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Speaker 2: Good, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball
Speaker 2: Hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, my partner
Speaker 2: Jacon Zalas, got a guy Henry in today. I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a fun show, informative show, because we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk a lot about football to a football past
Speaker 2: and present. It should be a lot of fun. And
Speaker 2: we have a lot of we have some clips from
Speaker 2: today's first practice. Right Troy Hutchinson will be with us
Speaker 2: today in the second hour talking about today's first practice.
Speaker 2: He was out there, he got to go, we did it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we have a real job, job, we have air job,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna have a special treat. I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a special treat. I've never really spoken
Speaker 2: to miss Smith Ali Smith. Yeah, the daughter of coach
Speaker 2: Smith right back in the day, and her son is
Speaker 2: a preferred walk on. When the announcement was made all
Speaker 2: this disclosure, he's the son of Heath Bray right, and
Speaker 2: everybody in the family was excited that he's coming home.
Speaker 3: Almost yes, almost yeah, So yeah, it's gonna be fun
Speaker 3: to talk to her. I didn't know what to call her,
Speaker 3: right because she does have a business, she's got it.
Speaker 4: What did you call her? I just called her airson
Speaker 4: a football mom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she was. I asked her that, but she
Speaker 2: said she was.
Speaker 3: So she's gonna talk to us about you know what
Speaker 3: that means. But you know, again, with the history of
Speaker 3: being Larry's Smith's a daughter, you know, she mentions in
Speaker 3: her in her bio on her website that you know,
Speaker 3: she comes from a from a football coaching family, uh Corby.
Speaker 3: Her brother is a coach at one of the high
Speaker 3: schools up in Phoenix. So it's football in their blood.
Speaker 3: But now now you know, Larry Smith's grandson is now
Speaker 3: a preferred walk on the Arizona So well, just kind
Speaker 3: of find out what all that means to you.
Speaker 2: I'm the family and we talked about this. We talk
Speaker 2: about him every now and again, right, talking about the history,
Speaker 2: just how it was for them right up here being
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, this thing, you know, the cool thing again
Speaker 3: and as I always loved this is that the family,
Speaker 3: out of all the places they've been, they settled here, right.
Speaker 3: I mean Larry Smith came from Tulane, came here, went
Speaker 3: to usc uh, went to uh went to Missouri, and
Speaker 3: then I think that I think that was his last
Speaker 3: last stop, right, yes, and then then the family came
Speaker 3: back and settled.
Speaker 4: Here, including including including her.
Speaker 3: So, uh, you know, my interesting to find out, you
Speaker 3: know what, why they felt this was the place to
Speaker 3: to to settle, to settle down, and then just what
Speaker 3: this is going to be like for her as her
Speaker 3: son goes through this and you know, as a preferred
Speaker 3: walk on, you maybe have probably a better chance to
Speaker 3: ultimately be a scholarship player that you know, mates may
Speaker 3: see the field at some point, you.
Speaker 2: Know, right, He's he he had a fantastic career. It
Speaker 2: took him a while to develop because of people in
Speaker 2: front of him at a football kind of the football school, right,
Speaker 2: but when he was able to play as a senior,
Speaker 2: he had a great year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we'll see, we'll see what you've got to
Speaker 3: say about all of that. And then you know, just
Speaker 3: some of her thoughts on on you know, the program
Speaker 3: over the years, you know, she grew up in it, right,
Speaker 3: even though they you know that the family you know,
Speaker 3: was another places. You know, it seems like Arizona was
Speaker 3: still sort of you know, in their hearts a little bit, right,
Speaker 3: And so see what she says.
Speaker 2: So we're looking forward to that, and then we're gonna
Speaker 2: hear us from in fact, any moment now we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk to uh, we're gonna hear from coach Brennan.
Speaker 3: Right, we've got some It was a first day of practice,
Speaker 3: so there's a you know, press conference of brief press
Speaker 3: conference after each after each practice. So let's get let's
Speaker 3: get into those right now so we can get them
Speaker 3: all in before our first guests. Okay, you know, just
Speaker 3: right out of the box, just kind of asked, you know,
Speaker 3: what what was the first day?
Speaker 4: Like, uh, what, you know, what did you think of it?
Speaker 3: And here's justin Spears asked, you asked the question.
Speaker 4: Here's what he had to say the overall thoughts on the.
Speaker 2: First day, And that was great, It was great, It
Speaker 2: was great to be out there.
Speaker 5: I just I love how much his team enjoys practicing
Speaker 5: and being together. And I think they did such a
Speaker 5: fantastic job in this offseason with coach Carol and his staff,
Speaker 5: and everyone's really really prepared and they look great and
Speaker 5: they're flying around.
Speaker 2: And it's just it's awesome. It's it was a fun
Speaker 2: first day. It should be, right, everybody, What was the
Speaker 2: last time you heard of coach say it sucked?
Speaker 3: Well, if somebody gets hurt on the first day or
Speaker 3: something like that, they're gonna say it sucks. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so you know, just kind of basically, you know, again,
Speaker 3: these guys have been gear enough for this. It's here.
Speaker 3: They are officially in the Big twelve on tomorrow, Friday,
Speaker 3: I think August second second when it starts. So so
Speaker 3: then he got that's an interesting question by Brian Peers,
Speaker 3: and I thought this was a good question. What was
Speaker 3: what was this date like, your first day at Arizona
Speaker 3: like compared to your first day at San Jose State.
Speaker 1: Here's what he said, How did today compare to your
Speaker 1: first day at San Jose that first year and then
Speaker 1: and maybe that year with coach Tumba Here in Arizona.
Speaker 2: I would say that.
Speaker 5: I think the biggest difference for me the first day
Speaker 5: here versus the first day at San Jose was I
Speaker 5: just felt so much better prepared for this day, right,
Speaker 5: I've been a head coach for a while now, I
Speaker 5: know I've been through a lot of first days. I
Speaker 5: think that I'm also inheriting a more mature football team
Speaker 5: in this situation. And then the difference between when to coach.
Speaker 5: Tell me, like, you know I was, I don't know
Speaker 5: who I was, but I know I didn't know much then,
Speaker 5: you know, So I'm you know, coming looking at it
Speaker 5: from the position of graduate assistant to being a head coach,
Speaker 5: like there's a lot of there's a lot of life,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of football in the not twenty four
Speaker 5: years and so drastically different. My wife would tell you
Speaker 5: the same because we are newly weds at the time.
Speaker 5: Now she's been stuck with me for twenty four you know,
Speaker 5: she's she maybe doesn't think it's as good of a deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a long time. Obviously, things are different
Speaker 2: at different places. Do you get into you know Twitter?
Speaker 2: You you watch switter? I do it.
Speaker 4: I don't even know why I do it.
Speaker 2: It's just a bunch of drama. But you know the
Speaker 2: Sheer and Luke get into fights without everybody right all
Speaker 2: over the country and talk about well, you've got a
Speaker 2: guy who's went seventy and five at sanls State, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking there's got to be grown men talking about
Speaker 2: stupid things about you know, my my brother is bigger
Speaker 2: than your brother. Yeah, blah blah blah. What is it?
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, what does it matter?
Speaker 4: It doesn't, It doesn't, Steve.
Speaker 3: And that's and that's the crazy thing about social media
Speaker 3: and things like twitters that people get into these discussions
Speaker 3: and they poke at each other, and in the end,
Speaker 3: what has to happen is you go out on the
Speaker 3: field and you do it right, and you see what happens,
Speaker 3: and then you're either a great coach or a good
Speaker 3: coach or you're not. And and you find out on
Speaker 3: the field exactly right, who thought Jed Fish was going
Speaker 3: to be a really good coach here?
Speaker 2: Not anybody that they that they hired him. Not when
Speaker 2: they hired after the first year, what did we think?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. Right, and then
Speaker 2: and then the second year when he had better players,
Speaker 2: you can kind of guess, but he was better, a
Speaker 2: better player, and then they obviously everything happened in year three.
Speaker 2: I still think he caught magic in a bottle. He
Speaker 2: had people around him, and and he needed people and
Speaker 2: what coach doesn't, right, need people around him to make
Speaker 2: things work. Because he was more of a CEO than
Speaker 2: he was a coach. Yes, I could be wrong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I agree, he was. You know, when
Speaker 4: you have.
Speaker 2: Duayna Keina doing what is doing what he's doing, you
Speaker 2: had the offensive guys doing what they did. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, you are the summer of your parts.
Speaker 4: Right exactly?
Speaker 3: I mean he he you know, he did a good
Speaker 3: job because he hired some good people around him well
Speaker 3: and and look and and and his background as an
Speaker 3: NFL coach and the coaching and made you know, we
Speaker 3: made fun of all the stops. But because of all
Speaker 3: those stops, he had all these contacts and he was
Speaker 3: able to pick out guys that he thought would make
Speaker 3: his staff really good. And you know, I don't think
Speaker 3: there's anybody debating that was a really good, really good
Speaker 3: coaching staff and that he took to Washington with him.
Speaker 3: So now the question becomes, does Brent Brannan have that
Speaker 3: kind of staff, that those kinds of contacts and did
Speaker 3: he bring in those guys. Let's let's move on to
Speaker 3: the next one, because the question number one a uh,
Speaker 3: is what's up with tam Mac with the foot. He
Speaker 3: didn't participate too much in drills. I think he did
Speaker 3: some stuff on the satellites. There were a series of
Speaker 3: questions on this, so let's let's just play that conversation.
Speaker 3: I think there are three or four questions about Team
Speaker 3: Mac and his status.
Speaker 4: So here it is what is the plan for team
Speaker 4: act as far as building him up, of course took
Speaker 4: the next month or so.
Speaker 5: You know, that's that's in the hands of our of
Speaker 5: our medical staff and so you know they have in
Speaker 5: our strength and conditioning staff and the doctors, so they
Speaker 5: all have a very clear plan for him. He's making
Speaker 5: great progress. We're very optimistic about how it looks.
Speaker 3: Would say, in a situation like this with a star
Speaker 3: player who's very important to a team, who.
Speaker 6: Has NFL aspirations, that you want to be cautious on
Speaker 6: that side.
Speaker 5: Sure, we're always going to do it's best. We'll always
Speaker 5: do what's best for the player in that situation, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. Like, we don't want to everyone
Speaker 5: want to rush a player to play in right like,
Speaker 5: so we're always those decisions are not coaching decisions ever,
Speaker 5: Those are medical decisions and player decisions, family decisions.
Speaker 4: Troy and David a little bit on that as well.
Speaker 2: Has it kind of surprised you how fast he's come
Speaker 2: along and just to the point of where he is
Speaker 2: right now working with the strength of staff is a
Speaker 2: little how to schedule or just where guy's kind of
Speaker 2: predicted at being.
Speaker 5: I think he's where he should be, and that doesn't surprise.
Speaker 4: Me in all. First of all, he's very young.
Speaker 5: He's got like a fantastic you know, he's blessed with
Speaker 5: this incredible healthy body. Right he's just healing fast and
Speaker 5: recovering quicker than somebody old like me.
Speaker 4: Would you know.
Speaker 3: I love the self deprecating because you feel like he's
Speaker 3: not he's not going to be. And I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about in terms of how great good he's not going
Speaker 3: to be Nick Saban, who's going to be kind of
Speaker 3: grubby and grubby up there, very serious all the time,
Speaker 3: what kind of questions?
Speaker 4: You know? Even Jed wasn't you know that much? You know?
Speaker 3: And really I can't think of any coaches really recently
Speaker 3: that we really like that. So I like, you know,
Speaker 3: Tommy Lloyd is a bit so I like that style
Speaker 3: because you feel like with all the stuff flying around,
Speaker 3: he's still kind of relaxed about things.
Speaker 2: That's a great question. Uh, And I don't even know
Speaker 2: if there's an answer. It could be whatever. I don't
Speaker 2: want to sway your decision. Who's more important tam Mat
Speaker 2: or no, because one is one's one and one needs
Speaker 2: the other kind of.
Speaker 3: They they're they're both making the other better. Is what's
Speaker 3: happening there. I'll almost say though, that the FDA is
Speaker 3: because I feel like if t Mac doesn't come back
Speaker 3: to what he was, there's still a bunch of guys
Speaker 3: that can do that. I don't know if there's anybody
Speaker 3: else on the squad that can do what defeated does.
Speaker 3: We don't know enough about the back of the corner.
Speaker 1: All Right.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you there, because he's going to
Speaker 2: be pivotal in the success. However, however, dot dot dot
Speaker 2: team act to me, if he has a great year,
Speaker 2: is the best player to ever play here?
Speaker 4: Yes, eventually could be.
Speaker 2: There's kind of like, you know, he's very very good,
Speaker 2: and he's important, but we need this other guy to
Speaker 2: do very well.
Speaker 3: If he texts another if he takes the kind of
Speaker 3: leap that he took from two years ago to last year. No,
Speaker 3: I'm talking he's he He'll he'll be you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: without a doubt, the best player ever. He'll win you know, awards,
Speaker 3: will be a first consensus, first team All American and
Speaker 3: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Is it, Who's the best player ever?
Speaker 3: Man, that's a tough call because you have to think
Speaker 3: of somebody like you know who going to kind mentionine yesterday?
Speaker 4: Christ McAllister? Right? Was it Teddy Bruce King?
Speaker 3: I thought I was no question. Well that's where I'm going.
Speaker 3: I'm working my way to that, you know, to that era.
Speaker 4: Right? Was it? You know? Was it was it? Ricky Huntley?
Speaker 4: Was it Chuck Cecil? Was it Gronk?
Speaker 3: For the one year that he the one full year
Speaker 3: that he had? You know, what's what's the criteria? You know,
Speaker 3: multiple great years or maybe one great year?
Speaker 2: So in basketball, you know, is it?
Speaker 3: You know when the other day, uh Wilner put uh.
Speaker 2: Football?
Speaker 3: Yeah, football running back? Uh Kadem Carry? You know on
Speaker 3: the Mount Rushmore? Did you see you know, is it
Speaker 3: Kadem Carry?
Speaker 2: Did you put? Did you see his basketball Rushmore?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, you gotta go find this. Talk about that, Okay,
Speaker 2: talk about that Okay, So I was gonna go here
Speaker 2: with it. So if it's not Ricky because you didn't
Speaker 2: say it right away. In basketball, it's not even a question,
Speaker 2: right right, So football doesn't have that, and.
Speaker 4: I don't think it does.
Speaker 2: Wow, I would I would have said, you would have
Speaker 2: said Ricky Huddy the Ques? Well yeah, and I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, the only thing about that, Steve is that
Speaker 3: they didn't win a championship.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is my that is what that's a criteria.
Speaker 2: This is what I wanted to go with it, because
Speaker 2: if you would have said Ricky Hunting or whomever, because
Speaker 2: you've you've spent your life here and I watched his
Speaker 2: blast thirty some years where you saw the god and
Speaker 2: said that dude is good. Yeah, like you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. When you were a kid, you it's a
Speaker 2: different impression. You walk into a building, Oh this is
Speaker 2: a big building. You're an older dude, that's not so big.
Speaker 2: So was it that when you saw them play?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, his but Ricky Huntley's best team went seven three
Speaker 3: and one, right, the eighty three team went seven three
Speaker 3: and one.
Speaker 4: He's only one man, I know that. But but but
Speaker 4: what let's say Arizona.
Speaker 3: Arizona gets into the college football playoffs this year by
Speaker 3: either winning or or finishing set, you know, getting to
Speaker 3: the Big Twelve championship. Let's say that the Big Twelve
Speaker 3: Playoff and and and uh or the college Football Playoff
Speaker 3: and teammate goes off and breaks the all time receiving
Speaker 3: record at Arizona and all those things.
Speaker 4: Is he the best player ever? I think you have
Speaker 4: to make that.
Speaker 2: I just love the in the times I've seen football
Speaker 2: be played here. He was fantastic. Hey, darrel Lewis was fantastic.
Speaker 2: So I just gotta rob waldro.
Speaker 3: Rob waldro right and right and rick I mean, Ricky
Speaker 3: was a two time All American. He didn't win like
Speaker 3: best linebacker in the country, right, and you know, he
Speaker 3: didn't win one of the one of the one of
Speaker 3: the national awards.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of there's a lot of guys
Speaker 4: in there. Let me put it.
Speaker 3: This way, Ricky is you can if somebody tells me
Speaker 3: I think Ricky Hunt is the best player ever, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna say yes, I'm gonna agree with that.
Speaker 3: But he's not done. Don't have the gap that Sewn
Speaker 3: Elliott has in BASKETA.
Speaker 2: Okay, we gotta go.
Speaker 3: All right, we do gotta go. We're gonna come back.
Speaker 3: We've got Ali Smith is gonna come and talk about
Speaker 3: what it's like to have your kid play for your
Speaker 3: dad's former program.
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Speaker 1: Stringy Live, I mean iHeart radio. Who This is I
Speaker 1: on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jacob Zalez on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to the ball here Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Vera. He's Jacob Zawas. We were anticipating having
Speaker 2: Ali Smith, but our situation where the phones is not good,
Speaker 2: so let me let me do this. I'm oh, you
Speaker 2: try to call right it. It didn't work, Okay, so
Speaker 2: I'll give her the number, but just to see just
Speaker 2: in case. I don't know if you can get in
Speaker 2: though I don't think she can. Yeah, okay, what do
Speaker 2: you need to say? Right where? Yes, So we're trying
Speaker 2: to reach out to her and see see what's up.
Speaker 2: I was looking forward to and we're still looking forward
Speaker 2: to having her on the show. Obviously talked about the
Speaker 2: good old days of the Larry Smith era when she
Speaker 2: was a younger woman and then now and that her
Speaker 2: her son is on the team as a prefer walk on.
Speaker 2: What that feels like? Uh, yeah, ship she trying to
Speaker 2: call on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: I'm trailing telling.
Speaker 4: H we have some great readar going on here.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, No, So I just told her we're working
Speaker 2: on it and we're having people, uh trying to figure
Speaker 2: this out for us. So just a hold on, okay,
Speaker 2: So we're gonna figure it out. This is strange this
Speaker 2: this storm. It was wet here, so I don't know
Speaker 2: if it was something that hit got hit all right,
Speaker 2: Well he hung up on this, okay, So I said,
Speaker 2: we're working on it and we'll see see what happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the way we just had.
Speaker 2: When do we move? Actually we're doing the tour tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we are.
Speaker 3: We're getting a tour where there's gonna be a new
Speaker 3: we're going to a new studio. I don't know, get
Speaker 3: to talent everybody. So well we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, uh you know where we're you
Speaker 3: know we're I mean Arizona is a program now where
Speaker 3: you know you've got cool things like this can happen, right, Uh,
Speaker 3: you know you're somebody's kids, somebody's grand yeah, all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Right, I think well we said, you know how you
Speaker 2: have legacy guys. The Feenix kid went to where he
Speaker 2: went to, Parker went, uh, we had the tight end.
Speaker 4: Kem Burnett is here. But they says, you know, looking
Speaker 4: pretty good already.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, no that that dude, You know.
Speaker 2: What that says we were old because we covered those dudes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we covered the recovered these guys thirty years ago, recovered
Speaker 2: them thirty five.
Speaker 4: Years ago when they yeah, when they were playing.
Speaker 2: Five years ago, because thirty thirty five years ago was
Speaker 2: a long ass time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see, Yeah, my first year covering football was
Speaker 3: eighty eight. Well I covered it's some in eighty seven.
Speaker 3: So that's what sevn years ago, thirteen and twenty four. Yeah,
Speaker 3: thirty seven years ago, Steve, come on, man.
Speaker 2: I mean I thought I'd be here four years and
Speaker 2: get the hell out of Dodge.
Speaker 4: I love Dodge.
Speaker 2: I love Dodge.
Speaker 3: Come on, and I think the Smith's have like Dodge,
Speaker 3: you know, right of course the Corby's up in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well no, she's in Phoenix too.
Speaker 4: She's in Phoenix too.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, she just she's here in town now and talked,
Speaker 2: I ad are you nearby? Maybe she can go to
Speaker 2: get her in the studio because this phone thing, this
Speaker 2: phone thing, this is the first time this is happening.
Speaker 4: We've never had this happen, I know.
Speaker 2: Outside of a store, like a major store.
Speaker 4: Or our buddy Nick is he's trying to get it
Speaker 4: fixed and maybe we can. Yeah, yeah, get because we've
Speaker 4: got a couple of guests today that we're open to have.
Speaker 3: But you know, I don't know, you know, we were
Speaker 3: hoping to talk about this, but look, it's uh, you know,
Speaker 3: the season has started. I really wanted to get out
Speaker 3: there today just to see, I feel, just to see
Speaker 3: if there's any buzz right to the season. I heard
Speaker 3: a little bit of of nor Fleda's uh part of
Speaker 3: the press conference?
Speaker 2: Is it coach the only one that talked, No.
Speaker 3: Coach and know and then they had no Flafida and
Speaker 3: Dalton Johnson. We're up on the podium, you know, and
Speaker 3: I Fafita said what you would expect for to say,
Speaker 3: what happened to be out here? We got work to do.
Speaker 3: It was great to get out here. We love the guy,
Speaker 3: you know, we love each other. We're we're fired up
Speaker 3: about getting started. You know, kind of stuff I didn't
Speaker 3: say anything earth shattering, you know, talked about you know,
Speaker 3: they asked him about team at he said, yay, you know,
Speaker 3: he wants to get out there, so sure, everybody's got
Speaker 3: to take care of business.
Speaker 2: And sure, sure and he is he is. You know,
Speaker 2: we talked about this with just last out last segment.
Speaker 2: He he's the guy you cannot afford to lose. And
Speaker 2: earlier we didn't uh and then we already talked. We
Speaker 2: didn't talk about it with the political right.
Speaker 3: I mean, how good is how good is Fefeita because
Speaker 3: of t mac and vice versa? Right, So you know
Speaker 3: you gotta have both of them out there. I mean
Speaker 3: that this whole mhm, all of the expectations really emanate
Speaker 3: from those two guys.
Speaker 4: We're having those two guys.
Speaker 2: No question. I mean, there was a reason why uh
Speaker 2: umberto deep in his in his pocket to keep these
Speaker 2: kids here.
Speaker 4: Hey, did I say something on a note somewhere, whether
Speaker 4: it's on social media or something, that that those either
Speaker 4: both of those guys or Fafita is getting uh some
Speaker 4: sort of a major nil deal.
Speaker 2: I didn't see.
Speaker 4: I saw something to.
Speaker 2: That effect on your Twitter, the Twitter world, in the
Speaker 2: Twitter world, Well, do you have that tourism thing that the.
Speaker 4: Airport, but it sounds like this is something bigger.
Speaker 3: You saw you saw Jada what's her name, the point
Speaker 3: guard for women's basketball. I can't remember her last name.
Speaker 3: She's got a deal she's doing, she got a back.
Speaker 3: Spalding made a basketball with her, you know, uh, promoting
Speaker 3: it basketball that looks like a marble or something like that.
Speaker 3: And she was all over social media with that. So
Speaker 3: she's got a deal with Spalding, which is you know,
Speaker 3: for a you know, a women's college basketball player at Arizona,
Speaker 3: to have a national brand like that, to get a
Speaker 3: deal from them, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, of course, man, Just what would Dick to
Speaker 2: me be thinking about this one? I know, I know
Speaker 2: would hate it, maybe not hated.
Speaker 3: You know what, you know, you know what, you know
Speaker 3: what Dick, Dick and a certain and I think even
Speaker 3: you know Larry Smith, because you know, they kind of
Speaker 3: a couple of down to earth, you know guys. But
Speaker 3: I think what they would do is they would say,
Speaker 3: let's make the best of this, and and I think
Speaker 3: they would be happy for the players and they would
Speaker 3: say let's you know, yeah, I mean, I don't you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know that they would quit because of this.
Speaker 3: I just think they would say, Okay, this is this
Speaker 3: is our our this is what it is. You know
Speaker 3: they would make the adjustment to it because that's that's
Speaker 3: the kind of guys that they were. I mean, how
Speaker 3: many times did Dick say, you know, you just go
Speaker 3: on to the next guy up right?
Speaker 4: He was?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was that dude, just you know, what can
Speaker 2: you do? Right?
Speaker 4: You figure it out and you just you get you
Speaker 4: go with the hand that was dealt.
Speaker 2: So so let me ask you, since we talked about
Speaker 2: this with football and now with basketball, easy, the best
Speaker 2: baseball player is he? Is he Francona, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I guess you'd have to throw in a guy like
Speaker 3: Dave Stegman.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he would be the who would be.
Speaker 3: Right up there probably top three guys. You know, people say,
Speaker 3: well Trevor Hoffins in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Well,
Speaker 3: Trevor Hoffins was he was a light hitting shortstop in Arizona.
Speaker 3: You know, you think about all the guys that made
Speaker 3: the Major lea if Scott Erickson had the best pitching year,
Speaker 3: but he was only here that one year, right, Uh?
Speaker 4: You know, J T.
Speaker 3: Snow. You know, uh, there's Ron Hassey. There's a bunch
Speaker 3: of guys like that. I I yeah, I think you
Speaker 3: got to give it to Frankcna. He won the National Warder,
Speaker 3: he won the Heisman Trophy of baseball. So yeah, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to say Terry Francona. But you know, Dave
Speaker 3: Stegman may have had the greatest single year. Was seventy
Speaker 3: six seventy six? I think, yeah, seventy five or seventy
Speaker 3: six seventy four had the greatest single year.
Speaker 4: You badted like four fifty or something. Great.
Speaker 2: How far did he get? How far he got?
Speaker 3: He got to the majors. He played for the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 3: Not a long time, but he played. He played with
Speaker 3: the Detroit Tigers. Wonder if he's still a run.
Speaker 2: This is a dumb sqush at Leon, What do you do?
Speaker 4: Leon? Yeah, he played with the Indians.
Speaker 2: Was he here?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, he went to school here.
Speaker 2: How good was he?
Speaker 4: He was really good? Okay, he's good enough to get
Speaker 4: drafted so twice.
Speaker 2: Top ten he's a.
Speaker 3: Top ten guy. He's the top ten guy. So you know,
Speaker 3: but Jake Kennell rolled a bunch of guys out there uh,
Speaker 3: you know who you know who got to the majors
Speaker 3: and what's his name? Kevin Long was a really good
Speaker 3: player there on its still you know in baseball in
Speaker 3: the majors. He's a hitting coach for somebody. Well, you know,
Speaker 3: so there's guys like that that you know, have had
Speaker 3: great years like.
Speaker 2: That, even even the guys that played in twenty twelve thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Robs, I saw him strike out the other.
Speaker 2: Day again, he got paid about fifteen thousand.
Speaker 3: He's playing. He's with Boston. I think, who do we
Speaker 3: who do we also see what's the name of the catcher?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, was just a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: Caesar what's his name?
Speaker 3: Anyways, he's been up and down with the Astros. I
Speaker 3: think Seth has breened. That guy has been has been
Speaker 3: around Bobby Dahlbeck. I think he's back in Triple A.
Speaker 3: But he's been up with the with the with the
Speaker 3: Red Sox a bunch of times.
Speaker 4: So the Yankees, he's been playing really well. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's a guy that you know.
Speaker 3: His name doesn't even come to my mind when you
Speaker 3: think about, you know, the best players ever we have Henry,
Speaker 3: I can think of the old guys, but I can't
Speaker 3: think of the new guys.
Speaker 4: Nice job, that's a very nice poll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so is our guy working on this?
Speaker 4: Yes, you said, he said, give me a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to Yeah, T and T or whoever is
Speaker 2: get the scroll to work.
Speaker 4: You know, Steve, you know, we don't come in. We
Speaker 4: don't check.
Speaker 3: I mean, I look at the buttons on the board
Speaker 3: to make sure all the buttons are right. But I
Speaker 3: don't pick up the phone and say the phone working.
Speaker 2: You don't expect after you know, five hundred shows that
Speaker 2: we've done, that says this is the day it's gonna
Speaker 2: screw us. So we'll see. She's hanging on for us. Uh,
Speaker 2: she's got to get out of here by four for something. Okay,
Speaker 2: well we're gonna we're gonna get on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we'll try and get this work done.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, I mean, you go through the
Speaker 3: years and and the funny part is like the reason
Speaker 3: Ricky Hunters didn't come to me right off, and it should.
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope you and Lamont aren't listening right now.
Speaker 3: Ricky's too busy, But hopefully.
Speaker 2: We were working for Dancing with the Stars and then.
Speaker 3: But you know, but but you know, to me, I
Speaker 3: think there's so many guys in football that are kind
Speaker 3: of on a on a level, right, and Ricky is
Speaker 3: one of them. Cecil Ruski I always hesitate to put
Speaker 3: Gronk up there because you just didn't do it long enough.
Speaker 3: But Rob Waldrop, dear Lewis, Antoine, Cason, McAllister. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: who was the most impactful and athletic guy. It's between
Speaker 3: McAllister and Ricky hun Trump Canada. Trunk Canada had a
Speaker 3: great year. He had a great year. It was a
Speaker 3: great year. But but but so did Kadem Carry had
Speaker 3: a great year. Yeah, Deem Carrey had had a better
Speaker 3: years of running back. We didn't see Art Lapino, what
Speaker 3: what the hell that was like? But you see some
Speaker 3: of those highlights and you go, that was crazy, you
Speaker 3: know how you know, how far back do you go?
Speaker 2: And you're not even talking about aquarterback because this is
Speaker 2: not a place for quarterback, right, Who.
Speaker 3: Are the top quarterback? Is Bruce Hill one of the
Speaker 3: top two or three quarterbacks? Because you know, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of dead people who you know, saw him, and
Speaker 3: a lot of people who were around they didn't.
Speaker 2: There was a highlight. I saw either yesterday the day
Speaker 2: before and talked about whatever your Solomon?
Speaker 4: What year was that to Solomon? Twenty fourteen freshman year?
Speaker 2: He came he came in and replaced somebody, I think
Speaker 2: because once he came in. No, no, maybe not maybe maybe.
Speaker 3: Because bj Denker was the quarterback the year before that.
Speaker 3: So who was I got recruited? Sat out the twenty
Speaker 3: thirteen as a as a red shirt while bj Denker
Speaker 3: was the quarterback. You thought, how bad is honwd Solomon's
Speaker 3: a quarterback? But you know rich Rod clearly had a
Speaker 3: plan for that. Yeah, and Honod Solomon had arguably the
Speaker 3: greatest freshman year of any quarterback in Arizona history. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, won a championship, a back to off South
Speaker 3: championship team goes, you know, wins ten games. But then
Speaker 3: after that what right? Yeah, you know he got he
Speaker 3: got concussions and stuff and the next.
Speaker 2: Thing, you know, who's the one that had to throw
Speaker 2: up post?
Speaker 3: That was Matt Scott Scott and again Matt Scott with
Speaker 3: you know, we're doing pretty good, had trouble, you know,
Speaker 3: passed up Nick Foles, took a red shirt year and
Speaker 3: then played the played that one full season under under
Speaker 3: rich Rod, which when you when you think what rich
Speaker 3: Rod did in his first year twenty twelve with Matt Scott,
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen BJ dankor twenty fourteen with Andrew Solomon, Ego,
Speaker 3: I mean what kind of coach was he to be
Speaker 3: able to get quarterbacks to be that good?
Speaker 2: Right? Well? And then he of course we had uhlil
Speaker 2: tate for that segment. Yeah, but then you wonder what
Speaker 2: were you seen in practice that he couldn't do their three.
Speaker 4: Or four weeks right?
Speaker 3: And how did that go south so fast? But you know,
Speaker 3: so uh, when you're talking about the greatest player in
Speaker 3: the in the various sports, you know, there's always somebody
Speaker 3: that you don't think right, you know, I mean there's
Speaker 3: probably guys that you I mean they were not thinking of,
Speaker 3: you know who were some guys in the in the
Speaker 3: stoops there Mike Thomas, right, didn't he didn't he uh
Speaker 3: uh set the single season record for receptions or something
Speaker 3: like talking to the wrong guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, but in the middle in the middle
Speaker 4: of the in the middle of the stoops years.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, super fast Willie Tatama, you know, you
Speaker 3: know he he he came in at it. You know,
Speaker 3: when Arizona was digging itself out of out of the
Speaker 3: memage on start? Did he start?
Speaker 4: He started as fresh.
Speaker 2: Because because there was a there was a thing on Twitter.
Speaker 2: I saw that, Oh he's coming in replacing this guy,
Speaker 2: and then they go.
Speaker 4: He got the starting job in the middle of his fresh.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what it was. Who was the replacement.
Speaker 4: I think he replaced Richard Colvile.
Speaker 2: That must have been because it must have been Tetama.
Speaker 2: He came in and did really well, that's who it was.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the other guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he came in, uh against Uh he came in
Speaker 3: a game. Is this is gonna be one of those things?
Speaker 3: How do you remember this? But you don't remember that.
Speaker 3: He came in and they were getting their butts kicked
Speaker 3: by Oregon. They put him in the game. He he
Speaker 3: nearly brought him back. Then they go to Oregon. He
Speaker 3: gets his first start at Oregon State and they beat
Speaker 3: at Oregon State, he beat the hell out of him.
Speaker 3: And then he comes here and they beat the hell
Speaker 3: out of an undefeated lak and that, and he went
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 4: He goes out.
Speaker 2: Maybe they played harder for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But then the next year.
Speaker 3: You know, they opened with the with with l s
Speaker 3: U or they played LSU in the first couple of games,
Speaker 3: he gets concussion and and that kind of killed his career,
Speaker 3: you know, but you know, he ended up playing some more.
Speaker 3: Took him to took him to the Las Vegas ball
Speaker 3: as the first bowl Arizona had gone to since the
Speaker 3: what since the uh since that that Festa Bowl, you know,
Speaker 3: after the Festol the Holiday Bowl, after the ninety eight season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, and he was a hero.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we were out of time, So let's go
Speaker 2: to break. Okay, maybe we can get her in this
Speaker 2: other half hour, unless twenty minutes, fifteen minutes, that'd be great.
Speaker 4: Okayhead, all right, okay, we'll right back.
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the excess at Alls. It's Steve Lavera
Speaker 1: and Jagen Salviaz. This is I on the Ball on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteenth fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to one in the Ball here Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, you're Jag Jef Henry, and we're.
Speaker 4: Trying to quet.
Speaker 2: We still don't have Funday Wednesday. Okay, you know what,
Speaker 2: we'll figure it out. If she doesn't come on today,
Speaker 2: maybe do tomorrow. Yeah, maybe tomorrow. And I'm gonna text
Speaker 2: her now. We're still gonna try to get her on today,
Speaker 2: right and see what happens. But I but I think
Speaker 2: it's a good story. A proud mom history here, history,
Speaker 2: family history here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of stuff like that again. And the
Speaker 3: Smiths have been, you know, a big part of Tucson since,
Speaker 3: you know, since they came here in nineteen eighty even
Speaker 3: though you know, Larry went to USC and went to
Speaker 3: Missouri and you know, was gone and stuff. Again, the
Speaker 3: fact that that they kept coming back, you know, to
Speaker 3: be here is very cool. Yeah, and I've always thought
Speaker 3: that about them. And you know, you can't you know,
Speaker 3: if you got mad at Larry when he left, you
Speaker 3: couldn't stay mad at him.
Speaker 4: Uh. You know.
Speaker 3: He again, he was doing what was best for him
Speaker 3: and his family. And there's no one you can't argue
Speaker 3: with that. Yeah, for the same reason you can't argue
Speaker 3: about jet Fish leaving.
Speaker 2: It was so almost forty years ago, right, for almost forty.
Speaker 3: Years it was following the nineteen eighty six season.
Speaker 2: Do you think do you think? You know everyone has
Speaker 2: revisionist history and still grudges. I won't say whom, but
Speaker 2: there could be a person or two or three out
Speaker 2: there that says, no, he left, and I don't you know.
Speaker 4: Of course there are people whole grudges.
Speaker 2: No really really, but you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even though.
Speaker 2: It's it's like forty years ago, what is at Steve?
Speaker 3: There's people who feel who still don't like Dick Tomy
Speaker 3: because he never got him to a rose Ball. Oh
Speaker 3: you should you know, well, he was a good guy,
Speaker 3: as was Larry Smith.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you don't want to like Kevin Sumlan
Speaker 3: and if you don't want to like John mcavic, go ahead,
Speaker 3: because those guys came here and trash the place, all right,
Speaker 3: they trashed the place.
Speaker 4: I mean they were you're not I mean that.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no other way to put it. They
Speaker 3: trashed the program. Yeah, both of them did. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: so yeah, you know if if if you have sports grudges,
Speaker 3: that's and you're an Arizona fan, that's to to hold.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, Ben lindsay, who had the worst
Speaker 3: basketball season? And ever, well, he'll debate that because you
Speaker 3: said that, right right, that's so funny debate it. But
Speaker 3: without Ben Lindsay, you don't have Loudolfson. Yeah, so you
Speaker 3: almost say thank you for being so bad?
Speaker 2: Right, Well, you you were there at the table yesterday
Speaker 2: when we talked about Jed possibly not leaving. Are you there? Oh,
Speaker 2: you were talking to Aquina. You were talking to Aquina
Speaker 2: I think at the time. And he says, Okay, let's
Speaker 2: assoom for a second that Jed stays stays for this year, right,
Speaker 2: and where do we think Jed's gonna end up eventually? Okay,
Speaker 2: so the timing of this, Okay, what if he stays here,
Speaker 2: then get rid of their guy at Florida the next
Speaker 2: logical move would.
Speaker 4: Be Jed fish.
Speaker 2: But now he goes to Washington. What if he doesn't
Speaker 2: do well two or three years, you think Florida's gonna go?
Speaker 4: Now I was there for that conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the so the hold the domino situation doesn't
Speaker 2: fall like he could have played out if he stayed
Speaker 2: here one more year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you're you're absolutely right, because let's say Jed.
Speaker 3: Let's have this conversation. Let's say Jed does stay and
Speaker 3: they go ten and three, get in, get in the playoff,
Speaker 3: he has a great year, he has a pick of jobs,
Speaker 3: and maybe, you know, Florida opens up and he goes
Speaker 3: to Florida. You know, I think people would be less
Speaker 3: unhappy with him if that would have.
Speaker 2: Happened, no question, right, you would expect.
Speaker 4: That, right, would Brent Brennan still have been available?
Speaker 3: Or would Brent Brennon have gotten the u c l
Speaker 3: A job after after and we had that was part
Speaker 3: of the conversation. Right, Okay, Let's say Jed doesn't take
Speaker 3: the Washington job, but then later the UCLA job opened up,
Speaker 3: you know, way later. Yeah, you know, would would Jed
Speaker 3: have gone to u c l A? Because that's still
Speaker 3: a big ten program.
Speaker 2: Do you believe in stuff like that the butterfly effect? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, I do. Yeah, you know, I knew had
Speaker 2: I taken a left at album Crooky and something would
Speaker 2: have happened or now you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: No, I do believe. I do believe in that stuff.
Speaker 3: I I you know, you know, just without without going
Speaker 3: you know, too deep into it. I mean, I had
Speaker 3: some things happened in my life back in the early
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties that had that not happened, I wouldn't have
Speaker 3: the family that I have now. And it's not just
Speaker 3: you know, I've been not just getting into divorced, but
Speaker 3: things that were part of that that whole period of time.
Speaker 3: If these things don't happen, I don't get divorced, and
Speaker 3: I don't have the family that I've gotten now. And
Speaker 3: I think I consider myself the luckiest person on the
Speaker 3: planet with the family that I have. I totally agree
Speaker 3: with you all that to me, the way I see this,
Speaker 3: all that was meant to be right right. It all
Speaker 3: fell into place the way it was supposed to fall
Speaker 3: into place. And so yeah, I think that I think
Speaker 3: there is something to that, and I've I've because of
Speaker 3: those things. I've always believed that, you know, the fact
Speaker 3: that I didn't get I didn't get a promotion at
Speaker 3: the Star put me on the path that I went
Speaker 3: on with, you know, to go to tep and you know,
Speaker 3: and have that kind of you know, a career in
Speaker 3: in pr and then do all the things that you
Speaker 3: know that I've been able to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, No, I think everybody has that.
Speaker 3: If I had stayed at the Star, I wouldn't have
Speaker 3: been a statistician in Arizona basketball for thirty years.
Speaker 4: I'd be a spectator like everybody.
Speaker 2: No, I think everybody has that. If they don't believe
Speaker 2: in that, that's up to them. Yeah, but there's no question.
Speaker 2: You know, had I done something else where would I
Speaker 2: have been? And everyone says, you know, how not get married?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have two great kids, Yetta, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: All those things. Yeah, No, I hear you, I do
Speaker 4: hear you.
Speaker 2: I think philosophical are we drinking here? What?
Speaker 4: I didn't put any rum in it.
Speaker 2: So I think we're gonna get I think this is
Speaker 2: what we're gonna do. Ali says she's affected flexible, so
Speaker 2: we can probably move her tomorrow. Fifteen. All right, we'll
Speaker 2: have we have another great guest, got a bed Amanda Beard,
Speaker 2: So will have all Women show tomorrow, which is great
Speaker 2: Amanda Beard and then Ali and uh, we'll just go
Speaker 2: without a guest this first up.
Speaker 4: Okay, sounds great.
Speaker 2: All right, solved, and we just got to get the
Speaker 2: bold which.
Speaker 3: And we got to get to this last ten minutes
Speaker 3: here that we gotta we somehow got to kill.
Speaker 2: And then remember we gotta still get Troy hoping the
Speaker 2: phone works.
Speaker 3: All right, that's right, We've got to hope what the
Speaker 3: phone's working by by four fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they're so we didn't mention that Pluto is
Speaker 2: a Raymond Plato.
Speaker 4: I don't know. We did talk about it.
Speaker 2: It is going to be out, yes, Uh so what
Speaker 2: does that mean?
Speaker 3: I an'swer a big deal, Steve. You know there's a
Speaker 3: you know, there's a belief belief that the the that
Speaker 3: the offensive line for the most part intact with h
Speaker 3: with only the guy.
Speaker 4: Got drafted Morgan. Uh yeah, what was his first name?
Speaker 2: Jordan?
Speaker 3: Jordan Morgan Morgan Wallace Andry you're supposed to step in
Speaker 3: here and give me that. Okay, you got it, Jordan Morgan.
Speaker 3: You know and and uh, you know the importance of
Speaker 3: making sure that uh North Folfida is protected and stays
Speaker 3: healthy and has the protection he needs to be able
Speaker 3: to do what he does.
Speaker 4: You know, it's gonna be a big piece of it now.
Speaker 3: And and just the way it was said, if you
Speaker 3: listened to it on the press conference, it was just like,
Speaker 3: you know, somebody asked him just about the lying and
Speaker 3: he said, well, Raymond Polito was not going to be
Speaker 3: available to us.
Speaker 2: Well, I thought it was more direct about it.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was about him, but he just said, Raymond
Speaker 3: Polito is not gonna be available to us this season.
Speaker 3: Didn't say he's injured, didn't say he's academically ineligible, didn't
Speaker 3: say he failed a drug test, didn't say anything. He
Speaker 3: said he's not available to us. And and you know
Speaker 3: that's what that means. And I, you know, I get
Speaker 3: the whole We got to be careful about what we
Speaker 3: say about guys and whatnot. But that's so now you're
Speaker 3: in so you're now you're in a situation where guys
Speaker 3: are gonna have to adjust right now the time about
Speaker 3: moving Jonas Savonne over to left tackle.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then so he's you'll be learning an the position, and
Speaker 3: we saw all that, remember all that shifting around for
Speaker 3: the Alma Bowl, and they were getting the hell beat
Speaker 3: out of him by Oklahom. Then they said screw it
Speaker 3: and they went back to something more where people were
Speaker 3: where they belonged, and all of a sudden, Arizona shuts
Speaker 3: them down, or I mean not shut them down, but
Speaker 3: starts moving the ball again.
Speaker 2: So that's it. That's and we're gonna know about Team
Speaker 2: Mac and the rest of them. So they can't afford
Speaker 2: to have anybody else go down, right, and guess what
Speaker 2: they're playing football? Guess what happens in football. You go down,
Speaker 2: People go down.
Speaker 4: People go down, no matter what you do.
Speaker 2: And you're talking day one, right, yeah, so who.
Speaker 3: Knows what you know what what that's gonna do. But
Speaker 3: you know, Brandon was kind of okay, you know this.
Speaker 3: You know, you gotta fix things, you gotta adjust uh
Speaker 3: and you said, we've got a lot of time to
Speaker 3: figure this out. And uh, you know, you said, they'll
Speaker 3: try some things and if those things don't work, they'll
Speaker 3: try something else.
Speaker 4: And that's what you do. And that's what a coach does.
Speaker 2: Right. You don't feel cursed yet.
Speaker 4: No, not yet.
Speaker 3: Look if look, if no Off of Fia goes down,
Speaker 3: if Tam Mac goes down, if all the running backs
Speaker 3: get hurt, you know, you know, or Jacob Moni goes down.
Speaker 3: Because remember the twenty fifteen years Scooby, right, you know.
Speaker 2: Goes down, goes down. That was that that was a
Speaker 2: huge deal too, because he was so important to that defense. Right,
Speaker 2: So you know, and it's one dude.
Speaker 3: If things like that happened, then you're talking about, you know,
Speaker 3: the curse coming back of the of the sixty eight.
Speaker 2: So no, no, no soup for you. He went ten,
Speaker 2: ten wins, Guess what happens, Yeah, automatically.
Speaker 4: Pull the rug out.
Speaker 3: Man, it's Lucy, as you say, Lucy pulling the ball
Speaker 3: away once again. But I'm still hanging it on what
Speaker 3: Duayna Kina said yesterday that last year reminded him of
Speaker 3: the ninety two season as opposed to the ninety three
Speaker 3: season when they won ten games. He compared to the
Speaker 3: U said the USC game last year to the ninety
Speaker 3: two Miami game. Both losses both you know at the buzzer,
Speaker 3: and both both of those games set you know, U
Speaker 3: of a on a path where you know they were
Speaker 3: able to have a good, you know, a really good
Speaker 3: season at least a great, you know, great period of time.
Speaker 3: The ninety two season didn't end up great. They went
Speaker 3: six to five and one, but they also beat number
Speaker 3: one Washington here in one of the best games ever
Speaker 3: to be at at Arizona Stadium. So, you know, until
Speaker 3: those things start happening, and Steve, you know, we'll we'll
Speaker 3: we'll keep We'll just keep rolling along.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, cool, cool, cool, We got a five minute stuff.
Speaker 2: Anybody want to give us a quick call? Oh, you know,
Speaker 2: you can't stop.
Speaker 3: I think Henry was, I think, what's your day?
Speaker 2: So Ali compared, we're gonna do three three fifteen tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I said, of course that the phones work. If the
Speaker 2: phone the phone phones work, yeah, uh, it'll get fixed hopefully.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And uh and then as we said, Amanda Beard, former Olympian,
Speaker 3: Uh you know right, you know, in the middle.
Speaker 2: Of she was she was one of the she was
Speaker 2: the only UH swimming coach retained RENU coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good for her. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, and I've never really spoken to her. And back
Speaker 2: in the day she was like on.
Speaker 4: The show, did we Yeah, did we?
Speaker 2: We've had her on when I don't remember that.
Speaker 3: Last Olympics. I don't know, No, I don't we had
Speaker 3: her on. We had it, we've had really, yes.
Speaker 2: Because you have her on the list, yes, do you? Yes,
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 4: I already had her mugshot and I already.
Speaker 2: Had her list because she was one of the darlings
Speaker 2: back in the day of the two thousand.
Speaker 4: And while that.
Speaker 3: Stretch of of teams that that Frank Bush had.
Speaker 2: Over he yeah, yeah, I don't remember that having her on.
Speaker 3: Let's see we had her on. Uh, we've had her on. Oh,
Speaker 3: we had her on in June of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: last summer.
Speaker 2: Really, yes, Now it was just last night.
Speaker 4: I know what we had her on when she got hired.
Speaker 3: Oh maybe maybe that's when we got on just after
Speaker 3: she got hired in Arizona.
Speaker 2: Who are you? What's your name?
Speaker 4: That's why these who's been on our show. I keep
Speaker 4: a record back, you know, I need to find well
Speaker 4: one to find out what we call.
Speaker 2: You keep the cop notes. I don't even where my
Speaker 2: notes are. Yeah, okay, cool, cool, So she'll be back.
Speaker 2: Ali will be here tomorrow as well as I'm on
Speaker 2: the beard. God, I remember talking to her. But that's cool.
Speaker 2: That's cool, and then we'll have Troy Hutchinson here hopefully
Speaker 2: at the four.
Speaker 4: Cann I Teyson.
Speaker 3: You know, it's Hutcheson, Hutchinson, Hutchinson, Hutchison, right, no end,
Speaker 3: there's no ending.
Speaker 2: There's an N at the end, but not in the media. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he says his name, like my dad would probably say,
Speaker 2: call Troy the kid, my kid. I think it's gonna
Speaker 2: hopefully we can get him on. They're working on the phone,
Speaker 2: so if not, you're gonna have to listen to us
Speaker 2: for for another for an extra fifteen minutes. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: So Hutchison, Hutchison, It's okay, Troy hutches It's like Peterson
Speaker 2: with the no. No, it's all ease.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's all ease. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, listening to the press conference that you know,
Speaker 3: I know, the guys you know who have to write
Speaker 3: about this and they're writing about this stuff every day
Speaker 3: that you have to go into some detail on some
Speaker 3: of the you know, some of the things they're talking about,
Speaker 3: specific players and that kind of stuff. We're kind of
Speaker 3: flat a little a little higher level. But again, you know,
Speaker 3: there was a discussion of the offensive line, the discussion
Speaker 3: of the receivers, well, you know what we got time,
Speaker 3: let's play this last quote, the last clip, because you
Speaker 3: know we talked about what if team at right or
Speaker 3: you know who what tell us a little bit about
Speaker 3: your receiver room, uh and what you know what you've
Speaker 3: got going on there, because you know, if they don't
Speaker 3: if they don't get team AC or if he gets
Speaker 3: hurt again, you know, you gotta feel good about that group.
Speaker 3: So here's what the Brandon had to say about his
Speaker 3: receiving group.
Speaker 5: For I'm excited about that group. You know, I think
Speaker 5: the the guys that we added this spring, I'm really
Speaker 5: excited to see what they can do or you know,
Speaker 5: added post spring ball.
Speaker 2: And then I think there's a big group of guys.
Speaker 5: There's kind of like a log jam there after the
Speaker 5: first three or four guys, and someone needs to separate there.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that's the beauty of football is
Speaker 5: that they're all going to get reps, and those reps
Speaker 5: are going to dictate who moves up the ladder and
Speaker 5: who doesn't. And so that's that's a huge part of
Speaker 5: training camp is you know, starting starting those things starting
Speaker 5: to separate and and decide themselves. And we'll make those
Speaker 5: evaluations daily.
Speaker 3: As we go, you know, uh, and I think you
Speaker 3: can probably say similar things about the running back room. Right,
Speaker 3: they got a bunch of guys. Now the question is
Speaker 3: which which of those guys can play?
Speaker 2: Right? Well, they got the new Mexicool guy back, right,
Speaker 2: so he's the veteran. He knows how to play the game.
Speaker 2: Hopefully for them that he's capable, and he needs at
Speaker 2: least one or two of those guys. Yeah, because because
Speaker 2: I thought, I thought, you know, I know, Noah was important.
Speaker 2: I know, Tam Mac was hugely important, both of them.
Speaker 2: But the dude I really liked was the running back
Speaker 2: who left jan Jonah Coleman. You give him the ball.
Speaker 2: He was a bowling ball going down five six yards, yes,
Speaker 2: five six yards.
Speaker 4: Yes, every time, every time, every time.
Speaker 2: You know, you could probably think, well, those three guys,
Speaker 2: those three guys alone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, I mean that they right, they
Speaker 3: had a running game. They had guys they could count on.
Speaker 3: They had a bunch of different guys.
Speaker 2: And one doesn't work without the other, Right, It creates
Speaker 2: the opening.
Speaker 3: That Michael Wiley was, you know, and then TJ DJ
Speaker 3: DJ Williams. You know that that group of guys they
Speaker 3: had as much to do with how good Arizona was
Speaker 3: last year as t Mac and the receivers and defeated quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Well, I just got some there's some storm warnings in
Speaker 2: the show breaking into the shop, so right, I think
Speaker 2: that's what I think that's what may have done.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we're at the top of the hour,
Speaker 3: so uh, we'll take our breakaway to come back where
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna have breaking you right, We're gonna
Speaker 3: have breaking news and then hopefully we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Have Kyle is not coming from inside the house, right,
Speaker 2: hopefully we're gonna have destroy it.
Speaker 1: But