Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
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Speaker 2: D Hey, welcome back to win on the ball here
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steven Bear, You're Dave Siler.
Speaker 2: Now we have Juan with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball, Breaking News on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty one.
Speaker 2: Before you start, you said that you had a lot
Speaker 2: of calls coming in. So if we finished early, I
Speaker 2: don't know if you go, maybe take another call or too,
Speaker 2: and you can call try to get us a call
Speaker 2: if you want to in between, because we're gonna have picks.
Speaker 2: We'll go through those quickly too at the end of
Speaker 2: the hour so we get more calls.
Speaker 3: Thangat perfect Welcome to breaking news, your guy, Juan, mister
Speaker 3: goody two shoes, two shoes back on a Friday.
Speaker 2: It's been a while. Yes, I missed you, Steve. Don't
Speaker 2: make me cry so good tear up.
Speaker 3: Starting off breaking news, going into some Arizona athletics. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Arizona volleyball wasn't invited.
Speaker 4: Into the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3: Probably should have been, but they do get a chance
Speaker 3: for some postseason action.
Speaker 4: Ah in the n i v C. I've never heard
Speaker 4: of that, never heard of it, yeaheah.
Speaker 3: They they're hosting, they're part of one of the hosting teams.
Speaker 3: They hosted Pacific and we were State who played earlier
Speaker 3: today and Pacific came out on top three to two.
Speaker 3: They'll play Arizona tomorrow at six pm.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think those games are going to be real
Speaker 2: close because they're all similar teams.
Speaker 3: All all teams that wanted to wanted to shot at
Speaker 3: the the NCAA A but obviously didn't.
Speaker 2: Right, So it's the sixty four teams in the in
Speaker 2: the in the Is it like that? I believe so
Speaker 2: so that the best sixty five and more is going to.
Speaker 4: Go to the next best sixty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well do you know, to to bring that up
Speaker 2: a little, what a great year they had, I mean
Speaker 2: for not a very good year last year in her
Speaker 2: first year. Yeah, you can tell that she's probably a
Speaker 2: very good coach.
Speaker 3: A complete turnaround, right, right, that doesn't started off thirteen
Speaker 3: to zero.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got the number one recruit.
Speaker 3: Right last last offseason, so there's a lot of momentum
Speaker 3: building for momentum, What the hell is that?
Speaker 4: Momentum is just another word?
Speaker 2: Right pretty much?
Speaker 3: So, I mean, good luck to them tomorrow, good for them, right?
Speaker 3: I think the first they ended on a seven game
Speaker 3: conference wins stream. That's the first time I think since
Speaker 3: two thousand and three or.
Speaker 2: So, right, right, And doubt they were going to get in,
Speaker 2: didn't they?
Speaker 3: Everyone thought they should have. There's a lot of teams
Speaker 3: that God, what are they finished in the Big twelve?
Speaker 3: They must have been in the top half of the league.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming we can look at top half for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know there's there are some good teams. They finished
Speaker 3: nine and nine overall in conference play, so I'm sure
Speaker 3: that'll put them at least above the top half.
Speaker 4: That's good. Two women's basketball.
Speaker 3: They played the game last night against Grand Canyon, and.
Speaker 4: They did lose, sixty six to sixty nine.
Speaker 2: I think the world of Ada. She's done tremendously here.
Speaker 2: Who would have thought that that place would have been
Speaker 2: packed for the NIT, packed for the NC double as
Speaker 2: packed in general?
Speaker 4: What the hell's going on now? Though?
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, yeah, because it's not just one time,
Speaker 2: it's a couple three times. And last year there wasn't
Speaker 2: any well, I'm sure it was better, but you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, It's been some strange losses.
Speaker 4: You know, Grand Canyon, Nau, things like that, players leaving players,
Speaker 4: you didn't, switching.
Speaker 2: School, well, switching around exactly. I mean that doesn't happen normally.
Speaker 2: I mean normally. And I wonder I didn't see any
Speaker 2: press conferences. I didn't see any stories. Uh and did
Speaker 2: you guys have you guys must have had something from
Speaker 2: camp of how these things are being treated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and let me say this, these aren't Obviously,
Speaker 3: no loss is a good loss. But I'll this about
Speaker 3: this team. They look a little bit more together. They're
Speaker 3: just losing these games.
Speaker 2: I heard you all. They're young. I understand they're young.
Speaker 2: Someone said who went to the game, that they're out
Speaker 2: very good, So maybe that's the explanation. They're not even
Speaker 2: good and they're young, which which is gonna which is
Speaker 2: going to be an issue for DiDia who hits the loose.
Speaker 2: I wonder how those press conferences were. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: find what Kim did yesterday for tonight from last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So I mean, I mean they're still seven
Speaker 4: and four.
Speaker 3: They got a lot looking looking ahead, a lots to
Speaker 3: look forward to.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: They they they'll play their next game on next Tuesday
Speaker 3: against cal State Bakersfield.
Speaker 4: Than uh we were stated the next week. So the
Speaker 4: first time the Wildcats have lost the home game this year,
Speaker 4: I believe.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the thing is it's who they're losing to.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like football Northern Arizona.
Speaker 3: And then they played to uh neutral site games against
Speaker 3: Vanderbilt in California, right the Palm Springs area.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those games as shire holiday and.
Speaker 3: Then switching gears to men's basketball. I know we had
Speaker 3: Rhino on earlier, but obviously they play game tomorrow twelve o'clock.
Speaker 4: So they in Utah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where all the things will be Okay, the world
Speaker 2: will be a writer, the sun will come out and
Speaker 2: shine tomorrow where the damn song get Yeah, tomorrow is tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I hate to ask this question because do we know
Speaker 4: what channel they're on? Are they on? Are they on
Speaker 4: they're on real TV, or are they on the ESPN network?
Speaker 4: Okay that sort of counts. Yeah, so you don't have
Speaker 4: to go, you don't have to stream it. This is
Speaker 4: coming from the TV guy exactly. That's you know, whatever
Speaker 4: his name was. It was calling talking about the the
Speaker 4: PAC twelve network and stuff. At least we kind of
Speaker 4: knew where it was. They did have some shows and
Speaker 4: they were good. They were just a matter of finding them,
Speaker 4: whereas now there's really nowhere, no central location, Like, hey,
Speaker 4: it's the Big twelve wrap up show. That would be
Speaker 4: nice to have because I'm still spending more time looking
Speaker 4: at the old back twelve teams and oh, Oregon's playing
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they're playing Penn State. Do we really care now?
Speaker 4: But that's a big game nationally.
Speaker 3: I got a question for you, Steve, so he kind
Speaker 3: of asked me this throughout the football season when when
Speaker 3: they hit their low point.
Speaker 4: So tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Blank makes Arizona fans feel better about the team.
Speaker 2: Go after tomorrow, give it to me one more time.
Speaker 2: You probably have to talk to me slow because I'm
Speaker 2: not smart.
Speaker 3: So blank makes Arizona feel better about the team after
Speaker 3: tomorrow's game?
Speaker 4: What what is that? Blank?
Speaker 2: What's gonna make Arizona? I know, I know, I know,
Speaker 2: I know, I'm trying. I might not have an answer
Speaker 2: for you one. Yeah, but this will make Arizona better,
Speaker 2: make fans feel better. But obviously a win you're sound
Speaker 2: what you're talking about football or basketball?
Speaker 4: Basketball? I thought you said foball football is over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I thought he.
Speaker 4: Said, I said, you kind of asked me this kind
Speaker 4: of question, George during Okay, Okay, basketball, now.
Speaker 2: Caleb, Caleb has a great game. Okay, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean tomorrow means nothing to me and me it means
Speaker 2: nothing to me because they play. If you could be
Speaker 2: gnacious and you can beat ex Or and you can
Speaker 2: beat South South Southern Utah, who gives a crap at
Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things? What does that matter? Because
Speaker 2: those teams, you don't beat those teams in March, you don't. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: I've said this. And people are fans of Sean Miller.
Speaker 2: That's fine. He won three hundred games. Here a lot
Speaker 2: of games. Sixty of those games are about were NAU
Speaker 2: or below quality. If you went to where'd you go
Speaker 2: to school?
Speaker 4: The university?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, high school, university high school, university high school.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's sen assume you went to some point just
Speaker 2: to think, by example, at some point beats green Day
Speaker 2: fifty fifty out of fifty one times? Okay, shouldn't they? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean what do you get out of it? Not
Speaker 2: a damn thing you gotta wreck. You're gonna win. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be different.
Speaker 4: Put together a run of wins, not not just tomorrow,
Speaker 4: but like I said, tom yes, I will mean you know,
Speaker 4: do you say that be a little much more high
Speaker 4: profile game.
Speaker 2: And usually it's not that good. New Mexico beat him
Speaker 2: on a neutral court. So I don't know, but I
Speaker 2: think the thing that needs to happen is Caleb needs
Speaker 2: to play better.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: The caller and we didn't get his name. Do you
Speaker 2: get his name? He calls her out again. He's very funny.
Speaker 2: He talks about the point guard situation. Well, if you're
Speaker 2: the guard and your and your passes are two players
Speaker 2: who miss shots, you ain't gonna get an assist. And
Speaker 2: this team is not shooting the ball well one and two.
Speaker 2: Jayden Brownley doesn't doesn't assist the ball anyway. Last year,
Speaker 2: My biggest criticism last year was he got the ball,
Speaker 2: put his head down and attacked the basket. Right, He's
Speaker 2: not gonna get rid of that ball. He's just not.
Speaker 2: That's not who he is. Uh. And guess what they
Speaker 2: need this year. They need him to do that because
Speaker 2: they need someone to score. So now he's in a
Speaker 2: tell situation. Do I do this or do I pass
Speaker 2: the ball? Who they may not make the shot.
Speaker 3: So so overall, would you say just the improvement of
Speaker 3: Caleb Love wouldn't make Arizona fans feel better?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's my But my answer is not there's
Speaker 2: no right or wrong answer. Mine's the simple answer. But
Speaker 2: don't you don't you hope that he kind of gets
Speaker 2: on track finally Caleb? Yeah, of course. I mean to me,
Speaker 2: that would be the priority. Just make him feel good,
Speaker 2: like for the rest because he looks like a guy
Speaker 2: who needs that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he needs someone to give him some encouragement, and
Speaker 4: there always seemed to be that. I hate to keep
Speaker 4: going way back in the past, but like the Josh
Speaker 4: Passners of the world, who you know, he's kind of
Speaker 4: like the coaching I mean shooting, the shooting, the shooting guru,
Speaker 4: you know, go out there with you know who, Mike
Speaker 4: Bibby and those in that group where he had somebody
Speaker 4: helping it.
Speaker 2: David, let me say this, I think you're right. However,
Speaker 2: do you think that is Caleb a guy who looks
Speaker 2: like a guy who's going to take it advice for
Speaker 2: a coach.
Speaker 4: Like Josh know, yeah, I know you're right. Well, I mean, somebody.
Speaker 2: Leave me the hell alone. This is leave me a
Speaker 2: hell alone. It'll be okay. That's what Caleb bother me.
Speaker 2: I got my shot. I'm gonna be okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he certainly has confidence. Yes, I don't. I don't
Speaker 4: see lack of confidence there. Maybe maybe just even more so, Dave,
Speaker 4: don't talk to me. I know what I'm doing, but
Speaker 4: isn't that what a coach is supposed to do? Let
Speaker 4: them star players. You know, there may be something.
Speaker 2: Kayla Williams. I have suggestions for you. Could you shoot
Speaker 2: the ball better? And I think your motion? Shut up, Dave,
Speaker 2: Shut up, Dave.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm still making three million a years.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's all.
Speaker 3: Right, So continue to breaking news. I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: go track to quid. You got run out of time
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 4: The NBA is returning to China next season, with a
Speaker 4: preseason game between this Nets and the Suns, first time
Speaker 4: since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a while since all that criticism, right
Speaker 2: with the with the torture. I don't, I can't, I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say don't even don't but you know all that
Speaker 2: trouble world.
Speaker 4: What are the odds Kevin Durant is injured? Just kidding,
Speaker 4: He's always hurt. He's hurt again. Yeah. I was actually
Speaker 4: there for that. I didn't really see anything. I don't know.
Speaker 4: It was at the Spurs game. I went up for it.
Speaker 4: Did you go see because your Spurs guy? So I
Speaker 4: dropped a quick or whatever the hell is. Yeah, you're
Speaker 4: at the half. I said, Wow, this was worth the
Speaker 4: price of admission. Uh No, he had a good he
Speaker 4: had to end up having a pretty decent game, but
Speaker 4: they still lost to the Spurs. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh So, the NBA is gonna find Rockets head coach
Speaker 3: Im Udoka target Easton el Frid, Singoon for their little
Speaker 3: I guess tire eight or act against the refs on
Speaker 3: Tuesday fifty fifty thousand for Udoka coming out of his pocket.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's probably twenty dollars to you and me.
Speaker 4: Yep. Uh so.
Speaker 3: And then the NBA is also finding Jalen Brown for
Speaker 3: a throat slash gesture against the Pisto. Yeah on Wednesday night,
Speaker 3: twenty five thousand dollars bucket change.
Speaker 2: I don't do that, Yeah, that's kind of like a
Speaker 2: half game, half of a game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Stephen Curry expected to play today. He should be
Speaker 3: back from an injury. Didn't even know he was injured. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're a Golden State guy. I'm a Golden State guy.
Speaker 3: I like him. Jersey today, Yeah not Jersey.
Speaker 4: But you know, again, you know, load management or whatever
Speaker 4: they call it, and they're not supposed to take time.
Speaker 2: Off, and so how would you have felt if your
Speaker 2: guy did not play when you went to buy a.
Speaker 3: Ticket to I was actually really scared about that because
Speaker 3: I know he had been dealing with lower In the
Speaker 3: next game, he actually sat out for lower back inness
Speaker 3: or lower back uh management.
Speaker 4: A few years ago, I went to Son's Calves when
Speaker 4: Lebron was there and he did not come out on
Speaker 4: the court literally until like thirty seconds before the game,
Speaker 4: and everybody was freaking out, like oh my god. And
Speaker 4: next thing, you know, it's almost like this grand introduction.
Speaker 4: He just comes racing out and he played, but it
Speaker 4: was it was looking sad like all of this went
Speaker 4: up there just to kind of see him in person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was gonna have a situation put
Speaker 3: on a show, but I did not, Thank goodness, Green
Speaker 3: Jaremond Green is also possible for that game.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Chris Middleton for the Bucks is making his season debut
Speaker 3: against the Celtics, so it's good to see him back.
Speaker 3: Going to men's basketball college men's basketball. But do lost
Speaker 3: to Penn State. They got crushed. Yeah, they got crushed
Speaker 3: one to seventy number eight eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The basketball world, the college basketball world is kind of crazy.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be that's gonna be fun. I think it is. Then, Yeah,
Speaker 4: Penn State wiped him out at home.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fun time in college basketball, and
Speaker 2: not fun for fans who think that their teams are
Speaker 2: going to be crazy good. But the opposite.
Speaker 4: I mean, Kansas losing, I mean, you know, it's it's
Speaker 4: even a funny week. Funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a few of the top ten teams lost.
Speaker 4: I think is in North Carolina four and four. I
Speaker 4: mean there's teams that lost to Alabama at home. I
Speaker 4: might go right, try to run through this.
Speaker 3: Randy Moss is taking an extended to leave from ESPN
Speaker 3: due to a health issue.
Speaker 4: Wishing all the best for him.
Speaker 3: Continuing Jets, Breese Hall and Sauce Gardner are expected to
Speaker 3: be out for the Dolphins, and Leak Neighbors is questionable
Speaker 3: with a hip flexer injury. Green Bay beat Or lost
Speaker 3: to Detroit last night Thursday night, thirty four to thirty one,
Speaker 3: and going to the College Football World, Arizona starting offensive
Speaker 3: line to windel Mow did enter the transfer portal too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think we're going to start seeing more
Speaker 2: and more of that from you of a people leaving
Speaker 2: and depends who comes in see if they equal the talent.
Speaker 2: We won't know till we know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's the good thing. I guess that
Speaker 4: it's happening here in December early December, So now there's
Speaker 4: time as players are thinking about what they want to do.
Speaker 4: The semester's ending for school if that matters, and now
Speaker 4: it's kind of the time when that's going to be
Speaker 4: happening here in the next month, right, Okay, So a
Speaker 4: little bit more.
Speaker 3: Bronco mende Hall was hired by Utah State after his
Speaker 3: first year in New Mexico.
Speaker 2: So obviously I have touched on New Mexico and I'm
Speaker 2: not in Mexico. Grab but uh, if you think that
Speaker 2: people were pissed about Jetfish, they're pissed about brock Mendy.
Speaker 2: He was there one year, he went five and seven. Uh,
Speaker 2: he was kind of like a truck stop for him
Speaker 2: and saying all week that he was not gonna leave
Speaker 2: or he's you know, denying Denine until he leaves. And
Speaker 2: because they saw, they saw what you guys saw, just
Speaker 2: a gradual improvement there. We're going to be back finally
Speaker 2: playing rally competitive and then oh the dude just left. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and well the quarterback. You guess people here loved that quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I was.
Speaker 4: He was good against Arizona, he was real good. He
Speaker 4: was good against teams like Auburn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well,
Speaker 4: what does Utah State offer that New Mexico does.
Speaker 2: Well, he's going back home. He's a Utah guy. Is
Speaker 2: Utah goud coach at B Well for a long time,
Speaker 2: probably hasn't made in New Mexico. Let me tell you,
Speaker 2: it's a crap shoot, man, because you don't know from
Speaker 2: year to year what you're gonna be good at all.
Speaker 2: Now they're going to go back into no good land.
Speaker 2: But it's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 4: Where did they get most of their players, like from Texas?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's the it's like the third or
Speaker 2: fourth string people that Arizona doesn't get because they get
Speaker 2: the second third, you know, you know how the tier goes.
Speaker 2: It's the second or third. And there's a few good
Speaker 2: players in New Mexico, but it's New Mexico good that makes.
Speaker 4: Well a quarterback is from Arizona, right, isn't he from
Speaker 4: from area somewhere?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I always wondered how they stock their their their roster.
Speaker 2: Every every school has its you know method, and there
Speaker 2: was almost kind of like that middle tier school, middle
Speaker 2: tier school in New Mexicans, you know, not below.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So last thing I got, obviously Conference Championship week in
Speaker 3: college football, Iowa State playing Arizona State, Penn State, Oregon,
Speaker 3: Clemson s m u uh and then even Georgia and Texas.
Speaker 4: I got a funny little thing about that.
Speaker 3: So inside of the Mercedes Benz Stadium, they don't have
Speaker 3: room for Bevo.
Speaker 4: What are we gonna do with him? Keep him home,
Speaker 4: have them roam outside, and don't forget to feed him.
Speaker 4: This is in Atlanta, yeah, Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, So well
Speaker 4: I thought it was a little bit funny. You know,
Speaker 4: they come go to Texas earlier this season. They there
Speaker 4: was the whole thing with throwing the stuff onto the field,
Speaker 4: and then the conference championships in Atlanta, and now they're
Speaker 4: not allowing the They had no room for the Texas
Speaker 4: mascot mascots. Still my favorite mascot is Mike the Tiger,
Speaker 4: if he's still called Mike the LSU Tiger. Years and
Speaker 4: years ago, they used to bring him into the stadium.
Speaker 4: They did that for the basketball caged.
Speaker 2: Let me say this, I covered two games and the
Speaker 2: most scared I've ever been at at an event in
Speaker 2: my life, and not because of the Tiger, but the
Speaker 2: fans were vicious, mean, brutal. In other words, I cannot
Speaker 2: say because it was bad. Arizona got the worst beating
Speaker 2: of their life under Loot, with Luke and and Richard
Speaker 2: and all these guys. It was just bad.
Speaker 4: I've had a chance to visit, you know, not a game,
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Speaker 4: place in Baton Rouge. But he's got his own like zoo.
Speaker 4: He's got like a peneting and you can walk out
Speaker 4: there on campus.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I in the Ball hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Roverta in today with me
Speaker 2: is Dave Silver. Now on the phone, we have Evan
Speaker 2: mya Kawa college basketball guru or our analytics guy. Evan,
Speaker 2: how are you.
Speaker 13: Doing well?
Speaker 2: Doing well?
Speaker 6: Happy to talk to who's I know?
Speaker 2: We haven't talked to you in a while. I saw
Speaker 2: you at the Final Four. It was great to see
Speaker 2: this up and coming dude kind of making your name.
Speaker 2: Now I see college basketball coaches drop your name like
Speaker 2: it's like it's you know, like yesterday, it's it's fantastic
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 13: I know, it's been really cool. Honestly, I just feel
Speaker 13: so blessed by God to be in this position and
Speaker 13: get to do college basketball analytics is my full time
Speaker 13: saying it's really fun.
Speaker 2: So let me tell let me kind of give some
Speaker 2: background and you can help me fill in the holes.
Speaker 2: So we've met with you where I found you on
Speaker 2: the internet thinking what this kid doing? It's great, great stuff.
Speaker 2: It's it's really busy. You had a real job. You
Speaker 2: had a job in Texas, I think it was, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, cool, I guess how where do you find
Speaker 2: time to do this stuff? And you said, hell with
Speaker 2: the job, I want to do this. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 13: I actually think I remember exactly where I was where
Speaker 13: we had our first radio interview. I was like in
Speaker 13: my in laws one of their bedrooms doing a radio
Speaker 13: hit with you guys. It was back when I was
Speaker 13: still in grad school at Baylor working on my PhD
Speaker 13: and statistics. And now we're here.
Speaker 2: HOLDI mind, and how has it gone? Because you have
Speaker 2: a subscriber service, and tell us where they can find it,
Speaker 2: and tell us what's in it before we start breaking
Speaker 2: it down.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 13: So the website is Evanmia dot com e v A
Speaker 13: n M i ya dot com and.
Speaker 6: It's basically a treasure trove of.
Speaker 13: Basketball analytics for college basketball specifically and so on.
Speaker 14: There.
Speaker 13: I do a lot of player evaluates stuff where I'm
Speaker 13: looking at who are the most valuable players in the country.
Speaker 13: I do a lot of lineup analysis, game predictions. It's
Speaker 13: really popular during the transfer portal as well. Obviously you
Speaker 13: can find team rankings on there, like you'll find it
Speaker 13: a lot of other sites, like a ten Palm, where
Speaker 13: I'm rating and predicting to the best teams the rest
Speaker 13: of the year will be. It's a subscriber model, so
Speaker 13: there's a lot of stuff that's available just for free.
Speaker 13: But if you're a die hard and really want to
Speaker 13: get more into the nitty gritty, there's some different tiers
Speaker 13: there you can access, you know, more complicated levels of data.
Speaker 4: Yes, so right now you have Gonzaga number one, Tennessee two,
Speaker 4: Duke three. What does O rate and D rates mean?
Speaker 4: What does that on your statistics here?
Speaker 13: That's just telling you how good their offense and defense
Speaker 13: is on a per possession basis. So basically, you know,
Speaker 13: rate is how much better your team would be I
Speaker 13: could say an average D one team in that category
Speaker 13: on a neutral court per one hundred possession. So basically
Speaker 13: all you need to really think about there is how
Speaker 13: strong is your offense, how strong is your defense? And
Speaker 13: then kind of summing that up as a whole is
Speaker 13: how you end up seeing the team's ranked on the
Speaker 13: main page there.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, and so tell me, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know this off the top of your head. So
Speaker 2: fans for Arizona can maybe relax easy. They're twenty thirty
Speaker 2: in year poll. However, where did they start.
Speaker 13: They started I think number eight or number nine in
Speaker 13: the country, so definitely a little bit of a slide
Speaker 13: from where they were in the preseason, but I'm not
Speaker 13: overreacting too much to their record as some people are.
Speaker 13: I still think this team will get better and will
Speaker 13: be one of the you know, in the top half
Speaker 13: of the Big twelve, and will make the tournament and
Speaker 13: you know, could potentially make a Sweet sixteen. I still
Speaker 13: think they're talented enough to do that, and they just
Speaker 13: have faced some early hurdles. Obviously, none of their wins
Speaker 13: so far the season or anything to write home about.
Speaker 13: But also all of their losses are going to be
Speaker 13: to teams who are going to make.
Speaker 6: The tournament or in the conversation, to make the tournament.
Speaker 13: So again, I don't think they've had their other teams
Speaker 13: in the country who only have one or two losses
Speaker 13: but they've lost, you know, to.
Speaker 6: You know, the Middle.
Speaker 13: Tennessee or something like that, doesn't have any losses like that.
Speaker 13: So I'm not super concerned by any of those those
Speaker 13: results in isolation, right.
Speaker 2: I think last year I remember talking to you or
Speaker 2: using your analytics for a story I did for the
Speaker 2: Arizona's like blue guy, the best guy, the best guy
Speaker 2: on the team, and I think it was I think
Speaker 2: it was Jayden Bradley. He had all these numbers, and
Speaker 2: I remember it could be wrong. He could have been
Speaker 2: Pee Larson. I have to but that's how deep you
Speaker 2: get into it, assists and all this stuff, and it
Speaker 2: was just kind of like, that's the best guy, but
Speaker 2: it was all it was everything encompassed, right, and you
Speaker 2: throw everything in there.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it was definitely Jayden Bradley. I remember making a
Speaker 13: lot of emphasis even going back to December and January
Speaker 13: of last year, basically looking at how much better Arizona
Speaker 13: was playing when Jaden Bradley was on the floor compared
Speaker 13: to when he was on the bench, especially when you
Speaker 13: you know, sort of put that in isolation with with
Speaker 13: other players on the team like Kylin Boswell. And that's
Speaker 13: something actually that in talking to Arizona staff members who
Speaker 13: use our website, they kind of understood that they understood
Speaker 13: that Jayden Bradley really was what was making their team tick,
Speaker 13: and you know.
Speaker 6: It was a bit unfortunate that he couldn't.
Speaker 13: Get more playing time last year. The surprising thing is that,
Speaker 13: you know, he has obviously stepped into a bigger role
Speaker 13: this year, and I've been very excited for him, and
Speaker 13: I think he's still been fairly you know, impactful, but
Speaker 13: The really.
Speaker 6: Interesting thing with Jaden Bradley.
Speaker 13: Has been a lot of that stuff has flipped this
Speaker 13: year where the team has not been performing as well
Speaker 13: when he's on the court, specifically on the defensive end.
Speaker 13: I mean, when you look at how well Arizona's defense
Speaker 13: has done when Jada Bradley's on the floor versus on
Speaker 13: the bench, it's really bad. And of course we're only.
Speaker 6: A few games into the season, so I think.
Speaker 13: Some of that will correct itself. But he's definitely been
Speaker 13: a bit more disappointing than I was hoping he would
Speaker 13: be from a team impacts perspective, because I was really
Speaker 13: thinking that, you know, going into the season at least
Speaker 13: that he was going to be a bit better than
Speaker 13: he's been.
Speaker 4: How often is this site updated? Do you do go
Speaker 4: game by game? Is it updated? And how does that work?
Speaker 13: It updates every single day. I have kind of some
Speaker 13: automated processes and servers that grab the data and compute
Speaker 13: all the stuff, and so it's updated daily, which is
Speaker 13: really helpful.
Speaker 4: So you PhD is in what exactly a smart statistic basketball?
Speaker 4: Could you do this for other sports? If you thought
Speaker 4: about doing something, you know in other other sports?
Speaker 13: You know, I have, and certainly some of my you know,
Speaker 13: academic uh and technical skills could be put to use
Speaker 13: for another sport. But I think part of it that
Speaker 13: people you really have to understand is that you can't
Speaker 13: just uh, you know, use maths and statistics to just
Speaker 13: build uh statistical models in something that you don't really
Speaker 13: have expertise. And I think a lot of what has
Speaker 13: made my work really successful in college basketball is that
Speaker 13: I really understand the sport of basketball, and I understand
Speaker 13: what people are trying to do, what coaches are trying
Speaker 13: to do. And so if I were to say apply
Speaker 13: this to football or tennis, a sport that I watch
Speaker 13: but I don't have quite as deep an understanding in,
Speaker 13: I think it would be a lot less accurate because
Speaker 13: a lot of what I do really combined both my
Speaker 13: sort of technical background and expertise with my my not
Speaker 13: college of basketball, and I think that's what really those
Speaker 13: two in tandem work really well together.
Speaker 2: I can't remember, looking at your site if chemistry was
Speaker 2: involved in this too.
Speaker 13: Yes, there are certain ways that you can view how
Speaker 13: specific players on the same team play together and have
Speaker 13: chemistry basically, and so there are ways of looking at
Speaker 13: essentially when you have two players who on the court together,
Speaker 13: do they really elevate each other's performance in a way
Speaker 13: that you might not expect based on how they perform
Speaker 13: sort of individually. So, for example, I just pulled this
Speaker 13: up right now. One of the best teammate duos for
Speaker 13: Arizona this year has been Trey Townsend on the floor
Speaker 13: together with Carter Bryant. When those two players have been
Speaker 13: on the court together, not only has Arizona been really
Speaker 13: successful as a team, but individually those players.
Speaker 4: Have played better.
Speaker 13: It's sort of in tandem with each other compared to
Speaker 13: all their possible combinations of teammates they could be with.
Speaker 13: And so there's different ways of looking at things like that,
Speaker 13: which is super fun.
Speaker 2: I guess that really hasn't played much at all, and
Speaker 2: play much? Yeah, right, right, no, No, I'm sure you
Speaker 2: don't sleep much of it. That's okay.
Speaker 13: Well, the nice thing is that I don't. I sometimes
Speaker 13: joke that I watch every single game in write down
Speaker 13: stats for every single game.
Speaker 2: But I don't have to do that.
Speaker 13: All the stuff I've set up, you know, it's sort
Speaker 13: of can can do all this stuff, you know, in
Speaker 13: the cloud, so to speak, overnight and so obviously I
Speaker 13: spend a lot of time on it, but I'm not
Speaker 13: having to manually gathering compute data, which would be a
Speaker 13: nightmare if I had to.
Speaker 4: Are you saying that the coaches will come to you
Speaker 4: to look for some information? Is that would you provide
Speaker 4: to them? Yes?
Speaker 13: Yes, I have. Yeah, well so I mean a lot.
Speaker 13: There's close to one hundred different Division one college basketball
Speaker 13: teams or athletic departments who have subscriptions to my website,
Speaker 13: and so they use it for a lot of different things,
Speaker 13: from you know, in season lineup optimization to you know,
Speaker 13: sort of minutes allocation during the off season. It's big
Speaker 13: for the transfer portal and evaluating players. I know directly
Speaker 13: that the in Arizona coaching staff has used it the
Speaker 13: last two off seasons to evaluate a lot of the
Speaker 13: players that they've brought in, and it's a really useful
Speaker 13: tool for that.
Speaker 2: I think I remember looking at last year. I don't
Speaker 2: have the subscription, but it looks like I probably will
Speaker 2: end up getting it. Where you have like like next
Speaker 2: week Ucla versus Arizona. Don't you in there and make
Speaker 2: a prediction too? Because of the points president stuff?
Speaker 13: Yes, yeah, and I can actually you know, pull up
Speaker 13: Arizona's upcoming game. So basically, yeah, so for every single game,
Speaker 13: based on my team ratings and all of the variables
Speaker 13: that I take into account, I predict scores for all
Speaker 13: of those games win probabilities, and you can even pull
Speaker 13: up previews of those games that will break down strengths
Speaker 13: and weaknesses for each team and why I calculate a
Speaker 13: score to be a certain way. They'll show you exactly.
Speaker 13: For example, you know, if a team if a game
Speaker 13: is being played at Arizona, how much home court is
Speaker 13: worth in that game, and things like that. It adjusts
Speaker 13: for current injuries as well, so if a player is
Speaker 13: questionable or out, it'll show you specifically how much my
Speaker 13: prediction to that game is being adjusted basing those injuries.
Speaker 13: So there's a lot of different stuff to dig in
Speaker 13: there with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, again, we're talking to Evan Miakawa and the site
Speaker 4: is evanmia dot com. If you're a college basketball fan,
Speaker 4: it says this is great stuff, this is awesome. That's
Speaker 4: why I like you. I give crap to to the
Speaker 4: geeks of the world. I want to be you, Evan,
Speaker 4: I know I want to be you. No, this is
Speaker 4: one of the things on there like you're looking like
Speaker 4: Baseball Reference and basketball. I love those kind of sites
Speaker 4: where everything is kind of cross cross referenced and.
Speaker 2: Right right, So let me ask you because of the
Speaker 2: site and I, you know, Jay and I at the time,
Speaker 2: I love this site, uh and use it for things
Speaker 2: and even my stories. Like I said, last year, did
Speaker 2: it how did it kind of turn out at the
Speaker 2: end of the year when you have your rankings and
Speaker 2: all that stuff. Did it have Yukon easily the winner?
Speaker 2: Did it Havedue doing what it does? Arizona kind of
Speaker 2: faded in the sweet sixteen as usual? You back through
Speaker 2: that in you know, history in the tournament.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to that second point.
Speaker 13: Team specific history in the tournament is pretty hard to
Speaker 13: use as a rely will indicator what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 13: I think this is generally understood by a lot of people,
Speaker 13: but march madness can be somewhat of a random results
Speaker 13: generator in the sense that you'll only remember the way
Speaker 13: a certain game played out, but if you played that
Speaker 13: game ten different times, it might go the other way
Speaker 13: nine times, you know what I mean. So you know
Speaker 13: a lot of that, it's kind.
Speaker 6: Of it's difficult to use things like that.
Speaker 13: In predicting future tournaments. But broadly speaking, my models often
Speaker 13: do a really good job of pretty early in the
Speaker 13: season identifying who the national title threats are going to be.
Speaker 13: I think last year, by about mid December, my top
Speaker 13: two teams in the country were Purdue at Yukon and
Speaker 13: it stayed that way for the rest of the season.
Speaker 13: And they were not ranked number t one and number
Speaker 13: two in the A people that whole time, but my
Speaker 13: website had them as the two best teams in the country. Obviously,
Speaker 13: by the time we got to the tournament, I think
Speaker 13: that was pretty well understood.
Speaker 6: But I was picking up.
Speaker 13: On that way earlier, and obviously that's what ended up
Speaker 13: happening in the title game.
Speaker 2: So notes to self, go to gold to draft, look
Speaker 2: at his one and two teams. Bet them now, I'm
Speaker 2: just making a notable.
Speaker 4: You know, So who do who do you have? Now?
Speaker 2: Do you have the one and two or executive?
Speaker 4: Oh? I mean, yeah, that's there? Is that your pick?
Speaker 4: And Zach at this point?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean there are several teams at the top
Speaker 13: that I think really have you know, a lot of
Speaker 13: potential here, but my top three and I think they
Speaker 13: are slight here I guess you could throw Auburn in here,
Speaker 13: but Gonzaga is number one, slightly ahead of Tennessee at two,
Speaker 13: Duke at three, and Auburn at four. I think those
Speaker 13: are comfortably according to the advanced analytics in terms of
Speaker 13: how they're predicted to do the rest of the year,
Speaker 13: those are comfortably my top four teams. I think you
Speaker 13: could pick any of them really to win the title.
Speaker 13: I think from a results standpoint, Auburn's probably been the
Speaker 13: most impressive team of that lot. But you know, Duke
Speaker 13: has winns over Auburn and Arizona already this year. They're
Speaker 13: probably the most talented team.
Speaker 4: In the country.
Speaker 13: And I really like Kendagga and Tennessee can Dagga has
Speaker 13: the best offense in the country. Tennessee has the best
Speaker 13: defense in the country. I think what they've shown so.
Speaker 2: Far for both of them, especially.
Speaker 13: Tennessee, they've really been a notch above what people expected
Speaker 13: in the preseason. But I really predict a lot of
Speaker 13: success to those two teams.
Speaker 6: So if I'm having to pick, I'm picking a dagger
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 13: It's my national title pick. But there's really a group
Speaker 13: of three or four up there that I think you know,
Speaker 13: if you're trying to predict who the title is going
Speaker 13: to come from, there's a good chances from one of
Speaker 13: those four.
Speaker 2: So just real quick, So you're we announced, the police
Speaker 2: announced the website again. How much does it cost for
Speaker 2: people too? Maybe to subscribe?
Speaker 6: Sure, so I mentioned a lot of stuff.
Speaker 13: Is free, but there's a sort of basic fan level
Speaker 13: subscriptions for five bucks a month or thirty a year,
Speaker 13: or if you're a diehard and really want to.
Speaker 6: Get into more of the really specific.
Speaker 13: Stuff like player projections and lineup optimization and keys to
Speaker 13: victory for every team, that's available for I think twenty
Speaker 13: nine to ninety nine a month or about half of
Speaker 13: that per year. But there's really a lot of different
Speaker 13: options depending on how in detail you want to get.
Speaker 2: Man, can you adopt me down the road when you're loaded?
Speaker 2: Because this is fantastic, Evan. You know this is the
Speaker 2: difference between you and me. Evan, this is and I'm
Speaker 2: being funny but serious. You call it random results generator.
Speaker 2: I call it a crapshoot. That's how our educations are different.
Speaker 2: A good way for you, I think, thanks, man, You're
Speaker 2: always good to hope to see you or talk to
Speaker 2: you in a couple of months just to get an
Speaker 2: update of what's going on.
Speaker 13: Sound good, Let's do it, Yeah, Evan.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Evan, appreciate it. It's good stuff. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love that stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the xs and ohs. This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Box Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, he's Dave Silver. You got
Speaker 2: one acting as Jay Gonzalez for our picks. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you, we're gonna try to get through these picks
Speaker 2: pretty quick. I know we had some callers trying to
Speaker 2: get in on one of those segments, So we're gonna
Speaker 2: go through quick, and then we're gonna maybe leave about
Speaker 2: six seven minutes for the callers. So don't disappoint me
Speaker 2: with the callers. Go ahead and go first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, starting with the game tonight in Boise, Idaho, Boyisese
Speaker 3: State looking for concert spot in the college football playoffs.
Speaker 2: Jay's got Boise State, okay against U and LV.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah that's in Vegas, right, Okay, Alperson Stadium.
Speaker 2: Boys. Yeah I like that too.
Speaker 1: I was so.
Speaker 2: I think boys, you beat him by four or five
Speaker 2: first time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there is no way UNLV wins in that weather. Sure,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be like thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a half, right, Okay, I'm gonna go mostly
Speaker 2: pro so I'm gonna go with Pittsburgh beating the Browns
Speaker 2: minus six and a half. Pittsburgh has kind of been
Speaker 2: on lately, which is a surprise to me. But and
Speaker 2: the Browns played well last week last week. But I'm
Speaker 2: still gonna go with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's also gonna choose Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: Okay, who's okay? Yeah, okay, cool, I'm gonna go with Buffalo.
Speaker 2: And who are they playing?
Speaker 4: Rams?
Speaker 2: The Rams? And it's minus what.
Speaker 4: You said? Buffalo?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I can I find where are they?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay? I got around three and a half and a half.
Speaker 3: Okay, he's will also do Buffalo really and that his
Speaker 3: his luck?
Speaker 2: Okay really? Yes, I gotta pick my lock too, Okay,
Speaker 2: I can pick my luck. I guess money.
Speaker 4: Man, not a great week and then oh no no
Speaker 4: it's not games.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not a lot. I'm gonna go Buffalo too.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Buffalo too, not only because I might
Speaker 2: pick her.
Speaker 4: I mean the Cardinals Seahawks is maybe the best Overhall matchup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that a sexy game. Okay, so go ahead. Uh, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with a team that hasn't played well
Speaker 2: and doesn't look good, But what the hell do I know?
Speaker 2: San Francisco the forty nine ers, even though they looked
Speaker 2: bad last week? Forty nine ers, are they gonna play.
Speaker 4: Chicago?
Speaker 2: Oh, because they're even worse new coach. Actually it's playing
Speaker 2: Not a good pick because everybody plays hard for the
Speaker 2: next coach. But I'll do it. I'll do it anyway.
Speaker 3: Is four so Niners Bears. He's got the Niners. So
Speaker 3: you know you have the Niners. Uh So this is
Speaker 3: the rest of his college games, Texas and Georgia.
Speaker 4: He's got Texas. Okay, it's taken on that bandwagon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is fine because I'm going I'm going the opposite.
Speaker 2: I'm going with Georgia. It's find this what is it?
Speaker 4: Uh three?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Georgia's three Texas. I'll take points with Georgia, no problem. Okay,
Speaker 2: So he's going with Texas. Okay, what's his final pick?
Speaker 3: Uh So he's gonna go with the old pack Tall
Speaker 3: School the Oregon Ducks number one, been the most consistent.
Speaker 4: Team of the year.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's Penn State, right.
Speaker 4: Yep, and that's at three and a half for Oregon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't go I want to go with Miami
Speaker 2: over the Jets, figuring that the Jets are funny, figured
Speaker 2: out our season is open.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there we go. That's it. Well, the the Monday
Speaker 4: night excuse me, the Sunday night game is a good
Speaker 4: one with the Chiefs Chargers should be a good one.
Speaker 2: That's about it, right right. The Monday night game is Monday.
Speaker 4: Night is since the Dallas Yeah.
Speaker 3: So my pick, okay, pick, I have SMU beating Clemson.
Speaker 3: Where's that at Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I got, I got.
Speaker 3: I think s is one of the most underrated teams
Speaker 3: going into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Their one loss was to be YU early in the season.
Speaker 4: I think they got a great quarterback and I think
Speaker 4: the Ponies will do it. That's it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They were surprising surprising year, right, yeah, yeah, no, and
Speaker 2: they've been good verad good year.
Speaker 4: Are you guys not going to pick the a SU game?
Speaker 2: No we can, yeah no, And that's we only have
Speaker 2: five So what's the issue? They're minus two?
Speaker 4: I don't know what.
Speaker 2: They were very impassed, So how impressive? Can we will
Speaker 2: take calls? If you can give us a call? Five too? Oh? Four, one, six,
Speaker 2: seventy four forty you have about ten minutes. Uh did
Speaker 2: you see the game Saturday?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We did, so how good you think they are when
Speaker 2: they're playing against a bad team? That that's kind of
Speaker 2: the gauge I was looking at. There was almost not
Speaker 2: a good team, So how do you gauge how good
Speaker 2: a issue is if to beat the crap out of
Speaker 2: a bad team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they haven't. They have not had the hardest schedule
Speaker 4: in the world either, but I always state it's ten
Speaker 4: and two. Let's see. I mean, freshman quarter back, talented receiver,
Speaker 4: defense is good.
Speaker 3: I think the one game that showed how good they
Speaker 3: were was that BYU game. I know it was at
Speaker 3: home whatever, but I mean they for a good half.
Speaker 3: They handled BYU. They had a big lead and they
Speaker 3: kind of gave it up. But in the running back
Speaker 3: they're real physical team. I haven't seeing them that physical
Speaker 3: in a while.
Speaker 4: He's pretty much unstoppable, and I heard that Iowa State's
Speaker 4: not a great rush defense, so that could be a problem.
Speaker 3: They're kind of like a Kansas State program where they're
Speaker 3: always just going to be physical. They know their brand,
Speaker 3: they're established, so I think it'll be interesting.
Speaker 2: I personally have Arizona State coming out. M No, it's
Speaker 2: it's kind of strange. I just don't know how good
Speaker 2: they are. Just Gotta Boo is very good. Just one
Speaker 2: of those old school dudes, right, Yeah, I wonder why Arizona.
Speaker 2: And again, I don't know what do I know. I'm
Speaker 2: not the practice that they use the CDO guy. They
Speaker 2: probably use the CDIO guy in the same way. Uh
Speaker 2: luke luke oah, yeah they should.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he'd have to lose a little
Speaker 3: bit of I don't want to say wait, but just
Speaker 3: getting a little bit more faster.
Speaker 5: Do you know?
Speaker 2: Do you know wrestlers. I'm sure you know wrestlers when
Speaker 2: you went to school or whatever. Kind of those dudes
Speaker 2: are the toughest dudes on the planet, and he would
Speaker 2: be a could lose like a three four time champion,
Speaker 2: state champions, just a tough dude, tough dude, angles toughness,
Speaker 2: stuff like that. We'll see what happens with this, with
Speaker 2: this new new look for for football, it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be you know, big weekend. Obviously the games are
Speaker 4: tonight and tomorrow, but then the rankings come out for
Speaker 4: the College Football Playoff and all the other bowl matchups
Speaker 4: come out on Sunday, so it's a fun weekend for
Speaker 4: the fans to just kind of anticipate the next month
Speaker 4: or so. Yeah, taking us into January this time.
Speaker 3: I one aspect I forgot about the playoffs is these
Speaker 3: this these first round games. You get a team like
Speaker 3: Notre Dame hosting a playoff game against possibly on.
Speaker 4: The state team. Shot, yeah, Boise and Notre Dame. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be some fun games we've never seen before.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm there home in their home stadium.
Speaker 2: Did they say why they only went with twelve games?
Speaker 2: And I asked that maybe naively, because wouldn't it been
Speaker 2: simpler or better for sixteen games? Just even even you
Speaker 2: know what? Do I know?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 2: But sixteen instead of twelve, instead of these tiers? And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but guess what eventually's gonna happen. They're gonna go to
Speaker 2: sixteen and maybe this is a test.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. They'll play out for a couple of years. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, the fourteen playoff was a test.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, why not eight instead to go to twelve?
Speaker 4: Why not sixteen?
Speaker 2: To make it kind of you know, everybody has a game,
Speaker 2: No one has a rest.
Speaker 3: I think it was because of the fact that they
Speaker 3: want the conference championships to mean something in my opinion,
Speaker 3: ben caa yeah or whoever. Yeah, they want those conference
Speaker 3: championships to mean something. You know that you go win
Speaker 3: your conference, you get that first round by yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: But I think they're trying to phase out eventually these
Speaker 4: conference championship games because you know, like Indiana, for example,
Speaker 4: isn't there's they don't have to play. Yeah, so they're
Speaker 4: not going to get hurt Ohio.
Speaker 2: State, right, So that's the advantage, whereas the Big.
Speaker 4: Twelve, you know, you win and you're in and if
Speaker 4: you lose, you're out.
Speaker 2: Basically that's the loud Olsen, Why are we playing in
Speaker 2: the tournament? We already proved ourselves for eighteen games pretty much.
Speaker 2: I mean, who is the worst advocate for the tournament
Speaker 2: or a toughest advocate for the for the tournament?
Speaker 4: Lowton didn't make either.
Speaker 2: Well. Also, they were one and two in the league
Speaker 2: and they didn't want to go to the tournament and
Speaker 2: everything hurt right at times, it did hurt them, you know,
Speaker 2: well at least they didn't perform well in the tournament.
Speaker 2: But okay, anybody want to call, please do five two
Speaker 2: oh four one six seventy four forty if you were
Speaker 2: trying to get in, uh one here is ready for you.
Speaker 2: We got about a minute. We got about five minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so maybe we can get a couple of quick calls
Speaker 2: in a good week of shows. Guys, we had this
Speaker 2: or is fun? Today was good? Thanks Dave. It's good
Speaker 2: to be back. Yeah, good to be back. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask you on the air, what are you
Speaker 2: doing for a break? You wanna have to come in
Speaker 2: more often for spring break?
Speaker 3: Or no, I'm working a lot at the rec center
Speaker 3: towards towards right before.
Speaker 2: They will need you, I need you.
Speaker 4: Is it open?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're in the bear open until the twenty second
Speaker 3: that's the Sunday, and then we open back up right
Speaker 3: right after the New Year on the second.
Speaker 2: See I can have I can have you come in
Speaker 2: do the show.
Speaker 3: Then unfortunately, our not unfortunately. I'll just say, our staff
Speaker 3: is mainly out of town, so they got intouners like
Speaker 3: me who stay, who stay.
Speaker 2: That's that's why I have you. You're an encounter who.
Speaker 3: Everyone everyone hates tooths on until you have the homesteaders
Speaker 3: staying here and working our butts off and doving all
Speaker 3: the fun stuff.
Speaker 2: I think you need the money, not for me, but
Speaker 2: you need for the for the because they pay you. Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm probably and I'm not even figuraturely speaking,
Speaker 3: I'm probably one of the oldest employees there.
Speaker 2: At the wreck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at the wreck, we've gone through some even the
Speaker 3: professional staff members came out, came out.
Speaker 4: And I've been there since twenty twenty not spring of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one. I've stayed there, and.
Speaker 3: I'm more than I'm more than likely one of the
Speaker 3: oldest people there.
Speaker 2: And you're like twelve and you're like, like twelve, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm a baby. One of the one of the great
Speaker 4: things about working at the u of A is that
Speaker 4: break if you're an employee, as you may know, I mean,
Speaker 4: we basically got two weeks.
Speaker 2: Off, oh because you did too, even though you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got to They shut the doors basically on
Speaker 4: you know, a few days before Christmas and didn't come
Speaker 4: back until after New Year's and people would stretch it out. Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm going to take off you know Monday, Tuesday. Christmas
Speaker 4: is on Wednesday, you know. Yeah, you wind up on
Speaker 4: like a three week vacation almost. Yeah, yeah, I have
Speaker 4: two weeks of paid and maybe a couple days of ages.
Speaker 2: And that's in addition to your your normal break, your
Speaker 2: normal vacation.
Speaker 4: You're an employee, Yeah, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 2: You're like a teacher, right, look at you, and what
Speaker 2: did you left the TV world? You never got that.
Speaker 4: You never even could use my vacation in TV. It
Speaker 4: was hard because somebody had to be there every night, somebody.
Speaker 2: Sure one you only have two people? Was was youre
Speaker 2: a chance or time when you had three people?
Speaker 4: Very briefly and it was nice. My friend Mike cos
Speaker 4: is here in Tucson still. Mike was our number three
Speaker 4: guy at the hospital guy. Now, yeah, Mike is Mike
Speaker 4: has got a great career going. Yes, and uh. He
Speaker 4: came in as a super talented photographer, and hey, you know,
Speaker 4: I can do some reporting to next thing. You Knowlway's
Speaker 4: reporting next thing. You know, always anchored on the weekends
Speaker 4: or during the week and we had some good time.
Speaker 2: So that changed because you got out of it, or
Speaker 2: that changed because of the TV change.
Speaker 4: I don't remember exactly. He might have been interested in
Speaker 4: moving up or moving to a different situation. He actually
Speaker 4: stayed in television and worked in sales for a while
Speaker 4: and kind of drifted that direction, which is where his
Speaker 4: career has taken him.
Speaker 2: Now, right right, I see him off and everything a
Speaker 2: lot with the better, better group, and he's he's one
Speaker 2: of the higher ups now, which is great for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Good Yeah, and the industry itself, don't listen to this one.
Speaker 4: This kind of sucks. It's tough. You got to find
Speaker 4: your way, find something. I'm ready. I'm ready for the challenge.
Speaker 2: You're ready for the challenge. You just gotta get the challenge.
Speaker 2: That's the whole thing. And and Dave, realistically, there's no
Speaker 2: guys that look like you or me on TV anymore
Speaker 2: because we're too old.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's a young person's life.
Speaker 4: You have to have some stamina, honestly. I mean, I
Speaker 4: think that's kind of what draws people out of the
Speaker 4: business as they get older. It's like, man, I'm you know,
Speaker 4: I don't have the energy necessarily to work twenty days
Speaker 4: in a row sometimes when people are on vacation or
Speaker 4: there's games to cover and you're going to tournaments and
Speaker 4: things like that. I mean, if you remember the months
Speaker 4: of like March especially March when we had spring training
Speaker 4: here on top of March madness, softball, baseball, spring training,
Speaker 4: all that stuff mixed together. You did not get a
Speaker 4: day off. You just didn't.
Speaker 2: And and when how long was your longest section? Three
Speaker 2: and a half four?
Speaker 4: Hey, I mean it averaged three and a half four minutes? No, no,
Speaker 4: but you know, big nights, you'd get five minutes if
Speaker 4: if you were lucky, if it was a slow night.
Speaker 4: And hey, you know it's a busy night in high
Speaker 4: school football, Like aren't there there's playoffs going on tonight,
Speaker 4: I believe? And yeah, like we talked to Michaeh. We
Speaker 4: talked to uh Pat Newton about Micah Mountain. So anyway,
Speaker 4: those would be big nights. In fact, he started already
Speaker 4: right today. They started at four o'clock.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, great, Thanks thanks one, uh for coming in
Speaker 2: Dave as usual, Thank you very much to you next
Speaker 2: week at some point. Thanks everybody for the calling in
Speaker 2: this week. What a great week.