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Speaker 1: with Rivera and Jacob Salaz on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Winning the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jacob Zaus. Now
Speaker 2: we have Ryan with breaking news.
Speaker 1: This is I on the Ball breaking news on Fox
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll start with this. Some views out of
Speaker 3: Oklahoma DeMarco Murray have been suspended for game or for violations.
Speaker 3: This is another another violation regarding.
Speaker 4: He's on the Olkhahama stats. Yeah, okay, remember.
Speaker 2: He left here to go, right, He's still there, and
Speaker 2: he was here for like a cup of coffee, this
Speaker 2: dude who looked like you could still play a U
Speaker 2: of a under someone. And now he went over there
Speaker 2: and he's still there. So he didn't leave with the
Speaker 2: with Riley.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: I was looking at to see when he coached back
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah here, Yeah, he was here, like like I said,
Speaker 2: very very quickly.
Speaker 3: Right, switching over to some NFL news, There you.
Speaker 4: Go, Today's cutdown day right at two o'clock. Yeah, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of wait that was it? Was it?
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 4: It was two o'clock our time. Okay, so that was
Speaker 4: a while ago.
Speaker 3: This is not regarding that. Okay, NFL owners have been
Speaker 3: approved for private equity investment. You go down to read
Speaker 3: what this is going to entail. So it allow equity
Speaker 3: firms to invest as limited partners. They could free up
Speaker 3: cash for owners to pursue projects such as stadium renovations.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me that the owners of the stadiums
Speaker 2: will be able to pay for the home stuff. I
Speaker 2: guess so, because typically they won't do They won't do it, right.
Speaker 4: I guess I don't get it because most of them
Speaker 4: have so much money. I guess that's why they have money,
Speaker 4: because they go find other people's money and do stuff
Speaker 4: with it. I guess. Yeah. But yeah, okay, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean I would like to see them
Speaker 4: pay for them damn stadiums for sure. Jerry Jones, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: The guys, they're all billionaires, the whole bunch of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh, Kansas City chiefs, they are partying ways with
Speaker 3: Canarius Tony. I think he's a wide receiver. That's kind
Speaker 3: of a big, kind of a big move by Kansas City,
Speaker 3: one of the one of the big cuts today.
Speaker 2: It's funny because I'm sixteen now, and you know how
Speaker 2: much of a sportsman I am, Jay, And you follow
Speaker 2: it more than me, and your son does a lot,
Speaker 2: right because they're kids, and I used to be that guy.
Speaker 2: Now that I see cuts like former quarterbacks for I
Speaker 2: don't I don't remember some of these names. And it's
Speaker 2: not that I don't remember. They were just weren't big
Speaker 2: time guys.
Speaker 4: I sort of I sort of recognized that name.
Speaker 2: No exactly, and then I guess Tampa Bay let go
Speaker 2: a guy named John Woolford. I guess he was on
Speaker 2: the team for the Super Bowl. Have you heard that name?
Speaker 2: And it was exactly exactly. See these names that were
Speaker 2: on the rosters quarterbacks specifically, and I'm thinking, Okay, who
Speaker 2: was he in the first place. It's like the pickens
Speaker 2: thing or the picket thing. Here's this guy from Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: big time guy, right, hometown guy, and now they have
Speaker 2: fields in Wilson.
Speaker 4: Where the picket go. He went to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: I think he got cut. That's why he saw his name,
Speaker 2: which which makes kind of crazy sense. The pain, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no places. It's like the the tray, the trade,
Speaker 2: not Trey the kid who went from San Francisco to Dallas.
Speaker 2: He didn't have a good he didn't have a good preseason,
Speaker 2: but he's stuck on. He's like he Trey Lance, right.
Speaker 2: And then the kid who went from uh where to
Speaker 2: balt to Buffett to Denver, the Jets. One of the Jets, Wilson.
Speaker 4: Wilson, No, No, and he's and he's upset. No, and
Speaker 4: he's he's upset that he didn't get the starting job.
Speaker 4: They gave it to bow Nicks.
Speaker 2: He was he was an oh the other guy that's yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a different guy. I'm talking about the guy who's
Speaker 2: going to b yu.
Speaker 4: Oh h.
Speaker 2: He's aid Denver to Yeah, he was, so he's like
Speaker 2: third or four streets. But to your point, yeah, he
Speaker 2: was upset that he didn't get the job, saying that
Speaker 2: I think I'm a first.
Speaker 4: I'm an NFL quarterback. Well you're you're not a starting
Speaker 4: NFL quarterback.
Speaker 2: Do you have anything about di on there? No, So
Speaker 2: you've seen that he's because of the reporter think in Denver,
Speaker 2: he's taking a lot of heat nationally. Ya. Do you
Speaker 2: think realistically that he'll be there another year? I don't
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 4: I have a hard time that thinking that he he's
Speaker 4: gonna stick around after his kid who's gone? Kids leave?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, And there's just too much fire there.
Speaker 4: Where's he gonna go? Is he gonna go coach in
Speaker 4: the NFL?
Speaker 2: Is gonna go anywhere?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean probably? But does he need to go anywhere?
Speaker 4: He doesn't need to go, And he didn't need to
Speaker 4: have this job. He took this right. You know, he
Speaker 4: coached because his kid was coming through college and.
Speaker 2: He would be good on TV and people will listen
Speaker 2: to him. But but you know, he doesn't need to
Speaker 2: do this. I mean, he's he's obviously not good at
Speaker 2: the criticism part of the jug very.
Speaker 4: Thin skin for sure, saying for somebody again who's done
Speaker 4: it all, we can tell everybody else to you know,
Speaker 4: pound sand right, and he still worries about what other
Speaker 4: people think, which would make no sense. Yep.
Speaker 3: I want to bring this up. This is kind of
Speaker 3: an interesting story. I in MLB Red Sox. He's now
Speaker 3: a Red Sox catcher. Danny Jensen, the Blue Jays and
Speaker 3: Red Sox they had a they had a game. I
Speaker 3: think it was like last month or something, maybe a
Speaker 3: couple months ago. We got postponed. They were going to
Speaker 3: pick it up, and Jansen actually got traded from the
Speaker 3: Blue Jays.
Speaker 4: Oh this is the guy who played right in the
Speaker 4: same game for both teams. Yeah, we had that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that was that's funny as hell.
Speaker 2: In fact, it was not Couneil Norman. It was Eric Money,
Speaker 2: Eric Money. It was Sixers.
Speaker 4: Okay, but yeah, we that is kind of funny.
Speaker 3: I thought it was pretty interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is. That's really only happen. I'm just curious.
Speaker 4: You know, some of these Arizona guys, you know who
Speaker 4: made the you know, who made teams and who didn't
Speaker 4: cutdowns they think, you know, there's some thought that Jacob
Speaker 4: Cowing was gonna stick with the forty nine ers. I
Speaker 4: don't know if we've seen a final forty nine ers
Speaker 4: roster or anything like that. Oh here it is Daisy
Speaker 4: Desert Swarm, has it?
Speaker 2: Do they have the list?
Speaker 4: They do?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Okay, uh, fifty fifty three man rosters, Jacob Cowing forty
Speaker 4: nine ers, Tony Fields with the Browns, Demetrius Flannigan falls
Speaker 4: with the forty nine was going to be a starter,
Speaker 4: right right. Yeah, Folk is still kicking that he's with
Speaker 4: the Titans. Our buddy Roy Lopez. We love he's at
Speaker 4: He's with the Cardinals. Cardinals, he came home. He's with
Speaker 4: the Cardinals. Tanner McLaughlin made made the Bengals. Jordan Morgan
Speaker 4: obviously first round draft pick, made the Packers. And Christian
Speaker 4: Roland Wallace with the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: Uh do we know about the kid who played here
Speaker 2: at Tucson High and went to Alabama?
Speaker 4: Uh? Levi Wallace, he's not even well, he's not a yeah,
Speaker 4: he's so he might he might be a barmber. Gary
Speaker 4: Brightwell got cut. Michael Wiley got cut. He scored a
Speaker 4: touchdown here at the end of the end of the
Speaker 4: season for whom the Commanders. Brid Well was with the Jaguars.
Speaker 4: Dame Crookshank, who's actually stuck around for quite a while.
Speaker 4: He's out at the Falcons. Jalen Harris was with the Commanders.
Speaker 4: He got cut. Lucas Haversack with the kicker, who got
Speaker 4: signed late by the Browns. He got cut. Tylermano with
Speaker 4: the Vikings got cut. J. J. Taylor, who's been in
Speaker 4: the league since he left here. He got cut from
Speaker 4: the Texans.
Speaker 5: D J.
Speaker 4: Williams, running back from last year, is out, and then
Speaker 4: I said, Michael Wiley and Christian Young.
Speaker 2: I did not make that tells you right there, with
Speaker 2: big names from here pasted.
Speaker 4: How difficult it is, how hard it is.
Speaker 2: Our guy, unfortunately, our guy, our guy that we had
Speaker 2: in with, the who got caught cheating or not cheating,
Speaker 2: he got gambling.
Speaker 4: His name the receiver. Come on, Steve, I.
Speaker 2: Asked you, because I don't remember he was at It
Speaker 2: wasn't he at the Mountain View?
Speaker 4: The kid? The kid here was the amount Beople?
Speaker 2: Well, he was here locally and then he got latched
Speaker 2: on and then he got.
Speaker 4: Uh, yes, he spent last year yet busted.
Speaker 2: So come on, I shouldn't bring it up when I
Speaker 2: know that we won't get you know, the score from
Speaker 2: seventy eight?
Speaker 4: What the hell? What do you go to say he
Speaker 4: was Buffalo? Yeah, okay, it'll come to us.
Speaker 2: We'll kind of look at each other as we leave
Speaker 2: the door today and say that's who it was, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because that's what we do.
Speaker 4: You know a lot of people thinking that be John
Speaker 4: Robinson could be the best running back in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well who would be something McCaffrey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean McCaffrey does more things, does more stuff.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Being a being a Mark Wins fan, I can say
Speaker 3: Robinson's gonna be a really good running back. I mean
Speaker 3: because i've I've been able to watch it.
Speaker 4: There he goes listener Bill Listen, Dave Stanley, Stanley Stanley
Speaker 4: Barry Hill listener Bill jam In Barry Hill like I
Speaker 4: was a baseball.
Speaker 2: No, thank you Bill for for.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I think I'm seeing I'm seeing this straight.
Speaker 4: I think, Uh, Levi Wallace, he's in Denver with the Broncos.
Speaker 2: With the Broncos, all right, Wow, what a career with
Speaker 2: per guy that just bet on himself. Yeah and ended
Speaker 2: up where he's ended up, six foot one seventy nine.
Speaker 2: He was like a buck fifty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this kid and walked on in Alabama of all
Speaker 4: places and made it. It's great, great story.
Speaker 2: I think he's Have you ever sends me a note?
Speaker 2: Stanley berry Hill is in the CFL. Good for him, ok, thank.
Speaker 4: You of making a living still that's important. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think you signed a one year deal. Uh Wallace,
Speaker 4: Leve Wallace with the Broncos. Okay, all right, speaking of
Speaker 4: good for Jacob Cowing you really, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: he made the most of it. You know, went went
Speaker 4: to went to UTAP, you know, did well there, God
Speaker 4: got in here, stayed here right, stuck around for that
Speaker 4: season last year. Really, I mean, that's that's what the
Speaker 4: transfer portal is supposed to be about. Right. You come
Speaker 4: from a program where you're not getting a lot of attention,
Speaker 4: a lot of love, go to a bigger program, do
Speaker 4: the work, you know, make a name, and then boom,
Speaker 4: he's in the NFL. Good for him. I'm happy for
Speaker 4: that guy. And he's got a kid, you know, the
Speaker 4: whole bit. You know, it's great to see like that.
Speaker 3: I do that right, anything else, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I don't know if you either of you saw this
Speaker 3: from last week, but it was in the Canadian Football League.
Speaker 3: They had a crazy ending to the game. So they
Speaker 3: were they were tied and there was a last second
Speaker 3: go goal attempts.
Speaker 4: They missed it.
Speaker 3: But in the CFL, if you you hit a field
Speaker 3: goal and you miss it but it goes to the
Speaker 3: end zone, you get a point.
Speaker 4: So they that's a rouge and that's how they won.
Speaker 3: That's how they won. They got a point won the game.
Speaker 3: So they were celebrating a miss field goal, but they they.
Speaker 4: Won the game.
Speaker 2: They probably knew that though, right, because if you kick
Speaker 2: the crap out of it and give them.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I didn't even know that. That was pretty
Speaker 3: pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: Look at walk off bunt? What was last time you
Speaker 2: saw walk off bunt? Remember this happened the over the
Speaker 2: WEF I was born. No, it happened on a Sunday
Speaker 2: in the Little League World Series.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, walk off bunt crazy the Little League World Series. Yeah,
Speaker 4: good stuff for it sounds it's not stat I think
Speaker 4: China is like twenty seven and five in World Series
Speaker 4: Championship games or something like that, and Florida was oh
Speaker 4: and eighth, yeah, in World Series Championship games. And then
Speaker 4: so if you're a gambling guy, which some people are,
Speaker 4: I understand, wink wink, yeah exactly. You have you got
Speaker 4: some games that you're you're looking at for this week,
Speaker 4: and I haven't looked at anything nothing. Well, you better
Speaker 4: start looking. If we got our fab five Friday pixel
Speaker 4: Oh that's right.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, No, I gotta look. I haven't looked.
Speaker 2: I don't even know who forgot. I gotta pay for
Speaker 2: your entry this week, yes you do, yes, you pre
Speaker 2: rolling it this year?
Speaker 4: You know I just don't feel like I can that
Speaker 4: it's possible for me to be as bad as I
Speaker 4: was last year. I just don't think that can happen again.
Speaker 2: The bar has been because it was you were like finished,
Speaker 2: like what.
Speaker 4: I was low, way down there. I was way down.
Speaker 2: There, finished in eighty eighth, I think it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was way way down there. It was not good.
Speaker 4: It was bad because I did I did pretty good
Speaker 4: on uh you know, on on the gambling sites because
Speaker 4: I was not picking the games that I was picking
Speaker 4: on our show. So those games, those were all losses.
Speaker 4: So I had other games that were winners and I did.
Speaker 4: I did pretty well last year. I got the scheduled.
Speaker 3: Okay, I believe that in Georgia, Georgia playing WHOI.
Speaker 4: Clemson, there's a bunch of good games Clemson, Georgia, Texas
Speaker 4: A and M Notre Dame L s U and you
Speaker 4: L s U and USC in Vegas. They're they're you know,
Speaker 4: look A there's gonna be great games every week every
Speaker 4: week because of the because of the new you know,
Speaker 4: the new conferences and stuff. I mean, some of the
Speaker 4: these conference games, they people they can't dog dodge each
Speaker 4: other anymore. You gotta play people. You know, Texas has
Speaker 4: got to play Alabama and and and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: It's all those those things are gonna be fun, and
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to all that. There's gonna be great
Speaker 4: college football games every weekend. They're playing Michigan in week two. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And that's what I'm saying, because you know what, you
Speaker 4: can play those games and if you lose, it doesn't
Speaker 4: mean you're out of the National champions Florida hopeful. All right,
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Speaker 1: Breaking down all the exes and ohs, It's Steve Rivera
Speaker 1: and Jagen Salmons. This is I on the Book on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteenth fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball Hero Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's Jiginsausnnaphone. We have
Speaker 2: Steve Quis. He's the Wildcat's twelve ninety sideline reporter, formerly
Speaker 2: of KLD, formerly of this and that San Diego, doing
Speaker 2: so many things. Thank you something, Steve. You're gonna be
Speaker 2: kind of home. I'm going to call this home for
Speaker 2: you for a while. It was home for a long time.
Speaker 2: Did you you know we all had to kind of
Speaker 2: reinvent ourselves. Jay's had to reinvent himselves himself. I've had
Speaker 2: to do it a few times. You did a great
Speaker 2: job of it. Having left here to go to San Diego.
Speaker 2: You've got thrown a curveball. Now you have to me,
Speaker 2: at least by my vision, you have a pretty good life.
Speaker 11: I do, as a matter of fact, and I do.
Speaker 11: I was listening to the beginning of Your Guys show.
Speaker 11: I have to take some exception to what Jay said.
Speaker 11: I think he said I had some ties to TuS
Speaker 11: On Arizona, and I'm thinking, I've been a PMA County
Speaker 11: taxpayer since nineteen eighty nine. For goodness sakes, I just
Speaker 11: stopped made the thirty first when I sold my last
Speaker 11: property there across from University of Arizona. But guess what
Speaker 11: I get to come back like sixty days later. But yeah,
Speaker 11: I reinvented myself. I want to say. When I was
Speaker 11: doing Pottery Baseball play by play after what the twenty
Speaker 11: ten season, and you know, we all got moved out
Speaker 11: because the station didn't want to broadcast anymore and they
Speaker 11: were bringing dick Enberg on, I was like, I don't
Speaker 11: know if I can make it to the you know,
Speaker 11: sixty two in the finish line in this broadcasting business.
Speaker 11: So I'm actually a full time college administrator back in
Speaker 11: San Diego and got a bunch of properties that I
Speaker 11: manage as well, and then do this sideline broadcasting thing.
Speaker 11: And it's like got Father three right, And they's like
Speaker 11: they keep pulling me back, right, but they keep pulling
Speaker 11: me back, and you know, I probably do about one
Speaker 11: hundred and ten events a year free lance. So the
Speaker 11: phone keeps ringing. If they want me to come, I'll come.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, it is. So tell you a little bit
Speaker 4: about this gig here. You're going to be the sideline guy.
Speaker 4: Is that different from other stuff that you've been doing.
Speaker 4: You've been more in the booth, right.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've been doing more like what Brian's been doing.
Speaker 11: But you know, I started my career kind of as
Speaker 11: a sideline guy doing high school football. It's a lot
Speaker 11: of fun, and I think the thing I'm looking most
Speaker 11: forward to is when looking at that depth chart. I know,
Speaker 11: you know Brian was talking a little bit about the
Speaker 11: depth chart, but five of those starting eleven guys, sorry,
Speaker 11: five of the twenty two starters are going to be
Speaker 11: on that surveyed football team that you know I basically
Speaker 11: broadcast two years ago when they were all seniors. You know,
Speaker 11: Noah and Manu and Burnett. I think is a starter
Speaker 11: now at tight end. So that's gonna be a lot
Speaker 11: of fun being down there. And I've had some relationships
Speaker 11: with them. I mean, I know you know Noah's parents
Speaker 11: pretty well. I bet you will be on a couple
Speaker 11: of flights or in the ubers because we're gonna have
Speaker 11: about the same flight schedule where I know, I know
Speaker 11: missus Fafitte is watching Dash play at football in southern
Speaker 11: California and then we all got a race over to
Speaker 11: the Wildcat football and volleyball in in the fall here
Speaker 11: on Saturday. So it should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 11: But it's not a you know, it's pretty easier just
Speaker 11: you're kind of like an investigative reporter on the sideline
Speaker 11: and you know, figuring out what's going on, and it's
Speaker 11: it's quite the it's quite the challenge, to be quite
Speaker 11: honest with you.
Speaker 2: So when these guys, these kids decided to come to
Speaker 2: Arizona and a team I decided Oregon to come here,
Speaker 2: what were your impressions Arizona's going to be.
Speaker 11: What exactly what it is today? I mean, you know,
Speaker 11: I I even remember I watched one of the opens
Speaker 11: that I had and I I said, this was before
Speaker 11: modern day survey game. I said, you know, know, if
Speaker 11: a Feat will be the starting quarterback this time next
Speaker 11: year at Arizona, and then Arizona's going to just take off,
Speaker 11: and so you could see the talent and you know,
Speaker 11: maybe Noah didn't have the size, but he certainly had
Speaker 11: the heart. Every one of those guys had the heart.
Speaker 11: And Manu was a kid that I just kept seeing
Speaker 11: play and you know, he was kind of under recruited,
Speaker 11: and I was like, I think I need to go
Speaker 11: out and talk to a few people about that. So
Speaker 11: at the time, my daughter was in the athletic department
Speaker 11: at Sandigo State and I said, you guys got to
Speaker 11: come out look at this outside linebacker. And thankfully they didn't,
Speaker 11: you know, they said, hey, you don't know what you're
Speaker 11: talking about. We're going to be fine here. And thankfully,
Speaker 11: you know, Jed Fish and his team were able to
Speaker 11: you know, get in there and get him and then
Speaker 11: lay the groundwork for you know, what Brett Brennan's going
Speaker 11: to be doing here moving forward.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So have you, I don't know, put some thought
Speaker 4: into what these guys are going to look like this
Speaker 4: year or what you expect to see on Saturday night.
Speaker 11: I really haven't. I actually got the job about i'd
Speaker 11: say eight days ago, so I was focusing on some
Speaker 11: other stuff. But I'm starting to read up on it now,
Speaker 11: and you know, I mean, the the Alamo Bowl victory
Speaker 11: is clear in our minds. And I've always admired what
Speaker 11: coach Brennan has done. I thought, you know, four years ago,
Speaker 11: he probably should have been the choice, right he was
Speaker 11: sort of the runner up to coach Fish. But he's
Speaker 11: you know, he ran that San Jose State program and
Speaker 11: recruited in California almost the way that Dick Tomy did
Speaker 11: in the late eighties and early nineties. You know, when
Speaker 11: you remember getting those undersized guys like Waldrop and Hoffman
Speaker 11: and Bruski out of you know, out of the Sacramento
Speaker 11: area and then you know, guys out of Imperial County
Speaker 11: and everything. And that's what Brett was doing. Because I've
Speaker 11: called the state high school football championships in Arizona now
Speaker 11: for the last four I'm sorry, in California for the
Speaker 11: last fourteen years, and so I've seen all those kind
Speaker 11: of undersize really you know, awesome guys go to San
Speaker 11: Jose State because maybe either just a little bit shorter
Speaker 11: or can't bench as much or not as fast. And
Speaker 11: what he did with them a couple of years ago,
Speaker 11: and what he'll probably do with his Arizona team. Nothing
Speaker 11: surprises me. And quite frankly, I don't think they'll lose
Speaker 11: a step this year, to be honest with you, even
Speaker 11: moving from the Pac twelve to the to the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So what makes those kids special, the ones that
Speaker 2: you talked about that survey.
Speaker 11: Well, great families.
Speaker 10: First of all.
Speaker 11: I mean every single one of them. The best player
Speaker 11: on the team. It's funny if you if you were
Speaker 11: to ask me during that year, like if you could
Speaker 11: take one player you were an NBA general manager or
Speaker 11: you're a head coach, it wouldn't have been one of
Speaker 11: the Arizona kids. It actually would have been Mason Graham, right,
Speaker 11: who won a national championship at Michigan last year. He
Speaker 11: was great on the defensive and offensive line. But all
Speaker 11: of those guys had just amazing families. I mean, we
Speaker 11: know Burnett right, I mean with Chester being here in
Speaker 11: the nineties as a linebacker. The Fafeitas are great. I
Speaker 11: still tailgate from time to time with Less Noah's dad.
Speaker 11: Just you know, they started to play in Orange County
Speaker 11: in kind of youth football. They got away from Pop Warner.
Speaker 11: They started this. You know, I think it was like
Speaker 11: the Orange County I can't remember the name of the
Speaker 11: team that they were on, but they were, you know,
Speaker 11: they were playing big time football. And all those kids
Speaker 11: went to the Trinity League and the parents were great,
Speaker 11: and they just had heart, Like you could just see
Speaker 11: with Noah, they had heart. They had really no business
Speaker 11: at Survey two years ago, even getting to the championship game,
Speaker 11: although they were a tenth ranked team in the country
Speaker 11: at the time. But you know, because there was a
Speaker 11: five star at every position for Modern Day and a
Speaker 11: five start every position for Bosco. But these guys are
Speaker 11: just so talented and had so much more heart that
Speaker 11: you know, they persevered and it's exactly they're doing exactly
Speaker 11: at the college level what they what they did on
Speaker 11: the high school level, and it is really starting to
Speaker 11: stand out. And you know, I couldn't be more prouder
Speaker 11: of them. I don't I don't talk to any of
Speaker 11: them at all. I mean I more talked to some
Speaker 11: of the parents, but you know, just that that steadiness
Speaker 11: and the and the good coaching, and you know, if
Speaker 11: if they didn't all have to play two ways, with
Speaker 11: the exception of Noah and and Keon, they probably would
Speaker 11: have won that that Southern Section championship in the state
Speaker 11: championship two years ago when they were all seniors.
Speaker 4: So will you, uh when you're doing when you're doing
Speaker 4: the game on Saturday, we just kind of keep an
Speaker 4: eye on those guys and at an opportunity, you know,
Speaker 4: be able to talk about them. Is that? I mean
Speaker 4: you can't kind of go in with an idea of what,
Speaker 4: you know, what you're looking for.
Speaker 11: No, I think you just let it just play out, right,
Speaker 11: You just okay what happens. You know, we could fumble,
Speaker 11: you know, a bunch of kickoffs, like you know, I mean,
Speaker 11: think about two years ago going to that Arizona Areason
Speaker 11: a state game and it was fourteen, nothing less than
Speaker 11: a minute in, right, all your stories go out the window. Yeah,
Speaker 11: and now you're just kind of reacting. So you just
Speaker 11: you just react to it. And I you know, I
Speaker 11: don't think those kids know I'm coming. I've they probably
Speaker 11: don't even care. But a few of them might, you know,
Speaker 11: look up. Noah might look up, or Tack might look
Speaker 11: up and and give me a wink or something and say, hey, man,
Speaker 11: I kind of know this game. That'll be kind of fun.
Speaker 2: That's That's what I do when I see you Hey,
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 4: He winks at you. So yeah, I.
Speaker 11: Mean, you know, you've got to be you got to
Speaker 11: be really concise. You don't have a lot of time
Speaker 11: to go down and tell the stories like I'm telling
Speaker 11: you guys right now. You know you you you basically
Speaker 11: just got a report on injuries. Maybe talk to the coach,
Speaker 11: you know, pre and you know, at the end of
Speaker 11: the halfs or coming out of the locker room and stuff,
Speaker 11: and then maybe there'll be more pre your post game.
Speaker 11: I don't know, we haven't really gone over it. And
Speaker 11: quite frankly, I'm also coming there to call three Arizona
Speaker 11: volleyball game, so I'm, uh, you know, I'm looking into
Speaker 11: that a little bit more than uh than Saturday night.
Speaker 11: And although I'm very excited to join Brian and I'm
Speaker 11: glad I made that phone call to him like eight
Speaker 11: or nine days ago and said, Hey, how you doing,
Speaker 11: I'm coming back to Arizona and I'm going to be there,
Speaker 11: And he goes, hey, you want to do that?
Speaker 10: Sure?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 11: Man, let's do it?
Speaker 2: Because he said they're looking for a guy, and you
Speaker 2: probably called right at the right time exactly, So.
Speaker 11: What else do I just said, you know, I'm going
Speaker 11: to be there anyway. I just looked like ninth flights,
Speaker 11: So I'm going to be there for the first four games.
Speaker 11: I love to help you out, you know, I don't
Speaker 11: know if I can go to Kansas State. I'll let
Speaker 11: Matt and those guys do that. But you know, because
Speaker 11: I still have a bunch of, you know, stuff I've
Speaker 11: got to do back here in San Diego. But more
Speaker 11: than happy to help wherever they need to put me.
Speaker 4: So tell some of the other stuff you're doing, right
Speaker 4: because that you know, there's a whole new structure to stuff,
Speaker 4: you know as it relates to Arizona and you know
Speaker 4: here you know ESPN plus those kinds of things. So
Speaker 4: what else were you going to be doing.
Speaker 11: I'm going to do all the home volleyball matches. I
Speaker 11: believe there's fourteen of them, including there's that Cactus Classic
Speaker 11: this week where Arizona takes on Boise State on Friday night,
Speaker 11: and then we have leave VCU Saturday and Tennessee State Sunday.
Speaker 11: So I'll be doing the play by play for that,
Speaker 11: and they're you know contractually now that it's a conference
Speaker 11: that's you know, an all ESPN conference. You know, the
Speaker 11: school's got to produce a certain amount of games. Whatever
Speaker 11: that is, I'm not sure sure, but they're going to
Speaker 11: start with volleyball, and so I've been contracted to do
Speaker 11: those fourteen volleyball matches. I do Big West volleyball out
Speaker 11: here for you See San Diego, both the men and
Speaker 11: the women. So I'm looking forward to switching and going
Speaker 11: to the Big twelve and doing that and still doing
Speaker 11: women's soccer for you See San Diego. But we've had
Speaker 11: this kind of ESPN platform where we've had to do
Speaker 11: a lot of games produced by the schools. We've done
Speaker 11: it now, who I'm in my eighth year there at
Speaker 11: you See San Diego, so I'm kind of used to
Speaker 11: what you know, Arizona might need and what a new,
Speaker 11: you know, upstart program having to do a lot of
Speaker 11: this stuff in house has to do. So I'm looking
Speaker 11: forward to that, and we we start with volleyball and
Speaker 11: after that, I who knows where it goes, but hopefully
Speaker 11: they'll all be positive.
Speaker 4: You know, Steve, as much fun as we've always made
Speaker 4: of the Pac twelve network, it was great because we
Speaker 4: got we knew where to go get those games right.
Speaker 4: Explain this, you know, produced by the schools. You said,
Speaker 4: what what did the schools have to do to get
Speaker 4: their you know, their other sport you know on you know,
Speaker 4: on the platform.
Speaker 11: Well, yeah, so what we I can only speak on
Speaker 11: behalf of U see San Diego. But I'm sure it'll
Speaker 11: be a similar model at Arizona. But you know, we
Speaker 11: had to go and we went out. We built not one,
Speaker 11: but two studios, and then we do at UCSD about
Speaker 11: one hundred and fifty events over nine sports. So you know,
Speaker 11: it's it's it's quite the the undertaking. You know, you
Speaker 11: got to you got to build studios, and you got
Speaker 11: to have production trucks and people to work that and
Speaker 11: man it you know, it probably takes anywhere between nine
Speaker 11: and twelve people a game, including the talent, to get
Speaker 11: those games on the air, and then they you know,
Speaker 11: they stream on the app. And so you know, before
Speaker 11: you've seen PAC twelve network, a lot of those games
Speaker 11: that were on PAC twelve network. You might have watched
Speaker 11: Arizona volleyball on PAC twelve network last year. It'll be
Speaker 11: now on ESPN Plus, right, and so you know, if
Speaker 11: you get the streaming app, which I have, it's you know,
Speaker 11: it isn't it isn't very expensive. And you know, I
Speaker 11: sit back and watch, you know, all the games that
Speaker 11: I do, and and I do a lot of scouting
Speaker 11: on there too. For you know, West Soccer. We're playing somebody,
Speaker 11: I can watch them a few weeks ahead, and most
Speaker 11: everything is archived for a month, so you can go
Speaker 11: back and watch, and you can watch on demand, and
Speaker 11: you can watch live, and you can watch in the
Speaker 11: car and while you're at the dentist's office. So it's
Speaker 11: really kind of cool and I think it will benefit,
Speaker 11: you know, the Arizona fan. It's certainly going to enhance
Speaker 11: the experience. And looks like we've got a lot of
Speaker 11: good people working on volleyball. There'll be some folks that
Speaker 11: we're producing the PAC twelve network games that'll be coming over.
Speaker 11: And you know, I've done this now for thirty six
Speaker 11: years of play by play.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 11: You know, hopefully I'll do a good job. And the
Speaker 11: color analysts we're gonna use as a beach volleyball coach too,
Speaker 11: So McKenna, So that'll be McKenna Martin, who I think
Speaker 11: played at at Arizona under David Rubio. So this will
Speaker 11: be fun. I mean, I remember covering that program back
Speaker 11: in the nineties when I was at University of Arizona,
Speaker 11: and I talked to data to Charita Stubbs, who's in
Speaker 11: her second year right, and her and I were in
Speaker 11: college at the same time. She graduated in ninety four.
Speaker 11: I graduated in ninety two, so it was kind of
Speaker 11: like a reunion week. So it's fun. I'm looking forward
Speaker 11: to getting back there, and I'm actually looking forward to
Speaker 11: getting back there as just an employee and not a
Speaker 11: landlord anymore. I had a bunch of properties across from
Speaker 11: the U of A, and every time some kid flushed
Speaker 11: the toilet, the pipes blew up, and I was out
Speaker 11: ten thousand dollars. So not happy somebody's going to be
Speaker 11: paying me instead of me paying the local plug.
Speaker 2: I hate when rich people can play I hated, I hated.
Speaker 11: I wish I was, I wish I was. You know,
Speaker 11: my son was my client for the longest time. I
Speaker 11: had some other kids in there, and you.
Speaker 2: Know, rich people probably I got my violin OUTSI I'll
Speaker 2: play it for you on Saturday. Hey, let me let
Speaker 2: me ask you a question. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: it's been kind of a little old news. Bill Walton
Speaker 2: passed away a couple of months ago. Did you work
Speaker 2: with him?
Speaker 11: Funny story. I never ever worked with him. However, I
Speaker 11: worked at a company that in Lloyd him as an ambassador.
Speaker 11: It was a for profit institution. I'm not even going
Speaker 11: to tell you how much money we paid him. Because
Speaker 11: you want rich, rich people problems, I'd probably you know,
Speaker 11: have the sec coming after me. But I only met
Speaker 11: him a couple of times. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 11: when I left Arizona, you know, Luke was there. I
Speaker 11: left him two thousand, so Luke was still playing at Arizona.
Speaker 11: And then when I became the voice of San Diego
Speaker 11: State on television out here in basketball, Chris Walton was
Speaker 11: playing and I would see Bill, but he didn't really
Speaker 11: you know, he didn't really want to interact with me.
Speaker 11: And then when he worked for our company, him and
Speaker 11: I were both working at ESPN and doing national games,
Speaker 11: and I said to him one day, I introduced myself.
Speaker 11: I said, hey, I you know, I do a lot
Speaker 11: of Mountain West and some West Coast conference and he
Speaker 11: kind of just looked at me, like, no, you don't.
Speaker 11: And that was that was he walked away, and that
Speaker 11: was that, you know, I was like, hey, we're colleagues
Speaker 11: at ESPN, and he's like.
Speaker 4: No, I don't know.
Speaker 11: You know, he's a great guy.
Speaker 4: He's a great guy.
Speaker 11: Nice about it. Yeah, that was my only interaction with him.
Speaker 11: But I'm sorry that he passed because you know, it
Speaker 11: was very, very sad. I didn't realize he was sick
Speaker 11: until the very end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2: We appreciate your time. We'll see you on the weekend.
Speaker 2: Stay sack, stay safe.
Speaker 4: And you what have you ever heard I'm sure you've
Speaker 4: heard the term be sure to unwait yourself if they're
Speaker 4: coming your way on the sideline there. Okay, don't don't yeh,
Speaker 4: don't get your knees torn up.
Speaker 11: No, I know I've been up in the broadcast booth
Speaker 11: when many of any individual has been taken down on
Speaker 11: the sideline exactly, So it should be fun. Hopefully I
Speaker 11: can bring us a victory.
Speaker 4: All right, man, thanks a bunch, Thanks Steve.
Speaker 11: All right, thanks guys, I'll see you this weekend.
Speaker 2: We will Steve Chus one of our favorites.
Speaker 4: Yea good guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go and come back and maybe we'll get
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Speaker 1: the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports fourteen to fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back toying the ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 2: fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, Jeez jigins awascover guy Ryan
Speaker 2: with us for the next sixteen minutes and then we're
Speaker 2: calling it a day. Did you see that Arizona just
Speaker 2: tired or made some changes in the.
Speaker 4: Basketball Yes, that's for guys that we're added to the
Speaker 4: basketball staff. I don't know what what means. What's their
Speaker 4: jobs are? Okay, So there's you know, there's so many
Speaker 4: coaches and staff on all these afts anymore like you
Speaker 4: look at you, I mean they got two rows of
Speaker 4: staff at the oh, you know basketball games anymore.
Speaker 2: Lou used to have an onourage. These guys have really
Speaker 2: big entourage. Yeah, so I didn't know this that. Additionally,
Speaker 2: with the recent changes in n CUAA rules increasing the
Speaker 2: numbers of on court coaches, well hell there's another five
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars in salaries.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got to coach for every player anymore. Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, so I didn't see that. Obviously, Jack Murphy and
Speaker 2: Steve Robinson a the top assistance. But rim Becha, Muss
Speaker 2: and Kenna uh have become more official. I guess that's
Speaker 2: the right phrase. But uh, hey win some games. Just
Speaker 2: win baby, you know what.
Speaker 4: And if they're gonna pay to do stuff, then you're
Speaker 4: gonna do stuff, right, you know, maybe you can be
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 2: At the Lulosen camp over the weekend. He was, you know,
Speaker 2: making the rounds to Tommy. Oh you know he had
Speaker 2: to go Seawan's are Kenny?
Speaker 4: Suh? You know? How did how did it all? Though?
Speaker 4: It was really good?
Speaker 2: It was good. Yeah, the first time Sean had been there.
Speaker 2: He was. Yeah, they enjoyed it because it was fun. Kenny,
Speaker 2: who kind of surly when he was here, kind of
Speaker 2: not talkative and accurate, was your He was.
Speaker 4: Real friendly with me and I don't know, I don't
Speaker 4: know why he's trying to. Yeah, so he was.
Speaker 2: He was a little surly blah blah blah, but he was.
Speaker 2: He was fantastic. All the guys loved him. He was
Speaker 2: into it. He gave Pete a lot of hell uh,
Speaker 2: the compete and these dudes compete because they had to lose.
Speaker 2: But it was good.
Speaker 4: It was good.
Speaker 2: You know, it's you know, without Loo, it's different for me.
Speaker 2: But but they had a fun time.
Speaker 4: Ye fun time, you know how Elliot look he had
Speaker 4: some you know, he had the issue.
Speaker 2: Not very then. I would I hate him because he's
Speaker 2: so looks young obviously doesn't really change much. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: enjoyed his time and just very even tempered, you know,
Speaker 2: even even keeled.
Speaker 4: Harvey Ma was there. Look Harvey, Yeah, you know, he's
Speaker 4: just got it. He just got a cool look about him.
Speaker 2: And he walks like, oh, he's the president of the
Speaker 2: Gray Dude, I gotta you gotta be cool, cool talking
Speaker 2: about rich people problems and just this dude's I mean,
Speaker 2: they're dude with dudes. But back forty years ago now
Speaker 2: almost look at these people get a potential the Major
Speaker 2: League Hall of Famer. You got a former All American
Speaker 2: First Team now radio big time radio guy, TV guy,
Speaker 2: and Sean Harvey, the president of Grammy. Uh and then
Speaker 2: No Black who's a big time attorney here. I mean,
Speaker 2: these dudes are no slouches.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, no, yeah, they aren't. And that's cool. It's
Speaker 4: called a Sean came down though.
Speaker 2: You know it was fantastic. Yeah, because he doesn't come
Speaker 2: back very often.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so it was good. He's busy, dude, Yeah,
Speaker 4: or they act busy, they tell us. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well he was part of the part of my book
Speaker 2: from two years ago. When I finally finished twenty four,
Speaker 2: I had twenty four chapters ready. I've been trying to
Speaker 2: nail down Sean for months, and I said, this book
Speaker 2: is not going to work or people are going to
Speaker 2: create a says me. If I don't have to, I
Speaker 2: don't get it. And he was the last dude I
Speaker 2: had to write a chapter, and I said, Sean, I
Speaker 2: need you. I was not begging him, but I was
Speaker 2: like begging God. I thought he was in Mexico with
Speaker 2: his wife and I'm thinking, give you thirty minutes that's
Speaker 2: all it was exactly. He gave you the Yeah, but
Speaker 2: you don't come up home with the book PEP without.
Speaker 4: You got it? Yeah, the best player ever got that's
Speaker 4: something you got to You got to be in there.
Speaker 4: Very cool, all right, cool. I don't know, man, Steve,
Speaker 4: you know, getting ready for the season starts tomorrow. There's
Speaker 4: a bunch of games tomorrow, Yeah, Tesday, Wednesday, Mark because
Speaker 4: do they are they on Thursday?
Speaker 2: Who they play?
Speaker 4: I know, I know that the Colorado North Dakota State
Speaker 4: game is on Thursday.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a good game. That should be fun.
Speaker 2: It should be a good game.
Speaker 4: It should be fun. On North Carolina Minnesota. That should
Speaker 4: be a decent a decent game. Who else at Stanford
Speaker 4: and TCU so uh, that's actually that Friday. There aren't
Speaker 4: as many games on Thursdays. There's a bunch of f
Speaker 4: C s versus FBS games. There's only a couple of
Speaker 4: FBS UH games, North Carolina Minnesota and the Coastal Carolina
Speaker 4: and and your friend uh rich rot gets gets it
Speaker 4: going with Jacksonville State against Coastal Carolina Thursday.
Speaker 2: We well, Coastal Carolina historically.
Speaker 4: Is pretty good. And then but but Talas issue. They're
Speaker 4: playing Wyoming Thursday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. But again we're mentioning
Speaker 4: there's there's some you know, there's just gonna be a
Speaker 4: lot more good games weekend and week out. Okay, looking
Speaker 4: at the schedule this week coming up on Saturday, You've
Speaker 4: got Clemson in Georgia, got Penn State in West Virginia.
Speaker 4: You've got I mentioned, uh, Texas, Texas, A and M,
Speaker 4: Notre Dame, Miami, Florida and Florida. What's another one you've got? Uh?
Speaker 2: You want which side of you want?
Speaker 4: I'm on point spreads on These are the DraftKings points spreads.
Speaker 4: These are a month olds.
Speaker 2: Give me give me a A and M.
Speaker 4: Not today that was that that's three met Texas and
Speaker 4: M by three and that game is at Texas, A
Speaker 4: and M.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gone though.
Speaker 4: You got you got L s U and and USC
Speaker 4: on Sunday. Or is that that's Vegas?
Speaker 2: That's in Vegas, Switzerland?
Speaker 8: One there.
Speaker 4: Because the one the lines I was looking at like
Speaker 4: a month old, so let me call it up real quick.
Speaker 4: But but again the point being that there's there's it's
Speaker 4: gonna be like that weekend and week out because because
Speaker 4: these teams got to play each other, not because they're
Speaker 4: all they're all in the same conferences. Let me, let
Speaker 4: me get back.
Speaker 2: We started picks Friday, then right.
Speaker 4: Friday, we gotta make picks on Friday. Let me going down,
Speaker 4: going down, going down. There's so many games, but somebody
Speaker 4: who are that are not h F B S games
Speaker 4: here it is L s U man that that's dropped
Speaker 4: because the L s U was favored by six. Now
Speaker 4: it's four. You got Arizona's still thirty and a half,
Speaker 4: as U by six and a half against Wyoming. I
Speaker 4: don't know that. I don't even touch that.
Speaker 2: Can no, too many, too many, too many, too many,
Speaker 2: you know, way too many unknowns.
Speaker 4: UCLA's got to go to Hawaii. Ul's giving fourteen there.
Speaker 4: Let's see what happens there. Notre Dame Texas name is
Speaker 4: there's still three Texas name by three at Texas A
Speaker 4: and M. Kansas State plays UT Martin. They're up favored
Speaker 4: by thirty six. Somebody's favorite by fifty. I can't remember
Speaker 4: who that was. There's there's a fifty point spread somewhere.
Speaker 4: What else do we have? Let's see, I know, I
Speaker 4: don't know scho called Merrimack even played football. Texas got
Speaker 4: Colorado State. They're thirty one and a half. They're a
Speaker 4: favorite for that, you know up there for the oh
Speaker 4: Ohio State giving forty eight and a half to accurate?
Speaker 4: Would you take that?
Speaker 2: No, just too many points?
Speaker 4: Would you take grip?
Speaker 2: No? I wouldn't even it's one too many unknowns to it.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of points.
Speaker 4: Miami Florida favored by two and a half over Florida.
Speaker 4: Interesting game.
Speaker 2: Well that's the that's the next school you have to
Speaker 2: watch because the Florida doesn't do well?
Speaker 4: Right what next?
Speaker 2: Oh dear, I don't unpack that skin, leave that alone.
Speaker 4: Leave that box packed down, the one that's.
Speaker 2: His kitchen new densils.
Speaker 4: Believe that one? Uh Clinton? Uh. Georgia giving thirteen and
Speaker 4: a half the Clemson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be a big game. Obviously, Georgia's Georgia
Speaker 2: double is gonna be in the fire real quick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they lose by two touchdowns to Georgia.
Speaker 4: People are gonna lose their minds of Clemson. And then
Speaker 4: you've got Penn State giving eight at West Virginia.
Speaker 2: I don't determine how kind of good West Virginia is
Speaker 2: gonna be didn't because some people have them good in some.
Speaker 4: People well some that there they were in the top
Speaker 4: twenty five for sports as them in their top twenty
Speaker 4: five Stanford and Stanford getting nine from TCU that came
Speaker 4: to that Stanford. I don't know. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: So did you see this that the NC double A
Speaker 2: is proposing or maybe official I can't remember, is eliminating
Speaker 2: the We're going to put the transfer portal for thirty
Speaker 2: days in December and would be the only from December
Speaker 2: to January and no longer in April.
Speaker 4: Oh that that would be the only time it's open
Speaker 4: except unless a coach leeds, right, right, if a coach leeds,
Speaker 4: the transfer portal opens for that school, right. Yeah. Interesting,
Speaker 4: they got to get that under control. I mean, you
Speaker 4: can't have guys leaving it all different times of the
Speaker 4: year right now? Again, will that hold up in court?
Speaker 2: You know that's the whole thing. It's the It's it's
Speaker 2: the court.
Speaker 4: I mean, NC double A can we want to do
Speaker 4: whatever they want to do.
Speaker 2: Right, it's the court ten NC double A zero. They're
Speaker 2: getting crushed at every moment they haven't and probably Rightley's
Speaker 2: all given all the history.
Speaker 4: They again, they've done so much to create this themselves. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean everybody who who roots for the NC double
Speaker 4: a ever, not not Tarcanian, nobody does. They really don't.
Speaker 4: I mean they just you know, it's just because they've
Speaker 4: been so I don't want to say abusive, but just
Speaker 4: been so kind of unfair to so many people over time,
Speaker 4: you know, so they were in what they've created.
Speaker 2: This year, more than nine hundred FBS scholarship players entered
Speaker 2: the portal in the month of April after the nc
Speaker 2: was forced to drop its one time transfer restrictions. The
Speaker 2: twenty three portal cycle saw a record breaking number of
Speaker 2: transactions yet again, with more than twenty seven hundred FBS
Speaker 2: scholarship transfers.
Speaker 4: It's and how many of them got, you know. I
Speaker 4: guess what I don't know is if you go into
Speaker 4: portal and nobody takes you, are you still on the team.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Are you just out?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Anybody out there, Troy, if you're listening,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think you made the decision
Speaker 2: to put yourself in limbo. You're gonna stay there. If
Speaker 2: nobody wants you. So you're you're out of a scholarship,
Speaker 2: you're out of Jay knowing I already know the answer,
Speaker 2: knowing how you act with these the guy's gone, you're
Speaker 2: gonna keep him back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, you're gonna feel that. You're gonna feel it.
Speaker 4: You're gonna feel the spot. I guess it answers itself. Sorry, son, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you laughed. Guy?
Speaker 2: You see that door?
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, you want to talk? Oh god, how many
Speaker 4: and how many jumped into the portal.
Speaker 2: The twenty seven hundred for the year nine hundred in April,
Speaker 2: and how many of them got Yeah? But doesn't say that,
Speaker 2: It doesn't say that, But that's the hit. You gotta
Speaker 2: make it this smart decision. You gotn't make it a
Speaker 2: smart decision. It's like I said this about Michael Wright
Speaker 2: back in two thousand and one when he decided to leave.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: He left early after his junior year. He was heck
Speaker 2: heck of a player, college player, but he was a
Speaker 2: between her sixty seven six ' eight if that could
Speaker 2: rebound like nobody else, but he couldn't shoot and he
Speaker 2: needed to play near the basket, So he left. What
Speaker 2: was options in the NBA? Not likely?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Not likely, so he uses probably go to Europe and
Speaker 2: do something else, but he decided to leave. Well, good,
Speaker 2: good for you, Michael, and I hope it goes well.
Speaker 2: But what do you do? Because he was a betweener,
Speaker 2: he was not good enough for the NBA and and
Speaker 2: not good enough for certain areas of the game.
Speaker 4: So I'm reading something and I don't know where this
Speaker 4: came from him looking but back in February it says
Speaker 4: that only about thirty percent of players that go into
Speaker 4: the portal.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I don't know who he had on
Speaker 2: the show, and I don't want to give a bad name,
Speaker 2: but they leave. And Okay, so now they are two years,
Speaker 2: three years into a school, right, they're going to school,
Speaker 2: into a school towards the diploma. Now they go somewhere,
Speaker 2: they don't do their credits and stuff. They don't get
Speaker 2: a degree. They're just kind of in nimbo out there
Speaker 2: floating away. Yeah, And that's the sad part of it,
Speaker 2: because they're on their way to becoming the you know,
Speaker 2: grad at that school or whatever school and then they
Speaker 2: don't finish.
Speaker 4: Man. And the thing is so often to the so
Speaker 4: often these kids there's still kids making emotional snap decisions
Speaker 4: and not looking at you know, the big picture. Right.
Speaker 2: Were you here Tuesday? You were here Thursday, right when
Speaker 2: we had Troy Troy in the house and we were
Speaker 2: talking about the transfer portals, and I was like shocked,
Speaker 2: shocked about the transfers and the kids not getting paid.
Speaker 2: Will come here, Ryan, we got money for you. You get
Speaker 2: there and they don't pay you, which creates I'm getting
Speaker 2: the hell out of here.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: I was just shocked, Jay, Really, I hadn't heard that,
Speaker 2: and you saw how I was, Ryan, right, I was
Speaker 2: thinking this is happening. I was like, this is they're
Speaker 2: not paying the kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, this number that I gave, Yet that's across
Speaker 4: all the divisions, all in all the divisions.
Speaker 2: That's still a big number.
Speaker 4: That that that there were a total of thirty one
Speaker 4: thousand athletes in the portal at one time, and only
Speaker 4: because that's all all the sports division Division one, Division
Speaker 4: two and everything like that, and only thirty percent enrolled
Speaker 4: in new schools. This was as a February of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four. I believe this was something. This was something
Speaker 4: posted by I'm trying to figure out how posted that,
Speaker 4: where that came from the Cardinals and Cream. What is
Speaker 4: that is that? It looks like an Oklahoma based uh
Speaker 4: something or anyway, I don't know where they where that
Speaker 4: comes from? Who they are hulled Cardinal and Cream. Oh,
Speaker 4: it's a it's a student publication of the of Union
Speaker 4: University in Jackson, Tennessee. So apparently they did a study
Speaker 4: and then that's what they came up with. So there
Speaker 4: you go. But you know you're right. I mean, it
Speaker 4: does answer itself because if you leave, they got to
Speaker 4: go get somebody to fill yourself. Sure, so you leave,
Speaker 4: you don't, You don't you don't have anywhere to.
Speaker 2: Come back, and you know they don't want to be there, right, Well.
Speaker 4: And maybe you ask if you can come back. But
Speaker 4: I'm a coach. I'm saying you left, you know you left. Sorry,
Speaker 4: We love you, but I'm sorry. Yeah out of here. See,
Speaker 4: you wouldn't want to be you chasing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to. You know, we're solving the
Speaker 2: problems here in Tucson. So on the show not our own,
Speaker 2: but everybody else is.
Speaker 4: God.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, good show today. We're trying to get some
Speaker 2: people for tomorrow. We have our show sept for Friday,
Speaker 2: so tomorrow and then Thursday, we'll try to catch up
Speaker 2: with some formal.
Speaker 4: Players and bring you some beat writers on Friday covering
Speaker 4: the game both for New Mexico and Arizona. We'll have
Speaker 4: Justin Spears here. So yeah, we're year enough for this
Speaker 4: game coming up.
Speaker 2: Yes, so maybe we'll get a couple of good guys stay.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, Steve. Hump Day means we're going to be on
Speaker 4: the downhill side of the week, headed towards the game. Yes,
Speaker 4: we're planning our tailgate a fat Mic, Yes, you can
Speaker 4: come to my tailgate. But you said you're going to
Speaker 4: get a hold of me, and I gave you my
Speaker 4: even gave I gave fat Mic my cell number.
Speaker 2: He texted me last night, says you think I said.
Speaker 2: He'll love you there. He'll be a celebrity there.
Speaker 4: As long as he comes and helps us folds some tents.
Speaker 2: Don't talk about the Cowboys though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't bring the cowboys stuff over alright. Hey, we'll
Speaker 4: see you guys tomorrow.