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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody, Welcome to Eye on the Ball here
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Speaker 2: with me is Troy hutches Sen. That's the controls and
Speaker 2: we'll blame it all on you, Kobe. Anything bad happens. Hello, everybody,
Speaker 2: welcome to Thursday show. Should have a pretty good one.
Speaker 2: Uh we have who do we have? How do you say?
Speaker 3: His last nay seth dage, daggie dagdag not doggy daig
Speaker 3: good to know daigi dak sign and oh sign and
Speaker 3: everything except the G you okay? Cool.
Speaker 2: That'll be at the three seventeen hour. He'll call us,
Speaker 2: talk a lot about twit's going on, and his thoughts
Speaker 2: on the Arizona offense.
Speaker 3: Probably the biggest thing we'll need to know, right Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean last year the defense wasn't bad until it
Speaker 3: got banned up and the offense well reminded me back
Speaker 3: in Mike Tubes first a couple of seasons where they
Speaker 3: could do anything offense. Oh, I thought you's going to
Speaker 3: go back to the Toby Arras. I think homes was
Speaker 3: a little bit better than last year. Wow. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 3: so we'll do that.
Speaker 2: And then at the four forty hour there was a
Speaker 2: not a misprint, just bad information on the on the
Speaker 2: site Today four forty we're going to have the world's
Speaker 2: best men's pick a ball player and I found him.
Speaker 2: There's a big, big, a national tournament going on at
Speaker 2: the Tuo Cell Racket Club and Fitness Place country Club,
Speaker 2: and so he's going to be the guest at the
Speaker 2: Ben Jhons is his name. He's going to be the
Speaker 2: guy and we're going to talk about all his career.
Speaker 2: He's I guess he's about twenty five, less than thirty.
Speaker 2: Everybody was out there was fantastic, perfect weather. Matt, have
Speaker 2: you been there? No, I've been there for playing racketball,
Speaker 2: but I haven't.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's great, it's great. I was like, it's
Speaker 2: not your grandfather's place anymore. No, it's nice. It's nice now.
Speaker 2: Not that it was nice before, but it's nice now.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about that on the four o'clock for
Speaker 2: forty hour. Hear from him. He's in town.
Speaker 3: A bunch of professionals, pickleball players, and it's not like
Speaker 3: what you know or think. It's pretty intense, you know,
Speaker 3: pro players, pron players, stuff like that. Okay, welcome everybody.
Speaker 3: What's going on, Troy in the world of oops and everything?
Speaker 3: All right, they won the other night. Everyone's happy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think everybody's pleasantly surprised. I think if you talked
Speaker 3: to a lot of U of A fans, that was
Speaker 3: the game they thought they're probably gonna lose this game,
Speaker 3: maybe come home and beat Texas tack. But it seemed
Speaker 3: like that BYU game was the I don't want to
Speaker 3: say trap game, but a game where a lot of
Speaker 3: things could have gone wrong and they didn't. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: I think, and I've said this yesterday most today in
Speaker 2: talking to people, I thought that was probably the best
Speaker 2: game of the year, not maybe start to finish, but impressive,
Speaker 2: I should say, because BYU at home is tough. Arizona
Speaker 2: had kind of struggled a little on the road circumstances, right,
Speaker 2: They'd been playing well and they want it kind of
Speaker 2: going away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, I think it was their first
Speaker 3: taste of a big twelve road environment where you're not
Speaker 3: going to get a lot of the Arizonta okay, where
Speaker 3: you're not going to get a lot of U of
Speaker 3: A fans. I know there was some U of a
Speaker 3: chance in there near the end of the game and
Speaker 3: their small little section, but it's not like the Pack
Speaker 3: twelve days, where you know you'd have a huge section
Speaker 3: of the U of Avans. Yes, no, no, no, you're right.
Speaker 2: It's nothing like the Pac twelve by have Pack ten
Speaker 2: when I covered it Pack twelve. No, these places are
Speaker 2: tough to play.
Speaker 3: And you're gonna get that. I always stay Kansas State.
Speaker 2: Just crazy, just crazy, and then you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: play out of your mind and Aarazona did collectively, not
Speaker 2: so much individually, colllectively.
Speaker 3: Well, and then that second half by Jaye and Bradley's
Speaker 3: seventeen points, Yeah in the second half. I didn't realize
Speaker 3: he had that many. At the end of the game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he was attacking.
Speaker 2: He's the Bradley that you and I have seen last
Speaker 2: couple of years, attacking, getting in, getting the lane, going downhill,
Speaker 2: doing a lot of things. I think he needs to
Speaker 2: do that more efficiently. And if he gets scores twelve
Speaker 2: fourteen with a you know, seven assists, a couple of turnovers, whatever,
Speaker 2: this team will be good. You know, there's there's a
Speaker 2: lot of things need to be peppered in, and that
Speaker 2: was the peppered in game. Yeah, because Visar played crazy great. Uh,
Speaker 2: Caleb played okay, you know, better than usual, better than
Speaker 2: usual in terms of if you want to have a
Speaker 2: down game, that was a down game, and you're right right,
Speaker 2: six for sixteen yeah yeah, percentage wise and everybody else
Speaker 2: whuaka again solid solid Yeah, and that's all you need
Speaker 2: for him, right, You don't need solid.
Speaker 3: If you get solid, you get solid. Townsend is kind
Speaker 3: of like still kind of wishy washy, but everybody else
Speaker 3: is okay, all right, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: I would you would you agree with this statement because
Speaker 2: more people are saying this to me. If Arizona plays
Speaker 2: like this, they're going to be tough to beat. Could
Speaker 2: get to the Final four. I think, could get to
Speaker 2: an Elite eight final four. Caleb Love has got to
Speaker 2: play out of his right. I totally agree, And I
Speaker 2: just don't trust the juckle and hide of Caleb Love
Speaker 2: as you should.
Speaker 3: Right, no, no it.
Speaker 2: They'll go as far as he goes. And if he
Speaker 2: gets hot catches hot, they could be a Final four team.
Speaker 3: I'll say this, they haven't had in terms of complete
Speaker 3: from front court to backcourt in a long time. I
Speaker 3: think this is the most complete team where you can
Speaker 3: get something offensively, something defensively front and back court since
Speaker 3: maybe the Selene Sido minor team where you have Shannon
Speaker 3: Fry up front, Selim scoring in the back. They do
Speaker 3: stuff defensively, Hassan Adams in the back court, Chris Rodgers
Speaker 3: in the back. Well, tell me that. Tell me that
Speaker 3: breakdown again in terms of complete team front and back
Speaker 3: court offensively and defensively.
Speaker 2: So you're not talking about t J and uh No, because.
Speaker 3: I think the front court wasn't that great offensively towards
Speaker 3: Uski was in very good offensive Okay, what about their
Speaker 3: force Gordon Gorton very very good when needed to be Gordon,
Speaker 3: and then Nashty when he was Okay, Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: that's a better team. I'm just saying complete in the
Speaker 3: sense of it that you can get stuff on both
Speaker 3: sides of the ball offensively and defensively where you don't
Speaker 3: have an offensive liability out.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's the case, and they play really well.
Speaker 2: That could be a Final four team. The thing about
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows what they Everyone knows what they drive, right,
Speaker 3: they drive this nice car or not so nice car.
Speaker 2: They don't watch what the neighbors drive. And that's who
Speaker 2: you're competing against. Yeah, and then they say, oh, my
Speaker 2: car is the best album. I get to date the
Speaker 2: best looking girl in the world. How far have you
Speaker 2: left the world? Have you ever left Tucson? Have you
Speaker 2: ever left Arizona? Have you ever gone to the south
Speaker 2: from You're right right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, don't tell me that unless you've left the
Speaker 3: you know the five oho two?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because but you hear that, right? Hell, who knew
Speaker 2: about Florida International two three years ago?
Speaker 3: Right? And they never seen him before? Who's this team
Speaker 3: they get to the final four? Who are they? Well,
Speaker 3: we don't know. I think one good thing, well, one
Speaker 3: good thing and one bad thing. Really, there's no dominant
Speaker 3: team in college basketball. Maybe Robert maybe I was thinking
Speaker 3: of that yesterday. Maybe maybe that, Yeah, but not even
Speaker 3: you can't.
Speaker 2: Even wish to watch it with that. But maybe Auburn
Speaker 2: only because they've sustained it this far.
Speaker 3: But it's not like this team. It's just a juggernaut
Speaker 3: that you're like, you can't beat this thing. No, no,
Speaker 3: you're twenty one and O thy eight and ol whatever,
Speaker 3: we'll see.
Speaker 2: And that's a good part because if they catch hot,
Speaker 2: you know, everyone you want to say, well, ninety seven
Speaker 2: they finished, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's catching hot. And then but no one talks
Speaker 3: about ninety eight. Well, and my favorite part about ninety seven.
Speaker 3: Are they the four or five? What was the four?
Speaker 3: Are they a four seat? Are selling Miles Simons doesn't
Speaker 3: get suspended? Uh? Depends? Are they higher?
Speaker 2: Depends? Are three or four group? That's a good question. However,
Speaker 2: I think they needed Miles to be suspended. Uh in
Speaker 2: a sense that Uh, Dickerson.
Speaker 3: Emerged, everybody else had everybody e Dickerson emerged as an
Speaker 3: upcoming star, Biby did what he did, and everybody else
Speaker 3: had to increase their games, and then Miles just filled
Speaker 3: in and then then kind of took over, which you know,
Speaker 3: but then again, you know, all this is running hot
Speaker 3: at the right time, and they ran hot at the
Speaker 3: right time. They finished losing the last two games of
Speaker 3: the regular season, barely won the first round, and got
Speaker 3: lucky in a couple of the other games, and one
Speaker 3: the title surviving Evans's that's basically what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you're hot, you're hot. Uh, And everyone's
Speaker 2: gonna talk a momentum. Every game is a season.
Speaker 3: Every game is different than the previous game because everybody
Speaker 3: else is in the same momentum. Is it whose momentum
Speaker 3: is better or just whose teams better that day? And
Speaker 3: who's what are the matchups? Yeah, that's huge too. That's
Speaker 3: huge two because they could be a good defensive team.
Speaker 3: And what is Arizona's was Arizona's kryptonite? I half court,
Speaker 3: half court? If you can light it up from the
Speaker 3: three point, slow it down. And you mean to tell
Speaker 3: me there's not teams up ahead, whether regular season or tournament,
Speaker 3: they're not going to be there. A team like that
Speaker 3: could not only slow down, but if Arizona gets out
Speaker 3: in transition, they're comfortable, they're like, yeah, okay, we can
Speaker 3: do that. That's why, b what you was kind of
Speaker 3: was a false favorite. And now that I look back
Speaker 3: at it, you know, hell, I'm a seismologist. I can
Speaker 3: tell people what happens after the earthquake. Everybody's like that way,
Speaker 3: but it was buy you love to play fast, and
Speaker 3: that was what I was saying. Come on, baby, just
Speaker 3: do it and slowing it down. There was a lot
Speaker 3: of io for them. Yeah, and eventually yeah, and this
Speaker 3: goes into another discussion, but eventually kJ Lewis went on
Speaker 3: their best offensive player at the time and that's the game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: game over right, and that's all you can do. Right,
Speaker 3: So we'll see. You know, we got nine more games, right,
Speaker 3: I think in the Big twelve. So if they go
Speaker 3: five and four, that's gonna be a victory, I think,
Speaker 3: because you know, Kansas would be tough last game of
Speaker 3: the regular season.
Speaker 2: Iowa was State gonna be very tough. Be what Baylor
Speaker 2: is gonna be tough over there? Maybe sprinkling a game
Speaker 2: or two. Houston at home, Houston at home. Yeah, although
Speaker 2: I think they could win that game. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get ahold of a. I'm trying to get Kelvin as
Speaker 2: Sampson on the show next week, trying to get get
Speaker 2: them from my relationship with them in the Pac twelve.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping we're still working on that. Okay, again,
Speaker 2: who are we gonna have at the first.
Speaker 3: Hour and to have seth dagi dag got to correct
Speaker 3: myself there.
Speaker 2: When I introduced yeah, will be fun, will be fun?
Speaker 2: Because he's been on every other show. I think he's
Speaker 2: probably sick. What do you want me to talk about now? Oh,
Speaker 2: we just go rehash a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: He came from Marshall, right, came one year at Marshall's
Speaker 3: offense coordinator. Did you have did you do anything with
Speaker 3: him when he first was announced?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: No, I actually got to talk to him yesterday. We
Speaker 3: all after Brennan, they had all this assistant coaches there
Speaker 3: after Brennan was done. He told uh Arizona, hey, let
Speaker 3: let the media talk to everybody real quick and we'll
Speaker 3: get that together. And uh so we got to talk
Speaker 3: to him the assistant coach and nobody came over. So
Speaker 3: it's just set day and I for a great How
Speaker 3: was it very good?
Speaker 4: Pretty good?
Speaker 2: Okay, So you'll you'll ask some questions, some good questions.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll ask whatever I want to ask. Ka,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what I want to ask right now. Okay,
Speaker 2: what time do we have. I'm going to get out
Speaker 2: of here in about a minute or so, so he'll
Speaker 2: call exactly about three seventeen. We'll go down three thirteen. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we'll call and again the pick aball player that
Speaker 2: was just random. I just thought it would be And
Speaker 2: I said, Tommy, where are you? This is tom Tommy
Speaker 2: would be in heaven at the pick Aball tournament.
Speaker 3: Hey, maybe maybe he can challenge Tommy Boy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got there and I watched these people my age,
Speaker 2: A lot of them my age, a lot of them younger.
Speaker 2: They have the world's best eighteen year old there too.
Speaker 2: She's a fantastic and you know what started hurting right away,
Speaker 2: my achelles heel. I'll think if I got in the
Speaker 2: cord now, I'd bust that baby in by two minutes.
Speaker 3: You gotta be in shape. Everyone thinks it's that. No,
Speaker 3: you gotta you gotta be in shape, and you gotta
Speaker 3: movie literally and all that stuff. Angles people know. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna ask him.
Speaker 2: I'm about the angles strategy things like that, because every
Speaker 2: game has a secret.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you just kind of have to master
Speaker 3: that secret. But I love playing racketball, and everybody's like
Speaker 3: you play rackball. Yeah, I mean you can be a
Speaker 3: little out of shape and still be pretty good. So
Speaker 3: are you a little out of shape or a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot out of shape? So you can play
Speaker 3: it even a lot of out of shape but you
Speaker 3: know what, I can still go out there. Yeah, a
Speaker 3: good performance for one game? Sure that what I do
Speaker 3: with table tennis or I used to do. I used
Speaker 3: to be fairly good. Okay, anything else, trades. We'll get
Speaker 3: breaking news later. Okay, okay, breaking news, anything else women's basketball,
Speaker 3: and we'll talk game tonight tonight. Did they play the
Speaker 3: last name with color was last night? That's what Colorado?
Speaker 3: And they lost? Yeah? Okay, who's this? Who's that? Oh?
Speaker 4: Vic?
Speaker 3: Real quick? Vic? What do you got?
Speaker 4: Vic?
Speaker 3: You're onon? No? No, I can't hear the Vick. Are
Speaker 3: you there?
Speaker 4: Hey? Vic?
Speaker 2: You never give us call back because we're gonna have
Speaker 2: no not a whole lot of time. It's three thirteen.
Speaker 2: Now call us back after our interview with coach Dagi,
Speaker 2: right yep, Okay, well we'll go to break here, go
Speaker 2: and let him go and then we'll come back.
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Speaker 6: the Ball with Steam Ravera on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 3: He welcome back to Eye on the Ball here on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.
Speaker 2: You're Troy Hutchison from Goyasy Catch to Cup and we're
Speaker 2: waiting for coach Dagi's call. And he's second now, so
Speaker 2: my guy here, Kobe is keeping an eye on the phone,
Speaker 2: hoping he calls not to ask. Obviously, he's been probably
Speaker 2: asking every question imaginable since he's been about.
Speaker 3: A month but amount a month, you know, busy recruiting,
Speaker 3: you know, mission out that recruiting class label to get
Speaker 3: a couple of quarterbacks in that class and round out
Speaker 3: with some speed on the receiving side of the ball.
Speaker 3: Uh and the running back area as well.
Speaker 4: Is this is this?
Speaker 3: I should know?
Speaker 14: This is this?
Speaker 3: Ffitas last year?
Speaker 4: Anyways?
Speaker 3: He has one more year technically, Okay, will it be
Speaker 3: his last year in Tucson? Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, No, he's a junior then yeah, right, so
Speaker 2: he has a new year after this. I'm sure he'll stay.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, if he has year, it's quarterback classes bad in
Speaker 3: the NFL. Okay, maybe you know. Yeah, we don't know too.
Speaker 3: We'll get there later, a long way away. Sure, of course,
Speaker 3: things have to happen. And now number number one, no,
Speaker 3: I no longer number eleven. Yeah I saw that. Did
Speaker 3: he say why? I don't think he said why. It
Speaker 3: was part of the announcement with his brother Committee's Arizona dashed,
Speaker 3: if eleven or something. I don't know. Maybe here I'll
Speaker 3: get to number one, you know, as the freshman. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you get to pick the number when
Speaker 3: you get there, so you kind of get stuck with
Speaker 3: a number number eleven. Who was number one before? As
Speaker 3: a quarterback? I can't think of a Alfred Alfred Jenkins,
Speaker 3: who was the last one here last year? Who's one?
Speaker 3: Who's one? Who was one? Who was one? He used
Speaker 3: to give it out like number one. Yeah, it used
Speaker 3: to be like an earned number one, and some players
Speaker 3: want and some players kind of didn't work out. Nobody
Speaker 3: cared to be honest.
Speaker 2: Number one. Yeah, number one on our hearts. No play
Speaker 2: like we play like you mean it.
Speaker 3: The last elite, elite number one. Maybe h Robert Golden, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: defensive back, right, Syndric Steptoe, it's another number one. You
Speaker 3: you would know your geeks to follow this stuff. Pay
Speaker 3: attention to this stuff. Hey, you covered, I covered, but
Speaker 3: I didn't pay attention to numbers. It's not part of
Speaker 3: the story. Number one did really well, it's not part
Speaker 3: of the story. Alfred Jacobs did really well. Okay, So
Speaker 3: that's cool. That's cool.
Speaker 2: Number change in cod Caleb. But Caleb got a haircut,
Speaker 2: and maybe it's a haircut. He's a little bit different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I mean you saw the dreadlocks skill
Speaker 3: away from Samson Samson. You read that Samson in jail
Speaker 3: sat Samson the hair's cut and he lost his powers.
Speaker 3: Oh you're never reallyis some someone? Oh yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah. So you know there's ten commandments, yes.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they dropped five of them. But I was gonna
Speaker 3: I was gonna say something. I didn't want to do that. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'll let you say that, okay, uh no, oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: just in case. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see. So we're
Speaker 3: gonna try to get ahold of it and see what happens.
Speaker 3: See what happens. See we get ahold of him even
Speaker 3: for a few minutes. Uh here on this in this
Speaker 3: time slot basketball. So we wait a couple of days,
Speaker 3: someone posted from Texas Tech some something really stupid. Uh.
Speaker 2: And that's what I don't like about X and Twitter,
Speaker 2: which is obviously one of the same, is that people
Speaker 2: can say whatever they want to say and that people
Speaker 2: take it as fact. But earlier today some guy from
Speaker 2: Texas Tech, I'm assuming, said that it took because Texas
Speaker 2: Tech is sold out for Saturday, and it says, well, wow,
Speaker 2: it took us, took Texas Tech.
Speaker 3: So they said that he did call that didn't go through,
Speaker 3: and no, was number one in high school. Okay, I
Speaker 3: forgot so could he call back? Could he try it?
Speaker 3: We were waiting for his call. Yeah, okay, just keep
Speaker 3: an eye. Yeah, oh yeah, maybe that was was that?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 3: Okay, it was BIG's number. I saw, I saw the name.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna say, oh, some guy from Texas
Speaker 2: Tech said that he it took Texas Tech to uh
Speaker 2: for Arizona to have its first sellout, and no one
Speaker 2: really knows what the hell that meant, because that makes
Speaker 2: no sense for twenty twenty five years ago. Answer it
Speaker 2: just answer Hello, you're on the air and eye on
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 3: Is this coach?
Speaker 4: This coach man? Sorry about that, no.
Speaker 2: Problem, They're good to have you on the shows. This
Speaker 2: is a coach Daggy from the U of A Arizona
Speaker 2: Athletics and the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Ducson. I'm sure you've been told that a
Speaker 3: thousand times.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Well it's been awesome. Everybody's been super supportive. Everybody's been
Speaker 15: super nice. And then my wife actually called me yesterday
Speaker 15: and told me, thank you for bringing me to a
Speaker 15: place that it was.
Speaker 4: The sunshines every day.
Speaker 3: I was outside you, I was going to go there
Speaker 3: with you. Outside today it's like eighty five, right, i
Speaker 3: was at the pick Aball Championships and I'm thinking, for anything.
Speaker 2: Other than this weather. Welcome to Duson because it's it
Speaker 2: is what it is.
Speaker 15: Oh man, it's it's beautiful. Yeah, I'm super excsted to
Speaker 15: be here.
Speaker 3: So when you first got the job in Seth and
Speaker 3: you had a chance to talk to no fa Fida,
Speaker 3: what were those conversations like? And you know, you guys
Speaker 3: were able to win Noah over where he stayed with Arizona.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you guys went through a lot of conversations
Speaker 3: and details of what the what the path was going
Speaker 3: to be for him.
Speaker 15: Yeah, obviously he was a priority for me as soon
Speaker 15: as I said yes to the job, and so as
Speaker 15: soon as I got on the phone. You know, the
Speaker 15: thing is is we knew each other through his his
Speaker 15: high school recruitment because I was at USC during that time,
Speaker 15: and you know, I felt very strongly about him then.
Speaker 15: I think it was one of those things where at
Speaker 15: USC can you can you go on a guy that's
Speaker 15: you know, that's five nine and and and Graham And
Speaker 15: I thought yes, but at the time, you know, I
Speaker 15: think in the building it was like, well, we can't
Speaker 15: take that that risk. So it doesn't surprise me that
Speaker 15: he's had the success that he's had so far. And
Speaker 15: you know, I've always felt like I believed in him
Speaker 15: as a thrower, you know, as a quarterback. He's he's
Speaker 15: pretty natural and very skilled, you know, and and in
Speaker 15: what he does. And so, you know, our our conversations
Speaker 15: we were great. I mean it was we viobbed the
Speaker 15: whole time. We bobbed when he was in high school
Speaker 15: and and so, uh, there were easy conversations. You know,
Speaker 15: I have a vision for him and and I think
Speaker 15: he obviously has a vision for himself as well. But
Speaker 15: the the message was, listen, dude, I think you know,
Speaker 15: I believe in myself, and I believe in that I
Speaker 15: can get you where you want to go.
Speaker 4: And and he felt the same way.
Speaker 15: He's very excited, you know, after you know a few
Speaker 15: weeks of being together and installing.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's he's as fired up as I am.
Speaker 4: And uh, and he's got these guys rolling around here.
Speaker 15: Obviously with the changeover and the roster and bringing in
Speaker 15: new transfers and new freshmen and and and new faces.
Speaker 15: He's been his leadership has really shown, and I think
Speaker 15: that's where he wanted to grow, you know, kind of
Speaker 15: moving forward, and he's really done a He's done a
Speaker 15: nice job of kind of taking taking control of the
Speaker 15: of the building.
Speaker 4: And making it hit it hit his own.
Speaker 15: And so I'm super super excited to work with. I'm
Speaker 15: having a lot of fun and I can't wait to
Speaker 15: get the spring ball so we can actually start really
Speaker 15: really practicing.
Speaker 2: You use the word installing. Is that a gradual thing?
Speaker 2: Is that a you know, how do you approach that
Speaker 2: with with a guy like him?
Speaker 15: Obviously, you know you have your set ways that you've
Speaker 15: done in the past. For me, that's always that you've
Speaker 15: always adapt that because there's always new there's new trends,
Speaker 15: there's new ways to do things, and so you're always
Speaker 15: self scouting yourself. So within that self scout, we've had
Speaker 15: conversations of like, hey, how do you see this right?
Speaker 4: What have you had success with? This? Is how I've
Speaker 4: always taught.
Speaker 15: This, But I'm not saying it's the only way you
Speaker 15: can teach it what hits your brain and make in
Speaker 15: that way, maybe I can adapt the teaching on that
Speaker 15: specific concept or the way that I teach it doesn't
Speaker 15: make more sense than the way you've learned it.
Speaker 4: Or have you never heard this concept?
Speaker 15: Or have you have you ran this concept and you
Speaker 15: can't you don't see it the same I do. There's
Speaker 15: a bunch of obviously conversations you go through that, and
Speaker 15: then the install processes. You know, I got to figure
Speaker 15: out what's best for our personnel, right, so just because
Speaker 15: I ran some my Marshall doesn't fit you know, what
Speaker 15: we're gonna do here at Arizona. So there's a concept
Speaker 15: self self scout going on to figure out like what
Speaker 15: can we do here? But for the majority of it,
Speaker 15: especially from the past game standpoint, you know, I'm fired
Speaker 15: up to kind of get back to those kind of
Speaker 15: roots with some creativity of kind of the stuff that
Speaker 15: I've that I've learned and been able to adapt to,
Speaker 15: you know, over you know, the last couple of months,
Speaker 15: just by watching different teams and then talking to Noah,
Speaker 15: and so it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be fun. Man, I can't wait. He's you know,
Speaker 4: like I said, he's he's just a natural fit for
Speaker 4: what I truly want to do.
Speaker 3: No, it must be a perfect marriage. Then, of course,
Speaker 3: let me ask you, so, you know, do you go.
Speaker 2: Back as a coach and say, Okay, I'm gonna look
Speaker 2: at last year's film. We all know what he's capable of.
Speaker 2: Right the year before he was fantastic. The whole team
Speaker 2: was fantastic. So do you go back last year in
Speaker 2: the film and says, Okay, maybe this is why it
Speaker 2: didn't work, this what didn't work, and this wo worked
Speaker 2: and whatever, or you say, what the hell, I'm scrapping it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go with what I know and what
Speaker 2: he knows and move forward.
Speaker 15: I think we just we just got to be on
Speaker 15: the same page and communicate, you know, what what works
Speaker 15: and what doesn't.
Speaker 4: I think, uh, you know, I think the.
Speaker 15: The tighter me and him are and the tighter I
Speaker 15: am with the quarterbacks, where we have like a real
Speaker 15: relationship where we can actually communicate and manage, you know,
Speaker 15: obviously as quarterbacks, and I view as as being the
Speaker 15: OC as being.
Speaker 4: A quarterback as well. All quarterbacks have to be confident.
Speaker 15: All quarterbacks do have somewhat of an ego, because if
Speaker 15: you don't like, you're not going to play that position
Speaker 15: very well. I think the biggest thing is we got
Speaker 15: to be able to manage our egos and create real
Speaker 15: and transparent trust with one another, to know that we're
Speaker 15: just trying to do what's best for the quarterback position
Speaker 15: to play the team, and and and create a relationship
Speaker 15: to where you know, we feel very comfortable having conversations
Speaker 15: on what works and what doesn't and where we need
Speaker 15: to go and where we need.
Speaker 4: To what what don't we need to do.
Speaker 15: So I think that's that's huge, and that's that's part
Speaker 15: of the process. Like I said, it's been a little
Speaker 15: bit easier, you know, for me, just because I've known
Speaker 15: Noah for a while. But we've we've kind of already
Speaker 15: hit that ground running and you know, I'm actually going
Speaker 15: to see him here in a little bit. So he's
Speaker 15: a he's a stud and he's he's done everything I've asked.
Speaker 4: So, like I said, I I'm very excited for him.
Speaker 3: One thing that I think fans notice when they look
Speaker 3: at your bio is air Raid Offense, Texas Tack Mike
Speaker 3: Leach the success. Obviously, you had a Texas stack as
Speaker 3: a quarterback. But can you give us one of your
Speaker 3: favorite Mike Leach stories because every everybody he loves to
Speaker 3: hear Mike Leach stories. And we only have ten minutes.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I was about to say, well most of them,
Speaker 15: some of them aren't appropriate for but man, you know,
Speaker 15: I think you know, the fun of the The thing
Speaker 15: that sticks in my mind all the time is, you know,
Speaker 15: he he you know, obviously he he marched to his
Speaker 15: own drum, right like he he was in his own
Speaker 15: like world at the time.
Speaker 4: And I remember, you know, when I was younger.
Speaker 15: You know, he would come in a little bit later,
Speaker 15: and they says, say, position meetings started at three thirty,
Speaker 15: and the quarterbacks show up and we're sitting there waiting
Speaker 15: on him. Well, he not showed up until like three fifty, right,
Speaker 15: and and it was almost like, well that's just normal,
Speaker 15: like nothing ever happened. And he would just look at
Speaker 15: us like why are y'all sitting there, like let's go,
Speaker 15: let's go, like we got to meet, and.
Speaker 4: We're like, well, coach.
Speaker 15: We went on for twenty minutes, you know, and then
Speaker 15: we would go into the meeting room and so we
Speaker 15: start watching some tape and it might get like five
Speaker 15: clips into it, and one of the quarterbacks might have
Speaker 15: said something, or something that he said might have, you know,
Speaker 15: sparked an idea or sparked a story, so he might
Speaker 15: go into the story for a whole another hour about this.
Speaker 15: You know politician he met back when he was in
Speaker 15: law school that he used to play tennis with that
Speaker 15: now knows Donald Trump, and Donald Trump told him this
Speaker 15: and they ran into each other at this hotel and
Speaker 15: then something crazy happened, and it was just this long story, right,
Speaker 15: it's really actually entertaining. The next thing, you know, Lincoln
Speaker 15: Riley will show up in the quarterback meeting and say, hey, coach,
Speaker 15: like like, we're ready for practice.
Speaker 4: Everybody's on the field, right.
Speaker 15: And we kind of look at the time, we're like,
Speaker 15: oh no, like it's it's time to practice, and we're
Speaker 15: still in the meeting.
Speaker 4: We haven't we're not trade, we're not dressed yet.
Speaker 15: I mean, we haven't gotten to the locker room. I
Speaker 15: mean they're out there waiting on us to start. And
Speaker 15: Leech is like his his favorite line. The Lincoln would
Speaker 15: always be like, well, you know, you can't start without us,
Speaker 15: and so he would just send us to the locker room,
Speaker 15: we go get changed, and when we got out there,
Speaker 15: we start practicing.
Speaker 4: And so it's just so different than most people.
Speaker 15: You know, like most people, if you can't start practicing
Speaker 15: on time, Oh it's a complete freakout session.
Speaker 4: Oh no, we're We're not in routine. It's for him.
Speaker 15: It was just like, hey, we're gonna get our work done. Everybody, relax.
Speaker 15: This is my program. I'm running the show anyway. So
Speaker 15: when I when I blow the.
Speaker 3: Whistle start, I'm the boss.
Speaker 4: Leave me alone.
Speaker 2: So you've you've been around a few places already, you know,
Speaker 2: obviously paid a Texas stack CA and was there Marshall USC,
Speaker 2: And what's what's the perception what's your perception of Arizona
Speaker 2: before you even got here? Football wise? You know, basketball
Speaker 2: has a different situation, but football wise is a sleeping giant?
Speaker 2: Can it get done? Things like that? What's the perception?
Speaker 15: Yeah, So the only the only experience I've had here
Speaker 15: was obviously, you know, maybe being on a vacation and
Speaker 15: then when we were at USC, we played here, and
Speaker 15: I've always felt like this state was a really cool state,
Speaker 15: right like being here, like I said, either, you know,
Speaker 15: just visiting on vacation or we played here. I always
Speaker 15: felt like, why can't you win in this state, whether
Speaker 15: it be you know us or you know the team
Speaker 15: the other team. And you know, when I took the interview,
Speaker 15: I was really excited because, like I said, I've always
Speaker 15: been intrigued by living in Arizona, and when I took
Speaker 15: the job, I mean I was just like, there's no
Speaker 15: reason you can't win here, right when it comes to
Speaker 15: like we talked about earlier in the show, the weather
Speaker 15: is phenomenal. I mean, this town has everything you need.
Speaker 15: And then you walk up on the football facility, it's
Speaker 15: just as nice as anybody's.
Speaker 4: The people are great.
Speaker 15: The school is beautiful, I mean has and and it
Speaker 15: provides all the resources you need.
Speaker 4: Right. The support is awesome.
Speaker 15: The kids love like fans love, you know, Arizona foot
Speaker 15: players on a basketball whatever it may be. I mean,
Speaker 15: there's just a lot here that you should be able
Speaker 15: to win with, right, And I just think it's very
Speaker 15: similar to me like Texas Tech. It's a community that
Speaker 15: doesn't have much but.
Speaker 4: The u of A to it, right.
Speaker 15: So there's a lot of support, but it's going to
Speaker 15: take special people to make it happen too right, And
Speaker 15: so part of the reason that I that I jumped
Speaker 15: on this job was is I believe in coach Brennan.
Speaker 15: I don't think there's many like like him in the profession.
Speaker 15: I think he's got a genuine heart, and I think
Speaker 15: he cares about kids and he wants to see this
Speaker 15: place right to the top, and I think he's going
Speaker 15: to do everything you can to make that happen.
Speaker 4: And so I think, like I.
Speaker 15: Said, I think this is a is a community and
Speaker 15: a place in a school that's going to be built
Speaker 15: on people, and I think we have the right people
Speaker 15: in place.
Speaker 1: To do it.
Speaker 3: When you know, we talked about the air raid offense,
Speaker 3: and you and I talked about that yesterday, kind of
Speaker 3: go into that your philosophy, of your coaching style, your
Speaker 3: offensive scheme, because you get categorized as air raid but
Speaker 3: as we saw on Marshall, was much more than that.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think the only reason I get, you know,
Speaker 15: claimed as an ARAID guy is because I played for
Speaker 15: AID people. And yes, Graham and I, as we've worked together,
Speaker 15: that's probably the biggest mentor I've had in my coaching
Speaker 15: profession is Graham Harrold, and he's the king of you know,
Speaker 15: playing playing quarterback in the air Raid system. And so
Speaker 15: I thought like, when I initially got within the he
Speaker 15: did a tremendous job adding a run game to the
Speaker 15: air raid philosophy, right, so you actually had the ability
Speaker 15: to run the football. And so from that, from that,
Speaker 15: and I always felt like the system that he created
Speaker 15: was the most simple, consistent system that had air raid.
Speaker 4: Past game to it.
Speaker 15: But also you could, you know, like I said, you could,
Speaker 15: you could finally run the ball and it still be
Speaker 15: simple and consistent, which the philosophy of being an air
Speaker 15: Raid team is is not having the best three hundred
Speaker 15: plays of the work in the world, but having an
Speaker 15: identity and being really good at it, okay, And so.
Speaker 4: I feel like I've just kind of taken that.
Speaker 15: And I've been at Old Miss where I learned how
Speaker 15: to really run the football, like with tempo and play
Speaker 15: with tempo, and and and being able to adapt to
Speaker 15: some of the some of the rules and concepts that
Speaker 15: I learned there from from coach Kiffen and Charlie Weiss.
Speaker 15: And then obviously, you know, with my own studies in
Speaker 15: my own flavor. So I don't know if I'm truly
Speaker 15: an ARAA guy anymore. But I do think this.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 15: The way I've kind of put all those experiences together
Speaker 15: and schemes together, it's still simple and consistent, a lots
Speaker 15: our guys to play fast and free. But at the
Speaker 15: same time, it's flexible to our personnel. So who what
Speaker 15: who what what?
Speaker 4: What? Who are our best people and what are they
Speaker 4: good at? Right?
Speaker 15: If we're good at running the football, then let's let's
Speaker 15: go that direction. If we're good at if if Noah's
Speaker 15: out here is spitting it left and right, he's very
Speaker 15: accurate and he's getting the ball out of his hands correctly,
Speaker 15: and uh, we got guys on the perimeter making a
Speaker 15: ton of plays. Well, let's go that direction.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 15: So I think it's flexible to who you have in
Speaker 15: your building, and I think it's flexible game by game.
Speaker 15: I think there's gonna be games, you know, next year,
Speaker 15: we're gonna need to run the football to win, and
Speaker 15: I think we're gonna have the ability to do that.
Speaker 15: I think there's gonnay games where we're gonna have to
Speaker 15: throw the football to win, and I think we have
Speaker 15: the ability to do that just because it's gonna be
Speaker 15: simple and consistent and our guys are gonna be able
Speaker 15: to execute at a high level.
Speaker 2: Right right, Well, welcome to Tucson. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2: You're probably hitting the ground running. You already have and
Speaker 2: now you're probably looking for a place and all that
Speaker 2: to get settled.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Man, it's been Like I said, it's been awesome. Everybody's
Speaker 15: been great to me. I'm super excited to be here.
Speaker 15: I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world
Speaker 15: right now. So this is, uh, this is exactly where
Speaker 15: I want to be.
Speaker 3: If you score points next next, next season, you're going
Speaker 3: to be the most popular man in the town.
Speaker 15: Well.
Speaker 4: Well that's I tell the kids all the time. We
Speaker 4: expect to score That's just part of who we are,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Right, So, so we expect
Speaker 4: to score points.
Speaker 15: So I want everybody in the everybody that's a u
Speaker 15: A fan to expect the score as well.
Speaker 3: Super love to hear that. Thanks coach, Appreciate your.
Speaker 4: Time, Yeah, appreciate you. Appreciate you guys, Yes, thank you,
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Coach Diggy from the UNIU a offensive coordinator, right, you
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Speaker 3: Very young, but very like you can tell the details
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Speaker 2: and here we are. I was gonna really, you know,
Speaker 2: it's hard to ask him a lot of things in
Speaker 2: that short time, So we'll get to know him more
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Speaker 3: Not only that, I mean there hasn't been a game yet,
Speaker 3: so you don't know his coaching style. You know, you
Speaker 3: can say this is how it's going to be. This
Speaker 3: is going to be my style. When lights go on,
Speaker 3: let's see how it is, right, No, No, we'll see
Speaker 3: and he could be the most popular guy here if
Speaker 3: they score some points, oh easily, especially after last season, right, yeah,
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Speaker 2: We're trying to get to sell a baya. I tried
Speaker 2: to maybe next week, Yeah, so that'd be good, just
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Speaker 2: here a while now.
Speaker 3: But let me ask you how important is the season?
Speaker 3: Not obviously for Ariazona football, it's important, Brennan, But how
Speaker 3: important is the season for a guy like no Fafida?
Speaker 3: Not necessarily for the NFL, but his legacy and he's
Speaker 3: on his wild cap. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting question. His legacy. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: important to you. Do you think it's important to him?
Speaker 2: I don't think it's it is, But he's he's like
Speaker 2: the face. He's the face of the team, right, I'm
Speaker 2: sure I would guess that he's making half.
Speaker 3: A million dollars maybe who knows.
Speaker 2: I just I guess we got a call this, I'll
Speaker 2: answer that if I can't, and there's Hello, you're on
Speaker 2: the air and eye on the ball straight, Vig what
Speaker 2: you were voiceless on the other time at the time
Speaker 2: you call?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 17: Try? What's going on? Man?
Speaker 3: How you doing? Vic?
Speaker 17: Good?
Speaker 15: Good?
Speaker 18: Good?
Speaker 15: Hey?
Speaker 17: I just called to tell you. What do you guys think? Renn?
Speaker 17: And I know they haven't played. You guys just said it,
Speaker 17: but he's pretty much won the off.
Speaker 2: Season doing your think, Well, what are you measuring against himself?
Speaker 18: Because yes, yes, no, I'm measuring it actually from last year.
Speaker 17: And I was one of those guys that thought they
Speaker 17: were going twelve and oh.
Speaker 3: So yes, no, no, he of course. I mean he
Speaker 3: he had to hit a home run. Well, I just
Speaker 3: or throw a hail Mary, and he did. I mean
Speaker 3: you had to clean house, because it's it's either you
Speaker 3: clean house or its you. So so Victor, let's say
Speaker 3: this because you you coached, and you played and you
Speaker 3: watch and you observe. I'm okay with that. But if
Speaker 3: I'm if I'm the best looking dude in the room,
Speaker 3: something's wrong with that room.
Speaker 2: So so you know what I'm saying if I'm if
Speaker 2: I'm the last best looking guy in that room, I
Speaker 2: need to improve. Last year Arizona was not the best
Speaker 2: looking guy in the room. It was maybe the tenth
Speaker 2: best guy looking in the room. And guess what, those
Speaker 2: other nine are getting better looking to So whether you
Speaker 2: get better looking or not, you still have to compete
Speaker 2: against those nine.
Speaker 17: And that's a that's a way of life. Obviously, that's
Speaker 17: in the job market or righte google or with anything.
Speaker 17: And so I think he understood that. And it's and
Speaker 17: I hate to say that because I'm one of those
Speaker 17: guys that you don't learn from losing. But he he's done.
Speaker 17: You know, he's more in the community. I see him.
Speaker 17: I'm going on the way to the softball game right now,
Speaker 17: and he's at the women's basketball games now where he
Speaker 17: didn't do that last year.
Speaker 3: Do we know that he didn't do that? Do we
Speaker 3: know that he didn't do that? No, he was there.
Speaker 17: I never saw him.
Speaker 3: He was I don't know if he's stayed the whole game.
Speaker 3: Is they were very busy.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that he was out at least
Speaker 2: I don't know this to be fact that he was
Speaker 2: out in the public And I'm not saying the games,
Speaker 2: because when you're at the games, you're still in a
Speaker 2: controlled environment. But you know, I'm talking about the Fries.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the you know, the Foothills ball you know.
Speaker 17: But but you saw, you saw with with Jed how
Speaker 17: he put those stupid little tweets with a dancing cactus
Speaker 17: and all that, And and Brett didn't do that. He
Speaker 17: didn't engage in.
Speaker 18: The public at least in my eyes.
Speaker 17: And and uh now he's got staff out there and
Speaker 17: and Joe and and you can already see Joe's a
Speaker 17: hit and Tucson from his things that he's done on
Speaker 17: on podcasts and interviews and all that. So that guy
Speaker 17: is gonna be a dynamic He's gonna pay off year one.
Speaker 3: Yes, to answer your question, yes, what that means because
Speaker 3: he you know, he has to play against other teams
Speaker 3: that are getting better too.
Speaker 17: Well, that's for sure. I mean obviously, like I said,
Speaker 17: we haven't we haven't played one game yet. So and
Speaker 17: you said it right now too. You're the most popular
Speaker 17: guy in Tucson. But but hearing staff and hearing Joe
Speaker 17: at least say they're talking about like what they're gonna
Speaker 17: do and and and those other guys last year just
Speaker 17: didn't didn't have any kind of personality or I guess
Speaker 17: I've heard all you guys say identity and right now,
Speaker 17: you know he even said, hey, when Noah's throwing, we're
Speaker 17: gonna throw and we have to run the ball and
Speaker 17: blah blah blah. And I don't know the ins and outs,
Speaker 17: but like I said, I think Brandon's one. He's won
Speaker 17: me over. And I was one of those ones that
Speaker 17: I said, I ain't going to no more games and
Speaker 17: blah blah blah, and Troy knows my nephew, and we
Speaker 17: were all saying, hey, we're not going no more.
Speaker 2: Well, I was some of the joy the de Vicus
Speaker 2: was probably out of eight of ten people who had
Speaker 2: some reservations about Brent, he's been won over eight of ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now the other two are saying, prove it to me. Well,
Speaker 3: I think even won over right now. It's like, okay,
Speaker 3: this is a nice little yeah, getting you back of
Speaker 3: the honeymoon phase. You better start winning because if you don't,
Speaker 3: if it's the same as all yeah, you're well, that's
Speaker 3: that's the thing that because last year he was like
Speaker 3: and we know that we've known these guys. Oh he's
Speaker 3: a good guy. He's a good guy. He's a good guy.
Speaker 2: But when you're getting your ass kicked all these times
Speaker 2: he's a good guy.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like.
Speaker 3: It's like this guy, a good friend of mine is
Speaker 3: Steve Lavin a great guy, but you know not it's
Speaker 3: like solid, solid coach.
Speaker 17: But I get it. But like I said, I'm just
Speaker 17: hoping that they uh and and yesterday I was hearing
Speaker 17: like the marketing thing, they've got to get better at
Speaker 17: a lot of things they really do.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think don't you think, Troy that they
Speaker 3: have to They know that, they realize that now. I
Speaker 3: think they've known that, but they just don't They didn't
Speaker 3: know how to go about it in a certain way.
Speaker 3: When you have the same people in the same room
Speaker 3: for a number of years doing the same thing, it's
Speaker 3: hard to change it up. It's it's hard to be innovative,
Speaker 3: innovative when you have the same ideas being bounced around. Yeah.
Speaker 17: Yeah, like I said, I I think he's won the
Speaker 17: off season and and he will be their opening day
Speaker 17: for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I agree with you. I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people will be curious until they're not curious right until
Speaker 3: they're until either no, no, not curious enough to word
Speaker 3: disappointed or happy. And what is the expectations to Is
Speaker 3: the stadium going to be filled when they're I don't know.
Speaker 3: Let's say six and five and the Asus coming in
Speaker 3: fus On and you're looking for that. That's seventh win.
Speaker 3: Let's let's be realistic. That's six to eight win. Mark
Speaker 3: is probably as good as it's going to get, right,
Speaker 3: that's and that may be unrealistic.
Speaker 17: Maybe, yeah, I'm going eight. Mark me down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just said you went twelve last year, so
Speaker 3: shut up.
Speaker 17: Okay, great show, you guys.
Speaker 2: I mean that with love, you know, I mean that
Speaker 2: with love. Eight wins would be kind of like crazy
Speaker 2: crazy good. But you know, come on, let's be a
Speaker 2: very good turn. Let's hope that we see a fifth
Speaker 2: fifty five hundred the very least you need to see.
Speaker 2: Slow last year was kind of well again, well.
Speaker 3: Let's say they score a lot of points but you
Speaker 3: lose a lot of games. Well, then you have the
Speaker 3: defensive issue and it's back and forth, back and forth. No, honestly,
Speaker 3: I think the defense is going to be fun. I
Speaker 3: really do. Dan, So okay, so before you say that
Speaker 3: you saw the schedule, I'm sure you already backed it out.
Speaker 3: We got to go. We'll get a call. Okay, we've
Speaker 3: got a call. Hellow you're on the air and nine
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 4: Who's this?
Speaker 18: How the guards with Brian? I don't know, you know,
Speaker 18: the football thing. Let's see who transfers after the spring practice.
Speaker 18: Let's see who shows up day.
Speaker 19: One in August for practice. Then we can make a
Speaker 19: determination on the team.
Speaker 18: And it was tough for benn In last year because
Speaker 18: he came in late. Half the team left and it
Speaker 18: was too late for.
Speaker 19: Getting geting a recruit. And we don't didn't have probably
Speaker 19: we don't have any nil money unless you know, Jay
Speaker 19: decided to open up his wallet now that he's working.
Speaker 3: That wall is still dusty. It's a dusty wallat.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I'm okay, I'm sure it is.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's got.
Speaker 18: I was reading about that kid from the basketball player
Speaker 18: from b YU, that number one recruit that supposedly they
Speaker 18: were talking about that all. There's a lot of rich
Speaker 18: boosters in the Probo area, I guess, and they gave
Speaker 18: this kid an eight and a half million dollars.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean those they're very skinned numbers.
Speaker 18: Yeah, Austin, they're going, you know, if that's what we're
Speaker 18: up against, you know, thank goodness, Tommy Lloyd can recruit.
Speaker 19: You know, European players who don't get the money or.
Speaker 18: Some other you know, find find the diamonds in the.
Speaker 4: Rough, you know.
Speaker 18: Right, we'll see it's it's gonna it's gonna be hard
Speaker 18: for our.
Speaker 17: Football team to match anybody.
Speaker 18: And I think if, like you said, you get seven
Speaker 18: eight wins.
Speaker 19: You've had a very successful season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially after last year. Hey, Brian, we gotta go,
Speaker 2: we gotta g're up against the here. Thanks for Paul,
Speaker 2: and will appreciate your time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cool, cool, cool, Yeah, realistically it's way too early
Speaker 3: to tell. Well, we know, we won't even know after
Speaker 3: spring break. No, I was gonna say, training camp. Midway
Speaker 3: through training camp and people are gonna come and go.
Speaker 3: Still Oh yeah, portal portal opens and closes. Yeah, they
Speaker 3: really got to fix the transfer portal. But yeah, when
Speaker 3: you open Pandora's box, it's hard to close it. Yeah, yep, okay,
Speaker 3: that's are we ready to go?
Speaker 4: Are we ready? Okay?
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