Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to Eye the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen fifty. We're not on the air. It's blinking.
Speaker 1: Maybe hear us, maybe don't Can you hear us? Let
Speaker 1: me know if you can hear us, because we've had
Speaker 1: issues for the last two hours. There's no blinking, so
Speaker 1: we could be Troy maybe hopefully we're not going to
Speaker 1: have the recruit right. No, you've reached doctor Ham saying
Speaker 1: that we're having issues here, so we didn't want to
Speaker 1: do this. The funny thing of what's the record for
Speaker 1: the UA football team? Three and I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: one in eight, so they're having a better season than
Speaker 1: you are today today, right, I've thrown about five interceptions here.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with this because they've
Speaker 1: played a lot of commercials obviously I'm not sure why,
Speaker 1: but but.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes they have. I'm not sure sure.
Speaker 1: I hope we're on the air or two, so let
Speaker 1: me know if you if you're hear us, that'll be fine.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the basketball program, women's program. If
Speaker 1: you followed that, because they played it night.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, they played a night you know, three and
Speaker 2: zero very non competitive games in terms of opponents that
Speaker 2: they've played, they've looked solid, but you're really not going
Speaker 2: to know until the conference season because kind of like
Speaker 2: a classic idea barn schedule over the last several years,
Speaker 2: there's just not a lot of me and and potatoes
Speaker 2: during the non conference so, you know, right right outside salad.
Speaker 1: She's, yeah, well you need a diet. You try I
Speaker 1: need to diet. But you know what, she's kind of
Speaker 1: done that. I mean when they first started, when she
Speaker 1: first started, uh, she won a lot because they didn't
Speaker 1: play a whole lot of good teams, but she said
Speaker 1: they needed to learn how to win. I gained some confidence.
Speaker 1: That was what five six years ago and now and
Speaker 1: look what happened. They got their confidence, They got a
Speaker 1: generational player.
Speaker 2: In Aaron McDonald, Ry McDonald and and Vaoilah.
Speaker 1: Here they go and now they probably might have to
Speaker 1: re go to that where they win a lot of games,
Speaker 1: feel confident with themselves and move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think they do have talent on
Speaker 2: the roster. Jada Williams is phenomenal player, yeah Paris that
Speaker 2: transferred in from North Carolina. So I do think you
Speaker 2: have guard play and some some front players as well.
Speaker 2: But I think after that that's where they kind of
Speaker 2: fall off as the bench just doesn't seem as strong
Speaker 2: as in the years past.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you know here now here for And she's
Speaker 1: that because last couple of years have been the bench
Speaker 1: has been not existing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you've also had a lot of.
Speaker 1: Transfers and that's my point, non existent literally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I think you're trying to rebuild
Speaker 2: that part. But you have some young talented players that
Speaker 2: are you know, in your starting lineup and you know,
Speaker 2: like you said it, he goes through those moments where
Speaker 2: if you don't have the roster that can win right now,
Speaker 2: let's stack up some wins, get them some confidence and
Speaker 2: then go into the conference season and hoping that confidence
Speaker 2: transfer is over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to just randomly talk about things. We
Speaker 1: can't take any calls because we don't want to screw
Speaker 1: this up because we have we have a lot of time.
Speaker 1: We'll probably go through the whole time here unless they
Speaker 1: make us go to more commercials. I think that we've
Speaker 1: run out of them, which is fine with me. We
Speaker 1: were talking from breaking news that we wouldn't do it,
Speaker 1: but we talked to Troy, you and I before the
Speaker 1: show started. Five weeks ago, actually just about an hour
Speaker 1: and a half ago, the USC got fined and penalized
Speaker 1: for O probation for some recruiting violations that that their coach, Riley,
Speaker 1: was not involved with. But it seems like the rules
Speaker 1: were kind of like you can move the line a little.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, back in the day, I know, and
Speaker 2: I don't know this is exactly the case for USC,
Speaker 2: But back in the day, you couldn't have analysts and
Speaker 2: office and defensive analysts go out and recruit.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, how far back in the day,
Speaker 1: like two years ago, two three, I think three years pandemic,
Speaker 1: right after the pandemic, Yeah, exactly. But now those analysts
Speaker 1: can go out and recruit, they can be on the field,
Speaker 1: they can be like a coach, you know, just without
Speaker 1: the pay of a coach, right, So you're able to
Speaker 1: extend that out. So I don't know if it's something
Speaker 1: from back then that they got caught for that a
Speaker 1: lot of program it was just a twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: The coach was not involved in this, so he was
Speaker 1: not penalized.
Speaker 2: And it's something that a lot of programs were doing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's that's why they changed the rules. So
Speaker 2: it's not just an USC thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, no, no question. It's like you can drive
Speaker 1: fifty five, but but you couldn't. We still have to
Speaker 1: find you for now. You can drive seventy, but we
Speaker 1: still have to find you for pay.
Speaker 2: You're going sixty, it's fifty five. Here's your ticket. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh now everybody's going seventy five.
Speaker 1: Right right, So so okay, so it's a it's a
Speaker 1: fine and a penalty, but you know, okay, they'll move
Speaker 1: on from this.
Speaker 2: It's no Reggie Bush thing. They're They're going to be
Speaker 2: completely sure.
Speaker 1: Sure Bears have fired their and battled offensive coordinator Waldron.
Speaker 1: Did you watch him play? They were not that good,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what the quarterback.
Speaker 2: They started off hot this season, and it really felt
Speaker 2: that that hell Mary at the end of the game
Speaker 2: for the Commanders right kind of just deflated it. And
Speaker 2: to their credit, the Bears played well enough at the
Speaker 2: end and Caleb Williams did to win that game, and
Speaker 2: you have a hellm are and you can't account for that,
Speaker 2: but it just seemed to be a deflator because you
Speaker 2: come out flat against the Cardinals, come out flat against
Speaker 2: whoever they played after that, and there's got to be
Speaker 2: some answers. Yeah, so I had.
Speaker 1: I was on the show yesterday with Henry and who
Speaker 1: was with me as my guest.
Speaker 2: I can't remember now that so long ago yesterday. How
Speaker 2: are you so? I asked him.
Speaker 1: That's how undescriptive was to be. Nobody was actually a
Speaker 1: good show. I asked him, did he know anybody that
Speaker 1: was a Cardinals fan, because they're playing so well. But
Speaker 1: I think you're a Cardinal fan. No, I'm a Bronco fan.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm a Bronco but you've gone to maybe maybe. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're a Sons fan.
Speaker 2: I am a Sons fan. Okay, so you pick and
Speaker 2: choose your Phoenixes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I still don't know any did because they're
Speaker 1: doing really well and I haven't seen how well they played,
Speaker 1: even Murray, how well he's played. But they're winning the
Speaker 1: their league, your division.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's a weaker division right now this season,
Speaker 2: but you got to win the games that are in
Speaker 2: front of you. And Kyler Murray, this offense and.
Speaker 1: Like Brendan right there with all the rights.
Speaker 2: Sas, Yeah, you know, you got to win what's in
Speaker 2: front of you. But he looks phenomenal he's been able
Speaker 2: to play within his skill set, and I think he's
Speaker 2: gotten back to being the Calmary that he needs to be,
Speaker 2: not being too much, not not worrying about this, and
Speaker 2: that just go out and play football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't that be a good advice for Noah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know they've talked about that. I think
Speaker 2: Dino Babers has said that several times. You know, you
Speaker 2: have your golf swing and you're overthinking it goes right
Speaker 2: wide left.
Speaker 1: Just go on and hit the ball. You know, let's
Speaker 1: go rip it and see what happens. That's a good
Speaker 1: an analogy with him. But I guess I think he
Speaker 1: you know what do I know that he's overthinking things,
Speaker 1: trying to press to do so much because he feels
Speaker 1: a lot on him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, way to the world on your shoulders. I expectations
Speaker 2: And you know, nobody's brought this up, but let's be honest.
Speaker 2: You have the documentary series throughout this whole season that's
Speaker 2: supposed to be an amazing season. Him and Tetro McMillan
Speaker 2: and their family set up a documentary that's not through
Speaker 2: the university, but they're interviewing Brennan. They're interviewing players. They've
Speaker 2: interviewed Justin spears throughout the season. What's that for? Just
Speaker 2: a documentary about them coming back and this season, the
Speaker 2: team and all that.
Speaker 1: It's funded by the families.
Speaker 2: The families put it together. They're putting it together. They
Speaker 2: are putting it. They've been releasing the episodes every so
Speaker 2: often throughout the season, where I forget the website. It's
Speaker 2: it's online when I when I get I'll send it
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: But no, no, it's just for the people who yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let me look at up.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, are you folks where you focus
Speaker 2: solely on the season?
Speaker 1: That's you know right? No, that's yeah, maybe a distraction. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's funny. I mean I didn't hear this the first
Speaker 1: I've heard of this. Have you seen any parts of it?
Speaker 1: I've seen some clips here and now and then I mean,
Speaker 1: did you just let let them in small bits and pieces,
Speaker 1: small bits and pieces.
Speaker 2: How long are those episodes? I think about like fifteen minutes,
Speaker 2: twenty minutes? Oh okay, yeah, I don't think anything crazy.
Speaker 2: And so they interview who's doing the interviews? I'm looking
Speaker 2: that up right now. But again I only saw the
Speaker 2: first one. But they interviewed Justin Spears, and he's been
Speaker 2: interviewed a couple of times, and.
Speaker 1: What did he say. Yeah, probably the part.
Speaker 2: Of the season talking about the previous seas and then
Speaker 2: how they all came back and stuff like that in
Speaker 2: the family and all that. But you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: something to kind of talk about, you know.
Speaker 1: Sure, that's just another I can't even come up with
Speaker 1: some other thing to worry about or to be concerned
Speaker 1: with when they can just think about football.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that it is titled unfinished Business.
Speaker 1: Well it has even started business.
Speaker 2: So I mean it was kind of hyping up the
Speaker 2: season and what they did last year and why they
Speaker 2: came all together. Unfinished business. Where can you find it?
Speaker 2: You can find it, I believe. Let me click on
Speaker 2: the story real quick. It's good radio. Yeah, good radio. No,
Speaker 2: this is interesting. This could be another destruction.
Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest things for a lot
Speaker 1: of teams that's been a destruction is nil oh for sure,
Speaker 1: with people or players being distracted by other people making
Speaker 1: more money or being more followed or more attention, and
Speaker 1: it's creating shoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe it's on YouTube. So finish business on
Speaker 2: Finished Business yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh. And does it say how many episodes or maybe
Speaker 1: eight or not?
Speaker 2: I am not seeing that. But but my point is
Speaker 2: it's it's something else from the field, right and even
Speaker 2: and I don't think no if a Teto Rom McMillan
Speaker 2: mean to be distracting or anything like that. Third, good guys,
Speaker 2: But hey, the results are the results on the field.
Speaker 2: You could point to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could point to it and says whether it's
Speaker 1: true or not, or affecting or not. It's just one
Speaker 1: another another thing.
Speaker 2: An example of that is like Lebron James when he
Speaker 2: left Cleveland to go to Miami, a lot of free agency.
Speaker 2: You know, you just signed Hey, I'm going here. Cool.
Speaker 2: You had the whole entire the decision on ESPN, and
Speaker 2: I rubbed a lot of people the wrong.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, sure, but he also won three titles.
Speaker 2: Won three times, lost the first one that took a
Speaker 2: couple of years, but won three titles. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it took a while, Yeah it did, it did.
Speaker 1: And well the good thing, the good thing an observation.
Speaker 2: It's not a good thing.
Speaker 1: I think the of the lays have kind of forgotten
Speaker 1: been forgotten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you really need to talk about lays when
Speaker 2: you're three and six, there's problems out there.
Speaker 1: The talk of Jed leaving is kind of good, Bud.
Speaker 2: It's done by the wayside, right, Yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Else has gone away? Now it's just about winning or
Speaker 1: trying to win.
Speaker 2: Trying to figure out if this staff can get it done.
Speaker 2: I think it's the major.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a thank you for the transition for me
Speaker 1: to ask you again this question you talked about recruiting
Speaker 1: being okay, forty thirty seven, thirty seventh, which is starting
Speaker 1: right now. Right, we're going to have a recruit, but
Speaker 1: we're not going to have him now.
Speaker 2: Not only that, but like other other teams could get
Speaker 2: recruits in it, it all switches.
Speaker 1: So let me let me say this. So, I think
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things that I've heard when I
Speaker 1: go to basketball games or in the hallways or whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: whether he's a good coach or not a good coach,
Speaker 1: but is he going to get talent that's Arizona good
Speaker 1: and not Sadd's a stay good.
Speaker 2: And that's a major concern because I think when you
Speaker 2: look at and they do have nice pieces to this
Speaker 2: recruiting class. There are Arizona Power five players in this class.
Speaker 2: But there's also some players that are like, why are
Speaker 2: you recruiting this guy? Hasn't That always been the case
Speaker 2: to a degree, but I think it's magnified now since
Speaker 2: you've had jet Fish and you were getting players that,
Speaker 2: even if they were a three a low three star
Speaker 2: or a two star, you look on video and you're like,
Speaker 2: this kid's underrated. This kid's really good. Like Jacob Manu,
Speaker 2: he was a mid three star. When I watched him play,
Speaker 2: I was like, Wow, this guy could start for a
Speaker 2: long time. Yeah. Or White like who hasn't started yet
Speaker 2: because he has linebackers in front of him. He was
Speaker 2: a two star kid out of Hawaii, but you watch
Speaker 2: him play, he was like Jacob Manu, but at six
Speaker 2: foot three. So it's like, man, they're finding hitting gems.
Speaker 2: You're looking at some of these videos and you're like,
Speaker 2: I just don't see the athleticism and the fundamentals popping
Speaker 2: off right right.
Speaker 1: Well, there's also more to it than that, you know,
Speaker 1: savvy smart angles, yes, and I'm sure they see that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe there's a specific trait that they're looking
Speaker 2: for and they can develop this and this and this,
Speaker 2: you know, for JAD for offensive linemen. They wanted that
Speaker 2: three hundred and forty three hundred and fifty pound lineman
Speaker 2: that they could trim down. Yeah. You know, everybody has
Speaker 2: a different technique.
Speaker 1: Sure, and everybody has an ego thing that they can
Speaker 1: get it done.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what else did you? I was gonna say, are
Speaker 1: you surprised about the triathlon? The team's there because we're
Speaker 1: going to go into you know, basketball, women's basketball, other
Speaker 1: sports as we move forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's a big thing for triathlon, winning
Speaker 2: a national championship only it's second year of existence. I
Speaker 2: don't honestly, I don't know much about triathlon. But good
Speaker 2: for them, and you don't do it. No, not a runner, Steve,
Speaker 2: Not a runner. Maybe downhill, but not a runner. But no,
Speaker 2: good for them, And I think that's always great when
Speaker 2: you can get a national championship. Basketball, you know, it's
Speaker 2: time to We said it's time for Tommy to start
Speaker 2: producing in the tournament and that's what fans are anticipating,
Speaker 2: are waiting for. Idiya, can you get back on track?
Speaker 2: It kind of feels like the program has kind of
Speaker 2: gone off the rails to a degree. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: completely because we've seen how it was before. But can
Speaker 2: you get back on that track where she said after
Speaker 2: the championship, this is the expectation every year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, And and she with every right for her to
Speaker 1: say that, because oh, for sure they got there. You
Speaker 1: know maybe wait, well maybe not, maybe way ahead of schedule. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And who would have ever thought that, right, playing in
Speaker 1: the championship.
Speaker 2: Game and then playing a Yukon team where you just
Speaker 2: smacked from beginning to end ended up being a ten
Speaker 2: point game and you're like, wait a minute, that's Yukon
Speaker 2: in your Arizona. Nobody does that.
Speaker 1: To you, right, And well, one shot away from winning
Speaker 1: the title.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if it's just an inch board because
Speaker 2: it hit the back iron. Everyone has a national championship
Speaker 2: in women's basketball, which would have been crazy bonkers, that
Speaker 2: unbelievable because growing up and seeing how the program was
Speaker 2: doing with you know, up and down and the ebbs
Speaker 2: and flows, one thing I always thought is I'll never
Speaker 2: see arizonam play in a national championship and winn's basketball
Speaker 2: and just won't have.
Speaker 1: Oh no, come on, no, let me give you even more,
Speaker 1: not even more, but just the thing, because I've been
Speaker 1: here a long time. You go to games and they
Speaker 1: were in the WN and you're thinking, I would have never, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: ever thought that they'd have twelve, ten thousand whatever in
Speaker 1: that arena.
Speaker 2: With the WN it right, you were talking about that.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, who would have ever thought that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, she did a great job of cultivating the
Speaker 2: fan base and getting.
Speaker 1: It and they've stuck with her. And they've stuck with her.
Speaker 1: Was Brent on his show last night?
Speaker 2: Did he have a show? He didn't have a radio show.
Speaker 2: I did not hear it. I had some homework to do.
Speaker 2: But you know, so he has it on Mondays. He
Speaker 2: does have it on Monday show. On the road recruiting.
Speaker 2: They went on the road recruiting. I know the coaching
Speaker 2: staff was all over the country last week during the
Speaker 2: bye week. You know, you get that mid season by
Speaker 2: we can you can go to recruit. I know the
Speaker 2: main topic of recruiting, or the main focus for them
Speaker 2: recruiting wise, are South Texas, that Houston area. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then Florida as well. As they're starting to get more recruits.
Speaker 1: I've always been the target, so Texas, California, Florida for.
Speaker 2: These rich rod they ignored Texas Florida to what you
Speaker 2: know was happening with the previous ALFL my troops. Sure,
Speaker 2: but I mean right now, I think they have about
Speaker 2: six seven Texas guys on the recruiting class of you know,
Speaker 2: without looking real quick, that hasn't happened here in a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 1: And Texas, you know these guys to contain them or
Speaker 1: hold them. What do you hear about the nil Because
Speaker 1: like I said before, I'm talking to somebody who has
Speaker 1: money and probably doesn't give money to the u A.
Speaker 1: And I don't blame them because it's their money. But
Speaker 1: how is that going?
Speaker 2: I think for football? I know when Brennan was hired,
Speaker 2: they got the calls and donations from boosters and alumni
Speaker 2: in that first week and a half span, and they
Speaker 2: had with Jed in the last two months with jad
Speaker 2: Fish because I think there was excitement of a Arizona
Speaker 2: guy coming back. Now, I don't know what it would
Speaker 2: look like. To be honest, they haven't told us anything.
Speaker 2: So usually when they're not telling you, oh, this and
Speaker 2: this and this, it's not good. I can tell you
Speaker 2: that much.
Speaker 1: No, No, and kids today, back on my day, they
Speaker 1: came here to play.
Speaker 2: They came here to play.
Speaker 1: Get some time, right, away, and we all know that
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen right away. But now it's not about
Speaker 1: just that, it's about what are you going to pay
Speaker 1: me to come and try to play right away?
Speaker 2: I do know even though it's the season's gone poorly
Speaker 2: for Arizona and Brennan and the pressure of the fan
Speaker 2: base because you see it all over social media. Fire
Speaker 2: Brett Brennan, that's not going to happen after one, he.
Speaker 1: Said, let me say, is it coming from like a
Speaker 1: small small group of five.
Speaker 2: It's just loud. I think it's coming from a small
Speaker 2: group of specific people that follow specific media members. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll just put it that way, and they're very vocal and.
Speaker 1: Well, let me say this, and I've been doing this.
Speaker 1: I have to say this a thousand times that I've
Speaker 1: been doing this long time. The people who have the money,
Speaker 1: the people who have the money and call some shots
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: They're not on Twitter. No, they're not on Facebook. And
Speaker 2: they don't want them fired.
Speaker 1: They're too busy. They're too busy making money, too busy
Speaker 1: doing their jobs.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the money. You call me and tell
Speaker 2: me if you need money, or hey, if something's going
Speaker 2: drastically or wrong, let me know, right, No, But I
Speaker 2: do know from some donors and boosers and alumni that
Speaker 2: have a say in things, that he still has the room,
Speaker 2: that people still support them and believe in them because
Speaker 2: he is that Arizona guy, because he is a tony guy.
Speaker 2: They want to give him that operation. But another chance.
Speaker 1: You either got to start proving it and maybe this
Speaker 1: is the mulligan for this year, but you got to
Speaker 1: come back strong next year.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, results matter. You know,
Speaker 2: you could be the nicest guy in the world, It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Did I told?
Speaker 1: I told you about this when I had Lopez on Thursday?
Speaker 1: I said, you live in a world where it's be
Speaker 1: good or be gone, because you know you're you're measured
Speaker 1: by the results.
Speaker 2: You get a guy like John Wooden who won ten
Speaker 2: national championships. It took him, I think eleven twelve years
Speaker 2: when that first one. You're not getting eleven twelve years anymore.
Speaker 2: Same with Ludelson to win that first one, even with
Speaker 2: the final fours. Yea, with all those you know, first
Speaker 2: round upsets and all that, and there is no national
Speaker 2: championship for Lute anymore.
Speaker 1: So don't you think that And I you know, according
Speaker 1: to people, I'm a curmudgeon and a mean guy.
Speaker 2: Whatever, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I just kind of say what I see that that
Speaker 1: this fan base is just like every other fan base
Speaker 1: where and I'm talking fan bases where five it's a
Speaker 1: group of ten, could be a group of twenty of
Speaker 1: forty thousand that go into that stadium, but they're always
Speaker 1: constantly complaining there.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a fan base that is completely happy
Speaker 2: right right in college, pro, you name it. I remember
Speaker 2: going to a Warriors Sun's game when the Warriors went
Speaker 2: on to when their first title, and Warrior fans were
Speaker 2: asking to cut and trade andre Iguodala because he stinks
Speaker 2: quote unquote who won the NBA Finals MVP that year?
Speaker 2: I think it was andre Igodala. So, like, you know,
Speaker 2: you just you can't listen to certain fans and you
Speaker 2: let them talk and you let them do their whining
Speaker 2: and complaining. It's like Major League the movie where the
Speaker 2: guy's like, oh, wild thing, you stink right at the
Speaker 2: end of the movie. Oh, he's the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 2: We're you gonna have those fans?
Speaker 1: Yeah No, And that's just how it runs hot and cold.
Speaker 1: What have you done for me lately. Yeah, yeah, look
Speaker 1: at Forfa. I mean, come on, he was a darning
Speaker 1: ten months ago. Just did the magic start about now
Speaker 1: or mid April mid October.
Speaker 2: Last year when he started he started game I want
Speaker 2: to say four. He finally got in because the stand
Speaker 2: uh Danielwerry got hurt.
Speaker 1: In Stanford, so maybe four games in, four games in
Speaker 1: and he just went on this role and he looked great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it turns on you quick man. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know you have a fan base.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, you finally got in, and now
Speaker 2: you have a fan base that's saying, you know what,
Speaker 2: can you play the walk on? Let's see what the
Speaker 2: backup walk on can do. It's like, no, that's that's
Speaker 2: not the answer. I don't think no offense to you know,
Speaker 2: to Tannerbaum, he's you know, he's not a terrific job
Speaker 2: as a walk on. I'm not staying in tannerbaumb over
Speaker 2: Nova Fee the last three games of the season. There's
Speaker 2: no point in it.
Speaker 1: Sure, No, I don't. I don't think you should, right
Speaker 1: because you need to try to win. Try to win
Speaker 1: unless Noah leaves. I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: My my question is with that. I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: be disrespectful to know is you've had this type of year.
Speaker 2: Who wants you now? States not coming Ohio State game.
Speaker 1: And that's a great point.
Speaker 2: But a team like Utah Noah had a cousin, I
Speaker 2: believe or and uncle played for the Utah Utes. Utah
Speaker 2: really wanted him and came to Arizona. They're going to
Speaker 2: be looking for a quarterback now. A program like that
Speaker 2: might be something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: Right right and to say, you know, come on, you
Speaker 1: know we can we can rEFInd you, you can do
Speaker 1: things that you did before.
Speaker 2: We have a defense. We have a coach that's been
Speaker 2: here for thirty plus years. We kind of know what
Speaker 2: we're doing. We're usually pretty good. Just come on and
Speaker 2: hand the ball off this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break, care and not take a break.
Speaker 1: We're going to try to answer this call. Hello, you're
Speaker 1: on the air and eye on the ball. Can you
Speaker 1: hear me?
Speaker 2: You have team money? What's up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, tea money. I know you can hear me. I
Speaker 1: think we Uh no, you can't hear him? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can hear him. No, thanks for the call. I don't
Speaker 1: disagree with you. It's he's not the blame, and he's
Speaker 1: trying hard and he's off. Thank you too, money for calling.
Speaker 1: Anybody else wanted to call give us a call. I
Speaker 1: guess we can answer the phones.
Speaker 2: The flow.
Speaker 1: The phone blinked a little, but tea money. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you listening. Uh. There's a lot of blame to go around,
Speaker 1: and we live in a blameful society.
Speaker 2: Right, What was it that he said? Because I couldn't
Speaker 2: He's not the blame for this, No, not at all.
Speaker 2: I don't think that if he wanted to leave. And
Speaker 2: I think that's where the fan base says is. You
Speaker 2: know what, they came back. They took a shot on
Speaker 2: Arizona and this coaching staff, and so far the results
Speaker 2: aren't there, So they went to another program. Who's to
Speaker 2: blame them? Let me ask you this, because this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you're your Noah, and I'm the guy asking
Speaker 1: you the questions at them and you have other reporters listening. Uh,
Speaker 1: no one, do you do you feel bad that you
Speaker 1: came back? Do you wish you would have gone?
Speaker 2: Some word? Give me your answer? No, no, because I
Speaker 2: believe I believe in the group of brothers behind me.
Speaker 2: That's family, and you know what, some things work out,
Speaker 2: some things don't. Injuries happen, but we're a family unit
Speaker 2: and I believe in those guys. And or is he
Speaker 2: just saying it? I think he means it, Okay, I
Speaker 2: think I think it is that that family background, that
Speaker 2: strong value character that him and they definitely have that. Now,
Speaker 2: if I'm gonna be honest, if a guy like Jane
Speaker 2: and Dolaura went up there and said that, I don't
Speaker 2: believe in one bit. There's a difference between the two.
Speaker 2: There's a difference between.
Speaker 1: No, because you've you've you've seen him enough to know
Speaker 1: or heard him.
Speaker 2: Enough to know he's one of the most honest athletes
Speaker 2: I think we've ever had the privilege of interviewing and
Speaker 2: with the football program.
Speaker 1: But he's he because he says all the right things too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can tell he this is where he
Speaker 2: wants to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it could change.
Speaker 1: Right now you and you miss and you you know,
Speaker 1: maybe his opportunity came in left and yet he understands that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but team money.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call of anybody else want to call
Speaker 1: you can't five two four, one six seventy four forty.
Speaker 1: Maybe we get to the lines a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I think we have about twelve minutes left. We're not
Speaker 1: going to commercials, given that we've heard very commercial for
Speaker 1: last uh two hours on the show.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this with uh, let's say
Speaker 2: they get to they went out, went go through and
Speaker 2: know which I think is highly unlikely. Okay, they get
Speaker 2: to a bowl game. That's that for om win play
Speaker 2: in the bowl game. I think that he shouldn't. No,
Speaker 2: he shouldn't, but the personality of.
Speaker 1: Him, I would I would say that he wouldn't because
Speaker 1: even the coaches were who depends what bowl and it's
Speaker 1: not going to be a you know it's in New
Speaker 1: Mexico Bowl or Mexico Yeah, no, you don't play. You
Speaker 1: sit it out and everyone's going to be good for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know you you you know, thanks for coming,
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing your your deed for us all this time. Uh,
Speaker 1: more power to you, which I agree I agree with.
Speaker 1: It's just his personality. That's my guy. I know.
Speaker 2: If a feed out there, he's going to play in
Speaker 2: that game. So am I.
Speaker 1: If you're is money out for the year? Money is
Speaker 1: out for the year. Anybody have a chance to come back. No,
Speaker 1: they're done.
Speaker 2: Gunnarmaldonado has not officially been ruled out for the season.
Speaker 2: Gunnar Alaldonado is not on the death chart anymore. So
Speaker 2: I would assume he is not coming back.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then there's nobody coming back to you know,
Speaker 1: trying to prove something in the in the bowl game.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Uh, this team just snaked. But in so many areas.
Speaker 2: From the very start. Raymond Palito, who you were looking
Speaker 2: to be, that that stalwart that left tackle. And now
Speaker 2: I'm not going to play football. I'm still on the team,
Speaker 2: but I'm not playing this season. Case. I haven't heard
Speaker 2: much about what that situation. Yeah, he it was a
Speaker 2: personal decision to set out this year. The rumors are
Speaker 2: and again you don't want to talk about rumors.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a personal decision, believe it at that, and
Speaker 2: the team agreed with him and understood his personal reason. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's that now. I do know. He was in
Speaker 2: the portal during the offseason. Washington was very interested. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Jedfish recruited him. Uh, what's his name, Brennan. Brennan Carroll
Speaker 2: was his favorite coach on the team. Came back to Arizona.
Speaker 2: But now you set out the season. Are you going
Speaker 2: to be at Washington next year? Are you going to
Speaker 2: play football next year? That's the question. Let me ask
Speaker 2: you this.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think that the poaching is
Speaker 1: done f the school up in the Northwest because now
Speaker 1: you have now you have proof. Yeah, yeh proof, Now
Speaker 1: you have proof. Right to be honest. Now it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you guys thought you were going to have this great year.
Speaker 1: I wasn't there.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile, Washington, yes, we're only six and six, but
Speaker 2: we have nothing and we went to a bowl game.
Speaker 2: Come on over, let's go to a national championship. I
Speaker 2: think they're five and four with a favorable second half
Speaker 2: of the schedule.
Speaker 1: Well, ate, like we managed to survive this. We're going bowling.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, and you guys aren't.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has a point, and if he comes
Speaker 1: to poach some more.
Speaker 2: But the question is really what what would he want
Speaker 2: to proach? Because tetra O McMillan's going to the NFL Draft.
Speaker 2: That ship is sailed. Jed recruited, Jed loves Damon Demon Williams.
Speaker 2: That's his guy that's going to be the starter for Washington.
Speaker 2: So you're not taking.
Speaker 1: Noah Jonas, Salvana probably going to the NFL draft, Nacardo
Speaker 1: Davis probably going to So do you do you want Manu?
Speaker 2: Do you want other guys on the Rock or they?
Speaker 2: Do you think of them as good enough to play
Speaker 2: at Washington?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: And they already turned me down, turned me down once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that that only that matters because they need bodies,
Speaker 1: they need better players, and the players know him, trust.
Speaker 2: Him, Yeah, they do, So we'll see. Honestly, I think
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for the fact that Jed didn't say
Speaker 2: anything to the players before taking the job, everybody would
Speaker 2: be there.
Speaker 1: Well if he if you would have stayed longer.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, if he would have been, oh, hey guys,
Speaker 2: I got a call from Washington, I'm taking this job.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to let you know first before you
Speaker 2: see it out on the media. Yeah. Yeah, because all
Speaker 2: that happened before he met with him.
Speaker 1: Correct, they had no clue. They were blindsided. So who
Speaker 1: wasn't I who wasn't. But you know, that's kind of
Speaker 1: how things work. I mean, it's kind of the Big
Speaker 1: Boy League. People come and get you and you leave
Speaker 1: and more money, and.
Speaker 2: That's the NFL system. Yeah, and who know. And here's
Speaker 2: your question.
Speaker 1: If he does continue to do halfway decent, what's to
Speaker 1: say he'll be there in a year or two.
Speaker 2: If Jed continues to progress at Washington, he'll be out Florida, Miami,
Speaker 2: you name it, some Florida school when you're left, or
Speaker 2: he'll be in the NFL. He will not be at
Speaker 2: Washington through that seven year contract. God.
Speaker 1: God, the percentage of that happened is zero.
Speaker 2: I mean from the moment Jed was hired at Arizona,
Speaker 2: he looked at thirteen jobs in fourteen years. I remember
Speaker 2: telling Matt and everybody he's not going to be here long. No,
Speaker 2: no intact.
Speaker 1: I asked him that question when you with that press
Speaker 1: conmerce this year, kind of you're And who didn't ask
Speaker 1: that question or think that, because that's a question, that's
Speaker 1: your history. You are who you are. You're not just
Speaker 1: gonna this dude that. No, you are who you are.
Speaker 1: You're you're a maverick. You jump and jump and go,
Speaker 1: jump and go, and that's what he is. And he'll
Speaker 1: probably do the same thing at Washington.
Speaker 2: And I think his answer was, well, this is my
Speaker 2: dream job. Because I wanted a college job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, And you know what, there's no I
Speaker 1: feel no ill will with him because he came and
Speaker 1: turned around a program that was down, big time down,
Speaker 1: and he was a guy that made it better.
Speaker 2: Honestly, to me, it was one of the single greatest
Speaker 2: coaching jobs I've ever seen, especially for a program like
Speaker 2: Arizona where, let's face it, Arizona was at of Kansas
Speaker 2: level at football. Where can't you know historically they were terrible.
Speaker 2: They were the worst football team in the country. And
Speaker 2: in three years you went from one and eleven, which
Speaker 2: wasn't his fault because that's all someone's loss, to five
Speaker 2: and seven to you know what, if things fell the
Speaker 2: right way, you were in the college football playoffs and
Speaker 2: the next they probably would have been if everything came back.
Speaker 2: That is one of the greatest turnarounds that you've seen
Speaker 2: in college football.
Speaker 1: You're in dusty old Tucson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And honestly, if he gave them one more year
Speaker 2: and they had everything in place at the world of
Speaker 2: IFFs so they get into college football playoffs. You have
Speaker 2: a jetfish statue outside of Arizona State.
Speaker 1: Like get Carried Away Lewis here for twenty five years
Speaker 1: and they barely put up his statue. Yeah, but this
Speaker 1: scenario and the the the pebble in a pond would
Speaker 1: have got him here, did very well. And then guess
Speaker 1: where in the next move with Florida Florida which is
Speaker 1: going to open up, which is the transition for next year.
Speaker 2: Which and he said from the start, I want to
Speaker 2: be up Florida. Everybody knew that. Or the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 2: one more year.
Speaker 1: Right, and he's a young man. That could still happen.
Speaker 1: He's a young man.
Speaker 2: Timing's kind of line up though, Oh sure, sure of.
Speaker 1: Course you're next, girl friend, tim he has to lie.
Speaker 2: Hi up, we see your outside. What time is it?
Speaker 1: That's time to get out of here? But you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: timing and circumstances, so we'll.
Speaker 2: See exactly like Dion right now, that Colorado program wasn't
Speaker 2: going well this year. They've had this breakout year. Florida
Speaker 2: State's gonna open up. The Dallas Cowboys are opening up.
Speaker 1: Right right, And we already know that he has the
Speaker 1: d On effect where he can go and sell tickets
Speaker 1: for not even trying to sell tickets.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, he good coach, I don't think so. But
Speaker 2: he was, I think, but he was able to get
Speaker 2: the right transfers this time around, just the right mix.
Speaker 2: And you have a dual threat, all everything in your son,
Speaker 2: and you have Travis Hunter, you have a brand, you
Speaker 2: have an identity, You're able to sell that. And I
Speaker 2: think the schedule really favored Colorado this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then well guess what, Troy, you play what's
Speaker 1: in front of you? Phrase for sure and don't screw
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, and you'll be fine. Arizona had that mix,
Speaker 1: had that right in their force, had a favorable schedule, too,
Speaker 1: favorable schedule. Come on, who didn't have him going seven
Speaker 1: and five or eight and three or eight and four,
Speaker 1: whatever it was.
Speaker 2: I thought nine and three with a potential at ten
Speaker 2: and too. Yeah, what were you drinking?
Speaker 1: But but who wasn't doing thinking that with the guy's back.
Speaker 1: That's why sports is crazy. And you can't win on paper, no, exactly,
Speaker 1: you can never win up paper. And and you know
Speaker 1: I was guilty of it too, because it was like
Speaker 1: eight I said eight, think it went eight.
Speaker 2: Look at this schedule, yeah, because it was like seven
Speaker 2: and a half. In Vegas, it was so and half.
Speaker 1: It was eight and a half and seven and a
Speaker 1: half and moved both faces. If you got eight, that's
Speaker 1: easy money. Yeah, no, it's toilet money.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure Florida State fans were thinking that they
Speaker 2: were started off at number ten in the country. Yeah
Speaker 2: one win, right, I think whatever, one and nine or
Speaker 2: win whatever.
Speaker 1: With a pretty good quarterback transfer quarterback.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if he's good, but well.
Speaker 1: Now we know that he's not that great. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: but before they srew, everybody wanted him. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And the kid from Oregon now the kid.
Speaker 2: From at Oklahoma. It was at Central Florida, Oklahoma, Nowada Oregon.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. They're the great Western hope.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't know how good they are too, but they
Speaker 1: played Ohio State very well.
Speaker 2: You know what I can see happening because it is Oregon,
Speaker 2: it's Dan Landing, and it's just how that program runs
Speaker 2: is they're going to beat in the regular season. They
Speaker 2: get smacked by Ohio State and the Big Ten championship game,
Speaker 2: and then they dizzle out in the college football playoffs. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Just real quick before we leave, Kansas is playing Michigan State,
Speaker 1: tonight or down ten to eight with about twelve minutes left,
Speaker 1: and then the big game is the Kentucky game. Kentucky
Speaker 1: and Duke Duke, there should be a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: said Duke.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's a neutral site for both
Speaker 2: of these teams tonight.
Speaker 1: Okay, is it maybe at the same place State Farms
Speaker 1: Championship Classic?
Speaker 2: Okay, that should be fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, Arizona goes to do their thing in Wisconsin, and
Speaker 1: then next week they come here with Duco. Great probably
Speaker 1: the biggest game conference game, and in god along with
Speaker 1: the years, I want to say close, but fifteen sixteen
Speaker 1: years when North Carolina came here, I don't think Sean
Speaker 1: had any of these big games here.
Speaker 2: Sean had Gonzaga. I mean he did have College Game Day,
Speaker 2: but it's not the same advicement.
Speaker 1: And then Sean didn't have a great team too at
Speaker 1: that time.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, not not the Nico when they beat
Speaker 2: Gonzaga with Stanley Johnson here here, I don't remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they went into overtime, they went into overtime, remember Gonzaga,
Speaker 2: I can't remember. And then they had Florida which they
Speaker 2: went on the buzzer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that wasn't a big game in the top five,
Speaker 1: top five teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not the same. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2: It's not due. It's not North Carolina and South Kansas.
Speaker 2: The last time I could remember a game like this
Speaker 2: is when uh and I think it was Kevin O'Neill
Speaker 2: or Russ Penal because Luke had just retired or stepped
Speaker 2: down at the time. Was when they beat Kansas and
Speaker 2: Tucson with Chase Spunninger. They beat in my like twenty
Speaker 2: five points.
Speaker 1: Are You're taking games that I don't remember and I
Speaker 1: covered every single one of them in person in a
Speaker 1: way because we went to fog Gallen, I guess we
Speaker 1: have to decide if we're going to go to fog Gallen.
Speaker 2: Here in March, right, ready to roll for that? Yeah? Okay, Well,