Speaker 1: Breaking down all the exes at all. It's Steve Rivera
Speaker 1: and Jagin Salas. This is I on the Ball on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteenth fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Ye in the Ball Hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, you're Jagan's als. We
Speaker 2: tend to be with us. Now, Henry has some breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: Georgia Tech defeated number ten Florida State twenty four to
Speaker 3: twenty one on Saturday in Ireland.
Speaker 4: Anything.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't.
Speaker 4: I was, I mean I was. I was golfing in LA.
Speaker 4: But uh, you know I first came out of the
Speaker 4: box for twenty twenty four. We got a shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were thirteen point from favorite I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: eleven to thirteen.
Speaker 4: I do know that. All week long, you know, talk
Speaker 4: shows and whatever, everybody was saying, take the points and
Speaker 4: take me under one because you know they're having to Ireland.
Speaker 4: You know you're out of sorts first game. Uh, and
Speaker 4: they said don't don't was both right, yeah, don't give
Speaker 4: up on you know, don't think that Georgia Tech. You know,
Speaker 4: he doesn't have a shot at.
Speaker 2: This right It's funny because I saw something this morning,
Speaker 2: I think it was, and I wanted to talk to
Speaker 2: you about this. So Georgia Tech trolled the announcers because
Speaker 2: I was at the game day Herb Kirk kurb stream. Well,
Speaker 2: all three of them, though them picked who picked against them?
Speaker 4: Right right?
Speaker 2: I guess one guy didn't picked against and so they
Speaker 2: got after all of them and said, yeah, look what
Speaker 2: you guys, and then they had clips about each each
Speaker 2: to each, to each of them. Okay, would you have
Speaker 2: done the same thing had you lost? I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: it was the third they won. You don't act like
Speaker 2: you've been here before. Then I get it.
Speaker 4: And I guess Kirk Curvessey'd got booed by the Florida
Speaker 4: State Fancy were there relentlessly throughout the whole show. Every
Speaker 4: time he talked, they bowed the hell out of him.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, Okay, I get it. You guys are
Speaker 4: upset because you somehow you feel he was too blame
Speaker 4: for the fact that your undefeated team didn't get into
Speaker 4: the playoff last year. All he said was that he
Speaker 4: didn't think you should have been in there. After the fact,
Speaker 4: it wasn't because of him, but he was just saying,
Speaker 4: and they were right, you know, I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: think anybody do they deserve to be there? Yes, because
Speaker 4: they were undefeated. Was it the best matchup? No, it
Speaker 4: wasn't because you know, the the top two quarterbacks were
Speaker 4: hurt and they they got blasted by Georgia in their
Speaker 4: bowl game. So in the end, Herb Street was correct,
Speaker 4: but apparently he bowed the hell up. Now what now,
Speaker 4: what do you think? Right? You got beat So now
Speaker 4: you're you're s O L and so I don't know.
Speaker 4: Fans are fans.
Speaker 2: I guess if we make predictions, it's what our predictions
Speaker 2: are and what our thoughts are. If you if you
Speaker 2: if you prove us wrong, more power to.
Speaker 4: You, exactly enjoy enjoy exactly exactly. But that's that's a
Speaker 4: that's a huge thing. Now the game again, we're already in,
Speaker 4: you know, we're already in a mode where you're talking
Speaker 4: about the college football playoff. Florida State's not out of
Speaker 4: the playoff race or anything like that right where they
Speaker 4: might have been considered that, you know, before the playoff,
Speaker 4: because they still got to go in. If they go
Speaker 4: in their league, they're in. So it doesn't matter whether
Speaker 4: or not. They lost to Georgia Tech in the first game.
Speaker 4: Whereas you have this loss that you didn't expect and
Speaker 4: now you might lose another one down the road, and
Speaker 4: now you're out. If it's a four team planoff.
Speaker 2: It's funny though. They don't talk about they don't talk
Speaker 2: about having good seasons. Now it's all about the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now it's all about.
Speaker 4: Right, just get into the playoffs. And we'll say that
Speaker 4: about Arizona. Right. Okay, you lose the game, but just
Speaker 4: win the league. You're still in the Kandasity and get
Speaker 4: yourself into the championship game and win the league, all right.
Speaker 3: The Big Twelve presidents and athletic directors met about Yukon
Speaker 3: potentially joining the Big Twelve today.
Speaker 4: No vote was taken yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you sent that out Friday while we talked about it. No, no,
Speaker 2: because I didn't have a show on Friday. Right, But
Speaker 2: you send me the league, right, and it already kept
Speaker 2: just before you send it, it was already kind of
Speaker 2: coming out. That would be fantastic. Yeah, that would be
Speaker 2: for basketball. Holy Christ, imagine both women and men. Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to talk about a league, the best
Speaker 4: league getting.
Speaker 2: Better exactly exactly. It'd be a lot of fun. Gino
Speaker 2: coming here for a game. Uh you have you know,
Speaker 2: another hurly coming back to Tucson to cover to do
Speaker 2: a game. Oh, this this league. If you don't have tickets,
Speaker 2: you better get your take exactly.
Speaker 3: Lake Mary, Florida won the Little League World Series in
Speaker 3: baseball and Pitt County, North Carolina won it in softball.
Speaker 2: It was a great game.
Speaker 4: I saw the play, the butt play. I didn't get
Speaker 4: to see the game, but I saw that bunt play
Speaker 4: where you know, they decided the game.
Speaker 2: It's a great game because they Florida should not have
Speaker 2: been the last second, last minute, or last ending hit
Speaker 2: that got him even and then they went into extrandings.
Speaker 2: I didn't know they. I didn't know this. I didn't
Speaker 2: really put the kid on second base. U at the
Speaker 2: at the training mode.
Speaker 4: Oh I thought it was in the sixth inning that
Speaker 4: that happened. Seventh Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: Cowboys wide receiver Ceed Lamb has agreed to a four year,
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty six million dollars contract extension, the
Speaker 3: second biggest non QB contract in NFL history.
Speaker 2: Man, And I'm thinking, you know what the good lamb
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking the dude didn't have to play the preseason.
Speaker 2: That's it, the preseason's over. He signs and now he's
Speaker 2: good to go.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred million.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, guys, Okay, all right, I don't know what
Speaker 4: I don't know right.
Speaker 3: Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen has made history as the
Speaker 3: first player to appear on both sides of the baseball
Speaker 3: box score in one game.
Speaker 4: What yeah, he got traded in the middle of the game.
Speaker 3: There was a game from June that got oh, and
Speaker 3: then he got traded to the other team, so he
Speaker 3: started the game as the Blue ja.
Speaker 2: There was in the NBA. There's one that's cool. There's
Speaker 2: one in Arizona. Has that guy? Mm hmm, I mean
Speaker 2: Arizona has If you read any of my books day now,
Speaker 2: if I can remember some of my books, it was
Speaker 2: with I think Corneil Norman. He played for one team,
Speaker 2: like the seventy six ers and ninety five years listening.
Speaker 2: He played with the seventy six ers one game and
Speaker 2: then was traded to the other team and then finished
Speaker 2: off the game that way, and they played against Plaid
Speaker 2: against the same team in the in the in the
Speaker 2: same box score it was it was it was yeah,
Speaker 2: in the mid seventies, all right, it had to be Norman.
Speaker 4: I think it was. That's kind of cool, all right.
Speaker 3: The mom of twenty twenty six QB recruit is suing
Speaker 3: North Carolina over nil restrictions.
Speaker 4: What does that mean? It just popped up on my feet.
Speaker 2: Did you listen to our show? You didn't? Did you
Speaker 2: listen to show on Thursday? Unbelievable to me. I learned
Speaker 2: a lot that day with Troy and Moreno, how how
Speaker 2: how teams or programs are inuring these kids to go
Speaker 2: and then they tell them, sorry, we don't have we
Speaker 2: don't have the money we promised you, and that's that's
Speaker 2: part of.
Speaker 4: Getting them to sign. And then the time they don't
Speaker 4: have the money, they.
Speaker 2: Don't have the money. It's like and I'm seeing that
Speaker 2: can't be happening. That's not true. And he says, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's true. And then they threw the kids name at
Speaker 2: from from Florida to win to a su and I
Speaker 2: remember that, and that's happening more often. And I'm thinking
Speaker 2: he's yeah, it's happening more often, and I'm thinking it says, Steve,
Speaker 2: what do you think that the transfer portal is the
Speaker 2: way it is. Wow, I was, I was like, holy crap,
Speaker 2: this can't be happening. It's happening, happening, and it makes sense.
Speaker 4: That that's that's dumb.
Speaker 2: It's dumb. It's dumb. And how how is this sport? Sports?
Speaker 2: Youve uh, you have ade, but Nancy Doba, sport's gonna survive.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I've been watching or doing this for thirty
Speaker 2: seven years. You've been watching and doing this for longer.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a mess.
Speaker 4: It is God, you know, God, you know. And the
Speaker 4: thing is that, look I get there, you know the
Speaker 4: money that's involved in all that kind of But in
Speaker 4: the there's there's still kids. Yeah, you know, just treat
Speaker 4: them fairly, that's all. Just just don't take advantage of them.
Speaker 4: And I don't know why, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I well, that could be to both sides.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to both sides, right, because because like we've seen
Speaker 4: what parents do too. Right. There two kids that left
Speaker 4: left cell point right, well, the dad something happened with
Speaker 4: the with the family, so they they you know, they
Speaker 4: blew off their their commitment and went somewhere else. It
Speaker 4: goes all ways but you know this whole thing, Well,
Speaker 4: let's get him here and then we'll screw him on
Speaker 4: the on the n I L and he's got nowhere
Speaker 4: to go. I mean, that's just done. All right, that's
Speaker 4: all I got. All right. Well, I don't know if
Speaker 4: you going back to talk about this New Mexico game,
Speaker 4: because it was look it, you know, when when you're
Speaker 4: looking at Arizon's got to play these guys, they looked
Speaker 4: pretty good. But then you realize, you know, I was
Speaker 4: looking at the at the at the box score when
Speaker 4: New Mexico was winning the game and got to the
Speaker 4: big lead because they got two defensive touchdowns. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: you know, Brennan and his press conference talked about what's
Speaker 4: most important to him is that, you know the usual stuff,
Speaker 4: right turnovers, red zone, a third down. You know, don't
Speaker 4: turn the ball over to New Mexican. You should kick
Speaker 4: their asses because if not for two fumble returns for touchdowns,
Speaker 4: they're not probably not even in the game and having
Speaker 4: a chance to win. Instead, you know, then they give
Speaker 4: up twenty one points in the fourth quarter to an
Speaker 4: FCS team, a very good FCS team, possibly the best
Speaker 4: FCS team, and you lose the game. At home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 4: So I don't know what that means for you know,
Speaker 4: Arizona coming up. You know the idea that they've played
Speaker 4: a game Arizona hasn't you know there's trade offs, right, Yes,
Speaker 4: you have film on them, but they've played a game
Speaker 4: they you know, tight in the fourth quarter, and they've
Speaker 4: kind of got one under their belt.
Speaker 2: Film schmil They should be much better than New Mexico.
Speaker 2: I remember who you have as your defensive coordinator or
Speaker 2: you or your guy on the defensive end. Uh, former
Speaker 2: New Mexico coach, head coach. So I'm sure he has
Speaker 2: he doesn't need film on them.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Probably he's thinking to myself.
Speaker 2: This is the same pain in the ass team that
Speaker 2: I coached that couldn't hold the lead and have and
Speaker 2: have me here because they couldn't win possible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe you're right.
Speaker 2: I know this team and they're not caused me to
Speaker 2: lose my job. It's wrobably been the system here.
Speaker 4: That's too funny.
Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see. I mean, what's spread thirty Well,
Speaker 2: it will be about thirty three though, it's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, let me let me check that out because
Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, what do you what do
Speaker 4: you make of what uh, what happened? You know, what
Speaker 4: do you make of what happened in terms of, well,
Speaker 4: you give it? You give them a lot of at
Speaker 4: it for having been in that game. That's what do
Speaker 4: you Or do you step on their next because they
Speaker 4: blew the game?
Speaker 2: That's it. I think you do both, because I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get the guy who wrote for the works for
Speaker 2: the Son of in New Mexican. He wrote a pretty
Speaker 2: good column about the fans are like Arizona fans. Uh,
Speaker 2: they loved it and then they hate it, and now
Speaker 2: they're looking at basketball season.
Speaker 4: It's thirty and a half. Still that hasn't changed the
Speaker 4: over hundreds fifty seven.
Speaker 2: No, I think if you're a New Mexico guy, you're thinking,
Speaker 2: we weren't expected to do this. There were ten point dogs,
Speaker 2: I think it was eleven point dogs and they did
Speaker 2: really well and then they just pooped the bed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're thinking if even if you're in New Mexico,
Speaker 4: you still think we should beat an FCS.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, not a good one. It's like when
Speaker 2: Ayzona plaid North Dakota State here or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: But we knew that what that that North of Coost
Speaker 4: State was really damn good.
Speaker 2: Well so is Montana State.
Speaker 4: But I'm going to tell you that I still expected
Speaker 4: Arizona to win that game.
Speaker 2: Oh and it was a clear it was a tough kay.
Speaker 4: You, Yes, it definitely was. But I'm lost that game.
Speaker 4: I know that. But what I'm saying is that if
Speaker 4: they were lost, I would have been really pissed because
Speaker 4: I would have thought, I don't care how bad you
Speaker 4: think you are, if you can't those guys aren't here
Speaker 4: for a reason.
Speaker 2: Right, let me throw this three letter word, three letter
Speaker 2: acronym at you.
Speaker 4: Well, I know, but that and and what that told
Speaker 4: us was how bad Arizona really was. You know, at
Speaker 4: that time, they were awful, and and they and any
Speaker 4: you should have been on, you know, should not have
Speaker 4: been able to do what they did. They did it,
Speaker 4: but they shouldn't have.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember what they did. They just won.
Speaker 4: That's what just won the game. Arizona was so bad
Speaker 4: that that any of you won that game. And so
Speaker 4: I just think, and look, we all get in New
Speaker 4: Mexico's Mount West team, so they're not they're not a
Speaker 4: PAC twelve team playing an FCS team. But I still
Speaker 4: think that you're you know, your your your your Division
Speaker 4: one team. You probably feel like there's an expectation you
Speaker 4: should win that game. The same way as I out
Speaker 4: when Arizona played San Diego. Stake those two games, right
Speaker 4: if any say killed them and that's how bad we
Speaker 4: find out how bad they were. Then the next year
Speaker 4: they get in your quarterback and all the things. But
Speaker 4: Nate and I went to that game thinking they could lose.
Speaker 2: But expecting them to win. Then we'll still San Diego stay.
Speaker 2: And then you were pleasantly surprised what you've seen in
Speaker 2: the one hundred degree wee.
Speaker 4: Heat INSI Diego, Yeah, exact.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's go. Let's go. We can have more time. Well,
Speaker 2: what are we doing? Micho left, Yeah, we got Michae left, okay,
Speaker 2: so yeah, let's let's go. And then because we're running.
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Eying the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jaginsauce. Now we
Speaker 2: have Michael from the Arizona Daily Star. Michael, how you
Speaker 2: doing pretty good?
Speaker 11: How are you guys?
Speaker 2: Fine? Thank you? Are you already for the first game
Speaker 2: of the season?
Speaker 4: Sure, thank you.
Speaker 11: You know, it's obviously it's a very busy time fall,
Speaker 11: but it's a fun time. Yeah, And I like having
Speaker 11: something concrete to talk and write about as opposed to,
Speaker 11: you know, just months and months and months of speculation
Speaker 11: and that sort of thing. So yeah, let's let's kick
Speaker 11: it off. Let's play some ball.
Speaker 4: Well, you guys, you guys had a special section in
Speaker 4: the in There's a daily start yesterday, so lots to
Speaker 4: read and it's going to take me all week to
Speaker 4: get through all of it. But we want to talk
Speaker 4: first a little bit about a column you did regarding
Speaker 4: this whole situation with how you know, media, fans, everybody
Speaker 4: been cut off from practices and things, and how low
Speaker 4: key it's been. I guess, for lack of a better word,
Speaker 4: you made a lot of good points, you know, the
Speaker 4: main one being that this has been sort of a
Speaker 4: missed opportunity for for the U of A. And going
Speaker 4: into a season that's generated a lot of excitement since
Speaker 4: last year. Now it's kind of like we're going in
Speaker 4: kind of nobody's really heard much of anything. First, give
Speaker 4: us first your thoughts on why you did that column.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, first of all, I mean, the focus at
Speaker 11: that column was about the fans. I try to keep
Speaker 11: us guys out of it, right. I feel like the
Speaker 11: access that we've gotten has been very good for the
Speaker 11: most part, and people don't really like is your complaints
Speaker 11: from the media about what's going on with our access,
Speaker 11: our food, our travel, et cetera. So this was really
Speaker 11: about the fans and The reason that I wrote is
Speaker 11: I just kept kind of waiting for there to be
Speaker 11: something like an open scrimmage, uh, some sort of a
Speaker 11: pep rally like event, even if it wasn't a real practice,
Speaker 11: just trying everybody, you know, inviting people into the stadium,
Speaker 11: signing autographs, fan fast, you know, something typically that has
Speaker 11: been done. You know, the Saturday that the students arrived.
Speaker 11: The calendar was a little bit different this year, and
Speaker 11: that that's only a week out from the start of
Speaker 11: the season as opposed to two weeks. But it's just
Speaker 11: kind of this you know, traditional kickoff type of event
Speaker 11: or activity, and they declined to do one this year
Speaker 11: for uh, for whatever reason, they didn't feel like it
Speaker 11: was necessary, and that just I found that to be
Speaker 11: disappointing when you look at the entire scope of everything
Speaker 11: that Brent Brennan has done and who he is. I mean,
Speaker 11: it's a pretty minor quibble. I think he's made almost
Speaker 11: all the right moves since he's been here. But I
Speaker 11: think that was in this opportunity on behalf of him
Speaker 11: and the football program and the athletic department.
Speaker 2: You make a few good you have a few good
Speaker 2: lines in here. One of them at the end is
Speaker 2: that it wouldn't serve the program if a lot of
Speaker 2: information were to get out about formations and personnel. Okay, really,
Speaker 2: Arizona's Arizona, and they're going to be as good as
Speaker 2: they're going to be. I mean, how afraid could you be?
Speaker 11: I mean, look all the practices camp technically, as I
Speaker 11: had mentioned, and when the piece were open to the public,
Speaker 11: the school did not advertise this fact at all, which
Speaker 11: is a very strange way to go about things. But
Speaker 11: anyone could have gone and seen whatever they want to
Speaker 11: see during those couple of weeks, and they could have
Speaker 11: posted that information on message boards or social media or whatever,
Speaker 11: and there was really no way that anybody could have
Speaker 11: stopped them. I remember my USC days, you know. Pete
Speaker 11: Carroll had wide open practices over there in LA and
Speaker 11: he thought it was a great way, you know, to
Speaker 11: sort of acclimate the players to having a lot of
Speaker 11: eyeballs on them. And he also felt like, you people
Speaker 11: don't know what you're looking at anyway, so there was
Speaker 11: really no harm in it. Like, there are certain things
Speaker 11: as a media person that you're not supposed to disclose,
Speaker 11: you know. I try to avoid getting into specifics about injuries,
Speaker 11: if they run a trick play. We caught a few
Speaker 11: trick plays. You're not obviously not supposed to talk about that.
Speaker 11: That's just sort of the implicit agreement between a football
Speaker 11: program and the media cover it. But I really think,
Speaker 11: as I mentioned in there, that they could have done
Speaker 11: something that wouldn't have even been a real practice and
Speaker 11: could have served the purpose that you know that I was,
Speaker 11: you know, kind of seeking, which was to just have
Speaker 11: a you know, an event, celebration, you know, just some
Speaker 11: sort of event to engage with the fan base and
Speaker 11: get everybody fired up.
Speaker 2: So another quick question, I think you addressed it in
Speaker 2: a different way. So is this a Brett Brennan issue
Speaker 2: or is it an above him issue?
Speaker 11: That is a really good question. I you know, I
Speaker 11: put Brent Brindan's name pretty high up in there because
Speaker 11: he is the head coach, and you know, he's the
Speaker 11: one who's in charge of the football program. So is
Speaker 11: it really like up to him to do this sort
Speaker 11: of thing. No, but if he wanted to do it,
Speaker 11: people would have gotten it done right if he had
Speaker 11: been if he had been nudged, I think he probably
Speaker 11: would have signed off on it. You know, we kind
Speaker 11: of became used to jetfish the salesman the last few years,
Speaker 11: like constantly doing this sort of thing. He was pleading
Speaker 11: for people to come to the games. He was active
Speaker 11: on social media. He was he was getting like big
Speaker 11: name football alums to come to the spring game, anything
Speaker 11: he could to generate excitement. At that point out in
Speaker 11: the piece, things were different back then. A team is
Speaker 11: coming off a terrible losing streak. They were, you know,
Speaker 11: one of the worst programs in the country. Jed knew
Speaker 11: he had to do this. Brent doesn't necessarily have to
Speaker 11: do this, but you guys have been around long enough
Speaker 11: to know that if the football team doesn't get off
Speaker 11: to a great start, and it's entirely possible based on
Speaker 11: the schedule, that they could be two and two heading
Speaker 11: into their first home Big Twelve game, with their third
Speaker 11: and fourth games being at Kansas State, and that in Utah,
Speaker 11: people might you know, people's minds pretty quickly dissed over
Speaker 11: to basketball right around here, you know. So to me,
Speaker 11: you should do everything you possibly can to engage with
Speaker 11: the fans and get them to attend or football games
Speaker 11: and experience what a college football Saturday is.
Speaker 4: Like, Yeah, we're talking to Michael lev Calmness for theirs
Speaker 4: a Daily Star. All right, Michael, So you know, it's
Speaker 4: been a long time since they had a game and
Speaker 4: talked about a lot of things, said a lot of
Speaker 4: things about about this team. Your your general thoughts going
Speaker 4: in now that the week is here. You saw in
Speaker 4: New Mexico last week? What's this week? What do you
Speaker 4: think in this week about a the game coming up
Speaker 4: would be you know, Arizona and where do they said?
Speaker 4: What do you think they're going to look like as
Speaker 4: the season gets started?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't think they're going to have too many
Speaker 11: problems with New Mexico. I know they nearly won a game,
Speaker 11: uh this last week where they were double digit underdogs.
Speaker 11: I don't think that that point spread was really where
Speaker 11: it should have been considering where the game was. And
Speaker 11: that's a fact their fatas FGS opponent. That being said, uh,
Speaker 11: New Mexico did get out gained pretty sizably in that game,
Speaker 11: and they gave up two you know, they were they
Speaker 11: were on the the Uh, they were the beneficiaries of
Speaker 11: two defensive touchdowns that you know made the game look
Speaker 11: maybe a little bit different than it actually was. As
Speaker 11: the line of scrimmage, so I don't see too many
Speaker 11: huge issues there. As far as Arizona overall, I think
Speaker 11: the skill position players are really good, best collection they've
Speaker 11: had maybe in a long time, spearheaded by you know,
Speaker 11: No Fafita and Teto McMillan. I think very deep running
Speaker 11: back corps. I think he and Burnett tight end is
Speaker 11: going to have a breakout season. He was absolutely fantastic,
Speaker 11: like during training camp, like a different guy than he
Speaker 11: had been. I am a little bit worried about the
Speaker 11: offensive line, specifically in the area of depth. They really
Speaker 11: cannot afford to lose many guys or any guys up front,
Speaker 11: and then they've been doing everything they possibly can to
Speaker 11: coach up the backups. But from what I've seen, and
Speaker 11: because of a couple of injuries that they've had, that's
Speaker 11: an area of concern. Defensively, I think they're going to
Speaker 11: be better than people think, even though they lost a
Speaker 11: lot of big bodies up front.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I would tend to agree with you. So,
Speaker 2: so the offensive line must have been hit, and this
Speaker 2: is you know, captain obvious with Raymond Palito not coming back,
Speaker 2: and how they find that fix or did they?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, look, the Raymond Polito
Speaker 11: really hadn't done anything in college, right in the one
Speaker 11: game that he when he came back and then played
Speaker 11: a lot and he really struggled. But very talented player,
Speaker 11: and it was kind of a domino fact, you know,
Speaker 11: losing him, let's say, and let's say, you know, let's
Speaker 11: that he didn't even start. He would have been a great,
Speaker 11: you know, third tackle option, you know, or he could
Speaker 11: have been a starter, a card and someone who could
Speaker 11: have swung out to tackle if they had an injury there.
Speaker 11: So that was a big blow to the program and
Speaker 11: they tried really hard through the transfer portal to address
Speaker 11: that situation. Michael Ruden was a posing a player that
Speaker 11: they brought in from Oregon. He got hurt during training camp.
Speaker 11: I am not sure what his status is. It is
Speaker 11: not a he's ending type of thing, but it did
Speaker 11: sideline him for a little bit, and you know, maybe
Speaker 11: Kurt killed his progress in that way. I mean, one
Speaker 11: of the guys they're listing on their too deep a
Speaker 11: tackle as Matthew Lotto, who is a true freshman, who
Speaker 11: is someone that I think they would prefer to red
Speaker 11: shirt if they could. But you know, it's really hard
Speaker 11: to find out these the tackles, and they tried to
Speaker 11: grab a couple of guys in the portal. A Jonah
Speaker 11: Rodriguez is another one from San Diego State. And it's
Speaker 11: sometimes a long development process for those for those big
Speaker 11: guys up front, and you really don't want to have
Speaker 11: to force them in there. If they have a couple
Speaker 11: of injuries, they're probably gonna have to.
Speaker 4: He was asked, h I loved his ans. I love
Speaker 4: Brent Brannan's answer too, when he was asked how much
Speaker 4: of the playbook are we going to see this week?
Speaker 4: And he just said he basically said enough to win.
Speaker 4: I thought that was I thought that was a great answer.
Speaker 4: But you know, when you when you I don't know,
Speaker 4: do you you sent him to be kind of a
Speaker 4: I don't I don't know if cage is the right word,
Speaker 4: but just somebody who's only going to say as much
Speaker 4: as he really wants you to know, or you know,
Speaker 4: not not not much more like when he was asked
Speaker 4: about t Max is going to play and that was it.
Speaker 4: That was the answer.
Speaker 11: I think that he is that way when it comes
Speaker 11: to strategy. Xs Ando, who's personnel as it pertains to
Speaker 11: the upcoming game or opponent. If you ask him about,
Speaker 11: you know, know what his feet as a leadership, he
Speaker 11: might go on for several minutes, you know, like I
Speaker 11: think he loves to talk about and pump up his guys.
Speaker 11: But he's a football coach, and football coaches, by their
Speaker 11: nature are protective of information. And I totally understand it.
Speaker 11: As far as like what we're going to see on Saturday,
Speaker 11: I think the ideal scenario is that you're able to
Speaker 11: build up a big enough lead where in the halfway
Speaker 11: through the third quarter through the end of the game
Speaker 11: you can go real basic on offense, run the ball,
Speaker 11: and not show every single play that you have in
Speaker 11: the playbook.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I remember Stoops that I talk about
Speaker 2: this place all the time when Stoops was kind of
Speaker 2: the secretive, not secret if he was concerned about people
Speaker 2: going to sixth Street across the street and maybe filming
Speaker 2: the practice games over there, you know, in the corner there,
Speaker 2: And I asked him, really, it's that big, I would
Speaker 2: say if I were Brendan, Now, I got Noah, I
Speaker 2: got Team Mac, come get me. Try to say those are.
Speaker 11: Nice, those are nice cards to have, aren't they Yeah.
Speaker 2: But all this secretive stuff, and you've been covering football
Speaker 2: for a long time, Michael, has it been like that
Speaker 2: for a while because you were at USC, which of course,
Speaker 2: and then you said, Carol, just hey, come on in,
Speaker 2: try to stop us.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he didn't care.
Speaker 4: He might have.
Speaker 11: He might have been that way because he knew he
Speaker 11: had better players than everybody else.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, which obviously is an unusual situation. There's
Speaker 11: only a handful of programs where you know, you could
Speaker 11: just kind of line up against the other guys and
Speaker 11: you're going to win, no matter how much information they
Speaker 11: might have. But yeah, of course it's always been this
Speaker 11: way with football. Coaches are paranoid, they're control freaks. They
Speaker 11: don't like to they don't like their secret to get out.
Speaker 11: I am glad to see that one league is going
Speaker 11: to have had injury reports already and another one's talking
Speaker 11: about it, and Texas Tech is putting out an injury
Speaker 11: report every single week. I would love for that to
Speaker 11: be something that all of college football does, or all
Speaker 11: of the Big twelve does, because as much as coaches
Speaker 11: don't like to talk about these things or put that
Speaker 11: down on paper, if it's the same for everybody. It's
Speaker 11: not nearly as big of an in.
Speaker 2: Issiuative, right totally.
Speaker 4: Again, we're talking to Michael lev Commers with Airs on
Speaker 4: Daily Star. Michael, what are you most curious to see
Speaker 4: this Saturday? Not just overall with the team. There's all
Speaker 4: kinds of questions, but what do you want? What do
Speaker 4: you need to see Saturday to say, Okay, this is
Speaker 4: where you kind of expected them to be.
Speaker 11: Domination at the line of scrimmage on both sides of
Speaker 11: the ball, plain and simple. Can you run the ball
Speaker 11: down New Mexico's throat as Montana's they did at least
Speaker 11: with a minimum two hundred and maybe more? And are
Speaker 11: you getting after the quarterback with your completely revamped defensive line.
Speaker 11: They've got a great secondary, They've got a really good
Speaker 11: linebacking corps. Like I said, they've got great skill position players.
Speaker 11: And it's going to come down in those games against
Speaker 11: Kansas State, against Utah, whoever else is coming down the
Speaker 11: pike in the Big twelve, It's going to come down
Speaker 11: to those up front. So that's what I want to see.
Speaker 11: I want to see them dominate on both sides.
Speaker 2: So kind of getting back to your column, you've been here,
Speaker 2: you were here at the end of a rich rot.
Speaker 2: I think it was through someone and and the kind
Speaker 2: of the talk before he actually put the car into
Speaker 2: the ditch and then jed, you know, doing what he did.
Speaker 2: And now this, I don't think the hype now meets
Speaker 2: it meets the what's the reality is? Because what is
Speaker 2: the reality? Are you hearing stuff out in the streets
Speaker 2: saying we can't wait for the football season? I really haven't.
Speaker 11: I don't know about that. I think people are pretty excited.
Speaker 11: They don't it's not like they have a marquee opener.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 11: That might be a little bit of a factor, Like
Speaker 11: it's it's more exciting if you're facing BYU and Glendale
Speaker 11: than you know, facing New Mexico here. That could be
Speaker 11: part of it. Could be just it's still summer, you know,
Speaker 11: when people just really aren't in that mindset as of yet.
Speaker 11: But all it takes it is upsetting Kansas State or
Speaker 11: upsetting Utah, you know, and then everybody will be on board.
Speaker 11: And this is a This is a really fun team.
Speaker 11: This is a team that's really easy to root for,
Speaker 11: and they have got a lot of star powers. So
Speaker 11: I would I would fully expect the fandom to to
Speaker 11: be on board, despite the fact that the program did
Speaker 11: not go out of its way to connect with them
Speaker 11: in this this month leading up to the team.
Speaker 2: So maybe last question we have won't have a minute
Speaker 2: so in your column and you had twenty four hours
Speaker 2: with it outside maybe longer than that. Did you get
Speaker 2: people or maybe you don't get people email and you
Speaker 2: were texting you Michael, shut up, quit your winning or
Speaker 2: a great column?
Speaker 11: I got both kind of which is kind of ideal, right,
Speaker 11: right right. I mean sometimes with these things, the best
Speaker 11: case scenario is that you're just you're you're engaging people,
Speaker 11: You're being provocative in some shape or form. That's not
Speaker 11: why I did it. I wrote it because it's something
Speaker 11: that I believed was, you know, worth talking about and
Speaker 11: bringing to light. But I got I would say I
Speaker 11: got it from both sides, and that's totally fine. Everyone
Speaker 11: is entitled to their opinions. I just hope that you know,
Speaker 11: people actually read it as opposed to like just looking
Speaker 11: at the headline, which I don't think, you know, tells
Speaker 11: the story and doesn't. Just the headline doesn't include all
Speaker 11: of the.
Speaker 2: New You're like the big You're like the Veggas line.
Speaker 2: You want both sides playing it.
Speaker 4: Thanks Mike, Well, I read it, Michael, so appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Good stuff. Thanks, good stuff too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you Mike. Thanks Mike. I'll see you soon too. Okay,
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, welcome back to Wyn the Ball. Here all
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Speaker 2: the podcast on from Thursday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I forgot that. I was busy, Steve. I was
Speaker 4: in San Diego, took well, took my daughter to San
Speaker 4: Diego to get her moved in, you know, left her
Speaker 4: behind because she started her job at San Diego Stay two.
Speaker 4: So all the tears were some. There were definitely some
Speaker 4: tiers yesterday.
Speaker 2: She's like outside of your oldest who's done some stuff.
Speaker 2: That's like the only Gonzalez has ever left the nest.
Speaker 4: No, Alana was gone for a good part of the
Speaker 4: time because she went to she went to she started,
Speaker 4: she went to Southern California, then she went to do
Speaker 4: but right here and now she's back. Yeah, like for what, Well,
Speaker 4: Elina wants to leave again when she's done with a PhD.
Speaker 4: So she's only around for a little while longer.
Speaker 2: Man, the Gonzales there now, Adam is the only homebody
Speaker 2: and he he'll never leave.
Speaker 4: He's staying here back, but he's back at the UFA
Speaker 4: as well. He's working a job there now, so good
Speaker 4: for him. But now I was in I was in
Speaker 4: California when went and dropped her off in San Diego,
Speaker 4: then went went up to l a kind of got
Speaker 4: the Dodger game on Saturday night. Watched the Dodgers lose,
Speaker 4: but did see show. Hey hit a homer, which was cool.
Speaker 4: Saw my bite boy Tioscarnandez is on my fantasy team.
Speaker 4: He hit a homer, which was cool. But the Dodgers
Speaker 4: lost nine to eight because their bullpen crap the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's always gonna be that's been the problem
Speaker 2: all yeah, yeah, okay, so yeah, we got our guy
Speaker 2: home for tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Right, have a pretty good Showah, I think so. Bran
Speaker 4: Jeffery is gonna come on tomorrow. Uh uh, talk about
Speaker 4: this coming season. We've always always fun to get him on.
Speaker 4: He does you know, Brand's a pro, he gets does
Speaker 4: a great job with us and we love having him.
Speaker 4: And we'll just get his thoughts on the season going in.
Speaker 4: Uh you know, you know again, he's been here since
Speaker 4: the late eighties. So in terms of overall excitement leading
Speaker 4: into the leading into this season, how many seasons has
Speaker 4: there been this kind of right?
Speaker 2: Right, you can play name on your head, right, four
Speaker 2: of them right, right? And then we're gonna have Steve
Speaker 2: Quist on the other side of the hour. We just
Speaker 2: got word that. Okay, great, and he's gonna be the
Speaker 2: radio guy. Well he's gonna he says, he's not sure
Speaker 2: how often that will happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh okay, Steve's former Tucson sports guy. I think
Speaker 4: was that kay well D Yeah, kay well D living
Speaker 4: in San Diego. Now he's gonna be he does. He's
Speaker 4: gonna be doing some work for ESPN plus on some
Speaker 4: of the the those non revenue sports that you always
Speaker 4: watched on packed off networks. But he's gonna be here.
Speaker 4: So he's gonna be the sideline reporter UH for for
Speaker 4: twelve ninety on Saturday Night. See, he's a good guy.
Speaker 4: He's been well. He and I would commiserate a little bit.
Speaker 4: He was the play by play guy and has been
Speaker 4: for the UH, the San Diego's Indoor Football League team.
Speaker 4: So we talked about some some stuff back then when
Speaker 4: I was doing some sugars called stuff. Really fun guy,
Speaker 4: really good guy. So be interesting to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah he has that voice, Yeah, that's he's definitely not
Speaker 2: how you're doing.
Speaker 4: Definitely got a TV voice.
Speaker 2: So I was out my other job today and some
Speaker 2: guy went to fix the copy or I was just
Speaker 2: sitting at my desk and I talked to tj Is
Speaker 2: that said, I know the voice. Oh you listen to us,
Speaker 2: So yeah, you guys seem to have a lot of fun. Said, yeah,
Speaker 2: we talk a lot of bs. So that's kind of
Speaker 2: we do.
Speaker 4: We do.
Speaker 2: We do, gonna make it fun, gonna make it lightly.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, well yeah it is. Oh, I should bring
Speaker 4: this up. We uh and uh, last week said that
Speaker 4: we're going to have a big announcement today. We thought
Speaker 4: everything was set on this thing that we're gonna talk about,
Speaker 4: so we don't have that. We still got some details
Speaker 4: to finalize yet. We hope to be able to announce
Speaker 4: what we were planning to announce today sometime in the
Speaker 4: next couple of days. But uh, pregnant, you just look pregnant.
Speaker 4: You're not really pregnant. Me too, I kind of look it.
Speaker 4: But it's a fun thing, a good thing that should
Speaker 4: be happening. We just didn't get to get to the
Speaker 4: final h stages of it to be able to announce
Speaker 4: it today. So we'll hopefully have that in the next
Speaker 4: couple of days. But it's game week, Steve.
Speaker 2: Is it is and like I said, asked Michael, maybe
Speaker 2: because I'm not out there as often as I used
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't feel a hype. But then again, this is Tucson.
Speaker 2: It's like you said, it's still summer, still hot. Do
Speaker 2: you feel the hype, You're you're a guy who loves
Speaker 2: the hype.
Speaker 4: Not as much as I hoped I would. Right there,
Speaker 4: there's not there's not a tangible buzz this week. Maybe
Speaker 4: part of it is because you're right, it's New Mexico.
Speaker 4: But Arizona never plays anybody great right in the first
Speaker 4: in the first you know, in the first game of
Speaker 4: the season, who did they Who did they open with
Speaker 4: last year? I'm trying to remember last year. I think
Speaker 4: it was did they open with an A?
Speaker 2: Did they have they played them since the loss?
Speaker 4: No, they don't. I don't think they played any you
Speaker 4: last year because the n A would have had to
Speaker 4: play the AC last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, I don't remember. But
Speaker 2: Henry's our crack staff.
Speaker 4: Yeah he's on it. He's on it. But but like
Speaker 4: I said, you know, everyzone doesn't play.
Speaker 2: You'll be right, it doesn't doesn't. It wasn't okay that
Speaker 2: tells you how exciting that was.
Speaker 4: And then and then they had Mississippi State. Okay, then
Speaker 4: they went to Mississippi State, came back and HI played
Speaker 4: UTEP and then went into the into the league season.
Speaker 4: There was more buzz last year, I feel like and
Speaker 4: again Jed created that he would he purposely created that.
Speaker 4: I remember the San Diego State game, going to San
Speaker 4: Diego State, there was a lot of buzz to that.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I was I was reading Michael. We
Speaker 2: talked about the stature because we all thought and still do,
Speaker 2: Jed's a salesman, right, he's your he's your your. You're
Speaker 2: the guy on Green Acres who was selling stuff all whatever.
Speaker 2: That guy, Yeah, that guy, he's telling you stop. He
Speaker 2: wanted to get you to the stadium, YadA, YadA. And
Speaker 2: people say to criticize either you were like.
Speaker 4: He thought he was too much like that.
Speaker 2: So now not who doesn't have that? So you know,
Speaker 2: we're damned if we do deny again.
Speaker 4: And maybe it's you know again, it's it's getting used
Speaker 4: to who Brent Brennan is the coach. He's he is
Speaker 4: low key, he gets in these press corts. Now he's
Speaker 4: he's funny, he you know, he cracks jokes, he's engaging,
Speaker 4: but he's like not making this a bigger deal than
Speaker 4: he thinks it is. He understands, he understands that he's
Speaker 4: the coach at Arizona. He understands he's a coach of
Speaker 4: a bit of a of a of a power forward team.
Speaker 4: He understands that it's a big deal here in Tucson.
Speaker 4: But he's also a guy that's not going to be
Speaker 4: jumping up and down for it all to happen. He
Speaker 4: wants to coach football. He wants them to be really good.
Speaker 4: And he's handling the way he wants to handle it
Speaker 4: and and the way his personality is. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying that there's some people around the program
Speaker 4: who maybe they could be doing more right to pump
Speaker 4: this thing up. Well again, you know, we get this
Speaker 4: call from Kathy. It says there's no there's no bed
Speaker 4: down Friday, and there's no bed down Friday for this
Speaker 4: first game? Why not?
Speaker 2: Right? First two?
Speaker 4: Right? That's not a Brent Brandan decision, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's funny because who called the early year?
Speaker 2: Was it JR?
Speaker 4: Or TJ Money, T Money, T Money.
Speaker 2: Talked about talked about that and the and we had
Speaker 2: the press conference last week. They talked about the food
Speaker 2: and people. A lot of the fans from outside of
Speaker 2: Tucson don't come in for these games. Right, It's like
Speaker 2: Arizona fans don't travel the football game.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But if they're doing those things, Steve, they're doing
Speaker 4: that to draw crowd, So why aren't they doing more
Speaker 4: to draw crowd?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 4: That's the thing. So h maybe it's it's a Monday,
Speaker 4: and like you said, everybody's coming off the summer. It's
Speaker 4: been hot as hell. I you know, I've been busy.
Speaker 4: You know, I was out of town all weekend and
Speaker 4: so you know, I wasn't in front of the TV
Speaker 4: watching games on Saturday, the games that they were on.
Speaker 4: But maybe by Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah, I'm fired up.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you because I know, and I'll
Speaker 2: have an announcement maybe tomorrow or or Wednesday about I
Speaker 2: have something going on for Saturday's game. But for you,
Speaker 2: can you tell a big game by the tailgating or
Speaker 2: is it always the same?
Speaker 4: No, you can tell. You can tell because because you
Speaker 4: you know the time you get there, you know, more
Speaker 4: people get there earlier, right, like we want like we
Speaker 4: want to try and be in a certain spot, so
Speaker 4: we try and time it for how we think the
Speaker 4: crowd is going to be there.
Speaker 10: So typically.
Speaker 4: To get in your spot, we want to we want
Speaker 4: to be in our spot. We generally have to be
Speaker 4: there to read to three and a half hours before kickoff. Okay, Now,
Speaker 4: if we know it's like this week, will probably be
Speaker 4: there four hours before kickoff because it's the first game.
Speaker 4: People want to tail you, even though it's hot, even
Speaker 4: though it's in New Mexican, and even though it's New Mexico,
Speaker 4: it's the first game. The NAU game next week, the
Speaker 4: following week, maybe we you know, lay off half an
Speaker 4: hour or so. We'll gauge it by the interest we
Speaker 4: see this week. You know, this week we want to
Speaker 4: get there and be able to show pick our show.
Speaker 4: And you didn't make your spot last year. That one
Speaker 4: time we didn't expect it to be as big asho
Speaker 4: was it? I can't remember, I can't remember, but we
Speaker 4: missed it by one spot. We were the first ones
Speaker 4: on the other side of the on the other side
Speaker 4: of the mall, but every other game we were And
Speaker 4: then there was one time we got there and we
Speaker 4: were away early. We were in the second to last row,
Speaker 4: third to the last row, which we didn't We don't
Speaker 4: generally want to be appropriately. They they they line you
Speaker 4: up by when you get so they start in the
Speaker 4: let's see on the if I'm looking at Michale, they
Speaker 4: start on the west side at the sidewalk right on
Speaker 4: the mall, and they worked their way down the mall
Speaker 4: and then they come back to the beginning and go
Speaker 4: and fill in the roads that way, so you get
Speaker 4: the spot that you get when you get there. What
Speaker 4: we try to do is time it we get in
Speaker 4: line at a time that we think we can be
Speaker 4: in the last row.
Speaker 2: How many how many tailgators are there?
Speaker 4: Not people, but how many spaces there are in there?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know, cause you get a
Speaker 4: ten foot spot. Okay, one spot is ten feet by
Speaker 4: thirty feet okay, ten feet wide, thirty feet long. Now,
Speaker 4: back in the day, we when we had our huge tailgate,
Speaker 4: we had three spots. So we had a three we
Speaker 4: paid for three spots. We had a thirty by thirty
Speaker 4: thirty by thirty spot, and well, it's your car, it's
Speaker 4: your vehicle plus ten feet that's what you get. You
Speaker 4: get the line, you get to park your car, then
Speaker 4: you get ten feet. Then the next car parks and
Speaker 4: they get ten feet. So like the buses and those
Speaker 4: those ones are in the middle, that's a different space.
Speaker 4: That's a different sized space because it's for bigger vehicles.
Speaker 4: And so in our in our area, you can only
Speaker 4: take in a car or a truck or a van
Speaker 4: or you know, not an oversize. If you want to
Speaker 4: bring your motor home, you buy a spot in the
Speaker 4: in the center of the mall, and that car that
Speaker 4: has a different price tag, and I don't even know
Speaker 4: what that is. So that's what we get. So like
Speaker 4: when we when we had three spaces, but park a car,
Speaker 4: we'd get our thirty feet, then we'll part the other
Speaker 4: two cars. And that was and so would have it.
Speaker 4: We would have a thirty by thirty foot space to
Speaker 4: have our tailgate. Yeah, but that that costs us three,
Speaker 4: you know, three tailgate passes to get that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: what we have to do. Now we're back, we're just one.
Speaker 4: We get our ten foot spot and we put up
Speaker 4: three of those ten foot tents and we cover our space,
Speaker 4: and my car's parked there and that's what we do.
Speaker 2: Interesting fee lucky wish one. We're all good if you
Speaker 2: wish well, little sodas, stuff like that. Pizza sometimes, yeah, pizza, sandwiches. Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll see by by your guy. Well, I won't
Speaker 2: be there, but Nico shows up a time or two.
Speaker 4: I step by, but we don't step Hey. Look, and
Speaker 4: we're excited. We're looking forward to it, you know, we
Speaker 4: we we kind of plan how we're going to do
Speaker 4: this and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I think I asked I think we may already have
Speaker 2: the subject, but I don't know if I asked it.
Speaker 2: So the question I asked to Live about is this
Speaker 2: a Brendan problem or is it some else's problem? But
Speaker 2: then he put it perfectly, says, if Brendan wanted to
Speaker 2: change it, he.
Speaker 4: Could change he could change it, and he's just not.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's paying all that much attention to
Speaker 4: it because he's worried more about winning a game.
Speaker 2: I said that, and you know, I let the other
Speaker 2: people deal with that, right stuff, right, But I think
Speaker 2: if it's it flops, Jay, if it flops in the
Speaker 2: first two weeks, they're gonna have to pay attention.
Speaker 4: Yeah. See, and again that's Jed paid attention to that.
Speaker 4: He was out there week. I mean, what was the
Speaker 4: first thing he would always say at his press conference?
Speaker 4: What the attendance is going to be?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: Because he ends up with people. And guess what he
Speaker 4: did with that. He got himself, He got this program
Speaker 4: turned around, and he got himself a great job because
Speaker 4: he he did so much with this program to get
Speaker 4: it to where he got it to everybody was paying
Speaker 4: attention and boom, he got himself a better you know,
Speaker 4: a better job. And that's great for him now. And
Speaker 4: now we're sitting here thinking, well, the next guy should
Speaker 4: come in and do the same thing. But Brent Brennan saying,
Speaker 4: I'm here to coach the football team and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: let the you know, the people who take care of
Speaker 4: that stuff take care of that stuff. And that's kind
Speaker 4: of what he's done. And there's a lot of transition
Speaker 4: going on. I think Mike Mike lev alluded to that
Speaker 4: in his column, you know, with the new A D
Speaker 4: and marketing and turnover YadA, YadA, YadA. So maybe they
Speaker 4: just don't have the people to you know, get this,
Speaker 4: you know, kick this can down the road.
Speaker 2: Well, it would be it'd be uh smart at least
Speaker 2: I think. So, uh, let's see if you agree. You
Speaker 2: have a new store. It's a new under new management.
Speaker 2: Under new management, it's the same a store, but you
Speaker 2: have new things, new goods.
Speaker 4: Put some signs up.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you want, Hey, come and come and visit us. Yeah,
Speaker 2: come and say it's it's a new and improved store.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 2: We want some people to come through. We haven't seen that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and maybe there's been there, but we haven't seen it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, So here you go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we see mister Haney, is that guy in green, mister
Speaker 2: haneyt some oil? Snake oil for you. That's what I
Speaker 2: don't even know why they can't. That's gonna watch for you. Okay,
Speaker 2: So tomorrow the big show will be a Brian Jeffries.
Speaker 4: Right, Brian Jeffers and Swist will you join us? So
Speaker 4: they'll be part of the you know, the whole radio team.
Speaker 4: We had Lamont love it last week, so by you know,
Speaker 4: with those two guys in, well, we'll have the whole
Speaker 4: twelve ninety team and some of their thoughts and expectations
Speaker 4: going into this year. It should be fun. Later in
Speaker 4: the week we are going to get Justin Spears will
Speaker 4: join us on Friday. Well, basically have the two beat riders. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're lining up the writer who covers New Mexico for
Speaker 4: the Upperquerque Journal. We're hoping, yeah, or the Santa fan,
Speaker 4: the Santa Fe paper already already the Santa papers poo
Speaker 4: pooing the season. They you go in, you have this
Speaker 4: lead and sometimes already looking forward to basketball.
Speaker 2: That's all. There are a lot like Arizona fans think
Speaker 2: about basketball all the time.
Speaker 4: That didn't take long, No, it didn't take long. Well again,
Speaker 4: you know, I look the first time I turned on
Speaker 4: the game, I saw the score and they were up big,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I didn't realize why they were up big.
Speaker 4: They really weren't moving the ball and h and you
Speaker 4: know at those two defensive touchdowns and that's why they
Speaker 4: were waiting so big. And then Montana State said get there,
Speaker 4: all out of my way. Yeah, just winn to be.
Speaker 2: We were just playing with you guys. Okay, No, cool,
Speaker 2: see you guys tomorrow. Henry, Thanks as usual, enjoy your
Speaker 2: work at your school this week, all right,