bit
of that in this era. Has that been at all
impactful for you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is. It's definitely. You're getting different
groups in and out. You know, just talk about you know,
the guy who was my broadcast partner, Kyle Dodd. Kyle
played at Arizona State as a point guard from nineteen
ninety nine to two thousand and three, and he used
to come on the post game show with me, you know,
when he'd play well, and he used to joke around.
He said, someday I'm going to be your broad cast partner,
and ten years later he was. And now we're like
fifteen years together as you know, a play by play
guy in color analyst. And you talk about this year's team.
One thing about I'll say about this year's team that
Bobby Hurley's put together. There are some really, really good
kids and likable players on this team. I think this
team is much more connected individually than last year's team was.
At Arizona State. Last year, the Sun Devils had some
really highly tauted recruits. Jaden Quainton's of five star centers
now Kentucky Joson Sannon a five star guard, good shooter
who's now at Saint John's. But the team just didn't
seem very connected. You know, internally, this year's group is
and there are a good bunch of kids. I remember
the first practice I was able to go to because
of my football obligations was in late October, and I
went to watch them practice one day just to kind
of start familiarizing myself with the team. And after practice,
Bobby had every one of those players come over and
introduce themselves individually to me. And even to this day,
like last night, we got to the hotel and Alan Mukayba,
the kid I told you about with the rip body
of the Oakland transfer, he came up to all of
us and you know, there's a group of seven of
us in the travel party that are unable to fly
with the team because of the smaller size of the
team playing only they start charter a thirty seater and
there's about seven of us who go commercial. So we
arrived at the hotel separately, but when they got back
from a shoot around, they came over and you know,
Alan comes up to every each each one of us
and slaps hands or you know, shakes hands, gives a
hug and says, good to see you guys. And pretty
much all the players on this team are the same way.
They're they're really really good kids and very well connected.
And that's why you'd really like to see them have
some success this year, because they've been fun to be
with and be you know, travel with on the road
and uh and you know, I wish I could have
been with them in Hawaii for many reasons obviously, but
was not able to make that trip. But you know,
they put on a good showing there and hopefully they
can you know, find their footing as Big twelve play
unfolds and maybe pull off an upset or two and
kind of get back into this thing. But they've been
they've been a fun group to be a part of.
But yeah, I mean that's one of the byproducts of
this day and age in college sports. These teams as
they are constituted, they changed dramatically year to year, and
it's you know, it's hard to uh, you know, get
a get a you know, to I would imagine, very
hard for fans to bomb with. I mean, like, you know,
just less than a year ago. Sam Levitt, Well, it
could have you know, could have run for the mayor
of Tempe I and cam Scataboo, could have run on
a ticket and gotten elected, you know, to statewide office
in the state of Arizona. And now you know, Sam
Levitt is a persona no grata. You know, he he's gone,
he's in the transfer portal. He's going to play elsewhere.
And you know, we hardly knew ye Sam. You know,
it's he was in a year and in and out,
and that's just that's just the way it is. And
college athletics. It's not necessarily anything bad about Sam Levitt,
It's just, you know, that's the way it is.
Speaker 2: Tim Healy, Ladies and gentlemen, the voice of the Arizona
State Sun Devils. Good luck on your call, not that
you need it, but if they want to tune in,
if our listeners want to tune in to you, how
do they do such well?
Speaker 1: In the Phoenix area, we're broadcasting kta AR is the
biggest radio station in the state of Arizona. They have
several different signals and tonight we are in ESPN six
twenty am. But I do believe they also have the
Arizona Sports app. If you want to, you know, dial
us up that way, give us a listen, And Kyle
and I love working together. We have a good time.
Kyle's terrific analyst has one of the best senses of
humor of anybody I've ever been around. He does great
impersonations as well, And I hopefully we are a good
listen game in and game out, and I think we're
always you know, fair and objective about our opponents as well.
We recognize good play when we see it, no matter
who's making the good play. So if you get a chance,
give us a listen, we'd love to have you listen.
Listen to us, and we wish byu all the best
of this season. Like not that they need any added
luck from us, because they are an enormously talented team
and they're going to go far this year.
Speaker 2: I'm sure enjoy your time at Pro Tim. We appreciate
you man. We'll see at the game.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Thank you, appreciate it.
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