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Speaker 4: Let's start with a little bit of Arizona State basketball
Speaker 4: news starting I'm not Starting October twenty seventh, Arizona State
Speaker 4: will be headed to Karon Indoor Stadium take on the Duke.
Speaker 4: Blue Devil's head coach Bobby Hurley will be headed back
Speaker 4: to Duke. He was inducted into the Duke Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame back in twenty eleven. That's cool that he good
Speaker 4: he gets to go back to Yeah, it's an exhibition game. Exhibition,
Speaker 4: it's a bit shooting game.
Speaker 3: Goes back home to see his his guys back home.
Speaker 3: You've never paid you been there? No, I went there
Speaker 3: last year. It was that was okay. It's a small
Speaker 3: it's it's made for TV. It's it's a made for
Speaker 3: TV arena because everything is so tight and everything close
Speaker 3: and it's crazy. Uh but uh, it was.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 6: I've got I went experienced it.
Speaker 3: But you know, when I was covering game at Stanford
Speaker 3: back in the day when they had Robinson hitting that
Speaker 3: long distance shot at half court or the bouncy floor,
Speaker 3: Stanford was just as crazy. It was bonkers, in fact.
Speaker 3: But that that was the game last year when you
Speaker 3: know they beat him.
Speaker 6: That was great. It was, it was.
Speaker 3: It was fun and and in fact, Tommy says, Okay,
Speaker 3: we win the game, but let's see what we do
Speaker 3: in March.
Speaker 6: What happened in.
Speaker 3: March, same thing. Yeah, it was that good enough. It
Speaker 3: was good six weeks sixty was good enough. We need
Speaker 3: to get past that. I mean you need right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean that's when you're measured.
Speaker 6: Yep. Right. So it was well said by Tommy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, just okay, November winning, talk to be
Speaker 3: in March.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 4: Coming a little closer to home, University of Arizona released
Speaker 4: their basketball schedule. Their first game will be exhibition on
Speaker 4: October twenty first versus Eastern New Mexico, and then October
Speaker 4: twenty eighth and another expedition expedition Exhibition.
Speaker 6: Exhibitions where are you going with this expedition? I had
Speaker 6: no idea.
Speaker 4: H So twenty eighth they're playing Point Loma Nazarene, and
Speaker 4: then their first regular season game will be November fourth
Speaker 4: versus Canada.
Speaker 3: Canacious or who Gnacious? I feel I could have pronounced
Speaker 3: it Canasius a Point Loma, Canacious November fourth. Those are
Speaker 3: regular there's a regular season game or regular games? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: Canisius is the person the first right, and then Old Dominion. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a fantastic schedule. You have season takes
Speaker 3: no no, no, but you know, to make a call,
Speaker 3: you know people.
Speaker 6: It's good to know people. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then Duke the twenty second of November, the day
Speaker 3: before OL tour, it's gonna.
Speaker 6: Be crazy, will be crazy. That is gonna be a great.
Speaker 3: And UCLA right in Phoenix. We've talked about that a
Speaker 3: number of times there, Ryan, and then the that's part
Speaker 3: of that little series that they have. Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: the much awaited Big twelve schedule.
Speaker 6: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: I can't wait because it's gonna be fun and we're
Speaker 3: gonna have Bruce here. In about twelve fifteen minutes talking
Speaker 3: about it all I said he made some good points.
Speaker 3: He was on with Justin Spears this morning about the
Speaker 3: schedule and about the team. So we'll I'll wait to
Speaker 3: ask him that, oh kay Ran.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Big Twelve, the women's basketball released their first
Speaker 4: Big Twelve conference schedule. Yeah, December twenty, first Saturday, they're
Speaker 4: going to be taking on b YU. That's the first
Speaker 4: Big twelve basketball game. Okay, who do they have? Do
Speaker 4: you have their schedule for me? Looks like Utah after that,
Speaker 4: it's kind of hard to see.
Speaker 3: What about regular what about the regular season not be
Speaker 3: Big twelve or did they move that out? I don't
Speaker 3: have that up. Okay, I think they do have that up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's out today, it's on the site. I always
Speaker 3: wanted what their schedule looks like with the Dya having
Speaker 3: her new team and some people return from nast.
Speaker 4: Year with us. She got baseball. Let's go MLB. D
Speaker 4: Backs are trying to fight for a wild card spot.
Speaker 4: What's your situation the standing real quick?
Speaker 3: You know, I think Padres are number two, so they're
Speaker 3: behind the Padres obviously, Yeah they are.
Speaker 4: So Padres are in the third wild card right now,
Speaker 4: it's the Mets and d Backs are tied.
Speaker 6: For pretty much.
Speaker 4: They're tied for the second and third spots and then
Speaker 4: Braids are sitting right there one year back. But they
Speaker 4: had a big win last night thanks to their ace
Speaker 4: Zach Gallon.
Speaker 3: Right, So they play San Diego today or tomorrow. I
Speaker 3: think they play them this weekend. This weekend, okay, so
Speaker 3: they still got like four or five games.
Speaker 6: So yeah, starting tomorrow they play.
Speaker 3: So the reason I say this is because I saw
Speaker 3: a tweet this morning that they were selling tickets to
Speaker 3: the playoffs last week just in case.
Speaker 6: And then I could be wrong, or it could have
Speaker 6: been a bad tweet.
Speaker 3: God knows the bad stuff on Twitter that they've they've
Speaker 3: already kind of started to say, if you want to
Speaker 3: get a refund, we're going to make it available just
Speaker 3: in case they don't make it to the playoffs. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: you know, so I would figure that.
Speaker 7: I did have weekend season tickets and they called me
Speaker 7: and said prepare if they But I don't think this
Speaker 7: last week, a couple of weeks ago. But I haven't
Speaker 7: got anything. I haven't checked my inboxes as well, so
Speaker 7: they could have.
Speaker 6: But did you buy them? No? No, I haven't. Are
Speaker 6: you that big of a fan?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I rarely use them, mostly give them away. Oh okay, okay,
Speaker 6: I just bought them. They sold them to me, you.
Speaker 3: Know, okay, yep, yeah, yeah, so they do. They good tickets.
Speaker 3: Were they were worth the price?
Speaker 6: They were they were lower lower level or box.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, pretty not box, no, no, but closer to
Speaker 3: the field yeah yeah yeah, nice nice?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, you might see good price. Yeah, okay, pretty good.
Speaker 7: I mean it's it's not too expensive, and you get
Speaker 7: Saturday and Sunday home games, so you pick and choose.
Speaker 6: I've probably gone to four games.
Speaker 3: How many takes? How many chances of the whole season? Yeah,
Speaker 3: well just weekend games. Yeah, there's probably twenty weekends. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's not too much. You're not because you're you're
Speaker 3: spending a whole day to get up there. Sure, sure, no,
Speaker 3: that's it's a committing then and then uh food and
Speaker 3: then park akaing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's hot and it's hot, yep, it's hot today.
Speaker 3: Where are we living? Almost October and one hundred and
Speaker 3: five yas? Yeah, at least yep, I did. I did
Speaker 3: that a couple of years ago. To the ticket, the weekend thing,
Speaker 3: it was. It was cool at first, but then I
Speaker 3: was like, okay, I'm driving up there. I was getting
Speaker 3: a hotel every other weekend.
Speaker 6: There, right right? It added up pretty you hick the lottery.
Speaker 3: They're right, you're not telling me about you know nice
Speaker 3: he's the boss here.
Speaker 6: Make sure I should have said that.
Speaker 3: Money you you you were talking about getting paid here.
Speaker 3: You don't need to get paid.
Speaker 6: That money somewhere next week making that happen. All right.
Speaker 6: We were talking about showya tani earlier.
Speaker 4: But there's now a lawsuit that's been filed by the
Speaker 4: guy who caught.
Speaker 6: It, who allegedly caught it. Max. He's the kid right now.
Speaker 4: He's a kid eighteen, filed a suit Thursday in Florida's
Speaker 4: eleventh Judicial Circuit Court seeking a temporary injunction against Golden Auctions,
Speaker 4: which has scheduled the opening bidding on the ball tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow five hundred thousand first open bid or you could
Speaker 7: buy it out right four point five million. The video
Speaker 7: shows the kid did have it in his hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they both yeah, right, and he was like, I
Speaker 3: guess he said it's my birthday. It's my birthday or
Speaker 3: something because it was his birthday, yuaes. And the guy
Speaker 3: just said, I don't care, just you know, I got
Speaker 3: the ball. What's the possessions? What's that rule? If they
Speaker 3: say it's nine tenths, you know, possessions overpowered?
Speaker 6: I mean so sorry, dude, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: According to the twitterville that I'm talking about, they're saying, sorry, kid,
Speaker 3: you lost the bat right you left the battle, so
Speaker 3: who knows who knows he lost it? I mean, both
Speaker 3: of them should just give that ball back. But I'm
Speaker 3: spending other people's money, so I shouldn't say. What would
Speaker 3: you do, Steve? So we talked about this.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't sell it.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't sell it for more than a million if
Speaker 3: I guess, if I had the chance, I know, I
Speaker 3: would just give it to whoever does. It's their ball, okay,
Speaker 3: in all honestly, it's all their ball. If I could
Speaker 3: get that, that would be fine, and thank you very much,
Speaker 3: thank you very much.
Speaker 7: And about a half a million and it's signed bad
Speaker 7: and a few tickets, yes, probably probably, I'm not makes sense.
Speaker 6: I'm sixty years old. What the hell am I gonna
Speaker 6: do with the money?
Speaker 3: And my kids? You know what, the dad that gave
Speaker 3: usus money, you know they're gonna spend it. What the
Speaker 3: hell you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I know I heard it. Who am I here to impress? Yep?
Speaker 3: Four and a half million? Let me say, okay, I
Speaker 3: have ten years to live. What am I doing that money?
Speaker 6: All right? Yep? Playing the World Series of Poker one time,
Speaker 6: going to business.
Speaker 3: With you, going, going to business with you, takiing me
Speaker 3: the Raiders games all the weekend.
Speaker 4: Now you're talking the Oakland Athletics. They won their final
Speaker 4: game at the Oakland Colosseum today in front of a
Speaker 4: sold out crowd.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because they that was the big game, right,
Speaker 3: that was what we talked about that yesterday. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: they did never sell out and today was the last day.
Speaker 6: There, so they were going to sell out. Yeah. No,
Speaker 6: They're head to the Vegas, going to Sacramento and then.
Speaker 3: The Zach a couple of years in the Vegas. You
Speaker 3: gonna get tickets for that. They're gonna play in. Uh
Speaker 3: the Giants Triple A. Sacramento used to be their Triple
Speaker 3: A team back in the day. What I thought, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I used to cover when I covered the sidewinders
Speaker 3: whatever sacrament Sacramento come down and the paper there would
Speaker 3: hire me to cover the games for a few dollars,
Speaker 3: and uh so I did and it was the it
Speaker 3: was the right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw I saw a picture on Twitter as
Speaker 4: this guy he was said on a first pitt I
Speaker 4: was here first pitch back in nineteen sixty eight, and
Speaker 4: then he had a picture of himself and then a
Speaker 4: picture like current picture.
Speaker 6: How big a difference was that? How old was he
Speaker 6: a big difference? Oh yeah, no, well sixty But how
Speaker 6: old was he? A kid?
Speaker 3: Kid?
Speaker 4: The old?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, so he was really old, probably run sixty, I'd say,
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, he was old. Yeah, if he was
Speaker 3: a kid, if he was sixty eight, he had to
Speaker 3: be well, he could have been four, yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: he probably played a teenager. Okay, so he's about seventy four. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. NFL kicks off their fourth week tonight.
Speaker 3: Got the Cowgirls, I mean the Cowboys and the New
Speaker 3: York There's no there's no editor, right editor, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying here on the show there, mister cowgirl.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys are playing the New York Football Giants and
Speaker 4: the spread is Cowboys by five. The money line is
Speaker 4: plus one ninety five plus one ninety five.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, what's what's the minus for Dallas one fifty
Speaker 3: one seventy five. I wouldn't have one what thing to
Speaker 3: table Dallas, But they've been so dysfunctional this season, and
Speaker 3: they're on the road. Yeah, and they're on the road,
Speaker 3: and the Giants played well last season. Then that kid,
Speaker 3: the rookie neighbors is really good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know about Dallas. Yeah, same, I wouldn't touch
Speaker 3: them tonight. Well, you have you followed the NFL to
Speaker 3: this point three weeks? Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's crazy. It's bonkers. It is finding winners anywhere hard.
Speaker 6: It's been the toughest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: College football kicks off their fifth week tonight is Army
Speaker 4: three and zero taking on Temple one in three Armies
Speaker 4: twelve and a half on the spread.
Speaker 8: Okay, you sound like jayl of Us rubbed off, Yeah,
Speaker 8: what's up? What's his friend? How much you got on it?
Speaker 6: Now? You sound like sound like Jay?
Speaker 4: The other day I was a little grumpy, so I
Speaker 4: kind of channeled Minner Steve.
Speaker 6: You're grumpy? Yeah, thank you? Then you're going both ways
Speaker 6: with Okay, I'm always grumpy. That's my nickname there, Senor.
Speaker 6: In case you didn't don't touch that.
Speaker 4: That's about all I have, Okay, cool white Sox avoided there?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, what the history they were able to finish
Speaker 4: off the sweep today?
Speaker 6: And who they be? Who they sweep?
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: Let me see.
Speaker 3: The oh Angels. Okay, two bad teams playing against you,
Speaker 3: they beat them seven nothing, but it's the Angels. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's all I have. Okay, cool. Uh Let's see what
Speaker 3: else there is? Did you go through the easy other sources,
Speaker 3: other sources of our of our sources of finding stuff out.
Speaker 6: Volleyball take their first loss?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you had mentioned that,
Speaker 3: did you? Somebody mentioned that there were eleven? No, and
Speaker 3: then what was that? Was it a three game thing
Speaker 3: or when they lost? Because it's gonna be tough, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be tough this year. Well, you know they want
Speaker 3: eleven and oh and then they win the Big twelve
Speaker 3: and then now the big big the big girls start playing.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say big boar. Four games on
Speaker 3: the set in the match chases. Okay, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 6: Uh. So that's it. Really you want to go what
Speaker 6: time is it for twelve? How it start? X break?
Speaker 3: About four minutes? A couple of minutes, a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Let's just let's take the breakdown and then go to
Speaker 3: to Bruce. Uh and maybe we can go a little
Speaker 3: along with Bruce.
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Speaker 3: Wapp Hey, welcome back to Iron the Ball Naro, Fox
Speaker 3: Sports Fortune fifth.
Speaker 6: I'm Steve Roberta. You're George Monis.
Speaker 3: I am. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now on the.
Speaker 3: Phone, we have Bruce Pascal of the Arizona Daily Star. Bruce,
Speaker 3: how you doing.
Speaker 16: Good?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm thinking your heart rate is up? And Bruce is
Speaker 3: gonna be doing his stuff because it's basketball season.
Speaker 6: Bruce.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean you know, yeah, I mean like this
Speaker 16: September is kind of that last chance you have to
Speaker 16: kind of take a deep breath or whatever. But but yeah, no, no,
Speaker 16: it's all good. It should be interesting because things will
Speaker 16: be so different.
Speaker 6: This time around. You know, I'm sad for you, Bruce.
Speaker 3: You know why I traveled with you for like road trips,
Speaker 3: road trips, but I'm sad for you. I was sad
Speaker 3: for you because I wasn't going to go on any
Speaker 3: more road trips with the paper clothes. But now I
Speaker 3: don't think you have any good places to go skiing.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, it's, well, they're playing at BYU, so
Speaker 16: there's that. But no, I mean, you know, even even
Speaker 16: despite all that, it's just, you know, the PAC twelve,
Speaker 16: as I always say, is like a country club. Every
Speaker 16: city I think is great. I know you and me
Speaker 16: disagreed on some of them, but I think they're all
Speaker 16: fun to visit. I'm not sure about any of these
Speaker 16: big twelve schools, although I do think that, you know,
Speaker 16: it's pretty obvious that there are a lot of them
Speaker 16: are going to have really rowdy, interesting, crazy crowds, and
Speaker 16: that's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 16: But but it's you know, it's hard to compare to
Speaker 16: some of the cities that it's attacked twelve had. It's
Speaker 16: just it's a different deal, and you know, on on
Speaker 16: and off the court, I guess it's sick.
Speaker 6: Yeah, are you so?
Speaker 3: If I were you now, I would be excited to
Speaker 3: cover new places, but I would be excited for the team. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, And I don't get excited about stuff like
Speaker 3: this more because it's they're gonna get the butt kicked,
Speaker 3: They're going to be tested. It's gonna be fun to
Speaker 3: write about stories because usually you write about wins right,
Speaker 3: a lot of wins, uh, and it's gonna be different
Speaker 3: because they're gonna be tested, and that's gonna be a
Speaker 3: good thing, I think.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, you know, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 16: mean it is true for what it's worth it, at
Speaker 16: least as a journalist, you know, I mean, obviously you know,
Speaker 16: you're not necessarily rooting for against anybody, but yeah, riding
Speaker 16: about a loss a lot of times is way more
Speaker 16: interesting than riding about a win, particularly when it is
Speaker 16: the blowout win. A lot of times, there's literally nothing
Speaker 16: to say unless somebody off the bench do something crazy
Speaker 16: that hasn't happened before. And so this time they're going
Speaker 16: to have a lot of learning experiences, you know, and
Speaker 16: probably some tough losses and then they're you know, the
Speaker 16: way the schedule sets up that they're going to play
Speaker 16: at Iowa State the second to last Saturday of the year,
Speaker 16: and then come back here host a issue, and then
Speaker 16: go back again to play Kansas the last Saturday this season,
Speaker 16: they could end on a really tough note if they're
Speaker 16: not on it, and that's that's that's kind of tough
Speaker 16: entering the postseason. You know, you want to have some
Speaker 16: kind of energy and reserve, and you know, this this
Speaker 16: season's really you know, this conference season could really wear
Speaker 16: them out. So it'll all be interesting, you know, I
Speaker 16: think all the way along the lines as you say,
Speaker 16: there's there's gonna be stuff to write. So there's no
Speaker 16: no question it's it's a lot more interesting than that,
Speaker 16: especially if you compare to a Pac twelve season where
Speaker 16: it's like, okay, Arizona and UCLA and maybe Oregon and
Speaker 16: then you know, yeh yeah, forget about everybody else is
Speaker 16: just kind of you know, especially those games at home
Speaker 16: against some of the Pac twelve teams, it's kind of
Speaker 16: tough to find things to write about. But this will
Speaker 16: be different, for sure.
Speaker 6: Bruce, look it up the schedule. I see Duke here
Speaker 6: at home? Is that? How big is that game?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 16: I think it's you know, I mean, if you look
Speaker 16: at it from a fan perspective, I think it's as
Speaker 16: big as any I mean, as big as the Big
Speaker 16: twelve schedule is. You know, Duke just doesn't come to McHale.
Speaker 16: It's in like what thirty something years, I mean, And yeah, Steve,
Speaker 16: if you would know, I mean, heck, you're probably there, right,
Speaker 16: I mean right, and you know, Bobby Hurley or whatever
Speaker 16: is playing for and back then, I mean, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 16: And I mean that game last year at it was
Speaker 16: also there was with me and you know, we were
Speaker 16: talking about how how crazy was just being there. I
Speaker 16: mean just even before the game even started playing, just
Speaker 16: all account they're playing, you know, And so so that'll
Speaker 16: be something I think, you know, as far as the season,
Speaker 16: it will be a really good barometer of where this
Speaker 16: team really is. And you know, and I think also too,
Speaker 16: you know, people always kind of dismiss them these early games.
Speaker 16: But you know, the way the the way the net
Speaker 16: and the rankings and the seeding and all that plays out,
Speaker 16: every game counts. They go all the way back. Now,
Speaker 16: it's not a recentcy bias saying or whatever. So win
Speaker 16: or lose, if they if they have a good win
Speaker 16: at that home game against Duke, that's going to help
Speaker 16: them in March. Even so, there's there's a lot of
Speaker 16: things that make it a big.
Speaker 6: Deal, right right.
Speaker 3: I was with some guys last night, some some shakers, movers, whatever,
Speaker 3: and they're asking.
Speaker 6: So, what's that what's that ticket going to like for doing?
Speaker 3: And they're saying, well, I heard that there are right
Speaker 3: now about three thousand dollars and I'm thinking, hmm, that's
Speaker 3: pretty pretty big, but but not surprising because everybody wants
Speaker 3: a ticket. Uh you do you remember back in the day,
Speaker 3: I think it was two thousand and seven, two thousand
Speaker 3: and six, Bruce, because we were both coming the team
Speaker 3: at the time and North Carolina came into the town
Speaker 3: and that at that time was the the buzz ticket, right,
Speaker 3: Arizona didn't show up at the game, but that was
Speaker 3: that's the last time it's been to this level.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, I think the difference if I remember, I
Speaker 16: think that game was during the past ten season. It
Speaker 16: was made it kind of weird because they think you
Speaker 16: get into uh, you know, a mentality and then and
Speaker 16: then having to play that big intersectional game or whatever.
Speaker 16: Just that was a tough worm and that was that
Speaker 16: was a tough year and yeah, that was not a
Speaker 16: good outcome for Arizona and kind of you know, kind
Speaker 16: of a little bit of the beginning of the end
Speaker 16: there as far as that goes. But but as far
Speaker 16: as the atmosphere and the anticipation, you're right, because I think,
Speaker 16: you know, I didn't go to u of A, but
Speaker 16: just being here as long as I have. I've sent
Speaker 16: the Duke literally and you know this, I mean, it
Speaker 16: seems like out of the conference play, they're as big
Speaker 16: of a rival as anybody. And I'm sure there are
Speaker 16: a lot of teams biggest rivals, obviously Uncving the primary one,
Speaker 16: but you know, everybody wants to play Duke or see
Speaker 16: Duke and so that it's just yeah, it's it's huge.
Speaker 16: And you know, I think it's a credit to John
Speaker 16: Shire and and Tommy Will. They were able to get
Speaker 16: this together in an age when big one on big
Speaker 16: home non conference seasons just don't really happen hardly at
Speaker 16: all anymore because, if anything, nowadays, they go to a
Speaker 16: neutral site and some promoter gets in there and they pay,
Speaker 16: they have nil things around it, and it's all. You know,
Speaker 16: it's not the same. These campus games that there are,
Speaker 16: these big campus games out of conference are extremely extremely rare.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have one more quick thing. Okay, so we
Speaker 3: talked about the North Carolina game. Now we can talk
Speaker 3: about Duke coming in town. I think the next biggest
Speaker 3: game that would be a draw like this, it would
Speaker 3: have to be here because there have to be a
Speaker 3: draw here would be Arizona Gonzaga. And the thing about it, you, Bruce,
Speaker 3: is you might be able to see that somewhere else.
Speaker 16: Well in Bahamas, to be in the final this year. Yeah,
Speaker 16: and which would be interesting because Gonzaga they will I don't.
Speaker 16: I mean, you know, technically on the books, Arizona still
Speaker 16: owes Gonzaga game up there. They were going to play
Speaker 16: there Tommy Lloyd's first season and that was scrubbed and
Speaker 16: they said they both postponed it. I don't think they'll
Speaker 16: ever play again unless the coaches change, and they just
Speaker 16: don't want I mean, they're they're good friends, obviously, they
Speaker 16: they don't want to play each other, just like Arizona
Speaker 16: was supposed to play NAU at the beginning of every
Speaker 16: season for ten years or whatever. That deal was, that
Speaker 16: coupling up because Liam Lloyd went to NAU and they
Speaker 16: were like, no, you know, Tommy Lloyd wasn't gonna play it.
Speaker 6: Son.
Speaker 16: So just those those blood ties or whatever, they're just
Speaker 16: too strong. So you're right, if it ever happened, it
Speaker 16: would be it would be as big as anything. I
Speaker 16: think if UCLA came back into McHale, that would be
Speaker 16: a big deal. Uh, you know, for better or worse,
Speaker 16: they're playing at Phoenix and they're going to play at
Speaker 16: least neutral side, but at least they're playing each other,
Speaker 16: you know. But yeah, it's hard imagine. And I think
Speaker 16: for this year, yeah.
Speaker 6: It's Duke.
Speaker 16: And then there's a couple of pretty attractive Big twelve games,
Speaker 16: you know, namely Iowa State on a Monday, I think.
Speaker 16: And then they've got Houston Houston and BYU coming in
Speaker 16: here on Saturdays as well. Those will be it will
Speaker 16: be big deals.
Speaker 3: So so I want to ask you a question because
Speaker 3: you probably know the answer to and I've been talking
Speaker 3: about this since Arizona a football team laid and egg
Speaker 3: against Kansas State. Uh And because you you follow nil
Speaker 3: and I do to a degree, but not to maybe
Speaker 3: your level. When do the guys get paid? And I
Speaker 3: say this, and I'm, you know, to use this as
Speaker 3: my as my evidence or my preface or whatever. So
Speaker 3: Bruce Pascal goes and places the quarterback or the or
Speaker 3: the point guard. You got this nil deal. Do you
Speaker 3: get paid before the season, you get paid during the season,
Speaker 3: you get paid monthly? Because if you get paid before
Speaker 3: the season, what's your what's your impetus to uh to
Speaker 3: do well?
Speaker 6: Have you already been paid?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, Steve, it's you know, I mean, that's
Speaker 16: like the one hundred dollard dollar question or whatever, you know,
Speaker 16: to use that phrase. I don't know why that just
Speaker 16: came out, but anyway, but no, it's it's all over
Speaker 16: the map. And the problem is, you know, it's not
Speaker 16: it's not transparent. We don't know, but but I do
Speaker 16: know there are in most cases contracts signed with the collectives.
Speaker 16: And I've heard that often. In fact, I think open
Speaker 16: Doors had this in there nil and A report. I
Speaker 16: believe a lot of them are too. Every buy or
Speaker 16: every two weeks, basically just like your regular paycheck, and
Speaker 16: and you know, you get that over the course of
Speaker 16: the academic year.
Speaker 15: I believe.
Speaker 16: I'm not sure it could vary because again, none of
Speaker 16: this is regulated, none of it's public. I tried to
Speaker 16: get public records from u of A to get down
Speaker 16: an aisle contracts that have been run through them. They
Speaker 16: denied it, saying it was a student privacy issue, and
Speaker 16: you know, that's what they said. So I don't know,
Speaker 16: but that's that's what I've heard. And you're right though,
Speaker 16: to the give on some money up front would be crazy.
Speaker 16: You know, maybe there's a little bit of that, maybe
Speaker 16: there's a signing bonus even in some cases, you know,
Speaker 16: or that they have to do it in the context
Speaker 16: that they're going to be paid and you know, in
Speaker 16: conjunction with whatever the collective has to do going to
Speaker 16: some events or whatever. He would be a little bit
Speaker 16: a little bit exposing.
Speaker 3: Well, he would be by next question, if George Modes
Speaker 3: here from Short Time Cards, who was my guest here,
Speaker 3: decides Okay, I want to give ex player one hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars, will use your number. Uh, and and he
Speaker 3: works for you, maybe goes in and do some signings. Okay,
Speaker 3: he signs a check here here you go. So does
Speaker 3: does not through the collective.
Speaker 16: I guess it's just oh yeah right, you no, that
Speaker 16: could be any time obviously.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I mean we've seen guys. I remember Ben Maffin after
Speaker 16: he on his way out, you know, after he finished
Speaker 16: that last season, he was doing card signings and stuff. Well,
Speaker 16: in his case it was different because he was an
Speaker 16: international player. So he's trying to make sure there's no
Speaker 16: problem with this season. And so he did it, and
Speaker 16: it's just got probably just got checks for that. And
Speaker 16: but I think the collectors are what I'm talking about
Speaker 16: when you have a collective deal, because it's kind of
Speaker 16: like a big pool, right, and then they they cut
Speaker 16: checks every so often to these guys and then in exchange,
Speaker 16: the players show up at collective events and interact or
Speaker 16: whatever with their their their members and and that's how
Speaker 16: that seems to work. But you know, I'd love to
Speaker 16: have more Clayer do exactly how it works. I don't
Speaker 16: think anybody does, honestly. It's it's really, it's really interesting.
Speaker 16: I think we'll get there maybe when the revenue sharing starts,
Speaker 16: possibly next year with the schools and then possibly the
Speaker 16: NIL and the revenue sharing is going to be possibly
Speaker 16: funneled through the school and you know, maybe we get
Speaker 16: to see a little more of it that way. But it's, man,
Speaker 16: it's it's you know, it's really it's really unclear exactly
Speaker 16: how a lot of these stuff works. I will say
Speaker 16: that I was surprised when I heard about the U
Speaker 16: and Old Quarterback situation because that seemed to me like, well,
Speaker 16: didn't a collective and then it's legal, but it didn't
Speaker 16: seem like they had anything signed, and there was just
Speaker 16: words back and forth and who knows where that's going
Speaker 16: to go, but that but that has been the case,
Speaker 16: and you've seen you know, it's certainly in the early
Speaker 16: days of NIL and we're still kind of in the
Speaker 16: early days. But the first year or two, there were,
Speaker 16: you know, situations where teams literally were losing guys either
Speaker 16: towards the end of the season or right after the season,
Speaker 16: guys who appear to like the coach and sappy. I
Speaker 16: think a su had a situation. Yeah, you know, everybody
Speaker 16: was fine and then all of a sudden they're all gone.
Speaker 16: And you know, there's a lot of talking these situations.
Speaker 16: You don't know exactly that, there's a lot of talking
Speaker 16: to situations. You know, some of these promises may have
Speaker 16: not been kept and and that's so. But I think,
Speaker 16: you know, as we get further along, I think more
Speaker 16: and more of it's going to get standardized. And that's
Speaker 16: why they're saying now a lot of it is contracted
Speaker 16: and guys are getting paid regularly and and and all that,
Speaker 16: and I think the agents start getting the agents are
Speaker 16: getting more used to that. I think part of it is,
Speaker 16: from what I've been told, a lot of a lot
Speaker 16: of these agents representing a high school players who are
Speaker 16: coming into this aren't haven't been a lot experienced, and
Speaker 16: they're throwing out things and you know a lot of
Speaker 16: things aren't nailed down, maybe as much as they might
Speaker 16: be at a high a higher level. And but now
Speaker 16: that's starting to happen.
Speaker 6: So let me ask you.
Speaker 3: I got up this morning and I don't know why
Speaker 3: I got up early, because I never do. I'm like you, Bruce,
Speaker 3: I think you were on just in spiritual this morning.
Speaker 3: I said, Bruce made a pretty good point. Well, you
Speaker 3: made a great point, and I was listening near the
Speaker 3: tail end and you said, okay, so and to my
Speaker 3: point from earlier, kind of refutes my point.
Speaker 6: So Arizona's in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: And I've said this, even if they finished fourth or third, fourth,
Speaker 3: fifth in the league, they're still going to be tested.
Speaker 3: There'll still be good enough to win a National Talent
Speaker 3: because at the end of the day, that's what people
Speaker 3: here want, or get to the final four.
Speaker 6: But you made a good point.
Speaker 3: Historically, even teams in the Big twelve who finished third,
Speaker 3: fourth or fifth don't go far in the tournament.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean that's the same. People forget that a lot,
Speaker 16: and that's been true, some Big ten years when the
Speaker 16: Big tens had like ten teams or you know, eight
Speaker 16: teams in the tournament and then like one makes it
Speaker 16: to the round of sixteen and everybody's like, well, thanks
Speaker 16: for showing up, Big ten or Big twelve or whatever,
Speaker 16: and but that gets forgotten about. And I think I
Speaker 16: do believe that part of it is, yes, you get
Speaker 16: battle tested, but you also can get really worn out.
Speaker 16: And even in Pact twelve schedules, I think you could
Speaker 16: argue that that some of Arizona's teams under Tommy Lloyd
Speaker 16: and maybe even before that, weren't at their best in
Speaker 16: the tournament. They were kind of maybe leveling off at
Speaker 16: the end of the season and not getting better, maybe
Speaker 16: because they were fatigue. That's certainly that one year when
Speaker 16: he was down to a seven man rotation a couple
Speaker 16: of years ago, that was the case last year. You know,
Speaker 16: he could argue it either way. But you do wonder, Yeah,
Speaker 16: I mean, this team is definitely going to be battle tested.
Speaker 16: They'll they'll probably get a decent seed even if they
Speaker 16: do finish fifth in the league, but they could very
Speaker 16: well struggle tournament because you think about it, if you
Speaker 16: look at specially if you look at the schedule, it
Speaker 16: came out today. Four saturdays in a row. They're going
Speaker 16: to be at Ames playing Highwa State, one of the
Speaker 16: most intense environments in college basketball. The next Saturday they're
Speaker 16: gonna be playing another one of the most intense environments
Speaker 16: in college basketball, Kansas not a great teams. Then the
Speaker 16: next week they're going to be in Kansas City most
Speaker 16: of the week in the tournament, and then the week
Speaker 16: after that they're going to go to the NBA somewhere.
Speaker 16: If they're lucky, maybe it'll just be Denver. I think
Speaker 16: that's the closest. But in any case, that's four weeks
Speaker 16: in a row or you know, on the road. It's
Speaker 16: really going to test them. And I think that first
Speaker 16: week of the tournament it's really what it's going to
Speaker 16: boil down to, what did they learn, are they tougher,
Speaker 16: do they have anything left? And can they go? You know,
Speaker 16: that's that's going to be really really interesting to see.
Speaker 6: Right right.
Speaker 3: Lastly, we were at the press converce yesterday. Tommy's being
Speaker 3: Tommy with you and everybody else. You know, it's it's
Speaker 3: only September October. Who's your player? Who's your player or
Speaker 3: your sneak player that you think will have a the
Speaker 3: decent year at least have.
Speaker 6: A chance, not a starter. I have mine, And I
Speaker 6: asked my question about the.
Speaker 16: Kids, Well, you mean I think, you know, other than
Speaker 16: the projected starters, Yeah, I kind of think, you know,
Speaker 16: I mean, Carter Brian is interesting because he's so talented
Speaker 16: and he can do multiple things, but he's still going
Speaker 16: to be a freshman. So I kind of think Anthony
Speaker 16: Dollars might be really the guy that kind of opens
Speaker 16: some eyes, just because he is a really good shooter
Speaker 16: and scorer and played in that Campbell system that said
Speaker 16: played in a couple of years ago before he transferred,
Speaker 16: and it was a slower system, but a lot of
Speaker 16: the same kind of movement in those offenses, so he
Speaker 16: can make that adjustment. It's just going to be obviously
Speaker 16: playing against much higher level and more often, but you know,
Speaker 16: he's a third year player that's going to have some experience,
Speaker 16: So I think I think it'd be interesting. And I
Speaker 16: also think from what I understand, he's willing to play
Speaker 16: off the bench, even though he you know, he has
Speaker 16: been a starter and he's been a leading scorer blah
Speaker 16: blah blah. So he's going to be comfortable in that role,
Speaker 16: and I think that could did vode well, especially if
Speaker 16: it's true that they have to move over Caleb Love
Speaker 16: or kJ Lewis to play on the ball, because it's
Speaker 16: not clear can Conrad Martinez be the backup point guard
Speaker 16: if you have to do that, and then you but
Speaker 16: you get a guy like del Orso on the wing
Speaker 16: and keeps your offense, you know, going at a pretty
Speaker 16: high level. Because I think that's the one thing about
Speaker 16: moving Caleb Love to point guard is you don't want
Speaker 16: to you don't want to take away from his scoring
Speaker 16: because that's what he does, right, right, So really, yeah,
Speaker 16: I think it's a really good potential.
Speaker 3: He So what do you think about my pick with
Speaker 3: Henry Because I asked that question. I really liked him
Speaker 3: a lot two years ago. Uh, he didn't play, you know,
Speaker 3: he was hot and cold. He was a big guy.
Speaker 3: You've got to give him time. Last year obviously he
Speaker 3: set out with the injury. Uh, I'd hope to see
Speaker 3: that he's going to be much improved and have an impact.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I just he's just a yeah, he's just a
Speaker 16: big question mark. So I guess I feel like Dulus
Speaker 16: is a little safer in my mind, I think, but
Speaker 16: I think they star is very talented. He can move
Speaker 16: well for his size. We saw that early in his
Speaker 16: freshman year and then but it was a yeah, an
Speaker 16: he kind of you know, and it looked like he
Speaker 16: maybe would make a push to be at least the
Speaker 16: ninth guy or something, and he kind of got pushed
Speaker 16: out and that you weren't sure if that was you know,
Speaker 16: just his freshman year and the adjustment from Europe or whatever,
Speaker 16: and you know, I think there was some questions about
Speaker 16: his toughness. And then he had a year off and
Speaker 16: the question is, yeah, we didn't see any of that
Speaker 16: year off, so what did he do. I know he
Speaker 16: was practicing for the second half of the season and
Speaker 16: that that certainly helped. And you know, so that he
Speaker 16: you know, he can do it. I think he'll have
Speaker 16: an opportunity to do it if he you know, but
Speaker 16: it's going to be it's going to be different coming
Speaker 16: in against a tough you know, they'll need him to
Speaker 16: be tough basically against the big twelve schedule and and
Speaker 16: to play in a four and a five. But I
Speaker 16: think there'll be opportunity there because you know, Mo creebus is,
Speaker 16: you know, only going to play so many minutes. And
Speaker 16: Emmanuel Stevens, you know, very talented, but I'm also very raw,
Speaker 16: and I don't see him playing much. So you know,
Speaker 16: it's the question of whether Basark can part about some
Speaker 16: time there himself or do they slide to other guys
Speaker 16: into the post spot.
Speaker 3: Right right, Well, Bruce, we appreciate it, and I want
Speaker 3: to let us listeners know that there's no truth to
Speaker 3: the rumor that you were asked to be a walk
Speaker 3: on for Tommy Me.
Speaker 16: No, No, I annoy him enough the one press conference
Speaker 16: every week or whatever, you know, we with him. I
Speaker 16: think I think he gets to fill that way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Bruce, get to your spot. Get to your spot, Bruce.
Speaker 16: Yeah, well, you know what I mean. It's the thing
Speaker 16: like you were saying. I mean, it's like here we
Speaker 16: are preseason press common We're trying to ask about the team.
Speaker 16: What's gonna happen, what's this guy gonna do, what's that
Speaker 16: guy gonna do. He doesn't want to say, you know,
Speaker 16: he doesn't. He doesn't like to talk about the future.
Speaker 16: I don't blame him as a coach, but you know,
Speaker 16: it's also our job to kind of kind of try
Speaker 16: and the light about what's going to happen. So it's
Speaker 16: a now to a conflict and then you know, it's
Speaker 16: all it's all fun. He jokes about it, but he's
Speaker 16: also you know, understand.
Speaker 6: We're right right, okay, Bruce, thank you man. We'll see
Speaker 6: you soon. All right.
Speaker 16: Thanks you break here, Bruce.
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Speaker 6: Go buy game tonight. Who's they even have.
Speaker 3: One of the good things about that sports book is
Speaker 3: they have all the different prop bets prouts right yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean they're just loaded like bagas and they do
Speaker 3: help you. You know, you have a question they'll answer it.
Speaker 3: You know, what does this mean?
Speaker 6: What does this mean? And they have a bar. They
Speaker 6: have a bar in there too, Yeah they do. They
Speaker 6: have a full bar in there. Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's a great great. Are they gonna build
Speaker 3: you guys like a little like studio. No, we'll have
Speaker 3: a table. We'll have a tabble. As you walk into
Speaker 3: the room, you know, you see everything right there to
Speaker 3: the right. We'll have a table with all our stuff
Speaker 3: and we'll probably hoping to take calls.
Speaker 6: Go buy and see us. They'll have drink specially, and
Speaker 6: it's going to be a live show three to five pm.
Speaker 6: Three to five okay, cool, So it should be a
Speaker 6: lot of fun.
Speaker 3: So go visit us if you want to call, we
Speaker 3: have about ten minutes five to two oh four one
Speaker 3: six seventy four forty. We'd appreciate it. And what are
Speaker 3: your thoughts on the schedule? I thought Bruce made a
Speaker 3: lot of sense, and I laid it down, and I
Speaker 3: believe because the last month is going to be crazy.
Speaker 3: You're here, you're there, you're there, you're there, and then
Speaker 3: you got.
Speaker 6: To get going.
Speaker 7: Team gets worn out. Like he said, you know, I
Speaker 7: didn't get a chance as he was just going up.
Speaker 7: But I was like, so, what how do we solve
Speaker 7: this problem? Do we open up the roster a little
Speaker 7: bit like I mean, or a go down the bench
Speaker 7: a little deeper so the guys don't get warm.
Speaker 3: He doesn't do that. So he only has he only
Speaker 3: has nine scholarship guys. He'll have to go nine.
Speaker 6: Well we think that, and they say, oh, yeah, he
Speaker 6: talked about Conrad Martinez. I see. I mean they list
Speaker 6: him at six foot six one. He's really like five.
Speaker 7: Ten five to nine, right, and I don't you know,
Speaker 7: it's hard to defend someone at that size.
Speaker 6: So so we'll see what happens. I do believe.
Speaker 3: And I covered Loot from way you know, ninety to
Speaker 3: ninety one, whatever it was. And uh, it wears on you.
Speaker 3: The season wears on your thirty five games in or
Speaker 3: whatever and you're in March, and it ain't easy, man,
Speaker 3: It ain't easy.
Speaker 6: That's why you see the upsets. You see the amount
Speaker 6: of pressure of these guys.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: And I've talked to him.
Speaker 7: We walked across the court and he goes, you don't know,
Speaker 7: you know, in his accent, and he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 7: the pressure that we feel who says Marbala, Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: yeah yeah, And it's it's true, like.
Speaker 3: Sure, well, you have a whole city trying to hope
Speaker 3: that you do well, and if you don't, you know,
Speaker 3: it's on you or whatever.
Speaker 6: We gotta call, we gotta call. Hey, thanks for calling in.
Speaker 5: Hey, Steve, this is done.
Speaker 6: How you doing, don How are you? You sound different?
Speaker 6: It's it's the end of the day. Okay, what's what's up?
Speaker 6: What's up?
Speaker 19: Well, it's it's.
Speaker 5: It's about I haven't had a chance to look at
Speaker 5: the schedule. I did go back and I just I
Speaker 5: looked through Kansases schedule the way it was going last season,
Speaker 5: you know, and and I had called in and mentioned it.
Speaker 5: It's like, we're not going to have that rhythm like
Speaker 5: the Thursday Saturday or the Thursday Sunday or Friday Sunday whatever.
Speaker 5: We're not going to have that simple end of the
Speaker 5: week rhythm of the of the schedule anymore. And I remember,
Speaker 5: you know, I know you said you're looking forward to
Speaker 5: the to the season. I was leaning more towards what
Speaker 5: you know, Jay was really excited about this this season,
Speaker 5: upcoming season and everything, and and I'm going why yeah,
Speaker 5: because you know, because Calvin Sampson took a lot of
Speaker 5: whoopings at Arizona's hands.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And and and the style of play that he has,
Speaker 5: I mean, the way that Houston plays ball. Now, a game,
Speaker 5: a game against Houston will be hungover for two more
Speaker 5: games after this.
Speaker 6: No, you're right. Physically it's going to be totally different.
Speaker 5: And and the grinds against Kansas and everything else, and
Speaker 5: and and looking back, historically, Arizona's only had to play two.
Speaker 6: Or three games a season, you know.
Speaker 4: The u c l A games.
Speaker 5: It was the u c l A games and oh wow,
Speaker 5: look as U looks kind of good this year, and
Speaker 5: the every once in a while they come up and
Speaker 5: they beat us, and then and then the Oregon came.
Speaker 6: Up and everything else, okay son, and.
Speaker 5: Then Tommy Lloyd comes from Gonzaga and they've only had
Speaker 5: to play two games a season, right right, Well, let
Speaker 5: me tell you, uh, and we got to go after
Speaker 5: this because we have another call. But did you like that,
Speaker 5: because you you'd go back in March and say, God,
Speaker 5: maybe we should have played a tougher schedule. I think
Speaker 5: it'll make us tougher.
Speaker 19: But Tommy's gonna have to stretch that he's gonna.
Speaker 5: Have to stretch that bench, maybe all the way to
Speaker 5: the walk ons, just to get through the gauntlet. I
Speaker 5: mean it's gonna be rough, and we better we better
Speaker 5: not be expecting to be at the upper echelon of
Speaker 5: that league.
Speaker 6: No, No, I just.
Speaker 5: Don't think it. I think expecting that is uh.
Speaker 6: Fo yeah, fool's gold.
Speaker 3: I agree with you, Donny, Thank you man, appreciate your
Speaker 3: coful Thank you man. Let's go caare Okay, we got
Speaker 3: another call, right, yeah, good, let's take it. You're on
Speaker 3: the air and eye on the ball. I see it's Jim, Jim.
Speaker 3: What's the word.
Speaker 19: Well, I'm wondering as anybody voice the expectations for this
Speaker 19: week's football game. I haven't heard so much about it.
Speaker 3: No, I was hoping to do that tomorrow because they
Speaker 3: were one day closer.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: And we'll have We're gonna have Patty Jake and I
Speaker 3: think we're gonna have Jim Livin good on tomorrow to
Speaker 3: talk about other things, you know, involving just uh just
Speaker 3: administration stuff. But no, go right ahead, though, I know
Speaker 3: that you're not too keen on the team.
Speaker 19: Well, I think they're they're in a bad spot right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do tell me why, and tell me why
Speaker 3: specific to the game, specific.
Speaker 6: To the game.
Speaker 19: They haven't yet learned or demonstrated that taking control the
Speaker 19: line of scrimmage for five plays.
Speaker 6: Yeah No, that's trouble. That's trouble.
Speaker 19: That's that's toxic as can be.
Speaker 6: It's to a football team, Yeah, because that's whether it's
Speaker 6: won or lost.
Speaker 19: It's all about the line of scrimmage. And I said
Speaker 19: to a quote, I don't know if you had time
Speaker 19: to read it, but the coach of Utah's coach said that,
Speaker 19: you know, I think we were the more physical team
Speaker 19: and that's that's our kind of game.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, that's that's that's uh kryptonite to Arizona football.
Speaker 19: Well, I think right now it is seen in these
Speaker 19: two or three games. You know, it's not It doesn't
Speaker 19: look that good.
Speaker 6: Jim. We got another call. Thanks you.
Speaker 3: Calls tomorrow we'll talk more football. All right, Okay, thank you? Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, got another call. Gotta stink this in before
Speaker 3: we get off today. Hey, are you on the air?
Speaker 3: Eye and the ball?
Speaker 2: It's tea money, yeah, Utah. Utah's coach was talking about
Speaker 2: the u of a loss last year at the end
Speaker 2: of the press conference right before the Oklahoma State game,
Speaker 2: he mentioned Arizona right before.
Speaker 16: They went in to play the O s U.
Speaker 2: So they're they're they're waiting. Yeah, I mean, And plus,
Speaker 2: I guess the night games at Wright Stadium are rare
Speaker 2: when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: They weren't when I lived out there. But Tea Money,
Speaker 3: I'm just curious, did you play ball? Did you play ball? No?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, so I was gonna say, if you did, you
Speaker 3: know what the revenge factor is, especially when you get
Speaker 3: your ass kick like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got embarrassed, and it was it was just
Speaker 2: one of those games where it's like somebody let the
Speaker 2: air out.
Speaker 16: And the utes just just fizzled, fizzled away.
Speaker 2: But what I really wanted to say is Arizona has
Speaker 2: a better chance of going to the Final Four than
Speaker 2: they do of winning the Big Twelve in basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you what I've said to say? I totally
Speaker 3: agree with you, totally.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And and Tommy Lloyd is, uh, this is gonna be
Speaker 2: uh let's not make or break or anything like that,
Speaker 2: but this is a revelation year for him.
Speaker 16: This is who who we are gonna find out?
Speaker 15: Who?
Speaker 2: Dude, really is, and uh, I think he's it. The
Speaker 2: honeymoon's over, and uh, let's let's play some basketball and
Speaker 2: let's play some defense. And if they get swept by
Speaker 2: Houston and embarrassed in Lawrence, you know, I think Tucson,
Speaker 2: Tucson can't just say, well, it's.
Speaker 16: A new league.
Speaker 2: We have to we have to stand up for ourselves there.
Speaker 3: No, it's a new league that's gonna be like this
Speaker 3: for a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we we don't. It's not like there's a
Speaker 2: blank slate and we have nothing to compare it to.
Speaker 2: We know what Loot would have done. We know how
Speaker 2: Lout would have retooled, We know how Lout would have
Speaker 2: got his guys ready. The question is, Tommy, are you
Speaker 2: ready for this?
Speaker 1: And is there?
Speaker 2: Are we going to continue to be Arizona basketball?
Speaker 6: We're gonna turn into Kansas State right right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: Too many?
Speaker 3: Thanks a bunch, man, We've got to go. Appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: Keep keep calling, man, Thank you. We gotta go, right,
Speaker 3: We got no time. Thank you, Ryan, Hey, George, thank
Speaker 3: you for absolutely my pleasure. Okay, take care