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Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to Iye on the Ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're Tim Bentley
Speaker 3: in with me on a Friday. Hello, Hello, got a
Speaker 3: call from Tom Denny from Greenfield or he's an EMPI.
Speaker 4: Though he's an EMPHIES.
Speaker 3: Just give it us four yeah, Yeah, anybody want to
Speaker 3: call you it? Yeah, doing really well? Anybody want to
Speaker 3: call with your good old days? One with the good
Speaker 3: old days for you in college basketball for Arizona. Maybe
Speaker 3: give us a quick call and let us know, uh,
Speaker 3: your fuzzy warm and fuzzies.
Speaker 4: What's the phone number?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Five two zero Yeah, thinks that you're a good
Speaker 3: partner by to zero four one six seventy four forty
Speaker 3: aren't guys? No, I haven't written down on their refrigerators
Speaker 3: or somewhere.
Speaker 4: I know Tom Danny as are on speed down. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Friday and the break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, five two four one six seventy four to forty?
Speaker 3: When were the good times? Good old days?
Speaker 4: Let me ask you one of your good question, what's
Speaker 4: your good old days?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 4: Arizona basketball, Arizona sports in general. Let's give basketball football.
Speaker 3: Well, they all associate with with college basketball. So I
Speaker 3: started covering the team as a twenty six year old
Speaker 3: in ninety one. Ninety one ish my first year, I know,
Speaker 3: I covered a little before. Ninety four was fantastic because
Speaker 3: it was the final four with Damon and Kalid and
Speaker 3: and it's more about covering the guys. Damon, to me,
Speaker 3: he was one of my favorite guys. He got the media,
Speaker 3: he understood our needs. Ninety seven was just a surprise.
Speaker 3: Who knew. Ninety eight was a little bit more difficult
Speaker 3: because everyone thought they were going to do it again
Speaker 3: and it didn't happen. Two thousand and one was a
Speaker 3: lot of fun, but a lot of crap because Gilbert
Speaker 3: was on a team and he was a pain. You know,
Speaker 3: to both lose Bobby passes away. There's a lot of dues.
Speaker 3: Never a dull day in that beat season. Rosburrow came
Speaker 3: back and then helped, you know, coach the team until
Speaker 3: he came back. And then that last run Look's last
Speaker 3: try in two thousand and six isshes the Rosemont incident
Speaker 3: where they had Illinois against the Ropes and couldn't close it.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of different eras for me.
Speaker 3: But like you said, every four years, it was like
Speaker 3: clockwork to get to the final four eighty eight, ninety four,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, every ye.
Speaker 4: To the suite. And then that didn't for years. They
Speaker 4: were in the sweet sixteen, they were like.
Speaker 3: Ninety four, ninety seven, you know, two thousand and one,
Speaker 3: and then it all dried up in my in my
Speaker 3: in my partying column, not for Luke's death, but when
Speaker 3: he decided to retire. It was I used the line
Speaker 3: from Taylor, James Taylor, I've seen fire, I've seen rain.
Speaker 3: I thought I would never end, because you when you're
Speaker 3: going through it, you're thinking like, wow, I get to
Speaker 3: do this, and I've had chances to leave. But I
Speaker 3: was during that time to leave to another paper. So
Speaker 3: why would I leave. I got the best gig around.
Speaker 4: You know, cavern a national power. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 4: the ball from time to time is good.
Speaker 3: Bill what I think the one thing for my situation,
Speaker 3: it was at the afternoon paper, so I didn't get
Speaker 3: as much run as the morning paper, you know, But
Speaker 3: to me it didn't matter. I was still in the
Speaker 3: thick of it. And competing and trying to beat the
Speaker 3: crap out of the Star and outright.
Speaker 4: Then on the you're on the sidelines. You're on the
Speaker 4: on the court side, so you're in the thick of it.
Speaker 3: I had nothing to complain about, nothing to complain about it.
Speaker 3: It was a great run.
Speaker 4: Two papers in one city.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know the Google And you know how this
Speaker 3: is because you're in the business and you're at a
Speaker 3: hospital right with another hospital that's big, sure, and you
Speaker 3: both make each other good or better exactly.
Speaker 4: So you come to work every day to do your best. Yes,
Speaker 4: you know you wanted you want to give the best
Speaker 4: product to the best to the to the people, so
Speaker 4: you do your best. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And what about football?
Speaker 3: Yeah no, really, I covered tell me that's my first
Speaker 3: Like big gig in eighty seven, eighty eight nine going
Speaker 3: to Hawaii for the bowl game that they had not
Speaker 3: been shut out in forever, got shut out by Syracuse
Speaker 3: like twenty eight, twenty nine zero Coppara Bowl. Covering Dictomy
Speaker 3: was pretty nice, pretty easy, just a chill back guy.
Speaker 4: What about Okay, so here's three airs.
Speaker 3: So I didn't cover football that much.
Speaker 4: Well, here's three airs. You forget about women's softball was.
Speaker 3: And I covered that. I covered I covered the covered
Speaker 3: Candrea in his first national title and his second one.
Speaker 3: I think it was Jermino and I were at in Oklahoma.
Speaker 4: So you have a softball had it run men and
Speaker 4: women's golf? Yeah, some great runs.
Speaker 3: Didn't cover that except for maybe the last title they
Speaker 3: had maybe a few years ago.
Speaker 4: And people forget that from the early eighties to the baseball. Baseball,
Speaker 4: there's baseball, but track by track was sending sending men
Speaker 4: and women to the Olympic Trials every year?
Speaker 3: Was that with Dave Murray? Dave Murray, I want to
Speaker 3: find him. I want to talk to him. He's around, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he is around. You have his number.
Speaker 4: I'll get it for him.
Speaker 3: Maybe next week. You talk to him because he's kind
Speaker 3: of like no one talks about that stuff. And we
Speaker 3: obviously I've talked to coach now.
Speaker 4: Harvey, Harvey and Bernard. Yeah, so we'll see how that goes. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he loves to talk about it, you know. And he's
Speaker 4: just he announces at the track meet sometimes okay, yeah, along,
Speaker 4: and he's talked to Like when I coached high school,
Speaker 4: he'd come out and talk to my kids. He was
Speaker 4: just a lover of.
Speaker 3: Coaching, just another those casual chill guys totally.
Speaker 4: So you know you've a is you know, what's the
Speaker 4: Seers Sports Cup.
Speaker 3: That they used to year and those those are the
Speaker 3: good old day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, swimming, don't forget about swimming.
Speaker 3: And then you know Frank Bush, who could Well, if
Speaker 3: you're going to talk about Mount Rushmore of coaches, who
Speaker 3: do you put on there? Okay?
Speaker 4: Loot right, well, loot Kendrea Carea Kendall Okay, Jerry.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay okay? And then who Bush has a lot
Speaker 3: of titles, a lot of titles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a.
Speaker 3: Lot of national winners, award winners.
Speaker 4: Can we have like the Mount Rushmore like.
Speaker 3: The back of and you've got four?
Speaker 2: Bad?
Speaker 3: You got four? You have a lot of people, I
Speaker 3: mean you have a lot of people.
Speaker 4: Let's ask the folks that are listening. So what's your
Speaker 4: favorite or what's what's your era basketball? And then what's
Speaker 4: your Mount Rushmore? You of a coach? Is all sports?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, and they also have a they have an
Speaker 3: arena named after McHale.
Speaker 4: Well, what do you used to go to those games
Speaker 4: when you were a kid? Hey, popah?
Speaker 3: So you know those are my guys. I think Frank
Speaker 3: probably be number four. Kendrea, well, Kendra ken Tran will
Speaker 3: be number four. Go ahead, anybody want to call and
Speaker 3: let us.
Speaker 4: Know, let us I and Andrea Kendall. You know, you
Speaker 4: you forget, you know, guys our age, we're talking about
Speaker 4: your audience. They're going to remember Jerry Kendall. I mean,
Speaker 4: what did he win three national titles? Three national championships? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And you know what about Larry Smith, you know, turning the.
Speaker 3: Kind of turning the program back around. Yeah, because you know,
Speaker 3: coach Young did a pretty good job in the seven.
Speaker 3: I wasn't part of that, so I I.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's so post what nineteen eighty on, Well,
Speaker 4: let's go to nineteen seventy six. Get Jerry Kendall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta go. People can call. You know,
Speaker 3: they're not gonna call it, but everyone has their own opinion.
Speaker 4: I know, I know. And then so where are you
Speaker 4: watching the game to morrow?
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do tomorrow or tonight?
Speaker 4: Is it tonight? No? No, no, let's talk about that.
Speaker 4: What do you think about the playoff?
Speaker 3: Oh? In CUAA the football last night? I had I
Speaker 3: bet Penn State. I don't even know why I bet
Speaker 3: Penn State because we were at the casino. I just
Speaker 3: random leased of Penn State. Good game. They should have won.
Speaker 3: They should have won. They had that drive of the
Speaker 3: interception of the idiot. A good game.
Speaker 4: What do you think of the playoff format? What do
Speaker 4: everybody else? I want sixteen?
Speaker 3: I want sixteen games, sixteen sixteen teams, no more. Just
Speaker 3: go right to it, sixteen teams and no more. It
Speaker 3: takes it like basketball. Remember they stab twenty four and
Speaker 3: then they have thirty forty two. Don't don't mess with
Speaker 3: it anymore. Come on special teams to be part of
Speaker 3: the special situation. Sixty eight. Leave it at sixty eight.
Speaker 3: I know everybody wants to be part of this, and
Speaker 3: I'm sure you, as a coach, had to deal with
Speaker 3: everybody gets a trophy, era enough, not everybody gets you
Speaker 3: know how you get to be good at what you do.
Speaker 3: You have to compete to get to be good at
Speaker 3: what you do. You know what I'm saying that everybody
Speaker 3: gets a job after college. You have to be good
Speaker 3: at what you.
Speaker 4: Do, right, you know, I'm with you. I wanted sixteen
Speaker 4: and just do the step down just like they do.
Speaker 4: You know, just like they do the basketball turner.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised they didn't do sixteen right away.
Speaker 4: Were they trying to help the bowld I have noise,
Speaker 4: weird math, backwards masks.
Speaker 3: Above my pay grade. But sixteen teams that leave alone,
Speaker 3: everyone's equal and redo how the format they did, because
Speaker 3: this year it didn't work. Just because you're win a title,
Speaker 3: a convery sattle doesn't mean that you're going to be
Speaker 3: in the top four seats. It's it's the eye test,
Speaker 3: it's all the Yeah, I'm with you, it's yeah. Because
Speaker 3: what Ohio State is a six to night? I think
Speaker 3: there was six. They're playing Texas, which is a four
Speaker 3: or three or something like that, and I think and
Speaker 3: all the underdogs lost, and all the all the underdogs
Speaker 3: not underdogs, but all the lower seeds were beating the
Speaker 3: upper seeds because of the situation.
Speaker 4: Of the situation, I know. So you want to tease
Speaker 4: your pick forever.
Speaker 3: I think he has the same pick. I'm going to
Speaker 3: Ohio State minus six, minus six. Yeah, But like I said,
Speaker 3: I missed last night's game, so and he hit last
Speaker 3: night's game. Uh, and he put it on the league.
Speaker 3: I didn't put it in the in the league, so
Speaker 3: Ohio State, I mean, how can.
Speaker 2: You not.
Speaker 4: You talk about the eye test and that's.
Speaker 3: And then you then you saw Texas last week right
Speaker 3: against the issue almost could.
Speaker 4: Beat answer is better than you think. Yeah, they just
Speaker 4: you know, just and I love I mean, I know
Speaker 4: we're no you can say, yeah they were Donata scat.
Speaker 4: It was was great. You know, you get fired up, dude.
Speaker 3: You want that dude.
Speaker 4: You root for kids like that, right, what's that?
Speaker 3: What's a few man? You want me on that wall?
Speaker 4: You want him down there. And he was throwing passes
Speaker 4: and he was catching passes and yeah, so he was.
Speaker 3: He was an offensive scooby right, that's right. You know
Speaker 3: you want that dude. You want ten of those dudes.
Speaker 4: Right, So I hope he inspires some kids, you know,
Speaker 4: because he's you know, I love watching him play. I
Speaker 4: was fine. His dad, you know, is cutting doing away
Speaker 4: shots to his dad.
Speaker 3: And well, Arizona has a guy like that on this roster.
Speaker 3: The kids from cdo that running back that that wrestling
Speaker 3: guy was probably listening. He'll text me now you know
Speaker 3: me and names I don't remember yours too, Jim what right,
Speaker 3: Tommy Ray? Just don't the running back from the CDEO.
Speaker 3: He and he saw some time just to tough those I.
Speaker 4: Love those kids, Like we talked about just be essential.
Speaker 4: What what can I do? We're talking about what can
Speaker 4: I do? I can do that. I'll be on that
Speaker 4: special team of the way I'm in.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I love that you talk. You'd like to mentor kids.
Speaker 4: You have these intern kids.
Speaker 3: We don't even know sticking. Give me the ball, Give.
Speaker 4: Me the ball. I'll run for pizza. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what they used to do. Pizza. I needed
Speaker 3: a few pizzas please, yes, Yeah, we'll see what happens
Speaker 3: with Arizona. They obviously uh hired So yeah, yesterday I
Speaker 3: talked about that yesterday and uh and the new defensive
Speaker 3: coordinator and z allus. So things are looking up. I
Speaker 3: think people are more positive now than they were a
Speaker 3: few months ago.
Speaker 4: Oh this this room in here was dark in November.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But you know what, Tim, you have you ever
Speaker 3: had a how many years have you coached?
Speaker 4: I coached for nine years?
Speaker 3: Have you ever had a great team? Like a great team? Yeah,
Speaker 3: we had, we had a few that didn't turn out
Speaker 3: to be a great team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, how did that happen?
Speaker 3: You know whose fault.
Speaker 4: Was, It's because I'm coaching high school kids is probably
Speaker 4: my fault.
Speaker 3: You know what made them not great?
Speaker 4: You know, uh, priories change to be nice? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: don't know, circumstances changed.
Speaker 3: Did they not like you or do they not listen
Speaker 3: to you?
Speaker 4: You know, their priorities changed.
Speaker 3: They lose the sense of urgency, the.
Speaker 4: Sense of urgency. They forget that this is that they're
Speaker 4: not coming back to school next year. Kate and Luke
Speaker 4: is the kid thank you to h So you know,
Speaker 4: not that they're bad kids, they just go you know,
Speaker 4: they they're moving on to the next thing.
Speaker 3: And so to my point is, uh, what was my point?
Speaker 3: You know you Okay, they're getting good things happening at
Speaker 3: you of a. Now, guess what you gotta do? Gott
Speaker 3: to coach them, right, So, whether it was on you,
Speaker 3: Tim or the kids, something happened. Right, So nothing's guaranteed,
Speaker 3: Like this year, nothing was guaranteed. Always got a good
Speaker 3: group coming back, You got and new coaches hungry. Well
Speaker 3: nothing came of it.
Speaker 4: Well every year I look at the kids coming in
Speaker 4: and you're like, man, do I want to coach another year?
Speaker 4: And you look at the batch coming in and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think we can make a run at it this time,
Speaker 4: I think we can do it. I was like the
Speaker 4: ultimate fan. I was like a rooted for these kids,
Speaker 4: and I coached them hard and I wanted them to
Speaker 4: be great, and you know, and at the high school level,
Speaker 4: you really are giving kids a good experience. You know, kids,
Speaker 4: you want them to make friends and have fun and
Speaker 4: learn how to compete. So at the college level, you know,
Speaker 4: I think there's some of that enthusiasm that.
Speaker 3: So real quick, give mean ten seconds of this. So
Speaker 3: what got you out? You looked at the rosters that
Speaker 3: I don't know, Well, you.
Speaker 4: Can only talk to fifteen and sixe year old kids
Speaker 4: for so long before your brain has turned so much.
Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of the kids I coach now
Speaker 4: that are in their early thirties, they're much much nicer to.
Speaker 3: Keep you youngs as hell? How is you stuff?
Speaker 4: My parents would say you'd make a great teacher, Coach Bentley,
Speaker 4: and I'd be like, I don't know if I could
Speaker 4: talk to a kid for another minute.
Speaker 3: Right, right, we gotta go. We didn't get Brian Peabody
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Raverra on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to the ball Here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, he's Tim Bentley. And now
Speaker 3: on the fund we have Brian Peabody from the undefeated
Speaker 3: Pima men's basketball program. Brian, how you doing? I'm good?
Speaker 3: Thank you doing well? Seventeen to zero? What's going on
Speaker 3: in the water at Pima.
Speaker 14: I guess the only thing I can say is I
Speaker 14: haven't I haven't screwed him up yet, So just be
Speaker 14: just be patient. That happened sooner or later.
Speaker 3: No, don't say that. Don't say that you have some
Speaker 3: quality players though. I want to kind of go back,
Speaker 3: and you will have to tell me how long ago
Speaker 3: this was? Uh one of those times I had you
Speaker 3: on the show. Brian Peabody had been upset. The guys
Speaker 3: weren't listening, they weren't doing much. It wasn't a great year.
Speaker 3: Maybe the record showed it was a good year, but
Speaker 3: you weren't happy. How long ago was that? And flashback
Speaker 3: to this and and maybe just.
Speaker 14: The change I think that was during COVID when we
Speaker 14: couldn't bring anybody on campus, You couldn't interview kids, you
Speaker 14: couldn't work them out, and we did everything off film,
Speaker 14: and that was the worst year of my life. I
Speaker 14: just said, I'm never going to do that again. So
Speaker 14: from that day forward, I had to meet every kid,
Speaker 14: interview them, work them out, see them, introduce you know, staff,
Speaker 14: show them the facilities so that there were no surprises. I
Speaker 14: think that was COVID year and that was that was
Speaker 14: That was a really bad year for probably for everybody,
Speaker 14: but I just swarned myself that I was never going
Speaker 14: to do that again.
Speaker 3: And since then, God, you haven't lost much. You haven't
Speaker 3: really lost many games.
Speaker 14: Yeah, no, we know, we've had some really good seasons
Speaker 14: since then. And I think, you know, the biggest change,
Speaker 14: like I said, is just meeting kids, uh, interviewing them,
Speaker 14: make sure they know what they're getting into. And then
Speaker 14: the type of kid that you recruit, they've got to
Speaker 14: be you know, high, you know, really high character, high academics.
Speaker 14: And I think that's been the biggest change with our guys.
Speaker 14: And we have some older kids, like I have two
Speaker 14: kids that are coming back from their mission, so they're
Speaker 14: older guys, and I think that's a huge advantage to
Speaker 14: have older kids. Like this year we start five kids
Speaker 14: that have been out of college either two or three years,
Speaker 14: and I think that's huge.
Speaker 4: Hey, coach, this is Tim Bentley. I've been an admirer
Speaker 4: of years. For many years. I used to coach at
Speaker 4: Sant Augustine Catholic High School track and cross country, and
Speaker 4: I followed your career and I always admire the way
Speaker 4: you worked with kids. I'm curious about this that your
Speaker 4: you know, the view of junior college. I'm a big
Speaker 4: fan of junior college and that transition year. You talk
Speaker 4: about these kids coming in and you want good character kids.
Speaker 4: How can a junior college help these kids, especially as
Speaker 4: local kids come in to make that next step.
Speaker 2: Oh, it can help in a number of different ways.
Speaker 14: You know, it can help basketball wise, it can help academically,
Speaker 14: it can help maturity. It can help in numerous ways.
Speaker 14: And I love it, you know because a lot of
Speaker 14: times you get a kid that is under recruited, that
Speaker 14: nobody wants, so they're coming to you, you know, with
Speaker 14: a chip on their shoulder. A perfect example of that
Speaker 14: is you know my starting five this year, specifically, Cohen J.
Speaker 14: Got to high school. You know, he didn't have any offer.
Speaker 14: I was his only offer to go to Pema College. Like,
Speaker 14: he didn't have any other junior college offers nothing, and
Speaker 14: he just received his first Division one offer you know, Iona,
Speaker 14: which is a mid level school of New York where Yeah,
Speaker 14: really exciting. Yeah, no one's happier than me because you know,
Speaker 14: he believed in me, and I believe in him. And
Speaker 14: and now he's got a D one offer on the table.
Speaker 14: He's going to take an official visit in three weeks.
Speaker 14: So just stuff like that, stories like that, I love,
Speaker 14: you know, And and it's happened to almost every guy
Speaker 14: in my team this year. West Ball from Arana didn't
Speaker 14: have anything gabled and didn't have anything cod events that
Speaker 14: didn't have anything, And these guys are all, you know,
Speaker 14: in line.
Speaker 2: To get that.
Speaker 14: They've all received scholarships. Every kid on my on my
Speaker 14: starting five has a scholarship offer to a four year school.
Speaker 14: Not all D ones but Division twos and an ai is.
Speaker 14: So it's kind of a it's a good feeling. It's
Speaker 14: a good feeling.
Speaker 4: So all these kids are riding high, they're seventeen and
Speaker 4: oh and they're starting to get some attention. How do
Speaker 4: you keep them focused on the prize?
Speaker 8: Easier?
Speaker 14: Seven done? I mean, I just you know, I just
Speaker 14: keep coming harping every day, and I'm just telling the
Speaker 14: good thing about it. I got guys on my team
Speaker 14: that can coach. They can coach better than me, and
Speaker 14: they're more mature than me. So that's a really good
Speaker 14: thing to have where you know, I can be quiet
Speaker 14: and gave. All of them will step in, Coen j
Speaker 14: will step in and say things and coach our guys.
Speaker 14: And do we just keep harping on the fact that
Speaker 14: I know it's stupid to say, but it's one game
Speaker 14: at a time. It really is like you just got
Speaker 14: to focus on the next game, whoever it is, you know,
Speaker 14: and and our guys have been unbelievable doing that, and
Speaker 14: you know, we have a chance to make history. You know,
Speaker 14: some of your order an article the other day that
Speaker 14: somebody's only you know, gone undefeated twice, you know, in
Speaker 14: the entire time of Juco Arizona Juco, I think it
Speaker 14: was Eastern Arizona in the seventies and in CoA Chief
Speaker 14: And those are only two schools that I have ever
Speaker 14: done that. So we have a chance to make history.
Speaker 14: And we just keep talking about that. And we've got
Speaker 14: thirteen games ago one on tomorrow, and we're just plugging away.
Speaker 3: Don't blame me if that doesn't happen because I didn't
Speaker 3: write the story.
Speaker 14: Just on you.
Speaker 3: So real quick about this before we get to the
Speaker 3: team as a whole. How does the new ruling with
Speaker 3: the JC getting extra time at the next level, does
Speaker 3: it help you at all or just in strictly students
Speaker 3: because it's a it was a surprise to me.
Speaker 14: Well it's not official. That was just one case, so
Speaker 14: they haven't come down with it and said hey, specifically,
Speaker 14: if you go JUCO you get another year. So I
Speaker 14: think think it's going to go that direction. It hasn't
Speaker 14: gone that direction yet permanently, but if it does, yeah,
Speaker 14: it's gonna help. It's going to help us a lot.
Speaker 14: I think it's going to eliminate all of the postgrad
Speaker 14: because kids are paying, you know, twenty thirty forty thousand
Speaker 14: dollars to go to postgrad where they could go junior
Speaker 14: college and not have to pay anything and not you know,
Speaker 14: get doctor yeared to play. So yeah, it's gonna help
Speaker 14: us immenseally. It'll be huge for junior college's huge.
Speaker 3: Oh good, okay, okay, I understand. Now back to the team.
Speaker 3: Attendance must be very good. Up. People want to watch
Speaker 3: way up.
Speaker 14: You know when we played we had the tournament right
Speaker 14: after Christmas and it was Salt Lake who was ranked
Speaker 14: fourth in the country, Dawson who was in the top
Speaker 14: twenty in the country in the central. So there was
Speaker 14: three division code schools that we've played and the gym
Speaker 14: was packed. It was it was unbelievable. And and I'm
Speaker 14: a charge of the snack park. I sold more nachos
Speaker 14: than I ever had, so.
Speaker 3: I was residual residual effect nice. Well, great, great, And
Speaker 3: it's not very expensive two three five bucks to go
Speaker 3: and watch him you play.
Speaker 14: It's yeah, it's really cheap. It's five bucks to get
Speaker 14: in and and UH and the community has been unbelievable
Speaker 14: coming out and supporting the assets. It's been really fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: We have the Marty kid on about a month ago.
Speaker 3: We obviously one of the stars on the team. How
Speaker 3: is it coaching him and maybe having his dad come
Speaker 3: and watch.
Speaker 14: No, it's been really really good the UH. I got
Speaker 14: to know his dad when he was at Grand Canyon
Speaker 14: and he two of my former UH staff members coached
Speaker 14: underneath him, Dylan Hidalga and Chris Carverloon who were with me,
Speaker 14: and then he recruited uh Rashad Smith, So I got
Speaker 14: to know him through that whole process and and he's
Speaker 14: he's been great. He gets it, he was you know,
Speaker 14: it's a former coach and at this level and he
Speaker 14: understands what's going on. So he's been fantastic. He just wants,
Speaker 14: you know, his kid to be happy. So that's been fun.
Speaker 14: And the kid has been really receptive to coaching. And
Speaker 14: I wish I had him for you know, two years
Speaker 14: instead of one, you know, where we could really really
Speaker 14: make a dent in his progress and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 14: But everything has been good. He's he's accepted everything here.
Speaker 14: He's fun to coach, Our team gets along, everybody gets
Speaker 14: along with him, and so it's been it's been good.
Speaker 4: Hey, uh Brian coach. I'm curious how far a field
Speaker 4: do you go to recruit? You know, we're talked about
Speaker 4: Marley's kid. You know, I know there's a lot of
Speaker 4: focus on a good from Alaska, from Tucson. You want
Speaker 4: to do, you want to do be a good be
Speaker 4: a good coach, and a good be of service to
Speaker 4: kids locally, But how far a field do you go?
Speaker 4: Where do you look for kids?
Speaker 14: We'll go wherever.
Speaker 2: We just signed.
Speaker 14: Uh, actually today we just got a commitment from the
Speaker 14: best kid. Steve just brought it up from Alaska. We
Speaker 14: have Alaska connection and we have a point guard that's
Speaker 14: coming in next year, so we're excited about that. So,
Speaker 14: you know, and I'm not bragging, just means I'm old.
Speaker 14: I have a lot of connections out there where coaches
Speaker 14: will call me and say, hey, we got this kid,
Speaker 14: we got this kid, we got this kid, and we
Speaker 14: leave no stone unturned. So anybody calls me any kind
Speaker 14: of email, text message, whatever, I'm going to call and
Speaker 14: reach out and get video and bring them in and
Speaker 14: all that kind of stuff. And so we got the
Speaker 14: kid signed from Alaska today, which is you know, big
Speaker 14: time for us. And the good thing about it is,
Speaker 14: you know, because of the success we are having, you know,
Speaker 14: we're getting better players and more calls because they see
Speaker 14: what's going on. And the big thing that everybody looks
Speaker 14: at is you know how many players, you know, are
Speaker 14: you getting to the next level. And we've had more
Speaker 14: success than any junior college in the state of Arizona
Speaker 14: at getting guys to a four year school. So we
Speaker 14: just keep harping that and we got to kids that
Speaker 14: have already committed from from Tucson, which is our home base.
Speaker 14: That's really cool.
Speaker 4: What's the what's the talent pool like in Tucson, What's
Speaker 4: how deep do we go for these high school kids
Speaker 4: that are coming up.
Speaker 14: It's just okay to be honest with you. I brought
Speaker 14: that story up today. I'm a native Tucson and and
Speaker 14: you know back when I played and I was no good.
Speaker 14: So let me put that out of a record. But
Speaker 14: the starting five at so high school, we're all Division
Speaker 14: one players on one team. So you know, you David
Speaker 14: Haskins who went to you of A, Gary Lewis, Texas
Speaker 14: A and M had a kid go to an AU,
Speaker 14: the other kid air Force, that was all on one team.
Speaker 14: You know, you don't have that in the entire city,
Speaker 14: you know, of going Division one, I can't. I think
Speaker 14: there's been I have to you know, maybe a guess
Speaker 14: like five kids in the last five years maybe that
Speaker 14: have gone on to a Division one school. So it's down,
Speaker 14: but you know, periodically you to get you know, last
Speaker 14: year we had Dylan Baker that went to an AU
Speaker 14: that was really good. From Evan Nelson that went to
Speaker 14: South Point that went to Harvard say, you know, periodically
Speaker 14: you get a kid, but it's not every year. It's
Speaker 14: not every year.
Speaker 3: So so Brian, you've been doing this a while, Like
Speaker 3: you said, have you always used the fast paced style?
Speaker 3: Is that just who's what you do?
Speaker 14: In terms of the points we scored?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the points you score? Did you ever go slow?
Speaker 3: Because everybody wants to go fast, and of course why
Speaker 3: not do it?
Speaker 14: No, that's a great question. So I got to give
Speaker 14: credit to my assistant. So when we got to Tima
Speaker 14: thirteen years ago, they only won one game, a conference
Speaker 14: game in two years, and Edgar Sota, who hired me,
Speaker 14: said hey, we don't care, you know, if you win
Speaker 14: another game, but just cleaned things up academically. So we
Speaker 14: started recruiting a different type of kid. And then my
Speaker 14: first year we were not very good, and my assistant
Speaker 14: Mike Morgan and Matt Minder, said, hey, we got to
Speaker 14: change something.
Speaker 3: So back in the day.
Speaker 14: And you guys remember this, everybody was defensive minded, you know,
Speaker 14: as I was when I was at sou Point and rich.
Speaker 14: You know, you just wanted to guard and guard and guard.
Speaker 14: But we went the other way. We just started playing
Speaker 14: as fast as you possibly could. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 14: ways out to play faster, and it's just attracted better
Speaker 14: kids because they want to play that way. So we
Speaker 14: we went the other way, and we've led the country
Speaker 14: and scoring quarters in a row were ravage. We're leading
Speaker 14: the count or the entire Division two nationally one hundred
Speaker 14: and ten points a game. This year we leave the
Speaker 14: country and assists ravaging thirty four assists a game. And
Speaker 14: we're just playing the right way. Everybody shares the ball
Speaker 14: and people love, you know, our guys love playing that way,
Speaker 14: you know, But but we don't play everyone's like thinks
Speaker 14: we assume we play like LMU you know when back
Speaker 14: in the day, we're not shooting at three every time.
Speaker 14: That's not how we play. You know, I got seven
Speaker 14: guys right now that average double figures, and all seven
Speaker 14: of those guys we'll get a scholarship to play the
Speaker 14: next level. When we got beaten national championship in eighteen,
Speaker 14: I had eight guys average double figures in all eight
Speaker 14: got a scholarships in the next level. So we really
Speaker 14: share the ball and play fast, and I'm always trying
Speaker 14: to figure out ways to to get even faster. You know,
Speaker 14: we want to we just want to play up temple
Speaker 14: the entire time, and it has been really successful doing that.
Speaker 3: What's the average time of a possession?
Speaker 14: Then it's probably longer than you think it's. You know,
Speaker 14: we're not like, I'm not that guy I have. I
Speaker 14: don't say, hey, we got to get a shot out
Speaker 14: from the in the first you know, ten seconds or
Speaker 14: anything like that. We're just looking for the best shot
Speaker 14: as soon as we can. You know, I've seen a
Speaker 14: lot of teams over the years that go and run,
Speaker 14: you know, like all this whatever you want to call
Speaker 14: flex offense like Princeton used to do, and then they
Speaker 14: take a bad shot, you know, with thirty seconds left,
Speaker 14: and they could have taken that bad shot with five
Speaker 14: seconds you know into the shot lit. So we're just
Speaker 14: looking for the best shot. If it's two seconds and
Speaker 14: in the shot clocks, we're shooting it. If it's thirty
Speaker 14: seconds of the shot clock, we're shooting it. It just
Speaker 14: it just has to be a good shot.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure teams are trying to slow you down
Speaker 3: with cam because I'm honestly, well, how's the way to
Speaker 3: beat the team is just trying to slow them down,
Speaker 3: limit possessions.
Speaker 4: Get in the way I I what's I mean, how
Speaker 4: would you play yourself?
Speaker 3: Coach?
Speaker 4: I mean, what would you do?
Speaker 14: Let's oh god, that's a guard question. No it you know,
Speaker 14: and people do. But the other side of that, I'm
Speaker 14: just telling you that this team guards like no, no
Speaker 14: team that I've had at PEMA Like we can guard
Speaker 14: like you know. I don't know if you guys saw
Speaker 14: Salt Lake, but they're number four in the country. You know,
Speaker 14: we held them to seventy something whatever.
Speaker 3: Points it was.
Speaker 14: You know, they're good. They had a guy going to
Speaker 14: TCU and you know, uh in the Big twelve. Uh,
Speaker 14: he's really really good.
Speaker 2: They have a kid.
Speaker 14: They had four Division one players on them, and we
Speaker 14: held him the seventy seven points in the and with
Speaker 14: the exception of the big kid, the other three guys
Speaker 14: we held half of their average. So I got guys
Speaker 14: that can really defense. That's I think that's the most
Speaker 14: impressive thing about my team this year is it's the
Speaker 14: best defensive team I've had at PEMA College. Like, I
Speaker 14: have four guys that aren't great offensively, but if I say, hey,
Speaker 14: go take that kid out of the game, he's out
Speaker 14: of the game. So it's it's just it's it's been
Speaker 14: a good combination of both offense and defense. So I'm
Speaker 14: having the time of my life. You have good players
Speaker 14: that make you look really really good. So well, it's
Speaker 14: been fun.
Speaker 4: Speaking of really really good, we are we're betting on
Speaker 4: how many wins you have total and looking it up here,
Speaker 4: I see close to two fifty at South Point. You're
Speaker 4: seventeen and zero now, so that means you're probably two
Speaker 4: fifty at Pema College. That's a few others are what
Speaker 4: are you? Are you five hundred and thirty wins in
Speaker 4: your total career?
Speaker 3: Always more than that's got to.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we're we're You guys are jinking me. Why do
Speaker 14: you bring all this stuff up?
Speaker 3: No? You we can't only pound who wrote about it,
Speaker 3: so you know, No.
Speaker 14: It's it's it depends how things go. We'll hit seven
Speaker 14: hundred this year.
Speaker 4: Next year, one of the two here check the website.
Speaker 4: I'm going to send a note I.
Speaker 14: Don't get fired this year that then it will be
Speaker 14: next year.
Speaker 3: We'll get it. Brian. Along those lines, I think you're
Speaker 3: a little older than me, you know, both of us.
Speaker 3: How long do you have left? Because you're you're having
Speaker 3: the time of your life. Why why end right?
Speaker 14: I'm not in you know what, what else am I
Speaker 14: going to do? Like, I'm no good at golf.
Speaker 3: Your wife likes like, once you out of the house,
Speaker 3: he's running the stock.
Speaker 14: COVID When I was home we almost got divorced, was like,
Speaker 14: when do you go back to work? Yeah? Now I
Speaker 14: think realistically, I think I've got eight more years and
Speaker 14: and and again, young, I love what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: Kids are good.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 14: People are always talking about, you know, kids are changing,
Speaker 14: and I say, no, they're not.
Speaker 2: Coaches are changing.
Speaker 14: The kids aren't change a lot of you know, you
Speaker 14: do the same thing, and you and coach them the
Speaker 14: same way. They're they're going to respond. And my guys,
Speaker 14: you know, I coach them hard. We have, you know.
Speaker 14: And again, I've got an unbelievable staff with you know,
Speaker 14: Mike Morgan and Matt Minder and Marshaun Plantagainst and we
Speaker 14: have you know, we've been together longer than I've been married.
Speaker 14: To think of that, that's unbelievable. So I've got a
Speaker 14: good staff, and we have good cops and bad cops
Speaker 14: on our staff, and and it's just it's worked out
Speaker 14: well and and we do our thing every day and
Speaker 14: we have fun doing it, so it's it's been good.
Speaker 14: So I probably have eight more years of this and
Speaker 14: and then I'm gonna call quits.
Speaker 3: And it's tough to hang around Mike Morgan and Minder
Speaker 3: and not be divorced. So that's cool, you know, with them,
Speaker 3: not from you, with with them. No, no, no, so
Speaker 3: no great. There was another thing I wanted to ask. Uh,
Speaker 3: the team is fast yeada, yeaha, so good time. What's
Speaker 3: next for you? You guys are up again? What's coming up?
Speaker 14: We've got We have thirteen league games left starting tomorrow
Speaker 14: we play Scott Still at PEMA at four o'clock, and
Speaker 14: then we have the league games and then depending on
Speaker 14: how those go, then we'll have the tournament and then
Speaker 14: hopefully we're in the national tournament. Good thing about it
Speaker 14: is the Division two National Tournament. Now they're doing that
Speaker 14: large bids.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 14: This is just the second year that he has done that,
Speaker 14: So hopefully if we have a mishap that you know
Speaker 14: down the stretch where they'll still invite us to the
Speaker 14: national tournament. The National tournament is unbelievable. It's you know,
Speaker 14: in Danville, Illinois, it's the funnest time you know, I've
Speaker 14: done everything basketball is in my entire career. And it's
Speaker 14: the funnest thing I've ever been a part of. Uh,
Speaker 14: going to the national tournament. There's two hundred fifty coaches
Speaker 14: in the stands. It's in a small town, and everybody
Speaker 14: comes out and you know, cheers us on and we
Speaker 14: make we make a big deal out of it, our guys.
Speaker 14: Then we go there.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's huge.
Speaker 14: We go to elementary schools and play basketball with them,
Speaker 14: We go to the old folk home and and seeing
Speaker 14: karaoke with them. And last year when we went, we
Speaker 14: were on the front page of the newspaper four days
Speaker 14: in a row, just because we embrace you know, the
Speaker 14: community and everything that they're doing there. So it's it's
Speaker 14: the funnest thing I've ever been a part of.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, continued the rule, continue role.
Speaker 4: That's that's the best thing you can do for kids
Speaker 4: that age is give him a great experience and and
Speaker 4: the tools to be successful. You know, regardless of where
Speaker 4: they wind up with their playing career, they're going to
Speaker 4: be great adults. So thank you, coach. That's that's amazing.
Speaker 14: Yeah, now you're welcome.
Speaker 3: Now I appreciate it. One last quick question, your mentor
Speaker 3: your mentor he's been gone for a while, now, what
Speaker 3: would you think about all this with you?
Speaker 4: Are you talking about coach McConnell.
Speaker 14: Yeah, No, he would love it because he was. He
Speaker 14: was like people don't get it. He was so far
Speaker 14: ahead of the game. It was kind of like I'm
Speaker 14: just talking about coaching, like Bobby Knight. Bobby Knight was
Speaker 14: ahead of ahead of everything. So's coach mccallull. I mean
Speaker 14: when I played for him, you know in the eighties,
Speaker 14: we were scoring ninety points a game without a three
Speaker 14: point line. I mean that's where I learned how to
Speaker 14: play as fast as we play. It was from him,
Speaker 14: and he would he would love it because of the
Speaker 14: style of that we're playing. And he was he was,
Speaker 14: like I said, he was twenty years ahead of his time.
Speaker 14: Like he you know, had everybody sharing the ball and
Speaker 14: playing fast and doing things the right way. He'd be happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, cool, Okay, Oh, Congress. I hope to get
Speaker 3: out there tomorrow four o'clock. Okay, four o'clock. We'll see
Speaker 3: you guys score one hundred point last. You know you
Speaker 3: have no bo Bill Kimball, but you know almost.
Speaker 14: Well, well, hey, I'm just telling not maname. People make
Speaker 14: me cry and made me cry.
Speaker 3: Don't do that anymore. Oh right, good, good, good, thanks man,
Speaker 3: good luck, thank you, thank you people. Seventeen and oh
Speaker 3: play tomorrow four o'clock. See that high scoring threading team
Speaker 3: will listen.
Speaker 4: Junior colleges is those kids come to play like. I
Speaker 4: love what he said that they come with a chip
Speaker 4: on their sholder. Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3: Because they've been we're ignored. Hey, we can play too.
Speaker 4: And it's it's a great motivator. And they're just you know,
Speaker 4: they're just you know, one half step behind, but they're
Speaker 4: ready to make it up.
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Speaker 3: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roberta. You're Tim Bedman. Yo,
Speaker 3: I'm on the phone. We have jacins Aus with this
Speaker 3: pick for the final week of the season. By the way, uh, Jay,
Speaker 3: Tim and Juan about six weeks ago something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they took your money. They didn't take my money. They
Speaker 3: said Jay's gonna win this.
Speaker 4: Jam room for you, man. I'm on. I jumped on
Speaker 4: the bandwagon early because I knew that Steve was gonna
Speaker 4: take it. You were gonna make him feet of steaks.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, you have no idea how much
Speaker 2: I appreciate you appreciate that. You know why nobody has
Speaker 2: ever jumped on.
Speaker 4: It wasn't very hard. It was very low, man, right there,
Speaker 4: it's pretty low. I just just stepped on. I didn't
Speaker 4: even jump.
Speaker 3: Jay doesn't even get on.
Speaker 2: I don't get on my own band what.
Speaker 3: So you started. We were at the consider yesterday and
Speaker 3: I knew you were gonna go with Notre Dame. I
Speaker 3: and I didn't. I didn't pick that game, So you did,
Speaker 3: so you already have one one night? Did Yeah?
Speaker 2: So I got another game? What a game? What a game? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean they had no shot at the end of
Speaker 2: the half, and all of a sudden they come out
Speaker 2: and you know, our gang buses and they're gonna blow
Speaker 2: these guys out, and then they give up two touchdowns
Speaker 2: in a row, and now they're losing, and oh man,
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 4: You know, but the the football Playoff needed that game.
Speaker 4: I mean, either either side off whoever would have won,
Speaker 4: they needed that game to bring people back in to say, okay,
Speaker 4: this is for real, because because everybody is kind of
Speaker 4: bagging on it for a couple of weeks, like, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, really.
Speaker 2: I still think it's been a lot of fun though.
Speaker 4: Oh it's been great. I love it. We were talking
Speaker 4: about it earlier.
Speaker 3: Well, the party continues tonight. We'll stay with this game
Speaker 3: because I think you picked this game, and I think
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Ohio State. I think you probably
Speaker 3: went with Ohio State. I just think they're just that
Speaker 3: much better than Texas with six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's what we heard last six.
Speaker 3: Okay, So my my first pick is Overio State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and well, and that's my second pick. I'm
Speaker 2: all I've been all over Ohio State since you know,
Speaker 2: you know what they did to Oregon. I mean, what
Speaker 2: they did in Oregon, you know, in the in the
Speaker 2: quarters is just that's just how good they are. That
Speaker 2: was crazy and they're just they're just you know again
Speaker 2: that that team Steve that we've talked about so many times.
Speaker 2: It's just get their stride at the right time. They ended,
Speaker 2: you know, they ended their season in a horrible fashion,
Speaker 2: almost got their coach fired. And that look what they've
Speaker 2: done the last two weeks. And I just don't think
Speaker 2: you know, somebody made the comment last night we were
Speaker 2: talking about this game, is that Texas goes into these funks,
Speaker 2: you know, where they're not good for like a quarter
Speaker 2: and a half. And if they do that against Ohio State,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be They're gonna get They're gonna get rolled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: It's gonna happm out of how State as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you already picked the the other game from
Speaker 3: last night, So I'm gonna go the rest of are
Speaker 3: gonna be pro games for me? Obviously that's what's left. Uh,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Philadelphia as I'm gonna pick. Uh,
Speaker 3: they're playing uh.
Speaker 2: Who, They've got the Packers and they're getting four and
Speaker 2: a half. That that's that spread dropped from from Monday
Speaker 2: till to yesterday. The quarter was five and a half
Speaker 2: and they dropped a point.
Speaker 4: Because quarterback quarterback didn't Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 2: Well, he's been he's been a concussion protocol. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I thought I thought I but I okay, you.
Speaker 4: Know I'm not. I'm not breaking news or anything, but yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe that's fine.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you got?
Speaker 2: I just stayed away from that for that reason. My
Speaker 2: first NFL pick, I'm taking the Bills and I'm going
Speaker 2: to lock the Bills. I think they're just going to
Speaker 2: steam roll this until they've got to go play the
Speaker 2: Chiefs again and we'll see what happens there. But I
Speaker 2: think they're playing really well. That's minus and the half.
Speaker 2: The Broncos have been are really good. But I just
Speaker 2: think the Bills are you know, their their their mindset
Speaker 2: is going to be a little bit different. They want this,
Speaker 2: you know, they're running out of time to get themselves
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl with the.
Speaker 3: With the group of guys they have, but I still
Speaker 3: have a good next So along those lines, I went
Speaker 3: with the Bills as well, given that I've always liked
Speaker 3: the Bills, you know that. So in the half, that's
Speaker 3: that's I think they win like ten, maybe fourteen, thirteen's
Speaker 3: like that, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Well do you have you? Did you get a future?
Speaker 2: H No?
Speaker 3: I always do that, right, Bills. And I only went
Speaker 3: with one team this year, which was kind of surprised
Speaker 3: to me. So, but they're on my list. They're on
Speaker 3: my list for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Who do you have?
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'll jump ahead and I'm going to go
Speaker 3: with Baltimore. Baltimore is the team I went with.
Speaker 2: Who do you have? Who do you have in the future?
Speaker 3: That's Baltimore? Okay. Yeah, I really liked them. I really
Speaker 3: liked them, especially I got the pick earlier. But when
Speaker 3: they lost to Kansas City in the first game, remember
Speaker 3: out by a toe, and these guys are playing really
Speaker 3: out of their mind. They got the quarterback. Maybe this
Speaker 3: is the year. Not that this is going to happen,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but but they they look great and
Speaker 3: then there are days when they don't look great.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, well I well I just stayed away from
Speaker 2: that just because Lamar Jackson gets into the playoffs and
Speaker 2: you just don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Oh alone. Okay, so they're also my best bet.
Speaker 2: Throw my that's you, that's your lock. Okay. I am
Speaker 2: taking the Vikings. I was going to take the Vikings
Speaker 2: in l a And now that they're now that they're
Speaker 2: in Phoenix, that's even better. And it's still what We're
Speaker 2: still getting it one and a half because I don't
Speaker 2: know if the line has changed. I know, I know,
Speaker 2: Uh Jeffrey Linnheimer, the sin Enough Soul guys, said he
Speaker 2: thought if that game got moved to uh, the Phoenix,
Speaker 2: he could see the line going to two and a half.
Speaker 2: I know, but I but three. Okay, Well I've got
Speaker 2: I've got the Vikings giving one and a half. So
Speaker 2: I'm very happy with that. I was, I was gonna
Speaker 2: lock it, but then I just thought, you know what,
Speaker 2: just take the bills. They're gonna do this, so just
Speaker 2: take the bills. So I've got I've got Notre Dame
Speaker 2: Ohio State the bills and the Vikings. You've got Ohio
Speaker 2: State Eagles build and Ravens, and now I've got to
Speaker 2: pick our special, which was a sort of an odd
Speaker 2: one because I'd have loved to have had one of
Speaker 2: the Fox Football playoff games be that. But then since
Speaker 2: the playo Thursday or Friday, you know, we want to
Speaker 2: have a game on the weekend. So you want to
Speaker 2: go where you want me to go.
Speaker 3: I'll go. I'll go because I'm gonna go with Tampa, with.
Speaker 2: Ta Okay, all right, well there you go. This is
Speaker 2: a big weekend for us because I I, despite my
Speaker 2: disdain for anything a s U, I just think I
Speaker 2: just think Jaydeen, uh what's left name.
Speaker 3: Daniel.
Speaker 2: Jane Daniels. I just think he is so damn good.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you I don't know how you
Speaker 2: deal with him. And and I've take I'm taking the three.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's gonna be a very close game.
Speaker 2: If the Commanders don't win, I think, you know, I
Speaker 2: can see it being a you know, a walk off
Speaker 2: field goal or something like that. So I decided to
Speaker 2: take the Commanders.
Speaker 3: Okay, so no, you have Ohio State, Oh no.
Speaker 4: I might be off the bandag. And I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was feeling pretty good. I was gonna have a
Speaker 4: good weekend.
Speaker 3: Well, you had the Vikings, right, because you had the biking.
Speaker 3: See the bike.
Speaker 4: I went to go see the Vikings. That's I I
Speaker 4: agree with you Vikings.
Speaker 3: But you have an issue with the Tampa game.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I love Tampa.
Speaker 3: He loves that's my that's my point.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Okay, I can't you know what I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't lay anything on on on Baker Mayfield. I
Speaker 2: just I just don't like him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's what you makes you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you here something. I like him less than Jaydon Daniels.
Speaker 3: You guys, remember about a year or so ago we
Speaker 3: talked about grudges and holding you know, just just you know.
Speaker 3: Here we go, Hi, j the phone. Okay, So you
Speaker 3: got Ohio State, Washington, Washington Vikings bills and Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Right, okay, and you guys State Eagles bills, Ravens buck
Speaker 2: This can be interesting weekend for us. See, it can
Speaker 2: all happen here next week there's only five games, and
Speaker 2: so we both got to oh.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait, okay, so this is the second to
Speaker 3: last week.
Speaker 4: You haven't lost it yet.
Speaker 2: You can rally, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, you could be on five games half a
Speaker 4: point Okay, half a point.
Speaker 3: We can breathe.
Speaker 2: We've got the we've got the four NFL games and
Speaker 2: the and and the.
Speaker 3: Okay, fantastic. Okay, so you you still have time to
Speaker 3: crumble too, So we're good. Okay, we gotta go, We
Speaker 3: gotta go. Thanks man, all right again, Thanks thanks Tim
Speaker 3: for coming on.
Speaker 4: It was good to see it. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll do it again next five ways. Thanks guys,
Speaker 3: thanks for listening. Everybody. See you Monday. You're talking to
Speaker 3: you Monday.